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Breakthrough technology from LifeNet Health revolutionizes the delivery of allografts in minimally invasive surgeries, optimizing patient outcomes in surgery
LAS VEGAS, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ViviGen MIS, the world's only viable bone matrix to provide lineage-committed bone cells, is now available for use in trauma procedures. As the first cellular allograft optimized for minimally invasive surgeries, this new delivery system – which has been used effectively in MIS spine procedures – revolutionizes the way cellular allografts are delivered in minimally invasive surgery.
ViviGen MIS includes both a pre-filled cannula and a sterile delivery device. This device allows ViviGen, a viable bone allograft, to be delivered with efficiency, reliability, and precision while maintaining exceptional clinical outcomes. ViviGen MIS is provided by LifeNet Health, the world leader in allograft biologics.
"We are thrilled to be launching ViviGen MIS for trauma procedures at AAOS," said Rich Rice, Vice President, Orthopedics & CMF at LifeNet Health. "We know this product will have an impact on trauma surgeries, and we look forward to sharing with clinicians how these solutions can bring unsurpassed results to their patients and unrivaled efficiency to their procedures."
In a comparison study with a bone graft funnel, ViviGen MIS offered substantially better graft preparation and delivery performance resulting in a more than 3x faster total procedure time. ViviGen MIS was the preferred delivery device in terms of ergonomics, ease of use, complications with delivery of the graft material, ease of positioning the delivery device, and the exactness of graft delivery to the intended location.¹
Published data illustrates the clinical advantages of ViviGen. Studies have shown that it supports fusion rates as high as 98 percent even in complex, multi-level fusions while also being associated with significantly lower hospital charges than other grafting solutions.3-5
Clinicians can learn more about ViviGen MIS at the 2023 American Association of Orthopeadic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting March 8-10 in Las Vegas. AAOS attendees will have the opportunity to experience the speed and precision of the delivery device in a carefully designed handling station at LifeNet Health's booth, #4018.
LifeNet Health is also showcasing its portfolio of allograft biologics for orthopedic surgeries at AAOS — including the ViviGen portfolio of solutions, FlexiGraft® pre-sutured constructs, ArthroFlex® acellular dermal matrix, PliaFX® Prime moldable demineralized fibers, SymAlign® osteotomy wedges, and fresh osteochondral allografts.
The full portfolio and the data supporting their outcomes can be found at www.lifenethealth.org/better-biologics.
LifeNet Health is the world's most-trusted provider of transplant solutions — from organ recovery and technologically advanced clinical biologics and cellular therapies, to lifesciences solutions that support drug discovery and medical innovation — a leader in regenerative medicine, while always honoring the donors, healthcare professionals, and scientists who enable the healing process. To learn more, go to www.lifenethealth.org.
- Comparison of Graft Preparation and Delivery Performance Between the ViviGen MIS Graft Delivery System and a Bone Graft Funnel. LifeNet Health. 68-20-348.01
- DePuy Synthes. Comparison of Graft Preparation and Graft Delivery Performance Between the ViviGen MIS Delivery System and a Bone Graft Funnel. 2021. Adaptiv #103764171
- Data on file LifeNet Health 65-0347
- Hall JF, McLean JB, Jones SM, Moore MA, Nicholson MD, Dorsch KA. Multilevel instrumented posterolateral lumbar spine fusion with an allogeneic cellular bone graft. J Orthop Surg Res. 2019;14(1):372. Published 2019 Nov 15.
- Wetzell et al. Hospitalization Cost and Resource Utilization in US Lumbar Fusion Surgeries Using a Cellular Bone Allograft (CBA) versus Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (rhBMP-2): A Retrospective Cohort Study. Data on file LifeNet Health 68-10-457
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A proposed wind farm in Idaho that would be one of the U.S.'s largest is being opposed because it's close to a historic site — a former incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Trump launches direct attack on McConnell a month out from midterm elections
Former President Donald Trump on Friday night directly ridiculed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying on his social media platform that the Kentucky Republican had a "death wish" for supporting "Democrat sponsored bills."
Trump, in his Truth Social post, also mocked McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao -- who was born in Taiwan and served as Trump's secretary of transportation -- referring to her as McConnell's "China loving wife, Coco Chow!"
Trump's broadside at McConnell and mockery of Chao came hours after Congress approved and President Joe Biden signed a stopgap funding bill to avert a federal government shutdown. The bill cleared the Senate on a 72-25 vote Thursday and the House on a 230-201 vote Friday.
In addition to money to keep government agencies afloat, the short-term funding measure provides around $12 billion for Ukraine, and it includes funding for disaster relief. The measure funds the government through Dec. 16.
"Is McConnell approving all of these Trillions of Dollars worth of Democrat sponsored Bills, without even the slightest bit of negotiation, because he hates Donald J. Trump, and he knows I am strongly opposed to them, or is he doing it because he believes in the Fake and Highly Destructive Green New Deal, and is willing to take the Country down with him?" Trump wrote. "In any event, either reason is unacceptable. He has a DEATH WISH. Must immediately seek help and advise from his China loving wife, Coco Chow!"
Trump has described congressional Republicans as having a "death wish" before. In late 2020, he backed Democrats' push for $2,000 coronavirus stimulus checks instead of the $600 checks Republicans had sought. He said on Twitter then: "Unless Republicans have a death wish, and it is also the right thing to do, they must approve the $2,000 payments ASAP. $600 IS NOT ENOUGH!"
It was not clear what bills Trump was criticizing on Friday, or what he meant as he accused McConnell of believing in the Green New Deal, a package of progressive proposals that McConnell blocked from coming to the Senate floor for a vote when he was majority leader.
McConnell this week said he would support legislation that would make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, an endorsement that will bolster its chances for passage in his chamber and puts him at sharp odds with Trump.
McConnell's office did not comment on Trump's remarks on Truth Social.
CNN has reached out to representatives of Trump for comment.
The former President's attack on McConnell comes just weeks away from the midterm elections, with early voting already underway in some states.
McConnell's hopes of becoming Senate majority leader depend on whether the candidates Trump endorsed in Republican primaries in several key states -- including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- win in November.
In a veiled jab at the GOP nominees Trump helped elevate, McConnell at an August event in Kentucky cited "candidate quality" as he downplayed the party's chances of winning control of the Senate.
Still, McConnell's political arm, including a McConnell-affiliated super PAC, has pumped tens of millions of dollars into those races, while Trump has largely refrained from spending money to help the candidates he endorsed. | https://www.wmur.com/article/trump-attack-mcconnell-month-from-midterm/41472379 | 2022-10-01 19:28:49 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/trump-attack-mcconnell-month-from-midterm/41472379 |
Flowers and other items were left outside Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles in memory of Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock after a fatal shooting Monday during a robbery at the South Los Angeles restaurant.
Los Angeles police confirmed Tuesday morning that PnB Rock, whose real name is Rakim Allen, was killed in the shooting, which occurred around 1:15 p.m. during a busy lunch hour. LAPD Chief Michel Moore said the armed robber appeared shortly after Allen's companion posted a photo on Instagram of their location and meal.
The chief said an "extensive amount of jewelry" was taken in the armed robbery.
In an Instagram post, his record label shared a photo and message in tribute to the rap artist.
"PnB Rock was more than an artist. To many, Rakim Allen was a great friend. He was also a wonderful father to two beautiful little girls.
"This news is heavy on our hearts and we are all hurting over this senseless loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time."
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The statement was confirmed by a representative for the rapper, the Associated Press reported.
"He didn't rap about the wrong things, he rapped about the right things," said fan Sheldon Thompson, who visited the memorial outside Roscoe's. "He had a bright future ahead of him. To hear he didn't survive is heartbreaking."
Flowers, candles and messages in honor of the rapper were left outside the well-known soul food restaurant with eight Los Angeles-area locations, including the address at 106 W. Manchester Ave.
TMZ first reported the shooting Monday afternoon.
Officer Jeff Lee, an LAPD spokesperson, said the shooter showed people inside the restaurant a gun and demanded items from the victim. The two spoke to each other before the conversation ended in gunfire, police said.
The victim was struck multiple times and died at a hospital.
The attacker took some items from the victim and left in a car that had been waiting in the parking lot, Lee said. No one else was injured in the shooting.
No arrests were reported Tuesday morning.
A recent Twitter post published Monday afternoon by the rapper included a video of him smoking inside a vehicle and a woman driving as he flashed a white, jewel-encrusted watch, NBC News reported.
Police have reported several high-profile armed robberies involving high-end jewelry in the Los Angeles area, including a day-time theft of a $500,000 watch at a Beverly Hills restaurant.
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles offered the company's condolences to the Allen family.
"We are deeply saddened by the death of Rakim Hasheem Allen, (also known as PnB Rock), an incredible artist in Los Angeles and everywhere," the restaurant posted on Facebook. “His passing represents an enormous loss to each and every one of us. Our most heartfelt condolences, thoughts, and prayers go to the Allen family at this difficult time.
"The safety of our employees and guests are our utmost priority. We have and will continue to keep our place of business as safe as possible."
Roscoe's has been a Los Angeles mainstay for decades. The soul food chain was founded in 1975 in Hollywood, and has been frequented by celebrities like Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole, Snoop Dogg, and even President Barack Obama.
PnB Rock is best known for his 2016 hit “Selfish.” He released released his latest song, “Luv Me Again,” on Sept. 2.
In a tweet, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he was grieving over the rising star's death.
"Saddened by the passing of rapper PnB Rock, who died earlier today due to a senseless act of gun violence," Murphy tweeted. "PnB Rock was a star in the industry. Sending our condolences to his friends and family during this time."
PnB Rock released his debut single in 2014, which he wrote while incarcerated, and signed with Atlantic Records in 2015. He was featured on Ed Sheeran's 2019 song "Cross Me." In 2020, PnB Rock released "Ordinary" which featured late rapper Pop Smoke, who was slain during a robbery of a Hollywood Hills home Feb. 19.
PnB Rock shared a daughter with Instagram model Stephanie Sibounheuang. He has another daughter from a previous relationship.
NBCLA's Heather Navarro contributed to this report. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/rapper-pnb-rock-rakim-allen-shooting-south-la-roscoes/3071044/ | 2022-09-13 20:34:13 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/rapper-pnb-rock-rakim-allen-shooting-south-la-roscoes/3071044/ |
A Virginia woman who left the United States for more than a decade with her child to avoid sharing custody of her daughter with her former partner says her lawyer suggested she flee.
In a document filed May 19 in federal court in Vermont as part of a long-running civil case, Lisa Miller outlined what led her to leave the country in September 2009 with her then 7-year-old daughter when it was becoming clear she would lose custody of the girl to her former partner Janet Jenkins of Fair Haven, Vermont.
The filing is the latest chapter in a more than two-decade-long legal saga that began in 2000 when Miller and Jenkins were joined in a Vermont civil union, the first statewide legal recognition of same-sex couples.
Their daughter, Isabella, was born to Miller in 2002. The couple split up in 2003. The Vermont family court gave custody of Isabella to Miller, but gave Jenkins regular visitation. Over the years Miller wouldn’t comply with the court ordered visitations. There were a series of legal decisions as Miller sought full custody that went against her in favor of Jenkins.
Miller said in her statement that during a summer 2009 meeting with attorney Rena Lindevaldsen to discuss upcoming appeals in the legal case, Lindevaldsen said “something like I am going to take my lawyer hat off now and put on my friend hat.”
Lindevaldsen then asked Miller about leaving, “telling me that if Isabella was her child then she would leave,” Miller said in the statement. “She pressed the issue, and I told her that I was leaving if plans would solidify but that no date was set.”
At the end of the meeting Miller said Lindevaldsen offered to take care of her financial needs after she left using proceeds from a book about the case Lindevaldsen was planning to write. The book, “Only One Mommy,” was published in 2011.
Lindevaldsen, who describes herself as a defender of traditional marriage, is a law professor at the Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia. Lindevaldsen’s biography on the school website says she served as the senior litigation counsel to Liberty Counsel, which had provided legal representation to Miller until her disappearance.
The counsel describes itself as a Christian ministry that is known for promoting conservative causes.
In September 2009, Miller left the United States by crossing the Peace Bridge at Buffalo, New York. Miller and her daughter were picked up on the Canadian side and taken to the Toronto airport where they flew to Nicaragua.
Horatio G. Mihet, who is one of Lindevaldsen’s attorneys and vice president of legal affairs and chief litigation counsel at Liberty Counsel, denied in an email on Tuesday that the conversation Miller recounted took place.
“Ms. Lindevaldsen and Liberty Counsel consistently advised Lisa Miller that she had an obligation to comply with the court orders,” Mihet said. “Lisa Miller’s decision to leave the country was without the knowledge of Ms. Lindevaldsen or Liberty Counsel. Any suggestion to the contrary is outright false.”
Miller’s attorneys didn’t respond Wednesday to a request for comment.
Sarah Star, the Vermont attorney who represents Jenkins in the civil case, declined comment Wednesday when asked about the filing.
The document signed by Miller and submitted to court last week was part of a settlement to a civil case filed against Miller and others by Jenkins in 2012. Miller agreed to outline her version of events that led her to flee the country. The civil suit also names Lindevaldsen, the Liberty Counsel and others.
The settlement agreement and the proffer were both signed by Miller on March 21. It was included as part of a motion by Lindevaldsen and the Liberty Counsel on May 19 to have the civil suit against them dismissed. The agreement was marked “confidential,” but a footnote in the motion to dismiss said Miller’s attorney provided it to them “with Jenkins’ consent, without any agreement to restrict its use, and without first seeking any protective order.”
In the proffer, Miller outlined what she would say during an upcoming deposition planned for later this summer. She offered details of her flight that had not previously been made public.
In 2009 she was handed a slip of paper during a service at a Virginia church that had a name and a phone number, Miller said. Two days afterward, and before meeting with Lindevaldsen, she called the number and ended up meeting with two men who later helped her flee. Those twomen and a third person eventually served prison sentences for helping Miller.
Lisa Miller voluntarily returned to the United States from Nicaragua in January 2021 after her daughter had turned 18. She was arrested on arrival. In February 2022 Miller pleaded guilty to a single charge of international parental kidnapping. She was later sentenced to time served and has since been released.
In 2021, Miller indicated in a court filing that Isabella Miller now 21, was living in Virginia and working on a farm north of Charlottesville owned by a Mennonite family. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/ap-woman-who-fled-us-to-keep-child-custody-more-than-a-decade-ago-says-her-lawyer-encouraged-flight/ | 2023-05-25 06:13:30 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/ap-woman-who-fled-us-to-keep-child-custody-more-than-a-decade-ago-says-her-lawyer-encouraged-flight/ |
DALLAS — Dallas police confirmed to WFAA Saturday afternoon officers were working a shooting where three people had been shot and one person was confirmed to have died.
The shooting happened in the 4500 block of Village Fair Drive in Oak Cliff, police confirmed. Police at the scene said there was one person in custody.
WFAA has sent a crew to the scene. We'll update this story as we gather more information.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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Some advice about the City of Trenton’s National Night Out celebration scheduled for Tuesday, August 2 at Cadwalader Park — Don’t go if you don’t have to.
An event that once accomplished an NNO goal to build better communities home by home; enhance police-community partnerships block by block and to cultivate safer, more caring places to live day by day, morphed into a mosh pit of nonsense.
Back in the day, mind you, that’s circa 2017, Trenton’s neighborhoods buzzed with excitement as NNO parties were planned throughout the capital city.
Party over here! Yep. Over there, too, as Trenton police Ofc. Alexis Durlacher, kudos, she’s now a recently made lieutenant, gladly accepted her role as lead voice and organizer for the event.
Each mayor prior to Gusciora, that would be Douglas Palmer, Tony Mack and Eric Jackson, had a miniature caravan of politicians, police and other community investors that visited different block parties throughout Trenton.
One of the best memories on our Franklin St. block involved a visit by then police Director Ernie Parrey, Jr. We had our disagreements on several matters but on NNO, Parrey walked our street, posed for photos, even held babies.
A city fire truck featuring Trenton’s finest showed as local kids turned the vehicle into a jungle gym. Yes, we enjoyed a small meal together and celebrated each other, respected each other.
With all vehicles off our street, kids raced around with not a care in the world. During one event, The First Tee of Greater Trenton provided play equipment and instruction.
Then Mayor Reed Gusciora, Recreation Director Maria Richardson and Police Director Sheilah Coley produced a dreadful idea to have NNO in a centralized location — Cadwalader Park.
There went the neighborhood’s special block events that required planning, discussions and even kicking in a few dollars for refreshments. Trenton had sponsored a NNO kickoff event at City Hall where party planners received vouchers to purchase food items at Trenton City Beef.
An alleged big beef with past celebrations involved a city council person who supposedly scoffed extra vouchers for her block party.
Yes, in the city where petty politics plays more important than people, NNO moved out to Cadwalader Park, a 100-acre playground owned, gated and operated by this administration.
When people discuss the hope for real revitalization in Trenton, a common theme involves a block-by-block approach. This administration attempts the opposite by moving the NNO to one location. Essentially, the Gusciora plan pushes block busting, and continuing an unhealthy dependence on government.
Daddy Reed will provide your hot dogs, hamburgers and potato chips. Mommy Maria will pour you a soda. Uncle Stephen (Wilson, police director) will supply hugs and other affections.
Understand that the more affluent and connected neighborhoods will continue their NNO celebrations, thereby continuing to strengthen bonds crucial to stability.
The creators of NNO never intended for residents to leave their block. They pressed for neighbors to sit on stoops and porches, light candles and lampposts, barbecue, play and to engage each other.
The best way to cultivate a safer block demands getting to know your neighbors. Unimaginable power can develop with these interactions as unity can enhance community.
Of course, politicians love Cadwalader Park as one location makes it easier for them to push their agendas.
Please, plan a NNO celebration on your block then ask politicians and the last of good government representatives to meet on your turf, your block, your neighborhood.
If they show, and that’s doubtful, talk about the issues in your house, your life and your block.
Happy National Night Out Trenton.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Find him on Twitter @LAParker6 or email him at LAParker@Trentonian.com. | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/30/trenton-national-night-out-should-be-community-first-not-whats-most-convenient-l-a-parker-column/ | 2022-07-31 02:28:58 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/30/trenton-national-night-out-should-be-community-first-not-whats-most-convenient-l-a-parker-column/ |
LE PECQ, France (AP) — French magistrates have filed preliminary charges against two Chinese citizens and two other people from France in an investigation of a leading chip supplier whose advanced technology with possible military uses was reportedly smuggled to China and Russia, allegedly skirting sanctions and export controls.
The probe of Ommic, a Paris-region semiconductor manufacturer now in American hands, was launched by France’s national prosecution service that specializes in cases involving arms proliferation.
The probe is now being led by magistrates investigating suspected illegal exports, forgery and other suspected crimes, according to a French judicial official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of secrecy laws that cover magistrates’ probes.
The official said four people — two French, two Chinese — have been placed under formal investigation since March. That means magistrates believe there is considerable evidence of potential crimes but want more time to investigate.
Two of the four people face preliminary charges of handing over protected know-how to a foreign power, the judicial official said. The official and the prosecution service, which also specializes in terrorism cases, refused to go into greater detail about the investigation.
The newspaper Le Parisien first reported on the case. It said investigators have uncovered nearly 12 million euros (more than $13 million) worth of suspected exports of technology.
It said the company’s French manager is suspected of having personally delivered chips to Russian clients. It said products were also exported to Chinese armament manufacturers with the help of forged paperwork.
The newspaper said a Beijing-based Chinese businessman with ties to China’s defense industry bought a majority stake and took control of Ommic in 2018.
France’s counter-espionage agency suspects the Chinese investor was seeking to transfer French technology to China, notably a semiconductor manufacturing process that Ommic specializes in, the newspaper said.
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc., a semiconductor supplier based in Lowell, Massachusetts, announced in February that it was acquiring Ommic for 38.5 million euros ($42.8 million). Le Parisien reported that French judicial authorities stripped Ommic’s Chinese investor of his stake and temporarily placed the company under state control before its sale.
Macom said Ommic’s portfolio of chips and its design know-how would strengthen its position in telecommunications, industrial, aerospace and defense markets. | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ap-france-is-investigating-suspected-smuggling-to-china-and-russia-of-advanced-chip-technology/ | 2023-07-27 18:07:02 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ap-france-is-investigating-suspected-smuggling-to-china-and-russia-of-advanced-chip-technology/ |
WYOMISSING, Pa. (AP) _ Penn National Gaming Inc. (PENN) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $26.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Wyomissing, Pennsylvania-based company said it had net income of 15 cents.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 51 cents per share.
The casino operator posted revenue of $1.63 billion in the period, beating Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.6 billion.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
6-3-0-1, Fireball: 5
(six, three, zero, one; Fireball: five)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
6-3-0-1, Fireball: 5
(six, three, zero, one; Fireball: five) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17577807.php | 2022-11-11 19:27:34 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17577807.php |
VATICAN CITY — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ‘s body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday as tens of thousands queued to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade ago.
On the eve of the first of three days of viewing, Italian security officials had said at least 25,000-30,000 people would come on Monday. But by the end of the first day’s viewing, some 65,000 persons had passed by the bier, the Vatican said.
As daylight broke, 10 white-gloved Papal Gentlemen — lay assistants to pontiffs and papal households — carried the body on a cloth-covered wooden stretcher after its arrival at the basilica to its resting place in front of the main altar under Bernini’s towering bronze canopy.
A Swiss Guard saluted as Benedict’s body was brought in through a side door after it was transferred in a van from the chapel of the monastery grounds where the increasingly frail, 95-year-old former pontiff died on Saturday morning.
His longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, and a handful of consecrated laywomen who served in Benedict’s household, followed the van by foot for a few hundred yards in a silent procession toward the basilica.
Before the rank-and-file faithful were allowed into the basilica, prayers were recited and the basilica’s archpriest, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, sprinkled holy water over the body, and a small cloud of incense was released near the bier. Benedict’s hands were clasped, a rosary around his fingers.
Just after 9 a.m., the doors of the basilica were swung open so the public, some of whom had waited for hours in the pre-dawn damp, could pay their respects to the late pontiff, who retired from the papacy in 2013 — the first pope to do so in 600 years.
Faithful and curious, the public strode briskly up the center aisle to pass by the bier with its cloth draping after waiting in a line that by midmorning snaked around St. Peter’s Square.
Filippo Tuccio, 35, said he came from Venice on an overnight train to view Benedict’s body.
“I wanted to pay homage to Benedict because he had a key role in my life and my education,” Tuccio said.
Public viewing was set for 10 hours on Monday, and 12 hours each on Tuesday and Wednesday before Thursday morning’s funeral, which will be led by Pope Francis, at St. Peter’s Square.
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President Biden has thrust GOP proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare spending into a looming faceoff over the country’s debt ceiling.
While Republican leaders insist they have no plans to slash entitlements, previous remarks and proposals from GOP figures have fueled Democratic rhetoric on the issue.
“Folks in Congress, they want to eliminate a lot of healthcare coverage — those MAGA Republicans — increase costs for millions of Americans, and make deep cuts in programs that families and seniors depend on. And that’s what’s at stake now,” Biden said in a speech last week.
At the center of the clash over entitlements is the question of what constitutes a “cut.”
But one thing that isn’t in dispute is that the programs carry huge price tags. Here are some numbers to make sense of the debate:
Social security and other entitlements make up nearly half of the budget
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid make up nearly half of the entire federal budget, with a total annual price tag of $2.7 trillion. That’s over three times as much as the country spends on defense, which is the largest discretionary budget item.
Entitlement programs are considered “mandatory spending” in the budget process, which also includes basic functions like money sent to state governments.
Biden’s attacks on GOP entitlement plans have largely focused on Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has proposed to sunset every federal program as part of efforts to rein in government spending.
Following Democratic rebuke, Scott amended his proposal to exclude entitlement programs.
Other Republicans, including Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), have also proposed some version of entitlement cuts during their careers.
In rare agreement with Democrats, former President Trump has been adamant that entitlement programs should not be cut and has attacked former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and other probable primary challengers for their previous backing of efforts to cut the programs.
Approximately 70 million people will receive Social Security benefits in 2023
A fifth of all Americans will receive Social Security benefits in 2023, about 70 million people in total. Another 64 million use Medicare and 84 million receive Medicaid.
The programs are facing a daunting future. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that costs will double by 2033, due to rising medical costs and the increasing number of Americans who are expected to sign up for the programs as the Baby Boomer generation ages.
The CBO report said that Social Security will run out of funding in 2032, sooner than previously projected. Others estimate that Medicare will also reach a budget shortfall in 2028.
Social security spending amounted to $1.3 trillion in the 2023 budget
Republicans say action is needed to avoid bankruptcy and a loss of promised benefits, and there seems to be some movement toward bipartisan solutions.
A group of senators are attempting to reach a deal on changes to Social Security to ensure that it is funded into the future. Talks are in their early stages, but changes could include increasing the retirement age or making higher incomes taxable.
Entitlement spending rapidly outpaces all other spending by the federal government.
Social Security by itself costs more than every cabinet department and government agency combined, minus the Department of Defense. Social Security spending rose to $1.3 trillion in the 2023 budget. The largest cabinet agency other than Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, only cost $138 billion.
How entitlements spending compared to other expenses
That spending dwarfs notable federal agencies like NASA and the EPA, which cost a comparatively small $26 billion and $12 billion per year each, respectively.
