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GAINESVILLE, Florida (KXAN) — Did you ever wonder where butterflies came from? A recently published research paper has revealed a surprising origin: North and Central America.
The paper, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, examined DNA from nearly 2,300 species of butterfly. The team used the data to develop a family tree and track down where the species came from.
Turns out, butterflies evolved from nocturnal moths around 101.4 million years ago.
According to the National Science Foundation, after the death of the dinosaurs, bats grew in numbers. With moths facing a new threat, they began to take flight during the day, feeding on nectar from flowers.
The researchers used fossil records to connect the family tree they developed to North and Central America. 11 fossils that had been traced to the geological age were used to do this. According to the paper, butterfly fossils are rare.
Tracing butterfly migration
Using the new family tree, the researchers traced the movements of butterflies over millions of years. After leaving North and Central America, they made their way to South America.
About 90 million years ago, they first appeared in Australia, reaching Asia about 75 million years ago. Europe was the last continent to see butterflies migrating there, around 30 million years ago.
According to the researchers, data about butterfly migration wasn’t digitized and was in multiple languages prior to this paper.
Akito Y. Kawahara with the Florida Museum of Natural History served as lead author of the paper. Research results were supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/where-do-butterflies-come-from-scientists-discover-origin-of-species/ | 2023-07-01 15:47:25 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/where-do-butterflies-come-from-scientists-discover-origin-of-species/ |
BCSO: Fatal crash closes EB I-40 near 98th Street
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A fatal crash on I-40 near 98th Street has closed eastbound lanes Sunday.
BCSO and New Mexico State Police are on scene.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a bold proposal on Thursday, calling for the addition of a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to end "America’s gun violence crisis."
Under Newsom's proposal, the 28th amendment would include numerous changes to gun laws in the country:
-Raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21
-Mandate universal background checks for gun purchases
-Ban civilians from owning "assault weapons"
-Allow states and local governments to enact additional gun safety regulations
Newsom notes that his proposal does not eliminate the Second Amendment, which gives Americans the right to bear arms.
"The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution common sense gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support," Newsom said.
SEE MORE: World's 1st biometric 'smart gun' aims to lower shootings and suicides
Gun violence is a major problem in the U.S., but lawmakers have consistently been deadlocked on ways to solve the crisis.
A record 48,830 lives were lost in 2021 from firearms, marking the second straight year the U.S. set a record, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Violence Solutions.
Adding an amendment to the Constitution, especially on the issue of guns, will be a major challenge. It would need support from 33 other states before an amendatory convention could take place and be ratified. This process has never been done before.
SEE MORE: Empowered youth take a stand against gun violence and confront trauma
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Supreme Court rules religious schools can get Maine tuition aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money.
The most immediate effect of the court’s 6-3 decision beyond Maine will be next door in Vermont, which has a similar program.
But the outcome also could fuel a renewed push for school choice programs in some of the 18 states that have so far not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative majority that the program violates the Constitution’s protections for religious freedoms.
“Maine’s ‘nonsectarian’ requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise,” Roberts wrote.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented. “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
The ruling is the latest in a line of decisions from the Supreme Court that have favored religion-based discrimination claims. The court is separately weighing the case of a football coach who says he has a First Amendment right to pray at midfield immediately after games.
In largely rural Maine, the state allows families who live in towns that don’t have public schools to receive public tuition dollars to send their children to the public or private school of their choosing. The program has excluded religious schools.
Students who live in a district with public schools or in a district that contracts with another public system are ineligible for the tuition program.
Parents who challenged the program argued that the exclusion of religious schools violates their religious rights under the Constitution. Teacher unions and school boards said states can impose limits on public money for private education without running afoul of religious freedoms.
Most of the justices attended religious schools, and several send or have sent their children to them.
In the Maine case, parents sued in federal court to be able to use state aid to send their children to Christian schools in Bangor and Waterville. The schools in question, Bangor Christian School and Temple Academy, are uncertain whether they would accept public funds, according to court filings.
The Bangor school said it would not hire teachers or admit students who are transgender. Both schools said they do not hire gay or lesbian teachers, according to court records.
In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that states must give religious schools the same access to public funding that other private schools receive, preserving a Montana scholarship program that had largely benefited students at religious institutions.
In that case, the court said states don’t have to allow public money to be used in private education. But they can’t keep religious schools out of such programs, once created.
But even after that ruling, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Maine program, holding that the state was not violating anyone’s constitutional rights by refusing to allow taxpayer money to be used for religious instruction. The three-judge panel included retired Justice David Souter, who occasionally hears cases in the appeals court.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke the law while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia seems to be suggesting that any grand jury indictments in the case would likely come in August.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a letter Thursday sent a letter to county Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville indicating that she plans to have much of her staff work remotely for most days during the first three weeks of August and asking that judges not schedule trials and in-person hearings during part of that time. Copied in on the letter are 20 other county officials, including Sheriff Pat Labat, the court clerk and top leaders.
“Thank you for your consideration and assistance in keeping the Fulton County Judicial Complex safe during this time,” Willis wrote in the letter, first reported by The New York Times.
Willis last month wrote local law enforcement leaders advising them that she intended to announce charging decisions in the case between July 11 and Sept. 1. Thursday’s letter seems to narrow that window. In the earlier letters she advised law enforcement to prepare for “heightened security,” noting that the announcement of charges “may provoke a significant public reaction.”
For more than two years, Willis and her team have been scrutinizing actions Trump and others took as they tried to overturn his narrow loss in Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden.
She wrote in the letter to Glanville that she plans to reduce the staffing in her office by about 70% on most Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays — the days when grand juries meet in Fulton County — between July 31 and Aug. 18. But she said her “leadership team, all armed investigators” and some other staff would continue to be on site during the remote work days.
Willis noted that most judges will be attending an annual state judicial conference from July 31 to Aug. 4, and she asked that they not schedule trials or in-person hearings the weeks of Aug. 7 and Aug. 14. But she said her office will be present and ready to go for any in-person proceedings during that time. If in-person hearings are scheduled when most of her staff is working remotely, she wrote, they would be handled by senior leadership.
The Georgia investigation is one of several that threatens the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House in 2024.
A Manhattan grand jury in March indicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments to a porn actor during the 2016 presidential election. Federal grand juries in Washington are investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election and the potential mishandling of classified documents by Trump at his Florida estate.
A federal jury in New York recently found Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/your-local-election-hq/ap-prosecutor-suggests-any-indictments-in-trump-election-investigation-would-likely-come-in-august/ | 2023-05-19 18:11:15 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/your-local-election-hq/ap-prosecutor-suggests-any-indictments-in-trump-election-investigation-would-likely-come-in-august/ |
A Nevada man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday in the death of a 27-year-old man in 2021 who was tortured, shot and forced to walk off a cliff, the Nye County District Attorney’s office confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Brad Mehn was found guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping with a deadly weapon on Tuesday in the fatal shooting of Roy Jaggers, 27, whose body was discovered at the bottom of Cathedral Canyon in Nye County, around 60 miles outside of Las Vegas, on Aug. 1, 2021.
Two others involved in the murder, Heather Pate and Kevin Dent, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder.
"We have now obtained murder convictions for the three individuals involved in this heinous crime, who are all facing lengthy prison terms," Nye County District Attorney Brian Kunzi said in statement to Fox News Digital.
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Jaggers was lured to Pate’s house in Las Vegas, handcuffed and beaten, wrapped in a tarp and put in the back of a car, according to prosecutors.
They drove him to Nye County and tortured him for hours with multiple weapons including a blow torch, knives and an ax before forcing him to strip and walk off a cliff.
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The Nye County Sheriff’s Department said the murder was prompted by unsubstantiated claims that Jaggers had abused Pate’s son.
Mehn will face an additional sentencing in August on the torture and firearms enhancement charges, Kunzi told Fox News Digital. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/nevada-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-in-torture-murder-of-man-27-forced-to/article_ffa28802-b351-5495-9ec7-cd27ba4dd7f9.html | 2023-05-20 01:19:22 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/nevada-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-in-torture-murder-of-man-27-forced-to/article_ffa28802-b351-5495-9ec7-cd27ba4dd7f9.html |
Strong Q1 2023 profitability metrics with Gross Profit YoY growth of 38.3% leading to EBITDA of BRL 23.9 million
SÃO PAULO, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX platform in Latin America empowering companies to transform their customer journeys, today reported its operational and financial metrics for the first quarter of 2023.
Cassio Bobsin, Founder & CEO of ZENVIA, said: "Our strong results in the first quarter of 2023 are a testament of our intensified focus on profitability and the strength of our innovative SaaS platform. Our clients are already understanding the benefits of being able to concentrate their full customer journey with us. Increasing the cross–selling will be our utmost focus in 2023. Amid a still challenging macroeconomic environment, we continued delivering innovative solutions tailored to every stage of the customer journey."
Shay Chor, CFO & IRO of ZENVIA, said: "We are proud to announce our first quarter results for 2023 with strong profitability metrics, attesting our ability to navigate a complex economic environment while executing the savings plan initiated in July 2022. The correct balance between revenue growth and profitability led to a 38% growth in Gross Profit and EBITDA of BRL 24 million, which marks three quarters in a row of positive EBITDA. We have also been able to manage well our cash generation, which is allowing us to pay down more expensive debt and foresee lower funding gap for the remainder of the year."
- Normalized EBITDA for Q1 2022, which excludes non-cash impacts from earn-outs adjustments.
- EBITDA (+/-) changes in working capital (-) capex.
Financial Highlights Q1 2023
- Net Revenues down 9.4% YoY to BRL 179.0 million, mainly from lower SMS volumes given increasing focus on profitability in the CPaaS segment.
- Non-GAAP Gross Profit of BRL 92.5 million, up 38.3% YoY, with non-GAAP Gross Margin expanding 17.8 p.p. to 51.6% due to a better revenue mix combined with stronger margins across all segments.
- Total number of active customers reached 13.3k, comprised of 6.4k from SaaS and 7.4k from CPaaS.
- Operating Cash Flow (OCF) of BRL 95.3 million due to positive EBITDA and better working capital management.
Our Segments
We report Revenue and non-GAAP Gross Profit broken down by SaaS and CPaaS. We believe this is the best way for all stakeholders to understand our business and growth levers.
SaaS Business
Our SaaS business Net Revenues increased 32.1% YoY to BRL 68.6 million in Q1 2023, of which BRL 59.1 million was recurring-based, compared to BRL 51.9 million in Q1 2022 revenues of which BRL 44.9 million was recurring-based.
This quarter saw an increase in downsell due to uncertainties related to the macro scenario in Brazil, especially impacting our large corporate clients, which negatively impacts our growth rate.
Therefore, our Net Revenue Expansion (NRE) totaled 121.3% compared to 124.0% in Q4 2022 and the Annual Recurring Revenue reached BRL 236 million, a BRL 3 million decrease compared to Q4 2022, mainly due to this downsell.
Despite this challenging macro environment, we managed to post healthy profitability metrics in this segment, with Non-GAAP Gross Profit for the quarter increasing 39.8% YoY to BRL 46.4 million, up from BRL 33.2 million, translating into a Non-GAAP Gross Margin of 67.7%, up 3.7 percentage points when compared to Q1 2022.
SaaS Case Study: VIA increases customer retention by digitalizing its customer service operations
VIA (B3: VIIA) is the holding company of many of the leading Brazilian retail brands such as Casas Bahia, Ponto Frio and Extra.com.br. It serves nearly 97 million customers through e-commerce, 1,100 physical stores, 29 distribution centers and delivery hubs. The pandemic took a toll on the company's customer service operations: with volumes tripling, VIA didn't have enough automation to meet growing demand. This significant increase, especially in digital demands, prompted the company to look for new ways to innovate and further digitize its customer journey.
One of the key solutions chosen was to use Zenvia's customer experience platform to implement chatbots in the contact channels, as their customer service was previously more phone based. The bots work both on the inbound and outbound flow of information – they can answer a simple question on a delivery date and are also able to warn clients of a problem that may impact a delivery date.
The implementation of Zenvia's chatbot led to a dramatic change in the consumer experience of VIA and its brands, which can be measured by satisfaction surveys. Those who are served by digital channels give a score 28% higher than those who are served by 'humans'. In addition, VIA recorded improvements of more than 27% in customer retention through the use of chatbot.
"Zenvia helped us precisely in this construction. We had a pain in understanding what was the best channel for the client, what was the best way to communicate, what were the most sought-after journeys, how to automate the main doubts. For example: 'what is my delivery date?', the bot can answer this for the client. So Zenvia has helped us to cut through the red tape, to personalize and offer a better experience for our customers," said Fabrícia Ruiz Braga, Customer Service Project Manager at VIA.
AI Use Case: Integration of ChatGPT with chatbot tool for a major Brazilian Insurance company
Since May 2023, a major Brazilian insurance company has been using Zenvia's solution integrating ChatGPT with the chatbot tool. Zenvia's chatbot integrated with generative AI is trained to search through and reuse documents already created within the company, unlike traditional chatbots which are designed based on training and question mapping and require a variety of sample Q&As to optimize the automation of CX solutions. The latest innovation enables a wider variety of questions to have automated answers, opening many doors for the future application of the tool. Further, Zenvia's chatbot no longer needs to be taught regional vocabularies individually, which was previously required to match the various vocabularies of users.
We continue to explore the possibilities of ChatGPT in our solution portfolio to enhance the customer journey, aiming at leading the way in the use of generative AI for CX in Latin America. In February 2023, we launched the integration of its mass texting service solution, Zenvia Attraction with ChatGPT.
CPaaS Business
Our CPaaS business reported Net Revenues of BRL 110.5 million in Q1 2023, down 24.2%, while Non-GAAP Gross Profit increased to BRL 46.0 million from BRL 33.4 million. Non-GAAP Gross Margin reached 41.7% compared to 22.9% - a direct result of our strategy to find the correct balance between volumes and profitability.
Following a competitive environment in H2 2022 with strong pricing pressure, we started to see improved dynamics as of January 2023, which combined with Zenvia's new offers that better balance price and SLA, led to a recovery of SMS volumes from certain large clients.
Therefore, despite the lower number of customers and Net Revenues, the strong increase in Gross Profit and Gross Margin attests our ability to execute on the mature CPaaS business, demonstrating its potential to generate cash, which is instrumental to fund the expansion of our SaaS business.
Consolidated Financial Results
Revenue
Consolidated Revenue in Q1 2023 totaled BRL 179.0 million, down 9.4% YoY, mainly reflecting the drop in CPaaS revenues related to the focus on gross profit generation. This decrease was partially offset by the 32.1% growth of the SaaS segment.
Profitability
Non-GAAP Gross Profit increased 38.3% YoY to BRL 92.5 million, reflecting strong margin expansion in both SaaS and CPaaS and improved revenue mix, while Non-GAAP Gross Margin expanded to 51.6% from 33.8% in Q1 2022, up almost 18 p.p. due to the better mix of SaaS services coupled with the recovery of volumes with sustained margins and higher profitability in CPaaS.
EBITDA in Q1 2023 was positive BRL 23.9 million, compared to a negative BRL 7.6 million in Q1 2022(1). This stronger EBITDA is mainly due to the expansion in Gross Profit and the execution of our savings plan initiated in July 2022, including the restructuring announced in November 2022, that led to a 9.5% drop in G&A expenses to BRL 31.4 million in Q1 2023 from BRL 34.7 million in the same period of 2022.
Cash Management
In Q1 2023, Operating Cash Flow (OCF) was BRL 95.3 million, mainly due to positive EBITDA and better working capital management, especially due to higher anticipations from clients of more than BRL 50.0 million and renegotiations with SMS providers to more flexible payment terms. This working capital improvement is enabling us to pay down debt and reduce our funding gap for 2023.
- Normalized EBITDA for Q1 2022, which excludes non-cash impacts from earn-outs adjustments
- Q1 2023: Mainly anticipations from clients, including Twilio
FY 2023 Guidance
Earnings Release and Conference Call
The Company will host a webcast on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 10:00 am ET to discuss its operational and financial metrics. To access the webcast presentation, click here.
Additional information regarding Zenvia can be found at https://investors.zenvia.com.
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About ZENVIA
ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for end-consumers through its unified CX SaaS end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer experience from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital-first and hyper-contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX SaaS platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer views, journey designers, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
Forward-Looking Statements
The preliminary fourth quarter and full year operating results set forth above are based solely on currently available information, which is subject to change. These preliminary operating results constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date they were first issued and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections, as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words such as "expect," "anticipate," "should," "believe," "hope," "target," "project," "goals," "estimate," "potential," "predict," "may," "will," "might," "could," "intend," variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond Zenvia's control. Zenvia's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to several factors, including but not limited to: our ability to innovate and respond to technological advances, changing market needs and customer demands, our ability to successfully acquire new businesses as customers, acquire customers in new industry verticals and appropriately manage international expansion, substantial and increasing competition in our market, compliance with applicable regulatory and legislative developments and regulations, the dependence of our business on our relationship with certain service providers, among other factors.
Our SaaS Portfolio
Zenvia has evolved its product portfolio organically and through acquisitions. Our platform now provides four SaaS solutions designed for each phase of the customer journey, starting with the first interaction with the brand all the way to a continuous relationship with the company. The SaaS segment carries higher gross margins and is the business from where most of our growth will come in the future. More than half of our margin already comes from our SaaS solutions, compared to three years ago when this percentage was zero.
Our SaaS solutions can be used alone or combined, allowing companies to start a program in a matter of minutes, or they can go all the way to a fully integrated, automated, and intelligent customer journey. We also provide CX Tools that can be used to integrate and automate the customer experience in various ways. Our main tools are Application Programming Interface (APIs), a robot-like software program that performs automated, repetitive, pre-defined tasks (Bots), Natural-language understanding (NLU) and tools that enable companies to manage documents securely and safely during the end-consumer journey (Docs). The Quantum platform connects all our solutions and tools with the client's systems and processes. Companies can access our platform and start choosing from any solution or tool. As they go deeper into adopting multiple parts of the platform, we can break down all CX barriers and unlock the true potential for end customers.
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following selected financial information are preliminary, unaudited and are based on management's initial review of operations for the first quarter of 2023.
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1 dead after powerful storms hit Pensacola, Florida, with 16 inches of rain, high winds
Flash flooding became a hazard after 16 inches of rain fell on the city in just six hours. The downpour made some roads impassable and stranded some people in their stalled vehicles.
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A line of powerful thunderstorms swept through the Florida Panhandle on Thursday night, leaving at least one person dead and neighborhoods covered in floodwater.
Powerful wind gusts tore through the Pensacola area, with the National Weather Service reporting a 48-mph wind gust at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
In nearby Jackson Heights, winds knocked a tree down onto a home. According to the Escambia County Fire Department, one person died after being trapped under the tree.
Flash flooding also became a hazard after 16 inches of rain fell on the city in just six hours. The downpour made some roads impassable and stranded some residents in their stalled vehicles, the NWS reported.
"We have a lot of cars stuck in two, three, four, sometimes six foot of water," said Chip Simmons, Escambia County sheriff. "It was just too much for our storm system to handle."
Flash Flood Emergencies were issued, covering more than 100,000 residents from Pensacola through Warrington and Myrtle Grove.
Flooding led to a number of evacuations. In fact, at least 146 residents were evacuated late Thursday at the Forest Creek Apartment complex in Pensacola and taken to a shelter.
FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY PROMPTS WATER RESCUES IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
Flooding is still an issue for many people in Pensacola, as standing water remains on some roads and parking lots on Friday.
The storms came from the same system that produced a deadly tornado in Texas earlier on Thursday. More storms are forecast to move through the already-saturated Pensacola area on Friday night.
"We'll continue to monitor this and hunker down for this second line of storms," said Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves.
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TORONTO and LONDON, Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Blu Ivy Group, a global leader of Employer Brand Strategy and Creative, has been named the winner of the RAD Award for Best Employer Brand Events and Experiential. The award recognizes the most innovative of employer brand experiential and event solutions globally.
The RAD Awards are widely considered to be the Oscars of the recruitment advertising industry. The RADS celebrate the best of global recruitment marketing solutions produced by ad agencies in partnership with their clients.
"What enabled Blu Ivy Group stand out in the category was our opportunity to design an employer brand campaign aligned to what differentiates our brilliant client Ripple, as an employer of choice. The work included an immersive evening experience, cryptography gamification, art installations, PR campaigns and campus recruitment events. Each aspect of the employer brand campaign was designed with a deep understanding of crypto and software engineer talent and paid particular attention to what excites and motivates this talent segment in the world of work. "said Stacy Parker, Co-Founder of Blu Ivy Group.
"We appreciate being able to share this award with our teams and our phenomenal client Ripple for enabling bold thinking, and to the artists who helped to bring this work to life. We dedicate ourselves to finding the big ideas at the core of an employer brand, and designing activations that are immersive, newsworthy, and generate lasting feelings of optimism." said Stacy Parker, Co-Founder of Blu Ivy Group.
Blu Ivy Group is a global leader in employer branding, workplace culture and recruitment marketing. We help organizations across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors build extraordinary employee experiences, magnetic employer brands and high-performance brands.
From C-Suite to Employer Brand and Talent Acquisition leadership, we partner with our clients to transform their organizations and design the most compelling workplaces of the future.
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Fact check: Biden falsely claims he got student debt forgiveness passed by Congress
By Daniel Dale, CNN
President Joe Biden falsely claimed last week that he got his student debt forgiveness initiative passed by Congress.
During an on-camera discussion conducted by progressive organization NowThis News and published online on Sunday, Biden told young activists that they “probably are aware, I just signed a law” that is being challenged by Republicans.
Biden then summarized the plan he announced in August, which offers cancellation of up to $20,000 in federal student loans for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for other borrowers (all subject to an income limit of less than $125,000 per person). Biden then said, “It’s passed. I got it passed by a vote or two, and it’s in effect.”
Facts First: Biden’s claims are incorrect. Biden created his student debt forgiveness initiative through executive action, not through legislation. So he did not sign a law and didn’t get the initiative passed by any number of votes.
Republicans opposed to the Biden initiative, including those who are challenging the initiative in court, have called it unlawful precisely because it wasn’t passed by Congress. In other words, the distinction between a law and an executive action is a highly pertinent fact in the ongoing battles over the legality and legitimacy of the policy. And in 2020 and 2021, Biden discussed that distinction himself while musing about various proposals for student debt forgiveness.
Asked for comment on Monday, a White House official said Biden was referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, a law narrowly passed by the Senate in August; the official said that law created “room for other crucial programs” by reducing the federal budget deficit. But Biden certainly did not make it clear in these comments that he was talking about anything other than the student debt initiative.
Biden’s remarks were highlighted by numerous conservatives on Twitter on Sunday night, including by a Republican National Committee account.
Policy by executive action
To conduct student debt forgiveness without going through Congress, the Biden administration relied on the authority its lawyers argue the federal education secretary has under a 2003 law, the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act.
The law, signed by President George W. Bush amid the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, allows the education secretary to waive or modify loan requirements for people who are serving in the military during a war or national emergency, who live or work in an area declared a disaster area in connection with a national emergency, or who have suffered direct economic hardship as a direct result of a war or national emergency.
The Biden administration argues that the Covid-19 pandemic constitutes such a national emergency and that its debt forgiveness initiative is meant to rectify the hardship the pandemic has inflicted upon student borrowers. Six Republican attorneys general challenging the initiative have argued in a legal filing that the 2003 law was never meant to authorize “anything like the Administration’s across-the-board debt cancellation” and that Biden’s initiative is not genuinely linked to the pandemic.
Last week, a federal appeals court temporarily barred the Biden administration from cancelling student loans under the initiative while the court considers a Republican request for an injunction. The administration said it could still accept and review forgiveness applications in the meantime.
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DETROIT (AP) — A large study by U.S. highway safety regulators found that more than half the people injured or killed in traffic crashes had one or more drugs, or alcohol, in their bloodstreams.
Also, just over 54% of injured drivers had drugs or alcohol in their systems, with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an active ingredient in marijuana, the most prevalent, followed by alcohol, the study published Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found.
Although the study authors say the results can’t be used to gauge drug use on the roads nationwide, they say the high number of drivers, passengers and other road users with drugs in their systems is concerning.
Acting NHTSA Administrator Ann Carlson said the study found that nearly 20% of the drivers tested had blood-alcohol levels of 0.08% or higher, exceeding the legal limit in every state.
“We also are concerned that nearly 20% of road users tested positive for two or more drugs, including alcohol,” she said. “The use of multiple substances at once can magnify the impairing effects of each drug.”
The study of blood tests taken at seven level-one trauma centers and four medical examiners’ offices across the country comes at a critical time on U.S. roadways. Traffic deaths have risen dramatically since the start of the pandemic to what officials describe as crisis levels. And more states are legalizing recreational use of marijuana with research just starting about the impact on traffic safety.
“It’s scary to all of us in a way,” said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, a watchdog group. “But frankly, I don’t think I’m that surprised.”
Brooks, who is based in Washington, D.C., said he often sees people drive after drinking or smoking cannabis.
“There’s not a commute that goes by that I don’t smell marijuana on the road, from someone actively smoking in a car in front of me,” he said.
The study took place between September of 2019 and July of 2021 at trauma centers in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Baltimore; Worcester, Massachusetts; Iowa City, Iowa; and Sacramento, California. Medical examiners at four of the sites also took part.
The study, which took blood-test data from 7,279 road users, also found that more than half of injured pedestrians and just over 43% of injured bicyclists had a drug in their bloodstreams.
Of the total number of patients, 25.1% tested positive for THC, 23.1% for alcohol, 10.8% for stimulants and 9.3% for opioids, according to the study.
The study was set up to measure prevalence of drug and alcohol use, but the numbers can’t be used to show drug use on the roads nationwide because the hospitals were not picked to represent the entire country, said Amy Berning, a NHTSA research psychologist and one of the study authors.
The study also can’t be used to show a correlation between increasing numbers of highway deaths and drug use, although she said detecting such a high percentage of use with a large sample size is “a concern for NHTSA.”
Researchers counted any level of drugs in blood samples and did not measure whether people were impaired, Berning said. It likely will use the data as a baseline for further study of the issue, she said. NHTSA is planning a national roadside survey to measure alcohol and drug use on the roads. It last did such a survey in 2013 and 2014.
The presence of THC in so many patients could be because it can stay in a bloodstream longer than alcohol or other drugs, Berning noted.
The study was released as NHTSA began its annual holiday season campaign against impaired driving.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Value creation trumps volatility in metals M&A, according to an industry report released by the Metals investment banking team from Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL).
Download and read the BGL Metals Insider — Acquisitions Continue to Drive Value Amid Volatility: https://bit.ly/bglMetalsInsider2023
Government incentives like the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science Act are encouraging investment in U.S. manufacturing, a swift response to the supply chain disruption brought about by COVID and the Ukraine conflict. This positive momentum for reshoring has the potential to accelerate growth for suppliers of raw materials as well as the downstream metals supply chain in North America.
Metals manufacturing is seeing strong secular demand in major end markets and stands to be an important beneficiary of the reshoring movement—with significant growth accelerators for fabricators. Private equity funds are taking notice by driving a highly active metals M&A environment. CORE Industrial Partners (Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions) and Tide Rock Holdings (Fabcon, Accu-Fab) are examples of acquisitive financial sponsors that are creating growth platforms with size and scale and are consolidating a highly fragmented landscape.
Downstream growth continues to be a motivator for metals industry M&A involving service centers with diversification a way to better navigate cyclicality and enhance margin. Olympic Steel's recent purchase of Metal-Fab illustrates this trend, furthering the company's strategy to reduce earnings volatility through value-added processing. Metal service centers are also looking to broaden product and geographic coverage with increased scale.
U.S. steel producers are expanding and dominating the scrap metal M&A landscape as they seek control of raw material input to feed new mills. Headlining transaction activity were Steel Dynamics (ROCA ACERO), Commercial Metals Company (Kodiak Metals Recycling, Advanced Steel Recovery), and BlueScope Steel (Milliron Recycling), each announcing transactions and capacity expansions in 2022. The Metals investment banking team at BGL expects consolidation to continue as participation from steel mills puts pressure on market participants.
About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market. The firm advises private and public corporations and private equity groups on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructurings, business valuations and opinions, and other strategic matters. BGL has investment banking offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York, and real estate offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Antonio. The firm is also a founding member of Global M&A Partners, enabling BGL to service clients in more than 30 countries around the world. Securities transactions are conducted through Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company Securities, LLC, an affiliate of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LLC and a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.
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A potential surge in COVID-19 cases this winter could provide an early test for Gov.-elect Maura Healey and put the state a step closer to returning to mask and vaccine mandates.
