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New Report Details Economic Impact Across 43 States
Webinar on July 14th to Review Findings
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As many small towns and rural communities across America face shrinking populations and growing economic challenges, a new report finds that a positive economic contributor to these communities is the flow of benefit dollars from public pension plans. In 2018, public pension benefit dollars represented between one and three percent of GDP on average in the 2,922 counties in the 43 states studied.
These findings are detailed in a new study released today by the National Institute on Retirement Security, Fortifying Main Street: The Economic Benefit of Public Pension Dollars in Small Towns and Rural America. The report is authored by Dan Doonan and Tyler Bond from NIRS, along with Nathan Chobo from Linea Solutions Inc.
The research illustrates the impact of benefit dollars from public pension plans according to several different measures: as a percentage of GDP by county; as a percentage of total personal income by county; and by categorizing counties as metropolitan, small town (micropolitan), or rural. This study builds on previous research, adding significantly more states and examining data in 43 states from a majority of public pension plans in the states.
Download the research here.
Register here for a webinar on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 2:00 PM ET for a review of the findings with the report authors.
This newly-expanded report finds that public pension benefit dollars account for significant amounts of total personal income in counties across the 43 states studied. For all 2,922 counties in this study, pension benefit dollars represent an average of 1.25 percent of total personal income, while some counties experience more than six percent of total personal income derived from pension dollars.
The analysis indicates that less populated counties with smaller economies experience a greater relative economic benefit from the flow of public pension benefit dollars into the county as compared to more populated, urban counties. This larger relative impact helps to sustain the economies of small towns during this period of economic transition in rural America.
"National economic trends coupled with population declines have had a devasting impact on many small towns and rural areas across America. Often, the largest employer in these smaller towns is a public entity like a school system or municipality that employs teachers, nurses, firefighters, and public safety officials. These public employees spend their career serving their communities at a time when a growing number of young workers are leaving their hometowns for job opportunities in urban areas," said Dan Doonan, NIRS executive director.
"Eventually, public employees in rural and smaller communities retire and typically stay in their hometown. Retired public employees spend their pension income in their towns on goods and services like housing, food, medicine and clothing, which serves as a stable source of economic activity in smaller communities. Our analysis clearly indicates that pension spending provides a substantial economic impact on struggling small towns and rural communities across the nation," Doonan explained.
The report's key findings are as follows:
- Public pension benefit dollars represent between one and three percent of GDP on average in the 2,922 counties studied.
- Rural counties have the highest percentages of their populations receiving public pension benefits.
- Small town counties experience a greater relative impact in terms of both GDP and total personal income from pension benefit dollars than rural or metropolitan counties.
- Rural counties see more of an impact in terms of personal income than metropolitan counties, while metropolitan counties and rural counties see an equivalent impact in terms of GDP.
- Counties that contain state capitals are outliers from other metropolitan counties, likely because there is a greater density of public employees in these counties, most of whom remain in these counties in retirement.
- On average, rural counties have lost population while small town counties and metropolitan counties have gained population in the period between 2000 and 2018, but the connection between population change and the relative impact of public pension benefit dollars is weak.
To ensure accuracy, the data for this report was collected directly from each pension plan.
The National Institute on Retirement Security is a non-profit, non-partisan organization established to contribute to informed policymaking by fostering a deep understanding of the value of retirement security to employees, employers and the economy as a whole. Located in Washington, D.C., NIRS' diverse membership includes financial services firms, employee benefit plans, trade associations, and other retirement service providers. More information is available at www.nirsonline.org. Follow NIRS on Twitter @NIRSonline.
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DALLAS, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ARMM Inc. (OTCQB: ARMM) (the "Company" or "ARMM") a firearms lifestyle platform focused on Self-Reliance, is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 2pm EST / 11am PST, ARMM and American Tactical Defense will be hosting an Active Shooter School Training Live Webinar, at the Maglite Campus in Ontario, California.
To register for the event, please use the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/368694002687
Teachers that participate in the Webinar will receive a free copy of the Teachers Pocket Guide to Active Shooter Response, and School Administrators will receive the School Threat Assessment Checklist.
American Tactical Defense is certified under the Schools A.C.T.™ (Active-Shooter Counter Training). This program is the most advanced training currently provided to schools. Bryan McKenrick, the COO, is a Federal Law Enforcement Instructor who supervises, instructs, trains, and develops all training for over 1,000 Federal Officers four times per year. He wrote the book on Federal active shooter response and training and currently keeps it up to date. Bryan has an extensive history, background and experience in Federal Law Enforcement for the past 24 years. Bryan has always realized his calling in helping people, providing protection and serving our great country, the United States of America. He served in an Operational capacity for 8 years in the U.S. Coast Guard and 15 years for a Federal Law Enforcement Agency. https://www.ustacdefense.com/
ARMM is a firearms lifestyle platform focused on SELF RELIANCE and is disrupting the $51 Billion consumer firearms and rugged outdoor recreational market. The platform includes an app in which users can take safety & training course via the ARMM Academy, access firearms insurance products, firearms related apparel and accessories, and engage with like minded outdoor enthusiasts while gaining exposure to your favorite brands.
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• NAME: Mitchell Betz
• SPORT: Wrestling
• SCHOOL: Western
• GRADE: Junior
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Betz repeated as the Fort Wayne Semistate's 152-pound champion and reached a career milestone. In the opening round, he pinned Fremont's Wyatt Claxton. In the second round, he beat Fort Wayne Snider's Kevon Russell by a 7-0 decision. In the semifinal round, he pinned Jay County's Christian Wittkamp for his 100th career win. And in the final, he defeated Bellmont's Gavin Davis by a 7-0 decision. Betz improved to 37-1 ahead of the State Finals where he will look to improve on last year's sixth-place finish. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/betz-is-co-athlete-of-the-week/article_b0a59de8-ab29-11ed-ac64-37c1eb549968.html | 2023-02-13 01:13:12 | 0 | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/betz-is-co-athlete-of-the-week/article_b0a59de8-ab29-11ed-ac64-37c1eb549968.html |
DALLAS — Is she a dog or a coyote?
An adorable pup named "Toast" was found huddled next to a dumpster in southern Dallas by DPD officers on patrol. The officers kept Toast comfy in their patrol vehicle until Dallas Animal Services showed up on scene.
Officials with Dallas Animal Services said Toast visually appears to be similar to a coyote pup, but its Wildlife Animal Services Officer does not believe the puppy is actually a coyote.
A DNA test is being conducted on Toast to rule out he is a wildlife species.
After the DNA test results, Dallas Animal Services will determine a pathway for placement, the organization said.
Coyote or dog aside, we can all agree she's adorable! Look at that face.
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Exhibit includes additional Key Marco artifacts and watercolors
by expedition artist Wells Sawyer
MARCO ISLAND, Fla., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marco Island, located on Southwest Florida's Gulf Coast, is one of the Sunshine State's most beautiful and desirable tourist destinations. But it is so much more. For hundreds of years, it has held in its earth some of the mysteries of the Island's ancient peoples — the Calusa and their ancestors.
In 1896, Marco Island revealed one of the most important finds in the history of American archaeology. Smithsonian anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing discovered the now world-famous Key Marco Cat and other 500-to-1,500-year-old artifacts on Key Marco during the famed Pepper-Hearst archaeological expedition.
These artifacts of wood and plant fiber were astonishingly well preserved because they were buried in an oxygen free muck. Some were painted and their original colors were still intact.
Many began disintegrating upon exposure to the air. They would have been lost forever if not for expedition artist and photographer Wells Sawyer who captured them in watercolors and photos as they were brought out of the ground.
Now, for the first time since their discovery, the Key Marco Cat and other rare pre-Columbian Native American artifacts discovered with it are reunited at the Marco Island Historical Museum (MIHM). In addition, a number of Sawyer's original watercolors of the artifacts will be exhibited starting in October.
The Key Marco Cat, on loan to the MIHM from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, is on exhibit at MIHM now through 2026.
Sixteen additional Key Marco artifacts, on loan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), are on exhibit at the MIHM now through April 2024.
In Art of the Dig: Wells Sawyer's Watercolors, six original Wells Sawyer watercolors are on loan from the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. In addition, 25 reproductions of Sawyer's works from the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives and the Penn Museum will be part of the exhibit from October 13, 2022 through January 19, 2023.
The Key Marco Cat, a half cat/half human figure, is considered one of the finest pieces of pre-Columbian Native American art ever discovered in North America. At just six inches tall, the enigmatic feline has captured the public's imagination for over a century and continues to intrigue all who view it.
The Key Marco artifacts are showcased in the MIHM's award-winning permanent exhibit Paradise Found: 6,000 Years of People on Marco Island. This exhibit features a life-size Calusa village and more than 300 pre-Columbian Native American artifacts from Marco Island. Original artwork depicts the lives and ceremonies of the Calusa and the 1896 archaeological dig. A Calusa-inspired soundtrack by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning composer Kat Epple enhances the immersive visitor experience.
"The Key Marco Cat from the Smithsonian collections is an extraordinary object that attests to the unique archaeological record of Key Marco and the people and cultures who lived there for millennia," notes Torben Rick, Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
"The Key Marco Artifacts exhibit is the culmination of a 25-year vision on the part of the Marco Island Historical Society to bring these incredibly important artifacts back to Marco Island in order to educate and inspire people of all ages about the fascinating history of our region," says MIHS Curator of Collections Austin Bell. "It has taken years of planning and discussions with the lending institutions and the support of a public-private partnership that includes the Marco Island Historical Society, Collier County and the community."
The Key Marco Artifacts exhibit is supported in part by the Collier County Tourist Development Council. For information on Collier County, visit www.paradisecoast.com.
The Marco Island Historical Museum is located at 180 S. Heathwood Drive, Marco Island, Florida, and open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Handicapped accessible. For information, call 239.389.6447 or visit www.theMIHS.org.
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When gas prices spike in an election year, political candidates scramble to offer their ideas for improving the system. Recent record-high gas prices have lawmakers from both parties demanding answers -- and possibly seeking a political advantage.
Democrats are pouncing on the price rise, hoping that voters this fall will blame the Republicans, the party in power. GOP lawmakers, meanwhile, have been trying to deflect the blame, saying Democrats blocked proposals to increase domestic energy production.
It's not clear whether Congress can do much, if anything, to drastically change gas prices. There are expected to be more hearings and more calls for legislation and investigations. But in the end, Republicans know if prices don't come down, voters are unlikely to be in a forgiving mood this fall.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2006-04-25/gas-prices-play-big-on-the-campaign-trail | 2022-06-13 00:04:55 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2006-04-25/gas-prices-play-big-on-the-campaign-trail |
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a global leader in management training, consulting, and coaching, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for excellence in the Best Advance in Leadership Development category. The Ken Blanchard Companies win was announced on August 18 during a live webinar hosted by Brandon Hall Group. The winners are listed at https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.
The Rise: Building Manager Foundations program that won the Gold award for excellence was created in partnership with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company. The leadership development program is an innovative 12-week blended experience that includes asynchronous learning modules, small group discussions, digital simulations, large group interactive virtual sessions, and project-based learning (individual and small group) to demonstrate their commitment and what they have learned. It provides the ability for all BD people managers to learn and practice the same critical skills associated with being an effective manager.
"We are so thrilled to receive this award," said Britney Cole, Head of the Innovation Lab at The Ken Blanchard Companies. "The work was a true partnership and collaboration with BD to dream up an innovative leadership development program for their people managers - the first learning journey of its kind. We are grateful for the trust the BD team had in us to support them on this most important work."
Marilyn Allison, Worldwide Senior Director of Learning, Capability, and Development at BD adds, "We are grateful for and thoroughly enjoyed the partnership with the Blanchard team. Together we created an innovative learning experience for our managers that will help them support our associates, our culture, and our business."
The Ken Blanchard Companies is a global leader in management training, consulting, and coaching. For more than 40 years, Blanchard has been helping organizations develop inspired leaders at all levels and create cultures of connection that unleash talent and deliver extraordinary results. Blanchard's SLII® powers inspired leaders and is the leadership model of choice for more than 10,000 organizations worldwide. Blanchard also offers a suite of other award-winning leadership development solutions through flexible delivery modalities to meet the specific needs of its clients. Learn more at www.kenblanchard.com.
Brandon Hall Group operates the largest and longest running awards program in Human Capital Management. As an independent HCM research and analyst firm they conduct studies in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. These benchmark studies help organizations by providing strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.
Coupling the research studies with the best practice from the awards, Brandon Hall Group has helped more than 10,000 clients globally and more than 28 years of delivering world-class research and advisory. At the core of our offerings is a membership program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. Membership enables executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.
Brandon Hall Group has also launched professional certifications for business and human capital management professionals to upskill themselves and gain credentials for career advancement. (www.brandonhall.com)
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SALEM, Ore. – Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is reminding voters that certified election results are still weeks away.
Fagan tweeted the following on the day after the midterm elections:
Wondering why some contests are “too close to call?” This isn’t new; it’s normal. Election results are not immediate. Media outlets provide helpful projections, but official results take several weeks to finalize. Here’s why…
Elections officials report results as they become available. In close contests, like what we have this year, Media outlets may wait until many of the results are reported before projecting a winner. This is normal and expected.
Official results take even longer. Counties retest their voting machines and conduct post-election audits, prioritizing accuracy and transparency. Only after all of this will the Secretary of State certify the election on December 15, making it official.
For the latest Oregon election results, visit https://results.oregonvotes.gov/. | https://kobi5.com/news/official-election-results-take-time-oregon-secretary-of-state-says-198862/ | 2022-11-09 20:02:03 | 0 | https://kobi5.com/news/official-election-results-take-time-oregon-secretary-of-state-says-198862/ |
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Justin Fields dropped back on the first play of Chicago's second possession and unleashed a perfect throw downfield that a lunging Darnell Mooney hauled in for a 56-yard gain.
At that moment, it looked like the Bears just might kick their passing game into gear. It didn't happen.
Fields had another difficult game. The defense couldn't stop the run. Rookie Velus Jones Jr. muffed a punt in the closing minutes of his debut.
There was plenty of blame to go around for Chicago in a 20-12 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday. The Bears (2-2) will try to regroup when they visit Minnesota this week.
Chicago figures to be without an important player on its offensive line for a while. Left tackle Cody Whitehair injured his right knee against the Giants.
Coach Matt Eberflus said Monday he didn't have a timetable for Whitehair's return, adding that he would have more information on Wednesday. Asked if he expected Whitehair to play again this season, Eberflus said, "Yeah, oh yeah."
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The 30-year-old Whitehair has been a fixture on the Bears' line at center and guard since they drafted him in the second round in 2016. He has started 99 games.
The Bears at least look like they will be getting kicker Cairo Santos back this week. Eberflus said Santos was at the team's practice facility after missing after missing Sunday's game for a personal reason.
Michael Badgley made all four field goals against New York after signing during the week. The Bears released him on Monday.
What's working
The run game. The Bears managed to leapfrog the Carolina Panthers and no longer rank last in the NFL in total offense. Of course, their passing game has been the problem. The Bears — third in the NFL in rushing through Sunday — had 149 yards on the ground against New York. Khalil Herbert led the way with 77 yards on 19 carries.
What's not
The run defense. The Bears ranked last in the NFL against the run after giving up a season-high 262 yards. It's one thing to get carved up by Saquon Barkley for 146 yards. But they bit on fakes and bootlegs and gave up 98 rushing yards to quarterbacks. Daniel Jones ran for 68 yards and the game's only two touchdowns, and Tyrod Taylor added 30 yards in a short stint.
Stock up
Mooney looked more like the 1,000-yard receiver he was last season than the nonfactor he was through the first three games. He caught four passes for 94 yards, including that big grab early in the game. Considering he had just four catches for 27 yards coming in, the Bears will take it. He had 81 receptions for 1,055 yards last year, his second season.
Stock down
Though Fields had some promising moments like that long pass to Mooney, the second-year pro had another rough game. He was 11 of 22 for 174 yards and got sacked six times by a defense that came in with three sacks in its first three games. Fields was also quick to run rather than stay in the pocket and took more hits as a result. And he missed out on a potential big play late in the first half.
The Bears had third-and-10 at the New York 35 when Mooney broke open down the middle. Fields ran for 12 yards instead of throwing for a potential touchdown, and the Bears settled for a field goal that cut the Giants' lead to 14-9.
Mooney said the play called for him to bend more to the right. But he had what looked like a clear path to the end zone.
"It's like a four-vertical play," he said. "I think it was moreso my miss, just thinking-wise. That's where it becomes like a hassle of just like trying to learn the playbook so much."
Injuries
RB David Montgomery (ankle) missed the game after exiting early the previous week against Houston.
Key number
0 — The number of touchdowns the Bears had on three trips inside the 20.
Next steps
The Bears visit the NFC North-leading Vikings. | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/football/professional/though-justin-fields-struggles-bears-can-spread-blame-for-loss/article_0f696d7e-fe5b-5307-928f-e102065a66ec.html | 2022-10-06 00:53:46 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/football/professional/though-justin-fields-struggles-bears-can-spread-blame-for-loss/article_0f696d7e-fe5b-5307-928f-e102065a66ec.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — The WTA Tour says Amanda Anisimova plans to take an indefinite break from tennis, citing burnout and concerns for her mental health.
“I’ve really been struggling with my mental health and burnout since the summer of 2022,” the former world No. 21 American wrote on Instagram on Friday. “It’s become unbearable being at tennis tournaments. At this point, my priority is my mental well-being and taking a break for some time. I’ve worked as hard as I could to push through it. I will miss being out there, and I appreciate all the continuous support.”
Anisimova, now 21, reached the 2019 French Open semifinals after beating reigning champion Simona Halep at age 17 — the youngest woman to get that far at a major since 2006.
But later that year, just prior to the U.S. Open, her father and longtime coach Konstantin died at age 52 from a heart attack.
Anisimova reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon a year ago, upsetting Coco Gauff. She twice reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and beat defending champion Naomi Osaka at the 2022 event in Melbourne.
Anisimova, a winner of two WTA singles titles, gave no timetable for her return. Currently ranked No. 46, she lost in the first round of the Madrid Open last week to Arantxa Rus and was 3-8 in match results for the season.
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HONG KONG, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Music Entertainment Group ("TME," or the "Company") (NYSE: TME and HKEX: 1698), the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, published a Golden Melodies Research Report today. Developed by TME Research Institute, it is the first report in the music industry to comprehensively describe the criteria and creation patterns of golden melodies.
The report conducted research on golden melodies from the past five years through six chapters. The chapters included definitions of golden melodies, playlists, trends, values, creation and consensus of this particular musical hits. Based on data analysis and professional interviews, the report captures the musical trends behind the changes in golden melodies and analyzes industrial experiences and challenges, which provide in-depth and valuable observations to promote the sustainable development of the industry.
The ever-changing music industry has posed challenges in creating golden melodies by referring to past successful singles. In addition, the industry lacks a basic consensus in defining a golden melody. As the media and the public have started to reevaluate trendy music and pursue more high-quality musical works, TME reinitiated these important conversations by releasing the report at a critical time that aims to seek answers with its industry partners.
On the definition of golden melodies, the report draws the conclusion that a golden melody is a song of both high quality and long-lasting popularity. This comes after TME Research Institute's in-depth discussions with a number of music professionals. With this standard, and based on the previous performance data of singles and expert evaluation, TME Research Institute identified a playlist of 118 golden melodies in the report.
In addition, the Golden Melodies Research Report provides insights into the development and value of golden melodies. The report shows that golden melodies do not just derive from mainstream musical artists anymore, but they are also coming from other segments, such as indie and IP music.
The report also mentions that golden melodies remain valued commercial properties and strengthen social values. In the long term, golden melodies can consistently generate income for artists, as well as provide more opportunities to them. Moreover, golden melodies represent the embodiment of the main trends in the music industry, guiding the direction of content creation and social expression. In this way, promoting golden melody creation is more than just advancing the music industry, it also represents how the music industry responds to the world socially and culturally.
In terms of the creation pattern of golden melodies, TME Research Institute provides solutions in the report. First, as the golden melody pattern is being developed, the creation has been increasingly distinct among different segmentations of mainstream music, indie music and IP music, and it requires different approaches to create golden melodies of each kind of music. Yet all musicians are facing obstacles in creating hit titles, including higher costs in general. Second, creating golden melodies requires the industry's consensus on long-term value and multi-dimensional fundamental construction, including the professional creation system and healthy platform mechanism, as well as raising public awareness on high-quality music appreciation.
TME leverages the research on golden melodies to deliver insights into the music industry's development, aiming to help artists and music professionals in music creation, promotion and distribution of high-quality music content. TME will continue to contribute to the long-term growth and prosperity of the music industry by executing its dual engine content-and-platform strategy through musician support, industry analysis and other important practices.
About Tencent Music Entertainment
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE: TME and HKEX: 1698) is the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, operating the country's highly popular and innovative music apps: QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing. TME's mission is to use technology to elevate the role of music in people's lives by enabling them to create, enjoy, share and interact with music. TME's platform comprises online music, online audio, online karaoke, music-centric live streaming and online concert services, enabling music fans to discover, listen, sing, watch, perform and socialize around music. For more information, please visit ir.tencentmusic.com.
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(WGHP) — Legendary director Wolfgang Petersen has died at age 81. Petersen died Friday at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said representative Michelle Bega.
Petersen, born in Emden, Germany, made two features before his 1981 breakthrough, “Das Boot.” Then the most expensive movie in German film history, the 149-minute “Das Boot” (the original cut ran 210 minutes) chronicled the intense claustrophobia of life aboard a doomed German U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic, with Jürgen Prochnow as the submarine’s commander.
Heralded as an anti-war masterpiece, “Das Boot” was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen’s direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s best-selling 1973 novel.
This launched him into one of the most in-demand Hollywood directors, with a string of studio action films in his filmography, such as “Troy,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Air Force One,” and “In the Line of Fire.”
In addition to his wife Maria-Antoinette Borgel, Petersen is survived by his son Daniel and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be private.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.koin.com/news/director-wolfgang-petersen-of-das-boot-air-force-one-dies-at-81/ | 2022-08-16 21:37:19 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/director-wolfgang-petersen-of-das-boot-air-force-one-dies-at-81/ |
DUNEDIN, Fla. (WFLA) — Swimmers in Dunedin, Florida, had a close encounter with a pair of stingrays.
Drone operator John Yanchoris captured the stingrays swimming near the Dunedin Causeway.
The video shows two people wading in the water while the stingrays swim by.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, six species of stingrays are found in the state. They include the Atlantic Stingray, the Bluntnose Stingray, Roughtail Stingray, Smooth Butterfly Ray, Southern Stingray and the Yellow Stingray. | https://phl17.com/nmw/stingrays-spotted-close-to-swimmers-in-florida-causeway/ | 2022-09-06 13:50:26 | 1 | https://phl17.com/nmw/stingrays-spotted-close-to-swimmers-in-florida-causeway/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — From the death penalty to gender identity to abortion, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has cemented himself as a conservative standard-bearer in the lead-up to his 2024 presidential announcement.
With the help of GOP supermajorities in the statehouse, the Republican has been able to push through an aggressive agenda that forms the base of his White House run, which he made official in a Federal Election Commission filing Wednesday.
Here’s a look at some of the policies:
ABORTION
DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, but it won’t take effect unless the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld in an ongoing legal challenge that is before the state Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservatives.
A six-week ban in Florida would strike a devastating blow to abortion access in the South, since the nearby states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have banned the procedure at all stages of pregnancy. Georgia and South Carolina forbade it after cardiac activity can be detected, which is around six weeks.
Critics, including some Republicans, have slammed the six-week law as extreme, given that most women do not even realize they are pregnant in that timeframe.
“DON’T SAY GAY”
The DeSantis administration expanded the controversial law that critics call “Don’t Say Gay” to cover all grades, banning classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
The move came after DeSantis signed a bill last year that prohibited such lessons through the third grade, a policy he has championed as a means to protect children from sexualization.
This year, the DeSantis administration put forward a proposal before the state Board of Education to expand the policy to grades 4-12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The board, which is appointed by DeSantis, approved the proposal and the Legislature put it in law.
DeSantis’ education officials have said the policy is intended to make clear that teachers should adhere to the state education curriculum.
PRONOUNS
DeSantis signed a bill that prevents school staffers or students from being required to refer to people by pronouns that don’t correspond to the person’s sex.
The law also bars school employees from asking students what pronoun they use and bans staffers from sharing their pronouns with students if they do not correspond with the staffer’s sex.
Additionally, the law makes it the policy of every public school that “a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex.”
DEATH PENALTY
DeSantis has signed two major death penalty bills this year.
The first ends a unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing, allowing capital punishment with jury recommendation of at least 8-4 in favor of execution. Only three states out of the 27 that impose the death penalty do not require unanimity. Alabama allows a 10-2 decision, and Missouri and Indiana let a judge decide when there is a divided jury.
The change came in response to a verdict that spared the life of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter, who killed 17 people in 2018.
The other death penalty bill DeSantis signed allows the death penalty in child rape convictions, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned capital punishment in such cases.
The law is intended to get the conservative-controlled U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2008 ruling that found it unconstitutional to use capital punishment in child sexual battery cases.
Florida is among a handful of states with existing laws that allow for capital punishment on child rape convictions but has not used the punishment. given the high court ruling. The Florida Supreme Court has also ruled against the use of capital punishment in sexual battery convictions.
DeSantis said he believed the Supreme Court’s decision was “wrong.”
GUNS
Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill DeSantis signed this session.
The new law will allow anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida to carry one without a permit. It means training and a background check will not be required to carry concealed guns in public. It takes effect July 1.
Nearly 3 million Floridians have a concealed weapons permit. While a background check and three-day waiting period will still be required to purchase a gun from a licensed dealer, they are not required for private transactions or exchanges of weapons.
DeSantis has said he thinks Florida should go even further and allow people to openly carry guns. While some lawmakers have pushed for open carry, it doesn’t appear the Legislature will pass such legislation this session.
Still, the governor has boosted the law, releasing a statement that read “Constitutional Carry is in the books” after he signed it into law.
DIVERSITY
Another new law bans colleges from using state or federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a consistent target of DeSantis.
Such initiatives, sometimes referred to as DEI, have come under increasing criticism from Republicans who argue the programs are racially divisive.
The law comes a year after he signed legislation dubbed the Stop WOKE Act, which restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses. Last year’s law bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist or should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race, among other things.
DISNEY
DeSantis also continued his long-running feud with Disney this year.
The company came into his crosshairs for criticizing the so-called Don’t Say Gay law last year.
As punishment, DeSantis dissolved Disney World’s self-governing district and appointed a new board of supervisors that would oversee municipal services in the sprawling theme parks. But before the new board came in, the company pushed though an eleventh-hour agreement that stripped the new supervisors of much of their authority.
Disney sued DeSantis in federal court in a case that said the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed the sexual orientation and gender identity law.
DeSantis has since signed bills to enhance state oversight of the resort’s monorail as well as undo agreements made by the Disney board before the state took it over. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-whats-on-desantis-agenda-a-look-at-the-laws-he-passed-as-florida-governor-from-abortion-to-guns/ | 2023-05-25 02:39:07 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-whats-on-desantis-agenda-a-look-at-the-laws-he-passed-as-florida-governor-from-abortion-to-guns/ |
Accuser and star witness testifies at R. Kelly trial
CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who prosecutors say R. Kelly manipulated for sex starting when she was about 14 years old took the witness stand Thursday at Kelly’s child pornography and obstruction of justice trial, becoming the first accuser to testify in the singer’s hometown of Chicago.
The woman — now 37 and referred in pretrial filings as “Minor 1″ and during the trial by the pseudonym, “Jane” — has been a central figure in Kelly’s legal troubles going back more than 20 years. Prosecutors say a video Kelly took of himself having sex with Jane around the year 2000 led to the first investigations of the singer.
Speaking softly and tentatively at first, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at the federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by allegedly rigging a 2008 trial on state child pornography charges stemming from the purported video of him and Jane having sex. Among other things, prosecutors say Kelly paid off and threatened Jane to ensure that she didn’t testify at that trial. She didn’t, and he was ultimately acquitted.
Kelly is also standing trial on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
Unlike at the 2008 trial, Jane cooperated with prosecutors leading up to the current trial and is a pivotal witness.