Biden and Democrats have staunchly defended entitlement programs. Last month, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), alongside Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), proposed the Social Security Expansion Act.
That legislation would use a tax on high-income Americans’ investment profits to fund Social Security for at least the next 75 years and increase benefits for the poorest recipients. Similar legislation was introduced in the 117th Congress. However, it has little hope of advancing in the GOP-controlled House.
The Biden administration announced plans to bolster Medicare funding as part of its 2024 budget proposal on Tuesday. By increasing the Medicare tax on high-income Americans and closing loopholes, the administration’s proposal would ensure solvency for an additional 25 years, they claim.
“Republicans don’t like being called out on this,” Biden said last month in Tampa. “A lot of Republicans — their dream is to cut Social Security and Medicare. Well, let me say this: If that’s your dream, I’m your nightmare.”
However, many Republicans say the alternative to reform is insolvency.
Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), a senior member of both the Budget and Energy and Commerce committees, said the financial health of the entitlements will require Congress to follow a similar model.
“There will be a lot of pushback,” Burgess previously told The Hill. ”But at the end of the day, we all know, particularly the programs that have the trust funds — Social Security and Medicare — when those trust funds are exhausted, there are some bad things that happen to beneficiaries.” | https://phl17.com/hill-politics/social-security-and-medicaid-spending-inside-the-numbers/ | 2023-03-08 00:15:03 | 0 | https://phl17.com/hill-politics/social-security-and-medicaid-spending-inside-the-numbers/ |
(NewsNation) — City of Miami commissioners voted this week to pursue a pilot program to build a designated zone for people experiencing homelessness, despite some calling it a “bad idea” and “heartless.”
The program calls for the construction of 50 to 100 “tiny homes” on Virginia Key, an 863-acre barrier island.
The location is home to a summer camp for kids. A sewage plant is not too far away. And right across the water is one of the most expensive zip codes in the U.S.
Commissioners are calling the idea a “transition zone” and the plan would provide housing, food, showers, and even outreach services for some of Miami’s homeless population.
“In my opinion, this is not an encampment that is going to be a concentration camp,” said Commissioner Manolo Reyes. “Nobody’s forcing anybody.”
Florida has about 27,000 people who are experiencing homelessness, and the program would house only about 100, a small dent in the overall problem the Sunshine State faces.
Some commissioners framed the program as a solution to homelessness, but it’s also getting a lot of opposition.
Commissioner Ken Russell voted against the proposal.
“This is the opposite of a plan, this is a bad idea,” Russell said. “The answer is permanent supportive housing.”
Russell would instead like to turn the land into a soccer park for kids.
“It’s not about whether this location is right or that location is right, it’s about whether this is a good idea or a bad idea,” Russell said. “And this is a bad idea.”
In a statement to NewsNation, the Virginia Key Alliance said they were ignored in the selection process and wrote, in part, “Placing homeless on a small island with no residents, services or security to support their needs is heartless.”
Esther Alonso owns and runs the outdoor center on Virginia Key. She worries about what this plan will mean for her employees and the kids who come to the park.
“There are children here, this is a beach. And we’re going to bring a large population of primarily homeless men … and we’re going to put them next to a swimming beach where people are running around in swimsuits?” Esther Alonso said. “I don’t know that’s a good mix.”
According to Commissioner Russell, the plan doesn’t consider essential support infrastructure and services.
“They don’t even have access to anything here, even just groceries or a job,” he said. “That’s not within reach of this island. We are miles from anything here.”
Alonso also pointed out Virginia Key’s exposure to the elements and lack of infrastructure.
“This is a harsh environment. When it gets bad, when it gets really humid, or the heat is unbearable, or the mosquitoes are so thick, we can leave,” she said. “If you’re living here, you can’t. This is it. And it’s a two-mile walk out through a mangrove forest, with a road in between.”
“This is not the friendliest environment for residential accommodations,” she said.
The City of Miami has made efforts to clean up tent cities and encampments in recent years and the Virginia Key is only one of a few options on the table right now.
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1st dust storm of 2022 monsoon season hits parts of Phoenix area
PHOENIX - The first big dust storm of the 2022 monsoon season prompted the National Weather Service in Phoenix to issue a Dust Advisory for parts of the state on June 21.
Video taken by SkyFOX during the late afternoon hours show a wall of dust near Sacaton. ADOT cameras also captured blowing dust conditions along Riggs Road, south of Phoenix.
Blowing dust later moved into the Ahwatukee, even reaching Sky Harbor Airport.
According to NWS officials, two areas of outflow boundaries, defined as a storm-scale or mesoscale boundary that separates thunderstorm-cooled air from the surrounding air that is similar in effect to a cold front, were spotted north of Coolidge and east of Queen Creek. The outflow boundary later made its way across Phoenix.
The Dust Advisory, which covers Maricopa and Pinal Counties, expired at 7:45 p.m.
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"Most Valley residents know how quickly and furiously storms can move in and out, bringing strong winds, dust, rain, and flash flooding. These storms can cause interruptions in services, such as water, power, and gas," stated Captain Ashley Losch of the Glendale Fire Department.
GFD reminds residents of ways they can be prepared and stay safe:
- Have flashlights with extra batteries on hand.
- Have food that can be prepared without the need for cooking or refrigeration.
- Have at least one gallon of clean water for each person in the household.
- Have backup power for anyone requiring power for a medical device.
- Have backup power for cell phones that do not require charging.
- Have a first aid kit ready and accessible.
- Never drive into areas with flowing water; it takes less than 10 inches to wash a car away.
- Avoid flooded areas, such as washes.
- If waters are rising, seek higher ground.
- Do not approach downed power lines, the ground can be energized for up to 200 feet.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The only thing that stopped Tennessee fans from singing “Rocky Top” as time was expiring Friday night was the need to serenade Joe Milton with something else.
“M-V-P!” they chanted, over and over. With good reason.
Milton — who regained the starting job only after his close friend Hendon Hooker got hurt late in the year — led Tennessee to one of its finest moments in the last couple decades. He completed 19 of 28 passes for 251 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 6 Tennessee never trailed on its way to a 31-14 victory over No. 10 Clemson in the Orange Bowl.
“I trust myself, I trust my coaching and I just let it happen,” Milton said.
The Volunteers finished 11-2 for the first time since 2001, and capped a year when they beat Alabama, LSU and Clemson — programs that combined to win six of the seven most recent College Football Playoff national titles.
“All the adversity this group’s faced during their careers, what they’ve done the last 23 months, I couldn’t be prouder of a group of individuals,” said Tennessee coach Josh Heupel, who won a national title as an Oklahoma player in the Orange Bowl.
Squirrel White, Bru McCoy and Ramel Keyton had the scoring catches for the Volunteers. Jaylen Wright rushed for 89 yards and Jabari Small had a touchdown run for Tennessee.
Cade Klubnik, making his first start for Clemson, completed 30 of 54 passes for 320 yards with two interceptions. But Clemson (11-3) just kept coming up empty on prime scoring chances; the Tigers got into Tennessee territory on nine of their first 10 possessions — and turned those trips into only two field goals.
Clemson finished with 484 yards on 101 plays, and still lost by 17.
“You don’t get any points for yards,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “The name of the game’s points. … You have to finish and execute and we did not do that.”
Klubnik ran in from 4 yards out to get Clemson within 21-14 with 10:01 left, but Milton connected with Keyton for a 46-yard score on the next Tennessee possession. The Volunteers intercepted Klubnik on a desperation fourth-down heave about a minute later, just about sealing the outcome.
“Wish we could have sent out these seniors with a win,” Klubnik said. “I think we gave it all we had until the last play.”
In this very orange Orange Bowl — both teams have it as their primary color — it was the Tennessee hue that was superior. Hooker was there, having flown in about a week ago to be with his team and help Milton prepare for the game.
“Blood can’t make us closer,” Milton said. “That’s my brother ’til the end.”
Milton opened the scoring with a 16-yard pass to McCoy, and Small’s 2-yard rush pushed the lead to 14-0 with 9:03 left in the half. The nation’s most prolific offense wasn’t at its best — Tennessee led the nation this year in yards and points per game — but it didn’t have to be.
Clemson got the ball seven times in the first half, getting inside Tennessee territory all seven times and getting to the Vols 25 on four occasions.
Somehow, that only became three points.
The other six possessions: a stuffed fake field-goal run by Drew Swinney, the son of the Clemson coach; a punt; three missed field goals by B.T. Potter — the most prolific kicker in school history — and a brutal final drive when Klubnik was tackled on a keeper with 6 seconds left. Clemson was out of timeouts, couldn’t get the field-goal unit on the field and went into halftime trailing 14-3.
“Lot of missed opportunities,” Dabo Swinney said.
Potter opened the second half with a 40-yarder — the 73rd field goal of his career, a school record for the Tigers. But White caught a 14-yard pass with 5 seconds left in the third, giving the Vols a 21-6 lead going into the fourth.
When it was over, Milton took a knee, tucked the game ball under his left arm and simply would not let it go. He’ll enter 2023 as Tennessee’s presumed starter — and expectations will be high for a program that went 20-27 in the four seasons before Heupel’s arrival, went 7-6 last year under him and now won an Orange Bowl.
“It’s been a fun climb,” Heupel said. “The best is yet to come.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Tennessee: Peyton Manning was on the sideline pregame and had a prime seat for the contest. When he got shown on the in-stadium screens during the second half, he pointed to his Tennessee hat and nodded knowingly as the Vol fans roared.
Clemson: The three big plays that the Tigers will lament aren’t hard to identify. The fake field-goal run was one, Klubnik’s time-management blunder to end the first half was another, and the third was a decision to go for it on fourth-and-2 from the Vols 31 late in the third. Will Shipley was stopped on a run left, and four plays later, Milton found White for the 21-6 lead.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Tennessee may climb a spot or two, depending on what happens in the College Football Playoff games. It’ll be the Vols’ best finish in at least 20 years; they were No. 4 in 2001 and No. 1 in 1998.
Clemson will be part of the final poll for the 12th consecutive year, extending the longest such run in school history.
UP NEXT
Tennessee: The Vols open 2023 against Virginia on Sept. 2 in Nashville. It’ll be Virginia’s first game since the shooting that killed three players and led to the cancellation of the Cavaliers’ last two games of 2022.
Clemson: A Week One game against an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent awaits, likely to be announced in January. Clemson’s first nonconference game is Sept. 9 against Charleston Southern.
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WASHINGTON — Chair Jerome Powell indicated Friday that the Federal Reserve will likely forgo an increase in its benchmark interest rate when it meets in June for the first time since it began raising its key rate 14 months ago to fight high inflation.
In signaling so, Powell provided some clarity about the Fed's likely next policy move after a cacophony of speeches this week by central bank officials had clouded the picture.
“Having come this far, we can afford to look at the data and the evolving outlook and make careful assessments,” Powell said, referring to the Fed's 10 straight rate hikes, which have elevated its key short-term rate from near zero a year ago to about 5.1%, its highest level in 16 years.
Speaking at a Fed conference in Washington, Powell said the central bank's benchmark rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, is now high enough to restrain borrowing, spending and economic growth. Fed officials hope that slower growth will cool inflation over time.
The Fed chair also suggested that “the risks of doing too much versus doing too little are becoming more balanced." That marks a shift from earlier this year, when Powell often said the risk of raising rates too little to combat inflation outweighed the risk of raising them so high as to cause a deep recession.
Powell's remarks Friday followed a series of comments from Fed officials this week that conveyed decidedly mixed messages about the central bank's likely next move.
Most of the policymakers signaled support for a pause at its next meeting. But several others expressed their belief that the Fed would have to further raise rates to curb persistent inflation. Lorie Logan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said Thursday that inflation remained too high and that the latest economic data didn't yet justify a pause in hikes.
Inflation, under the Fed's preferred measure, has declined but remains far above the central bank's 2% annual target. Inflation was 4.2% in March, compared with a year earlier. Still, inflation has slowed from 7% last June to 4.2% as of March, according to the Fed’s preferred price gauge. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-reserve-rate-hike-june-inflation/507-1ad16834-6830-4f75-9916-8bd3364f3593 | 2023-05-19 17:57:24 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-reserve-rate-hike-june-inflation/507-1ad16834-6830-4f75-9916-8bd3364f3593 |
Arizona firefighters rescue overheated dog on hiking trail
German shepherd named Diego rescued on Tom's Thumb Trailhead in Scottsdale, Arizona
Firefighters in Arizona rescued a dog that overheated while on a hike with its owner on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
The heat became too much for the 125-pound German shepherd named Diego when his owner and another pup were about three-quarters from the Tom’s Thumb Trailhead around 1:30 p.m. in Scottsdale, the Scottsdale Fire Department said.
First responders met the owner on the trail and began to cool and rehydrate the dog.
Crews carried Diego down a steep part of the trail and brought the owner and other dog down the trail on a utility terrain vehicle.
CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE BLIND DOG THAT FELL INSIDE 15-FOOT HOLE AT CONSTRUCTION SITE
"Diego was doing much better after 5 bottles of water," fire officials said. "He got into the car under his own power."
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Anticipating a Supreme Court victory to end women’s reproductive rights, abortion opponents Marjorie Dannenfelser and Chuck Donovan sought to blunt the rising anger [“The road beyond Roe for the pro-life movement,” Sunday Opinion, May 15]. Claiming that their concerns for children don’t “end at birth,” they would “surround both [mother and child] with love” in “pregnancy centers that offer free care,” as in Mississippi and Texas.
They failed to mention that these two Republican-controlled states still refuse to expand Medicaid or that the pregnancy centers, supported by tax-credited donations, are run by evangelical Christian women or that Texas law empowers private citizens to become abortion vigilantes.
Denying the right to both professional health care and unbiased pregnancy counseling, the authors would force frightened and vulnerable women to make the agonizing choice between raising a child before they’re ready to be a parent and giving it up for adoption, all the while a captive audience of self-righteous proselytizers.
The attack on a woman’s right to safe abortion per her choice is an attack on the civil and democratic rights of all Americans. No one should minimize the threat to our democratic republic.
Erich Martel, Washington
In his May 18 Wednesday Opinion essay, “Abortion is not the way to help single Black mothers,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) extolled the long workweek his single mother endured to raise her two children. As a nurse’s aide, she worked long hours just to keep food on the table and the lights on. Mr. Scott labeled Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen’s comments on the economic effect of a woman’s decisions to control her choices on family planning as shocking and decried her reasoning as callous and inhumane.
For women, the choice to have and raise children is a private decision. When this decision is supported in law and advances in medicine and science, women might have a sense of security. This security is long in coming, and Ms. Yellen’s comments on the economic advantages of this choice are important.
How a mother lives her life to support her children is her decision. How she controls her fertility is her decision. Many jobs women have been doing all these many years — women’s work, if you will — have demanded long hours of hard work just to keep food on the table and the lights on. Is this an area where some change might take place? More equitable treatment of those in the professions that heretofore have been paid the lowest wages and endure most demeaning conditions might be a benefit to families struggling just to keep food on the table and the lights on.
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Facing youth prison crisis, Texas lawmakers opt to build new facilities and funnel more kids to adult system
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The Texas Legislature convened this January facing a big task: fixing the increasingly unstable youth prison system.
Proposals on the table ranged from closing the state’s five remaining youth prisons and instead relying on local systems to rehabilitate children involved in criminal behavior to spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build additional state lockups for juveniles.
Ultimately, lawmakers opted for the latter, passing a budget with $200 million set aside to build two or three additional state-run prisons to hold at least 200 more youth. Currently, fewer than 600 juveniles are imprisoned in the state’s prisons.
In a crucial bill that authorizes the Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s continued existence after what is known as a sunset review, the Legislature also passed a provision requiring the transfer of some teenagers from TJJD into the harsher, more punitive adult prison system. Such transfers have already been increasing at TJJD’s discretion as the agency has sought to restore order within its prisons, including that of a 16-year-old who died by suicide shortly after he was sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The measures will go into effect in September unless Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes them this month.
The decisions are a stark reversal from more than a decade of Texas trending away from imprisoning children. With TJJD’s history of scandals, state and county officials have shifted toward keeping more youth who’ve engaged in criminal behavior under local supervision, where research suggests they have the best outcomes. Since 2007, the state has closed eight prisons and shrunk the imprisoned youth population from about 5,000 to less than 600.
The youth still sent to TJJD, however, are often the most difficult to manage because of violent behavior, severe mental health needs or both. Although the sunset bill requires the agency to come up with a plan to find more local resources to keep children closer to home — and the budget gives a boost to local juvenile probation departments and diversion programs — lawmakers also pushed to build more facilities after the state projected more teenagers will be sent to TJJD in the near future after a pandemic-era slump.
Social justice groups have condemned both the plan to build new facilities and the plan to send more youth to adult prisons. The advocates have viewed the recent increase in transfers as a way for the beleaguered agency to throw away the kids with the highest needs. Building more prisons, they fear, will exacerbate the already extreme short-staffing for officers and lead to the same dire situations current prisons have faced.
“The new facilities are problematic, especially given all the problems that have been documented in the current facilities,” said Brett Merfish, youth justice director for Texas Appleseed. “They made it easier to send the youth from TJJD to TDCJ, so that also concerns me. Given the depth of problems, I don't think this really addressed them adequately.”
For years, TJJD, which is under federal investigation, has been entrenched in repeated scandals over sexual and physical abuse, and the agency has consistently struggled to keep officers on the payroll. Last summer, short-staffing hit emergency levels, leaving children locked in cells up to 23 hours a day, using water bottles and lunch trays as toilets. Self-harm behavior skyrocketed among imprisoned youth, nearly half of whom spent some time on suicide watch.
[Almost 600 Texas youths are trapped in a juvenile prison system on the brink of collapse]
The agency has since scrambled to recruit and retain more officers, largely by implementing an emergency 15% pay raise. By April, agency staffing had risen to nearly 60%, according to state reports. Although it’s still a dramatically low number, the agency had only 44% of its officer positions filled in August 2022.
The new state budget, which gives the agency a significant boost, will continue those increased pay rates for juvenile prison officers. It also sets aside the hefty investment for new facilities in populated areas, which have been touted as a solution to the problems plaguing outdated rural facilities.
“These facilities are needed, and we are grateful to the Legislature for this funding,” said Barbara Kessler, a spokesperson for TJJD. “We hope to see these modern facilities designed and sited as quickly as possible.”
With the Texas Facilities Commission, TJJD must submit its plan for the new units by August 2024. Kessler said in an email Wednesday the agency would begin working with its partners to determine the number and locations of new prisons.
The size and scope of the units, however, are still unclear. Lawmakers said the new facilities may be designed to serve specific populations, including those with acute mental health needs, the most aggressive or violent youth, or girls. But while lawmakers have touted the benefits of adding smaller, specialized facilities (“I think it’s going to be a game changer,” said state Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston), the only requirement put into legislation was for the agency to add a minimum of 200 beds.
Proposals from last year suggest about $200 million would cover two 100-bed detention centers, or three facilities with 40 to 56 beds. A House change to limit each facility to a maximum of 48 beds was stripped out in negotiations. Without specifics, advocates worry the new facilities will turn out to be two 100-bed units without specialization.
“To me that’s just perpetuating the problem and not fixing the ones we have,” Merfish said.
Opponents also worried additional prisons will lead to more children being locked up even if it’s not what is best for them.
“The more beds that we have, the more people we’ll find to fill those beds,” state Rep. Harold Dutton Jr., D-Houston, said in a March legislative hearing.
Outside of the budget, the key changes to TJJD come from the sunset bill. Senate Bill 1727 aims to reshape the agency’s board, and it requires the agency to come up with a plan to keep more kids closer to home by expanding funding to local services or using financial incentives to divert children away from the criminal system.
The bill would also require the agency to request transfers to TDCJ for many of its teens if they commit new crimes while in TJJD. Such crimes would include all first- or second-degree felonies, as well as the less severe but frequently pursued charge of assaulting a prison officer.
Senators have said such transfers are needed to restore order within youth prison walls and remove the most violent and disruptive kids.
“They’ve been sent for help and they’re preventing the other youth from getting help, so we’re trying to hold them accountable when they injure an officer or another youth,” Whitmire said in March when youth justice advocates pushed back on the transfers in a legislative hearing.
Kessler said the new requirement “codifies and strengthens what is generally existing practice” in TJJD, which sent significantly more youth to TCDJ last year than in previous years. She said it is difficult to predict how many more youth will be sent to TDCJ if the law takes effect.
“It supports our mission that youth assigned to TJJD be working toward better behavior,” Kessler said.
Youth justice advocates, however, fear the agency will wrongly push more of its most troubled kids off of its plate using the new requirement. They point to youth like Joshua Keith Beasley, the 16-year-old who died by suicide this year in TDCJ. Beasley had a lengthy history of mental illness and suicidal behavior and was first committed to TJJD at age 11 for kicking a school employee while on probation for vandalizing property. He was sent to TDCJ after hitting and spitting on a TJJD employee.
“When are we going to realize this isn’t criminal behavior?” Merfish asked. “First of all, they’re responding to trauma … but [also] if I’m grabbed by someone, I’m going to have a reaction. If they’re ‘out of control,’ then you’re not doing something right.”
Kessler said the agency will continue to work with youth to set them up for success within TJJD.
“The agency will continue to deescalate violent youths committed to its care, through treatment and programming, so they avoid additional offenses and have a chance at reform in the juvenile justice system,” she said.
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When it comes to inflation, the good news is that gas prices are dropping. The bad news is that other costs continue to climb faster than wages, and that's putting a strain on many family budgets across the country.
The Labor Department is set to report Wednesday on consumer prices for July. Forecasters expect the annual inflation rate will be somewhat lower than the 9.1% figure recorded in June.
A big reason for the expected decline is that gasoline prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks.
AAA said the average price of gasoline nationwide on Wednesday was $4.01 per gallon, still higher than last year, but well below the record high of $5.01 on June 14.
While that's some relief, Americans are still feeling squeezed by higher prices.
"Sure, that's better than $5," says Spencer Sutton of Newport, Pa., of the latest prices. "But compared to what we were paying before everything started with the war in Ukraine, it's still a high cost."
Sutton also worries about the high cost of groceries and especially housing. To save on expenses while his wife finishes nursing school, the couple moved in with his mother.
"As a 30-year-old millennial, I did not think I would still be living with my mom, with my brother and my wife," Sutton says. "It's certainly not the most ideal arrangement, but with what's going on in today's day and age, you have to do what you have to do."
Why you should pay attention to core inflation
Housing costs are a growing factor behind inflation. Rising rents and home prices are reflected only gradually in the Labor Department data, and those costs tend to be more persistent than volatile food and energy prices.
Forecasters say core inflation, which excludes food and energy costs, likely increased last month.
"That's moving in the wrong direction for the Federal Reserve," says Diane Swonk, chief economist for KPMG. "We do see some things coming down in price out there and that's great. But the other shoe to drop is the core inflation number."
Penelope Valdespino switched this year from a retail job to a higher-paying post with the school district in San Antonio, Texas. Her larger paycheck is rapidly gobbled up, though, by high inflation.
"I finally moved over to a different job where yes, I'm going to be getting paid $3 or $4 more an hour," she says. "That's awesome, but to catch up and keep everything in order is still a challenge in this climate right now."
Valdespino welcomes the drop in gasoline prices, but says she's still careful to limit unnecessary car trips. And she's watching her pennies at the grocery store.
"We're being really careful in how much meat we buy," she says.
Paychecks are not keeping pace with inflation
Sutton, who works for a dental insurance company, also got a raise this year, but says the money doesn't stretch as far as it used to.
"It wasn't enough to combat inflation and the rising cost of food," he says. "It's tough to get to the end of the week before you get paid and you're out of food and you're digging out of the freezer to try to find something."
Average wages in July were up 5.2% from a year ago — well short of the inflation rate.
Higher wages also complicate the Federal Reserve's efforts to fight inflation.
"We know how painful inflation is, especially for those living paycheck to paycheck," Fed chairman Jerome Powell said last month.
The Fed is trying to bring soaring prices under control by aggressively raising interest rates in an effort to tamp down demand.
But the Fed's task grew more challenging after last week's better-than-expected report on the labor market, which showed employers added 528,000 jobs last month.
"If those numbers are to be believed, we generated over a half-million new paychecks in the month of July, which is a lot of extra income," Swonk at KPMG says. "Even if individuals feel like they're losing ground relative to inflation, that extra income is supporting demand," keeping upward pressure on prices.
As a result, many observers now expect the central bank to approve another, jumbo interest rate increase of 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting in September, matching the rate hikes in June and July.
There's another benefit of falling gas prices
Still, the sharp drop in gasoline prices may help curb inflation in another way.
Falling prices at the pump not only lowered July's headline inflation rate, but also appeared to reduce people's concerns about future inflation.
That's important because if people believe prices will keep climbing out of control, that can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A new survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds people's expectations of inflation one and three years into the future fell sharply between June and July, just as gas prices were coming down.
Swonk says gas prices have an outsize impact on people's attitudes about the economy, even though other expenses like food and rent make up a bigger part of the typical household budget.
