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PASADENA, Calif. , Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ExchangeRight, one of the nation's leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has brought its $47.39 million Net-Leased Portfolio 9 DST full cycle on behalf of its investors by selling it to a REIT. The offering provided investors with total annual returns ranging from 7.25 to 8.27 percent, maintained uninterrupted monthly distributions despite significant market volatility throughout the offering's seven-year hold period, and provided investors with multiple options at exit.
The portfolio consisted of 22 net-leased properties diversified across 235,289 square feet, nine states, and eight national tenants with investment-grade credit or otherwise creditworthy financial metrics. The portfolio's tenants included CVS Pharmacy, Dollar General, TCF National Bank, and Advance Auto Parts, and all operate in necessity-based industries.
Upon sale, ExchangeRight provided portfolio investors the option to complete a tax-deferred 721 exchange, perform a 1031 exchange, receive cash, or a combination of these options. For investors who chose to complete a tax-deferred 721 exchange into the acquiring REIT, the total return on sale including cash flow to investors was equivalent to 153.10 to 158.71 percent of initial capital investment based on the current value of the REIT shares provided as a part of the transaction. For investors who chose to cash out or complete a 1031 exchange, the Net-Leased Portfolio 9 DST total return on sale including cash flow was 152.96 to 158.00 percent of initial capital investment.
"As we construct our net-leased portfolios, we look for financially strong tenants providing essential services that have a track record of recession-resilient performance," said Joshua Ungerecht, a managing partner at ExchangeRight. "With this full-cycle event, we're proud to have once again provided stable cash flow to investors throughout the entire hold period and to provide strategic exit options to maximize value for their future."
About ExchangeRight
ExchangeRight pursues its passion to empower people to be secure, free, and generous by providing REIT, fund, and 1031 DST portfolios that target secure capital, stable income, and strategic exits. The company strategically syndicates net-leased portfolios of assets backed primarily by investment-grade corporations that successfully operate in the necessity-based retail and healthcare industries, as well as diversified value-add portfolios of inline and outparcel retail properties shadow-anchored by strong-performing grocery tenants. Please visit www.exchangeright.com for more information.
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HBO’s upcoming marquee show, “The Last of Us,” is based on a much-lauded video game series. For those interested in the new prestige drama, but maybe less interested in video games, there’s good news: You don’t need to play the games to understand the show. In fact, you don’t really need to know anything about video games at all.
In “The Last of Us” (both the game and the show) a fungal infection ravages the world, taking over human hosts and turning them into unusually floral zombies. No cure exists. The narrative follows Joel, a world-weary smuggler who reluctantly agrees to transport Ellie, a young girl who appears to be immune to the infection, to a medical facility across the country. The game’s 2020 sequel, “The Last of Us Part II,” explores the fallout from decisions made in the original game; the TV show’s first season follows the plot of the first game.
As a gamer (and an editor at The Washington Post’s video game vertical), I’m familiar with the premise and even some pivotal plot points of the games, though I haven’t played them. Still, having watched a few episodes of the show, there’s no indication that playing the series is an important prerequisite to enjoy the HBO adaptation. The show explains its core premise well, and doesn’t assume that you have any context from the game.
Playing the games may reward some viewers with some additional context and depth of understanding. I asked Gene Park, my colleague and an avid fan of the games who has seen the first season of the show in full, about what people who had played the games might pick up on that viewers coming in cold might not.
“Experienced players of the game will likely delight in many of the Easter eggs that allude back to the game’s storytelling,” Park said. “The made-for-fiction teenage wolf movie poster all over cities in the game reappear in the show, alongside real-world corporate signage for brands like CVS and GameStop. Fans will also recognize the costume changes, especially since they adhere directly to the outfits from the game as they appeared during key moments.”
Still, Park cautioned, fans won’t hold some secret contextual key to the show. Instead, fans are just likely to notice changes between the two stories — particularly different approaches to key scenes.
The Last of Us game series is very popular; judging from its overwhelmingly positive reviews, it’s safe to say that the consensus opinion among gamers is that playing the games will be its own reward. If you want to play “The Last of Us,” you’ve got a few options — and one more coming in March, if you’re willing to wait. There’s the original PlayStation 3 game, a remastered version for PlayStation 4 titled “The Last of Us Remastered” and a remake for PlayStation 5 called “The Last of Us Part I.” A version of the remake for PC comes out March 3.
Just don’t feel any anxiety over “needing” to play before you watch. There’s no best order in which to engage with The Last of Us media, Park tells me. Just enjoy yourself — inasmuch as you can, given the doom and gloom the franchise is generally known for. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/tips/the-last-of-us-hbo-game/ | 2023-01-11 14:17:48 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/tips/the-last-of-us-hbo-game/ |
More than 15,000 customers in Mercer and Crawford counties expected to benefit from work
CLARK, Pa., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penn Power, a FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) electric company in western Pennsylvania, is upgrading infrastructure in Mercer and Crawford counties to reinforce the local power grid and prevent lengthy service disruptions, especially during severe weather. Work includes installation of new, automated equipment and technology in distribution substations and along neighborhood power lines serving more than 15,000 customers in Transfer, Greenville, Hermitage, West Middlesex, Wheatland, Conneaut and nearby areas.
The work started in April and is expected to be completed this fall. It is part of Penn Power's second phase Long Term Infrastructure Improvement Plan (LTIIP II), approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to help enhance electric service for customers. The company's investments to upgrade the local energy grid have successfully reduced the number and length of outages customers experience by up to 20% in areas where work has been completed.
"The work underway in Mercer and Crawford counties will reduce many power interruptions to just a brief or momentary outage, which will be particularly beneficial to customers in rural, tree-filled areas," said Scott Wyman, president of FirstEnergy's Pennsylvania operations. "This work complements upgrades completed across our entire service area over recent years that have resulted in fewer and shorter outages, mainly during severe weather events."
Hundreds of homes and businesses in the area will benefit from the installation of nearly 20 new automated reclosing devices in the substations and along neighborhood power lines that will help limit the frequency, duration and scope of service interruptions. These electrical devices work like a circuit breaker in a home that shuts off power when trouble occurs, with the added benefit of automatically reenergizing a substation or power line within seconds for certain types of outages to keep power safely flowing to customers. This technology is safer and more efficient because it often allows utility personnel to automatically restore service to customers in lieu of sending a crew to investigate.
If the device senses a more serious issue, like a fallen tree on electrical equipment, it will isolate the outage to that area and limit the total number of affected customers. The smart technology will quickly pinpoint the location of the fault and help utility personnel better understand the cause of the outage to help speed restoration.
Automated voltage regulators are also being installed to help ensure safe, constant voltage levels along power lines on extremely cold or hot days that create high demand for electricity. In addition to preventing voltage issues for customers, the devices could potentially reduce energy usage for some customers served near the beginning of a power line because they will benefit from lower power voltages being fed into their homes or businesses.
Lastly, additional power lines are being constructed to provide more flexibility in restoring outages due to events such as storms and vehicle accidents. The new power lines will help reduce the length and overall number of customers impacted during an outage by switching them to a backup line for faster service restoration.
Penn Power serves more than 160,000 customers in all or parts of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Lawrence and Mercer counties in western Pennsylvania. Follow Penn Power on Twitter @Penn_Power, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PennPower, and online at www.pennpower.com.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com and on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp.
Editor's Note: Photos of Penn Power crews installing the new automated equipment are available for download on Flickr.
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DETROIT (AP) — Will Power had victory within reach on Belle Isle a year ago until a late red-flag led to an electrical malfunction that ruined his race.
In his mind, the Detroit Grand Prix owed him one.
And when Power gets his mind set on something, there’s no holding him back.
Power charged from 16th to the win Sunday to close out the Belle Isle era with a Team Penske victory that returned the Australian to the IndyCar points lead.
Power passed teammate and pole-sitter Josef Newgarden on lap 14 and never looked back, leading 55 of the 70 laps as he found himself in “the zone.”
“It’s hard to get to that place. I used to be there a lot often when I was younger,” said the 41-year-old. “It’s just one of those zones where everything’s clicking so well, you’re 100% in the middle, it’s that flow state. Hard to explain. But I would get in that state for qualifying often, pump out some pretty ridiculous laps. That was the race for me. In a really good spot.”
Power held off Alexander Rossi in the closing laps — extending Rossi’s losing streak to nearly three years — for his first win of the season. All three Team Penske drivers have a win through seven IndyCar races this season.
Power controlled the first race of the Belle Isle doubleheader a year ago until a late caution brought out the red, and then his car couldn’t start for the finish. He went from potential victory to a 20th-place finish and has not let it go in the year since.
This year’s Belle Isle finale was only one IndyCar race. The event will return to its original downtown street course layout in 2023.
The Power victory was a celebration for Chevrolet, the race sponsor, and its headquarters loom over the Belle Isle course. It gave Chevrolet its 100th win since it returned to IndyCar competition in 2012, and Power said he owns 26 of those victories — including an Indianapolis 500 win and an IndyCar championship.
And it was, of course, a celebration for team owner Roger Penske, a longtime Detroit resident and promoter of the race. Team Penske picked up a second victory less than 90 minutes later when Joey Logano won the inaugural NASCAR Cup race in St. Louis.
For Power, the 41st win of his career moved him within one of Michael Andretti for fourth place.
Rossi, who this week confirmed he’s moving to Arrow McLaren SP next season, used a three-stop strategy to rally from his 11th-place starting position and drive through the field to contend for the win. But Power, who started 16th, had already taken control of the race and Rossi could only try to close the gap.
Although Rossi made it close as both drivers were dealing with traffic, Power beat him to the finish by 1.0027-seconds. Power won for the third time in Detroit.
“I think one more lap would have been really interesting,” said Rossi. “We’re finally just executing at our potential.”
Scott Dixon was third for Chip Ganassi Racing and followed by pole-sitter Josef Newgarden of Penske.
Pato O’Ward of McLaren was fifth, reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou of Ganassi was sixth and followed by teammate Marcus Ericsson, the Indianapolis 500 winner last week.
KIRKWOOD CRASH
Kyle Kirkwood was looking for a huge double-duty weekend in Detroit and was on pace to achieve it — he was fastest in the first IndyCar practice — until he injured his right hand in a Saturday morning crash.
Despite the injury, Kirkwood was part of the winning IMSA sports car GTD entry for Vasser Sullivan Racing in Saturday afternoon’s race. But there is no power steering in IndyCar and A.J. Foyt Racing had to make multiple changes for the rookie to be able to handle the car.
Kirkwood was managing it Sunday until he lost control of his car on cold tires to bring his weekend to an early end.
“It’s super disappointing,” Kirkwood said. “It’s all on me, just a big mistake on cold tires.”
Kirkwood this week was announced as the replacement for Rossi next season at Andretti Autosport.
RAHAL WOES
An uninspiring start to the season turned worse for Graham Rahal when driver error knocked him out at Detroit just two laps into the race. Rahal finished last in the 26-driver field and is coming off a 14th-place finish in last week’s Indianapolis 500.
He said he bottomed out in the second turn in what Rahal deemed “an uncharacteristic mistake.”
“Had a big moment and brushed the wall,” Rahal said. “This is an all-time low for us as a team and for me to make mistakes like that isn’t helping. Need to hit the reset button.”
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing got a 14th-place finish from rookie Christian Lundgaard and 15th from Jack Harvey.
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IndyCar races Sunday at Road America in Wisconsin. Palou won the race a year ago, and Road America was site of Rossi’s last victory back in 2019. | https://fox59.com/sports/power-gives-penske-chevrolet-win-in-final-belle-isle-race/ | 2022-06-09 21:17:40 | 1 | https://fox59.com/sports/power-gives-penske-chevrolet-win-in-final-belle-isle-race/ |
Barbershop owner says angry customer shot him over haircut
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – A barbershop owner is recovering after he says an angry customer shot him last week.
Dráque Murff, the owner of Dráque’s Barbershop in Kansas City, told KCTV the customer came into his shop last week and asked for a discounted haircut. One of the barbers at the shop agreed. But Murff said that after the trim, the man complained about it.
“It wasn’t even a bad cut,” Murff said. “[The barber] did a really good job with it. The man just wanted it for free.”
The next day the man returned, looking for the barber. When Murff told him the barber wasn’t there, the man became agitated. Murff said the customer then pulled out a gun.
“I started running,” Murff said. “But then, I got shot in the back.”
Murff said he kept running, but he fell when he tried to jump over a fence. He said the man stood over him with the gun.
“It was a terrible situation, lying there with a gun to my head,” Murff said. “I said one more prayer. He pulled the trigger and I just heard a click.”
He heard several more clicks as a stranger came to help.
“I looked up and saw some big dude,” he said. “He was trying to get the gun away and I went over and started hitting him.”
He said the other barbers had caught up by then and joined in to help. Lalo, a barber who has a chair in Dráque’s, said they eventually got the gun away from the shooter.
“We did what we had to do,” Lalo said.
Murff was taken to the hospital, where he found out the bullet had passed through his side and barely missed his spine.
Police identified the shooter as 33-year-old Vernie Dickens. He was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Detention Center.
KCTV has covered events at the barbershop in the past, including charity toy drives for families and free haircuts for kids. Murff said he thinks of his business as a source of community support. After the shooting, he decided to start a GoFundMe page to help kickstart a nonprofit for violence awareness and prevention.
“I just want to turn tragedy into triumph,” Murff said.
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DETROIT – The surprise deal by Senate Democrats on a slimmed-down bill to support families, boost infrastructure and fight climate change also is likely to jump-start sales of electric vehicles.
The measure agreed to by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and holdout Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia would give EV buyers a $7,500 tax credit starting next year, through the end of 2032. There’s also a new $4,000 credit for those buying used EVs, a move to help the middle class go electric.
But as things often go in Washington, there are a bunch of strings and asterisks.
To be eligible, the electric vehicle has to be assembled in North America, and there are limits on annual income for buyers. There also are caps on the sticker prices of new EVs — $80,000 for pickups, SUVs and vans, and $55,000 for other vehicles — and a $25,000 limit on the price of used electric vehicles.
Still, even with the restrictions, the credits should help stimulate electric vehicle sales, which already are rising as automakers introduce more models in different sizes and price ranges, said Jessica Caldwell, an analyst for Edmunds.com.
“The tax credits for electric vehicles in the bill will benefit consumers and cut costs for low- and middle-income families,” the Sierra Club said of the measure, which still must be approved by both chambers. “We're hoping for swift adoption."
For the first half of this year, electric vehicles accounted for about 5% of U.S. new vehicle sales, with 46 models on sale. S&P Global Mobility expects that to hit 8% next year, 15% by 2025, and 37% by 2030.
At present, many new EVs, including two of sales leader Tesla’s four models, wouldn’t be eligible for the credits because they're priced higher than the bill's limits, Caldwell said. But the number of eligible vehicles will grow as automakers roll out more mainstream EVs during the next few years, she said.
“I would imagine that these price brackets will become a lot more realistic in the coming years when you probably have more vehicles that fall within these parameters,” Caldwell said.
Several automakers, including Ford and Hyundai, already have them in the $40,000s, and General Motors next year plans to start selling a small Chevrolet SUV for about $30,000 with about 300 miles of range per charge.
Also, there aren’t many used EVs priced under $25,000 yet, and those that are mainly are older, with lower ranges per charge, Caldwell said, noting that a 5-year-old Chevrolet Bolt small electric car — one of the lowest-priced EVs on the road — is likely to cost more than $25,000.
“It seems like that is something that should potentially be revisited for it to make more sense given today’s market,” she said.
To get the credit, buyers of new EVs can’t have modified adjusted gross incomes of more than $300,000 per year if filing joint tax returns, $225,000 for a head of household, and $150,000 for all taxpayers not in the first two categories.
For used EVs, income limits are $150,000 if filing a joint return, $112,500 for a head of household, and $75,000 for others not in the first two categories.
The bill also removes caps on the number of tax credits each manufacturer can offer. General Motors, Tesla and Toyota all have exceeded the cap and can’t offer any credits now under a previous measure. But other manufacturers still offer them.
Also, more than half the value of battery components have to be manufactured or assembled in North America to get the full credit. And at least 40% of the minerals used in batteries must come from either the U.S. or a country with which it has a free trade agreement. Those percentages increase gradually over the years, and minerals recycled from used batteries in North America also qualify.
Credits would also go to buyers of hydrogen fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Plug-ins can travel on electric power alone for several miles before the gas-electric hybrid powertrain kicks in.
The EV tax credits are much smaller than several Democratic legislators from automaking states had proposed earlier. Gone are extra credits for EVs made in the U.S. by union workers. | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/07/29/senate-deal-should-make-it-easier-to-buy-electric-vehicles/ | 2022-07-29 06:18:26 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/07/29/senate-deal-should-make-it-easier-to-buy-electric-vehicles/ |
NEW YORK (WPIX) – Tower Records, a once ubiquitous music retailer, reopened in New York City on Friday under a new name.
Tower Labs, as its called, is the first “new Tower Records location” to open in the United States in 16 years, according to a representative for Tower Records. But calling it a “new” Tower Records location might be a tad misleading, as it bears little resemblance to the massive Tower Records retail outlets that peppered the country decades ago.
The location also won’t be open to the public, other than at specific, pre-designated times.
The new space, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is instead designed for live events and listening parties, and will serve as a recording space for a podcast, a representative tells Nexstar. There will, however, be a “speakeasy style release window” on the side of the space for “limited edition music and merchandise drops,” the rep said.
Fans who wish to purchase albums or merchandise will be informed of the time and date of these “drops” via social media or the Tower Records website.
Photos shared with Nexstar show that the location looks little like the Tower Records of yesteryear, but more of a lounge with a small performance and recording spaces.
Tower Labs also intends on hosting performers or bands after their shows at nearby Brooklyn venues, allowing the artists to “host personal gatherings with their community, similar to a backstage experience.”
Fans may also be able to attend some of these early intimate events for free, though future admission may be contingent “on a physical purchase of vinyl or merch available on-site in Brooklyn, or in advance at TowerRecords.com,” reads a statement shared with Nexstar.
The representative did not disclose whether Tower Records had plans to open additional locations in the near future.
Tower Records, founded in 1960, at one point had more than 200 locations in 18 countries before declaring bankruptcy and selling off its assets in 2006. TowerRecords.com, the brand’s current online retail site, has operated since 2020. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/tower-records-opens-first-new-location-in-16-years-sort-of/ | 2022-11-05 21:58:14 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/tower-records-opens-first-new-location-in-16-years-sort-of/ |
Rock band formed by moms during pandemic finds success, sells out shows
What started as a pandemic jam session, where five mothers from Massachusetts could blow off steam during the pandemic, has transformed into a local band that's selling out shows.
The Lazy Susans were recently featured on a national television talk show and the group is in talks for a potential movie or television deal.
"I always think about going back and telling my 20-year-old self that this is going to happen down the line and what would she think? And I think she’d be surprised," said Joanna Weiss, who performs guitar and vocals with the group.
Other members include Leila Mitchell, Heather Shaw, Martha Kennedy and Imge Ceranoglu.
When they started practicing in Weiss' basement in Milton, some of them had never picked up an instrument but they signed up to play Milton's Porchfest six months later.
"We said, 'OK, we’re going to go in front of other people, some of who we do not know and we’re going to play and there’s a deadline and it’s terrifying and it really motivates you and forces you to just get your act together," said Weiss.
Since then, they've moved on from covers to writing and performing their own songs. While they balance their jobs and the schedules of their 10 children, the group somehow finds time to practice and is working on an album that could be released next year.
They say the best parts of the experience have included hearing from other parents who are inspired by their story and seeing their children react to the success.
"When she’s on FaceTime with her friends on her phone and her friends will be like 'is that your mom? Can I have her autograph?'" said bassist Heather Shaw. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/the-lazy-susans-band-formed-by-massachusetts-moms-during-pandemic-finds-success/40199048 | 2022-06-05 19:43:50 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/the-lazy-susans-band-formed-by-massachusetts-moms-during-pandemic-finds-success/40199048 |
MINNETONKA, Minn., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Table Trac, Inc. (OTCQX: TBTC) announced today that the Lucky Strike Casino, located at 444 E Williams Street, Carson City, Nevada, will soon have Table Trac, Inc.'s CasinoTrac casino management system installed.
Stillwater Gaming owns and operates multiple casino properties located in Carson Valley, Churchill County and Lyon County all in Nevada. These locations feature slot machines as well as entertainment, hotels, bars and restaurants.
"CasinoTrac's full featured online CMS system for customer facing and back of the house casino operations is gaining a reputation for reliability and value for casino operators. We are proud to be expanding with Stillwater Gaming with that reliability and value," said Chad Hoehne, President of Table Trac Inc.
"When I think about CasinoTrac, I see great value. The system is developed and supported by professionals who are truly focused on the end user – casino guests," said Scott Tate, Stillwater Gaming, LLC. "I am impressed with the stability of the CasinoTrac system as we have utilized it over the last couple of years at two of our casinos. Additionally, I particularly like the fact that Table Trac is a company dedicated completely to gaming systems. That focus appears to be what drives the quality of the system and the culture of the Table Trac Team."
About Table Trac, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Table Trac, Inc. designs, develops and sells casino management systems. CasinoTrac is currently operating in casinos across 13 countries including the United States, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Australia. More information is available at http://www.tabletrac.com/.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Much of the U.S. continues to be gripped by extreme heat — especially Phoenix. That's where temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees every day for two weeks now.
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Much of the U.S. continues to be gripped by extreme heat — especially Phoenix. That's where temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees every day for two weeks now.
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Only 17% of Consumers Report It's a 'Good Time to Buy' a Home
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) remained relatively flat in May, decreasing by only 0.3 points but inching nearer its 10-year- and pandemic-low of 63.0 from April 2020. Surveyed consumers continue to express concerns about housing affordability, with the "Good Time to Buy" indicator reaching a new survey low, as 79% of respondents reported that it's a bad time to buy a home. Additionally, 70% of respondents expect mortgage rates to continue their recent ascent over the next 12 months. A greater share of consumers also expressed concern that they may lose their job in the next 12 months, but that component remains firmly positive generally, with only 16% of consumers expressing pessimism. Year over year, the full index is down 11.8 points.
"Consumers' expectations that their personal financial situations will worsen over the next year reached an all-time high in the May survey, and they expressed greater concern about job security," said Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. "Further, respondents' pessimism regarding homebuying conditions carried forward into May, with the percentage of respondents reporting it's a bad time to buy a home hitting a new survey high. The share reporting that it's 'easy to get a mortgage' also decreased across almost all segments."
Duncan continued: "These results suggest to us that increased mortgage rates, high home prices, and inflation will likely continue to squeeze would-be homebuyers – as well as those potential sellers with lower, locked-in mortgage rates – out of the market, supporting our forecast that home sales will slow meaningfully through the rest of this year and into next."
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) decreased in May by 0.3 points to 68.2. The HPSI is down 11.8 points compared to the same time last year. Read the full research report for additional information.
- Good/Bad Time to Buy: The percentage of respondents who say it is a good time to buy a home decreased from 19% to 17%, while the percentage who say it is a bad time to buy increased from 76% to 79%. As a result, the net share of those who say it is a good time to buy decreased 5 percentage points month over month.
- Good/Bad Time to Sell: The percentage of respondents who say it is a good time to sell a home increased from 72% to 76%, while the percentage who say it's a bad time to sell decreased from 21% to 19%. As a result, the net share of those who say it is a good time to sell increased 6 percentage points month over month.
- Home Price Expectations: The percentage of respondents who say home prices will go up in the next 12 months increased from 44% to 47%, while the percentage who say home prices will go down decreased from 25% to 23%. The share who think home prices will stay the same decreased from 26% to 25%. As a result, the net share of Americans who say home prices will go up increased 5 percentage points month over month.
- Mortgage Rate Expectations: The percentage of respondents who say mortgage rates will go down in the next 12 months decreased from 5% to 4%, while the percentage who expect mortgage rates to go up decreased from 73% to 70%. The share who think mortgage rates will stay the same increased from 18% to 20%. As a result, the net share of Americans who say mortgage rates will go down over the next 12 months increased 2 percentage points month over month.
- Job Loss Concern: The percentage of respondents who say they are not concerned about losing their job in the next 12 months decreased from 84% to 81%, while the percentage who say they are concerned increased from 11% to 16%. As a result, the net share of Americans who say they are not concerned about losing their job decreased 8 percentage points month over month.
- Household Income: The percentage of respondents who say their household income is significantly higher than it was 12 months ago remained unchanged at 26%, while the percentage who say their household income is significantly lower increased from 14% to 16%. The percentage who say their household income is about the same decreased from 56% to 54%. As a result, the net share of those who say their household income is significantly higher than it was 12 months ago decreased 2 percentage points month over month.
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RESTON, Va., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) will webcast its third-quarter 2022 financial results conference call on Wednesday, October 26, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT.
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The 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T is a small, plug-in hybrid SUV with a mission that has little to do with running on grid electricity, lowering emissions, or saving fuel. Instead, this affordable model from Stellantis’ bad-boy brand has a clear priority: performance. Even if it’s nothing close to the noise-making electric muscle car Dodge is to launch next year.
Think PHEV, and you may imagine driving 25 to 50 miles a day on a battery charged from the grid, with a gasoline engine as a backup generator for long trips. It’s a practical solution to going electric much of the time—if it’s plugged in—without the range anxiety of a full EV.
Now, throw away that image entirely, says Dodge. The projected EPA-rated electric range of about 30 miles—and any idea of miles per gallon without a charge—got short shrift during a recent media drive in and around Asheville, North Carolina.
Hornet R/T performance: PowerShots
Instead, Dodge execs focused on the Hornet’s “PowerShot” capability: in Sport mode, pull both steering-wheel paddles, mash the accelerator, and the battery delivers an extra 30 horsepower (22 kilowatts) for up to 15 seconds if its charge level is 80% or higher. A 15-second cooldown period follows before another PowerShot can be delivered.
The result is acceleration from 0 to 60 mph in 5.6 seconds, according to Dodge (with the battery above that 80% threshold). We found ourselves using the PowerShot not just for standing-start acceleration—that gets boring fast—but also passing slow trucks on rural two-lane roads. But the three-step procedure (confirm Sport mode, pull back paddles, mash pedal through detent) was cumbersome enough we wished for the seamless battery power of a full EV.
The Hornet R/T’s battery is likely to get quite a lot of exercise. Two of the four drive modes—Sport and e-Save—use the engine not just with the battery but actually to recharge it. Only Hybrid and Electric modes offer any sustained electric running. It’s a different take on a PHEV, about as far from emission-free and carbon reduction as you can get. A few drivers may choose to use the R/T as gently as possible on electricity only, but that’s clearly not what Dodge intends to promote.
All-wheel-drive hybrid propulsion
The Hornet R/T’s 1.3-liter turbo-4 engine has an integrated 44-hp (33-kw) belt starter-generator; Dodge doesn’t cite power for the engine alone. That powerplant drives only the front wheels via a 6-speed automatic transmission. A 90-kw (121-hp) motor powers the rears, making it what’s known as a through-the-road hybrid, with front and rear axles driven by different power sources.
The R/T’s all-wheel drive is provided by software, rather than a driveshaft stretching from a transmission in front to a rear axle. The space freed up in the tunnel houses the long arm of the L-shaped lithium-ion battery pack, with a rated capacity of 15.5 kwh.
This combination of power sources, driven wheels, and drive modes requires a lot of software to manage. From power-up, the Hornet R/T starts in Hybrid mode, gradually using battery charge to run on electricity alone, at light loads or low speeds, then adding engine power for heavier loads. In hilly suburban driving, a Hornet with 40 percent or more battery charge spent a surprising amount of time with its engine off, making it peaceful and smooth.
Hornet R/T drive modes: Sport, Electric, or e-Save?
To go beyond Hybrid mode, the driver must select a different mode, which has to be reset with each ignition cycle. Electric and e-Save are toggled on the steering wheel, while Sport mode is activated via a separate button on the console. Sport is fastest: it keeps the engine on all the time, holds lower gears longer for higher engine output, and frequently draws on battery energy to supplement engine output.
Sport mode also recharges the pack more aggressively than Hybrid or Electric mode, whose regeneration feels minimal unless the brakes are applied. Depending on how it’s driven, Sport mode can slowly boost battery charge—at the cost of more gasoline burned, using the engine as an inefficient generator.
In Electric mode, a Hornet with sufficient battery charge makes a pleasant EV under most driving conditions—though if you mash the pedal to accelerate uphill, the engine will likely kick in to provide more power than the rear-mounted motor can offer.
Finally, there’s e-Save mode, which lets the driver either hold existing battery energy or again use the car to recharge the pack—up to 40, 60, or 80 percent—all selected through the touchscreen.
Making sense of Hornet R/T vs other SUVs
On the road, the result is a small performance SUV that can feel quite different depending on the mode and the moment. Across these situations, the Hornet R/T’s handling and roadholding, with its 52:48 front:rear weight distribution, are surefooted, well-balanced, and enjoyable behind the wheel.
The challenge came in the power delivery under heavy driving. On first encounter, it proved unpredictable and occasionally disconcerting. In one case, at steady speed, heading up a grade drew more battery power at first, then a downshift, then another in quick succession—sending the engine soaring from 2,000 to 3,500 and then 5,000 rpm. Noise rose accordingly. Even after a few hours of driving, we couldn’t predict the Sport-mode behavior of the powertrain under most circumstances. With familiarity, perhaps drivers will come to know when engine revs will soar, when the rear motor will add a surge of torque, and when the 6-speed transmission will downshift.
Considering its edgy driving impressions and overall packaging, there aren’t any obvious, direct rivals for the Hornet R/T unless you shift to non-hybrid models like the Mazda CX-30 Turbo or Kia Seltos SX Turbo.
The interior fits four adults comfortably, with enough headroom and legroom for a 6-foot passenger to sit behind a 6-foot driver on the slightly elevated rear seat over the battery pack. Outward vision is only average, but tossing the little crossover around curvy back roads was a fun way to spend the afternoon.
Hornet R/T pricing and incentives
The 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T carries a recommended starting price of $41,590, which includes a mandatory $1,595 destination fee. The R/T Plus adds $5,000 to that total. Then there are option packs: Blacktop, Track Pack, and Tech Pack. A fully loaded R/T can hit $50,000.
Dodge did suggest that Hornet R/Ts that are leased rather than purchased will qualify for the full $7,500 federal incentive, per the latest changes in IRS interpretations of the Inflation Reduction Act signed last August.
Those interpretations may still be a work in progress, so check carefully if you intend to lease so as to take advantage of that provision. Various state and local incentives for plug-in hybrids may also apply. ahead of the R/T plug-in hybrid’s late spring arrival. And keep in mind, there’s a 2023 Hornet GT arriving in late April that isn’t a plug-in or a hybrid. (See this full first drive covering the non-hybrid Hornet GT.)
The R/T has a standard 7.4-kw onboard charger, so it will recharge to 100 percent in roughly 2.5 hours using a 240-volt Level 2 station. It takes up to 8 hours on a standard 120-volt household plug. Dodge includes a 120-volt portable charging cable as standard.
This begs a question: Will Dodge Hornets actually get plugged in? Or will the battery and rear motor end up as expensive performance boosters subsidized by purchase and lease incentives? Dodge says it will track the charging behavior of R/T buyers, suitably anonymized. We hope the brand plans to share what it learns in the near future.
Dodge provided airfare, lodging, and meals to enable Green Car Reports to bring you this first-person drive report.
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1 person, 2 dogs killed in carjacking spree, police say
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (WUSA) - A carjacking spree that left one person and two dogs dead started on Addison Road and Rolling Ridge Drive in Seat Pleasant, according to Prince George’s County police.
Investigators said that around noon on Saturday, a man carjacked a driver and then fled two miles to Central Avenue and Ritchie Road in Capitol Heights.
Witnesses said the man attempted to carjack a customer in the McDonald’s drive thru. Police said the victim attempted to flee, and that’s when the alleged carjacker opened fire, killing the driver.
Prince George’s County police said the man then carjacked a woman with three dogs inside her car, and he shot and killed two of the dogs.