A conviction in Chicago could add decades to a 30-year prison sentence he already received from a New York federal judge this year for convictions on charges that he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans. Different accusers testified at that trial.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video of Jane in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000, when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
According to prosecutors, Kelly told the parents and Jane to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Jane, moving her around to different hotels. When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Jane, her father and mother denied it was her in it.
Tears streamed down his faced on June 13, 2008, when he was acquitted on all counts of child pornography. Some of the jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced that the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners throughout the U.S.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
Kelly, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Prosecutors told jurors that the evidence includes at least three videos showing Kelly having sex with underage girls.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
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Space enthusiasts have been talking about C/2022 E3, more commonly known as the “green comet” for the last couple of weeks.
The comet, which was estimated to have last passed Earth 50,000 years ago, was discovered as part of a survey that monitors the solar system looking for objects and other moving things that aren’t permanent. The comet is expected to pass nearby in the next few days.
Dr. Lee Carkner, director of the John Deere Planetarium and professor of physics at Augustana College, explained: “Comets come from the outer solar system, and they come into the inner solar system and that’s when we see them, and they go back out and sometimes they come back again. All comets have what we would think of as long periods. They only come around in decades or hundreds of years. We can figure out its orbit by watching it, by tracking it. This particular comet we believe visited the inner solar system about 50,000 years ago.”
That doesn’t mean the comet will be back in another 50,000 years.
“Comet orbits, though, get perturbed and so they’re not constant. We actually think this one is probably going to be ejected from the solar system and it won’t be coming back again,” Carkner said. “They get influenced by the gravity of Jupiter and Saturn when they come in and they get a little bit more or less of a push, so it’s not something you can easily predict in advance.”
While this comet is unusual for its color, Carkner says there’s a scientific explanation for the hue.
“Comets are just a little ball of rock and ice from the outer solar system but when they come into the inner solar system then that rock evaporates, and it makes a big cloud around the comet, and it’s called the coma,” he said.
“That’s really what you see, you’re not really seeing the solid object, you’re seeing a big cloud of gas and ice that’s around it. What happens is when the sun’s light interacts with those chemicals that are there, it can produce different colors so right now there’s some carbon around the comet that’s being energized by the sun’s light and that glows green. The green light is really only visible if you look at it in like a long exposure photograph so that the green is not super apparent unless you look at it very carefully, but comets do sometimes show colors because the gas is around them are being energized.”
Experts say the comet can be spotted in the night sky between February 2-5, if you know where to look.
“The comet is moving, so it appears in a little bit of different place every night,” Carkner said. “Right now, it’s in the northern part of the sky, it’s sort of near the Big and Little Dipper, so if you can find the Big Dipper, it’s sort of near there. It’s moving more towards the northeast, so those are just some landmarks to use to find it. If you’re looking for the comet, it’ll start appearing more northeast and, in a few days, it will be near a bright star in the constellation of Auriga called Capella which is one of the brightest stars in the sky.
“In a few more days, it’ll be close to the planet Mars, so those are so those are just two bright things that you can see out in the sky in the evening sort of in the northeast.” Dr. Carkner says the best way to know exactly where to look is to consult a finding chart.
You’re going to need help seeing the comet. “The comet is fairly bright for a comet but it’s not too easy for us to see with our eyes, especially if you don’t live someplace that’s very dark,” he said. “To really get a view of the comet, you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope. If you have a good pair of binoculars, you might want to give that a shot, especially if you live someplace dark.”
Sky watchers can go out around 8 or 9 p.m. to try to spot the comet, but the brightness of the moon might interfere. If you don’t see it, Dr. Carkner says you’re not really missing anything. “People are always looking for comets and sometimes when we find one, we get really excited, hoping that it will be bright, but we haven’t had a really bright comet for a long time. This isn’t really a super comet; older people might remember Comet Hale Bopp or Comet Hyakutake that appeared in the 1990s. Those were really easily visible with the eye this one really kind of need binoculars to see.” Dr. Carkner has one other piece of advice for anyone who want to venture out for stargazing. “If you want to go out and look for the comet, that’s great, but don’t freeze when you’re out there. It’s a little bit tricky to do observing this time of year, so make sure you dress warm.” | https://wgntv.com/news/green-comet-is-coming-what-is-it-where-is-it/ | 2023-02-02 15:23:09 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/green-comet-is-coming-what-is-it-where-is-it/ |
At Alabama, one of the team's best players allegedly delivered a gun that was used in a fatal shooting. At New Mexico State, a player avoided charges for shooting and killing a student in what he said was self-defense, even though he was carrying a gun in violation of school rules.
At Michigan State, sports were suspended after gun violence on campus left three students dead. At LSU, the team's leading wide receiver was arrested, but not charged, for carrying a gun through the French Quarter in New Orleans.
The headlines over the past few months illustrate the challenge for athletic departments in determining how gun laws in their states and regulations at their schools should be applied to their programs and communicated to their players. An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen schools in the NCAA tournaments shows a wide range of policies that govern guns at those schools and uneven efforts to regulate them.
“I have no idea,” Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo told AP when asked what he should say to players who legally possess a gun. “Whatever the law is, you can’t supersede the law on your team or in your program.”
Mississippi State coach Chris Jans, when asked about his own team's gun policy: “That’s a good question. Not sure I know the correct answer to that right now.”
The NCAA has no gun policy on its books, calling it a law-enforcement issue. That means rules for sports teams, if they exist, are derived from a mixture of state laws, university policies and, in some cases, supplements to those policies in the student-athlete handbooks. In some instances, coaches implement their own team rules. But as cases across the country have shown — just in the past four months alone — there is confusion, mixed messages and what some perceive as seat-of-the-pants decision-making on issues that can have life-or-death consequences.
Marquette coach Shaka Smart said he's been “yelled at by my superiors” over the years when he brings up sensitive topics such as guns to his players. So, he says, he treads lightly on the subject.
“Now, should you be driving around with a gun in your glove compartment or whatever?” Smart said. “I’m not passing judgment on anyone anywhere else as it relates to that. But no, our players should not be doing that and I should not be doing that. And so I don’t, and they don’t.”
Guns are prohibited in buildings on the Marquette campus in Milwaukee. At Kansas State, concealed weapons are allowed on campus, so long as they are legally owned.
“We have to explain to them why we feel like one decision may be, in this moment in time, a little more prudent than another decision in another moment of their life,” K-State coach Jerome Tang said. "Like, later on in life, if they want to get a license, that’s fine. But right now, in this moment, it may not be as wise for you.”
The AP's analysis found that in many instances, school policies differ from state to state, and sometimes from campus to campus within the same state. Most student-athlete handbooks simply reiterate school policy regarding weapons.
In Texas, open carry is not allowed at either the University of Houston or at the University of Texas in Austin, the site of a 1966 mass shooting from the clock tower on campus. But concealed carry is allowed in some areas of each campus, the listings of which are available on the school websites.
The NCAA bans guns on the premises of its championship events, presumably meaning the Final Four sites — in Dallas (women) and Houston (men) — will be gun free.
In Alabama, a state law that went into effect this year made it legal to openly carry a gun without a permit. Still, guns are prohibited on campus. Police say Alabama star Brandon Miller delivered a gun to a teammate and another person who are charged with the Jan. 15 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
Miller has not been charged with a crime and has continued to play for his team, which is the overall top seed in the tournament that gets into full swing Thursday. But the school's handling of Miller's status in the aftermath of the shooting underscores the confusion over the topic.
There was more than a month between the killing and police testimony that Miller had brought the gun to his teammate, Darius Miles, who was removed from the team after he was charged, then later indicted, in Harris' death.
“Our role in a criminal investigation is to support law enforcement, not to conduct our own investigation -- and not to interfere with their efforts," athletic director Greg Byrne said in an ESPN interview.
At New Mexico State, campus officials appeared unprepared to deal with a shooting that resulted in the death of a student from University of New Mexico. NMSU forward Mike Peake said he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed Brandon Travis last November while the Aggies were on a road trip in Albuquerque.
Guns are prohibited on New Mexico State's campus and on school road trips. Still, police say Peake brought the gun with him on the team bus; it took the school 16 days to permanently suspend him from the team after the shooting.
“I don't know if it's a rule you talk about with the players, that you can't bring a gun on the bus,” said Rus Bradburd, a former coach and current professor at New Mexico State whose book, “All the Dreams We've Dreamed,” tells the story of gun violence and basketball in Chicago. “But do you need to write that down? It's like, I always wear pants to a faculty meeting, but that's not anywhere in the bylaws. It's sort of understood.”
LSU receiver Malik Nabers was disciplined by the school (no specifics were given) but will not miss games next season after being arrested for illegally carrying a weapon on Bourbon Street last month. Had the incident happened on a busy street in Texas, where permits are not required to carry a concealed weapon, he wouldn't have been arrested in the first place.
“Are we concerned about guns with the student athletes? Yeah, we are,” an LSU employee familiar with the situation told AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. “There’s a prevalence of guns everywhere right now. It is something we address specifically among a number of other issues.”
Last fall at Virginia, the football team canceled the season's final game after a former member of the team, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was charged with murdering three players and wounding two students on campus. Authorities later found guns in his dorm room on the campus where, with few exceptions, weapons are not permitted.
It illustrated the impossibility of monitoring every student at any campus, and magnified the plight of sports leaders whose programs can be thrust into the spotlight in the aftermath of gun violence.
“The violence is right there with drug use and other sorts of things we hope to guide them away from,” said Mike Marlow, the athletic director at Northern Arizona, where guns are not allowed. “You hope that you have the type of culture in place that discourages the behavior, even if there is some legality to it.”
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New York Knicks (47-35, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (51-31, fourth in the Eastern Conference)
Cleveland; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NBA LINE: Cavaliers -5.5; over/under is 202.5
EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Knicks lead series 3-1
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Knicks look to clinch the series over the Cleveland Cavaliers in game five of the Eastern Conference first round. The Knicks defeated the Cavaliers 102-93 in the last matchup. Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 29 points, and Darius Garland led the Cavaliers with 23 points.
The Cavaliers have gone 34-18 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland leads the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, giving up 106.9 points while holding opponents to 46.8% shooting.
The Knicks are 32-20 in Eastern Conference play. New York is second in the league with 46.6 rebounds per game. Julius Randle paces the Knicks with 10.0.
TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Mitchell is averaging 28.3 points, 4.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Cavaliers. Garland is averaging 16.5 points and 5.1 assists over the past 10 games for Cleveland.
Brunson is averaging 24 points and 6.2 assists for the Knicks. Immanuel Quickley is averaging 17.9 points over the last 10 games for New York.
LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 4-6, averaging 105.5 points, 38.8 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 6.8 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.0 points per game.
Knicks: 7-3, averaging 112.0 points, 45.5 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.6 points.
INJURIES: Cavaliers: Dylan Windler: out (foot).
Knicks: Isaiah Roby: out (ankle), Quentin Grimes: day to day (shoulder), Jericho Sims: day to day (shoulder).
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Biden kicks off student loan relief application season
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program and announced that 8 million borrowers had already applied for loan relief during the federal government’s soft launch period over the weekend.
He encouraged the tens of millions eligible for potential relief to visit studentaid.gov and touted the application form that the president said would take less than five minutes to complete. An early, “beta launch” version of the online form released late Friday handled the early stream of applications “without a glitch or any difficulty,” Biden said.
“It means more than 8 million Americans are — starting this week — on their way to receiving life-changing relief,” Biden, accompanied by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, said Monday. The president called his program a “game-changer” for millions of Americans saddled with student loan debt.
The number of borrowers who applied during the testing period already amounts to more than one-fourth of the total number of applicants the administration had projected would submit forms, underscoring the popularity of the program and the eagerness of borrowers to receive the debt relief. Some 8 million borrowers who have income information already on file with the Education Department would see their debt canceled without applying.
Biden’s plan calls for $10,000 in federal student debt cancellation for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that make less than $250,000 a year. Those who received federal Pell Grants to attend college are eligible for an additional $10,000. The plan makes 20 million eligible to get their federal student debt erased entirely.
Biden promised to pursue widespread student debt forgiveness as a presidential candidate, but the issue went through more than a year of internal deliberation amid questions about its legality. His plan sparked intense debate ahead of the midterm elections, with Republicans and some Democrats saying it’s an unfair handout for college graduates.
But on Monday, Biden offered a full-throated defense of his decision.
“My commitment was if elected president, I was going to make government work to deliver for the people,” Biden said. “This rollout keeps that commitment.”
He also took aim at Republican officials who have either criticized the plan or are working in court to defeat it.
“Their outrage is wrong and it’s hypocritical,” Biden said. “I will never apologize for helping working Americans and middle class people as they recover from the pandemic.
Biden on Monday said the White House has received more than 10,000 comments and calls of thanks from borrowers. Indeed, thousands took to social media to share the form, with many saying they submitted their applications with little trouble.
The Biden administration has touted it as a “simple, straightforward” application. It asks for the borrower’s name, Social Security number, contact information and date of birth. It does not require income information but asks users to check a box attesting that they are eligible under the program’s income limits.
That information will be checked against Education Department records to help identify applicants who are likely to exceed the income limits, the administration says. Those people will be asked for more information to prove their incomes.
An estimated 1 million to 5 million people will be required to provide that extra documentation, the Education Department said in a recent submission to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
Creating and processing the form is estimated to cost nearly $100 million, a figure that angered advocates who view the application as an unnecessary barrier. The form is meant to help exclude the roughly 5% of borrowers who exceed the income limits, but advocates say it could also deter some lower-income Americans who need the relief.
Once the Education Department begins processing applications, borrowers should expect to see their debt forgiven in four to six weeks, officials say. Most applications submitted by mid-November will be processed by Jan. 1 — the day federal student loan payments are set to resume after being paused during the pandemic.
Borrowers will be able to submit applications through the end of 2023.
The Biden administration is pushing ahead with the debt cancellation even as it fights a growing number of legal challenges. Six Republican-led states are suing to block the plan, saying it oversteps Biden’s authority and will lead to financial losses for student loan servicers, which are hired to manage federal student loans and earn revenue on the interest.
A federal judge in St. Louis is now weighing the states’ request for an injunction to halt the plan. In court documents, the Education Department has vowed not to finalize any of the debt cancellation before Oct. 23.
Biden acknowledged Monday that litigation is ongoing but said his administration believes the lawsuits won’t ultimately affect the program.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, October 15, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
301 PM MST Sat Oct 15 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LA PAZ...
NORTHEASTERN IMPERIAL AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However gusty winds and
heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Riverside County
through 400 PM PDT...
At 303 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 9 miles south of Twentynine Palms to 12 miles
northeast of Desert Shores.
HAZARD...Winds up to 40 mph. Frequent lightning.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Indio, northeastern Palm Springs, Coachella, Cathedral City, Palm
Desert, southeastern Desert Hot Springs, Rancho Mirage, North Palm
Springs, Thermal, Whitewater, Hwy 74 Between Anza And Palm Desert, La
Quinta, Mecca, Indian Wells, Thousand Palms, Sky Valley, Bermuda
Dunes and Santa Rosa Mountain.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3352 11605 3351 11605 3350 11608 3351 11627
3392 11663 3396 11642 3392 11629 3392 11620
3386 11613 3383 11613 3382 11611 3375 11601
3374 11595 3352 11595
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 200DEG 6KT 3401 11601 3352 11588
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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By MATT SEDENSKY
AP National Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s richest people have put its poorest at risk, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. charged Tuesday at the United Nations, pushing for action on inequality, nuclear weapons and climate change.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly for the first time since taking office in June, Marcos said “the time for talk about ‘if’ and ‘when’ has long since passed” on climate change, and he called on industrialized countries to fulfill obligations to cut greenhouse gases and aid developing countries.
“The effects of climate change are uneven and reflect a historical injustice: Those who are least responsible suffer the most,” Marcos said. “This injustice must be corrected and those who need to do more must act now.”
Marcos returned to the theme of the rich-poor divide at multiple points throughout his speech, noting ballooning debt burdens, lack of Internet access and lopsided impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Richer nations immediately received vaccines at the expense of the have-nots,” he said. “Filipino health workers were at the front lines in many countries … risking and oftentimes sacrificing their own lives to save those of others.”
Marcos hinted at inequality in the very complex he stood in, pressing for a seat on the Security Council. He said very foundations of the U.N. were being ignored, but offered no elaboration.
“Our very charter is being violated around the world as we speak,” he said.
Among other issues, Marcos called for a reduction in nuclear arms and the creation of regulations governing cyberspace the weaponization of artificial intelligence.
Marcos was swept into office in a stunning election victory, 36 years after an army-backed “People Power” revolt booted his father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., from office and into global infamy. The elder Marcos was known for tyrannical rule, though his son has rejected labeling him a dictator.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who got a new lease on life after a ground-breaking heart transplant between an HIV-positive donor and recipient got to meet the family of the woman who gave it to her, giving them a chance to hear their loved one’s heart beating in its new home.
Miriam Nieves, 62, on Tuesday eagerly hugged the mother and sisters of Brittany Newton, a 30-year old Louisiana woman whose heart she received earlier this year in what doctors at Montefiore Medical Center said was the first heart transplant from an HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient.
“The only words that come this Thanksgiving for me is, I am so thankful and so grateful for science, for my family, for my God,” Nieves said. “But I can’t express enough that if it wasn’t for the donors, they are my angels, because they are the ones that allow me this second opportunity.”
Newton’s mother, Bridgette Newton, carried a large photo of her daughter, a certified nursing assistant who died of a brain aneurysm.
“My child is still walking around,” she said. “And for that I will forever be grateful.”
Newton’s sisters, Breanne and Brianca, used a stethoscope to listen to her heart beating in Nieves’ chest.
Breanne Newton wasn’t surprised when she heard Nieves say she had more energy now.
“That was my sister. She had energy. She was a goer,” Breanne Newton said, adding, “We are very, very thankful. And it’s just a blessing.”
The transplant happened in April.
Nieves, a former public relations professional who now lives in Westchester, north of New York City, beat a heroin addiction 30 years ago but was left HIV-positive.
The married mother of three and grandmother of six started experiencing heart failure after problems with her kidneys.
In order to find a match when the shortage of donors is acute, doctors at the hospital expanded their search to include HIV-positive donors. Enter Newton, an organ donor whose family only learned of her HIV status after her death.
Doctors transplanted her heart and kidney into Nieves.
“This has never been done before,” said Dr. Omar Saeed, a transplant cardiologist at Montefiore. “I think it’s going to be done again because we’ve shown that it’s safe.”
“The reality is that there are more people who need hearts than there are hearts available,” said Dr. Vagish Hemmige, an infectious disease specialist at the facility. “The HIV heart transplant program enables people living with HIV to receive life-saving transplants from donors that otherwise wouldn’t be used.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/hiv-positive-heart-donors-family-recipient-meet/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-11-23 19:16:49 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/hiv-positive-heart-donors-family-recipient-meet/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Lexus Commits Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Small, Minority-Owned Businesses
PLANO, Texas, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lexus is hitting the road with Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR alongside her BeyGOOD Foundation as the exclusive automotive partner of the U.S. leg of the tour. The leading luxury car brand will support the mega superstar's nonprofit with a donation to help small, minority-owned businesses.
Lexus will join BeyGOOD Foundation and its Black Parade Route to help small business owners impacted by economic inequities through a variety of grant opportunities and/or sustainability support services. Lexus' donation expands the BeyGOOD commitment by providing an additional $10,000 each to two grant recipients in all tour cities.
"Lexus is honored to be part of Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR and contribute to BeyGOOD Foundation's mission focused on economic equity," said Mia Phillips, senior manager, advertising and media for Lexus. "We are confident this collaboration will make a significant impact on entrepreneurs in every city we touch."
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter's BeyGOOD Foundation launched the Black Parade Route in 2020 as an initiative to amplify and promote Black-owned and small businesses. Carter committed $1 million to support small businesses in 10 cities in the U.S. as well as regions in the United Kingdom. Throughout the RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR, the business impact luncheons will be held to celebrate grant recipients in Chicago, New York, Charlotte, N.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston, and New Orleans.
"Delighted that Lexus has committed support for small business owners nationally, through BeyGOOD's Black Parade Route," said Ivy McGregor, executive director at BeyGOOD Foundation. "This alignment supports entrepreneurs, families, and communities at large. We believe everyone has the right to economic equity."
To pay homage to the tour sponsorship and extend the rich, futuristic feel of the tour elements, Lexus crafted a one-of-a-kind LC 500 that includes a premium chrome-wrapped exterior and jewel accents on the mirrors, headlamp surrounds, wheel center caps and license plate frame. The vehicle will accompany the RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR in various cities and will be showcased at an interactive in-venue Lexus display that allows concertgoers to engage with the brand via a photobooth that includes virtual iconography from the tour set and an entertaining karaoke booth.
The RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR U.S. started in Philadelphia July 12, and culminates in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 1.
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Lexus' passion for brave design, imaginative technology, and exhilarating performance enables the luxury lifestyle brand to create amazing experiences for its customers. Lexus began its journey in 1989 with two luxury sedans and a commitment to pursue perfection. Since then, Lexus has developed its lineup to meet the needs of global luxury customers in more than 90 countries. In the United States, Lexus vehicles are sold through 244 dealers offering a full lineup of luxury vehicles. With seven models incorporating Lexus Hybrid Drive, Lexus is the luxury hybrid leader. Lexus also offers eight F SPORT models, one F performance model and one F model. Lexus is committed to being a visionary brand that anticipates the future for luxury customers.
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Founded in 2013 by Beyoncé, during the Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, the BeyGOOD initiative has been a philanthropic initiative that is the extension of Beyoncé's charitable heart. Now a 501 (c)(3) Public Charity, BeyGOOD Foundation continues the mission of economic equity and education. To date BeyGOOD has been instrumental in programs that help in the areas of education, health, housing, water scarcity, disaster relief and more. The efforts are global, including South Africa, Haiti, Burundi, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean and throughout the United States. BeyGOOD Foundation is built on the belief that we are all in this together and each and every one of us can make a difference by giving back.
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Strategic agreement will enable global retailing house to create stronger omnichannel customer experiences and optimise internal supply chains through an enterprise data backbone and advanced AI/ML capabilities
LONDON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud today announced a new partnership with global fashion retailer, H&M Group. The alliance will see the Swedish multinational leverage Google Cloud's extensive data analytics capabilities and secure, sustainable global infrastructure to further enhance its customer experience and supply chain enablement.
Google Cloud will collaborate with H&M Group to develop an enterprise data backbone including a core data platform, data product, and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities. This will also include the establishment of a new data mesh to further make all types of data and events accessible from multiple sources including in-store, online, its brands ecosystem and suppliers.
As the partnership develops, this will translate to increased optimisation of internal supply chains, as well as next-generation customer experiences across a variety of sales channels, from physical stores to ecommerce. What's more, this partnership will enable further development of data science and AI capabilities throughout H&M Group's business.
"H&M Group has a long history of innovation across all our brands and always wants to build meaningful relationships with our customers. We are now further accelerating digitalisation as we believe in sustainable growth powered by advanced analytics and tech. Therefore, I'm happy to announce we've found a provider who matches our needs," said Alan Boehme, Chief Technology Officer, H&M Group.
"We're delighted to announce this partnership, and look forward to working with H&M Group to create new and exciting customer experiences, whether that's in-store or online," concluded Eva Fors, Managing Director Google Cloud Nordic Region. "We admire H&M Group's commitment to innovation and are excited to move forward in our journey together."
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PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaskela Law LLC announces that it is investigating Convey Health Solutions Holdings, Inc. ("Convey Health") (NYSE: CNVY) on behalf of the company's current stockholders.
On June 18, 2021, Convey Health completed its initial public offering ("IPO") of common stock, selling over 11.6 million shares of stock to investors at a price of $14.00 per share. By May 2022, shares of Convey Health's stock had declined in value to approximately $5.00 per share.
On June 21, 2022, Convey Health announced that it had agreed to be acquired by private equity firm TPG at a price of $10.50 per share. Following the closing of the proposed transaction, CNVY's shareholders will be cashed out of their investment position, and the company's shares will no longer be publicly traded.
The investigation seeks to determine: (i) whether the transaction is fair to Convey Health shareholders; (ii) whether Convey Health shareholders will be receiving sufficient monetary consideration for their shares; and (iii) whether Convey Health's directors have breached their fiduciary duties to the company's stockholders in agreeing to sell the company to TPG.
Convey Health shareholders are encouraged to contact Kaskela Law LLC (D. Seamus Kaskela, Esq. or Adrienne Bell, Esq.) at (484) 229 – 0750, or by email (abell@kaskelalaw.com) or online at https://kaskelalaw.com/cases/convey-health/ , for additional information about this investigation and their legal rights and options.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
7-9-1, FIREBALL: 8
(seven, nine, one; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
7-9-1, FIREBALL: 8
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans kept the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed again and again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel.
Long after darkness, glimmers of a deal with far-right holdouts were emerging. But the day's tally was dismal: McCarthy lost seventh, eighth and then historic ninth, 10th and 11th rounds of voting, surpassing the number of 100 years ago in the last drawn-out fight to choose a speaker. By nightfall, despite raucous protests from Democrats, Republicans voted to adjourn and return Friday to try again.
The California Republican soaked up the moment without visible concern: “Apparently, I like to make history.”
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The contours of an agreement with holdouts from the conservative Freedom Caucus began to take shape, including several of the key rules changes they have been seeking for months. Those changes would shrink the power of the speaker’s office and give rank-and-file lawmakers more influence in drafting legislation.
At the core is the reinstatement of a House rule that would allow a single lawmaker to make a motion to “vacate the chair,” essentially calling a vote to oust the speaker — a move McCarthy had resisted because it had been held over the head of past Republican Speaker John Boehner, chasing him to early retirement.
Even if McCarthy is able to secure the votes he needs, he will emerge as a weakened speaker, having given away some powers and constantly under a threat of being voted out by his detractors. But he would also be potentially emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights for the gavel in U.S. history.
Other wins for the holdouts include provisions in the proposed deal to expand the number of seats available on the House Rules Committee, to mandate 72 hours for bills to be posted before votes and to promise to try for a constitutional amendment that would impose federal limits on the number of terms a person could serve in the House and Senate.
The chairman of the chamber's Freedom Caucus, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, appeared receptive, tweeting the adage from Ronald Reagan, “Trust but verify.”
Lest hopes get ahead of reality, conservative holdout Ralph Norman of South Carolina said, “This is round one.”
“We’ve got some progress going on,” McCarthy said, brushing back questions about the lengthy, messy process. “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”
With McCarthy's supporters and foes locked in stalemate, the House cannot fully open for the new session, essentially at a standstill, unable to swear in elected members and conduct official business. And feelings of boredom, desperation and annoyance seemed increasingly evident on Thursday.
One McCarthy critic, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, cast votes for Donald Trump — a symbolic but pointed sign of the broad divisions over the Republican Party's future. Then he went further, moving the day from protest toward the absurd in formally nominating the former president to be House speaker on the 11th ballot. Trump got one vote, from Gaetz, drawing laughter.
As night fell before the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters trying to overturn Joe Biden's election, Democrats said it was time to get serious. The divisive speaker’s fight only underscored the fragility of American democracy exposed by that assault.
"This sacred House of Representatives needs a leader," said Democrat Joe Neguse of Colorado, nominating his own party's leader, Hakeem Jeffries, as speaker.
McCarthy could be seen talking, one on one, in whispered and animated conversations in the House chamber. His emissaries sidled up to holdouts, and grueling negotiations proceeded in the GOP whip's office down the hall. Through defeat after defeat, McCarthy remained determined to persuade Republicans to end the paralyzing debate that has blighted his new GOP majority.
What started as a political novelty, the first time since 1923 a nominee had not won the gavel on the first vote, has devolved into a bitter Republican Party feud and deepening potential crisis.
Democrat Jeffries of New York won the most votes on every ballot but also remained short of a majority. McCarthy ran second, gaining no ground.
Pressure has grown with each passing day for McCarthy to somehow find the votes he needs or step aside. The incoming Republican chairmen of the House's Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence committees all said national security was at risk.
“The Biden administration is going unchecked and there is no oversight of the White House,” Republicans Michael McCaul, Mike Rogers and Mike Turner wrote in a joint statement. "We cannot let personal politics place the safety and security of the United States at risk.”
But McCarthy's right-flank detractors, led by the Freedom Caucus and aligned with Trump, appeared emboldened — even though the former president publicly backed McCarthy.