"Even if you don't drive, you walk or drive by a gas station," Swonk says. "It's something we all notice, front and center, every day."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2022-08-10/why-falling-gas-prices-are-not-taking-the-sting-out-of-inflation | 2022-08-10 11:06:22 | 1 | https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2022-08-10/why-falling-gas-prices-are-not-taking-the-sting-out-of-inflation |
TX Lubbock TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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Zone Forecasts for the South Plains Area
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
TXZ035-312115-
Lubbock-
Including the cities of Lubbock, Wolfforth, and Slaton
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly
in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ026-312115-
Childress-
Including the cities of Childress and Kirkland
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ021-312115-
Parmer-
Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, and Farwell
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ022-312115-
Castro-
Including the cities of Dimmitt and Hart
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ023-312115-
Swisher-
Including the cities of Tulia and Happy
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers, mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ024-312115-
Briscoe-
Including the cities of Silverton and Quitaque
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ025-312115-
Hall-
Including the cities of Turkey and Memphis
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ027-312115-
Bailey-
Including the city of Muleshoe
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ028-312115-
Lamb-
Including the cities of Littlefield, Amherst, and Olton
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ029-312115-
Hale-
Including the cities of Plainview and Hale Center
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms, mainly in the morning. Highs around 80. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ030-312115-
Floyd-
Including the cities of Floydada and Lockney
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
east this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ031-312115-
Motley-
Including the cities of Matador and Roaring Springs
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ032-312115-
Cottle-
Including the cities of Paducah and Cee Vee
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ033-312115-
Cochran-
Including the cities of Morton and Whiteface
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms, mainly in the morning. Highs around 80. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ034-312115-
Hockley-
Including the cities of Levelland and Sundown
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ036-312115-
Crosby-
Including the cities of Ralls and Crosbyton
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest
after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ037-312115-
Dickens-
Including the cities of Spur and Dickens
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ038-312115-
King-
Including the cities of Dumont and Guthrie
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms this morning,
then thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ039-312115-
Yoakum-
Including the cities of Denver City and Plains
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ040-312115-
Terry-
Including the cities of Brownfield, Meadow, and Wellman
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in
the morning. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ041-312115-
Lynn-
Including the cities of Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...A chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning, then
showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ042-312115-
Garza-
Including the cities of Post and Lake Alan Henry
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast this
afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs
in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ043-312115-
Kent-
Including the city of Jayton
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east this
afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs
in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ044-312115-
Stonewall-
Including the cities of Aspermont and Old Glory
244 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs
in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
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Supports Cleco's commitment to reinvest in DeSoto Parish and grow its renewable energy fleet
PINEVILLE, La., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleco Power (Cleco) and D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a leading renewable energy producer in the U.S., today announce a long-term renewable energy off-take agreement. The Dolet Hills Solar Project includes a 240 MWac facility to be constructed at the recently retired Dolet Hills lignite-fired power plant in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
The Dolet Hills Solar Project supports Cleco's growing renewable energy fleet and follows the company's recent announcement of Project Diamond Vault, a major economic development and decarbonization initiative to build a state-of-the-art carbon capture facility at its central Louisiana Brame Energy Center.
"This solar project is another step forward in Cleco's journey to becoming Louisiana's leading clean energy company," said Bill Fontenot, President and CEO of Cleco Corporate Holdings. "This project continues our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint while affordably and reliably serving our customers."
Pending project approvals, Dolet Hills will boast one of the largest solar facilities in Louisiana and will represent more than $250 million invested towards powering approximately 45,000 homes. While Dolet Hills Solar is the first power purchase agreement between the companies, DESRI's portfolio in Louisiana will now total nearly 700 MWac in construction and contracted clean power projects.
"DESRI is proud to deliver low-cost, clean, reliable power to Cleco and its customers from this landmark solar energy facility," said Hy Martin, Chief Development Officer of DESRI. "Alongside our partners at Cleco, the project will provide local economic benefits to DeSoto Parish and the surrounding communities for years to come. In addition, the project will replace lignite-fired electricity with renewable power sited on reclaimed mining lands."
The Dolet Hills Solar Project is expected to deliver significant community benefits, including the creation of local construction jobs and tax revenue for the Parish. When asked about the project, DeSoto Parish President, Ernel Jones, stated "Cleco has been an integral part of the DeSoto Parish community for over 70 years and we look forward to our continued partnership. At the same time, we welcome DESRI and believe the Dolet Hills Solar Project will lead the way for future economic growth in our area."
About Cleco Power, LLC
Cleco Power is a regulated electric public utility that owns nine generating units with a rated capacity of 3,035 megawatts. Assets also include 1,335 miles of transmission lines and 12,152 miles of distribution lines.
Cleco Power uses multiple generating sources and multiple fuels to serve approximately 291,000 customers in 24 of Louisiana's parishes through its retail business and supplies wholesale power in Louisiana and Mississippi. Parishes served include Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Catahoula, DeSoto, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Vernon and Washington.
For more information about Cleco, visit www.cleco.com.
About D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments
D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) and its affiliates develop, acquire, own, and operate long-term contracted renewable energy assets in the U.S. DESRI's portfolio of contracted, operating and in-construction renewable energy projects currently includes more than 65 solar and wind projects representing more than 6 GWac of aggregate capacity. DESRI is a member of the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with more than $60 billion in investment and committed capital as of June 1, 2022, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Please visit www.desri.com for more information about DESRI.
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HOUSTON, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraton Corporation, a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value biobased products derived from pine wood pulping by-products, announces a significant expansion of its styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymers (SBS) supply capability at its Belpre, Ohio facility starting in 2024. The production capacity is expected to increase by 24 kilotons annually by 2025.
"We are excited to announce plans to expand our Belpre manufacturing capacity. This expansion supports our growth strategy and our customer's growing demand for SBS in North America," said Holger Jung, Kraton Polymers CEO. He added, "Global supply chain challenges and force majeure situations in 2022 impacted our business, but we have successfully navigated and emerged stronger. We recognize the importance of a reliable, effective supply chain. This expansion will ensure Kraton efficiently delivers the products and solutions our customers rely on, with consistent quality. We appreciate our customers' patience and trust as we strive to meet their needs with best-in-class solutions."
The increased capacity affirms Kraton's dedication to enhancing product reliability and meeting ongoing demand from both current and potential customers. To further grow its SBS capacity in North America, Kraton is exploring additional manufacturing expansion opportunities to strengthen its regional position.
About Kraton Corporation
Kraton Corporation is a leading global producer of specialty polymers and high-value performance products derived from renewable resources. Kraton's polymers are used in a wide range of applications, including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants, and lubricants, and medical, packaging, automotive, paving and roofing products. As the largest global provider in the pine chemicals industry, the company's pine-based specialty products are sold into adhesive, road and construction and tire markets, and it produces and sells a broad range of performance chemicals into markets that include fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, coatings, metalworking fluids and lubricants, inks, and mining. Kraton offers its products to a diverse customer base in over 70 countries worldwide.
*Kraton, the Kraton logo and design are all trademarks of Kraton Corporation, or its subsidiaries or affiliates, in one or more, but not all countries.
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TAIPEI, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProLogium Technology (ProLogium), a global leader in innovative solid-state battery technology, announced today that it has joined NAATBatt International (NAATBatt), the premiere trade association of developers, manufacturers, suppliers and users of battery technology in North America, as a platinum member, and will also join upcoming meetings of its Board of Directors.
"We are pleased to be a member of NAATBatt, to learn and participate in the development of innovative solutions for the advancement of battery technologies," said Vincent Yang, CEO and Founder of ProLogium. "The United States plays a crucial role in the global automotive industry value chain. Automakers are accelerating their plans to extend their EV product range. With manufacturing bases in the region, we will be able to better meet the market's needs and benefit from local policy support. The proximity allows for local production and local supplies, manufacturing closer to customers to reduce carbon footprint – a win-win solution for the benefit of both our customers and ProLogium."
Jim Greenberger, Executive Director of NAATBatt International, said: "I'm delighted that ProLogium has joined NAATBatt and is planning to become an important part of the North American advanced battery supply chain. Scaling the manufacture of electrochemical energy storage technology is a challenge facing countries worldwide. NAATBatt will do its best to provide the resources required by ProLogium and fully support ProLogium's efforts to promote innovative battery technology in North America and help it enter the commercial field more quickly."
ProLogium is actively seeking to establish its first overseas battery plant. The company is in the process of selecting the location for its gigafactory in anticipation of the surging global demand for electric vehicles over the next decade. The estimated total investment in three phases is over USD 8 billion, and a feasibility study for potential sites has been initiated.
"With the recommendation and assistance from the US Department of Commerce, we were invited to the 2022 SelectUSA Investment Summit. We met with US officials and governors during the SelectUSA Summit. The US government expressed its full support for ProLogium to set up plants locally, an indication of the increasing strategic importance of the next-generation battery," Vincent Yang commented.
ProLogium has a three-phase construction plan for its first-ever overseas gigafactory. The total capacity is expected to reach 120 GWh when the plant is complete. The firm's final decision on plant location is set to be made by the first half of 2023 at the soonest. A due diligence process will be performed before the construction project kicks off. ProLogium also estimates that by 2031, the project will create over 6,500 jobs, and the company is poised to begin its global talent recruitment efforts in the areas of engineering, product research and development, business management, and more.
ProLogium's manufacturing competence has been well established in the past nine years. Its first production line for consumer applications began operating back in 2013, and its roll-to-roll EV battery pilot line began production in October 2017. The battery maker owns proprietary technologies covering over 500 (applied or awarded) patents worldwide and has established more than 4,000 quality control items in its production processes, achieving 99.9% yield for its single-layer cell manufacturing and 94% yield for multi-layer cells. The company has already shipped more than one million cells for consumer electronic applications (from 15mAh to 1Ah) with a very high level of customer satisfaction. It has already begun the long testing and certification process with key global car OEMs by delivering nearly 8,000 EV battery cells (50-60Ah). These results laid a solid foundation for its global mass production gigafactory.
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SHANGHAI, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO and SEHK: 2057) ("ZTO" or the "Company"), a leading and fast-growing express delivery company in China, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the third quarter 2022 ended September 30, 2022, after the U.S. market closes on November 21, 2022.
ZTO's management team will host an earnings conference call at 7:30 P.M. U.S. Eastern Time on Monday, November 21, 2022, which is 8:30 A.M. Beijing Time on Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
A replay of the conference call may be accessible through November 28, 2022 by dialing the following numbers:
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will also be available at the Company's investor relations website at http://zto.investorroom.com.
About ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.
ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO and SEHK: 2057) ("ZTO" or the "Company") is a leading and fast-growing express delivery company in China. ZTO provides express delivery service as well as other value-added logistics services through its extensive and reliable nationwide network coverage in China.
ZTO operates a highly scalable network partner model, which the Company believes is best suited to support the significant growth of e-commerce in China. The Company leverages its network partners to provide pickup and last-mile delivery services, while controlling the mission-critical line-haul transportation and sorting network within the express delivery service value chain.
For more information, please visit http://zto.investorroom.com.
For investor inquiries, please contact:
Investor Relations
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge has approved confidential settlements of multiple civil lawsuits related to the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas' history.
Las Vegas media outlets report Clark County District Court Judge Maria Gall on Thursday signed off on the terms between dozens of plaintiffs and the Alpine Motel owners in a closed hearing.
The resolution comes more than three years after the blaze killed six people and injured 13 others.
Some residents reported having used ovens for heat and climbing out of second- and third-story windows to escape smoke and flames. Several perished trying to escape through locked exit doors.
Records showed inspectors found over 40 fire code violations in the days immediately after.
There were almost 20 defendants across the lawsuits. They included the building’s former owner and companies that allegedly failed to maintain the alarm system.
Robert Murdock, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal Friday the settlements will allow everyone to begin the process of moving forward.
The former owners are expected in court later this month for a preliminary hearing on criminal charges.
The Dec. 21, 2019 fire spurred a new city “Hotel-Motel Rental Inspection Program.” City inspectors starting this year have conducted code enforcement inspections at least once a year of more than 30 aging residential properties built before 1981. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/settlement-reached-in-suits-over-deadly-2019-las-17885349.php | 2023-04-07 23:16:26 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/settlement-reached-in-suits-over-deadly-2019-las-17885349.php |
Liz Mulroney felt like it was 1999 all over again.
A gunman had killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde. The North Texas teacher had flashbacks to watching teenagers jumping out of windows on TV during the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, where two gunmen killed 13 people.
As an English teacher who has taught in Colorado and Texas, Mulroney says her career has been “colored by school shootings and violence in schools.”
Now, one year after the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School, Mulroney is among North Texas teachers, parents and students who say they feel powerless in the face of mass shootings that have plagued the state.
Heated debates on school safety have spread like wildfire. High school students across Texas led one walkout after another to demand action from lawmakers. State representatives and senators introduced bills tied to billion-dollar proposals that would bolster security. Gov. Greg Abbott introduced a new safety requirement that seeks to prevent intruder access.
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But for the tens of thousands of Texans who teach, learn and work at public schools every day, some say nothing has really changed.
“I feel like we’re still there … it’s still happening,” Mulroney said.
Having a 14-year-old in high school and a husband who works in school construction and design, Mulroney, who lives in Lucas, says conversations on school safety are a constant at the family dinner table. But the overwhelming feeling that crept up when she first went through lockdown training at the beginning of her career still lingers.
“It’s a terrifying thing to have to do when you’re responsible for children,” she said. “You’re not just fighting for your own life, you’re fighting to protect other people’s children’s lives, too.”
Failure to act
Before May 24, 2022, Uvalde was a small, predominantly Latino city in South Texas that few had heard about. Now its name is synonymous with the deadliest school shooting in the state’s history and the second deadliest elementary shooting in the country.
Most of the victims were fourth graders from the same class. The two others were teachers who had taught for five years at the Uvalde elementary school.
The shooter slipped into the building through an unlocked side door and remained in the school for more than an hour before law enforcement shot him. Police’s inaction and failure to act stunned and enraged people across the nation.
In June 2022, Abbott ordered the Texas School Safety Center and the Texas Education Agency to start performing inspections, or safety checks, on school campuses across the state. These inspections should be “in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits” and have the goal of finding how quickly an intruder could get into a school building without being stopped.
Abbott noted that the center must ensure “a culture of constant vigilance is ingrained in every campus.”
The governor also promoted an app called iWatch Texas, where anyone can report suspicious activity or “behaviors that may indicate criminal, terroristic or school safety-related threats.” The tool has not been widely used across the state. Over 300 school districts in Texas instead use STOPit, a reporting software owned by a private company.
By October, Abbott created a new position within the TEA, chief of school safety and security, and provided $400 million for school districts to improve their facilities and safety systems.
Meanwhile, school districts across the state had to respond to students, families and employees who were terrified their school could be next.
Dallas ISD mandated all students from sixth through 12th grade to start using clear backpacks to school. They provided a backpack for each student and banned any bag that wasn’t clear or made out of mesh.
“There are usually questions from parents when highly publicized safety events occur at other districts around Texas or the country,” Richardson ISD spokesperson Tim Clark said.
To address frequent concerns, Richardson ISD created an FAQ page on the district’s website. Some of the questions parents often ask are whether the district has employees dedicated to school safety or police officers in every school building. The answer to both questions is yes.
At the Capitol
During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers filed multiple bills on school safety. The legislation proposed adding more armed personnel on campuses and increasing mental health support and security technology.
Separately from the school safety bills, some of the families of Uvalde victims went to the Capitol several times to testify in support of a House bill that would raise the age to purchase semiautomatic weapons from 18 to 21.
A recent survey from the University of Texas at Austin found that 57% of Texans support raising the legal age to purchase any firearm from 18 to 21.
The Uvalde shooter legally purchased the rifle used to kill 21 people just a few days after his 18th birthday. A year before the massacre, he unsuccessfully tried to buy a rifle and ammunition. He was still 17 and couldn’t get a firearm.
The bill has strong opponents, including Abbott.
The debates around the school safety bills have focused on the role of firearms on campuses.
Texas has two programs that allow school personnel to carry firearms: Marshal and Guardian. Both programs require school districts to opt-in. Since the Uvalde shooting, Republican state leaders have been pushing proposals that would arm additional staff.
One of the requirements for the Marshal program is to undergo 80 hours of training and a psychological exam. The same is not true for the Guardian program.
One bill would require every school campus to have at least one armed staff present during school hours.
Another bill that received significant support from the Legislature would offer an incentive of up to $25,000 for school employees willing to carry guns on campuses.
These bills have been highly criticized by Democrats who believe arming school personnel is not a solution to gun violence.
Zeph Capo, president of the Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, said, “We have a problem with guns in the hands of the wrong people.”
A survey by the Texas AFT found that 77% of Texas school employees do not want to be armed or expected to intercept a gunman.
“Using mental health as a diversion from real issues is not the right thing,” Capo said. “Yes, we need to provide more money to mental health, particularly in school time for counselors to actually do counseling instead of test prep and other things.”
But financially supporting changes within districts has been difficult, as the state support is limited. Many districts try to pass bonds locally but fail to do so because residents are afraid of higher property taxes.
In the aftermath of the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018, the state started to provide an annual per-student allotment for security purposes. Proposed bills would increase the amount from $10 to $100.
Another proposal would require schools to have “silent alert” devices that would immediately contact law enforcement and first responders.
Craig Miller, a retired Dallas ISD chief of police, told The Dallas Morning News that school districts should focus on the fundamentals of safety. “Technology is great, but sometimes we have to take a step back,” he said.
One example is to make sure all doors are locked and numbered so that, when law enforcement enters the building during an emergency, they’ll know exactly where the threat is.
Miller emphasized the importance of behavior threat assessment teams and counseling. If a student is depressed or suicidal, these teams need to be informed.
He believes in a more “common sense” approach to school safety, which includes vetting people before they come into the school and reducing the number of entrance points.
Moving forward
The day-to-day experiences in school grounds haven’t changed much, said Rosemary Curts, a Dallas ISD math teacher.
“We’ve got key cards. We’ve been more vigilant about students having ID badges. All doors stay locked,” Curts said. “But all of that feels like safety theater to me. It doesn’t make me feel safer.”
Curts said the kind of security measures that have been implemented wouldn’t stop a person who wants to shoot up a school.
She believes gun control is the only way to go. “They say people just get [guns] anyway. But if you’re going to make that argument, why do we have laws in society at all?”
Teacher Liz Mulroney’s only child, Trevor, comes up with some sort of survival strategy for almost every room at school.
“I shouldn’t have to worry about that,” Trevor said. “It’s a problem that shouldn’t exist.”
Roughly half of school shootings are carried out by current or former students. Trevor said he worries this leaves schools vulnerable to those who are familiar with the security measures in place.
Instead of heavier security, the 14-year-old said he believes building a sense of community is essential as Texas moves forward.
Malcolm Mulroney, Trevor’s father, designs school buildings, thinking of solutions to this problem. But he said that alone won’t keep campuses safe.
“When will we as a community say, ‘This is not acceptable. It’s not going to happen in my community’?” Malcolm asked.
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The bank SoFi is suing to end the Biden administration’s pandemic-era pause on federal student loan payments, claiming it is an overreach of power.
SoFi, a personal finance company that sells products for student loan refinancing, filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on Friday aimed at ending the freeze, USA Today reported.
President Biden in November extended the federal pause on student loan payments and interest accrual, which was first enacted by then-President Trump at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden said last year that the freeze was extended until beyond June while his administration faces legal challenges to its own debt forgiveness plan.
In the SoFi filing, the company argues that the administration’s pause extension was to “alleviate ‘uncertainty’ for borrowers during the pendency of ongoing litigation regarding the debt-cancellation program,” as opposed to help borrowers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The freeze has been extended eight times since it was put in place by Trump in March 2020.
The SoFi lawsuit comes as federal student loan borrowers are left in limbo over the exact date they will have to begin repayments. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week on two cases contesting Biden’s forgiveness plan that could give up to $20,000 of relief to millions of Americans.
Biden said last week that he’s not confident that the Supreme Court will clear his plan, but the White House has avoided outlining any kind of Plan B.
“Right now, the plan that we have before the Supreme Court is the plan that we have for the American people,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday. “We believe that again, we have the legal authority, that the other side does not, it does not have the standing or the merit to really move forward with what they’re trying to do.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/sofi-sues-to-block-biden-pause-on-student-loans/ | 2023-03-07 17:08:19 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/sofi-sues-to-block-biden-pause-on-student-loans/ |
Senior-level appointments tapped to help company chart next stage of strategic growth in the bot management, account security, and online fraud detection sector
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkose Labs, the global leader in fraud deterrence and account security, today announced three executive-level appointments. Prashant Nirmal has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). He will report directly to founder and CEO Kevin Gosschalk and have a seat on the executive leadership team. Heather Zynczak former CMO of Pluralsight and Domo has been appointed to the Board of Directors, and Wil Bolivar, CTO of Softbank Investment Advisers, joins the Board of Directors in the role of Observer.
A seasoned CMO, Nirmal boasts deep security industry experience and is known for developing transformational marketing strategies combined with an innovative approach to operations. He takes the helm as Arkose Labs' marketing chief to further distinguish the company's position in the marketplace and drive profitable revenue-generation opportunities that accelerate growth. He is responsible for the global marketing function, including demand generation strategy, business development, brand programs, corporate communications, and product marketing.
"Nirmal is a proven leader with deep experience in the cybersecurity space and knows how to connect with our key buyers in a way that enables their success," said Gosschalk. "His go-to-market expertise coupled with his knowledge of the challenges and opportunities CISOs face every day will be of enormous value as we take Arkose Labs to the next level."
"Consumers' online accounts are one of the most lucrative attack points fraudsters are targeting today," said Nirmal. "Arkose Labs provides the leading technology solutions that are essential for weeding out bad actors from good users, ensuring that fraudsters don't profit from attacks and that consumers have a care-free online experience. I'm honored to join the executive ranks at Arkose Labs to support the company's mission and growth goals."
In addition to Nirmal's hire, the company appointed Heather Zynczak to the Board of Directors. Zynczak has deep marketing experience built on the foundation of an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and decades of experience in leading growth initiatives at technology businesses. She currently serves on the Board of three software companies, including Demandbase, Thryv, and ExpertVoice. Earlier in her career she worked for Fortune 500 companies Oracle and then SAP before being tapped to lead the global marketing functions as CMO at startups Domo and Pluralsight, where she founded Women of Pluralsight. Of the current six Board members, Zynczak is the second woman director alongside Dafina Toncheva, of U.S. Venture Partners. Gosschalk noted her appointment reflects the company's commitment to diversity.
"Throughout the past quarter, Heather has been advising our company's marketing efforts, bringing strategic and process innovation as well as decisive guidance to the function," Gosschalk said. "Due to her firm understanding of our company and the marketplace, she also helped steer the search and selection of our new marketing chief."
In July, the company added Wil Bolivar as Board Observer. A seasoned, senior-level technology executive, Bolivar currently serves as CTO at Softbank Investment Advisers. Bolivar will leverage his new appointment to support Arkose Labs' expansion and reach into the marketplace to assist the company in realizing its ultimate goal. Softbank Vision Fund 2 led Arkose Labs's Series C $70 million capital raise, which closed in May 2021.
"Wil brings a new point of view to Arkose Labs' Board of Directors," Gosschalk said. "Every day he walks in the shoes of our most senior-level buyers. I'm looking forward to him helping us anticipate the business issues CTOs, CIOs, and CISOs will be dealing with in the next 12 to 18 months to ensure we are aligning our solutions where they and their peers are taking their companies."
Find out more about the Arkose Labs leadership team here.
The most recognizable enterprise brands in the world, like Microsoft, Snap, PayPal, and Roblox select Arkose Labs for its account security and fraud prevention technology that thwarts fraudsters by driving their ROI on attacks to zero.
Arkose Labs' mission is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from malicious activity. Its AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic attack response that undermines the ROI behind attacks while improving good user throughput. The company offers the world's first and only $1 million credential stuffing warranty. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, San Jose, Costa Rica, and London, UK, the company debuted as the 83rd fastest-growing company in North America on the 2021 Deloitte Fast500 ranking.
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Arkose Labs
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School shooter’s attorneys drop contentious brain exam
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz won’t present to his jurors the results of a controversial test that they said supports their belief he suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome.
The attorneys told Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer on Wednesday that they won’t use the test. The test compared brainwaves from the 23-year-old mass murderer with normal people.
Prosecutors and critics says the test is unproven and junk.
Cruz pleaded guilty to murdering 17 at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
The jury in his ongoing penalty trial will only decide if he should be sentenced to death or life without parole.
It resumes Monday with his attorneys’ opening statement.
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creality, a global pioneer in 3D printing, officially introduced its laser engraver and cutter, CR-Laser Falcon, at the "Make it NEO-Creality Summer Upgrade" ceremony on August 5, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The CR-Laser Falcon with a 10W module and the proven 3D core technology of the Creality Ender 3D series, ensures quality, stability, and accuracy. It will be available in the United States at the official Creality Store from August 18, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). Users in European countries can also purchase from store.creality.com/de on August 22, at 10:00 a.m. (GMT+2).
The 5W laser module CR-Laser Falcon was released in April this year. Its ease-of-use, precise engraving, and unique color left a deep impression on users. However, some users gave feedback that they were eager to experience a higher laser module in order to be able to cut deeper wood board and even acrylic.
Enter the CR-Laser Falcon with its 10W laser module. It features 0.06mm of precision, 12mm one-pass cutting and easy operation. For all types of users, from DIY hobbyists to those that run a maker's workshop, it is a useful machine to have access to. Compared to the CR-Laser Falcon 5W, the latest CR-Laser Falcon 10W has stronger engraving and cutting performance. With the advanced LD+FAC+C-Lens technology, it compresses the focal spot to only 0.06mm which translates to sharp and deep edges, as well as clean engravings.