Where Healey will come down on these thorny issues surrounding COVID is unclear since she hasn’t provided any detailed plan how she would deal with another virus wave.
But the Democrat will face pressure from all sides — anti-maskers and teachers’ unions and the state police union – in the coming months if a new strain of COVID does make a strong comeback. The teachers backed her campaign and Healey might be more likely to take their side in any coming conflict.
In Massachusetts, a new COVID subvariant is causing concern that cases will surge this winter – even among people who have been vaccinated.
The Boston Public Health Commission has urged residents to get boosted, tested and wear masks indoors during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season to prevent a new surge of cases from overwhelming hospitals.
“Staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations, getting a flu shot, wearing a well-fitted mask while traveling and testing for COVID-19 before gathering are important ways to protect yourself and your family and friends during the holiday season,” said Bisola Ojikutu, commissioner of Public Health.
And just last week in Los Angeles, officials went back to “strongly recommending” masking indoors to deal with a rising number of COVID cases.
Healey has not given any extended interviews since winning the election – keeping a surprisingly low profile despite her election mandate. She hasn’t been asked about how she would deal with a wave of COVID.
As a candidate, Healey imposed vaccine mandates on her staff and she said she supported Gov. Charlie Baker’s mandates for state employees like state troopers – as well as Baker’s decision to give exceptions for religious or medical reasons to a small number of employees.
State police are now fighting Baker’s vaccine mandate, but Healey has said she believes it is legal to bar employees from their jobs if they don’t get vaccinated.
“It’s the right move,” Attorney General Healey said of Baker’s decision last year. “In terms of legality, it’s absolutely legal in my view.”
She told WGBH in August 2021 that she didn’t think the mandates were “onerous” – a position in direct odds with her GOP opponent, Geoff Diehl.
“The vaccine is out there, the FDA has approved it and that’s why I think we see not only government agencies but…venues and businesses and employers just generally moving in the direction of taking the steps to require folks to be vaccinated.”
But things have changed since Healey made those comments. The state rescinded indoor mask mandates and President Biden declared the epidemic over.
Healey will face a strong backlash if she tries to return the state to masking mandates, or require all state employees to get vaccinated.
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SIPH encourages residents to reduce the risk of severe respiratory illness
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - With the recent increase in respiratory illnesses spreading around southeast Idaho, Southeastern Idaho Public Health (SIPH) encourages residents to be mindful of the current situation for the remainder of the season.
Recently, cases have been increasing among influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID-19, throughout the state and southeast Idaho. The remainder of the respiratory season has the potential to be severe, especially for young children and older adults.
The good news is there are easy actions everyone can take to stay healthy this season. SIPH recommends the following steps:
- Remain home if you are feeling ill. Even mild symptoms could be flu, RSV, COVID, or something else.
- Get tested:
- Contact your primary healthcare providers to inquire about multi-panel respiratory virus testing to identify flu, RSV, COVID, and others.
- Free rapid COVID tests: www.covid.gov/tests or 1-800-232-0233 https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/find-covid-19-testing-locations
- Most insurance companies will cover costs for some over the counter COVID tests. Contact your insurance provider for more information.
- Seek Treatment. If you’re ill and suspect COVID, flu, or RSV, please seek treatment sooner than later. Seeking care early is important because some treatments for viral illnesses are most effective within a specific timeframe. If patients wait too long to check on symptoms, their treatment options could be limited.
- Improve ventilation and indoor air quality in your home:
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/Improving-Ventilation-Home.html
- https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/air-cleaners-hvac-filters-and-coronavirus-covid-19
- Wash your hands often, especially after using the bathroom, blowing your nose, coughing, and sneezing. Avoid touching your face, but if you must, wash your hands before and after. Use hand sanitizer if washing is not readily available.
- Cover your nose and mouth anytime you cough or sneeze, either into your elbow/sleeve or into a tissue that is disposed of.
- Know if you are high risk. It is especially important for older people, people with chronic health conditions, people who are pregnant, and young children to get vaccinated to prevent severe disease.
- Get vaccinated.
- The updated Omicron COVID booster, also known as the bivalent booster, targets the Omicron variant, as well as the original 2020 virus. The Omicron boosters are available for ages six months and older. hese improved vaccines are the best protection against severe symptoms of COVID and hospitalization.
- Vaccinations (COVID or Influenza) are proven to be safe and effective in reducing illness and transmission. Your doctor can give you the flu shot and the COVID booster in the same visit.
- Flu shots are vaccines that protect against the four influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the flu season. The flu vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of having to go to the doctor with flu by 40% to 60%.
- There is no vaccine for RSV, but simple measures like regular hand washing and covering coughs can help.
- Consider wearing a well-fitted mask when visiting crowded, indoor places for added protection or if you are visiting someone at increased risk for severe illness.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNOOC Limited (the "Company", SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced today that Dongfang 1-1 Gas Field Southeast Zone and Ledong 22-1 Gas Field South Block Development Project commenced production ahead of schedule.
The development projects locate in Yinggehai, Western South China Sea, with an average water depth of 90 meters. Utilizing the existing processing facilities of Dongfang 1-1 platform and Ledong 22-1 platform, the projects plan to commission 4 development wells and to produce through 2 subsea production systems, 2 mixed transportation pipelines of oil and gas and 2 umbilicals. The projects are expected to reach their peak production of approximately 44 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
CNOOC Limited holds 100% interest in Dongfang 1-1 Gas Field Southeast Zone and Ledong 22-1 Gas Field South Block Development Project.
Notes to Editors:
More information about the Company is available at http://www.cnoocltd.com.
This press release includes forward looking information, including statements regarding the likely future developments in the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, such as expected future events, business prospects or financial results. The words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "objective", "ongoing", "may", "will", "project", "should", "believe", "plans", "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements are based on assumptions and analyses made by the Company as of this date in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that the Company currently believes are appropriate under the circumstances. However, whether actual results and developments will meet the current expectations and predictions of the Company is uncertain. Actual results, performance and financial condition may differ materially from the Company's expectations, including but not limited to those associated with fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas prices, macro-political and economic factors, changes in the tax and fiscal regimes of the host countries in which we operate, the highly competitive nature of the oil and natural gas industry, environmental responsibility and compliance requirements, the Company's price forecast, the exploration and development activities, mergers, acquisitions and divestments activities, HSSE and insurance policies and changes in anti-corruption, anti-fraud, anti-money laundering and corporate governance laws.
Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements. The Company cannot assure that the results or developments anticipated will be realised or, even if substantially realised, that they will have the expected effect on the Company, its business or operations.
For further enquiries, please contact:
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E-mail: cnooc.hk@pordahavas.com
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The DEAD EYE SALOON located at 110 Boston Post Road in Westbrook, CT is hosting a 4th of July Holiday RED, WHITE, & BREW BASH this Saturday, July 2nd and Sunday, July 3rd from 1pm to 10pm both days.
WESTBROOK, Conn. , July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- You won't want to miss this! Live music ALL DAY each day, Beer trucks, $5 Draft Beers, Grilled food, Games, and much, much more! The Dead Eye Saloon also has a brand new outside bar and huge patio dining area. Plus tons of fresh seafood from Maine. And live bands every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Become a Dead Eye Saloon regular and start with the RED, WHITE, & BREW 4TH of July Holiday Festival this weekend! The Dead Eye Saloon overlooks the beautiful Westbrook, CT shoreline and is great for family and friends. They have the best Seafood from Maine flown in daily and are still reasonably prices. Can also follow on Facebook for additional upcoming Summer Events.
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Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington administered the Oath of Affirmation in a swearing-in
ceremony for two new deputies that have joined the Bossier Sheriff’s Office team.
The swearing-in ceremony for newly hired Deputies Mike Almond and Kerry Sikes took
place in the Sheriff’s Conference Room in the Bossier Parish Courthouse on Tuesday
morning. Sheriff Whittington told Deputy Almond and Deputy Sikes, “It is an honor to
swear you in and I welcome you to the Bossier Sheriff’s Office.”
Deputy Almond will serve on a part-time basis while Deputy Sikes will serve on a full-time
basis.
If you are seeking a career that offers excitement in the workplace and allows you to make
a difference in your community, then the Bossier Sheriff’s Office is the place for you. To
apply to be a deputy, applicants must be 21 years of age. However, the Bossier Sheriff’s
Office does offer a corrections officer position that requires the applicant to be 18 years of
age.
To start the process of becoming a member of the Bossier Sheriff’s Office, call the Human
Resources Department to schedule a test today. You can reach them by calling (318)965-
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PHOENIX (AP) — A family of five was found dead inside their north Phoenix home Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.
Phoenix police said two adults and three children had obvious signs of trauma but didn't release any details and their names and ages of the five weren’t immediately released.
Although police have classified the incident as a homicide vase, they said investigators were not searching for a suspect in the deaths.
A 911 call led to police, city firefighters and hazardous materials teams being dispatched to the home around 8 a.m. Wednesday about a possible gas leak.
Television station video from the scene showed a propane tank in a large taped-off area around the house and multiple emergency response vehicles in the neighborhood.
Authorities said the presence of gas was detected at the home when firefighters arrived at the scene.
Police officers didn’t go inside the home for several hours over safety concerns, but reported finding the five bodies after the house was secured around noon.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Santa Fe District Attorney has filed formal charges against actor Alec Baldwin and film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed for the fatal shooting on the set of the film “Rust.” The filing comes nearly two weeks after District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altweis announced her plan to move forward with prosecuting the case surrounding the on-set death of film cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
According to charging documents filed Tuesday, both Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed each face one count of involuntary manslaughter for Hutchins death. Hutchins was killed at the Bonzana Creek Ranch near Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021, after being shot by a gun Baldwin was handling.
As part of the filings made Tuesday, the DA also published a 10-page statement of probable cause in the case, highlighting prosecutors’ arguments for charging Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed. In addition to those charges, the film’s assistant director, David Halls, is said to have pleaded to a single misdemeanor count of negligent use of a deadly weapon (unsafe handling). In that release the DA’s office says the terms of his agreement include a suspended sentence and six months of probation. Prosecutors said Halls handed Baldwin the gun which eventually killed Hutchins, while Gutierrez-Reed was in charge of weapons on the set.
Naming Baldwin both an actor and producer on the “Rust” set, the probable cause statement alleges, in part, that “on the day of the shooting alone, evidence shows that no less than a dozen acts, or omissions of recklessness, occurred in the short time prior to lunch and the time of the shooting, and this does not include the reckless handling of the firearm by Baldwin.”
Investigators also allege that Baldwin, “by act or omission or failure to act in his position as a producer directly contributed and/or failed to mitigate numerous reckless and dangerous actions during a very short time period.”
Video footage shows Baldwin was rehearsing for a scene when he pointed the gun toward the camera being operated by Hutchins. Loaded with a real bullet or “live round,” the gun went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza.
The case, which is expected to be argued by special prosecutor Andrea Reeb, has been highlighted by allegations of on-set negligence. Investigators claim the gun Baldwin was handling wasn’t thoroughly checked before being handed to the actor.
In a statement on Jan. 19, special prosecutor Reeb said, “If any one of these three people—Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or [assistant director] David Halls—had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It’s that simple.”
Baldwin has maintained that the gun misfired, denying responsibility for the shooting. However, an FBI report contradicts Baldwin’s claim that the gun accidentally discharged.
Gutierrez-Reed told investigators in subsequent interviews that she didn’t know how live rounds got into the real gun. Gutierrez-Reed has filed a lawsuit in the case, in part blaming an ammo supplier in the shooting. That lawsuit is pending as of January 2023.
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LONG ISLAND CITY, Queens (NYPD) — A suspect allegedly attacked a 16-year-old girl on a subway platform in Queens Monday, police said.
The incident occurred on the northbound platform at 39th Avenue and 31st Street station in Long Island City at around 8:35 a.m. The assailant punched the teen in the mouth, pulled her hair, and bit her while trying to take her her cellphone, police said.
The victim suffered a laceration to the hand but was not treated at a hospital, cops said.
Police released a photo of the suspect sought in the incident but did not provide a description.
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Shohei Ohtani flirts with no-hitter in Angels’ win over Athletics
If baseball were nothing more than a video game, Shohei Ohtani would be the ultimate cheat code.
On Thursday the two-way star took a no-hit bid against the Oakland Athletics into the eighth inning. He was four outs away from accomplishing the feat when Connor Capel hit a grounder that eluded shortstop Livan Soto and rolled into center field.
His pitching mastery was still acknowledged by the announced crowd of 31,293, which gave him a standing ovation, complete with more “M-V-P” chants in the Angels’ 4-2 victory.
“That’s my mentality before every outing to try to get that no-hitter or perfect game,” Ohtani said in Japanese through interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.
Asked whether he thought he was going to be able to complete the no-hitter, he said, “To be honest, I wasn’t really feeling my fastball tonight. The velo wasn’t as fast as normal. But my slider was doing its thing and it was working. I’m kinda surprised that with my stuff I got through eight innings.”
But his accomplishment surprised no one.
Certainly not his manager.
“Every time he takes the mound, you can anticipate something special happening,” interim manager Phil Nevin said. “When we got through the seventh, I really thought it was gonna happen.”
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Certainly not his catcher.
“I don’t think anything that Shohei does, really, surprises me because I think the sky’s the limit for him,” Max Stassi said. “He can do anything in this game and he’s proven that.”
Certainly not his fellow MVP-winning teammate.
“Everybody thought he was gonna do it,” Mike Trout said. “If he threw a no-hitter, the MVP conversation would be ridiculous.”
Ohtani gave up just two hits and walked one batter, striking out 10 and going two for four with an RBI in eight innings.
Before giving up consecutive singles in the eighth — the second one was hit by Dermis Garcia — Ohtani had one blemish: a walk to Tony Kemp to start the game.
Kemp was erased on a double play and Ohtani faced the minimum batters through seven innings.
At one point he struck out four in a row between the fourth and fifth innings. That fifth inning also ended with Ohtani fielding a dribbler to first base. He jogged off the field, fist-pumped low, and went into the dugout.
The exhilaration of Ohtani’s mastery built among the crowd as the innings wore on, each pitch more precious than the last. The “M-V-P” chants grew louder and after the final out of the seventh inning — a sharp grounder to third baseman Luis Rengifo — the crowd’s energy became more than emotion, but a physical electricity.
There were little moments of gratitude that Ohtani extended his teammates around him, like when he walked off the mound and pointed a finger in appreciation of Rengifo’s play to end the seventh.
Or the finger-pointing thanks to his catcher, Max Stassi, who caught a foul ball that popped up high and dropped along the back netting.
Soto felt bad for missing what was arguably a difficult ball to make a play on and did apologize to Ohtani for not helping keep the no-hitter intact but Ohtani said he wasn’t bitter about it.
Ohtani’s first hit of the night extended his hit streak to 14 games — the longest active streak in the majors — with an RBI single he got off of A’s starter Cole Irvin in the first inning.
It’s a career high for Ohtani, whose previous long lasted 11 games.
His two singles gave him his 24th and 25th hit in games he has pitched this season.
Ohtani is scheduled for one final start , the final game of the Angels season in Oakland on Oct. 5.
Whether Ohtani is the designated hitter or also the starting pitcher, a certain level of greatness is always anticipated.
It’s anticipated by his team, by the opposing team, by the fans who fill Angel Stadium even for a late-September game in another losing season.
“Everybody looks forward to this day. I think my parents only come when he pitches,” Nevin joked before the game on Thursday.
Added A’s manager Mark Kotsay of how to prepare to hit against Ohtani, “The same way we did with [Jacob] deGrom, the same way we did with [Max] Scherzer, same way we did with all the best pitchers in the game.”
The Angels offense as a whole strung together 13 hits and four runs, three off the bats of Rengifo, Taylor Ward and Stassi, who all hit solo home runs.
Including the Angels’ 3-2 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday, Taylor Ward has been on a tear in September batting .333 with an OPS of .929.
And that’s all
Archie Bradley and Mickey Moniak will end their seasons on the injured list.
Bradley, who was reactivated from the IL on Sept. 27 after recovering from a fractured elbow, was sent back to the IL after developing a forearm strain after ramping up.
Moniak, who also was recently returned from the IL earlier in the month after recovering from a finger fracture, was put back on the IL with a left hand contusion.
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Deion Sanders arrived at Colorado in December with much fanfare and a blunt message to Buffaloes players who had just endured a 1-11 season under the previous coaching regime.
Be ready to transfer, the new head coach told them in his first team meeting.
“We got a few positions already taken care of because I’m bringing my own luggage with me,” Sanders said. “And it’s Louis, OK.”
Does Louis Vuitton sell in bulk?
Colorado has had a total of 52 scholarship players enter the transfer portal in the five months since the Pro Football Hall of Famer was hired away from Jackson State. The pace picked up rapidly last month:
The spring transfer period in college football closed Sunday night with 43 scholarship players — the equivalent of half a roster — from Sanders’ program having entered the portal since more than 40,000 fans showed up at Folsom Field in Boulder for Colorado’s spring game on April 15.
It is unprecedented turnover in this new era of loosened transfer rules, and almost double that total of the next largest number of players entering the portal among the 11 Power Five programs with a new head coach.
Arizona State is next with 27 scholarships players entering the portal since coach Kenny Dillingham was hired Nov. 27. The Sun Devils had 11 players jump in the portal during the spring window, which ran from April 15-30.
Nebraska has had 23 scholarship players enter the portal since Matt Rhule was hired the day after Thanksgiving.
At the other end, Stanford had 13 players, all graduates, go into the portal after former coach David Shaw resigned, but only three more have entered since coach Troy Taylor was hired Dec. 10.
“There is a strong climate of people come in to try to push as many guys as they can out,” Taylor said. “I did not do that at Sacramento State. I didn’t even attempt to do it here at Stanford. We take what we got, we make it better.”
The deadline for undergraduate players to notify their schools they intend to transfer and be eligible next season was Sunday night, but new names were still trickling into the portal Monday as paperwork was being processed.
Players still have time before next season to find a new school, though most teams — other than Colorado — don’t have many available spots. Graduate studnets can enter the portal after the window closes and be immediately eligible next season.
Transfers in major college football have skyrocketed since the NCAA two years ago removed its rule mandating undergraduates sit out a season after switching schools. A one-time exception for immediate eligibility had been available to athletes in other sports, but not high-profile ones such as basketball, baseball and football.
As of Monday afternoon, the names of 2,090 Football Bowl Subdivison football players were in the portal, according to the NCAA. The number of FBS players who have entered the portal during the 2022-23 academic year and found a new school is 1,055.
At Colorado, nine scholarship players went into the portal between when Sanders was hired and the start of the spring transfer period.
“I didn’t kick ’em out; they walked out,” Sanders told reporters after the spring game. But he made clear the next wave of players heading into the portal would include some being pushed out of the program.
“We’ve got to make some decisions,” Sanders said. “That’s going to be on me now.”
As the NCAA defends itself against a federal lawsuit and actions by the National Labor Relations Board seek to give college athletes employee status, Sanders’ roster flip has given fresh ammunition to those trying to dismantle the collegiate amateurism model.
“Sanders is in the process of firing half his team, kicking them off their scholarships because they aren’t performing. That’s employment,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted Sunday.
NCAA rules require schools to honor a scholarship if an athlete is essentially cut from the team by a new coach but chooses to remain with the school. That scholarship, however, does not count against the team’s limit of 85 in the FBS.
Southern California used that rule as part of its roster overhaul after Lincoln Riley was hired in November 2021. USC had 23 scholarship players hit the portal from the day after Riley was hired through early June 2022. USC began last season with 38 new players, including 20 from the portal.
NCAA limits on the number of new players a school can sign in a calendar year were also changed last year so coaches can replace players transferring out.
By the time Sanders is done, he could have more than 70 new players on the roster. According to 247 Sports, Colorado already has 35 portal transfers signed or committed to go with a signing class of 20 high school recruits and junior college transfers.
Former Florida State defensive back Omarion Cooper, a former four-star recruit who has played sparingly in two seasons with the Seminoles, was among the latest to jump on board Monday.
“Let’s make history,” Cooper tweeted.
When it comes to college football roster makeovers, Sanders and Colorado already have.
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mabwell (688062.SH), an innovative biopharmaceutical company with the layout of whole industry chain, announced its wholly-owned subsidiary Mabwell Therapeutics has entered into an agreement with DISC MEDICINE, INC. ("Disc") about 9MW3011 (R&D code in the US: MWTX-001, MWTX-002 & MWTX-003). Under the terms of the agreement, Disc will obtain exclusive rights to develop and commercialize 9MW3011 discovered by Mabwell, in the United States, Europe, and other territories outside of Great China and Southeast Asia. Mabwell can obtain a total of up to $412.5 million of down payment and milestone payment, and can also obtain the royalty of close to two digit percentage of net sales of licensed products, of which Disc will pay a one-time non refundable down payment of $10million to Mabwell. 9MW3011 has been approved by NMPA and FDA to carry out clinical trials in China and the United States respectively.
"We've been expanding global business actively and I'm so excited that Mabwell reaches an exclusive license agreement with Disc for 9MW3011 which is an innovative drug independently research & developed by Mabwell Therapeutics," said Datao Liu, Co-founder & CEO of Mabwell, "Disc has rich clinical and preclinical experience in the field of hematological diseases. It will further accelerate the clinical progress of this variety in the world and fulfilling unmet clinical need for patients of hematologic diseases."
"Disc has built deep expertise in the role of iron homeostasis in hematologic disorders, and I am thrilled to expand our portfolio with these highly complementary antibody programs." said John Quisel, J.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Disc. "We are delighted to be partnering with Mabwell, a company with a strong antibody technology platform. This program is in perfect alignment with our strategy and we look forward to advancing MWTX-003 into phase 1 studies later this year."
The proposed indications of 9MW3011 include a variety of diseases classified as rare in different regions of the world, such as β-thalassemia, polycythemia vera. There are no mature and effective macromolecular drugs for the relevant indications so far. 9MW3011 is expected to be qualified as an orphan drug in the future and become the first-in-class macromolecular drug to regulate iron homeostasis in vivo.
About Mabwell
Mabwell (688062.SH), an innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company, has the whole industrial chain of R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization. We provide more effective and accessible therapy and innovative medicines to fulfill global medical needs. Since 2017, an advanced R&D system which covers target discovery, early discovery, druggability, preclinical, clinical research and manufacturing transformation was established. Mabwell has 14 pipeline products in different R&D stages based on a world-class and state-of-the-art R&D engine, including 10 novel drug candidates and 4 biosimilars. We focus on the therapeutic areas of auto-immune diseases, oncology, metabolic disorders, ophthalmologic diseases and infectious diseases, etc. Of these, 1 product has been approved and commercialized, 2 products have been filed for MA approval, 3 products are in pivotal trials. We have also undertaken 1 national major scientific and technological special project for "Significant New Drugs Development", 2 projects for National Key R&D Programmes, and several provincial and municipal science and technological innovation projects. Mabwell's Taizhou factory possesses robust in-house manufacturing capability compliant with international GMP standards regulated by the NMPA, FDA and EMA, and has passed the EU QP Audit. The large-scale manufacturing base located in Shanghai is under construction. Our mission is "Explore Life, Benefit Health" and our vision is "Innovation, from ideas to reality". For more information, please visit www.mabwell.com.
About Disc
Disc Medicine is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing novel treatments for patients who suffer from serious hematologic diseases. We are building a portfolio of innovative, first-in-class therapeutic candidates that aim to address a wide spectrum of hematologic diseases by targeting fundamental biological pathways of red blood cell biology, specifically heme biosynthesis and iron homeostasis. For more information, please visit www.discmedicine.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Las Cruces grad Deuce Benjamin became of the latest players to leave New Mexico State and enter the transfer portal.
Benjamin sat out last season as a red shirt and has four years of eligibility left.
He led Las Cruces to a state title in 2020.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Lithuania’s decision to bar Moscow from shipping certain goods by rail to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will result in a response that will have a “significant negative impact” on the Lithuanian people, a top Russian security official said Tuesday.
The ban on goods subject to European Union sanctions was announced by Lithuanian authorities earlier this month and prompted a flurry of angry retorts from Moscow, with the Kremlin denouncing the move as unprecedented and unlawful.
Nikolai Patrushev, the powerful secretary of the Kremlin’s Security Council, visited the Kaliningrad region on Tuesday and vowed during a national security meeting to take action over the ban.
“Russia will definitely respond to such hostile actions,” Patrushev said. “The relevant measures are being drawn up in an interagency format and will be adopted shortly. Their consequences will have a significant negative impact on the population of Lithuania.”
He didn’t elaborate on what action Russia might take. Patrushev will report on results of his trip to Kaliningrad to President Vladimir Putin, his office said.
Separately, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the European Union ambassador to Russia, Markus Ederer, and “expressed a resolute protest” over the transit ban. The ministry said in a statement that it “demanded an immediate resumption of the normal operation” of the transit, otherwise “retaliatory measures will follow.”
Kaliningrad, home to some 430,000 people, is isolated from the rest of Russia and borders EU members Lithuania and Poland. Trains with goods for Kaliningrad travel via Belarus and Lithuania; there’s no transit through Poland. Russia can still supply the exclave by sea without falling foul of EU sanctions.
The Lithuanian government stressed in a written statement Tuesday that “the transit of passengers and non-sanctioned goods to and from the Kaliningrad region through Lithuania continues uninterrupted,” and that the ban on transit of sanctioned goods was merely part the fourth package of EU sanctions against Russia.
Top Lithuanian officials decried Russia’s reaction to the measure as an attempt by the Kremlin to wind up a propaganda campaign trying to create an image of a “blockade” mainly for internal consumption.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas tweeted Monday that “European countries may continue to be intimidated by Russia” … but “let’s not lose the ability to separate disinformation and propaganda from real possibilities.”
The country’s prime minister, Ingrida Simonyte, rejected claims about the blockade of Kaliningrad is a product of Kremlin propaganda.
“It’s just that EU sanctions have come into force on some of the goods included in the package, namely steel and ferrous metals. The transportation of all other goods that are either unsanctioned or not yet subject to sanctions is continuing, as is the transit of passengers” she said, noting the great irony behind Russia’s references to international treaties.
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AUSTIN, Texas and AKRON, Ohio, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RVshare, the largest online community for RV renters and owners, celebrates its 10th Anniversary, marking a decade of innovation, expanded access, and millions of trips for happy RV campers within the outdoor travel space. As the world's first peer-to-peer marketplace for RVs, RVshare has revolutionized RV travel, empowering RV owners to become entrepreneurs, broadening the industry, and introducing new travelers across generations to RVing.
Looking Back: 10 Years of Exponential Growth
Similar to many tech start-ups, RVshare was born in a founder's basement, launching its first landing page in June 2013 and a website in August 2013. In 2018, RVshare brought on Jon Gray, the former chief revenue officer of Vrbo (formally HomeAway), as its new CEO to build out the executive suite and scale product and marketing capabilities for the brand. Within Jon's first month leading RVshare, he secured a $50 million commitment from Austin-based investment firm Tritium Partners, setting the tone for the company's explosive next chapter. Over the past few years, RVshare has experienced unprecedented growth, raising $100+ million in Growth Capital from private equity giant, KKR, and 10x in the past five years.
Now, with over 100,000 listings across the United States, RVshare offers a diverse selection of vehicles, ranging from luxury motorhomes to cozy camper vans, available in all 50 states. The ever-growing community includes 60,000 RV owners who are sharing their passion for outdoor travel and RVs with generations of RV and adventure-loving communities. The peer-to-peer platform has seen over 4 million nights booked and 203 million miles traveled by RVshare renters.
"Since 2020, the trajectory of RVshare has been like a rocket ship. We watched bookings stall in March 2020 and then jump - growing our business exponentially in the months following," shared Jon Gray, CEO, RVshare. "The pandemic sped up the RV rental industry by 5 years in the span of 12 months, and the demand for RV travel has remained high since. We have seen a fundamental shift around the industry – it is no longer just your parents' retirement plan but a way for families to visit Disney World or young couples to work remotely from a National Park."
The RV Boom
Following the initial periods of upheaval and unpredictability in the travel space brought on by the pandemic, RVshare turned to travelers at the beginning of this year to hear from Americans directly on their travel plans. RVshare's 2023 Travel Trend Report compiled that data, revealing that nearly all Americans (99%) were planning leisure travel in 2023. The influence of RVshare's growth is undeniable, as the company found that of all Americans planning leisure travel in 2023, 61% planned to take a road trip or vacation in an RV this year. As remote work flexibility continues to evolve into a more permanent lifestyle for many, travelers continue to make outdoor adventure part of their lives. RV interest continues to rise too, with 62% of travelers reporting that they are likely to consider renting an RV for a trip in the future, a 9% jump from 2022. Not to mention, the undeniable lift in popularity across demographics, as RV enthusiasts of all ages continue to travel. In 2023, millennials make up the most interested age group in RVing, followed by Gen X and Gen Z.
