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The American College of Financial Services' premier conference heads to Chicago focused on empowering Black communities, businesses, and individuals
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest gathering of Black and African American leaders, visionaries, and trailblazers across financial services returns in-person to continue the pursuit of equity, innovation, and generational impact. Hosted by The American College of Financial Services— a nonprofit, accredited institution delivering an educational and impact platform for financial professionals, nonprofit leaders, and consumers —the Annual Conference of African American Financial Professionals (CAAFP) will be held in Chicago, IL, August 7-9, 2023.
This marks the 17th year of The College hosting this premier event and since its founding, the CAAFP has served to advocate and advance the charge for increased representation of Black and African American professionals in the financial services industry. This year's conference theme is "Reclaiming Black Wealth" and is a follow-up to a tremendously successful gathering last year in Washington, DC, focusing on empowering Black communities, businesses, and individuals.
This year's expansive agenda will reinforce and elevate the conversation around how the financial services industry can inspire Black professionals and promote the advancement of all underserved communities through education and empowerment, as we seek to narrow the wealth gap and create sustainable, generational change. This is the core mission of the CAAFP.
Keynote sessions will feature thought leaders from a variety of backgrounds in financial services and other areas, including Lauren Simmons, Eszylfie Taylor and Linda Clemons. There will be a wide range of breakout sessions, led by change agents and industry experts, covering and continuing education credit, with a focus on empowering Black communities and the advisors that serve them.
Four main tracks include:
- Retirement - Prepare to help clients improve their financial fitness and retirement readiness no matter where they are in life.
- Consumer Connections - Build skills and learning tools to cultivate personal and professional networks to better understand the real needs of clients and communities.
- Applied Knowledge - Focus on foundational industry knowledge, insights from thought leaders and experts, and best practices from pioneers and bold new voices making an impact across financial services.
- Niche Markets – Access opportunities and trailblazing strategies to increase professional and personal influence through community networks.
"As the nation's leading financial services educator, we look forward to gathering with this outstanding community and introducing innovative programs to empower future generations of Black financial professionals," says George Nichols III, President, and CEO of The American College of Financial Services. "The Conference of African American Financial Professionals has continued to grow and innovate over two decades. It is a true testament to the conversations, education and advancement that happens as a result of this gathering and the efforts of its attendees."
To learn more about the CAAFP and register, visit TheAmericanCollege.edu/CAAFP-2023.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
Founded in 1927, The American College of Financial Services is the nation's largest nonprofit educational institution devoted to financial services professionals. Holding the highest level of academic accreditation, The College has educated over 200,000 professionals across the United States through certificate, designation, and graduate degree programs. Its portfolio of applied knowledge also includes just-in-time learning and consumer financial education programs. The College's faculty represents some of the foremost thought leaders in the financial services industry. Visit TheAmericanCollege.edu and connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Discover all the ways you can expand your opportunities with us.
Contacts:
Sarah Tremallo
908-967-0381 / stremallo@jconnelly.com
Lindsey Allumbaugh
678-643-1310 / lindsey.allumbaugh@theamericancollege.edu
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
404 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Randall, southeastern Oldham, northeastern Deaf Smith and Potter
Counties through 500 PM CDT...
At 404 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Wildorado, or 10 miles east of Vega, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Amarillo, Wildorado, Bushland and Valley De Oro.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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Longtime leader Dan Forsman takes chairman role as new leadership team is set to serve
ROSWELL, Ga., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties, one of the largest and most successful real estate organizations in the country, recently announced after more than 37 years serving as president and CEO at the company, Dan Forsman will ascend to Chairman of the organization. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties is a full-service brokerage with 29 office locations throughout Georgia and more than 1,600 sales associates. Forsman is an iconic industry leader who has built a lasting legacy over the past nearly 60 years working in real estate brokerage for the Metro Atlanta and Georgia markets.
Effective July 1, 2022, DeAnn Golden will be President and Chief Executive Officer; Kathy Connelly will serve as Chief Operating Officer; Lori Lane will assume the role of President of Georgia Properties' New Homes Division and Executive Strategist, Luxury Collection and Global Living; and Todd Tucker will take on the positions of Executive Vice President for Real Estate Operations and Qualifying Broker. Mary Wargula will step into an expanded role as SVP of Brokerage Offices and Regional Manager; and Janet Mauldin will serve as Senior Vice President of Relocation.
"Last year we achieved a brokerage record of $5.2 billion in sales and we're on track to out-perform that in 2022," says Forsman. "Our Georgia Properties family is thriving and it's because of this prosperity that I now find myself in the incredible position to elevate these longtime leaders, who take the company to the next level of success."
Golden, previously Senior Vice President and Regional Manager at Georgia Properties, has assumed many roles over her career with the firm, since first joining the brokerage in 2004. The 26-year real estate veteran and second-generation real estate professional served as a successful sales associate, team member, trainer, coach, managing broker, regional manager, executive leadership member and 2019 Atlanta REALTORS® Association President. She also holds an MBA from University of Georgia in Real Estate, Strategic Management and Marketing.
"Over the years, Dan has been an incredible mentor to us all, working hard to ensure we're at the top of our game, and it's the greatest honor to continue his legacy of excellence as we support and expand our extraordinary Georgia Properties family," says Golden. "For the past six decades, our company has also maintained a tremendous legacy as a market leader but part of my job going forward is to ensure that our history of excellence is balanced by our progressive and innovative spirit to continually evolve."
Lane - formerly the SVP of Georgia Properties' New Homes Division and SVP of Luxury Collection - will take on an expanded role both with new homes and luxury marketing. Over the years, Lane has enhanced the brand's luxury real estate marketing presence, launching its iconic Black and White Luxury Collection in 2015, which was awarded the MAX (Marketing for Excellence) Award by Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Lane will continue to provide expert advisory leadership to Georgia Properties' Luxury Collection and expand Global Living initiatives with a focus on affluent shoppers. As President of the New Homes Division, she will continue to lead the growth and development of the New Homes Division, where Lane and her team currently represent more than 30 exclusive communities around the Metro Atlanta area. Under Lane's leadership, Georgia Properties has won hundreds of GAHBA Obie awards for their clients and marketing team, a prestigious honor celebrating outstanding achievements in homebuilding.
In addition to Lane, Connelly joins the leadership team as COO, overseeing the company's growth in partnerships of mortgage, title, insurance and warranty. Her new role will round out the full-service suite of offerings at Georgia Properties, including: relocation, property management and corporate services. Connelly joined the company in 1994, held the positions of relocation director and Senior Vice President, has been recognized globally for her relocation excellence and was recently appointed to the Worldwide ERC Board of Directors.
Tucker, who has worked in the real estate industry for 25 years, takes on his new role of EVP for Real Estate Brokerage Services and Qualifying Broker with extensive real estate experience and skill. He joined the firm in 1997 and has had many roles over the course of his career including top sales associate, assistant broker, managing broker and most recently, SVP of Operations.
Forsman will stay with the company as executive chairman, offering his guidance to the new leadership team. Forsman's departure as President and CEO comes at a time of continued growth for Atlanta, which has transformed into an internationally renowned hub for business, arts, entertainment and technology.
"Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties has seen exciting growth in the past few years and this new alignment will position the company to move forward strategically for positive transformation and continued growth," Forsman says. "The future looks so bright and I couldn't be putting this incredible company into more capable hands. This is their time to shine, our sales associates' time to shine and the right decision to move us forward forever."
ABOUT BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESERVICES GEORGIA PROPERTIES
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties is a full-service real estate brokerage company offering residential, commercial and property management services. With over $5.2 billion in sales 2021, 29 office locations and more than 1,600 sales associates, the company continues to expand its footprint in the Atlanta Metro market, including North Georgia Mountain and Lakes and the Southern Crescent. To learn more, visit www.bhhsgeorgia.com.
MEDIA CONTACT
Nicola Schwab
Marketing Manager
New Homes Division, CITY HAUS, Luxury Division
404.580.9755
nicola.schwab@bhhsgeorgia.com
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NBA TV will soon premiere an hour-long special on Shaquille O’Neal’s rookie season with the Orlando Magic.
The special, titled “Shaq: The Rookie Season” as part of NBA TV’s “Basketball Stories” series, will look back on O’Neal’s first season with the Magic after they drafted him at No. 1 in 1992.
The special will premiere at 10 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 13.
O’Neal had a historic rookie season.
En route to being named the 1993 NBA Rookie of the Year, O’Neal became the first rookie since Michael Jordan (1984-85) to be voted as an All-Star starter. He was also the first rookie to win Player of the Week honors in the first week of his career.
The special will look back on multiple moments of O’Neal’s rookie season, including breaking the backboard during a one-on-one game with Ahmad Rashad on “NBA Inside Stuff”, his first time playing against Charles Barkley and breaking a backboard in Phoenix, and O’Neal playing the league’s top centers for the first time.
O’Neal, Barkley, Ewing, Rashad, Alonzo Mourning, Dennis Scott, Isiah Thomas and Reggie Miller were among the people interviewed for the special.
The “Basketball Stories” series, in addition to other NBA TV on-demand programming, is also available for consumers through the NBA App.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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Woodlawn sent its seniors out in style Friday with a 41-22 win over Central.
The Panthers (4-5, 2-2 in 4-5A) staved off a threat toward the end of the third quarter when the Wildcats (3-6, 0-4) closed the gap to just one touchdown before Woodlawn scored a pair of touchdowns late in the fourth quarter to cement its win.
The game wasn’t the cleanest for either team: The two squads combined for 33 penalties for 192 yards, 13 of which came in the fourth quarter.
How it was won
The Wildcats kept their ground-and-pound offense running through halfback Glen Cage, who posted 102 yards on 23 carries in the first half alone. Central’s clock-eating offense couldn’t keep after quarterback Jackson Firmin threw a pair of interceptions, though one came on a fourth down and the other on the final play of the first half.
Woodlawn’s offense was much more balanced, thanks to quarterback Rickie Collins and a slew of receivers that kept the Panthers offense humming through the air. Their early success passing forced the Wildcats back on their heels, and Jay’veon Haynes took advantage on the ground, running in a pair of touchdowns on his way to a 110-yard night on the ground.
Collins ran in two more touchdowns and threw for another pair late in the fourth quarter, one to Tramon Douglas and one to Willie Nunnery.
Player of the game
Dezaray Delmore, Woodlawn: Delmore snatched two of Firmin’s three interceptions, with the first leading to a touchdown by Haynes. His second pick came right before half when he jumped the same route near the goal line. He had a third interception called back in the third quarter because of a defensive holding penalty.
They said it
Woodlawn coach Marcus Randall: “We knew they were going to come in and run the ball. I didn’t know they were going to hold it the way they did. Even when they were down, they kind of held the ball. That’s their offense: They run a strong power game. I was able to get a chance to see it. I didn’t think they were going to run it this well against us, but they obviously did. Hats off to coach Sid (Edwards) and his crew over there."
Notable
- It was midway through the third quarter before someone not named Jevon Washington caught a pass for Central, when Ayden Wilkinson caught one for 4 yards.
- Cage finished with 39 carries for 141 yards and three touchdowns. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/high_schools/article_c60d5032-56ff-11ed-a6a1-37d170278d9c.html | 2022-10-29 05:13:18 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/high_schools/article_c60d5032-56ff-11ed-a6a1-37d170278d9c.html |
SAN ANTONIO — It's the 50th anniversary of Texas Country Reporter and the hosts are celebrating in a special way that includes a stop in San Antonio for their own unique live performance.
“Happy Anniversary,” Bob Phillips told a couple at a reception at the Crockett Tavern, 320 Bonham, as he signed a copy of his book: “A Good Long Drive.”
"Basically, that's the way I look at my career,” Bob said. “For the last 50 years, I've been in a suburban, an excursion, an expedition, a van..."
It's a chronicle of the half-century he's spent on the road writing, producing, and starring in Texas Country Reporter.
"This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the very first episode of Texas Country Reporter," Bob said.
"Bob was three when he started," his wife, Kelli, interjected.
"Yeah, everybody needs to know, I was three," Bob completed the thought.
Kelli is also his co-star on Texas Country Reporter. The pair decided to celebrate the anniversary with a road trip. They spent the past year traveling the state, partnering with local orchestras – telling an oral history of Texas. For their San Antonio show, they've partnered with the South Texas Symphonic Orchestra.
"It's going to be a live concert situation. with a full orchestra, and Bob and Kelli Phillips, sitting, narrating the story of Texas," said South Texas Symphony Orchestra Music Director Ronnie Sanders.
San Antonio is near the end of their journey, after that, they say they plan to focus on the road ahead.
"We're not going anywhere," Bob said.
"No, we're gonna go to year 51, 52," said Kelli.
"We're in the middle of the 51st season right now and we're about to start shooting season 52” Bob went on. “We have a lot more stories to tell."
They perform at the Lila Cockrell Theater Sunday at 3p.m. Tickets are available through the South Texas Symphonic Orchestra’s website.
If you miss the performance, you can still keep up with Bob and Kelli on Texas Country Reporter Sunday mornings at 10:30 here on KENS 5. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/community/where-you-can-see-the-hosts-of-texas-country-reporter-this-weekend/273-c31a6ea9-859d-4c54-a623-bc0cc36410fa | 2022-10-09 06:29:28 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/community/where-you-can-see-the-hosts-of-texas-country-reporter-this-weekend/273-c31a6ea9-859d-4c54-a623-bc0cc36410fa |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Several hours after firefighters extinguished a warehouse fire in southwest Baltimore early Sunday, the scene was eerily quiet as Donte Craig stepped through the charred rubble, trying to remain hopeful.
He was looking for his older brother James Craig Jr., who leased the warehouse for his demolition and hauling business. After hearing about the fire, which was reported around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, family members grew increasingly concerned throughout the night because James Craig Jr. wasn’t answering calls or texts.
Finally, his brother drove to the scene late Sunday morning.
Inside the building, he found the body of his 45-year-old brother on the second floor. Baltimore Police have launched a homicide investigation.
As the investigation unfolds, family members are demanding answers. They want to know how firefighters initially failed to realize the building was occupied.
Their questions add to growing controversy surrounding the Baltimore Fire Department and its policies, which came under scrutiny after three firefighters died responding to a call early this year. The chief resigned last week in response to an investigative report that found numerous deficiencies.
In response to questions about the warehouse fire, officials said they had no reason to believe anyone was inside the two-story commercial building. They also said the building was ultimately deemed structurally unsafe for firefighters to enter.
But the Craig family said there were signs of occupancy, including about a half-dozen dogs spending the night in an adjacent enclosure. First responders had the dogs taken to an animal shelter, according to family members.
James Craig Jr. used the first floor of the warehouse as a workshop, but he also had a bedroom upstairs where he sometimes stayed after working late. He collapsed near the top of the stairs, according to his brother.
“He was trying to get out,” Donte Craig said in an interview at the scene Tuesday afternoon.
He pointed to the staircase leading to the second floor. While parts of the building were severely damaged from the flames — including sections of the walls and floorboards that were reduced to charcoal and ash — the metal staircase remained intact.
Donte Craig said he easily walked up the stairs Sunday morning and spotted his brother’s body before reaching the top. He questioned why firefighters didn’t make a similar effort.
“They’ve got a lot to answer for,” said father James Craig Sr. “Why couldn’t they walk up one flight of steps? Maybe my son could still be alive.”
The criticism comes amid existing turmoil for the Baltimore Fire Department. Chief Niles Ford, who had led the department since 2014, resigned last week after an investigative report found numerous deficiencies. The report examined the department’s response to a southwest Baltimore rowhouse fire that left three firefighters dead.
Among the investigative findings: There was no program to notify firefighters about vacant and unsafe homes or standard procedures for battling fires and coordinating EMS responses at vacant buildings. The report also cited a culture of competition among firefighters that may have led to increased risk-taking.
In that case, there were signs of a previous fire and structural instability, but firefighters entered the building anyway, officials have said.
Baltimore’s high concentration of vacant buildings present a unique danger to firefighters. A Baltimore Sun investigation showed vacant homes in Baltimore burn at twice the national rate, but gaps in record-keeping have limited what firefighters know before proceeding inside.
At the scene of the recent warehouse fire, firefighters initially entered the building and “performed interior operations to battle the fire,” department spokesperson Blair Adams said. But then the incident commander and safety officer discovered “some visual signs of structural instability” and ordered immediate evacuation. At that point, firefighters battled the fire from outside.
The fire was placed under control around 1 a.m. Sunday, officials said.
“There was no reason to believe anyone was inside,” Adams said in a text message Tuesday.
She said firefighters responded to the scene again on Sunday after the body was discovered. Baltimore Police homicide and arson units also responded. Officials said the cause is still under investigation.
James Craig Sr. said he’s not satisfied with the city’s response.
“I’m getting assumptions; I’m not getting any facts,” he said Tuesday afternoon during a phone conversation with a homicide detective assigned to the case. “You have to remember, the reality of this is that I lost my son. That’s the reality of the whole thing.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-body-of-baltimore-fire-victim-went-undiscovered-for-hours/ | 2022-12-07 21:27:15 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-body-of-baltimore-fire-victim-went-undiscovered-for-hours/ |
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a clash over artwork by Andy Warhol that was based on a previous photograph of the musician Prince, a copyright case with potentially major implications for artists and creators.
The justices asked probing questions over whether Warhol infringed on a photographer’s copyright when he used her Prince portrait as the basis for a silkscreened rendering that graced the pages of Vanity Fair — or if Warhol’s artistic work should be considered transformative, and thus legal.
Justice Elena Kagan asked an attorney for the Andy Warhol Foundation if his late client’s status as an iconic figure in the pop art movement risked skewing the legal test for determining if a work of art is “transformative.”
“I mean, now we know who Andy Warhol was and what he was doing and what his works have been taken to mean, and so it’s easy to say that there’s something important and new in what he did with this image,” Kagan told attorney Roman Martinez.
“But if you imagine Andy Warhol as a struggling young artist who we didn’t know anything about,” she continued, “and then you look at these two images, you might be tempted to say something like, ‘Well, I don’t get it. All he did was take somebody else’s photograph and put some color into it.'”
The dispute over the late Warhol’s work arose in 2017, two years after Prince’s death from an accidental fentanyl overdose. The litigation concerned a Prince image shot by celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who alleged that Warhol’s later work infringed on her copyright.
Warhol’s foundation preemptively sued Goldsmith, seeking to protect the famed pop artist’s legacy. The foundation emphasized differences between what they described as Goldsmith’s “publicity photograph” and the Warhol silkscreen, which they characterized as a work of unique portraiture infused with the artist’s signature and iconic aesthetic.
Warhol’s foundation initially won their case, securing a court order declaring that the artist’s creation was transformative and thus legal under the doctrine of “fair use,” a defense against claims of copyright infringement.
On appeal, the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reversed the lower court’s ruling, siding with Goldsmith. The appeals court ruled that Warhol’s work amounted to an “unauthorized derivative” that was “substantially similar to the Goldsmith photograph as a matter of law.”
Courts have split over the notoriously thorny issue of what makes artwork transformative in the eyes of the law.
The Supreme Court confronted the question in a 1994 case involving the rap group 2 Live Crew’s parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman.” In a unanimous decision in favor of the rap group, the justices said courts, when weighing if a work is transformative, should look to whether the secondary artwork “adds something new, with a further purpose or different character, altering the first with new expression, meaning, or message.”
Martinez, the attorney for Warhol’s foundation, urged the justices to reverse the 2nd Circuit’s ruling and emphasize that “an examination of meaning or message” in the new artwork is critical to the fair use test.
Justice Samuel Alito challenged Martinez over how courts would apply the “meaning or message” test in practice.
“You make it sound simple, but maybe it’s not so simple, at least in some cases, to determine what is the meaning or the message of a work of art,” Alito said. “There can be a lot of dispute about what the meaning or the message is. Some people would say it’s not necessarily the meaning or the message that the artist had in mind. I don’t know, if you called Andy Warhol as a witness, what would he say was message or meaning of his work?”
Martinez responded that courts would not be burdened with divining the artist’s intention because, under the rule announced in the 2 Live Crew case, the relevant question is “whether a new meaning or message could reasonably be perceived.”
Lisa Blatt, who argued on behalf of the photographer Goldsmith, cautioned that if Warhol Foundation’s test were embraced, then “copyrights will be at the mercy of copycats.”
“Petitioner argues adding new meaning is a good enough reason to copy for free. But that test would decimate the art of photography by destroying the incentive to create the art in the first place,” Blatt told the justices.
The Department of Justice argued in favor of Goldsmith.
A decision in the case, Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, is expected by this summer.
—Updated at 12:50 p.m. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/supreme-court-hears-copyright-clash-over-andy-warhol-artwork-of-prince/ | 2022-10-12 18:43:30 | 1 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/supreme-court-hears-copyright-clash-over-andy-warhol-artwork-of-prince/ |
LAS VEGAS — (AP) — San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama said Thursday he believes Britney Spears grabbed him from behind as he was walking into a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino, and that the security detail he was with pushed the pop star away.
Wembanyama said he wasn't told that Spears was the person who grabbed him until hours later.
Spears filed a police report saying she was struck by a security guard while trying to get the attention of Wembanyama, a person with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the police report had yet to be released publicly.
Spears’ representatives did not respond to a request for comment and police officials did not immediately return a message seeking more details. Wembanyama said security advised him to not stop for anyone as he walked into the restaurant, mindful that pausing could cause a stir and allow a crowd to build.
“Something did happen, a little bit, when I was walking with some security from the team to some restaurant,” Wembanyama said. "We were in the hall. There was a lot of people, so people were calling (at) me, obviously. There was one person who was calling me but we talked before with security.
"I couldn't stop. That person was calling me, ‘Sir, sir,’ and that person grabbed me from behind," Wembanyama said. “I didn't see what happened because I was walking straight and didn't stop. That person grabbed me from behind — not on my shoulder, she grabbed me from behind. I just know the security pushed her away. I don't know with how much force but security pushed her away. I didn't stop to look so I could walk in and enjoy a nice dinner.”
TMZ first reported details of the event that took place Wednesday night near a restaurant at the ARIA hotel and casino. TMZ said Spears was in a group of four trying to enter a restaurant for dinner and that she “was swarmed by fans as she entered the casino.” TMZ said she noticed Wembanyama and tapped him on the shoulder in an effort to get his attention; Spears, the site said, wound up being struck in the face and having her glasses knocked off.
“I didn’t know for a couple hours, but when I came back to the hotel ... I thought it was no big deal, and then security of the Spurs told me it was Britney Spears,” Wembanyama said. "At first, I was like, ‘You’re joking,’ but yeah, it turns out it was Britney Spears. I never saw her face. I just kept walking straight.”
He was unaware that the situation had made headlines until Thursday.
“I saw the news obviously this morning. I woke up to a couple of phone calls,” Wembanyama said.
Wembanyama will make his NBA Summer League debut with the Spurs on Friday night in Las Vegas against the Charlotte Hornets. He signed some autographs for fans at the ARIA on Wednesday night and did the same for a small number of onlookers as he entered a local high school for practice with the Spurs on Thursday morning.
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AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles and Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed.
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SALISBURY TWP., Pa. - Residents were evacuated from their apartments in Lehigh County when a fire broke out inside one of the units.
Firefighters responded to an oven fire around 7 p.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of 33rd St. SW, said Salisbury Township police.
Responding officers found heavy smoke and fire in an apartment, and the building was evacuated.
Firefighters put out the fire in about half an hour.
No one was hurt, police said.
The Red Cross is assisting a displaced resident.
The township police fire marshal is investigating. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/apartment-fire-prompts-building-evacuation-in-salisbury-township/article_d7c5feec-d237-11ed-9a86-cf5d26dc651c.html | 2023-04-03 16:39:15 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/apartment-fire-prompts-building-evacuation-in-salisbury-township/article_d7c5feec-d237-11ed-9a86-cf5d26dc651c.html |
It’s not just the weather that’s heating up this summer. So is the food.
Raj and Priya Muddu from Tandoor Grill were in the kitchen showing off some of the food that has the restaurant set to be headline chef for Easton’s Garlic Fest on Oct. 1 and 2.
Tandoor Grill, at 9 N. Third St., Easton – a step away from Centre Square – has a chef and owner with a combined 40 years experience in Indian cuisine. It has an extensive menu of vegan, vegetarian and meat offerings. Takeout and catering also is offered.
Look for them on the main stage at Garlic Fest, which runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m. each day. | https://www.wfmz.com/food-and-recipes/sunrise-chef/sunrise-chef-tandoor-grill/article_03dd5cc4-febb-11ec-bb8d-13d06eb4f82c.html | 2022-07-08 15:17:39 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/food-and-recipes/sunrise-chef/sunrise-chef-tandoor-grill/article_03dd5cc4-febb-11ec-bb8d-13d06eb4f82c.html |
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered.
The severe disruptions are the latest in a wave of industrial action by public sector workers amid U.K.’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. They come just two days after junior doctors went on strike for five days, the longest walkout in the history of the state-funded National Health Service.
Thousands of operations and appointments have been canceled, and health officials say the impact of the latest round of strikes to hit the country’s public health system is likely to be the biggest yet because almost no work can be done at hospitals unless it’s supervised by a senior doctor.
Senior doctors, known as consultants in the U.K., will only be “on call” for urgent work such as critical cancer care until Saturday morning.
The Conservative government has offered a 6% pay increase to the doctors, but the British Medical Association, the doctors’ union known as the BMA, called this “derisory.” It said doctors have seen real-term take-home pay fall by more than a third over the last 14 years, and accused authorities of refusing to engage in negotiations on pay.
Union executive Dr. Vishal Sharma said that many in his profession felt “undervalued and overworked.”
“Consultants will stand on the picket lines today, because we are angry and at rock bottom. We never wanted to be forced into taking this huge step,” Sharma said. “Ministers have done absolutely nothing to stop this action taking place.”
Psychiatrist Polly Christodoulou, who joined the picket line outside a hospital in south London, said that many colleagues have left for the private sector or to other countries such as Australia, because the wages offered are far better.
“A lot of us have trained for 15-years-plus to get to where we are and that is not being valued,” she said. “I want to be able to stay and support the NHS, but it is becoming more and more difficult.”
The BMA says senior doctors on a 2003 contract earn a starting salary of about 88,300 pounds ($113,453), rising to around 119,100 pounds after about 20 years. Doctors argue that their wages have fallen behind that of other highly-trained professionals such as lawyers.
Nurses, junior doctors and emergency health care workers have all joined public sector strikes in recent months to demand better pay to cope with soaring food, energy and housing costs. Inflation in the U.K. stood at 7.9% in June, down from double digits earlier in the year, but it’s still far higher compared to other Group of Seven economies.
Even before the strikes, the National Health Service, a beloved British institution that began life in 1948, was already under huge pressure, stretched by a dwindling workforce, huge backlogs and funding gaps.
Hospital executives have warned that the labor disputes could cost billions of pounds, and that unions and officials must reach a deal soon to end the impasse.
Meanwhile, rail workers also staged a further round of strikes Thursday, as a long-running pay dispute dragged on and brought new travel disruption for commuters and travellers.
The latest walkouts came as a bill aimed at curbing the impact of strikes became law on Thursday. The law will allow officials to impose minimum service levels during industrial action by essential workers, including paramedics, firefighters and rail workers.
The law had faced strong opposition from unions and opposition parties, which say it takes away the fundamental right to strike from many workers. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/health/ap-thousands-of-uk-hospital-doctors-walk-out-in-latest-pay-dispute-crippling-health-services/ | 2023-07-21 01:31:29 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/health/ap-thousands-of-uk-hospital-doctors-walk-out-in-latest-pay-dispute-crippling-health-services/ |
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Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes return Tuesday
While we are still sweating through summer, a sure sign that fall is coming soon is on the way: Starbucks is bringing back the Pumpkin Spice Latte on Tuesday.
The coffee chain's popular fall menu will be available at stores starting August 30.
The most popular item, the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte, is back for its 19th year. The drink combines espresso and steamed milk with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove flavor, along with some real pumpkin.
The Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew is also returning to menus for its 4th year, in addition to the Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato pumpkin cream cheese muffins, pumpkin scones, and pumpkin loaf.
Starbucks is far from the only company to jump onto the fall flavor bandwagon.
Pumpkin flavors have been included in everything from Oreos and donuts to Spam and Ramen Noodles. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-lattes-return-tuesday | 2022-08-29 22:28:27 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-lattes-return-tuesday |
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Santa Fe leaders are pushing to address childhood hunger and housing affordability in a comprehensive, serious manner.
The two efforts aren’t necessarily linked, but both require healthy doses of public interest because they hit on emotional topics that create controversy.
The hunger initiative is private-public endeavor in its launch stage, while the housing push comes in the form of a proposed city ordinance. It would allow voters to approve a transfer tax on the sales of high-end homes. Those dollars, the argument goes, would provide a steady stream of revenue to the city Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Done correctly, proponents argue these efforts would make a dent in growing income inequity in Santa Fe.
But that’s the rub, isn’t it? Doing it well, and doing it for the long haul, are incredibly hard.
What’s certain is this: Such serious proposals deserve thoughtful, measured discussion, absent personality attacks and the usual Santa Fe nitpicking. Proposal backers, too, need to listen to critics and be open to ideas that could improve initial plans.
The campaign to end childhood hunger starts with a 2022 report put together by The Food Depot — Northern New Mexico’s food bank — at the request of Mayor Alan Webber. He wanted to know how Santa Fe could end childhood hunger. It’s a worthy question, one that has stymied the entire nation, not just this community, for decades.