The 10W laser module makes it easier to cut through thicker materials. It can cut through 12mm wood board with one pass and engraves patterns on objects as hard as stainless steel. CR-Laser Falcon has a 400x415 mm work area, which allows users to process larger pieces of material each time. Importantly, an optional raiser can be chosen to increase engraving height (approx. 150mm). With the optional raiser, patterns can be engraved and designed on a higher object, such as guitars or skateboards.
One-button control makes this engraving machine really easy to use, which can be operated offline. In its offline working mode, users can import files through a TF card, operate the machine with one button to preview, start, pause, or stop engraving and cutting. It is perfect for users to use indoors, outdoors or wherever they like without a computer.
Focusing is not a tricky operation for CR-Laser Falcon and can be done in only takes 3 steps. The laser module screw just needs to be loosened, and then the module needs to be slid until its protective cover touches the focus block, and then the screw tightened. Focusing is then complete.
CR-Laser Falcon is equipped with all-around safety protections. The protective cover around the laser head prevents the laser from dazzling the eyes. It also features a gyroscope, buzzer, and indicator so that the machine will stop working in case of an accidental tilt, flip or drop and sends an alert.
CR-Laser Falcon comes with a variety of user-friendly designs not found on other machines in this price class, such as:
- Built-in leveler: A visualized aid to level the machine body for ideal engraving consistency.
- Multi-level fixed focus block: It helps users find the suitable focus distance for different depths of materials without measuring.
- Measuring scale on the axis profiles: Allows for quick location of the engraving position and gauging of the engraving object size.
Thanks to the 3D core tech of the Ender series of 3D printers, CR-Laser Falcon has a superbly robust design that makes it a leader in motion stability:
- Stability-oriented drive: 32-bit chip, silent mainboard, and a self-developed algorithm to drive the steppers on the X and Y axes precisely, synchronously, and quietly.
- Synchronous and smooth motion: 4 durable Y-shaped motion wheels come with a stable v-slot sliding rail and high-tension timing belt with no motion gaps present even after long term usage.
- Stable and robust structure: An 8mm shaft instead of the ordinary 6mm shaft, and L-shaped anti-slip rubber tripods, enhancing stability in the structure.
About Release Benefits
The 10W Laser Engraver will be available on Creality US online store on 10:00am(EDT), 18th, Aug. while be available on Creality European online store on 10:00am(GMT+2), 18th, Aug. Users might have chance to get it with 50% OFF and get a $100 return within the first two hours. Their release benefits are really big and attractive.
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About Creality
Creality is a leading, global consumer-level 3D printing brand, focusing on 3D printer research and production. The self-developed and manufacturing FDM and Resin 3D printers are pioneering in the 3D printing market. In 2021, Creality developed and launched our first laser engraving machines, CV-01, and then the CV-01 Pro, 5W CR-Laser Falcon, 10W CR-Laser Falcon. We are constantly updating our laser engravers in terms of laser power, engraving size, and structure to meet the ongoing upgrading needs of users.
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Essentials for hosting the best Sunday Night Football gathering
Hosting a party is hard work, but it’s worth it if everyone enjoys themselves. However,
if you want to host a Sunday Night Football gathering, there are a few essentials you’ll need to ensure that it’s a success.
Football has some of the most rabid fans in all sports, so it’s best to avoid upsetting them. Whether it’s Week 1 or the Super Bowl, the host must be well-prepared and determined to provide an unforgettable experience.
What do I need to host Sunday Night Football?
Food and drinks
Some people actually care more about the social aspects of a football gathering than the game itself, so it’s crucial to stock up on plenty of food and drinks for your guests. The most popular foods for football gatherings are often finger foods and appetizers such as buffalo wings, nachos, jalapeño poppers, mozzarella sticks, cocktail shrimp and vegetables and dip.
For drinks, you should have a few options for alcoholic beverages, and if you want to spice things up a bit, you can look into getting a bartender or cocktail mixing set. Also, it’s a good idea to have plenty of water and other non-alcoholic beverages for mixing or for guests who don’t drink alcohol.
Decorations
You don’t have to go overboard with the decorations, but showing your support for your favorite team is acceptable by having a banner or flag hanging around. You can also get general football-themed decorations such as football field tablecloths and yellow penalty flag napkins.
Big-screen TV
Once you’ve covered the food and drinks, you must ensure your guests will have an enjoyable viewing experience. That usually means having a large screen to watch the game. If you live in a small apartment, a TV in the 43- to 55-inch range will suffice. However, if you have the space, your guests might expect you to have a big-screen TV.
Big-screen TVs are usually 55 to 85 inches wide. An 85-inch TV might be overkill, not to mention expensive, so it’s best to go with one in the 55- to 75-inch range. Also, shop for value, as plenty of big-screen TVs are available at affordable prices.
Sound bar
A sound bar isn’t necessary for you and your guests to enjoy the game, but if you want to impress your guests and have the best experience possible, it goes a long way. Built-in TV speakers offer mediocre sound quality, and if you have a lot of guests in your house, it can be noisy, and it might be difficult to hear what’s going on in the game. A sound bar is excellent for ramping up the volume and lets viewers hear the TV more clearly.
12 must-haves for hosting a successful Sunday Night Football gathering
Food and drink essentials and decorations
NFL Football Mini Pennant Banner Flag Complete Set
Do you have a favorite NFL team? If you do, this set has a mini banner flag measuring 4 inches by 9 inches of every NFL team so that you can show your support on game day. Sold by Amazon
US Acrylic Avant Plastic 3-Section Stackable Serving Tray
This party tray measures 15 inches by 10 inches, and it is divided into three segments, making it perfect for serving appetizers, snacks and dips. It’s shatterproof, made with lightweight plastic and has a contemporary design. Sold by Amazon
JTWKING 24-Set Light Up Shot Glasses
If you’re one of those hosts who doesn’t get too immersed in the game, you can spice things up with a fun drinking game. These light-up shot glasses flash in various dazzling colors and have a long-lasting service life. Sold by Amazon
Island Genius Football-Themed Party Supplies and Decorations
This set has all the necessary decorations to give your Sunday Night Football gathering an appropriate theme. It comes with 24 yellow penalty flag napkins, a rectangular football field table cloth and disposable touchdown dinner plates and cups. Sold by Amazon
Cresimo Large Cocktail Shaker 12-Piece Set
Fix your guests a margarita or a martini with this premium shaker set. It has a high-quality bamboo stand and stainless steel tools for mixing the perfect cocktail. Plus, it’s dishwasher-safe and comes with a bonus recipe guide. Sold by Amazon
Miusco 12-Inch Chip and Dip Serving Set
This handcrafted, 12-inch plate with a sauce bowl in the center is excellent for chips and dip but also works great for buffalo wings, cocktail shrimp, nachos and vegetables. It’s made with natural acacia wood. Sold by Amazon
Big-screen TVs
Samsung 60-inch Class Crystal TU7000 Series 4K UHD Smart TV
This TV has an ultra-fast processor and HDR technology for reproducing impressive clarity and stunning visuals. The smart functions are powered by Tizen, which offers access to the best streaming apps and services. Sold by Amazon
Amazon Fire TV 65-inch Omni Series 4K UHD Smart TV
This TV has Dolby Vision and Dolby Digital Plus for an immersive viewing experience. It has HDR technology for improved clarity, brightness and contrast and built-in microphones so users can access Alexa hands-free. Sold by Amazon
TCL 65-inch Class 4-Series 4K UHD HDR Smart Roku TV
This TV is a great bargain pick and offers vivid colors and a lifelike picture. Users can access thousands of streaming channels and personalize the home screen with their favorite apps. Plus, it supports Google Assistant and Alexa. Sold by Amazon
LG 75-inch Class UQ9000 Series 4K Smart TV
This TV is loaded with premium features such as Active HDR and HDR Dynamic Tone Mapping for reproducing a crisp image. The Magic Remote lets users point and scroll to navigate the menus, and the Game Optimizer mode reduces input lag. Sold by Amazon
Sound bars
Crank up the sound during the game with this high-end voice-control sound bar. It has a sleek design, two upward-firing dipole speakers for rich sound, and it supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect for wireless streaming. Sold by Amazon
You don’t need to break the bank to get a sound upgrade for your TV. This affordable sound bar has a Bass Reflex speaker for deep sound, and setup is easy with HDMI ARC. Also, it has a voice enhancement feature for hearing dialogue more clearly. Sold by Amazon
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Houston vs. Auburn: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NCAA Tournament Second Round
The No. 1 seed Houston Cougars (32-3) aim to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament when they face the No. 9 seed Auburn Tigers (21-12) on Saturday at 7:10 PM.
See odds, spreads, over/unders and more from multiple sportsbooks in this article for the Houston vs. Auburn matchup.
Houston vs. Auburn Game Info
- When: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Legacy Arena at BJCC in Birmingham, Alabama
- How to Watch on TV: TBS
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Houston vs. Auburn Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Take a look at the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup on individual sportsbooks.
Houston vs. Auburn Betting Trends
- Houston has compiled an 18-16-1 record against the spread this season.
- The Cougars and their opponents have combined to hit the over 15 out of 35 times this season.
- Auburn is 16-16-1 ATS this season.
- So far this year, 20 out of the Tigers' 33 games with an over/under have hit the over.
Houston Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +450
- Houston is best in the country in terms of its odds to win the national championship (+450), but only third-best, according to computer rankings.
- The Cougars' national championship odds have jumped from +900 at the beginning of the season to +450, the 79th-biggest change among all teams.
- Houston's chances of winning the national championship, based on its odds, are 18.2%.
Auburn Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +7500
- The Tigers were +4500 to win the national championship at the start of the season, and have now dropped to +7500, which is the 68th-biggest change in the country.
- Auburn has a 1.3% chance of winning the national championship, based on its moneyline odds.
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Despite a chorus of widespread attacks on Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — including from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended his decision to hand over the more than 40,000 hours of related security footage.
Carlson and his team had exclusive access to the security tape surrounding the attack thanks to McCarthy, drawing concerns the host would use it to spread a new wave of disinformation.
McCarthy said on Tuesday evening that he didn't watch Carlson's show the night before, where Carlson said that Jan. 6 was "mostly peaceful chaos" and that "the footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress."
"I continue to hold that my job here, just like I was asked long before, is to make sure all the transparency comes out and that's exactly what I'm doing," McCarthy said.
McCarthy finds himself out of step with McConnell. The Senate Republican Leader said Tuesday afternoon he aligned himself with remarks issued earlier Tuesday by U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger to his rank-and-file slamming Carlson's "offensive and misleading conclusions" about the siege. He held up Manger's one-page statement — called "Truth & Justice" — near the Senate chamber.
"It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks," McConnell told reporters.
Earlier Tuesday, Manger asked his statement be read at roll call meetings for rank-and-file and posted on all Capitol Police bulletin boards. In the memo, which was obtained by NPR, Manger listed out a series of falsehoods portrayed by Fox:
"TV commentary will not record the truth for our history books," Manger said in closing. "The justice system will. The truth and justice are on our side."
McConnell said Manger's comments are the correct view. But the Senate Republican leader stopped short of criticizing the House speaker when asked if McCarthy made a mistake in giving Carlson access to the security footage. McConnell responded by saying, "My concern is how it was depicted, which is a different issue."
"Clearly the chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6. So that's my reaction to it," he said.
Earlier this month, McCarthy confirmed reports that he had allowed the release of the extensive footage to Carlson as an exclusive. Carlson began a two-part show series on the violent attack last night with the false claims, continuing a previous theme by the host.
In comments to reporters Tuesday evening, McCarthy said he would release the footage to all media outlets and the public, but wouldn't say when that would happen.
He also denied that he handed the tapes over to Carlson in a deal to win over conservative House members in his contested bid for the speakership.
Democrats warned it was a dangerous move to hand the tapes over to Carlson alone. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer doubled down on those concerns speaking to reporters after McConnell's remarks.
"Last night, Fox News, with Speaker McCarthy as a willing, capable and powerful accomplice, aired one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen in the history — in the entire history of cable television," Schumer said. "Tucker Carlson is a propagandist publicly pretending to be a newsman."
Alluding to revelations in a case brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, Schumer said the network's efforts have been outed and that "they're liars."
Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Brent Burns Player Prop Bets: Hurricanes vs. Devils - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 3
Brent Burns and the Carolina Hurricanes are playing the New Jersey Devils in Game 3 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round, on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET. Looking to wager on Burns' props versus the Devils? Scroll down for stats and information.
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Brent Burns vs. Devils Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TBS, SN1, and TVAS
- Points Prop: 0.5 points (Over odds: -125)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 assists (Over odds: +125)
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Hurricanes vs Devils Game Info
Burns Season Stats Insights
- In 82 games this season, Burns has averaged 23:13 on the ice, while putting up a plus-minus of +19.
- Burns has scored a goal in 17 of 82 games this year, netting multiple goals in one of them.
- Burns has a point in 47 games this year (out of 82), including multiple points 11 times.
- Burns has an assist in 32 of 82 games played this season, including multiple assists eight times.
- Burns has an implied probability of 55.6% to eclipse his point total based on the odds.
- The implied probability of Burns going over his assist prop bet, based on the odds, is 44.4%.
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Burns Stats vs. the Devils
- On defense, the Devils have been one of the stingiest units in the league, allowing 222 goals in total (2.7 per game) which ranks eighth.
- The team's goal differential (+67) ranks third-best in the NHL.
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A bill that would prevent the federal government from taking over Indiana’s air pollution control program passed the state House on Tuesday.
Coal plant closures and other factors have led to less air pollution in Indiana. While that’s a good thing, it also means fewer companies are paying the air permit fees that keep the program running at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to IDEM warning the agency that if Indiana doesn't increase fees, the program could face a multi-million dollar deficit by the end of this fiscal year.
READ MORE: Bill to prevent federal control of Indiana air pollution passes state Senate
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If the state can’t support its air program, the EPA could take it over, heighten enforcement at Indiana businesses that have air permits, or make the state carry out a performance plan with EPA's oversight.
Senate Bill 155 would raise air permit fees by more than $3,000. As with current law, it would only allow the state to increase fees again every five years and by no more than 10 percent.
The bill now goes back to the state Senate to consider changes made to it.
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CINCINNATI, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Financial Bancorp. (Nasdaq: FFBC) announced today that it expects to release fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results after the market close on Thursday, January 26, 2023. A teleconference and webcast to discuss these results will be held on Friday, January 27, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
First Financial Bancorp. is a Cincinnati, Ohio based bank holding company. As of September 30, 2022, the Company had $16.6 billion in assets, $9.8 billion in loans, $12.3 billion in deposits and $2.0 billion in shareholders' equity. The Company's subsidiary, First Financial Bank, founded in 1863, provides banking and financial services products through its six lines of business: Commercial, Retail Banking, Investment Commercial Real Estate, Mortgage Banking, Commercial Finance and Wealth Management. These business units provide traditional banking services to business and retail clients. Wealth Management provides wealth planning, portfolio management, trust and estate, brokerage and retirement plan services and had approximately $3.0 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2022. The Company operated 134 full service banking centers as of September 30, 2022, primarily in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, while the Commercial Finance business lends into targeted industry verticals on a nationwide basis. Additional information about the Company, including its products, services and banking locations, is available at www.bankatfirst.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff McNeil hit a go-ahead, three-run homer during a rain-soaked fourth inning, Francisco Lindor drove in three to extend his RBI streak to a career-best six games and the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-2 on Saturday night.
Taijuan Walker (3-0) limited the Phillies to two runs in five innings, Luis Guillorme matched a career high with three hits and the NL East leaders improved to 31-17. They'll try for a three-game sweep Sunday night in their final game against Philadelphia until Aug. 12.
Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto had two hits each, but the Phillies stumbled with yet another defensive lowlight in the outfield and went 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position.
Heavy rain began falling in the bottom of the fourth, and that's when the Mets pounced against starter Zach Eflin (1-4). Lindor walked and Pete Alonso singled before McNeil roped his homer into the second deck in right field. McNeil flipped his bat and stared into New York's dugout as the ball soared into the seats for a 4-2 lead.
The downpour let up in the fifth, but the Mets didn't. Guillorme led off with a bunt single, Starling Marte doubled, and both scored on Lindor's triple. Lindor drove in another run with a single in the seventh and has 14 RBIs during his six-game run.
Lindor's triple was a long fly ball that skipped off the fence in left-center between Phillies outfielders Kyle Schwarber and Odubel Herrera. The pair collided on the warning track and bounced off the wall together, the latest misplay by Philadelphia's maligned defenders.
Alonso followed with a sacrifice fly, making him the first Mets player to accrue 29 RBIs in May. Alonso leads the majors with 46 RBIs in 48 games.
Dominic Smith's sacrifice fly in the second made it 1-0 New York, but Philadelphia took the lead in the fourth. Realmuto's bases-loaded line drive went just past a diving Guillorme at second base for a two-run single and a 2-1 advantage.
Walker threw 30 pitches in the fourth but left the bases loaded on Schwarber's flyout.
Colin Holderman threw two scoreless innings in relief for New York, giving him eight shutout frames to begin his big league career.
Eflin covered six innings but was charged with seven runs. He struck out four after punching out 12 Los Angeles Dodgers in his previous outing.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Phillies: Bryce Harper was hit in the foot by Rhys Hoskins' foul ball while leading off third base in the third inning, but remained in the game.
Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom said his injured right shoulder blade feels “completely normal,” and he’s waiting for New York’s medical staff to clear him to resume throwing off a mound. ... CF Brandon Nimmo had an MRI on his right wrist that came back clean, but was held out of the lineup. Manager Buck Showalter said he expected Nimmo might get an injection, but he doesn’t anticipate New York’s leadoff hitter will miss significant time. ... RHP Yoan Lopez was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse, and OF Nick Plummer was called up.
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Former Mets pitcher Zack Wheeler (3-3, 3.38) starts for the Phillies against New York RHP Chris Bassitt (4-2, 3.91) on Sunday night. Wheeler is 4-2 with a 2.58 ERA in nine starts against the Mets since signing a $118 million, five-year deal with Philadelphia prior to the 2020 season.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard.
Maine created one of the toughest rules in the nation for internet service providers in 2020 when it began enforcing an “opt-in” web privacy standard. The law stops the service providers from using, disclosing, selling or providing access to customers’ personal information without permission.
Industry associations swiftly sued with a claim that the new law violated their First Amendment rights. A federal judge rejected that challenge, but legal wrangling continued.
The groups, which include the country’s biggest telecommunications providers, filed to dismiss the lawsuit on Sept. 2, said Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey. Frey said the state’s privacy law held up despite the efforts of an “army of industry lawyers organized against us,” and now other states can follow Maine’s lead.
“Maine’s Legislature wisely sought to protect Maine residents by restricting the disclosure and use of their most private and personal information,” Frey said.
The Maine Legislature passed the bill, proposed by former Democratic state Sen. Shenna Bellows, who is now Maine’s secretary of state, in 2019. Internet service providers then sued in February 2020, and attorneys for Maine have been in court defending the law since. The proposal stemmed from a Maine effort to bring back rules implemented during President Barack Obama’s tenure that were repealed by Congress during President Donald Trump’s term.
Industry plaintiffs agreed to reimburse Maine for more than $55,000 in costs incurred defending the law, Frey said.
Supporters of Maine’s law include the ACLU of Maine, which filed court papers in the case in favor of keeping the law on the books. The ACLU said in court papers that the law was “narrowly drawn to directly advance Maine’s substantial interests in protecting consumers’ privacy, freedom of expression, and security.”
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has also defended the law as “common sense.”
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FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the world's leading dental laser company, today released the following statement in response to the attempt by Sonendo, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary PIPStek LLC (Sonendo), to use patent litigation to try to save Sonendo's diminished position and reputation in the marketplace.
BIOLASE is well known for its own industry-leading innovations and respects the valid intellectual property rights of others. Indeed, BIOLASE licenses its technology to its partner manufacturers. However, BIOLASE does not license patents that are invalid or do not cover its products. BIOLASE intends to continue to increase its market share by offering its superior products and valuable intellectual property to clinicians and partners worldwide.
BIOLASE views Sonendo's claims as meritless and intends to fight them vigorously. BIOLASE believes Sonendo's claims significantly overlap conventional technologies long used by endodontists in the field of dentistry. In fact, BIOLASE believes they do not represent innovations even remotely worthy of patent protection. BIOLASE was previously approached by PIPStek and its principals to develop laser fiber designs. BIOLASE had the opportunity to purchase PIPStek's patents, but it passed, considering them to be completely worthless. Desperate to gain market share despite its inferior product, Sonendo acquired PIPStek. Tellingly, having acquired PIPStek, Sonendo immediately shelved the commercialization of any products embodying the supposedly novel technology claimed by the patents. Now, Sonendo is attempting to extract value from its worthless acquisition.
John Beaver, President and Chief Executive Officer of BIOLASE, stated, "Sonendo, an upstart newcomer to our esteemed industry, has made a terrible mistake. Hiding behind a subsidiary, they have turned to the court system to recover their losses. We view their complaint as a frivolous attempt to stop BIOLASE's momentum and try to achieve what they've failed to do through legitimate competition with their cheaply made, inferior product."
"In addition to clearly poor manufacturing," noted Beaver, "their product is costly, with less laser power and far fewer features, and it bears an unpleasant design and ungainly footprint to boot. Perhaps worst of all, just three months ago, in November 2022, the FDA posted a notice regarding their product entitled 'CLASS 2 DEVICE RECALL SONENDO GENTLEWAVE SYSTEM,' and the status of Sonendo's FDA product recall remains open on the FDA's website as of today."
Beaver continued, "Due to a lack of basic competence and an absence of meaningful due diligence, Sonendo, led by its green and inexperienced President & CEO Bjarne Bergheim, acquired PIPStek without doing some simple homework. But these actions against us have been truly duplicitous and calculated. Stuck with a pile of nothing but 'buyer's remorse,' and with product sales literally cratering all around him, Bjarne hired the very law firm that aided us in our unfavorable evaluation of PIPStek, and then, with the apparent intention of destroying BIOLASE, sued us in the middle of our (now successful) equity raise, after directly stating to me 'I hope your financing works out for you.'"
"We look forward to our day in court and we are carefully exploring all options available to us, as our intellectual property portfolio is quite comprehensive," concluded Beaver.
About BIOLASE, Inc.
BIOLASE is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells laser systems in dentistry and medicine. BIOLASE's products advance the practice of dentistry and medicine for patients and healthcare professionals. BIOLASE's proprietary laser products incorporate approximately 302 patented and 28 patent-pending technologies designed to provide biologically and clinically superior performance with less pain and faster recovery times. BIOLASE's innovative products provide cutting-edge technology at competitive prices to deliver superior results for dentists and patients. BIOLASE's principal products are revolutionary dental laser systems that perform a broad range of dental procedures, including cosmetic and complex surgical applications. BIOLASE has sold over 43,300 laser systems from 1998 through December 31, 2022 in over 80 countries around the world. Laser products under development address BIOLASE's core dental market and other adjacent medical and consumer applications.
For updates and information on Waterlase iPlus®, Waterlase Express™, and laser dentistry, find BIOLASE online at www.biolase.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/biolase, Twitter at www.twitter.com/biolaseinc, Instagram at www.instagram.com/waterlase_laserdentistry, and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/biolase.
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Pushed to the brink, Zia Cooke and South Carolina finally exerted control once the game went into overtime.
Cooke scored five of her 24 points in overtime to help the No. 1 Gamecocks remain unbeaten with a 64-57 victory over Mississippi on Sunday.
The defending national champion Gamecocks (27-0, 14-0 Southeastern Conference) got one of their biggest scares of the season before winning their 33rd straight game. The Rebels (20-7, 9-5) never trailed by more than six points in regulation and flirted with their first win over a No. 1 team in 46 years.
“They were locked in,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “They played their zone and were committed to it, and we didn’t handle it well until we actually had to. So it was a good gameplan.”
She called the Rebels “an NCAA Tournament team,” and they certainly looked the part.
Cooke had six rebounds and four assists to help off-set a 7-of-18 shooting performance. Aliyah Boston added 13 points and 11 rebounds on 4-of-14 shooting and didn’t score in the first quarter.
The deep Gamecocks didn’t get their usual supply of scoring help for the two stars, though Kamilla Cardoso had eight points and 11 boards.
Angel Baker led Ole Miss with 17 points. Snudda Collins added 11 while Marquesha Davis had nine points and seven rebounds. Rita Igbokwe blocked six shots.
Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin began her postgame news conference with a big sigh.
“Tough one. Man, today was an incredibly emotional game for me, our players, everybody,” she said. “I just grew up looking up to Dawn Staley. I just have so much respect for her as a person. She has become a mentor of mine.
“To be able to take them into overtime and have an opportunity to win after being our third game of the week was incredible.”
It was only the third single-digit margin and second overtime game for the defending national champions, who had been winning by an average of 33.5 points. The first two came against No. 3 Stanford (76-71 in overtime) and No. 6 UConn (81-77). South Carolina dominated overtime, 9-2.
Cooke’s second basket of overtime matched South Carolina’s biggest lead to that point, 63-57, with 1:33 left. The teams swapped turnovers but Ole Miss missed three shots trying to stay alive, including two straight 3-point tries by Baker after offensive rebounds.
