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Julian Sands' official cause of death released months after actor went missing on hike
Julian Sands' official cause of death has been released, weeks after his remains were found on a mountain in California.
The actor's cause of death was listed on his death certificate as "undetermined," Fox News Digital can confirm. The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department positively identified Sands on June 27 after hikers found his remains on Mount Baldy.
The "undetermined" cause of death is "common when dealing with cases of this type," the sheriff's department explained to Fox News Digital.
Sands was first reported missing by his wife on Jan. 13 after he failed to return from a hike in the San Gabriel Mountains, which are roughly an hour outside of Los Angeles.
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Authorities searched for the missing actor via ground, helicopter and drones in the first weeks after he was reported missing.
However, toward the end of February and into March, a series of powerful storms hit the San Bernardino Mountains. Just before landfall, the National Weather Service issued its first-ever blizzard warning for the area.
When the rare weather event was over, the mountain communities were covered in nearly 10 feet of snow. Roads were closed, residents went without power for days, and sheriffs reported 13 deaths under investigation, but ruled only one person died as "a direct correlation to the weather."
Julian Sands attends The Turtle Conservancy's 4th Annual Turtle Ball at The Bowery Hotel on April 17, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Authorities picked up the search for Sands again in June, but many parts of the mountain still remained "inaccessible due to extreme alpine conditions," according to the police.
Sands is known for his roles in "The Killing Fields," "A Room With A View," "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Warlock." He also appeared in "Ocean's 13," "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "Arachnophobia," "Boxing Helena" and "Medallion."
At the time of his death, Sands reportedly had six projects in the works, per IMDb.
Sands is survived by wife Evgenia Citkowitz, their two daughters and his son from his first marriage. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/julian-sands-cause-of-death-released-months-after-actor-went-missing-on-hike | 2023-07-24 23:48:09 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/julian-sands-cause-of-death-released-months-after-actor-went-missing-on-hike |
LAS VEGAS , Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Out & Equal announced the recipients of its 2022 Outie Awards. With a more than 20-year history, the Outies offer prestigious recognition for individuals and organizations who are role models in advancing equality for LGBTQ+ people in workplaces globally.
"At a time when the rights of the LGBTQ+ community are at risk, employers have an important role in safeguarding our community," said Erin Uritus, CEO of Out & Equal. "We are grateful to this year's Outie Award winners for their exemplary leadership in creating inclusive workplaces where everyone belongs."
The Workplace Excellence Outie was awarded to Dell Technologies in recognition of their policies that advance LGBTQ+ inclusion both within the company and in communities where their team members live and work. Dell Technologies prioritizes cultivating a work environment where everyone can be their true selves. By working with the company's Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG), Dell continues to foster a sense of belonging both in and out of the workplace.
Employee Resource Group of the Year Outie was awarded to GLAD, Dow's LGBTQ+ and allies employee resource group (ERG). GLAD continues to transform Dow through initiatives that create meaningful change in the workplace and globally. GLAD led Dow's efforts to create transgender internship programs in Brazil and Argentina to help connect trans and nonbinary talent to the company. The ERG has an ongoing partnership with Dow's Government and Public Affairs team in several countries, including Brazil, Thailand, and Taiwan, to give employees tools to lobby and speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ public policy.
New Employee Resource Group of the Year Outie was awarded to Medtronic's PRIDE Global Network. Despite the setbacks of launching an ERG in the beginning of the pandemic, Medtronic's PRIDE Global Network established 21 ERG chapter locations reaching over 8,000 active members in over 50 countries. In Chile, PRIDE Global Network co-founded a large companies that joined together to advocate for marriage equality in the country. In 2022, thanks to massive corporate advocacy, marriage equality became law in Chile.
The LGBTQ+ Corporate Advocate of the Year Outie was awarded to Commander Emily Shilling, the Naval Mission Planning System Military Deputy Program Manager who is the senior-most out, trans identifying line officer in the United States Navy. Commander Shilling actively works with transgender personnel, Congress, high level military leaders, and the Defense Health Agency, to provide mentorship, advocate for inclusive military service, improve access to medical care, and create a safe environment in which transgender individuals not only serve, but thrive.
The Ally Changemaker Outie was awarded to Mukesh Batra, a Senior Vice President at Bank of America. In 2018, Mukesh launched the Global Business Services (GBS) LGBTQ+ chapter in India. Under Batra's leadership, the network has grown to over 4,000 members. He has created a more inclusive workplace for LGBTQ+ employees by leading the implementation of gender neutral restrooms, same-sex partner benefits, gender transition guidelines, and LGBTQ+ training sessions for employees. Mukesh works to dismantle discrimination based on religion, caste, gender identity, sexual orientation, and more by using his position as a leader and LGBTQ+ ally to create a culture of belonging from the top down.
The Belonging & Equity Visionary Outie was awarded to Indeed. The company centers inclusion as a core business value and strategy throughout the company. Over half of Indeed's global employees are active members of at least one of the company's Inclusion Resource Groups (IRGs). In 2022, the groups have already hosted more than 250 events to broaden awareness and implement change for diverse communities. In response to the tragic murder of George Floyd, Indeed intentionally shifted their stance from "quiet advocacy" to being more vocal about the need for systemic change across marginalized communities.
Global LBGTQ+ Corporate Advocate Outie was awarded to Javier Constante, President of Dow Latin America. Constante is an active board member of Forum de Empresas e Direitos LGBTQ+, one of the leading LGBTQ+ public policy and advocacy organizations in Brazil. Javier is one of the most senior, openly LGBTQ+ executives in Latin America and takes his responsibility as a role model and advocate very seriously. He uses his position to advocate at higher levels of the company, which helps open doors, challenges the status quo, and fights prejudice to create a more inclusive environment for all people.
The 2022 Outie Awards were presented at Out & Equal's annual Workplace Summit, a multi-day hybrid event that brought together more than 3,500 individuals in-person in Las Vegas and thousands more participating remotely from all over the globe, and featured keynotes, speeches, best practices, workshops, and celebrity guests.
Learn more about 2022 winners and finalists here.
Out & Equal is the premier global nonprofit organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Through their worldwide programs, strategic corporate partnerships, and sought-after events, Out & Equal helps LGBTQ+ individuals realize their fullest, most authentic potential, while supporting organizations in creating cultures of belonging for all.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy had 49 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning completed a four-game sweep of the Florida Panthers with a 2-0 victory Monday night that sent the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions back to the Eastern Conference final for the sixth time in eight years.
Pat Maroon snapped a scoreless tie, batting Zach Bogosian’s shot down behind Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky before the puck trickled into the net a little over six minutes into the third period. Ondrej Palat added an empty-net goal with 22 seconds left.
Vasilevskiy won his sixth straight game, a streak that began with the Lightning facing a 3-2 series deficit in the opening round. It was his sixth shutout in his last seven series-clinching wins.
The reigning Conn Smythe Trophy winner limited the high-scoring Panthers, who averaged a NHL-best 4.11 goals while compiling the league’s best record during the regular season, to just three goals in four games.
The Lightning joined the New York Islanders and Montreal Canadiens as the only franchises to win at least 10 consecutive playoff series. Their bid to become the first team in 40 years to capture three straight Stanley Cup titles will continue in the East final against either the Carolina Hurricanes or New York Rangers.
The defending champs persevered Monday night despite having goals by Alex Killorn and Nikita Kucherov waved off within a 48-second span of the second period — the first after Florida coach Andrew Brunette challenged and a lengthy replay review determined Palat lifted the puck out of play along the boards before Mikhail Sergachev fired a shot that Killorn tipped past Bobrovsky.
Less than a minute later, Tampa Bay appeared to take the lead again only to have replay confirm Anthony Cirelli won a faceoff in the left circle with a hand pass that Kucherov rifled through Bobrovsky.
The Panthers became the first Presidents' Trophy winners to be swept by a defending Stanley Cup champion in the playoffs since Edmonton breezed past Calgary on its way to another title in 1988.
Vasilevskiy, who entered Monday night having given up one goal in each of his previous four games, has allowed one goal total in his last seven series-clinching wins.
NOTES: The Panthers outshot the Lightning 17-3 in the first period and 34-15 through the second. ... Florida C Joe Thornton played for the first time this postseason. It was the 42-year-old, six-time All-Star’s 187th career playoff game — second-most among active NHL players. ... C Brayden Point (lower body) remained sidelined for the Lightning. He hasn’t played since being injured during the Lightning’s opening-round Game 7 victory over Toronto.
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Danielle Masterson has exploded onto the scene this spring at Husson University as the Eagles’ newest star softball pitcher.
The former Hampden Academy pitcher has notched a 4-3 record from the circle and has won two North Atlantic Conference Rookie of the Week awards in her opening season for the Eagles.
Masterson wasn’t sure how her first year would go, however.
“I was kind of coming in like, ‘I’m a freshman, I’m just gonna learn what I can and try and adapt as quickly as I can and adjust everything with kind of no expectation of my performance because you don’t know what you’re coming into,’” Masterson said. “You don’t understand the level of competition until you get here. I think definitely I surprise myself a little bit, which is good. I’m always open to that.”
In her first two games of the season, Masterson gave up seven total runs and took the loss in both games. From there, the freshman gave up just five runs in 10 appearances, notching five wins.
Masterson earned her first win on March 9 against Kenyon College, 8-0. She pitched five innings of scoreless ball, striking out four batters while allowing just four hits.
“I absolutely knew that we were getting a really hard worker and somebody whose presence on the mound was going to have an immediate impact for us,” Husson coach Diann Ramsey said of Masterson.
On and off the field, Masterson has felt supported.
“I think just a lot of support and intensity,” Masterson said. “The whole team has been amazing in terms of support because coming from high school, college is completely different. Working on adapting to that stuff, I’ve never had a team that’s so helpful with that and really supportive of everything that you do.”
Off the field, teammates have been supportive of Masterson and helped her navigate her first year of college. In practice, the intensity is high so that in games the team won’t get flustered. The little things have been of big consequence preparing for games.
“Making sure that we’re executing the details of the game, whether that’s a simple play on defense or scoring runners when they’re in position or getting on base or executing whatever the detail was at that time, they were doing a really good job of understanding what their job was and executing them,” Ramsey said.
Masterson agreed that the little things have been crucial to pin down for her.
“I think execution and really focusing on the small stuff that coach Ramsey preaches in practice,” Masterson said. “So that’s kind of our focus going into every game is really focused on executing little things and it’ll work for us.”
On March 25, Husson swept a doubleheader with the University of New England, a pair of wins that would jump-start the Eagles’ 18-game win streak. It was during the win streak that Masterson won the NAC Rookie of the Week twice on April 17 and April 24.
Ramsey has been a huge help for the improving Masterson in the circle, but teammate McKenna Smith, a star senior with a 17-5 pitching record and 0.98 earned run average this season, has been there every time Masterson needs a pointer or has a question.
“She has helped me and Emily [Rerick], the other freshman pitcher, so much,” Masterson said of Smith. “Like any time we have a problem with pitching or in general, we’ll go to her and ask her and she’s so thoughtful and helpful and just supportive that it’s crazy. I’ve definitely seen a lot of improvement in pitching just from asking her a simple question.”
On April 22, Masterson pitched a complete game with 10 strikeouts in a 5-0 shutout victory over Thomas College.
Husson is gearing up for the postseason, finishing the regular season with a 27-12-1 record.
“I’m really excited,” Masterson said. “I think after the season we’ve had and the games you have left, you can just feel the energy shift a little bit and we’re just ready for that postseason.” | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/05/03/sports/husson-university/danielle-masterson-husson-softball-debut-joam40zk0w/ | 2023-05-04 12:41:52 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/05/03/sports/husson-university/danielle-masterson-husson-softball-debut-joam40zk0w/ |
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What if, one day, your best friend decided that they didn’t want to be friends anymore? Not because of something that happened like a fight or some offense. You didn’t say something stupid while drunk. It’s not anything that can be apologized for or mended. It’s much worse than that. It’s just you.
Ask anyone it’s happened to: Short of the death of a loved one, there are few things as devastating. Not even the end of a romantic relationship can quite compare. Those, we mostly understand, can come and go. But a friend who doesn’t want to be around you anymore? It may sound like playground troubles, but whether it happens when you’re 8 or 80, that’s a wound that never really heals.
Yet it’s also not a topic that’s been widely explored in great plays, films and literature. Maybe that’s part of the reason it’s such a blow when it actually happens: The art wasn’t there to warn us.
And who better to stare into this uncomfortable well than the great playwright Martin McDonagh? In “ The Banshees of Inisherin ” he and a small group of wonderful actors have sculpted an aching reverie about friendship and fulfillment that is one of the very best films of the year.
It’s 1923 on a small island off the west coast of Ireland when we meet Colin Farrell’s Pádraic, a happy and kindhearted fellow who is content with his life there living with his sister, the bookish Siobhan (a brilliantly sharp Kerry Condon), tending to his favorite donkey, Jenny, and meeting his best friend Colm (a quiet, soulful Brendan Gleeson) at the pub every day at 2 p.m. But on this day Pádraic’s routine is upended when he knocks at Colm’s window to go get their daily pint and Colm ignores him. As Pádraic will come to find, Colm has decided he just doesn’t like him anymore and would like to spend the rest of his days doing anything but talking to him. For Pádraic, this is just the start of an agonizing spiral of self-doubt that turns into a nightmare and leaves no one unchanged.
Colm’s decision, everyone agrees, is mean. Really, really mean. It’s something you just don’t do to a person, especially someone like Pádraic who values niceness above all else. But Colm has and isn’t budging.
People also seem to agree that Pádraic and Colm always made an odd pairing. Pádraic is affable and kind and maybe a little dull. Colm is a more tortured soul, a musician and artist and reader who feels his own enlightenment is being stifled by boring chats. Mean, but also true, at least to Colm who in millennial speak has chosen boundaries and self-care at the expense of another’s feelings.
“The Banshees of Inisherin” presents an impossible conundrum and there’s no solution that will make everyone (or anyone) happy. It is a McDonagh joint after all, and Carter Burwell’s melancholy score and Ben Davis’s haunting cinematography add to the spiritual solemnness.
Farrell is as heartbreaking as he’s ever been as Pádraic, who we watch in horror as he slips into a crueler version of himself. A sweet and tragic local boy, Dominic (a perfect Barry Keoghan role), steps in and for a minute looks like a glimmer of hope for Pádraic. He's also possibly repeating the cycle of how Pádraic and Colm became friends in the first place — some combination of proximity and lack of options on a small island.
This is the nature of life on an insular island and it's a problem for more than Colm. It’s starting to gnaw at Siobhan as well.
The film may leave you shattered, but it’ll also have you laughing, quoting lines in a bad a Irish accent and thinking about your own life and relationships. At the start, it seems clear that Colm is the unreasonable one, but as the story progresses, you begin to accept and maybe even admire his resolve. Somewhere along the way you may find yourself just praying for Pádraic to accept it too and let Colm live in quiet peace.
“The Banshees of Inisherin” is a rich, soulful journey, full of agony, dry Irish wit and big, haunting questions. If it's answers you're looking for, however, you're not going to find them on Inisherin.
“The Banshees of Inisherin,” a Searchlight Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for “language throughout, some violent content and brief graphic nudity.” Running time: 109 minutes. Four stars out of four.
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MPA Definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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Duke McCarron doubled and drove in two runs to lead top-seeded Ocean City to a 2-1 win over eighth-seeded Absegami in the South Jersey, Group 3 tournament quarterfinals in Ocean City.
Riley Gunnels and Tom Finnegan both doubled in the game as well while Shawn Repetti and Noah Herrington each singled for Ocean City (18-8), which hosts fourth-seeded Cherry Hill West in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Absegami (11-12) scored its run in the top of the fifth inning only to see Ocean City plate its two runs in the bottom of the same inning.
McCarron also earned the win on the mound as he pitched a complete game. McCarron struck out seven while yielding just the one run on the two hits and a walk.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses said.
The two people killed in the shooting were 18-year-old Shawn Jackson and his father, 36-year-old Renzo Smith, according to a family representative.
A 19-year-old suspect tried to escape on foot but was arrested and will be charged with two counts of second-degree murder, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said during a nighttime news conference, during which he confirmed the two fatalities.
Five others were wounded by the gunfire outside the state capital’s city-owned Altria Theater, which is across the street from a large, grassy park and in the middle of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus. At least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem, according to police.
“As they heard the gunfire, it was obviously chaos,” Edwards said. “We had hundreds of people in Monroe Park, so people scattered. It was very chaotic at the scene.”
Edwards said there were officers inside the Altria Theater when they heard gunfire from outside the building around 5:15 p.m. A witness told Nexstar’s WRIC they heard dozens of shots fired.
Four firearms were recovered at the scene, sources told WRIC.
Video captured by someone at the graduation shows the moments that gunshots were heard and a brief few seconds of the panic that ensued.
Police initially said two suspects were detained, but Edwards said later that they determined one of them was not involved.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney vowed to ensure anyone responsible faces justice.
“This should not be happening anywhere,” Stoney said.
Two people were treated for falls; one juvenile was struck by a car and sustained injuries that were not life-threatening; and nine people were treated at the scene for minor injuries or anxiety, according to police spokeswoman Tracy Walker.
Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras said the new graduates were outside taking photos with families and friends when the shooting broke out.
“I don’t have any more words on this,” Kamras said. “I’m just tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot. And I beg of the entire community to stop, to just stop.”
As he heard the gunshots and then sirens, neighbor John Willard, 69, stepped onto the balcony of his 18th-floor apartment. Below, he saw students fleeing in their graduation outfits and parents hugging children.
“There was one poor woman in front of the apartment block next to ours who was wailing and crying,” Willard said, adding that the scene left him deeply saddened.
Edythe Payne was helping her daughter sell flowers outside the theater to students as they left the ceremony. She told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the shooting caused a panic on nearby Main Street, which was packed with people at the time.
“I felt bad because some elderly people were at the graduation and they got knocked down to the ground,” Payne said.
The school district said a different graduation scheduled for later Tuesday had been canceled “out of an abundance of caution” and schools would be closed Wednesday.
The mass shooting, the latest in a nation increasingly accustomed to them, prompted calls for reform.
“The gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis that we must address,” U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat whose district includes Richmond, said in a statement. “We cannot continue to live in fear. We must address the root causes of gun violence and pass common sense gun safety policies that protect our communities.”
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, an ardent gun-rights advocate, said in remarks to news outlets near the scene that the problem lies not with guns but with criminals.
“We have to figure out what’s going on in our communities,” she said.
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An Estherwood woman was arrested in a fatal hit-and-run crash after a missing 36-year-old man’s body was found in Acadia Parish on Wednesday.
Eric Simar, 36, of Iota, was reported missing after he was last seen in the area of Gravot Road and Maxie Highway in Iota on Aug. 16. Simar’s body was found on Wednesday on the Estherwood Highway just north of the Egan Highway, the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Investigators determined Simar was killed after being struck by a vehicle.
“Our personnel were able to locate the suspect vehicle involved in this case and confirmed that fragments of the vehicle found at the scene matched the vehicle,” Sheriff K.P. Gibson said.
Tina Kibodeaux, 46, of Estherwood, was arrested on a count of hit-and-run resulting in death or serious bodily injury and she was booked into the Acadia Parish Jail. | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/crime_police/article_6e02b458-255a-11ed-bf1b-23453e2943b2.html | 2022-08-26 17:08:44 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/crime_police/article_6e02b458-255a-11ed-bf1b-23453e2943b2.html |
Short-term rental agency Airbnb is permanently banning parties at properties listed on its site, the company announced Tuesday.
"We know that the overwhelming majority of our Hosts share their homes responsibly, just as the overwhelming majority of guests are responsible and treat their listings and neighborhoods as if they were their own," Airbnb said in a statement.
"In turn, we focus on trying to deter the very rare cases of Hosts who do not operate responsibly, or guests who try to throw unauthorized parties."
Those who violate the policy will be suspended or removed from the platform.
Airbnb used to leave the decision to throw parties to hosts. Then, in 2019, it banned "open-invite" parties and "chronic party houses."
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with bars and clubs being closed, people began taking their parties to Airbnbs. The company temporarily banned parties in August 2020 to curb the spread of the virus. Since then, reports of parties have dropped 44% year-to-year, Airbnb said.
In 2021, about 6,600 people were suspended from Airbnb for violating the temporary ban. At the time, there was a 16-person limit on gatherings, which has since been lifted.
The temporary ban received positive feedback from hosts and politicians, Airbnb said.
"Over time, the party ban became much more than a public health measure," it said. "It developed into a bedrock community policy to support our Hosts and their neighbors."
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Memorial to American writer Wahl placed at World Cup game
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — American soccer writer Grant Wahl was honored with a tribute from FIFA on the desk where he was due to work Saturday at the World Cup quarterfinal match between France and England.
A posy of white lilies and a framed photograph of Wahl taken in Qatar were left at the media seat that had been assigned to the 48-year-old journalist who died at the World Cup in the early hours of Saturday.
“Tonight we pay tribute to Grant Wahl at his assigned seat in Al Bayt Stadium. He should have been here,” FIFA said in a statement. “Our thoughts remain with his wife Céline, his family, and his friends at this most difficult time.”
About 20 minutes before the match started, the photograph of Wahl was displayed on big screens in two corners of the stadium. An announcement about his death was made to fans who applauded him.
Wahl fell ill while working during extra time of the Argentina-Netherlands game on Friday at Lusail Stadium. He was treated by medical staff in the media tribune and later taken by ambulance to the hospital.
He was reporting at his eighth World Cup.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Twitter slid more than 11% in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company and the social media platform vowed to challenge Musk in court to uphold the agreement.
Twitter is now preparing to sue Musk in Delaware where the company is incorporated. While the outcome is uncertain, both sides are preparing for a long court battle.
Musk alleged Friday that Twitter has failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service. Twitter responded in a weekend letter disclosed Monday that his “purported termination is invalid and wrongful” and that the company has continued to provide the information he “reasonably requested.”
Twitter said last month that it was making available to Musk a ” fire hose ” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets.
The company has said for years in regulatory filings that it believes about 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake. But on Monday Musk continued to taunt the company, using Twitter, over what he has described as a lack of data. In addition, Musk is also alleging that Twitter broke the acquisition agreement when it fired two top managers and laid off a third of its talent-acquisition team.
Musk agreed to a $1 billion breakup fee as part of the buyout agreement, although it appears Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and the company are settling in for a legal fight to force the sale.
“For Twitter this fiasco is a nightmare scenario,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who follows the company, wrote Monday. He said the result would be “an Everest-like uphill climb for Parag & Co.” given concerns over employee morale and retention, advertiser concerns and other challenges.
The sell-off in Twitter shares pushed the share price below $34, far from the $54.20 that Musk agreed to pay for the company. That suggests Wall Street has very serious doubts that the deal will go forward.
Many experts in the legal and business sectors believe Twitter likely has a stronger case.
Morningstar analyst Ali Mogharabi noted that Twitter has described its estimate of fake and spam accounts for years in regulatory filings while explicitly noting that the number might not be accurate given the use of data samples and interpretation.
Given current market conditions, Mogharabi said, Twitter may also have a solid argument that the layoffs and firings of the past weeks represent “an ordinary course of business.”
“Many technology firms have begun to control costs by reducing headcount and/or delaying adding employees,” he said. “The resignations of Twitter employees cannot with certainty be attributed to any change in how Twitter has operated since Musk’s offer was accepted by the board and shareholders.”
Tech industry analysts say Musk’s interlude leaves behind a more vulnerable company with demoralized employees.
“With Musk officially walking away from the deal, we think business prospects and stock valuation are in a precarious situation,” wrote CFRA Analyst Angelo Zino. “(Twitter) will now need to go at it as a standalone company and contend with an uncertain advertising market, a damaged employee base, and concerns about the status of fake accounts/strategic direction.”
The uncertainty surrounding who will run Twitter, Mogharabi said, could lead wary advertisers to curtail their spending on the platform.
But the drama surrounding the deal, he added, will also likely attract new users to the platform and increase engagement, particularly given the upcoming midterm elections. That, he said, could convince advertisers to cut a bit less. In the long run, he said, “we think Twitter will remain one of the top five social media platforms for advertisers.” ___
This summary of this story has been corrected to reflect Elon Musk’s agreement to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, not $53.40. | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/looming-musk-twitter-legal-battle-drags-on-company-shares/ | 2022-07-11 22:52:45 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/looming-musk-twitter-legal-battle-drags-on-company-shares/ |
Fast-casual eatery to offer grand opening specials and giveaways, including FREE chicken salad for a year!
AVON, Ind. , July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicken Salad Chick, the nation's only fast-casual chicken salad restaurant, expands its presence in Indiana and introduces more of its famed made-from-scratch chicken salad with a new Avon restaurant. Located at 8782 E US Hwy 36 (Rockville Road), across from Costco, the restaurant will feature a dining room and a drive-thru for those looking for a quick dining option. Chicken Salad Chick will celebrate its grand opening on Wednesday, Aug. 2 with a ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. and doors opening at 10 a.m. Chicken Salad Chick employees from across the country will join Avon's General Manager, Courtney Donner, for this ribbon cutting event— the first 100 guests will receive free chicken salad for a year.
"As Chicken Salad Chick continues to expand in the region, the Avon location illustrates that our commitment to the Indianapolis community extends across the entire metro area," said Chicken Salad Chick CEO Scott Deviney. "We're excited to welcome and serve west Indianapolis and Avon's residents, as well as complement our other Indianapolis-area locations in Glendale, West 86th, Fishers and Greenwood."
Chicken Salad Chick made a splash when it entered Indianapolis. With three stores opening in the market within the first year, Chicken Salad Chick has continued expansion across Indiana with 10 locations now open, including Bloomington, Whitestown and Fort Wayne. The Avon location will mark the brand's 11th restaurant in the state.
Now through opening week, guests can enter to win free chicken salad for a year by liking the restaurant's page at Facebook.com/ChickenSaladChickAvonIN. To celebrate the opening, the community is invited to experience Chicken Salad Chick's Southern hospitality through additional giveaways.
- Wednesday, Aug. 2- Free Chick Tote Bag: Be one of the first 50 guests at 10 a.m. or 6 p.m. and receive a FREE Chicken Salad Chick Tote Bag with the purchase of a Chick Trio! *
- Thursday, Aug. 3 – Free 16oz Chick Tervis Tumbler: Be one of the first 50 guests at 10 a.m. or 6 p.m. and receive a FREE Chicken Salad Chick Tumbler with the purchase of a Chick Trio! **
- Friday, Aug. 4 – Free Chick Cooler: Be one of the first 50 guests at 10 a.m. or 6 p.m. and receive a FREE Chicken Salad Cooler with the purchase of a Chick Trio! ***
*The first 100 guests participating in the Free Chicken Salad for a Year on Grand Opening Day will line up in a 'first come, first counted' order at Chicken Salad Chick. It is required to remain on site until the store opens at 10 a.m. An early arrival is recommended for those seeking to be in the first 100 guests, and each guest will be assigned a number corresponding to their place in line by a member of the Chicken Salad Chick team, beginning at approximately 8 a.m. Then at 10 a.m., guests may make a purchase of a meal and enter a code on the Chicken Salad Chick app to officially secure their reward. Guests who leave before the 10 a.m. start will lose their spot to the next guest in line. Guests will receive their first free Large Quick Chick electronically in their Chicken Salad Chick App the Monday following Grand Opening Day.
*Must be 16 Years or Older *Must purchase the Chick Trio *1 Tote Bag per Guest Present
** Must be 16 Years or Older. Must purchase the Chick Trio. One Tumbler Per Guest Present *Does not include drink or unlimited refills on initial or future visits.