One method, it’s argued, is increasing Santa Fe’s minimum wage from $14.03 to something much higher, though it’s important to note government officials have not committed to any number. State officials have been equally reticent.
Webber plans to relaunch a community process similar to the one that first established the living wage. A working group will be set up to prepare a new ordinance with community input for introduction in June 2024.
Here’s hoping community input will include the breadth of the community, particularly those in the small-business world who provide steam to the city’s economic drivetrain. They likely would argue a poorly executed jump in the minimum wage would put community employers at risk of no longer being able to do business. And while we are sensitive to the plight of those struggling to get by, we also worry they would be the first to be hurt if small businesses in Santa Fe were damaged by a meteoric rise in the minimum wage.
Taxing high-end home sales seems somewhat easier to achieve than raising hourly wages by almost $5 an hour. The proposal would place a 3% excise tax on the transfer service of homes that sell for more than $1 million, with the first million not subject to the tax.
But again, there’s much to consider. Home prices have skyrocketed in recent years, for no other reason than the U.S. is an increasingly expensive country in which to live. The $1 million or even $2 million figure, which seemed only the province of trust-funders or Hollywood types, is closer to the median than it once was only a few years ago.
It is estimated the tax could generate some $4.5 million a year, dollars that would provide steady funding to the city’s affordable housing fund. The money could be used to provide rent assistance, offer down payment assistance and housing rehabilitation. Currently, some $3 million a year flows to affordable housing from the city’s general fund, with other dollars coming from fees developers pay in lieu of actually building affordable housing.
The transfer tax proposal, introduced by Councilors Jamie Cassutt and Renee Villarreal, has to be approved by the council and then put before voters. Public comment will be taken Wednesday at the City Council meeting, a way to gauge response to the proposal before any final vote.
A steady stream of revenue for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund is long past due — just ask any local housing advocate. When funding is constant and reliable, more can be accomplished, including using city dollars to attract private and federal funding to add to the housing supply. But voters also should have plenty of information on how the trust fund is allocated and why, and whether that strategy is likely to be consistent through administrations.
Increasing housing should be part of the discussion as the tax proposal goes forward, as should ways to make new affordable housing available to teachers, nurses, police officers, government workers and the other professionals we want living in Santa Fe rather than commuting daily. We need the vibrancy of a city made up of working people, young professionals, families with small children and, yes, wealthier retirees — both from here and elsewhere — to maintain our quality of living.
By tackling childhood hunger and housing affordability head-on, city leaders and community members could keep Santa Fe an attractive place to live. But the conversation can’t end there: Government must also talk to business owners who actually employ people and to longtime residents who through no fault of their own now live in an expensive house. Only then do we move forward. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/by-tackling-hunger-housing-and-economics-santa-fe-gets-serious/article_d71a3be6-1c80-11ee-ac0c-b3ecd98e2e8a.html | 2023-07-10 00:38:51 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/by-tackling-hunger-housing-and-economics-santa-fe-gets-serious/article_d71a3be6-1c80-11ee-ac0c-b3ecd98e2e8a.html |
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction and 23-year prison sentence, rejecting the movie mogul’s claim that the judge at his landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the criminal case.
The ruling by a five-judge panel in the state’s intermediate appeals court affirmed one of the highest-profile verdicts to date in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era that began with a flood of allegations against Weinstein.
Weinstein’s publicist, Juda Engelmayer, said he is reviewing his options and will seek to appeal the decision to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.
“We are disappointed, but not surprised,” Engelmayer said.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who took office in January while Weinstein’s appeal was pending, said in a statement that prosecutors were “gratified by today’s decision, which upholds a monumental conviction that changed the way prosecutors and courts approach complex prosecutions of sexual predators.”
Weinstein, 70, was convicted in New York in February 2020 of forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and raping an aspiring actress in 2013. He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault stemming from actor Annabella Sciorra’s allegations of a mid-1990s rape.
The Associated Press does not generally identify people alleging sexual assault unless they consent to be named; Sciorra has spoken publicly about her allegations.
Weinstein is jailed in California, where he was extradited last year and is awaiting trial on charges he assaulted five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.
Former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who oversaw Weinstein’s prosecution, told The Associated Press he has always had confidence in the strength of the case. He said he was confident that trial judge James Burke’s rulings were fair and would be sustained on appeal.
“I am also grateful this decision by the appellate court fully credits the powerful testimony of the brave and strong survivors of Mr. Weinstein’s abuse,” Vance said. “Today, they are one step closer to full closure of the legal process, which they deserve.”
The ruling upholding Weinstein’s conviction came in the wake of several setbacks for women seeking to hold celebrity men accountable for alleged wrongdoing.
On Wednesday, a Virginia jury found that Amber Heard’s abuse allegations against Johnny Depp were defamatory. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal after a Pennsylvania court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.
In Weinstein’s case, the appeals court took an unusually long time to rule — posting its decision on the brink of summer, nearly six months after a contentious round of oral arguments last December that stoked doubts about whether his conviction would stand. The court had been expected to rule in January.
At the hearing, some judges were critical of Burke and prosecutors and suggested they were open to possibly reversing Weinstein’s conviction and ordering a new trial. Judge Sallie Manzanet-Daniels was particularly vocal, saying Burke had allowed prosecutors to pile on with “incredibly prejudicial testimony” from the additional witnesses.
But, in the 45-page ruling Thursday, the five judges were unanimous in finding that Burke had properly exercised his discretion in allowing prosecutors to bolster their case with testimony from three women who accused Weinstein of violated them but whose claims did not lead to charges in the New York case.
The judges also concurred with Burke’s decision clearing the way for prosecutors to confront Weinstein with evidence about other, unrelated misbehavior if he had testified, including whether he had left a colleague by the side of the road in a foreign country, told people to lie to his wife, or screamed at restaurant staff while demanding a late-night meal.
The judges, in their ruling, said that although the volume of material — pertaining to 28 alleged acts of abusive, boorish behavior over 30 years — was “unquestionably large, and, at first blush, perhaps appears to be troublingly so,” Burke properly exercised his discretion in weighing its relevance to the case.
The panel also rejected Weinstein’s argument that Burke was wrong in other ways: by allowing a woman who had written a novel involving predatory older men to remain on the jury, and by letting prosecutors have an expert on victim behavior and rape myths testify. Burke did not allow testimony on similar subjects from defense experts.
Rules on calling additional witnesses to testify about “prior bad acts” vary by state and were an issue in Cosby’s successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. New York’s rules, shaped by a decision in a 1901 poisoning case, are among the more restrictive.
At the December appeals court hearing, Weinstein’s lawyers argued the extra testimony went beyond what’s normally allowed — detailing motive, opportunity, intent or a common scheme or plan — and essentially put the ex-studio boss on trial for crimes he wasn’t charged with and hadn’t had an opportunity to defend himself against.
Burke’s ruling allowing prosecutors to use stories from Weinstein’s past to attack his credibility essentially handcuffed his defense and worked to prevent him from taking the witness stand, Weinstein lawyer Barry Kamins told the appellate panel at the December hearing.
“The jury was overwhelmed by such prejudicial, bad evidence,” Kamins argued. “This was a trial of Harvey Weinstein’s character. The people were making him out to be a bad person.”
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NAOMI CAMPBELL STARS IN CAMPAIGN CAPTURED BY RENELL MEDRANO, SET TO THE ICONIC TRACK BY BRANDY & MONICA
LONDON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Han Chong, Founder and Creative Director of London based fashion brand self-portrait, has collaborated with Renell Medrano, Haley Wollens and Naomi Campbell to pay homage to the 90's - an era which continually influences and inspires the brand - to bring the attitude and sensibility of self-portrait's debut collection of bags to life.
The Bow Is Mine
Rooted in the mood of an inspirational time in fashion and creative cultural history, the video-led campaign is set to the original 90's iconic hit record "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy & Monica.
Directed and captured by Renell Medrano, Naomi Campbell takes on the confident and provocative leading role, alongside her Bow Bag.
The Shoot
Shot in a private house in London across a series of rooms, the film presents a sequence of imagined telephone conversations with only one thing known for certain: the Bow is hers.
Styled by Haley Wollens, Naomi wears pieces from self-portrait's upcoming Autumn/Winter 2022 collection including a sequinned two-piece skirt and crop top, power mesh long sleeve gown and knitted midi dress.
The full campaign includes seven images, a series of short vignettes and a 60 second film.
The Bow Bag
Inspired by the ease and freedom associated with the self-portrait brand, the Bow Bag debuts with two styles - the Bow Mini and the Bow Micro.
"When thinking about how to launch the Bow Bag, I was feeling quite nostalgic and reflective of the past and kept being drawn to the nineties, an era when fashion was sweet yet tough, and heavily influenced by music. The origins for this campaign came from such a simple idea born out of a play on words with the name of our new bag. Given the ambition, it could have been impossibly challenging, but I was so honoured when everyone jumped on board to make it a reality - from creative ingenues Renell and Haley, to the legendary Naomi who stars as our leading lady and to Brandy and Monica for allowing us to use their iconic track to bring our dream video to life.
There is only one person I knew would be able to fill the role of our lead for this video…Naomi defines not only the era we are paying tribute to through this project, but she represents everything the self-portrait woman stands for - she's strong, independent, provocative, and always authentically herself." - Han Chong, self-portrait Founder and Creative Director
"Being British it's always important to me to support talented creatives from my own country especially those that celebrate women in the way self-portrait does. Collaborating with Han, Renell and Haley on my first campaign for the house was a great experience both culturally and creatively which made the experience feel nostalgic of an era when it was all about storytelling through the image." - Naomi Campbell
The Bow Bag collection is available to purchase at self-portrait.com, in self-portrait stores around the world, including the brand's flagship store in London, and across its global network of partner retailers.
NOTES TO EDITORS
ABOUT 'THE BOW IS MINE' CAMPAIGN
- Creative Direction: Han Chong, and Frosty
- Photographer and Director: Renell Medrano
- Stylist: Haley Wollens
- Makeup: Angloma
- Hair: Rio Sreedharan
ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK
- The original "The Boy Is Mine" track by Brandy & Monica provides the soundtrack to the campaign
- The track authenticates the creative, the 90's influence and a play on the campaign tagline "The Bow is Mine"
- Released in 1998, it has been 24 years since the track was first played on the airwaves
ABOUT SELF-PORTRAIT
- Established in the UK in 2013 by Han Chong, self-portrait is a modern fashion house based in London which has become synonymous with modern occasionwear for day and night and prides itself on its deep understanding of structure and materials
- self-portrait is dedicated to reducing its environmental impact by using responsibly sourced fibres and in 2019 started to introduce organic cotton and recycled chiffon and polyester across its collections. In 2020, the brand introduced recycled viscose
- self-portrait is available online at self-portrait-studio.com and in stores globally including its flagships in London, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Taipei. self-portrait is also sold through a network of select retailers around the world
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NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc. (SAMG) on Thursday reported profit of $2.1 million in its fourth quarter.
The New York-based company said it had profit of 22 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time items, came to 15 cents per share.
The investment company posted revenue of $28.5 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $18.8 million, or $1.92 per share. Revenue was reported as $123.2 million.
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The wrestling entertainment giant WWE, known for its manufactured storylines, is facing real controversy after fans noticed it used an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp to promote a match on Saturday.
The image appeared in a five-minute video introducing a WrestleMania 39 contest between stars Dominik and Rey Mysterio. The shot, which appeared in the pre-show ahead of the live broadcast, was used as b-roll accompanying Dominik's comments about being a hardened criminal.
The Auschwitz Memorial called the WWE "shameless" in a statement on Twitter.
The fact that Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call "an editing mistake". Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz.https://t.co/b4bbYgWPwj https://t.co/Xud4rbhEUS pic.twitter.com/tuJrzmK6mQ
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) April 5, 2023
"The fact that [an] Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call 'an editing mistake,' " the museum wrote. "Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz."
WWE did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.
The shot of the Polish museum appeared to have been removed from an otherwise identical version during the official broadcast, according to WWE blogs and fans. It does not appear in replays of WrestleMania Night 1, replaced by generic footage of barbed wire and an empty, unidentifiable jail cell.
The storyline goes that Dominik turned against his father, the WWE Hall-of-Famer Rey, after being influenced by Judgement Day, a villainous stable of wrestlers.
After a failed attempt to entice his father to a fight, Dominik landed in jail, which only added to the tough-guy persona he uses to mask his true spoiled-brat essence. (Dominik arrived at the mat on Saturday in a cop van. His father was chauffeured by Snoop Dogg in a lowrider.)
The storyline was one of several hits for WrestleMania fans. The show delivered its exclusive streamer, NBC's Peacock, most hours watched of any live event except the Superbowl.
The in-person event also made history, setting an attendance record at SoFi Stadium. WWE sold over 161,000 tickets for two nights of matches.
Fans took to social media during the broadcast to confirm their suspicions about the Auschwitz stock footage.
"100% Auschwitz. Went there last year. Can never forget it," one Reddit user wrote. "Hoo boy, to be a fly on the wall in the next production meeting," came another reply.
WWE showing Auschwitz footage to build for Dominik vs Rey is certainly a choice #WrestleMania39 #Wrestlemania pic.twitter.com/te740ZuM1Q
— Upcoming Wrestling (@UpcomingWrestl1) April 2, 2023
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was built by Germans in occupied Poland in 1940 and quickly became one of WWII's largest extermination centers. More than 1.1 million men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz before the camp was liberated in 1945.
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Warnock, Walker push for outright Senate victory in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters are ready to settle one of the nation’s marquee midterm contests as they choose whether to reelect Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock to his first full term or replace him with Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
Yet the state’s quirky election law means Tuesday could be just Round 1. Georgia requires a majority to win statewide office, and with polls suggesting a close race and a third-party candidate on the ballot, it’s possible neither Warnock nor Walker will surpass the 50% threshold. That would set up a four-week blitz ahead of a Dec. 6 runoff that, depending on the outcomes in other Senate contests, could reprise the 2020 election cycle, when two Senate runoffs in Georgia doubled as a national winner-take-all battle for partisan control of the Senate.
The chamber is now divided 50-50 between the two major parties, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving Democrats the tie-breaking vote.
A runoff also would mean another month of Warnock hammering Walker, a sports celebrity turned politician, as unqualified and Walker assailing Warnock as a rubber-stamp for the White House.
“Raphael Warnock votes with Joe Biden 96% of the time,” Walker tells voters again and again. “He’s forgotten about the people of Georgia.”
Warnock, who is also the senior minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, answers that Walker is “not ready” and “not fit” for high office. That’s an allusion to Walker’s rocky past, from allegations of violence against his ex-wife to accusations by two women Walker once dated that he encouraged and paid for their abortions despite his public opposition to abortion rights.
Both approaches highlight the candidates’ most glaring liabilities.
Amid generationally high inflation and with Biden’s popularity lagging in Georgia, Warnock wants voters to make a localized choice, not a national referendum on Democrats as a whole. Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator, Warnock pitches himself as a pragmatist who cuts deals with Republicans when they’re willing and pushes Democratic-backed cost-cutting measures when they’re not. Among the top accomplishments Warnock touts: capping the cost of insulin and other drugs for Medicare recipients.
“I’ll work with anybody to get things done for the people of Georgia,” Warnock said.
Walker, meanwhile, denies that he’s ever paid for an abortion. And glossing over a cascade of other stories — documented exaggerations of his business record, academic achievements and philanthropic activities; publicly acknowledging three additional children during the campaign only after media reports on their existence — Walker touts his Christian faith and says his life is a story of “redemption.”
Through the scrutiny he calls “foolishness,” the Republican nominee has campaigned as a cultural and fiscal conservative. Walker, who is also Black, pledges to “bring people together” while framing Warnock as a divisive figure on matters of race and equality. Walker justifies his attack using snippets of Warnock’s sermons in which the pastor-senator discusses institutional racism.
Republicans used similar tactics against Warnock ahead of his runoff victory on Jan. 5, 2021. Warnock won that contest by about 95,000 votes out of 4.5 million cast. More than 2 million Georgia voters have cast ballots ahead of Election Day.
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Iranian leader vows ‘steadfast’ probe of young woman’s death
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NEW YORK (AP) — Iran’s president says the death of an Iranian woman in the custody of the country’s morality police for violating the dress code must be “steadfastly” investigated. But he also turned the tables on the rival country he was visiting for the U.N. General Assembly and asked: What about all the people killed by American police? Ebrahim Raisi spoke at a news conference held in New York on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the world’s leaders. Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over Mahsa Amini’s death have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend. That’s according to a tally Thursday by The Associated Press. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/22/iranian-leader-vows-steadfast-probe-of-young-womans-death/ | 2022-09-23 00:13:53 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/22/iranian-leader-vows-steadfast-probe-of-young-womans-death/ |
DALLAS — A North Texas youth football coach shot and killed earlier this month was laid to rest on Saturday.
Mike Hickmon was killed during an altercation at a youth football game in Lancaster on Aug. 14. Police named Yaqub Talib, the brother of former NFL cornerback Aqib Talib, as a suspect on Sunday. Aug. 15. Yaqub Talib turned himself into police on that following Monday.
Since the shooting, Hickmon's family have also called for Aqib Talib to be arrested. Video obtained by WFAA show the brawl that led to the shooting, and witnesses have told WFAA that Aqib Talib started the fight.
WFAA has learned this video has been turned over to police and more witnesses were being interviewed. Aqib Talib’s lawyer told WFAA last week he is distraught over the shooting and sends condolences to the family. On Sunday, Aug. 21, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Aqib Talib was stepping away from his gig with Amazon's "Thursday Night Football" broadcast. According to Rapoport, Talib said he's stepping away "to spend time with family."
Meanwhile, Hickmon's death has led to community leaders demanding more safety measures at youth sporting events.
Community advocates and Hickmon’s family and friends say his life won’t be in vain and that they will demand justice but also changes that will make it safer for kids who just want to play ball.
Hickmon's funeral service was held at Concord Church.
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Senate Republicans demand answers from Mayorkas on scope of disinformation board, 'misleading' testimony
New documents from DHS whistleblowers reveal DHS 'misrepresented' the nature and scope of the disinformation board, the senators claim
EXCLUSIVE: Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, alleging that he misled the committee regarding the "nature and scope" of the agency's controversial disinformation board.
Ranking Member Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, is leading colleagues in requesting that Chairman Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., hold a hearing with Mayorkas regarding his "misleading testimony" before the committee on May 4 on the department's Disinformation Governance Board.
The disclosure of the board ignited a wave of public backlash, forcing the DHS to put the board on pause and its appointed leader, Nina Jankowicz, to resign.
Last week, Fox News Digital first reported on internal DHS documents obtained by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., provided through a whistleblower "that illustrate how the DGB was designed to exert a powerful influence over the government’s efforts to crack down on disinformation in areas where there are ‘clear, objective facts.’"
These purported documents, the senators say, further illustrate that DHS was not only focused on foreign disinformation but also on domestic issues like the validity of elections, COVID-19 vaccines and the efficacy of wearing masks.
GRASSLEY, HAWLEY PRESS DHS FOR MORE DETAILS ON DISINFO BOARD AFTER WHISTLEBLOWER PROVIDES DOCS
The lawmakers state that the documents obtained by Grassley and Hawley directly contradict Mayorkas' testimony on the nature and scope of the board and DHS must come back to the Hill in order to "provide the oversight and transparency the American public deserve."
"We write to request you convene a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas as soon as possible to answer critical questions about apparently misleading testimony before the Committee on May 4 on the Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board (the Board)," the senators write in the letter to Peters, first obtained by Fox News Digital.
They cite examples of contradictions, including that Mayorkas testified on May 4 that the board "has not yet begun its work."
"Yet the documents indicate the Secretary had stood up the Board on February 24, 2022—more than two months earlier. The Board’s charter, signed by the Secretary, required the Board meet ‘regularly’ and "no less than once per quarter,'" the senators reveal.
In addition, the lawmakers reference Mayorkas' response to a question from a reporter asking if American citizens would be monitored by the board. The secretary responded "No," also elaborating that "We at the Department of Homeland Security don’t monitor American citizens" and detailing that the board would only concentrate of "foreign threats."
The Republicans point out the contradiction with talking points prepared by the board's then-director.
"Yet talking points prepared by Ms. Jankowicz, the Board’s then–Executive Director appear to show that the Department does in fact monitor American citizens and that the Board’s work is concentrated on domestic threats. She writes that the Board’s initial work plan includes working with ‘industry on countering MDM [mis-, dis-, or mal-information] related to domestic violent extremism’ further noting that the Department recently established a ‘domestic terrorism branch’ within the Department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis—the Department’s office responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence."
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They conclude: "The American public deserves transparency and honest answers to important questions about the true nature and purpose of the Disinformation Governance Board and it is clear that Secretary Mayorkas has not provided them—to the public or this Committee. Therefore, we request you hold a hearing with Secretary Mayorkas and join us in insisting that all records related to the Board be provided to the Committee prior to the hearing."
DHS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-demand-answers-mayorkas-disinformation-board-misleading-testimony | 2022-06-14 15:48:42 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-demand-answers-mayorkas-disinformation-board-misleading-testimony |
CDC warns mpox resurgence possible amid rise in cases
Clusters of mpox cases around the U.S. have health agencies warning that spring and summer could lead to a resurgence of the disease as people gather at festivals and other events.
Last week, the World Health Organization said the global outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is no longer an international emergency after a dramatic drop in cases in recent months. But this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was investigating a surge in cases around the country, including Chicago.
From April 17 through May 5, there were 12 confirmed mpox cases in the Chicago area, all of them among symptomatic men. Nine of the men had been vaccinated for mpox.
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"Although vaccine-induced immunity is not complete, vaccination continues to be one of the most important prevention measures," the CDC said. "CDC expects new cases among previously vaccinated people to occur, but people who have completed their two-dose JYNNEOS vaccine series may experience less severe symptoms than those who have not."
This electron microscopic (EM) image depicts monkeypox virus particles, (Photo by: CDC/IMAGE POINT FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Mpox has been established in parts of central and west Africa for decades, where people are mainly infected by animals like wild rodents. But the disease wasn’t known to spark big outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread easily among people until last May, when dozens of epidemics emerged in Europe, North America and elsewhere.
Scientists ultimately concluded that the unprecedented outbreak was tied to sex among gay and bisexual men at raves in Spain and Belgium, marking a significant departure from the mpox’s typical pattern of spread in Africa, where outbreaks haven’t spilled across borders.
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Shortly after Tedros classified monkeypox as a global emergency last year, the epidemics in Europe and North America declined, and there were no signs of widespread transmission beyond men who were gay, bisexual or had sex with other men. European health authorities said that 98% of mpox patients are men and of those, 96% are men who have sex with men.
Mpox most often causes symptoms including a rash, fever, headache, muscle pain and swollen lymph nodes. The skin lesions can last up to a month and the disease is spread via close physical contact with an infected patient or their clothing or bedsheets. Most people don’t need medical treatment to recover.
The U.S. has reported the biggest outbreak, with more than 30,000 cases. Scientists have previously warned mpox could become entrenched as a new sexually transmitted disease, as authorities said its spread could continue indefinitely in certain populations.
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BERLIN (AP) — The former chief executive of financial services company Wirecard and two other ex-managers went on trial Thursday over the firm’s collapse in what has been described as the biggest case of fraud in post-war Germany.
Wirecard was long the darling of Germany’s fintech scene until it filed insolvency proceedings in 2020, saying 1.9 billion euros that had been on its balance sheet could not be found.
The case exposed flaws in Germany’s financial oversight bodies and embarrassed then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had lobbied on behalf of the company during a visit to China.
Prosecutors in Munich allege that ex-CEO Markus Braun signed off on financial reports he knew were false. The firm allegedly booked nonexistent revenue it attributed to multiple partnerships in other countries and used fake documents to show it had funds that it did not, they said.
The firm’s former head of accounting and the managing director of a Dubai-based subsidiary are also on trial.
The fraud cost banks 3.1 billion euros in loans and writedowns, according to prosecutors.
One of the central figures in the case, the company’s former chief operating officer Jan Marsalek, remains on the run.
Braun’s lawyers has said the charges against his client are “seriously flawed” and “assumed a false picture of the facts.” They claim Braun was unaware of machinations by others.
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OUTSIDE BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Watching imagery from a drone camera overhead, Ukrainian battalion commander Oleg Shiryaev warned his men in nearby trenches that Russian forces were advancing across a field toward a patch of trees outside the city of Bakhmut.
The leader of the 225th Battalion of the 127th Kharkiv Territorial Defense Brigade then ordered a mortar team to get ready. A target was locked. A mortar tube popped out a loud orange blast, and an explosion cut a new crater in an already pockmarked hillside.
“We are moving forward,” Shiryaev said after at least one drone image showed a Russian fighter struck down. “We fight for every tree, every trench, every dugout.”
Russian forces declared victory in the eastern city last month after the longest, deadliest battle since their full-scale invasion of Ukraine began 15 months ago. But Ukrainian defenders like Shiryaev aren’t retreating. Instead, they are keeping up the pressure and continuing the fight from positions on the western fringes of Bakhmut.
The pushback gives commanders in Moscow another thing to think about ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive that appears to be taking shape.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Russia sought to create the impression of calm around Bakhmut, but in fact, artillery shelling still goes on at levels similar to those at the height of the battle to take the city. The fight, she said, is evolving into a new phase.
“The battle for the Bakhmut area hasn’t stopped; it is ongoing, just taking different forms,” said Maliar, dressed in her characteristic fatigues in an interview from a military media center in Kyiv. Russian forces are now trying — but failing — to oust Ukrainian fighters from the “dominant heights” overlooking Bakhmut.
“We are holding them very firmly,” she said.
From the Kremlin’s perspective, the area around Bakhmut is just part of the more than 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) front line that the Russian military must hold. That task could be made more difficult by the withdrawal of the mercenaries from private military contractor Wagner Group who helped take control of the city. They will be replaced with Russian soldiers.
For Ukrainian forces, recent work has been opportunistic — trying to wrest small gains from the enemy and taking strategic positions, notably from two flanks on the northwest and southwest, where the Ukrainian 3rd Separate Assault Brigade has been active, officials said.
Russia had envisioned the capture of Bakhmut as partial fulfillment of its ambition to seize control of the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland. Now, its forces have been compelled to regroup, rotate fighters and rearm just to hold the city. Wagner’s owner announced a pullout after acknowledging the loss of more than 20,000 of his men.
Maliar described the nine-month struggle against Wagner forces in nearly existential terms: “If they had not been destroyed during the defense of Bakhmut, one can imagine that all these tens of thousands would have advanced deeper into Ukrainian territory.”
The fate of Bakhmut, which is largely in ruins, has been overshadowed in recent days by near-nightly attacks on Kyiv, a series of unclaimed drone strikes near Moscow and the growing anticipation that Ukraine’s government will try to regain ground.
But the battle for the city could still have a lingering impact. Moscow has made the most of its capture, epitomized by triumphalism in Russian media. Any slippage of Russia’s grip would be a political embarrassment for President Vladimir Putin.
Michael Kofman of the Center for Naval Analyses, a U.S. research group, noted in a podcast this week that the victory brings new challenges in holding Bakhmut.
With Wagner fighters withdrawing, Russian forces are “going to be increasingly fixed to Bakhmut … and will find it difficult to defend,” Kofman told “War on the Rocks” in an interview posted Tuesday.
“And so they may not hold on to Bakhmut, and the whole thing may have ended up being for nothing for them down the line,” he added.
A Western official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Russian airborne forces are heavily involved in replacing the departing Wagner troops — a step that is “likely to antagonize” the airborne leadership, who see the duty as a further erosion of their “previously elite status” in the military.
Ukrainian forces have clawed back slivers of territory on the flanks — a few hundred meters (yards) per day — to solidify defensive lines and seek opportunities to retake some urban parts of the city, said one Ukrainian analyst.
“The goal in Bakhmut is not Bakhmut itself, which has been turned into ruins,” military analyst Roman Svitan said by phone. The goal for the Ukrainians is to hold on to the western heights and maintain a defensive arc outside the city.
More broadly, Ukraine wants to weigh down Russian forces and capture the initiative ahead of the counteroffensive — part of what military analysts call “shaping operations” to set the terms of the battle environment and put an enemy in a defensive, reactive posture.
Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesman for Ukrainian forces in the east, said the strategic goal in the Bakhmut area was “to restrain the enemy and destroy as much personnel and equipment as possible” while preventing a Russian breakthrough or outflanking maneuver.
Analyst Mathieu Boulègue questioned whether Bakhmut would hold lessons or importance for the war ahead.
Military superiority matters, he said, but so does “information superiority” — the ability “to create subterfuge, to create obfuscation of your force, to be able to move in the shadows.”
Boulègue, a consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at the Chatham House think tank in London, said those tactics “could determine which side gains an advantage that catches the other side by surprise, and turns the tide of the war.”
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Jamey Keaten reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Hanna Arhirova and Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, and Jill Lawless in London, contributed to this report.
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A previous version of this story was corrected to show that Oleg Shiryaev is the leader of the 225th Battalion, not the 228th Battalion. | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/ukraine-keeps-up-pressure-following-russian-declaration-of-victory-in-bakhmut/ | 2023-06-05 03:30:56 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/ukraine-keeps-up-pressure-following-russian-declaration-of-victory-in-bakhmut/ |
'UNDEMOCRATIC': Tester defends trans Montana state lawmaker who lashed out at Republican colleagues
Tester called the 'banning' of Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr 'extreme' and 'undemocratic'
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester used a tweet Friday to defend a transgender Montana state lawmaker who told Republicans earlier this month they have "blood on (their) hands."