Republican Party holdouts repeatedly put forward the name of Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, ensuring continuation of the stalemate that increasingly carried undercurrents of race and politics. They also put forward Republican Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, splitting the protest vote.
Donalds, who is Black, is seen as an emerging party leader and a GOP counterpoint to the Democratic leader, Jeffries, who is the first Black leader of a major political party in the U.S. Congress and is on track himself to become speaker some day.
Another Black Republican, newly elected John James, nominated McCarthy on the seventh ballot as nominators became a roll call of the GOP’s rising stars. For the 10th it was newly elected Juan Ciscomani of Arizona, an immigrant from Mexico whose speech drew chants of “USA! USA!”
A new generation of conservative Republicans, many aligned with Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda, want to upend business as usual in Washington and are committed to stopping McCarthy’s rise without concessions to their priorities.
But those opposing McCarthy do not all have the same complaints, and he may never be able to win over some of them.
The disorganized start to the new Congress pointed to difficulties ahead with Republicans now in control of the House, much the way that some past Republican speakers, including Boehner, had trouble leading a rebellious right flank. The result: government shutdowns, standoffs and Boehner's early retirement.
The longest fight for the gavel started in late 1855 and dragged on for two months, with 133 ballots, during debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War.
AP writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of DZS Inc. (NASDAQ: DZSI) between March 10, 2023 and May 31, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 14, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
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Happy birthday (Mar. 31): Welcome to your year of spontaneity. You'll oft move on impulses as excellent as they are strong. Work shows three advancements, each more fascinating and fulfilling than the last.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Narrow your choices, and then narrow them again. The fewer options you have, the more committed you'll feel to the one that's right for you. Once you decide, don't look back. The winning move is to go orward in total confidence.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There are many emotional states that get confused for plans, but none so often as a feeling of hope. Put your hope aside for a moment while you plot out actionable steps and determine how you will measure the results.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): The landscape of a relationship has changed so gradually the change was undetectable. With an open mind, this new territory will be fun to explore. Throw your assumptions out the window. There are discoveries to be made here.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): While it is possible to like a person and dislike their behavior, it is also tedious. Seek the company of people who do not cause you such inner turmoil.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One person's accurate account is another person's harsh commentary. You steer clear of drama by being overly complimentary and optimistic. You choose the sunniest way of framing a situation.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You sometimes wish the situation were more exciting, but at least it provides a little distraction. This allows you to continue with a given action long enough to see results.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You can accept certain things on a poetic level even if you can't quite get there in other ways. Your philosophical bent gives you a way to embrace life and its vicissitudes whether or not things are turning in your preferred direction.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): In polite society, most people employ social filters. Some people never learn to use them and others seem incapable of determining when they should be used. Your tolerance will be called upon.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Each relationship is its own school. No relationship is a waste of time if you are learning from it. Tonight: the best way to make sure to have a wonderful time is to claim it as wonderful.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Maybe people cannot technically make one another happy, and nor can they give one another happiness. However, arranging an environment conducive to happiness is certainly possible, and will have a very high chance of fulfilling joyful intention.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You used to try and hide your quirks, but now they are part of your charm to wear with pride. Smoothness and grace are overrated. Just do it the way you want, and people will smile and laugh with you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Anyone can be nice under comfortable circumstances where expectations are being met. The true testament of character is how people behave when their expectations are not met and stress levels are escalated. Your patience gives you an advantage today.
COSMIC CLOUD DRAMA: Though the scientist knows how clouds are formed, even the greatest cloud expert in the world can’t tell you exactly what shape the next one will be. The anticipation is what makes it fun. The dramatic Leo moon forms a fire sign trine to the sun and our personal weather systems heat up. What shape will relationships take? Only time will tell. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/31/horoscopes-by-holiday/ | 2023-03-31 07:12:00 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/31/horoscopes-by-holiday/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Painters — mostly male — have long been the subject of stage shows, like ones about Mark Rothko, Georges Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud and even a group of miners who painted in Newcastle, England. Next up is Frida Kahlo.
The icon, whose art is as immediate and unsentimental as her own fight with adversity, will be the subject of an upcoming musical with music by Mexican composer Jaime Lozano and lyrics by the Obie Award-winning playwright Neena Beber, The Associated Press has learned.
The musical has the blessing of the Kahlo family — universal rights owners of the Frida Kahlo estate represented by Alfonso Durán — alongside BTF Media and theatrical producer Valentina Berger. A workshop is planned for 2023.
“We are deeply moved that this show will allow audiences around the world to get to know Frida as so much more than just an artist. Full of joy, ahead of her time, and steeped in the culture of Mexico, she was a woman driven by an unending passion for life. I hope that this show inspires women everywhere to have the courage to fight for their dreams,” Mara Romeo, speaking on behalf of the Kahlo family, said in a statement.
Kahlo painted more than 150 paintings, mostly depicting herself and events from her own life. Her life changed drastically when she was injured in a streetcar accident at 18. She underwent a series of painful surgeries for her damaged spine and pelvic bones, then wore casts until her death in 1954 at age 47.
Bedridden, she started to paint, and one of her early admirers was Diego Rivera, the celebrated muralist and activist whom she married in 1929 and would be with her until the end, even though he often broke her heart with his affairs.
The planned musical — called “Frida, The Musical” — will follow Kahlo’s journey from Mexico City to Paris and New York, and finally back home to the house of her birth. Producers call it “a full-throated celebration of Kahlo’s joyous spirit of creativity and her unmatched gift for transforming physical and emotional pain into breathtaking beauty.”
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'We wanted to put Phoenix on the map for fine Indian dining': What to expect at Feringhee
Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine, a new fine dining, woman-owned restaurant, is opening in Chandler on June 23.
“We, being foreigners, are proud of who we are and wanted to bring our rich culture to the Valley,” said owner and founder Madhavi Reddy of the name Feringhee, which means foreigner. Reddy also owns Pastries N Chaat restaurants in Scottsdale and Tempe along with Saffron Indian Grocery N Kitchen markets in Scottsdale, Phoenix and San Antonio.
At the new restaurant, she hopes to combine her industry knowledge and education in agriculture and marketing to create a new dining experience.
“We wanted to put Phoenix on the map for fine Indian dining,” said Reddy.
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What's on the menu at Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine?
The menu, which covers northern and southern Indian cuisines, puts a contemporary twist on traditional Indian dishes, both in flavor and presentation. For example, there is an avocado chutney and a hummus made with Indian spices on the menu.
“No one makes chutney with avocado,” said Reddy, who added that the restaurant can accommodate dietary restrictions, such as vegan and gluten-free.
At the helm are two award-wining chefs with a wealth of culinary knowledge.
Chef Sujan Sarkar has worked in restaurants around the world and was named chef of the Year 2016 by Times Food Guide and opened Ek Bar, India’s first artisanal cocktail bar in 2015, which was awarded the 2016 Best New Cocktail Bar in The World by Condé Nast Traveler UK.
Executive chef Karan Mittal has experience working in Michelin-starred restaurants, and his accolades include being named Rising Star of the Year 2018 by Food & Wine Magazine Ireland and Best Young Chef for fine dining in 2018 and Best Young Chef Gold Medal in 2019 by the Irish Curry Awards.
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The menu includes the likes of tandoori duck seekh kebab, Himalayan lamb chops and Bengali or Kasundi shrimp. Keralan Quilon-style fried chicken is served with peanut chutney, avocado pachadi and moringa.
In addition to the creative food menu, which uses local and seasonal ingredients combined with Indian spices, Feringhee offers a cocktail menu of drinks infused with Indian ingredients such as saffron, jamun, sweet black plum and jaggery, an unrefined cane sugar.
“We have a shared desire to disrupt the Indian-based food service industry here in the Valley,” said Reddy.
The 8,000-square-foot restaurant is now open and features a large dining room, private dining room and patio seating for 145 to 160 people, along with a banquet hall that will open soon. Small plates range from $13 to $19, large plates are $22 to $32 and sides are priced from $4 to $7. The restaurant is located by the Chandler Fashion Center, at the corner of south Chandler Village Drive and west Frye Road. Dinner reservations are available now through OpenTable.
Details: 3491 W. Frye Road, Chandler. 480-534-7178, feringhee.com.
Hours: Closed on Mondays, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays.
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- Full completion of the world's first market-based Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) transaction, which will enable the early retirement of the 246-MW SLTEC coal plant and its transition to cleaner technology
- Entails full divestment of ACEN's equity stake in SLTEC, bringing the company closer to its commitment of 100% renewables generation by 2025
- ₱7.2 billion of proceeds received by ACEN for use in its renewable energy investments
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ACEN (PSE:ACEN), the energy platform of the Ayala Group, disclosed today the full divestment of the South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation (SLTEC) coal plant using the energy transition mechanism (ETM), the first ETM deal in the world. The landmark transaction will enable the early retirement of the 246-MW coal plant in Batangas, Philippines. As part of the ETM structure, the coal plant's operating life of up to 50 years will be cut in half, as ACEN commits to retire and transition the plant to a cleaner technology by 2040. This will help avoid or reduce up to 50 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
The ETM is a concept developed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which aims to leverage low-cost and long-term funding geared towards early coal retirement and the reinvestment of proceeds to enable renewable energy projects.
Ahmed Saeed, ADB vice president said, "We commend the Ayala Group and ACEN for the successful closing of this pioneering ETM transaction. We hope that this sets the tone for others to pursue the just transition of thermal plants to cleaner technologies."
The ETM for the SLTEC plant involved ₱13.7 billion in debt financing provided by the Bank of the Philippine Islands and Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, as well as ₱3.7 billion in equity investments from the Philippine Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. (InLife), and ETM Philippines Holdings, Inc., for a total deal value of ₱17.4 billion. ACEN received ₱7.2 billion from the transaction for reinvestment
in the company's renewable energy projects. The balance of proceeds was used for refinancing debt and transaction fees.
GSIS recently invested ₱2.2 billion in redeemable preferred shares issued by SLTEC. Wick Veloso, GSIS president and general manager said, "Our priority is to find ways to grow and sustain our funds to ensure that we are able to provide our over two million members and pensioners their benefits. We also fully support investments that prioritize optimal environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors or outcomes consistent with our corporate social responsibility."
InLife anchored the equity placements with a ₱1-billion investment. Nina D. Aguas, InLife executive chairperson said, "To deliver a lifetime for good, for us at InLife, also means investing in cleaner air and environmental solutions for future generations. The proceeds of our investment will be used to develop renewable energy and eventually allow decommissioning of the coal plants. We join the call for the development of more renewable energy sources through this pioneering transition mechanism." She added that the ETM is a groundbreaking solution to a rising global concern.
Through this transaction, ACEN moves closer toward its commitment to 100% renewables generation by 2025, as well as its ambitious goal of reaching 20 GW of renewables capacity by 2030.
Cora Dizon, ACEN CFO and treasurer said, "Finding a win-win solution to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders amidst the goal of transitioning away from coal was admittedly challenging. Despite this, debt and equity investors still came together to support the financing of this pioneering energy transition deal, which has become a blueprint for other organizations to emulate."
Eric Francia, ACEN president and CEO said, "ACEN continues to blaze the trail for energy transition in the Asia Pacific. As the company has successfully divested its coal asset, ACEN commits to a just energy transition. We have established mechanisms to ensure that stakeholder interests, especially those of the people and communities of SLTEC, are effectively addressed."
AlphaPrimus Advisors and BPI Capital served as financial advisors to the transaction. CLSA Philippines was the lead arranger for the equity placements, while BPI Capital and RCBC Capital acted in the same capacity for the SLTEC debt financing.
About ACEN
ACEN is the listed energy platform of the Ayala Group. The company has ~4,000 MW of attributable capacity in the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, and Australia, with a renewable share of 87%, which is among the highest in the region.
ACEN's aspiration is to be the largest listed renewables platform in Southeast Asia, with a goal of reaching 20 GW in renewables capacity by 2030. In 2021, ACEN announced its commitment to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This will involve the early retirement of its remaining coal plant by 2040 and transition the company's generation portfolio to 100% renewable energy by 2025.
For inquiries and more information, please contact:
For Investors and Analysts:
ACEN Investor Relations
Email: investorrelations@acenrenewables.com
DISCLAIMER: This disclosure may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risk factors and opportunities that may affect ACEN's plans to complete the transaction/s that are the subject of this disclosure. Each forward-looking statement is made only as of the date of this disclosure. Outcomes of the subject transaction may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements included in this disclosure.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The leader of global track and field said it would have been “inconceivable” to have allowed Russians into this week’s world championships given the country’s war against Ukraine.
At his news conference Thursday, the eve of the championships, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said there was no budging from the position the federation took shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
“It was made from a very clear standpoint, and that was about the integrity of competition,” Coe said. “It would have been inconceivable to have a world championships here with athletes from Belarus and Russia, two aggressive nations who have walked into an independent state.”
Belarus, an ally of Russia in the war, is also banned from the worlds, which run from Friday through July 24.
One Russian athlete, three-time world-champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene, has publicly criticized Coe and IOC president Thomas Bach for their stance on her country.
The IOC recommended that sports exclude Russia from their events, and many sports followed that lead. Coe noted that World Athletics was one of the first federations to reach a position, one that won’t change “for the foreseeable future,” in large part because of the challenges involved in getting the 22 Ukrainian athletes who qualified for worlds safely to the championships.
The position on Russia is separate from that country’s athletics federation’s ongoing suspension, which dates to 2015. That stems from the long-running doping scandal that spread through Russia starting two years previous to that. The suspension triggered a sanction that limited the number of Russian athletes who can compete at major events as neutrals. At the last worlds, in 2019, 29 competed.
But that program isn’t in play here because of the war. Coe said that in this week’s council meeting, members received an update about the doping issues from the task force in charge with monitoring Russia’s compliance to the roadmap for reinstatement.
“I sort of feel like it’s Season 17, Box Set 126” on the issue, Coe said, before ticking off the latest updates from the task force.
Most important is an independent audit of the Russian federation, results of which will be presented at a council meeting in November.
That’s also when the council will consider changes in rules governing participation by transgender athletes and intersex athletes. Earlier this summer, Coe signaled that changes to those rules could be coming, but he said it was not an agenda item in this week’s meetings.
“Though inclusivity has really been a watch word, the balance between inclusivity and fairness will always, in my view, fall now on the side of fairness,” he said in repeating comments he’d made earlier this summer that indicate there could be tighter restrictions on allowing transgender and intersex athletes to compete.
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Finding the perfect foundation can be a struggle, especially when you don’t want anything too heavy. CC creams are the happy medium for anyone who wants less coverage than a standard foundation but more than a tinted moisturizer.
These multitasking products provide coverage, hydration, color correction and sun protection all in one, making them must-haves in any beauty routine. If you’re looking for the best CC creams at Sephora, you have a small but high-quality range to choose from.
What’s the difference between BB cream and CC cream?
While they may come up together in the same search results, there are some key differences between BB and CC creams. The first clue is in the name: “BB” commonly stands for “beauty balm” while CC stands for “color corrective.” CC creams offer more coverage than BB creams and are often formulated to combat hyperpigmentation, neutralize redness and conceal blemishes. Like BB creams, they can provide sun protection, hydration, anti-aging and other skin benefits. CC creams can be worn alone or as a primer to achieve extra coverage with your foundation.
CC cream formats
Many CC creams are available in familiar tubes, but some Korean or Korean-inspired brands offer their CC cream in a cushion compact. This format has been popular in Asia since the 2000s, and it's gaining popularity in other markets. Cushion compacts use a product-soaked cushion that dispenses just the right amount of cream into a metal or plastic tray when pressure is applied. Use the included puff applicator, usually made from silicone, to apply the cream. The compact makes these types of CC creams great for travel or touch-ups.
How to apply CC cream
CC creams are easy to apply with your fingertips, but you can also use a makeup sponge to more easily blend out the cream and get a flawless finish. Wear a CC cream on its own as a light-coverage base for your makeup or, for full coverage, treat it as a primer for your foundation.
What to look for in a CC cream
Color correction
It’s right there in the name, after all. CC creams are formulated to even out skin tone and hyperpigmentation as well as address redness. If redness or rosacea is a particular skin concern, look for products that specify anti-redness in their name. These CC creams include self-adjusting pigments or green mineral pigments to color-correct and soothe redness and irritation.
Sun protection
If your daily skin care routine already includes sunscreen or a moisturizer with SPF, you may not need a CC cream with sun protection. However, it’s a popular feature, and choosing a CC cream with SPF may help you replace a few steps in your routine if you’re in a rush. Ingredients like zinc oxide indicate a physical, mineral-based sunscreen, which research suggests is gentler on skin as well as kinder to the environment.
Shade range
Since CC creams offer more coverage than BB creams, it’s more important to find a good match for your skin tone than if you were shopping for a BB cream. CC creams tend to be available in more shades than BB creams, but many brands still have room for improvement when it comes to inclusive shade ranges.
Best Sephora CC creams
IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream with SPF 50+: available at Sephora Our take: Formulated with hyaluronic acid, this Allure Best of Beauty award-winning CC cream is a good pick for those with dry skin. What we like: This CC cream is one of the brand's most popular products. It provides full coverage that still feels lightweight, plus an impressive SPF 50. It offers 22 shades to choose from, making it one of the more inclusive options for CC creams out there. What we dislike: It's not as transfer- or crease-resistant as some formulas. Many shades appear warmer or more orange than they're described.
IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Nude Glow Lightweight Foundation + Glow Serum: available at Sephora Our take: This CC cream is perfect for anyone who wants a lightweight, dewy finish. What we like: It comes in more than 20 shades, so there's something to suit almost all skin tones. It provides medium coverage with a glowing finish. The added SPF 40 protects your skin from the sun. Niacinamide brightens the skin, while hyaluronic acid hydrates and plumps it. What we dislike: Some people found their chosen shade darker than expected.
IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream Oil-Free Matte with SPF 40: available at Sephora Our take: Formulated for those struggling with oily skin and blemishes, this version of the Your Skin But Better CC cream is oil-free and contains charcoal to minimize pores and absorb excess oil. What we like: The formula can control excess oil for up to 12 hours and includes tea tree extract to help treat blemishes. It comes in 12 shades and provides full coverage with a natural-looking, mattified finish. What we dislike: It may not last as long as the original formula, particularly in the T-zone. Even with a setting powder, it may end up looking oily, depending on your skin type.
Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Color-Correcting Treatment with SPF 30: available at Sephora Our take: This unique cream changes from green to beige to color-correct and minimize redness. What we like: The key ingredient in this cult-favorite product is cica grass, also known as tiger grass, which has traditionally been used to address different skin concerns. It effectively conceals redness from a variety of causes. What we dislike: The tint may appear too gray or chalky on some skin tones. It may become greasy-feeling after a few hours, especially on those with oily skin.
BareMinerals Complexion Rescue Tinted Moisturizer: available at Sephora Our take: This tinted moisturizer is a little hard to classify, but since it offers SPF 30 and hydrating ingredients as well as sheer color coverage, it's frequently labeled a CC cream. What we like: Ingredients like olive-derived squalane and hyaluronic acid help skin retain moisture and improve skin texture. It's formulated without parabens, phthalates, sulfates or mineral oil. What we dislike: Since it's a hydrating cream with a radiant finish, it's recommended for those with dry skin. Even with 20 shades available, it can be hard to find a match.
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BOSTON, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, announced today the sale of RafterOne, a leading global provider of multi-cloud commerce solutions on the Salesforce Platform, to Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE: IPG).
BV first invested in RafterOne (formerly PixelMEDIA) in December 2020, and worked alongside management to continue its business expansion as a leading global provider in the Salesforce ecosystem, offering multi-cloud advisory, consulting, and managed services that enable customers with Salesforce B2B and B2C commerce, CPQ & Billing, Sales & Service Cloud and Data Services platforms.
Sean Wilder, Managing Director of BV Investment Partners, said, "We are proud to have worked with the co-founders of RafterOne to successfully execute on the collective vision of creating a global leader in delivering holistic, cross-cloud commerce solutions on Salesforce. We look forward to tracking the continued success of RafterOne with the added breadth of reach across IPG's network of clients and agencies."
Erik Dodier, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of RafterOne, commented, "BV has been a true partner for us, supportive every step of the way and instrumental in helping execute on our strategic vision. I'm proud of what we've accomplished together and am excited for this next chapter of success with IPG. The combination of RafterOne and IPG's network and capabilities offers a powerful solution to all of our clients and a compelling opportunity for our growing global team to continue to drive innovation and success around commerce on Salesforce. We thank the BV team for their guidance and support to get to this exciting point in RafterOne's journey."
RafterOne is a team of solution builders focused on constructing end-to-end, multi-cloud commerce experiences for the Salesforce Platform. As a global leader in cross-cloud solutions, our goal is to help you optimize every touchpoint in the customer journey, while providing the structure, tools, and support you deserve. We are built around you, collaborating as one to keep your customer journey under one roof. We help you realize the possibilities with integrated experiences across Marketing, Commerce and Revenue Cloud, CRM, Service Cloud and Data Services. Visit: www.rafter.one for more info.
BV Investment Partners is one of the oldest and most experienced sector-focused private equity firms in North America. Since its founding in 1983, the firm has invested approximately $4.4 billion, actively targeting investments in the tech-enabled business services, software, and IT services industries. For more information, visit www.bvlp.com.
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ROWLEY, Mass., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comstar, LLC ("Comstar") is providing notice of a recent event that may affect the security of certain information.
On or about March 26, 2022, Comstar discovered suspicious activity related to certain servers within its environment. Comstar immediately took steps to secure our network, and launched a thorough investigation, with the assistance of third-party experts, to determine the nature and scope of the incident. On April 21, 2022, the investigation determined that certain systems on Comstar's network were subject to unauthorized access. However, the investigation was unable to confirm what specific information on those systems was accessed. As such, Comstar reviewed the contents of those systems to determine what information was contained therein and to whom it related for purposes of notification.
The review of the systems determined information related to certain individuals was contained within. The information varied by individual but may have included name, date of birth, medical assessment and medication administration, health insurance information, driver's license, financial account information, and Social Security number.
Individuals who have questions about this incident or believe they may be impacted by this incident, can contact our dedicated call center at 877-587-4280, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time except holidays, or visit our web site for more information at www.comstarbilling.com
Monitor Your Accounts
Under U.S. law, a consumer is entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also directly contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below to request a free copy of your credit report.
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a credit freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a fraud alert or credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
Additional Information
You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
For California residents: Visit the California Office of Privacy Protection (www.oag.ca.gov/privacy) for additional information on protection against identity theft.
For Kentucky residents: Office of the Attorney General of Kentucky, 700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 118 Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, www.ag.ky.gov, Telephone: 1-502-696-5300.
For District of Columbia residents: the District of Columbia Attorney General may be contacted at: 400 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001; 202-727-3400; and oag@dc.gov.
For Maryland residents: the Maryland Attorney General may be contacted at: 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202; 1-410-528-8662 or 1-888-743-0023; and www.oag.state.md.us. Comstar is located at 8 Turcotte Memorial Drive, Rowley, MA 01969.
For New Mexico residents: you have rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as the right to be told if information in your credit file has been used against you, the right to know what is in your credit file, the right to ask for your credit score, and the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information. Further, pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the consumer reporting bureaus must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information; consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information; access to your file is limited; you must give your consent for credit reports to be provided to employers; you may limit "prescreened" offers of credit and insurance you get based on information in your credit report; and you may seek damages from violator. You may have additional rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act not summarized here. Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have specific additional rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We encourage you to review your rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act by visiting www.consumerfinance.gov/f/201504_cfpb_summary_your-rights-under-fcra.pdf, or by writing Consumer Response Center, Room 130-A, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
For New York residents: the New York Attorney General may be contacted at: Office of the Attorney General, The Capitol, Albany, NY 12224-0341; 1-800-771-7755; or https://ag.ny.gov/.
For North Carolina residents: the North Carolina Attorney General may be contacted at: 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; 1-877-566-7226 or 1-919-716-6000; and www.ncdoj.gov.
For Oregon residents: Oregon Department of Justice, 1162 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4096, www.doj.state.or.us/, Telephone: 877-877-9392.
For Rhode Island residents: the Rhode Island Attorney General may be reached at: 150 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903; www.riag.ri.gov; and 1-401-274-4400. Under Rhode Island law, you have the right to obtain any police report filed in regard to this incident. There are [#] Rhode Island residents impacted by this incident.
For Washington D.C. residents: the Office of Attorney General for the District of Columbia can be reached at: 441 4thStreet NW, Suite 1100 South, Washington, D.C. 20001; 1-202-442-9828; https://oag.dc.gov.
For All U.S. residents: Identity Theft Clearinghouse, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580, www.consumer.gov/idtheft, 1-877-IDTHEFT (438-4338).
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TEXARKANA, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) — Police are investigating after a man was found dead inside a Texarkana,, Arkansas home Monday morning, along with a small child who appeared to be unharmed.
Texarkana officers were called to the 1600 block of Edwards Street at 8:05 a.m. after a neighbor found the man dead inside the home. TAPD says the child was a young male who has since been taken into custody by the dead man’s family members.
Police believe the man died within hours of the discovery of his body, but investigators are still trying to determine whether foul play was involved.
TAPD says Crime Scene and Criminal Investigation Division detectives are processing evidence, following up on leads, and speaking with residents in the area to gather more information about the incident.
Police say this is an ongoing death investigation and will release more information as it becomes available.
Police are asking anyone with any information or who were a witness to this crime to contact the Criminal Investigation Division at (903)-798-3154 or call Crime Stoppers at (903)-793-STOP (7867). | https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/man-found-dead-in-texarkana-home-with-child-inside/ | 2022-08-15 19:20:08 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/man-found-dead-in-texarkana-home-with-child-inside/ |
Editor’s note: This article has been edited to clarify that a Dec. 16 email from Councilwoman Marcia Martin was sent to members of city staff.
On Dec. 24, an off-duty police officer witnessed what he believed to be a drunken driver weaving between lanes in Longmont.
Concerned, he called in a Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately, or REDDI, report to which Longmont police responded and pulled the erratic vehicle over.
After discovering multiple open alcoholic containers in the car, its driver, Fermin Orozco-Diaz, who had eight prior drinking-and-driving convictions and two pending cases related to driving under the influence, was arrested for felony DUI.
However, shortly after his arrest on Christmas Eve, Orozco-Diaz posted a $5,000 cash bond and was released.
The DA’s office had argued for a $1 million bond.
On Dec. 29, police found Orozco-Diaz intoxicated again in his car and arrested him on additional drinking and driving charges.
“Part of the challenge for us in the justice system, of course, is that we’re in a risk-assessment business,” Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in an interview Friday. “That being said, there are certain cases that have red flags either because of the facts, threats of violence and or a person’s criminal history.”
In an email exchange earlier this month, Longmont city officials questioned why people who have been charged with violent or repeat offenses are able to bond out of jail with relative ease.
On Dec. 16, Longmont City Manager Harold Dominguez alerted the City Council via email that a “very dangerous person” accused of shooting his family member’s significant other was out of jail on a $50,000 bond.
“Which means (that) he only had to personally pay for approximately 5,000 to 6,000 dollars,” Dominguez said in his email to the Council. “These are the types of situations that truly frustrate and challenge our police department.”
In a separate email to the Council, Longmont Public Safety Chief Zach Ardis rattled off several examples of individuals arrested on felony charges and given bond amounts that were far lower than the DA’s office requested.
After being detained in Longmont and charged with unlawful possession and distribution of fentanyl, Adalberto Reyes-Carrillo’s bond was set at $500,000 despite the DA’s office requesting $1 million.
Reyes-Carrillo was found with a mixture of fentanyl and cocaine that weighed nearly 45 pounds.
“It was enough fentanyl to kill over 1 million Coloradans,” Ardis said in his email to the Council.
In a separate case, a 19-year-old man was charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly shoved an elderly woman to the ground and stole her purse in a Safeway parking lot in Longmont.
He was later released on a personal recognizance bond.
“The concerns that the Longmont (public safety) chief (has) shared with City Council are valid and we cannot and should not have people who are a danger to the community being released on a personal recognizance bond,” Dougherty said.
The 20th Judicial Court judges set bonds for defendants in Boulder County.
“We’re going to see additional bond reform efforts from the Legislature in the coming months,” Dougherty said. “The reforms cannot put community safety at peril. There is a difference … between being reform-minded and being reckless.”