“It’s extremely rare to come across an individual who has such a disregard for life,” Prince George’s County Acting Deputy Chief Zachary O’Lare said.
The alleged carjacker drove off, initiating a police pursuit involving Capitol Heights police that ended four miles away in northeast D.C.
Investigators said the man carjacked a third victim at Sheriff Road and 52nd Street Northeast.
“My officer did engage with the suspect in D.C. on Sheriff Road, and they did engage in a gun fight with the subject. Fortunately neither parties were struck,” Capitol Heights Police Chief Darryl Morgan said.
D.C. police say they were not involved in the pursuit, but their officers did make the arrest in their jurisdiction.
“What I can say, is that I am thankful to let the community know that the suspect is in custody, but what I don’t want is that to overshadow the damage that he has done to our community,” O’Lare said.
The shooting that unfolded involving Capitol Heights police officers is now under investigation by D.C. police.
“Metropolitan Police Department’s internal affairs will be investigating the officer involved shootings as they do any agency that is in the District of Columbia for a shooting,” D.C. Police Commander Darnell Robinson said.
The suspect that was arrested hasn’t been named, but police said that he will be facing charges in the District and also in Prince George’s County, where he will eventually be extradited for the harsher criminal charges.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration's move to block exports of advanced computer chips to China is signaling a new phase in relations between the globe's two largest economies — one in which trade matters less than an increasingly heated competition to be the world’s leading technological and military power.
The aggressive move, announced last month, will help set the tone for President Joe Biden's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Asia. It's evidence of Biden's determination to "manage" the U.S. competition with China, whose officials were quick to condemn the export ban.
After more than two decades in which the focus was on expansion of trade and global growth, both countries are openly prioritizing their national interests as the world economy struggles with high inflation and the risk of recessions. The U.S. and China have each identified the development and production of computer chips as vital for economic growth and their own security interests.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to protect Americans from the threat of China," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in an interview. "China is crystal clear. They will use this technology for surveillance. They will use this technology for cyber attacks. They will use this technology to, in any number of ways, harm us and our allies, or our ability to protect ourselves."
Xi responded to the export ban in his statement at last month's congress of the Chinese Communist Party, where he secured a third term as the country's leader. He pledged that China would move more aggressively to become self-reliant in producing semiconductors and other technologies.
“In order to enhance China’s innovation capacity, we will move faster to launch a number of major national projects that are of strategic, big-picture and long-term importance,” Xi said.
The Chinese government has named the development of advanced computer chips that could handle everything from artificial intelligence to hypersonic missiles as one of its top priorities. To bridge the gap until it can get there, China has been relying on imports of advanced chips and manufacturing equipment from the U.S., which imposed a series of export controls last month that block sending to China the world's most advanced chips, factory equipment and industry experts tied to America.
The U.S. and its allies famously deployed export controls against Russia after the February invasion of Ukraine, making it harder for Russian forces to be resupplied with weapons, ammunition, tanks and aircraft. As a result of those constraints, Russia has relied on drones from Iran and the U.S. has accused North Korea of supplying them with artillery.
The U.S. had until recently operated from the premise that strong trade relationships would bring countries closer together in ways that made the world safer and wealthier, a post-Cold War order. Global supply chains were supposed to lower costs, boost profits and enable democratic values to seep into the terrain of oligarchies, dictatorships and autocracies.
But after a global pandemic, the war in Ukraine and China's own ambitions, the Biden administration and many European and Asian allies have chosen to prioritize national security and industrial strategies. Both the U.S. and European Union have provided tens of billions of dollars in incentives to spur more domestic production of computer chips.
In a speech last month at IBM, Biden said China specifically lobbied against a law that provides $52 billion to produce and develop advanced semiconductors in the U.S., an incentive package that has been followed by a string of announcements by Intel, Micron, Wolfspeed and others about the construction of computer chip plants in the U.S..
He said that some of the GOP lawmakers who opposed the measure had bought into the arguments made by China.
“The Communist Party of China was lobbying in the United States Congress against passing this legislation,” Biden said. “And unfortunately, some of our friends on the other team bought it.”
Donald Trump had fiery rhetoric on China during his presidency, imposing tariffs that the Biden administration has yet to lift. But by any qualitative measure, the export bans on computer chips are much tougher than anything imposed by Trump, said Gregory Allen, a senior fellow in the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Allen said the Trump-era tariffs were large in terms of dollars, but they had almost no affect on the balance of trade. Nor were the import taxes strategic. The export controls imposed by the Biden administration would be a setback for Chinese technology that is already decades behind the U.S.
“We have essentially committed ourselves to saying: China you will not achieve your number one goal,” Allen said.
The era of China, Russia and other competitors having relatively unfettered access to U.S. and European markets appears to be ending, said Christopher Miller, a Tufts University professor and author of the book, “Chip Wars.”
“The risks posed by these countries has grown, so Western leaders have reconsidered the wisdom of giving adversaries open access to their markets,” Miller said.
Instead of trying to work together as a single global economy, new alliances are being formed such as the Quad (Australia, India, Japan and the U.S.) and existing partnerships such as NATO are being expanded. Economic integration among these partners has become essential, as the U.S. export controls on advanced chips need support from other producers in Japan and the Netherlands.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just when the defending champion Warriors welcomed back some reinforcements, Klay Thompson’s surgically repaired left knee required a break.
Paolo Banchero scored 25 points, Franz Wagner added 24 points and the Orlando Magic beat Golden State 115-101 on Saturday night as the Warriors dropped consecutive home games for the first time this season.
The Magic won on the Warriors’ home floor for the first time in more than 10 years.
Anthony Lamb scored a career-high 26 points with five 3s off the bench for Golen State, 14 of those in the opening quarter with four 3s. Jordan Poole had 21 points and Donte DiVincenzo added 15 points and eight rebounds and the Warriors lost a second straight following a season-best five-game winning streak and six-game unbeaten stretch at Chase Center. It ended on Saddiq Bey’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer for Detroit in a 122-119 victory Wednesday night.
All-Star Andrew Wiggins returned and veteran Andre Iguodala made his long-awaited season debut but Thompson was a late scratch with soreness in his surgically repaired left knee. He warmed up and was announced with the starters during pregame introductions.
“It got sore during warmups and the training staff looked at him and for precautionary reasons kept him out of the game,” coach Steve Kerr said.
Wiggins scored 12 in 19 minutes coming back from a 15-game absence for both a strained muscle in his right upper leg and a non-COVID illness that delayed his expected return — including missing his bobblehead night Wednesday.
Stephen Curry missed his 11th straight game with a partially dislocated left shoulder but could return this coming week — the hope is Friday at San Antonio to begin a five-game road trip.
Iguodala had yet to play as the Warriors took a conservative approach with the 38-year-old veteran managing a left hip injury. He received a warm ovation when checking in for the first time at the 7:28 mark of the first and each other moment, finishing at 12 minutes.
“It was unbelievable. Being able to play with Iggy and Wiggs was awesome,” said two-way player Lamb, who felt the Warriors started nice runs but couldn’t sustain them by making enough defensive stops.
Cole Anthony added 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists while Wendell Carter Jr. contributed 13 points and 10 rebounds for Orlando.
“They took it to us all night, they were the more aggressive team,” Kerr said. “It felt like they were coming down hill at us and we just didn’t have much of a response. We couldn’t get the crowd into it, couldn’t generate much momentum so I just felt like they controlled the whole game.”
Magic center Moritz Wagner returned from a three-game absence, one of those he was ill then a two-game suspension for his part in an altercation with the Pistons at Detroit on Dec. 28.
KERR’S HELPER
A 12-year-old boy from North Carolina named Braxton Barefoot fulfilled a dream to be an NBA coach helping out Kerr through Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Barefoot, who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, wore the same outfit as Golden State’s coaching staff and sat in on media sessions. The Warriors and Magic are his favorite teams.
TIP-INS
Magic: Orlando hadn’t won in the Bay Area since beating the Warriors 102-94 on Dec. 3, 2012, snapping a nine-game skid. … The Magic were outrebounded 49-44.
Warriors: The Warriors were 18 of 58 from long range. … Iguodala was limited to 31 regular-season games last season so Golden State’s staff wants to make sure he is still fresh for another playoff run this spring. … The Warriors have lost the last three in the series and dropped to 8-3 at home vs. the Eastern Conference.
UP NEXT
Magic: At Sacramento on Monday night continuing a five-game West Coast road trip.
Warriors: Host the Suns on Tuesday night having lost the past three to Phoenix.
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DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Duke-Margolis recommendations urge the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) to pursue the most comprehensive level of integration of the state's Medicaid program with Medicare to ensure the 275,000 eligible North Carolinians have access to the "whole-person care" that will address the diversity of their physical, behavioral and social care needs. North Carolina is on the cusp of a major transition of its state Medicaid program from fee-for-service (FFS) to managed care and NC DHHS is mandated to transition eligible NC residents, also known as dual-eligible beneficiaries, into Medicaid managed care by 2026.
The Duke-Margolis report, "North Carolina Medicare-Medicaid Integration: Advancing Whole-Person Care," developed with support from a grant by Arnold Ventures, provides NC DHHS with pragmatic, evidence-based options for Medicare-Medicaid integration in the state. The report is accompanied by a practical guide for states interested in developing a tailored, evidence-based Medicare-Medicaid integration strategy. These recommendations build on the state's 2017 report, and address key policy design and implementation questions, including eligibility, structure, plan design, phase-in of populations and services, and program oversight.
"We are excited to strengthen our partnership with our academic colleagues in the state to ensure that our approach is an innovative and evidence-based model that makes North Carolina a national leader in providing high quality, coordinated, and integrated care for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries," said Dave Richard, Deputy Secretary for North Carolina Medicaid.
The report lays out a whole-person care vision for the state's dual-eligible beneficiaries that prioritizes their needs and preferences and those of their families, resulting in better health, health equity, and improved experiences.
"Too often in health care we do not focus on what really matters to people, especially the most vulnerable. Developing new person-centered approaches to delivering and financing care for dual-eligible beneficiaries, like the recommendations offered by the Duke-Margolis team in this paper, will help improve health and health care for this important group across North Carolina," said Dr. Mark McClellan, Director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.
"Our vision and recommended strategy for Medicare and Medicaid integration in North Carolina aligns with the state's overall transformation efforts and creates pathways for innovative collaborations in the state that can help deliver whole-person care and better health outcomes for dual-eligible beneficiaries," said Aparna Higgins, Senior Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and project co-lead.
The report describes options for increasing levels of Medicare-Medicaid integration for the state, and recommends the most integrated approach, along with key elements needed to support beneficiary-centered, whole-person care:
- Use of primary care and interdisciplinary care teams with models of care tailored to the unique needs of the dual-eligible beneficiary.
- Enhanced beneficiary protections and services, such as assistance with complaints and appeals or making connections to community-based resources.
- Integration of existing state efforts through Medicaid transformation and the Healthy Opportunities Pilots with Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits to address beneficiary social needs.
- Support for the robust data and infrastructure capability, state administration capacity, and broader workforce resources needed to successfully implement and sustain integration.
The recommendations were informed by a 21-month, multi-component Duke-Margolis project encompassing in-depth analysis of combined NC Medicaid and Medicare data and extensive input from NC stakeholders and national experts in Medicare-Medicaid integration.
"As North Carolina continues care transformation for Medicaid beneficiaries, our report brings into focus the unique experiences and challenges faced by dual eligible beneficiaries and how integration with Medicare plans has the potential to improve care and outcomes for these individuals and their families," said Dr. Brystana Kaufman, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy Core Faculty Member and project co-lead.
The mission of the Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University is to improve health, health equity, and the value of health care through practical, innovative, and evidence-based policy solutions. For more information, visit healthpolicy.duke.edu and follow us on Twitter @DukeMargolis.
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The father of a Parkland school shooting victim interrupted President Joe Biden on the White House lawn Monday during an event meant to celebrate a new law aimed at reducing gun violence.
Manuel Oliver, who lost his son Joaquin in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17, was among those in attendance outside the White House to hear Biden speak.
"Today is many things. It's proof that despite the naysayers, we can make meaningful progress on dealing with gun violence. Because make no mistake..." Biden said when he was interrupted by Oliver.
"We have to do more than that," Oliver yelled from the audience.
Footage shows Oliver standing and shouting to Biden, who told him to "sit down, you'll hear what I have to say," adding "let me finish my comments."
Oliver then appeared to be escorted from his seat.
The new law, passed after recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, incrementally toughens requirements for young people buying guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers and helps local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
But the White House event, billed as a celebration of the law, came a week after a gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people at an Independence Day parade, a stark reminder of the limitations of the new law in addressing the American phenomenon of mass gun violence.
Oliver spoke with NBC Miami from the White House lawn before the event, saying the law doesn't go far enough.
"It's not enough — we need to keep on putting pressure so they do more," Oliver said.
Oliver's spokesperson, J.P. Hervis, told NBC News that Oliver never thought the event should be a celebration and that it would allow Republicans to claim they had taken action to address gun violence and avoid additional change.
Ahead of the White House event, Oliver tweeted, "The word CELEBRATION has no space in a society that saw 19 kids massacred just a month ago."
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SpaceX Dragon cargo caspule departs space station
ORLANDO, Fla. - NASA's SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule departed the International Space Station Saturday morning and was expected to splashdown off the Florida Coast Saturday evening.
Dragon undocked at 11:05 a.m. from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module as the ISS was flying approximately 260 miles over the Indian Ocean.
Dragon was launched on March 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. The supply mission arrived at the space station March 16, delivering more than 6,000 pounds of research investigations, crew supplies, and station hardware.
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CARTHAGE — Tens of thousands of people braced for days without electricity in Moore County, where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent.
Across the area southwest of Raleigh on Monday, businesses handed out free food or coffee. Shops without internet conducted transactions in cash. One local economic official described the area known for its golf courses and local pottery as “eerily quiet” at a time of year when businesses are normally full of tourists and holiday shoppers.
County schools were closed.
Many restaurants displayed “CLOSED” signs in windows.
Traffic lights were out throughout the county. A consistent hum of honks could be heard as people signaled to each other when they should go.
Kalai and Christine Balutski of Pinebluff sat under a heater Monday morning drinking warm beverages at the Red’s Corner food truck lot in Southern Pines. The couple has been without power since 7 p.m. Saturday and said they have been driving to restaurants in the next county over to eat warm meals and watch football while they wait for updates.
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“We got two dogs at home, so we can’t just up and leave,” Kalai said.
Bundled in a beanie, boots and a Pittsburgh Steelers jacket, Christine said she has been struggling to get work done for her remote IT job without electricity at home.
Meanwhile, federal, state and local authorities were undertaking a massive investigation of what’s being described as a serious attack on critical infrastructure. Utility officials said it could take until Thursday to restore all power.
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said Sunday that authorities have not determined a motivation. He said someone pulled up, breached the substation gates and opened fire.
“It wasn’t random,” he said.
Roughly 35,000 electric customers in the county of 100,000 were without power Monday — down by several thousand from the peak of the outages — as temperatures dropped below freezing.
About 20 people spent the night at an emergency shelter at the Moore County Sports Complex. Phil Harris, the executive director of the local American Red Cross chapter, said plenty more have stopped by for food, warmth or to charge their devices.
“If you’ve got no power, you probably don’t have any heat, so with winter weather coming in, it’s a nice place to stay,” Harris said.
Jeff Brooks, a Duke Energy spokesman, said that multiple pieces of equipment were damaged and will have to be replaced. He said while the company is trying to restore power as quickly as possible, he braced customers for the potential of outages lasting days.
“We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment,” Brooks said.
Andrew Wilkins, a conservation advocate who grew up in Moore County, was driving Saturday night from Washington to his parents’ small farm in Whispering Pines when he noticed the street lights were out in Carthage. He arrived to a “pitch black street” and little information about the cause of the blackout — or scope.
“When the power was cut, the flow of information was cut, too,” Wilkins said.
He spent the weekend helping his parents link a generator to their well for fresh drinking water and preparing them for cold nights without heat.
“Their home, like many rural homes, relies on a well for fresh, clean water, and it’s powered by electricity,” Wilkins said. “People are going to really feel the pinch from this as it goes on.” | https://greensboro.com/news/state-and-regional/days-thats-how-long-moore-county-power-outages-could-last-after-crippling-attacks/article_f24ab5d2-74c2-11ed-9f10-b31ac5769a06.html | 2022-12-07 02:38:39 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/state-and-regional/days-thats-how-long-moore-county-power-outages-could-last-after-crippling-attacks/article_f24ab5d2-74c2-11ed-9f10-b31ac5769a06.html |
SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEMD), a medical technology company focused on developing products to diagnose and treat life and organ threatening diseases, today announced that it will be presenting at the H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference. The conference will be held at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. and virtually from May 23-26, 2022.
Charles J. Fisher, Jr., M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Steven LaRosa, M.D. ,Chief Medical Officer, and James Frakes, Chief Financial Officer, will virtually present an overview of Aethlon Medical and the latest developments regarding the Hemopurifier®, Aethlon's investigational immunotherapeutic device that is designed to remove viruses and exosomes from the blood.
The presentation will be available on-demand at 7 a.m. EDT on May 24, 2022 at the link provided below and will be archived for 90 days. The presentation will also be available to view on the Aethlon website. In addition to the live presentation on May 24, 2022, the Aethlon executive leadership team will also be hosting one-on-one meetings.
Aethlon Medical Presentation Details
Event Name: H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference
Date/Time: May 24, 2022, 7 a.m. EDT
Location: Virtual
Company Webcasting Link: https://journey.ct.events/view/a3033427-1449-4cbb-a684-ba4c0c800bc6
About Aethlon and the Hemopurifier®
Aethlon is a medical technology company focused on developing products to diagnose and treat life and organ threatening diseases. The Aethlon Hemopurifier is a clinical-stage immunotherapeutic device designed to combat cancer and life-threatening viral infections. In cancer, the Hemopurifier is designed to deplete the presence of circulating tumor-derived exosomes that promote immune suppression.
The Hemopurifier® is an FDA designated "Breakthrough Device" related to the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are either unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which exosomes have been shown to participate in the development or severity of the disease. Under an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application, in October 2019, the FDA approved an Early Feasibility Study (EFS), which is the device equivalent of a Phase 1 clinical trial for a drug or biologic, in a single center, open label trial in 10 to 12 subjects. The study is evaluating the HEMOPURIFIER® for reducing cancer-associated exosomes prior to the administration of standard-of-care pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®), which is a first-line therapy for patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The EFS is being conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center.
The Hemopurifier also holds a Breakthrough Device designation related to life-threatening viruses that are not addressed with approved therapies. In June 2020, the FDA approved an amendment to the Company's existing open IDE for the Hemopurifier in life threatening viral infections, to allow for the treatment of patients with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection. This will allow for up to 40 of these patients to be treated under a new Early Feasibility Study protocol at up to 20 clinical sites in the U.S.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks and uncertainties. Statements containing words such as "may," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "will," "projections," "estimate," "potentially" or similar expressions constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Aethlon's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Factors that may contribute to such differences include, without limitation, the Company's ability to enroll patients in and successfully complete the cancer trial or the COVID-19 trial with the Hemopurifier, the Company's ability to successfully complete development of its Hemopurifier, the Company's ability to raise additional funds, and other potential risks. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative, but is not exhaustive. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements can be found under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2020, and in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Except as may be required by law, the Company does not intend, nor does it undertake any duty, to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances.
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Aethlon Medical, Inc.
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SAN ANTONIO — Governor Greg Abbott plans to provide an update Friday afternoon on state efforts to assist Uvalde residents in the wake of this week's mass shooting at Robb Elementary, which killed 19 students and two teachers.
He is expected to speak at 3:30 p.m., and will be making his first public statement in the small south Texas community since he was interrupted by former Congressman and gubernatorial opponent Beto O'Rourke Wednesday morning. He is skipping a previously planned stop at a Houston NRA convention, but appeared via a pre-recorded video message Friday, saying no law could have prevented the Uvalde shooting.
Abbott's Friday update will come just a few hours after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said the commander of the initial response to Tuesday's shooting made the "wrong decision" not to breach the classroom sooner when the gunman was inside.
“From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision,” McCraw said. “It was a wrong decision. There’s no excuse for that. But again, I wasn’t there, but I’m just telling you from what we know. We believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. When there’s an active shooter, the rules change.”
Nearly 20 officers were in a hallway outside the classrooms for more than 45 minutes before Border Patrol agents used a master key to open a door and confront the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, McCraw said.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A wide-smiling Zion Williamson could afford to poke fun at himself for the free throw he missed while fans packing the New Orleans Pelicans’ home arena were celebrating his latest dominant outing with thunderous chants of “M-V-P!”
That’s because the Pelicans, now perched atop the Western Conference standings, had just won their seventh straight game — thanks in no small part to Williamson’s game-high 35 points on Sunday in a 129-124 overtime triumph over the Phoenix Suns.
“The dude is a one-of-one player. So, there’s no guideline as to what to expect from him on a given night,” Pelicans forward Larry Nance Jr. said. “We’ve never seen this blueprint before.
“I don’t even know if we’ve seen his best yet,” Nance added, “which is terrifying for the NBA.”
Drafted first overall out of Duke in 2019, but sidelined for most of his first three seasons, Williamson is well on his way to dispelling any notion that he might go down in NBA history as an injury-prone, out-of-shape bust.
Indeed, the repeated celebratory flexing of his well-defined biceps after he barrels through traffic in the paint and deftly finishes at the rim are reminding anyone watching that he is very much in shape — and in form.
During New Orleans’ past seven games, with Pelicans high-scoring wing player Brandon Ingram sidelined by a left foot injury, Williamson has taken charge, averaging 30.3 points. He’s scored on everything from rim-rattling, alley-oop dunks, to explosive, off-balance, driving layups while being fouled, to put backs and even 3-pointers.
“I got to thank my teammates and my coaches,” Williamson said when asked about his recent string of prolific performances. “My teammates looked at me like, ‘All right, we’re depending on you.’
“I mean, that trust does a lot for somebody,” Williamson continued. “So, to see them trust me — you know I missed all last season — it means a lot to me. I simply just don’t want to let them down.”
Williamson missed most of his rookie season because of protracted rehabilitation from a preseason knee injury. His second season was an individual success; he averaged 27 points in 61 games and was named a first-time All-Star, but the Pelicans missed the playoffs and fired coach Stan Van Gundy after only one season.
Williamson then missed all of his third pro season because of a foot injury that did not initially respond well to treatment, casting doubt upon whether he’d ever live up to the hype that had basketball fans in New Orleans partying on downtown streets the night he was drafted.
Lately, Pelicans fans have been rising to their feet in the Smoothie King Center each time Williamson launches his muscle-bound, 6-foot-6 frame toward the rim, either with the ball in his hands or on its way to him via a lob.
“I’m just proud of him more than anything,” Pelicans second-year coach Willie Green said. “When you have an injury, especially being the caliber of player that Zion is, you’re measured by how you recover.
“There’s a lot of scrutiny, eyes on him. For him to come back, have the conditioning that he does, still have his touch, his handle, you can tell he was working all offseason.”
Veterans Nance and CJ McCollum have become Williamson confidantes, routinely offering guidance about everything from maintaining a healthy lifestyle to refining his on-court skills.
“He’s relishing this opportunity to be able to be out there and be able to play in big moments in meaningful games — and he’s delivering,” McCollum said. “He’s done the work, obviously. You can see he’s starting to be more comfortable. I think the last seven or eight games he’s looked like Zion, right? An MVP-caliber player.”
While Williamson has been effective using his rare combination of size, explosiveness and leaping ability to finish around the rim, McCollum has urged him to develop his mid-range and perimeter shooting in order to keep defenses from collapsing into the paint every time he has the ball.
On Sunday night, Williamson attempted three 3-pointers, hitting two. He also has been praised by teammates for his ability to make the right pass when crowded by multiple defenders.
For the season, Williamson has averaged 25 points in 21 contests while shooting better than 60%. Those are the type of numbers that, if sustained, would begin to justify the Pelicans’ decision to sign Williamson to a five-year extension worth at least $193 million.
But Williamson insists he doesn’t get too caught up in statistics, as long as the Pelicans are winning.
“We’re No. 1 in the West right now,” Williamson said after New Orleans defeated Phoenix in two straight games over the weekend. “I know, to a lot of people, it’s not a big deal because it’s early in the season. But for us to kind of have that ranking right now, that’s big and we want to not only hold onto it, but build on it.”
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The brand, who's inspired a generation, continues its commitment to partnering with inspiring athletes, empowering them to showcase their personal style with made to measure apparel
VANCOUVER, BC, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, INDOCHINO, the global leader in made to measure apparel, is proud to announce their partnership with Scoot Henderson, the #3 pick in last night's NBA draft. The brand collaborated with Scoot and China Henderson, the Mix of Luxe stylist, designer and artist, to create a suit that takes customized made to measure apparel to the next level, creating a truly one of a kind INDOCHINO.
"This is a day I have been working towards and dreaming of for my entire life, so I wanted to be very thoughtful about how my draft day look represents both my journey so far and what's next. This suit is a visual representation of "what got me here" and it celebrates the incredible support of my entire family, who have been essential. Working with INDOCHINO on this one-of-one, made to measure suit, designed by China Henderson, Mix of Luxe stylist, designer and artist, is the embodiment of familyhood. I love that this custom suit brings my family tree to life in a new and creative way, which will give me confidence and protection," said Scoot Henderson.
A style icon in the making, Scoot wanted his suit to represent the gemstone namesakes of the Henderson family with an inspiring design. Using a perfectly-fit, made to measure INDOCHINO suit as the canvas for their artistry, Mix of Luxe worked in partnership with Orinthia, a local Marietta, GA seamstress, to hand sew more than 600 stones onto the jacket. These intricate details form a family tree with the birthstones of Scoot's parents, Chris and Crystal Henderson, across his shoulders, as well as the birthstones of his siblings for protection, strength, spiritually, bountiful energy, and wellness. The branches stretch across the jacket, ultimately blossoming into flowers that represent his growth.
Speaking to her inspiration for the suit, China Henderson shared, "I was drawn to the fact that personalization is so central to the INDOCHINO brand, and how excited their team was to collaborate with us on creating a suit that is totally one-of-a-kind, and takes customization to the next level. To elevate and add meaning to Scoot's look, I designed a tree of life motif to showcase the love within our family, and highlight the gemstone namesakes of each family member. By partnering with Orinthia, an expert craftsperson, to hand-sew these gemstones onto the INDOCHINO suit, the final look represents our commitment to the empowerment of our local community and how we are strengthened by working together."
Additionally, several Henderson family members, who accompanied Scoot to the NBA Draft, were dressed in made to measure INDOCHINO suiting, wearing bold colors that further highlight their own gemstone. INDOCHINO and Scoot will also continue their partnership with a special charitable initiative, called "Scoot Suits" – which will provide custom suits to young professionals in either his hometown or his new home city.
INDOCHINO was honored to dress 9 picks in total for the 2023 NBA draft class, working closely with each athlete to create a made to measure suit which authentically showcased their unique style. By personalizing every element, from fabrics to linings, lapel styles, and custom embroidery, the looks celebrate individuality and self-expression. INDOCHINO's customers can channel their favorite player by shopping the "Dress Like A Pro" collection, which breaks down how to get each athlete's look and offers ways for shoppers to make them their own.
"For these players, the NBA draft is something they have dreamed about for their entire lives, and we are humbled to be their suit brand of choice for this moment. With such a large roster of draftees this year, we had the amazing opportunity to showcase a variety of creative looks and tell each athlete's inspiring story. With some players, like Scoot, looking to take customization to the ultimate limits, and others opting for sleek, classic styles, we are honored to help each of these young men bring their vision to life," said Drew Green, CEO and President of INDOCHINO.
Please see below for all details on the styles this year's picks selected and customized
- Scoot Henderson, the 3rd overall pick, selected INDOCHINO's Harrogate Black Suit with gemstone customizations, which were designed and styled by China Henderson, Mix of Luxe
- Dereck Lively II opted for INDOCHINO's Harford Velvet Burgundy Tuxedo and was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the #12 pick
- Noah Clowney, wearing INDOCHINO's Hamilton Sharkskin Apricot Suit, was drafted by the Brooklyn Nets
- Leonard Miller wore an INDOCHINO Harford Velvet Gray Tuxedo, and landed with the Minnesota Timberwolves
- Maxwell Lewis, who was drafted to the LA Lakers, chose INDOCHINO's Sharkskin Sand Suit
- Julian Phillips was selected by the Chicago Bulls and went with INDOCHINO's Hemsworth Red Suit for his draft night look
- Chris Livingston chose the classic INDOCHINO Harrogate Glen Check Navy Suit and was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks
- Jacob Toppin, who will likely be signed to the New York Knicks on a two-way contract, wore INDOCHINO's Milano Plum Suit
- Logan Johnson chose a bold print, wearing the INDOCHINO Glaston Houndstooth Black and White Suit
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As the global leader in made to measure apparel, INDOCHINO has developed the shopping experience of the future. Born out of the belief that you don't need to spend a fortune on a custom wardrobe, INDOCHINO was the first company to disrupt the retail sector by making perfect-fitting, personalized apparel on a mass scale. The brand was also named to the Newsweek and Statista America's Fastest Growing Online Shops list for 2022.
Customers take on the role of designer, picking out every detail of their garments to make them truly one-of-a-kind. These are made to their precise measurements and shipped directly to their door, hassle free. The company's omni-channel approach allows them to shop online or in person at any INDOCHINO showroom.
For more information, visit www.indochino.com and follow INDOCHINO's social media channels.
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DENVER (AP) — The person charged with fatally shooting five people and wounding 17 others at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year was at the venue for more than an hour earlier that night before returning to carry out the mass shooting, according to information disclosed Friday during a procedural court hearing.
Authorities have previously only said that Anderson Lee Aldrich was seen pulling into a parking lot at Club Q just before midnight on Nov. 19, 2022, where they entered and immediately opened fire.
The new timeline was revealed in passing during the hearing by a defense attorney hoping to get an evidentiary hearing scheduled for later this month delayed, but he did not elaborate.
Defense attorney Joseph Archambault argued that the hearing should be delayed until they can see all the security footage from inside the club that night to determine if, for instance, Aldrich was involved in any arguments or conversations with others or had been drinking. That information, he contended, could provide key evidence about whether the crime was premeditated or motivated by bias.
Aldrich, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, is charged with hate crimes as well as murder and attempted murder. Someone who is nonbinary can be charged with a hate crime for targeting peers, because hate crime laws are focused on the victims, not the perpetrator. However, prosecutors must prove what motivated a defendant, a higher standard than what is usually required in court.
Prosecutors and the judge did not dispute the timeline, but what happened during that period earlier that night was not discussed directly, including what time Aldrich was there. There was also a reference to Aldrich being at the club on other occasions in 2021 and 2022, but those visits were not discussed.
Archambault wanted to delay a three-day hearing starting Feb. 22 to determine if Aldrich will stand trial in the case partly because there is no audio yet available for surveillance video showing them in the club before, which may have captured statements they or others made.
Archambault did not return a call seeking more details. His office has a policy of not speaking with reporters.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Reginald Short explained that technical problems had led to a delay of matching up audio with video by forensic video experts. He said he did not think any audio that is joined with the relevant video portions would likely do much to shed light on Aldrich's state of mind because it would be difficult to hear people talking. The surveillance video that does have audio has lots of disco music and other loud background noise, with people shouting over the din to order drinks at the bar, he said.
Short also argued that the upcoming preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for Aldrich to stand trial only requires prosecutors to show probable cause that Aldrich committed the crimes, with the evidence viewed in the prosecution's favor at this stage of the proceedings.
“This is not a whodunit,” he said.
Matthew Haynes, Club Q’s co-owner, declined to comment on the disclosure and said he wants to remain focused on rebuilding the venue.
Judge Michael McHenry denied the defense's request to delay the hearing, noting that not all the evidence must be presented, because the preliminary hearing is not a “mini trial." However, he said that if new information comes to light after the hearing he would be open to considering whether that would be enough to consider releasing Aldrich on bond while the case proceeds.