Cooke, who had scored South Carolina’s first eight points of the game, then made one of two foul shots.
Ole Miss had rallied from a six-point deficit over the final 7 minutes to force overtime.
Baker had a steal and layup and then gave Ole Miss its first lead since the opening minutes with a jumper to go up 55-54 with 1:20 left. Then Igbokwe blocked two shots by Boston to preserve the edge.
With 30 seconds left, Boston made 1 of 2 free throws to tie it up. Ole Miss turned it over without getting a shot off, and Boston couldn’t make one at the buzzer as South Carolina finished regulation on a 1-of-11 slump.
Overtime was a different story.
“I thought we just were calculating in where we wanted the ball to go and our posts (players) came through,” Staley said.
BIG PICTURE
South Carolina: Made only 23 of 61 shots (37.7%) but outrebounded the Rebels 49-36. The nation’s top scoring defense put the clamps on in overtime.
Ole Miss: Has dropped 17 in a row against South Carolina. … Had six players with two points in the first quarter, trailing 16-12. … The 1977 team had beaten eventual national champion and No. 1 Delta State 73-72 in Oxford.
LOOK BACK
Ole Miss has come a long way since McPhee-McCuin remembers about 500 fans (officially, 1,225) on hand for her first time hosting Staley’s Gamecocks. It was an 87-32 Gamecocks win, but the score was 32-2 at the half.
“Nobody was in the Pavillion and the only reason I remember is because I was embarrassed because I looked up to Dawn,” the Rebels coach said. “And I know she built something and I’m trying to build something.
“And today to hear the fans, they were so engaged and they almost took us to the ‘W’.”
UP NEXT
South Carolina visits Tennessee on Thursday night.
Ole Miss hosts Missouri on Thursday night.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A Vancouver nonprofit that helps thousands of breast cancer patients just received a huge grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, which will help the organization grow to meet the rising need.
Pink Lemonade Project has been around for more than a decade. The organization has a number of programs that help with the psychological, emotional and financial needs of breast cancer patients. The grant is worth just over $151,000.
Susan Stearns is the CEO of Pink Lemonade Project and a breast cancer survivor.
"The Murdock grant will now help us expand our staff so we can sustain these programs and help more people all over Oregon and Southwest Washington," Stearns said.
In 2021, the organization helped over 1,750 breast cancer patients, which is a 55% increase from 2020, and this year the organization is expected to help more people.
Stearns said that during the pandemic, mammogram rates dropped.
"We are now looking at a wave of more advanced diagnoses getting identified later and requiring more aggressive treatment," Stearns said.
Lucy Beltran was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. She said she was in shock and immediately started looking for support groups. She found a Spanish-speaking support group with the Pink Lemonade Project.
"It was really hard to find something in my own language and culture," Beltran said. "When I found Pink Lemonade, I just felt like they really opened their arms."
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Stearns said the grant is so important because they expect more deaths due to the delayed mammogram screenings throughout the pandemic, so it's very important to expand their programs now.
"Being around other people who have experienced breast cancer, other survivors ... the community support is essential," said Stearns. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/pink-lemonade-project-murdock-grant-breast-cancer-patients/283-8a12e80c-a50c-44cc-90a1-6de32c5660fe | 2022-07-07 01:02:29 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/pink-lemonade-project-murdock-grant-breast-cancer-patients/283-8a12e80c-a50c-44cc-90a1-6de32c5660fe |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency, despite having expressed strong objections against it earlier this year, ensuring the bill is on an easy path to becoming law.
It marks the second time in the new Congress that the Biden administration has signaled opposition to a Republican measure, rallying most Democrats in Congress to vote against it, only to soften its stance and let the legislation eventually become law.
Just weeks ago, Biden stunned many fellow Democrats when he declined to veto a Republican-led bill to upend a new criminal code for the District of Columbia he and others in the president's party opposed, allowing the GOP's tough-on-crime push into the local government to become law.
Republicans celebrated the turn of events Wednesday as a sign of their newfound influence in divided Washington, while Democrats quietly complained that the Biden administration had shifted its views.
But the White House stood firm, and the Senate gave final approval, 68-23, sending the bill to Biden's desk.
A White House official said that when the House Republicans were first preparing to vote on the bill at the start of the year, it would have lifted the national emergency declaration for the coronavirus pandemic in February.
But now, it's much closer to the White House's own plan to wind down COVID national emergency status on May 11.
The president still strongly opposes the legislation, said the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the situation. But if this bill comes to Biden's desk, he will sign it, the official said.
Ahead of voting, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., one of the bill’s main sponsors, said he hoped “that the rumors are true — that the president will finally sign this legislation.”
The legislation is a simple one-line measure saying that national emergency declared on March 13, 2020, “is hereby terminated.”
It comes from one of the more conservative Republicans in the House, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, and draws on Republican-led opposition to mask mandates, lockdowns and others precautions that were put in place to stem the spread of the virus during the pandemic. It was among the early bills the new House GOP put forward at the start of the year.
At the time, the administration warned the proposal would cause chaos. More than 197 Democrats in the House voted against it.
“An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans,” the administration said in a formal statement of administrative policy.
In the days leading up to the House vote, the Biden administration announced its own plan to wind down emergency status on May 11, three years after the virus outbreak.
The administration's announcement meant the federal coronavirus response would be treated more as an endemic threat to public health that could be managed through agencies’ normal authorities, rather than pandemic status.
Just a few weeks ago Biden signed another Republican-led bill into law that would nullify the District of Columbia's revamp of its criminal code. The administration had previously said it opposed that bill.
On Wednesday, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee voted to overturn a police reform package passed by the D.C. Council.
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In 2016, I left Venezuela as an asylum seeker after political persecution and harassment made it impossible for me to remain in my country. From a young age, I had always admired American democracy, the values for which it stands, and how politics seemed to be about working together for the greater good and not for personal gain. I thought I had escaped populist rhetoric and divisionist speeches, and then I saw Sen. Marco Rubio employ a tactic straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
Rubio had the audacity to claim that Venezuelans who disagree with his political stances were “more Democrats than Venezuelans.” As if political affiliation could take away the 18 years of my life I spent in Venezuela and the sacrifices many of us have made while fighting for our country’s freedom, the friends and family lost to the regime’s violence, or the country’s precarious situation. I once again felt as I did when Hugo Chavez, Diosdado Cabello or Nicolas Maduro would go on national television to call “traitors of the fatherland” all who dare oppose them.
Rubio also claimed that Venezuelan-Americans who advocated for immigration relief for Venezuelans in the United States did not care about Venezuela’s freedom, attempting to gaslight and divide our community. The fact is that the Venezuelan crisis has created the most significant refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere and in the Americas, which makes our situation inherently an issue of immigration.
As I watched Rubio make these comments, I thought about my time in Venezuela and the state where I grew up, Vargas. I saw all the hate and division Hugo Chavez sowed for most of my young life. Those brave enough to speak out against injustice and those who sounded the alarms to warn of political decisions that would eventually destroy our country were silenced, imprisoned, tortured, and even killed.
These injustices made me get involved in politics back home and were the reason why I became part of the student movement and risked my life every day protesting the regime and which eventually led me to work with interim President Juan Guaido when he was a congressman from my state.
Through that journey, I got to experience first-hand the consequences of divisive political rhetoric and how the regime benefited from fostering a narrative of us vs. them, a tactic that many authoritarians had used in the past for political gain. As Venezuelans suffered from food and medicine shortages, lack of basic services and rampant crime, the regime blamed it all on those who thought differently.
Rubio has mimicked the same behavior that the regimes he claims to oppose have taken. In an attempt to pit our community against each other, Marco Rubio has made something clear. He is not with the Venezuelan people. He is not with the thousands of Venezuelan asylum-seekers that have fled and made immense sacrifices to come to America, and he has put his own self-interest over the good of the people. We deserve better than Marco Rubio.
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Which tamale steamer is best?
There are very few foods as delicious in the world of Mexican cuisine as the tamale. This stuffed corn leaf can be time-consuming to prepare, but the chance to cook it at home is simply unbeatable. You’ll need a tamale steamer pot, but they’re a multifunctional pot, as you can also use them to steam other dishes, from shellfish to corn on the cob.
The best tamale steamer pot is the GasOne Stainless Steel Stock Pot with Steamer Rack. This steamer pot is made from thick, high-quality stainless steel for longevity, and the slightly convex bottom makes it perfectly suited for use in conjunction with any gas stove, although it does make it difficult to use with electrical stoves.
What to know before you buy a tamale steamer
Materials
Most tamale steamer pots are made from either stainless steel or aluminum, each with their own pros and cons. There are tamale steamer pots that use different materials, but they’re far less common.
- Stainless steel: Stainless steel is not only more durable than aluminum, but many consider it to be more aesthetically pleasing as well. It can distribute heat slightly more efficiently and is less prone to rust and odors.
- Aluminum: Aluminum tamale steamers are both lighter than their stainless steel counterparts and heat far faster, which can lower your cooking time. It cools faster than stainless steel, allowing you to clean up sooner. It tends to cost less as well.
Components of a tamale steamer pot
There are three key components of the tamale steamer pot: the pot, the inserts that allow it to steam and the lid.
- Pot: The pot is where the magic happens; it contains the water that’s heated to generate the steam which cooks the tamales and any other foods you wish.
- Insert: The insert is what turns a regular pot into a steamer pot. It creates a platform that the tamales rest on above the water. Typically, there are holes in the insert which allow the steam through evenly.
- Lid: The tamale steamer pot’s lid can vary greatly. It can be made of different materials, such as glass, and have different features, such as steam vents.
What to look for in a quality tamale steamer
Capacity
The capacity of your tamale steamer pot determines just how much you can cook at once. Most steamer pots have capacities between 12 and 80 quarts.
Handles
The handle is an often-unappreciated part of any pot. For steamer pots, try and select one with heat-resistant material; otherwise, it can get extremely hot.
How much you can expect to spend on a tamale steamer
The biggest source of price changes for tamale steamers is in their maximum capacity. For $30 or less, you won’t find many steamer pots bigger than 12 quarts, while spending up to $50, you can find sizes up to 32 quarts. If you really need to feed a crowd, you can spend more than $50 on sizes as big or bigger than 64 quarts.
Tamale steamer FAQ
Can you put a tamale steamer in the dishwasher?
A. That depends on your particular tamale steamer. Check your user manual or the manufacturer’s website to see if it’s listed as dishwasher-safe. If you don’t see anything that explicitly says it’s dishwasher-compatible, wash it by hand to be safe. Use some warm water mixed with mild dish soap and scrub with a cloth.
Do tamale steamers work with induction stovetops?
A. This depends on the material used in the construction of your tamale steamer. Induction stovetops only work with magnetic metals, and some aluminum steamer pots might include enough magnetic material to be used on an induction stovetop, but most don’t. The fastest way to check if a tamale steamer is induction-compatible is to see if a magnet will stick to its bottom. If it does, it’s induction-compatible.
What’s the best tamale steamer to buy?
Top tamale steamer
GasOne Stainless Steel Stock Pot With Steamer Rack
What you need to know: This is a high-quality stock pot with a steamer rack perfectly suited for tamales and many other foods.
What you’ll love: Constructed from 1-millimeter thick, heavy-duty stainless steel, it won’t rust or stain. It comes in a variety of sizes.
What you should consider: The bottom of the steamer isn’t perfectly flat, which can make it very difficult to use with electric cooktops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and The Home Depot
Top tamale steamer for the money
IMUSA Aluminum Tamale and Steamer Pot
What you need to know: Although not a good all-around pot, it heats up quickly, which makes it a fantastic option for steaming.
What you’ll love: The aluminum used in this steamer pot’s construction is very durable, despite its thinness.
What you should consider: The thinner metal that makes it so good for steaming is what sets it back considerably when it comes to being used as a stock pot.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Worth checking out
Arc 3-in-1 Stainless Steel Steamer Pot
What you need to know: Steaming is easy for this steamer pot, thanks to its additional features, although this also precludes it from being used for any other purpose.
What you’ll love: Five different sizes to choose from and the ability to steam multiple items at once with the included materials make this steamer pot an excellent choice.
What you should consider: The spout included at the bottom which allows you to add water easily is the same feature which limits it to steaming.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Who’s in the Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame?
Going back to 2003, the Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame has added just over 100 people to its illustrious group.
Whether in high school, college or professionally – with a few writers and officials in the mix – these athletes, coaches and high-profile sports figures are among Fayetteville’s elite.
The Class of 2004 featured a Fayetteville-best seven inductees, including Douglas Byrd’s Bob Paroli and Seventy-First’s Marvin Powell. LaToya Pringle Sanders headlined the latest group, a six-person class that was celebrated in March.
From D.T. Carter and Doris Howard in 2003 to Courtney Willis Colborne and Gary Weller in 2023, here are the members of the Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame. For a full description of each inductee, visit ncprepsports.net.
Class of 2023
- Courtney Willis Colborne, Terry Sanford basketball
- Marsha Kouba, Fayetteville runner
- Rachel Yepez Rogers, Terry Sanford soccer
- LaToya Pringle Sanders, Seventy-First basketball
- Gary Weller, Pine Forest football
- Kenneth Wilson, South View basketball
Class of 2022
- Dwayne Allen, Terry Sanford football
- Francie Barragan, Terry Sanford tennis
- Leonard Sanders, Fayetteville Parks and Recreation
- Earl Harvey, Douglas Byrd basketball
- Horace Whitaker, Seventy-First football
- Mabon Leslie Williford, Fayetteville boxer
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Class of 2021
- Sheila Boles, Seventy-First basketball
- Alex Gaines, Seventy-First soccer
- Blair Sutton Craig, Terry Sanford tennis
- Raymond McDougal, Fayetteville State coach
- Jack McGinley, Reid Ross coach/principal
Class of 2020
- Neil Buie, Fayetteville umpire
- Jimmy Edwards Jr., Fayetteville race car driver
- Melanie Grooms-Garrett, South View volleyball
- Roy McNeill, E.E. Smith basketball
- Brent Sexton, Terry Sanford football
- Bobby Spicer Sr., Fayetteville baseball
Class of 2019
- Charles Davenport, Pine Forest football
- Fred McDaniel, Terry Sanford coach
- Dr. Joe Quigg, Fayetteville basketball
- William Smith, Fayetteville football
- George Vossler, Fayetteville official
- Marcus Wall, South View football
Class of 2018
- Chip Bishop, Fayetteville coach
- Jim Farthing, Pine Forest coach
- Buck Melton, Fayetteville official
- Lisa Monaco Wheless and Margit Monaco Hicks, Terry Sanford tennis
Class of 2017
- James McLamb, Fayetteville softball
- Michelle Semmes, Fayetteville Academy softball
- Larry Tearry, E.E. Smith football
- Bracey Walker, Pine Forest football
Class of 2016
- Robert Brickey, E.E. Smith basketball
- Chuck Mohn, Pine Forest coach
- Howard Ward, Fayetteville writer
- Demetria Washington Davis, Terry Sanford track and field
Class of 2015
- Leonard Black, Fayetteville football
- Jeff Capel, South View basketball
- Gene Clayton, Methodist coach
- Garvin Stone, E.E. Smith football
Class of 2014
- George Crumbley, Fayetteville Parks and Recreation
- Randy Ledford, South View coach
- Thomas Pope, Fayetteville writer
- Gary Robinson, Fayetteville golf
- John Weaver, Douglas Byrd coach
Class of 2013
- Brenda Jernigan, South View coach
- Ben Martin, Gray’s Creek coach
- Arnold Pope, Fayetteville lifter/official
- Arthur "Monk" Smith, Fayetteville Parks and Recreation
- Doug Watts, South View coach
Class of 2012
- Howard Cheshire, Fayetteville football
- Steve Conley, Methodist coach
- Eddie Dees, South View coach
- Earl Vaughan Jr., Fayetteville writer
Class of 2011
- Earl "Moose" Butler, Massey Hill football
- Joe Horn, Douglas Byrd football
- Latanya "Dee" Hardy, E.E. Smith coach
- Mike Stanbridge, Cape Fear coach
Class of 2010
- Elmer Arnette, Massey Hill football
- Don Clayton, Fayetteville golf
- Bobby Poss, Fayetteville coach
- Ike Walker, E.E. Smith coach
Class of 2009
- Tom Austin, Methodist coach
- Gil Bowman, Terry Sanford coach
- Joe Harris, Fayetteville football
- Reggie Pinkney, Fayetteville football
Class of 2008
- Charlie Baggett, E.E. Smith football
- Luther "Nick" Jeralds, E.E. Smith football
- Terry Luck, Massey Hill football
- Dwight Miller, Seventy-First coach
- Shea Ralph, Terry Sanford basketball
Class of 2007
- Chris Cammack, Fayetteville baseball
- Junior Edge, Massey Hill football/baseball
- Dr. Franklin Clark, Fayetteville basketball
- Vann Williford, Fayetteville basketball
- Tom Jackson, Pine Forest coach
Class of 2006
- John Daskal, Fayetteville coach
- Lloyd Foster, Fayetteville broadcaster
- Harry Sydney, Seventy-First football
- Donnell Woolford, Douglas Byrd football
Class of 2005
- Chip Beck, Fayetteville golf
- Brad Edwards, Douglas Byrd football
- Len Maness, Terry Sanford coach
- Ron Miller, South View coach
- Jimmy Raye, E.E. Smith football
Class of 2004
- Leon Brock, Cape Fear coach
- Young Howard, Massey Hill coach
- Raymond Luper, Fayetteville coach/athletics director
- Bob Paroli, Douglas Byrd coach
- Marvin Powell, Seventy-First football
- Jerry Richardson, Fayetteville football
- Rita Wiggs, Cape Fear basketball
Class of 2003
- D.T. Carter, E.E. Smith coach/athletics director
- L.B. Floyd, Fayetteville golfer
- Ray Floyd, Fayetteville golfer
- Doris Howard, Cape Fear coach
- Calvin Koonce, Fayetteville baseball
- Doug Wilkerson, Fayetteville football
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Cool & soggy conditions this weekend
Shower chances on Saturday and Sunday
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Dry weather has dominated the upper Midwest to start the month of September and that will change by the upcoming weekend.
Tonight’s Forecast:
Overnight lows will be in the lower 60s with partly cloudy skies. Winds will stay breezy out of the south around 10-20 mph. Clouds will quickly increase through Friday morning.
Friday’s forecast:
High temperatures Friday will be in the middle 70s with partly sunny skies. Clouds will continue to increase through the afternoon and evening. Isolated to scattered showers will move into the area during the evening. Winds will slowly shift from the south to the north by the evening. Winds will be around 10-20 mph.
Rain Chances:
The cold front is expected to stall out just to the southeast of I-90. This will allow showers and storms to form along the boundary which could bring heavy rainfall to areas south of I-90 Friday night through Sunday afternoon.
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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Ethan Brittain-Watts scored 16 points as Boston University beat Army 73-67 on Wednesday night.
Brittain-Watts was 4 of 7 shooting, including 3 for 3 from distance, and went 5 for 5 from the line for the Terriers (14-16, 7-10 Patriot League). Jonas Harper scored 13 points while going 5 of 9 (2 for 6 from distance). Fletcher Tynen finished 4 of 7 from the field to finish with 10 points.
The Black Knights (15-15, 9-8) were led in scoring by Jalen Rucker, who finished with 24 points and four assists. Ethan Roberts added 16 points and 10 rebounds for Army. Abe Johnson also put up 11 points and six rebounds.
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CT New York NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, April 1, 2023
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National Weather Service New York NY
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
CTZ005-012000-
Northern Fairfield-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog early this morning. Showers early this
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this
afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds and small
hail in the evening. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 60. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ009-012000-
Southern Fairfield-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog early this morning. Showers early this
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this
afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds and small
hail in the evening. Breezy with lows in the upper 30s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming northwest 20 to 25 mph after
midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 60.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ006-012000-
Northern New Haven-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog early this morning. Showers early this
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this
afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds and small
hail in the evening. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds around
15 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ010-012000-
Southern New Haven-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog early this morning. Showers early this
morning, then a chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 60s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around 15 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ007-012000-
Northern Middlesex-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog early this morning. Showers early this
morning, then a chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 60s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around 15 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ011-012000-
Southern Middlesex-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Showers early this morning, then a chance of showers
this afternoon. Patchy fog. Breezy with highs in the upper 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and scattered
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ008-012000-
Northern New London-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Showers early this morning, then a chance of showers
this afternoon. Patchy fog. Breezy with highs around 60.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and scattered
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear, cold with lows in the mid 20s. North winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CTZ012-012000-
Southern New London-
821 AM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023
.TODAY...Showers. Patchy fog. Breezy with highs in the upper 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and scattered
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Interim manager Tony Beasley was the first candidate interviewed in the Texas Rangers’ managerial search that general manager Chris Young hopes to wrap up in three to four weeks.
Young said Friday that Beasley would be the only internal candidate for the job, but didn’t say who else or how many other people would be interviewed in the process.
“We started with a large master list, and we’re narrowing that as we speak,” Young said, without elaborating two days after the Rangers finished their sixth consecutive losing season.
Young declined to comment when asked specifically if the search could proceed without knowing if three-time World Series champion manager Bruce Bochy had interest in the job or not.
The 67-year-old Bochy hasn’t managed since 2019, when he stepped away after 13 seasons and those titles with the San Francisco Giants. Young played for Bochy with San Diego in 2006.
Young had acknowledged earlier in his media availability that he loved playing for Bochy.
“We had a winning season together. I learned a lot from him, just a calm, steady presence,” Young said. “I have the utmost respect for him. It’s no surprise that he went on to win three world championships with the Giants, and he’s a tremendous person and manager.”
The Rangers fired fourth-year manager Chris Woodward on Aug. 15, two days before president of baseball operations and former GM Jon Daniels was also let go. Texas went on to finish 68-94, eight wins more than 2021 but what Young said, “was about half of our internal expectations.”
Texas was 17-31 under Beasley, the longtime Rangers third base coach who was once Young’s manager in the minor leagues. Several young players got extended looks during that span, and Young said back in August that Beasley wouldn’t be judged solely on win-loss record or how the team played.
“We knew that we had a young group coming in, that they were going to have to get exposure at the big league level,” Young said Friday. “In terms of what we were looking for with our culture, the management of the staff, those types of things, I thought he did a tremendous job.”
The departure of Daniels, who had led the club for 17 years as GM and then team president, put Young in charge of baseball operations for the team he pitched for to start his career after rooting for as a kid. He played for five teams over 13 big league seasons and was working in the Major League Baseball office before he joined the Rangers as GM in December 2020.
“The goal is that when we start to win, we win for a long time. And that’s important to get right on the front end here,” Young said. “This offseason is big to make sure we take the next step.”
Along with finding a new manager, Young said the Rangers will be in pursuit of top-line starting pitchers, in free agency or through trades.
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ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced that its reinsurance division Gallagher Re has acquired the business and assets of UK-based Bay Risk Services Limited ("Bay Risk"), a member of the Optio Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2016 as a London-based, independent Lloyd's broker, Bay Risk specializes in structuring and placing contracts of delegated underwriting authority. It serves the needs of niche program managers, managing general agents (MGAs), Lloyd's coverholders and carriers seeking alternative distribution channels across a variety of classes. The business will become part of the global programs practice of Gallagher Re and the team will continue to be led by Andrew Smallshaw and Robin Barker-Hahlo.
"Bay Risk is a highly regarded specialist binder broker that will be a fantastic addition to Gallagher Re and the expanding global programs practice," said J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO. "It shares our focus on client excellence and brings a complementary book of delegated underwriting authority business. We are delighted to welcome Andrew, Robin and their colleagues to our growing global team."
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG), a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Gallagher provides these services in approximately 130 countries around the world through its owned operations and a network of correspondent brokers and consultants.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — AM Extra continues its countdown to the 35th Waterfront Blues Festival with an artist whose powerful pipes have earned him the nickname “The Northwest King of Soul Music.”
Andy Stokes first topped R&B charts in 2018 with the hit “Best Day Ever,” but he’s been sharing his talents with the world for more than three decades.
Now the award winning, two-time Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee is back with new music, and a new show. | https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/waterfront-blues-fest/northwest-king-of-soul-music-to-perform-at-waterfront-blues-festival/ | 2022-05-31 17:01:20 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/waterfront-blues-fest/northwest-king-of-soul-music-to-perform-at-waterfront-blues-festival/ |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 6-year-old boy who fell from his bicycle was struck and killed by a box truck Saturday in a hit and run in a neighborhood east of the Strip, police said.
The driver, Michael Burdick, 21, of Las Vegas, is facing hit-and-run charges in the 91st traffic-related fatality in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s jurisdiction this year.
Police said the hit and run happened about 5:19 p.m., near 1750 Karen Ave., south of East Sahara Avenue and east of South Maryland Parkway, where an alley connects several apartment complexes.
Several children were riding bicycles on the west side of Karen Avenue, according to witness statements and evidence. The boy entered the path of a Ford U-Haul truck that was traveling south, police said.
The boy fell from his bike and was run over by the truck, police said. The driver checked on the boy before leaving the scene.
Police said the boy was taken to Sunrise Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver was found and is being held in the Clark County Detention Center on charges of leaving the scene of an accident involving damage to a vehicle or property.