"I served in the Montana legislature for years, working with everyone to get things done for Montana," Tester wrote in a tweet, offering defense for Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr.
"Let’s be clear: Banning a duly-elected representative is an extreme, undemocratic step that harms the thousands of Montanans who no longer have a voice in their government,"
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Earlier this month, amid the legislature's efforts to pass amendments to a bill that would prohibit sex change treatments for minors in the state, Zephyr told Republicans in the House that they have "blood on (their) hands."
"The only thing I will say is if you vote yes on this bill and yes on these amendments, I hope the next time there's an invocation when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands," Zephyr said.
Accompanying Tester's tweet was a portion of a radio interview he took part in to discuss the situation and defend Zephyr, the first transgender state lawmaker in Montana history.
"What I would rather have us make national news for is keeping 11 rest homes open that are closing, making steps to make child care affordable or homeownership affordable," said Tester, who's seeking re-election in 2024. "Barring a duly represented representative who, quite frankly, represents thousands of Montanans is extreme. I think it's undemocratic."
Zephyr's remarks led to the lawmaker being censured and barred from the House floor for the rest of the 2023 session after Republican lawmakers accused Zephyr of presenting "hate-filled testimony" while debating Senate Bill 99.
Afterward, Republican Speaker Matt Regier refused to acknowledge Zephyr, who wanted to speak on a separate bill aiming to put a binary definition of male and female into the state code.
"It is up to me to maintain decorum here on the House floor, to protect the dignity and integrity," Regier said. "And any representative that I don’t feel can do that will not be recognized."
Regier said the decision to not allow Zephyr to speak came after "multiple discussions" with other lawmakers, adding that there have been similar issues. Zephyr hasn't been allowed to speak on the House floor since.
Zephyr was notified Tuesday night that House leaders would consider disciplinary action, according to a Twitter post by the lawmaker. On Wednesday, lawmakers voted to ban Zephyr from the House floor for the rest of the 2023 session.
TRANS MONTANA LAWMAKER LASHES OUT AT GOP COLLEAGUES DURING HOUSE FLOOR DEBATE: 'BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS'
"I have been informed that during tomorrow’s floor session there will be a motion to either censure or expel me. I've also been told I'll get a chance to speak. I will do as I have always done — rise on behalf of my constituents, in defense of my community, & for democracy itself," Zephyr said.
Since being barred from the House floor for the remainder of the legislative session, Zephyr has continued working outside of the chamber in a public seating area.
"Though they initially tried to have me removed from the public seating area, I am here working on behalf of my constituents as best I can given the undemocratic circumstances," Zephyr wrote in a tweet Thursday. "I'm talking to legislators, listening to debate, voting on bills, and fighting for democracy."
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In another photo shared by Zephyr Friday, the lawmaker was shown sitting outside of a closed-door hearing.
"Republicans used a series of procedures to remove every bill from my committees, silencing my constituents beyond what they already voted to do," Zephyr captioned the post. "My constituents elected me to speak on their behalf — in committee & on the floor — and stopping me from doing so is anti-democratic." | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/undemocratic-tester-defends-trans-montana-state-lawmaker-lashed-republican-colleagues | 2023-04-28 23:07:07 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/undemocratic-tester-defends-trans-montana-state-lawmaker-lashed-republican-colleagues |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Day" game were:
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New executive leadership leverages exceptional expertise, with Hap Hewes bringing more than 20 years of experience in specialty materials and Sean Doherty bringing more than 25 years of finance and accounting experience.
OAKVILLE, ON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Polar Sapphire, a manufacturer of high-purity aluminum oxide ("HPA"), announced that Hap Hewes has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and Sean Doherty has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Ara Partners, a private equity firm focused on industrial decarbonization, is the majority owner of Polar Sapphire.
Mr. Hewes brings significant leadership and industry expertise to Polar Sapphire, with over 20 years of experience in the specialty materials industry, having held senior roles with companies including Saint-Gobain, Rubicon Technology, and Saphikon. Most recently, Mr. Hewes was President and CEO at Pallidus, a private equity-backed specialty materials company utilizing disruptive and proprietary technology to grow ultra-high quality silicon carbide crystals. He has significant HPA market experience, specifically in downstream uses of HPA to grow sapphire for use in LED, aerospace and defense, medical, and optical end markets. Mr. Hewes received a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
"I am thrilled to join Polar Sapphire and lead the company as we commission additional HPA production capacity and capitalize on the significant growth opportunities in the growing HPA market," said Hap Hewes, CEO of Polar Sapphire. "The company has a strong foundation and differentiated production process that will allow us to deliver high specification HPA consistently to our customers enabling them to achieve greater value. I look forward to working with the company's founders, Scott Nichol and Dan Smith, the Board, and Ara Partners to realize Polar Sapphire's long term strategic vision."
Mr. Doherty brings over 25 years of financial leadership experience to Polar Sapphire having held various senior finance and accounting roles with multiple private equity-backed companies. Most recently, Mr. Doherty was Executive VP Finance and Administration at PASSUR Aerospace. Prior to that, Mr. Doherty spent 13 years at NAVBlue, where he started as Corporate Controller and was ultimately promoted to CFO. Mr. Doherty began his career at BDO and received a BA from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is designated as a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant.
"I am very excited to join the Polar Sapphire leadership team and lead the finance organization as the company begins to scale up operations," said Sean Doherty, CFO of Polar Sapphire. "The company has created a deep bench of technical and business talent, and I am looking forward to working with the rest of the management team to execute on our strategy."
"Polar Sapphire is well-positioned to become the preferred supplier of HPA, which is a critical specialty material for use in LEDs and lithium-ion batteries and is key to decarbonization efforts across various end markets," said Tuan Tran, a Partner at Ara Partners. "The additions of Hap and Sean provide multiple decades of relevant expertise and add to the diverse skill sets across the company. We are proud to partner with this talented team as we work to build Polar Sapphire into a leading supplier of HPA in the growing LED and lithium-ion battery markets globally."
Polar Sapphire has developed a breakthrough process for manufacturing the world's highest-purity and lowest-cost High Purity Alumina (HPA). HPA is a critical input for green technologies such as LEDs, lithium-ion battery separators used in electric vehicles, semiconductors, plasma displays, and lasers. Polar Sapphire has a low-emission process compared with the incumbent process, which is highly toxic to local environments. The company currently operates a commercial facility in Oakville, Ontario. For more information on Polar Sapphire, visit www.polarsapphire.com.
Ara Partners is a private equity firm specializing in industrial decarbonization investments. Ara Partners invests in the industrial & manufacturing, chemicals & materials, energy efficiency & green fuels and food & agriculture sectors, seeking to build businesses that provide significant decarbonization impact. It operates from offices in Houston, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, and Dublin, Ireland. Ara Partners closed its second fund with approximately $1.1 billion in capital commitments in September 2021. For more information on Ara Partners, please visit www.arapartners.com.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caravel Autism Health, a leader in the diagnosis and treatment of young children on the autism spectrum, has opened a new clinic to serve families on Chicago's North Side. Caravel specializes in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, which uses positive reinforcement to help children with autism improve a wide range of skills including communication and social. Located at 2600 West Irving Park Road, the clinic features colorful, sensory-friendly spaces where young children work one-on-one with therapists to build skills, develop confidence, and learn to connect with the world around them.
"We change lives through ABA therapy," explained Caravel CEO Mike Miller. "This is evidence-based treatment that helps children with autism reach their greatest potential. We want Chicago children to have access to the highest quality autism services available, so we are stepping up to build clinics where families have struggled to find comparable providers." The effectiveness of ABA therapy is recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As part of its commitment to achieving the best ABA outcomes in the field, Caravel has developed an outcomes platform called PathTap. Using PathTap, Caravel's clinicians can track individual client progress in real-time with results data that quickly identifies ways to finetune each child's treatment to reach the best outcomes. Since implementing the technology earlier this year, Caravel has demonstrated significant growth in clinical outcomes with an increase of 30% on targeted clinical quality components for its clients.
"Our innovative therapy approach leads to better outcomes and happier lives for the entire family," according to Erica Smith, MA, BCBA, clinic director at Caravel/Chicago. "ABA therapy has the greatest impact during the early developmental years, so we're excited to be bringing a new resource to young families on the North Side."
Caravel also offers evaluation, diagnosis, family support, and counseling services. For more information, call 312-764-1557 or visit caravelautism.com.
Since 2009, Caravel Autism Health has been devoted to helping families navigate the challenges of childhood autism. Our team of clinical experts specializes in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of children on the autism spectrum. Caravel's research-based and data-driven programs are designed to provide better outcomes that help children with autism reshape their development and embrace new ways of interacting with the world.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency:
- Today, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Azure Fastep COVID-19 Antigen Pen Home Test (manufactured by Azure Biotech, Inc.). Validation data to support the EUA of this test was gathered through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Independent Test Assessment Program (ITAP), established as a collaboration between the FDA and the NIH. The test can be used for serial testing for symptomatic people within the first 6 days of symptom onset or for people who do not have symptoms and shows results in 15 minutes. This test should always be repeated if a negative result is found - at least 2 times over 3 days with at least 48 hours between tests if the person has symptoms, or at least 3 times over 5 days with at least 48 hours between tests if the person does not have symptoms. The test can be used for people aged 14 years or older with a self-collected nasal swab sample and aged 2 years or older when an adult collects the nasal swab sample.
- On Thursday, the FDA issued a final order to modify the yogurt standard of identity final rule, published on June 9, 2021. The FDA is denying the International Dairy Foods Association's (IDFA) request for a public hearing and is issuing a final order to modify the final rule with respect to maximum pH. The FDA is amending the yogurt standard acidity requirement to require products to have a pH of 4.6 or lower. This will ensure the safety of yogurt, while maintaining its basic nature and essential characteristics.
- On Thursday, the FDA issued a letter to developers and manufacturers who intend to transfer genes for proteins that are food allergens into new plant varieties used for food, reminding them of the relevant legal requirements and potential food safety concerns related to these products and encouraging developers to consult with us prior to marketing. The FDA is not aware of any foods currently in the U.S. market from these types of new plant varieties, but we are aware of research and development in this area.
- On Thursday, the FDA issued a Drug Safety Communication announcing several updates to the prescribing information for immediate-release and extended-release/long-acting opioid analgesics. The updates also include a new warning about opioid-induced hyperalgesia, which is a condition where opioids cause an increase in pain (hyperalgesia) or an increased sensitivity to pain (allodynia).
- On Wednesday, the FDA advised consumers that hand sanitizers are regulated as over-the-counter (OTC, or nonprescription) drugs. If you use alcohol-based hand sanitizers, read and follow the Drug Facts label, particularly the warnings section, and keep these safety tips in mind.
- On Wednesday, the FDA published a webinar titled Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 – Key Terms and Provisions. This stakeholder webinar provides an overview of the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022. It outlines the requirements mandated by the act, also known as MoCRA, and the current steps FDA is taking to implement the requirements, including an update on the Voluntary Cosmetic Reporting Program and information about the upcoming public listening session on good manufacturing practices (GMPs).
- On Wednesday, the FDA published "Catching Up with Califf:" "FDA is Working to Combat the Epidemic of Diet-Related Chronic Disease through our Nutrition Efforts," by Robert M. Califf, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs. In part 3 of this series on food, Dr. Califf discusses nutrition, a priority area of work at the FDA. Focusing more on nutrition gives us the real opportunity to significantly improve public and individual health. The agency is committed to finding new ways to help reduce the burden of diet-related chronic disease through improved information about wise nutritional choices given our unique position and authorities.
- On Wednesday, the FDA issued a safety communication recommending consumers, health care providers, and facilities to not use certain surgical N95 respirators by O&M Halyard and to use caution with certain surgical masks and pediatric face masks by O&M Halyard. The FDA is aware of laboratory test results that show certain models of O&M Halyard surgical N95 respirators, surgical masks, and pediatric face masks do not meet quality and performance expectations and may not provide expected fluid barrier protection to the wearer. The FDA is continuing its evaluation.
- On Wednesday, the FDA issued a draft guidance for industry titled Over-the-Counter Monograph Order Requests (OMORs): Format and Content. This guidance provides the FDA's recommendations on the format and content of the information that requestors should provide in an OMOR and identifies relevant guidance documents to assist requestors in preparing their OMORs. The draft guidance gives an overview of the information the agency may recommend for a sufficiently complete OMOR.
- On Tuesday, the FDA announced a Radiation Sterilization Master File Pilot Program. The pilot program is voluntary and intended to allow companies that sterilize single-use, PMA-approved medical devices using gamma radiation or ethylene oxide (EtO) to submit master files when making certain changes to sterilization sites, sterilization methods, or other processes, for example, lowering the gamma radiation dose. The FDA is seeking up to nine companies to be part of the voluntary pilot program. The program seeks to help companies advance alternative and innovative ways to sterilize approved medical devices, including changing radiation sources, in a least burdensome regulatory approach. You can read the CDRH statement here.
- This week, the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) published a CDER Conversation titled, Using Innovative Communication Methods to Increase Awareness and Understanding of CDER Guidance Documents: CDER's Guidance Snapshot Pilot Program. The Guidance Snapshot Pilot Program communicates guidance recommendations to multiple stakeholder audiences using visuals, plain language, and other innovative technologies to increase awareness and understanding of CDER's often complex guidance documents. In the CDER Conversation, ShaAvhrée Buckman-Garner, M.D., PhD., director of CDER's Office of Translational Sciences, and James-Denton Wyllie, director of CDER Office of Communications, discuss the Guidance Snapshot Pilot Program and why their offices partnered to help educate stakeholders and increase public awareness of guidance documents.
- The FDA will be hosting a virtual public meeting titled Good Manufacturing Practices for Cosmetic Products Listening Session on June 1, 2023 from 10 am to 1 pm EDT. The purpose of the listening session is to consult cosmetics manufacturers, including smaller businesses and contract manufacturers, consumer organizations, and other experts to inform Agency efforts to develop regulations to establish good manufacturing practices for facilities that manufacture, or process, cosmetic products distributed in the United States.
Additional meeting specifics, including information on how to register for the meeting, will be made available soon through a Federal Register Notice, and at https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-news-events/meetings-conferences-workshops-cosmetics.
- COVID-19 testing updates:
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
04-07-18-22-33
(four, seven, eighteen, twenty-two, thirty-three)
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IRONTON — A South Point, Ohio, man convicted last week for selling drugs to a woman who died from fentanyl intoxication was sentenced Wednesday to 11 to 16-and-a-half years in prison.
Brian Keith Pinkerman, 36, of Township Road 1186, South Point, was convicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, corrupting another with drugs and trafficking in drugs following a two-day trial before Judge Andy Ballard.
Steve Nord, an assistant Lawrence County prosecuting attorney, asked for the maximum sentence of 11 to 16 and-a-half years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. He said Pinkerman has shown no remorse in the case.
“He knew she had a drug problem,” Nord said of Pinkerman. The woman buying the drugs from Pinkerman, Erma Bonecutter, 37, died from a drug overdose last year, Nord said.
Pinkerman knew fentanyl was dangerous, calling Bonecutter stupid, and then went to Huntington to get the drugs he provided to her, according to Nord.
Pinkerman was represented by Gene Meadows, a Jackson, Ohio, lawyer who plans to file a notice of appeal in the case.
Meadows said Bonecutter is partially responsible for the overdose.
“It is a tragic situation,” he said. He asked for the defendant to be sentenced to the minimum three years in the case.
Pinkerman chose not to speak before the sentencing.
Ballard said he spoke to several jurors after the trial and one of them said Pinkerman knew of Bonecutter’s drug troubles yet still provided her with dangerous drugs.
“If you sell it, you know it’s dangerous,” Ballard said. “I think both attorneys did a good job,” however 12 people agreed to Pinkerman’s guilt.
Ballard denied a defense motion to delay sentencing.
It will be up to the Ohio Court of Appeals to appoint a lawyer to handle the appeal.
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Family demands justice after double amputee dies in officer-involved shooting
HUNTINGTON PARK, Calif. (KCAL) - A family in California is calling for justice after a double amputee was shot and killed by police.
“My son was murdered. I don’t want nobody to react on it. I just want y’all to get justice,” Dorothy Lowe said.
Dorothy Lowe’s son 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr. was shot and killed by Huntington Park police officers on Thursday.
Moments before, a bystander caught the confrontation on video. The alarming video shows Anthony Lowe Jr., holding what appears to be a butcher knife, trying to get away from police on what is left of his legs.
“They refuse to give everything we need to know what really happened to him,” his cousin, Ellakenyada Gorum, said. “He was not homeless, he was loved. And it’s sad, really sad, that they’re getting away from killing our African American people, just getting away with it. He was in a wheelchair. What more could he do? What more could he do?”
Police officers said they got a call at 3:45 p.m. Thursday from a man saying he was stabbed by a man in a wheelchair. When officers arrived, they found Anthony Lowe Jr. with a knife, they say he got out of his wheelchair and attempted to get away.
In a statement, the Huntington Park Police Department says officers tried twice to deploy tasers but were unsuccessful in subduing Anthony Lowe Jr.
After he continued to threaten officers with the knife, an officer-involved shooting happened.
“Be realistic about this, what could he have possibly done in a wheelchair?” his aunt, who did not provide her name, said. “We want justice.”
Anthony Lowe Jr.’s family and friends also want answers as they say they have heard little from the police department or the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is assisting in the investigation.
“You guys knew your lives wasn’t in danger. He’s running on his limbs. How cold-hearted could they be?” Gorum said.
While the family struggles to make sense of their loss, they are remembering Anthony Lowe Jr. as a father, brother, son and friend.
“He got a strong family that loves him, so we want justice for our whole family,” his sister Yatoya Toy said.
It’s not clear if there is any body cam or dash cam video of the shooting,
A nearby business has security video of the officer-involved shooting and has handed the video to the sheriff.
At this time, authorities said they are not sharing that video.
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Parents of Oxford school shooter can face trial, court says
DETROIT (AP) — The parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan high school can face trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state appeals court said Thursday in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child.
The murders would not have happened if the parents hadn’t purchased a gun for Ethan Crumbley or if they had taken him home from Oxford High School on the day of the shooting, when staff became alarmed about his extreme drawings, the appeals court said.
The court noted that the legal threshold at this stage of the case is fairly low under Michigan law.
“Whether a jury actually finds that causation has been proven after a full trial, where the record will almost surely be more expansive — including evidence produced by defendants — is an issue separate from what we decide today,” the court said in a 3-0 opinion.
James and Jennifer Crumbley are accused of failing to secure a gun and ignoring the mental health needs of their son before the shootings in November 2021. Besides the deaths of four students, seven people were wounded.
Crumbley, 16, has pleaded guilty to terrorism and murder and could be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Attorneys for the parents insist it was not foreseeable what would happen on the day of the shootings. They acknowledge that bad decisions were made but not ones that should rise to criminal charges.
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HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen®, the world's leading breast cancer organization, will hold an in-person MORE THAN PINK Walk to raise critical funds that improve outcomes and support breast cancer patients throughout Connecticut. The Walk will be held on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, at Bushnell Park in Hartford.
"We look forward to creating a community for anyone impacted by breast cancer as we gather, in person, for this year's Walk. Funds raised from the MORE THAN PINK Walk will continue funding groundbreaking breast cancer research throughout the state and provide financial and emotional support for anyone in need," said Meg Staubley, Development Manager, Connecticut, at Susan G. Komen.
Komen is pleased to welcome the following sponsors this year: iHeartMedia, WFSB Channel 3, Pratt & Whitney, Premiere Partner, Arvinas, Jefferson Radiology, ShopRite, Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Force3 Pro Gear. Midstate Radiology Associates, LLC, is serving as the Care sponsor, supporting Komen's work to eliminate barriers to care and provide access to breast health services.
"Promoting positive change through community outreach is part of who we are. We feel it's our distinct responsibility to actively develop partnerships and give back in an impactful way within our communities," said Tom Cappas, Chief Operating Officer, Midstate Radiology Associates, LLC.
Participants can expect to enjoy the following at the Walk:
- Water, juice, yogurt and granola bars from ShopRite
- Hope Village, a place for survivors and those living with metastatic breast cancer to gather
- On-site food trucks serving breakfast and other foods for purchase
- We Remember Area where attendees can hang a photo or message about the person they're remembering
Komen MORE THAN PINK Walk
Bushnell Park
Hartford, Connecticut
October 22, 2022
7:30 AM Event Opens
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Lawyer: Gun used by child who shot teacher was ‘secured’
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The family of a 6-year-old boy who police said shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia said Thursday that the gun he used had been “secured” and that one of his parents usually accompanied him in class but did not the week the shooting occurred.
The family’s statement was released by an attorney and did not elaborate further on where the 9mm handgun was kept. The family also was not identified.
“Our family has always been committed to responsible gun ownership and keeping firearms out of the reach of children,” the statement said. “The firearm our son accessed was secured.”
The family also said that the boy “suffers from an acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day.”
The family said the week of the shooting “was the first week when we were not in class with him. We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives.”
The statement was released through the office of Newport News-based attorney James S. Ellenson. It is the first public communication from child’s family and comes nearly two weeks after the shooting occurred Jan. 6 at Richneck Elementary.
Police had earlier said that the 6-year-old’s mother legally purchased the gun but that it was unclear how her son gained access to it. A Virginia law prohibits leaving a loaded gun where it is accessible to a child under 14, a misdemeanor crime punishable with a maximum one-year prison sentence and $2,500 fine. No charges have been brought against the mother.
The shooting has drawn international attention to the shipbuilding city of Newport News, which sits along the James River near the Chesapeake Bay. It has many people across the nation struggling to comprehend how such a thing could happen, while fueling an ongoing debate about how schools discipline children.
The family’s statement also elaborated on the child’s relationship with his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, who is still recovering from the gunshot wound and has been called a hero by police and educators alike.
“Our heart goes out to our son’s teacher and we pray for her healing in the aftermath of such an unimaginable tragedy as she selflessly served our son and the children in the school,” the family said.
“She has worked diligently and compassionately to support our family as we sought the best education and learning environment for our son,” the statement continued. “We thank her for her courage, grace and sacrifice. We grieve alongside all of the other teachers, families and administrators for how this horrific incident has impacted them, our community, and the nation.”
The family said the child has been under hospital care since the shooting and is receiving “the treatment he needs.”
“We continue to pray for his teacher’s full recovery, and for her loved ones who are undoubtedly upset and concerned,” the family said. “At the same time, we love our son and are asking that you please include him and our family in your prayers.”
The shooting occurred as Zwerner was teaching her first grade class at Richneck. Authorities said there was no warning and no struggle before the boy pointed the gun at Zwerner.
The bullet pierced Zwerner’s hand and struck her chest, police said. The 25-year-old teacher hustled her students out of the classroom before being rushed to the hospital.
Police Chief Steve Drew described the shooting as “intentional.” A judge will determine what’s next for the child.
The superintendent of Newport News schools revealed last week that Richneck administrators had learned the child may have had a weapon before the shooting. But a search did not find the handgun, despite staff looking through his bag.
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NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, August 27, 2022
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.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ016-282000-
Seneca-
Including the city of Seneca Falls
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with highs
in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ017-282000-
Southern Cayuga-
Including the city of Auburn
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs around 90. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with highs
in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ018-282000-
Onondaga-
Including the city of Syracuse
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with highs
in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ022-282000-
Steuben-
Including the cities of Corning and Hornell
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ023-282000-
Schuyler-
Including the city of Watkins Glen
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ024-282000-
Chemung-
Including the city of Elmira
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs around 90. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ025-282000-
Tompkins-
Including the city of Ithaca
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with highs
in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ036-282000-
Madison-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Oneida
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ037-282000-
Southern Oneida-
Including the cities of Rome and Utica
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs around 90. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up
to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with
highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ044-282000-
Cortland-
Including the city of Cortland
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ045-282000-
Chenango-
Including the city of Norwich
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ046-282000-
Otsego-
Including the city of Oneonta
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
NYZ055-282000-
Tioga-
Including the cities of Owego and Waverly
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with
highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ056-282000-
Broome-
Including the city of Binghamton
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with
highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ057-282000-
Delaware-
Including the cities of Delhi and Walton
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ062-282000-
Sullivan-
Including the city of Monticello
335 AM EDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Isolated showers this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
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Scientists find secret ingredient in da Vinci paintings
Published: Mar. 29, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings may have had a secret ingredient.
According to a new study, “old masters” like da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used egg yolk in their oil paintings.
Trace quantities of protein have been detected in the classic paintings.
While it was originally believed to have been from contamination, researchers now say it was intentional.
They say adding egg yolk could tune the properties of the oil paint in drastic ways, such as showing age and brush strokes differently.
It would also make the paint more resistant to humidity.
The study was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
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BOSTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariadne Labs today announced John Maraganore, PhD, as a new member of its Advisory Board. In joining the Advisory Board, Dr. Maraganore will serve as a trusted advisor to Ariadne Labs' mission to save lives and reduce suffering.
"We are thrilled to welcome John to the Advisory Board. With an incredible track record of innovation throughout his esteemed career, John will bring critical perspective to our work as we innovate for safer, more integrated, and equitable care for every patient everywhere," said Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Ariadne Labs.
Dr. Maraganore served as the founding CEO and a Director of Alnylam from 2002 to 2021, where he built and led the company from early platform research on RNA interference through global approval and commercialization of the first four RNAi therapeutic medicines. He continues to serve on the Alnylam Scientific Advisory Board.
Prior to Alnylam, Dr. Maraganore served as an officer and a member of the management team for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and as Director of Molecular Biology and Director of Market and Business Development at Biogen, Inc. Previously, he was a scientist at ZymoGenetics, Inc. and the Upjohn Company.
Dr. Maraganore received his MS and PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Venture Partner at ARCH Venture Partners, a Venture Advisor at Atlas Ventures, and an Executive Partner at RTW Investments. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Hemab Therapeutics and a member of the Board of Directors of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Beam Therapeutics, Kymera Therapeutics, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization, where he was Chair from 2017-2019. In addition, he serves on the Board of the Termeer Foundation, as Chair of the n-Lorem Foundation Advisory Council, and as a strategic advisor to a number of innovative companies.
Dr. Maraganore joins the following current members of Ariadne Labs' Advisory Board:
Robert S. D. Higgins (co-chair)
Michelle Williams (co-chair)
Paul J. Anderson
Don Berwick
Elliot Cohen
Andrew Dreyfus
Peter Hecht
Katie Hope
Karin S. Leschly
Jason Yeung
Gwill York
About Ariadne Labs
Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. With a mission to save lives and reduce suffering, our vision is that health systems equitably deliver the best possible care for every patient, everywhere, every time. We use human centered design, health systems implementation science, public health expertise, and frontline clinical care experience to design, test, and spread scalable systems-level solutions to some of health care's biggest problems. From developing checklists and conversation guides to fostering international collaborations and establishing global standards of measurement, our work has been accessed in more than 165 countries, touching hundreds of millions of lives.
Media Contact: Brigid Tsai, btsai@ariadnelabs.org
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Ferrari gets stuck inside elevator shaft after ‘malfunction’
Published: Feb. 1, 2023 at 9:25 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – A Ferrari was left hanging after an elevator shaft malfunctioned at a high-end car dealership in Florida.
According to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, crews responded to the dealership Tuesday night.
They first had to mitigate a fuel leak, which involved setting up portable standpipes and shutting off the power to the business. Once the leak was fixed, crews worked with a towing company to remove the car from the elevator shaft.
Officials said a 45-foot boom and multiple 50,000-pound winches were used to extract the Ferrari.
In total, crews worked for about four hours to remove the vehicle.
No one was injured.
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Post Malone apologizes for on-stage accident in St. Louis
(AP) – Post Malone apologized to his St. Louis fans Sunday for an on-stage accident that sent him to the hospital and shortened his set the night before at the Enterprise Center.
In the middle of a song Saturday, Malone fell into a hole on stage that moments before was opened to lower an instrument into.
In a video message posted on Twitter on Sunday, he said the fall, “Got me pretty good.” He said he’d just gotten back from the hospital, where he was prescribed pain medication.
“I just want to apologize to everyone in St. Louis,” Malone said. “Next time I’m around this way we’re going to do a two-hour show for you, so we can make up for the couple missed songs.”
There should be no implications for the rest of the tour, which continues Sunday night in Columbus, Ohio.
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How Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania
By Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN
When John Fetterman’s team told him he was going to be Pennsylvania’s next senator late into Election Night, the Democrat laughed. He smirked. Then, struck by the emotional end of a campaign that included a near-fatal stroke just five months ago, Fetterman wept.
Soon, he was standing up in front of the microphones as supporters chanted his name, nodding his head as if in disbelief. Hand over his heart, he looked out and saw his slogan on signs in the crowd: “Every county, every vote.”
“And that’s exactly what happened,” Fetterman said, alluding to his campaign’s plan to narrow losing margins in rural counties while winning the suburbs and running up the score in urban Democratic strongholds. “We jammed. Them. Up.”
Fetterman’s victory over Republican Mehmet Oz, the cardiothoracic surgeon turned TV doctor and former President Donald Trump’s chosen candidate, flipped a seat the GOP had held for more than a decade and narrowed Republicans’ path to reclaiming the Senate majority. It was also the culmination of Fetterman’s own political journey, from big, brash small town mayor in Western Pennsylvania — an idiosyncratic character that, even a decade ago, drew national curiosity — to the cusp of membership in one of the country’s most traditionally genteel political institutions.
For Fetterman’s top aides, some of whom had been working with him since his failed 2016 Senate primary bid, the understanding that victory was nearing built like a “slow crescendo,” campaign manager Brendan McPhillips said. In the campaign boiler room, the legacy of bad Democratic election nights’ past fed into an air of overriding caution.