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Nuggets win series over Timberwolves as Nikola Jokic's triple-double leads way in Game 5
Anthony Edwards had a clean look to force overtime at the buzzer, but came up short
The Denver Nuggets had to throw the kitchen sink at the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5, but it was worth it as they won, 112-109, to win the series and move on to the next round.
The Nuggets will now await the winner of the No. 4 Phoenix Suns and No. 5 Los Angeles Clippers series, where the Suns are up 3-1.
Desperation was high for the Timberwolves and that was apparent all game long, as they weren’t going out without a fight. The game was tied 102 apiece with 1:46 left to go in the fourth quarter, and no team could pull away.
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That is until Nikola Jokic hit back-to-back shots to make it a 109-104 game. The first was a valiant effort, tipping the ball back twice on an original missed floater by him to give the Nuggets the slight edge. Then, he hit a patented four-foot hook shot following a miss from Anthony Edwards on the other end.
It was also an and-one opportunity after Karl-Anthony Towns fouled out of the game, and Jokic would hit it to give the Nuggets a five-point cushion. Towns left the game with 26 points on 9-of-17 from the field with 11 rebounds and three assists.
It was a lead they wouldn’t relinquish and they move on to continue their journey toward the Finals.
The Timberwolves didn’t lay down, though, with less than 30 seconds left. Mike Conley buried a 28-foot three to pull within two points. Edwards did the same with a seven-footer falling after Bruce Brown (14 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists) brought the Nuggets back to a four-point lead.
They even had a chance to tie the game and send it to overtime with 2.5 seconds left down three points. But Edwards’ shot missed and the Nuggets went into their celebration.
Jokic finished the game with 28 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists for an impressive triple-double. He also had two steals and two blocks on the defensive end.
Jamal Murray also dropped 35 points to lead the Nuggets, which included 5-of-9 made three-pointers and a perfect 6-of-6 from the charity stripe.
For Minnesota, Edwards finished with 29 points on 13-of-26 from the field, though he missed all six of his three-point attempts. He also tallied eight rebounds and seven assists with two blocks on the other end.
Rudy Gobert fouled out for the Wolves as well, finishing with 16 points and 15 rebounds for a double-double.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The 2022 racing season might be in the dust now, but it’s something Gettysburg's Danny Dietrich wants to build off of.
Dietrich had 14 wins, 53 top 5s and 69 top 10s. Winning the Steve Smith Tribute worth $19,000, it’s the big events he hopes to capitalize on looking forward.
“Always want to get better," said Dietrich, driver of the No. 48 Gary Kauffman Racing. "Putting a bigger schedule together, and we want to get closer to that 20-win mark or more and just keep piling up the wins and hopefully get some marque events under our belt."
Dietrich is less than two weeks away from shaking off the rust and kicking off the largest race schedule of his career, with the hopes of starting off on the right foot for his first of 123-race season in Georgia.
Dietrich said, “We’ve been good on the dry/slick tracks. Senoia, Georgia looks to be right down our alley.”
This year doesn’t just bring a fresh new season, it brings a brand new series to the table. Dietrich joins Brent Marks, so far, as the only two Pennsylvania drivers committed to run all dozen High Limit races. Buch Motorsports, an All-Star team from Lancaster County, with driver Justin Peck, have also committed to running the new series.
But, in the 13 seasons with car owner Gary Kauffman, this will be just the second time "Double D" puts his seat in another owner's car. He had a stint with Tom Buch in 2017, racing down south and Ohio Speedweek. This year, he'll be racing the High Limit Series for Randy Gass.
“It’s kind of my second venture out without being under the Gary Kauffman flag," said Dietrich.
He can’t do it without the support of his dad and brother covering for him at the family business, while he chases his passion.
“[You] realize you can’t always chase after the money like those guys (Outlaws) do," said Dietrich. "We have a job that we come back and do and other people rely on us for sprint car parts. It works out pretty well and I wouldn’t be able to do it without my dad and my brother."
Hoping to not get rained out like last year, the first race of Dietrich's season is Feb. 3. | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/sunday-frenzy/danny-dietrich-sprint-racing-fast-lane-dirt-track-pa-posse/521-808df844-2646-4ec7-b9f2-fc6a0f8714da | 2023-01-23 17:25:21 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/sunday-frenzy/danny-dietrich-sprint-racing-fast-lane-dirt-track-pa-posse/521-808df844-2646-4ec7-b9f2-fc6a0f8714da |
In the fifth week of its third iteration, the XFL smacked into the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It didn’t go well.
In Week Six, with less basketball and a higher profile, the XFL’s ratings rebounded.
Per the league, the Week Six games averaged 741,412 across FX and ABC for three games televised on Saturday and Sunday. (The fourth game of the weekend was played on Monday night.)
Saturday afternoon’s Seattle-Orlando game on ABC averaged 1.047 million viewers. A Saturday night game between St. Louis and Vegas averaged 371,000 viewers.
A Sunday afternoon game on ABC attracted an average audience of 752,000.
That’s a huge jump over Week Five, which averaged a season-low 248,000 viewers. But it’s still well below where the XFL had been earlier in the season.
With four weeks left, and with the USFL returning soon, it will be interesting to see how the XFL finishes. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/placement-of-two-games-on-abc-gives-xfl-a-significant-week-six-boost | 2023-07-01 00:38:44 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/placement-of-two-games-on-abc-gives-xfl-a-significant-week-six-boost |
- Future house pioneer Oliver Heldens performs alongside Manchester City player Jack Grealish in first-of-its-kind 'Mixing in the Metaverse' DJ set
- Exclusive musical performance includes new track created by Grealish and Heldens
MANCHESTER, England, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OKX, one of the world's leading Web3 technology companies, today hosted an exclusive DJ set performed by Manchester City star Jack Grealish and legendary DJ Oliver Heldens in its OKX Collective metaverse.
The 'Mixing in the Metaverse' experience includes a 15-minute set performed by metahuman avatars of Grealish and Heldens, who has been coaching Grealish on the turntables. The concert-like experience sees Grealish and Heldens debut a new, exclusive collaboration track and takes place in a futuristic stadium built in the Everdome metaverse.
Jack Grealish said: "I love music and I've wanted to try my hand at DJing for a long time. What I couldn't have expected was that my DJing debut would come in the metaverse! The OKX Collective metaverse is unique and I'm honoured to share this special collab alongside a DJing legend like Oliver with fans from all over the world."
Haider Rafique, Global Chief Marketing Officer at OKX, said: "For our third metaverse experience with Manchester City, we step into the virtual world to watch Jack try his hand on the decks alongside a legend of the future house genre. This fan experience is a great example of the one-of-a-kind immersive experiences we are building for fans. These opportunities are special in that they bring people intimately close to the players they love and their passions."
Fans visiting the OKX Collective metaverse will be able to revisit the metaverse training experience OKX has launched with defender Rúben Dias and the tactical masterclass given by Manchester City Captain İlkay Gündoğan. Within the metaverse, fans can also enter competitions to win prizes, including passes to team trainings, match tickets and much more.
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Pfizer expects to roughly quadruple the price of its COVID-19 vaccine to between $110 to $130 per dose once the U.S. government’s purchasing program ends early next year, a company official said.
Angela Lukin said during an investor call Thursday the company is still in discussion with insurers but that they are confident the price will ensure equitable access and reimbursement. The federal government currently pays about $30 a dose and then distributes the vaccine to the public for free.
Pfizer in June signed a $3.2 billion deal with the Biden administration for 105 million doses.
“We are confident that the U.S. price point of the COVID-19 vaccine reflects its overall cost effectiveness and ensures the price will not be a barrier for access for patients,” Lukin said.
Lukin said Pfizer is working on manufacturing a single-dose shot, and the increased cost reflects that, as well as the cost of distribution.
She said the manufacturer was working in unknown territory during the pandemic’s emergency phase, but “we will now be moving into our sweet spot of the traditional commercial marketplace.”
Once the public health emergency ends and the federal supply of vaccines runs out, Lukin said she still anticipates that every American with private insurance or government insurance who is eligible for vaccination will not have any out-of-pocket costs.
Still, it’s not clear how the millions of uninsured people in the country will have access to the vaccine. Once the federal supply runs out, private insurers will be required to pay for the doses themselves, which could increase premiums.
Pfizer’s contract with the U.S. government runs through the end of the year. Federal health officials have said they anticipate shifting COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments to the commercial marketplace sometime next year.
Lukin said she does not expect purchasing of the vaccines to transfer to the private sector until the first quarter of 2023 “at the earliest.”
Pfizer said it expects the COVID-19 vaccine market to be about the size of the flu shot market on an annual basis for adults. | https://www.qcnews.com/coronavirus/pfizer-looks-to-charge-at-least-110-a-dose-for-covid-19-vaccine-next-year/ | 2022-10-21 19:04:26 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/coronavirus/pfizer-looks-to-charge-at-least-110-a-dose-for-covid-19-vaccine-next-year/ |
IRVINE, Calif. (KTLA) – An Irvine, California dermatologist has been indicted after she allegedly poisoned her husband over several weeks with liquid drain cleaner last year, officials announced Wednesday.
Yue “Emily” Yu, 45, is accused of pouring the liquid into her husband’s tea, which caused him to have stomach ulcers, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
Yu was arrested last summer after her husband of 10 years began noticing a strange taste in his tea. The taste continued and he decided to install cameras in the family’s kitchen to see if he could capture any evidence of why his tea tasted strange, officials said.
Video captured on multiple days in July 2022 appeared to show Yu pouring a liquid out of a bottle of drain cleaner and into her husband’s tea that was left on the counter.
The victim also collected samples of the tea and turned them over to the Irvine Police Department, officials said. The samples were eventually turned over to the FBI for testing, and the substance was confirmed to be consistent with drain cleaner.
Yu was arrested in August and released after posting a $30,000 bond.
A grand jury has now indicted her on three felony counts of poisoning and one count of domestic battery with corporal injury, officials said.
She is set to be arraigned on April 18 and faces more than eight years in prison.
Yu, who works in Mission Viejo, is required to self-report to the Medical Board of California, which will determine if she will be allowed to continue practicing medicine.
“Our homes should be where we feel the safest,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement. “Yet, a licensed medical professional capitalized on her husband’s daily rituals to torment her husband by systematically plying his tea with a Drano-like substance intending to cause him pain and suffering.”
An attorney for Dr. Yu, however, said there are innocent explanations for the moments caught on video that they will explain in court. In a statement, attorney Scott Simmons suggested his client’s husband misrepresented what happened to get a leg up in divorce proceedings.
The statement from Dr. Yu’s attorney read in part:
“If you thought you were being poisoned, would you go to a divorce attorney before going to the hospital or police? Drano is not a covert poisoning agent. It has a strong smell and taste and is highly caustic. Dr. Yu is looking forward to her day in court when the truth will finally come out.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/california-woman-indicted-for-allegedly-poisoning-husband-with-drain-cleaner/ | 2023-04-06 03:24:02 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/california-woman-indicted-for-allegedly-poisoning-husband-with-drain-cleaner/ |
Grizzly bear attacks, injures antler hunters in Wyoming
CODY, Wyo. (AP) — A grizzly bear attacked and injured two men who apparently surprised the bruin while they were recreating in the Shoshone National Forest in northwestern Wyoming, state wildlife officials said Monday.
The encounter happened Saturday while the men were off a trail and searching for antlers shed by deer and elk in the forest southwest of Yellowstone National Park, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said.
The antlers can be sold for taxidermy and craft purposes and for dog chews.
The men were able to call 911 from near the scene and other recreationists in the area were able to get them to the trailhead, where they met search and rescue teams. One man was flown to the hospital by helicopter while the other was taken by ambulance.
Their conditions were not known on Monday, wildlife officials said. Game and Fish personnel were still investigating the attack.
Reports from hunters and landowners in the area where the attack occurred indicate there may be six to 10 bears moving between agricultural fields and low elevation slopes, Dan Smith, a regional wildlife supervisor, said in a statement.
The agency will continue to monitor bear activity in the area and work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make management decisions in the best interest of public safety, Smith said. Grizzly bears are protected under the Endangered Species Act. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-wyoming/2022/10/17/grizzly-bear-attacks-injures-antler-hunters-in-wyoming-2/ | 2022-10-17 18:19:24 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-wyoming/2022/10/17/grizzly-bear-attacks-injures-antler-hunters-in-wyoming-2/ |
AI experts sound alarm on technology going into 2024 election: ‘We're not prepared for this’
AI-generated political disinformation already has gone viral online ahead of the 2024 election
AI experts and tech-inclined political scientists are sounding the alarm on the unregulated use of AI tools going into an election season.
Generative AI can not only rapidly produce targeted campaign emails, texts or videos, it also could be used to mislead voters, impersonate candidates and undermine elections on a scale and at a speed not yet seen.
"We're not prepared for this," warned A.J. Nash, vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox. "To me, the big leap forward is the audio and video capabilities that have emerged. When you can do that on a large scale, and distribute it on social platforms, well, it's going to have a major impact."
Among the many capabilities of AI, here are a few that will have significance ramifications with elections and voting: automated robocall messages, in a candidate's voice, instructing voters to cast ballots on the wrong date; audio recordings of a candidate supposedly confessing to a crime or expressing racist views; video footage showing someone giving a speech or interview they never gave.
Fake images designed to look like local news reports, falsely claiming a candidate dropped out of the race.
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"What if Elon Musk personally calls you and tells you to vote for a certain candidate?" said Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, who stepped down last year to start the nonprofit AI2. "A lot of people would listen. But it's not him."
Petko Stoyanov, global chief technology officer at Forcepoint, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Texas, has predicted that groups looking to meddle with U.S. democracy will employ AI and synthetic media to erode trust.
"What happens if an international entity — a cybercriminal or a nation state — impersonates someone? What is the impact? Do we have any recourse?" Stoyanov said. "We're going to see a lot more misinformation from international sources."
AI-generated political disinformation already has gone viral online ahead of the 2024 election, from a doctored video of Biden appearing to give a speech attacking transgender people to AI-generated images of children supposedly learning satanism in libraries.
AI images appearing to show Trump's mug shot also fooled some social media users even though the former president didn't take one when he was booked and arraigned in a Manhattan criminal court for falsifying business records. Other AI-generated images showed Trump resisting arrest, though their creator was quick to acknowledge their origin.
Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation that would require candidates to label campaign advertisements created with AI. Clark has also sponsored legislation that would require anyone creating synthetic images to add a watermark indicating the fact.
Some states have offered their own proposals for addressing concerns about deepfakes.
Clarke said her greatest fear is that generative AI could be used before the 2024 election to create a video or audio that incites violence and turns Americans against each other.
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"It's important that we keep up with the technology," Clarke told The Associated Press. "We've got to set up some guardrails. People can be deceived, and it only takes a split second. People are busy with their lives and they don't have the time to check every piece of information. AI being weaponized, in a political season, it could be extremely disruptive."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ai-experts-sound-alarm-technology-2024-election-were-not-prepared-for-this | 2023-05-15 02:06:41 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ai-experts-sound-alarm-technology-2024-election-were-not-prepared-for-this |
MAS-Seq Supports Isoform Research Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing from 10x Genomics
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced the launch of its Multiplexed Arrays Sequencing (MAS-Seq) kit in partnership with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and 10x Genomics, Inc. The kit is a first-of-its-kind kitted solution leveraging 10x Genomics' Single Cell Gene Expression technology to enable cost-effective long-read single-cell RNA sequencing for a more complete interrogation of the transcriptome. Insights generated from single-cell RNA sequencing experiments can power new disease discoveries and the identification of therapeutic targets across many categories.
"We're thrilled to collaborate with these innovative organizations and bring new capabilities to our customers, enabling them to unlock new discoveries in their research," said Christian Henry, President and Chief Executive Officer of PacBio. "With this first-of-its-kind kit, PacBio aims to empower customers' single-cell research in a way that has not been possible before. The availability of MAS-Seq is a significant milestone for PacBio."
MAS-Seq will help single-cell researchers better identify and characterize novel isoforms, novel driver mutations, and cancer fusion genes, which are particularly relevant in the fields of cancer research and neurodegenerative diseases.
"Understanding cell heterogeneity at the isoform level is critical for basic and disease research," said Jeff Eidel, Chief Commercial Officer at PacBio. "Our customers understand the need for HiFi sequencing to obtain full-length isoforms at single-cell resolution with accuracy. With the MAS-Seq technology, we aim to bring the throughput increase that enables customers to use HiFi for single-cell RNA sequencing in a cost-effective manner."
Together with the kit, PacBio will also release new SMRTLink software that supports single-cell transcriptome analysis, helping researchers easily glean insights from their data.
"The single cell revolution has already led to groundbreaking discoveries in biomedical research and has transformed our understanding of disease and development, yet there are so many more research questions and applications waiting to benefit from the power of single cell analysis," said Edwin Hauw, Vice President of Marketing for 10x Genomics. "We believe the ability to characterize single cells at the transcript isoform-level will fuel discoveries of new biomarkers that are important in both disease research and cellular function, helping to unlock new biological insights and open up new application areas. The combination of the MAS-Seq kit with our industry-leading Chromium assays is yet another way 10x Genomics is working to build and deliver the most comprehensive single cell portfolio for researchers worldwide."
The MAS-Seq kit is the first in a series of products from PacBio to be included in its partnership with 10x Genomics as part of their Compatible Partner Program (CPP). The compatible partner program includes products that have been verified with 10x Genomics workflows.
"To date, we have had tremendous success using bulk Iso-Seq to facilitate the discovery of novel gene and isoform-resolved regulatory events pertaining to specific disease and developmental states. Today, we are excited to apply MAS-Seq technology to pioneer beyond tissue-specific associations and begin assigning these transcriptional features to specific cell populations. MAS-Seq data will ultimately better stratify disease-associated biology and enable more robust biomarker discovery for future functional validation from organism to tissue and now cell-specific outcomes," said Robert P. Sebra, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Director of the Center for Advanced Genomics Technology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
PacBio is now accepting orders for the MAS-Seq kit which will begin shipping in early November. PacBio will host a webinar on November 16, 2022 that describes the MAS-Seq library and bioinformatics workflow in detail and is open for registration here.
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Biden administration officials are frustrated that Moscow has yet to respond in a meaningful way to their proposal to release convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout and secure the release of U.S. citizens Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.The Kremlin said Thursday that "so far, there is no agreement" on the possible offer by the U.S."So far, there is no agreement on this issue," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said during a conference call with journalists when asked about the offer.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he expected a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, his counterpart in the country, this week to discuss a "substantial proposal" presented to Moscow "weeks ago" to try to secure the release of Whelan and Griner, who are classified as wrongfully detained. Blinken told reporters he hopes that by speaking with Lavrov, "I can advance the efforts to bring them home."Frustration at Russia's lack of substantive response to the deal was an underlying factor in the administration's decision to publicize that an agreement from the U.S. is on the table."We communicated a substantial offer that we believe could be successful based on a history of conversations with the Russians," a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday.However, there was acknowledgment within the administration that negotiations to try to free detained Americans are often difficult."We start all negotiations to bring home Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained with a bad actor on the other side. We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip," the senior official said."So in some ways, it's not surprising, even if it's disheartening, when those same actors don't necessarily respond directly to our offers, don't engage constructively in negotiations," they said.Asked Thursday about Blinken's comments, Peskov said, "Well, look, since there are no agreements now that would be finalized, then, accordingly, I have nothing more to add to what has been said."CNN previously reported that the plan to exchange Bout for Whelan and Griner received the backing of President Joe Biden after being under discussion since earlier this year, according to sources briefed on the matter. Biden's support for the swap overrides opposition from the Department of Justice, which is generally against prisoner trades.Among senior Biden administration officials, the idea of prisoner swaps gained new momentum earlier this year after the successful release of Trevor Reed, a former Marine who was held captive in Russia for more than two years. Reed was traded for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot then serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for cocaine smuggling conspiracy.A senior administration official suggested Moscow has not been responsive to the "substantial offer" first presented in June, telling CNN "it takes two to tango.""We start all negotiations to bring home Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained with a bad actor on the other side. We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip," the official said. "So in some ways, it's not surprising, even if it's disheartening, when those same actors don't necessarily respond directly to our offers, don't engage constructively in negotiations.The families of WNBA star Griner, jailed in Moscow for drug possession since February, and Whelan, who has been held by Russia for alleged espionage since 2018, have pleaded with the Biden administration to secure their release, including via a prisoner exchange if necessary.A senior administration official spoke with the families prior to Blinken's announcement about the "substantial proposal," National Security Council Strategic Coordinator for Communications John Kirby said Wednesday. Biden recently spoke by phone with Griner's wife, Cherelle, and Whelan's sister, Elizabeth.Kirby offered some new details Thursday on the decision to go public with the proposal but did not offer any updates on its status."We have made that decision seriously, in terms of whether we were going to go public with it, and I could just tell you that there was a lot that went into that decision. A lot of context here, both in terms of what was happening, what wasn't happening, and certainly in the context of Mrs. Griner having to testify yesterday," Kirby said during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America."Kirby continued: "There was an awful lot of discussion about whether we should even acknowledge that there was a proposal but ultimately, we came down on the side that it was important to put this out there ... the American people know how seriously President Biden takes his responsibilities to bring American citizens home when they've been unjustly detained. But we also thought it was important for the world to know how seriously America takes that responsibility."Griner, who pleaded guilty earlier this month but said she unintentionally brought cannabis into Russia, testified in a Russian courtroom Wednesday as part of her ongoing trial on drug charges, for which she faces up to 10 years in prison. It is understood that her trial will have to conclude prior to a deal being finalized, according to U.S. officials familiar with the Russian judicial process and the inner workings of U.S.-Russia negotiations.
Biden administration officials are frustrated that Moscow has yet to respond in a meaningful way to their proposal to release convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout and secure the release of U.S. citizens Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
The Kremlin said Thursday that "so far, there is no agreement" on the possible offer by the U.S.
"So far, there is no agreement on this issue," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said during a conference call with journalists when asked about the offer.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he expected a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, his counterpart in the country, this week to discuss a "substantial proposal" presented to Moscow "weeks ago" to try to secure the release of Whelan and Griner, who are classified as wrongfully detained. Blinken told reporters he hopes that by speaking with Lavrov, "I can advance the efforts to bring them home."
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, former Soviet military officer and arms trafficking suspect Viktor Bout (C) deplanes after arriving at Westchester County Airport Nov. 16, 2010 in White Plains, New York.
Frustration at Russia's lack of substantive response to the deal was an underlying factor in the administration's decision to publicize that an agreement from the U.S. is on the table.
"We communicated a substantial offer that we believe could be successful based on a history of conversations with the Russians," a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday.
However, there was acknowledgment within the administration that negotiations to try to free detained Americans are often difficult.
"We start all negotiations to bring home Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained with a bad actor on the other side. We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip," the senior official said.
"So in some ways, it's not surprising, even if it's disheartening, when those same actors don't necessarily respond directly to our offers, don't engage constructively in negotiations," they said.
Asked Thursday about Blinken's comments, Peskov said, "Well, look, since there are no agreements now that would be finalized, then, accordingly, I have nothing more to add to what has been said."
CNN previously reported that the plan to exchange Bout for Whelan and Griner received the backing of President Joe Biden after being under discussion since earlier this year, according to sources briefed on the matter. Biden's support for the swap overrides opposition from the Department of Justice, which is generally against prisoner trades.
Among senior Biden administration officials, the idea of prisoner swaps gained new momentum earlier this year after the successful release of Trevor Reed, a former Marine who was held captive in Russia for more than two years. Reed was traded for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot then serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for cocaine smuggling conspiracy.
A senior administration official suggested Moscow has not been responsive to the "substantial offer" first presented in June, telling CNN "it takes two to tango."
"We start all negotiations to bring home Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained with a bad actor on the other side. We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip," the official said. "So in some ways, it's not surprising, even if it's disheartening, when those same actors don't necessarily respond directly to our offers, don't engage constructively in negotiations.
The families of WNBA star Griner, jailed in Moscow for drug possession since February, and Whelan, who has been held by Russia for alleged espionage since 2018, have pleaded with the Biden administration to secure their release, including via a prisoner exchange if necessary.
A senior administration official spoke with the families prior to Blinken's announcement about the "substantial proposal," National Security Council Strategic Coordinator for Communications John Kirby said Wednesday. Biden recently spoke by phone with Griner's wife, Cherelle, and Whelan's sister, Elizabeth.
Kirby offered some new details Thursday on the decision to go public with the proposal but did not offer any updates on its status.
"We have made that decision seriously, in terms of whether we were going to go public with it, and I could just tell you that there was a lot that went into that decision. A lot of context here, both in terms of what was happening, what wasn't happening, and certainly in the context of Mrs. Griner having to testify yesterday," Kirby said during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Kirby continued: "There was an awful lot of discussion about whether we should even acknowledge that there was a proposal but ultimately, we came down on the side that it was important to put this out there ... the American people know how seriously President Biden takes his responsibilities to bring American citizens home when they've been unjustly detained. But we also thought it was important for the world to know how seriously America takes that responsibility."
Griner, who pleaded guilty earlier this month but said she unintentionally brought cannabis into Russia, testified in a Russian courtroom Wednesday as part of her ongoing trial on drug charges, for which she faces up to 10 years in prison. It is understood that her trial will have to conclude prior to a deal being finalized, according to U.S. officials familiar with the Russian judicial process and the inner workings of U.S.-Russia negotiations. | https://www.koat.com/article/brittney-griner-paul-whelan-proposed-us-russia-prisoner-swap/40742295 | 2022-07-28 15:18:00 | 0 | https://www.koat.com/article/brittney-griner-paul-whelan-proposed-us-russia-prisoner-swap/40742295 |
BALTIMORE — Jaylin Andrews scored on a driving layup with 2.7 seconds left and Kenny Jones scored 16 points as Loyola (MD) beat Navy 69-67 on Saturday night.
Jones shot 6 for 8, including 4 for 6 from beyond the arc for the Greyhounds (7-12, 2-4 Patriot League). Chris Kuzemka shot 6 for 9, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc to add 15 points. Deon Perry recorded 12 points and shot 3 for 8 (2 for 7 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free throw line.
The Midshipmen (8-10, 1-5) were led in scoring by Patrick Dorsey, who finished with 18 points and two steals. Tyler Nelson added 16 points and seven rebounds for Navy. Daniel Deaver also had 11 points and eight rebounds.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As if their job weren’t hard enough at a time of raging inflation, Chair Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues have to do more these days than decide just how much to raise interest rates without triggering a recession.
They also have a sales job on their hands: Convincing the public that they will succeed in reducing inflation — now at 8.6%, a four decade high — to the central bank’s goal of 2% a year.
And on Thursday, Powell told Congress that Americans do seem reassured, at least for now: Measures of consumer sentiment show that people generally think inflation will eventually subside.
“People do expect inflation to come back down to levels that are consistent with our price stability mandate,” Powell told the House Financial Services Committee on the second of two days of testimony as part of the Fed’s semiannual report to Congress. “But we haven’t had a test like this. We haven’t had an extended period of high inflation for a long time. So it’s not a comfortable place to be.″
If the Fed failed to reassure the public that it can curb inflation, many Americans would assume that prices were heading ever higher. Their likely responses — demanding increasingly higher wages or rushing to make purchases now before prices go even higher — could make inflation even worse.
Powell and the Fed are in the hot seat because inflation, which had been an economic afterthought for decades, has shot to the top of threats to the economy and concerns of American households. Average wages are rising, but not nearly enough to keep up with accelerating prices. On Thursday, committee members repeatedly reminded Powell that their constituents are feeling pain at the grocery store and the gasoline station.
Economists blame a confluence of factors for the inflationary surge. Fueled by super-low interest rates and vast government aid programs, the economy rebounded with surprising speed from the pandemic recession in the spring of 2020. Businesses scrambled to recall laid-off workers and buy enough supplies to keep up with soaring customer demand. The result was shortages of labor and materials, delays and higher prices. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drove energy and food prices even higher.
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus last year added heat to an economy that was already boiling, as many committee Republicans emphasized in Thursday’s hearing.
After being slow to recognize the inflation threat, the Fed has been moving aggressively. Last week, it raised its benchmark short-term interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point — its biggest hike since 1994 — and has signaled that more sizable rate hikes are coming. It also raised rates in March and May. Those rate increases will make it costlier for consumers and businesses to borrow, for homes, cars and other long-lasting goods.
The Fed is pursuing the high-risk challenge of gliding the U.S. economy in for a so-called soft landing — raising rates and slowing the economy enough to tame inflation without sending it tumbling into a recession. On Wednesday, Powell had acknowledged to the Senate Banking Committee that as the Fed drives rates higher, a recession remains possible.
“It’s not our intended outcome,’’ he said. “But it’s certainly a possibility.’’
Reassuring the public that inflation can be conquered is critically important, Powell stressed Thursday.
“Inflation expectations are anchored,” he told the House committee. “That’s good, but it’s not enough. We need to get inflation down because inevitably, over time, these expectations are going to be under pressure.”
He repeated a pledge that the Fed would do whatever it takes to succeed.
“We can’t fail on this,” he said. “We really have to get inflation down to 2%.″ | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/powell-fed-must-convince-public-it-can-tame-inflation/ | 2022-06-24 15:31:14 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/powell-fed-must-convince-public-it-can-tame-inflation/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Yet again, Netflix appears to be giving U.S. users a bit of insight into how it plans to tackle password sharing.
Netflix has made it obvious for months that it’s ready to roll out new rules on password sharing. In a letter to shareholders last month, Netflix said it expects to roll out paid account sharing “more broadly” toward the end of the first quarter of 2023. The company estimates more than 100 million households share accounts, which “undermines our long-term ability to invest in and improve Netflix.”
Netflix has been exploring ways to crack down on password sharing, including a log-in verification process in 2021 and the use of sub-accounts for people living outside the account owner’s home in 2022, which was tested in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru.
The help pages for those three countries were updated last week. At the time, the pages explained account owners would need to set a primary location for their account, anyone watching outside of that location would – in most cases – be blocked from accessing the account, and that extra members could be added to the account for a small fee.
Those pages have since been updated again, largely removing the information that was there last week. Details about setting a primary location are no longer included – instead, the pages explain those living outside the account owner’s home need to get their own account or be added as an extra member.
Wednesday, Netflix rolled out changes for users in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain to give members “greater control over who can access their account.”
“We’ve always made it easy for people who live together to share their Netflix account with features like profiles and multiple streams,” the company said in a blog post. “While these have been hugely popular, they’ve also created confusion about when and how you can share Netflix.”
Updates include setting a primary location for the Netflix account (it isn’t clear if users have to reconfirm this location every 31 days like the company initially said last week) and introducing sub accounts.
Those sub accounts allow account holders with a standard or premium plan to add up to two people who live outside their household to their plan for an extra, smaller fee. When it introduced sub-accounts in Chile last year, Netflix charged $2.99 for the extra member. In Canada, Netflix will charge CAD$7.99, which is about $5.95 in U.S. dollars.
“We value our members and recognize that they have many entertainment choices. A Netflix account is intended for one household and members can choose from a range of plans with different features,” the company said Wednesday. “As always, we’ll refine these new features based on member feedback so that we continue to improve Netflix in the years ahead.”
Netflix didn’t say what actions it will take if subscribers continue to share accounts outside their households. While Netflix won’t say when paid sharing will come to other countries, some version of the plan is expected to be introduced in the U.S. in the next few weeks.
“It’s worth noting that this will not be a universally popular move, so there will be current members that are unhappy with this move. We’ll see a bit of a cancel reaction to that,” Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said in a conference call with investors in January. “We think of this as similar to what we see when we raise prices.”
Netflix’s move to tackle password sharing is a shift from the company’s previous stance. Then-CEO Reed Hastings (he stepped down as CEO last month) said in 2016 that Netflix wouldn’t charge users for sharing their passwords. Instead, he called password sharing “something you have to learn to live with,” CNBC reports.