Records indicate Burdick also is facing a probation violation. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/las-vegas-boy-6-struck-and-killed-in-hit-and-run-police-say/ | 2022-08-14 18:22:54 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/las-vegas-boy-6-struck-and-killed-in-hit-and-run-police-say/ |
BENSALEM, Pa., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Barclays PLC ("Barclays" or the "Company") (NYSE: BCS).
Class Period: February 18, 2021 – March 25, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 22, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Barclays investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Barclays had a material weakness in its internal control environment due to the fact that the over-issuance had occurred and was not immediately identified; (2) BBPLC had and was selling unregistered securities in excess of the amounts registered by the August 2019 Shelf Registration Statement, (3) BBPLC was required to conduct a recission offer for those unregistered securities, and (4) BBPLC was violating U.S. securities laws and/or SEC regulations, subjecting Barclays to legal liability; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Contacts
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NEW YORK (AP) — The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett.
On Tuesday, Everett was one of 19 new members announced for induction this spring into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the honor society that has included luminaries from Mark Twain to Toni Morrison over the past 120 years.
Everett, the prolific author of the novels “The Trees,” “So Much Blue” and dozens of other works, has been a Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize finalist in the past two years, is currently a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle fiction award for his novel “Dr. No” and was last year’s recipient of a lifetime achievement prize from the critics circle.
He will join a wide range of writers, musicians, architects, performing artists and visual artists in the academy, along with honorary inductees Francis Ford Coppola and Frances McDormand, and two foreign honorary artists: Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña and Andrey Kurkov, the Ukrainian novelist and prominent critic of the Russian invasion.
The academy was formed in 1898 and currently has 300 core members. New inductees are voted in by current members and remain in the academy for life. They also help out hand out dozens of awards, with prize money for 2023 expected to top $1 million: Everett himself received a literature prize from the academy in 2003.
“It’s cliche to say that being elected to the Academy is an honor, but that is exactly what it is,” Everett told The Associated Press recently. “I’m excited to be a member and to perhaps influence, if not the direction, then the health of American letters.”
The academy on Tuesday announced it had also voted in sculptors Huma Bhabha and Arlene Shechet and visual artist Shirin Neshat.
Besides Everett, new literary members are the fiction writer and translator Lore Segal, the critic and memoir writer Vivian Gornick, essayist and novelist Phillip Lopate and fiction writer Yiyun Li.
Dancer-choreographer Yvonne Rainer and the playwright-actor Anna Deavere Smith also were elected, with Smith saying she was honored to join so many people she admired “in this fine community of arts and letters.”
Others joining the academy include the architects Merrill Elam, Michael Maltzan and Maurice Cox, the design director of the National Endowment of the Arts under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Musicians voted in include Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds, experimental composer-performer Pamela Z and jazz orchestra leader Maria Schneider, along with trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith, composer-conductor-critic Carman Moore and composer-educator Adolphus Hailstork. | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-letters-academy-votes-in-everett-coppola-others/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-02-21 17:05:32 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-letters-academy-votes-in-everett-coppola-others/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
The restaurant that introduced many Portlanders to pizza in the mid-20th Century is getting ready to reopen following a nearly three-year closure.
Caro Amico Italian Cafe, located in a bright orange building at 3606 SW Barbur Blvd., announced today that it would welcome back customers in early August following a structure fire that temporarily halted service. That blaze broke out in September 2020. Repair work has been underway ever since—a lengthy process because of the extent of the damage (pretty much everything needed to be replaced, from the booths to the bar to the rooftop) and supply-chain snags.
Caro Amico first opened in 1949, when pizza was still relatively rare on the West Coast. Co-owners Fred Baker and Joe Fracasso originally intended to use the joint as a speakeasy during Prohibition, however, by the time they were up and running, the 21st Amendment had been passed, so they could legally sell alcohol alongside pies and pasta.
Elsie McFarland, Baker’s daughter, began managing the restaurant in the 1980s. She’s assisted in the reopening process this summer by her grandson, Sebastian Price. While the renovation process has been taxing at times, McFarland says that neighbors and regulars alike continually stopped by to check in on the business and construction progress. She even got to celebrate her 90th birthday inside the space just this past June in preparation for the relaunch.
Longtime customers should expect to see many of the original features—just brighter and shinier than perhaps they once were, since McFarland and Price asked their contractors to retain many of the characteristics of the original dining room. The floor plan is also largely the same, so you’ll still be able to enjoy your baked manicotti and chicken piccata with those amazing views of the South Waterfront.
“This restaurant fulfilled a real need for so many of our customers; it was a place they could count on to come in and have a wonderful meal and feel like they were almost at home,” McFarland stated in a press release. “I wanted to bring that sense of home and familiarity back. And I wanted to update a few items and modernize it a bit.”
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FREMONT, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Linear Integrated Systems, Inc. (Linear Systems) announced it will be exhibiting at the Sensors Converge exhibition being held June 28 and June 29 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.
"Sensors Converge brings a unique focus to how ultra-high-performance semiconductors fit in with sensors and connectivity to build the Internet of Things," Linear Systems President Timothy S. McCune said. "We look forward to again having a wide range of discussions with attendees and other exhibitors on how we can help them build more capable systems."
Sensors Expo & Conference began 37 years ago with a focus on sensor technology. Since then, the event has expanded and diversified to include semiconductors and other technologies that work hand-in-hand with sensors.
Linear Systems' ultra-low-noise semiconductors are key components in a wide array of sensor systems ranging from underwater listening to accelerometers to the Rubin Observatory. "For the most demanding applications, our components take signal chain performance to a level that's not otherwise possible," McCune said.
Linear Systems specializes in the development and manufacture of precision, ultra-low-noise small-signal discrete components. Its parts, such as the LSK389 and LSK489, are used in highly demanding sensor systems ranging from the Large-Scale Synoptic Telescope to piezoelectric devices to sonobuoys. These parts also provide the front-end amplification for high-end test and measurement, medical and audio equipment.
Linear Systems is a full-service, privately-held, 35-year-old designer and manufacturer of small-signal discrete semiconductors with millions of parts in stock. The Fremont, CA-based company was founded by John H. Hall, co-founder of Intersil and founder of Micro Power Systems. The company fabricates wafers at three Silicon Valley foundries.
Linear Systems' product line consists of: Ultra-Low-Noise N-Channel and P-Channel Dual and Single JFETs, High-Speed Lateral DMOS Switches, Bipolar Transistors, BIFET Amplifiers, Current-Regulating Diodes, Low-Leakage Diodes, MOSFETs, and Voltage Controlled Resistors. Data sheets, application notes, SPICE models and other information can be downloaded at linearsystems.com.
Linear Systems' Sensors Converge booth is #437. For more information about Linear Systems please contact Ms. Laura Madonna at laura@linearsystems.com. For customer service, please contact Linear Systems at sales@linearsystems.com or call (510) 490-9160.
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A one-way ticket to smooth, glowing, hydrated, and vitamin-enriched skin, packed in a handy, mess-free stick.
LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Peace Out Skincare, universally known as the experts in Acne Prone Skin and the brand that created the only clean, patented OTC Acne and Day Dot pimple patches, announces the launch of their newest power player for your eyes. Enter Vitamin C Glow stick.
A packed 6% C complex blend, this powerful, yet gentle solid serum balm contains four types of Vitamin C, peptides, and caffeine that instantly brightens the skin around your eyes. Users will experience an immediate magical glow while softening the look of fine lines and wrinkles, targeting dull textured skin to reveal a brighter, smoother-looking complexion. Vitamin C Glow Stick is recommended for all day use and for long lasting benefits of your eyes and face.
With the launch of Vitamin C Glow Stick, Peace Out continues to build products that also target and cater to acne-prone skin.
"Now in my 30's, the health and glow of the skin under and around my eyes has become much more of a focus for me. I created this powerful Vitamin C Glow Stick to give an instant glow while gently working to soften the look of fine lines and texture around the eyes. Plus, when used on the face, Vitamin C can help restore the skin's appearance post-acne breakouts," says Enrico Frezza CEO & Founder of Peace Out Skincare. "I have used Vitamin C for years to treat my scarring and dark spots. The Vitamin C Glow Stick goes everywhere with me because throughout the day I can give my eyes some love and some glow with a simple swipe, while also knowing it's safe and effective for my acne-prone skin."
A clean, cruelty-free, vegan, and gluten-free product, the Vitamin C Glow Stick's star ingredients include four types of vitamin C: antioxidant, co-enzyme for collagen synthesis, and a brightening agent formula containing two stable derivatives; peptides that nourish the skin and slow the loss of collagen; caffeine which reduces the appearance of puffiness and swelling by activating the skin's metabolism; squalane and strawberry oil for hydration; and extra-fine gold color that brightens through iridescent, reflective color play.
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Experience as a remote employee helped an executive transition to remote manager
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Being a good manager is not substantially different when your employees are working from home than when they're in the office, says Shomari Hearn, managing vice president at Palisades Hudson Financial Group LLC.
In a recent article (https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2022/06/managing-remote-workers-is-nothing-new/), Hearn shared his own experience as first a hybrid, and then a fully remote employee, at a time when such arrangements were uncommon. The arrival of COVID-19 left many companies and managers with less experience struggling to adjust to a safer, more distant arrangement. As it becomes clear that hybrid and remote work is here to stay, Hearn advises supervisors not to panic.
"A good manager sets clear goals and priorities, whether workers are remote or not," Hearn says. He adds that "if you are used to managing staff in person, the shift to remote work may have led you to examine how you set goals and the way that you measure them."
Managers should prioritize clear communication and transparent goals, Hearn suggests. He also notes that remote employees need special attention during the onboarding process. Intangible factors like building co-worker relationships or transmitting company culture may have happened naturally when a team was working together in person. Managers should consider alternatives for employees who remain fully or partially remote.
Hearn also urges managers to think about digital security when laying out work-from-home policies.
"Adjusting to managing remote workers can mean rethinking certain habits and adopting new tools," Hearn writes. "But being transparent, proactive and attentive will ensure that your employees thrive in their roles."
As managing vice president – the first in the firm's history – Hearn holds executive responsibility for Palisades Hudson's operations across its offices nationwide. Though based in the firm's Fort Lauderdale headquarters, he regularly meets with clients across the U.S. and abroad. Hearn holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and IRS Enrolled Agent credentials, and his advice has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Barron's, and many other publications. In addition to contributing to the firm's newsletter, Hearn authored chapters in Palisades Hudson's two books, "The High Achiever's Guide to Wealth" and "Looking Ahead: Life, Family, Wealth and Business After 55," both of which are available on Amazon.
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TROY, Mich. (AP) _ Kelly Services Inc. (KELYA) on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of $47.6 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Troy, Michigan-based company said it had a loss of $1.23. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 46 cents per share.
The staffing company posted revenue of $1.3 billion in the period.
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WOODSTOCK, Ga., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northpoint Roofing Systems, a roofing business based in Georgia, has donated two free roofs to Habitat for Humanity North Central GA. One roof was given to the Women's Build, and the second was used for the Home Repair Program. GAF Shingles, a partner of Northpoint Roofing Systems, will be used to construct the roofs donated to Habitat for Humanity. The Women's Build is a sector of Habitat for Humanity that is focused on empowering women in all walks of life. Women are often overlooked in the construction industry, and not only do we believe in the Women's Build mission to provide the opportunity for women to take a proactive step in serving their communities. We also aim to eliminate that imbalance of Women in construction by creating more opportunities for women in the industry.
The second roof, donated to the Home Repair Program, was given to a senior citizen seeking assistance in replacing a leaky roof. The recipient of the donated roof was an 86-year-old disabled woman who lives alone and was unable to fund the repair on her own. In addition to her leaky roof, she was also requesting help with other significant issues in her home, such as HVAC, flooring repairs due to additional leaks, porch repairs, and more. With the donated roof from Northpoint Roofing Systems, Habitat for Humanity was able to use more of its own funds to subsidize the additional work that was needed on the elderly woman's home. The roof installation and other home repairs for the elderly woman were completed in July this year.
"Habitat for Humanity is an excellent organization that provides housing support for people in need, and we feel honored to be able to donate to them. The organization's Women's Build and Home Repair Program have both been immensely beneficial to members of our community. With our roof donations, we are hoping to support women in the construction industry, as well as people in need who do not have the resources or finances to fund necessary home repairs," said Keith Priddy, CEO and co-founder of Northpoint Roofing Systems. "It feels good to be able to support community members in need when we are able to. As a company with a customer-focused philosophy, we understand the importance of working to better our community, which is why Northpoint goes out of our way to donate when we can. We hope that we continue to be able to support organizations like Habitat for Humanity with roof donations when we are able to."
Northpoint Roofing Systems has three locations operating in Georgia. They currently serve the cities of Woodstock, Newnan, Lawrenceville, Atlanta, Canton, Duluth, Marietta, Sandy Springs, McDonough, and Roswell. Using advanced AI technology, Northpoint is able to catch roof damage before significant issues take place, making the company an industry leader in the state of Georgia. The company has over 100 years of experience and can offer expertise in shingles, metal roofing, gutters, solar, and free drone inspection for homeowners and commercial property owners.
To learn more about Northpoint Roofing Systems, visit www.northpointroofingsystems.com.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's military said Monday its recent barrage of missile tests were practices to attack its rivals' air bases and warplanes and paralyze their operation command systems, showing Pyongyang's resolve to counter provocative U.S.-South Korean military drills "more thoroughly and mercilessly."
North Korea fired dozens of missiles and flew warplanes last week, triggering evacuation alerts in some South Korean and Japanese areas, in response to massive U.S.-South Korean air force drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
U.S. and South Korean officials strongly condemned the North’s missile launches, saying their drills were defensive in nature.
“The recent corresponding military operations by the Korean People’s Army are a clear answer of (North Korea) that the more persistently the enemies’ provocative military moves continue, the more thoroughly and mercilessly the KPA will counter them,” the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by state media.
It said its weapons tests involved ballistic missiles loaded with dispersion warheads and underground infiltration warheads meant to launch strikes on enemy air bases; ground-to-air missiles designed to “annihilate” enemy aircraft at different altitudes and distances; and strategic cruise missiles.
The North’s military said it carried out an important test of a ballistic missile with a special functional warhead missioned with “paralyzing the operation command system of the enemy.” It said it also launched super-large, multiple-launch missiles and tactical ballistic missiles.
It didn't specifically mention a reported launch Thursday of an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at hitting the U.S. mainland. Almost all other North's missiles launched last week were likely short-range, many of them nuclear-capable weapons. They place key military targets in South Korea, including U.S. military bases there in striking range.
“The KPA General Staff once again clarifies that it will continue to correspond with all the anti-(North Korea) war drills of the enemy with the sustained, resolute and overwhelming practical military measures,” it said.
This year’s “Vigilant Storm” air force drills between the United States and South Korea were the largest-ever for the annual fall maneuvers. The drills involved 240 warplanes including advanced F-35 fighter jets from both countries. The allies were initially supposed to run the drills for five days ending on Friday, but extended the training by another day in reaction to the North’s missile tests.
On Saturday, the final day of the air force exercises, the United States flew two B-1B supersonic bombers over South Korea in a display of strength against North Korea, the aircraft’s first such flyover since December 2017.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the participation of the B-1Bs in the joint drills demonstrated the allies’ readiness to “sternly respond” to North Korean provocations and the U.S. commitment to defend its ally with the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear.
Even before the “Vigilant Storm” drills, North Korea test-launched a slew of missiles in what it called simulated nuclear attacks on U.S. and South Korean targets in protests of its rivals’ other sets of military exercises that involved a U.S. aircraft for the first time in five years.
Some experts say North Korea likely aims to use the U.S.-South Korean military drills as a chance to modernize its nuclear arsenal and increase its leverage to wrest greater concessions from the United States in future dealings.
U.S. and South Korean militaries have been expanding their regular military drills since the May inauguration of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has promised to take a tougher stance on North Korean provocations. Some of the allies’ drills had been previously downsized or canceled to support now-stalled diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Elon Musk cleans house after Twitter deal closes. Death toll is rising as protests in Iran gain momentum. Houston Astros are favored as they take on the Philadelphia Phillies in World Series opener.
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National Park Service says ‘never push a slower friend down’ when escaping a bear
(Gray News) - Officials with the National Park Service are using a little humor while sharing a few bear safety tips.
The National Park Service shared on its social media this week that “If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down… even if you feel the friendship has run its course.”
Officials said when spring arrives, officially on March 20, and snow begins to melt at parks around the country, many bears are expected to become more active.
According to the park service, seeing a bear in the wild is a special treat for any visitor, and while it is an exciting moment, it is important to remember that bears in national parks are wild and can be dangerous.
Officials said bears’ behavior can be unpredictable sometimes, and although rare, attacks on humans have occurred.
“Following some basic guidelines may help to lessen the threat of danger,” the park service shared. “Your safety can depend on your ability to calm the bear.”
Keeping your distance and not surprising bears are some of the most important things park visitors can do, officials said. And most bears will avoid humans if they hear them coming.
The park service advises visitors to pay attention to their surroundings and to make a special effort to be noticed if they are in an area with known bear activity or a good food source, such as berry bushes.
Officials said there is no single strategy that guarantees safety, but they did share a few general tips to help prevent a bear encounter from escalating:
- Identify yourself by talking calmly so the bear knows you are a human and not a prey animal.
- Stay calm and remember that most bears do not want to attack; they usually just want to be left alone.
- Pick up small children immediately. Do not make any loud noises or screams.
- Hike and travel in groups. Groups of people are usually noisier and smellier than a single person.
- Make yourselves look as large as possible (for example, move to higher ground).
- Do not allow the bear access to your food. Getting your food will only encourage the bear and make the situation worse.
- Do not drop your pack as it can provide protection for your back and prevent a bear from accessing your food.
- Do not run, but if the bear follows, stop and hold your ground. Like dogs, they will chase fleeing animals.
- Do not climb a tree. Both grizzlies and black bears can climb trees.
- Be especially cautious if you see a female with cubs; never place yourself between them, and never attempt to approach them.
More bear safety tips can be found online from the National Park Service.
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Man and his dog complete a 7-year journey around the world
(CNN) – A dog named Savannah became the first canine to walk around the world. The four-legged adventurer was adopted by Tom Turich from New Jersey.
Turich was inspired to walk around the globe after a longtime friend passed away.
He set off in 2015 and adopted Savannah a few months later. Together, the pair walked across six continents and 38 countries.
They spent most nights camping and walked between 18 and 24 miles each day.
The trip took seven years, with a few delays from illness and the pandemic.
Turich is the 10th person on record to walk around the world. He said now he’s focused on writing a memoir about his adventure.
Savannah still walks at least four miles a day, but she’s adjusting to staying in one place.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Iris Energy Limited (NASDAQ: IREN), and certain officers and directors. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and docketed under 22-cv-07273, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Iris ordinary shares pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents (defined below) issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about November 17, 2021 (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (b) Iris securities between November 17, 2021 and November 1, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Plaintiff pursues claims against the Defendants under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Iris ordinary shares pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents issued in connection with the Company's IPO, and/or Iris securities during the Class Period, you have until February 13, 2023 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Iris touts itself as a leading owner and operator of institutional-grade, highly efficient, proprietary Bitcoin mining data centers powered by 100% renewable energy.
Iris's Bitcoin mining operations purportedly generate revenue by earning Bitcoin through a combination of block rewards and transaction fees from the operation of specialized computing equipment called "miners" or "Bitcoin miners" and exchanging these Bitcoin for fiat currencies such as U.S. dollars or Canadian dollars on a daily basis.
Iris has three wholly-owned special purpose vehicles, referred to as "Non-Recourse SPV 1", "Non-Recourse SPV 2", and "Non-Recourse SPV 3" (collectively, the "Non-Recourse SPVs"), each of which was incorporated for the specific purpose of financing certain of the Bitcoin miners operated by the Company.
On October 25, 2021, Iris filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with the IPO, which, after several amendments, was declared effective by the SEC on November 16, 2021 (the "Registration Statement").
On or about November 17, 2021, Iris conducted the IPO, issuing approximately 8.27 million of its ordinary shares to the public at the Offering price of $28 per ordinary share for approximate proceeds to the Company of $215 million, before expenses, and after applicable underwriting discounts and commissions.
On November 18, 2021, Iris filed a prospectus on Form 424B4 with the SEC in connection with the IPO, which incorporated and formed part of the Registration Statement (the "Prospectus" and, together with the Registration Statement, the "Offering Documents").
The Complaint alleges that the Offering Documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Additionally, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, the Offering Documents and Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) certain of Iris's Bitcoin miners, owned through its Non-Recourse SPVs, were unlikely to produce sufficient cash flow to service their respective debt financing obligations; (ii) accordingly, Iris's use of equipment financing agreements to procure Bitcoin miners was not as sustainable as Defendants had represented; (iii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's business, operations, and financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Offering Documents and Defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
On November 2, 2022, Iris issued a press release disclosing, among other things, that "[c]ertain equipment (i.e., Bitcoin miners) owned by [Non-Recourse SPV 2 and Non-Recourse SPV 3] currently produce insufficient cash flow to service their respective debt financing obligations and have a current market value well below the principal amount of the relevant loans" and that "[r]estructuring discussions with the lender remain ongoing."
On this news, Iris's ordinary share price fell $0.51 per share, or 15.04%, to close at $2.88 per share on November 2, 2022—a nearly 90% decline from the Offering price.
As of the time the Complaint was filed, Iris's ordinary shares continue to trade significantly below the $28 per share Offering price, damaging investors.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, 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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Swan song: Harrison Arts guitar instructor Robert Phillips leading his last spring concert
LAKELAND – The late Gene Autry was known as an actor, musician, singer, composer and rodeo performer, but he wasn’t known for classical guitar playing.
Still, it was the famous movie and television star that led Robert Phillips to a 55-year career as an internationally known classical guitarist, guitar instructor and teacher.
By the end of June, Phillips will retire as the guitar instructor at the Harrison School for the Arts, a magnet school that draws students from across Polk County who are interested in the arts.
And as part of his literal swan song at Harrison, Phillips will lead his guitar students in his final Spring Guitar Concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the school’s Black Box Theatre. Besides conducting the concert, it will be the first time Phillips will play guitar along with his students, performing the “Concertino for Solo Guitar and Guitar Ensemble” by Richard Vaughan.
Additionally, students will perform ensemble and solo selections, including works by Joaquin Nin, Fernando Sor, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Led Zeppelin and Guns ‘N Roses. The concert will include a student composition by senior Ian Robinson.
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'The quality of this program sells itself'
In his classroom at the end of a recent school day, Phillips took time to reflect on his career — during and prior to his time at Harrison — and spoke about what’s next.
Phillips, 69, was Harrison’s first guitar instructor when he started in the 2010-11 school year. After seeing the position advertised in The Ledger, Phillips applied and was hired in 2009 by then-Principal Craig Collins, who wanted to start a guitar program at the school.
He said he’s proud of the program he helped formulate.
“I think I created a quality program and helped develop it. It has become one of the top two guitar high school programs in the U.S.,” he said, citing the Las Vegas Academy of the Performing Arts and its instructor, Bill Swick, as the other. “The quality of this program sells itself.”
The Harrison School for the Arts guitar program focuses on classical guitar, and students study traditional methods and repertoire and modern playing methods. They learn to play solos and perform in different types of ensembles, playing music spanning five centuries from the Renaissance through contemporary music.
Phillips began teaching guitar, music appreciation and music theory at Lakeland’s All Saints' Academy in 1995, and went on to become the chair of the performing arts department until 2008. In 2008, while still an instructor at All Saints, he began teaching guitar at Polk State College and Southeastern University. In 2010, he left All Saints' Academy to teach at Harrison.
Collins, now interim associate vice president for corporate and leadership development at Polk State College, said Phillips was “the perfect fit” to open the school’s guitar program. He said Phillips was a practicing “artist-teacher,” and that helped keep him current in his profession.
“That was a big reason for hiring him, he was local and a professional practicing ‘artist-teacher.’ He was kind and encouraging to his students, knew his students’ achievement levels, assessed them and adjusted his pedagogy accordingly,” said Collins, Harrison principal from 2009 to 2013.
'He showed a love for music'
During his professional guitar performance career, Phillips is known for playing classical guitar pieces while exposing audiences to new music. His repertoire includes everything from bossa nova songs to Bach fugues.
He’s recorded extensively, including songs by Central Florida composers Jorge Morel, Benoit Glazer, Rex Willis, Troy Gifford, Howard Bass and Charles Griffin. He has transcribed Spanish songs he recorded with coloratura soprano Shudong Braamse for her album “Sueños de España” and has recorded works for saxophone and guitar with son Adam Phillips, a multi-instrumentalist. Those include works by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Max Richter.
Phillips' career has brought him to the stages of New York’s Town Hall, the Lincoln Center and the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, where he performed to a capacity audience. He has played his own compositions and premiered works by three-time Pulitzer nominee Frank Brazinski and Eric Ross, Alfred Giusto and Meyer Kupferman. And he has played a concerto written for him by three-time Grammy Award winner Michael Colina.
Among Phillips’ recorded works are “Guitarre Nouveau” on TPL Records, “Lo Mestre, the Music of Miguel Llobet” on Centaur records and his self-released, two-volume “Great Themes and Variations for Classic Guitar.”
John Butz of Lakeland was Phillips' student from 2013 to 2017. Now in law school at Stetson University, Gulfport, he said he plays guitar every day to maintain the technique Phillips taught him. He said the guitar instructor had a balanced “demanding and patient” demeanor and instilled a work ethic, attention to detail and proper technique when teaching.