*** *Must be 16 years or older. Must purchase the Chick Trio. One Cutting Board per Guest
Aligning with the brand's promise to give back to the communities they serve, proceeds from the Friends & Family event will directly benefit the Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry. The Mary Lee Maier Community Food Pantry serves all Avon Community School Corporation employees and families that have a child in the Avon Community School Corporation.
Chicken Salad Chick offers over a dozen delicious specialty chicken salad recipes served from the heart. In addition to the restaurant's signature chicken salad flavors, other menu items include fresh salads, sides, soups and full-service catering, all available from 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
About Chicken Salad Chick
Chicken Salad Chick serves full-flavored, Southern-style chicken salad made from scratch and served from the heart. With more than a dozen original chicken salad flavors as well as fresh side salads, gourmet soups, signature sandwiches and delicious desserts, Chicken Salad Chick's robust menu offers something for everyone. Founded in Auburn, Alabama in 2008 by Stacy and Kevin Brown, Chicken Salad Chick has grown to more than 230 restaurants in 17 states. Today, under the leadership of Scott Deviney and the Chicken Salad Chick team, the brand continues its rapid expansion with both franchise and company locations. Chicken Salad Chick accolades include rankings in Franchise Times' Fast & Serious for four consecutive years and placing in the top 10 for 2021, #3 on Fast Casual's 2021 Top 100 Movers & Shakers, QSR's Best Franchise Deals, Nation's Restaurant News' Next 15 in 2019 and Franchise Business Review's Top Food Franchises in 2020.
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(The Hill) – An average American income isn’t enough for a comfortable living in 2023, according to two recent reports.
The typical U.S. family earns about $71,000 per year, according to the Census. Yet, the average American believes a family needs at least $85,000 in annual household income to get by, according to a recent Gallup poll.
That finding tracks with a recent study from SmartAsset, a financial technology company, which found the average American worker needs $68,499 in after-tax income to live comfortably. (That works out to around $85,000 in total income, assuming a 20-percent tax hit.)
The two releases point to the same conclusion: Many Americans earn too little in 2023 to attain a decent standard of living in their communities.
American households are feeling the pinch after three years of relentless economic headwinds.
Inflation, a negligible factor in recent years, surged to 5 percent in 2021 and 8 percent in 2022. It stands now at 6 percent, according to federal data for the first quarters of 2022 and 2023.
Rising prices prompted an unprecedented run of interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, lifting the benchmark federal funds rate from effectively zero to around 5 percent in little over a year.
All of this came amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed the nation’s jobless rate close to 15 percent at the height of the national lockdown in 2020.
“We’re just coming out of this really unusual time when we had pandemic scarcity, we had loss of work. And I think it’s sort of distorted perceptions about the cost of living,” said Peter C. Earle, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research. “Lockdowns were a sort of existential experience for a lot of people.”
The Gallup poll, taken in April, found that 30 percent of Americans believe a family needs a six-figure income to “get by in your community.” Only 14 percent of respondents said a household could make do on less than $50,000, and even that threshold is $20,000 higher than the federal poverty line for a family of four, $30,000.
“I think the real crux of this issue is, what does it mean to quote-unquote get by?” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist and president of the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank.
Lower-income families, earning less than $40,000 per year, told Gallup pollsters a household needs $66,310 a year to get by, on average. Upper-income households, earning $100,000 or more, said nothing short of $100,000 would suffice.
“There’s lots of other data that says that people whose incomes are relatively high are living paycheck-to-paycheck,” Holtz-Eakin said.
Ten years ago, in an earlier Gallup poll, the average American believed a household could get by on $58,000 a year. That number exceeded the median household income at the time, $52,250.
The gap seems to be growing between what Americans earn and what they consider a sufficient income. The Gallup figure from 2013, $58,000, was about 10 percent higher than the median household income for that year. The 2023 Gallup figure, $85,000, exceeds the current median income by about 20 percent.
A lot has changed in a decade. In 2023 America, the average family might reasonably expect the price of groceries and gas to climb by 5 percent or 10 percent per year into perpetuity. The average homeowner might assume mortgage rates will remain in the 5-percent to 7-percent range for the foreseeable future, after a decade of historically low rates.
Therefore, American families would have good reason, economists say, to dial up their expectations for what it takes to live comfortably.
Salaries haven’t kept pace with inflation. Rising interest rates have pushed up housing costs. The SmartAsset report found that the average income to maintain a “comfortable lifestyle” rose by 20 percent between 2022 and 2023, from $57,013 to $68,499 in take-home pay, in the 25 largest metro areas.
That report, derived from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, assumes the average family will allocate half of its after-tax income to basic living expenses, 30 percent to discretionary spending and 20 percent to savings and debts.
By that formula, a resident would need to clear $84,000 a year to live comfortably in San Francisco, $78,500 in New York and $76,000 in Washington, D.C., the study found.
Looking at actual salaries in those cities, it would appear that many residents do not live comfortably. Median per-capita income is about $124,000 in San Francisco, $85,000 in New York and $81,000 in D.C., according to the Census. Those are pre-tax figures: take-home pay ranges much lower.
One key factor in rising living costs is spiraling housing expenses. Monthly rents have outpaced inflation. Last spring, the median monthly asking rent surpassed $2,000 for the first time, according to Redfin.
Housing prices, meanwhile, surged by more than 40 percent in two years, from an average of $383,000 in early 2020 to $553,000 in late 2022, according to federal data. The figure slipped to $516,500 this year, as higher mortgage rates sapped purchasing power.
Cars, too, are becoming luxury purchases. The average price for a new vehicle hit $49,500 at the end of 2022, up from $38,948 three years earlier, according to the Kelley Blue Book.
Vehicle prices rose partly because of supply-chain kinks and pandemic shutdowns. Another factor was the demanding American consumer. Buyers pushed up prices by consistently choosing more expensive SUVs and tricked-out trucks over value-priced sedans.
“There’s a lot of debate about how much our expectations are feeding inflation,” said Lisa Gennetian, an applied economist at Duke University.
Homebuyers are seeking ever-larger homes. The average new home grew by 1,000 square feet between the mid-1970s and mid-2010s, according to an analysis by the American Enterprise Institute.
The same principle applies in other areas of family life, Gennetian said. An affluent household might consider private school part of a basic annual budget, while a less wealthy household might struggle to fulfill the fall supply list at public school.
“For some people, private tutoring for my kids, that could be part of my standard of living,” Gennetian said. “Other people, they might be thinking about having a running car.” | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/an-average-american-income-may-no-longer-cut-it/ | 2023-06-21 15:44:01 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/an-average-american-income-may-no-longer-cut-it/ |
Republican senators announced on Friday they will be introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution in another attempt to foil President Biden’s student debt relief program, which is already facing potential termination at the Supreme Court.
The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to examine new regulations made by government agencies and overturn them with a majority vote.
The effort to use the CRA to stop Biden’s plan is led by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), ranking member for the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa.).
The senators introduced the resolution following a report from the Government Accountability Office that declared Biden’s student loan relief and payment pause are rules subject to the CRA.
If a Senate majority supported the resolution, Biden’s student loan forgiveness would be overturned and a federal agency would not be able to propose another plan similar to it unless it was put into law.
“Where is the relief for the man who skipped college but is paying off his work truck, or the woman who paid off her loans and is now struggling to afford her mortgage? This resolution prevents these Americans, whose debts look different from the favored group the Biden administration has selected, from picking up the bill for his irresponsible and unfair policy,” Cassidy said.
It is unlikely the resolution would get enough support in the Democratic-led Senate, although some Democrats such as Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) have previously been critical of Biden’s program, which eliminates up to $20,000 in student debt per borrower and is estimated to cost $400 billion.
The loan forgiveness is already hanging in the balance at the Supreme Court, where a majority-conservative court seemed highly skeptical of the legality of the plan during oral arguments last month. | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/senate-gop-to-target-biden-student-loan-forgiveness/ | 2023-03-17 18:12:02 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/senate-gop-to-target-biden-student-loan-forgiveness/ |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
1256 PM PDT Sun Jul 31 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Southern California, including the following
county, San Bernardino.
* WHEN...Until 400 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Overflowing poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1256 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Victorville, Apple Valley, I-15 Between Victorville And
Barstow, northern Lucerne Valley, Adelanto, Hwy 247 Between
Lucerne Valley And Barstow, El Mirage, Oro Grande and
Helendale.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Cloudy with a few snow showers likely changing to rain showers as the day progresses. Areas of freezing rain possible. High around 35F. Winds light and variable. Chance of precip 50%..
Tonight
Cloudy with light freezing rain expected. Low 26F. Winds light and variable. Chance of precip 60%.
Celebration of Life service for Gertrud Babbet Ahlborn, 87 of Lawton, will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023 at Whinery-Huddleston Funeral Service, 6210 NW Cache Road Lawton, OK 73505.
Gertrud Ahlborn, went to her heavenly home on Jan. 27, 2023. She was born on March 25, 1935 to Eva and Leonhardt Barfrieder in Ansbach Germany. She married Herman Lee Ahlborn Sr. in 1957 and moved with the military and settled in Lawton in 1963. They were married for 56 years. To this union they had two sons, Ronny Ahlborn, and Steven Ahlborn. Gertrude was the consummate military wife, taking care of the children, cleaning house, cooking and baking with extreme skill and accomplishment. You never went to her house when she didn’t have the coffee on and something to eat. She loved drinking coffee and talking and getting advice on life. She was a member of the Eastern Star and gave part of her time to many projects that benefited mankind. She loved to sew and do arts and crafts so she always had a gift to give someone for their special occasion. She owned and operated her own beauty shop and helped her husband in his construction business when he retired from the military. Her and her fur baby “Lucy” were quite an item.
She was survived by her sister, Ericka Schwartz of Spokane Washington; her sons and daughters-in-law: Ronny and Donna Ahlborn, of Lawton, and Steven and Ronell Ahlborn of Sterling; step-son, Herman Lee Ahlborn Jr. of Oklahoma City, seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and one great great-grandchild. She was loved dearly by all who knew her. | https://www.swoknews.com/obituaries/gertrud-babbet-barfrieder-ahlborn/article_c7dc99f8-f0a1-5151-bbbf-c9b4b46a1333.html | 2023-02-01 12:44:22 | 1 | https://www.swoknews.com/obituaries/gertrud-babbet-barfrieder-ahlborn/article_c7dc99f8-f0a1-5151-bbbf-c9b4b46a1333.html |
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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese Communist Party-linked companies from its buildings, the government said Thursday after the U.S. and Britain made similar moves.
The Australian newspaper reported Thursday that at least 913 cameras, intercoms, electronic entry systems and video recorders developed and manufactured by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua are in Australian government and agency offices, including the Defense Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Hikvision and Dahua are partly owned by China's Communist Party-ruled government.
China's Embassy to Australia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. China's general response to such moves is to defend their high tech companies as good corporate citizens who follow all local laws and play no part in government or party intelligence gathering.
The U.S. government said in November it was banning telecommunications and video surveillance equipment from several prominent Chinese brands including Hikvision and Dahua in an effort to protect the nation's communications network.
Security cameras made by Hikvision were also banned from British government buildings in November.
Defense Minister Richard Marles said his department was assessing all its surveillance technology.
"Where those particular cameras are found, they're going to be removed," Marles told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"There is an issue here and we're going to deal with it," Marles added.
An audit found that Hikvision and Dahua cameras and security equipment were found in almost every department except the Agriculture Department and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
The Australian War Memorial and National Disability Insurance Agency have said they would remove the Chinese cameras found at their sites, the ABC reported.
Opposition cybersecurity spokesman James Paterson said he had prompted the audit by asking questions over six months of each federal agency, after the Home Affairs Department was unable to say how many of the cameras, access control systems and intercoms were installed in government buildings.
"We urgently need a plan from the ... government to rip every one of these devices out of Australian government departments and agencies," Paterson said.
Both companies were subject to China's National Intelligence Law which requires them to cooperate with Chinese intelligence agencies, he said.
"We would have no way of knowing if the sensitive information, images and audio collected by these devices are secretly being sent back to China against the interests of Australian citizens," Paterson said.
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Pringles finds spider doppelganger and rallies fans to help get it officially recognized as the 'Pringles Spider'
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One look at this incredible spider and it hits you – that spider looks JUST like the Pringles® logo. Once you see it, you can't unsee it – the slanted hairline, the beady eyes and even that signature 'stache – the resemblance is unCANny.
Pringles can't simply sit back and do nothing when there is something in the wild this WILD – this natural phenomenon must be addressed. That's why Pringles wants to put this little-known Kidney Garden Spider on the map and officially recognize it forevermore as the Pringles Spider.
To make it happen, Pringles is rallying fans to sign its petition to the arachnid community to get this 8-legged wonder officially recognized as the Pringles Spider in all its Pringles-parading glory. If efforts are officially recognized by the arachnid community, Pringles will even give away free Pringles to celebrate the recognition and making snack and spider history.*
"In 1968 the world was introduced to the iconic Pringles can and logo, but little did we know there was a creature amongst us who was unknowingly spreading the Pringles love," said Mauricio Jenkins, U.S. marketing lead for Pringles. "We're thrilled to rally fans to help us recognize this spectacular spider, and welcome it into the Pringles family."
Craving more spider fun? Starting June 28, Pringles is letting fans "adopt" their very own virtual Pringles Spider. See details on how to get yours at PringlesSpider.com.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A house under renovation was destroyed in a fire early Friday morning.
Officials with the Little Rock Fire Department said that the call came in at 3:37 a.m. in the 2000 block of South Izard Street.
Fire officials said that heat from the fire caused minor damage to houses on both sides of the burning home. Officials said that one surrounding home had two broken windows and wood damage.
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Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital Tuesday, killing at least one person while Moscow authorities said the Russian capital was attacked by drones.
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Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital Tuesday, killing at least one person while Moscow authorities said the Russian capital was attacked by drones.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) isn’t too sweet on the use of sugar substitutes for weight loss or disease prevention.
In new guidance, the WHO specifically recommended against the use of non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) for the purposes of controlling body weight or lowering the risk of non-communicable diseases.
"Replacing free sugars with NSS does not help with weight control in the long term," said Francesco Branca, WHO’s director for nutrition and food safety in Geneva, Switzerland, in a press release on May 15 announcing the new report.
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"People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages," he added.
Non-sugar sweeteners have no nutritional value, the director also stated.
"People should reduce the sweetness of the diet altogether, starting early in life, to improve their health," Branca advised.
The WHO’s recommendations are based on a "systematic review" of 283 unique studies that measured the health effects of sugar substitutes in adults, children and pregnant women.
In addition to determining that using NSS is not effective in reducing body fat, the review found that long-term consumption of sugar substitutes could potentially cause a higher risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and mortality in adults, the WHO stated.
The recommendation applies to "all synthetic and naturally occurring or modified non-nutritive sweeteners that are not classified as sugars found in manufactured foods and beverages, or sold on their own to be added to foods and beverages by consumers," per the press release.
Popular types of NSS include aspartame, acesulfame K, advantame, neotame, cyclamates, saccharin, sucralose, stevia and stevia derivatives.
The new guidance does not apply to low-calorie sugars or sugar alcohols (polyols).
After reviewing the WHO’s findings, registered dietitian Erin Palinski-Wade, a nutrition consultant based in New York City, advised caution about drawing individual recommendations and conclusions from studies that "show association and not causation."
She told Fox News Digital, "Many times, the same population who is already seeking out the use of NSS is the population that may be engaging in other dietary and lifestyle factors that may increase the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
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"This could include individuals who consume a low dietary intake of fruits and vegetables and drink large volumes of sugar-sweetened beverages or individuals who incorporate less daily physical activity," she went on.
It is also possible that those who are genetically at a greater risk for these conditions had parents or caregivers who also incorporated NSS in the hopes of losing weight or managing blood sugar, Palinski-Wade pointed out.
"Without knowing additional lifestyle factors that can impact body weight, body composition and disease risk, it is hard to say what benefits [that] NSS may or may not offer," she concluded.
In her own nutrition practice, Palinski-Wade customizes NSS intake recommendations to each individual’s health goals and needs.
"As with any food or nutrient, moderation and variety are key," she said. "I recommend reducing added sweeteners, including both caloric and non-caloric, when possible and incorporating more whole foods when available."
For those who do choose to use NSS, Palinski-Wade recommends incorporating a mix of varieties, such as monk fruit extract, stevia and others, to prevent consuming an excessive intake of any one specific sweetener.
"NSS can offer benefits such as reducing impact on blood sugar levels and reducing calorie intake of certain meals, but in order to improve body composition and reduce disease risk, a multitude of health behaviors need to be incorporated consistently — from increasing fiber to including daily physical activity, in combination with reducing added sugars in the diet," she said.
"NSS alone will not improve health, but can be included as part of a meal plan that promotes health benefits."
The Calorie Control Council (CCC) in Atlanta, Georgia, continues to support the use of low- and no-calorie substitutes as a safe and effective means of reducing sugar and calorie consumption.
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"This is supported by an abundance of scientific evidence, backed by the world’s most highly regarded health and regulatory agencies, which validate the role of these ingredients," said Robert Rankin, president of the Calorie Control Council, in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"Along with exercise and a healthy diet, low- and no-calorie sweeteners are a critical tool that can help consumers manage body weight and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases."
The WHO’s new guidance does not apply to people with pre-existing diabetes, the press release stated.
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"It is mind-boggling that persons living with diabetes, for whom non-sugar sweeteners can have an especially meaningful role in their compliance with necessary dietary requirements, were conveniently not considered when creating these guidelines," said Dr. Keith Ayoob, scientific adviser for the Washington, D.C.-based Calorie Control Council, in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
"Their doing so dismisses the value and usefulness of non-sugar sweeteners for persons living with diabetes and pre-diabetes, which accounts for far in excess of 10% of the global population," he added. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/sugar-substitutes-not-advised-for-weight-loss-or-disease-prevention-says-world-health-organization/article_a5b98f03-aee5-5a10-948b-21f5fb29ba88.html | 2023-05-19 00:43:48 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/sugar-substitutes-not-advised-for-weight-loss-or-disease-prevention-says-world-health-organization/article_a5b98f03-aee5-5a10-948b-21f5fb29ba88.html |
MADRID (AP) — Early election returns showed the Socialist Party of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez running neck-and-neck Sunday with the conservative Popular Party.
With just over half of ballots counted, the Socialists were on course to take 129 seats in the lower house of the Madrid-based national parliament.
The Popular Party, which is hoping to win its first national ballot since 2016, appeared poised to win 130 seats, far below pre-election expectations.
The absolute majority needed to form a government is 176 seats.
Sánchez is trying to win a third consecutive national election since taking power in 2018. The Socialists and the junior member of its coalition government took a beating from the conservative party and the far-right Vox party in regional and local elections in May, prompting Sánchez to call Sunday’s early election.
Most polling during the campaign forecast that the national vote would go the same way but require the Popular Party to rely on support from Vox to form a government, with PP candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the helm.
Such a coalition would return a far-right force to the Spanish government for the first time since the country transitioned to democracy in the late 1970s following the nearly 40-year rule of dictator Francisco Franco.
Voters braved soaring summer temperatures to cast ballots in the election for 350 members of the lower house of Parliament. Near-final results were expected before midnight.
A PP-Vox government would mean another EU member has moved firmly to the right, a trend seen recently in Sweden, Finland and Italy. Countries such as Germany and France are concerned by what such a shift would portend for EU immigration and climate policies.
Spain’s two main leftist parties are pro-EU participation. On the right, the PP is also in favor of the EU. Vox, headed by Santiago Abascal, is opposed to EU interference in Spain’s affairs.
The election comes as Spain holds the EU’s rotating presidency. Sánchez had hoped to use the six-month term to showcase the advances his government had made. An election defeat for Sánchez could see the PP taking over the EU presidency reins.
Sánchez was one of the first to vote, casting his ballot in a polling station in Madrid.
Commenting later on the large number of foreign media covering the election, he said: “This means that what happens today is going to be very important not just for us but also for Europe and I think that should also make us reflect.”
“I don’t want to say I’m optimistic or not. I have good vibrations,” Sánchez added.
An embargoed tracking poll published by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE on the closing of the voting pointed to an uncertain outcome.
According to the poll, the conservative Popular Party would win the elections with between 145-150 seats. The far-right Vox would get between 24-27.
But they would both have to get results at the high end of those possible outcomes to reach the 176 needed for a majority.
The tracking poll said that Sánchez’s Socialists are heading toward a result between 113-118, not far below the 120 won in 2019. But Sánchez’s path to remaining in power once again would rely on both a new coalition with the leftist Sumar, or Joining Forces, tipped to fill 28-31 seats, as well as winning the support of myriad small parties, including Basque and Catalan regionalist and separatist parties.
The tracking poll based on 17,500 phone calls was carried out in the two weeks prior to the election. It has a 3.5 percentage point margin of error.
Sumar, which brings together 15 small leftist parties, is led by second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz, the only woman among the top four candidates.
Díaz called for everyone to vote, recalling that the freedom to vote didn’t always exist in Spain.
“A lot is at risk,” Diáz said after casting her ballot. “For people of my generation, they are the most important elections.”
At stake is “waking up tomorrow with more rights, more democracy and more freedom,” she said.
The Interior Ministry said voter turnout at 6 p.m. local time stood at 53%, compared to 56% at the same point in the the country’s last national election, in November 2019.
The election was taking place at the height of summer, with millions of voters likely to be vacationing away from their regular polling places. However, postal voting requests soared before Sunday.
With no party expected to garner an absolute majority, the choice is basically between another leftist coalition and a partnership of the right and the far right.
For poll favorite Feijóo, “It is clear that many things are in play, what model of country we want, to have a solid and strong government.”
Vox’s Abascal said he hoped for “a massive mobilization (of voters) that will allow Spain to change direction.”
Alejandro Bleda, 45, did not say who he voted for but indicated that he was backing the leftist parties. “Given the polarization in this country, it’s to vote either for 50 years of backwardness or for progress,” he said.
The main issues at stake are “a lot of freedoms, social rights, public health and education,” Bleda said after voting in the Palacio de Valdés public school polling station in central Madrid.
Voters are to elect 350 members to the lower house of Parliament and 208 members to the Senate.
Carmen Acero, 62, who voted for the Popular Party, compared Sánchez to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and said she voted because “to continue with Pedro Sánchez is hell.”
Sporting a Spanish flag on her phone, Acero accused Sánchez of being an “assassin” for allying with the small Basque regional party Bildu, which includes some former members of the now-defunct armed separatist group, ETA.
Coming on the tail of a month of heat waves, temperatures were expected to average above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), or 5 to 10 degrees Celsius above normal in many parts of the country. Authorities distributed fans to many of the stations.
“We have the heat, but the right to exercise our vote freely is stronger than the heat,” said Rosa Maria Valladolid-Prieto, 79, in Barcelona.
Sánchez’s government has steered Spain through the COVID-19 pandemic and dealt with an inflation-driven economic downturn made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But his dependency on fringe parties to keep his minority coalition afloat, including the separatist forces from Catalonia and the Basque Country, and his passing of a slew of liberal-minded laws may cost him his job.
The right-wing parties vow to roll back dozens of Sánchez’s laws, many of which have benefited millions of citizens and thousands of companies.
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The House on Thursday approved a resolution denouncing socialism in a bipartisan vote that fractured the Democratic caucus.
The resolution overwhelmingly cleared the chamber in a 328-86-14 vote. The majority of Democrats — 109 of them — voted with all Republicans for the resolution, while 86 voted against it and 14 voted “present.”
The measure, which runs three pages, says “socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships.”
It argues that “many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues” — mentioning Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro — and it lists atrocities committed under socialist regimes.
“Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America,” the resolution reads.
When introducing the measure, the office of Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) — a sponsor of the resolution — said passing it “would make a bold statement that the People’s House unequivocally denounces this cruel and unjust ideology.”
“It would also ensure the United States commits to never begin or normalize the implementation of socialist policies that inevitably lead to economic ruin and political authoritarianism,” Salazar’s office added in a statement.
Several Democrats who voted against the resolution expressed concerns regarding the future of Social Security and Medicare. They noted that Republicans on the Rules Committee rejected an amendment proposed by Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) which sought to clarify that opposition to the implementation of socialist policies in the U.S. does not include federal programs like Medicare and Social Security.
Republicans are pushing for spending cuts to be linked to a debt ceiling increase and some have floated cuts to entitlement programs. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), however, has said cuts to the two federal programs are “off the table.”
“Here’s what this is really about: More and more members on the other side of the aisle are calling for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and many have referred to these programs as socialism throughout their existence,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said on the House floor during debate. “The other night in the Rules Committee, they showed their cards. Republicans refused an amendment to declare that Social Security and Medicare is not socialism.”
“This resolution is little about intelligent discourse and everything to do about laying the groundwork to cut Social Security and Medicare,” he added.
Additionally, some Democrats who voted against the measure have been described as democratic socialists. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) were all endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America in the 2022 cycle.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who supported the resolution, condemned socialist autocrats during a speech on the House floor before taking aim U.S. leaders who attack democratic elections and other American programs.
“I rise to condemn all socialist autocrats who place power and wealth over their own citizens. Yet this resolution ignores some of their worst evils, then falls silent while American leaders mimic their cruel tactics,” she said.
“Let’s condemn socialist abuses, yes, but leaders on this very floor seek to overturn democratic elections, confiscate long-held rights and gut programs our families, veterans and service members need,” she added.
Rep. Theresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), who voted “present,” denounced socialism on the House floor, but criticized House Republicans for spending time on that resolution and not other matters.
“i absolutely denounce the brutal and communist regimes of Castro, Maduro, Stalin and other dictators in the whereas clauses of this resolution. But sadly, instead of spending our precious moments in the People’s House expanding opportunity for hard-working Americans, supporting ranchers, farmers, and rural communities, lowering health care costs and strengthening Social Security and Medicare, we’re spending hours — actually days — in pure political theater,” she said. | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/house-passes-resolution-denouncing-socialism-vote-splits-democrats/ | 2023-02-02 22:55:02 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/house-passes-resolution-denouncing-socialism-vote-splits-democrats/ |
While the battle rages for the state's next governor, its top law enforcement official — the attorney general — is also seeking reelection.
GOP incumbent Ashley Moody wants another four years while several Democrats have lined up to oust her.
The "Florida Grim Reaper" was the latest to file candidate qualifying papers to challenge Moody, submitting them Thursday afternoon.
Daniel Uhlfelder is seeking the Democratic nomination ahead of the August primary.
Good news! I just finished filling out my paperwork with the Secretary of State. We are officially qualified to be on the ballot.
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) June 16, 2022
Next stop, the primary on August 23rd! Let’s win this thing. pic.twitter.com/hXKk1xXOLU
The Panhandle trial attorney got attention at the start of the pandemic by combing beaches dressed as the Grim Reaper, criticizing the state's response to the deadly virus.
His run for attorney general is his first attempt at public office.
Uhlfelder considered Moody too partisan and has criticized her support of legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
"We need to protect our democracy," he said. "We need to protect Floridians, and we need someone who is not a politician to be the next attorney general."
Uhlfelder joins former state attorney Aramis Ayala and criminal defense lawyer Jim Lewis in the primary.
GOP incumbent Moody's campaign declined to comment on her opponents. She will, however, be formidable come November.
The latest campaign finance reports show she has amassed more than $5 million in the bank between her campaign and political committee.
Moody has billed herself as a law and order advocate and fighter against federal overreach.