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PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Voters in Montenegro cast ballots Sunday in a runoff presidential election that is a contest between a long-serving pro-Western incumbent and a newcomer promising changes in the small NATO member nation located on Europe’s Balkan peninsula.
Observers think President Milo Djukanovic, who is credited with leading Montenegro to independence and into NATO, could be defeated by Jakov Milatovic, a former economy minister. Milatovic has the backing of the country’s governing parties, which advocate closer ties with Serbia.
The runoff vote was scheduled after none of the contenders won a majority in the first round of voting two weeks ago. Some 540,000 people were eligible to vote. Montenegro has a population of 620,000 and borders Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo and the Adriatic Sea.
The outcome of Sunday’s election is likely to provide indications for an early parliamentary election set for June 11. That vote was scheduled because of a months-long government deadlock that stalled Montenegro’s European Union integration and alarmed the West as war rages in Ukraine.
Djukanovic, 61, first became prime minister at age 29 and has remained in power for 32 years — longer than his Democratic Party of Socialists, which was ousted from governing in a 2020 parliamentary election.
Djukanovic hopes his reelection to another five-year term would pave the way for the party to return to power in June.
Djukanovic has been a key Western ally in countering Russian influence and keeping the Balkans stable. He has insisted that the struggle is not over despite Montenegro’s NATO membership because of Serbia’s alleged expansionist policies and Russia’s influence.
Milatovic, 36, was educated in Britain and the United States. He has appealed to voters disillusioned with established politicians like Djukanovic. Milatovic has insisted he wants Montenegro to join the EU, although some of the parties that backed his candidacy are pro-Russian.
If Milatovic wins, his Europe Now movement could find itself in a position to dominate the next government after June’s parliamentary election.
Europe Now emerged after the first government that resulted from the 2020 parliamentary election collapsed. As the economy minister in that government, Milatovic gained popularity by increasing salaries but critics say this was done at the cost of the already depleted health system and not as an outcome of reform. | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/montenegrins-choose-new-president-amid-political-turmoil/ | 2023-04-02 13:45:56 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/montenegrins-choose-new-president-amid-political-turmoil/ |
Biden aims at China in new illegal fishing policy framework
By BARRY HATTON and JOSHUA GOODMAN
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat illegal fishing by China and ordering federal agencies to better coordinate amongst themselves in a bid to promote sustainable exploitation of the world’s oceans. The White House released its first ever National Security memo on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing Monday to coincide with the start of a United Nations Ocean Conference in Portugal. Nearly 11% of total U.S. seafood imports in 2019 worth $2.4 billion were from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/27/biden-aims-at-china-in-new-illegal-fishing-policy-framework/ | 2022-06-27 21:58:46 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/27/biden-aims-at-china-in-new-illegal-fishing-policy-framework/ |
Nebraska Legislature finally passes a bill, amidst progressive filibusters
Leftists in NE's Legislature filibustered every bill introduced in the chamber over a proposed sex change ban for minors
With only 26 days left in the 90-day legislative session, Nebraska lawmakers have finally passed a single bill. Now they have only about 200 left to go.
In any other year, the Nebraska Legislature would have passed dozens of bills by now. But it has been hamstrung by progressive lawmakers filibustering every bill before the body this session — even ones they support — to protest conservatives’ push to pass a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
During the last 90-day session, in 2021, legislators had passed 74 bills by Day 64 — the point they reached Monday night when they passed this year's first bill — and 48 of them had already been signed into law by the governor, Clerk of the Legislature Brandon Metzler said.
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This year's late date for passage of the first bill is not unprecedented, he said. The body once took up to 70 days to pass its first bill. But it is unusual, and the bottleneck of bills that have not advanced is unprecedented. As of Tuesday, only 10 bills had advanced to the last of three rounds of debate that a proposal must survive to be passed; 218 remained stuck without having gotten a first round of debate.
"Normally, we'd have a stack of bills ready to pass, and we just don't have that this year," Metzler said.
Even with the bottleneck, Metzler expects around 200 pieces of legislation to be passed by the end of the session in early June. That's thanks to several procedural moves, including one by the Speaker of the Legislature to extend debate into the night starting in late March. Lawmakers also have begun advancing so-called Christmas tree bills — the practice of adding bills as amendments to a main bill and passing them as one package.
The lone bill to make it through all three rounds this session passed nearly six weeks after the liquor taxation measure was first debated and filibustered for eight hours by Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh.
Cavanaugh had no qualms with the bill itself; in fact, it had the support of all 49 lawmakers in the country's only one-house, officially nonpartisan legislature. But Cavanaugh had promised at the beginning of the session to filibuster every single bill — even ones she supported — if conservative lawmakers advanced the trans health bill.
When that bill was advanced by the Legislature's conservative-led Health and Human Services Committee in late February, Cavanaugh made good on the promise, declaring she would "burn the session to the ground over this bill."
NEBRASKA DEMOCRAT 3 WEEKS INTO FILIBUSTER OVER PROPOSED YOUTH SEX CHANGE BAN
After the bill advanced from the first of three rounds of debate last month amid angry deliberation, Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt and other progressive lawmakers joined in the filibuster. Last week, the bill again advanced from the second round of debate, despite the promises of its opponents to stop filibustering other bills if conservative lawmakers either killed or scaled the trans bill back to ban only gender-assignment surgery for minors.
At least 13 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, South Dakota and West Virginia. Bills await action from governors in Kansas, Montana and North Dakota. Federal judges have blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas, and nearly two dozen states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care.
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Three states — Florida, Missouri and Texas — have banned or restricted the care via regulations or administrative orders, and Missouri’s is the only one that also limits the treatments for adults. Texas’ governor has ordered child welfare officials to investigate reports of children receiving such care as child abuse, though a judge has blocked those investigations. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nebraska-legislature-finally-passes-bill-amidst-progressive-filibusters | 2023-04-18 21:51:10 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nebraska-legislature-finally-passes-bill-amidst-progressive-filibusters |
Queen of the Universe is back for its second season set to premiere Friday, June 2. This season, 10 brand new queens from around the world will compete to be the next singing drag superstar and win $250,000.
Those who want to watch the season premiere of the reality competition series can stream the series exclusively with Paramount+.
Each episode will feature the world’s fiercest queens singing live as they debut a new musical performance in front of a studio audience and the pop diva panel of judges in the hopes of being crowned the “Queen of the Universe,” according to Paramount+.
The season two cast will include Aura Eternal (Palermo, Italy), Chloe V (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Jazell Royale (Orlando, Fla., U.S.), Love Masisi (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Maxie (Manila, Philippines), Militia Scunt (San Francisco, Calif., U.S.), Miss Sistrata (Tel Aviv, Israel), Taiga Brava (Cancun, Mexico), Trevor Ashley (Sydney, Australia) and Viola (Coventry, England, U.K.).
What is Paramount+?
Paramount+ is the streaming platform perfectly catered to those who grew up in the 90′s and early 2000′s. It has all of the early Nickelodeon cartoons from Spongebob to Rocko’s Modern Life along with MTV hit shows such as Girl Code and Silent Library.
However, Paramount+ also offers a variety of new movie and TV shows from other channels such as the Smithsonian Channel, VH1, MTV, Comedy Central, BET and CBS.
First time subscribers can also take advantage of the streaming service’s free trial and watch the Queen of the Universe for free before committing to anything.
After its free trial, those wanting to choose a monthly payment option can either select the essentials plan for $4.99 with limited ads or the premium package for $9.99 without ads.
Students, however, can get 25 percent off the essentials plan for a little over $3 a month. | https://www.al.com/tv/2023/06/how-to-watch-queen-of-the-universe-season-2-premiere-where-to-stream.html | 2023-06-01 22:53:20 | 1 | https://www.al.com/tv/2023/06/how-to-watch-queen-of-the-universe-season-2-premiere-where-to-stream.html |
ATLANTA, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GM Protections, LLC ("GM"), a subsidiary of GM Financial has selected Safe-Guard Products International, LLC, the leading provider of branded protection products for the automotive, RV, marine and powersports industries, as they work together to provide an enhanced, complete added protection solution for Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac dealers.
"GM Protection will underwrite vehicle protection products on most GM vehicles while enhancing the offering with Safe-Guard products specifically developed for our brands," said Matt St. Charles, senior vice president and business leader of GM Protection. "This is part of our strategy to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty and help drive retention to our dealer network for any future service needs."
Working in collaboration, the parties will develop the new enhanced suite of products with program introduction to the dealer networks beginning Q4 2022. GM Financial supports over 4,000 automotive dealerships across the U.S.
The offering will include a complete suite of fully branded protection products, as well as dealer business development resources from a dedicated GM Protection team, on-demand retail training and development, enhanced sales and marketing content, technology platforms and integrations to help dealers sell, manage, and optimize their F&I business, and best-in-class customer service and claims administration. A private label program providing vehicle protection products for non-brand vehicles will also be made available for network dealers.
"Our relationship with Safe-Guard is a significant collaboration that will provide additional value to our customers and will improve the business for our dealers," said St. Charles.
"Safe-Guard is excited to support GM dealers and help drive F&I performance with our complete solution," said David Pryor, president of Safe-Guard. "Our unique combination of more OEM protection product programs than any other provider plus our solution for dealer groups allows us to deliver a one-stop, complete solution for GM dealers. We look forward to helping drive business and customer retention for Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac dealers."
"Safe-Guard's expertise is creating fully branded customer-focused products, value-based dealer business solutions, and data-driven sales and business development," said Randy Barkowitz, chief executive officer of Safe-Guard. "We are excited to launch this solution with GM Protection and support a world-class customer and dealer experience for these brands."
Based in Atlanta, Ga., Safe-Guard Products manages protection product programs for over 65 strategic partner brands across the U.S. and Canada, offering a full suite of protection products and dealer business solutions in the automotive, RV, marine, and powersport industries. More than 40 million consumers are protected under added protection contracts by Safe-Guard.
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. is the wholly-owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors Company and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. For more information, visit gmfinancial.com.
Founded in 1992 and based in Atlanta, Safe-Guard Products International, LLC is the leading provider of branded vehicle protection products in the finance and insurance space to the automotive, RV, marine and motorcycle/powersports industries. The company develops, markets, and administers programs on behalf of clients, backed by industry-leading sales and marketing, advanced technology solutions, and comprehensive customer service. Safe-Guard is a proud partner to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), top retailers, and independent agents across the United States and Canada.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China’s top diplomat: Any attempt to get in the way of Taiwan reunification will be ‘crushed by the wheels of history.’
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HLC Final Draft: Pima Community College requires monitoring
Two faculty groups file new complaints with HLC
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Controversy and conflict continues at Pima Community College.
The HLC’s draft report cited a “rift in governance that’s putting the college’s mission at risk”.
The final report was issued a week ago, but we’re just now learning about it.
The HLC told KOLD it doesn’t release reports to the public.
KOLD asked PCC for it and they responded that the chancellor will release it at a news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
But we do have a glimpse into what the HLC determined and it’s once again a problem for PCC leadership.
The draft HLC report is now final and PCC is being monitored by the HLC.
The commission reviewed the focused visit team report and determined the teams findings were warranted.
Monitoring requirements have been modified with some providing more “specificity and clarity” while others have been removed for lack of evidence.
No more details are given.
Just as it finalized that report, the HLC has two new complaints citing serious policy violations.
Those complaints filed by the PCC Education Association and the All Employee Representative Council.
The AERC complained the board adopted new salary structures without direct staff input, which violates college policy.
It’s placing much of the blame on Chancellor Lee Lambert, who was given unilateral power by the board years ago.
PCC sent KOLD this statement after requesting an interview with Chancellor Lambert.
The PCC spokesperson wrote, “The administration met with various faculty and employee groups, which includes the AERC, about the employee pay structure more than 100 times before the board passed the new policy.”
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The PCCEA’s complaint focuses on how staff is treated.
They complained PCC creates “fear and hopelessness by harassing’s, intimidating, and retaliating against staff who criticize the college”.
That group’s president, Makyla Hayes, said the groups are asking the HLC to hold the college accountable for fixing and following policy without risk to accreditation.
“Faculty at Pima Community College are committed to the success of our students and community, including improving PCC’s reputation. Shared governance and policy in higher education institutions are designed to ensure that the voices of those working closest to students are included in decision making. The college must follow these policies,” Hayes said.
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In a news release, The Arizona Education Association states it’s standing in solidarity with the PCCEA.
They’re demanding that faculty and staff at PCC be treated fairly and with respect.
“They have attempted to resolve this issue through appropriate College channels without success,” wrote AEA President Marisol Garcia, “This complaint seeks to address calculated, systemic behavior designed to silence and disempower faculty and staff at the college.”
PCC responded, “It is the College’s practice not to comment on complaints sent to the Higher Learning Commission until the HLC issues a final determination, as many facts contained in an initial letter can be inaccurate or unsupported by evidence.”
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Watch: Climate protesters throw tomato soup on Van Gogh's famous 'Sunflowers' painting
LONDON - Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction.
The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the oil painting, one of the Dutch artist’s most iconic works.
London’s Metropolitan Police said officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
The group has drawn attention, and criticism, for targeting artworks in museums. In July, Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to the frame of Leonardo da Vinci’s "The Last Supper" at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and to John Constable’s "The Hay Wain" in the National Gallery.
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Activists have also blocked bridges and intersections across London during two weeks of protests.
The wave of demonstrations comes as the British government opens a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration, despite criticism from environmentalists and scientists who say the move undermines the country’s commitment to fighting climate change. | https://www.fox29.com/news/climate-protesters-throw-tomato-soup-van-gogh-sunflowers-painting | 2022-10-14 14:59:56 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/news/climate-protesters-throw-tomato-soup-van-gogh-sunflowers-painting |
BOSTON (AP) — A part-owner of a Boston bar tried to dispose of a bloody sweatshirt one of the club's bouncers was purportedly wearing when he fatally stabbed a former Marine celebrating the St. Patrick's Day weekend, a prosecutor alleged in court on Thursday.
Alisha Dumeer, 34, who owns a share of the Sons of Boston bar, was released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty to accessory after the fact of murder in the March 19 slaying of Daniel Martinez, 23.
The bouncer, Alvaro Larrama, 38, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and continued to be held without bail. Larrama followed Martinez and his friends down the street after they exchanged words, and stabbed Martinez after he struck the bouncer in the head with an aluminum beer bottle, the prosecutor said.
Martinez, who is from the Chicago area, was pronounced dead at the hospital. He had recently been discharged after a four-year tour in the Marines.
After the stabbing, surveillance cameras show Dumeer giving the bouncer a change of clothes and disposing of the old clothes, including a sweatshirt that was later recovered and tested positive for blood, prosecutors said.
Dumeer’s attorney, Francis DiMento Jr., said the surveillance video does not show the whole story and his client maintains her innocence. An email seeking comment was left with Larrama's attorney.
The bar shut down after the city suspended its entertainment and liquor licenses. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Prosecutor-Bar-co-owner-tried-to-cover-up-fatal-17277514.php | 2022-06-30 21:57:24 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Prosecutor-Bar-co-owner-tried-to-cover-up-fatal-17277514.php |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who voted in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the 2016 general election has been ordered to pay nearly $5,000 in fines and penalties.
Todd Krysiak, 39, was charged in June 2019 and pleaded guilty Friday to voting in more than one state. He was given a 90-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine, plus a $960 penalty. According to prosecutors, he cast ballots in both Alton, New Hampshire, and Leominster, Massachusetts, on Nov. 6, 2016.
Krysiak was registered as a Republican in Alton, according to the 2016 voter checklist. His attorney did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Hampshire-man-pleads-guilty-to-voting-in-2-17125267.php | 2022-04-25 19:34:37 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Hampshire-man-pleads-guilty-to-voting-in-2-17125267.php |
Reports: Mariners and Julio Rodriguez nearing massive deal
SEATTLE (AP) — Julio Rodríguez and the Seattle Mariners appear set on a long-term relationship in the Pacific Northwest. Multiple reports say the Mariners and Rodríguez are closing in on a contract extension that would lock up the rookie All-Star likely for at least the next decade. MLB.com first reported the agreement and ESPN said the deal will guarantee at least $210 million with the potential to top $400 million over the life of a contract that could max out at 18 years. The Mariners haven’t announced the deal. Manager Scott Servais deflected when asked directly about it. Rodríguez is the leading candidate for the AL rookie of the year. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/26/reports-mariners-and-julio-rodriguez-nearing-massive-deal/ | 2022-08-27 01:07:23 | 0 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/26/reports-mariners-and-julio-rodriguez-nearing-massive-deal/ |
LONDON, UK — Mary Quant, the visionary fashion designer whose colorful, sexy miniskirts epitomized Swinging London in the 1960s and influenced youth culture around the world, has died. She was 93.
Quant’s family said she died “peacefully at home” in Surrey, southern England, on Thursday.
Quant helped popularize the miniskirt — some credit her with inventing it — and the innovative tights that went along with it, creating dresses and accessories that were an integral part of the look. She created mix-and-match, simple garments that had an element of whimsy. Some compared her impact on the fashion world with The Beatles’ impact on pop music.
“I think it was a happy confluence of events, which is really what fashion is so often all about,” said Hamish Bowles, international editor at large for American Vogue magazine. “She was the right person with the right sensibility in the right place at the right time. She appeared on the scene at the exact cusp of the ’60s.”
He said Quant was also an astute businesswoman and one of the first to understand how branding herself as a creative force could help her sustain her business and branch out into new fields, like cosmetics.
Alexandra Shulman, former editor-in-chief of British Vogue, wrote on Twitter: “RIP Dame Mary Quant. A leader of fashion but also in female entrepreneurship- a visionary who was much more than a great haircut.”
Quant was perfectly positioned to capitalize on the “youthquake” that took hold in the 1960s. She sensed that the days of the exclusive salons were numbered, and thought that even the great Parisian designers would follow ready-to-wear trends.
The look she created was sexy and fun, a sharp break with the predictable floral day dresses commonly worn in the conservative, austere years after World War II.
Quant introduced miniskirts with hemlines up to 8 inches above the knee to the London scene in 1966 and they were an instant hit with young people, in part because they shocked and offended many.
While some insist she first developed the style, many also credit French designer Andre Courreges, whose 1964 spring collection included minidresses that were popular in Paris but did not have widespread impact outside France. Others cite the short skirts worn by actress Anne Francis in the 1956 film “Forbidden Planet” as the first example of the miniskirt.
Whether or not she was the first to design them, it was Quant who figured out how to market the miniskirt to the masses.
Quant, who named the skirt after her favorite make of car, the Mini, recalled how it offered a “feeling of freedom and liberation.″ From her shop on King’s Road in London's trendy Chelsea neighborhood, she took part in a clothing revolution.
“It was the girls on King’s Road who invented the mini. I was making clothes which would let you run and dance and we would make them the length the customer wanted,″ she said. “I wore them very short and the customers would say, ‘shorter, shorter’.”
While Courreges came from an haute couture tradition and his clothes were expensive items aimed at a limited audience, Quant used a variety of materials and colors to make miniskirts popular with young women on a limited budget.
“She blasted through barriers of snobbery and tradition, with her vision of fashion as a way of resisting stereotypes, with well-made clothes and cosmetics that were empowering and liberating, as well as affordable,” said Jenny Lister, who curated a 2020 exhibition devoted to Quant at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
“Fashion today owes so much to the revolutionary, trailblazing Mary Quant.””
She shot to the top of the fashion scene at the time when The Beatles and Rolling Stones dominated the music world, and she was forever linked to the heady freedoms of the 1960s.
The clothes became wildly popular and were worn by models like Twiggy and Pattie Boyd, who was then married to Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
Asked by the Guardian newspaper in 1967 if her clothes could be considered “vulgar” because they were so revealing, Quant replied that she loved vulgarity and embraced it.
“Good taste is death, vulgarity is life,” she said, adding that the provocative poses of her models reflected the new sexual openness of the times, which was fueled by the development of the birth control pill.
Born Feb. 11, 1930, the daughter of schoolteachers, Quant studied art education at Goldsmith’s College in London before moving into fashion, working first as an apprentice to a hat-maker before trying her own designs.
With the help of her wealthy husband and business partner, Alexander Plunket Greene, and the accountant Archie McNair, she opened Bazaar in Chelsea in 1955, at first relying on innovative window displays to bring in younger customers.
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said. She called the store “a sophisticated candy store for grown-ups.”
Bazaar became a focal point for the young and the beautiful and those who wanted to rub shoulders with them, and her presence there helped make the neighborhood a favored destination. Small restaurants, bistros and pubs all flourished and other boutiques opened, giving Chelsea’s King’s Road the feel of a perpetual party.
The shop was such a success that she soon moved into other parts of London and began exporting her clothes to the United States, where the “British invasion” was in full swing.
Quant was unusual in that she often modeled her own clothes, usually with her hair styled in a distinctive, angular bob by hairdresser Vidal Sassoon.
She soon diversified her interests, developing a popular makeup line and also moving into kitchenware and household accessories.
The makeup proved extremely profitable, particularly in Japan, where Quant retained a devoted following.
Quant was also credited with introducing hot pants and micro-minis to the fashion scene in the late 1960s.
She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for service to the fashion industry in 1966, wearing a trademark miniskirt when she received the honor at Buckingham Palace. In 2014, she was made a dame — the female equivalent of a knight — for services to British fashion. At the start of this year she was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor, a royal honor restricted to 65 people “of distinction” in the arts, science, medicine or government
Quant stepped down from the day-to-day management of her firm, Mary Quant Ltd., in 2000 after it was purchased by a Japanese company, but kept working as a consultant.
The firm continued to use the daisy motif and logo that Quant pioneered in the 1960s, and it long maintained a shop in London, in addition to roughly 200 shops in Japan.
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Former AP correspondent Gregory Katz contributed biographical material to this story before his death in 2020. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/mary-quant-miniskirt-designer-who-swung-the-60s-dies/507-ebe16c2d-d479-4882-bf13-83a172d42776 | 2023-04-13 17:47:30 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/mary-quant-miniskirt-designer-who-swung-the-60s-dies/507-ebe16c2d-d479-4882-bf13-83a172d42776 |
The day Christopher Nolan called Cillian Murphy about his new film, “Oppenheimer,” Murphy hung up the phone in disbelief.
The Irish actor, though a regular presence in Nolan films going back almost two decades, had always been a supporting player. This time, Nolan wanted him to lead.
“He’s so understated and self-deprecating and, in his very English manner, just said, ‘Listen, I’ve written this script, it’s about Oppenheimer. I’d like you to be my Oppenheimer,’” Murphy, 46, told The Associated Press earlier this year. “It was a great day.”
For Murphy, it is never not exciting to get a call from Nolan. It’s just hard to predict if he’s going to. He knows there are some movies he’s right for and some movies he isn’t.
“I have always said publicly and privately, to Chris, that if I’m available and you want me to be in a movie, I’m there. I don’t really care about the size of the part,” he said. “But deep down, secretly, I was desperate to play a lead for him.”
Murphy first met Nolan in 2003. He was brought in to screen test for Batman — not just the movie, the character. Murphy knew he wasn’t right for the Dark Knight, but he wanted to meet the man who’d directed “Insomnia” and “Memento.” They hit it off and Murphy got to tap into a sinister intensity to play the corrupt psychiatrist Dr. Crane/Scarecrow, who would go on to appear in all three films. Nolan would also call on Murphy to be the conflicted heir to a business empire in “Inception” and a traumatized soldier in “Dunkirk.”
“We have this long-standing understanding and trust and shorthand and respect,” Murphy said. “It felt like the right time to take on a bigger responsibility. And it just so happened that it was a f—ing huge one.”
Soon after the phone call, Nolan flew to Dublin to meet Murphy and hand him a physical copy of the script, which he devoured right there in Nolan’s hotel room. It was, he said, the best he’d ever read.
Then the scale of it started to sink in.
This would be a film about the charismatic and controversial theoretical physicist who helped create the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer and his peers at Los Alamos would test it on July 16, 1945, not knowing what was going to happen. There was a non-zero chance that the heat from the explosion could set off a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere and literally set the world on fire.
It didn’t, but several weeks later the United States would drop those bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving many with lifelong injuries. Soon, the United States was at work to strengthen its nuclear arsenal, developing plans to work on an even more catastrophic weapon: the hydrogen bomb.
As Nolan has said, “Like it or not J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived.”
“Oppenheimer,” which opens in theaters on July 21, features a starry cast including Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty, Matt Damon as the man who hired Oppenheimer for the job at Los Alamos, Robert Downey Jr. as a founder of the Atomic Energy Commission and many more rounding out the pivotal players in and around this tense moment in history.
“You realize this is a huge responsibility. He was complicated and contradictory and so iconic,” Murphy said. “But you know you’re with one of the great directors of all time. I felt confident going into it with Chris. He’s had a profound impact on my life, creatively and professionally. He’s offered me very interesting roles over and I’ve found all of them really challenging. And I just love being on his sets.”
Murphy continued: “Any actor would want to be on a Chris Nolan set, just to see how it works and to witness his command of the language of film and the mechanics of film and how he’s able to use that broad canvas within the mainstream studio system to make these very challenging human stories.”
Over the years, Murphy has come to appreciate that with Nolan there’s always something deeper to discover than what’s literally on the page. “Dunkirk,” he recalled, was only 70 pages and there wasn’t much to his character, not even a name.
“He said, ‘Look, let’s figure it out together and you and me can find an emotional journey for the character.’ And we did it. We did it out in the water on that boat. That comes from trust and respect,” Murphy said. “I’m really proud of that performance.”
As with all Nolan endeavors, secrecy around “Oppenheimer” is vitally important. Murphy loves the “old-fashioned approach” that builds interest and anticipation.
“There’s an awful lot to talk about when we can talk freely,” Murphy said with a smile.
The difference from other Nolan originals, even “Dunkirk,” is that “Oppenheimer” is rooted in historical fact and actual transcripts. You can read the book it’s based on, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” You can watch the 1981 documentary “The Day After Trinity” on The Criterion Channel.
And you can try to parse Nolan’s words for clues. He’s talked about recreating the Trinity test, the fascinating paradoxes, the twists, turns and ethical dilemmas; for him, the story is cinematic and both dream and nightmare. But ultimately, it’s something that just needs to be seen.
“The question will be how Chris presents it,” Murphy said. “I think people will be very surprised and wowed by what he does. Anything I say will just seem a bit lame as compared to seeing this in an IMAX theater.”
The time for discussions will be after the movie comes out. But Murphy did offer up that they worked hard to get Oppenheimer’s look right, from the narrow silhouette to the pipe and the porkpie hat. Oppenheimer, he said, “seemed aware of his own potential mythology.” But, again, those conversations will have to wait.
“I’m really proud of the movie and I’m really proud of what Chris has achieved. This was, for sure, a special one, certainly because of the history with me and Chris. We were not walking around the set high-fiving, but it did feel special.” Murphy said. “It’s an event every time he releases a film, and rightly so. Whether I’m in them or not, I always go to see his movies.”
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A version of this story first moved on May 3, 2023. It’s being sent again in advance of the film’s release next week. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/science/ap-in-oppenheimer-cillian-murphy-finally-gets-to-lead-a-christopher-nolan-film/ | 2023-07-13 21:51:17 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/science/ap-in-oppenheimer-cillian-murphy-finally-gets-to-lead-a-christopher-nolan-film/ |
NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast for Monday, June 6, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
NYZ009-072000-
Northern Oneida-
Including the city of Boonville
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...A chance of showers this morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
South winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ015-072000-
Yates-
Including the city of Penn Yan
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...A chance of showers this morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 70. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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NYZ016-072000-
Seneca-
Including the city of Seneca Falls
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then showers with a chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy with showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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NYZ017-072000-
Southern Cayuga-
Including the city of Auburn
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning,
then showers with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the evening,
then showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ018-072000-
Onondaga-
Including the city of Syracuse
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning,
then showers with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs around 70.
West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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NYZ022-072000-
Steuben-
Including the cities of Corning and Hornell
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of showers this morning, then showers with
a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 70. South
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ023-072000-
Schuyler-
Including the city of Watkins Glen
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning,
then showers with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
around 70. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to
10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ024-072000-
Chemung-
Including the city of Elmira
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Showers,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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NYZ025-072000-
Tompkins-
Including the city of Ithaca
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west
5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ036-072000-
Madison-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Oneida
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning,
then showers with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west
10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ037-072000-
Southern Oneida-
Including the cities of Rome and Utica
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then
showers with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
southwest 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ044-072000-
Cortland-
Including the city of Cortland
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to
10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
NYZ045-072000-
Chenango-
Including the city of Norwich
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ046-072000-
Otsego-
Including the city of Oneonta
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers
likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ055-072000-
Tioga-
Including the cities of Owego and Waverly
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph, becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ056-072000-
Broome-
Including the city of Binghamton
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 70s. West winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs around 70.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ057-072000-
Delaware-
Including the cities of Delhi and Walton
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers
likely this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely. Lows in the
upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. West
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ062-072000-
Sullivan-
Including the city of Monticello
335 AM EDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance
of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the morning, then
partly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
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Adventure Aquarium welcomes baby blue penguin to its growing colony
CAMDEN, N.J. - Congratulations are in order! The Adventure Aquarium in Camden has added a new - and very adorable - member to its penguin family.
"BABY ALERT!!! Adventure Aquarium’s little blue penguin parents Sheila (#8) and Spud (#3), are proud to announce the birth of a healthy baby boy, who hatched on February 15, weighing in at 37 grams," the aquarium announced Monday.
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The tiny hatchling has yet to be named, but the aquarium says to look out for a name reveal in the coming weeks!
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MOSCOW (AP) — The chairman of the board of Russia’s largest private oil company Lukoil has died with Russian news agencies on Thursday citing sources saying that he had fallen from a hospital window in what may have been a suicide.
A Lukoil statement said Ravil Maganov “passed away after a severe illness” but did not give further details.
Russian news reports said his body was found on the grounds of the Central Clinical Hospital, where Russia’s political and business elite are often treated. He appeared to have fallen from a sixth-story window, the reports said.
State news agency Tass cited an unnamed law enforcement source as saying Maganov had committed suicide and that he had been admitted to the hospital after a heart attack. The news site RBK also said police were investigating the possibility of suicide.
Lukoil was one of a few Russian companies to publicly call for an end to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, calling in March for the “immediate cessation of the armed conflict.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/ap-russian-top-oil-executive-dies-reports-suggest-suicide/ | 2022-09-01 13:46:45 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/ap-russian-top-oil-executive-dies-reports-suggest-suicide/ |
Maintaining ukulele strings
The ukulele is an affordable and fun instrument to play, and a good model will bring you many years of pleasure. However, most musical instruments require some degree of maintenance, and stringed instruments, in particular, need regular care to preserve their tone and playability.
While nylon strings do not deteriorate as quickly as their metal-wound counterparts, it is good practice to keep an eye on the state of your instrument and change your strings often.
When should you replace ukulele strings?
You should replace your strings once they lose their tonal brightness or show signs of wear or discoloration. This way, you can avoid inconvenient string breakages while ensuring that you sound your best and your technique is not impaired.
You may also wish to experiment with different string gauges and materials to find the combination that sounds and feels best, according to your musical preferences. This requires time and patience to replace the strings and let them settle after stretching and then to play them for a while to learn their unique qualities.
A single string often must be changed immediately following a breakage. In this instance, it is essential to be well-versed in string replacement, carry a spare set and keep the necessary tools on hand, especially if you are playing as part of an ensemble or regularly perform live.
Removing your old ukulele strings
While many players like to attack their old ukulele strings with a pair of wire cutters, this is not the recommended removal technique. Most professionals adhere to a slow and steady method, whereby the strings are slackened and replaced one at a time. This allows the instrument to adjust to the change in tension gradually and avoids undue stress on the neck.
Loosening the string
Start loosening the string by turning the ukulele’s tuning peg until it completes a couple of revolutions and the string slackens and lays against the fretboard. It can then be unwound by hand until you can entirely remove it from the instrument’s headstock.
Removing the string
Once it is free from the tuning peg, the string can be wriggled at the bridge until the knot comes loose. Nylon strings usually untie easily, but you can use a pair of needle-nose pliers if the knot is incredibly tight.