But the dam burst when returns from Erie, a swing county in the state’s northwest corner, showed Fetterman with a nearly double-digit lead.
Because it was unclear at the time, at little before midnight, when the race would be called, McPhillips, who first worked with the Democrat in 2015, told the candidate, “John, you are probably not going to get your blue check for a few days, but you are going to be the next senator.”
Then the first news outlets began calling the race for the Fetterman, the climax to a campaign that saw his stroke, a painful public recovery and bore the hopes of Democrats across the country.
How the race was won — and lost
For Rebecca Katz, the campaign’s top adviser, and McPhillips, this was their second go-round with Fetterman in a Senate campaign. Katz first met him in 2015 ahead of the 2016 primary, when he finished a distant third behind Katie McGinty and Joe Sestak with less than 20% of the vote.
“We can’t tell the story of John Fetterman as a US Senate nominee without talking about the origin story, in terms of what happened in 2015 and how we tapped into some real grassroots enthusiasm,” Katz said. “But we didn’t have the money to win the race.”
That memory propelled now-Lt. Gov. Fetterman to formally kick off his campaign in February 2021 — giving him a headstart on what would be a diverse and crowded primary field.
Fetterman, without a patron or validator, delivered a resounding victory by winning all 67 counties, often by overwhelming margins what ended up being a four-candidate race. He even came away on top in Philadelphia, with nearly 37% of the vote. Fetterman also swept the collar counties around the city, which would become a key focus for him and his opponent in the fall, prevailing in each by an average of almost 25 percentage points.
But his triumph was tempered by a harsh new reality. On the Friday before the primary, Fetterman, who was feeling unwell but determined to attend a morning event, decided to go to the hospital at the insistence of his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman. The campaign went quiet for days before Fetterman revealed in a statement that he had suffered a stroke.
“I had a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long,” he said. “I’m feeling much better, and the doctors tell me I didn’t suffer any cognitive damage. I’m well on my way to a full recovery.”
The following two months — which Fetterman spent much of at home recuperating — ended up being the most critical period of the Democrat’s campaign. Unable to do in-person events, the campaign leaned into a hyperactive social media presence, all directed at defining Oz as an out-of-state elitist by using a mix of memes, pithy tweets and, at times, the help of famous celebrities.
Their chosen labels, colored by buzzy stunts involving Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi from “Jersey Shore” and a series of self-owns by Oz — most memorably his odd effort to illustrate the effects of inflation by filming a video of him shopping for ingredients for a “crudité” at a supermarket, the name of which he bungled — ended up sticking.
“It wasn’t just sh*t-posting,” Katz said. “It was a strategic plan to define Oz early and define him as not being from PA or for PA.” Fetterman, she added, insisted the content never be “mean,” and often spent time during his recovery pinging staff with memes and ideas to connect with the voters with whom he couldn’t personally engage.
But the success of the messaging even surprised Fetterman’s top aides. The strategy caught on, drove media attention, and consistently put Oz on the defensive, forcing him to burnish his Pennsylvania roots in sometimes awkward ways.
“John was not on the trail. He was resting and recovering. But we couldn’t just surrender the summer,” said Joe Calvello, the campaign’s spokesperson. “It wasn’t going to break through if we talked about insert issue that plays well here. We had to define Oz.”
The stickiness of the attacks also struck Republicans.
“Oz emerged from the most brutal Republican primary in the country. He had high negatives, he had no money, and he had the capacity to self-fund, to get back on air and repair his image and chose not to,” said a top Republican strategist who worked on Senate races. “He had a Democratic opponent who was sidelined because of health issues. And he allowed months to go by — precious months — that could have been spent virtually unopposed repairing his image, not doing anything.”
Republicans quickly saw Fetterman’s caricature of Oz – especially the attacks that he wasn’t from Pennsylvania and couldn’t effectively represent it – resonating with voters, the operative said. The attacks began to create an image of the Republican as someone who would do anything to get elected, including move.
The strategy, and the tactics that delivered on it, was validated one last time on Election Day. In CNN’s exit poll of the race, 56% of voters said Oz had not lived in Pennsylvania long enough to effectively represent the state. Fetterman won that group by a margin of nearly 70 percentage points.
One the great ironies of Pennsylvania’s Senate contest, which commanded the most money and attention in the key period between Labor Day and Election Day, is that Republicans now believe Oz lost the election in those months Fetterman spent off the campaign trail.
“We defined (Oz) while he was off in Ireland or Palm Beach or wherever he went” after the primary, Katz said. “We did it while John was recovering from a stroke.”
Armed with an endorsement from Trump, Oz narrowly won his party’s nomination in May. But it was a close race that divided the party. Oz emerged victorious but damaged. He had little cash to work with, underwater approval numbers and scores of conservative Republican voters win over.
“Oz wouldn’t have won the primary without Trump. No question about that,” said Ryan Costello, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania.
But once clinched the nomination, Trump became less of a weapon than an albatross. Oz would not campaign with him again until the final weekend before Election Day.
The debate
Fetterman’s success over the summer gave him some breathing room, but his race with Oz — like many across the country — grew more competitive after Labor Day, as more voters tuned in to the race and tens of millions of dollars from outside groups like the GOP’s Senate Leadership Fund and others led to ads blanketing the airwaves.
Republicans began to find some success questioning whether Fetterman had been honest with voters about his health, noting that he never released full medical records and in increasingly blunt terms, pointing out the obvious: Fetterman often struggled to speak in public because of the lingering effects of his stroke.
Fetterman’s campaign insists he and his team were always straightforward and honest about what they knew about his condition and recovery. But the gravity of what Fetterman would later discuss on the campaign trail as a near-death experience took some time settle in. Katz, at home in New York when she got word of the stroke, immediately drove to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Fetterman was hospitalized.
“I got there and it was just chaos. But the very first thing, when I finally did get to talk to a doctor, the very first thing they said to me was, John will make a full recovery from the stroke,” she recalled.
In the campaign’s statement days later, Fetterman said that the “campaign isn’t slowing down one bit.” It was true that top aides and staff went into overdrive, but the candidate would not return to the stump for nearly three months, when he rallied with supporters in Erie on August 13. But even then, with his recovery progressing, Fetterman’s ability to interact and communicate in crowded public settings was significantly compromised. Even direct conversations in any kind of dynamic environment were difficult.
To those aides who knew Fetterman well, just getting to the August event in Erie was a success.
“As someone who spent five days at the hospital in Lancaster, I was elated, I was crying,” Calvello said. “We looked at this like it was public recovery.”
But Fetterman’s cautious reemergence coincided with what multiple aides described as one of the more difficult periods of what had, up until the stroke been a smooth campaign. By mid-August, Fetterman’s rare appearances on the trail were met with new, well-funded frontside attacks from Oz, Republican groups and Fox News — the three simultaneously attacking the Democrat as a “far-left” radical with a “pro-criminal” agenda.
Fetterman aides knew that help was on the way in the form of October ad buys from big Democratic groups. But in the six weeks from mid-August to the end of September, Katz said, while many Democrats began to view his election as a shoo-in, the campaign began to see their internal polls tightening.
Questions about Fetterman’s heath, ranging from his fitness to serve in the Senate to, more immediately, whether he would debate Oz before Election Day soon dominated coverage of the campaign.
“It’s clear that he’s being dishonest,” Pat Toomey, the outgoing GOP senator, said of Fetterman at a press conference with Oz in early September. “He’s either not as well as he claims to be or he’s afraid to be called out for the radical policies he supports. It’s one or the other.”
So the campaign had a decision to make: debate Oz, and put Fetterman, who, even as his condition improved, struggled at times to speak fluently under any kind of duress, or refuse to share a stage with his opponent.
Fetterman struggled, as many expected, during what would be his lone one-on-one faceoff with Oz. He strained for words that never came, bungled lines he’d delivered hundreds of times without a second thought and seemed, to many anxious Democrats watching, to be failing at the most important goal: convincing swing voters that he was fit to competently do the job.
“We had seen him do better in prep. So, it was tough to see your friend and someone you care about struggle publicly in a forum we knew he was at a disadvantage, even without a stroke,” McPhillips said, admitting that “we were a little bit worried about how people would perceive it.”
But even as reviews of his performance rolled in, a mix of despair from the left and barely contained glee from the right, the Fetterman campaign was moving quickly to shift the narrative.
They seized, in particular, on one line from Oz, who opposes abortion rights but had sought to soften his position and said he wouldn’t support a federal ban on the procedure. That, Oz told voters, was in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade.
“As a physician, I’ve been in the room when there’s some difficult conversations happening. I don’t want the federal government involved with that, at all,” Oz said when asked about the issue. But he didn’t stop there. “I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that’s always allowed our nation to thrive, to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves,” Oz continued.
Before the night was out, Fetterman’s campaign had announced a new ad hammering Oz over his suggestion that “local political leaders” should have a hand, along with women and doctors, in the process.
Fetterman’s allies pounced, too. Ryan Boyer, the first Black leader of the Philadelphia Building & Construction Trades Council, called the Democrat’s performance “a profile in courage.”
Of Oz’s abortion remark, he quipped, “So now I want my local ward leader deciding something that’s going on with my daughter?”
Obama and Oprah
The final weeks of the campaign, which began a few days after the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, were a nerve-rattling, expensive whirlwind.
On Saturday, Fetterman appeared with former President Barack Obama for rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with President Joe Biden joining the Philadelphia event. It amounted to a welcome round of “solid” news cycles for a campaign in search of them, Calvello said.
But while aides enjoyed the adrenaline boost that Obama brought to the trail, they also pointed to a late endorsement — delivered with no warning, a few days before the presidential cavalry arrived — from Oprah Winfrey.
“We were getting ready for Obama and then Oprah endorsed,” Katz said. “And this was a devastating indictment of Oz’s career. The person who made him said she would’ve already voted for John Fetterman ‘for many reasons.'” So, they turned it into an ad.
Then the Democratic cavalry arrive in force. Fetterman, along with fellow Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state attorney general who led big from wire to wire over far-right Republican nominee Doug Mastriano in the race for governor, were joined by Obama and then Biden.
Just days later, Calvello watched silently as Fetterman took the stage on Election Night and immediately touted his campaign’s work in typically red enclaves.
Calvello remembered the turnout — and reaction — at a February event held at a wood-paneled fire station in Smethport, Pennsylvania (population: 1,436).
“Wherever people might feel they’ve been forgotten and marginalized … that’s where someone like me needs to be. Someplace like Smethport… these are places that should matter as much as anywhere,” Fetterman said, seeking to find common ground with the Northern Tier town.
The event had proven to Calvello that Fetterman could back up his somewhat audacious promise to cut, even slightly, into Republican control of rural Pennsylvania.
“Those were the words he always told me: ‘We are going to jam them up,'” Calvello said.
The same words — the specific phrase — he would use in his victory speech.
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On Nov. 1, Kate Manriquez, whose first child is due in May, did what many women do a couple months into their pregnancies: She gave a blood sample at her doctor’s office for a genetic test meant to help detect birth defects. More than a month later, 26-year-old Manriquez is still anxiously awaiting her results from California’s state-run prenatal screening program.
“It has been extremely frustrating and caused a lot of stress,” said Manriquez, who lives in Anaheim.
Manriquez’s experience isn’t unique. In online pregnancy discussion groups, dozens of California women have detailed their long waits for results and the anxiety it has caused as they wonder whether their children could have one of the rare disorders.
The reported delays came after California health officials changed regulations governing the state’s prenatal testing program. On Sept. 19, without holding the public hearing that is usually required to change regulations, the state limited the program so that just four companies could process the tests that look for genetic disorders such as Down syndrome. Natera, Quest Diagnostics, PerkinElmer and Kaiser were awarded contracts to perform the three noninvasive prenatal tests, or NIPTs, covered by the state program.
The move prompted Labcorp and Myriad Genetics, two corporate labs that had been selling the tests but were banned from offering the three in the state program under the new rules, to bring a suit against the state’s public health department on Sept. 16.
On Oct. 29, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco issued an order to temporarily halt the state public health department’s new rules, saying that a trial would likely find that officials made the changes illegally. He said that the state had enacted the rules as an “emergency” public health regulation when there was no emergency.
California has offered the taxpayer-subsidized prenatal screenings, which are free for the patient, since 1986. The three tests look for the chromosomal abnormalities that cause Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome and Patau syndrome.
Until officials changed the regulations, women and their doctors could decide whether to use the state’s program or instead opt to choose any lab offering the screenings and have it billed to their insurance. Results often took little more than a week.
For each woman opting for the three tests in the program, the rules require insurers to pay a $232 fee to the state. The fees cover the cost of the screenings as well as genetic counseling and the additional testing needed for any patient who screens positive.
In comparison, list prices for the same tests in 2018 ranged from $1,100 to $1,590, according to a study published last year.
State officials told doctors that the results would be recorded in a government database, and in turn delivered more quickly to patients.
In their lawsuit, Labcorp and Myriad argued that the program violated women’s right to privacy since they would have to use the state program and the contracted labs if they wanted the three common prenatal screening tests. Californians would not be able to choose the prenatal screening of their choice, the complaint said, “without the prying eyes of the state.”
State public health officials declined to speak to The Times. In a written statement, officials said they made the changes to ensure “high quality, affordable, up-to-date prenatal screening available to every pregnant Californian.”
As part of the changes, they said, the state switched from an older method of prenatal screening to a newer technology called cell-free DNA screening, which is more accurate.
Officials disputed reports that large numbers of results had been delayed. According to the department’s data, they said, from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, 98% of results were reported to the patient’s physician within 14 days.
State officials also questioned claims by doctors and labs that the department had not consulted them before changing the rules. They said they had been meeting with physicians and others involved in the testing since 2019.
The state has appealed the judge’s preliminary injunction, officials said.
For lab companies, the prenatal tests have become a profitable and fast-growing business. The companies offer prenatal screenings for the three rare disorders as well as dozens of other possible but uncommon birth defects.
Lost in the promotion of those tests and the push by companies and the state to offer them is data showing the results can be wrong.
The prenatal tests are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and the agency has not tried to confirm how accurate they are.
In April, the FDA warned that the tests could give false results, including “reporting a genetic abnormality when the fetus does not actually have one.”
The agency said it was aware of reports where patients had decided to terminate pregnancies based on the screenings even though they are meant only to show whether there is a higher risk that the fetus could have a certain birth defect. If a screening comes back positive, the agency said, other tests are required to show the fetus actually has the abnormality.
Some doctors recommend the screenings only for women considered to be at higher risk of birth defects, including those 35 or older.
On Oct. 26, more than a month after the state mandated the new rules, officials held a meeting where doctors, genetic counselors, patients and lab executives complained about the changes.
“Our patients have been very upset,” Lawrence Platt, a UCLA clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, said at the hearing.
He pointed to language in the regulation that said physicians’ licenses could be jeopardized if they did not follow the new rules.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
3-1-4
(three, one, four)
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Angelina Jolie and the United Nations’ refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades.
In a joint statement issued Friday, the U.S. actor and the agency announced she was “moving on” from her role as the agency’s special envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues.”
“I will continue to do everything in my power in the years to come to support refugees and other displaced people,” Jolie was quoted as saying in the statement, adding that she felt it was time “to work differently” by directly engaging with refugees and local organizations.
Jolie first started working with the U.N. refugee agency in 2001 and was appointed its special envoy in 2012. The release described the multi-hyphenate as “carrying out more than 60 field missions to bear witness to stories of suffering as well as hope and resilience.”
“After a long and successful time with UNHCR, I appreciate her desire to shift her engagement and support her decision,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi was quoted as saying. “I know the refugee cause will remain close to her heart, and I am certain she will bring the same passion and attention to a wider humanitarian portfolio.”
In an opinion piece published in The Guardian last month, Jolie alluded to frustration with the lack of global progress in ending sexual violence in conflict.
“We meet and discuss these horrors and agree that they should never be allowed to happen again. We promise to draw — and to hold — that line. But when it comes to hard choices about how to implement these promises, we run into the same problems time and again,” she wrote, specifically calling out U.N. Security Council members for “abusing their veto power.”
Jolie previously characterized the United Nations as “imperfect” during a 2017 speech in Geneva, but also defended the international body and said it needed to be supported.
She later pressed the United Nations to create a permanent and independent investigative body to amass and evaluate evidence in cases regarding alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and other human rights violations. While promoting that effort at U.N. headquarters in 2019, she told the AP that promoting equality for women, combatting injustice, and helping refugees were the most important parts of her life after her children.
“But in many ways, they go hand in hand,” she said. Jolie has been involved in other advocacy efforts, recently pushing for the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act in the U.S.
Jolie began visiting refugee camps in 2001, and was appointed as a UNHCR goodwill ambassador that same year. At the time, the then-high commissioner said he hoped the then-26-year-old actress could direct young people’s attention to the plight of refugees.
Last year, Jolie told The Associated Press in Burkina Faso that she was concerned that increasing displacement across the world would drive more instability — and that governments had to do something to address the conflicts at the root of the issue.
“Compared to when I began working with UNHCR 20 years ago, it seems like governments have largely given up on diplomacy … countries which have the least are doing the most to support the refugees,” she told the AP.
Developing countries play host to more than 80% of the world’s refugees, according to UNHCR, which also announced in May that the number of displaced people crossed 100 million for the first time. Speaking to the AP in August, Grandi praised the European Union’s efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees but implored world leaders to remember the other humanitarian crises for which is agency was fundraising.
“The big problem that we have at the moment is that it tends to marginalize all other crises in which people suffer,” Grandi said of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
UNHCR lists different categories of “prominent supporters” on its website, including goodwill ambassadors like Australian actor Cate Blanchett, British author Neil Gaiman and Pakistani actor Mahira Khan.
In response to a request for additional comment, a spokesperson for the U.N. agency declined to offer further details beyond saying that UNHCR “has no intention of appointing anyone else in the role of special envoy.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-angelina-jolie-leaves-role-as-un-refugee-agency-envoy/ | 2022-12-17 00:28:18 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-angelina-jolie-leaves-role-as-un-refugee-agency-envoy/ |
One day after a historic and overwhelming vote against Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas House, the focus Sunday shifted to the Senate. The House is expected to send over the 20 articles of impeachment to the upper chamber, possibly before the regular session ends Monday.
Scott Braddock is the editor of Quorum Report and has covered every facet of what happens under the capitol dome for over 20 years.
“State statute says the Senate needs to go ahead and set a date for the trial,” Braddock told NBC5 Sunday. “Lieutenant Governor Patrick may do that or he may not, we’ll just watch that.”
Texas has seen two other impeachments, most recently in 1975, which Braddock said made Saturday’s House vote unlike any other in recent memory.
“Impeachments in this state are so rare that when something like this unfolds, even people who have been doing this at the Capitol, working in Texas Politics for decades, they’ve got to go to the owner’s manual, dust it off and say ‘how do you drive this thing’?”
What we know: Texas’ 31 state senators would serve as jurors but it’s unclear if Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, would recuse herself in a political trial against her husband.
Additionally, Sen. Bryan Hughes of Mineola may be called as a material witness in the trial which could possibly preclude him from casting a vote.
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A two-thirds majority, 21 votes, would be needed to remove Paxton from office. If one senator recuses, the 21-vote threshold remains. If two senators recuse, only 20 votes would be needed to remove Paxton.
“If you start to get into a situation where you need fewer Republicans to make that removal happen, that’s also terrible for the Attorney General,” Braddock said.
After the House vote on Saturday, some senators posted identically worded statements on social media explaining as jurors, they will discuss the case against Paxton.
Braddock added a trial would be more likely to happen sometime this summer, possibly while a special session on other unfinished legislation is expected to be called by Governor Greg Abbott.
“They could hold the trial in the morning and then do their other legislative business in the afternoon,” Braddock said. “We could see something like that or the Senate could wait until any special session about other topics is over and then only focus on the trial.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/texas-politics/focus-shifts-to-texas-senate-for-timing-and-rules-for-ag-paxton-impeachment-trial/3266808/ | 2023-05-29 05:08:28 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/texas-politics/focus-shifts-to-texas-senate-for-timing-and-rules-for-ag-paxton-impeachment-trial/3266808/ |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-4-7
(two, four, seven)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-4-7
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Chipotle to pay NYC workers $20M for violating labor laws, mayor says
NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill will pay $20 million to current and former workers at its New York City restaurants for violating city labor laws, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday.
According to investigators, Chipotle’s violations of the city’s Fair Workweek law included failing to post work schedules 14 days in advance, pay a premium for schedule changes and offer available shifts to current employees before hiring new employees.
The settlement between the city and the California-based fast-food chain covers about 13,000 employees who worked at the chain’s New York City outlets between 2017 and this year. It is the result of an investigation by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection into complaints filed by 160 Chipotle workers and Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, city officials said.
“Today’s settlement with Chipotle is not only a victory for workers by securing up to $20 million in relief for approximately 13,000 workers, but also sends a strong message, as the largest worker protection settlement in New York City history, that we won’t stand by when workers’ rights are violated,” Adams, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Under the agreement, any hourly New York City Chipotle worker is eligible to receive $50 for each week worked between Nov. 26, 2017, and April 30, 2022. Chipotle will also pay $1 million in civil penalties to the city.
“We’re pleased to be able to resolve these issues and believe this settlement demonstrates Chipotle’s commitment to providing opportunities for all of our team members while also complying with the Fair Workweek law” Scott Boatwright, Chipotle’s chief restaurant officer, said in a statement.
Boatwright said the company has taken steps to improve compliance through measures such as improved time-keeping technology and looks forward to “continuing to promote the goals of predictable scheduling and access to work hours for those who want them.”
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Suns vs. Clippers Injury Report Today - April 16
The Phoenix Suns (45-37) will be monitoring just one player on the injury report as they ready for Game 1 of the first round of the NBA playoffs against the Los Angeles Clippers (44-38) at Footprint Center on Sunday, April 16 at 8:00 PM ET.
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These two teams match up for the second straight game after the Clippers defeated the Suns 119-114 on Sunday. In the Clippers' victory, Norman Powell put up 29 points (and added five rebounds and zero assists), while Saben Lee scored 25 in the losing effort for the Suns.
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Suns vs. Clippers Game Info
- When: Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- Where: Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona
- TV: TNT, BSSC, and BSAZ
Suns Season Insights
- The Suns put up only 0.5 more points per game (113.6) than the Clippers allow (113.1).
- Phoenix has a 33-10 record when putting up more than 113.1 points.
- On offense, the Suns have increased their production slightly over their last 10 games, scoring 115.9 points per contest over that span as opposed to the 113.6 they've put up over the course of this year.
- Phoenix makes 12.2 three-pointers per game (13th in the league) compared to its opponents' 11.4. It shoots 37.4% from deep while its opponents hit 35.7% from long range.
- The Suns record 112.1 points per 100 possessions (17th in the league), while allowing 110.1 points per 100 possessions (seventh in the NBA).
Clippers Season Insights
- The Clippers score an average of 113.6 points per game, only 2.0 more points than the 111.6 the Suns give up.
- Los Angeles has put together a 34-8 record in games it scores more than 111.6 points.
- The Clippers are posting 119.0 points per contest over their last 10 games, which is 5.4 more than their average for the season (113.6).
- Los Angeles connects on 12.7 three-pointers per game (10th in the league) compared to its opponents' 12.2. It shoots 38.1% from deep, and its opponents shoot 36.5%.
- The Clippers' 112.4 points per 100 possessions on offense rank 13th in the NBA, and the 112.1 points they allow per 100 possessions rank 17th in the league.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. , May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Heffernan Insurance Brokers, one of the largest full-service, independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States, has acquired Stitz & Associates located in Kirkwood, Missouri. Drew Stitz, President of Stitz & Associates, and the other Stitz team members have joined Heffernan Insurance Brokers' small business division, HeffDirect, effective May 1, 2023.
Founded in 1989, Stitz & Associates focuses on consulting, implementing, and servicing group employer health, individual health and Medicare insurance clients. Serving Missouri and the greater Midwest, Stitz & Associates is a single-source destination for clients providing services that include employee benefits and outsourced backroom solutions for commercial clients, and supplemental and enrollment assistance for individuals.
"Stitz & Associates is fortunate to find such a great partner with the Heffernan team," said Drew Stitz, now a Senior Vice President of Heffernan Insurance Brokers. "I am confident we will be able to add client value from all the additional resources and continue to deliver the same high level of personal service."
"Drew and his team bring experience and expertise in employee benefits and Medicare that are an ideal complement to the services provided by our small business division. We look forward to seeing the continued success and expanded growth for HeffDirect with the addition of Stitz & Associates," said F. Michael Heffernan, President and CEO of Heffernan Insurance Brokers.
As part of the next phase of Heffernan's growth strategy, we are interested in collaborating with privately held independent brokers across the United States. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Matt McKenna, Director of Corporate Development, at 925-746-7962 or matthewmc@heffgroup.com.
About Heffernan Insurance Brokers
Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides insurance and financial services products to a range of businesses and individuals. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., Heffernan has offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Menlo Park, Truckee, Bakersfield, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles and Irvine, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Seattle and Olympia, WA; St. Louis, MO; and London UK.
Employee-owned, Heffernan Insurance Brokers was named the Top Mid-Sized Broker in the United States to work for in 2009 by Business Insurance Magazine. The firm has been among the Top Greater Bay Area Philanthropists since 2003.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, and his wife, who is Black, were used to “the look.” But this time it was more intense.
“There was this white family who was just staring at us, just staring holes in us,” Fleisher recalled.
That fraught moment occurred even though any legal uncertainty about the validity of interracial marriage had ended a decade earlier — in 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning marriages between people of different races.
In the more than half-century since, interracial marriage has become more common and far more accepted. So Fleisher was surprised that Congress felt the need to include an additional protection in the Respect for Marriage Act, which goes to the House for a final vote expected this week. It would ensure that not only same-sex marriages, but also interracial marriages, are enshrined in federal law.
The 74-year-old Fleisher, a retired teacher and children’s book author, attended segregated public schools in the 1950s in the then-Jim Crow South, and later saw what he called “token desegregation” in high school, when four Black students were in his senior class of about 400 students.
He and his wife, Debra Sims Fleisher, 73, live outside Richmond, about 50 miles from Caroline County, where Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were arrested and charged in 1958 with marrying out of state and returning to Virginia, where interracial marriage was illegal. Their challenge to the law led to Loving v. Virginia, the landmark ruling that ended bans against interracial marriages.
The Respect for Marriage Act, which passed the Senate l ast week, has been picking up steam since June, when the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion. The ruling included a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas that suggested the high court should review other precedent-setting rulings, including the 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
While much of the attention has been focused on protections for same-sex marriages, interracial couples say they are glad Congress also included protections for their marriages, even though their right to marry was well-established decades ago.
“It’s a little unnerving that these things where we made such obvious progress are now being challenged or that we feel we have to really beef up the bulwark to keep them in place,” said Ana Edwards, a historian who lives in Richmond.
Edwards, 62, who is Black, and her husband, Phil Wilayto, 73, who is white, have been married since 2006. Both have been community activists for years and said they didn’t consider interracial marriage a potentially vulnerable institution until the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.
“That reminds all of us that whatever rights we have in this society are conditional — they can be taken away,” said Wilayto. ”The fact that Congress had to take up this issue in 2022 should be a stark reminder of that fact for us.”
For younger interracial couples, the thought that their right to marry could ever be threatened is a foreign concept.
“We never in our wildest dreams thought we would need to be protected as an interracial couple,” said Derek Mize, a 42-year-old white attorney who lives in an Atlanta suburb with his husband, Jonathan Gregg, 41, who is Black, and their two children.
As a same-sex couple, they were at the forefront of the long struggle for acceptance and felt the elation that followed the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country.
Still, they see the need for new protections for interracial marriages as well.
“We’re really relieved that there is this law,” Mize said. “Protections through the courts and protections through the legislation certainly helps us sleep better at night.”
Mize said he remembers studying Loving v. Virginia in law school and thought then that it was “ridiculous” that there had to be litigation over marriages between people of different races. But after he read the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, he said: “Who knows where it will stop?”
Gregg, a management consultant, said he sees the Respect for Marriage Act as “an added level of safety” for same-sex and interracial marriages — a federal law and Supreme Court rulings supporting their right to marry.
“You’ve got two ways to be OK,” he said. “They have to take down both of them in order for your marriage to fall apart.”
Angelo Villagomez, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the think tank Center for American Progress, said it was “unthinkable” that his marriage could become illegal. Villagomez, who is of mixed white and Indigenous Mariana Islands descent, and his wife, Eden Villagomez, 38, who is Filipina, live in Washington, D.C.
But after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, “it feels like some of those things that have just been taken for granted … are under threat,” said Villagomez, whose parents, also a mixed-race couple, were married in the 1970s, not long after the Loving decision.
Villagomez worries about what could come next. “If we don’t put a stop to some of this backsliding, this country is gonna go to a very dark place,” he said.
“I’m worried about what else is on the chopping block.”
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Associated Press reporter Claire Savage contributed to this report from Chicago.
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ONTARIO, Ontario (AP) — ONTARIO, Ontario (AP) — Waste Connections Inc. (WCN) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $194.4 million.
The Ontario, Ontario-based company said it had net income of 75 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 89 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 88 cents per share.
The solid waste services provider posted revenue of $1.87 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.85 billion.
Waste Connections expects full-year revenue of $8.05 billion.