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Christian Walker, the son of defeated Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker, says that he has no regrets about publicly criticizing his father during the campaign, saying, “I did what I had to do.”
In an interview with BuzzFeed News published Wednesday, Walker said he had no regrets about the series of tweets he sent in October, calling out his father and his stance on “family values” after The Daily Beast first reported that the former football star paid a woman $700 to abort a child they conceived in 2019.
A second woman later came forward with similar allegations.
Walker, who advocated for a strongly anti-abortion rights platform, denied The Daily Beast’s reporting, referring to it as a “flat-out lie.”
“I was thinking about that last night. I was like, damn, I really clicked ‘send’ on those original tweets,” Christian Walker told BuzzFeed News. “But no, I did what I had to do.”
The younger Walker, who also identifies as a conservative, told BuzzFeed News that he’s glad the election cycle is over, noting that he can finally be honest and open in talking about his family dynamic.
“Thank god that chapter is over,” Walker said. “I haven’t been on social media for months really. I have kept my mouth shut besides my little video from two months ago, and now I can finally talk openly and honestly and that feels really good.”
Herschel Walker was defeated by incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in Tuesday’s runoff election for the seat. The Warnock-Walker showdown went into a runoff after neither candidate garnered more than 50 percent of the vote in last month’s general election.
Warnock’s victory results in him earning a full term in Congress and giving his party an extra seat in their majority control of the Senate, 51 to 49. | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/christian-walker-on-criticism-of-father-i-did-what-i-had-to-do/ | 2022-12-08 19:50:48 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/christian-walker-on-criticism-of-father-i-did-what-i-had-to-do/ |
Low knowledge of its applications is driving high consumer
concerns that brands should not ignore
LOS ANGELES, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CX platform DISQO released "HI on AI: Human Intel on Artificial Intelligence," a new report exploring consumers' experiences with and perceptions of generative AI. As companies devote more resources to AI-generated tools and content, DISQO's insights suggest that brands should continuously experiment with and evaluate their generative AI implementations with a strong customer experience lens.
"Early adoption of emerging generative AI technologies represents a massive opportunity for brands to leapfrog their competition, but only if they are vigilant about customer experiences," said Patrick Egan, Director of Research and Insights, DISQO. "Leveraging generative AI for innovation, increased efficiency, and profitability makes business sense, but consumers are wary and need to be informed and educated about what's in it for them."
DISQO surveyed 28,376 nationally representative consumers from its 100% opted-in audience from February 28th to March 2nd 2023. Key takeaways:
Knowledge and use of generative AI is low, but massive learning is underway.
- Two-thirds of adult consumers haven't used AI tools and are not interested in using them down the road.
- Less than 10% said that they have high knowledge of these tools; this drops below 5% among certain audiences (e.g., older adults, women).
- Only about 10% have used generative AI tools so far; this rises as high as 20% among Gen Z and as low as 2% among older adults.
- 25% say they only know a little about generative AI, highlighting opportunities for brands to focus on education when rolling out their tools.
There are strong feelings about where and how generative AI should be used.
- 34% don't think generative AI tools should be used for most consumer-facing content. This rises to 43% among Boomers and is lower at 21% for Gen Z.
- Older generations (Boomer+) are much less open to generative AI in various content, including marketing materials, online courses, social media posts, and news articles.
- Contexts where AI-generated content is deemed least appropriate include blogs, interviews, and opinion pieces; there's also a great deal of reluctance around using these tools for news and entertainment.
Consumers can't discern AI-generated content and expect brands to disclose use of the technology.
- Only 8% have high confidence in their ability to identify when generative AI is at play.
- Only ~25% believe that they've read media content that was generated by AI.
- 86% think it's important for companies to disclose their use of AI-generated content, and about two-thirds of those consumers think it's very important.
Download DISQO's new report, HI on AI: Human Intel on Artificial Intelligence. DISQO offers Audience, Ad Testing, Brand Lift and Outcomes Lift solutions to help brands create, test, evaluate, market, and communicate AI-generated content with speed and confidence.
DISQO is the CX platform for understanding every customer experience. Businesses trust DISQO to power better decisions for every customer, touchpoint, and outcome. DISQO's insights, agile testing and advertising measurement products are powered by millions of consumers on the industry's largest opt-in consumer data platform. DISQO is recognized in Deloitte's Fast 500 and Ad Age's Best Places to Work, and is a Top 100 Next Gen Workplace. Follow @DISQO on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Ohio State Buckeyes (10-6, 2-3 Big Ten) at Rutgers Scarlet Knights (12-5, 4-2 Big Ten)
The Scarlet Knights have gone 10-2 in home games. Rutgers ranks fourth in college basketball allowing 56.5 points per game while holding opponents to 37.3% shooting.
The Buckeyes are 2-3 in conference play. Ohio State scores 78.9 points and has outscored opponents by 12.7 points per game.
TOP PERFORMERS: Spencer is scoring 13.5 points per game with 2.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Scarlet Knights. Clifford Omoruyi is averaging 13.2 points, 10 rebounds and 1.8 blocks over the last 10 games for Rutgers.
Bruce Thornton is averaging 10 points and 3.2 assists for the Buckeyes. Brice Sensabaugh is averaging 16.8 points over the last 10 games for Ohio State.
LAST 10 GAMES: Scarlet Knights: 7-3, averaging 68.7 points, 33.8 rebounds, 15.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 57.6 points per game.
Buckeyes: 5-5, averaging 78.6 points, 34.7 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.3 points.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
02-05-10-11-12-13-14-15-17-18-23-24
(two, five, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three, twenty-four) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Morning-17361571.php | 2022-08-09 16:54:39 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Morning-17361571.php |
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Coupang, Inc. ("Coupang" or the "Company") (NYSE: CPNG). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Coupang and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around March 11, 2021, Coupang conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), selling 100 million shares of Class A common stock priced at $35.00 per share. Following the IPO and contrary to the representations in the IPO's offering documents, investors learned, via a series of disclosures, that: (i) Coupang was engaged in a variety of improper anti-competitive practices with its suppliers and other third parties in violation of applicable regulations; (ii) Coupang had improperly adjusted search algorithms and manipulated product reviews on its marketplace platform in order to prioritize its own private-label branded products over those of other sellers and merchants, to the detriment of consumers, merchants, and suppliers; (iii) unbeknownst to its Rocket WOW members, Coupang was selling products to non-member customers at lower prices than those offered to its Rocket WOW members; (iv) Coupang subjected its workforce to extreme, unsafe, and unhealthy working conditions; (v) all of the foregoing illicit practices exposed the Company to a heightened, but undisclosed, risk of reputational and regulatory scrutiny that would harm the Company's critical relationships with consumers, merchants, suppliers, and the workforce; and (vi) Coupang's lower prices, historical revenues, competitive advantages, and growing market share were the result of systemic, improper, unethical, and/or illegal practices, and, thus, unsustainable. Since the IPO, Coupang's stock price has fallen sharply, damaging investors.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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PHOENIX — Kicking off the week with much cooler conditions thanks to a cold front that swept across our state overnight.
After reaching highs in the mid-70s this past weekend, Valley temperatures will be nearly 10 degrees cooler today, only reaching the mid-60s this afternoon.
There's also a chance of light snow showers in areas above 5,500 feet along the Mogollon Rim and in the White Mountains today.
While most of the Valley will stay dry, a stray shower could develop this afternoon, especially near the foothills in the north and east Valley.
Winds will pick up around the state today, too. The strongest gusts will be across western Arizona where gusts could peak near 35 mph by this afternoon. Valley wind gusts will top out at 20 to 25 mph today.
This latest storm system clears out to the east tonight, and we'll see just a slight chance of snow showers in eastern Arizona and in the White Mountains on Tuesday, otherwise the rest of the state will be sunny and dry.
High pressure will build in toward the end of the week, sending temperatures soaring ahead of Super Bowl weekend!
Valley highs will reach the upper 60s today, tomorrow and Wednesday before climbing into the low to mid 70s on Thursday and Friday.
Valley highs will end up just a few degrees shy of 80 on Saturday ahead of another storm set to move in on Sunday.
As of right now, it looks like we'll see Valley high temperatures drop to near 70 degrees on Sunday and there's a slight chance for Valley rain and high country snow in the forecast.
The rain chance overall looks low for the Phoenix area so impacts look minimal for all of the Super Bowl celebrations, but stay tuned for updates as we get closer.
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2023 Rainfall totals:
Sky Harbor Official Rainfall: 1.03" (+0.03" from average)
Valley Average (Phoenix Rainfall Index): 1.25"
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2022 Rainfall totals:
Sky Harbor Official Rainfall: 5.78" (-1.44" from average)
Valley Average (Phoenix Rainfall Index): 7.02"
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Daily rainfall reports from all across the Valley can be found here.
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PHOENIX IS GETTING DRIER - LOWER RAINFALL AVERAGES NOW
Average Monsoon Rainfall in Phoenix (1981-2010): 2.71" of rain
NEW Average Monsoon Rainfall in Phoenix (1991-2020): 2.43" of rain
Average Yearly Rainfall in Phoenix (1981-2010): 8:03" of rain
NEW Average Yearly Rainfall in Phoenix (1991-2020): 7.22" of rain
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NEW YORK, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of American Depository Shares ("ADSs") of TAL Education Group (NYSE: TAL) between June 14, 2022 and March 14, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 30, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased TAL securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3137 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 30, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company was still providing K9 Academic AST Services; and (2) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the TAL class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3137 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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LONDON — St. Edward’s Crown, the centerpiece of the Crown Jewels viewed by millions of people every year at the Tower of London, has been moved to an undisclosed location for modification in preparation for the coronation of King Charles III next year.
The move was kept secret for security reasons until the operation was complete, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Saturday. The palace provided no details and didn’t say where the modification work would take place.
Charles will be crowned on May 6 at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony that will embrace the past but look to the modern world after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The Imperial State Crown will also be used during the service.
Versions of St. Edward’s Crown are believed to have been used by monarchs since the 11th century.
The current crown was made for Charles II in 1661, as a replacement for the original, which was melted down in 1649 after the House of Commons abolished the monarchy and declared a commonwealth during the English Civil War. The original was thought to date back to Edward the Confessor, who reigned in 1042-1066.
The crown includes a 4.91-pound solid gold frame — set with rubies, amethysts, sapphires, garnets, topazes and tourmalines — a purple velvet cap and ermine band. It was worn by Elizabeth during her coronation in 1953.
Charles will be crowned in a solemn religious ceremony conducted by Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, the palace said in a statement. Camilla, the queen consort, will be crowned alongside her husband.
The palace is planning the coronation, known as Operation Golden Orb, as Charles and his heir, Prince William, seek to demonstrate that the monarchy is still relevant in modern, multi-cultural Britain.
While there was widespread respect for Elizabeth, as demonstrated by the tens of thousands of people who waited hours to file past her coffin, there is no guarantee that reverence will transfer to Charles.
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A New Jersey mother and her son with severe autism, who were vacationing with their family in Aruba, were stuck in the country for two weeks after the boy had a meltdown before takeoff on their return trip, the family says.
The family's ordeal ended with a return home by sea rather than air after an organization advocating for people with an invisible disability coordinated their trip home with a cruise line.
Jamie Greene, her three children and her boyfriend, Carlos Pacheco, flew to Aruba on May 7 for a family vacation. Greene said she wasn't worried about her son Elijah, 15, who has autism traveling by air because he had been on a plane at least twice in the past.
Elijah is diagnosed with severe and non-verbal autism, a subset of the disorder that prevents him from speaking in full sentences, Greene said.
Elijah started to have what Greene described an autistic episode -- triggered by sensory overload and fear -- once the family boarded a United Airlines plane on May 17, headed back home to New Jersey, Greene told CNN.
Elijah started screaming the word "toilet," indicating that he wanted to go into the bathroom -- a safe, confined space for him without windows, Greene said. "We were taking him back and forth to the toilet, maybe three or four times, he would sit there, calm himself down and come out again," she said.
As the plane was preparing for takeoff, Elijah's episode escalated. He began pinching his mother and tried to head butt her, Greene said, at which point a flight attendant told the family that the pilot decided Elijah could not fly on the plane.
Greene says she doesn't fault the airline crew members for asking the family to leave the plane due to safety reasons, but she hopes her story will galvanize the airline industry to become more accommodating to people like Elijah who have invisible disabilities, which include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.
"We agreed with them," Greene said. "We don't want to put it out there that they had treated us badly on the plane. It's not their fault, I just think airlines don't have any policies or procedures in place when these incidents arise."
In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for United Airlines said: "Safety is our number one priority and, in this instance, since we fly daily out of Aruba, we worked to find and offer alternative United flights that same week to the customers who were impacted."
According to the US Department of Transportation's policy on aviation consumer protection, once a passenger has already boarded the flight, "airlines are not permitted to require that passenger deplane, unless the removal of the passenger is required by safety, security, or health reasons, or the removal is due to the passenger's unlawful behavior."
United Airlines did not ban Elijah from flying, Greene said, but told her that he must follow the passenger rules after boarding the plane. The airline gave the family travel credits to rebook their flight home, she said, but they decided not to take another flight out of fear that Elijah might have another episode under the same circumstances.
Greene also explored the option of getting a prescription for heavy sedation medicine that Elijah could take to board the plane and stay seated without incident. However, Greene says airline representatives informed her it's illegal to bring a person onto a plane who is sedated, unable to walk and fasten their seatbelt on their own.
"Planes are not inclusive. There are so many things that can trigger a special needs person on a plane and there is no policy in place if that happens," said Greene. She added that certain accommodations such as allowing Elijah to get acclimated on the plane before other passengers or moving him to a quiet area would have helped to make him more comfortable.
Advocacy organization brings Elijah home
A week after Elijah's episode on the plane, Greene's boyfriend and her two other children flew home because they had to return to school. At this point, she took her appeal for help to Facebook out of desperation, detailing their experience in hopes that her message would reach the right people.
Her post eventually caught the attention of Julian Maha, the founder of KultureCity, which is a non-profit dedicated to sensory accessibility and acceptance for those with invisible disabilities. The organization works with Carnival Cruise Line, which is the first cruise line to be certified "sensory inclusive" by KultureCity.
The non-profit trains venues, organizations, small businesses and other individuals on how to better engage with individuals with sensory needs. Maha told CNN that the KultureCity is set to work with a national airline -- which he declined to identify -- to make it the first sensory inclusive airline in the country.
"All of Carnival's guest-facing crew have been trained to understand and help guests with sensory/cognitive needs," Carnival's website states.
The cruise line was more than willing to help Greene and Elijah return home and arranged for her brother to fly to Aruba and take the cruise back with them, Greene said. Maha said that Greene and Elijah's experience is "very common," which deters many families from traveling at all.
There are no airline policies in place that help crew members handle people with invisible disabilities, which are not immediately apparent, Maha said, adding, "it's very much generalized disability training rather than specific sensory needs and invisible disabilities."
"I do not fault the airline in terms of their policies and procedures," Maha said. "There's never an excuse for dangerous behavior because it puts everyone in danger."
Maha said that the trauma from the experience and the fear that it might happen again ultimately prevented Greene from wanting to take another flight.
Greene was also burdened with the "sheer exhaustion of having to explain to someone that even though your loved one looks like a normal, neurotypical individual, they have all of these challenges that the world does not see because they do not look different," Maha added.
A spokesperson for Carnival told CNN in a statement that Elijah, Greene and her brother boarded the Carnival Horizon ship on May 31 and arrived in Miami on June 5.
"Given Carnival's close partnership with nonprofit KultureCity, our team has a deep understanding of the needs of individuals with sensory and invisible disabilities," said Vicky Rey, Vice President of Guest Care & Communications at Carnival Cruise Line. "When the organization contacted us about Elijah's situation and we realized we could bring him back to the United States on one of our ships, we did not hesitate to offer help," the statement continued.
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About a third of people call their doctors by their first names, a new study shows.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic analyzed about 90,000 messages between 1,092 doctors and nearly 15,000 of their patients.
Women doctors were twice as likely than their male counterparts to be called by their first names, and osteopathic doctors were twice as likely to be called by their first names than doctors with M.D. degrees. Additionally, primary care physicians were 50% more likely to be referred to by their first names than specialty doctors.
Women patients were 40% less likely to use their doctors' first names.
Researchers analyzed patient and doctor demographics, such as age and gender, but did not account for "potential cultural, racial, or ethnic nuances in greeting structure," they said.
They also did not measure whether a physician prefers to be called by their first name or not. Messages were evaluated by a natural language processing algorithm.
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WASHINGTON — Peloton has recalled two million of its exercise bikes because the seat post can break during use which can lead to users being injured, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.
According to the recall, there have been 35 reports of the seat post breaking and coming off the bike, including 13 reports where a rider was injured. Those injuries ranged from a fractured wrist, lacerations and bruises from falling off the bike.
The recall involves Peloton bikes with model number PL01, which can be found on the inside front fork, near the flywheel.
The bikes were sold at Peloton and Dick's Sporting Goods stores nationwide and online, as well as on Amazon.com from Jan. 2018 through May 2023. The recalled bikes sold for about $1,400.
"Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled exercise bikes and contact Peloton for a free repair," the CPSC release stated.
A free replacement seat post can be ordered online. Anyone with further questions can also contact Peloton at at 866-679-9129 .
This isn't the first time Peloton has faced a major product recall.
Back in May 2021, Peloton announced two voluntary recalls on more than 125,000 of its Tread+ and Tread treadmills, after one child died, dozens of people were injured and more than 330 incidents were reported.
In April 2021, safety regulators urged those with children and pets to stop using Peloton Tread+ treadmills after reports of children and pets being dragged, pinned or trapped under the product's rear roller. A 6-year-old child's death around that time was linked to the treadmill.
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Chinese government scientists on Wednesday published a long-awaited study about a market in the city of Wuhan, acknowledging that animals susceptible to the coronavirus were there around the time the virus emerged. But the scientists also said that it remained unclear how the pandemic began.
The study, published in the journal Nature, focused on swabs taken from surfaces in early 2020 at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a large market where many of the earliest known COVID patients had worked or shopped. The Chinese scientists had posted an early version of their genetic analysis of those samples in February 2022, but at the time downplayed the possibility of animal infections at the market.
The scientists, many of whom are affiliated with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also wanted to publish their data in a peer-reviewed journal. And as part of that process, the scientists uploaded more genetic sequence data to a large international database, the administrators of the database said last month.
A few weeks after the data became public, a team of international scientists who had been studying the origins of the pandemic said they stumbled upon the sequences. They found that samples testing positive for the coronavirus contained genetic material belonging to animals, including large amounts that were a match for the raccoon dog, a fluffy mammal sold for fur and meat that was known to be able to spread the coronavirus.
That analysis, the subject of a report posted online in late March, did not prove that a raccoon dog itself was infected or that animals gave the virus to people. But it established that raccoon dogs deposited their genetic signatures in the same place where genetic material from the virus was left.
Many virologists said that scenario was consistent with one in which the virus spilled into people from an illegally traded wild animal at the market.
It appeared that the international team’s analysis sped up the release of the Chinese scientists’ study about the same data: The article appeared on Wednesday on Nature’s website with a note saying that it had been accepted for publication, but was still an “early version” and had not yet been edited.
Several authors of the article affiliated with the Chinese CDC, William J. Liu, George Gao and Guizhen Wu, did not respond to requests for comment.
In their first version of the article from February 2022, the Chinese authors did not mention finding any genetic material from raccoon dogs in the market swabs, which were taken from walls, floors, metal cages and carts. Beyond that, they said that the data did not point to any infected animals.
But in Wednesday’s version a little more than a year later, they wrote that the study “confirmed the existence of raccoon dogs” and other animals susceptible to the coronavirus at the market.
Many scientists believe that the existing evidence points to those animals likely acting as intermediate hosts for the virus, which probably originated in bats. But they also say the evidence does not completely rule out a scenario in which people gave the virus to animals at the market.
The Chinese authors stressed that uncertainty in the new study. They also raised the notion that the virus could have been ferried to the Wuhan market on packages of frozen food, also known as cold chain products. Many scientists consider that scenario highly improbable, but China has promoted it because it gives credence to the idea that the pandemic could have started outside the country and arrived via imported foods.
“The possibility of potential introduction of the virus to the market through infected humans, or cold chain products, cannot be ruled out yet,” the article said.
The study included several other unlikely findings as well, outside scientists said in interviews on Wednesday. For example, it said that the swabs contained genetic material from a number of animals that were almost certainly not present at the market, including pandas, chimpanzees and mole-rats.
Alice Hughes, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong focused on conservation biology, said that the inclusion of those animals suggested either that the authors had incorrectly categorized the genetic material or that the samples were contaminated during sequencing in a lab.
“This paper’s greatest asset is the fact that it releases a data set for other scientists to analyze more carefully and responsibly,” Hughes said. “Given the glaring errors in this analysis, the analysis has not been done in a way that’s careful enough to have confidence in any of the results.”
Asked how Nature’s peer-review process had treated the species findings, a spokesman for the journal noted that the authors included a caveat that the list of species identified at the market was “not definitive” and more analysis was required.
For the international scientists who had first reported finding signs of raccoon dogs in the COVID-positive swabs last month, the latest Nature study left a number of important questions unanswered about the methods used by the Chinese team to analyze the sequences.
Still, the publication, as well as an earlier version of it posted online by the Chinese scientists last week, did supply critical new data, including the number of swabs taken from each stall in the market, said Alexander Crits-Christoph, a former postdoctoral researcher and computational biologist at Johns Hopkins University who helped lead the international team’s analysis.
With that information, Crits-Christoph said that he and his collaborators were able to confirm an important finding: Swabs taken from a corner of the market selling wild animals were more likely to test positive for the virus, a result that could not be explained merely by Chinese researchers having taken more samples from that corner, he said.
“It’s an extremely impressive data set and its importance is quite high,” Crits-Christoph said of the market samples. “And because of that, I think it’s a good thing this data has been published in the scientific record, even if I don’t agree with every interpretation.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/china-publishes-data-showing-raccoon-dog-dna-at-wuhan-market/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-04-05 22:49:28 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/china-publishes-data-showing-raccoon-dog-dna-at-wuhan-market/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
MAYFIELD, Ky. — In the kitchen at Carr's Café, it's time for lunch.
"The equipment was a little different,” Daniel Carr said about his current restaurant location. “We've got to work what we had."
Carr grew up in the restaurant business— one started by his grandparents.
His steakhouse in downtown Mayfield was a point of pride, but then came December 10, 2021.
"It was just a pile of bricks, just completely flattened," Carr said.
A powerful tornado tore threw Mayfield and destroyed large parts of the town and the steakhouse. Just prior to it striking, customers and employees were inside, including Carr's son and brother.
"I think he left about seven minutes before the tornado," Carr said. "When the tornado hit, that's something I really was able to kind of hold onto— the fact that we could have lost a lot of lives in the restaurant."
Others in Mayfield, though, did not survive. Their names are now featured prominently in the center of town.
Around it, the rebuild is slow-going.
"We know our future is going to look quite different," said Mayfield Mayor Kathy O’Nan.
She just won reelection to another four-year term and will help guide the city in its rebuilding, which is leaning heavily on federal funds.
"There's a lot of red tape," she said. “That's frustrating and that sets us back, but we work within that because we know they are one of our sources for financial help."
Thomas Chandler, Ph.D., is deputy director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness of the Climate School at Columbia University.
"As a society, we have to acknowledge that the frequency and intensity of different types of disasters are increasing,” he said.
Chandler said communities need to ask themselves important questions prior to a disaster.
"What are the building codes?" Chandler asked. "Where are the flood zones, what properties are in foreclosure, what building structures are available to house disaster survivors? A lot of that is not part of the equation and needs to be better incorporated."
One program that is trying to encourage that is the Disaster Recovery Reform Act, with the White House budget calling for $2 billion in funding it.
"It's an effort to enable communities to really apply for a substantial amount of funding, to address declining infrastructure - and that's a major area which needs to be addressed," Chandler said.
Infrastructure is just one piece of the rebuilding effort in Mayfield, which will now include new community-wide storm shelters.
So when will the recovery feel complete?
"Nobody's asked me that question – normalcy, but I don't know what normalcy will look like," O’Nan said. "I think when you feel like you're in your own skin in these new buildings, I guess that's when recovery for me will be complete."
Back at his café, Carr says he knows the town will recover in time, like so many other communities facing the same journey after a disaster.
"At the end of the day, we have our lives, we have our loved ones, we still have our town,” Carr said. “We just got to put it back together." | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/one-year-after-a-deadly-tornado-kentucky-town-offers-lessons-in-disaster-recovery | 2022-12-09 15:39:05 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/one-year-after-a-deadly-tornado-kentucky-town-offers-lessons-in-disaster-recovery |
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for murder of 11-year-old boy in Scottsdale hotel
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office says it plans to seek the death penalty for a grandmother and her husband accused of abusing and killing an 11-year-old boy earlier this year at a hotel in Scottsdale. Prosecutors said on Tuesday they want Stephanie Marie Davis and Thomas James Desharnais put to death if they’re convicted of first-degree murder.
On Jan. 30, Davis called 911 saying she found her grandson, Chaskah Davis Smith, unresponsive in a bathtub in their room at the Extended Stay America near Scottsdale and Osborne roads. According to court documents, she was doing CPR when officers arrived, but Chaskah didn’t survive. He was pronounced dead at the hospital less than two hours later.
In the same hotel room was Chaskah’s younger half-brother, who was 9 years old at the time. Officers noticed the boy had an injury to his face and bruising around his eyes. Police later arrested Davis and Desharnais, for murder and other charges, alleging the boys had been abused for quite some time. The couple and two boys had reportedly been living at the Scottsdale hotel for a few years.
According to police, Davis told detectives that Chaskah “had been ‘hurting himself’ all day” and had a history of doing so. She said he hit himself in the head with a wrench and cut his genitals with a knife on the day he died. But her husband told a different story. Desharnais told investigators that the boys were repeatedly abused by their grandmother and that it was getting worse in the months leading up to Chaskah’s death. According to court documents, he said Davis hit Chaskah in the head with a metal ratchet on a few different occasions, including the day before he died. He also says Davis would regularly deny giving Chaskah food and water, sometimes for days. Investigators said Desharnais knew about the ongoing abuse but did nothing to stop it.
In February, Davis and Desharnais were indicted on 11 felony counts, including first-degree murder, child abuse and tampering with evidence. The charges stem from not only the day of Chaskah’s death on Jan. 30, but abuse happening since Aug. 1, 2019. Allegations of possible abuse had been made as far back as 2017 when Chaskah’s school reported an injury. Several reports were made that year, but investigators closed those cases at the time over a lack of evidence. Davis also had a warrant for her arrest going back to 2016 out of Minnesota.
County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said on Tuesday the death penalty is being sought since the allegations are especially heinous. “As a community, it is our responsibility to protect and care for the most vulnerable in society, and this includes children. The protection of children has always been a top priority for me. This child’s suffering and death must be addressed and those responsible held accountable,” Mitchell said in a statement. “Seeking justice for this young boy whose life was cut short in an especially heinous matter is what prosecutors are called to do.”
Trial dates are pending.
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In the wake of a $35,000 fine for what the NBA deemed “the unsportsmanlike act of shoving a camera person” during Wednesday night’s loss to the Miami Heat at Miami-Dade Arena, Memphis Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks said the act was unintentional.
Addressing the incident for the first time when the Grizzlies hosted the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, Brooks said he planned to reach out to the cameraman who is a fixture at Heat home games, working as an independent contractor for Bally Sports.