Attaching your new ukulele strings
Before taking the plunge, save yourself time and energy by arranging your strings to ensure that you don’t accidentally change the wrong one. While strings usually come packaged in the correct sequence, it doesn’t hurt to double-check!
Threading the string
Put one end of the new string back through the bridge, ensuring that your selected string coincides with the correct hole. With traditional strings, be sure to leave about three inches of string trailing from the back of the bridge to tie the knot. If you have ball-end strings or bridge pins, ignore the next step, as these don’t need to be tied.
Tying the string
Once your string is in place, take the short end up and over the top of the bridge, loop it under the long end of the string and bring it back to the bridge. Pass the string back under itself and wrap it around twice. Finally, place a finger on the knot and pull the long end of the string until the knot tightens against the bridge.
Tightening the string
Insert the free end of the string through the hole in its corresponding tuning post, then pull it back two to three frets to give you plenty of slack. You may then manually wind it around the tuning post as neatly as possible before tensioning the string using the tuning peg. The first loop must go above the string’s free end, and all others must wrap around underneath it, sandwiching the free end between the coils. Ensure tat all strings are wound in the correct direction around their tuning posts, with each facing the inside of the headstock.
Tuning the string
Take the string’s free end and snip off the excess, leaving a neatly wound capstan remaining. Repeat this process until all strings are replaced and tensioned, ready to be tuned. Be sure to stretch the strings gently, applying tension slowly. Finally, tune the strings to pitch using a set of pitch pipes or a digital tuner to ensure that you don’t over-tension the strings, as this can result in damage or even breakage.
What you need to buy to restring a ukulele
Aquila New Nylgut Ukulele Strings
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stripped one of the nation’s largest drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers Friday after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis.
The action against Morris & Dickson Co. that threatens to put it out of business came two days after an Associated Press investigation found the DEA allowed the company to keep shipping drugs for nearly four years after a judge recommended the harshest penalty for its “cavalier disregard” of rules aimed at preventing opioid abuse.
The DEA acknowledged the time it took to issue its final decision was “longer than typical for the agency” but blamed Morris & Dickson in part for holding up the process by seeking delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its lengthy pursuit of a settlement that the agency said it had considered. The order becomes effective in 90 days, allowing more time to negotiate a settlement.
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in the 68-page order that Morris & Dickson failed to accept full responsibility for its past actions, which included shipping 12,000 unusually large orders of opioids to pharmacies and hospitals between 2014 and 2018. During this time, the company filed just three suspicious order reports with the DEA.
Milgram specifically cited testimony of then-president Paul Dickson Sr. in 2019 that the company’s compliance program was “dang good” and he didn’t think a “single person has gotten hurt by (their) drugs.”
“Those statements from the president of a family-owned and operated company so strongly miss the point of the requirements of a DEA registrant,” she wrote. “Its acceptance of responsibility did not prove that it or its principals understand the full extent of their wrongdoing … and the potential harm it caused.”
Shreveport, Louisiana-based Morris & Dickson traces its roots to 1840, when its namesake founder arrived from Wales and placed an ad in a local newspaper selling medicines. It has since become the nation’s fourth-largest wholesale drug distributor, with $4 billion a year in revenue and nearly 600 employees serving pharmacies and hospitals in 29 states.
In a statement, the company said it has invested millions of dollars over the past few years to revamp its compliance systems and appeared to hold out hope for a settlement.
“Morris & Dickson is grateful to the DEA administrator for delaying the effective date of the order to allow time to settle these old issues,” it said. “We remain confident we can achieve an outcome that safeguards the supply chain for all of our healthcare partners and the communities they serve. … Business will continue as usual and orders will continue to go out on time.”
Morris & Dickson’s much larger competitors, a trio of pharmaceutical distributors known as the Big Three, have already agreed to pay the federal government more than $1 billion in fines and penalties to settle similar violations. Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen and McKesson also agreed to pay $21 billion over 18 years to resolve claims as part of a nationwide settlement.
While Morris & Dickson wasn’t the only drug distributor who the DEA accused of fueling the opioid crisis, it was unique in its willingness to challenge those accusations in the DEA’s administrative court.
In a scathing recommendation in 2019, Administrative Law Judge Charles W. Dorman said Morris & Dickson’s argument that it has changed its ways was too little, too late.
Anything less than the most severe punishment, the judge said, “would communicate to DEA registrants that despite their transgressions, no matter how egregious, they will get a mere slap on the wrist and a second chance so long as they acknowledge their sins and vow to sin no more.”
But as the ensuing years passed, neither the Biden-nominated Milgram nor her two predecessors took any enforcement action. Past DEA officials told the AP such decisions usually take no more than two years.
As the pills kept flowing, Morris & Dickson attempted to stave off punishment, appealing directly to Milgram to order a reopening of the proceedings, arguing it would introduce new evidence showing it had implemented an “ideal” compliance program with the help of a consultant who is now second-in-command at the DEA, Louis Milione. The DEA said that Milione has recused himself from all agency business related to Morris & Dickson.
Milione retired from the DEA in 2017 after a 21-year career that included two years leading the division that controls the sale of highly addictive narcotics. Like dozens of colleagues in the DEA’s powerful-but-little-known Office of Diversion Control, he went to work as a consultant for some of the same companies he had been tasked with regulating.
Milione was hired by Morris & Dickson in 2018 as part of a $3 million contract and later testified that the company “spared no expense” to overhaul its compliance systems, cancel suspicious orders and send daily emails to the DEA spelling out its actions.
A footnote of the DEA’s order Friday said that since Milione returned to the DEA as principal deputy administrator in 2021, he has not had any contact with Milgram or other agency staff about the Morris & Dickson case due to his prior involvement with the company.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Evening" game were:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic extremists drove up to the American missionary’s home in Niger under the cover of evening, gunning down two guards who stood watch. Jeff Woodke recalls seeing the muzzle blasts and hearing the screams before being thrown into a pickup truck that then sped away.
So began more than six years of captivity, a period in which he says he was beaten, locked in chains for hours a day and pressured repeatedly to convert to Islam and endured self-imposed hunger strikes.
“It was hell,” said Woodke, 62, who was released in March. “I think the hardest part was knowing that my family, if they were alive, they were suffering too.” As time progressed, he said, he began to feel that “it’s better for me to be dead than continue putting them through suffering. And that feeling grew and grew and grew. The last year I was there, I was asking them to kill me.”
But the ordeal, he and his wife say, was compounded by years of frustrating interactions with the U.S. government back home. They say they believe FBI officials withheld information about negotiations with the captors and provided what they felt was inadequate help and guidance about raising money for a ransom. The agitation boiled over in a Zoom call weeks before Woodke’s release when his wife, Els, said she vented to Secretary of State Antony Blinken about a ransom process she asserted favored the rich.
“I said, if it was you that had been kidnapped, you would be free in a week because your wife is free to take from your money and buy you free,” she recalled saying. “So because you are rich, you can pay the ransom. But a poor person is never able to do that.”
The Woodkes spoke recently to The Associated Press in a joint interview in which they shared previously unreported details about his captivity, the family’s conversations with U.S. officials and his more recent challenges reintegrating into society.
At a time when the plight of detained Americans is receiving unprecedented attention, the couple’s frustration shows the government’s uneven success in navigating relationships with hostage families, despite a 2015 policy overhaul designed to improve communications and to ease concerns that ransom payments could result in criminal prosecution. Their statements represent a rare public airing of the delicate and tense interactions that often precede a detainee’s release.
The FBI declined to address the Woodkes’ specific claims but said it had worked “tirelessly” to bring Woodke home and was happy he was reunited with his family: “We are committed to continuing to support Jeff and his family.” The State Department confirmed Blinken and Els Woodke had had multiple conversations but declined to discuss the substance.
American officials have said little about the circumstances of Woodke’s release, noting only that it was a collaborative effort and that the U.S. government did not pay a ransom or make other concessions. Woodke was freed alongside a French journalist, Olivier Dubois, even as other hostages remain in the area. Woodke was similarly circumspect, saying that he doesn’t know with certainty what led to his release but that he was recovered by French forces.
Woodke’s work as a missionary and aid worker in some ways made him a natural kidnapping target, especially in the vast, semiarid expanse below the Sahara Desert known as the Sahel, where Islamic extremists have long used abductions and ransom money to fund jihadi operations.
As a result, he had taken precautions over his three decades in the area, including maintaining contact with the State Department and local embassy about security risks.
Still, on the evening of Oct. 14, 2016, he was ambushed at home in Abalak, Niger, by extremists who killed two guards at the property. He said he tried to run but wound up being seized, dragged by the wrist, his body scraping against the ground, and tossed into a truck that drove toward the border with Mali.
He spent his captivity traded among extremist groups operating under the umbrella of JNIM, an al-Qaida-aligned insurgent organization. He kept track of time through a sundial during the day and stars at night, though he says he was given a watch near the end of his detention. He initially prayed eight hours a day. That amount dwindled as time passed, when he began praying for death.
He said he spent hours chained in isolation under a tree — “You ever had a lightning storm with chains on your feet? That’ll get you,” he said ruefully — and spent time in a tiny hut.
“When they were nice to me was only because they were preaching,” Woodke said. “They told me repeatedly, ‘We’ll be nice to you if you convert. The chains will come off if you convert.'”
Early in his captivity, he said he recorded the first of several proof-of-life videos for his family as his wife interacted with FBI crisis negotiators working the case.
But Els Woodke and the private hostage negotiator she was working with, Robert Klamser, said in the interview that they felt the FBI kept them at bay during negotiations, misleading them about the scope of demands and withholding information as they and a third-party government they did not identify worked to communicate with the militants and receive their conditions.
Klamser said they learned in 2021, belatedly, that the captors had demanded as part of the negotiations a ransom payment of 3 million euros and the release of prisoners from West African jails. He said negotiators acting without the family’s input succeeded in getting the demand for the prisoner release dropped, achieving on one hand a U.S. policy objective but also resulting in a doubled ransom demand of 6 million euros — an even more untenable amount for Els Woodke, a teacher’s assistant.
As she embarked on raising a ransom, she said she was told she was free to do so but had to personally approach potential donors, a requirement she considered overly burdensome. She said the FBI would not offer written reassurances that no one involved in raising the ransom would be prosecuted, which she and Klamser said was important for prospective donors.
She never paid a ransom, lamenting during a 2021 appearance in Washington that government “restrictions” had hindered her ability to raise a sufficient sum.
“I tried. I wrote letters personally to people, the people that I knew,” she said in the interview. “I tried because I wanted to try anything and not leave one stone unturned.”
The Obama administration, reacting to the beheading deaths of Western hostages by Islamic State operatives, crafted in 2015 a new policy meant to at least tacitly reassure families that though the U.S. government does not condone ransom payments, it also would not prosecute families who made them. While no families have faced charges, hostage relatives in surveys over the last decade have nonetheless cited lingering confusion over the policy.
The release, under circumstances neither the White House nor the French government fully explained, came March 20, when Woodke said he was driven in a Toyota pickup truck with Dubois, the French hostage, to the western border of Niger and set free. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby described it as the culmination of “hard, grueling, deliberate work.”
Woodke has returned home to McKinleyville, California, but adjustments have been hard. He’s grappling with leg injuries and steep bills for medical and dental treatment. Even something as simple as acquiring a driver’s license took months. He says he hasn’t felt sufficiently helped by the government, though he says the office of the State Department’s special envoy for hostage affairs has provided support. Klamser says there are plans to raise money from friends and supporters to offset the cost of mounting expenses.
“We’re not things, we’re not bargaining chips, we’re not cases — we’re people,” Woodke said. “We don’t want to sit under trees in chains. Our families don’t want to have to suffer.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/it-was-hell-hostage-freed-after-years-in-africa-recounts-ordeal-and-frustrations-with-us-response/ | 2023-06-19 23:35:22 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/it-was-hell-hostage-freed-after-years-in-africa-recounts-ordeal-and-frustrations-with-us-response/ |
The IMPACT 22 conference aims to net, hundreds of thousands of views of its stream and drew hundreds of in-person participants and sponsors
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From Friday, October 7 through Sunday, October 9, hundreds of nationally recognized thought leaders gathered at the Montage Resort, Deer Valley for IMPACT 22.
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The IMPACT 22 conference, hosted by the Internet Marketing Association, was designed to spark inspiration and conversation between the most significant marketing minds of our time. This year, it featured a slew of in-person and virtual speakers – including Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril who spoke about "Metaverse not working, nuclear warfare and speaking up when attacked".
The event benefited four non-profit organizations, including:
- The Literacy Project: an organization that addresses illiteracy at its earliest stage by teaching at-risk second-graders how to read.
- California State Guard Foundation: an organization dedicated to supporting a volunteer emergency response force protecting California and its citizens from wildfires, earthquakes, floods, pandemics, civil unrest, and other disasters, both natural and man-made.
- Operation Underground Railroad: a nonprofit organization involved in the rescue of human trafficking and sex trafficking victims, with a special focus on children, and a wider goal of eliminating sex trafficking worldwide.
- Orange County United Way, Men of the Breakfast: a powerful philanthropic group, providing members with exclusive access to unique experiences in Orange County.
All were invited to attend the conference virtually and learn about a variety of cutting-edge leadership and marketing topics, developed by the over 80 distinguished board members that represent the IMA.
If you missed the opportunity to attend virtually or in person, you can watch the entire conference virtually at https://youtu.be/F-gjUO_rXJQ
The many different speaking events were broken down into six content "peaks" over the course of the weekend. Each of these featured a handful of well-known leaders in marketing and technology, co-hosted by Jeanniey Walden, Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer at Dailypay and Jay Symonds, Head of Home & Sporting Goods Advertising at Amazon.
- Peak 1 - Journalistic Integrity
(Frank Luntz, Mick Mulvaney) - Peak 2 - Generational Impact
(Maxine Marcus, Nepal Arslan, Nick Vandennieuwenhof, Paul Smith, Roland Hess, Victor Cho, Chris Norton, Dr. Melissa Batchelor) - Peak 3 - Emerging Technology for Global Good
(Justin Li, David Latona, Lauren Peters, Jeff Volpe, Doug Frederick, Tom Peck, Jim Steele, Nam Nguyen, Tim Shank, Brian Alva, Vince Walden, Don Yahn, Matt Collins, Todd Brockman) - Peak 4 - Security, Defense, and Proactive Solutions
(Shawn Collins, Joseph Zaki, David Fernandez, Tom Sauer, Adam Coughran, Avi Schiffman, Blake Resnick, Palmer Luckey) - Peak 5 - Digital Economies, Web3, Blockchain
(Kevin Maloney, Johnney Zhang, Joshua Johnson, Robert Grant, Keith Laska, Maika Isogawa, Liam Grant, Jason Les) - Peak 6 - Marketing Evolutions
(Andrea Ward, Greg Schneider, Jamie Bradley, Josh Kreitzer, Claudio Ludovisi, Daniel Langer, Joe Megibow)
Additionally, virtual attendees were invited to watch the streamed "Startup Pitch Challenge," which featured a Shark-Tank-style competition between 10 startups, selected from a pool of over 400 entries.
A panel of judges selected a single winner, necoTECH. necoTECH is on a mission to help the infrastructure market transition to a more sustainable future. Through advanced automation of pavement maintenance activities, data-driven decision-making, and innovative new sustainable materials, they're working with industry partners and academic institutions to bring tangible sustainable solutions to market. The company will be receiving $100,000 in marketing support by the IMA.
The Startup Pitch Challenge contestants included:
- Buderflys
- necoTECH
- Objective Ed
- One Health
- Ooli
- OrionOne
- SampleServe
- Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers
- Leisure Project
- Elevate
For in-person sponsors, the weekend boasted an array of special events. The first day featured a gourmet welcome reception and chairman's dinner, followed by two days of culinary experiences, outdoor excursions, networking opportunities, and a private concert featuring The English Beat.
Thought leaders who spoke at IMPACT 22 (virtually and in person) included:
- Palmer Luckey, Anduril
- Jay Symonds, Amazon
- Shawn Collins, Stradling Law
- Jeanniey Walden, DailyPay
- Sinan Kanatsiz, IMA
- Blake Resnick, Brinc Drones
- Joseph Zaki, Loko AI
- David Fernandez, DFNDR
- Frank Luntz, American Political Consultant
- Andrea Ward, VidMob
- Johnney Zhang, USPC
- Justin Chen Li, Helio Genomics
- David Latona, Tompkins Solutions
- Lauren Peters, Salesforce
- Nam Nguyen, Nom Nom Data
- Jeff Volpe, ViewSonic
- Doug Frederick, HealthCues
- Claudio Ludovisi, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
- Daniel Langer, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
- Paul Smith, Tangram Interiors
- Paul McGuire, Konex AV
- Reggie Judah, TV Liquidator
- Mick Mulvaney, Former US Representative
- Tom Peck, Sysco
- Tom Sauer, Miramar Health
- Adam Coughran, Safe Kids
- Torrey Ward, HK3
- Vince Walden, Kona AI
- Robert Grant, Ceyeber
- Maika Isogawa, Webacy
- Liam Grant, Integral
- Chris Norton, Marriott International
- Victor Cho, Evite
- Roland Hess, Google
- Keith Laska, High Alpha
- Jim Steele, Salesforce
- Joe Megibow, Bright Cellars
- Tim Shank, Swarts, Manning, & Associates
- Josh Kreitzer, Channel Bakers
- Todd Brockman, PIKU
- Matt Collins, MedLab2020
- Mary-Christine Sungaila, Buchalter Law Firm
- Dr. Melissa Batchelor, The George Washington University's Center for Aging
- Kathy Casdorph, e360
- Nicholas Vandennieuwenhof, New Way Out
- Don Yahn, Cushman & Wakefield
Sponsoring organizations included:
- Miramar Health
- VidMob
- Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
- HealthCues
- Tangram Interiors
- Marriott
- MedLab2020
- Indr
- Montage Hotels
- Sysco
- Built on Vision
- Helio Genomics
- NuAxess
- Nom Nom Data
- Tompkins Solutions
- Original Sprout
- Hardesty, LLC
- LS Carlson Law
- ViewSonic
- DFNDR Armor
- Swarts, Manning & Associates
- Farmers & Merchants
- Konex AV
- Buchalter Law Firm
- Bright Cellars
- Primior / USPC
- KCOMM
- Vet TV / Xperiential
- Salesforce
- Loko Ai
- Boustead Securities
- TV Liquidator
- Delarman
- Learn Capital
- Channel Bakers
- Kona Ai
- e360
- Cushman & Wakefield
- Datanetiix Solutions
- Stradling Law Firm
- Hughes Marino
- Virgin Hotels
- MOON Ultra
- CEYEBER
- Ware Malcomb
- Hawke Media
- Snap
- Rakuten Rewards
- HK3
- + several other added organizations
To cap off the conference, the Internet Marketing Association revealed their annual IMPACT Award winners. The annual IMPACT Awards exemplify best-in-class creativity, expertise and results achieved by the top practitioners of internet marketing and business leaders across every industry. The 2022 winners are:
AI / Ml Innovation Of The Year
Kona AI
Best Audience Engagement Strategy
Marriott International
Best B2B App
Built On Vision
Best B2B Bank
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Best B2B Search Engine Marketing Campaign
DailyPay
Best Blog
Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Best Crypto Investment Platform
iTrustCapital
Best Email Newsletter
Spinnaker Investment Group
Best Integrated Advertising Strategy
Channel Bakers For Jason Markk
Best Non-Profit Campaign
The Literacy Project
Best Podcast
The Portia Project
Best SEO Campaign
Eridium Digital
Best Supply Chain Solutions Company
Tompkins Solutions
Best Technology Integration Company
Konex AV
Best Use Of Instagram
Original Sprout
Best Use Of Social Media Analytics
Marriott International
Best Use Of Twitter
Rod Carew
Best Use Of Video
Tangram Interiors
Best Use Of Video – B2B
VidMob
Best Use Of Video – Broadcast
TV Liquidator
AI / Ml Innovation of the Year
Kona AI
Best Audience Engagement Strategy
Marriott International
Best B2B App
Built On Vision
Best B2B Bank
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Best Website for Conversion
DailyPay
Best Blog
Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Best Crypto Investment Platform
iTrustCapital
Best Email Newsletter
Spinnaker Investment Group
Best Integrated Advertising Strategy
Channel Bakers For Jason Markk
Best Non-Profit Campaign
The Literacy Project
Best Podcast
The Portia Project
Best Podcast - Informational
Axiom Learning Solutions
Best SEO Campaign
Wipro - Eridium Digital
Best Supply Chain Solutions Company
Tompkins Solutions
Best Technology Integration Company
Konex AV
Best Use of Instagram
Original Sprout
Best Use of Social Media Analytics
Marriott International
Best Use of Twitter
Rod Carew
Best Use of Video
Tangram Interiors
Best Use of Video – B2B
VidMob
Best Use of Video – Broadcast
TV Liquidator
Business School of the Year
Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
CEO of the Year
Vince Walden
CMO of the Year
Chris Hamaway
Commercial Real Estate Broker of the Year
Hughes Marino
Community Impact Award
California State Guard Foundation
Community Impact Award
Operation Underground Railroad
Consumer Technology Product of the Year
Moon Ultra
Cryptocurrency Startup of the Year
USPC
Data Solutions Company of the Year
Nom Nom Data
Defense Company of the Year
DFNDR
Design & Innovation Impact
Salesforce
Digital Excellence In Distribution
Sysco
Digital Transformation of the Year
INDR
Director / Producer of the Year
Nepal Arslan
Ed Tech Company of the Year
ViewSonic
Entrepreneur of the Year
Joseph Zaki, Loko AI
Fashion Company of the Year
Bree Jacoby
Fastest Growing Company
Miramar Health
Fastest Growing Hospitality Brand
Virgin Hotels
Healthcare Platform of the Year
Healthcues
Healthcare Solution of the Year
MedLab2020
Healthcare Technology of ohe Year
Helio Genomics
IMA Employee of the Year
Shaye Mcclory
IMA Member of the Year
Shawn Collins
Industrial Design Company of the Year
Ware Malcomb
Innovator of the Year
Ceyeber
Insurance Broker of The Year
Keenan
Insurance Innovation Company of The Year
Swarts, Manning & Associates
Internet Marketer of The Year
Matt Prince
Investment Banker of the Year
Boustead Securities
IT Company Of The Year
Delarman
Law Firm Of The Year
LS Carlson LAw
Mattress Technology Company Of The Year
Purple
GOAT
Shaye McClory
MVP
Nepal Arslan
Patent Solution Company Of The Year
Piku
Platform Of The Year
VidMob
Salesforce Relationship Design Award
ViewSonic
Service Provider Of The Year
Datanetiix Solutions
Ski Resort Of The Year
Powder Mountain
Social Impact Through Soccer
Brera FC
Startup Of The Year
INK Games
Sustainable Brand Of The Year
Purple
Talent Solutions Company Of The Year
Hardesty LLC
Vision Of The Year
HK3
Women In Leadership Award
Joyce Cheung, Helio Genomics
Next year's IMPACT 23 is going to take things up a notch and is actively being planned for Newport Beach, California, in the Fall of 2023, details forthcoming.
About IMPACT 22
IMPACT 22 is a thought-leadership conference hosted by the Internet Marketing Association (IMA). Some of the greatest marketing and technology leaders shared their insights on best practices and ways to change the world.
To learn more about IMPACT 22, visit https://impact22.live.
About Internet Marketing Association
The Internet Marketing Association (IMA) is a professional organization that, since its inception in 2001, has accrued one of the largest databases of professional members in various fields including business leadership, sales, marketing, programming and creative development. To learn more about the Internet Marketing Association visit https://imanetwork.org/
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Watch: Scientists film the world's deepest fish off Japan
Scientists in search of deep-sea creatures around the world filmed what has been deemed the "world’s deepest fish."
The fish, an unknown snailfish, was filmed at more than 27,000 feet below the surface, researchers said. It was later certified as the deepest fish in the world by Guinness World Records.
The finding was part of a two-month expedition beginning in August 2022 to the deep trenches around Japan in the North Pacific Ocean, led by a team of scientists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
Specifically, the mission was to explore the Japan, Izu-Ogasawara, and Ryukyu trenches, which are 8,000 meters (26,247 feet), 9,300 meters (30,512 feet) and 7,300 meters (23,950 feet) deep respectively.
In the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan, the team filmed the deepest record of a fish, the unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis, at a depth of 8,336 meters (27,349 feet) on Aug. 15, 2022, according to a statement from UWA.
Images of the snailfish alive from 7500-8200 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench. (Credit: Provided / University of Western Australia)
Days later, the team also collected two fish in traps in the Japan Trench at 8,022 meters (26,319 feet) deep.
"We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish; there is so much more to them than simply the depth, but the maximum depth they can survive is truly astonishing," UWA Professor Alan Jamieson, founder of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre and chief scientist of the expedition, said in a statement.
"In other trenches such as the Mariana Trench, we were finding them at increasingly deeper depths just creeping over that 8,000m mark in fewer and fewer numbers, but around Japan they are really quite abundant," Jamieson added.
The team said that the world’s deepest fish ever found was an "extremely small juvenile." They added that snailfish tend to be the opposite of other deep-sea fish, where the juveniles live at the deeper end of their depth range.
Jamieson said that until this expedition, "no one had ever seen nor collected a single fish from this entire trench."
The snailfish, Pseudoliparis belyaevi, were the first fish to be collected from depths greater than 8,000 meters, the UWA said, and have previously only ever been seen at a depth of 7,703 meters in 2008.
This story was reported from Cincinnati. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/worlds-deepest-fish-ever-video-japan-trench-uwa | 2023-04-04 15:28:29 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/worlds-deepest-fish-ever-video-japan-trench-uwa |
Major League Baseball has always been America’s pasttime, especially in the summer when it monopolizes the sporting landscape, but this one could mean a bit more for two teams starting Friday.
The St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals have managers who’ll meet in an MLB game for the first time, Oliver Marmol and Dave Martinez have plenty in common.
Orlando.
Marmol and Martinez play a three-game set through Sunday in D.C.
“I think it’s a testament to the talent that’s in the area consistently,” said John Magrino, the athletic director at Dr. Phillips High where Marmol was a student. “It’s a hotbed of baseball. I just think it’s indicative of the depth of talent that’s in Central Florida.”
Marmol’s rise followed that of Justin Tordi, another standout player and Dr. Phillips graduate who was drafted in 2005 by the Cincinnati Reds.
Marmol, 36, became the youngest manager in MLB when he was promoted by the Cardinals after a 90-72 finish last season.
Born in Orlando, he graduated from Dr. Phillips, batted .327 in three seasons at the College of Charleston and was taken by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 31st round of the 2004 MLB draft.
In the process, he honored his committments. He stayed in college to play baseball, passing up a chance to jump to the big leagues.
It wasn’t the only time Marmol would do that.
The University of Florida baseball team was a national powerhouse and wanted him to de-committ from Charleston but Marmol turned them down, too.
He showed a character trait that many 17- and 18-year-olds take longer to develop.
“Loyal. Incredibly loyal. He gets to Dr. Phillips and works his butt off and does everything the right way all the time,” Magrino said. “He committed to the College of Charleston, and late in the recruiting process, Florida came in on the back end but he wouldn’t rescind the commitment. When I talk about loyalty, I can’t find a better example of that.”
The Cardinals reciprocated with their loyalty to him.
After playing for the Cougars from 2005-07, Marmol was taken by the Cardinals in the sixth round of the 2007 MLB draft. He played for an affiliate, the Batavia Muckdogs for four seasons, batting .203 as a utility player but never playing above A-ball.
Marmol began his coaching career in 2011, becoming the hitting coach for the then-Gulf Coast Cardinals of the rookie-level Gulf Coast League. He managed the State College Spikes of the defunct New York-Penn League in 2013 and two years later was promoted to manager in Palm Beach. Both were in the Cardinals development system, too.
After a two-year run there, Marmol was called to the big league. He was named the Cardinals first base coach in 2017 and moved to bench coach before the 2019 season.
His biggest break came last season. On Oct. 25, just 22 days after the Cardinals’ season ended, Marmol was hired as manager on a 3-year contact runs through 2024.
Marmol’s wealth of experience prepared him for this moment.
“He’s a student of the game. He wanted to know everything about baseball,” said Mike Barefoot, Marmol’s former high school baseball coach. ”He just loves baseball.”
Martinez’s high school, Lake Howell, was just 30 minutes from Marmol’s.
He wasn’t born in Orlando. Martinez moved here from Brooklyn, N.Y., when he was a teenager. The son of a baseball coach, the game was in his blood.
His family helped shape him.
“We’re brothers first and foremost. Dave is Dave. He hasn’t changed. He’s still very humble,” said Eric Martinez, his younger brother. “I’m still like a kid in the candy store every time I get to watch him on TV.”
The first game vs. St. Louis is at 7:05 Friday.
Martinez, 57, came two decades before Marmol. He graduated from Lake Howell in 1981. He was a Valencia Community College outfielder and drafted in 1983 by the Chicago Cubs en route to 16 years in the majors with nine teams, including from 1998-2000 with the Tampa Bay Rays.
After retiring in 2002, Martinez was living in the Clearwater area, coaching his sons travel team with no intention of managing or coaching an MLB team. That all changed when the Rays called.
It was spring training, and the Rays were in Clearwater when they asked Martinez to work with a few minor league outfielders.
The season was about to be in full swing, but the Rays had a bench coach out for the first two weeks because of surgery and needed Martinez’s assistance.
What was supposed to be a two-week coaching stint turned into a seven-year full time coaching job with the Rays thanks to then-manager Joe Maddon.
That led to Martinez being hired as Nationals manager in 2018, and he led that team to a 2019 World Series championship.
Since then, the Nats have gone 91-132 entering Friday’s game but Martinez had his 2023 option picked up earlier this month.
It’s about more than win-loss records for the Orlando big league managers. Both took different paths to get here.
“To see two guys managing from the Orlando area is awesome and amazing. It’s big time,” Eric Martinez said. “That says a lot about the time from coaching to managing.
“It’s a blessing to see him everyday. We’re humble and don’t take it for granted because everything can be taken away quick.”
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Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record temperatures persist
WASHINGTON (AP) — With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says.
He’ll be joined by the leaders of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described the heat wave as “a difficult time” and said Biden was treating climate change with “the urgency it requires.”
The Democratic president is directing the Department of Labor to increase inspections of potentially dangerous workplaces such as farms and construction sites. He also wants heightened enforcement of heat safety violations.
As part of the initiative, the department will issue a hazard alert notifying employers and employees about ways to stay protected from extreme heat, which has killed 436 workers since 2011, according to federal statistics.
The Biden administration plans to spend $7 million to develop more detailed weather predictions to anticipate extreme weather like heat waves, plus $152 million to boost drinking water infrastructure and climate resilience in California, Colorado and Washington.
The mayors of Phoenix and San Antonio, two cities that have suffered from the heat waves, are expected to participate in the White House event virtually.
Phoenix has seen at least 26 days in a row of temperatures exceeding 110 degrees. Maricopa County, where the city is located, reported recently that there were 18 heat-associated deaths between April 11 and July 15. Another 69 deaths remain under investigation. There were 425 heat-associated deaths in the county last year.
San Antonio saw 15 straight days of 100-plus degrees. At least 13 deaths in Texas have been blamed on the extreme heat.
Thursday’s announcement follows other steps that the Biden administration has taken to adapt to increasing threats from extreme heat. Among those it is highlighting:
The Department of Labor is developing a standard for how workplaces deal with heat. The proposed rule by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration would require employers to provide adequate water and rest breaks to outdoor workers, as well as medical services and training to address signs and symptoms of heat-related illness. OSHA is holding meetings this summer to hear comments on how the heat standard would affect small businesses.
To keep low-income populations cool, the Department of Health and Human Services expanded its Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to provide more access to air conditioning and cooling centers such as libraries, senior centers or other public buildings. The Environmental Protection Agency also has provided assistance to help communities develop cooling centers within schools.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been helping cities and towns map “heat islands” with dense buildings and fewer trees, and the Department of Agriculture issued guidance for creating more tree canopy coverage, which helps with cooling environments.