To learn more about RVshare's 10 years in the industry, check out RVshare's new edition of The Road Ahead.
The Ultimate RVmoon Getaway: Sweepstakes
The idea for RVshare was born on a honeymoon, back in 2013. Then, one of RVshare's original founders, Mark, returned from his own honeymoon RV trip, and realized he needed a solution for his RV while he wasn't driving it. And so, RVshare was born - making RVing accessible to all travelers. Fast forward to today and RVshare is the largest online community for RV renters and owners. In honor of RVshare's 10th Anniversary, the company is sending lucky winners on the RVmoon of their dreams. An RVmoon can be any trip celebrating life's biggest moments on the road - from wedding anniversaries to retirements and everything in between.
The first-ever sweepstakes for the ultimate RVmoon getaway, will offer the winners $5,000 towards an RV rental and additional travel expenses. The giveaway is open for submissions and nominations now through 7/11/2023. To enter, fill out the form linked here prior to 7/11/2023.
About RVshare
RVshare is the first and largest peer-to-peer RV rental marketplace. With more than 100,000 vehicles available, RVshare's diverse inventory ranges from affordable travel trailers to luxury motorhomes and can accommodate any outdoor adventure, whether it's a weekend of camping or a cross-country tour of national parks. Through RVshare, families and groups can experience a one-of-a-kind trip and create memories that will last a lifetime. In addition to offering a unique travel experience, RVshare provides RV owners in North America the opportunity to turn their RV into a second income. For more information, visit rvshare.com, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @rvshare.
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Cases called included:
Kerry A. Dingledine, 40, of S Charleston, OH, bench warrant served defendant jailed, guilty.
Joseph L. Huffman, 26, of 1135 Farlow St., bench warrant served defendant jailed, dismissed, bond $5,000, guilty.
Brian J. Knadler, 45, of 120 W. Mulberry St., Apt. 130, criminal trespass, innocent, continued, PD appointed, OR bond.
Derrick S. Long, 33, of 1909 S. Clifton Ave., aggravated menacing, innocent, continued, OR bond.
Wade A. Mckinster, 27, of 518 Linwood Ave., violation of TPO, innocent, continued, PD appointed, OR bond.
Donald E. Sions Jr., 42, of 502 Park Place, abduction, continued, bond $5,000, domestic violence, continued, OR bond.
Timothy G. White, 42, of 2825 Columbus Ave., violation of TPO, continued, PD appointed, no contact with Courtney Neff, bond $1,000.
Franklin L. Wilson, 36, of 20 W. Northern Ave., violation of TPO, continued, PD appointed, bond $1,500, violation of TPO, continued, bond $1,500, violation of TPO, continued, PD appointed, bond $1,500. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/clark-county-municipal-court-cases/226XU5WP3JB4BBK62PRPOWW2BA/ | 2022-08-30 13:32:00 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/clark-county-municipal-court-cases/226XU5WP3JB4BBK62PRPOWW2BA/ |
Thursday’s Commerce Department data might well confirm that gross domestic product shrank for a second straight quarter. In anticipation, the White House issued a statement noting that there is nothing “official” about the oft-cited rule of thumb according to which a two-quarter losing streak defines a recession.
How about we compromise and call the next economic downturn, whenever it comes, a “banana,” in honor of Alfred E. “Fred” Kahn?
In 1978, Kahn — a Cornell University economist in charge of President Jimmy Carter’s inflation-fighting efforts — said that failure to get soaring prices under control could lead to a “deep, deep depression.” Carter’s aides, perturbed at the possible political fallout, instructed him never to say that word, or “recession,” again.
We don’t know whether this instruction stirred the wrath of Kahn, a verbal stickler notoriously disdainful of cant and euphemism; in a previous government job, he had sent around a memo telling staff not to use words like “herein.”
It did trigger his wit, though: In his next meeting with reporters, Kahn puckishly said the nation was in “danger of having the worst banana in 45 years.”
Kahn’s quip endures because it implicitly conveyed a nuanced truth: It is wrong for a president to deny obvious reality, but at the same time, and despite the scientific pretensions of economics, there really is no pure, objective definition of “recession.” (When United Fruit Co., complained about “banana,” Kahn switched to “kumquat.”)
Republicans who sanctimoniously accuse Biden of “gaslighting” are therefore forgetting not only Kahn’s sly wisdom but also such recent events as President George W. Bush’s strained use of “period of uncertainty” instead of “recession” in early 2008 — a time when the U.S. economy was already plunging into the worst, er, banana since the 1930s.
Another reason Kahn, who died in 2010 at 93, is relevant today: Once again, inflation threatens a Democratic presidency, and the Biden White House does not have many more effective tools at its disposal than Carter’s did during Kahn’s stint as the hapless chairman of something called the Council on Wage and Price Stability.
As Kahn predicted, it took a sharp — how do you say? — downturn, engineered by Federal Reserve interest rate hikes and marked by unemployment that peaked in 1982 at 10.8 percent, to crush inflation. A similar Fed rate-raising campaign that began in March is why many worry about the risk of a banana now.
While Carter’s inflation-fighting efforts did mostly fail, in one area they did some good. That was the deregulation of passenger airlines, trucking and freight rail, which exposed long-standing government-protected cartels in those industries to competition, resulting in lower costs throughout the economy.
In his first administration job, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn spearheaded airline deregulation and later influenced the companion trucking and rail efforts. Both Carter and his eventual rival for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), supported these changes.
There was a time, in other words, when a left-center spectrum of Democrats paid attention to the supply side of the economy, not in the Republican tax-cuts-for-the-rich way, to be sure, but in a pro-consumer sense of enabling efficiency, with the goal of promoting abundance and, eventually, lower prices. Kahn, Kennedy and — yes — Carter deserve credit for this contribution to easing long-range inflationary pressures.
President Biden’s treasury secretary, Janet L. Yellen, advocates “modern supply side economics,” which, as she put it, “prioritizes labor supply, human capital, public infrastructure, R&D, and investments in a sustainable environment.” She argued that the Build Back Better plan’s “investments” in child care, family leave and the like would have advanced that policy.
Whether all that spending really would have raised productivity — or poured more gas on a raging inflation fire — is a good question, to which we will likely never get the answer since the bill is essentially dead. Meanwhile, the administration should look, as Kahn did, for opportunities to fight inflation by loosening the government’s grip on unduly regulated markets.
One market in dire need of reform is baby formula, where shortages persist. The proximate cause was a safety-related factory shutdown at Abbott Laboratories, the nation’s largest producer, but government policies helped render the supply chain vulnerable to such a shock in the first place.
Those policies include import restrictions and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which provides poor mothers with free formula. Complicated laws designed to help states get more formula for their federal WIC grant dollars have had unintended perverse effects: the rise of state-level monopolies for certain companies and all but impenetrable barriers to potentially innovative new producers.
It’s fair to say that this system would have driven Fred Kahn bananas. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/27/united-states-economy-recession/ | 2022-07-27 11:27:32 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/27/united-states-economy-recession/ |
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ANDERSON, Ind. — Two suspects wanted for violent crimes in Illinois were taken into custody in Anderson Wednesday.
Illinois State Police contacted Anderson police Thursday about the wanted suspects, who had ties to the Anderson area. Investigators located both suspects in a home in the 1200 block of East 38th Street, securing the home with assistance from the SWAT team.
The suspects were taken into custody without incident.
The Madison County Drug Task Force and Illinois State Police then executed a search warrant on the home, police said, finding several firearms with multiple rounds of ammunition inside the home.
The investigation is ongoing.
No other information about the suspects or the crimes they allegedly committed is known at this time. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/anderson-indiana-police-swat-taken-suspects-wanted-in-illinois-into-custody/531-c2292f4b-d17c-4056-9f13-4c4fa68f8a0f | 2023-05-18 05:12:37 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/anderson-indiana-police-swat-taken-suspects-wanted-in-illinois-into-custody/531-c2292f4b-d17c-4056-9f13-4c4fa68f8a0f |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zynex, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZYXI), an innovative medical technology company specializing in the manufacture and sale of non-invasive medical devices for pain management, rehabilitation, and patient monitoring, today announced it has started enrollments in an ongoing apheresis clinical trial with its second-generation fluid monitoring system, the CM-1600.
The study monitors subjects during an apheresis procedure with the predicate device, the CM-1500, and now also the CM-1600, to refine the system's patented Relative Index in a wide array of patient circumstances. To date, 53 subjects have been enrolled in the study. Zynex's second generation blood and fluid monitoring device has been introduced to the study to evaluate its sensitivity and accuracy in the same environment. The CM-1500 was cleared by the FDA in February of 2020 while the CM-1600 is still awaiting FDA clearance.
"The data collected with the CM-1500 in the earlier phases of the apheresis trial was encouraging and incredibly valuable for improving accuracy of the CM-1600 Relative Index," said Donald Gregg, VP of Zynex Monitoring Systems. "We are excited to continue data acquisition with the CM-1600 and be able to demonstrate how the device performs in a variety of clinical settings such as apheresis donation."
The study is expected to complete enrollments in the fourth quarter of 2022.
"We remain committed to prioritizing data collection through clinical studies," commented Thomas Sandgaard, CEO of Zynex. "We believe the addition of the CM-1600 to this trial will expand the scenarios in which this device provides novel patient monitoring capabilities and will demonstrate its anticipated value in the marketplace."
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Few TV producers draw mass audiences as reliably as Shonda Rhimes, who correctly predicted Julia Quinn’s Regency-era “Bridgerton” romance novels would appeal to millions. Building off that success, Rhimes’ latest effort for Netflix is a prequel series that takes place several decades prior to the events of the books. This time, though, the central character isn’t fictional but very much part of the historical record.
“Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” looks at the queen’s “rise to prominence and power,” with her 1761 marriage as a teenager to King George. As with the first two seasons of “Bridgerton,” it features a likable ensemble cast that generates smoldering earnestness with a soupcon of camp. There’s real chemistry between the central pair. The settings are opulent and vivid. I suspect anyone who has enjoyed “Bridgerton” so far will find many of the same pleasures herein.
But both series sidestep a glaring reality: The significant links to slavery among Britain’s wealthy and elite.
One of Rhimes’ primary changes to the books has been to diversify the cast of characters. That includes casting Queen Charlotte as a Black woman, played by Golda Rosheuvel in middle age and India Amarteifio as the younger queen (both appear in the new series), and that choice is a nod to some theories about the real Charlotte’s family tree. Though she was German, it’s believed she was descended from a Black branch of the Portuguese royal family, several generations removed.
Rhimes has taken this suggestion and made it overt: What if Great Britain had a queen not only with distant Black ancestry, but who was Black herself?
I understand the appeal. The premise imagines an alternate reality that chips away at white supremacy. A win for representation and inclusive storytelling, in the words of the cast in the lead-up to the premiere. It’s tough to talk about the more complicated reality in sound bites. But complicated, it is. The real British royal family has a long and brutal history — and present-day wealth — tied to the enslavement of Black people, which is at odds with “Queen Charlotte’s” version of the monarchy.
Rhimes has an answer for that. The show is “not a history lesson,” we are informed at the top of the first episode. “It is fiction inspired by fact. All liberties taken by the author are quite intentional.”
Fair enough. And yet …
Kristen Warner is a professor at Cornell University who studies race and representation in TV and film. “On one level, I fully understand and empathize with writers who are not trying to educate or not trying to teach an audience about anything,” she said.
“But I also think that disclaimer is highly disingenuous for two reasons. One, because television implicitly or not, meaningfully or not, intentionally or not, teaches us things. We are informed by what we watch. We learn about things — about people, about cultures, about history — from watching television. That’s been true from its inception.
“And the second thing is, we’re living in a moment where the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and how chattel slavery actually operated, are being removed from textbooks and removed from the curriculum in certain places, by law.
“So I wonder — by saying ‘this is not a history lesson’ and asking audiences to not think about what is happening in the British Empire — if the show is unintentionally becoming strange bedfellows with the very people who don’t want the history of enslavement taught in schools.”
Audiences are smart enough to hold two competing ideas in their head. So let’s look at the history.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, “the history of Kensington Palace, the home of a succession of monarchs, and more recently the Prince and Princess of Wales, is uncomfortably entwined with the monarchy’s involvement in slavery.” A previously unseen document from 1869 was recently discovered that shows King William III received £1,000 of shares in the slave-trading Royal African Company. That’s as direct as it gets.
“Across almost three centuries, 12 British monarchs sponsored, supported or profited from Britain’s involvement in slavery,” the Guardian reported. In the lead up to King Charles’ coronation, the paper has run a series of stories under the heading “Cost of the Crown” and they are not only an investigation into the finances and private wealth of the British royal family, but also “the vast apparatus of secrecy that obscures these from the public.”
As Warner points out, one could question whether, intentionally or not, a show like “Queen Charlotte” is working in concert with that vast apparatus.
George and Charlotte had 15 children together. Their son William (who would later become king in 1830) was a vocal defender of slavery while still a prince. He claimed abolitionists had “grossly misrepresented the mistreatment of enslaved men and women in the British sugar colonies,” according to documents in the Royal Archives and Royal Library.
What about Charlotte herself? A blog from the Library of Congress had this to say:
“The marriage of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle led to speculation about whether or not Queen Charlotte had an African ancestor. Did she? The jury is still out. She did not, in any case, choose to identify with people of African descent or with the plight of the enslaved in Britain’s colonies.”
Here’s what we know, according to Library of Congress documents:
“In 1788, as Britain’s abolitionist movement gained steam, Olaudah Equiano, a former slave who had been stolen as a child in Africa, pleaded with the Queen: ‘I supplicate your Majesty’s compassion for millions of my African countrymen, who groan under the lash of tyranny in the West Indies.’
“Her response? Silence.”
That doesn’t feel like a win for anything, representation or otherwise, no matter how smoothly “Queen Charlotte” avoids this inconvenient truth about its title character.
The slave trade was abolished in 1807 during King George’s reign. And yet the exploitation didn’t end there. The blood money had already been amassed into fortunes and palatial estates, and many of Britain’s wealthiest still maintained plantations in the Caribbean that profited from enslaved labor.
The truth is ugly. “Queen Charlotte” has romanticized it instead, and it’s no coincidence that Netflix chose to premiere the series two days before the real life coronation of King Charles, even as the British monarchy has come under increased scrutiny. When Prince William insisted to a cluster of journalists that “we are very much not a racist family,” as he did in 2021, that’s a public relations problem no amount of manufactured glamour can obscure.
Charles has been facing down a negative press cycle since the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, in September, and historians are making explicit connections between the monarchy’s whitewashed portrayal in TV and film and how this works to erase the realities of colonial racism and violence.
Where does “Queen Charlotte” fit into that?
The show glancingly and very delicately acknowledges that Britain’s aristos are resistant to accepting a Black queen, along with the elevation of other Black families to their social circle. The characters themselves refer to this shift as “the great experiment” and the new Black members of high society soon find it’s a precarious position they occupy. But their concern is devoid of context. Even in private, no one comments on the dicey source of everyone’s riches.
Consider a moment early on when Charlotte first arrives from Germany. The king’s mother gives her a once over and insists on inspecting her teeth. It’s a subtle allusion to the way enslaved people were assessed at auction. Is the subtext intentional? Maybe. But the show has nothing to say about it — Charlotte is disturbed but seems entirely unaware of the implications — and it’s gone in a flash.
“Bridgerton” and “Queen Charlotte” exist as crinoline-lined fantasies. And yet neither shy away from other unpleasant realities, including the ways in which women lacked full agency over their lives in this period. “Shonda Rhimes is very comfortable talking about gender inequality,” said Cornell’s Warner. Nor does “Queen Charlotte” avoid staging a number of barbaric mental health “treatments” inflicted upon King George. “She’s picking and choosing what she finds comfortable and what she finds resistant to the fantasy,” said Warner.
I’ve always thought “Bridgerton” could have avoided these issues if it took a cue from “Game of Thrones” and invented a fictional setting from scratch. Warner agrees. “If you want to create a world that is analogous to Regency England, build that world — but don’t call it Britain! Create the world that you wish to see. But don’t use the real world and then act like, if people check you for it, well, you’re not a history teacher.”
Warner calls these projects “fantasy with a candy coating of history.
“I wrote a piece last year about ‘Bridgerton’ asking: Can a show encapsulate both fantasy and the legacies of imperialism and colonization? And a lot of women of color and Black women in particular were like: I just don’t want to think about it. So I understand that.
“But at the same time, you can never remove yourself from this conversation. And when you do, bad things happen.”
(Nina Metz is a Chicago Tribune critic who covers TV and film.)
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — At least 146 people were killed and dozens more were injured after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital Seoul, South Korean officials said.
Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could grow as emergency workers were continuing to transport the injured to hospitals across Seoul following the stampede in the leisure district of Itaewon Saturday night.
Choi said many of the dead were sent to hospitals while some bodies were still on the streets.
Officials say it was believed that people were crushed to death after a large crowd began pushing forward in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel, a major party spot in Seoul.
Officials from the National Fire Agency and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety had earlier said about 100 were injured and around 50 were being treated for cardiac arrest as of early Sunday, though the number of injured has continued to grow.
More than 400 emergency workers and 140 vehicles from around the nation, including all available personnel in Seoul, were deployed to the streets to treat the injured.
The National Fire Agency separately said in a statement that officials were still trying to determine the exact number of emergency patients.
TV footage and photos from the scene showed ambulance vehicles lined up in streets amid a heavy police presence and emergency workers moving the injured in stretchers. Emergency workers and pedestrians were also seen performing CPR on people lying in the streets.
In one section, paramedics were seen checking that status of a dozen or more people who lied motionless under blue blankets.
Police, which were restricting traffic in nearby areas to speed up the transportation of the injured to hospitals across the city, also confirmed that dozens of people were being given CPR on Itaewon streets. The Seoul Metropolitan Government issued emergency text messages urging people in the area to swiftly return home.
A local police officer said he was also informed that a stampede occurred on Itaewon’s streets where a crowd of people gathered for Halloween festivities. The officer requested anonymity, saying the details of the incident were still under investigation.
Some local media reports earlier said the crush happened after a large number of people rushed to an Itaewon bar after hearing an unidentified celebrity visited there.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a statement calling for officials to ensure swift treatment for those injured and review the safety of the festivity sites. He also instructed the Health Ministry to swiftly deploy disaster medical assistance teams and secure beds in nearby hospital to treat the injured.
Local media said around 100,000 people flocked to Itaewon streets for the Halloween festivities, which were the biggest since the start of the pandemic following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in recent months. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/officials-59-dead-after-halloween-crowd-surge-in-seoul/ | 2022-10-30 00:19:46 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/officials-59-dead-after-halloween-crowd-surge-in-seoul/ |
San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer won't take part in pregame warmups, saying the team's decision to wear Pride-themed jerseys in support of the LGBTQ community runs counter to his religious beliefs.
Reimer said in a statement Saturday that he made the decision based on his Christian beliefs, adding that he “always strived to treat everyone with respect” and that members of the LGBTQ community should be welcome in hockey.
“In this specific instance, I am choosing not to endorse something that is counter to my personal convictions, which are based on the Bible, the highest authority in life,” Reimer said.
Reimer is the second NHL player this season to refuse to take part in warmups with Pride-themed jerseys, with Philadelphia's Ivan Provorov declining to in January. Reimer was not slated to play in Saturday night’s home game against the New York Islanders, which is Pride night.
Additionally, the New York Rangers opted not to wear Pride jerseys or use Pride stick tape as part of their night in January despite previously advertising that plan.
The Sharks said in a statement that they are proud to host Pride Night, saying the event reinforces the team's commitment to inclusiveness.
“As we promote these standards, we also acknowledge and accept the rights of individuals to express themselves, including how or whether they choose to express their beliefs, regardless of the cause or topic," the team said in a statement. “As an organization, we will not waver in our support of the LGBTQIA+ community and continue to encourage others to engage in active allyship.”
The You Can Play Project, which works to promote inclusiveness in sports, said the organization was disappointed in Reimer's actions.
“Religion and respect are not in conflict with each other, and we are certainly disappointed when religion is used as a reason to not support our community,” the organization said. “Wearing pride jerseys, like any celebration jersey worn, is not about the personal feelings of an athlete; rather the communication from the team that a community is welcome in the arena and the sport.”
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Linda Jane Kiddy Crump, 73, resident of Hickory Flat, passed away Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union County, following an extended illness. Services honoring the life of Mrs. Crump will be Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 2PM in the Memory Chapel of New Albany Funeral and Cremation Care. Visitation will be Thursday from 11AM until time of service. Burial will follow in the Amaziah Baptist Church Cemetery in Union County. Mrs. Crump was born May 9, 1949, in Alcorn County, to the late Mackie Lester and Martha Lucille Mullins Kiddy. She received her education from the Myrtle School district and was employed for many years in the furniture industry with Bench Craft and in later years as a private caregiver. A Christian, Mrs. Crump attended Faith Baptist Church in Hickory Flat as long as her health allowed. Her favorite past times included sharing time with family, baking, reading, tending her garden and listening to old time gospel music. She had a servants heart and always wanted to help anyone in need. Those left to cherish her memories include three sisters, Ruby F. Rollins, Lottie Bunn (Chuck) both of New Albany, and Rose L. Ferguson of Ripley, two brothers Bud Kiddy of New Albany and Jack Kiddy (Debbie) of Myrtle, two grandchildren, Samantha L. Proffitt, and Tammy J. Christenson and one great granddaughter, Zoie N. Shiers and was looking forward to meeting her newest great granddaughter Amelia Jane Proffitt that is due in late July. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Robert Crump, one son, Charles Randall Crump, one sister, Dottie Ferguson, and two brothers, John Kiddy and R. J. Kiddy. New Albany Funeral and Cremation Care invites you to share memories with the Crump family at nafuneralsandcremations.com.
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KALAMAZOO, MI – A family was left homeless and three children were poisoned by lead in a Kalamazoo rental home while the leasing company did nothing to help, a federal lawsuit alleges.
Affordable housing nonprofit Open Doors Kalamazoo, the city of Kalamazoo and City Manager James Ritsema are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed March 15 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
Troy and Kyla White rented a home at 1217 W. North St. between Douglas Avenue and Denner Street from Open Doors Kalamazoo in 2018.
The home, built in 1894, had lead fixtures and piping, which Open Doors did not disclose, the lawsuit said. The family, which is Black, had worked with the housing nonprofit since 2016 to find a home.
The lawsuit alleges numerous legal violations, including violations of the 14th and First Amendments, racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Acts and Housing Regulation, violations of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act, fraudulent misrepresentation and concealment and gross negligence.
“Defendant Open Doors discriminated against (Troy and Kyla White) when they purposely leased (them) a rental unit infested with excessively high levels of lead contamination in which they would not have leased their non-minority program participants,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare the conduct unconstitutional and order racial and cultural sensitivity training for Open Doors Kalamazoo. It also asks for payment of $48 million of damages for loss of enjoyment of life, exemplary damages and economic and non-economic damages. Attorney and litigation fees of $800,000 are also asked for.
For about 1,080 straight days, the family drank water with lead in it, despite the fact Kyla White specifically asked the leasing agent if there were any lead issues in the home because they had an infant daughter, the lawsuit said. She was told there was no lead and no history of lead in the home, the lawsuit said.
That was untrue, the lawsuit alleges, and Open Doors and the city of Kalamazoo had a legally-mandated duty to disclose the lead. If the nonprofit did not know about the lead, they had a duty to know the home’s history, the lawsuit said.
The family was also not given the lead hazard pamphlet as required by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Testing in May 2022 from the Kalamazoo County Community Health showed three children had elevated levels of lead that were at the lead poisoning level, the lawsuit said.
“Open Doors Kalamazoo has not been able to review any such lawsuit yet, but we are confident that all appropriate steps were followed, all legal duties were fulfilled and Open Doors Kalamazoo went above and beyond to do everything feasible to assist the family involved,” Interim Executive Director Stacy Vest said in an email.
The city of Kalamazoo does not comment on pending litigation, Communications Director Michael Smith said.
The Whites told Open Doors about the lead tests, to which the nonprofit responded they “should clean their children more thoroughly,” the lawsuit said. Blaming the lead poisoning on the parents’ “filthy ways,” was a racially-discriminatory statement, according to the lawsuit.
Child Protective Services opened an investigation into the family the day after the lead poisoning was reported, which the Whites believe was initiated by Open Doors as a way to shift liability onto the family, the lawsuit said.
The Whites were found to be fit parents and the investigation was dropped after 30 days. The only issue CPS found were doors that locked from the inside, which the Whites fixed at their own expense, the lawsuit said.
More than a month after Open Door was notified of the lead poisoning of the children, there was an inspection of the rental home, the lawsuit said. The inspection was supposed to happen within 15 days.
Open Doors moved the two parents and six children into a single hotel room in July 2022, where they lived until February 2023, the lawsuit said. Kyla White was eight months pregnant when Open Doors stopped paying for the hotel in February, leaving the family homeless, the lawsuit said.
The nonprofit said paying for the hotel was costing too much money and the family needed to return to their North Street home or their lease would be severed, the lawsuit alleges.
As a result of Open Doors failure to abide by laws and the lease, as well as racial hostility, the family is homeless and suffers from headaches, learning and developmental disorders, mental anguish, humiliation, economic losses and a lessened quality of life, the lawsuit said.
The family’s First Amendment right to practice religion was violated by Open Doors and the city of Kalamazoo because they were drinking neurotoxic lead water and living in a lead-infested home, which meant they violated tenants of their religion without knowing it, the lawsuit said.
No amount of sanitizing could have made the water proper for the family’s religious purposes, the lawsuit said. They practice an Abrahamic faith.
By failing to disclose the lead history and failing to give the family the EPA-mandated lead hazard pamphlet, Open Doors violated the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act, the lawsuit said.
Kalamazoo and Ritesma, the city manager, issued certificates of compliance for the rental unit, despite it not meeting the minimum standards of the city’s ordinances, the lawsuit said. That lead to the lead poisoning of three young children, long-term exposure to excessive levels of lead and the wrongful displacement of a family, the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs also allege that maintenance and repairs to the North Street home were delayed by Open Doors because the family is Black.
Open Doors also violated civil rights by knowingly leasing inadequate homes to Black citizens, the lawsuit claims. The nonprofit tried to lease home to Black residents at the lowest possible expense and put them in the most hazardous units.
“Defendants caused the homelessness and lead poisoning of an innocent family who fulfilled their contractual obligations in good faith,” the lawsuit said.
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This isn’t the first lawsuit on this issue in Kalamazoo. The city reached a $115,000 settlement in 2013 with a Kalamazoo resident, acknowledging it failed to meet lead requirements at closing when she bought a house.
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M&A, Venture Capital, Private Investment & IPO Funding Top $29.9 Billion
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Montgomery County companies had a record year of investment in 2022, with more than $29.9 billion in combined initial public offering (IPO), merger and acquisition, private investment and venture capital deals. That is an increase from $4 billion in 2020 and more than $18 billion in 2021. In all, Montgomery County had 144 deals across 126 companies in 2022.
"The record investment in Montgomery County companies is a testament to the region's remarkable climate of business growth and innovation," said Bill Tompkins, President and CEO of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation. "We are a premier destination with a powerful network of existing businesses across a wide range of industries. Our deep talent pool, diverse and vibrant communities, and proximity to the federal agencies including the Departments of Transportation and Energy, FDA, and NIH position the County's companies for success."
Venture capital was the most active category in 2022, with more than 60 companies in the county receiving venture capital funding. The investments totaled $867.88 million and were led by a $242.98 million funding round for Robotic Research, known as RRAI.
"We founded RRAI in Montgomery County 20 years ago, and we feel fortunate to be part of this community," said Alberto Lacaze, RRAI's Chairman and CEO. "We have access to highly skilled engineering, product and administrative talent to scale our business, and since our capital raise have added 200 jobs and expanded our Montgomery County footprint. We believe a major part of this success is due to the exceptional work-life balance that Montgomery County provides."
Arcellx was the recipient of two funding rounds in 2022, accounting for more than $235 million.
"Arcellx began as a start up in the Montgomery County Innovation center and is now a Nasdaq-listed public company," said Rami Elghandour, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arcellx, which led the IPO category in 2022. "Through our growth, we stayed in the County, moving to Gaithersburg as we launched our clinical development programs and are now expanding our footprint to Rockville where we will occupy approximately 60,000 square feet of both lab and office space. We're grateful for the support from Montgomery County which also gives us access to the exceptional talent we need to advance our company."