“It was unintentional,” Brooks said of the incident that appeared otherwise, as he unsuccessfully scrambled at the midcourt sideline to keep a ball from going out of bounds. “I was running full speed. I didn’t mean to hurt him in any way possible. I’m not that type of person.
“I’m going to give him a call tomorrow to check on him and see how he is.”
Brooks did not mention whether he would appeal the fine. Brooks, 27, is in the final year of the three-year, $35 million contract that pays $11.4 million this season.
“But, you know, it’s a bad situation,” Brooks said, “and whatever the NBA did is what they did. But I’m not that type of person. I play the game hard.”
The Heat next play at home Wednesday night at Miami-Dade Arena against the New York Knicks, after completing a two-game trip Sunday night against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena.
The cameraman in the incident, Terry Swann, declined comment to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. A Bally Sports spokesman declined comment on the incident.
In the wake of the NBA’s fine, Heat broadcaster Jason Jackson posted a rebuke to Brooks on Twitter.
“I rarely comment on these things,” Jackson posted, “BUT this one is personal. Our veteran @BallyHeat camera operator was injured & remains under evaluation.
“The fine was on point, but the max would have felt like a sliver of justice after disregard for another human – an incredible one at that.”
Brooks’ play occurred with 2:40 remaining in the second quarter of what turned into a 138-119 Grizzlies loss.
Defensive slippage
In the wake of the Heat tumbling in the NBA defensive rankings since the All-Star break, coach Erik Spoelstra said it is the detail not the personnel that has been lacking.
“We’re going to shore this all up,” he said ahead of the game against the Pistons. “That’s it. We’re going to shore it up. We’re capable of being much better defensively.
“It’s the same guys, same people. I mean, we’ve had a top-four defense before All-Star break. It’s costly when we don’t defend with those kinds of efforts like we had in the second half [of Saturday night’s loss to the Chicago Bulls].”
The Heat’s major rotation move since the All-Star break has been inserting buyout-deadline acquisition Kevin Love into the starting lineup and moving Caleb Martin to the bench.
Quality competition
In the wake of the loss in Chicago, the Heat downplayed lacking focus against teams with losing records.
“I think it’s the NBA, as a league. We got good teams,” forward Jimmy Butler said. “You can’t always look at somebody’s record and, ‘Wow, that team’s supposed to beat them.’
“You can get beat by anybody on any given night and we’ve shown that’s happened to us all year long. But what can we do about it now? Let’s try to win as many games as we can moving forward.”
Butler said there is no arrogance involved.
“I don’t think we’re better than anybody,” he said. “I think that we’ve got to compete at it, and when we deserve to win, we’ll win. If we don’t deserve to win, we will not win.”
Guard Max Strus said it is about focus.
“At the end of the day,” he said. “it’s the NBA and everybody is talented. Everybody is a good team when they’re making shots.”
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada boxing regulators on Tuesday called the death of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas student after he fought in a fraternity charity boxing match last November a tragedy and branded the event “an illegal fight.”
But they said they lacked authority then or now to take criminal action in the case.
“It’s clear now that regulations and statutes were violated, and a man died,” Nevada Athletic Commission member Anthony Marnell III said as the five-member panel received a 158-page report from the state attorney general about the death of 20-year-old UNLV student Nathan Valencia.
The report concludes that a police department statement last December that no crime had been committed was too definitive and “premature.”
“This statement completely foreclosed the possibility of any future prosecution — regardless of any additional investigative findings,” it said.
“This was an underground fight … an illegal fight, and somebody died,” Marnell said after referring to strict rules about safety, training, equipment, medical care, insurance and referee requirements that would have had to be followed if the commission was in charge. “This can’t happen again.”
A key loophole in state law exempted from commission oversight competitions “exclusively” involving students and conducted by schools, colleges, universities and associated organizations.
Commission Chairman Commission Chairman Stephen J. Cloobeck last December invoked authority to close that loophole and require written commission permission for future charity contests or exhibitions.
Valencia died at a hospital four days after the match sponsored by school-sanctioned fraternity Kappa Sigma. The Clark County coroner ruled his death a homicide — a finding that did not call it a criminal act.
With Valencia family members in the audience, Cloobeck on Tuesday berated and accused Las Vegas police, Clark County prosecutors and event venue representatives of inaction. He also unleashed an expletive-laced commentary about political divisiveness.
“This is a young man’s death that didn’t have to happen,” Cloobeck said, mourning the emotional toll Valencia’s death had on his family, the community and others involved in the annual Kappa Sigma Fraternity “Fight Night” at an off-campus arena.
Still, the commission took no official action as it accepted the report. The document offered three “key findings” about the limits of police involvement and concluded that neither the Athletic Commission nor any regulatory body had the authority to prosecute criminal infractions.
Las Vegas police were not called about Valencia’s injuries until four days after the charity event, Deputy Chief James LaRochelle told the commission.
The department investigated whether the venue had proper permits, but did not open a murder investigation. It concluded Valencia’s death was “not criminal and no charges will be filed.”
“We did not have criminal charges,” LaRochelle said Tuesday, adding that the department “disputes contents of” the attorney general report.
Christopher Lalli, a top administrator in Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson’s office, told commissioners that prosecutors don’t initiate investigations but would assess evidence about Valencia’s death if it is presented.
“As of right now, there is nothing that has been submitted,” he said.
Cloobeck referred to photos showing the referee ringside with a canned beverage in his hand, suggested that people drank alcohol and used cocaine during the event, and asked why police never collected boxing gloves from Valencia’s opponent, Emmanuel Aleman.
Attorney Jordan Logan, representing Aleman and his family, told the commission he wasn’t contacted by attorney general’s office investigators until April and wasn’t asked to turn over Aleman’s boxing equipment for examination.
“There was never an attempt on our part to prevent or hinder this investigation,” Logan told the commission. “We were just never asked.”
Valencia’s family has a wrongful death lawsuit pending against the university, the fraternity, the amateur referee who officiated and the venue that hosted the fight. Aleman is not a defendant in that case.
The fraternity chapter was suspended in December by UNLV and its national organization. It is no longer affiliated with the university, campus spokesman Francis McCabe said.
Lawyers representing the family did not immediately respond Tuesday to messages.
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(The Hill) – At least two people were killed in a shooting at a park in Louisville, Kentucky, over the weekend, less than a week after a mass shooting at a bank in the city left five people dead.
Two people died and four others were injured after shots were fired into a crowd at Chickasaw Park in Louisville on Saturday. Police responded to reports of the shooting around 9 p.m., and two victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Louisville Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said at a press conference on Saturday night that while there were hundreds of people in the park at the time of the attack, police had no witnesses to the shooting. Humphrey also said it was unclear who opened fire.
“I want to speak directly to whoever the shooter is,” Humphrey said. “Turn yourself in. The best thing for you to do is to turn yourself in. We know that this will not end well. The best-case scenario is for you to turn yourself in and stop this.”
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg (D) also reflected on the gun violence in the city over the past week, saying it had been “an unspeakable week of tragedy.”
“On Monday, we lost five of our fellow citizens to a horrific act of workplace gun violence,” Greenberg said. “And now, five days later, we’re at another scene of a reckless act of gun violence.”
One of the people who was injured in the latest shooting was in critical condition and underwent surgery.
The park where the shooting happened over the weekend is approximately five miles away from the bank that was the site of the shooting last week that killed five people and injured others. The shooter in that incident, a bank employee, was also killed by police.
Saturday’s shooting continues a string of mass shootings in the U.S., including one last month that left three children and three adults dead at a private school in Tennessee, that has renewed debate in the U.S. over gun control and gun rights. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/2-dead-4-injured-in-louisville-shooting-days-after-mass-shooting-at-bank/ | 2023-04-16 22:07:06 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/2-dead-4-injured-in-louisville-shooting-days-after-mass-shooting-at-bank/ |
11-year-old dies from gunshot wound in Missouri
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - An 11-year-old child was shot in the head Thursday morning in St. Louis’ Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood, police said. The boy died after being taken to the hospital.
Officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded to the scene around 11:30 a.m. and rushed the child, later identified as David Winston, to the hospital to get treated. He was not conscious or breathing at the time. Police then said Thursday afternoon that Winston died from his injuries.
Police said Winston shot himself. The Child Abuse unit responded after the incident.
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to pronounce a child dead from a traumatic violence injury,” says Dr. Kate Forrester of Cardinal Glennon Pediatric Emergency Medicine. “I will not forget the looks on their moms’ faces or the sounds that they’ve made when I’ve had to deliver that bad news.”
According to SSM Health, 28 children have been brought to the children’s hospital for gunshot injuries since January 2023.
To help prevent another tragedy, SSM Health is giving away 11,000 gun locks on Friday as part of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The locks will be placed in baskets for the public to pick up, no questions asked.
“I’ve seen way too many kids injured because someone put a loaded and unlocked gun somewhere where it shouldn’t be. Please get a gun lock,” says Forrester.
Winston is the 27th child victim of gun violence in the city of St. Louis in 2023, data compiled by News 4 shows. He is the fourth to die after being shot. Two 15-year-olds were shot to death, one on Feb. 28 and another on April 5. A 17-year-old was shot and killed on Feb. 5.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. – Sexually abusing a child is sending a Rochester man to prison for over a decade.
Quentin Terrell Townsell, 34, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years and eight months behind bars, with credit for 138 days already served. Townsell entered an Alford plea to one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct on March 9.
An Alford plea means Townsell does not admit guilt but concedes he could be convicted at trial. Townsell was accused of three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct when he was arrested in March 2021. Two charges were dropped as part of a plea deal.
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A Florida woman is accusing Kraft Heinz of misleading advertising, based on the time it takes to prepare a single-serving cup of microwavable mac and cheese.
While the company markets its Velveeta Shells & Cheese as being "ready in 3 1/2" minutes, Amanda Ramirez says that's only the amount of time each cup needs to be microwaved — and that the actual preparation process, from stirring in water to letting the cheese sauce thicken, takes longer (she does not specify how much).
A 15-page class-action lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that parent company Kraft Heinz sells more of the product, and at a higher price, than it would if it didn't mislead consumers about the pasta's prep time.
"As a result of the false and misleading representations, the Product is sold at a premium price, approximately no less than $10.99 for eight 2.39 oz cups, excluding tax and sales, higher than similar products, represented in a non-misleading way, and higher than it would be sold for absent the misleading representations and omissions," the court filing reads.
Ramirez's legal team says that she is like many consumers who "seek to stretch their money as far as possible when buying groceries," and chose Velveeta over other similar products because of the prep time prominently promised on its label. She wouldn't have bought it "had she known the truth," they say.
The lawsuit seeks more than $5 million in damages and looks to cover consumers in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, New Mexico, Alaska, Iowa, Tennessee and Virginia who purchased the mac and cheese cups during the applicable statute of limitations period. It says there are more than 100 such customers since the product is sold online and in stores across the country.
The Kraft Heinz Company called the lawsuit "frivolous" in a statement provided to NPR, saying it "will strongly defend against the allegations in the complaint."
While some might be quick to dismiss the case as cheesy, Ramirez's team says it's important to hold corporations accountable in all forms. Will Wright, one of Ramirez's lawyers, told NPR over email that while he's gotten some flak about the case, "deceptive advertising is deceptive advertising."
"There are a lot of people that may feel this is just a little fibbing and not really a case and I get that," he wrote. "But we are striving for something better. We want corporate America to be straightforward and truthful in advertising their products."
He added: "My firm also represents clients in what most would say are more compelling cases (arsenic in baby food, etc.) but we don't feel corporations should get a pass for any deceptive advertising. The consumers deserve better."
It's a matter of trust, the lawsuit says
Velveeta's claim that a cup of mac will be ready in 3 1/2 minutes is false and misleading because microwaving is only one of several necessary steps, the lawsuit says.
There are four steps listed in the directions on the back of the package: Remove the lid and cheese sauce pouch, add water to the fill line and stir, microwave for 3 1/2 minutes then stir in the cheese sauce, which the instructions note "will thicken upon standing."
Therefore, the lawsuit says, the product couldn't possibly be ready for consumption in a mere 210 seconds, and the label would only be accurate if it said the snack took 3 1/2 minutes to microwave.
It adds that Ramirez believed Kraft Heinz was accurately representing its product in part because it is "a trusted company, known for its high-quality products, honestly marketed to consumers."
"Defendant's representations and omissions regarding the Product went beyond the specific representations on the packaging, as they incorporated the extra-labeling promises and commitments to quality, transparency and putting customers first, that it has been known for," it says.
In fact, the lawsuit says Ramirez fully intends to purchase this same product again "when she can do so with the assurance its representations are constituent with its abilities, attributes, and/or composition."
Until then, it adds, she is unable to rely on the labeling and marketing of not only this microwavable mac, but of other similar products that claim they will be ready in a specific amount of time, "because she is unsure whether those representations are truthful."
It's unclear where Ramirez's case will go from here. Wright believes the most likely scenario is that Kraft will file a motion to dismiss it in a few weeks, which his team will oppose. Then, he says, "the judge will let us know how he feels about our case."
Ramirez is working with a lawyer known for his food marketing lawsuits
Another member of Ramirez's legal team is Spencer Sheehan, a New York-based plaintiff's attorney who in recent years has filed hundreds of lawsuits alleging misleading claims in food advertising and packaging.
As NPR has reported, Sheehan files at a rate of about three such lawsuits per week, and "his prolificacy has almost single-handedly caused a historic spike in the number of class action lawsuits against food and beverage companies — up more than 1000% since 2008."
Sheehan has filed over 100 suits alleging that various products, from soda to soy milk, market "vanilla" products that actually use synthetic vanilla or other flavors either in addition to or instead of the more expensive vanilla bean.
Some of his other recent cases include accusing Frito-Lay of not using enough real lime juice in its "hint of lime" Tostito chips (status: pending) and alleging that Kellogg misrepresents the amount of fruit in its strawberry pop tarts (a federal judge dismissed it earlier this year). Many of his cases get "voluntarily dismissed" — presumably, settled — rather than go to trial.
As Sheehan told NPR last October: "I guess I've always been the type who would become annoyed [and] never liked it when companies cheated people for small amounts it would be difficult to recoup."
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Multi-Action BasicBites Synergy Plus™ Poised to Capitalize on the Multibillion Dollar Oral Care, Supplement and Prebiotic Markets
ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ortek Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in developing and commercializing novel oral care technologies, has announced its plans to extend its successful BasicBites® product line later this year with the introduction of BasicBites Synergy Plus™ soft chew. This revolutionary patent pending product combines Ortek's breakthrough microbiome oral care technology with vital nutrients to help support tooth enamel and maintain healthy bones and immune and cardiovascular systems.
BasicBites Synergy Plus will further strengthen Ortek's ability to capitalize on opportunities in the global oral care, supplement, and prebiotic markets which last year were valued at approximately $200 billion. The company is also developing additional BasicBites line extensions that it plans to announce soon.
"Our products have been well received by our loyal and growing customer base of thousands of consumers and dental professionals," said Mitchell Goldberg, President of Ortek Therapeutics, Inc. As this new product line extension shows, we continually find new ways to take advantage of our university developed microbiome oral care technology."
What makes BasicBites Synergy Plus a one-of-a-kind prebiotic and nutritional supplement is its patent pending formula which includes all of the following ingredients:
- Arginine Bicarbonate and Calcium Carbonate which work together to create a healthy, balanced oral pH environment that protects teeth from harm caused by dry mouth–which effects 1 in 4 adults–and sugary foods and drinks. Arginine, an amino acid, nourishes the beneficial pH-raising bacteria discovered in dental plaque, resulting in immediate and sustained buffering on tooth surfaces that helps neutralize harmful plaque acids-a prebiotic process. The calcium carbonate also enriches tooth enamel and bones and plays an important role in supporting the health of cardiovascular, muscular and nervous systems.
- K2VITAL®, a novel K2 MK-7 formula superior to other Vitamin K2 supplements. Vitamin K2 facilitates the transport and integration of calcium into bones and teeth. It helps maintain a normal calcium balance in arteries, which may inhibit their calcification and prevent or slow the progression of arterial stiffness. This novel formulation from Kappa Bioscience maintains Vitamin K2's potency in higher pH products such as BasicBites Synergy Plus.
- Vitamin D3 which helps the body absorb calcium into the bloodstream and has a vital role in maintaining strong teeth and bones. It also helps support a strong immune system and respiratory and neuromuscular functions and could play a role in maintaining cardiovascular health and metabolizing blood glucose.
About Ortek
Ortek Therapeutics, Inc. is a global leader in developing and commercializing cutting-edge oral care technologies. For more information on the company, visit ortekinc.com.
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A year that began with hope the private-equity party would rage on has seen the festivities fizzle out.
Years of rock-bottom interest rates, coupled with abundant cash from institutional investors, powered a long boom in dealmaking by private-equity firms, including several major players in Chicago. Then came the Federal Reserve’s war on inflation. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/private-equity-interest-rates-financing | 2022-11-16 16:01:27 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/private-equity-interest-rates-financing |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday will present the nation’s second highest civilian award to 12 individuals involved in defending the Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and safeguarding the will of American voters in the 2020 presidential election.
The White House announced on Thursday that Biden will present the Presidential Citizens Medal during an East Room ceremony marking the second anniversary of the assault on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump whose siege interrupted the congressional certification of Biden’s victory.
Among those being honored are seven members of law enforcement, including a posthumous award to Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the attack, and an award to Officer Eugene Goodman who was credited with directing rioters away from the Senate floor while lawmakers were evacuating the building.
Also being honored are two other Capitol Police officers, Harry Dunn and Caroline Edwards; Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell; Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges and a former officer, Michael Fanone.
Biden is also recognizing Michigan’s secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, and Rusty Bowers, a former Arizona House speaker, who resisted pressure to overturn the election results; and Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, who were subjected to threats and harassment after ensuring votes in the county were properly tabulated.
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An award is going to Al Schmidt, a former Philadelphia election official who faced public pressure by Trump to stop counting valid ballots. Schmidt, a Republican, will be nominated for the top election administration post in Pennsylvania, secretary of state, by Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro, a Democrat.
The Presidential Citizens Medal, created by President Richard Nixon in 1969, is the country’s second highest civilian honor after the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is awarded to those who “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/biden-to-award-citizens-medal-to-12-on-jan-6-anniversary/ | 2023-01-06 17:21:13 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/biden-to-award-citizens-medal-to-12-on-jan-6-anniversary/ |
ROME (AP) — The Italian coast guard has recovered about 30 bodies after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas Sunday off the southern coast of Italy’s mainland, RAI state radio reported.
Quoting unidentified port authorities near the coastal town of Crotone, in Calabria, the toe of the Italian peninsula, RAI said the ship was carrying more than 100 migrants when it ran into trouble at dawn in the Ionian sea.
By mid-morning, about 40 survivors had been found, said Luca Cari, a spokesperson for firefighters who were involved in rescue efforts.
“At the moment there are various victims," he said, without specifying a number of dead as rescue efforts were still underway.
The Italian news agency AGI put the number of recovered bodies at 27 and said a baby a few months old was among the dead.
The radio report said vessels from the coast guard, border police and firefighters were involved in rescue efforts.
The coast guard was not immediately available for more details.
Details about the nationalities of the migrants were not immediately provided in the reports. It was not immediately clear where the boat had set out from, but migrant vessels arriving in Calabria depart from Turkish or Egyptian shores. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/reports-migrant-boat-breaks-apart-off-italy-17806538.php | 2023-02-26 08:39:58 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/reports-migrant-boat-breaks-apart-off-italy-17806538.php |
NBC5 is partnering with Providence Health & Services to help create healthy communities, together. In this week’s Providence Minute, Dr. Pawani Sachar, from Providence Medford Neurology, explains the triggers of stroke and what you can do to prevent them.
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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (AP) - Results from Scotch football:
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Hearts 3, St. Johnstone 0
Livingston FC 1, Hibernian FC 4
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Rangers 3, Kilmarnock 1
Ross County 0, Motherwell 2
Dundee United 1, Aberdeen 3
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St Mirren FC 1, Celtic 5
Celtic 3, Hearts 1
Hibernian FC 1, Rangers 4
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Livingston FC 1, Dundee United 1
Motherwell vs. Rangers, 8:30 a.m.
Aberdeen vs. Hearts, 11 a.m.
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Celtic vs. Hibernian FC, 11 a.m.
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A high risk of wildfire has prompted the NBC2 First Alert team of meteorologists to issue an NBC2 Fire Alert for Friday evening and Saturday.
NBC2 Fire Alerts are put up to give you a heads-up about the risk of wildfire which is spiking over the next 24 hours. Windy weather will linger in our forecast through Saturday. Coupled with the dry weather we’ve had of late, this will keep the risk elevated, as any fire that does develop will likely spread quickly.
Winds will remain strong out of the south this evening, with gusts topping 25 mph through the sunset hour. Smoke, ash, and flames would be encouraged to move northward thanks to the winds tonight, so if you start to notice smoke look toward the south of your location to get an idea as to how close the fire may be to where you are.
On Saturday, winds will still be gusty but not as strong as today. Our forecast models show gusts around 24 mph in Fort Myers by lunchtime Saturday. Though this is less than the 40 mph+ gusts we had today, it is still strong enough to keep the risk high.
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE: Residents are being evacuated as 15-acre brush fire spreads through Collier County
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Tonight and on Saturday do not burn anything outside. Properly extinguish cigarettes and make sure chains and items are secured on trucks and flatbeds. Use care when mowing the lawn and riding ATVs. Avoid parking your car over grassy areas.
The winds are whipping up tonight and tomorrow because a front is moving down the Florida peninsula. Unfortunately, this front isn’t bringing us much (if any) rain, as through Saturday the majority of our area won’t see a drop.
The movement of this front will help to weaken the winds on Sunday, and that should allow the wildfire threat to subside as well.
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Roughly 4.4 million people will soon receive checks from TurboTax, following a 50-state settlement with parent company Intuit for allegedly steering millions of low-income Americans away from free tax-filing services.
Customers affected by the settlement will receive an email about the settlement and checks will automatically be mailed throughout this month. Most customers will get about $30, with some customers that used TurboTax for three consecutive years getting up to $85. A website has also been set up for more information.
"TurboTax's predatory and deceptive marketing cheated millions of low-income Americans who were trying to fulfill their legal duties to file their taxes," said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a press release. "Today we are righting that wrong and putting money back into the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who should have never paid to file their taxes."
She announced the settlement last year, saying that Intuit "unfairly charged" people and forced the company to stop its "free, free, free" ad campaign because it falsely lured customers with the promise of free tax preparation services.
The investigation came after a 2019 ProPublica report accused the company of steering eligible clients away from federally supported tax filing products by making them difficult to find in web searches — instead directing them toward the paid version of the company's filing services. James said the tactic targeted low-income consumers in particular.
Intuit has said that it "admitted no wrongdoing" as part of the agreement and it expects "minimal impact to its business" from the changes demanded in the future.
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GRAPHIC: Boy, 12, burned over half his body in science experiment explosion
HIGHLANDS, N.C. (WLOS) - A 12-year-old North Carolina boy and his mother have a long road to recovery after they were both badly burned when a science experiment exploded.
Barrett McKim, 12, is hospitalized at the Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia, after a science experiment he was working on exploded. He now has second- and third-degree burns on half of his body.
His father, Kyle McKim, says the fiery accident happened Thursday at the family’s Highlands, North Carolina, home.
“It involved a Bunsen burner, and he was using a number of things. Alcohol was in the mix there, and somehow in that process, that got ignited and kinda blew up and back into his face,” Kyle McKim said. “Fortunately, he was wearing protective glasses, which certainly helped, but he was wearing a synthetic shirt, which ended up being a real contributor in the fire staying and trying to get that off, as it kind of melted away.”
Barrett’s mother, Caroline McKim, was also badly burned while trying to save her son.
“Caroline, although she’s yet to believe it, she is a hero, and I think is a lot of the reason that Barrett’s alive,” Kyle McKim said.
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Barrett and his mother have a long road to recovery. Both have already undergone at least one surgery, and more are expected. However, the journey has been made easier by a supportive family. The boy’s uncle, Stephen Schlautman, set up a GoFundMe to help out.
“I have never been through a tragedy like this, but I can only imagine the cost and expense. I think everything that we can do would help,” Schlautman said.
Kyle McKim, who has rarely left his son’s hospital bedside, is happy Barrett is still alive and overwhelmed by the outpouring of support.
“We’re very grateful the Lord protected him and he’s alive. We continue to pray for healing for his little body and for his future. We know God has a real purpose for him,” he said.
The family is expected to spend several weeks in the hospital, if not months.
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Arkansas State Police have identified the man who was struck and killed by a car on Interstate 30 early Monday after, police said, he fled on foot from a vehicle that police had been pursuing.
Isaias Sambrano, 29, of Little Rock was the man who died early Monday, according to an updated preliminary fatality report.
Josue Aguilar, 23, had previously been identified as the other occupant of the vehicle that Sambrano fled.
Aguilar was arrested by police after officers heard shots being fired near the 7500 block of Geyer Springs Road, near the state police headquarters in Little Rock, according to an arrest report. Aguilar and Sambrano were spotted fleeing the scene in a vehicle that was eventually stopped by state troopers, police said.
According to the police report, Sambrano then fled the car and attempted to cross I-30, but he was struck and killed by westbound traffic. A stolen pistol was found in the vehicle with Aguilar, police added.
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Column: At tiny home villages in Eagle Rock and Highland Park, the report card is mixed
When I asked L.A. City Councilman Kevin de León how things were going at the Eagle Rock tiny home village that opened in March, he had good news and bad.
Many encampments have disappeared, and those who had lived in tents are now in safe, clean quarters, with access to food and bathrooms. The councilman pulled out his camera to show me the “before” photos of people living in squalor, taking shelter under highway overpasses and fending off rodents.
But the tiny home record is mixed so far, and De León told a story to illustrate his point. He said he was on his way to meet a friend for dinner in the neighborhood recently when he saw a storm of police activity at a gas station at Colorado and Eagle Rock boulevards.
“We have a gentleman who’s having a psychotic breakdown, and he has a blow torch,” De León recalls being told by an officer at the scene.
De León said the troubled young man appeared to be threatening to blow up his mother’s vehicle and the gas station.
“A psych team was there, trying to engage him,” said De León, but that didn’t work. So police fired nonlethal ammo and apprehended the man for a psychiatric commitment.
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When De León heard the man’s name, he thought, “I know him.”
The man had been a resident at the tiny home village. Getting people in the door is hard enough, De León said. But redirecting the lives of people with severe challenges is complicated by a lack of desperately needed services.
“My staff and I, along with salt-of-the-earth social workers, are doing our jobs by getting people off the streets and putting a roof over their head,” De León said. “We need the county to do what they’re charged to do and provide the mental health services and drug treatment services our unhoused neighbors are crying out for.”
I had reached out to De León because it’s been almost six months of operation for the village in Eagle Rock and almost one year for the one in nearby Highland Park. And in the mayoral race, Rep. Karen Bass and Rick Caruso both have more tiny homes in their packages of homelessness fixes.
Caruso, as part of a nearly $1-billion plan that sounds ambitious at best and impossible at worst, says he’ll house 30,000 people in his first year. And 15,000 of them would be temporarily moved into tiny homes on 300 government parcels.
Even if he could pull off such a gargantuan task and figure out how to pay for it, a close look at the villages in Eagle Rock and Highland Park makes clear that getting someone in the front door is only half the battle.
I’ve requested the specifics and am waiting on a response from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, but this much is known:
Some residents have been kicked out for rules violations. Some have chosen to leave. Some have gotten addiction and mental health counseling, while others have not. Some have been moved into permanent housing or have taken up with family members, but many are still waiting in a long line for housing, and many of them don’t yet have the government vouchers needed for a permanent placement.