In addition, the administration launched a website called heat.gov with interactive maps, weather forecasts and tips for keeping cool amid record-breaking heat.
More than 100 members of Congress, led by Democratic Reps. Greg Casar and Sylvia Garcia of Texas and Judy Chu of California have called on the administration to implement the new heat standard for outdoor workers as quickly as possible.
“We know extreme weather events such as heat waves are becoming more frequent and more dangerous due to climate change. Urgent action is needed to prevent more deaths,″ the lawmakers wrote in a letter Monday.
The United Farm Workers and other groups also called on OSHA to immediately issue a nationwide rule protecting outdoor workers after farm worker deaths this month in Florida and Arizona.
“Farm workers need and deserve the access to shade, water and paid breaks,’’ said UFW President Teresa Romero. “How many more workers will we let dangerous heat and callous employers kill before this nation acts?”
Douglas Parker, assistant Labor secretary for occupational safety and health, called heat illness prevention a top priority. As OSHA works toward a final rule, the agency is enhancing enforcement efforts “to make sure employers and workers understand the dangers of heat illness and how to prevent it,’’ Parker said in a statement.
Casar, a freshman lawmaker from Austin, staged a “thirst strike” on Tuesday outside the U.S. Capitol, forgoing water breaks for nearly nine hours, to protest a new Texas law that bans local governments from requiring water breaks and other safety measures for outdoor workers. Casar called the law “insane″ and accused Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of being “on the wrong side of history.” Republican lawmakers and other supporters of the law say it eliminates a patchwork of local regulations that are burdensome to businesses, and they say it won’t stop workers from taking breaks.
At least 42 workers died in Texas between 2011 and 2021 from environmental heat exposure, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Democrats are going to stand up for common sense and for working people,″ Casar said.
Ladd Keith, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona who studies heat policy and governance, said the record-breaking heat much of the nation is experiencing “is very much in line with climate change projections.” While not surprising, “they’re certainly a continuation of a concerning trend of climate impacts that we’ve seen,” he said.
Despite the recent headlines, rising temperatures have typically not received the same level of attention as other climate risks, such as flooding and wildfires, Keith said.
“Heat has just not been a topic at the national level or local level that we’ve even considered addressing until the last couple of years,” he said.
However, Keith said the administration has ramped up its focus because of searing weather events, such as the heat dome in the Pacific Northwest in 2021 that prompted record temperatures and dozens of deaths across the region.
OSHA fined a Florida farm supervisor last month for exposing workers to excessive heat after a worker from Mexico died at a farm in Parkland, Florida. Investigators determined the worker’s death could have been prevented if a labor contractor had followed established safety practices regarding heat-related hazards.
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Costley reported from New Orleans.
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SOC 2 certification confirms that Apploi meets the highest standards of information privacy
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apploi, a New York-based human capital management software company specializing in healthcare recruitment, has successfully attained System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type II certification.
This certification designates Apploi as a secure platform. Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the SOC 2 information security standard is an audit report on security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. A SOC 2 Type II report describes a service organization's systems and whether specified controls meet all relevant security standards. The report assesses the effectiveness of those controls over a specified period of time.
"Security has been a focus of the Apploi platform from the beginning," said Rob Wright, Senior Director of Engineering at Apploi. "As Apploi rapidly scales, it's important that we formalize our internal and external protections. Not only does the platform need to be impervious to cyberattacks, it also has to let administrators instantly adjust levels of access for other users. We have robust security measures in place to manage this. User and role-based permissions are part of that, along with our standard encryption and periodic security testing. We are very proud that our high security practices were formally validated."
SOC 2 audits examine information security practices that could affect third-party users. Apploi's successful completion guarantees that the software company protects information belonging to or stored by its customers. Apploi was issued a "clean" audit opinion from Sensiba San Filippo LLP (SSF), a leading CPA and business advisory firm based on the West Coast.
Apploi has a longstanding commitment to data privacy. The company offers applicant tracking and digital recordkeeping, two tools that employers frequently use to store sensitive information associated with candidates and employees. To protect this information, the platform must be secure, encrypted, and offer different levels of access to different users.
This certification comes at an important moment for Apploi. This March, the company reached $38 million in total raised after completing a $25 million round of Series B funding. In the same month, Apploi was recognized by Inc. magazine as the 10th fastest-growing private software company and 53rd fastest-growing private company of any industry in the Northeast. Apploi's successful SOC 2 audit shows investors and customers that the company is maintaining top security standards as it continues to grow.
About Apploi
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When Annette Marchioli first adopted Gracie, a 4-year-old beagle rescued from the Envigo breeding facility, she was so timid and frightened that she was shaking and losing fistfuls of hair.
“She looked so pitiful and puny,” Marchioli said of the first time she saw Gracie. “Tommy DeSanto from the Richmond SPCA was carrying her in his arms. She was so tiny and timid. Her tail wouldn’t come out from between her legs.”
But after just a few days at her new family’s home in Henrico County’s Lakeside neighborhood, along with the help of new beagle brother Rocky, Gracie has grown “leaps and bounds,” Marchioli said.
“I thought it would take years for her to adjust, but in a matter of days, we saw her tail come out from between her legs. She wags her tail. She’s so loving and cozy. She’s the best cuddler,” Marchioli said.
Gracie is one of 4,000 beagles rescued in July from overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the Envigo breeding facility in Cumberland County.
Described as a “house of horrors,” Envigo housed thousands of beagles in inhumane conditions. In a lawsuit filed in federal court, authorities said they were kept in filthy conditions, fed moldy food and suffered from untreated medical issues. The dogs spent their lives in cages, never setting their paws on grass. Some beagles were euthanized without pain relief, and others were left for dead.
But in an “unprecedented case,” Envigo agreed to release 4,000 beagles from the plant and shut down operations. The U.S. government worked swiftly to transfer the dogs to the Humane Society of the United States, which has been working with shelters and organizations across the nation to place dogs and puppies for adoption.
In national news, even Prince Harry and Meghan Markle adopted a rescue beagle named Mia from the Virginia breeding facility.
In the Richmond area, Envigo beagles have arrived at the Richmond SPCA, Richmond Animal Care and Control, Powhatan County Animal Control, the Fredericksburg Regional SPCA and Green Dogs Unleashed, just to name a few.
Richmond Animal Care and Control has received 84 beagles to date, and the shelter has 41 dogs left in late August. Moms and puppies are currently in foster care, with the puppies waiting to be old enough to be put up for adoption, which is typically around eight weeks.
“A lot of the puppies we received in July were literally just a day old,” said Robin Young, a spokesperson for RACC. Once the puppies hit eight weeks, they’re ready to be weaned, get vaccinated and be scheduled to be spayed or neutered, Young said.
RACC said the shelter will post the dogs on social media when they are available for adoption with directions on how to apply.
Homeward Trails, a rescue based in Alexandria, was one of the first Virginia shelters to receive roughly 500 beagles from the Envigo facility.
“The first night after we announced we’d have some of the beagles, I woke up to over 1,000 emails. And that continued every day for three weeks. I was getting emails from people as far away as Australia and Puerto Rico wanting to adopt these dogs,” said Sue Bell, executive director for the shelter.
Bell said that like the experience of Annette Marchioli and her husband, Ron Stilwell, with Gracie, the adult beagles are often shy and timid at first, but they quickly adapt.
“The most rewarding thing is to watch them put their feet on grass for the first time — watching their little brains start to process, put their noses to the ground and run. They were running and leaping like deer. They had never done it before,” Bell said.
Homeward Trails gave the dogs a “spa day” and their first baths. That was followed by a Netflix night, where they called in volunteers to sit and watch “Homeward Bound,” and snuggle with the beagles in their new beds.
“I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and it was absolutely one of the best nights of my life,” Bell said.
She estimates that the shelter has spent $1,000 per beagle from Envigo to prepare the dogs for adoption. Those costs go to vaccines, spay/neuter, heartworm and medical treatment, and dental care.
“The dogs came to us with horrific teeth. Every dog required dental cleaning or extraction, which runs $300 to $800,” Bell said. All of those beagles have since been placed for adoption.
Some of the adult beagles have problems with house training, walking on a leash or going up and down stairs. But shelters are encouraging new homeowners to be patient.
“We still have some issues with Gracie. She seems to be really worried about food: getting it and protecting it,” Marchioli said. “She still has accidents in the house, but we’ve only had her for two weeks. The positives so outweigh anything else.”
Christi Hast and her husband, Justin, adopted a 3-year-old beagle named Dita from the Richmond SPCA to join their “pack” of three other rescue beagles and hound dogs.
“She’s an amazing dog, very happy and fun, so easygoing, really sweet and snuggly. She’s super confident, not shy at all,” Christi Hast said. Like many of the adult dogs from Envigo, Dita has a green, six-letter serial number tattooed inside one of her ears.
“I know a lot of people want the puppies, but I think it’s important not to forget the mama dogs. They’re really wonderful, sweet pets,” Christi Hast said.
She and her husband live in Gum Spring in Goochland County with plenty of property for the dogs to roam and play. “I think having the other dogs around has helped her blossom,” she said.
“This is truly an unprecedented case and one of the largest dog rescue efforts ever coordinated,” Bell said. “To know that these dogs will get to have the lives they deserve and not languish in cages for the rest of their lives is just so rewarding.”
Another positive is that the public is learning more about how beagles are used in medical research. Envigo is the second-largest producer of dogs for medical research, and breeds roughly 25% of the beagles used in medical and drug research in the U.S., according to the Los Angeles Times.
“I’ve had so many people tell me they didn’t know that beagles were used for medical research,” Bell said. “We’re hoping to harness this momentum and educate the public.”
And while interest in the Envigo beagles remains high, Richmond shelters — and rescue dog owners like Hast — urge future pet owners to consider adopting one of the thousands of dogs available at area shelters.
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Lookout's cloud security solutions help Texas state and local government agencies protect sensitive data and reduce the risk of cyber attacks
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lookout, Inc., a leader in endpoint and cloud security solutions, today announced it has been authorized to operate the Lookout Security Platform on TX-RAMP, Texas' state risk and authorization management program for cloud computing services. The Lookout Security Platform is a scalable cloud-delivered solution that helps agencies secure their hybrid workforce and protect sensitive data by providing advanced data protection and threat prevention across all cloud services including internet, web apps, email and private applications.
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) established TX-RAMP in 2021 to standardize its approach for security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud computing services for its technology partners that handle state agencies' data.
With its TX-RAMP authorization, Lookout can now offer accessible Zero Trust tools to Texas state agencies, institutions of higher education and local government entities to help protect and modernize their information technology environments. The Lookout Security Platform enables government agencies to meet the OMB-mandated Zero Trust framework requirements by mitigating risk while enabling critical initiatives like telework. To deliver this security, Lookout leverages its unified Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) technologies and Mobile Endpoint Security (MES) along with its granular data security and data access policies, into a single solution.
To secure agency data across all cloud services, the Lookout Security Platform delivers a triple-play integration of User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM). The combined technology solutions protect data against insider threats and credential harvesting, while dynamically adapting to changes in user and device risk posture and preventing agency data from being exposed to unauthorized users. This security optimization permits unified data protection policies to be consistently applied across all users, devices and applications, improving security administration.
"With this certification, Lookout is poised to help Texas state agencies and institutions in their journey towards a more secure zero trust environment," said Tony D'Angelo, vice president of Public Sector, North America at Lookout. "Network complexity and increasingly distributed workforces increases the need for tools that can seamlessly safeguard an enterprises' IT systems and quickly identify potential user threats. The Lookout Security Platform addresses this need and delivers peace of mind to these government agencies."
The Lookout Security Platform has obtained a TX-RAMP Level 2 certification, allowing it to be used on moderate or high-impact systems with confidential/regulated data. Lookout also currently holds a provisional authority-to-operate (P-ATO) with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Lookout was also the first mobile security solution to achieve StateRAMP Authorized, Federal JAB status. These milestones demonstrate its validation and compliance with the strict requirements to offer both mobile and cloud security services to public sector agencies.
Earlier this year Gartner named Lookout a Visionary in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge (SSE)¹. Lookout scored among the top three solutions in the 2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for SSE² in each of the four use cases. Gartner defines SSE as a platform that converges cloud-centric security capabilities to facilitate secure access to the web, cloud services (SaaS) and private applications.
For more information on how Lookout secures state and local government, please visit: https://www.lookout.com/solutions/government/state-and-local.
Lookout is a Presidential Sponsor at the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications (TASSCC) Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX, July 31-August 3. Schedule a demo to learn more: https://www.lookout.com/contact/request-a-demo.
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Lookout is a leader in endpoint and cloud security solutions. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where mobility and cloud are essential to all we do for work and play. We enable consumers and employees to protect their data, and to securely stay connected without violating their privacy and trust. Lookout is trusted by millions of consumers, the largest enterprises and government agencies, and partners such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Amsterdam, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.lookout.com and follow Lookout on its blog, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Pittsburgh forward Evgeni Malkin played in his 1,000th NHL game on Sunday night at Chicago, becoming the 11th player to reach the milestone with the Penguins.
Malkin made his debut with Pittsburgh on Oct. 18, 2006, scoring in the second period of a 2-1 loss to New Jersey. The center helped the Penguins to Stanley Cup titles in 2009, 2016 and 2017.
Malkin’s teammates paid tribute to his accomplishment by doing his usual stretching routine during pregame warmups. The Blackhawks also recognized Malkin’s 1,000th game on their overhead videoboard during the first period, drawing a big cheer from the United Center crowd.
“We marvel sometimes at what he’s able to accomplish on the ice,” coach Mike Sullivan said. “He’s one of the more dominant players in our league when he’s at his best, and we’ve seen him at his very best through some of the Stanley Cup runs.”
The 36-year-old Malkin scored his eighth goal of the season in the second period against Chicago, giving him a seven-game point streak. He skated to the front of the goal and knocked home a great feed from Ryan Poehling.
It looked as if Malkin was going to try free agency for the first time last summer. But he decided to stay in Pittsburgh for a four-year contract worth $6.1 million annually.
Now he joins teammate Sidney Crosby as the only players with 1,000 games for the Penguins.
“He’s been just such a big part of the Penguins’ success that they’ve had here in his time here,” Sullivan said.
Going into Sunday night’s game, Malkin had 451 goals and 714 assists in 17 NHL seasons. He also has 67 goals and 113 assists in 177 playoff appearances.
Malkin is the 32nd active player and No. 373 overall with 1,000 career games. He is the eighth Russian-born player to reach the milestone.
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This motorcycle racer used to watch videos of the Peoria TTs. Now he's a three-time champ
BARTONVILLE — Life’s a beach.
JD Beach won his third successive Mission SuperTwins Main Event as part of the 76th edition of the 2023 SC2 Peoria TT Grand Nationals on Sunday. The Philpot, Kentucky, native remains 11 consecutive victories behind the record-setting 14 in a row by Henry Wiles but seems to have mastered the dirt track at Peoria Motorcycle Club Race Park.
He credits watching videos when he was young of 13-time Peoria TTs champion Chris Carr as part of his admiration for PMC.
“This is a track that I’ve loved since I was a kid,” Beach said, “so it’s a track that I’ve always loved. … It’s a physical track. It’s a hard track. You have to fight every single lap. That’s how I train at home and I’m always fighting.
“I’ve been lucky enough now to win (at) this place three times and I can’t believe that Wiles won it 14 times in a row. That’s just crazy.”
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After winning his heat, Beach then grabbed his second victory of the 18-race season thanks to a restart and a green-white-checkered finish. He edged out runner-up Briar Bauman and third-place finisher Jared Mees, who now leads the 2023 AFT SuperTwins Point Standings by one point over fifth-place Dallas Daniels, 296-295.
Beach knew Bauman would make a move on him following the restart. Daniels had slid into an air fence on Turn Four, putting the race into caution.
“I spun it up and won,” said Beach, who rides a Yamaha MT-07. “(Bauman) came up the inside and almost got me, so I knew he was going to be close. … It was all about trying to be smooth but ride as hard as I could.”
Four races remain in the season, culminating with the Springfield Mile as part of a Labor Day weekend doubleheader at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. Next week, the racers descend on Black Hills Speedway for The City of Sturgis Black Hills Half-Mile.
One final TT race is on the schedule for Aug. 12 in Castle Rock, Wash.
“We’ll go back to work,” Beach said, “because I know the guys aren’t going to be easy next (race).”
Wiles finished sixth for the second year in a row. The race is scheduled to be shown on FS1 as part of a one-hour tape delay show at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 6.
Trevor Brunner wins Peoria TT AFT Singles
Trevor Brunner got in the win column for the first time in 2023, capturing the Peoria TT Parts Unlimited American Flat Track Singles Main Event. He outdistanced himself from Estenson Racing teammate Tom Drane and points leader Kody Kopp to end a 13-race drought.
The Aurora, Ind.-native sits 40 points behind Kopp, 273-233 with four races to go.
“Peoria’s basically the most iconic track on this American Flat Track circuit you’re ever going to ride,” said Brunner, who had finished second in two of his last three races. “… It’s set inside this little valley. All the fans are out watching on the hills. It’s really kind of nostalgic.”
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Two restarts really helped Brunner’s confidence.
“I kept getting more and more excited,” he said, “because I’ve been getting great starts all day, so every time we got stopped and had a restart, I was like, ‘Here’s my chance.’
“I kept moving up, moving up, moving up every restart.”
Brunner's approach to the race changed with the weather. Following the rain overnight Friday into Saturday to the heat on Sunday, the 20-year-old adjusted his style from the morning heats to the afternoon main event.
He credited PMC for taking such great care of the track.
"Earlier on in the day, when the track had a lot of grip in it, you really got to ride aggressive," Brunner said. "Almost really on top of the bike, riding more towards the front forks, really being aggressive with the throttle.
"As it shifted into being a little bit more dry and getting that groove on it towards the end of the day, you really had to start making smaller movements on the bike, not putting as much input into it and really just being smooth with your throttle hand. It kind of went from one extreme to another."
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Bill Payment Assistance Available to Dominion Energy Virginia Customers as Winter Approaches
Published: Nov. 15, 2022 at 11:50 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 15, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- With colder temperatures on the way, Dominion Energy Virginia is offering several assistance programs to help customers with their winter heating bills. The winter months typically bring higher energy bills as customers use more electricity to heat their homes.
"With higher fuel costs this winter, more of our customers will need assistance with their power bills," said Ed Baine, President of Dominion Energy Virginia. "We're here to help. We have several programs that help our customers with bill payment assistance, free energy efficiency upgrades and extended payment plans. If you or your family need help with your power bill this winter, please contact us so we can assist."
Dominion Energy Virginia's EnergyShare program offers up to $600 in bill payment assistance from October 1 through May 31. The program is not income-based, so anyone needing help to pay their heating bills may qualify for assistance. Individuals 60 and older, military veterans and individuals with a disability may be eligible for additional assistance.
The Virginia Department of Social Services and its partner organizations offer several other bill payment assistance options through the free Virginia 211 service.
EnergyShare Weatherization Programs
Dominion Energy Virginia customers who receive EnergyShare bill payment assistance may be eligible to receive a free home energy assessment and the installation of free energy efficiency upgrades that help save on their energy costs. This fall, Dominion Energy Virginia celebrated the 40th anniversary of the program by providing free energy efficiency upgrades to more than 40 homes in 40 days:
George Cherry, a veteran, and cancer survivor in Chesapeake, received thousands of dollars in weatherization improvements to help his family save money on their power bills.
Charlene Stephens in Henrico received a new roof, insulation, and window improvements for her family's home, which will not only help them save money but also protect several members of the family who suffer from Asthma.
Ron and Lisa Suddarth in Fairfax lived without central heating and cooling for 4 years before EnergyShare replaced their HVAC system this fall.
Carlton Abrams and Lucy Washington in Crozet received a new heating and cooling solution after years of struggling with a patchwork system that could not keep up in the winter.
Extended Payment Plans
Dominion Energy Virginia offers extended payment plans to help customers who've fallen behind on their electric bills. Eligible customers can make 50% down payment on their past due bill and spread the remaining balance over 6 months. Customers may sign-in to their account online or call 877-776-2427 to see if they qualify.
Budget Billing
Dominion Energy's budget billing program helps customers avoid the seasonal fluctuation with their energy bills. Monthly budget bill amounts are based on the average of the customer's previous 12 months of usage. Customers may sign-in to their account online or call 877-776-2427 to see if they qualify.
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SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge rejected a plea agreement that would have meant no prison time for the operator of a limousine company involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York. Wednesday’s turnabout drew applause and tears from victims’ relatives and plunged limo company boss Nauman Hussain into legal uncertainty.
State Supreme Court Justice Peter Lynch, who was not presiding over the case when the deal was reached a year ago in Hussain’s case, called the agreement “fundamentally flawed.”
It would have spared Hussain prison time, angering the families of the people killed when brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in 2018.
The judge’s rejection caught lawyers and relatives off-guard. Family members who, moments earlier, were testifying about their grief and anger over no one being accountable for the deadly crash clapped and dabbed their eyes after the judge’s announcement.
“I can’t even put into words how I feel. Totally unexpected. Thank God,” said Jill Richardson-Perez, the mother of limo crash victim Matthew Coons, while leaving court. “I’m in a better place now.”
Kevin Cushing, who lost his son Patrick in the crash, said the families “have a hope for a bit of justice to be served in the future, where we didn’t have any justice served in the past.”
Defense attorney Chad Seigel said they were “shocked” and that the judge’s move was “unheard of.”
Hussain, who operated Prestige Limousine, had been charged with 20 counts each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in what was the deadliest U.S. transportation disaster in a decade.
The agreement had called for Hussain to plead guilty only to the homicide counts, resulting five years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service. Lawyers for both sides said last year the plea agreement assured a resolution in a case that would have faced an uncertain outcome if presented to a jury.
Lynch noted that a state Department of Transportation out-of-service sticker had been placed on the limousine a month before the crash. State police recovered the sticker from Hussain’s personal car after his arrest. Prosecutors have argued that Hussain took the sticker off the limo’s windshield so that he could use it for more jobs.
To the judge, Hussain’s actions showed he knew the risk of putting the limousine on the road the day of the crash, and a guilty plea to only criminally negligent homicide does not reflect that. Second-degree manslaughter charges are filed when a defendant is accused of being aware of the risk of death and disregarding it. Lynch called the deal “completely disingenuous and unacceptable to this court.”
Lynch gave Hussain’s lawyers the choice of accepting a sentence of 1 1/3 to four years in prison or withdrawing his guilty plea. They chose the latter.
Seigel said afterward that the DOT sticker had “absolutely nothing to do with defective brakes.”
“Collectively, we made a decision that it would be in the best of all all involved — not only our client, but the members of the community — to put this matter behind them. A little monkey wrench was thrown in that,” Seigel said. “So the judge forced our hand and we’re ready for trial.”
District Attorney Susan Mallery left court without commenting.
Hussain, who sat with his head lowered for much of the proceeding, declined comment afterward.
While the National Transportation Safety Board concluded the crash was likely caused by Prestige Limousine’s “egregious disregard for safety” that resulted in brake failure, the board said ineffective state oversight contributed.
Attorneys for Hussain say he tried to maintain the limousine and relied on what he was told by state officials and a repair shop that inspected it.
Axel Steenburg rented the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine for wife Amy’s 30th birthday on Oct. 6, 2018. The party group, ranging in age from 24 to 34, included Axel’s brother, Amy’s three sisters and two of their husbands, and close friends.
En route to a brewery, the limo’s brakes failed on a downhill stretch of road in Schoharie, west of Albany. The vehicle blew through a stop sign at over 100 mph (160 kph) and crashed into a small ravine.
The crash killed the limo driver, 17 passengers, and two bystanders outside the store.
Mallery’s office has said Hussain allowed passengers to ride in the limo despite having received “multiple notices of violations” from the state and having been told repairs were inadequate. State police said the vehicle should have been taken out of service because of brake problems identified in an inspection a month before the crash.
The next court date has been set for Sept. 14. Hussain, who had completed a year of interim probation, was allowed to leave the court, but the judge ordered he be subject to GPS monitoring.
Lynch revealed his decision only after several relatives spoke about their enduring pain and sense of loss. Sheila McGarvey told the court that her 30-year-old son Shane McGowan was just beginning his life with new wife, Erin McGowan, who was also riding in the limo.
“I call out my son Shane’s name all the time,” McGarvey said, “but no one answers.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-judge-nixes-no-prison-deal-in-2018-limo-crash-that-killed-20/ | 2022-09-01 12:37:09 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-judge-nixes-no-prison-deal-in-2018-limo-crash-that-killed-20/ |
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office: Lisbon Avenue offramp closed
Offramp closed after a pursuit ending in a rollover crash
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Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office: Lisbon Avenue offramp closed
Offramp closed after a pursuit ending in a rollover crash
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office tweeted the Lisbon Avenue offramp on South-175 is closed. Traffic will be routed off Lloyd Street.The closure is due to a pursuit of an expected intoxicated driver, according to the Sheriff's office. The passenger suffered unknown injuries and the driver fled.First responders and Milwaukee's Sheriff's Office investigate the crash.
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The passenger suffered unknown injuries and the driver fled.
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Jury says it’s deadlocked in Danny Masterson rape trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors at the rape trial of “That ‘70s Show” star Danny Masterson said Friday that they are deadlocked, but a judge told them they have not deliberated long enough for her to declare a mistrial.
The jury told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo that after nearly three days of deliberations, they could not reach a unanimous verdict on any of the three rape counts against the actor.
Olmedo had already agreed to allow jurors Thanksgiving week off. She stopped their discussions Friday and told them to return and resume deliberations on Nov. 28.
Masterson, 46, is charged with the rape of three women, including a former girlfriend, in his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003.
He has pleaded not guilty, and the defense said the acts were consensual.
Masterson, 46, did not testify during the trial. His lawyer presented no defense testimony and instead focused on inconsistencies in the accounts of the three accusers, who he said changed their stories over time and spoke with each other before going to police.
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Did you lose money on investments in Enovix Corporation? If so, please visit Enovix Corporation Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Enovix Corporation ("Enovix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ENVX) between February 22, 2021 and January 3, 2023, inclusive (the "Class Period"), or Rodgers Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. ("RSVAC") common stock prior to July 15, 2021. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
On February 22, 2021, Enovix announced plans to become a publicly traded company. Five months after this announcement, on July 15, 2021, Enovix became a publicly traded company. Rather than go public through a traditional initial public offering ("IPO"), Enovix merged with a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC"), a public shell corporation with no business of its own other than to acquire a private company. On July 14, 2021, Enovix was officially acquired by RSVAC, which then changed its name to Enovix Corporation.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period, starting with statements made at the time of the de-SPAC, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about Enovix's revenues and ability to manufacture its proprietary battery technology. Plaintiff alleges that Enovix would also have to create a process to manufacture its batteries at a large enough scale to satisfy the needs of its customers. Otherwise, it could not monetize its proprietary technology.
Just months before the merger, Enovix had received key equipment to establish its first manufacturing line at its "Fab-1" facility in Fremont, California. Although Enovix had previously produced and delivered sample batteries using its pilot production line, the pilot line produced only 20 batteries per day. Building a full-scale production facility was therefore a key step to producing batteries at a commercial level.
In November 2021, Enovix announced that it had begun developing a second automated production line at its Fab-1 facility. The second line, the Company told investors, would be a "workhorse" focusing on batteries for mobile electronics, such as laptops and smartphones, thereby supporting Enovix's "ramp" to achieve meaningful scale and revenue in the consumer electronics market starting in 2023.
Enovix assured its investors in a March 2022 letter that moving from the R&D to the production phase would "distinguish us from other advanced battery companies that have claimed technology breakthroughs but remain years away from commercialization. To that end, Enovix also began to develop plans for a second production facility, Fab-2. Defendants told investors that Fab-2 would take lessons from Fab-1 and use different equipment, purportedly to occupy a smaller footprint and save the Company from having to rent a larger, more expensive space, while also delivering products more efficiently. However, Fab-2's buildout was still years away.
On November 1, 2022, Enovix announced its financial results for 3Q22. Enovix revealed that in that quarter it realized only $8,000 in revenue. Enovix revealed that it would be "dialing back" its work on improving the Gen1 lines in favor of shifting its focus to its future Gen2 lines because the supposed improvements were not having the desired results on output. Consequently, Enovix "anticipate[d] achieving lower overall output from Fab-1 in 2023." Enovix shares fell $8.34 over 40% on this news.
Then, on January 3, 2023, Defendant Rodgers held a special presentation for investors via conference call. On the call, Rodgers revealed that the Company's second production facility and Gen2 lines would be delayed by several additional months because of the equipment failures experienced in the Fab-1 lines. Enovix's share price fell another 41% on this news.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased or acquired Enovix or RSVAC common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Enovix Corporation Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Monday, January 16, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
TXZ211-181000-
Austin-
Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ237-181000-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs around
80. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperature falling
into the lower 70s in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely. Highs in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ196-181000-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows around
60. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Showers
likely in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ195-181000-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog through the day. A
40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows around
60. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Showers
likely in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ214-181000-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
upper 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Temperature falling
to around 70 in the afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows
around 50. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ210-181000-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid
70s. Southwest winds around 10 mph, becoming northwest in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 50. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 60. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ227-181000-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers likely
with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ238-181000-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
upper 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperature falling
into the lower 70s in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ198-181000-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ213-181000-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance
of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ163-181000-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows
around 60. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers, mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ235-181000-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the upper
70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly sunny in the afternoon. Breezy with highs in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ200-181000-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperature falling
into the lower 70s in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ176-181000-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows around
60. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers likely in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ236-181000-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
upper 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ199-181000-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ179-181000-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Temperature falling
into the upper 60s in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ178-181000-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ164-181000-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in
the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ177-181000-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ212-181000-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 60. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ197-181000-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80. Lows in the
lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Showers
likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ226-181000-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Areas of fog through the day. Mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ300-181000-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs around
80. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperature falling
into the lower 70s in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
around 50.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance
of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ313-181000-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs around
80. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperature falling
into the lower 70s in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance
of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ338-181000-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day, then patchy fog. Highs in
the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Temperature falling
to around 70 in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ337-181000-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
upper 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Temperature falling
to around 70 in the afternoon. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ336-181000-
Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
mid 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ335-181000-
Coastal Jackson-
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day. Patchy fog. Highs in the
upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly sunny in the afternoon. Breezy with highs in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ436-181000-
Matagorda Islands-
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day, then patchy fog. Highs in
the upper 60s. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Showers. Near steady
temperature in the upper 60s. South winds around 15 mph, becoming
west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Breezy. Near steady temperature in
the lower 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Breezy with lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Breezy with lows in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Breezy with highs in the
upper 50s.
$$
TXZ437-181000-
Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day, then patchy fog. Highs in
the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Temperature falling
into the upper 60s in the afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Breezy with highs
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ438-181000-
Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day, then patchy fog. Highs in
the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Showers. Near steady
temperature in the upper 60s. Temperature falling into the upper
60s in the afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the mid
50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers, breezy. Near
steady temperature in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Breezy with lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Breezy with highs around
60.
$$
TXZ439-181000-
Bolivar Peninsula-
143 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Areas of fog through the day, then patchy fog. Highs in
the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Showers and thunderstorms
likely in the morning, then showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s. Temperature falling into the upper 60s in the
afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming southwest in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy with highs
around 60. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Breezy with lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 50. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Breezy with highs in the
upper 50s.
$$
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OTSEGO COUNTY, MI – Police say alcohol may have been a factor in a fatal motorcycle crash in Northern Michigan.
According to the Michigan State Police, Edward Leroy Wilson, 38, of Mancelona was riding a motorcycle on Alba Road near Franckowiak Road in Otsego County at 8:44 p.m. on Thursday.
A witness, who was riding a sperate motorcycle, said Wilson was traveling at a high rate of speed as he approached a sharp curve and ran off the roadway into the ditch.
The motorcycle overturned several times, Wilson was ejected, and landed on the roadway, police said. His companion immediately called 911.