Montgomery County companies saw a total of $329.11 million in initial public offerings in 2022 and $321.43 million in private funding. Merger and acquisition activity totaled $28.457 billion in 2022, led by Amgen's record-setting $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics. Horizon has been building out its East Coast research and development hub at the Alexandria Center® at Traville Gateway campus in Rockville. It is one of many life sciences and biotechnology companies to call Montgomery County home, giving the region its moniker of The Immunology Capital Next to the Nation's Capital.
See the full list of investments in Montgomery County companies here.
These investments underscore the strength of the county's business community, as businesses in a wide range of industries continue to expand their operations, hire additional employees and develop innovative products and services.
Montgomery County offers an ideal environment for growing businesses of all kinds. It is home to one of the most well-educated and diverse workforces in the country, with 58% of adults over 25 holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and three international airports for easy access to regional, national and global destinations. Eighteen federal agencies, including NIH, FDA, NIST and NOAA, are located in the county, opening up opportunities for federal contracts and technology transfer. Great schools, convenient public transportation, and vibrant communities make the county an attractive place to live and raise a family.
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Does some art deserve to be attacked by climate activists? By Neda Ulaby Published December 9, 2022 at 5:00 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 2:07 Great works of art that have been attacked by climate protesters are innocent victims. But is there some art that deserves to be vandalized? Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-12-09/does-some-art-deserve-to-be-attacked-by-climate-activists | 2022-12-09 11:30:15 | 0 | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-12-09/does-some-art-deserve-to-be-attacked-by-climate-activists |
(WGN Radio) – A study of 19,000 people has doctors taking a closer look at aspirin.
The study, published last month in Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at a huge group of people 65 and older. Half were given 100 mg of aspirin daily, while the other half were given a placebo.
The study found the group taking low-dose aspirin were 25% more likely to be anemic, explained Dr. Kevin Most, Chief Medical Officer at Northwestern Medicine’s Central DuPage Hospital.
Anemia describes a condition where the body didn’t have enough healthy blood cells to carry oxygen throughout their bodies properly.
“So we’re really starting to look again at aspirin being in the scrutiny now,” Dr. Most said in a recent interview with WGN Radio. “We need to understand the risk and reward of, OK, it’s going to prevent a stroke, it’s going to prevent a heart attack potentially, but now it’s also going to cause anemia. So we need to make sure we balance that to make sure the right people are taking it.”
Because aspirin is associated with an increased risk for bleeding, including stomach bleeding or aneurysms, doctors have already moved away from recommending daily aspirin for all older adults, Dr. Most explained. This new study is another factor you should discuss with your doctor when determining if daily aspirin is best for you, he said.
“I currently take a baby aspirin per day. Why? Because I have high risk. My father died of a heart attack, I have high cholesterol. So I have high blood pressure. … But you would probably want to talk to your doctor to make sure that the risk versus reward is there.”
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The actor, who is starring in the Baz Luhrmann-directed biopic Elvis, has sparked headlines after weighing in on Allen's absence from Disney and Pixar's Lightyear, the origin story for Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear. The animated film, which hit theaters in June, instead stars Chris Evans as the voice of the titular character.
"I wanted to go head to head with Tim Allen," Hanks told CinemaBlend when asked about Elvis and Lightyear being in theaters at the same time. "They didn’t let Tim Allen do it. I don’t understand that."
Still, Hanks, who worked with Allen on four Toy Story films, didn't elaborate before shifting focus to people returning to movie theaters. "Just as long as people come back to the motion picture theater," he said. "I want to go back into the theater with a bunch of strangers and leave with something in common. That’s what I want to do."
And if there are any fans heading into the theater confused over why Allen isn't resuming his signature role, the new casting comes down to logistics for the character. While Allen is the voice of Buzz Lightyear, the toy, Evans is the voice of Buzz Lightyear, the cinematic astronaut that the toy is based off of in the Toy Story universe.
“Tim really is the embodiment of the toy Buzz, and this isn’t the toy world, so it really doesn’t make sense," producer Galyn Susman previously explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "There’s not really a role. It would just cause more confusion for audiences instead of helping them understand the movie we’re trying to tell.”
Still, the connection between the two incarnations is not lost on Evans. “This is the character that the toy is based off of," Evans previously told ET. "You can't, kind of, make pure, fresh tracks in the show. You have to acknowledge that."
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This winter's COVID-19 surge in the U.S. appears to be fading without hitting nearly as hard as many had feared.
"I think the worst of the winter resurgence is over," says Dr. David Rubin, who's been tracking the pandemic at the PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
No one expected this winter's surge to be as bad as the last two. But both the flu and RSV came roaring back really early this fall. At the same time, the most contagious omicron subvariant yet took off just as the holidays arrived in late 2022. And most people were acting like the pandemic was over, which allowed all three viruses to spread quickly.
So there were big fears of hospitals getting completely overwhelmed again, with many people getting seriously ill and dying.
But that's not what happened.
"This virus continues to throw 210-mile-per-hour curve balls at us. And it seems to defy gravity or logic sometimes," says Michael Osterholm, who heads the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
"People all assumed we would see major transmission. Well, every time we think we have some reason to believe we know what it's going to do, it doesn't do that," Osterholm says.
'The worst' of the surge of COVID, flu and RSV may be over
Infections, hospitalizations and deaths did increase in the U.S. after New Year's. But the number of people catching the virus and getting hospitalized and dying from COVID soon started to fall again and have all been dropping now for weeks, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The fall flu and RSV waves continue to fade too. And so the worst looks like it's probably over, many public health experts say.
"I'm glad to say that we didn't have as much of a crush of infections as many thought was possible, which is very welcome news," says Jennifer Nuzzo, who heads the Pandemic Center at Brown University.
The big question is: Why? Several factors may have played a roll.
One possibility could be that people avoided crowds, wore a mask and took other precautions more than public health experts had expected they would. But that doesn't really appear to be the case.
Might 'viral interference' play a role?
Another possibility is "viral interference," which is a theory that sometimes when a person gets infected with one virus, their immune response may protect them from getting infected with another virus. So maybe RSV and flu crowded out COVID in the same way COVID crowded out those other viral infections at various times over the last two years.
"At this point, I think that's more of a guess rather than very solid evidence," Nuzzo says. "But if it's true, that might mean we might be more susceptible to seeing a rise in infections when those viruses are not around."
Nuzzo and other experts suspect instead that the main reason the COVID surge is ebbing is all the immunity we've all built up from prior infections, and/or the COVID vaccinations many of us have received.
"We have what I would call now a better immunity barrier," says Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University who heads the Infectious Disease Society of America.
"Between vaccinations and prior infection I think all of us are in a different place than we were before," he says. "All of us, if not totally protected, we are somewhat better protected. And that immunologic wall is real."
"Make no mistake: COVID-19 remains a significant public health threat. ... The fact that we are still losing hundreds of people a day to this virus is deeply troubling."
Why COVID-19 remains a significant threat
But none of this means the country doesn't have to worry about COVID anymore. More than 400 people are still dying every day from COVID-19. That's far fewer than the thousands who died during the darkest days of the last two winter surges. But it's still many more people than die from the flu each day, for example.
"Make no mistake: COVID-19 remains a significant public health threat," Nuzzo says. "That has not changed. And the fact that we are still losing hundreds of people a day to this virus is deeply troubling. So we shouldn't have to accept that level of disease and death that we are seeing."
William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, agrees.
"It's beyond question that society has moved into a stage where the pandemic is for most of us if not over then certainly quiet. And that's a great thing. Long may it remain so," Hanage says. "Is it the case that there is no preventable suffering? No. There is still preventable suffering and death."
Most of the people dying are elderly, many of whom have not received the latest booster against COVID-19. So getting them boosted could help a lot. And the immunity the rest of us have built up could keep fading. That means many of the rest of us may at some point need to get another booster to help further reduce the threat from COVID.
Another wave of flu could still hit this year, public health experts note, and the risk continues that yet another new, even more dangerous variant of SARS-CoV-2 could emerge.
"This virus isn't done with us yet," Osterholm says.
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NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A team at NYU Langone Health successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently deceased humans in June and July, marking the latest advances toward addressing the nationwide organ shortage and developing a clinical protocol that would provide an alternative supply of organs for people with life-threatening heart disease.
The surgeries, known as xenotransplants, were performed on Thursday, June 16, 2022, and Wednesday, July 6, 2022, at NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital. Nader Moazami, MD, surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, led the investigational procedures using hearts procured from a facility hundreds of miles away and transplanted into recently deceased donors maintained on ventilator support.
The transplant surgeries were performed over several hours and heart function was monitored for three days. The first heart xenotransplant concluded on Sunday, June 19, 2022, and the second on Saturday, July 9, 2022. No signs of early rejection were observed in either organ and the hearts functioned normally with standard post-transplant medications and without additional mechanical support. Using a new infectious disease protocol, no presence of porcine cytomegalovirus (pCMV) was detected in either case. Strict protocols to prevent and monitor potential zoonotic transmission of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) were also carried out. The operating room used for this study has been taken offline to be used only for future xenotransplantation research.
The hearts were procured from pigs that had 10 genetic modifications, including 4 porcine gene "knockouts" to prevent rejection and abnormal organ growth as well as 6 human transgenes ("knock-ins") to promote expression of proteins that regulate important biologic pathways that can be disrupted by incompatibilities between pigs and humans. No other investigational devices or medications were used in this NYU Langone Health study. The procurement, transport, transplant surgery, and immunosuppression were aligned with current clinical standards used in heart transplantation.
"Our goal is to integrate the practices used in a typical, everyday heart transplant, only with a nonhuman organ that will function normally without additional aid from untested devices or medicines," said Dr. Moazami. "We seek to confirm that clinical trials can move ahead using this new supply of organs with the tried-and-true transplant practices we have perfected at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute."
Alex Reyentovich, MD, medical director of heart transplantation and director of the NYU Langone Advanced Heart Failure program, said these latest advances in xenotransplantation move the field closer to realizing a new supply of organs for those facing life-threatening disease.
"These are the first steps in developing a deep understanding of the mechanical, molecular, and immunologic aspects of xenoheart transplantation and the feasibility of utilizing standard clinical practice and tools to do so," said Dr. Reyentovich.
Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, said xenotransplant studies with recently deceased donors are critical to gathering the additional human data needed to advance a field that for decades until last year had been tested only using nonhuman primates.
"Our greater purpose is to address the organ shortage and provide another option for the more than 100,000 people nationwide waiting on that lifesaving gift," he said. "The paradigm of whole-body donation—when organ donation is not a viable option—is critical to this work moving forward. We are so grateful to the families who volunteer to participate in this research, which will lead to saving untold thousands of more lives."
The surgeries led by Dr. Moazami were part of a larger study approved by a specially designated research oversight board at NYU Langone and was performed after consulting the New York State Department of Health. It is the latest step in a research protocol that calls for additional and similar procedures to be performed. Whole-body donation after death for the purpose of breakthrough studies represents a new pathway that allows an individual's altruism to be realized after brain death declaration in circumstances in which their organs or tissues are not suitable for transplant.
"As the organ procurement organization for the greater New York area we are supportive of NYU Langone's research efforts," said Leonard Achan, RN, MA, ANP, president and chief executive officer at LiveOnNY. "Under normal circumstances, one donor can save up to eight lives. But in these special cases, donor heroes have the potential to save countless lives by participating in groundbreaking research. We can never thank these donor heroes and their families enough for saying yes and helping others. It is critically important to continue advancing this research."
Dr. Montgomery, who led groundbreaking xenotransplant surgeries using single-gene knockout pig kidneys in September and November of 2021, says one of the critical elements of success to advancing this field is enhanced porcine virus monitoring, which was incorporated in these latest procedures.
"Other studies have shown that pCMV may be a factor in the success of xenotransplanted organs," he said. "More sensitive screening methods have been introduced to detect low-level traces of pCMV in the donor pigs. We have included that additional screening in this heart transplant protocol to give the organ the best chance at long-term survival."
The infectious disease testing protocol developed at NYU Langone Health was led by Sapna Mehta, MD, director of the transplant infectious diseases program and clinical director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute.
The hearts used in these procedures were procured from pigs engineered by Revivicor, Inc., a subsidiary of United Therapeutics Corporation, which provided funding for this research.
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Supreme Court certifies ruling ending Trump border policy
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, a pro forma act that has drawn attention amid near-total silence from the White House about when, how and even whether it will dismantle the policy.
The two-word docket entry read “judgment issued” to record that justices voted 5-4 in a ruling issued June 30 that the administration could scrap the “Remain in Mexico” policy, overruling a lower court that forced the policy to be reinstated in December.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said shortly after the Supreme Court victory that justices would need to communicate the decision to a lower court, which, in turn, should lift the order to keep the policy in place in a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas. Beyond that, administration officials have said little, including whether any of the thousands subject to the policy since December will be allowed to enter and remain in the United States while their cases are being considered in immigration court.
The White House and Homeland Security Department had no immediate comment on the Supreme Court certification; the Justice Department declined comment. Officials in Mexico had no immediate comment.
About 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy, known officially as “Migrant Protection Protocols,” or MPP, from when former President Donald Trump introduced it in January 2019 until President Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021, fulfilling a campaign promise. Many were allowed to return to the United States to pursue their cases during the early months of Biden’s presidency.
Nearly 5,800 people have been subject to the policy from December through June, according to figures released Friday, a modest number that would make any reluctance to end it seem less plausible. Nicaraguans account for the largest number, with others from Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela.
A sign posted last week at the entrance to the Salvation Army migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, by the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration appeared to best capture the public understanding of the policy’s status: “Wait for official information! The Remain in Mexico (MPP) program remains in effect. The United States government will inform you of any changes.” | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/01/supreme-court-certifies-ruling-ending-trump-border-policy/ | 2022-08-01 22:25:13 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/01/supreme-court-certifies-ruling-ending-trump-border-policy/ |
OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City Intermediate School and Colony Club of Ocean City, held the Eighth Annual Spelling Bee for students on Jan. 19.
First place went to Keegan Ruskoski, followed by Alice Bickings in second place. Third place went to Nicholas Gelegonya. Elise Venturi will serve as alternate.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barings, one of the world's leading investment managers, today announced the appointment of Ken Griffin as the firm's Head of Insurance Solutions, effective immediately. Griffin will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of customized solutions to meet the needs of Barings' insurance clients globally.
"We are thrilled to welcome Ken to lead our global team of insurance solutions specialists in leveraging the firm's deep capabilities across public and private asset classes," said Colin Gordon, Head of Portfolio Solutions and Analytics and a member of Barings' Senior Leadership Team. "Ken's extensive experience addressing insurance investment challenges across multiple geographies, regulatory regimes, and insurance products will make him a valued resource for Barings' clients."
With a total insurance AUM of $223.3 billion*, the Barings Global Insurance Solutions team harnesses a range of tools and resources across insurance portfolio management, risk management, quantitative solutions, and regulatory accounting to create client-specific solutions. Based in Charlotte, N.C., Griffin will report to Gordon and bring a depth of insurance knowledge to Barings portfolio management teams.
"I am excited to join Barings' global team to lead and deliver investment knowledge and products that serve the unique needs of our insurance clients around the world in an increasingly volatile market environment," said Griffin.
Griffin has worked in the insurance and investment industries for over three decades. Prior to joining Barings, he served as Head of ALM Strategy at Brighthouse and Global Head of Insurance Solutions at Conning, where he focused on Strategic Asset Allocation. He received a B.A. in Economics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, as well as a member of the CFA Institute.
About Barings LLC
Barings is a $349+ billion* global investment manager sourcing differentiated opportunities and building long-term portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate, and specialist equity markets. With investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, aims to serve its clients, communities and employees, and is committed to sustainable practices and responsible investment. Learn more at www.barings.com.
*Assets under management as of June 30, 2022
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. , June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PYA is honored to announce its induction into The University of Kansas Health System Hall of Fame, the highest honor bestowed by the health system.
PYA is recognized as a 2023 Hall of Fame Partner in Excellence Award recipient, which honors organizations that partner with the health system to make a lasting impact on the people of the region.
"A partner creates a relationship with us, believes in us, and answers the call anytime we call, and that's what PYA has done throughout the years," said Bob Page, The University of Kansas Health System President and CEO.
"We are deeply honored by the recognition from The University of Kansas Health System," said Marty Brown, PYA President and CEO. "The induction into the Hall of Fame is truly a remarkable reflection of the core values PYA holds dear. Above all, we work every day to serve our clients with a focus on building relationships, and our work with The University of Kansas Health System reflects that passion. We are honored and privileged to have been able to partner with this incredible health system for 13 years."
PYA's partnership with The University of Kansas Health System began in 2010 when the firm helped the system acquire Kansas City Cancer Center. Since then, PYA has served the system with valuation, transaction, and integration services related to several strategic growth initiatives, such as the 2022 opening of the Proton Therapy Center, the affiliation with Olathe Health, and the development of the Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative, which now provides resources for more than 80 rural communities within the state.
The University of Kansas Health System has grown to become one of the most recognized health systems in the country, being honored nationally by Forbes, Newsweek, Fortune, and others. The health system has continually been honored for its clinical achievements, earning many honors and accolades including recognition as one of the top 50 programs in eight adult medical and surgical specialties by U.S. News & World Report.
"The University of Kansas Health System has plans to keep expanding our services and providing robust care…and you can bet PYA will continue to be one of our first calls," said Steve Stites, MD, Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs, and Chief Medical Officer.
The 2023 induction took place on June 8. Watch a video prepared by The University of Kansas Health System recognizing PYA's induction into the Hall of Fame.
About PYA
For 40 years, PYA, a national professional services firm providing management consulting and accounting, has helped its clients navigate and derive value amid complex challenges related to regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, governance, business valuations and fair market value assessments, multi-unit business and clinical integrations, best practices, tax and assurance, business analysis, and operations optimization.
PYA's steadfast commitment to an unwavering client-centric culture has served the firm's clients well. PYA consistently is ranked among the Top 20 healthcare consulting firms in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare. PYA was named one of America's Best Tax and Accounting Firms of 2023 in the Forbes annual list. PYA also is ranked by INSIDE Public Accounting as one of the Top 100 largest accounting firms in the U.S. Additionally, PYA has been consistently voted a "Top Workplace."
PYA assists clients in all 50 states from offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, Helena, Kansas City, Knoxville, Nashville, and Tampa. For more information, please visit pyapc.com.
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Treat troubled kids; don't punish them
It seems both sad and odd that our community considers the funding and building of an adolescent offender containment center.
Spending dollars on punishment rather than pro-active intervention and treatment that addresses the cause of this societal challenge seems less productive and constructive.
I want to be proud that our community addresses that juvenile justice is administered therapeutically, rather than punitively.
Glenn Solowiej
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Beech Grove got unwanted national attention the other day when a 4 year old in diapers was seen on video waving, aiming and pulling the trigger on a gun. The boy’s father Shane Osborne, 45, faces charges of dangerous control of a firearm and two counts of neglect of a dependent in connection with the Jan. 14 incident. Guy got on his soap box to say he will not defend irresponsible gun ownership as displayed in this video.
We need to police ourselves or we’re inviting big brother to do it for us, and that’s never a good alternative
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UNION, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials approved Thursday the killing of two wolves in a new pack that they said have been attacking calves in the northeastern part of the state.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said it would allow the landowner or potentially USDA Wildlife Services to shoot the wolves on the private land where the attacks happened, east of Union.
Three attacks that killed five calves on private pastures were confirmed by the agency on Dec. 25, Dec. 29, and Jan. 10. That level of depredation meets the definition of chronic livestock depredation under the state's Wolf Plan rules, which defines it as a minimum of two confirmed depredations in nine months.
Fish and Wildlife officials can approve the killing of wolves in chronic depredation situations when significant risk to livestock continues and nonlethal preventative measures have been used.
During one attack, the state said the livestock producer saw wolves standing over a dead calf but couldn't shoot them because it's not allowed to unless the wolves are caught while attacking. Sometimes wolves are found scavenging on dead livestock they did not kill, officials said.
This permit, which will be valid through mid-March, will allow the livestock owner to shoot wolves that get close to livestock.
The producer had increased human presence, fed livestock later to concentrate them overnight, moved calves to a more secure pasture, and used lights and noise to deter the wolves, according to Fish and Wildlife officials. After the second depredation, they also used flashing lights and moved the calves again, officials said.
Fish and Wildlife employees also searched the immediate area for carcasses or other items that could attract wolves and found none, officials said. The livestock producer will continue to use nonlethal measures to reduce conflict.
In November, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife killed an adult male wolf in the southeast corner of the state after the agency said a newly formed pack had attacked cattle. Wildlife advocates have been critical of state policies allowing for lethal removal.
Wolves in eastern Washington and Oregon also have been illegally killed in recent years, mostly by poisoning, and the states have sought help from the public to find those responsible.
There were a minimum of 173 wolves in Oregon in 2021, according to an annual survey done by state and tribal biologists. Washington had about 206 wolves while Idaho had about 1,500 at the time. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Oregon-OKs-killing-2-wolves-in-new-pack-after-17714419.php | 2023-01-12 23:16:00 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Oregon-OKs-killing-2-wolves-in-new-pack-after-17714419.php |
There are 50 thousand war crimes under investigation in Ukraine. NPR looked into just one case — the death of a man — and what it might take to find justice.
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Gloria Falcão Dodd, University of Dayton
(THE CONVERSATION) The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. Many countries with a Catholic heritage, however, such as Portugal and Spain, have already honored fathers on March 19: the feast of St. Joseph, husband of Mary and patron saint of fathers.
Joseph is easy to overlook. None of his words were included in the Christian Bible. In Islam, the Quran omits him entirely, though it does include Jesus and Mary by name; in fact, it refers to Mary more than the Christian Gospels do. And while Catholic tradition gives the highest veneration to the Virgin Mary, it gives less emphasis to Joseph’s significance – there is even a joke that a Sunday school student thought Jesus’ parents names were “Verge ‘n Mary,” after hearing her name so much more than his.
However, the Bible portrays St. Joseph playing a crucial role in the life of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity. In Catholic culture, Joseph is still an important role model of fatherhood and faith.
Husband of Mary, father of Jesus – on earth
The bulk of the biblical descriptions of Joseph come from what are called the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which describe Jesus’ birth and childhood.
According to the Gospels, Mary, a virgin betrothed to Joseph, conceived Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit – and therefore Christians consider Jesus the Son of God. However, most Christians understand Joseph to be a true father in every way except biological, since Joseph was the legal father who raised Jesus.
As someone who studies Catholic beliefs about Mary, I have argued that interpreting their “betrothal” as a modern-day “engagement” is incorrect. The Jewish custom in that time period involved a two-stage marriage: first a legal contract of marriage, followed later by a party with the husband taking his wife into his home. This is shown in the Gospels: Joseph learned that Mary was expecting before she came to live with him, so he planned to divorce her; but an angel instructed him not to, and instead to take his wife into his home. Therefore, Joseph was already Mary’s legal husband at the time Jesus was conceived.
Some Christians believe that after Jesus’ birth, Mary and Joseph had several children together. The Gospels mention brothers and sisters of Jesus. However, Catholics and Orthodox Christians hold that these verses refer to other relatives, not actual siblings. Jesus taught that children have an obligation to support their parents, but when he was dying, he entrusted Mary to the care of his Apostle John, not a sibling.
Catholics believe Mary and Joseph had what the Catholic Church calls a “Josephite marriage” – that is, one that meets Catholicism’s requirements for a true marriage, such as fidelity, but does not involve sexual intercourse.
Like any parent, Joseph had his challenges. At one point, for example, he and Mary lost track of the 12-year-old Jesus for three days while they were traveling. But in Catholic teachings, he models faithful fatherhood. Joseph provided for his family as a carpenter, and followed God’s instructions to care for them. He named and circumcised his son, presented him at the Temple in Jerusalem, and took him to the Temple on holy days when possible, all in line with Jewish law. Joseph also protected Jesus from Herod, the King of Judea who wanted to kill the child, by taking Mary and Jesus to safety in Egypt and then Nazareth.
Significance in Catholic cultures
For Catholics, Joseph is the second-greatest saint after Mary, because only she knew, loved and served Jesus more than Joseph. In 1870, Pope Pius IX declared Joseph the patron saint of the entire Catholic Church.
The Catholic liturgical calendar has two days just for him. Joseph’s primary celebration honors him as the husband of Mary, and takes place March 19. It is a “solemnity” – a global celebration requiring specific liturgies – and in some countries, Catholics are obligated to attend Mass. Many Italians celebrate the day with a St. Joseph’s Altar or Bread Table providing free food to all, as a way to thank the saint for his help.
May 1 is an optional feast that honors Joseph in his role as a worker. Pope Pius XII established this celebration in 1955 to give a Christian dimension to International Workers Day, also known as International Labor Day or May Day, and counter its Marxist roots.
Joseph also shares in the universal feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph on the Sunday after Christmas, as well as some local commemorations. For example, the Oblates of St. Joseph, a community of priests and religious brothers, celebrates Joseph and Mary’s wedding on Jan. 23.
Year of St. Joseph
In 2020 an American priest, the Rev. Donald Calloway, published a popular book called “Consecration to St. Joseph.” This guide encourages Catholics – many of whom traditionally devote themselves to Mary – to also consecrate their lives to Joseph, as their spiritual father. Calloway outlines a 33-day program to prepare readers for a ceremony entrusting themselves to Joseph’s care.
Afterward, Calloway wrote to Pope Francis and asked him to declare a “Year of St. Joseph” for the church. The pope has not spoken about whether this letter influenced him, but Francis did proclaim Dec. 8, 2020, to Dec. 8, 2021, the first-ever Year of St. Joseph, a time for Catholics to deepen their knowledge of the saint and to pray for blessings from God through Joseph’s intercession.
Francis wrote a public letter called “With a Father’s Heart,” which highlights Joseph’s paternal qualities, such as tenderness, courage, and being self-giving. “Fathers are not born, but made. … Whenever a man accepts responsibility for the life of another, in some way he becomes a father to that person,” Francis wrote.
Joseph is considered the patron of a happy death because the Bible implies that he died in the company of Jesus and Mary, before Jesus’ ministry and death. But in life, too, Catholicism sees Joseph as an encouraging ideal: a man who carried out his important role in the family with hope and joy.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/jesus-earthly-dad-st-joseph-often-overlooked-is-honored-by-fathers-day-in-many-catholic-nations-184524. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Jesus-earthly-dad-St-Joseph-often-17246850.php | 2022-06-16 21:30:04 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Jesus-earthly-dad-St-Joseph-often-17246850.php |
Boeing officials met with China’s aviation regulator last week to review pilot training criteria for its 737 jetliners, a sign the planemaker may finally be close to returning its MAX aircraft to regular airline service in the country.
The talks were held in Zhoushan in eastern China and included a visit to Boeing’s new completion and delivery center, the media arm of the Civil Aviation Administration of China said Tuesday. The dispatch provided a rare glimpse into the maneuvering around Boeing’s most important jet.
After issues raised at the session are resolved, the regulator plans to issue an updated review of Boeing’s 737 narrowbody family, CAAC News said. That will mark the completion of the process required for the MAX to be reintroduced in China, the report said. No timeline was provided.
The Sept. 14 meeting occurred before Dave Calhoun, chief executive officer of the Arlington, Virginia-based planemaker, signaled that Boeing wouldn’t wait indefinitely for a thaw in U.S.-China trade relations. Boeing’s top executive told reporters last week that the planemaker was re-marketing to other buyers a “small number” of the 140 or so already built MAX aircraft that had been earmarked for China.
“Calhoun, to his credit, did get out there and say exactly the right thing,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with AeroDynamic Advisory. “He was conciliatory, but also clearly pushing the agenda.”
Returning the 737 MAX to the skies in China and resuming deliveries are crucial steps toward helping rebuild the planemaker’s balance sheet that was battered by a lengthy MAX grounding globally and the COVID-19 pandemic.
China’s regulator cleared the updated 737 to resume flights last year, provided its airlines followed certain protocols in retraining pilots and bringing aircraft out of storage. While several airlines began preparations for resuming service, they were halted as COVID-19 lockdowns dampened demand for air travel. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-talks-with-chinese-regulator-in-push-for-737-max-comeback/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2022-09-21 01:10:56 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-talks-with-chinese-regulator-in-push-for-737-max-comeback/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
President Biden defended his administration's decision to wait several days to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon, saying that the flight was "not a major breach" of U.S. national security.