In his email to the Council, Ardis said city officials intend to discuss the issue of violent and repeat offenders being released on low or personal recognizance bonds with Longmont’s state representative before and during the upcoming legislative session, which begins Jan. 9.
In response to a request for comment last week, Longmont Public Safety Spokesperson Robin Ericson said the department “may have further information after the first of the year.”
Ardis was not immediately available for comment Friday.
Democratic Rep. Karen McCormick, who represents Longmont in the Colorado General Assembly, said she did not believe anything had been done at the state level that impacted bond amounts.
Instead, McCormick said it was “up to the judges.”
“I know that I’m not working on bond issues but can agree there is a problem here that needs addressing in some form,” McCormick said. “I just don’t know if it is truly a legislative fix or if it is through the judiciary that this needs to be addressed.”
The city of Longmont is scheduled to host a legislative dinner Jan. 11 at the Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., that will be open to the public and allow the City Council and McCormick to express their opinions on statewide issues.
“This has to get fixed, number one,” Councilman Tim Waters said in an interview Thursday concerning the release of violent and repeat offenders shortly after their arrest.
Waters wanted to know if the judges tasked with setting bond amounts were actually listening to the recommendations put forward by the Bond Commissioners Unit, which operates out of the Boulder County Jail and provides an initial assessment of offenders.
“I’d like to know what’s the record (of) the one group of people for whom there seems to be no accountability — our judges, especially the judges in the 20th Judicial District,” Waters said. “I’d like to know what they do with those recommendations, what they’re hearing from the District Attorney and from law enforcement … and what they’re doing in response because it sure looks to me like they’re not doing much.”
The email exchange between city officials was obtained by the Times-Call through an open records request.
A spokesperson for the 20th Judicial District Court judges did not return a request for comment Friday.
“At some future date we, the City Council, will be considering a statement of policy by this city to the effect that the General Assembly does not support local government properly, having created barriers to policing and saddling us with responsibility for firearm regulation that is unenforceable by local government,” Councilwoman Marcia Martin said in an email to members of city staff on Dec. 16. “Does this position need to be extended to the laxity of our judicial system? They are fighting the last war, apparently focused on keeping people from being detained.”
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HARBESON, Del.- A local celebrity doesn't take the form you might expect.
Meet Magic the Umbrella Cockatoo, a bird that has a book and is starring in an upcoming movie.
He even has been hired to be a greeter at weddings.
Magic lives at M and D Bird farm in Harbeson, and owner Danton Sherwood says he is no regular bird.
"He plays with the internet, he plays with the customers, he drives a car," he said. "This guy is a prima diva!"
Magic is starring in a movie called 'Le Parrot'- a comedy about a family that has to deal with a talkative parrot at a funeral. Sherwood says people come to the store to see Magic, and the decision to let Magic star in the movie was an easy one.
"When the director called, and said, 'I believe you have a bird that would be perfect for my movie.' We went to Magic and said, 'Magic, would you like to do that?' and he said something like 'Of course!'"
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TOKYO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeCortix® Inc., an innovative fabless semiconductor design company with a software first approach, focused on delivering class-leading compute efficiency and latency for edge artificial intelligence (AI) inference, announced today a collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation (Renesas).
Through this collaboration, EdgeCortix has taken its industry leading heterogeneous platform-based compiler framework MERA and developed a new compiler, DRP-AI* TVM for Renesas' DRP-AI1 accelerator. The new compiler is available with associated software and tools and works in combination with Renesas' DRP-AI tools.
"We are eager to apply the power of our MERA compiler across many heterogeneous environments, including leading FPGA boards, EdgeCortix's own custom AI-Inference ASIC and today, integration with Renesas' DRP-AI," said Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix. "We are very pleased that Renesas has realized the value, utility, and performance that our MERA solution offers in developing the compiler for DRP-AI. By applying EdgeCortix's MERA compiler technology to DRP-AI TVM, this combination will create significant business opportunities and value for both Renesas and their end customers in four key functional areas. Namely, Expanded Model Support, ML Framework Expansion, Support for Floating-point 16 and overall Performance Enhancements."
EdgeCortix Delivered Key Business Outcomes via MERA collaboration with Renesas DRP-AI Tool:
- Expanded Model Support: More robust AI model support (20+ models explored) with significantly enhanced flexibility and end-user ease-of-use enhancement.
- ML Framework expansion: Future proofing the DRP-AI product utility, by adding PyTorch support and making the ONNX support more robust. TensorFlow support to be added in ongoing future work.
- Support for Floating-point 16 bit to MERA and extended OSS tool Apache TVM. Lower-precision support being added in ongoing future work.
- Performance Enhancements: Improved performance especially for models with operators shared between host CPU and DRP-AI (a new feature added with this integration work).
"We recognized immediately the value of adding the MERA compiler and associated tool set to the RZ/V MPU series, as we expect many of our customers to implement application software including AI technology," said Shigeki Kato, Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Business Division at Renesas. "As we drive innovation to meet our customer's needs, we are collaborating with EdgeCortix to rapidly provide our customers with robust, high-performance and flexible AI-inference solutions. The EdgeCortix team has been terrific, and we are excited by the future opportunities and possibilities for this ongoing relationship."
About EdgeCortix Inc.
EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor design company focused on enabling energy-efficient edge intelligence. It was founded in 2019 with the radical idea of taking a software first approach, while designing an artificial intelligence specific runtime reconfigurable processor from the ground up using a technique called "hardware & software co-exploration". Targeting advanced computer vision applications first, using proprietary hardware and software IP on existing processors like FPGAs and custom designed ASIC, the company is geared towards positively disrupting the rapidly growing AI hardware space across defense, aerospace, smart cities, industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles and robotics.
For more details, contact: info@edgecortix.com
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DENVER, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRM) (TSX: SSRM) (ASX: SSR) ("SSR Mining" or the "Company") announces the date for its third quarter 2022 consolidated financial results news release and conference call. Investors, media and the public are invited to listen to the conference call.
- News release containing third quarter consolidated financial results: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, before markets open.
- Conference call and webcast: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, at 5:00 pm EST.
Toll-free in U.S. and Canada: +1 (800) 319-4610
All other callers: +1 (604) 638-5340
Webcast: http://ir.ssrmining.com/investors/events - The conference call will be archived and available on our website. Audio replay will be available for two weeks by calling:
Toll-free in U.S. and Canada: +1 (855) 669-9658, replay code 9373
All other callers: +1 (412) 317-0088, replay code 9373
About SSR Mining
SSR Mining Inc. is a leading, free cash flow focused gold company with four producing assets located in the USA, Türkiye, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets. In 2021, the four operating assets produced approximately 794,000 gold-equivalent ounces. SSR Mining is listed under the ticker symbol SSRM on the NASDAQ and the TSX, and SSR on the ASX.
SSR Mining Contacts:
F. Edward Farid, Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Development Officer
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SSR Mining Inc.
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MIDLAND, Texas — Now that Christmas is over, many people are wondering what to do with their trees.
Both Midland and Odessa have places you can drop off your tree.
In Midland, you can bring your tree to the Citizen's Collection Station from Wednesday through Saturday. Weekdays you can go from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday you can go from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Odessa trees can be taken to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility.
Their hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. They are also open on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
These trees will be used to make free mulch for citizens that can be picked up year-round.
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Audio Streaming Service Grows Its Audience and Catalog
PARK CITY, Utah, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dramafy, a one-stop source for the best in Audio Fiction, which launched in July 2021, now features more than 1500 episodes from 135 different audio shows.
Dramafy is seeking submissions of completed audio dramas from independent content creators to add to its ever-growing catalog! The platform is unique in its commitment to revenue share with its producers. Creators of audio dramas streamed on the platform earn a percentage of all gross revenue generated through subscriptions and advertising, based on total minutes listened, on a quarterly basis.
The streaming service utilizes the latest mobile technology to stream hundreds of hours of contemporary audio dramas in multiple genres, including SciFi, westerns, adventure, comedy, mystery and children's. The service is curated for "all ears" (no harder than a PG-13 rating).
Stories are streamed from Dramafy.com, or with the free Dramafy mobile apps available for Apple devices from the App Store, or for Android devices on Google Play.
Dramafy is presently undertaking an aggressive marketing campaign using social media and advertising to promote shows presently on the platform. A semi-monthly newsletter features new content streamed and spotlights creators on the platform.
Dramafy streams audio dramas from independent producers and features such popular contemporary audio favorites as "Brass," "Powder River," and "Tower 4."
In addition, are new original productions exclusive to Dramafy including the romantic/adventure "Undercover Engagement", and the WWII comedy/drama, "A String of Pearls", the drama, "Coming Home" and the children's series "The Absolutely, Positively, True Adventures of Babe the Dog."
Listenership levels grew dramatically after April 1, when Dramafy launched its "Listen free with ads" service. Ad-free listening is also available at two subscription levels: $3.99 per month, or for $3.49 per month with an annual subscription. The service is designed to provide easy, one-stop access to the best in audio fiction, cutting through a sea of podcasts and music on other streaming services.
Producers interested in submitting an audio drama Dramafy should go to the Dramafy.com website and click on the "Submit Your Show" button under the "Have an Audio Drama?" portion at the bottom of the website. It will walk creators through the submission process and more fully describe the Dramafy revenue sharing model. And submission guidelines.
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Cardinals third. Lars Nootbaar grounds out to second base, Max Muncy to Freddie Freeman. Andrew Knizner singles to left field. Tommy Edman doubles to center field. Andrew Knizner to third. Dylan Carlson strikes out swinging. Paul Goldschmidt singles to shallow right field, advances to 2nd. Tommy Edman scores. Andrew Knizner scores. Nolan Arenado homers to left field. Paul Goldschmidt scores. Nolan Gorman strikes out swinging.
4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 4, Dodgers 0.
Cardinals fourth. Albert Pujols grounds out to shallow infield, Max Muncy to Freddie Freeman. Corey Dickerson flies out to deep right field to Mookie Betts. Lars Nootbaar singles to right field. Andrew Knizner doubles to deep left field. Lars Nootbaar scores. Tommy Edman grounds out to shallow infield, Tony Gonsolin to Freddie Freeman.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 5, Dodgers 0.
Cardinals sixth. Albert Pujols singles to center field. Corey Dickerson grounds out to shallow right field, Gavin Lux to Freddie Freeman. Albert Pujols to second. Lars Nootbaar singles to center field, advances to 2nd. Albert Pujols scores. Fielding error by Cody Bellinger. Andrew Knizner walks. Tommy Edman strikes out swinging. Dylan Carlson lines out to right field to Mookie Betts.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Cardinals 6, Dodgers 0.
Dodgers seventh. Mookie Betts strikes out swinging. Trea Turner strikes out swinging. Freddie Freeman singles to right center field. Will Smith homers to center field. Freddie Freeman scores. Justin Turner lines out to deep left field to Corey Dickerson.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 6, Dodgers 2.
Dodgers eighth. Cody Bellinger singles to right field. Max Muncy walks. Trayce Thompson lines out to left field to Corey Dickerson. Hanser Alberto pinch-hitting for Gavin Lux. Hanser Alberto strikes out swinging. Mookie Betts doubles to right field. Max Muncy to third. Cody Bellinger scores. Trea Turner singles to left field. Mookie Betts scores. Max Muncy scores. Freddie Freeman walks. Will Smith grounds out to shallow infield, Nolan Arenado to Paul Goldschmidt.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cardinals 6, Dodgers 5.
Dodgers ninth. Justin Turner doubles to deep right center field. Cody Bellinger singles to right center field, advances to 2nd. Austin Barnes to third. Max Muncy out on a sacrifice fly to deep center field to Dylan Carlson. Cody Bellinger to third. Austin Barnes scores. Trayce Thompson strikes out on a foul tip. Hanser Alberto singles to left field. Cody Bellinger scores. Mookie Betts strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 7, Cardinals 6. | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/L-A-Dodgers-St-Louis-Runs-17303988.php | 2022-07-14 04:17:49 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/L-A-Dodgers-St-Louis-Runs-17303988.php |
HOUSTON (AP) — José Abreu and the World Series champion Astros agreed to a three-year contract Monday, adding another powerful bat to Houston’s lineup.
Abreu, the 2020 AL MVP, spent his first nine major league seasons with the Chicago White Sox. The first baseman became a free agent after batting .304 with 15 home runs, 75 RBIs and an .824 OPS this year.
With the Astros, he replaces Yuli Gurriel at first base in a batting order that also features All-Star sluggers Yordan Alvarez, Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker.
Gurriel became a free agent after Houston defeated the Philadelphia Phillies this month for its second World Series championship.
The 35-year-old Abreu becomes the biggest free agent to switch teams so far this offseason. Born in Cuba, the three-time All-Star and 2014 AL Rookie of the Year is a .292 career hitter in the majors with 243 homers, 863 RBIs and an .860 OPS.
The Astros announced the signing Monday night. Abreu is scheduled to be introduced in a news conference Tuesday morning at Minute Maid Park.
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IRVING, Texas, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) today announced that Stacey Doré will be joining the company as its first chief strategy and sustainability officer and executive vice president of public affairs, effective Aug. 23, 2022. Doré, who previously worked for Vistra's predecessor companies, will report to Vistra's president and chief executive officer, Jim Burke. In this new role, Doré is responsible for corporate strategy, sustainability, regulatory and government affairs, communications, and community engagement.
"Stacey is a respected, proven leader who has a broad understanding of both our company and our industry," said Burke. "Her diverse background spans not only competitive power generation, retail, and commercial activities, but also in related businesses, including transmission and distribution, as well as natural gas. We are thrilled to have her join our executive team and dedicate her considerable talents to leading our strategy, sustainability, and public affairs efforts. We believe integrating these critical activities under Stacey will further solidify our commitment to decarbonizing our fleet, growing Vistra Zero, and to the broader energy transition and the leading role Vistra will play. We look forward to Stacey's contributions and leadership as our industry goes through considerable change."
"I am honored to join the Vistra team at a pivotal time during the company's growth and transformation," said Doré. "Vistra is a leader in the energy transition and plays a critical role in meeting the needs of customers and communities across the U.S. during a time of rapid change in the industry. This company is at the forefront of responsibly transitioning our country's power grid, and I'm excited about Vistra's future."
Doré most recently served as president and chief executive officer of Hunt Utility Services and Sharyland Utilities, an electric utility within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas market, from 2019-2021. Prior to that role, she was senior vice president and general counsel for publicly traded InfraREIT, Inc., an electric transmission and distribution company structured as a real estate investment trust, from 2016-2019. Doré originally joined Vistra's predecessor companies in 2008 as part of the legal team where she served in several leadership roles, including executive vice president and general counsel. She began her career as an attorney at Vinson & Elkins in 1997.
Doré is a member of the board of directors for Williams, a leading energy infrastructure company with operations across the natural gas value chain, where she serves on the audit committee and the governance and sustainability committee. She holds a juris doctor from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's degree in journalism from University of Southwestern Louisiana.
About Vistra
Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. and markets in Canada and Japan, as well. Serving approximately 4 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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MIAMI (AP) — Jesús Luzardo struck out 12 in six innings, Bryan De La Cruz hit a two-run homer and the Miami Marlins prevented Atlanta from clinching its fifth straight NL East title by beating the Braves 4-0 on Monday night.
After sweeping the rival Mets at home over the weekend, Atlanta arrived in Miami needing one win or a New York loss to wrap up the division crown and a first-round playoff bye.
The Braves were unable to solve Luzardo or slow De La Cruz — and the Mets were rained out at home against Washington. New York is 1 1/2 games behind Atlanta heading into Tuesday’s doubleheader versus the last-place Nationals, while the Braves will play the second of three games at fourth-place Miami.
“You just can’t go out and win a baseball game. There are a lot of moving parts in it,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. “These are dangerous teams, there are guys out there with talent. It’s hard to win a game. We’ll go get a good night’s sleep, come back and do it again.”
Dansby Swanson had two of Atlanta’s four hits, all off Luzardo (4-7). Braves sluggers Austin Riley and Matt Olson struck out three times each against the left-hander, who walked one in his first win since Aug. 7.
“It’s extremely satisfying,” Luzardo said. “Just wanted to go out there and do the same thing I’ve been doing: give us a chance to win, go long into a game. The result was great and definitely wanted to keep the train going.”
It was the fifth time the Braves were shut out this season, and the first time Miami blanked them since Sept. 8, 2020.
“Tough last three days, then night travel, we just couldn’t score runs,” Riley said. “There’s no panic. Come back (Tuesday) and lock this thing down.”
De La Cruz also doubled and singled, finishing a triple shy of the cycle for the third time in his last nine starts. Jesús Sánchez doubled twice and singled as Miami snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Braves.
“Hopefully next time I have that opportunity needing a triple, I’ll try to hit one out and perhaps the outfielder will dive, miss it and the ball will bounce around,” De La Cruz said.
Atlanta starter Bryce Elder, who threw a shutout against Washington in his previous outing, was lifted after giving up four runs in five innings. Elder (2-4) allowed six hits, walked one and struck out five.
“Would have liked to keep it closer than four,” he said.
Swanson doubled leading off the sixth before Luzardo fanned Michael Harris II, Riley and Olson. It was Atlanta’s final hit, as relievers Jeff Brigham, Bryan Hoeing and Richard Bleier each tossed a perfect inning for Miami.
Run-scoring doubles from De La Cruz and Sánchez in the first gave the Marlins a 2-0 lead.
De La Cruz’s two-run shot in the third made it 4-0. The second-year outfielder drove Elder’s sinker over the wall in center for his 13th homer this season. He raised his batting average to .390 with five homers and 22 RBIs since being recalled from Triple-A on Sept. 7.
“That’s who I am, the player they brought in last year,” De La Cruz said. “And that’s how I will continue to be the rest of my career.”
CLOSING STATEMENTS
Luzardo’s dominant final start of the season followed similar performances by teammates Sandy Alcantara and Pablo López against Milwaukee last weekend. Alcantara, a top NL Cy Young Award contender, threw his major league-leading sixth complete game in a 1-0 loss, while López tossed seven scoreless innings and got a no-decision.
“Our guys have kept us there and given us chances,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “If you look at the whole season, it’s been a pretty strong suit. For the most part, they’ve been pretty solid.”
DIFFERENT SITUATION
When Elder made his previous start in Miami on Aug. 14, he was a one-day call-up from Triple-A to take the 27th roster spot for the doubleheader. Now, he could figure in Atlanta’s postseason plans after his third outing since being recalled a fifth time Sept. 19.
“He’s definitely going to be in the conversation,” Snitker said. “He’s pitched his way into it.”
FAMILIAR HONOR
Harris accomplished in September what he had previously done in June and August. The 21-year-old center fielder earned his third NL rookie of the month award. Harris hit .324 and finished with six homers and 19 RBIs in September.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Braves: 2B Ozzie Albies (right pinkie fracture) traveled with the club to Miami, where he will continue his rehab.
Marlins: SS Miguel Rojas will undergo surgery to repair cartilage damage in his right wrist Wednesday.
UP NEXT
Braves RHP Jake Odorizzi (5-6, 4.53 ERA) will start the middle game of the series Tuesday, while the Marlins go with LHP Braxton Garrett (3-6, 3.56).
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DALLAS, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank, as Trustee of the Sabine Royalty Trust (NYSE: SBR), today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $1.067860 per unit, payable on December 29, 2022, to unit holders of record on December 15, 2022. Sabine's cash distribution history, current and prior year financial reports and tax information booklets, a link to filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission and more can be found on its website at http://www.sbr-sabine.com/. Additionally, printed reports can be requested and are mailed free of charge.
This distribution reflects primarily the oil production for September 2022 and the gas production for August 2022. Preliminary production volumes are approximately 59,760 barrels of oil and 1,874,536 Mcf of gas. Preliminary prices are approximately $85.53 per barrel of oil and $6.82 per Mcf of gas.
This month's distribution is higher than the previous month's primarily due to increased production due to the timing of receipts through the end of the month as compared to the previous month's timing of receipts, offset by a decrease in oil pricing and flat pricing for gas.
The production from new horizontal gas wells in Panola County, Texas, has contributed approximately $1,070,000 reflecting August production with an average pricing of $8.57 per Mcf. In addition to these proceeds, the additional 8 wells which were paid upon for the month of August, contributed approximately $180,000. All volumes and pricing are included in the tables below.
Also, revenue of $3,900,000 was received for 4 new additional wells in Panola County reflecting production back through December 2021.
Additionally, for the other 3 horizontal wells, also in Panola County, the receipts were not posted for this month's distribution.
As more regular monthly receipts are made in the months to come, additional information will be made available.
The table below compares this month's production and prices to the previous month's:
Revenues are only distributed after they are received, verified, and posted. Most energy companies normally issue payment of royalties on or about the 25th of every month, and depending on mail delivery, a varying amount of royalties are not received until after the revenue posting on the last business day of the month. The revenues received after that date will be posted within 30 days of receipt.
Due to the timing of the end of the month of November, approximately $3,889,795 of revenue received will be posted in the following month of December in addition to normal receipts during December. Since the close of business in November and prior to this press release, $1,527,000 in revenue has been received.
Approximately $684,000 for 2022 Ad Valorem taxes was deducted from this month's distribution as compared to $670,000 this time last year. These payments are normal expenditures at this time of year.
The 2021 Annual Report with Form 10-K and the January 1, 2022 Reserve Summary has been posted on the Sabine website at http://www.sbr-sabine.com/.
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Securities Litigation Partner James (Josh) Wilson Encourages Investors Who Suffered Losses Exceeding $100,000 In Enviva To Contact Him Directly To Discuss Their Options
NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Enviva Inc. ("Enviva" or the "Company") (NYSE: EVA) and reminds investors of the January 3, 2023 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
If you suffered losses exceeding $100,000 investing in Enviva stock or options between February 21, 2019 and October 11, 2022 and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/EVA.
There is no cost or obligation to you.
Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading minority and Woman-owned national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Enviva had misrepresented the environmental sustainability of its wood pellet production and procurement; (2) Enviva had similarly overstated the true measure of cash flow generated by the Company's platform; (3) accordingly, Enviva had misrepresented its business model and the Company's ability to achieve the level of growth that Defendants had represented to investors; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On October 12, 2022, during pre-market hours, Blue Orca Capital ("Blue Orca") published a report on Enviva (the "Blue Orca Report"). Among other allegations, the Blue Orca Report stated that "new discovered data suggests . . . the company is flagrantly greenwashing its wood procurement" and characterized Enviva's claim to be a "pure play ESG Company with a healthy, self-funded dividend and cash flows to provide a platform for future growth" as "nonsense on all counts." Moreover, the Blue Orca Report alleged that "Enviva is a dangerously levered serial capital raiser whose deteriorating cash conversion and unprofitability will drain it of cash next year" and is "a product of deranged European climate subsidies which incentivize the destruction of American forests so that European power companies can check a bureaucratic box."
On this news, Enviva's stock price fell $7.74 per share, or 13.13%, to close at $51.23 per share on October 12, 2022.
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Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP also encourages anyone with information regarding Enviva's conduct to contact the firm, including whistleblowers, former employees, shareholders and others.
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Man drowns after helping rescue 8-year-old from river
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An Iowa man is being called a hero after authorities say he drowned helping to save an 8-year-old child who was struggling in the river.
The Joint Emergency Communication Center got a report at 6:07 p.m. Friday of a possible drowning in the Iowa River in rural Johnson County, according to KCRG.
At the scene, law enforcement learned that an adult male, later identified as 42-year-old Wegayewu Faris, was missing after he rescued an 8-year-old child. Faris’ body was found at 7:10 p.m. following a recovery operation.
Bystanders say that the 8-year-old child went into the river and struggled. Faris swam into the river and attempted to save the child. A kayaker was able to help, saving the child from the river.
But Faris sank below the water. The kayaker and another person searched for him but couldn’t find him.
Witnesses performed CPR on the child, who was later taken to University of Iowa Hospitals.
Faris was from Coralville, Iowa, and worked as a custodian at Iowa City High School. He and the rescued child are not related and were visiting the park with separate families.
City High Principal John Bacon announced Faris’ death on Twitter, writing that he was, “a kind, amazing person. He drowned saving the life of a young child. A hero.”
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.
The Johnson County Medical Examiner, Johnson County Conservation, Johnson County Emergency Management, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa State Patrol, Hills Fire Department and Lone Tree Fire Department helped the sheriff’s office at the scene.
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An innovation in electrolyte hydration and nitric oxide regeneration
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyäni, Inc., an internationally recognized health and wellness company, just announced the launch of Kyäni Electo™— a first-of-its-kind electrolyte drink mix that features a combination of electrolyte minerals to support hydration, and a proprietary NR-8™ polyphenol blend to support nitric oxide regeneration.
Nitric oxide—a vasodilator that allows for increased circulation and the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the muscles and tissue—is the foundation for all Kyäni products. NR-8 works by protecting an enzyme needed to generate nitric oxide.
Available in two crave-worthy flavors, Coconut Lime and Crisp Apple, Electro is the perfect go-to hydration source that:
- Supports proper muscle contraction (including the heart)
- Promotes balanced pH
- Helps support healthy blood pressure
- Helps manage cellular fluid balance
- Supports nitric oxide production
- Supports exercise endurance
With this new product, Kyäni is empowering its Business Partners with the opportunity to substantially increase their businesses. According to the lay press, 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. This growing health concern creates a vast marketplace for hydration products. The Electrolyte drinks market is forecast to significantly rise in spending on functional food & beverages in the coming years. The Global Electrolyte Drinks Market size was valued at USD 20.7 Bn in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 31.0 Bn by 2027, with a growing CAGR of 6.1% during the forecast period.
"Electro is the only hydration support formula on the market that features a nitric oxide regeneration blend. It isn't just for people who are athletes or who do sports. In a world where 75% of us are dehydrated, this is a daily use product for everyone." — Mark Macdonald, International bestselling author and Co-creator of the Nitro Nutrition program.
About Kyäni
Kyäni, Inc., founded in 2007, is an internationally recognized health and wellness company based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA. From its inception, Kyäni has been the globally recognized pioneer of Nitro Nutrition™ and antioxidant support by being the first to recognize the efficacy of the Wild Blueberry and ingredients that support natural nitric oxide production in the body. With their selection of core products, which include The Triangle of Health®, powerful Protein Nutritionals, ON™ nootropic energy shots, and now the Electro hydration and nitric oxide regeneration mix, Kyäni harnesses the power and potency of wild and natural ingredients to lead the way in increasing and improving overall health and wellness through proper nutrition. With its value rooted in unrivaled, wild-sourced nutritional supplements, Kyäni is also able to offer a rewarding opportunity to its Business Partners in over 50 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.kyani.com.
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Drivers on Highway 1 from Pismo Beach to Oceano will see some overnight delays Thursday.
A major improvement project to resurface Highway 1 will result in reverse one-way traffic control and will be in place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
This closure will be from Mattie Road to Grand Avenue.
It will allow crews to remove existing striping and replace it with temporary paint.
And a reminder, a 24-7 full road closure of Highway 1 from Gracia Way to Valley Road in Oceano remains in effect until mid-June. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/hwy-1-overnight-work-to-result-in-one-way-traffic-thursday | 2023-04-27 18:01:38 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/hwy-1-overnight-work-to-result-in-one-way-traffic-thursday |
Sybil Wilks what you need to know for July 17, 2023
Sybils Birthday Shout Outs
Jeremih, 36
F. Gary Gray, 54 (Director of Friday, Straight Outta Compton, started as Hip Hop video director.)
David Hasselhoff, 71
Donald Sutherland, 88
Kali Uchis, 29
Marilynn, 33 (Love & HipHop)
Angela Merkel, 69 (Former Chancellor of Germany)
Camilla Parker Bowles, 76 (Duchess Of Cornwall. Prince Charles wife)
Remembering:
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Diahann Carroll (1935- 2019)
John Lewis (1940-2020)
John Coltrane (1926-1967)
Eric Garner (1970-2014)
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1. Rev. Jesse Jackson: He Is Somebody
Source:GettyRev. Jesse Jackson: He Is Somebody
What You Need to Know:
Over the weekend, the torch was passed, as the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, announced he is stepping down as President of the National Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and introduced the man who will step into that role, the Reverend Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III.
In a press release, Rev. Jackson stated, “I am looking forward to this next chapter where I will continue to focus on economic justice, mentorship, and teaching ministers how to fight for social justice. I will still be very involved in the organization and am proud that we have chosen Rev. Dr. Haynes as my successor.”