Elmira Township Fire Department firefighters responded to the scene and began CPR. AED was then used before Otsego County EMS arrived and transported Wilson to Otsego Memorial Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Wilson was not wearing a helmet when he crashed, police said. His companion was not injured. | https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/09/michigan-man-killed-in-otsego-county-motorcycle-crash.html | 2022-09-30 16:10:55 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/09/michigan-man-killed-in-otsego-county-motorcycle-crash.html |
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Samantha Diaz, a recent winner of ABC’s “American Idol,” says she was hospitalized with an unknown illness.
Diaz, known by the stage name “Just Sam,” documented her hospital stay on social media this week.
One of the photos she posted shows a scale in what appears to be a doctor’s office. The photo is captioned: “100lbs is crazy, I seriously need help.”
In a post on Friday, the 23-year-old thanked her fans saying, “I’m grateful for the prayers everyone. I’m doing much better now.”
On Saturday, she elaborated, saying the condition that landed her in the hospital “is something that I’ve been dealing with for a while now.” She expressed frustration with “misdiagnoses,” relentless testing, and ongoing pain.
“I’m tired of feeling tired all of the time, I’m tired of the pain and I’m tired of living like this every single day,” she wrote in a post to her Instagram story.
Diaz said Saturday she had been released from the hospital.
Diaz was the winner of “American Idol” in 2020. Before rising to fame on the reality television competition, Diaz sang in New York subway stations and on trains, according to People. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/american-idol-winner-hospitalized-with-unknown-illness/ | 2022-08-28 18:11:22 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/american-idol-winner-hospitalized-with-unknown-illness/ |
Hundreds of under-resourced schools across the U.S. will receive new school supplies for 6,000 incoming students
DENVER, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Shane Co., fourth-generation, family-owned jeweler, kicks off its annual partnership with Kids In Need Foundation (KINF). This year's school supply program will be the largest volunteering initiative since the partnership was established in 2020. In the weeks prior to the start of most schools, Shane Co. employees will use employer-paid volunteer days to fill backpacks with essential back-to-school supplies for students attending underserved schools.
"This program is something we look forward to every year because it is a tangible and meaningful way for us to connect and give back to the communities we serve," said Rordan Shane, President and CEO of Shane Co "It is truly incredible to be part of a such a remarkable program. Knowing that we're able to be part of a student's school year to help them succeed is amazing"
Throughout the month of August, volunteers from all 21 Shane Co. stores will pack new notebooks, pencils, pens, and other essential school supplies in individual backpacks for teachers to distribute to students.
"We are grateful for Shane Co.'s continued dedication to creating equitable learning environments through its partnership with Kids In Need Foundation," said Corey Gordon, CEO of KINF. "Each year, they've increased employee and customer engagement in making a difference in their respective communities and inspired a collective passion within their organization for our mission. We appreciate the commitment Shane Co. has made to under-resourced teachers and students in their hometowns."
Funding for the backpacks and school supplies comes from Shane Co.'s most recent donation of $150,000 and an additional $15,000 directly from Shane Co.'s customer giving program. This donation is an increase from Shane Co.'s previous donation of $100,000 in both 2020 and 2021.
Kids In Need Foundation is a national organization that provides the support and tools needed for teachers to teach and learners to learn. Schools set to receive supplies are based in local communities or neighborhoods that Shane Co. stores currently serve and have been identified by KINF as under-resourced. The under-served schools selected for the program have a student enrollment of 70 percent or higher eligible for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The regions to receive school supplies include the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Phoenix, Sacramento, Denver, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisville Kentucky, St. Louis, Missouri, Portland, Nashville, and Salt lake City. The collaboration between Shane Co. and KINF aims to create equitable learning environments by supporting schools where the enrollment is primarily composed of students who are Black, Indigenous, and children of color.
Fast Facts
- To date, the Shane Co. + KINF partnership has supported 375 classrooms and almost 9,000 K-5 students in under-resourced schools through the Supply A Student and Supply A Teacher programs.
- To date, Shane Co. employees have volunteered over 3,400 hours to fill backpacks and teacher/classroom kits with supplies, handwritten notes of encouragement, and more for underserved schools in local communities where Shane Co. has a presence.
- 6,000 backpacks full of supplies will be distributed to students in August - an additional 1,440 from previous years, supporting 6,000 students and 250 classrooms.
- Shane Co. volunteers will clock in an estimated 1,000 additional hours to fill backpacks and teacher totes.
- 21 schools will receive backpacks in 13 states across the U.S.
By partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, KINF helps create equitable learning environments by ensuring students are properly equipped to learn and empowers teachers by supplying them with adequate resources. Absenteeism, coupled with teacher attrition, are more prevalent in underserved communities. These factors create an Opportunity Gap with lifetime repercussions. Children of color are more than two times more likely to be born into poverty, and they constitute nearly half of all children in American public schools (Source: Economic Policy Institute, 2019).
Shane Co. is a fourth-generation, family-owned jeweler committed to offering fine jewelry of the highest quality, from diamonds and engagement rings to gifts for any occasion. A direct importer of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, and other gemstones, Shane Co. operates 21 stores in 13 states, as well as an online store at www.ShaneCo.com. Recognized as an industry leader in customer service, Shane Co. offers the finest array of benefits including a Free Lifetime Warranty and a 60-day Money-back Guarantee. More than just a jewelry store, Shane Co. is your friend in the jewelry business since 1929.
Kids In Need Foundation (KINF), a nonprofit organization that believes every child in America deserves equal opportunity and access to a quality education, provides the support and tools needed for teachers to teach and learners to learn. By providing essential school supplies, distance learning resources, and other classroom items in high demand, KINF partners with teachers in underserved schools to ensure students are prepared to learn in the classroom. In 2021, through its programs and National Network of Resource Centers, comprised of more than 40 mission-driven organizations nationwide, KINF served an estimated 7.8 million students, 316,900 teachers through 13,807 under-resourced schools, and provided over $162 million in product at no cost to schools or teachers. For more information, visit KINF.org, and join us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter: @KidsInNeed.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has arrived at a London court ahead of his testimony against a tabloid publisher he accuses of phone hacking and other unlawful snooping.
The prince arrived at the High Court in a black SUV.
Harry has made a mission of holding the U.K. press to account for what he sees as its hounding of him and his family.
This is the first of several lawsuits to go to trial. He accuses the publisher of the Daily Mirror of using unlawful techniques on an “industrial scale” to get scoops.
The 38-year-old son of King Charles III will be the first British royal since the 19th century to enter a courtroom witness box. He will face cross-examination by a lawyer for the defendant, Mirror Group Newspapers. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/entertainment-news/prince-harry-arrives-at-high-court-for-testimony-in-phone-backing-case/ | 2023-06-07 05:49:35 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/entertainment-news/prince-harry-arrives-at-high-court-for-testimony-in-phone-backing-case/ |
VPPs playing a larger role in daily grid operations; Utilities and consumers will require more guidance and assistance from VPP and DER providers
BOULDER, Colo., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores trends affecting the virtual power plant (VPP) market.
With renewable energy capacity increasing and the adoption of distributed energy resources (DER) continuing to grow throughout all customer segments around the world, there is a rising need for flexibility in power grid operations. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, VPPs represent an opportunity to connect the expanding network of DER while providing flexibility and other essential grid services without the same harmful emissions as fossil fuel power plants.
"As technology advances and new market frameworks are implemented to allow nonutility and demand side resources to fully participate in energy markets, VPP deployments have started progressing beyond demonstrations and pilot projects to large-scale programs," says Dan Power, senior research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "With consumer-sited resources becoming more critical to grid operations, utilities will need to adopt new management technologies and software platforms to maintain grid reliability, while end consumers will need additional assistance in acquiring DER and participating in VPPs."
The adoption of new platforms and technologies will further complicate utility software use cases and daily grid operations, meaning those stakeholders will require additional guidance from VPP providers. And as energy markets liberalize to allow consumer participation, consumers will need assistance from DER providers when acquiring, installing, and enrolling assets in VPPs. This presents VPP and DER providers with opportunities to adapt their business models to facilitate wider market growth, according to the report.
The report, Business Model Innovations Can Drive Virtual Power Plant Growth, discusses how VPP and DER business models are evolving and what role new, innovative business models can play in furthering the advancement of those technologies. The report provides recommendations to key stakeholders to increase the presence and impact of aggregated DER on grids around the world. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
About Guidehouse Insights
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MLB Games Tonight: How to Watch on TV, Streaming & Odds - Thursday, April 27
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The Atlanta Braves (17-8) play the Miami Marlins (12-13)
The Marlins will hit the field at Truist Park against the Braves on Thursday at 12:20 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 12:20 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.363 AVG, 4 HR, 12 RBI)
- MIA Key Player: Luis Arraez (.421 AVG, 1 HR, 9 RBI)
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The Pittsburgh Pirates (17-8) play the Los Angeles Dodgers (13-12)
The Dodgers will hit the field at PNC Park against the Pirates on Thursday at 12:35 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 12:35 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- PIT Key Player: Bryan Reynolds (.292 AVG, 5 HR, 19 RBI)
- LAD Key Player: James Outman (.301 AVG, 7 HR, 19 RBI)
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The Philadelphia Phillies (12-13) play host to the Seattle Mariners (11-13)
The Mariners will look to pick up a road win at Citizens Bank Park against the Phillies on Thursday at 1:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- PHI Key Player: Nicholas Castellanos (.333 AVG, 3 HR, 16 RBI)
- SEA Key Player: Ty France (.266 AVG, 1 HR, 15 RBI)
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The Chicago Cubs (13-10) host the San Diego Padres (13-13)
The Padres will hit the field at Wrigley Field versus the Cubs on Thursday at 2:20 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- CHC Key Player: Nico Hoerner (.340 AVG, 2 HR, 15 RBI)
- SD Key Player: Xander Bogaerts (.326 AVG, 5 HR, 12 RBI)
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The San Francisco Giants (11-13) take on the St. Louis Cardinals (9-16)
The Cardinals will look to pick up a road win at Oracle Park against the Giants on Thursday at 3:45 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 3:45 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- SF Key Player: Thairo Estrada (.326 AVG, 4 HR, 7 RBI)
- STL Key Player: Paul Goldschmidt (.315 AVG, 4 HR, 13 RBI)
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The Los Angeles Angels (13-12) play the Oakland Athletics (5-20)
The Athletics will hit the field at Angel Stadium of Anaheim versus the Angels on Thursday at 4:07 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- LAA Key Player: Hunter Renfroe (.280 AVG, 7 HR, 19 RBI)
- OAK Key Player: Brent Rooker (.315 AVG, 6 HR, 15 RBI)
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The Detroit Tigers (9-14) take on the Baltimore Orioles (16-8)
The Orioles will look to pick up a road win at Comerica Park versus the Tigers on Thursday at 6:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- DET Key Player: Spencer Torkelson (.218 AVG, 2 HR, 11 RBI)
- BAL Key Player: Cedric Mullins (.271 AVG, 3 HR, 20 RBI)
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The Chicago White Sox (7-18) host the Tampa Bay Rays (20-5)
The Rays will hit the field at Guaranteed Rate Field against the White Sox on Thursday at 7:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- CHW Key Player: Andrew Vaughn (.236 AVG, 1 HR, 16 RBI)
- TB Key Player: Randy Arozarena (.341 AVG, 5 HR, 24 RBI)
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The New York Mets (14-11) host the Washington Nationals (9-14)
The Nationals will look to pick up a road win at Citi Field versus the Mets on Thursday at 7:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- NYM Key Player: Pete Alonso (.245 AVG, 10 HR, 23 RBI)
- WSH Key Player: Jeimer Candelario (.245 AVG, 4 HR, 12 RBI)
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The Minnesota Twins (14-11) host the Kansas City Royals (6-19)
The Royals will look to pick up a road win at Target Field against the Twins on Thursday at 7:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- MIN Key Player: Joey Gallo (.238 AVG, 7 HR, 14 RBI)
- KC Key Player: Vinnie Pasquantino (.284 AVG, 4 HR, 7 RBI)
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The Texas Rangers (14-10) play the New York Yankees (14-11)
The Yankees will take to the field at Globe Life Field against the Rangers on Thursday at 8:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- TEX Key Player: Marcus Semien (.278 AVG, 5 HR, 22 RBI)
- NYY Key Player: Gleyber Torres (.266 AVG, 3 HR, 9 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and the book-length edition of the “1619 Project” are among the nominees for Kirkus Prizes, $50,000 honors given in three competitive categories.
The nominees were announced Thursday by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews.
In fiction, Tokarczuk was cited for “The Books of Jacob,” a 900-plus page novel translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft. The other finalists were Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things,” Susan Straight’s “Mecca,” Michelle de Kretser’s “Scary Monsters” and Yoko Tawada’s “Scattered All Over the Earth,” translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
“The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” which expands upon The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a nonfiction nominee. Ann Patchett’s essay collection “These Precious Days” was also a finalist, along with Margaret A. Burnham’s “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners,” Lindsey Fitzharris’ “The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle To Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I,” Tanaïs’ “In Sensorium: Notes for My People” and Ed Yong’s “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”
In young reader’s literature, Jacqueline Woodson is a nominee for “The Year We Learned to Fly,” a picture book illustrated by Rafael López, and Niki Smith was cited for “The Golden Hour.” The other finalists were Betina Birkjær’s “Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost,” illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard and translated by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov; Anne Ursu’s “The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy”; Harmony Becker’s “Himawari House” and Rimma Onoseta’s “How You Grow Wings.”
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DALLAS, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Huitt-Zollars, Inc., an employee-owned, full-service design firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has announced continued expansion of its public works practice in Phoenix, Arizona, with the addition of Gavan & Barker, a Phoenix-based design group with expertise in civil engineering and landscape architecture.
"The addition of Gavan & Barker expands Huitt-Zollars' footprint in the Phoenix area and increases our visibility in the public works market," said Robert McDermott, President of Huitt-Zollars. "This directly aligns with our strategic plan for growth, and we are excited about our future in Arizona."
For more than 17 years, Gavan & Barker, Inc., has provided civil engineering and landscape architecture services in the areas of site design, multi-use flood control works, roadway and drainage design, parks and recreation projects, urban street enhancements, and shared-use pathways to clients throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. Joining Huitt-Zollars will expand the depth of expertise in our public works market, providing clients with access to new services and creating a more diverse portfolio. Co-founders Mark Gavan and John Barker and their team will remain with the firm, joining Huitt-Zollars' Phoenix office later this month.
"We are very excited to join Huitt-Zollars," said Mark Gavan, former co-owner of Gavan & Barker, now a Huitt-Zollars Principal and Vice President. "We look forward to expanding our expertise and ability to serve our clients."
About Gavan & Barker, Inc.
Gavan & Barker, Inc. was created with the vision that an integrated design approach, merging the disciplines of civil engineering and landscape architecture, results in better client service and enhanced projects. Planning and design of projects that include significant civil engineering and hydrologic design requirements coupled with major landscape architecture elements is the focus of Gavan & Barker.
About Huitt-Zollars, Inc.
Huitt-Zollars, Inc. is a full-service, national professional services firm that provides solutions for the built environment. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, with offices throughout the U.S., Huitt-Zollars is ranked among the nation's top design firms by Architectural Record and Engineering News-Record.
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The cast of the Broadway touring production of Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations was performing in Buffalo Saturday when news broke about the shooting that killed 10 people.
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The cast of the Broadway touring production of Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations was performing in Buffalo Saturday when news broke about the shooting that killed 10 people.
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WELLESLEY, Mass., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Life U.S. has announced a unique partnership with AbleTo, a virtual behavioral health therapy and coaching program, to offer mental health support services to Sun Life disability and critical illness members receiving benefits due to a cancer diagnosis. In a focused evaluation of disability claims for members with cancer, Sun Life's Clinical Claims Innovation Lab saw significant need for mental health intervention to address conditions like stress, anxiety, and depression. AbleTo's program, which focuses on holistic, personalized mental health care, is designed to help people cope with difficult medical diagnoses.
"Access to mental and behavioral health services has become a priority for so many across the country, particularly with regard to remote or virtual settings," said Sheila Sokolski, assistant vice president of Life, Absence and Disability products at Sun Life U.S. "By partnering with AbleTo, we can bring our members convenient, confidential access to mental health services from the comfort and privacy of their own homes. This program can help our members more effectively manage their cancer diagnosis and treatment plan, as well as maintain mental wellness throughout their medical journey."
When Sun Life members enroll in the eight-week AbleTo program, they get:
- One-on-one weekly sessions with a licensed AbleTo therapist via phone or video call
- Additional weekly sessions with an experienced AbleTo behavioral coach
- Therapists with extensive experience counseling people facing serious health diagnoses
- Digital tools and activities to use between sessions and after the program ends
"When we see members diagnosed with cancer, we know they are facing challenges in addition to receiving treatment, such as worrying about their families, their ability to return to work or paying additional medical expenses," said Sheila Weiss, RN, assistant vice president, Group Claims and Clinical Services, Sun Life U.S., and head of Sun Life's Clinical Claims Innovation Lab. "It is crucial for those dealing with a condition like cancer to receive behavioral health support, or these issues could impede their ability to cope during treatment and recover afterwards."
Sun Life's Clinical Claims Innovation Lab conducts focused analyses of disability claims for specific conditions, identifying trends and opportunities for intervention – such as communicating with physicians to better understand the member's medical situation, or connecting members to vocational rehabilitation consultants – which can improve the recovery path for the member. The Lab's studies also further educate Sun Life's claims professionals on medical treatment advances that can impact a member's recovery.
"Medical outcomes can be improved when people can manage their mental wellness at the same time as physical recovery," said Stephen Bewley, chief executive officer of AbleTo. "Through the program, individuals learn to manage anxiety and stress levels, relax, and feel more in control. They can modify negative thoughts and improve their mood, building healthy, actionable, lifelong skills to support their mental health. We've seen graduates of AbleTo's program report improvement in symptoms, with a 98 percent patient satisfaction1 score. We're thankful that Sun Life members will get access to our tailored mental health support needed during a difficult time."
Using the DASS-21 tool, which assesses and measures stress, anxiety and depression, AbleTo tracked participants' symptoms from baseline to program completion, and discovered an average 62 percent reduction in depression, and 56 percent reduction in anxiety.1
AbleTo will be available to eligible Sun Life members receiving short-term disability benefit payments and/or approved for critical illness benefits due to a cancer diagnosis. The program is an extension of their Sun Life benefit. For more information about the Sun Life clinical model, visit www.sunlife.com/disability.
This is the latest development in Sun Life's expanded approach to mental health and wellness, which includes support for primary diagnoses, guidance for employers as they develop mental wellness programs for the workplace, and broadened philanthropic support, particularly for underprivileged communities.
About Sun Life
Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional Clients. Sun Life has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of March 31, 2022, Sun Life had total assets under management of C$1.35 trillion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com.
Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.
In the United States, Sun Life is one of the largest group benefits providers, serving more than 55,000 employers in small, medium and large workplaces across the country. Sun Life's broad portfolio of insurance products and services in the U.S. includes disability, absence management, life, dental, vision, voluntary and medical stop-loss. Sun Life and its affiliates in asset management businesses in the U.S. employ approximately 8,000 people. Group insurance policies are issued by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (Wellesley Hills, Mass.), except in New York, where policies are issued by Sun Life and Health Insurance Company (U.S.) (Lansing, Mich.). For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com/us.
About AbleTo
A pioneer in telehealth, AbleTo has revolutionized the way people access quality mental healthcare. Delivering over 2 million patient sessions, AbleTo provides structured, high-quality and high-impact mental healthcare to people, when and where they need help most. The company's dynamic suite of solutions leverage data and analytics to align each person's unique needs with a highly personalized program that offers the right blend of human and digital support. A nationwide network of more than 2,300 trusted providers, skilled in clinically rigorous treatment, delivers this tailored care through a remote platform backed by over a decade of experience. AbleTo's outcomes-focused approach is proven to improve both behavioral and physical health and lower overall medical costs. For more information, visit AbleTo at www.ableto.com and follow AbleTo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
1. AbleTo Book of Business DASS-21 Outcomes, 2021
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‘Most gigantic’ dinosaur ever discovered goes on display in London
LONDON - A 5,885-pound exhibit "101 million years in the making" goes on display this week at London’s Natural History Museum.
Timelapse video from the museum shows construction of the massive Patagotitan mayorum, the "most complete gigantic dinosaur ever discovered," the museum said in a news release.
The interactive exhibit will teach museum-goers how a titanosaur of this size was able to live on Earth.
Titanosaurs were the biggest animals to walk on our planet, according to the museum, and Patagotitan mayorum is one of the biggest known titanosaurs.
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Patagotitan mayorums weighed more than 125,000 pounds – about the size of eight Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs. Scientists believe they ate more than 284 pounds of plants every day to survive.
"These awe-inspiring giants entice children to science and inspire them about the natural world – helping them become advocates for the planet from an early age," Alex Burch, director of public programs for the museum, said in a prepared statement. "Learning that birds are living dinosaurs is an amazing entry to evolution - at any age!"
Largest dinosaur ever discovered goes on display in London (Credit: Natural History Museum via Storyful)
In addition to the giant fossil, the exhibit offers hand-drawn illustrations as a backdrop to the titanosaur. Visitors can step inside a titanosaur’s body, push the heart to pump blood, fill its lungs with air and squeeze food through its gut.
They can also find out how many people it would take to "balance the scales of a giant dino."
READ MORE: Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Chile may give insight into deadly asteroid strike
"Learn which predators were brave enough to try to take down this 37 metre long titan (as seen in the bite mark in its tail!) in a two-player game of defend and attack, stretch your legs as you try to match titanosaur’s strides across the gallery floor and snap a selfie next to the femur fossil," the museum said.
The cast of Patagotitan mayorum was provided to the Museum by the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF) in Argentina.
"To see it is to be humbled by the sheer majesty and dynamism of the natural world," the museum said.
The exhibit runs from Friday, March 31, 2023, through Jan. 7, 2024. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/giant-dinosaur-exhibit-london-natural-history-museum-patagotitan-mayorum | 2023-03-30 18:09:58 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/giant-dinosaur-exhibit-london-natural-history-museum-patagotitan-mayorum |
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas, before he was shot and wounded by sheriff's deputies, authorities said.
Just before 11 p.m. Monday, a man opened fire on Potter County deputies working off-duty at the fair in Amarillo, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said.
Thomas said the “male suspect opened fire on the deputies, striking a deputy and an off-duty firefighter, also working at the fair, and a bystander.” Deputies returned fire, wounding the suspect.
The deputy, firefighter and bystander were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said. The gunman was taken to the hospital with injuries that were described as life-threatening.
Thomas did not identify any of the victims or the suspect. He did not offer a motive for the shooting, which is being investigated by the Texas Rangers.
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LONDON (AP) — Russian hackers are seeking to “disrupt or destroy” Britain’s critical infrastructure and not enough is being done to stop them, U.K. government officials said Wednesday.
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre issued an official threat notice to operators of Britain’s electricity, water and other critical systems, telling them to boost their defenses.
“I don’t think we are yet doing enough to protect our infrastructure from the cyber threats emerging from Russia-aligning groups,” the center’s chief, Lindy Cameron, said.
Cabinet Minister Oliver Dowden said the threat comes from hackers sympathetic to Russia though not necessarily directed by the Russian state. He described them as the cyber equivalent of the Wagner Group, the private Russian company with mercenaries fighting in Ukraine.
He said that while the alleged hackers currently lack the capacity to do widespread damage to U.K. systems, the threat is growing.
“Disclosing this threat is not something we do lightly,” but it’s necessary for “companies to understand the current risk they face, and take action to defend themselves and the country,” Dowden said at a cybersecurity conference in Belfast.
“These are the companies in charge of keeping our country running. Of keeping the lights on,” he said. “Our shared prosperity depends on them taking their own security seriously.”
The National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of U.K. cyber intelligence agency GCHQ, said cyber attackers could begin to broaden their focus from Ukraine to the wider West as the war drags on.
Cameron also sounded a warning about the “dramatic rise of China as a technology superpower.”
“What I’m saying about China is that China is, as we say in the integrated review, an epoch-defining threat,” she told British broadcaster Sky News. “The scale and pace of their ambition and technology is something that all of the people here at the conference need to take seriously and think about how it is that we build security into our future technology to keep our people safe.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/uk-says-russian-hackers-aim-to-attack-key-infrastructure/ | 2023-04-19 19:41:06 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/uk-says-russian-hackers-aim-to-attack-key-infrastructure/ |
Gov. Sarah Sanders to deliver GOP response to Biden address
WASHINGTON - Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican address to the nation in response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech next week as the GOP seeks to show it's creating a new generation of leaders.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced the role for Sanders, 40, the nation's youngest governor, on Thursday.
"While President Biden keeps repeating old mistakes and failing Americans, a rising generation of Republican Governors are fighting for families, advancing new solutions, and winning," McConnell said in a statement.
Sanders, the first woman elected governor of Arkansas, said she relished the opportunity to contrast the GOP’s vision for the future against that of Biden and his fellow Democrats.
"We are ready to begin a new chapter in the story of America — to be written by a new generation of leaders," she said.
Before becoming governor, Sanders served as White House press secretary for President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.
Biden, 80, will deliver the address on Tuesday Feb. 7. | https://www.fox29.com/news/gov-sarah-sanders-to-deliver-gop-response-to-biden-address | 2023-02-02 20:24:04 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/news/gov-sarah-sanders-to-deliver-gop-response-to-biden-address |
Phoenix homeless shelters facing challenges after judge rules ‘The Zone’ must go
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- A Maricopa County judge has ordered the city of Phoenix to clean up The Zone, an encampment home to approximately 800 people. However, now that the city is forced to clean up the encampment and tents, where do they all go?
“The city of Phoenix essentially has been operating their own sort of open air homeless shelter in the streets of Phoenix. A shelter where you are not required to obey the law,” said Tim Sandefur, the vice president for legal affairs at the Goldwater Institute.
Multiple blocks filled with hundreds of tents and home to violent crimes will be gone. The city of Phoenix has been ordered to clean up what a judge is calling a public nuisance. “It is the first step in telling the city that it no longer has any excuse to not enforce the law and for failing to take action to clean up The Zone,” said Sandefur.
He believes this is a huge win for everyone involved. “It’s no wonder that businesses, who, after all, pay the taxes that are supposed to be going towards providing them with public safety, have said that they will not be putting up with this anymore. There’s open urination and defecation into the gutters and onto people’s property that is damaging the property, scaring away their customers, and threatening the safety of their employees,” Sandefur explained.
But what happens now? How will they do it? “Currently, there are not enough beds for every person in the encampments,” said Lisa Glow, the CEO of Central Arizona Shelter Services, who works with the city. Glow says the city could create designated campground encampments with security in addition to added shelters. “The challenge is how quickly that can happen,” she said.
She says getting everyone off the streets will be hard but not impossible. “There are folks like you said that are not interested in coming inside to shelter and housing yet. It can take a lot of outreach. The city of Phoenix is funding more street outreach to cajole people and support them to eventually come off the streets,” Glow explained.
The city must provide proof of their work and evidence of their results in compliance with this order at a bench trial on July 10, 2023.
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HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — What do Dolly Parton, Babe Ruth, and Renee Jewell have in common? All three are Hall of Famers in their fields.
Jewell, the cafeteria manager at Washington-Henry Elementary School in Hanover County, was inducted into Virginia’s School Lunch Hall of Fame this month.
No Kid Hungry Virginia runs the Hall of Fame.
“This is very special to me, and I'm honored to be recognized,” Jewell said. “My favorite part of my job is seeing these sweet little faces every day and knowing that I'm making a small difference in their day by providing them with a good meal."
Jewell is a 15-year veteran of Hanover County Schools.
She started as a cafeteria monitor at Cool Spring Elementary School and Chickahominy Middle School.
She later became cafeteria manager at Washington-Henry Elementary.
A parent nominated Jewell for the honor. That parent praised Jewell's "work in making sure her daughter's school meals and snacks are free from ingredients that trigger her severe food allergies."
“In spite of the challenges presented this year, Mrs. Jewell has consistently made certain that our students and staff are fed nutritious and tasty meals each day,” principal Shalone Morgan said. “She goes above and beyond to let students have choices in their meal selections.” | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/hanover-cafeteria-manager-inducted-into-school-lunch-hall-of-fame | 2022-05-13 15:56:24 | 0 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/hanover-cafeteria-manager-inducted-into-school-lunch-hall-of-fame |
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BOSTON (AP) — Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was 2, but the 20-year-old college junior has never taken a dance class quite as challenging as the one she's in now.
She is one of 38 students at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee enrolled in the first for-credit college dance class taught by the Radio City Rockettes, the precision dance team famous for its annual high-kicking “Christmas Spectacular," seen by more than 69 million people since 1933.
The class, taught by a current Rockette, focuses on their meticulously precise technique, based on tap, ballet and jazz, in which the dancers move and kick in perfect synchronicity. The course also teaches strength training, choreography and lessons that can be applied to pretty much any dance genre.
“What’s unique about this class is the level of technicality," said Stiggers, originally from St. Paul, Minnesota. She said she's skilled in ballet, modern, jazz, salsa, West African and improvisation, but “no other style of dance really emphasizes the precision of every single body part."
"Like the Rockettes, we have to know exactly where our eye is, or where they’re pointing, or where the fingers are pointing, or how extended they are. So in that sense it is more difficult than other styles that I have done in the past," she said.
It's one of the most popular dance classes this semester at the performing arts school founded in 1867. Slots filled up fast and though enrollment was originally capped at 30, there were 38 students ultimately allowed in, said Mila Thigpen, chair of dance at the conservatory.
Their instructor is Amarisa LeBar, who has been a Rockette for about five years. LeBar, 25, of Iselin, New Jersey, started teaching at her mother's dance studio at 16, but finds sharing the Rockettes' style with college students definitely more intense.
“Teaching on a Rockette level is completely different and is a lot more difficult to do because we really tune into the perfection of our movement,” LeBar said.
The students also get a sense of the teamwork Rockettes develop while rehearsing six hours per day, six days a week.
“So to be a Rockette, first off you have to have a love of wanting to work together as a team," said Julie Branam, director and choreographer of the “Christmas Spectacular.” She started as a dancer 26 years ago.
“Sometimes it can be very tedious," Branam said. "We’re checking what 36 people do in that line over and over again, to say ‘Is you're head at the same angle? Is you arm at the same height?' So it’s the willingness of wanting to work as one to make the effort of the 36 look beautiful.”
The college-level class is an extension of the Rockettes' dancer development program, which includes invitation-only summer training for promising dancers. The partnership is a natural, Thigpen said.
“We have very similar core values," she said. “Both the Rockettes and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee have a very long history, and as much as we have to celebrate in our history, we also are both thinking about how we evolve and push both dance education and the profession of dance."
Stiggers has been so inspired that she may audition for the Rockettes someday.
“It’s a just fun thing to strive for," she said. “If I don’t apply or get in, it’s still useful knowledge that I've learned that can carry on into the rest of my career.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/dance-like-a-rockette-college-students-take-17775920.php | 2023-02-10 13:32:52 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/dance-like-a-rockette-college-students-take-17775920.php |
LONDON (AP) - Results from English football:
Crystal Palace 0, Arsenal 2
Fulham 2, Liverpool 2
Bournemouth 2, Aston Villa 0
Leeds 2, Wolverhampton 1
Newcastle 2, Nottingham Forest 0
Tottenham 4, Southampton 1
Everton 0, Chelsea 1
Leicester 2, Brentford 2
Man United 1, Brighton 2
West Ham vs. Man City, 11:30 a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Everton, 7:30 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Leicester, 10 a.m.
Brighton vs. Newcastle, 10 a.m.
Man City vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m.
Southampton vs. Leeds, 10 a.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Fulham, 10 a.m.
Brentford vs. Man United, 12:30 p.m.
Nottingham Forest vs. West Ham, 9 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Tottenham, 11:30 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace, 3 p.m.