"I said I wanted it shot down as soon as possible, and they were worried about the damage that could be done even in a big state like Montana. This thing was gigantic. What happens if it came down and hit a school in a rural area?" Biden told Noticias Telemundo in an interview that aired Thursday.
"So I told them as soon as they could shoot it down, shoot it down. They made a wise decision. They shot it down over water, they’re recovering most of the parts, and they're good."
A fighter jet shot down the balloon on Saturday afternoon off the coast of South Carolina. The 200-foot tall balloon, which weighed about 2,000 pounds and had a payload roughly the size of a jet airliner, first passed over Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 before making its way across the continental U.S.
SENATORS SAY ‘VERY DISTURBING POSSIBILITY’ US MANUFACTURING MAY HAVE HELPED BUILD CHINESE SURVEILLANCE BALLOON
Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said that Chinese surveillance balloons have entered the U.S. at least four previous times.
Biden downplayed the significance of the latest balloon, placing it in the context of massive surveillance operations taking place all over the world.
"The total amount of intelligence gathering that’s going on by every country around the world is overwhelming," Biden told Telemundo. "It’s not a major breach… It's a violation of international law. It's our airspace. And once it comes into our space, we can do what we want with it.
The destroyed balloon left a massive debris field in shallow waters that U.S. Navy and Coast Guard personnel are collecting and categorizing.
FBI specialists have already started analyzing the debris in Quantico, Virginia, with a primary focus on recovered electronics.
Republicans have harshly criticized Biden for not taking immediate action to shoot down the balloon. Some Democrats have also questioned why there was a delay in bringing it down.
"Do we have a plan for the next thing that happens and how we are going to deal with it? Because, quite frankly, I'll just tell you I don't want a d--n balloon going across the United States when we potentially could have taken it down over the Aleutian Islands … or in some of the areas in Montana," Jon Tester, D-Mont., said at a hearing on Thursday. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/biden-says-chinese-spy-flight-not-a-major-breach/article_4384a237-03ed-53ca-ab48-dcd46f2b3480.html | 2023-02-10 04:20:11 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/biden-says-chinese-spy-flight-not-a-major-breach/article_4384a237-03ed-53ca-ab48-dcd46f2b3480.html |
Ben Shelton 2023 cinch Championships Odds
A match in the cinch Championships round of 16 is coming up for Ben Shelton, and he will be playing Lorenzo Musetti. Shelton's odds to win it all at The Queen's Club are +2200.
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Shelton at the 2023 cinch Championships
- Next Round: Round of 16
- Tournament Dates: June 16-25
- Venue: The Queen's Club
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Shelton's Next Match
Shelton has advanced to the round of 16, where he will play Musetti on Wednesday, June 21 at 7:00 AM ET (after getting past Jeffrey John Wolf 7-6, 7-6).
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Shelton Stats
- In the Round of 32 on Monday, Shelton beat No. 47-ranked Wolf, 7-6, 7-6.
- Shelton has not won any of his 17 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 11-17.
- Shelton has played 29.0 games per match in his 28 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Shelton has won 81.7% of his games on serve, and 16.7% on return.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's paramilitary forces have arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the capital Islamabad, in a move that threatens to escalate political tensions at a time of economic distress in the country.
Khan was in an Islamabad courthouse on Tuesday to attend a session of one of the dozens of cases he is embroiled in. Footage shared by the media team of Khan's party showed khaki-clad men breaking a window with their batons to extricate the former prime minister, who was in a room designated to check biometric details.
Following Khan's detention, roads clogged with panicking commuters who rushed to pick up children from school and leave work, fearing protesters would block roads. Islamabad police issued an order banning demonstrations — in the past, Khan's supporters have ignored those orders and protested regardless. Authorities also appeared to shut down internet services in some areas of Islamabad.
In Lahore, which has become Khan's seat of power, his party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf, posted an image on Twitter of an alarm siren and urged supporters to reach a popular crossing to demonstrate. The words "Reach Liberty Chowk Right Now" were emblazoned across the image.
"Pakistan's biggest political leader was arrested," said one of Khan's closest allies, Asad Umar, in an Urdu-language tweet. "The world can see there is no law and order in Pakistan anymore." Umar said Khan's party had formed a six-member committee to decide on further actions.
It was not immediately clear why Khan was detained, given that he had been attending court hearings for cases he was embroiled in, to request bail.
Khan has dodged previous arrest attempts from his residence in Lahore with his supporters clashing with police, ultimately pushing them back.
Geo, a major news channel, reported Khan was arrested in relation to a case filed in Pakistan's anti-corruption court, which some analysts say is used to hound critics of the military.
The detention came after Pakistan's military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Sharif, released an usually sharply worded statement against the former prime minister, warning him not to malign a serving officer. That followed recent allegations made by Khan that a military intelligence official was leading behind a plot to kill him.
Sharif described Khan's claims as "highly irresponsible and baseless allegations" which were "unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable."
To add insult to the allegations, Khan referred to the military intelligence official as "Dirty Harry," from an old Clint Eastwood movie — allegations he doubled down on Tuesday before reaching the courthouse.
"ISPR sahib," Khan said in a video statement on Twitter, referring to the military spokesman, "when an institution takes action against black sheep, it improves its own credibility. An institution which catches corrupt people strengthens itself," he said, according to translated remarks reported in the Dawn newspaper. "It is my army, my Pakistan not just yours. It is our army."
Khan was ousted from power in April last year in a no-confidence motion, after the military signaled it no longer supported his rule.
Pakistan has been mired in a political crisis since then, with Khan and his supporters routinely taking to the streets to demand early elections. Their demand has grown louder since Khan's party swept a series of by-elections last year, suggesting it had only grown in power since the former prime minister's ouster.
Pakistan's military has repeatedly signaled that it does not like or trust Khan, after working closely with his coalition government. It is an irony not lost on many Pakistani analysts, who say that it was the army who helped propel Khan's political fortunes and paved the way for him to win elections in 2018.
Pakistan's political crisis has worsened an economic crisis that has caused food prices to soar and pushed millions close to starvation. There are concerns that the country could default on its debt, owing to its thin foreign currency reserves.
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Northeast Ohio Weather: Pleasant to end the week
Published: Aug. 18, 2022 at 1:41 AM EDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A more stable air mass is working in from the west. This will decrease the shower and storm chances today. We could start out with some areas of low clouds this morning. We will word the forecast as partly cloudy today. Afternoon temperatures around 80 degrees. Comfortable humidity levels. Sunshine tomorrow and a little warmer. High temperatures in the 80 to 85 degree range. The next system approaches Ohio Saturday from the west. We will include a small chance of a few pop up thunderstorms later in the afternoon. The better chance of rain and storms looks to be Sunday.
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Secret Service officials to testify before House Jan. 6 committee, sources say
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is planning to interview key Secret Service officials and agents in the coming weeks, two sources briefed on the ongoing investigation tell CBS News.
The committee will bring back former Secret Service Assistant Director Tony Ornato, who is now retired, and Robert Engel, former President Trump’s lead Secret Service agent on Jan. 6. Both men have already been interviewed by the committee, but they were both mentioned in blockbuster public testimony by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Hutchinson testified on June 28 that Ornato told her that the president became “irate” on Jan. 6 when he was told in his vehicle that he could not go to the Capitol. Hutchinson testified that Ornato told her Trump said something to the effect of “I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now.” Hutchinson also testified Ornato said that when Trump was told he had to return to the White House, he reached up to the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel, prompting Engel to grab his arm, and that then Trump used his free hand to lunge toward Engel. She said Engel was in the room when Ornato told her this and he did not dispute it.
A source close to the Secret Service told confirmed to CBS News that Engel and the driver were prepared to testify under oath that neither man was physically attacked or assaulted by Trump and that the former president never lunged for the steering wheel of the vehicle. The source did not dispute that Trump demanded to be taken to the Capitol or his language.
Katie Driscoll, an attorney for Ornato, said in a statement to CBS News that “Mr. Ornato continues to cooperate in the Jan. 6 select committee’s investigation.”
CNN was the first to report the planned interviews.
Other witnesses who will testify in the coming weeks include Kimberly Cheatle, the current Secret Service director who served as assistant director of protective operations on Jan. 6; Anthony Guglielmi, current chief of communications; Timothy Giebels, the lead of former Vice President Mike Pence’s security detail; and the unnamed driver of Trump’s vehicle on that day.
It’s not yet clear if the former and current Secret Service officials will testify before the committee in a public setting or behind closed doors.
Cheatle and Engel were among those whose phones were turned over to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, as part of DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s investigation into missing Secret Service text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021. The agents’ text messages were previously subpoenaed by the inspector general and the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
The committee has issued a subpoena to the former president, as the committee’s end-of-year deadline to complete its work rapidly approaches. Trump has not yet publicly responded. | https://www.wsgw.com/secret-service-officials-to-testify-before-house-jan-6-committee-sources-say/ | 2022-10-28 00:11:30 | 0 | https://www.wsgw.com/secret-service-officials-to-testify-before-house-jan-6-committee-sources-say/ |
Ricky Martin, Jwan Yosef announce divorce after 6 years of marriage
By The Associated Press
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are divorcing after nearly six years of marriage, the couple announced Thursday.
“For some time, we have considered transforming our relationship, and it is after careful consideration that we have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children,” the couple wrote in an Instagram post, shared in Spanish on Martin’s profile and in English on Yosef’s.
Martin’s publicity team confirmed the accuracy of the post to The Associated Press. No other details were provided. People magazine first reported the news.
Martin, singer of such Spanish-language and English-language hits like “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” “She Bangs,” “La copa de la vida” and “Vente pa’ ca,” has won two Grammys and four Latin Grammys and also acted. Yosef is a Swedish artist of Syrian origin.
“Our greatest desire now is to continue having a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centered on our genuine friendship as we continue the joint upbringing of our children,” Martin and Yosef wrote in the statement. “We are united in nurturing this new chapter of our lives.”
Martin, 51, and Yosef, 38, were married at the end of 2017. By then, the Puerto Rican singer was already the father of twins Matteo and Valentino, who will turn 15 in August and born via surrogate. Yosef and Martin had two other children together: Lucía, now 4, and Renn, now 3.
Last September, Martin sued his nephew over the fallout of sex abuse allegations the nephew recanted. Arguing that the claims cost him millions of dollars in lost income, Martin said he had been “persecuted, besieged, harassed, stalked and extorted” by his “troubled” nephew for economic reasons. The AP confirmed that, days later, the nephew filed a sexual assault complaint. Martin declined to comment at the time. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/07/06/ricky-martin-jwan-yosef-announce-divorce-after-6-years-of-marriage-2/ | 2023-07-06 16:56:22 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/07/06/ricky-martin-jwan-yosef-announce-divorce-after-6-years-of-marriage-2/ |
2023 North American Camping and Outdoor Hospitality Report Reveals Steady Camping and Glamping Growth Amid Economic Uncertainty
BILLINGS, Mont., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The outdoor travel sector has grown considerably over the past several years, becoming a formidable part of the overall leisure travel landscape as people seek solace in nature and affordable vacation options in the great outdoors. Today, new data from Kampgrounds of America, Inc's (KOA) 2023 North American Camping and Outdoor Hospitality Report provides an in-depth look at key trends shaping the outdoor hospitality industry, including how the camping and glamping market is evolving as travelers re-establish pre-pandemic travel habits, how travelers are adapting their upcoming plans amid economic uncertainty, and how specific demographic populations describe their relationship with outdoor-focused leisure travel as the 2023 peak camping season begins.
In its ninth year continuously measuring growth and interest in camping and outdoor travel, KOA's industry-leading camping report broadens its scope to look more holistically at outdoor hospitality and its importance in the larger camping industry. Outdoor hospitality extends across four sectors, accommodation, food and beverage, travel and tourism, and entertainment and recreation – 61% of campers strongly agree that offering services and amenities beyond the campsite or accommodation is pivotal in providing outdoor hospitality. In total, 78% of campers say that outdoor hospitality is important in their travel experiences. In 2022, camping and glamping accounted for 32% of all leisure trips, making camping and outdoor hospitality a crucial travel segment.
"As leisure travelers increasingly choose the outdoors over other alternatives, we need to look more granularly at camping," said Toby O'Rourke, CEO and president of Kampgrounds of America, Inc. "A decade of independent research confirms that camping is a preferred way for many to travel, try new things, and connect with what they care about most. The segment of outdoor hospitality, growing in importance, offers additional ways for people to connect to the outdoors."
KOA's 2023 survey found that a hunger for new experiences, whether it's a specific type of camping, or a camping trip that includes a new or unique experience, is driving camping participation in 2023. Year-to-year, about 80% of campers try a new form of camping they are unfamiliar with; in 2023, the average camper will seek out three new or unique camping experiences. Trips for natural events such as eclipses, meteor showers and animal migrations are the most common type of trips campers are looking for in 2023, with 40% of campers seeking out this type of experience in 2023. Other types of trips that campers are interested in include food tourism (36%) and visits to small towns (31%). Glamping also continues to gain momentum. Over 10 million households took a glamping trip in 2022, and four-in-10 campers express interest in taking a glamping trip in 2023, up by 7% from the prior year.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic generated record-breaking growth in outdoor travel, 2022 witnessed an increase of about 1.5 million additional camping households—a stabilization compared to the previous year. Amid a reshuffling of behavior, new audiences discovering a love for camping are younger, more diverse and more likely to reside in urban areas. Today, 92 million U.S. households identify as campers. Even amid economic headwinds, half of campers say that camping offers a more cost-friendly way to travel during a downturn, and 38% say they'll continue to camp, even if the economy worsens. More than half (56%) of RVers will use their RV more (33%) or the same amount (23%) in the case of an economic downturn. Furthermore, campers find that outdoor travel offers physical and mental health benefits, as well as the opportunity to connect with family and friends.
"Camping continues to prove that it is resilient to economic headwinds," O'Rourke said. "In fact, 38% of campers will continue to camp and take fewer trips of other types during times of economic uncertainty. Camping offers physical and emotional benefits that are important in a reliable, cost-effective way that outdoor travelers seek out."
Additional key findings from the 2023 North American Camping and Outdoor Hospitality Report include:
Camping's Impact on Local Communities
- On average, campers spent an additional $19 per day on travel expenses in 2022 compared to 2021.
- Glampers spend the most per day on accommodations and off-site, spending $393 per day in average expenses.
- It is estimated that campers spent $52 billion in local communities last year, an increase of $8 billion from the year prior.
Gen Z Campers
- Participation in camping is getting younger over time, including the highest-ever representation among Gen Z campers – having doubled since last year – who now account for more than one-fourth of all campers.
- This year's research confirms the impact of camping as a teen on Gen Z, with 65% of adult Gen Z campers saying their camping experiences as a teen made them want to continue camping.
- Looking ahead, avid Gen Z campers say they plan to take an average of four trips this year that include new or unique experiences.
The Continued Rise of Urban Campers
- 44% of new campers in 2022 reside in urban areas.
- Urban campers camp two more nights on average compared to suburban or rural campers.
- Urban campers are more likely to have experienced glamping, overlanding, backcountry camping, or bringing their kids camping for the first time in 2022
- Urban campers want camping experiences such as those including natural events, food tourism, agritourism, or combining work and leisure travel.
The Resurgence of the Great American Road Trip
- More campers took road trips in 2022, and there is great interest among leisure travelers—both campers and non-campers—to hit the open road in the year ahead.
- Almost half of campers (48%) are interested in taking an extended road trip, defined as traveling eight or more hours.
- Four-in-ten respondents are interested in taking an adventurous trip designed to explore new places.
- Nostalgia and creating family memories are two core drivers for a road trip.
- Millennials, in particular, are seeking opportunities to recreate trips from their youth.
Creating Memories for the Next Generation
- The stress associated with the past couple of years has resulted in a desire for some to connect more with their families and friends, and camping provides a way for them to create new memories.
- Six-out-of-ten campers say that creating new chapters in their family's book of shared experiences is important to them in 2023.
- More than half of campers cite the importance of these shared experiences, whether it's the way they camp, the stories, or traditions.
Accessibility in the Outdoors
- Among all leisure travelers, about one-third view camping as more accessible than other outdoor activities for people with limited abilities, including three-fourths who say that it is either the same or more accessible.
- Campground accessibility is an increasingly important consideration due to a higher than national average percentage of campers with physical mobility issues. In total, 37% of campers state that finding a location that accommodates their physical needs prevents them from more frequent camping trips or dictates campground selection.
- Those with physical limitations or who travel with others with physical limitations say the top three barriers to camping or more frequent trips include the restroom or bathhouse (46%), level or smooth pathways/walkways (37%), and adequate accessibility (32%).
To view additional findings from the 2023 North American Camping and Outdoor Hospitality Report, or view previous versions of the annual report, visit North American Camping & Outdoor Hospitality Report.
SURVEY METHODOLOGY
The results of the most recent iteration of the North American Camping and Outdoor Hospitality Report are based on a total of 4,100 surveys completed among a random sample of U.S. (n=2,900) and Canadian (n=1,200) households. Within the U.S. sample of households, results are stratified by Census Region: Northeast (n=725), Midwest (n=725), South (n=725), and West (n=725). Overall, a sample of n=2,900 U.S. households is associated with a margin of error of +/- 1.82 percentage points, while a sample of n=1,200 Canadian households is associated with a margin of error of 2.83 percentage points. All surveys were completed only via an outbound solicitation sent to a randomly selected cross-section of U.S. and Canadian households. In order to calculate overall incidence, the sample of respondents was statistically balanced to ensure that the results are in line with overall population figures for age, gender, and ethnicity. Some results may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.
ABOUT KAMPGROUNDS OF AMERICA
Kampgrounds of America, Inc. has been the definitive leader in outdoor hospitality for more than 60 years. United under the mission of "connecting people to the outdoors and each other," the company consists of two unique brands: KOA and Terramor Outdoor Resorts. KOA, the world's largest system of privately-owned, open to the public campgrounds, consists of more than 500 franchised and owned campgrounds. With unrivaled brand visibility, KOA also offers campground owners and operators unparalleled support in campground education, design, recruitment, marketing and technology. Terramor Outdoor Resorts, a glamping venture, opened its first flagship property in Bar Harbor, Maine in 2020. Literally meaning 'Love of Land," the brand focuses on delivering a refined and upscale outdoor experience. For more information, visit KOA.com and TerramorOutdoorResort.com.
ABOUT CAIRN CONSULTING GROUP
Cairn Consulting Group is a market research firm with extensive experience in the hospitality and services industries. For the past several years, Cairn Consulting Group has worked with organizations in both indoor and outdoor hospitality, including the gaming/casino areas, food services/restaurant space, accommodations, travel/tourism and the products and services that are a part of the hospitality industry. The organization also serves clients in branding/brand positioning efforts, evaluating consumer behavior, public opinion & policy and product development.
From: Xenique McLeod
Director of Public Relations
Kampgrounds of America, Inc.
623-698-1880
xmcleod@koa.net
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Sunday, March 5, 2023
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483 FPUS56 KHNX 060801
ZFPHNX
Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Tuesday.
CAZ300-070000-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
44 to 52. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows 32 to 38. West
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
46 to 54. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 48 to 54. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A
40 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 53 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs 53 to 59. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
58 to 64.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs 59 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 53 38 54 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ301-070000-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. South winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds around 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 54 36 55 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ302-070000-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast
after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs around 60. Lows
around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 55 34 57 / 20 20 10
Merced 55 34 57 / 20 10 0
Chowchilla 55 34 56 / 10 10 0
Madera 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Firebaugh 55 33 58 / 10 10 0
Mendota 56 33 58 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ303-070000-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in
the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. A 30 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 54 35 56 / 20 10 0
Le Grand 54 34 56 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ304-070000-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs around
60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 54 35 55 / 10 10 0
Avenal 53 36 55 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ305-070000-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Patchy
frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Five Points 57 34 58 / 10 10 0
NAS Lemoore 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Kettleman City 55 36 57 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ306-070000-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the south
around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Areas of
frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 56 35 57 / 0 10 0
Kingsburg 56 34 57 / 0 10 0
Sanger 55 34 56 / 0 10 0
Kerman 56 33 57 / 10 10 0
Caruthers 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ307-070000-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. East winds around 5 mph shifting to the south in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Areas of
frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs around 60. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 55 36 57 / 10 10 0
Fresno 56 37 57 / 0 10 0
$$
CAZ308-070000-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
46 to 54. West winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 47 to 55.
Northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
49 to 55. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 54 to 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs 54 to 62.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
59 to 67.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs 59 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 55 34 57 / 20 20 10
Merced 55 34 57 / 20 10 0
Chowchilla 55 34 56 / 10 10 0
Madera 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ309-070000-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. Lows
in the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 55 35 56 / 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 57 36 57 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ310-070000-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the
northwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 56 34 56 / 0 0 0
Allensworth 56 34 57 / 0 0 0
Wasco 56 36 56 / 0 0 0
Delano 55 35 56 / 0 0 0
McFarland 55 35 56 / 0 0 0
Shafter 56 36 56 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ311-070000-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Partly cloudy in the evening then
becoming mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the
lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Hanford 57 34 59 / 0 10 0
Corcoran 56 34 57 / 0 10 0
$$
CAZ312-070000-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North
winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs around 60. Lows
around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Dinuba 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Visalia 55 34 57 / 0 10 0
Exeter 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Tulare 55 35 56 / 0 10 0
Lindsay 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Porterville 54 36 55 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ313-070000-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming partly
sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs 50 to 56.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 57. Northwest winds around 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 58. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 64 to 71. Lows
around 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 53 39 54 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ314-070000-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest
5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows around 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 55 38 55 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ315-070000-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North
winds around 5 mph shifting to the southeast up to 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs around
60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 54 35 55 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ316-070000-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs 51 to 57. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 51 to 57. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs
52 to 57. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 65 to 71. Lows in
the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 55 37 55 / 10 10 0
Lamont 56 38 55 / 10 0 0
Mettler 54 36 54 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ317-070000-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 40s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
south in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in
the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in
the evening, then rain likely after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Near steady temperature in the lower
50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs around 60. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 44 29 46 / 20 30 10
$$
CAZ318-070000-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Slight
chance of snow showers early in the morning. Slight chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 35 to 45.
South winds up to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 22 to 30.
East winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
37 to 47. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the evening.
Chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows 24 to 30. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 38 to 46. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 23 to
29.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. A 40 percent chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs 45 to 53.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Chance of rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Light snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs 45 to 53. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs 48 to 56. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows 38 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
50 to 58.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 46 25 48 / 20 20 10
Bass Lake 39 22 41 / 20 20 10
$$
CAZ319-070000-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
47 to 53. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 49 to
55. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
50 to 56. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
59 to 65.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 60 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 52 35 54 / 10 10 0
Three Rivers 51 31 53 / 10 10 0
Springville 46 30 47 / 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 49 35 50 / 10 0 0
$$
CAZ320-070000-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost until late afternoon.
Highs 35 to 45. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Widespread
frost. Lows 22 to 32. East winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 37 to
47. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 24 to 32.
Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 48. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 25 to 33.
Highs 46 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain likely. Light snow
accumulations. Lows 35 to 43. Highs 46 to 54. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then chance
of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs 47 to
57.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows 38 to 46. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
49 to 59. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 44 31 46 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ321-070000-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
around 50. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
around 50. Southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
$$
CAZ322-070000-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost until late afternoon.
Highs 36 to 44. West winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 25 to 33. North
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
38 to 46. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 27 to 33.
Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
39 to 47. Northwest winds up to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost after
midnight. Lows 28 to 34.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 55.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows 36 to 42. Highs 48 to 56.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows 43 to 49. Highs 50 to 58.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 41 to 47. Highs
52 to 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 33 18 37 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ323-070000-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of thunderstorms in the
morning. Chance of snow showers through the day. Chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 14 to 28. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of thunderstorms and snow
showers in the evening, then slight chance of thunderstorms and
snow showers after midnight. Lows 1 to 15. South winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 18 to 30. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers. Lows 5 to 17. South winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 17 to 29. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 16.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. A 40 percent chance of snow in
the afternoon. Highs 27 to 39.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Chance of snow in the evening, then snow and
rain likely after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after
midnight. Heavy snow accumulations. Lows 17 to 27. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 30 to 40. Lows
24 to 34. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
and rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow and rain.
Highs 30 to 42.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 25 -1 28 / 20 30 10
Wawona 37 18 39 / 30 30 10
Hetch Hetchy 37 22 40 / 40 50 30
$$
CAZ324-070000-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers through the day.
Chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 31 to 37.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of thunderstorms and snow
showers in the evening, then slight chance of thunderstorms and
snow showers after midnight. Lows 16 to 22. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 33 to 39. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers. Lows 19 to 25. Southeast winds up
to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs 32 to 38. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 24.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Highs 41 to 47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow may be
heavy at times after midnight. Moderate snow accumulations. Near
steady temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs 42 to 48. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs 43 to
49. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 44 to 50. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 37 20 39 / 30 40 20
$$
CAZ325-070000-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms and snow showers late in the
afternoon. Highs 30 to 38. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows 16 to 24. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 33 to 41. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 26. Northeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 41. Southwest winds up to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Highs 41 to 49.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then rain likely after midnight. Light snow
accumulations. Lows 30 to 36. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Highs 43 to 49. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain likely. Near steady temperature
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of rain. Lows 34 to 40. Highs 44 to 52.
$$
CAZ326-070000-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Slight chance of snow showers early in the
morning. Slight chance of thunderstorms and snow showers in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times early in the afternoon.
Highs 13 to 27. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
45 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows 1 below to 11 above zero. South winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 18 to 30. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 3 to 13. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
afternoon. Highs 16 to 30. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph
increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 3 to 13.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 26 to 38.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 16 to 26.
.FRIDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain likely in the morning, then rain
with snow likely in the afternoon. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 28 to 40. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy
at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
around 30. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain in the
evening. Lows 19 to 29. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow and rain in the afternoon.
Highs 29 to 41. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 22 8 25 / 30 20 10
$$
CAZ327-070000-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning.
Highs 19 to 29. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Widespread
frost after midnight. Lows 1 to 13. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 22 to 32. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 15. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 21 to 31. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 6 to 16.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 30 to 40.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain likely
after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Lows 17 to 27. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 32 to 42. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain likely in the morning,
then chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy
at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 32 to 42. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows 20 to 30. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs 33 to 43. Chance
of precipitation 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 24 9 27 / 10 10 10
Shaver Lake 31 16 34 / 10 10 0
Lake Wishon 31 11 34 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ328-070000-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 11 to 25. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 below to 7 above zero. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TUESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 15 to 29. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows zero to 10 above. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph increasing to 50 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Highs
12 to 26. West winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 12 above.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 21 to 35.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 11 to 23.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain likely.
Precipitation may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs 25 to 37. Lows 18 to 30. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Highs 25 to 37.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the
evening. Lows 13 to 25. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 25 to 39.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 40 14 43 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ329-070000-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning.
Widespread frost in the afternoon. Highs 23 to 35. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows 9 to
21. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the afternoon. Highs 27 to
37. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the evening.
Lows 12 to 24. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 26 to 38. Southwest winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 35 to 45.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain likely
in the afternoon. Precipitation may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Highs 37 to 47. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the evening, then
chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Near steady
temperature around 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow
in the evening. Lows 27 to 39. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 39 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 32 14 34 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ330-070000-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Not as cold. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
late morning and early afternoon. Widespread frost early in the
afternoon. Highs 15 to 31. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 1 below to 17 above zero. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 18 to 34. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 1 to 19. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
afternoon. Highs 15 to 33. West winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to
15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 2 to 20. Highs
26 to 42.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with chance of snow in the
evening, then mostly cloudy with chance of snow and rain after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 13 to 31. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain likely. Snow may
be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 27 to 43. Lows
19 to 37. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and
rain. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Highs 28 to 44.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the
evening. Lows 14 to 32. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 29 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 31 12 34 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ331-070000-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 25 to 35. West winds 10 to
25 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 9 to 23. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 29 to 39. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 11 to 25. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
afternoon. Highs 28 to 38. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 36 to 46.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows 22 to
34. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Highs 37 to 47.
Lows 28 to 40.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs 38 to 50. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Lows 24 to 38.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 39 to 51.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 39 16 42 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ332-070000-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows around 30. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 30.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 31 21 34 / 0 10 0
Kernville 46 27 50 / 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 46 31 49 / 0 0 0
Weldon 46 29 50 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ333-070000-
Piute Walker Basin-
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 43. West winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 21 to 33. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 35 to 45. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows 22 to 32. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 45. West winds
10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts
up to 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 23 to 33.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 44 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Chance of rain after midnight.