2. Help and Hope for Student Loan Borrowers
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What You Need to Know:
“Keep Hope Alive” as the aforementioned Rev. Jesse Jackson would say, as the Biden Administration announced a new opportunity to relieve student loan debt. The Department of Education revealed updated efforts to forgive $39 billion for over 800,000 student loan borrowers.
The Biden administration has stressed that this is not a reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision, which denied the president’s student loan forgiveness program. Supporters prefer to describe this as a technical fix for over 804,000 Americans who had Income-Driven Repayment Loans (IDR). In this loan program, designed as a safety net for low-income borrowers, they agreed to pay a certain percentage of income each month, and if payments were made regularly for 20 years, the loans were said to be forgiven.
3. First Lady Jill Biden and Mary J. Blige Team Up For Cancer Prevention
Source:GettyFirst Lady Jill Biden and Mary J. Blige Team Up For Cancer Prevention
What You Need to Know:
The Biden Administration’s cancer prevention and treatment initiative just received celebrity support from superstar Mary J. Blige. The singer joined First Lady Jill Biden and the American Cancer Society to announce national meetings on breast and cervical cancer. The cancer society pledged to convene events after the president and first lady resurrected the “Cancer Moonshot” initiative this year. The program provides more money for research to “help us end cancer as we know it. For good,” said Jill Biden.
R&B singer Mary J. Blige talked about losing aunts and other family members to breast, cervical, and lung cancer. She has promoted breast cancer screening through the Black Women’s Health Imperative, especially among Black women disproportionately affected. Blige blamed the misconceptions about mammograms among Black women and “the practice of not wanting other people in our business” for the disparities in breast cancer outcomes between Blacks and whites.
4. Bystander Video Catches Officers’ Violent Arrest of Black Woman
Source:GettyBystander Video Catches Officers’ Violent Arrest of Black Woman
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What You Need to Know:
On June 24 in Lancaster, California, a bystander recorded a video of a deputy violently tackling a Black woman while she filmed a man being handcuffed. That video has gone viral and was recorded by local visual artist Lisa Michelle Garrett, who will be joining us live on “It’s Sybil“, Monday at 7 pm/6 pm Central.
According to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna, deputies responded to a robbery in progress, a 9-1-1 call from a grocery store employee said that two customers assaulted “loss prevention employees.” In an over five-minute bystander video, a deputy grabbed the woman by the neck and violently threw her to the ground while she filmed the man’s arrest on a cellphone. The woman was then pepper sprayed and the deputy put his knee on her back while handcuffing her. In the bodycam video, the woman yells “I can’t breathe,” while the man tells the other deputy that the woman has cancer. Allegedly, the two are married and were suspected of stealing a cake. The man arrested was cited for resisting and delaying an officer, petty theft, or attempted petty theft and interfering with a business. The woman arrested was cited for assaulting an officer and battery after assaulting loss prevention personnel.
5. Patience
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The definition of PATIENCE is to endure discomfort without complaining. The spiritual meaning of PATIENCE is very similar. Patience in the Bible is the ability to endure difficult people and situations without giving into anger or giving up hope. Patience is tied to your level of FAITH. If you have strong faith in God and what he can and will do in your life, you can have more patience because you already know He is going to come through for you.
A couple of individuals in the Bible, if they were alive could testify to that. One person is Job. Over a period of time, he lost possessions, children, and a couple’s health and he still refused to curse God after his friends encouraged him to. Instead, he prayed for his friends and God then restored Job’s possessions and gave him twice what he had before (Job 42:10). | https://wzakcleveland.com/playlist/sybil-wilkes-what-you-need-to-knowrev-jesse-jackson-student-loan-borrowers-hope/ | 2023-07-18 21:58:10 | 0 | https://wzakcleveland.com/playlist/sybil-wilkes-what-you-need-to-knowrev-jesse-jackson-student-loan-borrowers-hope/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — A 49-year-old Seattle man arrested earlier this month on suspicion of committing a hate crime against U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal and threatening to kill her has been charged with felony stalking.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said Brett Forsell was charged Wednesday after additional evidence was gathered by police investigators.
Forsell was arrested July 9 after yelling obscenities and threats outside Jayapal's Seattle home late at night and booked into jail. He was released when prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence for a hate crime charge, though authorities noted the investigation would continue.
Police later forwarded the stalking case for consideration, prosecutors said.
In 2016, Jayapal became the first Indian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democrat heads the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
As part of the felony stalking charge, prosecutors note Forsell was armed with a deadly weapon and that Jayapal was stalked in connection with her elected position.
Seattle police arrested Forsell outside Jayapal’s house in the Arbor Heights neighborhood at 11:25 p.m. on July 9 after she called 911 and reported an unknown person or people were near her home using obscene language and mentioning her name, probable cause documents said. She told a dispatcher her husband thought someone may have fired a pellet gun, the statement said.
Officers found Forsell standing in the the street with his hands in the air and a handgun holstered on his waist, the probable cause statement said.
Forsell told police he drove by Jayapal's house yelling obscenities multiple times since late June and on July 9 drove by, stopped, got out of the car and directed profanities at Jayapal, according to the probable cause statement.
He left after encountering her husband and then returned a short time later, knowing they were home, and was seen by neighbors and Jayapal's husband appearing to approach the house while yelling at Jayapal, documents said. A neighbor told police she heard a man threaten to kill Jayapal and believed the statements were made by the man arrested that night.
Police learned the man sent an email to Jayapal’s public account in January, saying he didn’t like her, documents said.
A temporary Extreme Risk Protection Order to require Forsell to surrender his firearms and concealed pistol license, citing concerns about escalating behavior toward Jayapal and increasing mental health struggles, remains in place.
Prosecutors said a judge approved a bail amount of $500,000. It didn't appear that Forsell had been booked into jail as of Wednesday evening. The Associated Press was unable to locate Forsell for comment and it was not known if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Jayapal said in a statement that the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s office charging Forsell with felony stalking demonstrates that the justice system is doing its work.
“I am grateful to the King County Prosecutor’s Office for holding this man accountable for his dangerous actions, to the victim’s advocate for her assistance throughout the process, and to the Seattle Police Department, U.S. Capitol Police, and the House Sergeant at Arms for continuing to keep my family, me, and my staff safe," Jayapal said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Man-accused-in-threats-to-kill-Rep-Pramila-17334044.php | 2022-07-28 04:17:46 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Man-accused-in-threats-to-kill-Rep-Pramila-17334044.php |
Kanye West supporters host livestream, clash with Jewish students on UF campus
An antisemitic pro-Kanye West, or “Ye,” group gathered at the University of Florida’s Plaza of the Americas in a live-streamed talk show Thursday, just one day after cryptic chalk messages appeared around campus that called for an increased presence from law enforcement on campus.
The group sat just across from where the Jewish student organization, UF Hillel, was tabling.
“Ye is Right,” a show on streaming platform Cozy TV, live-streamed from the plaza with a camera crew while around 100 students gathered to watch and protest. The stunt was part of a string of appearances around Florida campuses, including a stop at Florida State University, where the group spread messaging that sided with the rapper.
Ye, also known as Kanye West, who has been embroiled in controversy since October for repeated antisemitic remarks on television and social media, which include him saying that he "loves" Adolf Hitler and denying the Holocaust happened. His attack on the Jewish community resulted in Adidas − maker of his popular Yeezy shoe brand − ending the pair's seven-year relationship.
Jewish student group UF Hillel passed around “chomp hate” stickers and blared music while one of the Ye group's leaders, Tyler Russell, spoke. Hadassah Sternfeld, a 19-year-old UF women’s studies freshman, said the group was there to spread awareness of antisemitism through education.
More:Antisemitic Kanye 'Ye' West remarks found written around University of Florida campus
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The recent uptick of antisemitism on and around campus is alarming, Sternfeld said, adding that it’s a reminder that hate for the Jewish community is still present.
“You see antisemitism all around the world, but you never really know how it’s going to make you feel until it hits your campus,” Sternfeld said.
Russell insisted his group isn’t antisemitic and “loves everyone” despite a barrage of past antisemitic comments from Ye. He also said his group was not involved with the chalk messages found around campus supporting West on Wednesday, messages that included “Ye 24,” “Ye for president,” “Students for Ye,” and one message with Thursday’s date, “Ye is right 2/2/23.”
Some students shouted in protest at the stream while others watched from afar. Sarah Douglas, an 18-year-old UF English freshman, was in the plaza when Russell began speaking.
Douglas became aware of the group after learning about the chalk messages. She hopes students will begin to ignore displays like Russell’s
“I wish that people would stop giving them attention,” she said.
The group gathered shortly after the nearby Turlington Plaza was evacuated due to the discovery of a suspicious package which the university concluded was research material. The University Police Department and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad arrived on the scene to investigate while the university urged students and faculty to stay away from the area.
UF spokeswoman Cynthia Roldan said the package is unrelated to the cryptic antisemitic chalk messages.
UF President Kent Fuchs condemned the chalk messages in a tweet on Wednesday and said there would be an increased police presence on campus this week.
“UF strongly and unequivocally condemns these and all acts of antisemitism, hatred and intolerance," he wrote.
The chalk is just the latest in a slew of antisemitic messaging in Gainesville.
In September, flyers saying Jewish people are responsible child grooming were thrown on lawns. In October, UF received a "C" grade from Stop Antisemitism, after school officials failed to complete a survey about antisemitism on campus.
UF currently has 6,500 undergrads and 2,900 graduate students who are Jewish, one of the highest Jewish student populations at a public institution in the nation, according to Hillel International. | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/02/02/antisemitic-ye-supporters-show-up-to-uf-campus-where-jewish-group-is/69868167007/ | 2023-02-03 00:34:40 | 1 | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/02/02/antisemitic-ye-supporters-show-up-to-uf-campus-where-jewish-group-is/69868167007/ |
The self-titled album is a rite of passage. Self-titling makes for easy debut project fodder, for example, as a literal means of introducing a new artist to their audience. But what about a mid-career LP? Such a decision could signal a new direction for an artist or perhaps a deepening commitment to the work, a showcase of one's craftsmanship, a greater attempt at vulnerability and authenticity. Produced by Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark's eponymous 11-song collection is raw and spare, sonically calling back to her debut outing but lyrically offering snapshots of Clark the person, not Clark the pen-for-hire.
Such a move feels especially notable for Clark, who first gained the attention of country fans by writing songs for other artists, including Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Reba McEntire. Her debut album, 2013's quietly excellent 12 Songs, brought with it no shortage of critical acclaim and greater recognition, but it was 2016's Big Day in a Small Town, a concept album, that let Clark spread her narrative wings and, in turn, announced her as a bona fide star. Rounded out by 2019's Grammy-nominated Your Life Is a Record, her most mainstream offering, Clark's introductory trio of records gave no doubt as to her talents, but little in the way of insight into its creator. Out May 19, Brandy Clark changes this.
While Brandy Clark is not entirely autobiographical — the opening track was inspired by a line from Forrest Gump, after all — the LP is clearly a collection of songs written with Clark herself, not a publishing company, in mind. Lyrically, this is evident on tracks like "Northwest," one of the LP's rowdier numbers and a tribute to Clark's home state of Washington. Sonically, these songs offer more room for Clark to showcase her singing voice, a powerful, agile instrument that she wields masterfully, using a well-honed sense of dynamics to build emotion at key moments or pulling back to let the story itself take the spotlight.
The album opens with "Ain't Enough Rocks," a short story of a song about two sisters exacting revenge on their abusive father, rife with vivid imagery ("a wolf in Daddy's clothing," the "right amount of limestone" to keep a body underwater) and cleverly constructed rhymes ("That angry sky was thunderin' as they drove him to the Cumberland," "Cops blamed it on his liver so they never drug the river"). Clark's vocal is part spoken, part sung, an effective combination that underscores the depth of her storytelling and allows for moments of catharsis for the listener. Slide guitar virtuoso and tone king Derek Trucks lends his talents to the track, with his fiery licks slicing through Carlile's spare, moody production like strikes of lightning in a rainstorm.
The bruised and broken "Buried" evinces Clark's knack for a heart-wrenching ballad and boasts one of the more gutting lines — and there are many — that she's written: "I'll fly myself to France, first class New York to Paris / Get drunk on wine and dance with someone who ain't embarrassed." While the track's first and second person pronouns lend a cloak of vagueness to the relationship in question, it's hard not to hear the song through a queer lens, adding an extra layer of devastation. Clark's masterful control of her voice heightens things further. At the chorus, for example, she allows her voice to break when offering a string of hypotheticals — "If you don't want me," "If you're beyond me" — each "if" delivered with a wavering whisper.
Other highlights include "She Smoked in the House," a tender and playful portrait of the kind of woman — Clark's grandmother — who "bought everything at Sears on layaway" and "put coffee in her cream." Atop percussive guitar, Clark delivers these details with a knowing wink in her voice, shifting into a higher register at the song's more emotional moments, like when she admits, "I hate cigarettes, but I miss all that smoke." "Up Above the Clouds (Cecilia's Song)" is almost lullabye-esque in its gentle, simple melody, with gorgeous harmony vocals from Lucius, who feature on the clear-eyed "Tell Her You Don't Love Her."
A key moment on Brandy Clark comes four tracks in, when Clark and Carlile join forces for the frank, poignant "Dear Insecurity." Carlile takes the first stanza, setting up the song's conceit: Addressing a personified insecurity, she sings, "You take up half this bed, living rent free in my head." Clark takes the concept deeper, admitting specific worries: "My lips are way too thin, too many miles on my skin." The interplay of their voices is reason enough for repeated listens, but paired with such honest, warts-and-all lyrics the song feels quietly radical. Country music has a rich history of women baring their souls, but these days such songs are often overshadowed by the bravado and beers of the genre's male-dominated radio format. Bucking trends and returning to form, Brandy Clark is a beautiful reminder of the potential that comes with opening up.
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The naked mole rat may not be much to look at, but it has much to say. The wrinkled, whiskered rodents, which live, as many ants do, in large, underground colonies, have an elaborate vocal repertoire. They whistle, trill and twitter; grunt, hiccup and hiss.
And when two of the voluble rats meet in a dark tunnel, they exchange a standard salutation. “They’ll make a soft chirp, and then a repeating soft chirp,” said Alison Barker, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Germany. “They have a little conversation.”
Hidden in this everyday exchange is a wealth of social information, Barker and her colleagues discovered when they used machine-learning algorithms to analyze 36,000 soft chirps recorded in seven mole rat colonies.
Not only did each mole rat have its own vocal signature, but each colony had its own distinct dialect, which was passed down, culturally, over generations. During times of social instability — as in the weeks after a colony’s queen was violently deposed — these cohesive dialects fell apart. When a new queen began her reign, a new dialect appeared to take hold.
“The greeting call, which I thought was going to be pretty basic, turned out to be incredibly complicated,” said Barker, who is now studying the many other sounds the rodents make. “Machine-learning kind of transformed my research.”
Machine-learning systems, which use algorithms to detect patterns in large collections of data, have excelled at analyzing human language, giving rise to voice assistants that recognize speech, transcription software that converts speech to text and digital tools that translate between human languages.
In recent years, scientists have begun deploying this technology to decode animal communication, using machine-learning algorithms to identify when squeaking mice are stressed or why fruit bats are shouting. Even more ambitious projects are underway — to create a comprehensive catalog of crow calls, map the syntax of sperm whales and even to build technologies that allow humans to talk back.
“Let’s try to find a Google Translate for animals,” said Diana Reiss, an expert on dolphin cognition and communication at Hunter College and co-founder of Interspecies Internet, a think tank devoted to facilitating cross-species communication.
The field is young and many projects are still in their infancy; humanity is not on the verge of having a Rosetta Stone for whale songs or the ability to chew the fat with cats. But the work is already revealing that animal communication is far more complex than it sounds to the human ear, and the chatter is providing a richer view of the world beyond our own species.
“I find it really intriguing that machines might help us to feel closer to animate life, that artificial intelligences might help us to notice biological intelligences,” said Tom Mustill, a wildlife and science filmmaker and the author of the forthcoming book, “How to Speak Whale.” “This is like we’ve invented a telescope — a new tool that allows us to perceive what was already there but we couldn’t see before.”
Advanced Eavesdropping
Studies of animal communication are not new, but machine-learning algorithms can spot subtle patterns that might elude human listeners. For instance, scientists have shown that these programs can tell apart the voices of individual animals, distinguish between sounds that animals make in different circumstances and break their vocalizations down into smaller parts, a crucial step in deciphering meaning.
“One of the things that’s really great about animal sound is that there are still so many mysteries and that those mysteries are things which we can apply computation to,” said Dan Stowell, an expert in machine listening at Tilburg University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands.
Several years ago, researchers at the University of Washington used machine learning to develop software, called DeepSqueak, that can automatically detect, analyze and categorize the ultrasonic vocalizations of rodents. It can also distinguish between the complex, songlike calls that the animals make when they’re feeling good and the long, flat ones they make when they are not. “You can just get a direct, subjective, from the animal’s mouth how-are-they-feeling,” said Kevin Coffey, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Washington, who was part of the team that developed DeepSqueak.
DeepSqueak has been repurposed for other species, including lemurs and whales, while other teams have developed their own systems for automatically detecting when clucking chickens or squealing pigs are in distress.
Decoding Meaning
Decoding the meaning of animal calls also requires large amounts of data about the context surrounding each squeak and squawk.
To learn more about the vocalizations of Egyptian fruit bats, researchers used video cameras and microphones to record groups of the animals for 75 days. Then they reviewed the recordings, painstakingly noting several important details, such as which bat was vocalizing and in what context, for each of nearly 15,000 calls.
The bats are pugilistic, frequently quarreling in their crowded colonies, and the vast majority of their vocalizations are aggressive. “Basically, they’re pushing each other,” said Yossi Yovel, a neuroecologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel who led the research. “Imagine a big stadium and everybody wants to find a seat.”
But a machine-learning system could distinguish, with 61% accuracy, between aggressive calls made in four different contexts, determining whether a particular call had been emitted during a fight related to food, mating, perching position or sleep. That’s not a perfect performance, Yovel noted, but it is significantly better than the 25% accuracy associated with random guessing. Yovel was surprised to discover that the software could also identify, at levels greater than chance guessing, which bat was on the receiving end of the scolding.
“This implies that an eavesdropping bat is theoretically able, to some extent at least, to identify if individual A is addressing individual B or individual C,” the researchers wrote in their 2016 paper.
Although the idea remains unproven, the bats may vary their vocalizations depending on their relationship to and knowledge of the offender, the same way people might use different tones when addressing different audiences.
“It’s a colony, they’re very social, they know each other,” Yovel said. “Perhaps when I shout at you for food, it’s different from when I shout at somebody else for food. So the same call will have slightly different nuances, which we were able to detect using machine learning.”
Still, detecting patterns is only the beginning. Scientists then need to determine whether the algorithms have uncovered something meaningful about real-world animal behavior.
“You have to be very careful to avoid spotting patterns that aren’t real,” Stowell said.
After the algorithms suggested that naked mole rat colonies all had distinct dialects, Barker and her colleagues confirmed that the rodents were far more likely to respond to soft chirps from members of their own colonies than those from foreign ones. To rule out the possibility that the naked mole rats were simply responding to individual voices they recognized, the researchers repeated the experiment with artificial soft chirps they generated to match the dialect of a rat’s home colony. The results held.
In the wild, colony-specific dialects might help naked mole rats ensure that they are not sharing scarce resources with strangers, and may be a way of enforcing social conformity.
“In these large underground tunnels, you want to make sure that everyone’s following the rules,” Barker said. “And one very quick way to test that is to make sure everyone is speaking very similarly.”
Whale Tales
Other major projects are underway. Project CETI — short for the Cetacean Translation Initiative — is bringing together machine-learning experts, marine biologists, roboticists, linguists and cryptographers, among others, at more than a dozen institutions to decode the communication of sperm whales, which emit bursts of clicks that are organized into Morse code-like sequences called codas.
The team is planning to install its “core whale-listening stations,” each of which includes 28 underwater microphones, off the coast of Dominica this fall. It plans to use robotic fish to record audio and video of the whales, as well as small acoustic tags to record the vocalizations and movements of individual animals.
Then, the researchers will try to decipher the syntax and semantics of whale communication and probe bigger scientific questions about sperm whale behavior and cognition, such as how large groups coordinate their actions and how whale calves learn to communicate.
“Every which way we turn there’s another question,” said David Gruber, a marine biologist at Baruch College in New York City who leads Project CETI. “If there was a big event that happened a week ago, how would we know that they’re still communicating about it? Do whales do mathematics?”
The Earth Species Project, a California-based nonprofit, is also partnering with biologists to pilot an assortment of machine-learning approaches with whales and other species.
For instance, it is working with marine biologists to determine whether machine-learning algorithms can automatically identify what behaviors baleen whales are engaging in, based on movement data collected by tracking tags. “Is there a specific signature in the data for when an animal takes a breath or when an animal is feeding?” said Ari Friedlaender, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is collaborating on the project.
The researchers hope to overlay that behavioral data with audio recordings to determine whether there are certain sounds that whales consistently make in certain contexts.
“Now you can do really interesting things, like, ‘Let’s take orcas, look at their motion, translate the motion into the sound that goes with it,’” said Aza Raskin, the president and co-founder of the Earth Species Project. “Or you can start with the audio and say, ‘What behavior goes with what they’re saying?’”
Talking Back In another line of research, Earth Species experts are using machine-learning algorithms to create an inventory of all the call types made by captive Hawaiian crows, which became extinct in the wild two decades ago.
They will then compare the results to historical recordings of wild Hawaiian crows to identify specific call types the birds might have lost over their years in captivity.
“Their vocal repertoire may have eroded over time, which is a real conservation concern,” said Christian Rutz, a behavioral ecologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who is working with Earth Species on the project. “They keep them in these aviaries to breed birds for future releases. But what if these crows no longer know how to speak crow?”
Scientists can then study the function of any lost calls — and perhaps even reintroduce the most critical ones to captive colonies.
The Earth Species Project has also teamed up with Michelle Fournet, a marine acoustic ecologist at the University of New Hampshire, who has been trying to decipher humpback whale communication by playing prerecorded whale calls through underwater speakers and observing how the whales respond.
Now, Earth Species scientists are using algorithms to generate novel humpback whale vocalizations — that is, “new calls that don’t exist but sound like they could,” Fournet said. “I can’t say how cool it is to imagine something from nature that isn’t there and then to listen to it.”
Playing these new calls to wild whales could help scientists test hypotheses about the function of certain vocalizations, she said.
Given enough data about how whales converse with each other, machine-learning systems should be able to generate plausible responses to specific whale calls and play them back in real time, experts said. That means that scientists could, in essence, use whale chatbots to “converse” with the marine mammals even before they fully understand what the whales are saying.
These machine-mediated conversations could help researchers refine their models, and improve their understanding of whale communication. “At some point, it might be a real dialogue,” said Michael Bronstein, a machine-learning expert at the University of Oxford and part of Project CETI.
He added, “As a scientist, this is probably the craziest project I have ever participated in.”
Learning to Listen
The prospect of ongoing, two-way dialogue with other species remains unknown. But true conversation will require a number of “prerequisites,” including matching intelligence types, compatible sensory systems and, crucially, a shared desire to chat, said Natalie Uomini, an expert on cognitive evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. “There has to be the motivation on both sides to want to communicate,” she said.
Even then, some animals may have experiences that are so different from our own that some ideas simply get lost in translation. “For example, we have a concept of ‘getting wet,’” Bronstein said. “I think whales would not even be able ever to understand what it means.”
These experiments may also raise ethical issues, experts acknowledge. “If you find patterns in animals that allow you to understand their communication, that opens the door to manipulating their communications,” Mustill said.
But the technology could also be deployed for the benefit of animals, helping experts monitor the welfare of both wild and domestic fauna. Scientists also said that they hoped that by providing new insight into animal lives, this research might prompt a broader societal shift. Many pointed to the galvanizing effect of the 1970 album “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” which featured recordings of otherworldly whale calls and has been widely credited with helping to spark the global Save the Whales movement.
Biologist Roger Payne, who produced that album, is now part of Project CETI. And many scientists said they hoped these new, high-tech efforts to understand the vocalizations of whales — and crows and bats and even naked mole rats — will be similarly transformative, providing new ways to connect with and understand the creatures with whom we share the planet.
“It’s not what the whales are saying that matters to me,” Gruber said. “It’s the fact that we’re listening.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-animal-translators/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-09-04 16:49:58 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-animal-translators/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Wednesday accused North Korea of covertly shipping a “significant number” of artillery shells to Russia in support of its invasion of Ukraine.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. believes North Korea is “trying to make it appear as though they’re being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa.” He declined to provide a specific estimate on the quantity of ammunition being sent to bolster the Russian effort.
Kirby said North Korea “is covertly supplying” the ammunition to Russia, but that, “we’re still monitoring this to determine whether the shipments are actually received.” He added that the U.S. has “an idea” of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn’t specify, because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to North Korea’s actions.
Kirby insisted the North Korean shipments are “not going to change the course of the war,” citing Western efforts to resupply the Ukrainian military.
The White House would not specify the mode of transportation or whether the U.S. or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia.
The White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that U.S. intelligence officials had determined the Russian Ministry of Defense was in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine.
Even as the administration revealed information about the covert North Korean artillery shell shipments, the White House also ought to downplay their significance.
“We don’t believe that they are in such a quantity that they would change the direction of this war or tangibly change the momentum either in the east or in the south” where some of the heaviest fighting in Ukraine is taking place, Kirby said.
The finding comes after the Biden administration in August said the Russian military took delivery of hundreds of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. The Biden administration said Iran has also sent personnel to Russian-controlled Crimea to provide technical support on operation of the drones. Iranian officials have denied they have provided drones or other support to Russia.
North Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia as much of the West has pulled away, blaming the United States for the Ukraine crisis and decrying the West’s “hegemonic policy” as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself.
The North Koreans have shown interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine’s east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow has met with envoys from two Russia-backed separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration,” citing his country’s easing of pandemic border controls.
In July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the territories, Donetsk and Luhansk, further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. resolutions that ban the country from exporting to or importing weapons from other countries. Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. resolution that required all member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their soil by 2019.
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rain showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
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temperature in the upper 30s. North winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Not as cool with highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Coastal Kleberg-
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
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fog. Highs in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
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70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
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.TUESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Kleberg Islands-
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258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog.
Breezy with highs in the mid 40s. North winds 15 to 25 mph,
becoming 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
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.TONIGHT...Showers likely. Patchy fog. Near steady temperature in
the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
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Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph
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with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
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cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 70. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
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258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
fog. Highs around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Wind chill values in the lower 20s.
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.TONIGHT...Showers likely. Patchy fog. Near steady temperature
around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
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fog. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chill
values in the lower 20s.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. North winds around 10 mph. Chance
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of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
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10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
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.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
fog. Highs in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chill
values in the lower 20s.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening, then
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rain showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
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Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
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cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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Aransas Islands-
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog.
Highs in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph. Wind chill
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values in the mid 20s.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
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rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph, diminishing to
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10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
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.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
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.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
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fog. Highs around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chill values
in the lower 20s.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening, then
rain showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
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temperature in the upper 30s. North winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Not as
cool with highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
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258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain showers likely, mainly this morning. Patchy
fog. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent. Wind chill values in the lower 20s.
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.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening, then
rain showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
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.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
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.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
fog. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chill
values in the mid 20s.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening, then
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rain showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
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Not as cool with highs around 50. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs around 70.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
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.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Patchy
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fog. Highs in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
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temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
Highs around 50. North winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to
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20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
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Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Calhoun Islands-
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
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.TODAY...Cloudy. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Patchy fog.
Highs in the mid 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
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showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
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Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows around 40. North
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy
with highs in the mid 50s. North winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming
15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
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lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
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...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...A slight chance of freezing rain this morning. Cloudy
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with rain showers likely. Patchy fog. Ice accumulation around a
trace. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation 60 percent. Wind chill values in the lower 20s.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely. Patchy fog. Near steady
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temperature in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers, mainly in
the morning. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. North winds
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10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
around 15 mph. Wind chill values in the mid 20s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
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15 mph. Wind chill values in the mid 20s in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
Wind chill values in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
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Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
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...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers with a slight chance of
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freezing rain this morning, then rain showers likely this
afternoon. Patchy fog. Ice accumulation around a trace. Highs in
the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
60 percent. Wind chill values in the lower 20s.