“He definitely recognized and appreciated when people put the right amount of effort in and truly showed they cared about what they were doing. He showed a love for music,” said Butz, who began playing guitar at 8 years old, and still plays occasional gigs and performs for family and friends.
Phillips, the son of Robert and Irma Phillips, grew up mostly on Long Island, New York, where he graduated high school in 1971.
In 1975, he got his bachelor's degree in music education and took time off from school to study with renowned Cuban guitarist Jose Rey de la Torre and Brazilian guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima from 1976 to 1978 in New York City.
He went to Brooklyn College, where he got his master’s degree in music in 1982. In 1999, he entered the University of Miami and under the instruction of Rene Gonzalez, he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Kevin LeVine, who became Harrison principal in 2019, said Phillips’ connection to other guitarists in the professional classical guitar community keeps his teaching methodology current and relevant. He said Phillips is structured and has a “measures approach” to his teaching, leading to many Florida state ensembles being made up of Harrison students.
“He definitely wants to challenge his students with his music selections," LeVine said. "To start a program and bring it to the successful place where it is, he’s left a very lasting legacy on the school, and he’s going to be missed. But I know he’ll still be around."
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WHAT: Spring Guitar Concert
WHEN: 7 p.m., Tuesday
WHERE: Harrison School for the Arts, 750 Hollingsworth Road, Lakeland
COST: $12 adults, $9 students and seniors
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Untested rape kits plagued Memphis long before jogger case
By JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Problems with rape kit evidence testing keep haunting Memphis.
A city long plagued by a heavy backlog of untested sexual assault kits was shaken by Cleotha Henderson’s arrest in the killing of Eliza Fletcher after she was abducted during a morning jog last month.
So when authorities said his DNA was linked to a rape that occurred nearly a year earlier — charging him separately days after he was arrested in Fletcher’s killing — an outraged city turned to the obvious question: Why was he still on the streets?
The case of Henderson, who already has served 20 years in prison for a kidnapping he committed at 16, has reignited criticism of Tennessee’s sexual assault testing process. That has included calls for shorter delays from the testing agency, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and questions about why Memphis didn’t seek to fast-track a kit that could have been tested in days.
Instead, it took nearly a year, unearthing key evidence too late to charge Henderson before Fletcher’s killing.
The tragic outcome brings back memories from the early 2010s, when Memphis revealed a backlog of about 12,000 untested rape kits that took years to whittle down and led to a lawsuit that’s still ongoing. The new rape charges have spurred another lawsuit accusing the Memphis Police Department of negligence for the delay.
The scenario also has raised broader concerns about Tennessee’s struggles with a problem that has been in the national spotlight for decades and that some states have addressed.
In response, GOP Gov. Bill Lee and Republican legislative leaders have fast-tracked money for 25 additional TBI lab positions, including six in DNA processing. The agency had requested 50 more this year, but Lee funded only 25 in his proposed budget and lawmakers approved that amount.
Meghan Ybos, a rape victim involved in the backlog lawsuit, blames the city for not curbing a problem known for years despite receiving more than $20 million in grants to address the backlog.
“I don’t think the shortcomings of Memphis law enforcement are limited to the handling of rape kits,” Ybos said, “but I think the public should be outraged at the lack of transparency about what Memphis has done with tens of millions of grant money that the city and county have received to test rape kits, train police, hire victim advocates, prosecute cold rape cases and more.”
As of August, Tennessee’s three state labs averaged from 28 to 49 weeks to process rape kits under circumstances that don’t include an order to rush the test. More than 950 rape kits sat untested in labs.
TBI attributed the delays to staffing woes and low pay that complicates recruiting and keeping scientists.
TBI Director David Rausch laid out further moves in hopes of processing all evidence in eight to 12 weeks within the next year: Overtime, weekend hours, more outsourcing to private labs and using retired TBI workers for new worker training to free up current employees.
Tennessee doesn’t require specific turnaround times for newly collected rape kits, though 19 other states do, according to the Joyful Heart Foundation, which is pushing Tennessee to follow suit. Massachusetts requires processing kits within 30 days, but most of the states require testing within 60, 90 or 120 days.
Tennessee’s House and Senate speakers haven’t flagged turnaround mandates as a priority. TBI, meanwhile, said any turnaround requirement would need proper funding.
Ilse Knecht, policy and advocacy director for the Joyful Heart Foundation, said Tennessee’s problems aren’t unique. Without an official U.S. count of rape kits awaiting analysis, Knecht estimated there are likely more than 200,000 untested kits in law enforcement or hospital storage nationally.
“Every single one of these kits that is sitting on a shelf could represent someone like the offender in this case, where you look at their criminal history and they’re committing all kinds of crime, they’ve been doing it for decades, and the evidence that could stop them is sitting on a shelf somewhere,” Knecht told The Associated Press.
Henderson was charged with first-degree murder in the kidnapping and killing of Fletcher, a mother of two and a kindergarten teacher who was on a pre-dawn run Sept. 2 when she was forced into an SUV on the University of Memphis campus. Her remains were found on Sept. 5 behind a vacant Memphis house.
Henderson, who also has gone by Cleotha Abston, has not entered a plea in the killing but was rebooked in jail on Sept. 9 on charges related to the September 2021 rape of a Memphis woman. Henderson has pleaded not guilty to charges in that attack, including aggravated rape.
The new lawsuit brought by the woman who says she was raped in that attack says Memphis police could have prevented Fletcher’s death if they had investigated the 2021 rape more vigorously.
“Cleotha Abston should and could have been arrested and indicted for the aggravated rape of (the alleged victim) many months earlier, most likely in the year 2021,” the lawsuit says. The AP isn’t naming the woman.
Rape kits contain semen, saliva or blood samples taken from a victim. Specimens containing DNA evidence are uploaded to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, to check for a match.
In Memphis, backlogs have long been a problem. About 12,000 untested rape kits were disclosed there in 2013. A task force was formed, and police began using results to start investigations — and get some convictions.
The city has said the backlog revealed in 2013 has been eliminated. But long delays in testing rape kits persist in Tennessee, including cases from Memphis.
In the Henderson case, Memphis police said a sexual assault report was taken Sept. 21, 2021. A rape kit was submitted two days later to TBI, the bureau said.
“An official CODIS hit was not received until after” Fletcher’s abduction, police said, and probable cause to make an arrest “did not exist until after the CODIS hit had been received.”
TBI said no request was made for expedited analysis and no suspect information was included in the submission.
The kit eventually was pulled from evidence storage and an initial report was completed Aug. 29, the bureau said.
The 2021 DNA matched Henderson’s in the national database on Sept. 5, three days after Fletcher’s abduction, authorities said. TBI reported the match to Memphis police.
Under Tennessee law, police agencies generally have 30 days to send rape kit evidence to TBI or another lab, but there’s no mandate on processing times.
TBI said its budget request was conservative — $10.2 million for 40 scientists and 10 lower-level positions. A West Virginia University forensic calculator said TBI labs needed another 71 positions, the bureau noted.
In DNA testing, the labs currently have six supervisors and 26 special agent/forensic scientist positions, some in hiring or lengthy new hire training. TBI hopes to start the 40 scientists — 14 in DNA — by late this month and others by late March.
Still, many have grown impatient at a situation they say called for urgency.
“These are our most vulnerable victims,” said Josh Spickler, executive director of Just City, a Memphis organization pressing for a fairer criminal justice system. “To have a backlog like that build up, and still, to this day, have it be the norm that a rape kit test takes the many months that it does, is really not acceptable.”
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How one man turned things around
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Currently, the U.S. Mint strikes around 10 billion circulating coins each year, making it a profitable operation for the government. However, that wasn't always the case. This week on U.S. Money Reserve's "In Conversation," 35th Director of the U.S Mint (1994–2000) and U.S. Money Reserve President Philip N. Diehl and 38th Director of the U.S. Mint (2006–2011) and U.S. Money Reserve Senior IRA Strategist Edmund C. Moy discuss the challenges at the U.S Mint in the 1990s.
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Spring break is right around the corner, which means it’s a good idea to stock up on essentials now to ensure you and your family enjoy it as much as possible. Whether you’re looking for personal care products to beat the heat, ways to capture precious moments or electronics to keep you and the kids entertained, the BestReviews team has compiled a list of spring break family essentials to consider before traveling to your vacation destination.
BestReviews’ Jacob Palmer joins Olivia Horton to share BestReviews’ picks for the best spring break family essentials.
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This portable Nintendo Switch console will keep your kids entertained on your upcoming spring break trip. Kids can play the latest games from popular Nintendo franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon. It has a 6.2-inch touch-screen display and two Joy-Con controllers for multiplayer action.
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Longmont police are investigating a shooting at a party overnight, but officials said there were no injuries.
Longmont Public Safety spokesperson Robin Ericson said police were called to the 1800 block of Meadow Street just after midnight Saturday for a report of shots fired during a party.
Ericson said there were no injuries. Two people at the party were arrested on charges unrelated to the shooting.
Ericson said the incident remains under investigation, and it is not known if the incident is connected at all to a drive-by shooting last weekend.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two years after his death, the cemetery plot where 17-year-old Sebastian Carpio was laid to rest is still meticulously maintained.
His mother, Ana Maria Carpio, said she finds comfort keeping the spot immaculate.
A large poster of the handsome young man usually stands watch over the lush green grass.
But just days before Sebastian would have turned 20, his mother is still aching for justice.
Just last week, Edgar de la Cruz was in juvenile court for a transfer procedure, where a judge ruled that he must serve the remainder of his conviction for manslaughter and aggravated robbery in the adult prison system.
But Carpio said she is disappointed by what she calls broken promises made by the District Attorney's office.
Carpio says the killer was offered a deal that included providing information about others who participated in the killing or its aftermath.
"He got a plea deal, to be truthful and say what happened with the rest of the individuals that were involved, that assisted him," Carpio said.
Carpio claims the deal allowed De la Cruz to be tried as a juvenile and so far, allowed others to go unpunished.
"They have not yet been charged. This is the first time to speak about this and I am frustrated. I have patiently waited for more than almost two years, for these other individuals to be held accountable," Carpio said.
Carpio said she has been told her son's body remained in the back yard of the home for hours, leading her to believe others either witnessed or helped with the disposal of Sebastian's remains.
"The DA's office indicated that after he was sentenced, it was go really quickly to establish cases against these other individuals and that has not happened," Carpio said, adding those who knew what happened and did not intervene should face consequences.
"They are as much at fault as he is. Why are they not being held accountable?" Carpio said.
Addressing the DA directly, Carpio said "Mr. Joe Gonzales, I feel you and the justice system failed my Sebastian and myself and my family. My Sebastian's case is not just another number and this should not be another number."
Gonzales would only say "Unfortunately, we are prohibited from discussing any pending investigation so I cannot at this time disclose any information about that. Unfortunately there's not much I can tell you about that."
Carpio says Sunday, on what would have been her son's 20th birthday, she'll be doing what she does every day, visiting with Sebastian at the cemetery, steadfastly praying for justice.
"I know that something good is going to come out of this. What, I don't know, but I just know that every single day I ask God and I ask Sebastian to provide the strength so that I can keep going and advocating for him, so that maybe this will help other families," Carpio said.
The San Antonio Police Department provided the following statement about their ongoing efforts with regard to this case:
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Pfizer seeks FDA authorization for updated COVID-19 booster
Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted their application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for use in people age 12 and older, the companies said in a statement on Monday.
This updated formulation will combine the original vaccine with one that targets omicron sublineages BA.4 and BA.5, and would be administered as a 30 microgram dose.
The companies say they are following "guidance from the FDA" and are including clinical data of their bivalent BA.1 vaccine and pre-clinical and manufacturing data from the bivalent BA.4/5 vaccine for the submission.
"FDA will be using the totality of the available evidence to authorize the fall bivalent boosters," FDA spokesperson Abigail Capobianco said in a statement emailed to CNN last week. "There are data on many millions of individuals who have received the prototype component as a booster. As for the BA.4/5 component, a combination of nonclinical data obtained in mice, data from prior variant vaccines (including those to beta, delta, and omicron BA.1), along with our extensive knowledge of the safety and efficacy of the mRNA platforms will be used for this decision-making."
Pre-clinical data demonstrated that the new BA.4/5 bivalent vaccine "generated a strong neutralizing antibody response against omicron BA.1, BA.2 and BA.4/BA.5 variants, as well as the original wild-type strain," according to the companies. They said a clinical study is expected to start this month.
Previously, the companies announced data from a Phase 2/3 trial that showed their BA.1 bivalent booster resulted in a substantially higher immune response against the omicron variant and also appeared to be safe and well tolerated.
White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said recently the updated boosters should be available to the public early- to mid-September, but it is ultimately up to the FDA as to when the shot will get the greenlight.
Pfizer and BioNTech say have "rapidly scaled production and stand ready to deliver doses of omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent vaccines for September, and will begin shipping immediately pending authorization."
"The agility of the mRNA platform, together with extensive clinical experience with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, has allowed us to develop, test and manufacture updated, high-quality vaccines that align to circulating strains with unprecedented speed," said Albert Bourla, Pfizer's chairman and chief executive officer, in the statement. | https://www.wesh.com/article/pfizer-seeks-fda-authorization-for-updated-covid-19-booster/40957214 | 2022-08-22 17:57:22 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/pfizer-seeks-fda-authorization-for-updated-covid-19-booster/40957214 |
Award-Winning Computer Science Learning Product Teaches the Language of Tomorrow to Students of Today
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine Learning, the largest provider of digital curriculum solutions in the U.S., serving 15 million students in more than half the school districts nationwide, today announced new features for its newest product, Imagine Robotify. Designed to align with Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) standards, Imagine Robotify is a browser-based computer science learning platform that uses virtual, animated robots to teach coding to students in Grades 3-8 and beyond in an engaging, fun, and accessible way.
"At Imagine Learning, we are at the forefront of innovation, helping schools and families provide opportunity and access for learners," said Jeff Pendleton, SVP and General Manager of Supplemental and Intervention. "Since acquiring Robotify, our inventive team has found more ways to make teaching computer science and coding even more accessible and affordable."
Imagine Robotify is a browser-based digital solution designed to teach coding using the world's best computer science simulator. The platform offers learners the freedom and creativity they need to realize their original ideas and, in the process, develop their capacity for communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. Imagine Robotify provides students with the ability to master coding and computer science skills and apply their critical thinking to robotics, math, and science through project- and game-based learning. Students have access to more than 1,000 different coding activities and games, including 24/7 access to the latest virtual robots without having to ever purchase physical hardware.
- Best-in-class browser-based 3D robotics simulator, eliminating the need for expensive equipment to allow access and affordability to a much wider population of learners and teachers worldwide
- All new user interface
- One-stop shop of teacher resources and tools to instruct students
- Project-based learning using Blockly and Python that applies knowledge to build, reuse, edit and analyze code to solve problems
- New virtual robotics games to reinforce learning
- New customization feature enables teachers to assign specific lessons and challenges to a class
- Both coding and non-coding content for a full computer science curriculum
- Available in both English and Spanish, as well as French, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish
- New assessment and reporting tools to manage and track student performance as well as effectiveness of the program
In June, Imagine Robotify won the 2022 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Coding & Computational Thinking Solution. "Our mission has always been to show more students the power of computer science and coding," said Adam Dalton, co-founder and CEO of Imagine Robotify. "Receiving a prestigious CODiE Award is further proof that Imagine Robotify is making a difference and helping to empower equitable learning breakthroughs for all students."
Imagine Learning is a PreK–12 digital learning solutions company that ignites learning breakthroughs by designing forward-thinking solutions at the intersection of people, curricula, and technology to drive student growth. Imagine Learning serves more than 15 million students and partners with more than half the school districts nationwide. Imagine Learning's flagship products include Imagine Edgenuity®, online courseware and virtual school services solutions; supplemental and intervention solutions for literacy, language, mathematics, robotics, and coding; and high-quality, digital-first core curriculum, including Illustrative Mathematics®, EL Education®, and Odell Education®—all on the Imagine Learning Classroom—and Twig Science®. Read more about Imagine Learning's digital solutions at imaginelearning.com.
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A newlywed drowned while snorkeling on his honeymoon in Hawaii, and as other beach-goers tried to resuscitate him, thieves took his belongings and stole the man and his new wife’s rental car.
Steven Phan, 49, and his wife Brittany were snorkeling off the shore of Electric Beach on June 1 when Phan vanished beneath the water.
A spearfisher found Phan and pulled him to shore, where bystanders performed CPR before first responders arrived, according to KITV in Honolulu.
As Phan was being given CPR, the couple’s rental car — in which they had left their clothing, cellphones and money – was stolen.
Phan was transported to a hospital where he later died, according to KHON.
“People, they don’t have the decency, integrity, it’s just morals, I guess,” John Titchen, chief of Honolulu’s Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services Division, told KITV.
As of Tuesday morning, a GoFundMe page had raised more than $35,000 for Phan’s memorial services which was set for Tuesday in California.
“As If this could not be worse, all of Brittany and Steven’s belongings were stolen, the thieves took their cell phones, wallets, money, clothing, they even stole their car rental,” according to the fundraiser.
The Phans, who were married on March 20, had gone to Hawaii for their honeymoon.
Honolulu City Councilmember Andrea Tupola said the city will be adding a lifeguard stand and the necessary staffing to the beach in the coming months. According to Tupola, the decision followed public demand, KHON reported.
Honolulu police said they are investigating the theft of the car and the couple’s belongings. | https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/man-drowns-honeymoon-couples-belongings-stolen-during-resuscitation-efforts/NL5JG45H4FA55K65PM2JDPLNWQ/ | 2023-06-13 17:53:35 | 1 | https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/man-drowns-honeymoon-couples-belongings-stolen-during-resuscitation-efforts/NL5JG45H4FA55K65PM2JDPLNWQ/ |
Top outdoor stakes for dogs
For anyone without a fenced-in yard, a tie-out stake is an effective way to allow your dog outside without them running off. A stake featuring a swivel hook on the top where a cable or other tether can be attached is inserted into the ground. The other end of the tether is attached to your dog’s collar or harness, giving it free rein in every direction from the stake to explore, play and relax.
Stakes should be made of metal or steel. The length of the portion of the stake that penetrates the ground corresponds to its strength: the deeper the stake, the more stable it is. Some stakes are straight, with flares along the shaft to dig into the ground, while some are designed as corkscrews for maximum stability.
While stakes allow freedom in a yard or campsite, there are important safety measures to keep in mind before buying one.
Tie-out dog stake tips
- Train your dog. Just like walking on a leash, it will take time for dogs to adjust to using a tie-out stake. Spend time with them and train them when first introducing the stake so they understand limits and best behaviors.
- Do not leave your dog unsupervised. Dogs should not be left on their own on a tie-out stake. Tethers or cables present tripping and choking hazards, while dogs that run to the end of their limit risk whiplash and other injuries when they are pulled back.
- Regularly inspect. Periodically check the stake for any defects that may occur over time. Weather and frequent use can slowly dislodge the stake, making it more vulnerable to the force of a dog.
- Remove or avoid obstacles. Inspect the area within range for any barriers or impediments, such as trees, playhouses or swing sets. Remove any obstacles or find a new area if they cannot be removed. If you have two dogs, you should hook them up separately to avoid entanglement.
- Affix to a harness. Unless you have a calm dog familiar with using a tether, hook it up using a harness instead of a collar. Dogs can choke themselves or damage the neck when testing the limits of the rope. A Martingale collar, which gently tightens around the neck when dogs pull, may be suitable under close supervision as the dog trains.
- Provide water and shade. If your dog stays outside for long periods, be sure they have access to shaded areas away from the sun. Provide cold, clean and fresh water at all times.
Best tie-out dog stakes
This steel tie-out stake takes a bit of force to get into the ground, but it’s strong and stable once planted directly down. The solid construction and corkscrew design are ideal for small and medium dogs, as well as well-behaved large dogs that won’t try to break free. The stake is also weather resistant, providing value for years of use.
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This steel corkscrew stake is easy to put into the ground with the help of a comfortable grip on the head. The blue vinyl coating also helps people see the stake to avoid tripping over it. The generous height above ground, including the long neck, allows the swivel to move easily without fear of tangles. It also includes a 20-feet cable.
Designed for the utmost stability, this reinforced stake supports dogs up to 125 pounds. Once the spiral stake is securely planted, it is locked into place with a sturdy cup that digs into the ground and prevents side-to-side movement over time, which loosens the soil. While this popular stake is best suited to medium dogs, IntelliLeash also offers a smaller and larger stake.
Frisco Easy Grip Stake with Cable
This durable steel stake comes with a compatible cable that is easily attached to the included metal swivel. The cable spans 30 feet, offering plenty of range for your dog; it’s coated in vinyl to withstand daily use. The stake handle is also covered in vinyl to make planting it easier on the hands.
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Almost all of this 21-inch stake is designed to be implanted underground, with just a dome and short top exposed. Made of one piece of steel, the lengthy stake provides impressive stability and durability for even larger dogs. A solid metal ring also allows for movement around the stake without tangles. Despite the small exposure, the yellow coloring makes it noticeable.
Designed for those on the go, this set provides convenience and security for small and medium dogs. The heavy-duty steel anchor reaches depths up to 10 inches; an included steel lever makes installation easy, requiring little exertion. The set also comes with a carabiner to clip onto the swivel and a brush to clean the stake when removed. All of the pieces fit into a handy carrying bag to take with you.
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While it comes at a high price, this is one of the largest tie-out dog stakes. Ideal for bigger dogs, almost all of this 28-inch giant stake secures underground. While it may take some effort to get into the ground, it provides reliable support once installed. A swivel ring prevents tangles, and a bright orange coating provides easy visibility.
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This inexpensive stake provides terrific value with its depth, color and durability. The stake reaches almost two feet into the ground. It forgoes the spiral design but flares out in two spots to prevent the stake from being easily pulled upward. Its red coloring is helpful for identification. The dome shape prevents tangles, and the metal construction withstands weather across the seasons.
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Three weeks into disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial, prosecutors have called dozens of witnesses offering wide-ranging — and sometimes disjointed — testimony.
Jurors have heard from the investigators who found the bodies of Murdaugh’s wife and son, and technicians who found gunshot residue, cracked open cellphones to get videos and tested dozens of ammunition casings.
They’ve heard from betrayed law firm employees, heartbroken friends of Murdaugh and his family, and a man whose insurance settlement was stolen after his mother, the Murdaughs’ housekeeper, died in a fall at their home.
But witnesses have been called in disorganized groups and tantalizing scraps of evidence have been introduced but not explained. The defense hopes to start its case in middle of next week and had planned a week of testimony but is rethinking that because of the trial’s length.
Here are some key takeaways from the trial so far.
FINANCIAL CRIMES
Murdaugh, 54, is charged with murder in the deaths of 52-year-old Maggie, shot several times with a rifle, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, shot twice with a shotgun at kennels near their Colleton County home on June 7, 2021. He faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted.
The disbarred lawyer also faces about 100 other charges ranging from stealing money from clients to running a drug and money laundering ring.
Much of the week’s testimony focused on whether Murdaugh stole money from his family’s law firm and clients. Prosecutors contend Murdaugh thought he was about to get caught stealing and killed his wife and son to buy time to cover up the money trail.
The office manager from the family law firm said Murdaugh stole millions in fees and client settlements. A law school buddy said Murdaugh took advantage of his trust and left him to pay $192,000 to keep his client trust fund balanced. The son of the Murdaughs’ housekeeper and nanny who died in a fall testified Murdaugh promised to get them a hefty insurance settlement for the death but kept more than $4 million collected for himself.
The defense objected to each witness, saying there was no evidence linking the killings to financial misdeeds.
“This is piling on. This is more trying to prejudice the jury into believing somehow someone who steals a bunch of money in any way whatever would commit a murder,” Murdaugh lawyer Dick Harpootlian said.
DISJOINTED CASE
Prosecutors have called 47 witnesses in 12 days of testimony, but at times there has been little rhythm to the order.
This week, the caretaker of Murdaugh’s mother testified about a blue jacket Murdaugh might have held when he visited but then other witnesses testified about financial crimes before the state forensic scientist who tested the jacket for blood and gunshot residue took the stand.
Long, tedious testimony has focused on cellphone data between Paul Murdaugh’s friends.
Some intriguing evidence has been introduced but never explained to jurors, who do not have notebooks to keep track of testimony.
A crime scene technician put into evidence a receipt with a $1,021.10 item from Gucci circled, but it hasn’t been brought up since. An FBI technician gave the times Murdaugh’s SUV was shifted into and out of park the night of the killings without interpretation.
THE ACCUSED
A courtroom camera is trained on Alex Murdaugh every moment he is in court. Several cameras wait for him as he gets in and out of a prison van each day.
At the beginning of the trial, Murdaugh cried and rocked in his chair several times as crime scene photos of his wife and son were shown and described. Prosecutors and defense have said the aftermath of the shooting was gruesome. Agents testified Paul Murdaugh’s brain was detached from his skull with a close range shotgun blast.
Murdaugh has adamantly denied killing his wife and son. His lawyers said he was visiting his ailing mother the night of the murders and police wrongly focused on him from the start.
Murdaugh cried Thursday as the defense showed video of a family birthday party weeks before the killings.