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#SmallTownSneakerhead
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hibbett, Inc.(NASDAQ: HIBB), an athletic-inspired fashion retailer with nearly 1,100 Hibbett and City Gear specialty stores nationwide, today announced the launch of the 2022 season of Small-Town Sneakerhead (STSH). The new episode takes viewers to Lafayette, Louisiana where they meet up with Reggie Ward, a 41-year-old, single-father, Emergency Management Training Specialist and self-proclaimed sneakerhead.
With cameras rolling in his house, Ward shows viewers some favorite pick-ups in his vast sneaker portfolio including several Air Max collabs and Louisiana-themed pairs like the Crawfish SB, Gumbo League Kobe and Jordan ASG. Many of the nearly 400-pairs are on display in his 'showroom' as he calls it and floor to ceiling boxes line his 'stockroom.'
"I started getting into kicks when I was about 9 or 10 because my father always had nice sneakers and it became a family trend from there," said Reggie Ward. Continuing the tradition with a third generation, Ward introduces viewers to his son Tyler and holds up his first pair of infant Jordan sneakers and another pick-up he is saving for Tyler to grow into.
Next Ward shows us around Lafayette with a visit to his hometown sneaker shop and to grab some local cuisine at Johnson's Boucaniere. He and Tyler enjoy some Boudin, a favorite of locals he explains, that looks like sausage but is stuffed with a mixture of meat and rice. Next, they head out to get some crawfish and viewers get Ward's personal tutorial on how to cook and eat them. "This speaks so much to the culture and how we represent and how we live based on food and well-being," said Ward.
"Our goal with this series is to authentically represent sneakerheads and their hometowns through their lens," said Sarah Sharp-Wangaard, VP Marketing, Hibbett. "It's very meaningful to get the story of where people grew up and how they learned to love sneakers. Reggie talks about his love of crawfish and it really comes together when he shows us his Nike Dunk SB Rukus Crawfish. Sneaker fashion has become a huge part of American culture and with each episode of Small-Town Sneakerhead, we feel more connected to this community in every corner of the country."
"It was enjoyable to bring another STSH episode to life and illustrate the love of sneakers that bonds generations together," said Matt Halfhill, Founder and CEO, Nice Kicks.
About Small-Town Sneakerhead
In 2020, Hibbett launched the Small-Town Sneakerhead project to provide sneakerheads from all walks of life the platform to share their personal sneaker narrative. Produced in partnership with Nike and Nice Kicks, the series highlights the evolving sneaker scene and enthusiasts from across the country. Hibbett has featured collectors from East Buffalo, NY, Cheyenne, WY, Hampton, VA, Cape Girardeau, MO, Murphy, TX, Hopkinsville, KY and Lafayette, LA, with more coming soon.
About Hibbett, Inc.
Hibbett, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a leading athletic-inspired fashion retailer with 1096 Hibbett and City Gear specialty stores, located in 35 states nationwide. Hibbett has a rich history of convenient locations, personalized customer service and access to coveted footwear, apparel and equipment from top brands like Nike, Jordan, and adidas. Consumers can browse styles, find new releases, shop looks and make purchases online or in their nearest store by visiting www.hibbett.com. Follow us @hibbettsports and @citygear on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Media Contact: Wendy Yellin, PR@Hibbett.com
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Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Announces Official Pack Date for 2023
ATLANTA, March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The start of Vidalia onion season is almost here, with the official pack date announced by the Georgia Agriculture Commissioner and Vidalia Onion Committee today. Vidalia onion fans across the country can mark their calendars for April 17, when the sweet onions are set to ship to grocery stores across the country.
"I'm pleased to announce, in coordination with the Vidalia Onion Committee, April 17, 2023, as the official pack date of the 2023 Vidalia onion season," said Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper. "It's an exciting time for farmers and producers in our state and for consumers across the country as we look forward to enjoying the sweet onion once again. The Vidalia onion has become a sought-after ingredient by professional chefs and home cooks alike, and we're proud to grow them right here in Georgia."
Vidalia onions are available for a limited time each year, between April through early September. As America's favorite sweet onion, many look forward to this time of year. The pack date is determined by soil and weather conditions during the growing season, which contributes to high quality Vidalia onions. The Vidalia Onion Advisory Panel voted April 17 as the 2023 pack date.
Known for their sweet, crisp flavor and versatility, Vidalia onions are a seasonal treat suitable in a variety of dishes – from savory to sweet! Because of the unique combination of weather, water and soil in 20 South Georgia counties, Vidalia onions cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world – while all Vidalia's are sweet onions, not all sweet onions are Vidalia's!
"For the 2023 season, we have 10,000 acres of Vidalia onions planted in the production area," said VOC Chairman Cliff Riner. "Over the past few years, sweet onion sales have continued to increase, with Vidalia onions being a big part of the market. We're looking forward to another great season this year."
For more than 80 years, Vidalia onions have been hand-planted, harvested and cured by growers. The Vidalia Onion Act of 1986 established their growing region in South Georgia and trademarked the "Vidalia onion" name. Vidalia onions are grown from a distinctive Granex seed, then packed and sold on or after the official pack date annually.
About the Vidalia® Onion Committee
Because Vidalia® onions are sweetly unique, farmers united to seek legal protection for their crop and its name. Federal Marketing Order No. 955 was established in 1989, to stipulate where the crop can be grown and help with research and promotion of Vidalia onions. The Vidalia Onion Committee administers FMO No. 955 and authorizes production research, marketing research and development and marketing promotion programs. This federal program along with Georgia state laws that protect the Vidalia trademark have provided a legal framework for the industry. So, you can try to grow a sweet onion elsewhere, but you cannot call it a "Vidalia," unless it is from Georgia! For more information, visit VidaliaOnion.org.
About the GDA
The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) is the voice of the state's agriculture community. The department's mission is to provide excellence in services and regulatory functions, to protect and promote agriculture and consumer interests, and to ensure an abundance of safe food and fiber for Georgia, America, and the world by using state-of-the-art technology and a professional workforce. For more information, visit www.agr.georgia.gov.
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Matthew Agvent, Georgia Department of Agriculture
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Authorities investigating after 2 free divers drown off Hawaii coast
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - Two free divers drowned early Sunday after they got into trouble in the waters off Hawaii, according to authorities.
KHNL reports the victims were in-laws, one 29 years old while the other was 28.
Officials said the 29-year-old was pulled from the water off Oahu’s North Shore around 4:30 a.m., hours after he had gone missing. The 28-year-old man was found about two hours later. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.
Huakakai Keohuloa, who has been swimming in the area for more than 20 years, said the waters there can be treacherous.
“I can see how it could happen very easily,” Keohuloa said. “There’s a really shallow reef. It’s about ankle deep. It will crack the skull no problem.”
The Honolulu Fire Department was called about the missing divers around 3:40 a.m. and responded with five units staffed with 16 personnel.
Logan Dixon, a dive instructor on the North Shore, said just having a partner with you in the water is not enough.
“The more divers you have out in the water, usually that’s more eyes on the spot,” Dixon said. “Safety in numbers.”
Locals said signs have been posted warning swimmers of strong currents.
Officials are conducting an investigation to determine exactly how the men died.
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The debate over gun control is taking center stage again following a series of shootings across the U.S. Today, Philadelphia's district attorney called for more action against gun violence after three people were killed and nearly a dozen others were wounded in a shooting in the city this past weekend. Hear more from the D.A. and PA lawmakers, tonight on 69 News at 5:00.
Also at 5:00, the last remaining survivor of D-Day in the Lehigh Valley reflects on the invasion of Normandy on this 78th anniversary of the historic day. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/weekday-newsletter-headlines/69-news-at-5-00---philadelphia-district-attorney-calls-for-more-gun-control/article_c37203a0-da1f-502a-a426-78aaba3c7f86.html | 2022-06-06 21:15:41 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/weekday-newsletter-headlines/69-news-at-5-00---philadelphia-district-attorney-calls-for-more-gun-control/article_c37203a0-da1f-502a-a426-78aaba3c7f86.html |
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West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 45 to 51. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph
in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 61 to 69. West winds up to 15 mph.
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Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 50. West winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
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63 to 71. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 68 to 76. Lows in the
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lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 76 to 84. Lows in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 84 to 92. Lows in the
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mid 60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 81 to 93. Lows in
the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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San Luis Reservoir 50 69 51 70 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ301-091100-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
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Including the city of Los Banos
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
5 to 20 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows
around 60.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 90s.
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Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows
in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Los Banos 50 71 48 73 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ302-091100-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
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Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in
the upper 50s.
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.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows
in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows
in the lower 60s.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 48 72 46 75 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 49 73 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 49 72 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
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Madera 49 73 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
Firebaugh 48 73 46 76 / 0 0 0 0
Mendota 49 73 46 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ303-091100-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in
the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
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.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows
in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 48 72 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
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Le Grand 49 72 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ304-091100-
Coalinga - Avenal-
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Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. East winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 5 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in
the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Coalinga 51 72 48 75 / 0 10 0 0
Avenal 52 71 49 75 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ305-091100-
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West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds up to 10 mph
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shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
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the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows
around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 51 73 48 77 / 0 0 0 0
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Five Points 51 73 47 77 / 0 0 0 0
NAS Lemoore 50 73 47 77 / 0 0 0 0
Kettleman City 52 73 49 76 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ306-091100-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
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1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
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5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
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the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in
the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 50 73 50 76 / 0 0 0 0
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Kingsburg 50 73 49 76 / 0 0 0 0
Sanger 50 73 49 75 / 0 0 0 0
Kerman 50 73 46 76 / 0 0 0 0
Caruthers 50 73 48 76 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ307-091100-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
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1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
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5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows
around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 51 73 50 75 / 0 0 0 0
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Fresno 52 74 51 76 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ308-091100-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
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Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 46 to 52. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 63 to 71. Southeast winds up to
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10 mph shifting to the west with gusts to around 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows 44 to 50. West winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph decreasing to 10 to
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15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 75. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
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5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 70 to 78. Lows in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 78 to 86. Lows in the
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lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 86 to 94.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 67.
Highs 84 to 96.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 48 72 46 75 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 49 73 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 49 72 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
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Madera 49 73 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ309-091100-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
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Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 20 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in
the upper 50s.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Lost Hills 48 73 47 75 / 0 10 10 0
Buttonwillow 50 74 49 76 / 0 10 10 0
$$
CAZ310-091100-
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Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
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5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
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5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
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5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in
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the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 47 73 46 75 / 0 10 10 0
Allensworth 47 74 46 76 / 0 10 10 0
Wasco 47 73 48 75 / 0 10 10 0
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Delano 47 73 48 75 / 0 10 10 0
McFarland 47 73 48 75 / 0 10 10 0
Shafter 48 73 48 75 / 0 10 10 0
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Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
the lower 50s.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in
the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
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60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 50 73 47 76 / 0 0 0 0
Hanford 50 75 49 77 / 0 0 0 0
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Corcoran 47 74 47 77 / 0 10 10 0
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CAZ312-091100-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
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Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds up to
15 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows
around 60.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Reedley 49 73 49 75 / 0 10 10 0
Dinuba 49 73 49 75 / 0 10 10 0
Visalia 49 73 49 75 / 0 10 10 0
Exeter 48 73 49 75 / 0 0 0 0
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Tulare 50 74 49 76 / 0 10 10 0
Lindsay 48 73 49 75 / 0 10 10 0
Porterville 48 73 50 75 / 0 10 10 0
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Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 74. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts to around 45 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph after midnight.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 76. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the north 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 74 to 80. Lows in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 81 to 87. Lows in the
lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 91 to 97.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs 90 to 98.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Taft 52 71 53 73 / 0 10 10 0
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CAZ314-091100-
Bakersfield-
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Including the city of Bakersfield
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in
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the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
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5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in
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the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 51 73 52 75 / 0 10 10 0
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Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
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up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
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5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds up to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds up
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to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows
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around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 47 72 48 74 / 0 10 10 0
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South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to
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15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
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partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 76. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
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5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in
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the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs 91 to 97.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 50 74 52 75 / 0 10 10 0
Lamont 50 75 51 75 / 0 10 10 0
Mettler 50 73 53 73 / 0 10 10 0
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CAZ317-091100-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
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1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds up to
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15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds up to
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15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows
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in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows
around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 45 63 44 65 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ318-091100-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
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Oakhurst, and North Fork
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 40 to 46. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 56 to 64. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 39 to 45. North winds up to
15 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 67. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 48. West winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 64 to 72. Lows 47 to
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53.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 72 to 80. Lows 53 to 59.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 77 to 89. Lows
56 to 64.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 42 65 41 67 / 0 10 0 0
Bass Lake 39 60 39 62 / 0 10 10 0
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Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 66 to 72. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 68 to 74. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 73 to 79. Lows in the
mid 50s.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 81 to 87. Lows in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 94.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
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60s. Highs 88 to 96.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 49 70 48 72 / 0 0 0 0
Three Rivers 47 72 48 73 / 0 10 10 0
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Springville 44 66 45 67 / 0 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 50 70 49 70 / 0 10 10 0
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Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 41 to 49. Northwest winds up to
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10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 53 to 65. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
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39 to 47. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northeast
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 55 to 67. South winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 51. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 63 to 73. Lows
48 to 56.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 70 to 80. Lows 52 to 62.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 76 to 88. Lows
56 to 66.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 54 to 64.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 87.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 49 63 46 65 / 0 0 0 0
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South End Sierra Foothills-
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds up to
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10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
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in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in
the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows
in the mid 50s.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in
the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
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60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
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South End of the Lower Sierra-
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Including the city of Camp Nelson
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 47. North winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs 54 to 64. West winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
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partly cloudy. Lows 40 to 46. West winds up to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 64. West winds up to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 49. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight. Gusts up to
30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 63 to 71.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 54.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 71 to 79. Lows 54 to 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 76 to 87. Lows
58 to 64.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 57 to 63.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 85.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 39 52 39 52 / 0 10 10 0
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Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
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1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 18 to 32. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to
around 40 mph shifting to the southeast with gusts to around
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25 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms
and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 34 to 48. South winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 20 to 32. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 50. North winds up to
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10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 23 to 35. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 44 to 58. Lows
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29 to 41.
.FRIDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 49 to 65.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to
48. Highs 51 to 69.
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.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 50 to 68. Lows
33 to 47.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 19 45 22 46 / 0 10 10 10
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Wawona 35 61 35 62 / 0 10 10 0
Hetch Hetchy 36 58 38 59 / 10 10 10 10
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Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 34 to 40. East winds up to 5 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 51 to 61. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 41. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to
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the northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 63. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 44. West winds up to
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5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 61 to 71. Lows
44 to 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 68 to 78. Lows 48 to 54.
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.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 72 to 82. Lows
49 to 57.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 71 to 81. Lows
50 to 56.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 34 65 35 66 / 0 10 10 0
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San Joaquin River Canyon-
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 34 to 44. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to
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the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 52 to 60. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
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partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 43. Southwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 62. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 46. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 60 to 68. Lows
43 to 51.
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.FRIDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 67 to 77.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to
58. Highs 71 to 81.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 81.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 47 to 57.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 79.
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Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 18 to 30. South winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to
40 mph decreasing to 25 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms
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and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 33 to 47. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 31. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
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shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 47. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 22 to 34. West winds 5 to
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10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 42 to 56. Lows
27 to 39.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 46 to 66.
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Lows 30 to 44.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 48 to 64. Lows
31 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Devils Postpile 23 44 25 44 / 0 20 20 10
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Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
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Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
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cloudy. Lows 21 to 31. South winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs 36 to 48. South winds up to 10 mph shifting
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to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 21 to 31. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 37 to 49. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 25 to 35. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 46 to 58. Lows
30 to 40.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 68.
Lows 34 to 46.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 68.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 45.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 53 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Huntington Lake 30 44 30 45 / 0 10 10 0
Shaver Lake 35 50 34 52 / 0 10 10 0
Lake Wishon 29 48 30 49 / 0 10 10 0
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Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 16 to 26. Southwest winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to
40 mph decreasing to 25 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in
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the afternoon. Highs 30 to 44. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 26. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 30 to 44. Northwest winds 5 to
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15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 29. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight. Gusts up to
25 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 38 to 52. Lows
25 to 35.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 42 to 59. Lows
28 to 38.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 40. Highs
42 to 58.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 29 to 39.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 59.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 33 61 34 61 / 0 10 10 0
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Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
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cloudy. Lows 29 to 41. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 41 to 55. West winds up to
10 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 40. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 41 to 55. Northwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 32 to 44. Northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east
after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 50 to 64. Lows
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37 to 49.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 57 to 75.
Lows 40 to 56.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 60 to 74.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 42 to 54.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 59 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 35 46 34 48 / 0 10 10 0
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Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
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1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 35. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 33 to 49. Southwest winds up to
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10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
becoming partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 33. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 33 to 49. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 37. North winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 41 to 57. Lows
23 to 43.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 46 to 67.
Lows 27 to 49.
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.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 45 to 67. Lows
28 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 28 49 28 49 / 0 10 10 0
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South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
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1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 26 to 40. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 44 to 58. Southwest winds up to
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15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 40. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 55 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 45 to 57. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 42. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
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.THURSDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 52 to 66.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 48.
.FRIDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 59 to 73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 56. Highs
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59 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 33 62 35 60 / 0 10 10 0
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Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 64 to 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph
increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. West
winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy, sunny. Highs 62 to 68. West winds 10 to
15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy, clear. Patchy blowing dust in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
to around 40 mph becoming northwest 5 to 15 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 72 to 78. Lows in the
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lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 80 to 86. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 84 to 90. Lows in
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the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 37 51 37 49 / 0 10 10 0
Kernville 43 70 45 68 / 0 10 10 0
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Lake Isabella 46 69 48 67 / 0 10 10 0
Weldon 45 69 47 67 / 0 10 10 0
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Piute Walker Basin-
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 45. West winds 5 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 64. West winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
becoming partly cloudy. Lows 36 to 46. West winds 10 to 25 mph
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with gusts to around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy, sunny. Highs 51 to 63. West winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy, clear. Patchy blowing dust in the
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evening. Lows 37 to 47. West winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the
northwest 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Gusts up to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 61 to 71. Lows 42 to
52.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 70 to 80. Lows 48 to 58.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 72 to 86. Lows
53 to 63.
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Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 46. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 64. West winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Patchy blowing dust after
midnight. Lows 39 to 47. West winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 50 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy, sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the morning.
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Highs 52 to 64. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around
50 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy, clear. Patchy blowing dust in the
evening. Lows 39 to 47. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
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around 50 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
40 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 61 to 71. Lows 44 to
52.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 70 to 80. Lows 50 to 58.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 75 to 87. Lows
56 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
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Bear Valley Springs 39 56 40 55 / 0 20 20 0
Tehachapi 39 60 40 57 / 0 10 10 0
Twin Oaks 45 64 46 62 / 0 10 10 0
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Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 64. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
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winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
54 to 64. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 61 to 69. Lows in the
upper 40s.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 70 to 78. Lows in the mid
50s.
.SATURDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 78 to 88.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
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60s. Highs 75 to 88.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 45 66 46 67 / 0 10 10 0
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Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1101 PM PDT Mon May 8 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 49. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 53 to 65. North winds up to
15 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 37 to 49. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
53 to 67. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the
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morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 50. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 58 to 70. Lows 43 to
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53.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 67 to 79. Lows 50 to 60.
.SATURDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 74 to 88.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 67.
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to around 40 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Breezy. Sunny in the morning then becoming partly
sunny. Highs 74 to 80. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to
around 25 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around
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midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 15 to 30 mph with
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.WEDNESDAY...Breezy, sunny. Highs 74 to 80. West winds 15 to
25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Windy. Mostly clear. Patchy blowing dust in
the evening. Lows around 50. West winds 15 to 30 mph decreasing
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 86.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 93.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
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.TUESDAY...Breezy. Sunny in the morning then becoming partly
sunny. Highs 61 to 73. West winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the
southwest 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 40 mph.
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clearing. Patchy blowing dust. Lows 43 to 51. West winds 20 to
35 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Windy, sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Highs 59 to 71.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Windy, clear. Patchy blowing dust in the
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 68 to 80. Lows 49 to
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.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 79 to 91. Lows
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to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY...Windy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph increasing to
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20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Windy. Mostly clear. Patchy blowing dust. Lows
in the upper 40s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to
around 45 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Windy, clear. Patchy blowing dust in the
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decreasing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows 49 to 55.
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.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 90s.
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California City 45 74 48 72 / 0 0 0 0
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“Cyclone” in 1923 part of Pineville history
In April of 1923, 13 people were killed and many houses and businesses were destroyed or damaged by the “Cyclone” that hit the Pineville area down by the levee. Three Red Cross stations quickly assembled to help. | http://klax-tv.com/cyclone-in-1923-part-of-pineville-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyclone-in-1923-part-of-pineville-history | 2022-07-29 01:05:27 | 1 | http://klax-tv.com/cyclone-in-1923-part-of-pineville-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyclone-in-1923-part-of-pineville-history |
Leading Cyber C-UAS provider and its Counter-Drone solution, EnforceAir recognized as having "created a technology protecting scenarios from modern drone safety threats"
RA'ANANA, Israel and MCLEAN, Va. , June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Fend Solutions, the leader in counter-drone, radio frequency cyber-based takeover technology, today announced that The Globee® Awards, the organizers of the world's premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named D-Fend Solutions as a recipient of the 2022 Disruptor Company and Disruptor Product awards within the Aerospace & Defense category. The company was also awarded The Grand Trophy Globee® Award, which is specially awarded by The Globee's Editors. These prestigious global awards recognize disruptive technologies and innovative solutions that are transforming experiences everywhere.
"We are gratified by the validation and recognition from winning this year's Globee® Disruptor Awards," said Jeffrey Starr, D-Fend Solutions' Chief Marketing Officer. "The Globee criteria of transformation, persistence and moving beyond legacy systems, traditional constraints, and existing ways, all while taking on huge challenges to solve big pains, specifically in the defense and public safety arena, is in perfect alignment with our vision, mission, and operational solution set."
About the Globee Disruptor Company and Disruptor Product Awards
Disruptors are companies that have the potential and competence to displace existing solutions, companies, and even entire industries. Disruptive products, services, technologies, and solutions are transforming experiences everywhere while end-user needs are continuously evolving. Legacy systems are not always fast enough to accept and respond to such needs.
Disruptors are highly persistent, acting without the constraints of traditionally accepted processes or business models. They use technology and modern tools to achieve end results and are not hindered by existing ways of industry stalwarts. They are ready to take on an enormous challenge and find solutions for the biggest pain points.
About D-Fend Solutions
D-Fend Solutions is the leading counter-drone, cyber-takeover technology provider, enabling full control, safety and continuity during rogue drone incidents across complex and sensitive environments, to overcome both current and emerging drone threats. With hundreds of deployments worldwide, EnforceAir, the company's flagship offering, focuses on the most dangerous drone threats in military, public safety, airport, prison, major event and critical infrastructure environments. D-Fend Solutions' technology has been chosen as best-in-class and is in deployment at top-tier U.S. government agencies – including with U.S. military, federal law enforcement and homeland security – as well as major international airports globally. EnforceAir autonomously executes RF, cyber-takeovers of rogue drones for a safe landing and outcome, ensuring the smooth flow of communications, commerce, transportation and everyday life.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Sirens wailed and church bells rang as the presidents of Germany, Israel and Poland bowed their heads Wednesday before a memorial to Jewish insurgents who fought a mismatched, desperate battle against Nazi German forces in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Celebrations of the uprising’s 80th anniversary honored the hundreds of young Jews who took up arms in the Polish capital in 1943, choosing to fight and die at a time and place not dictated by the Nazis. Most were killed, and none of those who survived the fighting are still alive.
“I stand before you today and ask for forgiveness,” German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at the site of the former ghetto.
“The appalling crimes that Germans committed here fill me with deep shame. But at the same time it fills me with gratitude and humility that I can take part in this commemoration as the first German head of state ever.”
The leaders were joined by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, amid a poignant sense that the responsibility for carrying on the memory of the Holocaust is passing from the witnesses to younger generations.
A 96-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor, Marian Turski, told those gathered that German forces did the unimaginable in annihilating Jews, but that the “subsoil” of anti-Semitism existing for centuries made it possible for the Germans to kill so many. He warned against indifference in the face of rising hatred and violence in today’s world.
“Can I be indifferent, can I remain silent, when today the Russian army is attacking our neighbor and seizing its land?” he said.
Steinmeier said the lessons of his country’s aggression offer a message amid the war.
“You in Poland, you in Israel, you know from your history that freedom and independence must be fought for and defended,” Steinmeier said. “But we Germans have also learned the lessons of our history. ‘Never again’ means that there must be no criminal war of aggression like Russia’s against Ukraine in Europe.”
Jewish and Christian clerics recited prayers and a torch burned from a part of the memorial resembling a Jewish menorah.
A large group held private unofficial observances at other sites across the former ghetto. For some it was a boycott of the right-wing government for its policy of portraying the predominant response to the Holocaust as one in which Poles saved Jews. That approach has been a source of tensions with Israel, where many accuse the Polish government of ignoring modern scholarship, which paints a complex picture that also includes many cases of Polish betrayal of Jews.
Veronique Felenbok, the daughter of Paul Felenbok, a child survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who died two years ago, objected to the religious aspect of the official observances. She said she found the prayers disrespectful given that many of the fighters belonged to socialist and communist movements and were not religious.
The Germans invaded Poland in 1939 and the next year set up the ghetto, the largest of many in occupied Poland.
Poland was home to Europe’s largest prewar Jewish population on the eve of the Holocaust, some 3.5 million Jews, most of whom were murdered. The Polish state preserves sites like the ghetto and the Auschwitz death camp, while also honoring the massive losses inflicted on the entire nation. Some 6 million Polish citizens were killed during the war, about 3 million of them Jews and the others mostly Christian Poles.
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog mentioned in his remarks the “disagreements and pain” that still exist between the Jewish and Polish people over their clashing historical narratives, and voiced hope their friendship would advance.
“The heroism of the resistance and the rebels and the imperative to remember that terrible chapter of history, when the Jewish people faced complete annihilation, and destruction rained down upon Poland and many other countries, offer a platform for important dialogue between Poland and Israel,” Herzog said.
The Warsaw ghetto initially held some 380,000 Jews who were cramped into tight living spaces, and at its peak housed about half a million people. Disease and starvation were rampant, and bodies often appeared on the streets.
The Jewish resistance movement in the ghetto grew after 265,000 men, women and children were rounded up in the summer of 1942 and killed at the Treblinka death camp. As word of the Nazi genocide spread, those who remained behind no longer believed German promises they would be sent to labor camps.
A small group of rebels began to spread calls for resistance, carrying out isolated acts of sabotage and attacks. Some Jews began defying German orders to report for deportation.
The uprising began when the Nazis entered the ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of the Passover holiday. Three days later, the Nazis set the ghetto ablaze, turning it into a fiery death trap, but the Jewish fighters kept up their struggle for nearly a month before they were vanquished.
Avi Valevski, a professor of psychiatry from Israel whose father Ryszard Walewski was a doctor who led a group of some 150 fighters in the revolt, visited Warsaw with his wife, describing it as “more than an emotional moment.”
Valevski, 72, is working to carry on a history that his father rarely spoke to him about, but also carries an emotional burden. He was young when his father became ill and died in 1971, but today pores through the documentation his father left behind, and is trying to get one of his stories translated into English and published.
“He was quite proud of his fight against the ‘Nazi beast’ — his words — but I suppose that the feeling of apprehension entered my soul until now,” Valevski said.
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The church shooting Thursday in Alabama is just the latest recent high-profile shooting in May and June, starting with a racist attack that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Some of the more notable episodes of gun violence in recent weeks:
VESTAVIA HILLS, ALABAMA
At least two people died and another was hospitalized after a shooting Thursday evening at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in a Birmingham suburb. Police said a suspect is in custody.
DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS
Police shot and killed a man who fired gunshots Monday at a Dallas-area gymnasium where at least 150 children were attending a day camp.
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
Three people died and 14 people were injured in a shooting June 5 in front of a restaurant. Three people have been arrested.
PHILADELPHIA
Three people died and 11 others were injured June 4 on a busy block in Philadelphia during a melee that began with a fistfight and was followed by random gunfire. Two men are in custody in two of the deaths; other people have also been arrested in connection with the melee.
DAYTON, OHIO
A jail inmate being treated at a hospital shot and killed a security guard June 1, pointed the weapon at others and killed himself in a parking lot.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
A gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at a medical office June 1. The gunman killed himself as police arrived.
UVALDE, TEXAS
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School on May 24 in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. More than 15 other people were wounded. Law enforcement killed the attacker.
CHICAGO
A shooting killed two people and injured seven others on May 19 just blocks from the Magnificent Mile shopping district. Two men have been charged.
LAGUNA WOODS, CALIFORNIA
One person was killed and five others injured May 15 after a man opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners in Southern California. Authorities have said the gunman was motivated by hatred for Taiwan. He has been charged with murder and other counts.
BUFFALO, NEW YORK
A white gunman opened fire May 14 at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, killing 10 people and injuring others. He has been charged with federal hate crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/A-list-of-recent-high-profile-shootings-in-the-US-17247765.php | 2022-06-17 04:42:37 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/A-list-of-recent-high-profile-shootings-in-the-US-17247765.php |
Alternative Credit Decisions gives Fraugster customers access to AI enriched data that increases approval rates, reduces credit bureau costs and provides industry and region specific insight
BERLIN, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fraugster, an AI payment intelligence company, today announced the launch of their latest product, Alternative Credit Decisions, which allows Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and Enterprise merchants to approve more customers without increasing credit risk. There is a pressing need for a new approach because BNPLs are reporting much higher bad debt impairment rates than credit cards. For every $1 Bn of processing volume BNPLs write down $19.2 Mn of bad debt compared to $270k per billion for credit cards. At the same time, millions of good customers worldwide continue to experience service denials because BNPL providers and e-commerce merchants are unable to accurately determine their level of risk. This includes a significant proportion of returning shoppers who are treated as if they are buying something online for the first time. This is happening because credit decisions are missing important data.