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.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
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morning. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
10 to 15 mph. Wind chill values in the mid 20s.
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.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
Wind chill values in the mid 20s.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Wind chill values in the
mid 20s in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
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258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain showers likely with a slight chance of
freezing rain this morning, then a chance of rain showers this
afternoon. Patchy fog. Ice accumulation around a trace. Highs in
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the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
60 percent. Wind chill values in the lower 20s.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. North winds around 10 mph. Chance
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of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
258 AM CST Wed Feb 1 2023
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Former SVP and head of state public policy with the Distilled Spirits Council brings more than 20 years of experience to Provi
CHICAGO, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Provi, the fastest-growing ecommerce marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry, announced today that David E. Wojnar has joined the company as its new senior vice president of government affairs. Wojnar will be responsible for developing and executing advocacy strategies for Provi's corporate endeavors, including implementing and directing state and federal affairs programs.
"Provi provides a critical need and service for bars and retailers across the country and has a great story to tell," said Wojnar. "I am really impressed by their leadership team, their product and the path that they are on. I look forward to learning from some of the brightest minds in the ecommerce space and helping Provi tell its story to industry partners, legislators and regulators across the country. There is no greater industry than the hospitality industry, and I am thankful I can continue to be a part of it on behalf of Provi."
Wojnar brings decades of experience to the new role. During his time at DISCUS, he oversaw state policy issues including tax increase defense and removing antiquated blue laws. Over the years, Wojnar and his colleagues passed historic legislation to allow Sunday sales in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia. In addition, Wojnar has worked closely with control state officials across the country as the DISCUS point person for the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA).
Highly regarded by both his direct colleagues and other peers within the industry, Wojnar's candor is noted by many. "I have had the opportunity to work with David over the years on many different issues," says Neal Insley, president and CEO of NABCA. "Whether we were on the same side or opposite, I have always found him to be forthright and solution driven. I wish him all the best in this new chapter."
Wojnar's former employer also did not hesitate to give praise and congratulations to him as he is set to join Provi's team. "The Distilled Spirits Council and our member companies cannot thank David enough for his dedication and drive to advance the spirits industry over the past 22 years," said Chris Swonger, DISCUS president and CEO. "David is a strategic thinker driven by results. In state after state, he played a critical role modernizing laws to bring spirits consumers more convenience and choice in the marketplace. We wish him the very best in this exciting new position and are pleased that he is continuing to work within the industry."
"There is no better person to lead our new division" said Taylor Katzman, founder and CEO of Provi. "As we continue to expand our marketplace nationally, David's 20 years of experience and knowledge will be invaluable."
Wojner was born and raised in Massachusetts and recently elected to his seventh term on the Acushnet (MA) Board of Selectmen. While in college, David hosted his own sports radio call-in show and called local high school basketball play-by-play. He and his wife, Melissa, have two children, Jacob and Nathan.
About Provi (www.provi.com)
Provi is the fastest growing B2B ecommerce marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry. Active in 35 states, Provi's robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for buyers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022, 10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding and is valued at $750 million. The company received Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work recognition in 2021. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty to provide a robust ecommerce marketplace and distributor tool-kit, aiming to streamline operations for licensed retailers, distributors and their sales representatives. Discover how Provi is digitally transforming the beverage alcohol industry at www.provi.com.
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Ben Shelton 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 32 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his last tournament (losing to Juncheng Shang), Ben Shelton will start the Citi Open versus Shang (in the round of 32). Shelton has +2800 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Shelton at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Shelton Stats
- In his most recent tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Shelton was eliminated in the Round of 32 by No. 156-ranked Shang, 4-6, 4-6.
- Through 20 tournaments over the past 12 months, Shelton has gone 12-20 and has yet to win a title.
- In 10 tournaments on hard courts over the past year, Shelton has gone 8-10.
- Over the past year (across all court surfaces), Shelton has played 32 matches and 29.8 games per match.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison, attention turns to the prospect of a prisoner swap between the United States and Russia that could get her home.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken went public with that possibility last week, revealing in an unusual announcement that the U.S. had made a “substantial proposal” aimed at securing the release of Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan.
With her court case concluded and her sentence pronounced, such a deal — assuming one can be reached with the Russians — is Griner's best chance of being freed early.
Though the guilty verdict was seen as a foregone conclusion, the imposition of a sentence her lawyers decried as far longer than average could give the U.S. extra impetus to strike a deal palatable to Russia as soon as possible. And the formal end of the court case could be the opening both sides need to forge a diplomatic resolution, too.
A look at what's at stake:
WHAT DID THE U.S. OFFER?
Blinken did not specify the terms other than to describe the offer as substantial and something that he intended to discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
A person familiar with the situation said that the U.S. offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer serving a 25-year prison sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — an organization classified by Washington as a narco-terrorist group.
The officials did wind up speaking by phone on Friday, the highest-level known contact between the two sides since Russia invaded Ukraine. The two are also in Cambodia for meetings involving foreign ministers of Southeast Asian countries.
WHAT HAS BEEN THE RUSSIAN RESPONSE?
Minimal, at least in public. Blinken did not provide details after his call with Lavrov about his response. The Russians, for their part, gave no hint about their interest in the offer, other than a statement chiding the U.S. to pursue the Americans’ freedom through “quiet diplomacy, without releases of speculative information.”
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Russian government had responded in a “bad faith” manner with an offer that U.S. officials did not regard as serious. She did not elaborate, though CNN reported last week that the Kremlin also wanted the release a former colonel from one of its spy agencies who was convicted of murder in Germany last year.
WOULD THERE BE A PRECEDENT FOR A PRISONER SWAP?
In many ways, yes — and a recent one too. In April, Russia traded Marine veteran Trevor Reed, convicted of a physical altercation with police in Moscow, for Konstantin Yarosheknko, a Russian pilot imprisoned for a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
But that involved a Russian with far less notoriety than Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who once inspired a Hollywood movie and who earned the nickname the “Merchant of Death” over allegations that he supplied weapons used for civil wars in countries around the globe. He has adamantly maintained his innocence.
And there's not much recent precedent, at least by the U.S. government, for public discussions of prisoner swaps until after the deal is done and planes are in the air. That's what made Blinken's announcement from the State Department briefing room all the more striking.
On one hand, it seemed intended to communicate to the American public that the administration will do whatever it needs to do to bring home wrongfully detained Americans.
But such a public overture also risks weakening the administration's negotiating hand to the extent it makes the U.S. look overly desperate for a deal, or that it signals to other countries that it is willing to meet potentially unreasonable demands.
SO WILL THE DEAL TAKE PLACE?
It's hard to say, but the contact between Blinken and Lavrov does suggest more progress than has ever been made before and reinforces the idea that the two countries are willing to maintain communication at a time of extraordinary tensions related to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Griner is the most prominent American detained by a foreign country. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist detained since February when police said they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage at an airport in Moscow.
And though some Republicans including former President Donald Trump have come out against a deal, the conviction and sentence will only ramp up pressure on the administration to reach an agreement that can get her out soon.
“Today’s sentencing of Brittney Griner was severe by Russian legal standards and goes to prove what we have known all along, that Brittney is being used as a political pawn,” tweeted Lindsay Kagawa Colas, Griner's agent.
She said getting a deal done for Griner and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive imprisoned on an espionage conviction he and his family says is baseless, may be difficult but it is “urgent” and the “right thing to do.” The U.S. government also regards Whelan as wrongfully convicted. It seems unlikely the administration would agree to a swap that didn't also include him.
For their part, Russian authorities have suggested that they regarded a conviction as basically a prerequisite for a prisoner swap.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden again urged Russia to release Griner immediately.
“My administration will continue to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring Brittney and Paul Whelan home safely as soon as possible,” he said in a statement.
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While acknowledging the Tampa Bay Lightning are showing why they are back-to-back Stanley Cup champions, the Florida Panthers know the have only themselves to blame for going down 3-0 in the second round.
It could be pop country artist Kane Brown's fault if their series ends less than a week before it started.
An arena conflict in Tampa with Brown's concert forced Games 3 and 4 to be played back to back. After the Lightning won 5-1 Sunday, the Presidents' Trophy-winning Panthers are on the brink of getting swept out of the playoffs with no time to regroup before Game 4 on Monday night (7 p.m. EDT, TNT).
“You get another chance," Florida coach Andrew Brunette said. "We’re a good team when the backs are against the wall and it looks bleak, so hopefully we can find some energy and some passion and some joy out of that. It’s more frustration than joy right now.”
There's little joy in the prospect of facing elimination, especially for the NHL's best regular-season team that looked like it found a groove coming back to beat Washington in the first round. It's been all Tampa Bay since, with Florida scoring a total of three goals through three games.
Credit reigning playoff MVP goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and his Lightning teammates who are blocking shots, but for whatever reason the situation is dire for the Panthers. Only four teams in league history have come back to win a best-of-seven series when trailing 3-0.
Players hope the quick turnaround is a benefit because there's no time to dwell on the unlikelihood of a comeback.
“We’ll wake up, new day and we can do it,” top winger Jonathan Huberdeau said. "We know we can do it. We have that kind of team. We have resilience. We showed it all year, so why not do it right now?”
The Lightning have dominated in nearly every facet of the game even without injured No. 1 center Brayden Point.
“They have more will and more desire than we do,” Brunette said. "They’re a tough team to come back on. And we kind of fell behind here this whole series and we haven’t found that extra gear from behind, which we found all year. But you have to play one game to bring it home and keep it alive.”
The Panthers had an NHL-best 29 comeback victories during the regular season. They also won four or more consecutive games seven times, including 13 in a row down the stretch.
That streak ended with a loss to Tampa Bay, which is on the verge of reaching the Eastern Conference final for a fourth time in five seasons.
“As these series go on, everybody’s getting banged up,” coach Jon Cooper said. "And so you want the rest. We got the rest for a couple days, and now there is no rest. The only thing is, it’s the same for both teams.”
AVALANCHE at BLUES, Colorado leads 2-1 (9:30 p.m., TNT)
Injuries continue to play a role in the rugged series out west between Colorado and St. Louis.
The Avalanche lost speedy defenseman Samuel Girard for the remainder of the playoffs with a broken sternum caused by a hit from Ivan Barbashev, and the Blues will be without goalie Jordan Binnington for the rest of this series after he was injured in a collision with Nazem Kadri.
"Any time you lose a guy, your team’s going to be upset about it," Blues coach Craig Berube said. “It’s just more motivation.”
Jack Johnson, Kurtis MacDermid and Ryan Murray are Colorado's options to replace Girard, a testament to general manager Joe Sakic building blue line depth for when it matters most.
Ville Husso figures to start — again — for St. Louis after being their No. 1 in net to begin the playoffs before he was replaced by Binnington. The team has also recalled Charlie Lindgren, who went 5-0-0 with a 1.22 goals-against average and .958 save percentage in five appearances during the season.
For now, it appears to be Husso's net, and the Blues are fine with that.
“He’s just a kid who seems pretty unflappable,” defenseman Robert Bortuzzo said. "As a team, we know what we’ve got back there. We’re very comfortable.”
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4 people in critical condition after apparent lightning strike at DC park
Posted/updated on: August 4, 2022 at 7:30 pm(WASHINGTON) -- Four people are in critical condition following an apparent lightning strike at a Washington, D.C., park, authorities said Thursday evening.
D.C. Fire and EMS said it had responded to Lafayette Park, located in front of the White House, and was treating the four patients.
Two men and two women were transported to area hospitals with "life-threatening injuries" after the apparent lightning strike, D.C. Fire and EMS said.
U.S. Park Police officers were also on the scene.
The National Weather Service had issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area Thursday evening.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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A Bronx man was indicted for raping and sexually assaulting three women, according to the district attorney, including one victim who was able to send a desperate plea for help through a food delivery app as she was being held hostage.
Kemoy Royal was arraigned on a slew of sexually based charges, including predatory sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse and more for the separate attacks that took place over the course of six days at his apartment on Pratt Avenue in Eastchester. Bail was set at $300,000.
An investigation found that the first alleged incident occurred on June 13. The 32-year-old Royal met with a 27-year-old woman whom he had been speaking to on a dating app for a few days, according to Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. He invited the woman to his home, where he allegedly raped her and forced her to perform sex acts on him. He also performed sex acts on her with her consent, according to the investigation.
The very next day, Royal met the second victim, a 26-year-old woman, around 7 p.m. while on the street. The DA said that Royal claimed to know the victim through a friend, and lured her back to his apartment — where he refused to let her leave and threatened to kill her.
Royal tried to force the woman into sex acts, according to the investigation, and allegedly bit her in the chest area and strangled her. He finally let her leave around 2 a.m.
The third victim, a 24-year-old woman, had been talking with Royal on a dating app for a few months, and met with him on June 18. The two were at his home around 10:30 p.m. that night, and he threatened her life while not letting her leave, the investigation found.
Royal allegedly strangled and raped the victim throughout the night, including once at knifepoint, prosecutors allege. He forced her into performing sex acts, and performed others on her, the investigation found.
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When the victim tried to call police, he allegedly took away her cellphone, but returned it around dawn when she asked to order food. That's when the woman put in her call for help in the form of a food order on Grubhub to the Chipper Truck Café during the early morning hours that Sunday.
Surveillance video from inside the restaurant shows the employees receive the order for a Irish breakfast sandwich, a hamburger — and the plea for help. Under the additional instructions section on the Grubhub order, the woman wrote in part "please call the police" and "please don't make it obvious."
The workers called police, and officers responded to the Pratt Avenue home just after 6 a.m. Royal answered the door thinking the food was arriving, but instead it was police, who arrested him.
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MX Insights and Personal Financial Management tools deliver actionable insights and support for ebankIT clients and their customers
LEHI, Utah, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MX, a leader in Open Finance, and ebankIT announced today a strategic partnership to integrate MX's Insights and Personal Financial Management (PFM) tools into its omnichannel digital banking platform. With this addition, financial institutions can deliver their customers a combination of predictive financial guidance and financial wellness capabilities seamlessly through the ebankIT platform.
"At ebankIT, we understand that the future of digital banking relies on true omnichannel capabilities and increasingly engaging user experiences," said João Lima Pinto, Board Member accountable for partnerships at ebankIT. "By bringing together MX, ebankIT, and our ecosystem of banks and credit unions, we are creating an innovation hub focused on emerging topics that we deeply care about: personal financial management, account aggregation, data enrichment, and much more. We have no doubts that this partnership will push the boundaries of innovation, by offering new solutions to our customers worldwide. Moreover, partnering with MX will strategically support the company's endeavors to expand its footprint on the U.S. market."
With the integration of MXinsights, ebankIT's bank and credit union clients will now be able to provide consumers with personalized insights and actionable recommendations in real-time based on their specific financial behaviors. Consumers will also be able to easily connect all their financial accounts in one location for a complete picture of their finances, as well as track spending and manage their budgets more easily.
"Today's hyperconnected consumers expect exceptional digital banking experiences that are highly personalized to their individual financial goals," said Raymond den Hond, Executive Vice President of Channel Partnerships, MX. "Integrating MX Insights and PFM into ebankIT's world-class digital banking platform will empower banks and credit unions to deliver on these expectations with intelligent automation and ease, resulting in higher engagement and retention."
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Police said they were contacted by a resource officer at Springdale Public Schools who was concerned about the teen’s welfare when he showed up at school with a piercing in one ear. He told fellow students his dad had been drunk when he “put him in a choke hold and shoved the piercing in his ear,” police said in a press release.
Police went to the home of Jeremy Sherland, the father of the teen, to question him about what happened. While he admitted piercing his son’s ear, he refused to answer more questions or let police talk to his son, the department said. They left and came back with an arrest warrant.
Officers’ second visit to the home is partially captured on video. When they asked Sherland to step outside, officers said he refused and blocked the doorway.
The video shows an officer push Sherland back into the house. Multiple officers hold him against the wall and place him in handcuffs, as a woman can be heard asking for an explanation. The person recording, who identifies himself on TikTok as the teenage boy in question, asks, “Why are you doing this?”
When officers state the charge, Sherland laughs and says, “Body art without a license!”
The video then shows Sherland being placed into the back of a police car as the woman and the person recording follow officers into the street.
“Piercing his son’s ear without a license takes three cops, four cops?” the woman asks as the officers walk away. “They busted in my front door. This is the boy right here.”
“I wanted my ears pierced,” adds the person recording, whose face isn’t shown.
Tontitown police said Sherland violated the Arkansas law of “performing body art on a person under 16 years of age, regardless of parental consent,” which is a felony.
Sherland is also charged with “Endangering the Welfare of a Minor, Refusal to Submit to Arrest, and Obstructing Governmental Operations.”
Sherland was released on bond late Saturday night. A hearing is set for Monday morning, according to the Washington County Jail’s website. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/arkansas-dad-charged-for-allegedly-piercing-sons-ear-arrest-video-goes-viral/ | 2023-04-24 02:10:06 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/arkansas-dad-charged-for-allegedly-piercing-sons-ear-arrest-video-goes-viral/ |
Surveillance video shows day care employee binding child’s hands with tape
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - Two parents are questioning what kind of accountability a Louisville day care received after their young daughter’s hands were bound together by an employee.
“She’s adorable, she’s sweet, she’s kind,” Nina Colvin said of her daughter.
“She’s got me wrapped around her finger,” Nina’s husband, Chris Colvin, added.
The Colvins thought their daughter, who had just turned 4 at the time, would adjust and be OK going to day care. They found a place, formally known as Outer Loop Child Care.
One day in April 2021, their bubbly 4-year-old seemed a little off.
“She said ‘Mommy, Miss Miah tapped me up today,’” Nina Colvin recalled. “And I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ She said, ‘No, like taped me up.’ She did, like, tape around her arms.”
The surveillance video showed the person tasked with caring for their little girl kneeling on top of a table and missing a shoe.
It also showed what their daughter had described: the employee, Ramiah Douglas, binding the girl’s hands with tape during nap time.
The Colvins’ attorneys said she was left with her hands bound for about 40 minutes.
“It was my child, and I was not there to protect her,” Chris Colvin said.
“It changed her personality,” Nina Colvin described. “She’s terrified that somebody’s going to hurt her again.”
Douglas was fired immediately. But the incident was only the start of what the Colvins would find out about the employee, WAVE reported.
According to court records, she had previous arrests for possession of marijuana, which were either amended down or dismissed, four separate citations for not having registration or a valid license plate, and a prostitution charge.
That charge was also dismissed after she agreed to no longer post on Backpage, a classified advertising site seized by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2018 after facilitating multiple counts of prostitution, according to court records.
While Douglas’ previous citations didn’t cost her jail time, the Colvins are still waiting to find out what qualifications she had to work with children.
“I would not have hired that woman,” Chris Colvin said.
Douglas was arrested and found guilty for binding the child’s hands after Nina Colvin called police.
It’s unclear if Outer Loop Child Care, which has since sold, ever did a background search on Douglas.
What is clear is that the day care had a history of not conducting or keeping any records of criminal background checks for their employees, according to the Kentucky Cabinet of Health and Family Services.
Read a Kentucky day care’s inspection record.
WAVE found three other times where state inspectors wrote the center up for it. In fact, the center had more than 50 violations in less than 10 years.
They included poorly kept employee records, a lack of the required state training or evaluations and four repeated violations for no proof of or expired tuberculosis vaccines.
“You put them somewhere that’s a professional establishment, and they failed us,” Nina Colvin said.
Other violations were repeated, like having bleach and cleaning chemicals accessible to children, dirty toys, and holes in the wall where slugs and birds had made a home, to name a few.
For two years in a row, they were also written up for unsanitary, ripped diaper changing stations.
Keeping an eye for themselves was something the Colvins couldn’t do come March 2020.
“We weren’t allowed in anymore because of COVID,” Nina Colvin said. “We had to stop at the door.”
But, despite the seemingly thorough inspections, the state kept renewing Outer Loop Child Care’s license.
On the state’s daycare inspection portal, there are no mention of fines, suspensions or revocations.
That’s after state records show violations for a child’s shoulder dislocated by an employee, another child rug-burned from being dragged on the carpet, a child’s head slammed into a cot, and another student being locked in the bathroom for seven minutes as punishment, all under the same owner who terminated those employees each time.
“Did anybody’s parents know about these violations at all, because did they report them to the parents or did they just write them up and stick it in a drawer?” Chris Colvin asked.
The violations continued until Outer Loop Child Care was sold. Despite that, its most recent state rating still shows three out of five stars.
As for the Colvins, they’re hoping the pandemic and what they see as a lack of accountability doesn’t put more children at risk.
“If you don’t adhere to that standard, you don’t have a license,” Chris Colvin said. “It’s as simple as that.”
“You have our most important asset, our child,” Nina Colvin added. “You need to do better.”
Outer Loop Child Care has since been sold to a new company. The new owner said they have nothing to do with the day care’s past and have started from scratch.
Douglas’s attorney declined to comment. WAVE is still waiting for a response from the state and from Outer Loop Child Care’s attorney.
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TOKYO (AP) — This week's summit of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies in Hiroshima will include eight other guest nations, part of a complicated, high-stakes diplomatic gambit meant to settle the world's most serious crises.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited South Korea, Australia, India, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Comoros and the Cook Islands.
Kishida hopes this mix of countries will help efforts to stand up to China’s assertiveness and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts. He also wants stronger ties with U.S. allies and with developing nations and to make progress on working toward a nuclear-free world, something that looks increasingly difficult amid North Korean and Russian nuclear threats.
Here's a look at what to expect as the rich world leaders welcome these guest countries:
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PUSHBACK ON CHINA, RUSSIA
As their top diplomats did last month in a meeting in Nagano, Japan, the leaders of the G-7 nations — the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and the European Union — will try to form a unified front against Chinese threats to Taiwan and Russia's war on Ukraine.
“The G-7 is committed to upholding the international order, and most of its members are in Europe, so supporting Ukraine against Russia’s invasion is a top priority,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.
“As the pillar of the G-7 in Asia, Japan is particularly focused on updating the international order to cope with the rise of China,” Easley said. “The Kishida government’s agenda and special invitations for the Hiroshima summit reflect an effort not to contain China but to expand the international coalition defending standards for state behavior.”
The eight guest nations have complex political and economic ties with China and Russia.
India is part of the Quad group of four Indo-Pacific nation, which also includes the United States, Japan and Australia. China has accused that group of representing an “Asian NATO.” On the Russia-Ukraine war, India has abstained several times from voting on U.N. resolutions against Moscow, though it has stressed the need for diplomacy on ending the war. It's boosted its imports of Russian oil.
Brazil is a member of the so-called BRICS group of developing nations, including China, Russia and India. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently visited China to strengthen ties with its biggest trade market. He has also irritated Ukraine and some in the West with his position on the war, recently suggesting that Ukraine cede Crimea to forge peace.
Japan is courting Vietnam because it also has territorial disputes with China, according to Kim Yeol Soo, an expert at South Korea’s Korea Institute for Military Affairs.
___ ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’ NATIONS
Kishida has said his list of guest nations reflects the importance of the so-called “Global South” countries. That's a term used for developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The G-7 nations account for about 40% of the world’s economic activity, a decrease from an estimated 80% of global gross domestic product in the 1970s.
“When the U.N. adopts resolutions, you see a considerable number of its 190 or so member states are ‘Global South’ countries,” said Choi Eunmi, a Japan expert at South Korea’s Asan Institute Policy Institute.
Indonesia's importance for Japan, for instance, is linked to its abundant natural resources and economic potential, said Kim, the expert.
India is this year's president of the G-20, which is seen as a crucial bridge between G-7 economies and the Global South. Japan has traditionally had close ties with India, where Kishida visited in March for a summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In response to questions by The Associated Press, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said the G-7 and other nations need to cooperate with the Global South to deal with energy, food security, climate change, health and development issues.
___ US ALLIES
Japan's invitation of South Korea reflects the neighbors' role as staunch U.S. allies with a shared security threat from North Korea's advancing nuclear arsenal.
In recent weeks, Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have taken major steps to boost security and economic cooperation and to move beyond historical grievances stemming from Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry's response to an AP query praised Yoon for an “active diplomacy showing commitment to the peace and prosperity of the region, including announcing the Indo-Pacific strategy.”
Kishida, Yoon and U.S. President Joe Biden are expected to meet on the margins of the G-7 summit to discuss North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, China’s growing influence and the Russian-Ukraine war.
Australia, also a key U.S. ally, has already been closely cooperating with Japan, including on efforts to achieve a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, which called Australia a "special strategic partner.”
Last year, the two countries signed a new security agreement covering military, intelligence and cybersecurity cooperation to counter the deteriorating security outlook driven by China’s increasing assertiveness. It was the first such agreement Japan has struck with any country other than the United States.
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OTHER ISSUES
Some of the guest nations lead regional and other bodies.
Brazil takes over next year for India as president of the G-20. Indonesia is chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Comoros leads the African Union, and the Cook Islands chairs the Pacific Islands Forum.
Japan is stepping up its security and economic ties with the 18 Pacific Forum countries, partly to counter growing Chinese influence there. Observers say the invitation of the Cook Islands is an expression of Japanese respect to the Pacific nations, where there's been worry about the planned release of treated but still radioactive wastewater into the Pacific from Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Kishida is from Hiroshima, one of the two Japanese cities hit with U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II. Holding the summit in his hometown will give him a chance to outline his determination to build a nuclear-free world.
Because of North Korea's pursuit of nuclear missiles meant to target the U.S. mainland, "it would be a bit awkward if Japan didn't include South Korea, which faces North Korea's nuclear threats on its doorstep,” said Choi, the expert.
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Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A retired Missouri worker has filed a six-figure FINRA arbitration claim against Titan Securities and its broker Rodger Sprouse in Lee's Summit over losses sustained in GWG L Bonds. The claimant, who is on disability and was forced to stop working after an injury on the job, is an inexperienced investor who contends that Titan Securities and Sprouse allegedly unsuitably recommended these illiquid, speculative junk bonds without fully informing him about the risks. Sprouse is also the owner of Sprouse Financial in Lee's Summit.
In April 2022, GWG Holdings, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. GWG had issued $1.6B of life settlement-backed bonds to investors. The move for bankruptcy protection comes in the wake of defaulting on the many millions of dollars it owes L Bond investors, a slew of regulatory issues, and other problems.
Retiree, Who Is On Disability, Was an Inexperienced Investor Who Needed Safe Investments
This claimant heard about Titan Securities and Sprouse while listening to a radio program. During an in-person meeting with the Titan Securities broker, the retiree was very clear about being an inexperienced investor who was not rich, needed safe investments, and would be entrusting most of his liquid assets to the broker-dealer.
Instead of investing this retired worker in safe investments, Titan Securities and Sprouse allegedly unsuitably recommended the high commission GWG L Bonds and other non-liquid products. Further, Sprouse allegedly made these investment recommendations in concentrations that were far from appropriate or suitable for this claimant.
Now, in his FINRA arbitration claim, this Kansas City investor is alleging unsuitability, concentration, misrepresentations and omissions, failure to supervise, negligence, and grossly negligent behavior.
Our knowledgeable GWG L Bond investment lawyers are representing a number of investors whose brokers and financial firms, including Titan Securities, Center Street Securities, NI Advisors, and Centaurus Financial, unsuitably recommended these high-yield bonds to customers. Some 145 regional brokerage firms partnered with Emerson Equity to sell L Bonds to investors, and we are going after all of them.
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Got baby fever? If so, you might not after reading this.
Some pregnancies are planned and some are not, but one thing that is certain is that having a baby can be expensive. According to QuoteWizard, having a child costs between $21,000 and $37,000 in the first year, depending on where you live.
The insurance company reported that childbirth costs on average about $12 thousand dollars, child care costs $10 thousand on average and health insurance costs about $5 thousand nationwide. According to QuoteWizard, Alaska is the most expensive place to have a baby and costs about $37 thousand dollars and Arkansas is the least expensive place to have a baby, it costs on average about $20 thousand dollars.
Lousiana ranks as the 9th cheapest state to have a baby in. Although it is ranked as one of the cheapest, it can still be pricey. Between labor and delivery, childcare costs, and health insurance, it now costs over $23,239 to have a child in the state. Labor and delivery cost about $10,000, child care costs about $7,000 and health insurance costs about $6,000.