Lows 31 to 41. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs 45 to 55. Lows 38 to 48.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 48 to 60. Lows
37 to 47.
$$
CAZ334-070000-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers early
in the morning. Highs 34 to 44. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph shifting to the northwest
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 36 to
46. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 32. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 46. West winds
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 55.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Chance of rain after midnight.
Lows 35 to 41. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain. Highs 48 to 56. Lows 42 to 48.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 52 to 61. Lows
40 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 37 28 39 / 20 10 0
Tehachapi 40 25 42 / 10 10 0
Twin Oaks 43 32 45 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ335-070000-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and
snow showers early in the morning. Highs 36 to 44. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
around 30. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 39 to 45. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows around 30.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 40 to 46. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
30s. Highs 48 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain. Highs 49 to 57. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 54 to 61. Lows in
the mid 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 46 31 47 / 20 10 0
$$
CAZ336-070000-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning.
Highs 35 to 47. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows
24 to 36. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 48. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 25 to 35.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 48. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows 26 to 36.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 57.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain. Highs 49 to 59. Lows 41 to 51.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 52 to 63. Lows
39 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 36 23 39 / 10 0 0
Frazier Park 42 21 44 / 10 0 0
$$
CAZ337-070000-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 55. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Windy. Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Southwest
winds 15 to 30 mph decreasing to 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 53 to 59. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the west 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 53 32 56 / 0 0 0
Ridgecrest 55 29 58 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ338-070000-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 39 to 49. West winds 10 to
25 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. West winds
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TUESDAY...Breezy, sunny. Highs 41 to 53. West winds 10 to
25 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Windy, sunny. Highs 42 to 52. West winds 10 to
30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
30s. Highs 49 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain
after midnight. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs 51 to 61. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs 56 to 66.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 49 32 52 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ339-070000-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds
10 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost.
Lows in the lower 30s. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 48 34 52 / 0 0 0
California City 52 31 55 / 0 0 0
Edwards AFB 52 30 56 / 0 0 0
Rosamond 52 30 55 / 0 0 0
$$
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Opinion: Florida revives an 1850s strategy to exclude Chinese Americans
While our country celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature are busy resurrecting a long-dead form of anti-Asian discrimination.
Under the guise of national security, Florida lawmakers seem poised to crush Chinese immigrants’ dreams of homeownership. In April, the Florida Senate unanimously passed SB 264, and on Wednesday the Florida House rushed to pass its twin, HB 1355, purportedly to prohibit the Chinese government from buying real estate in Florida. This seems a reasonable enough goal. But by targeting “any member of the People’s Republic of China,” the bill could also wreak havoc on the lives of ordinary people. DeSantis has signaled he will sign the legislation.
According to the Asian Pacific American Bar Assn., the bill’s “overly broad and vague” language could deny “anyone holding Chinese citizenship” the ability to buy real estate in Florida, “even if they are also U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States.” All Florida buyers would be required to provide affidavits attesting they are not in the prohibited class this bill creates. No doubt this universal requirement will encourage real estate agents, sellers and the public to view Asian Americans with suspicion. The legislation would also force Chinese passport holders who already own a house in Florida to complete a special registration with the government.
Protesters have denounced the bill as discriminatory, likening it to Nazi-era laws requiring Jews to register their property with the German state. But in fact, we need not reach across the Atlantic for antecedents. Unfortunately, this is not the first time Chinese homeownership has been under attack in the United States.
Whether or not they know it, Florida lawmakers are proposing to revive anti-Chinese laws from long ago. In 1859, for example, the Oregon Constitution declared that “no Chinaman” arriving after that year “shall ever hold any real estate or mining claim.” In 1879, Nevada land laws targeted nonresident “subjects of the Chinese empire” and, in 1908, Idaho barred “Chinese” and “Mongolians” from owning land or real property.
Some alien-land laws were more subtle in their intent, especially at the dawn of the 20th century. Because Asian immigrants were racially barred from naturalization until 1943, states could prohibit Asian homeownership by targeting unnaturalized foreigners. Gabriel J. Chin, professor of law at UC Davis, has found that 15 states targeted Asian immigrants in this roundabout way. Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming all barred people ineligible for naturalization from owning land.
The impetus behind these earlier alien-land laws bears strong resemblance to the motivations driving the Florida bill today. The American public fretted that Asians – who were disparaged as too “industrious” and “inassimilable” – would outcompete white workers and fail to become loyal Americans. To quiet these racial fears, state lawmakers passed discriminatory legislation to dissuade Asian immigrants from making their homes in the United States.
These old alien-land laws held profound implications for the Asian community, as does the new bill. They encouraged discrimination in the real estate market, drove segregation of Asian communities, and made it more difficult for Asian immigrants to rise out of poverty. And by labeling Asians as unwanted, lawmakers fueled anti-Asian prejudice more broadly.
The Asian American community fought previous alien-land laws, as they are fighting now. For decades, Chinese community leaders denounced the laws as discriminatory, but it was not until 1948 that Japanese plaintiffs successfully challenged California’s alien laws. In Oyama vs. California, the California Supreme Court acknowledged that the alien-land laws discriminated against Asian immigrants. But more important, at least in the eyes of the court, the laws also harmed their American-born, U.S. citizen children.
It is a sad truth that our Asian Pacific American heritage is bound up in this history of discrimination. Our communities in the U.S. formed amid a litany of local, state and federal laws that targeted Asian immigrants.
But community action is also part of our heritage and a critical part of our present. In January, the Chinese American community rallied against an anti-Chinese land bill in Texas, forcing the state legislature to significantly narrow the law. And in Florida, the fight is not over.
Beth Lew-Williams is an associate professor of history at Princeton and the author of “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America.”
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Todd D. Wachtel, a New Jersey workers' compensation attorney and Partner at Levinson Axelrod, P.A., was recently installed as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Executive Committee.
RARITAN, N.J., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, May 20, 2022, Todd Wachtel of Levinson Axelrod, P.A. was installed as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Section Executive Committee at the NJSBA's Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlantic City.
The NJSBA's Workers' Compensation Section Executive Committee is one of over 30 practice-oriented sections that unite attorneys from "both sides of the aisle" to address important matters that affect the practice of law and the rights of New Jersey residents within their areas of focus. As a committee member – and the only Petitioner's Attorney nominated to the group this year – Wachtel will work with fellow members on various workers' compensation-related issues, including reviewing proposals for new workers' compensation laws from the New Jersey Legislature.
Wachtel's election to the Executive Committee is a testament to his extensive experience in workers' compensation law and to the reputation he's cultivated among his colleagues. As a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Workers' Compensation Specialist and successful Petitioner's Attorney who once worked as a Deputy Attorney General representing the State in workers' compensation proceedings, Wachtel has leveraged his unique insight to help injured workers recover millions of dollars in benefits.
Todd D. Wachtel is a Partner at the personal injury and workers' compensation firm of Levinson Axelrod, P.A., where he works primarily from the firm's office in Raritan, NJ. He is Certified in Workers' Compensation Law by the New Jersey Supreme Court. For more information, visit www.NJLawyers.com.
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SAN SALVADOR, Puerto Rico — Fiona, a Category 4 hurricane, pounded Bermuda with heavy rains and winds early Friday as it swept by the island on a route forecast to have it approaching northeastern Canada late in the day as a still-powerful storm.
Authorities in Bermuda opened shelters and closed schools and offices ahead of Fiona. Premier David Burt sent a tweet urging residents to "take care of yourself and your family. Let's all remember to check on as well as look out for your seniors, family and neighbors."
The Canadian Hurricane Centre issued a hurricane watch over extensive coastal expanses of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Fiona should reach the area as a "large and powerful post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds."
"It's going to be a storm that everyone remembers when it is all said and done," said Bob Robichaud, warning preparedness meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre.
The U.S. center said Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) late Thursday. It was centered about 195 miles (315 kilometers) west of Bermuda, heading north-northeast at 21 mph (33 kph).
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 115 miles (185 kilometers) from the center and tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 275 miles (445 kilometers).
Fiona so far has been blamed for at least five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the French island of Guadeloupe.
Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, in part because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their main source of energy. and become extratropical. But those cyclones still can have hurricane-strength winds, though with a cold instead of a warm core and no visible eye. Their shape can be different, too. They lose their symmetric form and can more resemble a comma.
Robichaud said at a news conference that modeling projected an "all-time" low pressure across the region, which would bring storm surges and rainfall of between 10 to 20 centimeters (4 to 8 inches).
Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, said officials were preparing a shelter for people to enter before the storm arrived.
"We have been through these types of events before, but my fear is, not to this extent," she said. "The impacts are going to be large, real and immediate."
Dave Pickles, chief operating officer of Nova Scotia Power, said it expected widespread power outages.
Before reaching Bermuda, Fiona caused severe flooding and devastation in Puerto Rico, leading U.S. President Joe Biden to say Thursday that the full force of the federal government is ready to help the U.S. territory recover.
Speaking at a briefing with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials in New York, Biden said, "We're all in this together."
Biden noted that hundreds of FEMA and other federal officials are already on the ground in Puerto Rico, where Fiona caused an island-wide blackout.
More than 60% of power customers remained without energy Thursday and a third of customers were without water, while local officials said they could not say when service would be fully restored.
As of Friday, hundreds of people in Puerto Rico remained isolated by blocked roads five days after the hurricane ripped into the island. Frustration was mounting for people like Nancy Galarza, who tried to signal for help from work crews she spotted in the distance.
"Everyone goes over there," she said pointing toward crews at the bottom of the mountain who were helping others also cut off by the storm. "No one comes here to see us. I am worried for all the elderly people in this community."
At least five landslides covered the narrow road to her community in the steep mountains around the northern town of Caguas. The only way to reach the settlement was to climb over thick mounds of mud, rock and debris left by Fiona, whose floodwaters shook the foundations of nearby homes with earthquake-like force.
At least eight of the 11 communities in Caguas were completely isolated, said Luis González, municipal inspector of recovery and reconstruction.
It was one of at least six municipalities where crews had yet to reach some areas. People there often depend on help from neighbors, as they did following Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm in 2017 that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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USC beat reporter, Chris Treviño, from 247Sports discusses USC, and UCLA’s plans to join the Big Ten in 2024.
Andrew Clay: The news came as a surprise here in PA was it a surprise out there in L.A..
Chris Treviño: Only a little bit shocking, but I wouldn’t say it was super surprising because USC had had all these conversations about should they go independent, should they be looking at a different league just because they weren’t getting the cut or attention or rape treatment that they felt like they deserved in a lower tier power five conference? That was the Power five.You know, they are blueblood program. They’re up there with the Alabamas, the Ohio States in terms of their tradition and history. And they weren’t being sort of treated that way that, you know, you saw how Ohio State was being treated in the Big Ten, or Alabama being treated the SEC. So this was always sort of a conversation among fans, among talking heads in the off-season. So it wasn’t that shocking that it happened, but it is a very big earthquake across across college football and how it changes pretty much everything moving forward.
AC: What is the reaction from people around the program?
CT: Everyone pretty much in terms of, you know, admin and stuff, obviously they’re very fired up about this change and what it means for the future in terms of the money that they will be bringing into the program, and other programs across the athletic department in terms of facility upgrades and all that kind of stuff. But in terms of fans, early on, I was very surprised. It was very split. We did a poll on Twitter among, you know, sort of social media with the USC fans that follow me and people that I that I cover the team with. And it was pretty much like 54 percent were for it. And about the rest about that 40, 46 percent or whatever, didn’t like the move. And, you know, we did a poll on our site and it was more 74% were about it and the rest were sort of unsure or not about it. So it was very split early on, which I was kind of surprised about. I thought more people would be all for, maybe 90 percent. But I think a lot of people are holding on to that tradition of USC in the PAC-12 conference. They’ve been a part of it for over, or close to 100 years or more than 100 years. So there is a lot of tradition, obviously, in college football, but obviously things are changing fast with the way money is and TV deals, history and tradition is sort of being moved to the side for these super conferences. So I can understand why some people are maybe hesitant to jump on board, just, you know, with those traditions being washed away and moved away. But this is the way that college football is moving. So USC had to jump on on the train quickly.
AC: I know there’s a lot of question about the fit in the Big Ten. Penn State played a November game in East Lansing (MI) this past year in a quite literal whiteout snowstorm. How do you think L.A. fans would react to those cold Midwestern winters?
CT: It’s definitely going to be a transition. I feel like someone on social media pointed out that USC’s only played in two snow games and they lost both of them. So that record is going to be tested a little bit more in the coming years. But I know USC is going to have to order a lot of cold gear for their athletes moving forward as they make those trips back home. And it’s going to be interesting. You know, USC has battled some Big Ten teams. They have favorable records against those guys. But it is going to be interesting when they get into those elements of the cold. USC has been scheduling Notre Dame at a time where there isn’t snow, so they can avoid that, but they’re not going to be able to avoid that in the Big Ten play. So that first USC snow game for them, I’m interested to see how they hold up, you know, being so cal natives and a lot of people used to like 60 degree Decembers out here. So it’s going to be a very big adjustment for sure.
AC: From a football perspective, Chris, do you think these two PAC-12 schools joining the Big Ten think is a good fit?
CT: I mean, it’s just sort of interesting just because Big Ten now has representatives on both sides of the coast. It makes sense from a monetary standpoint, you know, getting that L.A. market. From a football perspective, USC does have and UCLA with the West Coast, they have all those skill players, they have a quarterback. So I don’t think offensively, you know, you’re going to see USC come in and try to put up points. Defensively is where I begin to question what it’s going to look. They need to recruit bigger linemen because the linemen out here on the West Coast in the PAC-12 are a lot smaller than you’re seeing in the Midwest, those corn fed boys. So it’s going to be interesting. They need to get back to recruiting bigger guys in the trenches, which USC has struggled with, UCLA as well. So they need to have a turnaround when it comes to offensive line recruiting and defensive line recruiting. That’s the biggest thing I think is going to separate USC having a smooth transition in the Big Ten. They need guys in the trenches that can handle all of those big uglies out there in the Big Ten country.
AC: What’s a new rivalry you would love to see come out of this?
CT: As a Maryland fan, I would have to say USC, Maryland, but that’s just me being from Maryland. But in terms of actuality, I think a lot of fans are excited for Ohio State. You know, USC has gone to the to the Horseshoe and they beat the Buckeyes there. So I think a lot of people want to see that one. Also, Michigan, you know, having their historic Big House. I think a lot of fans are excited about making that trip. And then I think Penn State even has a little bit of a beef with USC in terms of that Rose Bowl from a few years back. I know they still want payback for that. So that could end up being turning into a great rivalry as well between these two coast to coast programs.
AC: From a grand scheme of things, what do you think is next in college football? Obviously, realignment is not over.
CT: I mean, I think we’re just trending towards the two superpowers being a two superpower league, sort of an AFC, NFC kind of deal where you have the SEC and all their teams and then the Big Ten’s with Big Ten with all their teams and they kind of battle it out in the end for those playoff spots. Now there is probably room for a third team, you know, with the Big 12, whatever happens with them, if they can poach the remaining PAC-12 schools that they want, maybe the ACC gets involved, maybe, you know, a Florida state, a Clemson, a miami, a USC, those guys as bigger brands find homes in the SCC or Big Ten or Big 12. So I think we’re looking at most definitely at least a two Super League conference and possibly even a third one. So these conferences, the power five is going to be no more. It’s going to be either a power two or a power three. | https://phl17.com/national-news/1on1-chris-trevino-on-usc-ucla-joining-the-big-ten/ | 2022-07-06 03:24:19 | 0 | https://phl17.com/national-news/1on1-chris-trevino-on-usc-ucla-joining-the-big-ten/ |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, April 25, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Buffalo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Wyoming County in western New York...
Northeastern Cattaraugus County in western New York...
Southeastern Erie County in western New York...
Western Livingston County in western New York...
Northwestern Allegany County in western New York...
* Until 715 PM EDT.
* At 621 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Chaffee, or
15 miles south of East Aurora, moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
* Locations impacted include...
Yorkshire, Geneseo, Letchworth State Park, Perry, Warsaw, Mount
Morris, Arcade, Chaffee, East Concord, and Portageville.
This includes Interstate 390 between exits 6 and 7.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Casper Ruud headed into the 2022 season with just one Grand Slam appearance that lasted as far as the fourth round anywhere and was determined to improve his record at the four most important events in tennis.
Then, a day before the Australian Open began in January, he twisted his ankle in practice and needed to withdraw. Hardly ideal. Just look at him now: Ruud is into the semifinals at the U.S. Open and has a shot at moving up to No. 1 in the ATP rankings, following a run to the final at the French Open.
The 23-year-old from Norway, who is coached by his father, former professional player, Christian, parlayed what he called “a better start than I ever had before in a match” to a 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over 2021 Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini in the quarterfinals under a closed roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium on a rainy Monday.
“During Paris, something clicked, and I feel like I, this year, have sort of figured out the better way how to play five sets and knowing that it’s very different from playing best-of-three sets. … Sometimes realizing, or knowing, that you can sort of let one set go every once in a while to save some energy for the rest of the sets,” the No. 5-seeded Ruud said. “So I think I matured and learned how to play five sets better than I did last year.”
He improved to 12-2 in Grand Slam competition in 2022 after making just two unforced errors in the first set, 11 fewer than No. 13 Berrettini.
“Everything sort of went (in) my favor,” Ruud said. “I was hitting all the spots, all the shots that I needed to.”
Berrettini’s take: “After 20 minutes I was (down) 5-0. I don’t know how really. I don’t know what happened.”
Ruud now will face the winner of the Tuesday night quarterfinal between Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios — who eliminated defending champion Daniil Medvedev in the fourth round — and No. 27 Karen Khachanov.
With Medvedev gone, he will drop from No. 1 in the men’s rankings on Monday, and three players have a shot at replacing him: Ruud, Rafael Nadal (who lost in the fourth round to Frances Tiafoe on Monday) and No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz (who plays Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals Wednesday).
“It’s still far away, I think, but of course it’s nice that it’s possible. And Casper has a little bit of motivation with that in mind,” Christian Ruud said, “because even when he was small, his ultimate goal was to be No. 1 in the world.”
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Which popular weight sets are best?
Whether you are striving to fulfill your New Year’s fitness goals or are planning to add another level to your home workout, you need a weight set. Although simple to use, a weight set provides numerous health and fitness benefits.
While you can buy hand weights individually, you’ll get more workout possibilities when you invest in a set. You’ll get weights with various pound limits for customizing your exercise regimen and progressing to higher weight levels as you increase your strength. Different weight sets are also available to meet various needs and workout levels.
What are the benefits of working out with a weight set?
According to the Mayo Clinic, there are many benefits to strength training. Strengthening muscles is one of them. As muscles become toned, they also provide better joint protection. Using a weight set also helps burn calories which can result in weight loss. It can promote heart health, aid in bone mass development, balance and more. While there are several forms of strength training, using a set of weights is one of the most popular methods for achieving these benefits.
Types of weight sets
Often referred to as free weights, there are several main types of weights that can be purchased in sets. Regardless of the type you choose, sets include weights ranging in a variety of pound options, from as little as a few pounds to 40 pounds or more per weight.
Dumbbells
Dumbbells are arguably the most popular type of weights. They come in various shapes and sizes, including small D-shaped weights that can be used while walking and doing other exercises and larger hexagonal-shaped weights that won’t roll away when you place them on a flat surface. Aquatic dumbbells for water workouts are also available. Space-saving adjustable dumbbells feature weight plates that can be adjusted to fit the user’s needs.
Barbells
Individuals who are advanced in their weight training efforts often prefer barbells. With a long bar and removable weight plates, a barbell can be adjusted to accommodate changing weight-lifting needs. Most sets include several weight plates and a bar.
Kettlebells
With a ball-like shape and wide top handle, kettlebells are made for performing many types of exercises. Like other types of weights, they are available in sets and come in a wide range of weight options.
Medicine balls
You may think of a large, heavy ball when you think of a medicine ball. However, medicine balls are also available in smaller sizes that are designed to be used as hand weights. While some medicine ball weights have handles, other ball-type weights feature a soft coating that makes them comfortable to hold.
Materials
Most quality weights are made of strong metal such as iron or steel. Some are coated in vinyl, rubber or neoprene that serve several purposes. In addition to making the weights more comfortable and secure to hold, these materials also protect surfaces and reduce noise during workouts.
Storage
Some weight sets come with trays or racks. These items keep the weights in place when they are in use. They also keep them readily available and convenient to grab when exercising.
Best weight sets
Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells
Our fitness expert tested these adjustable dumbbells and found it to be a highly effective choice for comprehensive workouts. Although the pair offers numerous weight choices for different fitness needs, the unique adjustable design saves space. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Yes4All Adjustable Cast Iron Dumbbell Set
This is an affordable set of two dumbbells that are easy to adjust to different weight levels. They are constructed of solid cast iron that’s built to last. The price falls on the lower end of the scale, making them a good choice for budget-minded fitness buffs. Sold by Amazon
Nice C Adjustable Dumbbell and Barbell Weight Pair Set
Whether you need dumbbells or a barbell, this set earns praise for including the components that make it possible to use it in either configuration. It comes with eight plates to suit different consumers’ needs. The rubberized coating is protective to flooring and provides a stable grip. Sold by Amazon
AmazonBasics Neoprene Workout Dumbbell Set
Offered by one of Amazon’s brands, this inexpensive set includes 2-, 3- and 5-pound weights that are perfect for beginners. The neoprene coating provides a comfortable and secure grip. They won’t roll during use, thanks to the hexagonal design. Sold by Amazon
Fitness Gear 300-Pound Olympic Weight Set
Ideal for serious lifters, this set features multiple weight plates and a bar that can accommodate up to 300 pounds. The plates are easy to put on or take off the bar, so the process doesn’t interfere with workouts. Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
BalanceFrom Wide Grip Kettlebell Set
This set comes with 10-, 15- and 20-pound kettlebells for versatile workouts. Each one features a wide handle for a comfortable yet reliable grip. The set is affordable, too. Sold by Amazon
Theraband Soft Handheld Ball-Shaped Weight Set
These hand weights feature a ball shape and soft exterior, making them simple to hold and suitable for anyone with dexterity issues. They are ideal for novices or those who need therapeutic strength training. The set includes six weight balls. Sold by Amazon
CAP Barbell 150-Pound Dumbbell Set with Rack
With durable construction, anti-roll hex shape and numerous weight options, this set is useful for all-body workouts for beginners to pros. A rack is included to keep the weights organized and ready for use. Sold Amazon
NordicTrack Select-a-Weight Dumbbell Pair
A space-saving, adjustable design makes this well-made dumbbell pair perfect for small spaces. The weights are easy to adjust for different fitness goals. Sold by Amazon
Body Solid Vinyl-Coated Kettlebell Set
These kettlebells are coated with vinyl that protects surfaces and floors. The wide, angled handles are comfortable to hold and provide a stable grip. The large set includes eight kettlebells ranging from 5 to 40 pounds. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
1243 PM CST Tue Nov 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 1245 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 1245 PM CST this afternoon for a
portion of Deep South Texas, including the following county, Cameron.
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat but ponding of water
on roadways will be possible for another hour or so. Please continue
to heed remaining road closures.
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Orange County to collect storm debris Thursday
Orange County says it will have crews out to collect some of the storm debris that's littered yards since Hurricane Ian hit.
But leaders have some very specific instructions for what to do if you want them to haul away what was left on your property.
One of the most important things is: Don't block the road.
There are a lot of people with piles of stuff out right now, and because of the flooding, a lot of the debris is from inside the house.
Orange County says the contractors will be making multiple passes to get everything, but they're going to start with things like logs and branches, then move on to demolition debris.
The county also gave some guidelines for what you should do:
- Put your debris on the curb
- Separate the tree limbs and logs from demolition debris and electronics
- Don't stack it all up against trees or poles
- Don't block the street
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Traditional chemotherapies continue to demonstrate limited efficacy in drug-sensitive and drug-resistant solid tumors. InnovoTEX Inc. (InnovoTEX), an Austin-based pharmaceutical company, is developing next generation anti-cancer agents that localize to solid tumors and overcome resistance mechanisms with minimal side effects.
InnovoTEX has acquired an exclusive and perpetual license, facilitated by the Discovery to Impact group at the University of Texas at Austin, to an innovative discovery platform and corresponding patent portfolio to identify and design therapeutic candidates for a range of solid tumor indications.
InnovoTEX is developing its proprietary TEX Core platform, which utilizes the tumor-localizing and well-tolerated small molecule, texaphyrin, as the basis for a series of conjugates designed to target and treat both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant solid tumors.
The first clinical candidate to be commercialized from the platform is OxaliTEX, a novel chemical entity (WO2015/191797) in a pro-drug form. Patent applications covering both composition and methods of treatment claims for OxaliTEX have been filed in 15 global jurisdictions. Currently, OxaliTEX patents covering the core compositions have been issued in the United States, Australia, Israel, South Korea, Mexico and Singapore.
Pre-clinical research conducted at the University of Texas at Austin and MD Anderson Cancer Center has demonstrated oncolytic activity in multiple indications. OxaliTEX was found to completely inhibit the tumor growth in platinum-resistant patient derived xenografts and result in extended survival of ovarian and colon cancer models. Platinum-resistant ovarian cancer is the planned lead indication for OxaliTEX.
"From the preclinical data generated, OxaliTEX has displayed greater efficacy and tolerability against advanced human cancer models compared to traditional chemotherapies. We are optimistic that OxaliTEX's therapeutic benefits will translate well to the clinic with further development," InnovoTEX CEO, Dr. Jonathan Arambula said.
Professor Jonathan Sessler, R.P. Doherty, Jr. – Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, partnered with Dr. Arambula and Dr. Zahid Siddik at MD Anderson Cancer Center, in developing technologies that led to OxaliTEX.
"I am excited to see this technology moving to the next level of development and advancing to the clinic for the treatment of a disease for which our current therapeutic options are still unsatisfactory," Professor Sessler said.
Research was generously funded by multiple institutions, including the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, the National Institutes of Health and the Robert A. Welch Foundation.
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FAA staffing issues trigger New York flight delays
By Pete Muntean and Marnie Hunter, CNN
The Federal Aviation Administration says flights in and out of New York City area airports could be delayed up to two hours Monday night because of a shortage of air traffic controllers.
“Due to the availability of staff tonight, the FAA must reduce the flow of aircraft in certain airspace serving New York City to maintain safety,” the FAA said in a statement.
“Departure and arrival delays this evening could approach two hours at John F. Kennedy International, New York LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International airports.”
A publicly available FAA advisory shows staffing issues at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center, an air traffic control facility located 50 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. The FAA advisory says delays are anticipated from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET.
Airlines have pointed at air traffic controller staffing issues as a reason for massive flight cancellations this summer, though the FAA asserts that most delays are because of the airlines.
According to data from flight tracking site FlightAware, 48,000 US flights were canceled between May 27, the Friday before Memorial Day, and August 14. That figure represents 2.3% of the flights scheduled.
Nearly 483,000 US flights were delayed during that period, or about 24% of flights.
Bad weather has compounded other operational challenges this summer.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a CNN interview last week that while weather disrupted a recent weekend’s air traffic,”it shouldn’t have created the kind of ripple effects through the system that it did.
“That is something that to me is an indication that we still have not seen the improvements that we need, that the system is very brittle,” Buttigieg said last week on CNN’s New Day.
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HOUSTON (AP) — It didn’t take Justin Verlander long to realize he could have a special year after missing almost two full seasons recovering from Tommy John surgery.
Heading into his fifth start, Verlander knew he was back.
“In that moment, I felt normal and like myself, pain-free, able to recover like I always have,” he said. “I think my mindset just completely shifted to like, ‘OK, I am the pitcher I’ve always been.’”
On Wednesday, the Houston ace capped his stellar season by winning the American League Cy Young Award, joining Miami’s Sandy Alcantara in the National League as unanimous selections.
It’s the second time the winners in both leagues were unanimous since the award began in 1956 and the first since Detroit’s Denny McLain in the AL and St. Louis’ Bob Gibson in the NL swept the voting in 1968.
The 39-year-old Verlander, who also won the award in 2019 after winning both MVP and the Cy Young in 2011, becomes the 11th player to win it three times. He also won unanimously in 2011.
He said this one has a different meaning.
“It shows that I’m at a different point in my life,” Verlander said. “I will always remember this Cy Young as looking back at the growth of me as a father and as a person, and just also the the rehab and all the hard work that went into the rehab and how I was just so committed to it was going to go well and I was going to come back and be me.”