Alternative Credit Decisions enriches BNPL credit scoring models with over 100 attributes that give a more accurate picture of a buyer's true credit risk. These include highly valuable data points like a buyer's positive transaction history, account history, purchase history and unpaid amounts. This is made possible by global network intelligence and real-time graph networks.
Christian Mangold, Fraugster CEO, says: "Our mission is simple, we want our customers to feel confident that they can trust the person they are approving to repay the amount they are borrowing. The positive results we are already seeing with trial customers make me confident that we can help the e-commerce ecosystem approve more customers without increasing exposure to loan defaults."
Fraugster customers won't only benefit from more accurate decisions, but also reduced costs. Currently, BNPLs and enterprise merchants broadly use credit bureau checks to increase their confidence in an approval decision and pay a fee for each check. Alternative Credit Decisions reduces the need for these checks altogether to save costs and improve accuracy. The product also helps customers rationalise other third party data vendor costs.
To find out more about Alternative Credit Decisions please visit: https://www.fraugster.com/products/alternative-credit-decisions.
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Fraugster is a Berlin based payment intelligence company. Fraugster enables the world's leading merchants, global payment companies like Worldline and Ratepay to intelligently manage the impact of fraud to minimize the costs of fraud, maximize revenue and improve customer experience. Fraugster has developed one of the most accurate AI compliance, risk and fraud management and revenue uplift platforms in the market and is backed by leading deeptech investors Earlybird, Speedinvest, CommerzVentures and Munich Re Ventures. Further information can be found at https://www.fraugster.com.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it test-fired long-range cruise missiles off its eastern coast a day earlier, adding to a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations as its rivals step up military training.
The launches, which were later confirmed by South Korea’s military, were intended to verify the reliability of the missiles and the rapid-response capabilities of the unit that operates those weapons, North Korean state media said.
The launches took place as the U.S. and South Korea held a simulation in Washington aimed at sharpening their response to North Korean nuclear threats.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said the four missiles flew for nearly three hours after being launched from the northeastern coast, drew oval and figure-eight patterns above the sea, and showed they can hit targets 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) away.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the flight details announced by North Korea had discrepancies with the readings by U.S. and South Korean intelligence assets, but it didn’t elaborate. It said the allies were continuing to analyze the launches.
Lee Hyojung, spokesperson of Seoul’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, denounced North Korea for escalating its testing activity despite signs of deepening economic isolation and food insecurity.
North Korea first tested a long-range cruise missile system in September 2021 and has implied the missiles are being developed to be armed with nuclear warheads.
It also test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Saturday and a pair of short-range missiles Monday to demonstrate a dual ability to conduct nuclear strikes on South Korea and the U.S. mainland.
North Korea said Monday’s short-range launches were a response to the United States flying B-1B bombers to the region for joint training with South Korean and Japanese warplanes on Sunday in a show of force following the North’s ICBM test.
Prior to the ICBM launch, North Korea vowed an “unprecedentedly” strong response over a series of military drills planned by Seoul and Washington. North Korea has described the annual U.S.-South Korea drills as rehearsals for a potential invasion, although the allies say their exercises are defensive in nature.
Cruise missiles are among a growing number of North Korean weapons and are designed to be maneuverable in flight to evade defenses.
Since the collapse of negotiations with the United States in 2019, North Korea has been accelerating its development of short-range solid-fuel ballistic missiles targeting South Korea, including those that travel on low trajectories that theoretically would be harder to intercept.
North Korea is also trying to develop solid-fuel ICBMs, which could be easier to move on vehicles and can be fired faster than the North’s existing liquid-fuel ICBMs, reducing opportunities for opponents to detect the launches and counter them.
North Korea is coming off a record year in weapons demonstrations with more than 70 ballistic missiles fired, including ICBMs with potential to reach the U.S. mainland. It also conducted what it described as simulated nuclear attacks against South Korean and U.S. targets.
Leader Kim Jong Un doubled down on his nuclear push entering 2023, calling for an “exponential increase” in nuclear warheads, mass production of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons targeting “enemy” South Korea and the development of more advanced ICBMs.
The U.S. Department of Defense and South Korea’s Defense Ministry said their militaries conducted a simulation at the Pentagon on Wednesday that was focused on the possibility of North Korea using nuclear weapons. The allies discussed ways to demonstrate their “strong response capabilities and resolve to response appropriately” to any North Korean nuclear use.
The Americans during the meeting highlighted the Biden administration’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, which states that any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies and partners “will result in the end of that regime,” the U.S. Department of Defense said. It was referring to a legislatively mandated document that spells out U.S. nuclear policy and strategy for the next five to 10 years.
The U.S. and South Korean delegations also visited Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia, where they were briefed on the mission of Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. U.S. officials at the base described such forces as key means of providing U.S. extended deterrence to allies, referring to a commitment to defend them with the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear ones.
Senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Kwon Jong Gun denounced the allies’ simulated exercise and visit to the Georgia submarine base, calling the actions an extension of anti-Pyongyang hostility. Kwon in his statement also complained that the U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting this week to discuss recent North Korean launches.
During the meeting on Monday, the United States and its allies urged the Security Council to condemn the North’s unlawful ballistic activities, while China and Russia blamed Washington for raising animosity by stepping up its military exercises targeting Pyongyang.
“The U.S. should bear in mind that if it persists in its hostile and provocative practices against the DPRK despite the latter’s repeated protest and warning, it can be regarded as a declaration of war against the DPRK,” Kwon said, using the initials of North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
In face of the North’s growing threats, South Korea has been seeking stronger reassurances from the United States that it would swiftly and decisively use its nuclear capabilities to defend its ally from a North Korean nuclear attack.
“The United States will continue to work with (South Korea) to ensure an effective mix of capabilities, concepts, deployments, exercises, and tailored options to deter and, if necessary, respond to coercion and aggression by (North Korea),” the Department of Defense said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said it will resume radiation exposure tests for North Korean escapees who had lived near the North’s northern nuclear testing ground since its first detonation in 2006. Previous tests conducted on 40 escapees found nine people with abnormalities that could indicate high exposure, though no direct link to radiation was established.
The Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group had urged South Korea to resume such tests, saying radiation may have spread by rainfall and groundwater. The U.S. and South Korean officials have said the North Korea is likely preparing to conduct its seventh test at the site in Punggye-ri, which would be the first since 2017.
Lee, the ministry’s spokesperson, said the government plans to provide tests to any of the 881 people who had lived in that North Korean region after 2006 who wish to be tested. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-north-korea-says-it-test-fired-long-range-cruise-missiles/ | 2023-02-24 18:06:05 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-north-korea-says-it-test-fired-long-range-cruise-missiles/ |
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Restoration Inc., a San Diego-based company specializing in mold, fire, and water damage restoration, has announced it will offer Alert Labs' leak and flood prevention technology. Designed to detect and prevent major water incidents before they occur, Alert Labs products have prevented millions of dollars in asset damage since their launch.
Damage caused by water leaks result in $10 billion/year in property losses, according to The American Insurance Association. With climate change, water damage and the associated costs are on the rise. Certified Restoration owner Michael Fahouris wants to help building owners avoid these increasing costs. "Restoring 10,000s of damaged properties has shown us just how expensive water damage events can be, and we've seen how effective Alert Labs' products are in preventing these kinds of scenarios".
Alert Labs' smart sensors protect high-value assets in commercial, multi-residential, medical, government and educational buildings. The manager of a multi-story residential tower in San Diego claims "Since installing the Alert Labs products 6 months ago, we have caught over 10 potentially disastrous leaks, and have already recouped the cost of our investment."
Alert Labs line of leak detection technology features flood, water flow, and humidity sensors as well as an automatic water shut-off valve. These devices monitor building environments and send alerts to the user's phone or computer for leaks, unusual water usage, abnormal temperature, and humidity. Real-time alerts allow property managers and building engineers to take fast action before small events become costly issues.
Within 3 seconds of detecting water, Alert Labs' flood sensor sends alerts to users' devices via cellular connection. With customizable hot and cold thresholds for temperature alerts, the flood sensor minimizes damage from temperature changes as it guards against water damage.
Alert Labs' cellular-based water flow sensors strap onto water meters. Using artificial intelligence, the sensors map out each building's unique water usage patterns and send alerts about unusual water usage. The automatic water shut-off valve works in conjunction with the water flow sensors and can automatically or remotely stop water flow before a larger issue may occur.
Alert Labs' products can be installed in less than one day. The process requires no tools, pipe cutting, wifi, or wired networks. Jordan Edl, Alert Labs' Senior Director of Business
Development, says "We are proud to have Certified Restoration as a partner to sell and install the full range of AlertAQ products in Southern California."
Certified Restoration has been helping commercial and residential property owners throughout San Diego remediate damage caused by fire, water, and mold for over 28 years. Their one-hour emergency response and expertly trained technicians, has made them San Diego's leading choice in emergency restoration with
Alert Labs was founded in 2015 and provides award-winning water intelligence and HVAC monitoring solutions with their technologies proudly manufactured and designed in North America.
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To mark six months of the war in Ukraine, President Biden announced the largest single military aid package for Ukraine yet: $3 billion.
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To mark six months of the war in Ukraine, President Biden announced the largest single military aid package for Ukraine yet: $3 billion.
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A silver lining to the pandemic allowed the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to reimagine its annual Pueblo Film Festival.
After two years of work, the staff at IPCC will unveil the inaugural Indigenous Cultural Arts Festival on Saturday, June 4, and Sunday, June 5.
“We wanted to give the public more culture in one festival,” says Alicia Ortiz, IPCC director of cultural arts and programs. “This is also a chance for people to see the Native American dances. We still don’t have that at our pueblos. It’s a project like this that benefits everyone.”
Ortiz says the event will celebrate culture, community and heritage as the terms and concepts have been used to differentiate the many different civilizations of the Western Hemisphere to recognize, and distinguish, one from another.
She says Indigenous civilizations, for generations upon generations, have developed and perpetuated their distinctive designs and motifs which they can rightfully claim as their heritage.
“Our Indigenous Cultural Arts Festival incorporates the storytelling premise through digital, film, dance and music for performers and producers to be stewards of the Indigenous narrative, to celebrate and proclaim their unique interpretation of culture, community, and heritage,” Ortiz says. “The two-day event will have panel discussions on film.”
There will also be music in the IPCC courtyard.
Ortiz says the film festival will kick off its first block of films with documentary storytelling.
The next block of films is under the back-to-the-basics umbrella and discusses the art behind the camera.
The final block of films will be on the sustainability of culture, preserving the past into the future.
“What we’ve themed was to hit on topics like perseverance and stewardship,” Ortiz says. “The films pertain to the topics and there will be panel discussions after each block of films.”
On Sunday, the two blocks of films will focus on the next generation of storytellers and the power of perseverance.
“Students from IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts) will showcase some films, including short films,” she says.
For both days, there will be music and dance performances from artists from Navajo, Zuni, Sandia/Ho-Chunk, Northern Cheyenne and Apache tribes and pueblos.
“We have the Yellow Bird Indian Dancers from Apache,” Ortiz says. “They are closing out both days performing. They are hoop dancers and bring a different type of dance to the schedule.” | https://www.abqjournal.com/2504221/ipcc-to-launch-inaugural-indigenous-cultural-arts-festival-with-film-d.html | 2022-06-02 01:10:32 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/2504221/ipcc-to-launch-inaugural-indigenous-cultural-arts-festival-with-film-d.html |
Through a new three-way partnership, Cota® Real Wireless Power™ will be integrated within UHF band radio frequency identification tags (RFID tags) with electronic paper. These "Forever Battery" smart tags and digital displays will open up market opportunities through the collaboration of Ossia, Marubun, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Memory Solution (FSM).
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ossia Inc., the company behind FCC-approved Cota® Real Wireless Power™ — the patented technology that delivers power over-the-air, at a distance, and without the need for line-of-sight — today announced that its technology will open up market opportunities in the form of ePaper RFID Tags due to a strategic three-way partnership with Ossia, Marubun, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Memory Solution. The announcement was made during the Consumer Electronics Show, which takes place January 5-8, 2023, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Nevada.
Marubun has a long-standing history and experience in the electronics space and a forward-looking spirit of anticipating future needs by consistently looking one step ahead of the times. The team has been quick to introduce cutting-edge products, technologies, and services from Japan and abroad. Ossia and Marubun have been working together on developing a wirelessly powered IoT sensor receiver that can be embedded within a wide variety of electronic devices.
Fujitsu Semiconductor Memory Solution offers memory products and various solutions primarily on Ferroelectric Random Access Memories (FeRAM). Among these products, one is a battery-less solution using RFID technology. By combining Ossia's Cota technology with FSM's RFID technology, we are working to develop new markets.
"It simply makes good business sense to leverage wireless power for IoT that comes in the many hundreds of thousands, like ESLs and RFIDs," said Satoshi Fujino, Senior Vice President, at Marubun. "Wires and batteries are so limiting that these two devices have been held back from widespread innovation, not to mention adoption. Cota Real Wireless Power makes ESLs and RFIDs truly viable and useful, and opens the door to expand on use cases."
"Ossia is pushing the boundaries of wireless power, and this strategic partnership enables us to power the future — sustainably, practically, and seamlessly — of digital shelf labels and asset tracking systems like smart barcodes, today," said Doug Stovall, CEO at Ossia. "Marubun and FSM are forward-thinking innovators with whom we are honored to be collaborating, and with this announcement at CES, we encourage more leaders who wish to change the status quo to explore and discuss the ways wireless power can help solve world problems."
Cota Real Wireless Power can deliver focused-energy over air to hundreds of RFID tags, asset tracking systems and shelf labels simultaneously and automatically, without user intervention, maintenance, batteries, or wiring. It can be safely used around people and pets, and can be remotely managed via the cloud. Due to its continuous "energy on demand" system, it relieves product engineers of the feature limitations that batteries impose (to extend battery life), and provides the opportunity for the development of more useful innovations, including expanded and deeper data insights.
"We are driven to build new possibilities for a more sustainable world by connecting people, technology, and ideas," reported Kohji Nozoe, Director, Solution Business Dept. at Fujitsu Semiconductor Memory Solution. "Ossia's wireless power technology is world changing. It is transforming the way engineers — and business leaders — are thinking about IoT and sustainability. We anticipate that this collaboration with Marubun and Ossia will spark many ideas and conversations at CES this year."
Ossia's Cota Real Wireless power is regulatory approved to be used at any distance in more than 62 countries, including by the FCC and CE/UKCA; Cota has also earned its 6th CES Innovation Award this year. These achievements enable wireless power adoption across borders and industries around the world.
The FSM Cota Powered ePaper RFID tag prototype will be on display at Ossia's booth at CES, along with a video demonstration.
To explore purchasing and/or licensing opportunities and find out more about Ossia and its award-winning Cota® Real Wireless Power™, visit Ossia's demo room at Booth # 51521 at the CES event at the Las Vegas Convention Center or go to ossia.com.
Ossia Inc. is leading the world on what is possible with wireless power. Ossia's flagship Cota® technology redefines wireless power by safely delivering remote, targeted energy to devices at a distance. Ossia's Cota technology is a patented smart antenna technology that automatically keeps multiple devices charged without any user intervention and enables an efficient and truly wire-free, powered-up world that is always on and always connected. Ossia is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Visit our website at www.ossia.com.
MARUBUN CORPORATION distributes cutting-edge semiconductors, electronic components, electronic equipment and other domestic and foreign electronics products, and provides total solutions in the electronics business from marketing to technology support and delivery. Marubun is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and publicly held on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. we are creating values that only provide as electronics trading company.
For more information, please see: https://www.marubun.co.jp/en/
Fujitsu Semiconductor Memory Solution focuses on high-quality and highly reliable non-volatile memory like Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FeRAM) and Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM). Through our global sales and development network, with sites in Japan and throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas, we offer semiconductor memory solutions to the global marketplace.
For more information, please see: https://www.fujitsu.com/jp/fsm/en/
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until October 24, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Dingdong (Cayman) Limited (NYSE: DDL), if they purchased or acquired the Company's American Depository Shares ("ADS") pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's June 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
If you purchased or acquired ADS of Dingdong as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-ddl/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by October 24, 2022.
Dingdong and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information in its IPO Registration Statement, violating federal securities laws.
The alleged false and misleading statements and omissions include, but are not limited to, that: (i) the Company was disregarding food safety responsibilities, failing to deliver on its stated commitment to provide "fresh" groceries to customers; (ii) the Company's quality control measures were inadequate, exposing it to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's Registration Statement was materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
The case is Mccormack v. Dingdong (Cayman) Ltd., et al, No. 22-cv-7273.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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WWE and the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship will combine to create a $21.4 billion sports entertainment company.
A new publicly traded company will be formed that houses the UFC and WWE brands, with Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. taking a 51% controlling interest in the new company. Existing WWE shareholders will hold a 49% stake.
The companies put the enterprise value of UFC at $12.1 billion and WWE's value at $9.3 billion.
The new business, which does not yet have a name, will be lead by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel. Vince McMahon, executive chairman at WWE, will serve in the same role at the new company. Dana White will continue as president of UFC and Nick Khan will serve as president of WWE.
“Together, we will be a $21+ billion live sports and entertainment powerhouse with a collective fanbase of more than a billion people and an exciting growth opportunity,” McMahon said in a statement on Monday.
The announcement comes after McMahon, the founder and majority shareholder of WWE, returned to the company in January and said that it could be up for sale.
Rumors swirled about who would possibly be interested in buying WWE, with chatter focusing on companies such as Endeavor, Disney, Fox, Comcast, Amazon and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
Media industry analysts viewed WWE as an attractive acquisition target given its global reach and loyal fanbase, which includes everyone from minors to seniors and a wide range of incomes.
The company held its marquee event, WrestleMania, over the weekend. Last year, WWE booked revenue of $1.3 billion.
The company is also a social media powerhouse. It surpassed 16 billion social video views in the final quarter of last year. It has nearly 94 million YouTube subscribers and has more than 20 million followers on TikTok. Its female wrestlers comprise five out of the top 15 most followed female athletes in the world, across Facebook, Twitter & Instagram, led by Ronda Rousey with 36.1 million followers.
WWE had more than 7.5 billion digital and social media views in January and February of this year, up 15% from the same time frame a year ago.
The new company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the “TKO” ticker symbol. Its board will have 11 members, with six being appointed by Endeavor and five being appointed by WWE.
The transaction, which was approved by the boards of Endeavor and WWE, is targeted to close in the second half of the year.
Shares of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., based in Stamford, Connecticut, fell more than 8% before the opening bell. Shares of Endeavor, based in Beverly Hills, California, rose nearly 3%. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/ufc-wwe-combine-form-sports-entertainment-company/507-39c61ec3-a5a0-4d76-912b-b854a9a551ab | 2023-04-03 13:02:23 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/ufc-wwe-combine-form-sports-entertainment-company/507-39c61ec3-a5a0-4d76-912b-b854a9a551ab |
Ilhan Omar to speak at US religious freedom event on Israel fallen soldiers, terror victims memorial day
Yom Hazikaron is an Israeli holiday commemorating fallen soldiers and the victims of terrorist attacks
"Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., will be giving a video speech as an introductory speaker for a U.S. government-backed religious freedom event on Israel’s memorial day for fallen soldiers and terror victims.
Omar, who has a history of making comments targeting Israel, is slated to speak at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) event commemorating Yom Hazikaron. Her name had previously been removed from the event's listed speakers.
Yom Hazikaron is an Israeli holiday commemorating fallen soldiers and the victims of terrorist attacks in the Jewish nation.
Omar's spokesperson Jeremy Slevin told Fox News Digital that Omar will be speaking at the event.
"Rep. Omar will be delivering virtual remarks at the event, just like Sen. Rubio," Slevin said.
A spokesperson for USCIRF told Fox News Digital the "had a change in date to May 1, 2023."
"This event is being held virtually and we invite all members of Congress to provide remarks, as they wish, for USCIRF’s annual report rollout," the spokesperson said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., an outspoken critic of Omar, was also listed as a speaker but will now be providing video remarks instead of speaking at the event.
Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jim McGovern is also one of the opening speakers of the event alongside USCIRF chair Nury Turkel and commissioner Frank Wolf.
Omar is a staunch, open critic of Israel and her controversial statements only became more enflamed during the recent conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian Authority-backed terror group Hamas.
Thousands of rockets flew indiscriminately into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as the Israeli forces retaliated with their own, targeted air strikes. The fighting came after clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in Jerusalem over potential evictions by the Israeli government.
After weeks of fighting, the two sides declared a ceasefire, but Omar said the fighting stopping was not enough and that the U.S. was "underwriting crimes against humanity" through support for Israel and that there needed to be "accountability for every war crime committed."
Amid the conflict, Omar also accused Israel of engaging in "terrorism" through their airstrikes that tragically killed civilians in the Gaza Strip.
"Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism. Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians. It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid," Omar wrote on Twitter.
In 2019, during her first term in office, Omar came under fire for a since-deleted tweet from 2012, where she wrote "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel."
Omar said the "unfortunate words were the only words" she could "think about expressing at that moment" while referring to the Israeli armed forces’ 2012 operation against Hamas in Gaza. She also defended the comments while speaking to comedian Trevor Noah on "The Daily Show."
Omar, who previously has expressed regret over that tweet, responded by saying she had to "take a deep breath" and "understand where people were coming from and what point they were trying to make."
"What is important in this conversation is that we separate the land, the people, and administrations. When I talk about what we are going wrong in this country, it’s not because I hate this country, it’s not because don’t see myself as American," Omar said. "It’s because I love this country and because I am an American and I want it to do better.
"And so when I talk about places like Saudi Arabia or, you know, Israel, or right now Venezuela, I’m not criticizing the people, I’m not criticizing their faith, I’m not criticizing their way of life. What I am criticizing is what’s happening at the moment and I want for there to be accountability so that the government ... can do better," she continued.
The congresswoman also stirred up intense backlash from both sides of the aisle when she tweeted that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was paying American politicians to support Israel.
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Omar apologized for the tweet, saying her intention is "never to offend" her constituents or Jewish-Americans with her tweets.
"Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes," Omar wrote in a statement. "My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize."
"At the same time," she added, "I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the [National Rifle Association] or the fossil fuel industry. It's gone on too long and we must be willing to address it."
Omar was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this year.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that Omar will be speaking at the conference. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-speak-us-religious-freedom-event-israel-fallen-soldiers-terror-victims-memorial-day | 2023-04-18 18:04:22 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-speak-us-religious-freedom-event-israel-fallen-soldiers-terror-victims-memorial-day |
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A landslide caused by torrential rain killed at least 11 people and left dozens of others missing on an island in Indonesia’s remote Natuna regency on Monday, disaster officials said.
Tons of mud fell from surrounding hills onto houses in Serasan village in Natuna. Rescuers recovered at least 11 bodies and authorities fear that the death toll will rise, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said.
“Many people who need help have not been reached because we still have difficulty accessing the affected areas,” Muhari said, adding that authorities estimated that about 50 people were still missing.
Dozens of soldiers, police and volunteers joined the search in the village, on a remote island surrounded by choppy waters and high waves in the Natuna group at the edge of the South China Sea, said Junainah, who heads emergency relief operations at the local disaster agency.
Downed communications lines and bad weather were hampering the rescue efforts, said Junainah, who uses only one name.
Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and floods in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or in fertile flood plains. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/landslide-in-indonesia-kills-at-least-11-dozens-17822078.php | 2023-03-06 14:18:02 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/landslide-in-indonesia-kills-at-least-11-dozens-17822078.php |
ORCA Also Releasing New Stein, Barrel And Rita Options
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ORCA (Outdoor Recreation Company of America), a leading producer of roto-molded and soft-sided coolers and drinkware for people gathering together outdoors, announced its new summer lineup of drinkware headlined by the ORCA KIC (Keep It Cool) universal beverage holder. The new ORCA drinkware lineup features five barware additions: 28 Oz Stein, 8oz Rita, 24oz Double Barrel & 12oz Barrel, and the 12oz Football Barrel.
In a world that seems to be getting more complicated, ORCA just took the guesswork away when it comes to keeping your drink cool during summer camping and backyard get-togethers. The ORCA KIC is a patent-pending, first-of-its-kind, insulated beverage holder that accommodates 12 oz slim bottles and cans up to 16 oz without having to remove a top. The ORCA KIC is available in black, blaze orange, charcoal, navy, pearl and stainless exclusively at ORCAcoolers.com for $28 MSRP.
"ORCA is committed to making outdoor gatherings better through product innovation. The ORCA KIC allows the same beverage holder to hold any and all of your drinks for the night and keeps you focused on enjoying your company instead of searching through your gear to find the right holder for that next drink," says Billy Power, Brand Manager, ORCA. "Our new drinkware lineup aims to have your drink of choice at its most refreshing and convenient to you."
Also new from ORCA:
28 oz Stein (MRSP: $36)
Get a handle on your thirst with our 28oz STEIN that's a perfect fit for any hot or cold beverage.
- Industry leading cold and heat retention
- BPA-free whale tail flip lid
- Available in 5 colors and finishes
- Customizable with laser etching on sides or handle
8oz Rita (MRSP: $30)
ORCA's new RITA is ready to make the scene to keep your Marg' cold. Drop in our StepFit Straw and you're ready for the beach, poolside, or backyard BBQ!
- Industry leading cold retention
- BPA-free whale tail flip lid
- Available in 5 colors and finishes
- Customizable with laser etching
24oz Double Barrel & 12oz Barrel (MRSP: $34 & $28)
Kick off Game Day with one of our unique Barrels, which are perfect for whiskey, bourbon, or other mixed drinks. Each of our Woodgrain Barrels feature a realistic, textured finish that looks and feels like actual wood!
- Industry leading cold and heat retention
- 24oz DOUBLE BARREL comes with BPA- free whale tail flip lid
- 12oz Original BARREL comes with BPA- free screw-on, spill proof whale tail flip lid
- Available in 5 colors and finishes*
- Customizable with laser etching or full color printing
ORCA is part of the Gathr Outdoors family of brands which is committed to making spending time together outdoors more comfortable and convenient. For more information on ORCA visit, www.ORCAcoolers.com For more information on Gathr Outdoors visit, www.GathrOutdoors.com.
About ORCA
ORCA was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2012. The brand was created by outdoor enthusiasts for outdoor enthusiasts with the goal of creating an American made, roto-molded cooler that could beat out all the rest. Since then, ORCA has fulfilled that goal and taken it a step further with its selection of soft-sided coolers and outdoor drinkware. In addition, ORCA guarantees every one of its coolers for life. Whether you are a hunter, angler, camper, beach bum, soccer mom, sports fan, or anything in between, ORCA has something for all of life's adventures.
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BURNSVILLE, Minn., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inspired Spine, a global leader in minimally invasive spinal surgery, hosted their Trans Kambin OLLIF lab Monday July 3rd at Sana Regio Pinneberg Klinikum in Pinneberg Germany. This marks the third international lab hosted by Inspired Spine this year, where Dr. Hamid Abbasi, along with esteemed surgeons Dr. Amir Sharif and Dr. Thomas Demmel, lead the event.
The lab hosted on July 3rd, provided an exceptional learning opportunity for surgeons and healthcare professionals interested in the latest advancements in minimally invasive spinal surgery across the world. Dr. Abbasi shared his expertise and insights with participants, specifically focusing on the Oblique Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (OLLIF) procedure and the Trident Sacroiliac Joint Fusion procedure.
The OLLIF technique, pioneered by Inspired Spine, enables spinal stabilization and fusion through a small incision, resulting in reduced tissue disruption, postoperative pain, and recovery time. Participants had the opportunity to take part in hands-on training and engage in interactive discussions to deepen their understanding of this innovative approach.
In addition to the OLLIF procedure, the lab also featured the Trident SI Joint Fusion procedure. This technique provides a minimally invasive solution for patients suffering from sacroiliac joint dysfunction, allowing for stabilization and fusion of the joint. Surgeons attending the lab received comprehensive training on this procedure, expanding their treatment options for patients with SI joint-related conditions.
"We are excited to collaborate with Dr. Amir Sharif and Dr. Thomas Demmel for our third international lab this year," said Dr. Abbasi, CMO at Inspired Spine. "Their expertise and dedication to advancing minimally invasive spinal surgery make them the perfect partners for sharing our innovative OLLIF and Trident SI Joint Fusion techniques. We look forward to fostering the adoption of these procedures in Germany and beyond."
Inspired Spine's international labs have received positive feedback, with participants praising the practical knowledge gained from experienced faculty and the hands-on approach to learning. The combination of the OLLIF procedure and the Trident SI Joint Fusion procedure showcased Inspired Spine's commitment to providing comprehensive solutions for a range of spinal conditions.
For more information about the Inspired Spine lab in Germany, please contact Amanda Armagost at aarmagost@islife.us
Inspired Spine is a global leader in minimally invasive spinal surgery. The company is dedicated to revolutionizing spinal surgery through innovative techniques and state-of-the-art technologies. Inspired Spine aims to provide patients with the most effective, patient-centered treatments, improving outcomes and minimizing discomfort.