Along with the costs of delivery, health insurance, and childcare, there can very likely be more expenses that will need to be covered including extra doctor visits, tests, and having to pay extra if complications come up. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby-insurance-company-says-louisiana-is-the-9th-least-expensive/ | 2022-08-20 03:03:36 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby-insurance-company-says-louisiana-is-the-9th-least-expensive/ |
STOCKHOLM, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dignitana AB reports that a policy in support of scalp cooling to minimize hair loss from chemotherapy induced alopecia was presented as a resolution and reaffirmed by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) at the group's Annual Meeting in Chicago this week.
The policy, Resolution 707: Insurance Coverage for Scalp Cooling (Cold Cap) Therapy, states that the AMA shall "advocate for and seek through legislation and/or regulation, universal insurance coverage for Scalp Cooling (Cold Cap) Therapy" and directs that the AMA "work with consumer and advocacy groups to challenge insurers on medical necessity denials for Scalp Cooling (Cold Cap) Therapy and encourage appeals to independent third-party reviewers."
"Reimbursement for scalp cooling is a top priority for Dignitana, and we appreciate this signal of support from the largest physician organization in the United States," said Dignitana CEO Catarina Mård Löwenadler. "Scalp cooling is evidence-based, recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN), and now supported by the AMA as well. Scalp cooling should become standard of care with universal insurance coverage so that any cancer patient who wishes to minimize hair loss from chemotherapy has access to this life-changing treatment."
The House of Delegates (HOD) is the legislative and policy-making body of the American Medical Association. State medical associations and national medical specialty societies (such as the American Society of Clinical Oncology) are represented in the HOD along with other medical organizations.
Resolution 707 was introduced to the AMA by the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSSNY) after that group approved a similar resolution in May 2021.
In reaffirming current policy in relation to Resolution 707, the AMA referenced six existing AMA policies that lend support to coverage of this therapy: Strategies to Address Rising Health Care Costs H-155.960; Aligning Clinical and Financial Incentives for High-Value Care D-185.979; Medical Necessity and Utilization Review H-320.942; Managed Care H-285.998; Medical Necessity Determinations H-320.995; and Status Report on the Uninsured H-185.964.
Patented in 1998 and FDA cleared since 2015, The DigniCap® Scalp Cooling System offers patients the ability to minimize hair loss during chemotherapy with clinically superior efficacy, patient comfort and demonstrated safety. DigniCap is available at about 300 cancer centers in the U.S. and in 40 countries worldwide.
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Rockies second. Elias Diaz strikes out swinging. Ryan McMahon flies out to deep left center field to Jack Suwinski. Jurickson Profar homers to right field. Harold Castro flies out to center field to Jack Suwinski.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rockies 1, Pirates 0.
Pirates third. Ji Hwan Bae flies out to deep left field to Jurickson Profar. Ke'Bryan Hayes doubles to deep right center field. Bryan Reynolds strikes out swinging. Andrew McCutchen singles to center field. Ke'Bryan Hayes scores. Carlos Santana flies out to right field to Kris Bryant.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rockies 1, Pirates 1.
Rockies fourth. C.J. Cron singles to center field. Elias Diaz singles to left center field. C.J. Cron to second. Ryan McMahon reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Elias Diaz to second. C.J. Cron scores. Fielding error by Tucupita Marcano. Jurickson Profar reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Ryan McMahon out at second. Elias Diaz to third. Harold Castro walks. Jurickson Profar to second. Ezequiel Tovar reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Harold Castro out at second. Jurickson Profar to third. Elias Diaz scores. Charlie Blackmon singles. Ezequiel Tovar to third. Jurickson Profar scores. Randal Grichuk singles to shortstop. Charlie Blackmon to second. Ezequiel Tovar scores. Kris Bryant flies out to deep center field to Jack Suwinski.
4 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Rockies 5, Pirates 1.
Rockies seventh. Charlie Blackmon walks. Randal Grichuk grounds out to shallow infield, Ke'Bryan Hayes to Carlos Santana. Charlie Blackmon to second. Kris Bryant singles to shallow center field. Charlie Blackmon to third. C.J. Cron out on a sacrifice fly to right center field to Connor Joe. Charlie Blackmon scores. Elias Diaz walks. Kris Bryant to second. Ryan McMahon triples to deep right center field. Elias Diaz scores. Kris Bryant scores. Jurickson Profar homers to center field. Ryan McMahon scores. Harold Castro doubles to right field. Ezequiel Tovar grounds out to shortstop, Ke'Bryan Hayes to Carlos Santana.
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In an amendment to their lawsuit filed earlier this spring, Gabby Petito's parents allege during the search for the young woman, Brian Laundrie's parents knew their son had killed her and knew "the whereabouts of her body."
The amended suit, filed by Petito's parents, alleges the Laundrie family went on vacation to Fort De Soto Park in Florida, while Petito's family was "extremely distraught" and attempting to locate her.
CNN has previously reported that documents from Pinellas County, Florida, showed Laundrie's mother had made a camping reservation at Fort De Soto Park for the first weekend of September, only to change it to a later date and add another person.
Records from the county show the new reservation was made by Roberta Laundrie on September 3, two days after her son returned home. The changed reservation was set to begin on September 6 for three people at Fort De Soto Park, about 75 miles from the family's home.
The lawsuit alleges the Laundrie family went on vacation "knowing that Brian Laundrie had murdered Gabrielle Petito, it is believed that they knew where her body was located, and further knew that Gabrielle Petito's parents were attempting to locate her."
The Laundrie family attorney told CNN they are confident the case will be dismissed, adding in a statement, "The allegations in the amended complaint may now conform to proper pleadings but they do not give rise to liability under the law. Thus, we are still confident the Court will dismiss the action," Steven Bertolino said.
Petito's remains were found in Teton County, Wyoming, in September, a little more than a week after her family reported her missing. The 22-year-old woman died by strangulation, a coroner ruled. She had been on a cross-country trip with Laundrie, who was her fiance. Laundrie returned to the couple's home on September 1 by himself, and left again roughly two weeks later and disappeared.
Laundrie's remains were later found in a Florida reserve and a medical examiner ruled he died by suicide. Nearby, authorities found a notebook in which they said Laundrie claimed responsibility for Petito's death.
The suit accuses Laundrie's parents of acting in an "extreme and outrageous way" for several reasons, including for failing to inform Petito's parents that she was dead and where her remains were located and taking a vacation with their son while the Petito family searched for the young woman.
There is no specific monetary amount listed on the lawsuit, but Petito's parents are asking for damages that exceed $30,000.
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BOULDER, Colo., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Watchmaker Genomics, a life sciences company specializing in the development of high-stringency applications focused on the reading, writing, and editing of DNA and RNA, today announced it had secured $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A, bringing total funding to date to $53.5 million. The round was led by Decheng Capital, with co-investment from Eclipse Ventures.
Founded in 2019, Watchmaker established an enzyme engineering technology platform that leverages recent advances in computational design and directed evolution. The founding team has deep domain expertise in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and clinical oncology assay development and a track record of building successful life science companies, notably Kapa Biosystems, Enzymatics, and ArcherDx. The company launched its first product in 2020 and has since achieved profitability with 175% year-over-year revenue growth. With this Series A round of financing, Watchmaker plans to accelerate investment in its protein engineering platform to deliver a suite of new products that address the demands of clinical sequencing and support emerging applications in single-cell analysis, epigenetics, and cell-free DNA. In addition, the company will expand commercial channels and manufacturing capacity, making these product solutions more broadly accessible to the life science and genomics communities.
"We are thrilled to partner with Watchmaker Genomics as the company enters its next phase of product innovation and commercialization. The experienced team at Watchmaker has already built a strong foundation, and we look forward to supporting their continued growth," said Decheng Capital Partner Victor E. Tong, Jr., who is joining the Watchmaker Board of Directors.
"Watchmaker is developing tools and techniques that will unlock the future of genomics, both in the lab and the clinic. We are excited to partner with this world-class team as they pioneer the new frontier of genomics and ultimately, significantly improve how we treat diseases," said Eclipse Ventures Partner Justin Butler, who will join Watchmaker as a Board Observer.
"The additional financing will enable Watchmaker to more quickly scale our organization to meet the explosive demands of the genomics industry and help to further realize our vision of more personalized medicine and improved human health," said Trey Foskett, CEO and Co-Founder of Watchmaker Genomics. "Decheng Capital is a leading investor in life science and sequencing, and we are excited to have the firm lead our Series A. Watchmaker, Decheng, and Eclipse share a passion for building market-leading, impactful companies, and we welcome Victor and Justin to join us."
This news builds on the company's previously announced collaborations with Twist Biosciences, Element Biosciences, Singular Genomics, and Molecular Loop. Watchmaker will be showcasing its DNA and RNA NGS solutions for clinically relevant sample types and applications at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference from June 6th - 9th in Orlando, FL.
Watchmaker Genomics applies advanced enzymology to enable breakthrough applications for the reading, writing, and editing of DNA and RNA. The company combines domain expertise in protein engineering with large-scale enzyme manufacturing to address the demanding quality, performance, and scale requirements of high-growth clinical genomics applications.
Watchmaker's product portfolio includes enzymes and kits for next-generation sequencing library preparation, synthetic biology, and molecular diagnostics. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the Watchmaker team brings decades of collective experience building successful life science companies, commercializing novel technologies, and advancing clinical genomics applications. Watchmaker partners directly with innovative life science companies, commercial sequencing providers, and pioneering research labs. For more information about Watchmaker Genomics, please visit www.watchmakergenomics.com
Decheng Capital, founded in 2012, is a leading investment firm providing capital and strategic support to early stage life science companies with revolutionary technologies and growth stage healthcare companies with a strong market presence. We are a group of dedicated professionals with complementary expertise who have outstanding track records of building highly successful companies globally. With over $2 billion in capital under management and support from some of the most prestigious LPs in the world, Decheng is poised to deliver superior returns for our investors and create value for our entrepreneur partners.
With over $2 billion in assets under management, 70 portfolio companies, and a team of investors with deep expertise in technology, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, healthcare and consumer products, Eclipse is one of the US' leading venture capital organizations. Its leadership team has the experience and deep expertise necessary to create and scale complex operations – with partners coming from industry giants, such as Flextronics, Tesla, Apple, Samsara, Intel and GE. Eclipse partners with entrepreneurs boldly transforming the essential industries that define and propel economies. For more information, visit www.eclipse.vc.
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Renewing your passport just got easier thanks to a new portal from the U.S. State Department that allows you to complete the process entirely online.
The department is seeking up to 25,000 volunteers in August to try out the new online passport renewal program before the service becomes available to the general public later in 2022. If eligible, this means you no longer have to mail your renewal application and supporting documents to them.
“We will accept applications from volunteers on a first come, first serve basis until we reach 25,000 applicants in this phase of the pilot,” the Department of State Travel’s website says. “If you are not one of the first 25,000 applicants, you may have an opportunity to renew online at a later date.”
The online passport renewal is part of President Joe Biden’s broader initiative to make accessing government services more seamless, whether that’s scheduling a call back from the IRS or applying for Medicare benefits online.
Biden signed an executive order in December 2021 that includes a commitment to improving 36 “customer service experiences” across 17 federal agencies. The order says that in recent years the annual paperwork burden imposed by government agencies on the public has been in excess of 9 billion hours.
Requirements for Renewing Your Passport Online
If you want to renew your passport online, you’ll need to meet some criteria.
While it’s OK if your most recent passport is expired, it needs to be or have been valid for 10 years and you need to be age 25 years or older. Also, your most recent passport needs to have been issued more than nine years ago (in 2013) but less than 15 years ago (in 2007) from the date you plan to submit your application. Travelers must also be applying for a tourist passport, must live in the United States, not planning to travel internationally for at least five weeks from the date an application is submitted, and must not be changing their name, gender, date of birth or place of birth.
Also, once you submit your application, your most recent passport will be canceled and you won’t be able to use it for international travel.
While this new submission process is more streamlined, processing times are, unfortunately, the same as they were by mail. Expect it to take eight to 11 weeks for routine processing and five to seven weeks for an expedited service.
Travelers interested in being among the first to renew their passport online will need to set up a “MyTravelGov” account. Within 24 hours of activating the account, you’ll see an option to “Renew Passport” upon logging in. You can pay for your passport using a credit or debit card or an automatic clearinghouse payment that transfers funds directly from your bank account like a check. You can also upload a digital passport photo to the account.
The last step? Start planning that international vacation!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny.
The bill, called the Federal Prison Oversight Act, would require the Justice Department to create a prisons ombudsman to field complaints about prison conditions, and would compel the department’s inspector general to evaluate risks and abuses at all 122 federal prison facilities.
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Mike Braun, R-Ind., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is being introduced a day before Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Durbin chairs.
Ossoff, Braun and Durbin are three founding members of the Senate Bipartisan Prison Policy Working Group. The panel launched in February amid turmoil at the Bureau of Prisons, much of it uncovered by AP reporting, including rampant sexual abuse and other criminal misconduct by staff, chronic understaffing, escapes and deaths.
“It’s no secret that BOP has been plagued by misconduct,” Durbin said. “One investigation after another has revealed a culture of abuse, mismanagement, corruption, torture, and death that reaches to the highest levels. And yet it still operates without any meaningful independent oversight. The result has been catastrophic for both incarcerated people and staff.”
A companion bill in the House is sponsored by Reps. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D. and Reps. Lucy McBath, D-Ga.
Under the Federal Prison Oversight Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general would be required to conduct risk-based inspections of all federal prison facilities, provide recommendations to address deficiencies and assign each facility a risk score. Higher-risk facilities would then receive more frequent inspections.
The inspector general would also be required to report findings and recommendations to Congress and the public, and the Bureau of Prisons would then need to respond with a corrective action plan within 60 days.
A prison ombudsman would be established to take complaints — via a secure hotline and online form — and investigate and report to the attorney general and Congress dangerous conditions affecting the health, safety, welfare and rights of inmates and staff.
A spokesman for the Justice Department said Wednesday that the agency was reviewing the legislation. A spokesperson for Inspector General Michael Horowitz declined to comment.
The reforms have the backing of a wide array of groups involved in the federal prison system and across the political spectrum, including the correctional officers’ union, the inmate advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, the American Conservative Union and the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity.
“Families with incarcerated loved ones for years have been calling for greater transparency, safety and accountable from our federal prisons,” FAMM President Kevin Ring said. “The bipartisan bill introduced today answers their calls.”
Shane Fausey, the president of the Council of Prison Locals union, is also scheduled to testify Thursday, along with the former head of Pennsylvania’s state prison system, John Wetzel, and Cecilia Cardenas, a former federal inmate.
Ossoff has been leading an investigation of the Bureau of Prisons as chair of the Senate Homeland Security panel’s subcommittee on investigations. Recent hearings have spotlighted misconduct and abuse at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta and the Justice Department’s failure to properly account for in-custody deaths.
In July, Ossoff and the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., grilled then-Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal as he refused to accept responsibility for a culture of corruption and misconduct that has plagued his agency for years.
“My 10-month bipartisan investigation of corruption, abuse, and misconduct in the Federal prison system revealed an urgent need to overhaul federal prison oversight. I am bringing Democrats and Republicans together to crack down on corruption, strengthen public safety, and protect civil rights,” Ossoff said. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-senators-push-new-oversight-to-combat-federal-prison-crises/ | 2022-09-28 22:06:01 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-senators-push-new-oversight-to-combat-federal-prison-crises/ |
READING, Pa. – The Reading Parking Authority is hopeful a two-part plan will help alleviate the parking crisis in the city.
"The scope of this project is very large and has cost a lot of money in engineering and time, and I'm just glad to see a large project like this come to fruition," said RPA Executive Director Nathan Matz.
On Monday night, Reading City Council approved to expand on-street parking in these locations:
- North Eighth Street from Walnut to Buttonwood streets (39 spaces)
- Grape Street between South Second and South Third streets (14 spaces)
- Avenues A and B in Glenside Homes (67 spaces)
The Glenside Homes area especially has been in dire need for more spaces.
"If you've never studied the parking situation in Glenside, it's really, really bad," Matz said. "There's 502 units up there, and there's only 270 parking spaces."
These new spaces are in addition to the ones approved on May 8. Those are around the commercial areas and include:
- Fourth Street from Franklin to Washington streets (35 spaces)
- Cherry Street between South Fifth and South Sixth streets (22 spaces)
- Sixth Street from Penn to Washington streets (19 spaces)
Matz says business owners were taking a hit for the lack of open spaces.
"Parking, I think, it's one of the biggest keys for economic development," Matz said, "and without adequate parking, people will go somewhere else."
In all, the two plans will add 196 new spaces, but it won't happen overnight.
"We are waiting for the final touches from PennDOT," Matz said. "Once we have that, we have to re-lay out the intersections and re-stripe and repaint, 'cause we're moving the center lines over, and we have to create the parking stalls."
He says the work will begin in the next month or two. In the meantime, Matz says the authority will continue to look at other parts of the city to expand parking. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/where-and-when-to-expect-readings-196-new-parking-spaces/article_cbe5707c-faae-11ed-be23-432cb37d6a3a.html | 2023-05-25 04:50:37 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/where-and-when-to-expect-readings-196-new-parking-spaces/article_cbe5707c-faae-11ed-be23-432cb37d6a3a.html |
DANBURY, Conn., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PlusMedia, LLC, a leading omnichannel performance marketing organization dedicated to helping brands acquire and retain customers while driving profitable revenue growth, has received strategic investment from an investment group led by Lightview Capital, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm focused on partnering with specialized tech-enabled businesses. Aldine Capital, Harbert Credit Solutions and Resolute Capital Partners also chose to participate in the financing of PlusMedia's future growth.
The partnership enables PlusMedia to enhance its highly differentiated offering across traditional and digital media, through investment in talent, capabilities, and technology to further support its clients in driving business growth and leveraging emerging opportunities.
"We are thrilled to partner with Lightview Capital who shares our vision for creating a next generation multichannel performance agency," said Sherry Scapperotti, President & CEO of PlusMedia. "Their operator friendly approach, industry relationships and access to capital will allow us to accelerate our momentum through organic and inorganic strategies."
"We have been impressed with PlusMedia's strong reputation and success in delivering best in class service and exceptional results and are excited to partner with Sherry and her team to accelerate their growth by expanding capabilities to create greater client value. This approach is consistent with our investment strategy of partnering with founder led companies in our core sectors of focus" said Conor Mullett, Co-founder and Managing Director of Lightview Capital. James Elliott, Vice President at Lightview Capital added "We're excited to help PlusMedia continue to build on their success through further investment in the Company's data capabilities and technology platform."
Over the last 24 years, PlusMedia has successfully executed on a strategic growth plan that has provided clients with media strategy, campaign planning and analysis, creative services, print production management and media monetization to serve direct-to-consumer, non-profit and B2B brands across the globe. As an early pioneer and leader in insert media, the Company has combined their domain expertise with a fully integrated omnichannel approach to performance marketing, providing clients with a true performance partner.
Incepted by -Sherry Scapperotti, the Company has expanded organically to over 50 employees and has been servicing clients in North America and internationally.
PlusMedia was advised by Madison Alley Global Ventures.
PlusMedia, LLC is a full-service performance marketing company dedicated to helping direct-to-consumer and nonprofit brands acquire and retain customers and donors and drive revenue growth. The company's mission is to grow its clients' businesses through strategic multichannel media campaigns that expand reach, maximize ROI, and increase bottom-line profitability. Founded in 1998, PlusMedia is a certified woman-owned business with a 95% client retention rate. For more information, visit plusme.com.
Lightview Capital is a leading private equity firm focused on providing its portfolio companies deep industry knowledge, insightful experience, and active resources to unlock growth and drive value. Lightview Capital's approachable investment style combines deep operational and financial experience with an entrepreneurial spirit that delivers measurable results. For more information, visit lightviewcapital.com.
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1/6 panel to interview Pa. governor nominee Mastriano
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano is appearing Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection as the panel probes Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Mastriano, who was outside the Capitol that day, helped organize efforts in Pennsylvania to submit alternate presidential electors beholden to Trump. He is one of two people expected to provide private interviews Tuesday before the committee, according to a person familiar with the situation who was granted anonymity to discuss it.
Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson issued the subpoena for Mastriano back in February as the panel intensified its probe of the “fake electors” scheme, seeking documentation from him and others potentially involved and in close contact with Trump.
The committee “is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Thompson wrote. “We’re seeking records and testimony from former campaign officials and other individuals in various states who we believe have relevant information about the planning and implementation of those plans.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also been in talks to testify on Tuesday, CNN and other outlets have reported.
Mastriano, a retired Army officer who beat out several candidates to emerge as the GOP nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, has been willing to talk to the committee, his attorney has said. He also spoke with the FBI last year and said he did not know about a planned insurrection, his lawyer has said.
The committee is working through August, deepening its work after blockbuster public hearings this summer that began to outline its investigation into Trump’s multi-pronged effort to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden and the subsequent storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The scheme to compile alternative electors emerged as a last-ditch plan by Trump’s team to stop Biden’s victory when Congress met for the typical routine job of certifying the state election results.
Growing from Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, the fake electors strategy relied on having several battleground states that Biden won submit their tally for the defeated Republican president, rather than the Democratic winner, Biden.
Federal authorities earlier this summer issued subpoenas in several key battleground states across the nation to individuals in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and other Republican officials potentially involved in the strategy to submit electors for Trump.
Prosecutors in Georgia are similarly probing Trump’s attempt to subvert the election results in that state.
The Justice Department has charged more than 800 people in the deadly Capitol riot and is investigating Trump’s actions in the run up and aftermath of the insurrection.
The Jan. 6 attack left at least nine people killed in the riot and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot by police and a police officer who died later.
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AKRON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Indian Lake softball team continued its magical playoff run with a 3-0 shutout win over Johnstown in the Div. 3 state semifinals in Akron on Thursday as the Lakers advance to the program’s first ever state championship.
Indian Lake will face undefeated and defending state champion Wheelersburg in the Division 3 state finals on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Firestone Stadium in Akron. | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/indian-lake-softball-punches-ticket-to-1st-ever-state-finals/ | 2023-06-02 02:31:34 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/indian-lake-softball-punches-ticket-to-1st-ever-state-finals/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-22-29-33-39
(three, twenty-two, twenty-nine, thirty-three, thirty-nine)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-22-29-33-39
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, May 6, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
413 PM CDT Sat May 6 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Haskell, northwestern Jones and northeastern Fisher Counties through
500 PM CDT...
At 413 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Tuxedo, or near Hamlin, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Hamlin, Rule, Neinda, Sagerton, The Intersection Of Us-
180 And Ranch Road 126, Hitson, Tuxedo and Us-380 Near The Haskell-
Stonewall County Line.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for
west central Texas.
LAT...LON 3310 9969 3274 10008 3285 10025 3296 10017
3296 9999 3320 9999 3326 9994
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 217DEG 25KT 3293 10004
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Supreme Court to review Democratic lawmakers’ suit over Trump hotel lease
(AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Biden administration appeal to limit lawsuits filed by members of Congress against the federal government, in a case that stems from disputes over what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that allowed a suit by Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee to continue. They filed their complaint in 2017 over the Trump administration’s refusal to turn over information about the Trump Organization’s lease of the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol.
The family no longer owns the hotel, now a Waldorf Astoria, much of the information eventually was provided and six lawmakers who were part of the case no longer serve in the House.
The Biden Justice Department, however, told the court that it is important to wipe the appellate ruling from the books because it otherwise could lead to a flood of lawsuits from individual members of Congress.
The case will be argued in the fall.
The hotel drew criticism from the start of Donald Trump’s presidency for taking money from Republican politicians, companies and foreign governments eager to curry favor with him. The hotel is in the federally owned Old Post Office and Trump’s family business held a lease with the General Services Administration.
Trump, while president, refused to sell off his stake in the hotel despite a prohibition in the lease on elected officials obtaining any benefit that “may arise from the lease.” Democrats alleged that Trump’s ownership of the property created a conflict of interest.
Separately, Trump faced lawsuits over whether he illegally profited off his presidency by owning the hotel in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
In 2021, the Supreme Court eventually brought an end to those suits, saying the cases were moot once Trump left office.
In the lawmakers’ case, the only documents still at issue are legal opinions. The Supreme Court only is looking at whether the lawmakers have the legal right, or standing, to sue.
Members of Congress ordinarily cannot march into federal court as individuals or in small groups and assert that their status as lawmakers gives them the right to sue when the administration in power refuses to comply with their demands for information.
But a 95-year-old law allows any seven members of the House Oversight Committee or five senators on that body’s similar committee to request and be provided certain information from federal agencies.
Negotiations have almost always resolved any disputes. But the question of how to enforce the law when efforts at compromise fail has never been resolved. Since the law’s enactment in 1928, lawmakers sued only twice previously and those cases ended without significant legal rulings.
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(The Hill) — Federal authorities confirmed Tuesday that they are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy at a poultry plant in Mississippi.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration and Wage and Hour Division have both “opened inspections” at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg in the wake of the Friday incident, according to a DOL spokesperson.
The victim has been identified as Duvan Tomas Perez, originally from Guatemala, by local authorities and a family member, according to NBC News, which noted that workers under the age of 18 are not allowed to work in poultry plants for safety reasons.
Forrest County Deputy Coroner Lisa Klem told NBC that Perez’s death was due to equipment at the plant, and that his autopsy results will be released Wednesday.
A fellow worker at the plant, on duty at the time of the incident, reportedly said he heard Perez scream for help, but that it was too late.
“Two times he began to scream, ‘Help! Help!’” the worker said. “I knew he had died,” they added.
The Hill has reached out to Mar-Jac Poultry for comment.
“Any issues identified in the investigation will be corrected immediately,” Joe Colee, the manager of the facility, told NBC.
“We strive daily to work as safely as possible and are truly devastated whenever an employee is injured,” Colee added.
The death is reportedly the second at the Hattiesburg Mar-Jac in less than three years. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/feds-launch-probe-after-16-year-old-boy-dies-at-mississippi-poultry-plant/ | 2023-07-19 19:24:08 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/feds-launch-probe-after-16-year-old-boy-dies-at-mississippi-poultry-plant/ |
5, 6, 7, 8! The newest episode of Dancing With Myself features a Jonas brother getting a salsa lesson from Shakira and an unexpected ninja crossover.
In a preview of Tuesday's show, Shakira takes the stage as a teacher with her fellow judge, Nick Jonas, on the NBC reality competition series. "Do you salsa, Nick?" she asks him.
"Sometimes," he responds with a smile and a cheer from the crowd before Shakira leads him to center stage, where he tries to match her quick footing.
The episode also features a salsa tutorial with Shakira and the show's third judge, Liza Koshy.
"Shakira, dip me like a chip!" Liza tells her.
"Put some jalapeño on it," Shakira responds, as the two women smile through their demonstration of this week's upbeat salsa routine.
Also this week, American Ninja Warrior commentators Akbar Gbajabiamila and Matt Iseman offer a dance tutorial of their own. Gbajabiamila counts off as Iseman launches into an energetic hip-hop routine set to "Party Up" by DMX.
"He did it! He did it! He did it!" Gbajabiamila says when Iseman finishes.
Tune in to Dancing With Myself on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET and American Ninja Warrior at 8 p.m. ET on Mondays, both on NBC.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk suggested in a Saturday tweet that his rocket company SpaceX may continue to fund its satellite-based Starlink internet service in Ukraine. But Musk’s tone and wording also raised the possibility that the irascible Tesla CEO was just being sarcastic.
Musk frequently tweets jokes and insults and sometimes goes on unusual tangents, such as a recent series of tweets suggesting that one of his companies has begun selling its own line of fragrances. It is not clear if SpaceX has actually established future plans for service in Ukraine.
On Friday, senior U.S. officials confirmed that Musk had officially asked the Defense Department to take over funding for the service Starlink provides in Ukraine. Starlink, which provides broadband internet service using more than 2,200 low-orbiting satellites, has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces since early in the nation’s defense against Russia’s February invasion.
“The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free,“ Musk tweeted Saturday.
Early Friday, Musk tweeted that it was costing SpaceX $20 million a month to support Ukraine’s communications needs. Tesla didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
The senior U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter not yet made public, said the issue of Starlink funding has been discussed in meetings and that senior leaders are weighing the matter. There have been no decisions. | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/ap-musk-spacex-might-keep-funding-satellite-service-in-ukraine/ | 2022-10-16 11:51:51 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/ap-musk-spacex-might-keep-funding-satellite-service-in-ukraine/ |
BALTIMORE (AP)Thanks to Lamar Jackson’s injury and a surging Cincinnati team, the Baltimore Ravens suddenly have their work cut out for them if they want to win the AFC North.