“To end homelessness for tiny home residents and all of our unhoused neighbors, our community needs hundreds of thousands of affordable homes,” said Emily Andrade, director of interim housing for LAHSA.
Andrade said more mental health and addiction treatment resources are also needed.
I would agree. But what’s hard to fathom, De León told me more than once, is that with a county mental health budget that runs about $3 billion, the streets are home to so many severely addled souls.
“You give me $3 billion, and I’ll have them off the streets,” he said.
One problem, other than the obvious failures of massive bureaucracies, is a long history of lousy coordination and outright feuding between city and county agencies. There was bickering this year after the city agreed but the county balked at settling a federal lawsuit over the handling of homelessness.
The county finally agreed several days ago to step up services for interim and permanent housing in the city, but the numbers are not likely to turn things around. For example, the additional substance abuse and mental health beds promised by the county is 300. At first glance, I wondered if a zero or two had been accidentally omitted.
“There are quite a few folks who don’t belong in tiny homes or Project Roomkey because they’re so severely mentally ill,” said De León. “They belong in a bed with the county … and the 300 beds agreed to is simply not enough.”
Jane Demian, homelessness liaison for the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, told me she knows the man who was apprehended at the gas station.
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“He has a history of schizophrenia, and he’s been on the streets a long time, and rather than connect him with mental health services — which might not be available right now — they put him into a tiny home,” Demian said. “He did not do well because he needs a higher level of care, and this is what happens.”
And yet Demian told me she’s “cautiously optimistic” that the tiny home villages will serve a valuable purpose for their residents and the community. As for the latter, she said, people are happy to see fewer encampments, but some who live near the villages have complained about drug use and other activity.
Demian regularly visits tiny home residents and said “the majority of them are happy they’re in there, although some would like more contact with their case manager and more services.”
Outside the tiny home village in Highland Park, I met a guy who wished he could get through the gates.
“I liked it in there,” said Daniel, who told me he’d been kicked out for an altercation while defending his friend Candy.
Daniel told me he works as a security guard when he can, and to be close to Candy, he sleeps in a friend’s car near the village. Both said they were among the first residents last November and expected to be moved into permanent housing by now. But the line is long, and they’re nowhere near the front of it.
On the street near the Eagle Rock village, Gary told me he’d been kicked out for an altercation and is back living on the street. Yesenia is still a resident and said she likes it in the village but wants more help with her mental illness.
Ron, who in March moved out of a motor home and into an Eagle Rock tiny home, seemed grateful for his humble abode.
“Some troublemakers have been kicked out, but everybody who’s still here has an advocate to help them, and they pretty much help us with everything,” said Ron, who told me that at 65, he couldn’t afford rent anywhere on the slim wages he made in various odd jobs.
Ron said one much-needed improvement is more mental health services for some of his neighbors, and he thought he’d have been lined up with permanent housing by now. But he doesn’t even have a housing voucher yet.
I asked if he knew when that might happen.
“Hopefully soon,” he said.
Steve.lopez@latimes.com
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AUSTIN, Minn., May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, invites interested parties to participate in a webcast and conference call with Jim Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer; Jacinth Smiley, executive vice president and chief financial officer; and Deanna Brady, executive vice president, Retail; to discuss the company's second quarter financial results. The company will issue its earnings release before the markets open on Thursday, June 1, 2023, and will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. CT (9:00 a.m. ET).
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Game 3 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Sunday, May 7 features the Toronto Maple Leafs visiting the Florida Panthers at BB&T Center at 6:30 PM ET on TBS, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS. The Panthers lead the series 2-0. The Maple Leafs have -135 moneyline odds against the Panthers (+115).
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were mixed Monday at the start of a week with a few events that could shake markets, including updates on inflation and the health of corporate profits.
The S&P 500 dipped 0.1% after surrendering an early gain of 1.4% in its first trading after closing out its first winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped nearly 113 points, or 0.3%, while the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6%.
More stocks rose than fell, and Wall Street’s largely positive start to 2023 has come on hopes the Federal Reserve could ease up on its economy-shaking hikes to interest rates as inflation cools. Such rate increases have already slowed parts of the economy sharply, and the fear is more big hikes could cause a painful recession.
Treasury yields fell further Monday as traders adjust bets for what the Fed will do. They dropped Friday after data showed workers are winning weaker raises than in earlier months. While that’s discouraging for workers whose pay is still failing to keep up with rising bills, it could ultimately mean less upward pressure on inflation.
The next big marker for the market will be Thursday’s report on inflation at the consumer level. Economists expect it to show inflation slowed further to 6.5% last month from 7.1% in November.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, fell to 4.19% from 4.26% late Friday and more than 4.70% in November. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.52% from 3.57% late Friday.
Lower rates tend to help high-growth and technology stocks in particular, and they were some of the market’s leaders Monday.
Tesla added 5.9%, Nvidia rose 5.2% and Advanced Micro Device climbed 5.1% for some of the biggest gains in the S&P 500. Slightly more stocks in the index rose than fell.
Altogether, the S&P 500 slipped 2.99 points to 3,982.09. The Dow fell 112.96 to 33,517.65, and the Nasdaq rose 66.36 to 10,635.65.
Analysts, though, warn more bumpiness is almost surely on the way for the stock market. Even if inflation is slowing, the Fed has pledged to hike rates still further and then to hold them at a high level for a while to make sure the job is done on inflation.
And parts of the economy that do best when rates are low have already shown signs of sharp pain as the Federal Reserve has hiked its key overnight rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% from roughly zero a year ago.
Warnings are also coming for what look to be lackluster earnings reports from companies, which are contending with higher labor costs and other expenses that eat into their profits. Earnings reporting season is set to kick off on Friday, and this may mark the first year-over-year drop in earnings per share for S&P 500 companies since 2020.
“With 2022 behind us, investors are now primarily focused on the profit outlook for the coming year,” strategists at Goldman Sachs wrote in a report.
For the full year of 2023, they see zero growth for S&P 500 earnings per share. And that’s if the economy avoids a recession. If a recession does hit, as many on Wall Street suspect, they say earnings could fall 11%. That’s key because profits are one of the main levers that set stock prices.
Some retailers fell Monday after giving financial updates on sales and profitability that disappointed investors. Macy’s dropped 7.7%, and Lululemon Athletica fell 9.3%.
Stock markets in Europe and Asia gained ground. A Chinese financial news outlet cited a top central bank official as saying that China’s more than two-year crackdown on internet companies is nearly finished.
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Normani wants to set the record straight when it comes to her motivation.
The Fifth Harmony alum alluded to some recent challenges in her life while clapping back on claims that her dedication to her music career has been put on the back burner.
"No idea where Normani's motivation (no pun intended) has gone but I just dont see the same passion from her as I used to," one Twitter user wrote in a since-deleted message, per Billboard. "Before yall start, its not depression so dont even go THERE!"
A second user claimed that it's simply "What happens when you've gotten comfortable and you're not HUNGRY anymore."
But Normani gave a fierce response on Aug. 9, tweeting back at the user to "just shut the f--k up."
Some fans also came to Normani's defense, with fashion illustrator Hayden Williams gave some insight into what the 26-year-old might be going through. "It's so interesting that people that have no clue what it's like to be in the music industry & the complexities that can come with that," Hayden tweeted, "but will dish out unwanted & rude opinions all the time smh."
Normani, who released the song "Fair" in March, went on to retweet Hayden's post, adding that those challenges are all "on top of real life s--t going on in my personal life."
While the singer didn't elaborate what she's been dealing with, her followers responded to let her know that they hope she's doing alright. Hayden replied, "Just know you have so much genuine love & support no matter what."
However, "Some transparency would be helpful," one person wrote back. "If mental health issue let them know. Ppl will speculate when you don't provide any real answers to valid questions."
Fifth Harmony disbanded in 2018, and fans have long been anticipating her debut solo album. "God, I already know," she told Bustle in June when the topic was brought up. "Status of the album? Summer for sure. Tour? Coming."
Normani has previously been candid about the struggles she faced while a part of the girl group. "So many sessions, I would cry like I've never cried before," she told Billboard in 2019, adding that she feels "responsibility" to succeed as a Black woman as she moves forward in her solo career. "There's so much that I have to get off my chest."
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Masked gunmen fired without warning into a crowd at a late night teen party at a South Carolina park over the weekend, wounding nine people, a sheriff said.
All nine hit by gunfire are expected to live, as well as a woman who was injured when she was run over by a fleeing car and another person who was cut on the hand, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a Sunday update on the Saturday shooting.
“So fortunate and so glad and so thankful that right now we believe that everybody is going to survive,” Lott said. “It’s not because those who were doing the shooting didn’t try.”
Deputies were called to Meadowlake Park near Columbia around 1:20 a.m. Saturday and found only a few people at the scene. Not long after, hospitals started reporting several gunshot victims arriving in emergency rooms, deputies said.
Teenagers from several high schools had gathered at the park for the afterhours “flash party” that was announced on social media and not sponsored by the local recreation commission, Lott said.
“This was people putting it out on social media and saying, ‘Come,’ and the bad people came,” the sheriff said.
The shooting appeared to be unprovoked, Lott said.
“If you think wearing a mask, sneaking around a building and shooting into a crowd makes you a man — no, you are a coward,” the sheriff said,
Many of the wounded were hit in the back as they tried to run away, Lott said.
Dozens of shell casings from several different weapons have been collected at the park, but Lott said he wasn’t ready to say exactly how many people may have been shooting.
The people injured are between the ages of 16 and 20. Lott said some were undergoing surgery Sunday.
Officers arrested two teenagers in a vehicle driving away from the scene with its headlights off and found a gun tossed from the vehicle, but Lott said investigators are still trying to figure out if it was used in the shooting.
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(iSeeCars) — Maybe your car is looking and feeling pretty worn out, or maybe your life circumstances changed recently and you need a new car to meet your new needs. Regardless of the driving forces, when it’s time to transfer ownership of your car to a new owner you have several options.
You can simply take your used car to a local dealership and trade it in. The upside is, this is the easiest route. The downside is, dealer trade-in value is likely the lowest value for your car you could possibly receive, because dealers have to re-sale your car, either at auction or to a private party, and ensure they make a profit on it.
While it certainly takes more effort, selling a used vehicle isn’t the hassle it once was, particularly with the modern car-selling tools available to every consumer. This article will walk you through the steps of selling your car yourself, which should remove any questions you have about the process.
Step One: Determine the Value of Your Car
Once upon a time, only dealers had access to industry valuation tools like the Kelley Blue Book price and a vehicle history report, two critical items when determining the best price for a car. Now anyone can access both items, along with a wide range of additional tools, as discussed below.
A vehicle’s market value and service history can be found through a variety of sources. iSeeCars.com offers its own Price My Car tool, as well as a comprehensive VIN Report (VIN stands for vehicle identification number), which combines both a market value assessment with a history of service, both customized to a specific vehicle based on its VIN. The iSeeCars VIN Report takes into account everything from local sales of similar vehicles to your car’s current odometer reading. It also provides an ownership history, recall history, and predicted depreciation over the coming 1, 3, and 5 years. These tools can help you confirm the right asking price for your vehicle.
Step Two: Organize Your Car’s Documentation
Once you know the value of your vehicle you can prep it for sale. The most important document you’ll need is your car’s title. If there’s a car loan on your vehicle you won’t have the vehicle title, which means you’ll need to work with the buyer and your lender on the title transfer once the car is sold. You should always tell prospective buyers the vehicle has a loan that has to be paid off early in the car sale process.
It’s pretty straightforward when selling a car with a loan on it, where a bank or financial institution holds a lien on the vehicle. You simply ask the lender for the exact pay off amount, which the buyer can provide to the lender with a cashier’s check, at which point the lender will release the title. The difference between the pay off amount and your car’s sales price is what you’ll have left after selling the vehicle, which the buyer can pay directly to you. A cashier’s check is among the most secure forms of payment, so feel free to require one from the buyer.
You’ll also want to gather all paperwork related to your vehicle. This includes any service records and warranty documentation you may have, as well as past registrations to confirm the vehicle’s history of use (feel free to redact personal information, like addresses and phone numbers, from these documents for your own peace of mind and privacy concerns).
Step Three: Advertise Your Vehicle
There are several options for finding potential buyers when it’s time to sell your car. You can advertise in local listings like your city’s newspaper website or Craigslist, or use national car marketplaces like Autotrader, Cars.com, Edmunds.com, and Facebook Marketplace. Each of them has a large audience and an interface that makes it easy to zero in on cars based on price, location, color, features etc.
Be sure you take plenty of photographs of your vehicle for the online ad, as these will increase the confidence for non-local buyers that can’t easily see the vehicle in person. While you shouldn’t invest too much money in a car you’re about to sell, spending some time and/or a small amount of money getting the vehicle cleaned up will improve your chances of getting your asking price.
Step Four: Working With Potential Car Buyers
Once your ad is live you should begin receiving inquiries from interested buyers almost immediately, assuming you did your homework and came up with a realistic asking price based on your car’s market value.
Many car sellers feel uncomfortable when it’s time to deal with potential buyers. This is understandable, and some basic security measures should be taken before meeting a buyer in person. For instance, if a buyer wants to see the vehicle, don’t meet at your house or in some random location, and never meet them at night. Meet them where other people are likely to be milling about, like outside a busy store, or where security cameras are likely to be in use, like a police station parking lot.
Feel free to bring a family member or friend along. The more the merrier! And if the buyer wants to take the car for a test drive, ask them to produce a valid driver’s license and auto insurance card first. Then ride with them on the test drive – never let them take the car on their own.
Step Five: Selling Your Car
You may have to negotiate the price with a buyer, but don’t be too quick to lower the price, especially if you’re still early in the sales process. If you valued your car properly, you should be able to find a buyer who will pay at or near your asking price.
Once you have a buyer ready to buy your car you’ll need a bill of sale to record the transaction.
A bill of sale states the car’s year, make, model and VIN, plus the buyer’s and seller’s name, the date of the transaction, and the selling price. Both the buyer and seller should sign the bill of sale and both should have a copy of it once signed.
As stated before, you’ll also need to sign over the vehicle title to the buyer, and if your title is held by a bank you’ll need the buyer to work with the lending institution to pay off the loan before the title is released. Meeting at the bank for the final transaction will make this process much easier, and even if you don’t have a vehicle loan the bank is a good place to transfer the title and receive the buyer’s funds, as you can verify the buyer’s form of payment before signing over the title.
In some states you’ll want to sign a release of liability form, which is a record of the car leaving your possession and transferring to a new owner. This protects you from any future liability issues related to the car. Similarly, in many states you will want to remove the car’s license plates and keep or destroy those, while in other states the license plate number stays with a car, even when ownership is transferred. Check with your state’s department of motor vehicles (DMV) to confirm which protocol is in place.
Additional Options
If you own a classic, special interest, or high-performance vehicle you may get a better price by using an auction site that specializes in these types of vehicles. Two prominent sites for these types of vehicles are Bring a Trailer and Cars & Bids. Both allow you to list your car in front of a large audience that’s likely to recognize and appreciate your vehicle, and if two or more people want your car the sale price can really skyrocket. We recently published an article comparing Bring a Trailer to Cars and Bids that will explain how they work in detail.
If you’re still not convinced about selling your car to a private party there are other, non-traditional dealership options to consider. You can sell your car to online retailers like Carvana or Vroom. We even have an article that compares to two if you’d like a better understanding of how that process works. And if you’re combining your car selling process with the car buying process (a common pairing) you can use a non-traditional physical dealer like CarMax, which offers a network of stores across the country and a wide selection of cars and SUVs to choose from.
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MIAMI, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EFL Global, a leading provider of logistics and supply chain solutions, is proud to announce its acquisition of Locher Evers International (LEI), a long-standing, family-owned Canadian logistics company. With over 47 years of experience, LEI offers a full suite of logistics services, including air freight, ocean freight, customs brokerage, rail service, warehousing, distribution, fulfillment, domestic trucking, and drayage.
The acquisition of LEI expands EFL Global's footprint in the Canadian market and strengthens its capabilities to provide end-to-end logistics solutions to customers across various industries. By combining LEI's expertise with EFL Global's resources and technology, customers can expect to benefit from enhanced service offerings, improved efficiencies, and greater flexibility.
"We are excited to welcome LEI to the EFL family and look forward to working together to deliver exceptional logistics solutions to our customers," said Bill Wilkening, COO of EFL Global. "This acquisition is a significant milestone in our growth strategy, and we are committed to investing in the Canadian market and expanding our global reach."
"We are excited to be joining the EFL Global family, which strengthens our ability to compete in the ever changing market, and allows us to provide even more in-house service offerings to our valued clients," said Chris Locher, Managing Director of LEI.
The acquisition of LEI is effective immediately, and the company will operate as a subsidiary of EFL Global. The management team and employees of LEI will remain in their current roles, ensuring a seamless transition for customers and suppliers.
EFL Global is committed to providing the highest level of service and support to customers and suppliers during the integration process. For more information, please contact EFL Global or visit our website at www.efl.global.
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New Zealand’s Ardern, an icon to many, to step down
By NICK PERRY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was praised around the world for her handling of the nation’s worst mass shooting and the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, said Thursday she was leaving office.
Ardern was facing mounting political pressures at home and a level of vitriol from some that hadn’t been experienced by previous New Zealand leaders. Still, her announcement came as a shock to people throughout the nation of 5 million people.
Fighting back tears, Ardern told reporters in Napier that Feb. 7 would be her last day as prime minister.
“I am entering now my sixth year in office, and for each of those years, I have given my absolute all,” she said.
Ardern became an inspiration to women around the world after first winning the top job in 2017 at the relatively young age of 37. She seemed to herald a new generation of leadership — she was on the verge of being a millennial, had spun some records as a part-time DJ, and wasn’t married like most politicians.
To many, she was the antithesis of U.S. President Donald Trump.
In 2018, she became just the second world leader to give birth while holding office. Later that year, she brought her infant daughter to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
In March 2019, Ardern faced one of the darkest days in New Zealand’s history when a white supremacist gunman stormed two mosques in Christchurch and slaughtered 51 people. She was widely praised for the way she empathized with the survivors and New Zealand’s Muslim community in the aftermath.
Less than nine months later, she faced another tragedy when 22 tourists and guides were killed when the White Island volcano erupted.
Ardern was lauded globally for her country’s initial handling of the coronavirus pandemic. after New Zealand managed to stop the virus at its borders for months. But she was forced to abandon that zero-tolerance strategy as more contagious variants spread and vaccines became widely available.
Ardern faced growing anger at home from those who opposed coronavirus mandates and rules. A protest against vaccine mandates that began on Parliament’s grounds last year lasted for more than three weeks and ended with protesters hurling rocks at police and setting fires to tents and mattresses as they were forced to leave. This year, Ardern was forced to cancel an annual barbecue she hosts due to security fears.
Ardern last month announced a wide-ranging Royal Commission of Inquiry would look into whether the government made the right decisions in battling COVID-19 and how it could better prepare for future pandemics. A report is due next year.
Some experts said that sexist attitudes played a role in the anger directed at Ardern.
But her government also faced criticism that it had been big on ideas but lacking on execution. Supporters worried it hadn’t made promised gains on increasing housing supply and reducing child poverty, while opponents said it was not focusing enough on crime and the struggling economy.
Farmers protested against plans to tax cow burps and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Ardern had been facing tough reelection prospects. Her center-left Labour Party won reelection in 2020 with a landslide of historic proportions, but recent polls have put her party behind its conservative rivals.
Ardern said the role required having a reserve to face the unexpected.
“But I am not leaving because it was hard. Had that been the case I probably would have departed two months into the job,” she said. “I am leaving because with such a privileged role comes responsibility. The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead, and also, when you are not.”
She said her time in office had been fulfilling but challenging.
“I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It is that simple,” she said.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Ardern “has shown the world how to lead with intellect and strength.”
“She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities,” Albanese tweeted.
“Jacinda has been a fierce advocate for New Zealand, an inspiration to so many and a great friend to me,” he added.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thanked Ardern on Twitter for her friendship and “empathic, compassionate, strong, and steady leadership.”
Ardern charted an independent course for New Zealand. She tried to take a more diplomatic approach to China than neighboring Australia, which had ended up feuding with Beijing. In an interview with The Associated Press last month, she’d said that building relationships with small Pacific nations shouldn’t become a game of one-upmanship with China.
Ardern on Thursday also announced that New Zealand’s 2023 general elections would be held on Oct. 14, and that she would remain a lawmaker until then.
It’s unclear who will take over as prime minister until the election. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson announced that he won’t contest the leadership of the Labour Party, throwing the competition open.
Labour Party lawmakers will vote for a new leader on Sunday. If no candidate gets at least two-thirds support from the caucus, then the leadership contest will go to the wider party membership. Ardern has recommended the party chose her replacement by the time she finishes in the role on Feb. 7.
New Zealand Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon said Ardern had been a strong ambassador for the country on the world stage. He said that for his party “nothing changes” and it remains intent on winning the election and to “deliver a government that can get things done for the New Zealand people.”
Ardern said she didn’t have any immediate plans after leaving office, other than family commitments with her daughter, Neve, and her fiancé Clarke Gayford, after an outbreak of the virus thwarted their earlier wedding plans.
“And so to Neve, Mum is looking forward to being there when you start school this year,” Ardern said. “And to Clarke, let’s finally get married.”
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3-year-old Mexican girl reportedly wakes up at her own funeral, dies hours later
Camila Mendoza's family claims the child had a heartbeat and was breathing while laying in her casket at her funeral in Mexico
A 3-year-old girl in Mexico was pronounced dead twice earlier this month, after it was discovered she was still breathing at her funeral.
The family of Camila Roxana Martinez Mendoza is now suing the hospital involved for negligence, according to El Universal San Luis Potosí.
Camila was taken to Salinas de Hidalgo Basic Community Hospital for dehydration on August 17. The young girl was experiencing vomiting, stomach pain and a fever.
Camila was reportedly given paracetamol and released from the hospital. But Camila's parents saw her condition deteriorate, and a private doctor urged them to re-admit her to the Salinas de Hidalgo Basic Community Hospital after his own methods had failed to help.
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Camila's mother claimed the hospital staff neglected her daughter during her second visit. She said they took a long time to give her oxygen and struggled to give her intravenous fluids.
"They didn’t put it on her because they couldn’t find her little veins. Finally, a nurse managed it," Mary Jane Peralta told El Universal San Luis Potosí.
Camila was eventually taken to a locked room where Mary could not reach her, the traumatized mother claimed. The 3-year-old girl was then pronounced dead by the hospital.
Peralta said that before Camila was taken away, she could still feel her daughter hug her.
"She still was hugging me, they took her away and told me, ‘You have to let her rest in peace,'" Peralta recalled.
At Camila's funeral the next day, Peralta noticed condensation on her daughter's glass casket cover. Peralta suggested that Camila was still breathing and was told by other attendees that she was hallucinating out of grief.
Camila's grandmother then realized that the young girl's eyes were moving. The "deceased" girl reportedly had a heart rate of 97 beats per minute.
Camila was then rushed to a hospital where she was declared dead a second time. Her heart rate dropped to 35 beats per minute in the ambulance, according to her mother.
The first cause of death was listed as dehydration, while the second was cerebral edema, or brain swelling.
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"I have no grudge against the doctors [who] went to extreme [measures]," Peralta said of the lawsuit. "I only ask that the doctors, nurses and directors be changed so that it does not happen again."
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — Nearly 3,000 pounds of frozen beef shepherd’s pie products have been recalled due to the possibility of “clear, flexible plastic” pieces.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), 2,717 pounds of frozen dinners from Marie Callender’s were recalled after the firm received several complaints from consumers.
Products affected by the recall were made on March 1, 2023, with time stamps ranging between 17:45-17:56 hours. Those products will also have the following information:
- 4.31 lbs. cases of “MC Beef Shepherd’s Pie” with lot code 5006306020, BEST BY FEB 24 2024 and case code 2113100032, containing six 11.5 oz. carton packages of “Marie Callender’s BEEF SHEPHERD’S PIE” with lot code 5006306020 and BEST BY FEB 24 2024 on the side panel, with time stamps ranging between 17:45-17:56
Next to the USDA mark of inspection, affected products will have the establishment number “EST 233.” Officials say the products were shipped to various retailers across the country.
While no injuries or negative reactions have happened, the FSIS encourages anyone who has the products in their possession not to eat them, but instead throw them away or return them from where they were bought.
Anyone with questions about the recall can contact Conagra’s Consumer Care Hotline at 877-469-3783 or send an email here.
Consumers with food safety questions can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or live chat via Ask USDA from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. You can also browse food safety messages at Ask USDA or send a question by email here. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/marie-callenders-frozen-shepherds-pie-recalled-due-to-flexible-plastic/ | 2023-06-19 19:52:48 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/marie-callenders-frozen-shepherds-pie-recalled-due-to-flexible-plastic/ |
Former President Trump is calling for the New York judge overseeing his hush money criminal case to recuse himself, arguing the judge cannot be impartial.
Trump’s lawyers noted in a new filing apparent political donations Judge Juan Merchan made to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and liberal-leaning groups. They also referenced the judge’s participation in a previous case related to Trump and reports that Merchan’s daughter works at a progressive digital agency.
“This case before this Court is historic and it is important that the People of the State of New York and this nation have confidence that the jurist who presides over it is impartial,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. “Most respectfully, the foregoing facts compel the conclusion that Your Honor is not and thus should recuse.”
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with reimbursements made to his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, for making a $130,000 hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Trump has pleaded not guilty, while he also remains under multiple other criminal investigations.
A person named Juan Merchan who works for the New York court system donated $35 in July 2020 to political causes, according to Federal Election Commission records. The donations comprise a $15 donation to Biden’s presidential campaign, $10 to the Progressive Turnout Project and $10 to a group called “Stop Republicans.”
Trump’s lawyers demanded Merchan explain the contributions.
“The fact that Your Honor previously donated money to President Trump’s opponent in 2020 might suggest to the reasonable observer that the Court would rather another candidate be elected in 2024 over President Trump,” the attorneys wrote.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment and indicated it will respond in court papers.
Trump’s legal team further took aim at media reports that Merchan’s daughter is the chief operating officer at a progressive digital agency, Authentic Strategies, which lists Biden’s campaign and other Democratic candidates as clients.
“Your Honor’s familial relationship with the President and COO of Authentic is particularly problematic given the role this very case may play in political campaigns and advertising in the 2024 presidential election,” Trump’s team wrote.
“It is likely that many of President Trump’s opponents, both political candidates and organizations, will attempt to use this case — and any rulings by the Court — to attack him,” they continued. “Indeed, virtually every client listed on Authentic’s website has been critical in the past of President Trump and fundraised on these criticisms.”
The Hill has reached out to Authentic Strategies for comment.
Trump’s filing further notes Merchan’s role overseeing the criminal prosecution of Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer. Weisselberg as part of a plea deal was sentenced to five months in jail for his participation in a tax-fraud scheme, and Trump’s lawyers are accusing Merchan of overstepping by attempting to induce Weisselberg to cooperate against Trump.
New York trial judges are not categorically barred from facilitating plea agreements, but they must abide by certain limits.
Susan Necheles, one of Trump’s attorneys who signed the recusal motion, represented the Trump Organization as the Manhattan district attorney’s office prosecuted the scheme. When the Trump Organization had its trial for tax fraud, Necheles squarely pinned the blame on Weisselberg.