Blackburn 1, QPR 0
Blackpool 1, Reading 0
Cardiff 1, Norwich 0
Hull 2, Bristol City 1
Luton Town 0, Birmingham 0
Millwall 2, Stoke 0
Rotherham 1, Swansea 1
Wigan 0, Preston 0
Middlesbrough 1, West Brom 1
Sunderland 1, Coventry 1
Watford 1, Sheffield United 0
Birmingham 2, Huddersfield 1
Norwich 1, Wigan 1
Bristol City 2, Sunderland 3
Burnley 1, Luton Town 1
Preston 0, Hull 0
QPR 3, Middlesbrough 2
Reading 2, Cardiff 1
Sheffield United 2, Millwall 0
Stoke 2, Blackpool 0
Swansea 0, Blackburn 3
Coventry vs. Rotherham, 10 a.m. ppd
West Brom vs. Watford, 3 p.m.
Watford vs. Burnley, 3 p.m.
Cardiff vs. Birmingham, 7:30 a.m.
Blackpool vs. Swansea, 10 a.m.
Huddersfield vs. Stoke, 10 a.m.
Hull vs. Norwich, 10 a.m.
Luton Town vs. Preston, 10 a.m.
Millwall vs. Coventry, 10 a.m.
Rotherham vs. Reading, 10 a.m.
Sunderland vs. QPR, 10 a.m.
Wigan vs. Bristol City, 10 a.m.
Middlesbrough vs. Sheffield United, 9 a.m.
Blackburn vs. West Brom, 10 a.m.
Birmingham vs. Watford, 2:45 p.m.
Bristol City vs. Luton Town, 2:45 p.m.
Burnley vs. Hull, 2:45 p.m.
Coventry vs. Wigan, 2:45 p.m.
Norwich vs. Huddersfield, 2:45 p.m.
Preston vs. Rotherham, 2:45 p.m.
Swansea vs. Millwall, 2:45 p.m.
QPR vs. Blackpool, 3 p.m.
Stoke vs. Middlesbrough, 2:45 p.m.
Sheffield United vs. Sunderland, 3 p.m.
Reading vs. Blackburn, 3 p.m.
West Brom vs. Cardiff, 3 p.m.
Accrington Stanley 2, Charlton 2
Bristol Rovers 1, Forest Green 2
Cambridge United 1, Milton Keynes Dons 0
Cheltenham 2, Peterborough 3
Derby 1, Oxford United 0
Ipswich 1, Bolton 1
Lincoln 1, Exeter 1
Morecambe 0, Shrewsbury 0
Plymouth 1, Barnsley 0
Port Vale 2, Fleetwood Town 1
Sheffield Wednesday 3, Portsmouth 3
Wycombe 3, Burton Albion 0
Barnsley 1, Cheltenham 0
Bolton 3, Wycombe 0
Burton Albion 0, Bristol Rovers 4
Charlton 1, Derby 0
Exeter 4, Port Vale 0
Fleetwood Town 2, Plymouth 1
Forest Green 1, Ipswich 2
Milton Keynes Dons 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1
Oxford United 1, Cambridge United 0
Peterborough 3, Morecambe 0
Portsmouth 0, Lincoln 0
Shrewsbury 0, Accrington Stanley 1
Bristol Rovers vs. Oxford United, 7:30 a.m.
Accrington Stanley vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Barnsley vs. Bristol Rovers, 2:45 p.m.
Bolton vs. Morecambe, 2:45 p.m.
Burton Albion vs. Ipswich, 2:45 p.m.
Charlton vs. Plymouth, 2:45 p.m.
Exeter vs. Wycombe, 2:45 p.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Cheltenham, 2:45 p.m.
Forest Green vs. Accrington Stanley, 2:45 p.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Port Vale, 2:45 p.m.
Oxford United vs. Lincoln, 2:45 p.m.
Peterborough vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 2:45 p.m.
Portsmouth vs. Cambridge United, 2:45 p.m.
Shrewsbury vs. Derby, 2:45 p.m.
AFC Wimbledon 2, Gillingham 0
Bradford 0, Doncaster 0
Carlisle 1, Crawley Town 0
Harrogate Town 3, Swindon 0
Leyton Orient 2, Grimsby Town 0
Northampton 3, Colchester 2
Rochdale 1, Crewe 2
Salford 2, Mansfield Town 0
Stockport County 2, Barrow 3
Sutton United 1, Newport County 1
Tranmere 1, Stevenage 2
Walsall 4, Hartlepool 0
Barrow 3, Bradford 2
Colchester 1, Carlisle 1
Crawley Town 0, Leyton Orient 1
Crewe 3, Harrogate Town 0
Doncaster 2, Sutton United 1
Gillingham 1, Rochdale 0
Grimsby Town 1, Northampton 1
Hartlepool 0, AFC Wimbledon 0
Mansfield Town 1, Tranmere 0
Newport County 0, Walsall 1
Stevenage 2, Stockport County 1
Swindon 0, Salford 0
AFC Wimbledon vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Newport County, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Hartlepool, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Grimsby Town, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Crewe, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. Colchester, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Walsall vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
Barrow vs. Walsall, 2:45 p.m.
Colchester vs. Bradford, 2:45 p.m.
Crawley Town vs. Northampton, 2:45 p.m.
Crewe vs. Sutton United, 2:45 p.m.
Gillingham vs. Harrogate Town, 2:45 p.m.
Grimsby Town vs. Carlisle, 2:45 p.m.
Hartlepool vs. Tranmere, 2:45 p.m.
Mansfield Town vs. AFC Wimbledon, 2:45 p.m.
Newport County vs. Salford, 2:45 p.m.
Stevenage vs. Rochdale, 2:45 p.m.
Swindon vs. Leyton Orient, 2:45 p.m.
Doncaster vs. Stockport County, 2:45 p.m.
Aldershot 1, Solihull Moors 4
Altrincham 1, Maidstone United FC 1
Barnet 2, Halifax Town 0
Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Gateshead FC 2
Dorking Wanderers 2, Chesterfield 2
Notts County 3, Maidenhead United 0
Southend 0, Boreham Wood 1
Torquay United 0, Oldham 0
Wealdstone 3, Bromley 2
Wrexham 2, Eastleigh 1
York City FC 2, Woking 0
Scunthorpe 2, Yeovil 1
Boreham Wood vs. Notts County, 10 a.m.
Bromley vs. Altrincham, 10 a.m.
Chesterfield vs. Aldershot, 10 a.m.
Eastleigh vs. Wealdstone, 10 a.m.
Halifax Town vs. Torquay United, 10 a.m.
Gateshead FC vs. Barnet, 10 a.m.
Maidenhead United vs. Scunthorpe, 10 a.m.
Maidstone United FC vs. York City FC, 10 a.m.
Solihull Moors vs. Southend, 10 a.m.
Woking vs. Dagenham and Redbridge, 10 a.m.
Yeovil vs. Wrexham, 10 a.m.
Oldham vs. Dorking Wanderers, 12:20 p.m.
Boreham Wood vs. Aldershot, 2:45 p.m.
Bromley vs. Torquay United, 2:45 p.m.
Chesterfield vs. Wrexham, 2:45 p.m.
Eastleigh vs. Dagenham and Redbridge, 2:45 p.m.
Halifax Town vs. Southend, 2:45 p.m.
Gateshead FC vs. Notts County, 2:45 p.m.
Maidenhead United vs. Altrincham, 2:45 p.m.
Maidstone United FC vs. Dorking Wanderers, 2:45 p.m.
Oldham vs. Wealdstone, 2:45 p.m.
Woking vs. Scunthorpe, 2:45 p.m.
Yeovil vs. Barnet, 2:45 p.m.
Solihull Moors vs. York City FC, 2:45 p.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/English-Results-17357517.php | 2022-08-07 16:52:31 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/English-Results-17357517.php |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two neglected tigers rescued from a long-shuttered roadside tourist attraction in Oklahoma are beginning new lives more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away at California’s Oakland Zoo after receiving much-needed medical treatment.
The female tigers, now named Lola and Mia, were rescued in June from an Oklahoma attraction that was closed in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for multiple animal safety and welfare violations.
Lola had a facial deformity caused by an untreated infected tooth and underwent dental surgery on Thursday at the Oakland Zoo.
Mia had been declawed as a cub, a painful process that removes part of the animal’s paws and it is believed the big cat was used for taking pictures with tourists.
A concerned citizen alerted the Oakland Zoo that there were underfed big cats still living in small cages at the Oklahoma drive-thru zoo that were not receiving proper care. The Oakland Zoo did not disclose the name of the roadside attraction business because it said doing so could reveal the name of the tipster.
The tigers were kept in enclosures that were probably about 10 feet (3 meters) by about 15 feet (4.5 meters) and lived among piles of feces and dirty water dishes, said Colleen Kinzley, Director of Animal Care, Conservation and Research, at the Oakland Zoo.
“These are just atrocious conditions for an animal to live in and receive no medical care,” she said. “We’re very happy to be able to provide them with a forever home and a good quality of life.”
The animals are now receiving medical care and regaining their strength before they move to Oakland Zoo’s newly remodeled tiger exhibit, which had been empty since their previous rescued tiger passed away last year.
“It will be very heartwarming to see them be able to walk out on grass for probably the first time ever. Tigers love water. The moment they get to jump into the pool, I think there’s going to be so many times when we really will be so happy about this work that we’re doing,” Kinzley said.
The owner of the Oklahoma attraction was known to trade tigers with Joe Exotic from the Netflix series “Tiger King,” according to the Oakland Zoo. But since there were no records of the big cats’ history, it’s not known if either were bred or raised by Joe Exotic.
Joe Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — is serving a 21-year prison sentence after being convicted of hiring two different men to kill animal welfare activist Carole Baskin.
The former private zookeeper was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in prison but after an appeal on his murder-for-hire conviction, a judge this year lowered his sentence to 21 years.
The Oakland Zoo says the treatment the tigers need points to the need to pass the federal Big Cat Public Safety Act, which would regulate the possession, exhibition, or breeding of the animals and restrict direct contact between the public and the big cats.
The bill has stalled since being introduced in the House last year. Currently, the ownership and breeding of exotic animals is controlled by state laws.
California has strict laws protecting big cats but other states like Oklahoma are more lenient. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/rescued-oklahoma-tigers-get-care-in-california-and-new-home/ | 2022-07-16 13:44:31 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/rescued-oklahoma-tigers-get-care-in-california-and-new-home/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, a giant, inflatable rat with beady eyes, sharp teeth and a pustule-covered belly has loomed over union protests, drawing attention to various labor disputes.
As New York City deals with an influx of actual rats, Scabby the Rat has become that rare thing, like Pizza Rat or Buddy the Rat — a rodent New Yorkers can rally behind.
But in the era of TikTok and influencer culture, middle-aged Scabby faces a new challenge: staying relevant.
“It’s kind of unfortunate, changing times, older members of the public know exactly what the rat is for,” said James Smith, union activity administrator for the NYC District Council of Carpenters. “The newer generation sometimes doesn’t — one person thought that we were protesting a building that needed an exterminator.”
Nevertheless, Scabby’s not collecting hard-won retirement benefits just yet. Most recently, Scabby has been making the rounds at various picket lines in New York for the Hollywood writers strike organized by the Writers Guild of America East and other unions. Scabby is the “true rat czar of New York City,” said WGA East communications director Jason Gordon, referencing the more fun title for the city’s new director of rodent migration.
At the picket line near HBO and Amazon’s New York offices on Wednesday, screenwriter Lisa Kron, 61, said she was “thrilled to see that we were being chaperoned by Scabby the Rat.”
She’s seen Scabby out and about during her four decades living in New York, but this was her first time picketing with the rat.
“It’s one of those great enduring symbols, it’s a great piece of visual protest,” she said. “It’s got humor and it’s got a shaming kind of message. And it’s very New York.”
“It’s an attention grabber,” said Benjamin Serby, a professor at Adelphi University who has written about the history of Scabby. “It’s something that just is very effective, for whatever reason, at making people walking by or driving by, stop and ask: ‘What’s going on here?’”
Although having a rat as a mascot seems quintessentially New York, Scabby the Rat was actually invented by a union in Chicago around the late 1980s (several claim credit), and other unions around the country quickly adopted the practice of using inflatables to draw attention to actions (pigs, roaches and cats are other popular inflatables to use as well, although they lack a catchy nickname).
There are many Scabbys. At another union action in March at a Petco, Marty Flash sat in the cab of his truck used to ferry one of the NYC District Council of Carpenters’ eight rats around (most unions have several, or borrow from unions that do). Most of the District Council’s rats, along with a generator and gas can, stay in a locker at union headquarters or in organizers’ trucks so they can be quickly deployed.
Flash, a carpenter for 35 years, has seen many reactions to the 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) rat, which, at the moment, was towering over Union Square in the truck’s bed.
“In midtown Manhattan, it’s a tourist attraction. Little children get a real kick out of it. They come over, they want to touch it. Dogs are petrified of it,” he said. Flash said Scabby can inflate in about a minute and a half with a generator and deflate in about 30 seconds. Bigger rats — the rats range from 8 to 20-plus feet (more than 6 meters) — can take 15 minutes to fill up.
Scabby’s name is a play on “scabs,” the derogatory term dating back to the 1800s for strikebreakers who cross picket lines to work. The oozing sores on his belly are a visual reference to the term. But Flash said workers at the sites visited by Scabby shouldn’t take offense, since the rat is protesting against contractors and companies, not the workers themselves.
“Some workers think that we are against them. We’re actually fighting to get them more money, better pay and better benefits,” he said. “But it’s perceived as the rat is calling them a rat or implying that they’re ‘less than.’ Which is not our intention. … It’s to imply that a rat contractor is not paying their workers the fair pay.”
Rats are made of PVC vinyl and cost between $8,000 to $20,000, according to Flash. One company, Blue Sky Balloons outside of Chicago, is responsible for most of the rats found in NYC. But they seem to be distancing themselves from the inflatables, The Guardian reported earlier this year. Blue Sky Balloons responded to an Associated Press query by saying they were new owners who weren’t associated with the rat, and didn’t respond to follow-up queries.
But Flash says his union still sends their rats to Big Sky for repairs, which can cost up to $2,000. Repairs are needed often since most are years or decades old — so the unions try to take good care of their rats.
“I baby this one with my life,” Flash said. “We have a pool of rats and generators that you take when you need. I just always keep mine with me because I’m familiar with this operation.”
Not everyone likes Scabby. Sometimes the inflatable rat gets slashed or attacked by anyone from random passersby to disgruntled workers at sites. The rat has often been the subject of legal challenges by the companies Scabby targets. If he blocks the sidewalk or street, police can boot him. But Scabby is a survivor, winning its most recent legal challenge in 2021, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that it was a protected form of expression.
These days, Scabby also has to contend with new technology and social media. Its Facebook page, run by a retired union organizer, lets various unions post photos of Scabby at protests around the country, and some rats feature QR codes that give people information about campaigns. But Mike Piccirillo, president of Local 20 Carpenters Union, said a more recent addition to the union’s arsenal might overshadow Scabby.
“Our LED sign truck is a lot more effective than the rat,” he said. “I’ve been in construction for 25 years, and most New Yorkers are numb to the rat. They just walk by it. Now the LED sign with its flashing lights actually gets their attention.”
Yet — much like the currently surging rat population in New York — Scabby is unlikely to completely disappear anytime soon, as long as the rat keeps conveying his message of fair pay for workers.
“People are drawn to it in part because it’s like an ironic symbol of defiance,” Serby said. “Something about this giant, ugly, toothy kind of scary-looking rat makes people feel permitted to express anger and defiance and outrage at employers.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/on-the-front-lines-of-the-writers-strike-meet-the-true-rat-czar-of-nyc-scabby-the-rat/ | 2023-05-13 07:48:00 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/on-the-front-lines-of-the-writers-strike-meet-the-true-rat-czar-of-nyc-scabby-the-rat/ |
The vast majority of candidates running to become their states’ chief election officers oppose hand counting ballots, a laborious and error-prone process that has gained favor among some Republicans embracing conspiracy theories about voting machines.
An Associated Press survey of major-party secretary of state candidates in the 24 states found broad skepticism about hand counting among election professionals of all ideological stripes. Of 23 Republicans who responded to the survey, 13 clearly said they opposed implementing a statewide hand count of ballots instead of a machine count.
GOP candidates in Arizona and New Mexico have previously endorsed the idea of a hand count. But others cautioned it was a dangerous road to follow.
“Hand counting ballots is a process that requires time, manpower, and is prone to inaccuracies,” Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican who is seeking reelection this year, wrote in response to the AP survey.
The desire to hand count ballots stems from conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the electronic machines that tabulated the results of the 2020 presidential election were rigged. Now some Republicans inspired by his election lies seek to expand or require hand counting of all ballots.
Counting by hand takes longer, requires large groups of people to examine ballots, and has been found by multiple studies to be less reliable than using voting machines.
“The reason the U.S. moved to counting machines is due to both human error and fraud with hand counts, so we looked for a better way to count the vote,” said Kim Crockett, the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Minnesota, in an email. “The error rate for hand counts is higher than the error rate for ballot counters in most cases.”
Crockett, who has called the 2020 election “rigged” and echoed some of Trump’s other election falsehoods, also stressed that she thinks her state’s voting machines still need further inspection.
The process came under scrutiny last week when rural Nye County in Nevada embarked on an unprecedented full hand count of this year’s midterm votes, starting with mailed ballots and those cast early in-person. The process was painstakingly slow until it was halted by the state’s supreme court over concerns that early vote tallies could be leaked publicly.
While the AP survey found most candidates strongly favor machine tabulators, two GOP secretary of state candidates in politically pivotal states — Arizona and New Mexico — want to shift to the unreliable method of counting ballots. A third in yet another swing state, Nevada, has backed Nye County’s effort and voiced support for making that sort of procedure standard statewide.
In Arizona, Republican State Rep. Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state, joined his party’s nominee for governor, Kari Lake, in filing a lawsuit seeking to outlaw the use of any machine to record or tabulate votes. The case was dismissed by a judge who levied sanctions against the Republicans.
In New Mexico, GOP secretary of state nominee Audrey Trujillo has said she wants widespread hand counting of votes.
“Hand count my ballot. We already have paper ballots,” she said in an interview on the video platform Rumble. “If we had that, I guarantee you tons more people would go out and vote.”
Neither Finchem nor Trujillo responded to the AP’s survey.
Nevada’s Republican secretary of state candidate has offered conflicting responses. A campaign spokesman for Republican nominee Jim Marchant told the AP that Marchant would be fine with a machine count as long as there also are paper ballots, which are universally used in Nevada. But the prior month, Marchant told the AP in a separate interview, “My goal is to go to a hand count paper ballot system.”
Nevada’s current secretary of state, Republican Barbara Cegavske, told interim Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf to halt the hand count of early arriving mailed ballots and early in-person votes until after polls close Nov. 8 following a ruling late last week from the state’s high court. The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union had sought to halt the hand count over concerns that observers could hear the results as they were announced, risking a potential public leak of early returns.
The nascent hand-count had been riddled with problems on its first day, with repeated delays and errors among the volunteer staff of 12 teams of five split into two different shifts. They got through 900 of 1,950 ballots on the first day, with one volunteer lamenting the slow pace: “I can’t believe it’s two hours to get through 25.”
An AP reporter observed two teams of five taking as long as three hours to count 50 ballots. When teams realized they had mismatched tallies for certain candidates, they would stop and recount the ballots for those candidates again. That effort followed a hand count in another rural Nevada county, Esmeralda, where election workers in June spent more than seven hours hand-tallying the 317 primary ballots.
Kampf said the teams improved during the second day.
Eleven candidates, mostly Republicans, did not respond to the AP’s survey, including one of the most prominent election conspiracy theorists running for the position — Republican Kristina Karamo in Michigan, a community college instructor who has spread the lie that voting machines in 2020 were rigged.
“Election deniers are using the language of election integrity to dismantle the actual infrastructure of election integrity,” said David Becker, the co-author of “The Big Truth,” a book about the risks of Trump’s voting lies, and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “If you want inaccurate results that take a really long time and cost a lot, then hand counting is your solution.”
Voting machines are routinely checked before and after voting to make sure they count accurately. The post-election test usually involves pulling a sample of random ballots and counting them by hand to see if the automated tally differs.
But repeated studies — in voting and other fields such as banking and retail — have shown that people make far more errors counting than do machines, especially when reaching larger and larger numbers. They’re also vastly slower.
Jennifer Morrell, a former local election official in Colorado and Utah, noted that hand counts are enormously labor-intensive. The election consulting firm where she works estimated that in a typical-sized jurisdiction of 270,000 voters, it would take 1,300 people to count the ballots within seven days.
That’s because the typical ballot has dozens of races on it, which machines tabulate automatically but humans would have to count line by line, page by page.
“Voting equipment is uniform and efficient in a way that humans will never be,” Morrell said.
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Associated Press statehouse reporters from around the U.S. contributed to this report.
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TREVOSE, Pa., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lannett Company, Inc. (NYSE: LCI) today announced that it will report financial results for its fiscal 2023 first quarter on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, after the market closes. Lannett management will host a conference call that same afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to review the company's performance.
The conference call will be available to interested parties by dialing 855-327-6837 from the U.S. or Canada, or 631-891-4304 from international locations. The call will be broadcast via the Internet at www.Lannett.com. Listeners are encouraged to visit the website at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the scheduled presentation to register, download and install any necessary audio software. A playback of the call will be archived and accessible on the same website for at least three months.
Lannett Company, founded in 1942, develops, manufactures, packages, markets and distributes generic pharmaceutical products for a wide range of medical indications. For more information, visit the company's website at www.lannett.com.
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Border officials in Tennessee find bird carcasses encased in cement statues
The dead birds were shipped from Mexico City and en route to Odessa, Texas, when they were intercepted in Memphis
Border officials in Tennessee found two bird carcasses en route to Texas encased in cement statues earlier this month, authorities said Tuesday.
The seizure was made in Memphis on Oct. 8 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists. The 22-pound shipment contained two dead birds and suspected Elaeis Guineensis seeds.
It was shipped from Mexico City and was slated to be delivered in Odessa, Texas. The package was vaguely described as a gift to a cousin "with crafts," CBP said.
"To my knowledge, many of these types of ‘crafts’ are belief-based," acting Memphis Area Port Director Michael Johnson said in a statement. "The Yoruba, Santería or Osha religions use them, and are meant for luck, or for curses. The cement statues were decorated with puka shells and contained the palm seeds and the carcasses."
"Whether the shipments make sense or not, we vigilantly intercept all contraband and other prohibited items to safeguard the American public," he added. "Hopefully our steam sterilization cleared away any bad spirits they may have drawn in."
Once examined by X-ray, it was revealed that the shipment contained three cement statues, "each concealing organic material," a CBP statement said.
When the statues were broken, two rotted bird carcasses and seeds were found inside. The seeds are from African palm trees and the type of birds could not be identified because of their decomposition.
The carcasses present a risk, officials said, of introducing diseases such as Avian influenza. The birds and seeds were destroyed by steam sterilization.
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In the fiscal year 2021, CBP discovered 264 pests at American ports of entry and 2,548 materials for quarantine, including plants, meat, animal byproducts and soil. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-officials-tennessee-find-bird-carcasses-encased-cement-statues | 2022-10-28 11:46:52 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-officials-tennessee-find-bird-carcasses-encased-cement-statues |
The Boilermakers picked up two wins over Thanksgiving break, but lost their undefeated record to Florida State.
Purdue (6-1) defeated Harvard (3-4) 85-63 on Thursday, lost to Florida State (7-1) 76-75 on Friday and beat Oklahoma State (6-2) 71-65 on Saturday.
“We would have liked to finish 3-0, obviously. Before the trip we thought we had that opportunity to do that,” head coach Katie Gearlds said after Saturday’s win. “I beat myself up last night thinking about everything we could have done differently, (or what) I should have done differently.”
The Boilermakers trailed the Cowgirls by 3 points with 3:47 to go in the fourth quarter but scored 11 points in the final two and a half minutes to finish with a 6-point victory.
Sophomore forward Ava Learn scored 5 of those final-minutes points, all of which came from free throws. Fifth-year guard Lasha Petree contributed 4 points and senior guard Jeanae Terry’s jumpshot gave the Boilers the full 11.
“It was a gutsy win — not a pretty win, but it doesn’t matter,” Gearlds said on her postgame radio show. “I think we learned a lot about our ballclub today. We’ll keep staying the course and keep getting better, but it’s a long way to go, but man we’ll take this one.”
The Boilers had four players with double-digit scoring that night.
Petree led the team with 20 points on 53.3% shooting. Senior guard Abbey Ellis and Learn both contributed 12 points coming off the bench. Terry tallied 11 points, seven rebounds and six assists.
The Boilermakers trailed by 5 points at halftime before coming back for the win.
“I challenged my team at halftime,” Gearlds said. “That’s probably the most I’ve ever yelled at them, and they came out and responded.”
On Friday, the Boilermakers suffered a 1-point loss at the hands of Florida State.
Purdue faced a 5-point deficit with just less than three minutes to go. The team brought the game within 1, with a bit more than a minute and a half to go. The Seminoles extended their lead to 5 points with 37 seconds left, which the Boilermakers couldn’t overcome.
The final play was an out-of-bounds set for a Jayla Smith 3-pointer right as the buzzer sounded.
Petree and junior guard Madison Layden co-led the team in points with 15 against Florida State. Petree hit six of her 19 shots, while Layden hit five 3-pointers.
Ellis contributed 14 points off the bench and fifth-year guard Cassidy Hardin scored 11 in just 15 minutes. Terry led the team in rebounds and assists with 12 and eight, respectively.
On Thanksgiving Day, Gearlds notched her 250th career win with a 22-point win over Harvard.
Petree scored 23 points on 9-for-14 shooting, which matched her season-high.
Senior forward Caitlyn Harper scored 15 points, missing just one shot in the entire contest. Terry recorded 13 rebounds and eight assists, along with 7 points. Ellis also contributed 10 points off the bench. | https://www.purdueexponent.org/sports/womens/basketball/article_597eefab-0bda-5b2d-ad94-a08d4b2541f8.html | 2022-11-29 01:40:36 | 0 | https://www.purdueexponent.org/sports/womens/basketball/article_597eefab-0bda-5b2d-ad94-a08d4b2541f8.html |
The federal government is calling for American firefighters to get additional funding and an intensive training regimen to better prepare for a new era of climate-change fueled fires in the country’s growing suburbs and exurbs.
The expanding fringe where cities merge into wildlands — the wildland-urban interface (WUI) — is becoming the frontline for deadly blazes, U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) Director Lori Moore-Merrel warned this week.
“In the last year, we lost nearly 2,500 lives to fire — including 276 children and 96 firefighters,” she added.
“It is important to note that 99 million people — or a third of the U.S. population — now live in the wildland urban interface environment, yet most have no idea what [it] is or the dangers that poses,” Moore-Merrel said at a press conference on Tuesday in New York premiering the administration’s new Fire Service National Strategy.
The federal findings Moore-Merrel presented were grim. Americans have less time now than ever to get out of a burning house safely, a measure of how destructive fires are getting. They have more chances of dying in a fire today than in the 1980s — particularly if they are poorer, minority or live in public housing.
“The changes in our construction practices using lightweight building materials, and the evolution of technology, using lithium-ion energy and robotics, all pose new fire threats,” Moore-Merrel said.
But most concerning is the combination of increasing development and climate change, which elevate “the risk of losing entire communities from wildfire … to a year-round threat,” according to a U.S. Fire Administration summary of the national fire threat released this week.
This risk is particularly dramatic in the expanding suburban counties around major cities which comprise some of America’s fastest growing municipalities. Suburban and exurban counties in states including North Carolina, Texas, Florida and California provide families big acreage at affordable prices.
But this expansion has come at the price of pushing settlements into wildlands, which in many parts of the country, particularly those dominated by fire-loving conifers, means essentially moving into fire country.
While nearly all urban fire departments in the U.S. respond to WUI fires, only 40 percent of those fire departments provide their members with training on urban interface strategy and tactics, the report found.
That’s a problem because WUI fires, which can emerge from forests to burn entire neighborhoods, fall in a dangerous middle ground between the skill sets of the two main groupings of American firefighters.
For structural firefighters, trained to enter a single intensively burning building and put it out before it spreads, they represent the disorienting new experience of an entire neighborhood on fire, as in the Marshall Fire that ravaged suburban Denver last new years.
For wildland firefighters, trained on fires of enormous scale burning across remote rural forests or prairies, WUI fires mean operating in densely populated territories that can’t be easily sacrificed to fire, because lives and property are at stake.
Saving lives and structures in the WUI hinges on the necessity of developing “non-standardized and relatively new and different strategies and tactics,” according to the report.
While these fires tend to be identified with the western U.S., “the Southeast may see large fires increase by 300 to 400% in the next 30 years,” fire chief Donna Black of Duck, N.C. testified to the summit that assembled the new fire strategy.
WUI fires also require a new level of interdisciplinary integration of resources among state, local federal and tribal firefighters, the report found.
It also warned of additional environmental contaminants from fires in cities, which are full of artificial and high tech materials that can release toxic fumes. In particular, the report singled out the growing cancer risks posed by PFAS or “forever chemicals,” found, both in the flame retardant clothing that firefighters wear and the sprays they use to put out fuel-driven fires.
All this together is putting a heavy emotional toll on the profession, the report found: the firefighter suicide rate is estimated at nearly 150 percent again the baseline rate.
But “while the fire problem in America remains pernicious, I feel confident that with these developments, along with our continued partnership at the federal, state, and local level, we can prevent future fires, reduce suffering, and ensure that more people across the nation… have the tools to protect themselves and their families when disaster strikes,” Moore-Merrel said. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/feds-warn-of-growing-risk-of-fires-in-suburbs-exurbs/ | 2023-01-12 20:26:40 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/feds-warn-of-growing-risk-of-fires-in-suburbs-exurbs/ |
BEIJING (AP) — Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Beijing next week for talks, China’s Foreign Ministry said Friday, marking the latest exchange in a relationship in which Russia is becoming increasingly reliant on China for economic and diplomatic support.
“During the visit, the two sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on practical cooperation in bilateral relations and issues of common concern,” ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing.
“We look forward to further strengthening cooperation between the two sides, deepening people-to-people and local exchanges (and) injecting strong momentum into the recovery of the world economy,” Wang added.
Mishustin’s visit is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meanwhile, China’s Deputy Permanent U.N. Representative Geng Shuang again criticized Western arms sales to Ukraine, saying it would only lead to escalation, more civilian casualties and displacement, and make it harder to obtain a ceasefire and start peace negotiations.
China says it does not and will not provide arms to either side in the Ukraine conflict, a point Geng reiterated at a Security Council meeting Thursday.
“The constant feeding of weapons to the battlefield will … also pose serious challenges to post-war reconstruction and, if such weapons are diverted to terrorists or armed groups, likely cause new turmoil in a wider geographic area,” Geng was cited as saying on the U.N.’s website.
“All parties should promote a political settlement with sincerity and urgency and create conditions conducive to a ceasefire,” Geng added.
China says it is a neutral party and wants to help broker an end to the 15-month-old conflict, but has refused to criticize the invasion and blamed the West for provoking Moscow.
China is now seen as the senior partner in the relationship, helping Moscow deflect condemnation at the United Nations and maintaining what it calls “normal trade” with Russia, providing a market for Russian oil and other resources and selling the country needed manufactured goods.
At the same time, Beijing is making inroads into what has traditionally been Russia’s strategic backyard, this week hosting a summit of five former Soviet Central Asian republics.
China’s special envoy met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials during talks in Kyiv earlier this week. The visit followed a phone call last month between the Ukrainian leader and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Zelenskyy described as “long and meaningful” and which marked the first known contact between the two since the Russian invasion began.
Beijing released a peace plan in February but Ukraine’s allies largely dismissed it, insisting that Russian President Vladimir Putin must withdraw his forces. Zelenskyy’s own 10-point peace plan includes a tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed by Russia. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/russian-pm-to-visit-beijing-as-china-renews-criticism-of-western-arms-sales-to-ukraine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-05-19 13:05:47 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/russian-pm-to-visit-beijing-as-china-renews-criticism-of-western-arms-sales-to-ukraine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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