Verlander led the majors with a 1.75 ERA, the lowest of his 17-year career. He becomes the fourth AL pitcher with two unanimous Cy Young Awards, joining Roger Clemens (1986, 1998), Pedro Martinez (1999, 2000) and Johan Santana (2004, 2006).
Verlander led the Astros to the best record in the AL, and while the postseason doesn’t count for the award, he got his first career World Series win in Game 5 as Houston beat Philadelphia in six games.
Verlander, who will receive a $200,000 bonus, is a free agent and said he has communicated with Astros owner Jim Crane about a possible return, but noted that Houston is far from his only potential suitor.
“Obviously, there’s a lot of people that are interested and Jim understands that based on our conversation,” he said. “He completely understands that. … So we’ll see what happens.”
Alcantara had a 2.28 ERA while pitching a major league-best 228 2/3 innings and six compete games. It’s the first Cy Young Award for the 27-year-old from the Dominican Republic, who becomes the first Marlins player to receive the honor.
“It makes me feel so special because I came here to the Marlins with my positive mentality — just tried to win,” he said. “Tried to compete, tried to get better. This year I put everything in the same spot, working hard. I’ve had great success. And now to win the National League Cy Young, I feel so happy and blessed.”
Alcantara received all 30 first-place votes, the 15th time the NL has had a unanimous winner. Atlanta’s Max Fried was second with 72 points, including 10 second-place votes, and Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Julio Urías was third 66 points and seven second-place votes.
Behind Verlander, who was the 11th AL pitcher to win unanimously, were Dylan Cease of the Chicago White Sox with 97 points and 14 second-place votes and Toronto’s Alek Manoah with 87 points and seven second-place votes. The three pitchers were named on every ballot.
Verlander’s 18 wins led the AL, and he had 185 strikeouts to give him 3,198 in his career, the most among active players.
Alcantara’s six complete games were the most in the majors since Chris Sale had six in 2016. The two-time All-Star went 14-9 and threw seven or more innings in 13 straight starts from May 11-July 15, which was the longest such streak since 2014.
Alcantara’s innings pitched and wins were both career highs and his ERA was his best in six seasons and ranked second in the NL.
“The hard work, the positivity, every day, fighting for my team, competing against any team. That makes it special,” he said. “My mentality all the time is to be aggressive. Try to get better every day. And I’ll keep doing the same. And let’s see if I can win the Cy Young next year, too.”
He joins Martinez (1997) as the only player born in the Dominican Republic to win the NL award. Martinez also won twice in the AL (1999, 2000) and the other Dominican winner in the AL was Bartolo Colon in 2005.
Urías was 17-7 and led the NL with a 2.16 ERA to help the Dodgers lead the majors with 111 wins in the regular season. The left-hander had 166 strikeouts after a 2021 season in which he led the majors with 20 wins.
Fried was 14-7 with a 2.48 ERA and 170 strikeouts. He was a first-time All-Star and helped lead the Braves to their fifth straight NL East crown.
Cease was 14-8 and ranked second to Verlander in the AL with a 2.20 ERA. He had a career-high 227 strikeouts and went 14 consecutive starts this summer without allowing more than one earned run.
Manoah went 16-7 with a 2.24 ERA in his second season. He had 180 strikeouts and went 4-0 with a 0.88 ERA in his last six starts to help the Blue Jays make the playoffs.
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AP Sports Writer Alanis Thames contributed to this report.
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As we head into football season, the price of chicken wings is the lowest it's been before the coronavirus pandemic began.
According to a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report released Friday, the cost of the poultry-based product has steadily decreased.
Last May, the cost was $3.25 per pound. In July, the cost of wings was $1.68 per pound, which the FDA says is the lowest monthly average since May 2020.
According to NBC News, the cost of wings has been able to bounce back because the demand for bone-in chicken wings was at its peak during the pandemic, so restaurants, facing a shortage switched to boneless wings.
It seems no one can stop eating the tasty snack.
The USDA said in its report that the number of wings in cold storage increased for the second month and was at its highest since June 2018.
Chicken wings aren't the only popular food items in high demand.
According to a study from the National Chicken Council, 37% of those surveyed said they plan to eat more chicken over the next year, CNN reported.
The study showed that less than half of that said the same about beef and pork, the news outlet reported. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/usda-report-shows-cost-of-chicken-wings-dropped-to-pre-pandemic-levels | 2022-08-23 23:00:08 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/usda-report-shows-cost-of-chicken-wings-dropped-to-pre-pandemic-levels |
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the U.S. will significantly increase its military presence in Europe for the long haul, including by establishing its first permanent presence in Poland, to bolster regional security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the opening of the alliance’s annual leaders' summit in Madrid, Biden said “NATO is strong and united" and that steps to be taken during the gathering will “further augment our collective strength.” The White House said Biden's commitments mean the U.S. will maintain a presence of 100,000 troops in Europe, up 20,000 from the levels before the Ukraine war began, for the “foreseeable future.”
In addition to the new basing of a U.S. military garrison in Poland, Biden also said the U.S. is sending two additional F-35 fighter jet squadrons to the U.K. and more air defenses and other capabilities to Germany and Italy.
“Today I’m announcing the United States will enhance our force posture in Europe and respond to the changing security environment as well as strengthening our collective security,” he said.
Stoltenberg, who earlier Wednesday said the alliance was facing its biggest challenge since World War II because of Russia's aggression toward Ukraine, welcomed Biden's announcement as the summit began.
“This really demonstrates your decisive leadership and strength in the trans-Atlantic bond,” Stoltenberg said, thanking Biden for the "unwavering support from you and from the United States to Ukraine.”
The more muscular American presence in Europe is bolstered by stepped-up defense commitments from NATO allies announced at the summit. It is still a far cry from its posture during the Cold War, when roughly 300,000 American troops, on average, were stationed in the region.
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Biden said the U.S. will permanently station the U.S. Army V Corps forward command in Poland, a move that he said would strengthen US-NATO interoperability across the alliance's eastern flank. The decision marks the first permanent basing of U.S. forces on NATO’s eastern edge. Biden added that the U.S. is also stepping up its rotational deployments of troops to Romania and the Baltic region.
Celeste Wallander, an assistant U.S. secretary of defense for international affairs, told reporters that having a permanent presence in Poland will be key to helping NATO navigate the changed security environment in Europe caused by Russia's invasion. The U.S. supplies the bulk of NATO's military power.
U.S. officials emphasized that the permanent basing applied only to headquarters units, not combat troops, and was therefore consistent with a 1997 agreement between NATO and Russia in which the alliance agreed not to permanently base combat troops in Eastern Europe as it aimed to build more constructive ties in the post-Cold War environment.
Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski told Poland’s state PAP news agency that the decision to add U.S. command structure was a “manifestation of the ever closer cooperation between the U.S. and Poland” and would give give NATO allies a frontline insight into the Russian threat.
The combat units Biden is sending to Romania and the Baltic region are on rotational deployments, rather than permanent assignment, to remain in compliance with that agreement.
“There has been no communication with Moscow about these changes, nor is there a requirement to do that," John Kirby, a spokesman for Biden's National Security Council.
Biden announced on Tuesday after arriving for the summit that the U.S. would base two additional destroyers at its naval base in Rota, Spain, bringing the total number to six.
Biden predicted that meetings this week would make for a “history-making summit” as leaders were set to approve a new strategic framework, announce a range of steps to boost their defense spending and capabilities, and clear the way for historically neutral Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin thought NATO members would splinter after he invaded Ukraine, but got the opposite response instead.
“Putin was looking for the Finland-ization of Europe,” Biden said. “You’re gonna get the NATO-ization of Europe. And that’s exactly what he didn’t want, but exactly what needs to be done to guarantee security for Europe.”
Turkey, the last remaining holdout to approve the Nordic countries’ accession into NATO, reached an agreement on the eve of the summit late Tuesday to support adding them to the 30-nation alliance.
While the White House said the U.S. was not a direct party to the negotiations, a senior administration official said Biden spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday to encourage him to clear the way for Sweden and Finland to join. The two leaders are set to meet Wednesday afternoon to discuss other issues, the White House said.
Biden also sat down Wednesday with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who are attending the NATO summit as the alliance looks to strengthen its ties in the Indo-Pacific region and address challenges from China.
The three leaders discussed North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, which Biden said the three found “deeply concerning."
Biden said “our trilateral cooperation in my view is essential” and said the meeting was an opportunity for the leaders to coordinate a shared response, as U.S. officials say the isolated nation may soon conduct another nuclear test.
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Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani and Chris Megerian in Washington and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw contributed to this report. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/us-to-boost-military-presence-in-europe-over-russia-threat/3003278/ | 2022-06-29 15:33:52 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/us-to-boost-military-presence-in-europe-over-russia-threat/3003278/ |
JESSE WATTERS: Corrupt countries have dirt on the Bidens
Watters reacts to allegations the Biden family received millions from foreign nationals
Fox News host Jesse Watters reacts to allegations the Biden family profited off of foreign nationals on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
JESSE WATTERS: Fox News Alert: Explosive new evidence that the Biden family was taking bribes from corrupt foreign nationals while Joe Biden was president.
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Corrupt foreigners were funneling millions into the Biden family while Joe Biden was lecturing them about foreign corruption. What a racket. Fly to a corrupt country, tell them to clean up their act and then everybody who's corrupt sends the Bidens money for protection. That's how it works.
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Revenue Secretary Peter Barca hints at possible compromise on high income tax bracket
A top official in Gov. Tony Evers' administration has signaled there could be room for compromise between Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor to lower the top income tax bracket in Wisconsin.
Evers and the Republican-controlled state Legislature are grappling with how to spend a projected $7.1 billion surplus as they tackle the next two-year state budget in the coming months. GOP leaders want to enact massive income tax cuts, especially for filers in the top bracket. Evers has said he wants tax relief for the middle class.
Department of Revenue Secretary Peter Barca indicated Wednesday evening at the Wisconsin Policy Forum annual meeting in Milwaukee that the budget-writing process could include changes in tax policy for the highest earners.
“I think we could do something on the top rate, I think we could do something to have an impact, to also make a change so that we do, primarily, help those that are struggling to get in the middle class and those that are there,” Barca said.
“To me that would be a reasonable compromise, but the governor has made clear that he will not sign a flat tax.”
More:With $6.6 billion surplus, Republican leader Vos sees room for bigger tax cuts in 2023
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has proposed a 3.35% flat income tax which, if passed, would be vetoed by Evers.
If a flat tax was implemented, Barca said the state would “be looking at an annual $4 billion reduction in revenue.”
Barca added the state could afford a flat tax during this biennial budget, but in the next budget, the state could be looking at a structural deficit.
Barca said he’s met with state senators from both parties “and one of the GOP senators said to me today was ‘The last thing in the world that I want is to go back to structural deficits.’”
Barca was joined on stage at the event by Rick Chandler, former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue during the Walker administration.
A large portion of the discussion focused on how the state could make itself more competitive via the tax code.
“Historically, in Wisconsin, we’ve had a tax system where we’re above average on income and property taxes, well below average on sales taxes. That’s a little bit of a problem from a marketing perspective,” Chandler said. “Because the two taxes that people notice the most and dislike the most are the income and property taxes. People don’t really notice the sales tax.”
Chandler said a flat tax is “easier to understand, easier to market,” but doesn’t necessarily lower the tax burden of all residents.
“Illinois has a flat tax. One rate, 4.95%. People look at that and think Illinois has lower taxes than us. Actually, our overall tax burden is lower than Illinois,” Chandler said.
“We have to find better ways to market our tax system. A flat tax would do that. On the other hand, it would direct a large share of the cuts to the people at the upper end of the tax bracket, not as much for the middle class.” | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/02/revenue-secretary-barca-hints-at-compromise-on-high-income-tax-bracket/69867874007/ | 2023-02-02 23:16:51 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/02/revenue-secretary-barca-hints-at-compromise-on-high-income-tax-bracket/69867874007/ |
Police: Chick-fil-A employee shot by driver over milkshake dispute
PHILADELPHIA (KYW) - A disagreement over a milkshake escalated into a shooting at a Philadelphia Chick-fil-A restaurant on Monday.
The incident ended with a 17-year-old employee getting hit in the leg and a suspect landing in custody.
Philadelphia police said a disgruntled customer driving for DoorDash lost his cool and fired a gun at the restaurant.
“We are not going to tolerate kids doing the right thing with individuals firing a gun over something minor,” said Philadelphia Police Department Capt. John Walker.
A bullet from the gun hit a team member with the fast-food restaurant in the leg.
According to police, the argument started when only one milkshake was included in the driver’s order, who was demanding a second.
Authorities said the driver pulled out a gun and placed it on his lap.
A manager then brought employees back into the store before the shooting happened, with the driver taking off.
But eventually, police said they tracked the driver to an address where positive identification was made.
Authorities said they asked the district attorney’s office to seek a high bail to keep the man behind bars.
The injured employee is expected to survive the shooting, according to police.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities are searching for a grandmother whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone and abandoned for two days in a locked car that was stuck in mud on a rural Alaska road.
The search for Mary Dawn Wilson, 69, is being concentrated around the community of Healy, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement. The abandoned Ford Focus was found Thursday on Stampede Road, just outside Healy and off the Parks Highway.
The child appeared to be in good health and was handed over to the state Office of Children’s Services, the statement said.
Officials said evidence in the car indicated that the child and car were abandoned Tuesday when the vehicle became stuck, troopers said. There were indications she tried to free the car, Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Tim DeSpain said.
Wilson was the last known person with the child, the statement said,
Troopers said it’s believed she started walking, but in the opposite direction from the highway. Various law enforcement agencies, search dogs and the Alaska Wilderness Search and Rescue organization are looking for her near where the vehicle stopped.
Healy is located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Denali National Park and Preserve.
Stampede Road is famous for being the main thoroughfare that adventurers used to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless, a young idealist whose journey on the Stampede Trail ended with his death.
The trail road eventually ends and opens up to treacherous Alaska backcountry, where McCandless took shelter in an abandoned city bus after he became trapped by the swollen Teklanika River.
He died of starvation in 1992 and his life and death were made famous by the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer and then by the movie directed by Sean Penn.
Over the years, people trying to reach the bus that was located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Healy to pay pilgrimage to McCandless had to be rescued themselves or died. That prompted state officials to remove the bus from the backcountry in 2020.
The bus is currently being prepared for permanent outdoor display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. People can watch a livestream of the work being performed on the bus.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
17-22-30-31-41
(seventeen, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-one, forty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
17-22-30-31-41
(seventeen, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-one, forty-one)
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Texas Tech to induct seven former letterwinners and the late Mike Leach into Hall of Fame, Hall of Honor
LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - Kliff Kingsbury and Mike Leach will headline the latest list of inductees to the Texas Tech Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor as the athletics department officially announced its 2023 class Wednesday afternoon.
The Texas Tech Hal of Fame, reserved strictly for former athletes, will welcome seven Red Raider greats as Gonzalo Escobar (men’s tennis), Greg Lowery (men’s basketball), Matt Wingo (football), Jason Young (track and field), Cathy Carlson (women’s tennis) and Kim Kaufman (women’s golf) will join Kingsbury as part of the 2023 class.
Leach, meanwhile, will be recognized posthumously in the Hall of Honor for his decade of success leading the Red Raider football program. Leach, the winningest coach in program history, led the Red Raiders to a bowl appearance in all 10 of his seasons, finishing with an 84-43 overall in one of the most-successful eras all-time at Texas Tech. The Hall of Honor is designated for non-athletes who have provided outstanding contributions to Texas Tech Athletics.
The 2023 Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor class will be formally inducted at 6 p.m. on Sept 29 during a ceremony at Overton Hotel and Conference Center. The entire 2023 class will later be recognized on the field the following day when the Red Raiders host Houston inside Jones AT&T Stadium.
Additional details pertaining to the Hall of Fame Ceremony, including individual ticket and table information, will be announced later this fall.
TEXAS TECH HALL OF FAME CLASS
Gonzalo Escobar (Men’s Tennis, 2008-12)
Escobar is a former two-time All-American who played for the men’s tennis program from 2008-12. Escobar, who is one of only three Red Raiders to compete in both the NCAA Singles and NCAA Doubles Championships during his career, finished runner-up nationally in doubles with teammate Raony Carvalho in his final season at Texas Tech. Escobar posted his highest end-of-the-year Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings in 2011 for singles (No. 25) and in 2012 for doubles (No. 3), which still is the highest doubles ranking for a Tech duo to end the year. Escobar became the second player in Texas Tech history to win the ITA Arthur Ashe Award for leadership and sportsmanship and the first (and only) player to claim the ITA/Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award, both in the Texas Region.
Escobar remains the overall winningest player in program history as he ranks first with 181 career overall wins, first with 99 career singles wins, tied for first in both single-season dual doubles wins (20) and single-season dual doubles wins at line three (15). In addition, Escobar sits in the top-10 all-time in the following categories: doubles victories (82), singles winning percentage (.664), doubles winning percentage (.667), single-season singles & doubles wins, single-season dual singles & doubles victories, single-season dual doubles winning percentage and single-season dual singles wins at line two. Escobar helped the Red Raiders to a 68-37 record in his time as a Red Raider, a second-place Big 12 finish in 2012 and three second-round NCAA Tournament appearances. Escobar, who is currently ranked No. 55 in the world in doubles, has competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments, including a most recent appearance in doubles at Roland-Garros and a Round of 16 doubles appearance at the Australia Open.
Cathy Carlson (Women’s Tennis, 1984-88)
Carlson joins the 2023 Hall of Fame class after a storied career with the Lady Raider women’s tennis program from 1984-88. Appearing all over the Texas Tech record book, Carlson is the winningest player in program history with 224 overall career victories (111 singles and 113 doubles wins). In addition, her 111 singles wins and 113 doubles victories rank third all-time in their respective categories. Helping the Lady Raiders go 65-27 (.707) during her career as a Lady Raider, Carlson is tied for second all-time in line three singles wins with 14 in 1988 and third at line two doubles victories with 18 in 1987. Carlson also appears in the top-10 in career singles and doubles winning percentage, single-season singles & doubles wins, single-season singles and doubles winning percentage, single-season dual singles & doubles winning percentage and in single-season dual doubles victories.
Kim Kaufman (Women’s Golf, 2009-13)
Throughout her Texas Tech career, Kaufman recorded 15 career top-10 finishes, including seven top-five finishes during the 2012-13 season alone. A two-time All-Big 12 selection, Kaufman was also named the Big 12s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2013 and was a CoSIDA first team All-America selection in 2013, the first, first team Academic All-American in program history. The Clark, South Dakota native also became the first player in Texas Tech women’s golf history to reach No. 1 in the country during her senior season (2012-13) as the Red Raiders also were tabbed the No. 1 team in the country on Sept. 26 of that same season. A four-time All-American, Kaufman became the first player in program history to earn at least third team All-America status and was also the first Red Raider women’s golfer to earn All-American honors in back-to-back seasons.
During the 2012-13 season, Kaufman helped lead her Tech squad to three overall victories and was named a Second Team All-America selection by the GCAA and a Third Team All-American by Golfweek after being named Honorable Mention All-America by both entities in 2011-12. Kaufman also competed at the NCAA Championship as an individual in 2011-12, finishing eighth at the Vanderbilt Legends Golf Club in 2012. The top-10 finish was the first by a Texas Tech women’s golfer in program history.
The first player in program history to have played in an NCAA Regional in all four seasons of her career, Kaufman played the most rounds in program history (144) and has the most counting scores in program history (129). She owns two of the five best countable scores in program history and shot the fifth-lowest single-round score in the program history when she fired a third-round 65 at the Challenge at Onion Creek. A veteran of the LPGA, ESPON and Symetra Tours, Kaufman has had nearly a decade-long professional career since turning pro in 2014.
Kliff Kingsbury (Football, 1999-02)
The rise of Texas Tech’s Air Raid offense began with Kingsbury, who arrived at Texas Tech under legendary head coach Spike Dykes and later developed into one of the top passers in college football history under fellow 2023 inductee, Mike Leach. Kingsbury earned his first career start in Dykes’ final game as head coach, leading the Red Raiders to a memorable win over Oklahoma in what would be the start of a legendary career. Kingsbury went on to set 39 school records the next three seasons as well as 16 different Big 12 marks and 17 NCAA FBS records. He recorded more than 12,000 passing yards and total offense, including over 1,000 completions, making him only the third player in NCAA history to accomplish all three feats.
As a senior, he was presented the Sammy Baugh Trophy, which is awarded annually to the nation’s top college quarterback. Kingsbury finished ninth in the Heisman Trophy voting that season, becoming only the fourth Red Raider at the time to rank in the top 10 at the time. Kingsbury also excelled in the classroom where he was one of 14 collegiate football players to receive a post-graduate scholarship from the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. He also garnered Academic All-America Player of the Year honors in 2002, the highest academic honor for a Red Raider in program history.
A sixth-round NFL Draft pick in 2003 by the New England Patriots, Kingsbury played for five NFL teams and also saw action in the Canadian Football League and the All-American Football League. Following his playing career, he joined the coaching profession, serving in role at the University of Houston and Texas A&M before being named the 15th head coach in Texas Tech history in 2013. He served his alma mater for six seasons and then moved to the NFL where he was the head coach for the Arizona Cardinals from 2019-22. He is currently an offensive analyst at USC.
Greg Lowery (Men’s Basketball, 1970-72)
Lowery played three seasons for the Texas Tech basketball team from 1970-72 where he averaged 19.7 points per game and finished with 1,476 points. A West Palm Beach, Florida native, Lowery began his collegiate career with one season at Oklahoma Military Academy before transferring to Tech. He owns the Tech single-season record by averaging 24.5 points per game in his senior season and is fourth with his 19.7 career average. Lowery and Gene Knolle were the first two Black basketball players in Texas Tech history.
A 6-foot-2 guard, he earned All-Southwest Conference honors in all three seasons he played for the Red Raiders, with first-team selections in his sophomore and senior seasons along with a second-team distinction as a junior. He was named the SWC Sophomore of the Year in the 1969-70 season. Lowery finished his career by shooting 550-for-1,136 (48.4 percent) from the field and is sixth all-time in Tech history at 83.5 percent from the free-throw line with 376 makes.
Lowery scored a career-high 35 points twice, first against Texas on the road as a sophomore and then again against SMU as a junior. He also had a game against Rice where he was 11-for-11 from the field and finished with 32 points. In 1972, he was selected by the Miami Floridians in the ABA Draft and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Draft. Lowery passed away on June 17, 2016.
Matt Wingo (Football, 1988-91)
Wingo remains one of the top linebackers in program history after a decorated career in the early tenure of Spike Dykes from 1988-91. Wingo, a two-time All-Southwest Conference honoree, racked up 385 tackles during his four-year career, which ranked third all-time in school history following his senior season. To this day, Wingo still ranks sixth in Texas Tech history for career tackles. Wingo earned All-Southwest Conference honors following both his junior and senior seasons. Additionally, Wingo was honored by his teammates as the recipient of the Dell Morgan Memorial Courage Award following his senior year as well as the Clint Ramsey Academic Effort Award.
Jason Young (Track & Field, 1999-04)
A native a Dallas, Texas, Young was a Junior Olympic Champion (1999) in the discus before arriving to Texas Tech. During his time in Lubbock, Young was a the 2002 NACAC U23 Champion, and a two-time NCAA All-American highlighted by a runner-up finish in the discus throw at the 2004 NCAA outdoor meet. Following his Tech career, Young stayed in Lubbock as the Red Raiders’ strength and conditioning coach before making the USA Olympic Team in 2012 where he went on to finish eighth in qualification. To this day, Young holds two top-10 marks in the Texas Tech record book when it comes to the discus.
TEXAS TECH HALL OF HONOR CLASS
Mike Leach, head football coach (2000-09)
The winningest coach (by wins) in program history, Leach becomes the sixth former head coach to be inducted into the Hall of Honor. One of the top offensive minds in college football history, Leach led the Red Raiders through a memorable tenure, highlighted by an 84-43 overall record over 10 seasons, all of which resulted in a bowl trip. In fact, the Red Raiders became a regular in bowl season under Leach, who pushed the Red Raiders to three nine-win seasons (2002, 2005, 2007) and then 11 wins in 2008.
Texas Tech experienced its most-successful season under Leach with Graham Harrell leading the Red Raider offense, however, as he and wide receiver Michael Crabtree formed one of the top pass-catching duos in college football history. The Red Raiders matched the school record with 11 wins in 2008, which was highlighted by a memorable victory over No. 1 Texas at home that pushed Texas Tech to as high as No. 2 in the national rankings.
Texas Tech rewrote the NCAA record book under Leach and his “Air Raid” offense, developing quarterbacks such as Kliff Kingsbury, a fellow member of the 2023 class, as well as B.J. Symons, Sonny Cumbie, Cody Hodges and eventually Harrell, a 2020 inductee. Symons snapped the NCAA FBS single-season record for passing yards in 2003, throwing for an unheard-of 5,833 yards and 52 touchdowns through the air.
Following his tenure at Texas Tech, Leach enjoyed successful stints at both Washington State (2012-19) and Mississippi State (2020-22). His coaching career was highlighted by a 158-107 overall record and 17 bowl trips over his 21 combined seasons as a collegiate head coach. He was in the midst of his third season at Mississippi State when he suddenly passed away on Dec. 13, 2022, at the age of 61.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kevin Schewe's Bad Love Tigers has won a spectacular 250 international screenplay awards. The awards from film festivals worldwide have included Best Feature Script/Screenplay, Best Writer, Best Sci-Fi, Best TV Script, Best Original Story and Best Concept among others.
"The Bad Love Gang and I are honored beyond words with this far-reaching global recognition. We are actively seeking interested Producers, Studios and Directors. We have assembled a 'look book' with a wish list of actors and a comprehensive multimillion dollar budget down to the most minute details, including comparable film financial performances," said Schewe.
The Bad Love Tigers screenplay is on a whirlwind sweep across the globe, finding acclaim at film festivals spanning from New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Rome, Barcelona and dozens of locations in between including these: Cannes World Film Festival, Madrid Arthouse Film Festival, Rome International Movie Awards, New York International Film Awards, The Los Angeles Movie Awards, Vegas Movie Awards, The London Classic Film Festival, The Barcelona International Film Festival and recently Best Screenplay for Young Adults at Bridge Fest in Vancouver.
Schewe's Bad Love Tigers is a feel good, action-adventure, sci-fi blend of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Stand by Me. The screenplay has strong youth appeal and great potential to attract an audience of all ages back to the big screen. This incredible display of worldwide interest has proven that Bad Love Tigers is already a global phenomenon, crossing cultures and borders and demonstrating its potential to be that feel-great-again, big-screen, tent-pole blockbuster franchise.
Bad Love Tigers, is about a misfit group of young adventurers, known as the Bad Love Gang, who come of age as they use a time-travel machine called the White Hole Project to travel back to the World War II era, meet with President Roosevelt and embark on a perilous secret mission to protect an alien spaceship and defeat the Japanese in combat. Keeping America's most important and deepest national secret safe at Area-51 hinges on the success of their quest.
About: Kevin L. Schewe, MD, FACRO, is a board-certified cancer specialist who has been in the private practice of radiation oncology for nearly 35 years. Visit Schewe on Instagram @realkevinschewe and KevinSchewe.com and watch the book trailer here. Bad Love Tigers is available on Amazon.
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UVALDE, Texas — At least two hospitals were treating patients Tuesday after a shooter prompted a lockdown at a Texas elementary school.
The nature and severity of those injuries wasn't immediately known, but the shooter was in custody shortly after 1 p.m., the Uvalde Police Department said.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had said an active shooter was reported at Robb Elementary School, which has an enrollment of just under 600 students.
Uvalde Memorial Hospital said in a Facebook post that it was caring for “several students” in its emergency room, but it did not provide information on their injuries. Another hospital, University Health, said it was treating a child and an adult patient from Robb Elementary, but their conditions weren't immediately available.
Earlier, the district said that all schools in the district were locked down because of gunshots in the area.
A Uvalde Police Department dispatcher said the scene was still active and that no other information was immediately available.
School and city officials did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
The district said that the city's civic center will be used as a reunification center and that parents will be able to pick up their children there once everyone is accounted for.
Uvalde is about 85 miles west of San Antonio.
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SPRINGDALE, Utah (KTVX) — A married couple’s 16-mile hike through the Narrows at the Zion National Park ended tragically just days before Thanksgiving.
Park visitors told shuttle drivers on Wednesday that they had seen an injured man and unresponsive woman in the Narrows, a popular hiking spot in the Utah national park, according to the National Park Service.
Members of the Zion National Park Search and Rescue Team responded and found a 33-year-old man on Riverside Walk, a trail that leads into the Narrows. Other visitors were already helping him down the trail.