They did, however, take another step in that direction last weekend.
The Ravens rallied late to edge the Broncos 10-9, and although Denver’s inept offense played a big role in the victory, Baltimore’s remaining schedule includes a few other teams that might also struggle to score. So this formula – winning a low-scoring game behind strong defense and just enough offense – might be able to work until Jackson comes back.
”A character win without question – finding the way to get the job done when it needed to get done in different areas was the key,” coach John Harbaugh said. ”I thought guys came up with some plays when we had to have plays made. Defensively, throughout the game, offensively, especially on the last drive, special teams.”
Harbaugh described Jackson’s knee injury as ”week to week” – so it seems likely that Baltimore will again have to rely on backup Tyler Huntley this coming weekend at Pittsburgh. Jackson left Sunday’s game after the first quarter.
The Ravens managed a field goal on Huntley’s first full drive – and then nothing more until he led a 16-play, 91-yard march for the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter. That kept Baltimore (8-4) in a first-place tie with the Bengals. Cincinnati has won four straight.
Two weeks ago, the Ravens had a one-game lead and were about to face Jacksonville and Denver. The Bengals were about to take on Tennessee and Kansas City.
Cincinnati then beat both of those tough opponents while Baltimore split its two games and Jackson was injured.
Not a great development for the Ravens, to say the least. But there’s no sign of panic.
WHAT’S WORKING
Aside from one bad quarter at Jacksonville, the Ravens have had a very nice stretch defensively. Baltimore allowed 13 points at New Orleans, three points against Carolina and then 28 to the Jaguars – 18 of which came in the final period.
So the Denver win was the third time in four games the Ravens held an opponent to one touchdown or fewer.
”We’re still chasing a goose egg, so we could have played better,” cornerback Marlon Humphrey said. ”Some plays I left on the field, but it feels good to be able to have a good defensive day.”
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Big plays have been scarce in the passing game this year, and the Ravens’ offense was bogged down in general Sunday – but they learned the hard way that if they force the issue, it might make things worse.
During one of their few promising drives against the Broncos, they ran a reverse pass in which James Proche II threw deep into heavy coverage and was intercepted.
”Trying too hard maybe to make something happen with a trick play,” Harbaugh said. ”It was probably time just to grind. I think it turned out to be a grind game, and that was a finesse idea that it wasn’t time for that, for sure.”
STOCK UP
Huntley went 27 for 32 for 187 yards with an interception. His completion rate of 84.4 percent was the highest in a game for anyone in the NFL this season – with a minimum of 30 attempts.
Like Jackson, Huntley is a threat to run, so Baltimore’s offensive scheme doesn’t change much when he has to play.
”He’s probably going to take most of the reps this week,” Harbaugh said.
STOCK DOWN
The offensive line, which has injury issues of its own, allowed four sacks, and the running game was not a huge factor.
INJURIES
LT Ronnie Stanley (ankle) did not play, and Patrick Mekari – the next man up at that position – hurt his foot and played only about half the offensive snaps. … Harbaugh said LB Patrick Queen has a bruised thigh, which was considered good news after he was carted off during the game.
KEY NUMBER
0 – The number of red zone opportunities in the game for the Broncos. Denver never advanced farther than the Baltimore 23.
NEXT STEPS
The Ravens meet Pittsburgh for the first time this season Sunday. It’s the first of two straight road games within the division for Baltimore, which takes on Cleveland the following weekend.
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Dallas-based Developer Honored for Innovation, Commitment to Sustainability,
and Industry Leadership
DALLAS, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, has selected Granite Properties as the 2022 Developer of the Year – the association's highest honor. The award will be presented during NAIOP's CRE.Converge conference in Chicago this October.
"On behalf of everyone at Granite, I want to thank NAIOP for this great honor of naming us the 2022 Developer of the Year," said Michael Dardick, Founding Partner & CEO, Granite Properties. "Granite supports companies and their employees with high quality, sustainable and wellness-focused office and mixed-use environments in desired locations. Putting people first is instilled in everything we do. It's why we're always focused on enhancing the customer experience and making a positive impact on our communities. I'm proud of our team's innovative spirit and ability to adapt to the many changes our industry has experienced over the 30 years we've been in business. This recognition is a reflection of their talent, and I thank them for their hard work positioning Granite for long-term success."
Granite Properties is a privately held commercial real estate investment, development and management company that owns 11 million square feet of high-quality office space valued at $3 billion in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Southern California, Boston and Nashville. The company has completed more than $8 billion in real estate transactions and more than 29 million square feet of real estate development and acquisitions. It focuses on creating extraordinary customer experiences through mixed-use environments, rich amenities, customer-centric service, and innovative wellness features.
The company's size, operational experience, partnerships and breadth of resources allow it to make appropriate adjustments to short-term and long-term objectives with flexibility and speed-to-execution in response to economic changes and opportunities. The company cites adaptability and flexibility as core characteristics that are leveraged throughout the lifespan and growth of the 30-year-old company.
Granite's advancement of technology and building wellness includes a partnership with Fifth Wall that keeps the company on the forefront of technology, benefiting customers and their businesses; evolve®, an innovative Granite trademarked program of flexible office leasing solutions; and development guidelines that meet and exceed certification requirements for both Fitwel and U.S. Green Building Council LEED.
Across the U.S., Granite is known for its social, philanthropic and employee-focused efforts. Since 2009, the company's charitable impact surpassed $3 million. It has been named one of Fortune Magazine and Great Place to Work Best Workplaces nine consecutive times, and is committed to fostering diverse and inclusive teams across the company.
"On behalf of NAIOP, I am thrilled to recognize the fantastic achievements of Granite Properties and honor them as our 2022 Developer of the Year. The company's strong commitment to developing and operating exemplary properties across the U.S. is inspiring," said Thomas J. Bisacquino, NAIOP president and CEO. "Throughout the company's history, it has successfully navigated challenges and downturns, always emerging stronger. Granite's company culture and mission of inspiring both its employees and tenants to flourish has made it a leader in the commercial real estate industry."
Granite employees are active NAIOP members across several association chapters, including NAIOP Colorado, NAIOP Georgia, NAIOP Houston, NAIOP North Texas and NAIOP SoCal.
Since 1979, the NAIOP Developer of the Year award has been presented to a development company that best exemplifies leadership and innovation. Granite Properties was selected from an impressive slate of nominees and was evaluated by a team of seasoned developers on the following criteria: outstanding quality of projects and services; active support of the industry through NAIOP; financial consistency and stability; ability to adapt to market conditions; and support of the local community.
NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association is the leading organization for developers, owners, investors and related professionals in office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate. NAIOP provides unparalleled industry networking and education and advocates for effective legislation on behalf of our members. NAIOP advances responsible, sustainable development that creates jobs and benefits the communities in which our members work and live. For more information, visit naiop.org.
Granite Properties is a privately held commercial real estate investment, development and management company founded in 1991. The firm owns 11 million square feet of high-quality office space in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Southern California, and Nashville. Granite is an established investor, developer, and manager with a focus on sustainable, high-quality projects. It has completed more than $8 billion in real estate transactions and more than 29 million square feet of real estate development and acquisitions. Current active development projects in Atlanta, Boston, and Dallas total over 2 million square feet with total costs over $1.5 billion. Granite focuses on creating extraordinary customer experiences through mixed-use environments, rich amenities, customer-centric service, and innovative wellness features. The firm has been named one of Fortune Magazine and Great Place to Work Best Workplaces nine consecutive years. For more information, visit graniteprop.com.
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NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Thursday, November 10, 2022
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falling into the lower 30s in the afternoon. West winds around
5 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South
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winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s. Temperature
rising to around 60 after midnight. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers in the morning, then partly
sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s. Temperature falling into the lower 50s in the afternoon. West
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
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80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers after
midnight. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers.
Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Temperature falling to
around 40 in the afternoon. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Highs
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in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
around 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
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Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the lower 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
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311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. South winds
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10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly
sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
60s. Temperature falling into the upper 50s in the afternoon. West
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winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. West winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
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variable.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Temperature falling into the mid
40s in the afternoon. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning. A chance of rain. Highs in
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the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Northern Washington-
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Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
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.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s. Temperature
rising into the lower 60s after midnight. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly
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sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
60s. Temperature falling into the upper 50s in the afternoon. West
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
A 30 percent chance of showers. Much cooler with highs in the upper
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40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
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Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
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cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning. A chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
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with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows around 60. Temperature rising
into the mid 60s after midnight. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
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up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Temperature
falling into the mid 50s in the afternoon. Southwest winds 10 to
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15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the morning. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
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in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Rain may be heavy at times this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times. Not as cool with lows
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in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning. Rain may be heavy at times in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s. Temperature falling into the mid
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40s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers
after midnight. Much cooler with lows in the lower 30s. West winds
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10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain and snow showers. Much
cooler with highs around 40. Temperature falling into the mid 30s in
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the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow
showers. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
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Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow in the morning, then
mostly cloudy with a chance of snow or rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
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Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s. Temperature
rising into the lower 60s after midnight. Southeast winds 5 to
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10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Temperature
falling into the upper 40s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers after
midnight. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
Much cooler with highs in the mid 40s. Temperature falling to around
40 in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
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20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of snow or rain. Highs around 40. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
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in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
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Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the upper
50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY...Cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly sunny in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling to around
50 in the afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to
around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers.
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Cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Temperature falling into the
lower 40s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning. A chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
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in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
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with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Temperature
falling to around 50 in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain showers. Much cooler
with highs in the mid 40s. Temperature falling to around 40 in the
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afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
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Lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
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cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning. A chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Western Schenectady-
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Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
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showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Temperature
falling to around 50 in the afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
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cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the mid 40s. Temperature falling to around
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40 in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow or rain. Highs
around 40. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
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Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
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311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows around 60. South winds 10 to
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15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly
sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling
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into the lower 50s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Much
cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Temperature falling into the mid
40s in the afternoon. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. Highs in
the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
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40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Southern Saratoga-
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Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
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winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then showers after midnight. Not as
cool with lows around 60. Temperature rising into the mid 60s after
midnight. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance
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of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly
sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling
into the lower 50s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
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gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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Temperature falling into the mid 40s in the afternoon. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. Highs in
the lower 40s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers
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in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
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100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly
sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling
into the upper 40s in the afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph with
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gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 40s.
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Temperature falling into the upper 30s in the afternoon. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of snow or rain. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
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evening. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
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Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
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winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then showers after midnight. Not as
cool with lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 15 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling
into the lower 50s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 35 mph in the morning. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Temperature falling into the lower 40s in the afternoon. West winds
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5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. Highs in
the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
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chance of rain. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
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with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
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winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then showers likely after midnight.
Breezy and not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. South winds 20 to
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25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling
to around 50 in the afternoon. West winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to
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40 mph in the morning. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 40s.
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Temperature falling to around 40 in the afternoon. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the upper 30s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow or rain. Highs
around 40. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
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with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
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Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
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winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then showers after midnight. Not as
cool with lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 35 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent.
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.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling into the mid 50s in the
afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows around 40.
North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50.
Temperature falling into the mid 40s in the afternoon. Northwest
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. Highs in
the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
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chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
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Including the city of Chatham
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
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.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then showers likely after midnight.
Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 15 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with rain in the morning, then partly sunny with
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a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
Temperature falling into the mid 50s in the afternoon. West winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming northwest with gusts
up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper
30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Temperature falling into the lower 40s in the afternoon. Northwest
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Partly sunny with a
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chance of rain. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Cold
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with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
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90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling into the upper 50s in the
afternoon. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower
40s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northwest
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Partly sunny with a
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chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold with lows in
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the upper 20s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
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Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...A chance of rain this morning, then rain this afternoon.
Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming
southeast this afternoon. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. South winds
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10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Temperature
falling into the lower 50s in the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph
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with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 40s.
Temperature falling into the lower 40s in the afternoon. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
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20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning. A chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers
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in the evening. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
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Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
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.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s. Temperature
rising into the mid 60s after midnight. South winds 10 to 15 mph
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with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then mostly
sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Temperature falling
into the upper 50s in the afternoon. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
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gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northwest with gusts up to 20 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower
40s. North winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
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variable.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder with lows in the lower 30s.
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.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. Lows
in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
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Cold with lows around 30. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Partly sunny with a
chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening. Cold with
lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
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Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
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Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
311 AM EST Fri Nov 11 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Rain this afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
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90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then showers after midnight. Not as
cool. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain in the morning, then mostly
sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Temperature falling
to around 60 in the afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 35 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
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of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows around 40.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Partly sunny with a
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chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold with lows in
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the upper 20s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — They call him “El Jefe,” he is at least 12 years old and his crossing of the heavily guarded U.S.-Mexico border has sparked celebrations on both sides.
“El Jefe” — or “The Boss” — is one of the oldest jaguars on record along the frontier, one of few known to have crossed a border partly lined by a wall and other infrastructure to stop drug traffickers and migrants, and the one believed to have traveled the farthest, say ecologists of the Borderlands Linkages Initiative, a binational collaboration of eight conservation groups.
That assessment is based on photographs taken over the years. Jaguars can be identified by their spots, which serve as a kind of unique fingerprint.
The rare northern jaguar’s ability to cross the border suggests that despite increased impediments, there are still open corridors and if they are kept open “it is feasible (to conserve) the jaguar population in the long term,” said Juan Carlos Bravo of the Wildlands Network, one of those groups in the initiative.
But some fear for the jaguars’ future. Although it was the government of President Donald Trump that reinforced and expanded the border wall with Mexico, the Biden administration has announced plans for closing four gaps between the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora — the two states the jaguars traverse.
Conservationists do not know how many jaguars there are in the Sierra Madre Occidental, but of the 176 that have been identified over two decades by the Northern Jaguar Project — another group in the initiative — only two others besides “El Jefe” are known to have crossed the border, Bravo said. In one case, conservationists are not sure if the jaguar crossed the border alive or dead since only its skin was found.
The first photograph of “El Jefe” was taken by a hunter southeast of Tucson, Arizona, in 2011, Bravo said. The jaguar became famous in Arizona and a local school named him “El Jefe.” Motion sensor cameras installed in transit areas photographed the jaguar in Arizona again in 2012 and in 2015.
Conservationists were stunned when they confirmed that a photograph taken by another member of the coalition, Profauna, last November in the center of Sonora was “El Jefe.” The discovery meant not only that jaguars could still cross the border but that other jaguars they had lost track of could also still be alive, the initiative said in a statement.
Hunted in the southwestern United States for rewards offered by the government to promote cattle ranching, they were thought to have disappeared from the U.S. by the end of the 20th century. Jaguar populations are currently concentrated on Mexico’s Pacific coast, southeastern Mexico, Central America and central South America.
A sighting of jaguars in the United States in 1996 prompted studies that found a reproductive point in the center of Sonora.
The NGOs banded together to operate on both sides of the border to track the cats, create sanctuaries, understand where they moved and seek the support of landowners in the U.S. and Mexico to protect them, Bravo said.
Besides the difficulty of determining where to put cameras to record the animals and the subsequent analysis of the images, conservationists in Mexico face another problem: drug cartels.
“There is a presence of armed groups and drug traffickers” who pass through the same isolated areas as the jaguars, Bravo said by telephone from Sonora. “It is important to move carefully, work with the people in the communities that tell us where not to go. … All of this is making it very, very complicated.”
The border is the main challenge for hopes to repopulate the American Southwest with jaguars, with walls impeding movement by those animals as well as the American antelope, the black bear and the Mexican wolf, Bravo said. Light towers and the roads used by the Border Patrol also are a problem, he added. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/el-jefe-the-jaguar-famed-in-us-photographed-in-mexico/ | 2022-08-10 14:23:29 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/el-jefe-the-jaguar-famed-in-us-photographed-in-mexico/ |
Thanks to all who made festival such a success
The East Jordan Freedom Festival kicked off summer with a bang! The weather was great, and everything was a huge success: Fabulous fireworks, parades, live music, contest and food were all part of the East Jordan Freedom Festival. The festival started Wednesday, June 21, with the Miss & Mr. Firecracker Pageant and ran through Sunday, June 25. The festival brought families and friends from throughout the area into downtown with lots of fun for all to enjoy.
The East Jordan Freedom Festival would like to thank the many, many organizations, businesses, churches and individuals for their donations and support that make the festival possible.
The Freedom Festival Committee would also like to thank the City of East Jordan and the city departments for all their hard work: East Jordan DPW, East Jordan Police Department, East Jordan Fire Department and Jordan Valley EMS Authority.
Thank you to the East Jordan Area Chamber of Commerce for their support and advertising assistance. We'd also like to thank the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Department. Special thanks to the East Jordan Trailblazers and The Helping Hearts of East Jordan for assisting with our parades. Thank you to the many volunteers who put in lots of hours to make the event a success.
As you can see, it takes many people to make a successful festival. Without their time and support, events such as the East Jordan Freedom Festival would not be possible. Visit www.eastjordanfreedomfestival.org for a complete list of festival sponsors and donors. Please thank the owners and managers of these businesses as you support them throughout the year.
If you'd like to be part of the volunteer planning committee or festival board for the 2024 East Jordan Freedom Festival, please contact info@eastjordanfreedomfestival.org.
Shannon Fender,
Office manager/events coordinator
East Jordan Area Chamber of Commerce | https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-fender/article_1d6ef470-1681-11ee-b35c-3331254649dd.html | 2023-07-02 15:49:11 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-fender/article_1d6ef470-1681-11ee-b35c-3331254649dd.html |
NEW YORK CITY (WPIX) — The father of Claire McKenna, an aspiring singer found dead last month on a New York City street, wants to know who pushed the 26-year-old woman on a dolly for several blocks before dumping her body behind a bush.
“They came to the house and said, ‘These are her boots,’” Claire McKenna’s grieving father, Derek McKenna, told Nexstar’s WPIX about the police visit to his home on Oct. 12.
Derek McKenna said his daughter had gone to a get-together in Queens on Oct. 10, and he received a disturbing text at 3:11 a.m. the following morning.
“The text said ‘Help,’” he said. The next one read, “My phone will die.”
By the time Derek McKenna saw the texts, his daughter wasn’t answering his phone calls.
At 4:34 a.m. on Oct. 12, just over 24 hours after the concerning text, security video reportedly showed a masked man, dressed in black, wheeling a body on a dolly close to where Claire McKenna’s body was found. Michael Santangelo, the family’s lawyer, said he has seen the footage, which allegedly showed the masked man wheeling the dolly for at least five blocks.
Claire McKenna’s body was found face-down on the sidewalk near a bush at 94th Avenue and 214th Place in Queens Village. The family received a preliminary toxicology report but there’s no definitive cause of death. Police claimed, however, that they found a track mark on Claire McKenna’s arm — but her parents claim it’s just a scar she had prior to her death.
“She had a medical marijuana card,” Derek McKenna said of his daughter. “She was never into heavy drugs.”
He told WPIX he’s upset about his daughter’s good name being tarnished.
“She’s an identical twin,” he said. “She was a really good girl.”
Derek McKenna is an Irish immigrant who works in the construction business. His four daughters were born in the United States. He said his twin daughters were creating music together and trying to break into the business, singing “pop, country, and gospel.” He has plastered posters with his daughter’s picture all over a 10-block radius of Queens Village.
The case appears similar to the mysterious death in July of Queens man Philip Guarino, whose body was pushed on a hand truck for several blocks and deposited in a Brooklyn backyard. Police have not said the two cases are connected.
Derek McKenna wants the police to focus on who dumped his daughter’s body.
“They’re making her out to be something that she’s not,” he said. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/grieving-dad-wants-to-know-who-hauled-daughters-body-on-dolly-then-dumped-her/ | 2022-11-17 16:38:12 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/grieving-dad-wants-to-know-who-hauled-daughters-body-on-dolly-then-dumped-her/ |
Tropical cyclone-tracking satellites blasted into orbit just in time for 2023 hurricane season
Monday marked the second launch of a pair of the small satellites to monitor tropical storms but only the first successful launch. NASA wants the quadruplets operational for hurricane season.
MAHIA, New Zealand – New tools to help improve hurricane forecasting blasted off Monday just in time for the 2023 hurricane season.
NASA, with help from space firm Rocket Lab, launched two small satellites as part of the TROPICS constellation that will help give researchers and meteorologists in-depth storm readings every hour.
Rocket Lab titled the mission "Rocket Like a Hurricane."
TROPICS stands for the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats. The series of four CubeSats, each about the size of a loaf of bread, each weighing about 10 pounds, will sit in low orbit, about 340 miles overhead.
5 DIFFERENT NAMES FOR HURRICANES AROUND THE WORLD
This enables a satellite to fly over a tropical storm or cyclone every 30 to 60 minutes. Data transfer would take about an hour. Current weather satellites can only collect data once every 6 hours, according to NASA.
"Providing more frequent imaging will not only improve our situational awareness when a hurricane forms," said Karen St. Germain, director of the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The data will provide information to models that help us determine how a storm is changing over time, which in turn helps to improve forecasts from our partners like the National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center."
NASA: TROPICS MISSION CONTINUES DESPITE FAILURES 2 WEEKS INTO HURRICANE SEASON
The TROPICS constellation was originally designed to be 6 satellites. The first launch with space firm Astra in June 2022 failed to reach orbit, and both CubeSats were lost.
Astra announced shortly after that it was scrapping its smaller rocket program after a couple of failed launches. The result could have delayed NASA’s TROPICS launch of the remaining four satellites until after the 2023 hurricane season. NASA went back to bidding, choosing Rocket Lab.
NASA IS LAUNCHING A FLEET OF TINY SATELLITES TO STUDY THE TROPICS
Finally, two of the satellites were launched into space from Mahia, New Zealand, on Monday. NASA established communication with one shortly after. The second kept scientists on the edge of their seats for about 5 hours before responding.
Mission "Coming to a Storm Near You" will deliver the remaining two satellites and is scheduled in 2 weeks from New Zealand, according to a Rocket Lab. | https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/mission-nasa-satellite-hurricane-tracker | 2023-05-09 01:37:05 | 1 | https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/mission-nasa-satellite-hurricane-tracker |
Ravens outside linebacker Jaylon Ferguson died after authorities found him unresponsive late Tuesday in a North Baltimore home. He was 26.
Officials have not released a cause of death, but Baltimore Police said Wednesday that investigators have not ruled out the possibility of an overdose.
“We are profoundly saddened by the tragic passing of Jaylon Ferguson,” the Ravens said in a statement Wednesday. “He was a kind, respectful young man with a big smile and infectious personality. We express our heartfelt condolences to Jaylon’s family and friends as we mourn a life lost much too soon.”
Baltimore Police said Northern District officers responded at about 11:25 p.m. Tuesday to reports of a questionable death at a home in the 400 block of Ilchester Avenue in Baltimore’s Harwood neighborhood. There, police found Ferguson unresponsive and receiving treatment from medics.
“Ferguson never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead on the scene by medics,” Baltimore Police spokeswoman Niki Fennoy said in a statement.
Police said there were no signs of trauma or foul play. They said the medical examiner will determine a cause of death.
Ferguson was entering his fourth NFL season in Baltimore. He looked leaner and more explosive at the Ravens’ three-day mandatory minicamp last week before suffering what coach John Harbaugh called a sprained ankle. Ferguson, who was set to report to training camp in late July, had 67 tackles, 4 1/2 sacks and three forced fumbles over his 38 games (10 starts) with the Ravens.
“Jaylon was a good-hearted, gentle person who loved his family and his team,” Harbaugh said in a statement released by the team. “He was a joy to talk with and be around every day. You always wanted to see and talk to ‘Ferg.’ Our prayers and our help go to his family. Our hearts are with his Spirit. R.I.P., Jaylon.”
Ravens teammates described Ferguson as genuine and supportive. Outside linebacker Tyus Bowser said Ferguson’s “positive energy, encouragement and his belief in me helped mold me into the player and man I am today.” Defensive lineman Calais Campbell said Ferguson “usually had a big smile on his face and would lighten up the room with a joke.” Inside linebacker Josh Bynes wrote on Twitter that he and Ferguson “joked together, laughed together, prayed together, fought on the field together!!”
Safety Tony Jefferson said Ferguson told him before leaving minicamp that he was “ready to have a big year, and I believed it was going to be his best season as a Raven.” Inside linebacker Patrick Queen, a fellow Louisiana native, shared on Twitter that he’d had a recent conversation with Ferguson. “Said it was our turn this year,” he wrote.
“Jaylon had a pure heart,” left tackle Ronnie Stanley said. “He wanted to be a great player, but never tried to downplay his teammates to get there. While going against him in practice, he would always tell me when I was doing a good job, even when it meant it was against himself. He was always with a smile and had an eagerness to learn. He wanted to be better for himself and his kids. He was so excited every time he had a new kid who was about to be born. He always talked about them and how he plays for them.”
A third-round draft pick in 2018, Ferguson set the Football Bowl Subdivision record for career sacks (45) at Louisiana Tech, eclipsing former Arizona State and Ravens great Terrell Suggs’ mark. Then-Ravens defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale told Ferguson after he was drafted that he was “the best pass-rush interview I ever had. When you started talking about pass rush, your eyes lit up, and I can’t wait to get you up here.”
Ferguson was a three-year starter for the Bulldogs, winning Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2018 and earning the nickname “Sack Daddy” from a teammate. Ferguson became the first member of his family to earn a college degree.
“The LA Tech Family mourns this morning’s tragic news of the sudden death of former Bulldog great, Jaylon Ferguson,” the Louisiana Tech football team said in a statement shared on Twitter. “We will remember his God-given talents on the field and his infectious personality off of it.”
A day before Ferguson was drafted in April 2019, a tornado with 130-mph winds tore through Ruston, a small city in northern Louisiana, including portions of Louisiana Tech’s campus. The storm left two people dead and caused $9.1 million in damage to city property. In its aftermath, Ferguson joined a wave of volunteers who helped clear debris, drop off food, water and supplies, and help those in need.
Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker called Ferguson a “class act,” a “strong role model” for the area’s youth and “a heck of a pass rusher, too.”
“We lost a person with a big heart and a desire to help the community, no matter where he is,” Walker said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “He was not from Ruston, but yet he adopted the city. And during a time of need, he stepped up to the plate, just like several former players did who came back. So it’s one thing to say, ‘I’m part of the community and I want to help,’ but it’s another thing when you’re going out and actually doing the work.”
Robb Odom, Ferguson’s football coach at West Feliciana High School in St. Francisville, Louisiana, said in an interview that Ferguson was well-mannered, quiet and always “took care of his business.” Ferguson had a big heart, Odom said, and “didn’t have a selfish bone in his body.”
When he was able to come home to Louisiana, Ferguson often visited his alma mater. West Feliciana retired Ferguson’s high school jersey, No. 44, last year. Ferguson’s father, Richard, wore No. 44 as well, and they’d often argue over who was the better player, Odom said.
”The whole community is in shock,” Odom said. “It’s a sad, sad day. He will be missed.”
Neighbors in the 400 block of Ilchester Avenue said the news came as a shock. They were unaware of Ferguson having any connection to the neighborhood, which they said is close-knit and relatively quiet.
“What the hell was a Ravens player doing on this block?” said Lawrence Cox, 40, sounding incredulous. Cox had just pulled up outside his house Wednesday afternoon, having apparently slept through the police response overnight. “That’s breaking news to me,” he said.
Krystle Livering, 40, said she woke up around 4 a.m. and saw a car being towed away from the scene. Hours passed before she realized what the police investigation was about. She said she couldn’t recall hearing about any Ravens players hanging out in the area.
“I have no idea what happened,” she said. “It’s just really sad.”
Ferguson is survived by his fiancée, Doni Smith, and their three young children, Jrea, Jyce and Demi. On her Instagram story Wednesday, Smith shared videos of Ferguson playing with his kids and photos of their family together.
“I love you so much!!” she wrote. “I’ll never in my life feel the love you gave me baby! It’s always been us. You really left me in this world alone baby. I’m broken. I’m hurt. I want you back!!”
Baltimore Sun reporter Matt Cohen contributed to this article.
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