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Ruth E. Carter becomes 1st Black woman to win 2 Oscars
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ruth E. Carter made history: The costume designer behind the “Black Panther” films became the first Black woman to win two Oscars.
Carter took home best costume design Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards for the Marvel sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Carter also won in 2018 for “Black Panther,” which made her the first African American to win in the category.
In her acceptance speech, Carter thanked the film’s director Ryan Coogler and asked if “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman could look after her mother, Mabel Carter, who she said died “this past week.” Boseman died in 2020 of cancer at 43.
“This is for my mother. She was 101,” Carter said. “This film prepared me for this moment. Chadwick, please take care of mom.”
Carter then paid tribute to her mother backstage.
“I had a great relationship with her in her final years. The same relationship I always had with her. I was her ride-or-die. I was her road dog. I was her sidekick,” she said. “I know she’s proud of me. I know that she wanted this for me as much as I wanted it for myself.”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” grappled with the grief of losing Boseman, its superhero.
In her career, Carter has been behind-the-scenes in some of Hollywood’s biggest films. She’s received Oscar nominations for her work in Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” and Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” and received praise for her period ensembles in other projects such as Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” and the reboot of “ROOTS.” She’s created costumes for Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and even Jerry Seinfeld for the “Seinfeld” pilot.
Carter played an influential role as lead costume designer in making “Black Panther” a cultural phenomenon as she infused the pride of African diaspora into the character’s stylish and colorful garments to help bring Wakanda to life. She wanted to transform the presence of Queen Ramonda - played by Oscar nominee Angela Bassett — as a queen in the first film to being a ruler in the sequel.
“Angela always wanted to play a queen, so to amplify her, we added vibranium … we gave her the royal color of purple, and adorned her in gold as she wore the crown at the UN,” Carter said. “When she sits on the throne, she’s in a gray one shouldered dress. The exposed shoulder shows her strength — Angela, she got those guns, right?”
Carter said she was able to pull off the win against a “tough lineup.” She was up against designers from “Elvis,” “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and “Babylon.”
She got her start in 1988 on Lee’s “School Daze,” the director’s second film. They’ve since collaborated on more than 10 films, including “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever.” She’s also worked with Robert Townsend on “The Five Heartbeats” and Keenen Ivory Wayans on “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.”
“I pulled myself up from my bootstraps,” Carter said. “I started in a single parent household. I wanted to be a costume designer. I studied. I scraped. I struggled with adversity in an industry that sometimes didn’t look like me. And I endured.”
Through the Oscar-nominated “Malcolm X,” she reached new heights. That film, starring Denzel Washington, propelled her into the “Hollywood makeup,” offering her more opportunities to work with directors who had different points-of-views and scripts.
Carter’s wish is that her historic win Sunday will offer more opportunities to women of color.
“I hope this opens the door for others … that they can win an Oscar, too,” Carter said.
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BERLIN (AP) — A painting by famed 19th-century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was doused with fake blood at a Berlin museum in an act reminiscent of recent climate activist protests, although there was no apparent link between them, officials said Monday.
The work was being examined for damage after a person threw the liquid at the glass-covered “Clown” in the Alte Nationalgalerie on Sunday and then glued one of their hands to the wall next to the work, according to Berlin’s museum authority.
Police took the person into custody after detaching their hand from the wall.
The suspect was handing out leaflets before the incident, the authority said, but didn’t provide details on their contents. It said it couldn’t immediately detail any damage to the painting or frame, which were being examined at the museum’s restoration workshop.
The head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees the museum authority, said Sunday that he was “appalled by this further senseless attack on art, which in this case apparently can’t be attributed to any group active in climate policy,” news agency dpa reported.
Hermann Parzinger said initial word was that there appeared to be no serious damage to the painting itself, but glue and dye had to be removed from the fabric-covered wall of the room where it was located.
The incident followed a string of demonstrations by the group Uprising of the Last Generation, whose actions in recent months have included blocking streets and throwing mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting at a museum in Potsdam, just outside Berlin.
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Outdoor play on a summer day
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -
Summer is here and we are all looking to get outside for some family fun.
Lifestyle expert and author Meredith Sinclair joined Susan on Studio with some tips and tricks to enjoy some play time outdoors.
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- FY2022 revenues at 44.648 trillion won, operating profit at 7.007 trillion won
- First operating loss in 10 years in 4Q due to sluggish demand, price fall of memory chips
- "Preparedness for new market based on technological competitiveness expected to lead to quick turnaround in earnings"
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or 'the company', www.skhynix.com) reported today financial results for 2022 ended on December 31. The company recorded revenues of 44.648 trillion won, an operating profit of 7.007 trillion won and a net income of 2.439 trillion won. Operating and net profit margin for the full year was 16% and 5%, respectively.
"Revenues continued to grow last year, but the operating profit decreased compared with a year earlier as the industry entered into a downturn from the second half," the company said. "With uncertainties still lingering, we will continue to reduce investments and costs, while trying to minimize the impact of the downturn by prioritizing markets with high growth potential."
In 2022, SK hynix increased high-capacity DRAM shipments for server/PC markets, while boosting sales of DDR5 and HBM – of which products that the company has a solid market leadership – to customers in the growing markets of AI, Big Data, and cloud computing. Particularly, revenues for the data center SSD more than quadrupled compared with a year earlier.
However, SK hynix recorded an operating loss in the fourth quarter of last year due to weak demand and a sharp fall in memory-chip prices. The revenues for the three months on a consolidated basis were 7.699 trillion won, while the operating loss amounted to 1.701 trillion won (operating loss ratio at 22%) and net loss was at 3.524 trillion won (net loss ratio at 46%). The latest result was the first quarterly operating loss since the third quarter of 2012.
"Despite a deeper industry downturn in the first half, SK hynix forecasts market conditions to gradually improve into the latter part of the year," the company said. "Industry experts do not expect an increase in supply of memory chips as market players are planning to reduce investments and production, which will lead the inventories to peak within the first half."
In addition, SK hynix forecasts a gradual recovery in demand as global tech companies start to adopt more memory chips as the prices are low.
"Intel's launch of new server CPU adopting DDR5 and apparent positive signs of demand for new AI-based server memory chips bode well for a quick business turnaround," Chief Financial Officer Kim Woohyun said. "With the world's best technologies for DDR5 for data centers and 176-layer NAND flash-based enterprise SSD, we expect to see a quick turnaround when the market bottoms out."
SK hynix will stay with the decision announced in October to more than halve the volume of investments compared with 19 trillion won in 2022. However, investments for mass production of mainstream products such as DDR5, LPDDR5, and HMB3 and markets with growth potential will be continued.
"A successful overcome of the current downturn will help us strengthen fundamental business competitiveness before eventually leaping forward as a leading technology company," Kim said.
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SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM"), flash memory chips ("NAND flash") and CMOS Image Sensors ("CIS") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In the intervening months since Russia invaded Ukraine, oil prices have risen, inflation has increased, and the state of Florida has reportedly lost millions due to investment in Russia. Even before the losses, Florida Democrats had urged the state to divest itself from the money it’s invested in Russian companies.
Now, Democrat Andrew Learned (D-Brandon) says the state’s pension fund has lost $200 million from its investments in Russia, following sanctions on the country due to the war. The state reportedly has $300 million invested in Russia-based companies.
“Florida’s Retirement System LOST over $200m in our Russian Investments after refusing to divest our holdings when I called for it over two months ago,” Learned tweeted. “Turns out, backing Putin and his war crimes in Ukraine wasn’t just bad for freedom, it was a bad investment too.”
Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and other state lawmakers requested that Gov. Ron DeSantis formally end the state’s involvement with Russian businesses through the state’s pension fund.
In March, Learned proposed an amendment to the state’s appropriation bill, which is still under review by DeSantis, to divest the funds. That amendment failed, and Learned criticized his Republican colleagues for their lack of action.
“Reminder: still crickets from Florida GOP about divesting our Russian investments,” Learned tweeted at the time.
However, the issue of divestment is complicated. As previously reported, Florida’s investments in Russian companies are managed by the State Board of Administration. The Florida SBA operates as an investment fiduciary, and before any decision to invest or divest is made, the board must review the funds. By law, the SBA is controlled by the governor, alongside the state’s Chief Financial Officer and Attorney General, Jimmy Patronis and Ashley Moody, respectively.
When WFLA.com reached out in March to ask the governor’s office about the divestment push, they said the review process was underway.
“The SBA has been reviewing investments in Russian domiciled entities,” according to the Governor’s Office. “Any decisions will be announced after the SBA has concluded its review.”
In the tweet thread from Learned on May 3, the Brandon lawmaker said that not only had Florida’s pension fund lost $200 million due to its investments in Russia, the state had actually “increased its holdings in Russia from June to December during the runup to war.” By comparison, Learned said Florida has just $80,000 invested in Ukraine.
Learned shared a document from the Florida SBA showing the dollar amounts of what’s invested from Florida’s pension plan funds, split by country. Separately through a GoogleDoc made public by the Brandon congressman, the Russia-specific values were specified.
The document reports the state pension fund had lost $200,722,906.45 in assets invested in Russian companies. It’s also worth reporting that the state’s investments in Ukraine had also lost $20,485.77.
8 On Your Side has reached out to the Florida SBA for verification of the amounts and documents shared by Rep. Learned, as well as the governor’s office for a status check on the divestment review process. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-pension-fund-loses-200m-in-russian-investments-state-rep-says/ | 2022-05-04 16:32:27 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-pension-fund-loses-200m-in-russian-investments-state-rep-says/ |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A review of California's five big oil refiners' investor reports from the second quarter shows unprecedented, windfall profits that top $1 per gallon.
Consumer Watchdog reported that the state's five big oil refiners, that make 97% of the gasoline in the state, made from three to ten times more in profits per gallon off of West Coast operations from April through June than they did in the same period last year.
Profits per gallon from West Coast operations also registered highest among each refiner's reported regions across the United States and world – proving that it is profits, not California's environmental rules and taxes, that drive up California pump prices. As of 8/8, the Energy Information Administration reports Californians pay $1.26 per gallon more than the national average for gasoline.
"Californians have been an ATM for oil refiners for too long and now it's time for the legislature to push back on these outrageous profits," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog.
West Coast profits per gallon for Marathon topped an unprecedented $1 per gallon, as opposed to 34 cents in the second quarter of 2021. Valero, PBF and Phillips reported profits of 83 cents, 82 cents, and 79 cents per gallon (as opposed to 27 cents, 15 cents and 8 cents per gallon in second quarter last year). Chevron does not report quarterly refining margins.
California's five big refiners made $26.6 billion in the second quarter, more than double the profits from 2021's second quarter -- an increase of $14.5 billion. California refiners currently do not report their profits from California, only the Western region on quarterly basis. SB 1322 (Allen) would require monthly disclosure of per gallon California profits. The bill has cleared the Senate and is awaiting action on the Assembly floor.
"The latest reports show that Big Oil took advantage of higher prices to make record profits off of already-squeezed drivers," said Senator Ben Allen. "I'm hopeful that my colleagues will see the wisdom of our bill SB1322 that will shed more light on the oil pricing process. Special thanks go out to Consumer Watchdog for its dogged focus on this important issue."
Consumer Watchdog's president Jamie Court will present the evidence Thursday in Sacramento to the Assembly Select Committee on Gasoline Price and Supply to make the case for SB 1322 and recommend that a windfall profits tax to be applied to refiners. The special committee meets at about noon following the adjournment of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. (A live stream is available at https://www.assembly.ca.gov/todaysevents/)
"These profit reports prove that the only reason Californians are paying so much more for their gasoline than drivers in every other state is because the big five refiners have the market power to charge them as much as they want," said Court. "It's time for Californians to know exactly how much oil refiners have profited from their pain at the pump and for oil refiners to be forced to give back their excessive profits."
In the second quarter, both PBF Energy's profits per gallon and Valero's virtually quadrupled over what the companies reported making for all of 2021 from their California-only West Coast refineries. West Coast refineries belonging to Phillips 66 also saw a quadrupling in quarterly profits. Marathon tripled its West Coast profits per gallon compared to all of 2021.
Chevron does not provide quarterly data for calculating quarterly profits per gallon. But the company said that profits from refining in the second quarter were up by nearly $2.5 billion primarily on higher refining margin.
Companies report refining margins by the barrel - the difference between the cost of a barrel of crude oil going into the refinery and the value of refined products coming out. Profits per gallon are calculated by dividing refinery margins per the number of gallons in a barrel, 42.
On the second quarter investor earnings call, Chevron CEO Pierre Breber indicated that the company would tighten supplies still further, especially in California, by taking refineries offline—which would raise gas prices still further. "Now, looking ahead in the third quarter, we expect turnarounds and downtime to reduce production in a number of locations," Breber said. "In downstream, planned turnarounds are primarily at our California refineries."
All the refiners reported demand for fuel has rebounded while supplies are tight. "We see demand remaining strong even in the face of economic uncertainty," Tom Nimbley, chairman and chief executive at PBF Energy, said in a statement. Valero Energy had net income of $4.7 billion in the quarter, up from $162 million in the quarter a year earlier, while PBF Energy saw profits surge to $1.2 billion from $69.9 million.
On the West Coast, Marathon Petroleum tripled its refining margin to $42.78 per barrel over the second quarter of 2021 and blew past the margin of $13.80 it reported for all of 2021. Margins have been leaping up since 2020. Phillips 66 West Coast margin rocketed up ten times over the second quarter of 2021 to $34.49 per barrel. It blew past the reported margin for all of 2021 by more than four times. PBF's margin rose more than five times over the same quarter last year to $34.49 and almost quadrupled from the margin reported for all of 2021. Valero's margin tripled in the second quarter to $34.93 and more than tripled over the margin for all of 2021.
Across regions of operation, margins per barrel rose the most in the West in the second quarter. PBF's margin was $10 higher per barrel than for the Gulf Coast. Marathon's margin per barrel was more than $7 higher than its margin for the Gulf Coast. Valero's was more than $5 higher. Margins on the Gulf Coast were the lowest reported by all the refiners, followed by the Mid Continent and then East Coast regions with the highest margins reported in the West.
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A Southern California woman was shot to death Monday in a domestic violence incident and police said the suspect is a man believed to be on the run with his 15-year-old daughter.
Officers responding around 7:30 a.m. to reports of gunfire found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds at a home in Fontana, police said in a statement.
The woman was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to police.
"This was a domestic violence incident. The suspect, 45-year-old Anthony John Graziano, is considered armed and dangerous," said the statement from the Fontana Police Department.
Investigators believe Graziano is with his teen daughter in a white 2017 Nissan Frontier with California plates of 44305G2.
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An Amber Alert has been issued for the girl, Savannah Graziano. She is described as 5'2" and 110 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.
Anthony Graziano is described as 5'4" tall and 150 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and dark-colored shorts.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said Thursday he is investigating alleged new war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region during the country’s current conflict that has killed more than 3,000 people and forced over 3 million to flee their homes.
Karim Khan told the U.N. Security Council that fighting between government forces and the paramilitary Rapid Security Forces has spilled into Darfur which was wracked by bloodshed and atrocities in 2003. He said the world, the country and the council are “in peril of allowing history to repeat itself.”
In 2005, the Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC, and Khan said the court still has a mandate under that resolution to investigate crimes in the vast western region.
Darfur has been one of the epicenters of the current conflict that began on April 15, turning into an arena of ethnic violence with the paramilitary troops and allied Arab militias attacking African ethnic groups. Earlier Thursday, the U.N. human rights office said at least 87 bodies – some of them from the ethnic African Masalit tribe – were uncovered in a mass grave in West Darfur, and cited “credible information” that they were killed by Rapid Support Force fighters and an allied militia.
“We are investigating those allegations,” Khan told the council. “We are by any analysis not on the precipice of a human catastrophe but in the very midst of one.”
“There are women and children, boys and girls, old and young, in fear of their lives, living with uncertainty in the midst of conflict, and as their homes are burnt. Many as we speak will not know what the night will bring and what fate awaits them tomorrow,” the prosecutor said.
Khan said the ICC is also looking to investigate many other allegations in West Darfur including looting, extrajudicial killings and the burning of homes, as well as allegations in North Darfur.
He said anybody inside or outside Sudan who aids or abets crimes in Darfur will be investigated. And he said he instructed his office to give priority to crimes against children and sexual- and gender-based violence.
“We must act urgently, collectively, to protect the most vulnerable if this oft-repeated phrase of `never again’ is to mean anything,” Khan said.
The vast Darfur region was engulfed in bloodshed in 2003 when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African community launched an insurgency accusing the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum of discrimination and neglect.
The government, under then President Omar al-Bashir, responded with a scorched-earth assault of aerial bombings and unleashed local nomadic Arab militias known as the Janjaweed, who are accused of mass killings and rapes. Up to 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million were driven from their homes.
In April, the first ICC trial to deal with atrocities by Sudanese government-backed forces in Darfur began in The Hague, Netherlands. The defendant, Janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, pleaded innocent to all 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Khan told the council the prosecution has closed its case and the trial is expected to continue, notwithstanding the ongoing conflict.
He quoted one unnamed witness who told the court that after 20 years: “We want justice. We want that all those who turned our lives into humiliation and suffering and exhaustion to be held accountable … We want peace. We want to return to our homeland.”
Al-Bashir also faces ICC charges of genocide and crimes against humanity related to the Darfur conflict. He had been in prison in Khartoum since he was ousted from power in 2019 with two other sought by the ICC.
In a report to the council, Khan said his office understands that the three suspects were released from Kober prison in the capital Khartoum after fighting broke out in April. He said his office recently sent a letter to the government seeking confirmation of their current location.
Khan briefed the Security Council soon after leaders from Sudan’s seven neighboring countries met in Cairo on Thursday for the most high-profile peace talks since conflict erupted across the northeastern African country 90 days ago.
The 12 weeks of fighting have turned Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, into an urban battlefield.
The conflict forced more than 2.4 million people to flee their homes for safer areas inside the country, according to the International Organization for Migration. Around 738,000 others have crossed into neighboring countries, the agency said. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-icc-prosecutor-says-he-is-investigating-alleged-new-war-crimes-in-sudans-darfur-region/ | 2023-07-14 11:12:57 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-icc-prosecutor-says-he-is-investigating-alleged-new-war-crimes-in-sudans-darfur-region/ |
(The Hill) – Kentucky Republicans looking to dethrone Gov. Andy Beshear (D) in November are competing in a contentious primary. Nine contenders are facing off to helm Philadelphia. And candidates in the Pennsylvania House race are gaining national attention in a special election that could potentially flip control of the state’s lower chamber.
These are just a few of the colorful races on tap Tuesday, which could offer clues into the key issues on voters’ minds and how both parties may fare in 2024.
Here’s a look at five races to watch in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Florida this Tuesday:
Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, former U.N. ambassador Kelly Craft and state Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles are leading a crowded Republican primary field to take on Gov. Andy Beshear (D).
Polling and strategists alike see Cameron as the front-runner, but given that turnout is estimated to be around 10 percent, it could be anyone’s race. Former President Trump has endorsed the state attorney general, while Craft enjoys a clear financial edge through her family’s wealth — she’s married to coal magnate Joseph Craft. Meanwhile, Quarles boasts a slew of grassroots endorsements.
Quarles may also benefit from the fact that he’s largely stayed out of the sniping that’s taken place between Cameron and Craft. The candidates’ campaigns and groups supporting them have launched attack ads and mailers against each other, turning up the heat in a bitter primary.
Ultimately, taking down Beshear will be no easy feat — he has a 63 percent approval rating in Trump country, evidence of his crossover appeal with independents and Republicans.
Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary
Nine Democrats are running to replace Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D), who’s term-limited, but polling shows it’s a likely five-way race.
An Emerson College Polling/PHL17 survey released last week found former City Council member Helen Gym at 21 percent, with former City Council member Cherelle Parker and former City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart tied at 18 percent, former City Council member Allan Domb at 14 percent and grocery store magnate Jeff Brown at 10 percent.
A separate 15 percent of respondents said they were undecided, and the margin of error is roughly plus or minus 4 percentage points, making the race largely a tossup.
Gym has the backing of high-profile progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in addition to the highest support among Hispanic/Latino and Asian voters of the five candidates, according to the Emerson College Polling/PHL17 poll.
Parker, who is Black, has the highest support among Black voters of the five candidates. Rhynart has the backing of former Gov. Ed Rendell (D), who is also a former Philadelphia mayor.
Pennsylvania State House District 163 special election
State House elections tend to be sleepier affairs, but one special election in the Pennsylvania state House has caught national media attention – and President Biden’s endorsement.
Katie Ford (R), an Army veteran and special instructor for early intervention for young children, is going head-to-head with Heather Boyd (D), former district director to Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), for the Pennsylvania State House District 163 in Delaware County, situated in Philadelphia’s western suburbs. They’re seeking to replace former state Rep. Mike Zabel (D) who stepped down following sexual harassment accusations.
Pennsylvania has a Democratic trifecta, with the party controlling both chambers of the state legislature and the governor’s mansion. But if Ford wins, the state House would flip to Republicans.
President Biden has thrown his support behind Boyd, underscoring the local and national implications of the race.
Pennsylvania State Supreme Court primary
Two Republicans and two Democrats are vying for a vacant seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after former liberal Chief Justice Max Baer died last September.
The state’s high court has a 4-2 liberal majority, but the general election scheduled for November will be consequential, given that Republicans will be looking to notch a win in hopes of ultimately flipping the partisan tilt of the state Supreme Court down the line.
Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Carolyn Carluccio and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough are going head-to-head in the Republican primary, while Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Daniel McCaffery and Superior Court Judge Deborah Kunselman are running against each other on the Democratic side.
McCaffery and Carluccio have received the state Democratic Party’s and state GOP’s endorsements, respectively.
The mayoral runoff in Jacksonville, Florida
Over in Jacksonville, Fla., voters will be heading to the polls to pick their next mayor.
Former local news anchor Donna Deegan (D) is running against JAX Chamber CEO Daniel Davis (R). They were the two top vote-getters during the March 21 primary, in which none of the candidates in the crowded field yielded more than half the vote.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) waded into the race and backed Davis, and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has also stumped for the Republican challenger. Former state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried backed Deegan.
Polling from the University of North Florida released last month found that the matchup will be tight, with Deegan receiving 48 percent support while 47 percent supported Davis. The polling falls well within the margin of error, which is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points, effectively showing the two candidates tied.
The mayoral race comes against the backdrop of changing political dynamics in Duval County, where Jacksonville sits. Democrat Andrew Gillum won Duval County against DeSantis in the 2018 gubernatorial race by 4 points. But four years later, DeSantis won the county against Democrat Charlie Crist by 12 points. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/five-races-to-watch-in-kentucky-pennsylvania-and-florida-on-tuesday/ | 2023-05-16 12:52:06 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/five-races-to-watch-in-kentucky-pennsylvania-and-florida-on-tuesday/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Monday it will invest 1 billion euros ($972.1 million) to add thousands of more eclectic vans, long-haul trucks and cargo bikes to its delivery network in Europe.
The investment would grow the number of electric delivery vans the company has in Europe from roughly 3,000 to 10,000 by 2025, the Seattle-based retail giant said in an announcement on its website.
With the investment, Amazon is also hoping to purchase more than 1,500 electric trucks, up from five in the United Kingdom. To accommodate those vehicles, the company said it will build hundreds of fast chargers across its European facilities that can charge the vehicles in roughly two hours.
“Our transportation network is one of the most challenging areas of our business to decarbonize, and to achieve net-zero carbon will require a substantial and sustained investment,” Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO, said in a statement, referring to the company's pledge to be net carbon by 2040. Despite the pledge, the company said its carbon emissions grew by 18% last year, driven by the surge in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Amazon has launched 25 “micro-mobility hubs,” or more centrally located delivery stations in dense European cities, that allow the company to try out different delivery methods, such as bike and foot deliveries. On Monday, it said it expects to double those hubs by 2025, which will allow the company to take more delivery vans off the road.
The retailer has already ordered 100,000 electric vans from Rivian Automotive, which issued a recall last week for almost all its vehicles in order to tighten a loose fastener. In a recent securities filing, Rivian said it planned to deliver the vehicles to Amazon by 2025. Amazon has said it plans to roll out those vehicles to more than 100 cities by 2030. | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/technology/amazon-to-invest-972m-for-electric-vans-trucks-in-europe/article_3ac5d836-1ab6-52df-b38b-36a7204e8f24.html | 2022-10-10 17:01:07 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/technology/amazon-to-invest-972m-for-electric-vans-trucks-in-europe/article_3ac5d836-1ab6-52df-b38b-36a7204e8f24.html |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pamela Smith remembers vividly the last time she saw her only son alive.
It was 3:18 a.m. on July 3, 2016, in Fresno, California, and 22-year-old Jackson Smith was lying motionless on a table in an emergency room while a nurse performed chest compressions. Earlier that night, he had taken an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, and then he stopped breathing. Within seconds of his mother entering the emergency room, he died.
Since then, Smith has dedicated her life to fighting the fentanyl crisis. This year, that has meant advocating for some of the more than 30 bills introduced in the California Legislature to address the issue.
But a number of those bills have since stalled, caught in a philosophical dispute between lawmakers about the best way to address a crisis that is killing roughly 110 people in the state each week. About half of the proposals focus on public safety measures, such as punishing drug dealers with longer prison sentences, while the others aim to increase accessibility to fentanyl overdose treatments, and to create education and prevention programs.
The bills focusing on public safety measures were at risk of getting lost until Smith and dozens of other protesters converged on the state Capitol last week demanding they be heard. Six of those bills, including four that would increase fentanyl penalties, will get a public hearing on Thursday.
“(Drug dealers) need to know that if they are caught with this poison, they are going to spend a great deal of time in our jails and prisons because that’s where they belong,” Smith said.
Imposing tougher prison sentences on fentanyl dealers has been the common strategy for lawmakers across the U.S., including those in Democratic-controlled legislatures such as California, Oregon and Nevada. The tactic has drawn fierce opposition from harm reduction advocates, who say criminalizing the drug issue has historically backfired and worsened the crisis.
In California, it has divided the Democratic caucus that controls a majority of votes. Republicans and moderate Democrats are pushing for stronger prison sentences for fentanyl dealers, while others are wary to advance policies that would lengthen criminal sentences and incarcerate more people.
“It’s good for politics and publicity, but it really doesn’t get to the root of the problem of drug addiction,” said Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Democrat and chair of the Assembly Public Safety Committee, who called bills that increase prison sentences “a Republican playbook.”
Democratic Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, of Orange County, said the crisis goes beyond party lines. She authored a bill that would increase prison sentences for those who sell fentanyl on social media.
“This is not a red state crisis or a blue state crisis. This is an American crisis and it’s certainly a California crisis,” she said.
That tension boiled over last week. In March, Jones-Sawyer announced he was delaying hearings of at least seven fentanyl-related bills that would increase prison sentences, calling them a “Band-Aid approach” to the problem. But after law enforcement, prosecutors and families of fentanyl overdose victims protested, Democratic leadership in the Assembly ordered a special hearing for six of them.
The issue is personal for Jones-Sawyer. He said he lost his uncle to heroin, an opioid similar to fentanyl, and a cousin to crack cocaine. He witnessed how public policies during the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s resulted in the mass incarceration of communities of color, noting it did not solve the drug issue.
“We really do need to get to the root of that (by) cutting off the supply and then reducing, if not eliminating, the demand. We got to do both,” Jones-Sawyer said.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Fentanyl overdoses accounted for one in five deaths among young people in California between the ages of 15 and 24 last year. Across the nation, drug overdoses have claimed more than 100,000 deaths annually since 2020, with about two-thirds of them fentanyl-related.
The current overdose crisis is deadlier than any the U.S. has ever seen. It’s one reason why California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, proposed more than $90 million in new spending to combat the fentanyl crisis. Last week, he directed the California Highway Patrol and National Guard to help San Francisco battle its fentanyl crisis.
Newsom has not publicly supported any fentanyl-related legislation.
Fentanyl public safety measures may face an uphill battle in California’s Senate. Earlier this week, the Senate Public Safety Committee shelved a bipartisan bill by Democratic Sen. Tom Umberg that would require courts to warn those convicted of selling fentanyl that they could be charged with murder if someone they sold to dies in an overdose. The bill, modeled after the state’s DUI advisory, may make it easier for prosecutors to convict repeat offenders, as the warning could serve as evidence that a person is aware of the risk of selling fentanyl.
Public health experts are calling on lawmakers to reject bills that would impose harsher prison sentences for fentanyl convictions. Ricky Bluthenthal, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, said stronger fentanyl penalties could deter people from calling 911 for help due to fear of being arrested.
“Increasing penalties will likely result in more deaths,” he said at a Tuesday news briefing ahead of the special hearing, adding that stronger prison sentences have had little impact on the drug abuse issue historically.
Other bills that would make overdose reversal medication more accessible and increase education on fentanyl have received early support in legislative committee hearings, including one, authored by Democratic Sen. Dave Cortese. It would require K-12 schools to create a protocol for student opioid overdoses as part of a safety plan. The bill, called “Melanie’s Law,” is named after 15-year-old Melanie Ramos, who died from a suspected fentanyl overdose at a Hollywood school.
Smith, who’s planning to testify during Thursday’s hearing, said she’s hopeful that lawmakers will advance the public safety bills.
“We just have to come together and solve this issue, because we’re losing a generation,” she said. “And I don’t want to see anybody, any other parents, go through the pain that I go through every day.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/punishment-or-prevention-california-debates-fentanyl-crisis/ | 2023-04-27 22:16:05 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/punishment-or-prevention-california-debates-fentanyl-crisis/ |
SUMAS, Wash. — It's been one year since historic flooding hit the Sumas community in Whatcom County.