“Your Honor’s prior conduct in attempting to induce cooperation against President Trump and his interests creates a perception that Your Honor is biased against President Trump and warrants recusal in this case,” Necheles and Todd Blanche, another Trump attorney, wrote in court filings on Friday.
“Surely, the Court would not have pushed Mr. Weisselberg to cooperate against President Trump and his interests unless it thought he was someone who was worthy of prosecution,” they continued. “That mindset reveals Your Honor as someone who has prejudged the defendant’s guilt and is biased against his interests.”
Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks have separately attempted to move the former president’s case to federal court, a move prosecutors are opposing. Merchan retains oversight of the case until the federal court rules on that attempt.
—Updated at 4:14 p.m. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/trump-demands-recusal-of-judge-overseeing-hush-money-criminal-case/ | 2023-06-02 21:40:18 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/trump-demands-recusal-of-judge-overseeing-hush-money-criminal-case/ |
(NEXSTAR) – A stray python slithered into a Sonic Drive-In last month, sending employees running from the restaurant.
Workers at a Sonic location in Brunswick, Georgia, found the python snuggled up behind the fryer on the evening of May 20. Lt. Matthew Wilson of the Brunswick Police responded to find the employees had all “exited the business” upon finding the snake, which they initially described as brown with a diamond pattern on its skin.
Lt. Wilson, believing the snake could have been a rattler, requested permission to take a look. Fortunately, he was able to confirm the snake was non-venomous.
“I went inside and looked at the snake and immediately observed the snake not to be a rattlesnake and that it was a ball python as I personally own one,” wrote Lt. Wilson in a statement shared with Nexstar.
Lt. Wilson then scooped up the python with his bare hands — and a broom handle — and placed it in a bag. The python was transported to a temporary home in a terrarium, as there are “no local trappers or resources” in Brunswick that would be able to take the snake.
Lt. Wilson says it’s unclear where the python came from, though it’s possible the snake slithered away from — or was released by — a resident who was keeping it as a pet.
Weeks later, no one has reported the loss of a snake to Brunswick Police or animal-control services. The python, meanwhile, has been handed over to a local snake-owner who has experience with this species, Lt. Wilson said. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/employees-at-sonic-drive-in-call-police-to-report-python-in-kitchen/ | 2022-06-01 23:36:49 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/employees-at-sonic-drive-in-call-police-to-report-python-in-kitchen/ |
NEW YORK, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sitrick And Company has added James Doran, a former reporter and editor for news organizations that include Bloomberg, The Financial Times and the Times of London, in addition to experience as a global strategic and crisis communications professional. Mr. Doran will join Sitrick as a Member of the Firm in its New York office.
Mr. Doran brings to the firm more than 30 years of working at the highest levels of financial media and strategic communications worldwide.
Prior to joining Sitrick, he was the Senior Strategic Communications Advisor to the Family Office of Lex Greensill, Managing Director and Global Head of PR Media and Communications to Greensill Capital, Head of Content and Thought Leadership for DMCC – Government of Dubai Commodities Authority, and Senior Communications Advisor to National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
In recent years, Mr. Doran's work involved advising on communications related to governmental inquiries, criminal investigations and civil litigation in multiple jurisdictions, numerous regulatory inquiries, and the intense media scrutiny that accompanies them.
Before that he traveled the world as a staff business writer and foreign correspondent for The Times of London, where he also served as bureau chief on Wall Street and in Washington DC. As a senior journalist he worked across the UK and Europe, the Americas, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. He also worked as a Sub Editor and City Reporter for The Evening Standard and a Sub Editor of the Financial Times, served as Emerging Markets Editor, Middle East for Bloomberg News, and Deputy Business Editor for The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi which he helped establish in 2010.
James transitioned into PR after advising National Bank of Abu Dhabi on the implementation of a new communications, media, and crisis strategy. He advised many blue-chip clients when he launched and ran Pentameter Media, a media advisory based in New York where he counted Fortune 500 companies, fintech startups and high-net-worth individuals among his clients.
Michael Sitrick, founder, chairman and CEO of Sitrick & Company, said: "We are pleased to welcome James as a Member of the Firm. In addition to his deep and broad global journalism experience, James brings extensive knowledge and experience across the communications spectrum to the firm and its clients. Although he will be based in our New York office, he will be contributing to our clients' needs on a global basis."
Mr. Doran said, "I am delighted to be joining Sitrick & Company at this critical time. It is a privilege to work with such a unique group of people to advise such a rarified and diverse clientele. I look forward to the challenges and successes before us."
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BEIJING (AP) — China said Sunday it carried out its fourth consecutive day of military drills in the air and sea around Taiwan in the wake of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island, despite international calls to calm the tensions.
The People’s Liberation Army said the exercises focused on testing its long-range air and ground strikes. It did not say if it will continue the drills after Sunday.
Taiwan said that it continued to detect several batches of Chinese aircraft, ships and drones operating around the Taiwan Strait, which separates the island and mainland China, and “simulating attacks on the island of Taiwan and our ships at sea.” Taiwan’s defence ministry said it detected a total of 66 Chinese aircraft and 14 Chinese warships conducting joint naval and air exercises around the Taiwan Strait. In response, Taiwan deployed air reconnaissance patrols, naval ships, and shore-based missiles, and said that it will continue to closely monitor the situation.
Taiwan’s official Central News Agency meanwhile reported that Taiwan’s army will conduct live-fire artillery drills in southern Pingtung County on Tuesday and Thursday, in response to the Chinese exercises.
The drills will include snipers, combat vehicles, armored vehicles as well as attack helicopters, said the report, which cited an anonymous source.
China set up no-go areas around Taiwan for the four-day drills it announced immediately after Pelosi’s trip to Taipei on Tuesday and Wednesday that infuriated Beijing, which saw it as a violation of the “one-China” policy. China claims Taiwan and has threatened to annex it by force if necessary. The two sides split in 1949 after a civil war, but Beijing considers visits to Taiwan by foreign officials as recognizing its sovereignty.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense emphasized that its military was surveilling the situation and had dispatched aircraft and ships to respond accordingly.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has called on the international community to “support democratic Taiwan” and “halt any escalation of the regional security situation.”
China has so far conducted missiles strikes on targets in the seas around Taiwan, and sent warships across the Taiwan Straits median line. It has also cut off defense and climate talks with the U.S. and imposed sanctions on Pelosi in retaliation for her visit.
The Biden administration and Pelosi say the U.S. remains committed to the “one-China” policy that recognizes Beijing as the legitimate government but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei.
The U.S. however criticized Beijing’s actions in the Taiwan Strait, with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre calling them “fundamentally irresponsible.”
“There’s no need and no reason for this escalation,” Jean-Pierre said.
Singapore’s coordinating minister for national security Teo Chee Hean said in a Facebook post Saturday that the U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan is “an issue that can lead to conflict and war to the detriment of all parties involved, especially the people in Taiwan.”
The tensions have a negative impact on Southeast Asia, Teo said, adding: “We hope that wisdom will prevail.” | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/china-keeps-up-pressure-on-taiwan-with-4th-day-of-drills/ | 2022-08-07 19:02:38 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/china-keeps-up-pressure-on-taiwan-with-4th-day-of-drills/ |
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Missing key pieces wasn’t about to keep the Winnipeg Jets down on Saturday night.
With right-winger Blake Wheeler and defenseman Nate Schmidt sidelined by injuries, the Jets simply turned to less-familiar faces to overwhelm the Vancouver Canucks en route to a 5-1 win.
“That’s Winnipeg Jets hockey,” said Kyle Connor, who had a goal and an assist. “That’s what we’ve been talking about all year. Next man up. Everybody do their job.
”(That’s a) great response from everybody. We needed help from everybody tonight, top to bottom. Like you saw on the score sheet, everybody contributed.”
Sam Gagner also scored and had a helper for the Jets (20-9-1), while Kyle Capobianco, Neal Pionk and Axel Jonsson-Fjallby all added goals. Pierre-Luc Dubois contributed three assists.
Capobianco made just his fourth appearance of the season for Winnipeg and Jonsson-Fjallby netted his first goal since Oct. 27.
“I love to see it,” said Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck. “I love to see the guys succeed, especially with how hard they’ve been playing and how hard they’ve been working for me. I’m so excited for them.”
Hellebuyck made 22 saves and improved to 15-7-1 on the season.
Spencer Martin stopped 22-of-27 shots for the Canucks (13-14-3), who have yet to climb over the .500 bar in the 2022-23 campaign.
Vancouver, too, was missing key pieces, with forwards Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser out due to a non-COVID illness.
The absences shouldn’t be an excuse, said Canucks captain Bo Horvat.
“Playing with new guys it’s always tough. But at the same time, guys are always gonna be hurt and we’re always not gonna have a perfect lineup and we’ve got to find ways to get it done without them,” said Horvat, who scored Vancouver’s lone goal.
“And it just wasn’t good enough by everybody.”
A sizable contingent of Jets fans in the crowd cheered as the final buzzer went, drowning out a smattering of boos from frustrated Canucks fans.
Vancouver finally got on the board after Winnipeg’s Dylan DeMelo was called for holding 14:28 into the third period.
Seconds into the man advantage, Horvat tipped a Quinn Hughes’ shot in past Hellebuyck from the middle of the slot.
The Canucks were 1-for-3 on the power play Saturday and Winnipeg went 1-for-2.
The Jets took a three-goal lead into the third period Saturday and refused to relent.
Gagner scored 56 seconds into the final frame, collecting a pass across the slot from Dubois and firing it in for his fifth goal of the season.
Jonsson-Fjallby followed, sending a wrist shot past Martin from the faceoff circle at the 7:59 mark to put the visitors up 5-0.
Josh Morrissey notched an assist and his 200th NHL point on Connor's goal.
INS AND OUTS
Jets coach Rick Bowness said Saturday that his team will be without Wheeler for about four weeks and Schmidt for four-to-six weeks. Winnipeg has placed Schmidt on injured reserve. The team has called up defenseman Ville Heinola from the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose on an emergency basis.
With Pettersson and Boeser out of the lineup, Vancouver called Lane Pederson up from the Abbotsford Canucks on Friday.
UP NEXT
Jets: At Seattle on Sunday to finish a two-game trip.
Canucks: Host St. Louis on Monday night in the second of a three-game homestand.
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Friday, February 24, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1100 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Saturday, Saturday night, and Sunday.
CAZ300-251200-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain likely and snow
in the evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow
accumulation up to 3 inches. Total snow accumulation up to
4 inches. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. West winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of snow and slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs 40 to 48. North winds up to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the evening.
Areas of frost after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Patchy
fog in the afternoon. Highs 43 to 49. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY...Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs 45 to 51. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow in the evening, then
chance of rain and snow after midnight. Light snow accumulations.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain likely and chance of snow in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Light snow accumulations. Highs
43 to 49. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Light snow accumulations.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning. Highs 43 to 49. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 48 to
54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 50 to 56.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 39 49 38 49 / 70 30 20 40
$$
CAZ301-251200-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest after midnight. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 50. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then cloudy with chance of
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain in the evening, then chance
of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost.
Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 38 49 37 50 / 80 30 20 40
$$
CAZ302-251200-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Rain until early morning, then chance of rain late in
the night. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 50. East winds around 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds around 5 mph shifting to the
south up to 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost.
Lows around 30. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 38 51 37 51 / 90 30 30 50
Merced 39 50 37 51 / 90 40 30 50
Chowchilla 38 49 37 51 / 100 40 30 50
Madera 38 50 37 51 / 100 40 30 50
Firebaugh 38 51 35 53 / 90 30 30 50
Mendota 38 51 34 53 / 90 30 30 40
$$
CAZ303-251200-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain until early
morning, then chance of rain late in the night. Lows in the upper
30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s. Southeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
southeast after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 50. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the evening, then widespread frost. Lows in the upper 20s. Highs
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 38 49 37 50 / 100 40 30 50
Le Grand 39 49 37 50 / 100 40 30 50
$$
CAZ304-251200-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain in the evening.
Rain likely after midnight, then chance of rain late in the
night. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
northeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A
40 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the
upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 35 48 34 51 / 90 30 20 40
Avenal 38 47 36 51 / 100 20 20 20
$$
CAZ305-251200-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain in the evening,
then chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 50. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. South
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then chance of rain
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost.
Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 37 50 34 54 / 100 30 20 20
Five Points 38 51 34 54 / 100 30 30 40
NAS Lemoore 38 50 34 54 / 100 30 30 30
Kettleman City 38 49 35 53 / 100 30 20 10
$$
CAZ306-251200-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain until early
morning, then chance of rain late in the night. Lows in the upper
30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 50. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
northeast after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear.
Widespread frost. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 38 50 36 52 / 100 50 40 50
Kingsburg 38 50 35 52 / 100 50 40 40
Sanger 38 49 35 51 / 100 50 50 50
Kerman 38 51 35 53 / 100 40 40 50
Caruthers 38 50 35 53 / 100 40 40 50
$$
CAZ307-251200-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain until early morning,
then chance of rain late in the night. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
east after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the evening, then widespread frost. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 38 49 37 51 / 100 50 40 40
Fresno 39 50 37 52 / 100 50 40 40
$$
CAZ308-251200-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain and snow early in the
evening. Rain and snow likely late in the evening, then chance of
rain and snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the
evening. Snow accumulation up to 4 inches. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. South winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up
to 30 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Patchy dense fog
in the afternoon. Highs 41 to 47. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain and
snow in the evening. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A
50 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 44 to 52.
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows around 40. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs 46 to 54.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs 44 to 51. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 47 to
53.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
50 to 56.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 38 51 37 51 / 90 30 30 50
Merced 39 50 37 51 / 90 40 30 50
Chowchilla 38 49 37 51 / 100 40 30 50
Madera 38 50 37 51 / 100 40 30 50
$$
CAZ309-251200-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain in the evening,
then chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting
to the southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds up
to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then chance of rain
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 35 49 32 53 / 100 50 30 20
Buttonwillow 37 49 32 54 / 100 60 30 10
$$
CAZ310-251200-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain in the evening, then
rain likely after midnight. Chance of rain late in the night.
Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to
the southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 37 49 34 54 / 100 50 40 30
Allensworth 38 49 34 54 / 100 60 40 30
Wasco 38 49 34 53 / 100 60 40 20
Delano 38 49 34 54 / 100 60 40 20
McFarland 38 49 34 53 / 100 70 40 20
Shafter 38 49 34 53 / 100 70 30 10
$$
CAZ311-251200-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain in the evening, then
rain likely after midnight. Chance of rain late in the night.
Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain. Highs around 50. North winds around
5 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A 40 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost after
midnight. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in
the morning. Widespread frost after midnight. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 38 50 34 54 / 100 40 30 30
Hanford 38 52 35 54 / 100 40 40 30
Corcoran 37 49 34 54 / 100 50 40 30
$$
CAZ312-251200-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain until early morning,
then rain likely late in the night. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s. South winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening,
then areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 38 49 35 51 / 100 60 50 50
Dinuba 37 49 34 51 / 100 60 50 40
Visalia 38 49 35 53 / 100 50 50 40
Exeter 38 49 34 51 / 100 70 50 40
Tulare 38 49 34 53 / 100 50 50 40
Lindsay 38 49 34 51 / 100 70 50 40
Porterville 38 48 35 51 / 100 70 40 30
$$
CAZ313-251200-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain in the evening, then
rain likely after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph shifting to the
south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the morning, then
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 43 to 49. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain in
the evening. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the lower
30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
47 to 53. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs 51 to 57. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs 47 to 54. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the morning. Areas of frost after midnight. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 38 46 34 50 / 100 60 30 10
$$
CAZ314-251200-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Rain until early morning, then rain likely late in the
night. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts
to around 45 mph shifting to the east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds
around 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost. Lows
in the mid 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 40 48 37 52 / 100 70 30 10
$$
CAZ315-251200-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Rain until early morning,
then rain likely late in the night. Lows in the upper 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph shifting
to the southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the morning, then
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 50. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 50.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Chance of rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower
30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 38 48 34 51 / 100 70 40 20
$$
CAZ316-251200-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain in the evening,
then rain likely after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 55 mph shifting to the
east 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cooler. Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy with
a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the upper 40s. East winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 47 to
53. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs 51 to 57. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs 46 to 54. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower
30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the morning. Areas of frost after midnight. Highs 49 to 55. Lows
in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 37 49 34 51 / 100 90 40 10
Lamont 38 48 34 52 / 100 90 30 10
Mettler 36 47 32 51 / 100 90 30 0
$$
CAZ317-251200-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain until early
morning, then rain likely late in the night. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the
mid 40s. Southeast winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs 43 to 49. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely and snow
after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Light
snow accumulations. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Moderate
snow accumulations. Highs 41 to 47. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain and chance of
snow after midnight. Moderate snow accumulations. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the evening, then widespread frost. Lows in the upper 20s. Highs
around 50.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 32 39 31 40 / 100 60 50 70
$$
CAZ318-251200-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Snow and rain. Snow may be heavy at times until early
morning. Snow accumulation up to 18 inches. Total snow
accumulation up to 36 inches. Snow level 3300 feet. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and
rain. Highs 34 to 42. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
and rain. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. East winds up
to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then chance of
rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs 34 to 42. South winds up to
15 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the evening, then
chance of rain and snow after midnight. Heavy snow accumulations.
Snow level 3400 feet. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 34 to 42. Lows
26 to 32. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY...Snow in the morning, then snow and rain in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs 32 to 40. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain in the evening, then snow after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Lows 25 to 31. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Highs 34 to 42.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 20 to
26.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in
the morning. Widespread frost. Highs 41 to 47. Lows around 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
41 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 28 44 26 44 / 100 80 60 60
Bass Lake 28 38 24 39 / 100 80 60 70
$$
CAZ319-251200-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog early in the evening. Rain. Lows in the mid
30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 30s. East winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then rain
in the afternoon. Highs 45 to 51. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Light snow accumulations. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Moderate snow
accumulations. Highs 43 to 49. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow likely in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Light snow
accumulations. Highs 42 to 48. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost in the evening,
then widespread frost after midnight. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 38 47 37 48 / 100 60 40 50
Three Rivers 33 47 30 48 / 100 80 60 40
Springville 33 42 29 43 / 100 80 60 40
Tule River Reservation 37 46 35 46 / 100 80 60 40
$$
CAZ320-251200-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation up to 21 inches. Snow level 3800 feet. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 30 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain likely in the morning, then snow likely
and chance of rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times
in the morning. Snow accumulation up to 9 inches. Snow level
3200 feet. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow and rain likely in the evening,
then chance of snow after midnight. Snow accumulation up to
2 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 52 inches. Snow level
2400 feet. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. East winds
up to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost in the morning. Chance
of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs 35 to 43. South winds up
to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow.
Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Southeast winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Chance of rain and snow in the morning, then rain and
snow likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the
afternoon. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy
snow accumulations. Lows 26 to 34. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 33 to 41. Lows 25 to 33.
Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Moderate snow
accumulations. Highs 33 to 41. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 20 to 28.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 39 to
47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 28 to 36.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
41 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 34 40 33 41 / 100 70 60 60
$$
CAZ321-251200-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph in the evening. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. East winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Chance of rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the lower
30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the morning. Areas of frost after midnight. Highs in the upper
40s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ322-251200-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Snow accumulation up to 11 inches. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southeast winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around
50 mph decreasing to 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph
after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 7 inches. Snow
level 3400 feet. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely and chance of rain
in the evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Snow
accumulation up to 5 inches. Total snow accumulation up to
31 inches. Snow level 2500 feet. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. South winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west after
midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Areas of
frost in the afternoon. A 40 percent chance of rain and snow in
the afternoon. Highs 34 to 42. West winds up to 10 mph with gusts
to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Southeast winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the
evening. Heavy snow accumulations. Lows 29 to 35. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Snow and rain likely. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 33 to 42. Lows
28 to 34. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 24 to 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in
the morning. Areas of frost in the evening, then widespread frost
after midnight. Highs 40 to 46. Lows 29 to 35.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
42 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 29 34 20 33 / 100 90 70 40
$$
CAZ323-251200-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation of
3 to 21 inches. Near steady temperature around 20. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to 8 inches.
Highs 21 to 31. South winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder, cloudy. Snow likely in the evening,
then chance of snow after midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to
4 inches. Total snow accumulation 15 to 54 inches. Lows 7 to 19.
West winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of
snow 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow
may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Highs 19 to 29. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the
evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature around
20. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
Chance of snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Windy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 16 to 28. Lows 6 to 20.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 13 to 25. Lows 4 to 18.
Chance of snow 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning. Moderate
snow accumulations. Highs 14 to 28. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 2 to 16.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 29 to 39.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 13 to 25. Highs
27 to 37.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 8 32 4 30 / 100 80 70 50
Wawona 25 38 21 37 / 100 80 60 70
Hetch Hetchy 30 40 26 38 / 100 70 70 80
$$
CAZ324-251200-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Snow through the night. Rain in the late evening and
early morning. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation of
4 to 11 inches. Near steady temperature around 30. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Chance of snow in the morning, then snow likely in
the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Highs 32 to
40. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then chance
of snow after midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Total
snow accumulation 7 to 32 inches. Lows 20 to 26. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight. Chance of
snow 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow may be
heavy at times in the afternoon. Highs 31 to 37. South winds up
to 10 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Snow may
be heavy at times in the evening. Near steady temperature around
30. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 29 to 35. Lows 21 to 27.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 27 to 33. Lows 19 to 25. Chance
of snow 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then
chance of snow in the afternoon. Moderate snow accumulations.
Highs 29 to 35. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 16 to 22.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly clear. Highs
39 to 47. Lows 26 to 32.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 44.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 29 40 24 37 / 100 80 60 70
$$
CAZ325-251200-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Snow and rain. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation up to 19 inches. Snow level 3900 feet. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely. Snow accumulation up to 6 inches. Highs
33 to 39. West winds up to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then chance
of snow after midnight. Snow accumulation up to 3 inches. Total
snow accumulation up to 47 inches. Lows 20 to 26. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
32 to 38. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then chance
of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the
evening. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Chance of snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 30 to 38. Lows 21 to 29.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 28 to 36. Lows 20 to 28. Chance
of snow 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning. Moderate
snow accumulations. Highs 29 to 37. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 16 to 24.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 40 to 46. Lows
26 to 32.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 40 to 46.
$$
CAZ326-251200-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation of
10 to 21 inches. Near steady temperature around 19. South winds
10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 50 mph decreasing to 40 mph after
midnight. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation of 4 to 8 inches. Highs 18 to 30. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder, cloudy. Snow in the evening, then
chance of snow after midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to
4 inches. Total snow accumulation 27 to 57 inches. Lows 3 to 15.
West winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph after midnight. Chance
of snow 80 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
18 to 30. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph
increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 45 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Near steady temperature around
17. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Windy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 14 to 26. Lows 5 to 17.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY...Breezy, snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Highs 12 to 24. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Lows 3 to 15. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow likely in the morning. Moderate snow
accumulations. Highs 12 to 26. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows zero to 12 above.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Mostly clear. Highs
28 to 38. Lows 12 to 22.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 25 to 37.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 18 27 12 25 / 100 90 80 50
$$
CAZ327-251200-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Breezy, snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation of 2 to 24 inches. Near steady temperature in the
lower 20s. South winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow in the morning, then snow likely in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation of 4 to
9 inches. Total snow accumulation 24 to 62 inches. Highs 20 to
30. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Chance of snow 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows 5 to 15. Southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs
21 to 31. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times in the evening. Lows 11 to 21.
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Windy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 18 to 30. Lows 8 to 18.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 15 to 27. Lows 7 to 17. Chance of
snow 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow likely in the morning. Snow may be heavy at
times in the morning. Moderate snow accumulations. Highs 16 to
28. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 3 to 13.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Mostly clear. Highs
30 to 38. Lows 15 to 23.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 30 to 38.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 19 25 12 26 / 100 90 70 60
Shaver Lake 24 31 19 31 / 100 80 70 60
Lake Wishon 21 31 13 32 / 100 90 70 50
$$
CAZ328-251200-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy, snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation of 4 to 23 inches. Near steady temperature around
16. South winds 20 to 35 mph. Gusts up to 65 mph decreasing to
55 mph after midnight. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow in the morning, then snow likely in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation of 4 to
11 inches. Highs 12 to 26. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 55 mph shifting to the southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 45 mph in the afternoon. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening.
Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Total snow accumulation 18 to
62 inches. Lows 1 below to 9 above zero. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph increasing to 50 mph after midnight. Chance of
snow 80 percent.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny. Chance of snow in the afternoon.
Highs 15 to 27. West winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around
55 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Windy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows 3 to 15. Southwest winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts to
around 50 mph.
.MONDAY...Windy. Snow likely in the morning, then snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs 11 to 23. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Windy, colder, snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Lows 1 below to 11 above zero. Chance
of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Snow likely. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 8 to 21. Lows
1 below to 11 above zero. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows 5 below to 7 above zero.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Mostly clear. Highs
23 to 35. Lows 9 to 19.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 22 to 34.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 25 40 15 41 / 100 90 70 40
$$
CAZ329-251200-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Snow and rain until early morning, then snow late in
the night. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation up to
25 inches. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 50 mph decreasing to 30 mph after
midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow in the morning, then snow likely in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation up to
11 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 66 inches. Highs 25 to
35. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
Chance of snow 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows 12 to 24. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 26 to 36. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Near steady temperature in the mid 20s. Southwest winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy, snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 24 to 34. Lows 14 to 26.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 22 to 32. Lows 15 to 25. Chance
of snow 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow likely in the morning. Snow may be heavy at
times in the morning. Moderate snow accumulations. Highs 22 to
32. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 11 to 21.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 32 to 42.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 21 to 31.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 33 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 23 31 17 33 / 100 90 70 50
$$
CAZ330-251200-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy, snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation up to 30 inches. Near steady temperature around 20.
South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 60 mph decreasing
to 15 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph after midnight.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow in the morning, then snow likely in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation up to
12 inches. Highs 14 to 30. South winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 50 mph shifting to the southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches. Total snow accumulation 1 to 70 inches. Lows 2 below to
18 above zero. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph
increasing to 40 mph after midnight. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs
18 to 32. West winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph increasing
to 50 mph in the afternoon. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows 2 to 22. West winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around
45 mph.
.MONDAY...Windy. Chance of snow in the morning, then snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs 13 to 31. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy, colder, snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Lows zero to 20 above. Chance of snow
near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Snow likely. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 11 to 27. Lows
zero to 20 above. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows 3 below to 15 above zero.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Mostly clear. Highs
24 to 38. Lows 10 to 26.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 24 to 38.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 21 29 13 31 / 100 90 70 40
$$
CAZ331-251200-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy, snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation up to 29 inches. Near steady temperature in the
upper 20s. South winds 15 to 30 mph. Gusts up to 60 mph
decreasing to 45 mph after midnight. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow in the morning, then chance of snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Snow
accumulation of 1 to 11 inches. Total snow accumulation 2 to
59 inches. Highs 24 to 32. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 40 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Near steady temperature around 17. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 50 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny. Chance of snow in the afternoon.