Authorities transported him to the Zion Emergency Operations Center.
Other team members found the man’s 31-year-old wife unresponsive near the Virgin River. Visitors were performing CPR on the woman but first responders pronounced her dead at the scene.
The married couple began hiking through the Narrows on Tuesday. The man reported that they became “dangerously cold overnight” and experienced symptoms of hypothermia.
The couple stopped about a mile and a half from the north end of Riverside Walk. Early Wednesday morning, the man said he continued to search for help while the wife remained where she was.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Utah Office of the Medical Examiner and the National Park Service are currently investigating the cause of the woman’s death.
Earlier this year, a woman from Tucson, Arizona was found dead in the Virgin River after multiple hikers were swept off their feet by flash flooding in the Narrows. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/wife-dies-husband-rescued-after-overnight-hiking-trip-in-the-narrows-at-zion-national-park/ | 2022-11-25 19:21:20 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/wife-dies-husband-rescued-after-overnight-hiking-trip-in-the-narrows-at-zion-national-park/ |
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Vermilion Energy Inc. ("Vermilion") (TSX: VET) (NYSE: VET) is pleased to announce a 33% increase to our quarterly cash dividend to $0.08 CDN per share, payable on October 17, 2022 to all shareholders of record on September 30, 2022. The ex-dividend date for this payment is September 29, 2022. This dividend is an eligible dividend for the purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
Vermilion is an international energy producer that seeks to create value through the acquisition, exploration, development and optimization of producing assets in North America, Europe and Australia. Our business model emphasizes free cash flow generation and returning capital to investors when economically warranted, augmented by value-adding acquisitions. Vermilion's operations are focused on the exploitation of light oil and liquids-rich natural gas conventional resource plays in North America and the exploration and development of conventional natural gas and oil opportunities in Europe and Australia.
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EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The trouble Kirk Cousins had in Minnesota's game with the Dallas pass rush won't just go away on its own.
The Vikings will have to put their protection scheme and play-calling through the ringer again this week to keep Cousins in rhythm — and upright — when they face New England on Thursday night.
After the Cowboys took Cousins down behind the line of scrimmage a career-most seven times, the Patriots present a similar challenge. Dallas leads the NFL in sacks (42). New England is next (36).
“It’s tough, Kirk getting sacked before you even get out your break,” wide receiver Justin Jefferson said. “We’ve just got to move toward more quick game — getting the ball out quicker, putting the ball in space and letting people work. If things are not working out the way we planned, we need to find a way to adjust and go toward something that’s going to work better for us."
Asked to elaborate in an interview the day after the 40-3 loss to the Cowboys, Jefferson said he wishes the Vikings would've switched gears faster during that game.
“This is a new team. This is a new coaching staff. We have new players on this team. We’re all still learning each other. We're still all learning how to play with each other,” said Jefferson, who had just three catches for 33 yards on Sunday. “It's just a lesson learned.”
Coach Kevin O'Connell didn't sound surprised or disappointed when the subject of Jefferson's constructive yet public criticism came up in his news conference on Tuesday, but he didn't make any attempt to validate his star player's comments, either.
“Justin knows that we're going to do whatever we can to try to move the football in the best interest of our offense,” O'Connell said. He later added: “You would love to have third-and-25-type plays that you can get the ball out quickly. If you guys know any of those, just let me know.”
Cousins was sacked on third-and-19 and third-and-20 in the second half. Three others came on first down, and his first two in the first half were on third-and-3.
So is it actually as simple as shortening the time from snap to pass?
“That’s certainly an option. If you get it out quick, then the rush can’t get there,” Cousins said. “Certainly want to be in favorable down and distances, because it’s hard to get the ball out quick on second-and 20, third-and-25. That’s a little different. All situations kind of call for their own answer. When you can stay in favorable down and distances, you kind of give yourself, give your coaches, a larger volume of the playbook to come from."
Patriots linebacker Matt Judon leads the NFL with 13 sacks. He'll likely be facing Blake Brandel, who's on track to play left tackle with Christian Darrisaw back in the concussion protocol.
“Their operation is very clean. The personnel groupings they use provide a lot of stress, obviously, for your players," O'Connell said. “You’re trying to quiet their mind, and I feel like we’ve got a good plan. Players are digesting it as we go, but make no mistake about it, it’s going to be a heck of a challenge again for our guys up front — and really all 11.”
No player in the NFL this season has attempted more passes under pressure than Cousins, according to Sportradar data, with 109. His pressure rate (26.5%) is the fifth highest among starting quarterbacks.
“We don’t want Kirk to hit the ground. Us as men, we’ve got to look ourselves in the mirror and correct that,” running back Dalvin Cook said.
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(The Hill) – Mortgage rates experienced their largest weekly drop in nearly 40 years this week, easing potential buyers’ monthly payments.
The 30-year fixed rate fell to 6.61 percent, declining by nearly half a percentage point from a week earlier after a report showing softer than expected inflation.
This historic drop could save buyers more than $100 each month, according to an analysis from the real estate company Redfin.
Now the typical monthly mortgage payment across the U.S. is $2,430, down from $2,542.
But Redfin deputy chief economist Taylor Marr cautioned that the overall impact could be muted without consistently declining inflation.
Still, buyers in need of a home will benefit from the falling rate.
“Serious buyers who need to purchase a home as soon as possible can feel good about pouncing on a home this week, knowing it could cost them upwards of $100 less per month than the same home would’ve cost if they’d signed the deal a week earlier,” Marr said.
“More casual buyers may want to wait a few more months, as there’s reason to be cautiously optimistic that the worst of inflation and high rates are behind us, and monthly payments could come down more.”
The Federal Reserve’s aggressive effort to fight persistent inflation through a series of jumbo interest rate hikes has seriously impacted the housing market. Since the Fed issued its first interest rate increase in March, mortgage rates have shot up from 4.16 percent.
These rising rates, when combined with consistently high prices, have pushed many Americans out of the housing market — especially first-time buyers.
The Fed’s actions have also impacted builders, leading to falling builder confidence and sharp decline in new home construction.
Housing starts declined by 4.2 percent from September to 1.43 million units, according to Census Bureau data released on Thursday.
Meanwhile, data released Wednesday by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) revealed that home builders’ confidence in the market for newly constructed single-family homes is at an all-time low.
“Higher interest rates have significantly weakened demand for new homes as buyer traffic is becoming increasingly scarce,” NAHB Chairman Jerry Konter said in a media release.
But the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index found that homebuilders are looking for ways to encourage more buyers to enter the market, with 37 percent saying they have cut prices. Overall, 59 percent of homebuilders said they are using some sort of incentive. | https://phl17.com/nmw/heres-how-much-homebuyers-could-save-after-mortgage-rates-tumble/ | 2022-11-20 18:26:15 | 1 | https://phl17.com/nmw/heres-how-much-homebuyers-could-save-after-mortgage-rates-tumble/ |
The Chevrolet Traverse has been redesigned for the 2024 model year and included in the range is a new Z71 grade aimed at off-roaders.
Revealed on Monday, the new Traverse promises the space and safety that families enjoy while adding more standard features and improved performance.
Opting for the Z71 adds genuine upgrades including an inch of extra ground clearance and increased track width, as well as 18-inch wheels wrapped in all-terrain tires. All-wheel drive is also standard on Z71, but the twin-clutch design at the rear axle is exclusive to the Z71. It’s able to split the drive torque not only between the front and rear axles but also between the rear wheels.
Other upgrades on the Z71 include unique dampers with hydraulic rebound, a unique front fascia that helps improve the approach angle, an aluminum skid plate, hill descent control, and a drive mode specific for uneven terrain. Also included as standard is a trailering package.
Other grades in the 2024 Traverse lineup include the LS, LT, and RS.
All grades come with a new 2.5-liter turbo-4 rated at 315 hp and 317 lb-ft of torque, plus an 8-speed automatic transmission. It replaces the 3.6-liter V-6 that made 310 hp and 266 lb-ft, and results in a torque rating up 19% compared to the current Traverse.
Front-wheel drive is standard but all-wheel drive is available on all grades apart from the Z71 that features it as standard. Towing capacity is up to 5,000 pounds, when properly equipped.
Inside the new Traverse, there’s still three rows but a new 17.7-inch touchscreen infotainment system highlights the dash. General Motors’ Super Cruise automated driver-assist feature will be available. Standard safety features include active lane control and automatic emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection.
The 2024 Traverse will be available early next year. More details, including pricing information, will be released closer to the market launch.
The current Traverse arrived for 2018 yet remains one of the most popular mid-size SUVs on the market. Sales last year were close to 100,000 units and 2023’s tally is on track to be even higher.
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The United Nations Security Council demanded today that Syria give full cooperation as the UN investigates the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The council's resolution lacked any provision for punishing Syria if it fails to cooperate, but it did endorse some of the investigator's strongest accusations. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from New York.
COREY FLINTOFF reporting:
The United States, France and Britain had pressed for a resolution that would threaten Syria with economic and political sanctions if it didn't help with the investigation conducted by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. They finally agreed to drop the mention of sanctions in order to get other Security Council members, notably Russia, China and Algeria, on board and make the resolution unanimous. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it a step toward holding Syria accountable.
Secretary CONDOLEEZZA RICE (US State Department): The Chapter 7 resolution that we are passing today is the only way to compel the Syrian government to accept the just demands of the United Nations and to cooperate fully with the Mehlis investigation.
FLINTOFF: Rice emphasized that the resolution was passed under the provisions of Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which can include an authorization of the use of force. The countries that wanted a tough resolution also succeeded in getting language included that accuses the Syrians of obstructing the investigation. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Mr. JACK STRAW (British Foreign Secretary): The Syrian government appears to have attempted to mislead Prosecutor Mehlis and his team. And this grudging and evasive attitude has to change.
FLINTOFF: The resolution demands that Syria detain any suspects identified by the independent investigators. That could be difficult for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad because the Mehlis report issued last week identified his brother and brother-in-law as potential suspects. The countries that oppose threatening sanctions against Syria, including Russia, China and Algeria, pointed out that the Mehlis investigation is not yet over and said that talk of punishment for Syria was premature. Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Bedjaoui, speaking through an interpreter.
Mr. MOHAMMED BEDJAOUI (Foreign Minister, Algeria): (Through Translator) We have always thought that the resolution should be based on ways to help the investigation commission to complete its work, and not to spill over from this judicial framework especially by brandishing a hasty threat of sanctions.
FLINTOFF: Syria's foreign minister, Farouk al-Charaa, also speaking through an interpreter, gave a lengthy statement in which he vigorously denied any Syrian involvement in the assassination and accused the investigators of approaching the investigation with the presumption that Syria was guilty.
Mr. FAROUK AL-CHARAA (Foreign Minister, Syria): (Through Translator) The fundamental criticism of Syria of the commission's report is that it proceeds from the presumption that Syria is accused of committing this crime rather than a presumption of innocence.
FLINTOFF: After the Security Council session, Secretary of State Rice defended the resolution, saying it sends a strong signal to Syria that it's isolated in its position. Britain's Jack Straw was indignant about Charaa's speech and skeptical about whether Syria would comply.
Mr. STRAW: Like all colleagues, I look forward to the full cooperation by the government of Syria in substance as well as form with the Mehlis commission. But I have to say after what I've heard, I'm not holding my breath.
FLINTOFF: Syrian President Assad has now named his own commission to investigate the Hariri killing with a promise that it will cooperate fully with the UN probe. Today's UN resolution formally extended the Mehlis investigation until at least mid-December with a provision that it could go longer if necessary. Corey Flintoff, NPR News, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2005-10-30/u-n-council-demands-syrian-cooperation-in-inquiry | 2022-06-01 16:57:13 | 1 | https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2005-10-30/u-n-council-demands-syrian-cooperation-in-inquiry |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A showdown with Congress that has the nation’s creditworthiness at stake; a frenzied scene at the border as pandemic restrictions ease; a pivotal foreign trip meant to sustain support for Ukraine and contain a more assertive China in the Indo-Pacific.
Three weeks since launching his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is confronting a sweeping set of problems in his day job that defy easy solutions and are not entirely within his control. If, as his advisers believe, the single best thing Biden can do for his reelection prospects is to govern well, then the coming weeks can pose a near-existential test of his path to a second term.
Economists warn that the country faces a debilitating recession — and worse — if Biden and lawmakers can’t agree on a path to raising the debt limit. Biden wants Congress to raise it without precondition, equating Republicans’ demands for spending cuts with ransom for the country’s full faith and credit.
The expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency meant the end of special pandemic restrictions on migrant procedures on an already taxed U.S.-Mexico border. His administration has responded with new policies to crack down on illegal crossings while opening legal pathways encouraging would-be migrants to stay put and apply online to come to the U.S. But Biden himself has predicted a “chaotic” situation as the new procedures take effect.
These tests comes as Biden prepares to depart Washington on Wednesday for an eight-day trip to Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Biden will try to marshal unity among Group of Seven leading democratic economies to maintain support for Ukraine as it prepares to launch a counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion, and to invigorate alliances in the face of China’s forceful regional moves.
Biden put his ability to solve problems at the core of his pitch to voters in 2020 and it is central to his argument for why, at 80, he’s best prepared for four more years in the White House.
“I’m more experienced than anybody that’s ever run for the office,” Biden told MSNBC this month. “And I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.”
Yet the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 undercut Biden’s image as an effective manager, sending his approval ratings sharply down and he’s still working to recover.
An April poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found Biden’s job approval rating at 42%, a slight improvement from 38% in March. The March poll came after a pair of bank failures rattled an already shaky confidence in the nation’s financial systems, and Biden’s approval rating then was near the lowest point of his presidency. It also found that 26% of Americans overall want to see Biden run again — a slight recovery from the 22% who said that in January. Forty-seven percent of Democrats say they want him to run, also up slightly from only 37% who said that in January.
Aides note that Biden entered the White House when the country faced an array of even greater trials: the COVID-19 pandemic, an associated economic crisis and strained international alliances after four years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
“President Biden continues to leverage his experience and judgment to fight for middle-class families and mainstream values, including by standing against congressional Republicans’ extreme MAGA threat to trigger a downturn” unless they get sweeping spending cuts, said White House spokesman Andrew Bates.
Biden said Saturday it’s “hard to tell” how staff-level talks to avert a crisis on the debt limit will shake out. He plans to reconvene with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders before he heads overseas, but the White House has been firm that while Biden is open to considering spending cuts as part of the budget process, he won’t agree to them as a condition for raising the debt limit.
“There’s no deal to be had on the debt ceiling,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday. “There’s no negotiation to be had on the debt ceiling. This is something that Congress needs to do.”
U.S. officials are warning that the impasse threatens national security. Pentagon brass has already warned that it could hurt pay and benefits for troops and U.S. standing around the globe, said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
“It sends a horrible message to nations like Russia and China, who would love nothing more than to be able to point at this and say, ‘See, the United States is not a reliable partner. The United States is not a stable leader of peace and security around the world,’” he said.
Biden also faces a key test at the southern border, where the transition away from Title 42 has been anything but simple. Migrants along the border were still wading into the Rio Grande to take their chances getting into the country, defying officials shouting for them to turn back. Lawsuits have threatened measures to release migrants into the U.S. to avoid overcrowding in border patrol facilities as well as efforts to crack down on asylum seekers entering the country.
But the problem can’t be solved by the U.S. on its own.
“It is true that the Americas is, at the moment, going through an unprecedented displacement crisis,” said Olga Sarrado, a spokeswoman for the United Nations refugee agency.
The U.S. has increasingly seen migrants arrive at its Southern border who are from China, Ukraine, Haiti, Russia and other nations far from Latin America, and who are increasingly family groups and children traveling alone. Thirty years ago, by contrast, illegal crossings were almost always single adults from Mexico who were easily returned back over the border.
Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents are encountering more nearly 8,000 migrants per day, and the human toll of the challenge was driven home in recent days by the death of a 17-year-old boy in U.S. custody. An investigation continues.
“A decision from one single country is not going to fix the challenges,” Sarrado said. “And we cannot forget that these are human beings — many of them in need of international protection— and that we need to put them at the center of any decision that is made.”
With just under 18 months to go until Election Day, it’s not a given that these issues will shape voters’ decisions, said Chapman University presidential historian Luke Nichter.
“There is a long time between now and November 2024,” he said. “I don’t think today’s issues matter a great deal since they won’t likely be the issues on the minds of voters more than a year from now.”
Jonathan Young, a Democratic donor who came to hear Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday in Atlanta, said Biden must navigate the current gauntlet with something to show the middle of the electorate, especially if Republicans nominate someone other than Trump.
“A rematch might go the same way, because Biden still isn’t Trump,” Young said, arguing that the former president makes any contest turn on personality more than policy.
But Young noted that Biden’s answer to Trump’s “big personality” in 2020 was to be almost deliberately boring and stubbornly competent. However Biden navigates the debt ceiling and immigration, Young said, he has to maintain an ability to credibly sell that image again as an incumbent.
“I think he’s great on the policy, and I think he’s usually great on the politics,” Young said of Biden. “He’s proven he can read the mood of the country really well.”
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Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed. | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/bidens-reelection-pitch-that-he-can-govern-well-faces-daunting-challenges-with-debt-border-more/ | 2023-05-14 15:13:08 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/bidens-reelection-pitch-that-he-can-govern-well-faces-daunting-challenges-with-debt-border-more/ |
The last time in the year to catch a supermoon, the biggest and brightest full moons, begins soon.
The astronomical event started Wednesday, but isn't expected to be visible to the naked eye until 9:36 p.m. EDT Thursday and will stay in that phase until Saturday morning, according to NASA.
It is the fourth and final supermoon of the year.
What is a supermoon?
A supermoon is a full moon that is within 90% of its closest point, or perigee, to Earth in its orbit. While closer, that perigee is still about 226,000 miles from Earth.
In general, supermoons appear 17% bigger and 30% brighter than when the moon is at its farthest point away from Earth, NASA says.
The supermoon starting Thursday was also called the Sturgeon Moon — named after a large fish — by the Algonquin Native American tribe, in what is currently the northeastern U.S. It is also known as the Green Corn Moon, according to NASA.
What to look for
Supermoons in general appear 17% bigger and 30% brighter than when the moon is at its farthest point away from Earth, according to NASA. Supermoons are slightly bigger and brighter than most full moons, too. Just because it's bigger and brighter doesn't necessarily mean you'll see it unaided, so binoculars may give you a better view.
And if you're looking for some photography tips to capture this event, NASA has you covered with these handy tips.
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Jurickson Profar Player Prop Bets: Rockies vs. Giants - June 8
Published: Jun. 8, 2023 at 4:23 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Thursday, Jurickson Profar (coming off going 1-for-4 with a double) and the Colorado Rockies play the San Francisco Giants, whose starting pitcher will be Alex Cobb. First pitch is at 3:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-4) against the Giants.
Jurickson Profar Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Thursday, June 8, 2023
- Game Time: 3:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Coors Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +150)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -118)
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Jurickson Profar At The Plate
- Profar is batting .243 with 14 doubles, two triples, five home runs and 26 walks.
- Profar has picked up a hit in 66.7% of his 54 games this year, with multiple hits in 24.1% of them.
- In 7.4% of his games this year, he has hit a home run, and 2% of his trips to the plate.
- Profar has an RBI in 16 of 54 games this season, with multiple RBI in seven of them. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 23 of 54 games (42.6%), including multiple runs twice.
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Jurickson Profar Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Giants pitching staff ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Giants have a 4.10 team ERA that ranks 12th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Giants rank 14th in baseball in home runs surrendered (67 total, 1.1 per game).
- Cobb (5-2 with a 2.71 ERA and 64 strikeouts in 69 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Giants, his 13th of the season.
- His last appearance came on Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles, when the righty tossed 7 2/3 scoreless innings while allowing five hits.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB action this season, the 35-year-old ranks 12th in ERA (2.71), 47th in WHIP (1.321), and 43rd in K/9 (8.3).
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$15K reward offered to find Texas capital murder inmate who escaped while being transported
LEON COUNTY, Texas - A manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped custody in Leon County, Texas by stabbing a corrections officer while being transported.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was being transported on a bus with 15 other inmates from Gatesville, headed eastbound on Highway 7 to Huntsville Thursday afternoon. During the ride, Lopez was able to get out of his restraints and allegedly stabbed the officer driving the bus in the hand with an unknown object.
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FOX 26 is told the officer struggled with Lopez to keep him from getting his gun.
The bus then crashed into a ditch before Lopez ran off. Another officer on the bus fired some shots at him, but it's unknown if Lopez was hit.
The other inmates remained on the bus and were not injured.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office says several agencies are working together to find Lopez, who was reportedly wearing an all-white TDCJ uniform. He was last seen heading across a cow pasture west of Centerville.
During the search Thursday, a perimeter was set up around Highway 7 in Leon County, but an active search remains underway to find the prisoner.
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Authorities are asking the public to avoid the area of Centerville west to Markay to Buffalo as they work to locate Lopez.
Officials say Lopez is serving a life sentence for capital murder out of Hidalgo County as well as attempted murder out of Webb County.
If he is spotted, authorities say immediately call 911 and do not approach him as he is considered dangerous.
"I would highly encourage anybody in the public to lock their vehicles locked their doors. We do not know if he has obtained any kind of weapon," said Robert Hurst with TDCJ. "Last we saw him, he did not appear to have a weapon in his possession. But who knows what he might have been able to get between the time that he escaped and now."
As of Friday, a $15,000 reward has been offered for information leading to Lopez's capture by calling TDCJ OIG CRIME STOPPERS at 1-800-832-8477 or 936-437-5171 or your local law enforcement agency at 911. You can also leave a tip online, by clicking here.
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When two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Deshaun Watson on criminal complaints stemming from allegations of sexual assault or harassment by 24 women, it didn’t clear the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback from facing consequences from the NFL.
Disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson made the decision after the NFL pushed for an indefinite suspension of at least one year and Watson’s legal team argued for no suspension during a three-day hearing that concluded June 30.
A player does not have to be convicted or even charged with a crime to be disciplined for conduct detrimental to the league, per the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players’ Association. Ezekiel Elliott, Ben Roethlisberger, Jameis Winston and Kareem Hunt are among the many players who have received suspensions despite not being charged criminally.
Some legal experts are critical of the process.
“Normally arbitration is reserved for civil matters in workplaces, which is what makes the NFL’s investigation of criminal allegations wholly unique and, in my opinion, potentially unfair,” said attorney Amy Dash, founder of League of Justice, a website that reports on sports and the law. “The determinations create a presumption of guilt by many people in the public forum. But so far courts have not wanted to disturb the outcomes because the whole process was negotiated and agreed upon in the CBA by the players’ union reps and the league.”
Dash also noted that sometimes players are being investigated for criminal allegations in the arbitration process and they “don’t have the same protections a defendant in the criminal courts would have such as presumption of innocence, a burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the same rules of evidence and discovery, etc.”
But the league negotiated its disciplinary process with the union so it has the power, as an employer, to impose punishment.
The major difference in Watson’s case was the discipline came from an independent arbiter. The league and union agreed in the 2020 CBA that a disciplinary officer would determine whether a player violated the personal conduct policy and whether to impose discipline. Previously, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had the authority to do it.
This was the first case for Robinson, who was jointly appointed by the league and the union.
However, Goodell still has the right to overturn her decision if either side appeals. Per the CBA, an appeal would be heard by Goodell or a person he designates and the written decision would be final.
After learning the ruling was imminent, the NFL Players Association issued a joint statement with Watson on Sunday night, saying they would not appeal disciplinary Robinson’s ruling and urged the league to follow suit.
Goodell wasn’t directly involved in Robinson’s decision, but the league made it clear it wanted an unprecedented punishment. The NFL is well aware of public perception. Fallout from its decision in the Ray Rice case in 2014 — when the league increased its suspension only after video of the former Ravens running back hitting his fiancee emerged — led the NFL to vow it would levy harsher penalties in cases involving violence and sexual assault against women.
Watson settled 23 of the civil lawsuits from 24 women alleging sexual harassment and assault during private massage therapy sessions when he played for the Houston Texans.
After one of the grand juries declined to indict Watson in March, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said: “We respect our justice process. I love the law. It’s designed to get to the truth. That’s really what people want. I don’t think as a culture we can live with injustice. Remember, a grand jury no bill is not an exoneration. People, even when they clear the criminal justice system, often face accountability and repercussions in other parts of our legal system. And so I think to determine whether justice was done in this case you’re going to have to wait and see how it all comes out on the civil side of things and then through the NFL on the administrative side of things. And then people will determine whether that’s justice.”
The administrative part has now been decided.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Former Northwood Elementary Principal Kirk Ashton was found guilty Monday on a majority of charges after allegations of him sexually abusing students.
Ashton was arrested in 2021 and accused of sexually abusing more than 20 male students during his 17-year tenure. He faces 50 criminal counts total, including endangering the welfare of a child, first-degree sexual abuse, and second-degree sexual conduct against a child.
Opening statements began on October 4. The oldest victim who testified is currently 21. Ashton was charged with sexual abuse for incidents that happened as recently as Spring 2021.
In court this week, Ashton’s defense claimed the students who testified over the nearly three-week trial were given “scripted testimonies” after spending time with the prosecution.
One minor who testified said Ashton would often compliment how he was doing in class, and occasionally invite him to join the “lunch bunch” club in his office. The child said girls were never at the lunch meetings.
Then, the child testified to being touched inappropriately and said Ashton asked him to sit on his lap, multiple times.
A parent testified as well, saying her child became agitated while discussing a potential appointment with Ashton. She said her son “didn’t want to go to his office” to discuss school, because he’d “have to sit on his lap.” The parent said she contacted child protective services.
The defense asked the jury to consider “sensationalism” — saying Ashton had no end goal of sexual gratification, and did not knowingly perform the alleged acts.
The prosecution argued the victims were only boys, and always boys. In closing arguments, Assistant District Attorney Sara Van Strydonck reviewed several children’s testimonies and described in detail the instances where Ashton allegedly “groomed” them.
In court Friday, jurors received a “read back” of collected testimonies from the students and teachers. Some accused Ashton of putting kids on his lap in his office, and touching their private areas, leaving them shaken and traumatized.
The defense argued some jurors were falling asleep during those “read backs.” The judge dismissed that.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Graham Mertz threw for two touchdowns, Braelon Allen rushed for 113 yards and a score and Wisconsin defeated Purdue 35-24 on Saturday.
John Torchio had two interceptions, including a 31-yard return for a touchdown for the Badgers (4-4, 2-3 Big Ten Conference), who rebounded from a 34-28 double overtime loss at Michigan State.
The game marked the first home win for Wisconsin interim coach Jim Leonhard, who took over for Paul Chryst on Oct. 2.
Allen, who surpassed 100 yards for the fifth time this season, went to the injury tent late in the third quarter with a left arm injury but returned in the fourth.
Mertz went 13 of 21 for 203 yards with two touchdowns for the Badgers, who have won 16 straight games against Purdue.
Purdue’s four-game winning streak was snapped and the Boilermakers (6-2, 3-2 Big Ten) fell one game behind Illinois for the lead in the Big Ten West standings.
The Badgers scored on their opening drive as Mertz threw a 29-yard touchdown strike to Skyler Bell.
Less than one minute later, Torchio picked off Aidan O’Connell and dashed 31 yards for a touchdown. for the score that increased Wisconsin’s lead to 14-0. Mertz capped an 80-yard drive with a three-yard pass to Chimere Dike and it was 21-0 after one quarter.
Allen's 14-yard touchdown made it 28-3 in the first minute of the second half.
The Boilermakers capitalized on an fumble get a short field, scoring an an eight-yard pass from from O'Connell to Payne Durham. But that was quickly negated with a 54-yard burst by Isaac Guerendo 90 seconds later.
Devin Mockobee ran for 108 yards and a touchdown for Purdue with O'Connella going 31 of 46 for 320 yards.
THE TAKE AWAY
Purdue: The Boilermakers defense entered the game ranked 91st nationally with 248.4 yards per game. They gave up 378 yards, including 203 passing yards.
Wisconsin: The Badgers entered with a 79.2 percent success rate (19 of 24) in red-zone scoring, which ranked second in the league behind Ohio State. They were 1 of 1 on red-zone opportunities against Purdue.
MISSING
Wisconsin was without the team’s sack leader and best pass rusher as outside linebacker Nick Herbig did not play. Badgers officials wouldn’t not provide details except to say that Herbig was sidelined due to injury.
NEXT
Purdue: Host Iowa on Saturday.
Wisconsin: The Badgers have an open date next weekend. The Badgers host Maryland on Nov. 5.
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