Two thousand houses and businesses were damaged and one person was killed.
From people still out of their homes to flooded schools and even toxic mold, one year later and people living in the area are still dealing with the devastating effects of back-to-back floods.
For business owners, the road to recovery has been a long one.
"I dread getting flooded again," said Rick Kildall, owner at Bob's Burgers and Brew in Sumas. "I don't think I could do it."
Rick and his wife Wendy have owned the restaurant for nearly 30 years. They said the floods caused nearly $600,000 in damage.
"The current had broke open the back doors and flowed through and out the front doors carrying furniture and equipment and debris with it," Rick Kildall said. "We didn't even know where to begin."
They started cleaning out the mud and debris one room at a time, along with unanswered questions about flood insurance and grant money that never came. This happened while the restaurant faced construction delays due to COVID-19, too.
"Meanwhile you're spending everything you have and you're not getting an answer," Rick Kildall said.
and Sumas Chamber of Commerce president Nicole Sandoval Postma
A business nearby, Loca Mocha, was also impacted by the floods.
Nicole Sandoval Postma, the owner of Loca Mocha and Sumas Chamber of Commerce president, said she has been frustrated with the lack of communication from county and state officials about flood mitigation assistance.
"Everything I hear from officials or politicians or higher-ups, I relay to the businesses so they can better protect themselves, but there's no information to share," Postma said.
Postma said five of the town's 16 businesses have been closed for good, including the town's only doctor and a nail salon.
"Most are one bad month from having to close their doors," Postma said.
While burgers at Bob's Burgers and Brew Sumas are still being served, Rick Kildall said they are still down 25% in profits partly because around 30% of residents are still not back which means fewer customers coming through their doors.
Postma and Kildall said they want more action taken to prevent these types of historic floods from happening again.
"I've been on hundreds of hours of meetings with county, state, federal and local governments trying to get through it in terms of preventing it in the future," said Bruce Bosch, Sumas mayor.
Bosch said he's been working with neighboring mayors on how to best mitigate flooding from the Nooksack river.
"Sumas and Everson and Nooksack got more water than they should have," Bosch said. "It wasn't equitable. All I ask is for an equitable flood spill."
While Bosch would like to see plans to make that happen, he said Sumas residents need to be resilient to the impacts of global warming.
Meanwhile, people in Sumas continue to turn to each other.
"Their house has been flooded," Rick Kildall said of the community that came to help in the days following the floods. "Their house is dirty and they show up and say what can we do to help you."
Rick Kildall said that's the kind of town Sumas is and he wants officials to know it's worth fighting for.
"Small towns matter," Rick Kildall said. "Yeah it's only 1,000 people, I think that's the math that goes through their head. But to those 1,000 people, it's a big deal." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/whatcom-county-businesses-recover-devastating-floods/281-6233687e-f8c0-4389-83b1-0a0c1d04f382 | 2022-11-15 17:02:14 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/whatcom-county-businesses-recover-devastating-floods/281-6233687e-f8c0-4389-83b1-0a0c1d04f382 |
DUBLIN, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Endo International plc (OTC: ENDPQ) announced today that post-hoc data from two Phase 3 studies of XIAFLEX® (collagenase clostridium histolyticum, or CCH, injection 0.9 mg) in treating men with Peyronie's disease (PD) were published by peer-reviewed journal Urology®. Read the article here.
"The data analysis points to the importance of patient adherence to treatment protocol for efficacy and positive therapeutic outcomes when treating PD with XIAFLEX®," said Dr. Matthew J. Ziegelmann, urologist and lead author.
"Incremental Treatment Response by Cycle With Collagenase Clostridium Histolyticum for Peyronie's Disease: A Pooled Analysis of Two Phase 3 Trials" was submitted by authors Matthew Ziegelmann, M.D.; Yiqun Hu, M.D., Ph.D.; Qinfang Xiang, Ph.D.; Genzhou Liu, Ph.D.; Michael P. McLane, Ph.D.; and Landon Trost, M.D.
About the Data
A post-hoc analysis of pooled data from two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 trials was conducted to evaluate incremental changes in penile curvature over the course of CCH treatment in men with PD. The analysis included men who received at least one and up to four injections of study medication.1,2
Changes from baseline and from the previous penile curvature measurement were calculated after each of the four treatment cycles (weeks 6, 12, 18 and 24).1 CCH injections were administered in up to four treatment cycles at 6-week intervals; each cycle included two injections 1-3 days apart. For all patients, treatment included penile plaque modeling.1,2
Data support that incremental reductions in penile curvature were obtained from each of the four CCH treatment cycles administered to men with PD. Even among men who were initially considered non-responders after the first two cycles of injections, results suggested incremental benefits with performing a full series of four CCH cycles.1
About Peyronie's Disease
Peyronie's disease (PD) is a condition in which a buildup of fibrous scar tissue causes a curvature deformity of the penis. This curvature can be painful during arousal and intimacy.3 It is estimated that PD can affect as many as 1 in 10 men in the U.S.,4 but diagnosis rates remain low because men with PD may be too uncomfortable to speak up and get help.5
About XIAFLEX®
INDICATION
XIAFLEX® is indicated for the treatment of adult men with Peyronie's disease with a palpable plaque and curvature deformity of at least 30 degrees at the start of therapy.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR XIAFLEX
- Contraindications: XIAFLEX is contraindicated in the treatment of Peyronie's plaques that involve the penile urethra due to potential risk to this structure and in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to XIAFLEX or to collagenase used in any other therapeutic application or application method
- Corporal Rupture or Other Serious Injury to the Penis: Injection of XIAFLEX into collagen-containing structures such as the corpora cavernosa of the penis may result in damage to those structures and possible injury such as corporal rupture (penile fracture). Therefore, XIAFLEX should be injected only into the Peyronie's plaque and care should be taken to avoid injecting into the urethra, nerves, blood vessels, corpora cavernosa or other collagen-containing structures of the penis. Cases of localized skin and soft tissue necrosis occurring as sequelae of penile hematoma, some requiring surgical intervention, have been reported post-marketing
- Hypersensitivity Reactions, Including Anaphylaxis: In the double-blind, placebo-controlled portions of the clinical trials in Peyronie's disease, a greater proportion of XIAFLEX-treated patients (4%) compared to placebo-treated patients (1%) had localized pruritus after up to 4 treatment cycles (involving up to 8 XIAFLEX injection procedures). The incidence of XIAFLEX- associated pruritus was similar after each injection regardless of the number of injections administered
- Risk of Bleeding in Patients with Abnormal Coagulation: In the XIAFLEX controlled trials in Peyronie's disease, 65.5% of XIAFLEX-treated patients developed penile hematoma, and 14.5% developed penile ecchymosis. Patients with abnormal coagulation (except for patients taking low-dose aspirin, eg, up to 150 mg per day) were excluded from participating in these studies. Therefore, the efficacy and safety of XIAFLEX in patients receiving anticoagulant medications (other than low-dose aspirin, eg, up to 150 mg per day) within 7 days prior to XIAFLEX administration is not known. In addition, it is recommended to avoid use of XIAFLEX in patients with coagulation disorders, including patients receiving concomitant anticoagulants (except for low-dose aspirin)
- Acute Post-Injection Back Pain Reactions: Post approval reports of acute lower back pain reactions, sometimes accompanied by radiation to the lower extremities, chest and arms, muscle spasms, chest pain, paresthesias, headache, and dyspnea, have been received by patients treated with XIAFLEX for Peyronie's disease. These events can be mild to severe in intensity. The events typically lasted for 15 minutes and typically did not require intervention. Administer the smallest number of treatment cycles necessary to treat the patient's curvature deformity
Adverse Reactions
Clinical trials
- In the XIAFLEX clinical trials for Peyronie's disease, the most frequently reported adverse drug reactions (≥25%) and at an incidence greater than placebo included: penile hematoma, penile swelling, and penile pain.
Post-marketing experience
- Acute post-injection lower back pain reactions have occurred in close temporal proximity to XIAFLEX treatments
- Cases of localized skin and soft tissue necrosis events as sequelae of penile hematoma, some of which required surgical intervention
- Syncope and presyncope have been reported in men treated with XIAFLEX for Peyronie's disease. Most, but not all cases occurred in the immediate treatment period or within 1-2 days following injection. Bodily injuries associated with the syncopal events have been reported
Click for full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning and Medication Guide.
About Endo
Endo (OTC: ENDPQ) is a specialty pharmaceutical company committed to helping everyone we serve live their best life through the delivery of quality, life-enhancing therapies. Our decades of proven success come from passionate team members around the globe collaborating to bring treatments forward. Together, we boldly transform insights into treatments benefiting those who need them, when they need them. Learn more at www.endo.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any applicable Canadian securities legislation including, but not limited to, the statements by Dr. Ziegelmann, any statements relating to product efficacy, therapeutic outcomes or treatment responses, and any statements that refer to expected, estimated or anticipated future results or that do not relate solely to historical facts. Statements including words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "plan," "will," "may," "look forward," "intend," "guidance," "future," "potential" or similar expressions are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this communication reflect the Company's current views as of the date of this communication about its plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to it and on assumptions it has made. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from current expectations based on a number of factors, including, among other things, the outcome of the Company's contingency planning and restructuring activities; the timing, impact or results of any pending or future litigation, investigations, proceedings or claims, including opioid, tax and antitrust related matters; any actual or contingent liabilities; settlement discussions or negotiations; the Company's liquidity, financial performance, cash position and operations; the risks and uncertainties associated with chapter 11 proceedings; the time, terms and ability to confirm a sale of the Company's businesses under Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; the risk that the Company's chapter 11 cases may be converted to cases under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code; the adequacy of the capital resources of the Company's businesses and the difficulty in forecasting the liquidity requirements of the operations of the Company's businesses; the unpredictability of the Company's financial results; the Company's ability to discharge claims in chapter 11 proceedings; negotiations with the holders of the Company's indebtedness and its trade creditors and other significant creditors; the risks and uncertainties with performing under the terms of the restructuring support agreement and any other arrangement with lenders or creditors while in chapter 11 proceedings; the performance, including the approval, introduction, and consumer and physician acceptance of new products and the continuing acceptance of currently marketed products; and the Company's ability to obtain and successfully manufacture, maintain and distribute a sufficient supply of products to meet market demand in a timely manner. The Company expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required to do so by law.
Additional information concerning risk factors, including those referenced above, can be found in press releases issued by the Company, as well as the Company's public periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with securities regulators in Canada, including the discussion under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
References:
- Ziegelmann M, Hu Y, Xiang Q, et al. Urology. 2023;175:126-131.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paralyzed Veterans of America Executive Director Carl Blake released the following statement today in response to final passage of the "Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022," also known as the PACT Act. Championed as the most comprehensive toxic exposure legislation in U.S. history, PACT expands both VA health care eligibility and presumptions to exposure to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxins. It also creates a framework for the establishment of future presumptions of service connection related to toxic exposure, as well as bolsters toxic exposure resources and strengthens research.
PACT was named after Sergeant First Class Robinson, an Ohio National Guard who died in 2000 of lung cancer following prolonged smoke exposure from burning pits during his deployment in Iraq. He left behind a daughter and wife, who now advocate for burn pit victims.
"Paralyzed Veterans of America commends Congress for finally doing the right thing and advancing this groundbreaking legislation that makes veteran care a priority. Our service members are consistently exposed to dangerous environments with exposure to harmful contaminants and toxins. When PACT is signed into law, toxic-exposed veterans from the past, present, and future, will receive their long overdue VA health care, compensation benefits, and justice. They will also no longer have to wait for the vital studies, research, and science they so desperately need today."
Millions of active-duty service members have been exposed to environmental, toxic, and airborne hazards throughout history. These exposures include mustard gas during WWI and WWII, tropical diseases during WWII, extremely cold temperatures in Korea, Agent Orange in Vietnam, contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, as well as burn pits and other hazards in Southwest Asia during the Persian Gulf War and after 9/11. Many of the illnesses and diseases are not identified for years, even decades, after completing their service. PACT will help these veterans by adding new presumptive conditions to VA's list of presumptive illnesses and creating a pathway for the addition of new conditions.
For more than 75 years, PVA, the nation's premier nonprofit of choice for disabled veterans, their families, and caregivers, has advocated for paralyzed veterans, to include those with diseases such as MS and ALS. It remains committed to continuing to fight for the highest quality in VA healthcare impacting these veterans and others like them, as well as their families and caregivers.
About Paralyzed Veterans of America
Paralyzed Veterans of America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal cord injury or diseases. The organization ensures veterans receive the benefits earned through service to our nation; monitors their care in VA spinal cord injury units; and funds research and education in the search for a cure and improved care for individuals with paralysis.
As a life-long partner and advocate for veterans and all people with disabilities, PVA also develops training and career services, works to ensure accessibility in public buildings and spaces, and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities through sports and recreation. With more than 70 offices and 33 chapters, Paralyzed Veterans of America serves veterans, their families, and their caregivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Learn more at PVA.org.
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RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL) announced today that Jed Rhoads, President and Chief Underwriting Officer of Markel's Global Reinsurance Division, is retiring at the end of 2022.
"Markel is fortunate to have benefited from Jed's industry knowledge, leadership experience, and relationships throughout the industry," said Richie Whitt, Co-CEO of Markel. "He has helped us build a strong team with deep underwriting and leadership talent. We are thankful for his contributions and leadership in positioning us for the future."
Rhoads has been in the industry for more than 40 years, and throughout his career has held executive positions with several organizations. He joined Markel in 2013 as part of its acquisition of Alterra Capital Holdings Limited. Prior to Markel, he was President and Chief Underwriting Officer of Alterra. He also recently served as chair of the board of directors of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA).
Markel also announced that upon Rhoads' retirement, Don Bahr will be promoted to President, Global Reinsurance, and Tod Costikyan will be promoted to Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Reinsurance. Both Bahr and Costikyan joined Markel as part of the Alterra acquisition in 2013, and bring many years of experience and knowledge of the reinsurance segment.
"With Don and Tod's deep expertise and knowledge of our business, our reinsurance team will be well positioned to help Markel build the leading global specialty insurer, with the broadest array of tools to address insureds' most complex risk management and risk transfer needs," said Whitt.
In Bahr's new role, he will oversee annual and long-term business and financial planning for the division and will lead the execution of the Global Reinsurance business strategy. Costikyan will report to Bahr and will work with the team on underwriting strategy and business strategy.
Rhoads added, "I'm honored, privileged, and grateful to have had the opportunity to spend my entire career in this wonderful industry. Having worked with Don and Tod for nearly two decades, I am confident they are well prepared to lead the reinsurance operations forward."
Rhoads, Bahr, and Costikyan will work closely to ensure a smooth transition and relationship continuity with Markel's business partners.
About Markel
Markel Corporation is a diverse financial holding company serving a variety of niche markets. The Company's principal business markets and underwrites specialty insurance products. In each of the Company's businesses, it seeks to provide quality products and excellent customer service so that it can be a market leader. The financial goals of the Company are to earn consistent underwriting and operating profits and superior investment returns to build shareholder value. Markel® is a registered trademark of the Markel Corporation. Visit Markel on the web at markel.com.
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Ad spending on audio/video streaming services to see strong gains
CLEVELAND, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US advertising service revenues are forecast to advance 8.0% yearly in nominal dollars through 2026, according to Advertising Services: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Rising levels of consumer spending are expected to support expansion of corporate revenues and the creation of new firms and brands, and by extension, advertising budgets, fueling growth. As more consumers turn to streaming audio and video services, spending on advertising on those platforms is expected to see rapid growth. The presence of a US presidential election year (2024) is also expected to boost election advertising spending. However, revenue growth will slow down over the forecast period as the streaming market matures and competition from management consultancies and tech firms siphon away advertising revenue.
Advertising revenues are projected to expand 16% in 2022. Gains reflect a pickup in consumer spending and corporate revenues as the economy continues to recover. Advertisers will also raise prices to cover rising wage and other expenses due to a tight labor market and inflation.
These and other key insights are featured in Advertising Services: United States. This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US advertising services revenues in nominal US dollars. Total demand is segmented by establishment type in terms of:
- advertising agencies
- media representatives
- public relations agencies
- media buying agencies
- direct mail advertisers
- display advertisers
- ad material distributors
- other establishments such as product demonstration, display lettering, and welcoming services
To illustrate historical trends, total revenues, the various segments, and advertising spending by media type are provided in annual series from 2011 to 2021.
Excluded from the scope of this report are advertising revenues from establishments that do not provide advertising services as their primary activity, as reported to the US Census Bureau. For example, advertising revenues earned by television networks, newspaper publishers, social media websites, and internet search engine providers are excluded. Search engine optimization (SEO) services are also excluded.
This report includes the results of a proprietary national online consumer survey of US adults (age 18+). This Freedonia Focus Reports National Survey has a sample size of approximately 2,000, screened for response quality, and representative of the US population on the demographic measures of age, gender, geographic region, race/ethnicity, household income, and the presence/absence of children in the household.
More information about the report is available at:
https://www.freedoniafocusreports.com/Advertising-Services-United-States-FF95027/?progid=91541
About Freedonia Focus Reports
Each month, The Freedonia Group – a division of MarketResearch.com – publishes over 20 new or updated Freedonia Focus Reports, providing fresh, unbiased analysis on a wide variety of markets and industries. Published in 20-30 pages, Focus Report coverage ranges from raw materials to finished manufactured goods and related services such as freight and construction. Additional Services & Industries reports can be purchased at Freedonia Focus Reports or MarketResearch.com.
Analysis is intended to guide the busy reader through pertinent topics in rapid succession, including:
- total historical market size and industry output
- segmentation by products and markets
- identification of market drivers, constraints, and key indicators
- segment-by-segment outlook in five-year forecasts
- a survey of the supply base
- suggested resources for further study
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Company to Host Conference Call at 5:00pm ET Today
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eastside Distilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: EAST) ("Eastside" or the "Company"), a consumer-focused beverage company that builds craft inspired experiential brands and high-quality artisan products around premium spirits, digital can printing, co-packing and mobile filling, reported second quarter 2022 financial results for the period ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights:
- Digitally printed over 1.5 million cans since operations began at the end of April
- Improved EBITDA by $0.3 million from prior year second quarter
- Raised $1.0 million in during the quarter with proceeds used to purchase cans for the digital can printer
- Improved spirits gross profit over $1.5 million for the quarter from bulk wholesale activities
- Fully repaid Live Oak Debt Facility of $1.9 million
"We built on the progress made in Q1 and expect to continue to improve results through the balance of the year," said Geoffrey Gwin, Eastside's CEO.
Financial Results
Gross sales for the three months ending June 30, 2022 increased to $5.1 million from $3.6 million for the three months ending June 30, 2021 with record realized prices from bulk spirits sales, offset by Craft C+P sales. Sales of spirits during the quarter benefitted from the bulk sale of 651 barrels of TN whiskey and bourbon for gross proceeds of $2.6 million. This was partially offset by lower Azuñia volume resulting from cycling deep discounting to chains in the prior year. Portland Potato Vodka was soft as velocity per store declined, however, the impact to revenue almost entirely offset by a Q4 2021 price increase. A number of trends affected sales at Craft C+P including the relocation of the business, insourcing by customers, increased competition and the beginning of the Company's new digital can printing business.
Gross profit for the three months ending June 30, 2022 increased to $1.5 million from $0.9 million for the three months ending June 30, 2021. Gross margin increased to 30% for the three months ending June 30, 2022 from 26% for the three months ending June 30, 2021 primarily due to an improvement in Spirits margins, offset by lower margins for Craft C+P. Spirits margins increased due to high realized prices of bulk whiskey and bourbon and carryforward from Q4 2021 price increases. Craft C+P margins were lower due to reduced sales and higher expenses as the Company transitioned to its new digital can printing business and higher supply chain costs.
Operating costs for the three months ending June 30, 2022 increased to $2.6 million from $2.3 million for the three months ending June 30, 2021 due to entering into a lease management agreement and realizing a loss on its vehicles. Sales and marketing expenses were flat, and general and administrative expenses slightly increased from the prior year quarter due to higher rent from the Company's newly leased warehouses, offset by reduced headcount.
Net loss for the three months ending June 30, 2022 was $(1.8) million and for the three months ending June 30, 2021, net loss including discontinued operations was $(1.8) million. The Company accounted for the Redneck Riviera License Termination and closing of its retail tasting room as part of discontinued operations in its 2021 Form 10-Q filing. The Company reported adjusted EBITDA of $(0.4) million for the three months ending June 30, 2022 and $(0.7) million for the three months ending June 30, 2021. (See description of adjusted EBIDTA in "Use of Non-GAAP Measures" below.)
During the second quarter, the Company delivered 7,431 cases of spirits. Of that total, Portland Potato Vodka represented over 4,400 cases as the brand did not grow distribution outside of Oregon. The Company shipped 1,730 and 933 cases of Azuñia and Burnside, respectively. The following table details cases delivered during the three and six months ending June 30, 2022 and 2021:
The Company ended the quarter with $0.9 million in borrowings under its FIB credit facilities and reported cash of $1.0 million. During the quarter, the Company paid down $2.0 million of debt on both facilities. During the first half of 2022, the Company entered into a loan of $3.0 million to fund working capital. Subsequent to the second quarter of 2022, the Company amended and restated the aforementioned loan to increase the line of credit to $3.5 million.
The Company will give further updates on its earnings conference call.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
Eastside Distilling's management evaluates and makes operating decisions using various financial metrics. In addition to the Company's GAAP results, management also considers the non-GAAP measure of adjusted EBITDA as a supplement to GAAP results. Management believes this non-GAAP measure provides useful information about the Company's operating results and assists investors in comparing the Company's performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that it does not believe are indicative of its core operating performance.
The Company defines adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, and other one-time items. The table below provides a reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.
Second Quarter 2022 Conference Call Details
Date and Time: Monday, August 11, 2022 at 5:00pm ET
Call-in Information: Interested parties can access the conference call by dialing (844) 889-4332 or (412) 717-9595.
Live Webcast Information: Interested parties can access the conference call via a live Internet webcast, which is available in the Conference Calls section of the Company's website at https://www.eastsidedistilling.com/conference-calls.
Replay: A teleconference replay of the call will be available for three days at (877) 344-7529 or (412) 317-0088, confirmation #1330708. A webcast replay will be available in the Conference Calls section of the Company's website at https://www.eastsidedistilling.com/conference-calls for 90 days.
About Eastside Distilling
Eastside Distilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: EAST) has been producing high-quality, award-winning craft spirits in Portland, Oregon, since 2008. The Company is distinguished by its highly decorated product lineup that includes Azuñia Tequilas®, Burnside Whiskeys®, Hue-Hue Coffee Rum®, and Portland Potato Vodkas®. All Eastside spirits are crafted from natural ingredients for quality and taste. Eastside's Craft Canning + Printing subsidiary is one of the Northwest's leading independent mobile canning businesses and recently began digital can printing and co-packing through its recent asset acquisition.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain matters discussed in this press release may be forward-looking statements that reflect our expectations or anticipations rather than historical fact. Such matters involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the following: changes in economic conditions, general competitive factors, the impact of COVID-19 and related business disruption, the Company's ongoing financing requirements and ability to achieve financing, acceptance of the Company's products in the market, the Company's success in obtaining new customers, the Company's ability to execute its business model and strategic plans, and other risks and related information described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). A detailed discussion of the most significant risks can be found in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Company assumes no obligation to update the cautionary information in this press release.
Financial Summary Tables
The following financial information should be read in conjunction with the unaudited financial statements and accompanying notes filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022, which can be viewed at www.sec.gov and in the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.eastsidedistilling.com/investors.
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In the AHLs first outdoor game in five years, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Cleveland Monsters battled to overtime. In the end, the Monsters took home a 3-2 win on Saturday night at the Cleveland Browns’ FirstEnergy Stadium.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (22-23-4-5) picked up a point in the standings with the overtime loss but was left disappointed after Marcus Björk’s two-goal night lifted the home side to victory on the shores of Lake Erie.
The contest was originally slated to begin at 1 p.m., but a beaming sun forced the AHL to delay the game’s start time to 6 p.m.
The wait did little to deter the Penguins’ offense, as the team lit the lamp five minutes into the night.
Newcomer Peter DiLiberatore, who was playing in his first game with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton after he was acquired in a trade on Wednesday, snapped a shot through traffic to put his new team ahead, 1-0.
Raivis Ansons extended Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s lead to 2-0 with his second shorthanded goal of the season at 15:06 of the opening frame. Kyle Olson nabbed assists on both Penguins goals.
The Penguins held the Monsters at bay until late in the second period, when Cleveland’s Josh Richards cashed in on a power play in the final minute of the frame. Björk then tied things up, 2-2, 85 seconds into the third.
The game ended in a photo finish with Cleveland winning the game 31 seconds into OT.
Dustin Tokarski made a stop on a Monsters’ two-on-one rush, but the referee never halted play with the puck underneath the Penguins netminder. The Monsters crashed the crease and eventually freed the puck for Björk to score his second of the game.
Tokarski finished with 28 saves on 31 shots, while Monsters goalie Jet Greaves posted 19 saves.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton will play Cleveland again Sunday, but this time the game will be indoors. Game time for the Penguins’ and Monsters’ rematch will be 3 p.m. at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
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America's original craft chocolate maker announces the next step in its evolution, positioning the brand for its next quarter century of success.
ASHLAND, Ore., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in its 25 year history, Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker is unveiling a major brand overhaul, designed to reflect the farm-to-bar process and fine quality of the chocolate and position the company for future growth. While the rebrand will be the most visible of the changes, Scharffen Berger has been making enhancements behind the scenes to ensure manufacturing, operations, innovation, marketing, sales and company leadership are aligned and prepared to take the brand into its next quarter century of success.
Leading the next phase of the Scharffen Berger roll-out is JP Mackey, president and chief sales officer. Mackey brings two decades of sales and commercial strategy leadership, with a focus on food brands in early to high-growth stage. His previous roles include chief sales officer for Cauilpower, vice president of sales for barkTHINS, and executive vice president of sales at Kernel Seasons.
"It's a remarkable opportunity to work with this team of owners and operators to renovate and relaunch a brand with the history, legacy, and future opportunity of Scharffen Berger," Mackey stated. "We've always had the quality and belief from craft chocolate purists, now we have branding that will stand-out on shelf and in the marketplace that truly reflects the distinctiveness of what Scharffen Berger offers."
From a product standpoint, the Scharffen Berger blends will remain constant and there are exciting new products and product formats coming to market starting in fall 2022.
Chef-preferred Scharffen Berger Baking Chocolate will now come in baking portions, with four individually wrapped 1 oz. bars in each envelope, in 62%, 70% and 99% cacao varieties. This format will be easier for consumers to use and will result in less waste than the previous 9.7 oz. bar option.
Scharffen Berger's core line of three-ounce bars—currently offered in 41% Extra Rich Milk Chocolate, 62% Semisweet Dark Chocolate, 70% Bittersweet Dark Chocolate and 82% Extra Dark Chocolate—will add four new flavors: Milk Chocolate with Coconut and Costa Rican Coffee, Milk Chocolate with Almonds and Sea Salt, 70% Dark Chocolate with Salted Almonds and Toffee and 70% Dark Chocolate with Cherries, Almonds and Salt. These new flavors will be available starting in late Q4 2022.
Finally, Scharffen Berger is launching Chocolate Provisions by Scharffen Berger, which feature 20 9gm dark chocolate flats in a variety of flavors, packed in a cracker-like sleeve box, bringing a sweet solution to building charcuterie/cheese, dessert and brunch boards. Look for Chocolate Provisions to launch in time for Super Bowl entertaining and the spring holiday season in early 2023.
New Leadership
In addition to Mackey, the Scharffen Berger team has expanded in order to fuel the growth and change needed to lead the brand into the future.
Chocolate maker, Ray Major, has joined Scharffen Berger as a full-time member of the team. Major has been consulting with the organization since it was returned to private ownership. Major has been in the confection industry for more than 45 years and brings his extensive experience and unparalleled chocolate making expertise to his role at Scharffen Berger.
Additionally, Scharffen Berger added veteran marketing leaders to its team, bringing Karin Zannella aboard as vice president of marketing and Keith Scott as head of performance marketing and e-commerce. Zannella is a brand, shopper marketer and strategy leader with an exceptional record of delivering sales objectives and gaining exposure for premium and luxury brands, including JoJo's Chocolate, Godiva Chocolatier and Illy, among others. Scott brings two decades of brand-building and luxury goods experience to Scharffen Berger, having led marketing for wine and spirits brands such as Tanqueray, A to Z Wineworks, and Sterling Vineyards.
About Scharffen Berger
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker has been blending America's original craft chocolate since 1996. Founded by winemaker John Scharffenberger and fine food enthusiast Robert Steinberg, Scharffen Berger pioneered the bean-to-bar chocolate movement in the U.S., employing a craft process that is still in place today. Headquartered in Ashland, OR, Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker crafts a select assortment of fine baking bars, baking chunks, chocolate snacking bars and all-natural cocoa powder. Scharffen Berger chocolate is sold at premium grocers and specialty food shops across the US and online at www.scharffenberger.com. For more information, visit www.scharffenberger.com.
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CLEVELAND, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) and its banking affiliates have raised their prime lending rate to 5.5 percent from 4.75 percent, effective tomorrow, July 28, 2022.
KeyCorp's roots trace back nearly 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $187.0 billion at June 30, 2022. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of approximately 1,000 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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