Highs 25 to 33. West winds 10 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 55 mph
decreasing to 45 mph in the afternoon. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 45 mph.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Highs 25 to 35.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow in the evening, then snow likely
after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Lows 11 to 25. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Snow likely. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 20 to 31. Lows
9 to 25. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows 6 to 20.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 30 to 38. Lows
16 to 26.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 32 to 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 25 37 16 38 / 100 90 60 30
$$
CAZ332-251200-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy. Rain until early morning, then rain and snow
late in the night. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Lows in the
mid 30s. East winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph
decreasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph after
midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow in the morning, then
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to
3 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 8 inches. Snow level
3500 feet. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the upper 20s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely in the evening, then chance
of snow and rain likely after midnight. Moderate snow
accumulations. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain in the
evening, then snow likely and chance of rain after midnight.
Moderate snow accumulations. Lows 27 to 33. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning. Moderate
snow accumulations. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 20 to 26.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in
the morning. Widespread frost after midnight. Highs in the mid
40s. Lows in the upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 27 29 21 29 / 100 90 50 20
Kernville 33 42 25 43 / 100 90 40 10
Lake Isabella 35 42 29 42 / 100 90 40 10
Weldon 34 42 27 42 / 100 90 40 10
$$
CAZ333-251200-
Piute Walker Basin-
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy. Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation up to 22 inches. Snow level 4700 feet. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph with
gusts to around 55 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 40 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at
times in the morning. Snow accumulation up to 9 inches. Total
snow accumulation up to 38 inches. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. West winds
5 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around
40 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny. Highs 29 to 39. West winds 10 to
25 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely in the evening, then snow
likely after midnight. Heavy snow accumulations. Lows 24 to 34.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs 29 to 39. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Near steady temperature in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow likely in the morning. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Chance
of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
becoming partly cloudy. Lows 17 to 29.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in
the morning. Widespread frost. Highs 33 to 43. Lows 21 to 31.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 45.
$$
CAZ334-251200-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy. Rain and snow. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 23 inches. Snow level 4700 feet.
Lows 29 to 35. Southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around
70 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph
after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain in the morning, then chance of snow and
rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning.
Snow accumulation up to 10 inches. Total snow accumulation up to
41 inches. Snow level 3300 feet. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the
evening. Near steady temperature around 30. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the west 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around
40 mph after midnight. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny. Highs 31 to 41. West winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs 35 to 45. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Moderate snow
accumulations. Lows 27 to 35. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow and rain. Highs 33 to 43. Lows 27 to 35.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow and rain likely in the morning, then snow
likely and chance of rain in the afternoon. Moderate snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 23 to 31.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 36 to 44.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening.
Lows 25 to 33.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 46.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 31 34 26 35 / 100 90 50 10
Tehachapi 28 36 23 36 / 100 90 40 10
Twin Oaks 35 39 30 39 / 100 90 40 10
$$
CAZ335-251200-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Windy. Rain until early morning. Snow in the late
evening and overnight. Rain likely late in the night. Rain may be
heavy at times early in the evening. Snow may be heavy at times
after midnight. Snow accumulation up to 4 inches. Lows in the
lower 30s. South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph
becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely and chance of rain in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to
4 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 12 inches. Snow level
3100 feet. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. South winds
5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain in the
evening. Near steady temperature around 30. West winds 5 to
15 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost in the afternoon. Highs
35 to 41. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Highs 38 to 46. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Light snow accumulations.
Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow and rain. Highs 37 to 43. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain likely in the morning,
then chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Light snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Light snow accumulations. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 44.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows around 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 42 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 31 41 27 43 / 100 80 30 0
$$
CAZ336-251200-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST SATURDAY...
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Rain and snow in the evening, then rain and
snow likely after midnight. Precipitation may be heavy at times.
Snow accumulation up to 26 inches. Snow level 4200 feet. Lows
26 to 36. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 65 mph
decreasing to 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph after
midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain likely in the morning, then chance of
snow and rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the
morning. Snow accumulation up to 8 inches. Total snow
accumulation up to 49 inches. Snow level 3100 feet. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
snow and rain in the evening. Near steady temperature in the
upper 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost in the afternoon. Highs
34 to 44. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Highs 36 to 48. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Light snow accumulations.
Lows 26 to 38. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain and snow. Highs 35 to 45. Lows 27 to 37.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely and chance of rain in the
morning, then chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Moderate
snow accumulations. Highs 34 to 44. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Light snow accumulations. Lows 23 to 33.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 37 to
47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 26 to 36.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 41 to 51.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 28 31 21 36 / 100 80 30 10
Frazier Park 23 35 16 38 / 100 80 30 0
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CAZ337-251200-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Windy, rain. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 15 to
30 mph. Gusts up to 55 mph decreasing to 45 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with rain and snow in the morning, then partly
sunny with chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
accumulation up to 3 inches. Total snow accumulation up to
7 inches. Highs 40 to 46. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
snow and rain in the evening. Lows in the upper 20s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 10 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 40 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 27 to 33. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph decreasing to
5 to 15 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow after midnight.
Lows around 30. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow and
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
40s. Lows in the upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 35 43 29 46 / 100 90 30 0
Ridgecrest 36 46 29 50 / 90 90 30 0
$$
CAZ338-251200-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times.
Snow accumulation up to 20 inches. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around
55 mph shifting to the south 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
45 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain in the morning, then partly sunny with
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at
times in the morning. Snow accumulation up to 11 inches. Total
snow accumulation up to 38 inches. Snow level 3200 feet. Near
steady temperature in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the
evening. Near steady temperature around 30. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to around 55 mph after midnight. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Windy. Partly sunny. Highs 35 to 43. West winds 15 to
30 mph. Gusts up to 50 mph decreasing to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow and rain. Highs 35 to 45. Lows 28 to 34.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow and rain likely. Moderate snow accumulations.
Highs 35 to 43. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows 23 to 29.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 39 to 51. Lows in
the upper 20s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 33 40 29 44 / 100 90 30 0
$$
CAZ339-251200-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1101 PM PST Fri Feb 24 2023
.TONIGHT...Windy. Chance of rain early in the evening, then rain
in the late evening and overnight. Snow late in the night. Snow
accumulation up to 1 inch. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 60 mph shifting to the south
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 50 mph after midnight. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then partly sunny with
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to
3 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 5 inches. Highs in the
lower 40s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph with
gusts to around 40 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Windy. Sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 15 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain and snow. Lows in the mid 30s. Highs in
the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows
25 to 31. Highs in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 37 39 32 44 / 100 90 20 0
California City 34 42 30 46 / 100 90 30 0
Edwards AFB 35 44 30 47 / 100 90 20 0
Rosamond 33 42 28 46 / 100 90 20 0
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(NewsNation) — Robert Sarver, owner of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury basketball teams, has been suspended by the NBA for one year after an investigation found he had engaged in “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.”
He is also fined $10 million, which is the maximum permitted by the NBA Consitution and by-laws, the league said in a statement.
This report comes almost a year after the NBA initially asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynist and hostile incidents.
These allegations were first detailed in an ESPN story last year. Through his legal team, Sarver denied the allegations to ESPN.
The investigation, according to the NBA, found that Sarver:
- said the N-word at least five times while he was with the Suns/Mercury when “recounting the statements of others”
- engaged in instances of “inequitable conduct” toward female employees
- made sex-related comments in the workplace
- made inappropriate comments about female employees and other women’s appearances
- engaged in inappropriate physical conduct toward male employees
- engaged in demeaning and harsh treatment of employees, including yelling and cursing
“The statements and conduct described in the findings of the independent investigation are troubling and disappointing,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “We believe the outcome is the right one, taking into account all the facts, circumstances and context brought to light by the comprehensive investigation of this 18-year period and our commitment to upholding proper standards in NBA
workplaces.”
As a result of his suspension, the NBA said Sarver cannot be present at any NBA or WNBA team facility; attend or participate in any NBA or WNBA event of activity; represent the Suns or Mercury in any capacity, or have any involvement with the business or basketball operations of either team.
In addition, the NBA said Sarver has to complete a training program “focused on respect and appropriate conduct in the workplace.”
“On behalf of the entire NBA, I apologize to all of those impacted by the misconduct outlined in the investigators’ report,” Silver said. “We must do better.”
Sarver wasn’t the only one whose behavior was probed in the report. Also substantiated in the investigation were “instances of workplace misconduct engaged in” by Suns employees not directly related to Sarver. These included instances of racial insensitivity, mistreatment of female employees, inappropriate commentary related to sex or sexual orientation, and disrespectful communications, the NBA said.
The Suns’ Human Resources function, the report found, was “historically ineffective” and not a trusted resource for employees.
However, the report also notes that most of the Suns employees who engaged in these acts are no longer employed by the organization.
“In July 2021, the organization hired a new head of Human Resources who, along with other executives, has since implemented a series of positive workplace changes,” the NBA said in a statement. Among these changes are the creation of a confidential hotline, an investigation response team, and additional workplace training.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), the parent company of LendingClub Bank, America's leading digital marketplace bank, announced that its Chief Executive Officer Scott Sanborn and its Chief Financial Officer Drew LaBenne will participate in a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley U.S. Financials, Payments & CRE Conference on June 12, 2023 from 9:30 – 10:05 AM Eastern Time.
Webcast information
A live webcast of the Morgan Stanley U.S. Financials, Payments & CRE Conference fireside chat will be available at https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1619844&tp_key=a7404fb4d1&tp_special=8. Registration is required.
Replay
An archive of the Morgan Stanley U.S. Financials, Payments & CRE Conference fireside chat will be available at http://ir.lendingclub.com under the News & Market Data menu in Events & Presentations. The replay will be available after the completion of the event and the link will remain active for 180 days.
About LendingClub
LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank, National Association, Member FDIC. LendingClub Bank is the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S., where members can access a broad range of financial products and services designed to help them pay less when borrowing and earn more when saving. Based on more than 150 billion cells of data and over $85 billion in loans, our advanced credit decisioning and machine-learning models are used across the customer lifecycle to expand seamless access to credit for our members, while generating compelling risk-adjusted returns for our loan investors. Since 2007, more than 4.7 million members have joined the Club to help reach their financial goals. For more information about LendingClub, visit https://www.lendingclub.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia city is honoring hometown hero Missy Elliott by naming a boulevard in a new entertainment district after her.
The Portsmouth City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to change the name of a 1-mile (1.6 km) section of McLean Street to Missy Elliott Boulevard, news outlets report. The stretch between Airline Boulevard and Greenwood Drive is near Tidewater Community College and the future Portsmouth Rivers Casino.
The award-winning rapper, singer, songwriter and producer, born Melissa Arnette Elliott, graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, now Manor High. In 2019, she gave the school $25,000.
Elliott thanked the council in a tweet saying she's been through ups and downs and times when she wanted to give up "but Gods plan was different! & all I can do is say Thank you.”
Portsmouth resident and fan Erin Carter made the name change request to honor the artist she says had the courage to take on the world stage.
“It’s time for her hometown to honor her accomplishments as a music icon,” Carter said. “It will be a testament (of) our city greatness that Portsmouth was the place that launched her career.”
Such requests aren’t common, so it's not clear when the change will be made, Planning Director Robert Baldwin said. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/portsmouth-to-name-street-for-hometown-hero-missy-elliott | 2022-08-10 22:11:47 | 0 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/portsmouth-to-name-street-for-hometown-hero-missy-elliott |
RBC adds three players to its world-class roster through multi-year sponsorship deal
TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - RBC welcomes professional golfers Sam Burns, Sahith Theegala, and Cameron Young as its newest Team RBC brand ambassadors. They join a world-class team of ambassadors who embody the pinnacle of golf performance and align with RBC values.
Burns, Theegala, and Young represent the strong field of talent on the PGA TOUR, with incredible 2021-2022 seasons. Burns, with 22 top-ten finishes to-date, had three PGA TOUR victories this past season, making him only the second player in PGA TOUR history to win three or more TOUR titles in one season.
"I am thrilled to join Team RBC and their roster of elite golfers," says Sam Burns, Team RBC ambassador. "This season has been full of career-highs and becoming an RBC brand ambassador is definitely one of them. I'm grateful for their support and can't wait to build upon the momentum of 2022."
Since joining the TOUR in 2020, Theegala has quickly established himself with seven top-ten finishes, including finishing T-2 at the Travelers Championship and T-3 at the WM Phoenix Open.
"As a rookie on the TOUR, I'm proud to be joining Team RBC, a long-time supporter of golf with a roster of high calibre athletes," says Sahith Theegala, Team RBC ambassador. "Visiting Canada for the RBC Canadian Open was a highlight for me last season, and I can't wait to return in 2023."
Young holds seven top-ten finishes, including the 2022 RBC Heritage, and was named 2022 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year as voted by the TOUR's membership for the 2021-2022 season.
"Joining a world-class group of golfers and working with a brand that shares my own values is a dream come true," says Cameron Young, Team RBC ambassador. "RBC is doing great things for the sport, and I'm looking forward to joining them as an ambassador."
Team RBC was established in 2009 and is comprised of elite touring professionals on the PGA and LPGA TOUR. Along with wearing RBC branding on their apparel and golf bag, Burns, Theegala, and Young will support many of the bank's marketing initiatives and client experiences. RBC is the title sponsor of two PGA TOUR events, the RBC Canadian Open and the RBC Heritage, and is also a supporter of community golf events including the RBC PGA Scramble and RBC Community Junior Golf.
"We are thrilled to welcome professional golfers Sam Burns, Sahith Theegala, and Cameron Young to Team RBC. It was a pleasure to watch them play at the 2022 RBC Canadian Open and RBC Heritage and to see their incredible success this season," says Mary DePaoli, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, RBC. "We are impressed by their dedication and passion both on and off the course and look forward to what's next for these talented golfers."
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 92,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com.
We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at rbc.com/community-social-impact.
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CultureUnited KingdomLondon: Setting up camp to watch Charles's coronationTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoCultureUnited KingdomIrfan Aftab1 hour ago1 hour agoIn London, excitement is building up. Some royal fans are already camping near Buckingham Palace to make sure they'll get a prime view of Charles III on the way to his coronation. After all, it's the most significant royal event in decades.https://p.dw.com/p/4QolNAdvertisement | https://www.dw.com/en/london-setting-up-camp-to-watch-charless-coronation/video-65497009 | 2023-05-02 23:50:43 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/london-setting-up-camp-to-watch-charless-coronation/video-65497009 |
If a foe fails to score, you can't lose. St. Joseph-Ogden proved that in blanking Maroa-Forsyth 18-0 in an Illinois high school softball matchup on April 24.
In recent action on April 20, Maroa-Forsyth faced off against Clinton and St Joseph-Ogden took on Mt Zion on April 19 at Mt Zion High School.
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With the first GOP presidential debate only two months away, voters in the Big Apple provided Fox News a snapshot of who they will be backing in 2024.
"Hopefully, someone steps in for Biden," one voter from North Carolina said. "But we'll figure it out."
"Verdena" told Fox News, "I have no idea." But, she added, "It won't be Trump."
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Voters now have 14 different options to choose from as Democrat and Republican candidates pile into the 2024 presidential race. In a head-to-head matchup between front-runners President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Trump is up by two points, according to the most recent Real Clear Politics average. The same site found that Biden leads Democrat candidates by 46 points and Trump leads Republican contenders by 31 points.
Currently, there are 11 Republican presidential candidates and three Democrat candidates.
"I am looking for a moderate," said "Susan," a New York resident, "a moderate Democrat or a moderate Republican."
Susan said she is an independent and does not vote along party lines, but if it came down to a race between Trump and Biden, she would "probably vote Biden."
TRUMP'S GOP OPPONENTS TEST OUT DIFFERENT RESPONSES TO HIS INDICTMENT AS THEY JOCKEY FOR POSITION BEHIND HIM
Biden, for his part, has recently seen his approval rating dip to 41%, according to the Real Clear Politics average. His approval rating hit an all-time low of 37% at the end of April, according to a Gallup survey.
"Truman" from South Carolina said he would back "whoever the Republican candidate is."
Other voters were still undecided.
"I'm not sure yet," "Matt," a New York resident, told Fox News. "But I agree that someone probably should step in for Biden at this point."
Another voter, "Richard" from Nebraska, told Fox News he was undecided.
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Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony has been added to a list maintained by prosecutors of cops whose testimony and credibility could be considered suspect, potentially discrediting them on the witness stand.
Through the years, the prosecutors’ list — known as the Brady List — has included current and former officers across Broward who face any one of various issues. They may be under criminal investigation or have been convicted of crimes, or are under investigation of some other kind, such as for a police shooting.
Prosecutors added Tony to the list Tuesday. Their listed reason: “Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony is the subject of findings by the Florida Commission on Ethics” on Sept. 14.
Read more from our news partner at The South Florida Sun Sentinel. | https://www.wlrn.org/local-news/2022-09-21/broward-county-sheriff-gregory-tony-makes-it-on-the-list-of-officers-under-investigation | 2022-09-21 14:15:22 | 1 | https://www.wlrn.org/local-news/2022-09-21/broward-county-sheriff-gregory-tony-makes-it-on-the-list-of-officers-under-investigation |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said he has reached out to Summit Utilities officials to address the overcharges in energy bills.
Recently a number of Summit customers had reported higher than expected increases in their utility bills, with some claiming jumps that more than doubled their costs.
Griffin tweeted Monday saying that the company’s CEO assured him that the data processing issue is being addressed. He also added that all incorrect bills have been canceled and are being reissued with correct charges.
Griffin said that he will continue to monitor the situation to make sure that Summit Utilities treats Arkansans fairly. | https://www.fox16.com/news/state-news/attorney-general-tim-griffin-addresses-summit-utilities-overcharge-in-energy-bills/ | 2023-01-31 20:09:11 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/state-news/attorney-general-tim-griffin-addresses-summit-utilities-overcharge-in-energy-bills/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-5-3
(six, five, three)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-5-3
(six, five, three) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17539323.php | 2022-10-27 19:32:58 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17539323.php |
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican-led county commission in southern New Mexico is seeking to change the way ballots are collected and counted in the run-up to November's mid-term election.
Otero County’s three-member commission includes Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin, who ascribes to unsubstantiated theories that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Griffin was convicted of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds — though not the building — amid the riots on Jan. 6, 2021.
The commission voted unanimously Thursday to recount ballots from this week's statewide primary election by hand, remove state-mandated ballot drop boxes that facilitate absentee voting and discontinue the use of vote tabulation machines in the general election.
The initiatives were proposed by Griffin and drew support from an advocacy group for “forensic" election reviews that has combed through Otero County election records and canvassed local addresses for registered voters in search of discrepancies in the 2020 election.
New Mexico uses paper ballots that can be double-checked later in all elections, and also relies on tabulation machines to rapidly tally votes while minimizing human error. Tabulation equipment is subject to precertification and election results are audited by random samplings to verify levels of accuracy.
Though Trump won nearly 62% of the vote in Otero County in 2020, county commissioners say they are not satisfied with results of the state’s risk-limiting audit of the vote count nor assurances by their Republican county clerk that elections this year will be accurate.
Otero County Attorney R.B. Nichols said the commission's vote to get rid of vote tabulating machines and drop boxes is not binding on the county clerk. He warned commissioners that there are no provisions for a full hand recount in New Mexico's election code, and that moving forward would likely involve going to court to vet supportive documents.
He said the expense of even a partial recount would fall on the county if no irregularities are found.
Alex Curtas, a spokesperson for the secretary of state's office, said the commission appears to be reaching beyond its authority, in conflict with the state election code and other statutes.
County Commissioner Vickie Marquardt said she is not satisfied that future elections will be secure.
“Everybody keeps talking about the 2020 election and overturning the election,” said Marquardt. “I am about the 2022 election and the 2024 election and the 2026. If we don’t find out what’s going on we’ll never know.”
The county commission abandoned a professional contract for a review of the 2020 election amid a U.S. House committee investigation into potential voter intimidation by door-to-door canvassers with intrusive questions about voting. But the review has persisted without contract under the work of David Clements and his wife Erin Clements with the support of the commission.
David Clements, a former public prosecutor and conservative public speaker, pressured the commission Thursday to demand access to the vote tabulators and computer coding for the machines to check whether there is a way to connect the machines to the internet and for other vulnerabilities.
“We don’t dispute that under the election code the secretary of state can select voting machines,” said David Clements, who bills himself as a traveling salesman for forensic election audits. “The question is what effect does it have on this commission to use something they know is not trustworthy. ... At that point you all become culpable.”
State election regulators say it is wrong and misleading to suggest that vote tabulators are connected to the internet or other computer networks.
“It has become a popular point of disinformation to suggest that New Mexico’s vote tabulators are compromised because they are connected to the internet,” the agency said on its “rumor versus reality” website that aims to deter disinformation about elections. “Our air-gapped counting systems ensure that vote tabulators are never connected to the internet.”
Griffin is not running reelection or other office as his term expires this year. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/New-Mexico-county-wants-to-halt-use-of-vote-count-17233069.php | 2022-06-10 16:45:04 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/New-Mexico-county-wants-to-halt-use-of-vote-count-17233069.php |
Shaquille O’Neal is retired. And he’s never worked so hard.
The former NBA star is everywhere: The Los Angeles Times counted all of the commercials he’s appeared in and here’s what’s probably only a partial list: Icy Hot, the General insurance, Buick, Frosted Flakes, Novex Biotech, Reebok, Google, Pepsi, Ring, Gold Bond, JCPenney, PointsBet sports betting, Tonka. Papa John’s pizza, Carnival Cruise Line, Epson printers and more.
Then there are his franchises: Forty 24-Hour Fitness gyms, 155 Five Guys restaurants, at least one Krispy Kreme doughnut shop, 17 Auntie Anne’s pretzel stands and nine Papa John’s pizza places, according to the Times. His Big Chicken chain will soon have 18 locations across the country and on two Carnival Cruise ships and offers its own franchise opportunities.
And he’s also a music star: DJ Diesel, as he’s known, recently visited a Home Depot to film a music video for his new song, “I Know I Got It,” which features Nitti. As he walked through the store — on his new hip — he met two shoppers.
“What are y’all buying?” he asked two women.
“A washer and dryer,” one responded.
Turns out, they weren’t buying them, he was.
According to People magazine, it’s not the first time the 7-foot giant has played Santa. In August, he told People Magazine that giving back to his fans is rewarding: “My favorite thing to do is, when I’m in Best Buy, Walmart, if I see a kid, get them something that I see he’s looking at,” O’Neal said.
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It’s why people love the lug: “For so many consumers today, they’re looking for authenticity,” Brandon Brown, clinical associate professor of sport management at New York University, told the L.A. Times. “Shaq has just been caught on social doing so many things. He seems to be a good guy, authentically.”
Just ask those two Home Depot customers.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Maxen, an associate strength coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars, has become the first male coach in a major U.S.-based professional league to come out as gay.
Maxen spoke about his sexual orientation in an interview published Thursday by Outsports.
“I don’t want to feel like I have to think about it anymore,” Maxen said. “I don’t want to feel like I have to lie about who I am seeing, or why I am living with someone else.
“I want to be vocal in support of people living how they want to live, but I also want to just live and not feel fear about how people will react.”
While Maxen’s announcement is a first for a male coach, NFL players have come out previously. Michael Sam became the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Louis Rams selected him in 2014. In 2021, Carl Nassib, then with the Las Vegas Raiders, became the first active NFL player to come out publicly. Nassib played for Tampa Bay last season.
A few female coaches in U.S.-based leagues have come out publicly, including Katie Sowers, a former assistant with the San Francisco 49ers.
Maxen said he no longer felt comfortable hiding his sexuality or his boyfriend of two years.
“You have other coaches who have significant others, and they’re talking about their significant others,” Maxen said. “And I felt guilty that I couldn’t do the same thing, that I was letting myself down.”
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport man was sentenced in federal court for his part in a counterfeit check cashing scheme, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.
A media release was received from US Attorney Brandon B. Brown’s Office announcing that 27-year-old Anthony E. Johnson was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release plus $110,773 in restitution.
According to court documents, in 2017 and 2018, Johnson conspired with two Shreveport men, Carlos A. Spann and Phelix Williams, to cash counterfeit checks using fake identities at banks and other retail establishments throughout Louisiana.
Spann gave Johnson and Williams altered overlays for identification cards, counterfeit checks drawn on Tower Loan’s bank account, and fake checks are drawn on a United States Postal Service bank account. Each of the fraudulent transactions was captured on surveillance video.
Johnson pleaded guilty on January 17, 2019. The court ordered that he comply with U.S. Probation Office requirements for his pretrial supervised release conditions and was allowed to remain free on bond until his May 1, 2019 sentencing hearing.
Johnson failed to comply with pretrial release conditions, and a warrant was issued for his arrest in March 2019.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping in shaky trading on Wall Street Wednesday after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be even worse than expected.
The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower after tumbling as much as 1.6% earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 216 points, or 0.7%, at 30,764, as of 11 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was virtually unchanged after erasing an early loss of 2.1%.
Stocks began the day with sharp drops, as Treasury yields soared with expectations the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates drastically to slow the nation’s skyrocketing inflation. But yields pulled back as the morning went on, helping stocks to recover some of their losses.
Inflation and the Federal Reserve’s response to it have been at the center of Wall Street’s sell off this year. Wednesday’s discouraging data showed that inflation is not only still very high, it’s getting worse.
Prices at the consumer level were 9.1% higher last month than a year earlier, accelerating from May’s 8.6% inflation level. That was also worse than economists’ expectations for 8.8%.
The Fed’s main tool to combat inflation is to raise short-term interest rates, which it has already done three times this year. After Wednesday’s inflation report, traders now see it as a lock that the Federal Reserve will hike its key interest rate by at least three-quarters of a percentage point at its next meeting in two weeks.
That would match its most recent increase, which was the biggest since 1994. A growing number of traders are even suggesting the Fed will go for a monster hike of a full percentage point. That big an increase hasn’t happened since 1981.
Traders are betting on a 51% chance of a full-point hike, up from zero a month ago, according to CME Group.
The risk is that rate hikes are a notoriously blunt tool, one that takes a long time for the full effects to be felt. If the Fed ends up too aggressive with them, it could cause a recession. In the meantime, higher rates push down on prices of all kinds of investments.
“Shock and awe from the Fed might cause a lot of collateral damage to the economy without really providing near-term inflation relief,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments .
“The Fed probably needs to temper people’s expectations about what they can do,” he said.
In the bond market, the two-year Treasury yield rose to 3.09% from 3.05% late Tuesday. It tends to follow expectations for Fed action, and it got as high as 3.22% immediately after the release of the inflation report.
It remains higher than the 10-year yield, which fell to 2.93% from 2.95%. That’s a relatively rare ocurrence, and some investors see it as an ominous signal of a potential recession.
The inflation data also sent immediate jolts into stock markets across Europe and for gold, with prices for all of them weakening after the report’s release.
Even with the swings, Wall Street’s reaction was more muted than it was following the last report on inflation. A month ago, the reading on the consumer price index, or CPI, showed an unexpected acceleration in inflation. That dashed hopes among some investors that inflation was peaking, and it sent the S&P 500 down 2.9%.
Since then, parts of the economy have already slowed as a result of inflation and the Fed’s actions combating it, particularly the housing market. Prices for oil and other commodities have also regressed as worries about a recession pull down expectations for demand.
“While some will draw parallels with the shockingly bad May CPI report, the backdrop is markedly different — commodity prices have fallen sharply and we’ve seen clearer signs of an economic slowdown, both of which will contribute to weaker price pressures ahead,” said Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist with Capital Economics.
Besides interest rates, which affect what kind of prices investors are willing to pay for stocks, investors this week are also getting updates on the other big factor that sets prices on Wall Street: how much profit companies are making.
Delta Air Lines fell 7.1% after it reported weaker profit for the spring than analysts expected. High prices for jet fuel and a spate of canceled flights in May and June dragged on its results.
Big banks and financial companies are coming up next, as the reporting season gets going for profits made from April through June. JPMorgan Chase will report on Thursday, for example, and its results could show how households and businesses are holding up amid the worst inflation since 1981.
Stocks of banks and other financial companies were some of the worst performers on Wall Street, dragged down by worries about the economy. They also get hurt when short-term interest rates are higher than long-term rates, which upends their business of borrowing at short-term rates and lending t long-term rates to profit on the difference.
JPMorgan Chase fell 1.4%. Citigroup, which reports on Friday, dropped 2%.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ("Axsome" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AXSM) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Axsome investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between December 30, 2019 and April 22, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
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CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Axsome's chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07, the Company's medicine for the acute treatment of migraine, and its manufacturing process; (ii) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 New Drug Application ("NDA") on its initially represented timeline; (iii) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (iv) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Axsome during the relevant time frame, you have until July 12, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Ladies golf, ESPON Tour returning to Tuscaloosa
TUSCALOOSA , Ala. (WBRC) - The ESPON Tour announced their return to PARA’s Ol’ Colony Golf in Tuscaloosa Wednesday. The EPSON Tour is a developmental tour for the LPGA Tour.
This will be the second year that the tournament will be held at Ol’ Colony, the same course that the Alabama men’s and women’s golf teams call home.
David Desantis, General Manager of Tuscaloosa Toyota, who will be the title sponsor for the event for the second consecutive year, says that this is a great event for the city of Tuscaloosa. “Like the motivating power of big dreams that pushes top athletes to achieve, the Toyota philosophy pushes us to do great things in our community. We are proud to support these professional women athletes in their return to Ol’ Colony Golf for the second annual Tuscaloosa Toyota Classic.”
Ol’ Colony is no stranger to hosting big events. The course has hosted numerous NCAA regional events, professional events, and much more. “The course is in great shape”, noted tournament chairman George Lake.
The city is excited to show off elite level golf on an elite venue. “The players on the ESPON Tour work hard at their craft”, stated PARA CEO Brian C. David. “We want to show them how hard all our partners work to make Ol’ Colony a great place to play, not only to championship golf, but also junior golf, and casual weekend play.”
The Tuscaloosa Toyota Classic is one of 20 plus events on the 2023 EPSON Tour schedule. The three-day event will be held September 29-October 1.
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US storm brings tornadoes, blizzard-like conditions; 2 dead
DALLAS (AP) — A destructive storm ripping across the U.S. spawned tornadoes that killed a young boy and his mother in Louisiana and threatened the South with more severe weather Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the huge storm system delivered blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains and was expected to push more snow and ice into Appalachia and New England.
In northern Louisiana, the boy was found dead in a wooded area more than a half-mile from his home in the Keithville area, where a violent storm struck overnight just south of Shreveport, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator said. The child’s mother was later found dead around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday one street over from her home, he said.
The child’s father reported them missing from their home, which the sheriff said was demolished in the storm.
“We couldn’t even find the house that he was describing with the address. Everything was gone,” Prator told Shreveport TV station KSLA.
In Farmerville, Louisiana, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the east of Keithville, about 20 people were taken to a hospital, some with critical injuries, after a tornado caused major damage to mobile homes and an apartment complex, the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office told Monroe TV station KNOE.
The forecast Wednesday called for more severe storms. Tornado warnings were issued Wednesday morning for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, where mobile homes at a park in Sharkey County were reduced to piles of shredded debris. Resident Leslie Jackson told WLBT-TV her home at the Mason Trailer Park was one of only a couple left standing.
A tornado watch extended to portions of Alabama.
A line of thunderstorms sweeping through Texas spawned tornadoes Tuesday and damaged dozens of homes and businesses. At least five people were injured In the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, police spokesperson Amanda McNew said.
A possible tornado blew the roof off the city’s municipal service center and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines, said Trent Kelley, deputy director of Grapevine Parks and Recreation. It was also trash day, so the storm picked up and scattered garbage all over, he said.
Icy weather from the huge storm was expected to affect the U.S. from coast to coast. It began by dumping heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and was predicted to bring ice and snow to the eastern U.S. in the coming days.
“This system is notable for the fact that it’s going impact areas all the way from California to eventually the Northeast,” said Frank Pereira, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland.
A widespread cold air outbreak was predicted to follow later this week, he said.
“Pretty much every area east of the Rockies will see below normal to well below normal temperatures,” he said.
Blizzard warnings stretched from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado, and the National Weather Service said as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible in some areas of western South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Winds of more than 50 mph (80 kph) at times would make it impossible to see outdoors in Nebraska, officials said.
“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska, said Tuesday.
Roads were covered with ice and snow across North Dakota, where authorities Tuesday evening closed Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Fargo because it became impassable, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon, depending on the timing of the storm. Residents from West Virginia to Vermont were told to watch for a possible significant mix of snow, ice and sleet.
The winter blast shut down all roads in the northeast quadrant of Colorado. Jim Santomaso of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association said he was concerned that extreme winds could push livestock through fences and keep them wandering in the gale’s direction.
“If this keeps up,” said Santomaso, “cattle could drift miles.”
A blizzard warning was issued on Minnesota’s north shore as some areas were expecting up to 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph (64 kph). And in the south of the state, winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) had reduced visibility.
National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press writers Ken Miller in Oklahoma City; Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas; Julie Walker in New York; Sam Metz in Salt Lake City; Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis; Jesse Bedayn in Denver; Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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Wisconsin’s Johnson embraces controversy in reelection bid
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has seemed to play with fire at times in his third bid for the seat
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Far from shying from his contrarian reputation, Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Jonson is leaning into controversy as he runs for his third term.
Johnson has called for the end of guaranteed money for Medicare and Social Security, two popular programs that American politicians usually steer clear from. He’s trafficked in conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and dabbled in pseudoscience around the coronavirus.
His Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, has gone in a safer direction, cultivating an image as a nonthreatening defender of the middle class with TV ads showing him hitting baseballs, delivering pizzas to children and shopping for groceries.
Their race is one of a handful around the country that could decide control of the Senate next year, and the only one with an incumbent Republican seeking reelection in a state carried by President Joe Biden. It's also shaping up as the kind of razor-close finish that's become common in Wisconsin, where Donald Trump carried the state by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016 and then lost to Biden by about the same margin two years ago.
Polls suggest that a Barnes edge in midsummer, likely propelled by his emergence as key Democratic rivals dropped out right before the state’s primary election, has evaporated under a barrage of attack ads from Johnson and his allies. A Marquette University Law School poll in mid-September had the race within the margin of error, with Barnes’ unfavorable ratings increasing by 10 percentage points from a month earlier.
“Ron Johnson isn’t doing anything to try and move his favorables up,” said Alex Lasry, a Milwaukee Bucks executive who was Barnes' first main rival to leave the race and throw support to Barnes. “I think Ron Johnson’s campaign knows the voters don’t like him. What Johnson’s trying to do is drag everyone into the mud."
Keith Gilkes, a GOP strategist who ran former Republican Gov. Scott Walker's first campaign, said Johnson is simply defining Barnes and moving independents into his own camp.
“Now the pressure is back on Barnes," Gilkes said. "How is he going to respond?”
Barnes, 35, and Johnson, 67, couldn't be more different.
Johnson, a former plastics manufacturer, is a millionaire several times over. Barnes, the state's lieutenant governor and potentially the state's first Black senator, has championed his modest upbringing in Milwaukee as the child of a public school teacher and a United Auto Workers member.
Barnes' messaging has tracked with that background, with talk of returning manufacturing to the state, protecting union jobs and helping small farmers — a play for rural voters who have slipped away from Democrats in recent years.
He has sometimes struggled financially as an adult, too — something he sought to turn to his advantage when attacked for paying his property taxes late. In one of his newest TV ads, Barnes says: “There were times I was getting by on peanut butter sandwiches. And that’s why I support a tax cut for the middle class.”
Johnson and his allies have accused him of speaking in platitudes rather than in detail about his plans, avoiding unscripted moments in front of reporters and hiding from voters.
When Barnes agreed to a single televised debate next month, Johnson — who had offered to do two more — pounced: “I can't force the other guy out of hiding." Barnes later agreed to a second debate.
Many of the attacks against Barnes from Johnson and Republicans have focused on violent crime and public safety, issues that polls show are concerns for voters this year. When Barnes had to remove the endorsement of two law enforcement officers from his website — the campaign said one was a clerical error, and the other one reportedly wasn't aware his name would be made public — Johnson capitalized by releasing endorsements from a majority of Wisconsin sheriffs, including Democrats.
Barnes’ backers have said that ads attacking him on crime, including one from the National Republican Senatorial Committee citing his support for ending cash bail and calling him “dangerous,” are racist. The spot features footage of a car plowing through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last year along with images of the Black man charged with killing six people and injuring dozens of others.
Barnes has talked about moving funding away from police departments to social service agencies, but he says he does not support defunding police. He rolled out a new ad last week that featured a retired Racine police sergeant declaring his trust in Barnes. And his campaign has highlighted appearances around the state to argue that he's running an “open and accessible” campaign.
When he's not attacking Barnes, Johnson is talking about issues that politicians facing an election typically avoid.
He has repeatedly called for removing guaranteed funding for Medicare and Social Security, saying it's the only way to keep them viable. Those comments caught Biden's attention, with the president repeatedly called Johnson out by name for wanting “to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every year.”
Johnson has also embraced conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, even though Biden's win has been upheld by numerous courts, withstood partisan and independent investigations and weathered partial recounts in Wisconsin.
Johnson also dismissed concerns about climate change, said that he would have been more fearful during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots if the U.S. Capitol invaders had been Black Lives Matter protesters, and advocated for unproven and untested alternative treatments for COVID-19, saying mouthwash could be one way to fight the virus.
“Ron Johnson has never been a barrel of of sunshine, right?" said Mark Graul, a Republican strategist who ran Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's 2004 state campaign. “Him taking positions that are not exactly polling through the roof is what makes him Ron Johnson. ... He's not out here wanting to be loved."
Wisconsin's close races typically turn on whether Democratic turnout in the urban centers of Milwaukee and Madison counter Republican strengths in rural areas and the Milwaukee suburbs. It also matters which candidate can better tap into the issues most important to independents, said Scott Spector, who ran Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin's successful 2018 campaign.
That includes abortion — perhaps the one area where Johnson is showing caution given polls showing a strong majority back it being legal. Johnson recently said that questions about Wisconsin's abortion ban should be decided by a statewide vote, but when Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed a way to do that, Johnson balked.
Gilkes, the Republican strategist, said Barnes needs to “rise to the moment” in the campaign's final weeks and pivot from defending himself to being more aggressive in taking on Johnson.
“He needs to fix the messaging, get focused and get out there more to ultimately be successful,” Gilkes said. “That flow is going against Mandela. He’s being overwhelmed by it right now.” | https://www.wbay.com/2022/09/27/wisconsins-johnson-embraces-controversy-reelection-bid/ | 2022-09-27 13:24:42 | 1 | https://www.wbay.com/2022/09/27/wisconsins-johnson-embraces-controversy-reelection-bid/ |
Equity, policy and innovation executives say they're ready to make lasting impact for older adults
LONG BEACH, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The SCAN Foundation (TSF), a California-based philanthropy devoted to transforming care for older adults in ways that preserve dignity and independence, recently hired three new vice presidents from diverse sectors of health care to its executive team:
- Anika S. Heavener, Vice President of Innovation and Investments;
- Narda Ipakchi, Vice President of Policy; and
- Rigo A. Saborio, Vice President of Programs, Equity, and Community Impact.
The appointments conclude a broad executive search for proven, dynamic and diverse leaders to advance the Foundation's strategic priorities, according to TSF leadership.
"Anika, Narda, and Rigo draw from innovation, policy and community-focused experiences, respectively, which make them perfect fits to guide and grow TSF's bold vision to transform the lives of older adults with a focus on equitable care delivery, person-centered care and community engagement," said Dr. Sarita A. Mohanty, president and CEO of The SCAN Foundation. "This executive team joining me embodies our commitment to supporting older adults through policy change, social impact investing and equity-driven grantmaking."
Heavener will lead the innovation and investments portfolio to steward TSF's endowment of $270 million and develop the next generation of solutions for older adults. Most recently, she served as vice president, data strategy and operations at Homethrive, where she helped achieve Series B financing for efforts to support caregivers and older adults aging in place. Previously, Heavener assisted in the creation of the $350 million Dementia Discovery Fund on behalf of the U.K. government.
Ipakchi will oversee policy and strategy to work toward equitable policy recommendations to support the health and well-being of older adults at the state and federal levels. Most recently, she served as the Medicare and Medicaid policy director for the U.S. Senate Aging Committee on Capitol Hill, where she directed the Committee's Medicare and Medicaid legislative agenda. Previously, she worked as a senior consultant for Health Management Associates, an independent, national research and consulting firm specializing in publicly funded health care.
Saborio will work to ensure that community engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion are at the center of all TSF grants. He has more than 30 years of experience in the aging field, including shaping public policy, leading diversity outreach and designing direct services. He most recently spent 13 years as president and CEO of St. Barnabas Senior Services—the oldest senior service agency in Los Angeles. Previously, he was director of diversity outreach and alliances for AARP.
"These talented and driven individuals will help strengthen and accelerate dialogue and catalyze critical change for our aging population," said Anna Maria Chávez, TSF board chair. "Under Sarita's leadership, and with support from Anika, Narda, Rigo and the rest of the staff, the organization will ensure more meaningful care choices and supports for older adults in California and nationwide."
About The SCAN Foundation
The SCAN Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to creating a society where older adults can access health and supportive services of their choosing to meet their needs. Our mission is to advance a coordinated and easily navigated system of high-quality services for older adults that preserve dignity and independence. Learn more at https://www.thescanfoundation.org/ and @TheSCANFndtn.
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Calamu customers and partners benefit from flexible and streamlined purchasing options.
CLINTON, N.J., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calamu™, the world's first company to introduce virtual data harbors as a method for eliminating the risk of a double-extortion ransomware attack, today announced the availability of their namesake product Calamu Protect in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that customers can use to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services to build and run their businesses.
Calamu customers and partners can take advantage of streamlined purchasing and quoting options offered through AWS Marketplace. With no additional contracts or terms to agree to, Calamu customers have the flexibility to choose popular licensing terms for fast and easy onboarding, or may request custom pricing options from Calamu directly.
"We are delighted to offer Calamu's data-first security software to AWS customers, making it easy for businesses to further secure their valuable data against theft and multi-layered ransomware attacks," said Nick Ryan, Vice President of Marketing at Calamu. "Availability in AWS Marketplace ensures flexible deployment options and makes it easy for customers to get Calamu Protect up and running fast."
Complementing existing information technology (IT) security frameworks, Calamu Protect bridges the gap between perimeter defenses and recovery solutions by addressing the growing threat of data theft and data exfiltration. Its patented technology automatically encrypts and fragments data into pieces, then scatters them across geographically dispersed storage locations, helping to neutralize any breach, exfiltration attempt, or ransomware attack by ensuring a complete file does not exist in any single location.
Integration With Cloud Daddy Secure Backup
Earlier this year, the company announced integration with Cloud Daddy Secure Backup to offer AWS Marketplace customers a feature-rich solution to protect backup data in the cloud. Further securing AWS with Calamu for Cloud Daddy Secure Backup helps ensure that data is protected against ransomware variants that specifically target backup data as a way to remove an organization's safety net.
"Thanks to our partnership with Calamu, Cloud Daddy Secure Backup now goes beyond immutability and directly protects against data theft and double-extortion ransomware attacks," says Lilly Golberg, Board Member for Cloud Daddy Secure Backup. "Calamu's availability in AWS Marketplace makes it easy for Cloud Daddy Secure Backup customers to take advantage of this integration, and rest easy knowing their backup data cannot be copied offsite and used against them."
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Calamu was founded by experts in cybersecurity and data privacy with the mission of making the cyber world a safer place. The company is pioneering the use of data-first technology to automatically mitigate the impact of a ransomware attack or data breach, whether data is stored in the cloud or on-premises. The Calamu platform enables businesses to maintain complete ownership of their data, preventing unauthorized access and dramatically simplifying regulatory requirements around data privacy and protection. For more information on Calamu visit www.calamu.com .
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How to keep your home safe in the winter
Global warming doesn’t eliminate snowstorms. The increased surface temperature of the earth puts more water vapor in the air, so when winter weather hits, it’s severe. The result can be anything from disrupting travel to putting your life at risk. As the lingering heat dissipates over the next several weeks and the U.S. moves into the coldest temperatures of the season, it is important to know how to keep your home warm and protected from the weather.
In this article: Google Nest Learning Thermostat, Frost King HC30A Automatic Electric Heat Kit Heating Cables and Pelonis Ceramic Tower Indoor Space Heater
Hazards of winter weather
The most obvious problem that winter weather brings is the cold. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hypothermia can occur even if the temperature is over 40 degrees. Infants, the elderly, people who are sick, individuals who are outside and those using alcohol or other drugs are most at risk.
However, low temperatures are only the tip of the iceberg. Winter weather can damage homes and cut off power, heat and communication services. Misusing generators or trying to warm your home in unorthodox ways can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, overexertion can have a fatal outcome.
How winter weather can damage your home
As long as you have shelter, power and food, you can stay relatively safe throughout winter. But you need to know what cold weather can do to your home to be prepared. Here are 10 ways winter weather can damage your house:
- Water that freezes in your gutters can become too heavy and cause them to fall.
- Snow that lingers on your roof can create too much weight and cause structural damage. It can also melt from beneath and leak through into your attic and down your walls to your foundation.
- Uninsulated pipes can freeze and burst, creating an unpleasant situation that can cause a great deal of damage.
- Melting water can pool around window and door frames, eventually leading to rot and inviting termites.
- Warm, dry air inside the home can cause materials, such as plaster, to crack.
- Fluctuating temperatures can cause caulk around your windows and doors to crack and create drafts.
- Snow, ice and harsh chemicals can damage your driveway, walkways and outdoor steps.
- Gaps in the foundation or around pipes make it very inviting for mice and other unwanted animals to take up shelter in your home.
- Snow and ice that gathers on branches can cause them to fall, damaging whatever is below.
10. Cold air outside and warm air inside can cause condensation to form on the outer walls of your home. If left unchecked, these damp patches can breed mold.
How to prepare your home for the cold weather and winter storms
Although it may be impossible to anticipate every eventuality, you can employ more than a few common sense strategies to help ensure your winter is uneventful. While it is best to prepare before the season, you can do most of these tasks at any time:
- Check for drafts: Look, listen and feel around doors and windows for drafts. Remove old caulk and apply new caulk to seal any leaks.
- Clear gutters: Inspect and clear your gutters so nothing blocks water flow. If you live in a cold climate, consider installing a heat cable to prevent freezing.
- Insulate pipes: Consider insulating or running a pipe heating cable around pipes in the attic and crawl space to prevent freezing.
- Open faucets: A stream is less likely to freeze than a pond. Open your faucets slightly to allow water to keep moving through your pipes. Even a trickle can help.
- Get your HVAC/chimney inspected: Ideally, before the season starts, get your heating system and chimney inspected to help ensure no surprises during the winter.
- Consider a smart thermostat: A smart thermostat gives you complete control over your home’s temperature, even when you aren’t there. The best models also alert you of potential problems, giving you a better chance to get help before troubles compound and escalate.
- Consider purchasing a backup generator: Winter storms have a knack for weighing down tree branches and downing power lines. A backup generator can keep your essential appliances running when you lose power.
- Cut back branches: If you have branches over the home or near power lines, remove them to prevent them from causing problems during a storm.
- Patch holes: If you find any holes around the foundation or doors, be sure to patch them to keep small animals from coming in and taking up residence in your home over winter.
Products you need to secure your home for winter
Google Nest Learning Thermostat
With a learning thermostat, the device programs itself so you always have the ideal temperature in your home, which means no frozen pipes. You can control the temperature wherever you are and save money on your energy bill. Additionally, it monitors your system to let you know if things aren’t functioning as they should be.
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PC Products PC-Woody Wood Repair Epoxy Paste
This epoxy paste replaces missing or rotted wood. It acts like real wood after curing. You can sand it, paint it, drill it, nail it and more.
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Frost King HC30A Automatic Electric Heat Kit Heating Cables
This heating kit comes with 30 feet of cable and can be used on either metal or plastic pipes to prevent freezing. It is effective down to minus 40 degrees and has a power indicator light and a built-in thermostat.
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It’s easy to accidentally damage your driveway or walk while removing snow. This shovel features a lightweight polypropylene design to help remove snow safely from various surfaces.
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DAP is a trusted brand. This all-purpose caulk with silicone is suitable for indoor or outdoor applications. It offers a balance of flexibility and adhesion to create a crack-resistant, waterproof seal.
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Champion Power Equipment Dual Fuel Portable Generator
You get 8,500 watts of power with this dual-fuel generator (gasoline or propane). It has an electric start, has up to a 10-hour runtime and incorporates safety features, such as an automatic shut-off and an LED monitor light.
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Simple yet effective, this foam pipe insulation can be quickly attached to pipes to protect them from freezing. It’s 6 feet long and best for 1-inch copper and three-quarter-inch iron pipes.
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Snow Joe Twist-N-Lock Telescoping Aluminum Roof Rake
When snow builds up on your roof, you want to remove it ASAP. This telescoping roof rake is lightweight and has a 21-foot reach.
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Pelonis Ceramic Tower Indoor Space Heater
Not every room in your home has the same airflow. This ceramic heater lets you warm up a small space without turning up the thermostat and wasting energy. It features a timer, three heat settings and automatic tip-over protection.
Sold by Amazon
This handy tool lets you remove limbs before they fall and create a problem. It has a 9.5-foot reach with a 10-inch bar and chain. The angled head facilitates limb removal.
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The Winnebago County Conservation Board has announced three quickly approaching August events. Two are in conjunction with North Iowa Area Community College and one is a free stargazing program.
The WCCB and NIACC hold a Rocks and Fossils Day Camp at Thorpe Park from 9-11 a.m. on Aug. 8. The camp will be open to all students going into grades 1-5. Thorpe Park is located five miles west of Forest City on “I”/345th Street.
During the day camp, kids will learn about many different kinds of rocks and minerals, including how to identify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. They will also learn about how fossils are formed and about all the fascinating fossils that can be found in Iowa. In addition, everyone will also receive a fossil.
The cost for the Rocks and Fossils Day Camp will be $19 per family, with registration through NIACC. To register, contact Ashley Kraus at ashley.kraus@niacc.edu. If anyone would like non-registration information about the camp, they may contact WCCB Naturalist Lisa Ralls at 641-565-3390 or at lralls@winnebagoccb.com.
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Summer Stargazing Program
To find out what is in the night sky, plan to attend the WCCB Summer Stargazing program at the Pilot Knob State Park tower. The program will begin at 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 11 and will last 45-60 minutes.
People will learn how to identify some of the more common summer constellations and asterisms, such as Scorpius the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Lyra the Lyre, Cygnus the Swan (also known as the Northern Cross), Aquilla the Eagle, and the Summer Triangle. Popular year-round constellations, such as the Big and Little Dippers and Cassiopeia, will also be easy to spot. Participants will learn about some of the brighter stars and will have a good chance to see some Perseid meteors.
The WCCB’s Summer Stargazing program will be free of charge and open to the public. People should bring along a flashlight for the walk to and from the tower. Star charts will be provided to all participants. In case of cloudy skies, the program will have to be postponed or canceled and that announcement will run on KIOW Radio (FM 107.3) as well as the WCCB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/WinnebagoCCB) and the WCCB twitter feed (@WinnebagoCCB).
For more information about this program, people can contact Winnebago County Naturalist Lisa Ralls at either 641-565-3390 or at lralls@winnebagoccb.com.
Canoeing Basics for Families
The WCCB and NIACC will also hold a 9-11 a.m. Aug. 16 Canoeing Basics for Families program at Thorpe Park’s Lake Catherine.
Canoeing Basics for Families is open to all families, including parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, and other family members. Participants will be able to spend a fun morning together while learning all the basics of canoeing, including how to enter and exit a canoe, how to paddle and steer, and how to stay safe. Everyone will then be able to put their new skills to use on Thorpe Park’s Lake Catherine. All equipment will be provided, including life jackets.
The cost for this class will also be $19 per family, with registration through NIACC. To register, visit the NIACC web site or contact Ashley Kraus at ashley.kraus@niacc.edu. If anyone would like non-registration information about the class, they may contact WCCB Naturalist Lisa Ralls at lralls@winnebagoccb.com. | https://globegazette.com/community/wccb-niacc-offer-multiple-august-events-for-kids-families-at-area-parks/article_e7433570-2a6f-11ee-83a5-37341e93df32.html | 2023-07-25 23:24:24 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/community/wccb-niacc-offer-multiple-august-events-for-kids-families-at-area-parks/article_e7433570-2a6f-11ee-83a5-37341e93df32.html |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man from Lynnwood, Washington, is facing a federal charge after allegedly calling a Tops Markets store in Buffalo and threatening to shoot Black shoppers.
Joey David George, 37, called the North Buffalo grocer on July 19 and 20, threatening to shoot Black patrons, according to the United States Attorney Western District of Washington’s office.
In one of the calls, he allegedly referenced a “race war,” the criminal complaint outlined. Law enforcement was able to trace the telephone number and identify George as the caller.
The threat against this Tops location, on Elmwood Avenue, came just over two months after a racially motivated mass shooting at a different Tops location on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, in which 10 Black people were killed and three other patrons were injured.
George was charged Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Seattle with making interstate threats.
George will make his initial appearance in court Friday at 2 p.m. PDT. He’s currently behind bars in SeaTac, Washington, at the Federal Detention Center.
“The Buffalo community is trying to heal from the horrific shooting at a Tops grocery store. I cannot imagine the type of fear such hate-fueled threats engendered in those just trying to go about their daily lives,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Brown, in a statement included with a Friday news release. “We cannot tolerate this kind of hate in our community and will not sit by while people seek to terrorize others across our country.”
George has also been charged for an alleged May 2022 call where he threatened to shoot Black and Hispanic patrons at a restaurant in San Bruno, California, according to the USAO.
Over the last year, Brown is also accused of making a string of hate-fueled phone calls to businesses in Maryland, Connecticut and Washington State. In these calls, George allegedly “used racial slurs and threats to shoot customers at the businesses because of his racial hatred,” per the news release. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-black-shoppers-at-another-tops-supermarket-in-buffalo/ | 2022-07-22 20:18:11 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-black-shoppers-at-another-tops-supermarket-in-buffalo/ |
NEW YORK, July 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ: YY) resulting from allegations that JOYY may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased JOYY securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=17590 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On May 31, 2023, JOYY announced their first quarter 2023 unaudited financial results. The average mobile monthly active users ("MAUs") of Likee decreased by 27.4% to 44.9 million from 61.8 million in the corresponding period of 2022, primarily due to reduced spending on user acquisition via advertisement. The Average mobile MAUs of Hago decreased by 36.5% to 5.9 million from 9.3 million in the corresponding period of 2022, primarily due to reduced spending on user acquisition via advertisement. The net revenue was a reported $583.6 million, compared to $623.8 million in the corresponding period of 2022.
On this news, the price of JOYY's American Depository Shares ("ADS") fell $2.07 per ADS, or 7.82%, to close at $24.39 on May 31, 2023.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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