But during the financial crimes testimony, Murdaugh has been much more stoic, listening and occasionally speaking to his lawyers.
TECHNOLOGICAL WIZARDRY
Breaking News
Within weeks of the killings, state agents wanted data from the SUV Alex Murdaugh drove to visit his mother the night of the killings and from Paul Murdaugh’s cellphone.
But both devices were encrypted and impossible to crack in 2021.
Advancements in hacking allowed agents to get into Paul Murdaugh’s iPhone data last year and they found one of the key pieces of evidence so far — a video he took of a dog at the family’s kennels about five minutes before investigators said the killings took place. Several witnesses have said all three Murdaughs can be heard in the video taken near where the bodies were found.
Alex Murdaugh told police both right after the bodies were found and again a few days later he was never at the kennels.
A FBI agent testified he worked for a year to crack the encrypted data from the computer entertainment and information console on the SUV the family law firm provided Murdaugh.
Along with other information, he extracted the times the vehicle was shifted into and out of park, although he couldn’t tell if the vehicle was in motion or someone had their foot on the brake. The agent said he also could tell when the windows were raised or lowered, but never said if that happened during Murdaugh’s 20-minute ride to his mother’s home the night of the killings.
Maggie Murdaugh’s cellphone was recovered from the side of a road the day after the killings. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-murdaugh-trial-takeaways-20230211-g2bw5q3dzzathd3lstoabq7iyu-story.html | 2023-02-12 23:51:09 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-murdaugh-trial-takeaways-20230211-g2bw5q3dzzathd3lstoabq7iyu-story.html |
Revenues Grew 21% to an All-time Quarterly Record $204.3 Million
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Everi Holdings Inc. (NYSE: EVRI) ("Everi" or the "Company"), a premier provider of land-based and digital casino gaming content and products, financial technology and player loyalty solutions, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. Reflecting the expectation for steady operating performance in the fourth quarter, the Company also narrowed its full-year guidance ranges for net income, Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow.
Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Revenues grew 21% to an all-time quarterly record of $204.3 million from $168.3 million in the 2021 third quarter, reflecting a 9% increase in recurring revenues to $143.6 million and a 64% increase in non-recurring revenues to $60.7 million, primarily for sales of gaming machines and FinTech hardware.
- FinTech segment revenues rose 27%, reflecting an 81% increase in hardware revenues, a 31% increase in software and other revenues, and a 15% rise in financial access revenues, which were driven by $10.9 billion of funds delivered to casino floors.
- Games segment revenues rose 17%, reflecting a 57% increase in shipments of gaming machines to 1,841 units, as well as a 5% increase in revenues from gaming operations, which included the benefit of a 1,314-unit year-over-year increase in the installed game base.
- Net income increased to $29.4 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, compared to $6.7 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, in the 2021 third quarter. The provision for income taxes increased $10.6 million in the 2022 third quarter related to the reversal of the deferred tax asset valuation allowance in the 2021 fourth quarter and the inclusion in the prior-year period of a pre-tax charge of $34.4 million for loss on extinguishment of debt.
- Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, increased 7% to an all-time quarterly record $96.6 million compared to $90.6 million in the 2021 third quarter.
- Free Cash Flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, was $43.9 million compared with $56.3 million in the 2021 third quarter, partly due to a change in the timing of the $10.0 million semi-annual interest payment on the Company's 5% senior unsecured notes.
- Repurchased 0.9 million shares of stock for $16.0 million in the 2022 third quarter.
Randy Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of Everi, said, "The third quarter year-over-year increases in revenues, net income and Adjusted EBITDA and our consistent improvement in our financial results throughout 2022 reflect the operating momentum across each of our businesses due to the continued broad-based demand for our products. Our strong financial results this year have been driven by steady growth in our recurring revenue streams together with a record level of revenues from gaming machine and FinTech hardware sales. Our focus on top-line growth and operational excellence is delivering consistent year-over-year earnings growth and strong Free Cash Flow generation.
"We received tremendous positive customer response to the launch of our newest products displayed at the Global Gaming Expo ("G2E") in early October, quite possibly our best-ever show. This favorable feedback combined with the growth prospects related to our recent acquisitions, fortifies our confidence for continued operating momentum and strong cash flow in 2023. Our capital allocation priorities remain directed toward extending the success we have achieved through investments in high-return internal product development to grow our core businesses and prudent acquisitions that extend our product and service capabilities to expand our addressable markets, as well as continuing to return capital to our shareholders. With our confidence in our long-term growth prospects and a belief that the current valuation of our Company does not fully reflect our underlying strength and growth opportunities, we have been returning capital to shareholders through opportunistic repurchases of our shares as part of our focus on creating additional long-term shareholder value."
Consolidated Full Quarter Comparative Results (unaudited)
Third Quarter 2022 Results Overview
Revenues for the three-month period ended September 30, 2022 increased 21% to $204.3 million compared to $168.3 million in the third quarter of 2021. Recurring revenues increased 9% driven by growth in both the Games and FinTech segments to $143.6 million from $131.2 million in the prior-year period. Revenues from non-recurring sales increased 64% to $60.7 million compared with $37.1 million in the prior-year period.
Operating income for the 2022 third quarter was $54.6 million compared to $55.1 million in the prior-year period. The lower operating margin compared to the same period a year ago primarily reflects a change in the revenue mix, which resulted from the substantially greater growth in sales of gaming machines and FinTech hardware (that have lower margins) as the Company successfully increases its ship share and expands into new markets. Higher research and development expense that supports the step-up in the Company's focus on internal new product development and increased depreciation and amortization also impacted the operating margin comparison. While operating costs increased year over year, largely attributable to recent acquisitions and increased legal costs, they declined slightly as a percentage of revenues in the 2022 third quarter compared to the prior-year period.
Net income increased 339% to $29.4 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, compared to $6.7 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2021. The provision for income taxes increased $10.6 million in the 2022 third quarter and was attributable to the reversal of the full valuation allowance on certain deferred tax assets that occurred in the 2021 fourth quarter. The 2021 third quarter included a pre-tax charge of $34.4 million for the loss on extinguishment of debt related to the Company's debt refinancing transactions.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 7% to an all-time quarterly record $96.6 million from $90.6 million in the prior-year period.
Free Cash Flow was $43.9 million compared with $56.3 million in the year-ago period. A change in the timing of the semi-annual interest payment on the Company's 5% senior unsecured notes, attributable to the refinancing of the Company's debt in 2021, resulted in a $10 million semi-annual interest payment in the 2022 third quarter while the comparable payment in the prior year occurred in the second quarter.
Outlook
Everi today tightened its full year 2022 guidance for net income to $112 million to $117 million, Adjusted EBITDA to $371 million to $376 million and Free Cash Flow to $190 million to $197 million.
The Company's updated guidance does not contemplate any additional material macroeconomic impact, such as a pandemic-related setback, recessionary or inflationary influence on consumer spending, a material supply chain disruption, or other changes in global market conditions. A summary and reconciliation of the full year 2022 financial targets are included in a supplemental table at the end of this release.
Games Segment Full Quarter Comparative Results (unaudited)
2022 Third Quarter Games Segment Highlights
Games segment revenues grew 17% to $112.5 million compared to $95.8 million in the third quarter of 2021, primarily driven by a 57% increase in the number of gaming machines sold, as well as further growth in gaming operations revenues, including from digital gaming operations.
Operating income was $25.8 million compared to $30.2 million in the third quarter of 2021, reflecting higher revenues from gaming machine sales, offset by lower margins on machine sales due to increased supply chain costs as well as higher operating expenses, including increased costs associated with acquisitions and higher research and development expense, reflecting an increased investment in games development and engineering costs. Adjusted EBITDA was $57.2 million compared to $57.7 million in the third quarter of 2021. Revenues from the recent acquisition of Intuicode Gaming were $2.3 million in the 2022 third quarter.
Gaming operations revenues increased 5% to $75.0 million compared to $71.6 million a year ago.
- The installed base increased 8%, or by 1,314 units, year over year and increased by 271 units on a quarterly sequential base to 17,735 units as of September 30, 2022.
- The premium portion of the installed base increased by 19%, or 1,374 units, year over year and by 370 units on a quarterly sequential basis to 8,725 units. Growth was driven in part by continued placements of Cashnado™ and Smokin' Hot Stuff Fire and Ice™ units, as well as the Company's popular premium mechanical reel games, and its Wide-area Progressive ("WAP") gaming machines.
- Daily Win per Unit ("DWPU") was $39.56 in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $42.74 in the third quarter of 2021.
- Revenues from digital gaming rose 34% to $5.1 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $3.8 million in the third quarter of 2021. The increase in Digital revenues reflects an expansion in the number of Gaming operator sites featuring Everi's games along with growth in the library of available slot content.
Gaming equipment and systems revenues generated from the sale of gaming machines, including historical horse racing ("HHR") units and other related parts and equipment, increased 55% to $37.5 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $24.2 million in the third quarter of 2021.
- The Company sold 1,841 gaming machines at an average selling price ("ASP") of $18,496 in the 2022 third quarter, up 665 units or 57%, from the 1,176 units sold at an ASP of $18,014 in the 2021 third quarter. The Company estimates its quarterly industry ship share expanded year over year, primarily driven by sales of the newly launched Player Classic Signature™ mechanical reel cabinet, ongoing sales of the Player Classic™ mechanical reel cabinet, and demand for the expanding game library supporting the Empire Flex™ video reel cabinet.
Financial Technology Solutions Segment Full Quarter Comparative Results (unaudited)
2022 Third Quarter Financial Technology Solutions ("FinTech") Segment Highlights
FinTech revenues for the 2022 third quarter increased 27% to $91.8 million compared to $72.4 million in the 2021 third quarter, reflecting a 15% increase in financial access services, a 31% increase in software and other revenues, and an 81% improvement in revenues from hardware sales. Revenues from the recent acquisition of ecash Holdings contributed $4.0 million in the 2022 third quarter.
Operating income increased 16% to $28.8 million in the 2022 third quarter compared to $24.9 million in the prior-year period, reflecting a benefit from higher revenues partially offset by higher legal costs and increased research and development expense in support of new and enhanced Loyalty products, the Company's digital CashClub Wallet®, new RegTech products, and other software and hardware offerings. Adjusted EBITDA rose 20% to an all-time, quarterly record of $39.4 million compared to $32.9 million in the 2021 third quarter.
- Financial access services revenues, which include cashless and cash-dispensing debit and credit card transactions and check services, increased 15% versus the 2021 third quarter to $53.3 million, reflecting continued strength in same-store financial funding transactions, as well as growth from new customer additions. Funds delivered to casino floors increased 10% to $10.9 billion on a 2% increase in the number of completed financial transactions together with an increase in average transaction size. While representing less than 5% of funding transactions, cashless transactions (including both digital wallet and paper gaming voucher transactions) increased 58% year over year. The Company's CashClub Wallet technology is currently deployed at or being deployed across 14 jurisdictions at 38 casinos.
- Software and other revenues, which include Loyalty and RegTech software, product subscriptions, kiosk maintenance services, and other revenues, rose 31% to $22.2 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $17.0 million in the third quarter 2021. Approximately 69% and 77% of software and other revenues were of a recurring nature in the 2022 and 2021 third quarter periods, respectively.
- Hardware sales revenues increased 81% to $16.3 million compared to $9.0 million in the third quarter of 2021. The record level of self-service kiosks and other hardware products sold in the quarter reflect ongoing demand for the Company's hardware and software solutions that deliver optimal performance and improved cost efficiencies to casino operators, including $2.8 million of revenues from ecash Holdings' voucher redemption kiosks.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity
- As of September 30, 2022, the Company had $258.6 million of cash and cash equivalents, and its Net Cash Position was $103.3 million.
- The Company repurchased 0.9 million shares of its common stock for total consideration of $16.0 million during the quarter, and as of September 30, 2022, had $100.6 million remaining under the existing $150-million share repurchase program approved by the Board in the 2022 second quarter.
- Subsequent to end of the 2022 third quarter, the Company closed on its acquisition for substantially all of the assets of Venuetize Inc., paying $18.0 million with additional performance-based payments of $2 million to $6 million expected during the next 30 months.
Investor Conference Call and Webcast
The Company will host an investor conference call to discuss its 2022 third quarter results at 11:00 a.m. EST (8:00 a.m. PST) today. The conference call may be accessed live by phone by dialing (201) 689-8471. A replay of the call will be available beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET today and may be accessed by dialing (412) 317-6671; the PIN number is 13733645. A replay will be available until November 15, 2022. The call also will be webcast live and archived on www.everi.com (select "Investors" followed by "Events & Contact").
Non-GAAP Financial Information
In order to enhance investor understanding of the underlying trends in our business, our cash balance, and cash available for our operating needs, and to provide for better comparability between periods in different years, we are providing in this press release Adjusted EBITDA, Free Cash Flow, Net Cash Position and Net Cash Available, which are not measures of our financial performance or position under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). Accordingly, Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. These measures should be read in conjunction with our net earnings, operating income, and cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP. With respect to Net Cash Position and Net Cash Available, these measures should be read in conjunction with cash and cash equivalents prepared in accordance with GAAP.
We define Adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, loss on extinguishment of debt, non-cash stock compensation expense, accretion of contract rights, litigation settlement received net of legal costs, office consolidation costs, asset acquisition expense, certain non-recurring professional fees, certain litigation costs, and one-time charges. We present Adjusted EBITDA, as we use this measure to manage our business and consider this measure to be supplemental to our operating performance. We also make certain compensation decisions based, in part, on our operating performance, as measured by Adjusted EBITDA; and our credit facility and senior unsecured notes require us to comply with a consolidated secured leverage ratio that includes performance metrics substantially similar to Adjusted EBITDA.
We define Free Cash Flow as Adjusted EBITDA less cash paid for interest, cash paid for capital expenditures, cash paid for placement fees, and cash paid for taxes net of refunds. We present Free Cash Flow as a measure of performance and believe it provides investors with another indicator of our operating performance. It should not be inferred that the entire Free Cash Flow amount is available for discretionary expenditures.
A reconciliation of the Company's net income per GAAP to Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow is included in the Unaudited Reconciliation of Selected Financial GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures provided at the end of this release. Additionally, a reconciliation of each segment's operating income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is also included. On a segment level, operating income per GAAP, rather than net earnings per GAAP, is reconciled to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA as the Company does not report net earnings by segment. Management believes that this presentation is meaningful to investors in evaluating the performance of the Company's segments.
We define Net Cash Position as cash and cash equivalents plus settlement receivables less settlement liabilities and Net Cash Available as Net Cash Position plus undrawn amounts available under our revolving credit facility. We present Net Cash Position because our cash position, as measured by cash and cash equivalents, depends upon changes in settlement receivables and the timing of payments related to settlement liabilities. As such, our cash and cash equivalents can change substantially based upon the timing of our receipt of payments for settlement receivables and payments we make to customers for our settlement liabilities. We present Net Cash Available as management monitors this amount in connection with its forecasting of cash flows and future cash requirements.
A reconciliation of the Company's cash and cash equivalents per GAAP to Net Cash Position and Net Cash Available is included in the Unaudited Reconciliation of Cash and Cash Equivalents to Net Cash Position and Net Cash Available provided at the end of this release.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance, but instead are based only on our current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions regarding the future of our business, plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy, and other future conditions, as of the date this press release is issued. Forward-looking statements often, but do not always, contain words such as "expect," "anticipate," "aim to," "designed to," "intend," "plan," "believe," "goal," "target," "future," "assume," "estimate," "indication," "seek," "project," "may," "can," "could," "should," "favorably positioned," or "will" and other words and terms of similar meaning. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein, which are based only on information currently available to us and only as of the date hereof.
Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding our ability to execute on key initiatives and deliver ongoing operating and financial improvements, including guidance related to 2022 financial and operational metrics; maintain revenue, earnings and Free Cash Flow momentum; sustain our overall growth; drive growth of the gaming operations installed base and DWPU; continue expanding the portions of the gaming floor the Company's games address, including into the Historical Horse Racing category of gaming devices and the Company's overall targeted ship share of gaming machines sold; successfully perform obligations required by acquisition agreements; and create incremental value for our shareholders, as well as statements regarding our expectations for the industry environment and the adoption of our products and technologies.
Forward-looking statements are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties, and changes in circumstances that are often difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control, including, but not limited to, statements regarding: trends, developments, and uncertainties impacting our business, including our ability to withstand: global supply chain disruption; inflationary impact on supply chain costs; changes in global market, business and regulatory conditions arising as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, including any related public health confidence and availability of discretionary spending income of casino patrons, as well as expectations for the closing or re-opening of casinos; product innovations that address customer needs in a new and evolving operating environment; to regain or maintain revenue, earnings, and cash flow momentum, and to enhance shareholder value in the long-term; trends in gaming establishment and patron usage of our products; benefits realized by using our products and services; benefits and/or costs associated with mergers, acquisitions, and/or strategic alliances; product development, including the release of new game features, additional games, and system releases in the future; regulatory approvals; gaming and financial regulatory and legal, card association, and statutory compliance and changes; the implementation of new or amended card association and payment network rules or interpretations; consumer collection activities; competition (including consolidations); tax liabilities; goodwill impairment charges; international expansion; resolution of litigation or government investigations; our dividend policy; new customer contracts and contract renewals; financial performance and results of operations (including revenues, expenses, margins, earnings, cash flow, and capital expenditures); inflationary impact on labor costs and retention; interest rates and interest expense; borrowings and debt repayments; and equity incentive activity and compensation expense.
Our actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in forward-looking statements, and important factors that could cause them to do so include, but are not limited to, the following: our ability to generate profits in the future and to create incremental value for shareholders; our ability to withstand inflationary and other factors that pressure discretionary consumer spending; our ability to execute on mergers, acquisitions and/or strategic alliances, including our ability to integrate and operate such acquisitions or alliances consistent with our forecasts in order to achieve future growth; our ability to execute on key initiatives and deliver ongoing improvements; expectations regarding growth for the Company's installed base and daily win per unit; expectations regarding placement fee arrangements; inaccuracies in underlying operating assumptions; the impact of the COVID-19 and its subsequent variations global pandemic on our business, operations and financial condition, including (i) actions taken by international, federal, state, tribal and municipal governmental and regulatory agencies to contain the COVID-19 public health emergency or mitigate its impact, (ii) the direct and indirect economic effects of COVID-19 and measures to contain it, including directives, orders or similar actions by international, federal, state, tribal and municipal governmental and regulatory agencies to regulate freedom of movement and business operations such as travel restrictions, border closures, business closures, limitations on public gatherings, quarantines and shelter-in-place orders as well as re-opening safety protocols; changes in global market, business, and regulatory conditions arising as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic; our history of net losses and our ability to generate profits in the future; our leverage and the related covenants that restrict our operations; our ability to withstand unanticipated impacts of a pandemic outbreak of uncertain duration; our ability to withstand the loss of revenue during the closure of our customers' facilities; our ability to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness, fund working capital, and capital expenditures; our ability to maintain our current customers; expectations regarding customers' preferences and demands for future product and service offerings; growth of the gaming industry, if any; our ability to replace revenue associated with terminated contracts; margin degradation from contract renewals; our ability to comply with the Europay, MasterCard, and Visa global standard for cards equipped with security chip technology; our ability to successfully introduce new products and services, including third-party licensed content; gaming establishment and patron preferences; failure to control product development costs and create successful new products; anticipated sales performance; our ability to prevent, mitigate, or timely recover from cybersecurity breaches, attacks, and compromises; national and international economic and industry conditions; changes in gaming regulatory, card association, and statutory requirements; regulatory and licensing difficulties, competitive pressures and changes in the competitive environment; operational limitations; gaming market contraction; changes to tax laws; uncertainty of litigation outcomes; interest rate fluctuations; business prospects; unanticipated expenses or capital needs; technological obsolescence and our ability to adapt to evolving technologies; our ability to comply with our debt covenants and service outstanding debt; employee hiring, turnover, and retention; our ability to comply with regulatory requirements under the Payment Card Industry ("PCI") Data Security Standards and maintain our certified status; and those other risks and uncertainties discussed in "Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 (the "Annual Report"). Given these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking information contained in this press release will in fact transpire or prove to be accurate.
This press release should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and with the information included in our other press releases, reports and other filings with the SEC. Understanding the information contained in these filings is important in order to fully understand our reported financial results and our business outlook for future periods.
About Everi
Everi's mission is to lead the gaming industry through the power of people, imagination and technology. With a focus on player engagement and helping casino customers operate more efficiently, the Company develops entertaining game content and gaming machines, gaming systems, and services for land-based and iGaming operators. The Company is also a preeminent and comprehensive provider of trusted financial technology solutions that power the casino floor while improving operational efficiencies and fulfilling regulatory compliance requirements, including products and services that facilitate convenient and secure cash and cashless financial transactions, self-service player loyalty tools and applications, and regulatory and intelligence software. For more information, please visit www.everi.com, which is updated regularly with financial and other information about the Company.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Police in Florida released the cause of death of 2-year-old Taylen Mosley, who they say was killed by his father last month.
In a Monday release, the St. Petersburg Police Department confirmed that the toddler died of drowning.
Taylen was initially reported missing after his mother, 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery, was found dead in her apartment’s bathroom with over 100 stab wounds on March 30, according to police.
The following day, Taylen’s body was found in an alligator’s mouth at Lake Maggiore. Police said it was believed that Taylen was thrown or placed into the water by his father, Thomas Mosley.
Officers allege that Mosley murdered both Jeffery and their son before showing up at his mother’s house with wounds on his hands and arms “consistent with injuries caused by slippage during a knife attack.”
He then went to St. Anthony’s Hospital for treatment. During his stay, he refused to cooperate with the search for his son, stated Chief Anthony Holloway.
According to an affidavit, a bloody fingerprint on a bottle of cleaning solution stashed under a bed matched Thomas Mosley’s.
He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for both victims’ deaths, police said. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/police-release-cause-death-for-florida-2-year-old-found-in-alligators-mouth/ | 2023-04-24 18:34:55 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/police-release-cause-death-for-florida-2-year-old-found-in-alligators-mouth/ |
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MINNEAPOLIS — De’Aaron Fox scored 32 points and Trey Lyles had eight of his 11 points in overtime for the Sacramento Kings, who outlasted the Minnesota Timberwolves 118-111 on Monday night.
Lyles took over for Sabonis at center and started the extra period with a 3-pointer. He dunked on Rudy Gobert for a three-point play and got wide open for another slam with 37.8 seconds left in overtime for a five-point lead to put the game away and give the Kings a split of this two-game set after a 117-110 loss on Saturday night.
Anthony Edwards had 33 points and eight rebounds for the Timberwolves, hitting the 30-point mark for the fifth time in the last six games. Gobert added 19 points and 14 rebounds.
Sabonis and Gobert locked in a classic big man battle, with neither player conceding an inch or a rebound. Gobert kept his cool far better than Sabonis, who was whistled for a technical after a missed contested layup that had him screaming at the officials about the no-call with 3:57 left.
Neither team led by more than five points for the entire fourth quarter, when Edwards went to work once again for the Wolves with three straight baskets for a 98-95 lead with 2:12 to go.
Fox is one of those clutch players too. He gave the Kings the lead twice with shots in the final 1:48 and had the chance to win it at the regulation buzzer, but his fadeaway fell short.
Sabonis fouled out with 51 seconds left in the fourth quarter with the Kings leading 103-99. Gobert made one of two free throws. Jaden McDaniels hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 13.5 seconds left.
This was one of those games when energy was going to be the most important ingredient with the rims on both ends in an unforgiving mood.
Gobert’s dunk was the first basket to fall after the teams combined for eight misses to start. The Wolves were 5 for 20 from the floor until a 3-pointer by D’Angelo Russell, who missed his first three free throws. Russell had missed a total of twice from the line in his previous 13 games.
WILD WEST
The Kings are third in the Western Conference, on track to end an NBA-record 16-year absence from the playoffs, but they entered the evening with only one more win than 10th-place Utah.
The Timberwolves are nestled in between, one of several teams seeing their place in the standings fluctuate significantly from night to night, and the coaching staff has not missed opportunities to point that out to the players.
“Just trying to bring some context and relevancy to some things,” coach Chris Finch said. “I think it’s important to recognize where you are.”
GHOST TOWNS
Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns has missed 32 games with a strained right calf. He was not sitting by the bench on Monday and posted an Instagram photo over the weekend showing his right foot in a walking boot.
“No setbacks at all,” Finch said. “Just part of the process.”
TIMES CHANGE
Three years and three days ago, the Kings stunned the Timberwolves by overcoming a 27-point deficit — they were still down 17 with 2:49 left in regulation — to win in overtime.
Only three players remain on each team’s roster from that night. The only ones who saw the floor in both the Jan. 27, 2020 game and this one were Fox and Harrison Barnes for Sacramento and Naz Reid for Minnesota.
TIP-INS
Kings: SG Kevin Huerter went 5 for 19 from the floor and 2 for 12 from 3-point range in the two-game series. ... SG Deonte Burton was signed to a 10-day contract prior to the game, plucked from the G-League affiliate in Stockton.
Timberwolves: Backup SF Taurean Prince returned from a four-game absence with a sprained left ankle. He missed 20 games earlier this season with a shoulder injury. ... The Wolves shot 13 for 25 from the free-throw line.
UP NEXT
Kings: Visit San Antonio on Wednesday, the third game of a seven-game trip.
Timberwolves: Host Golden State on Wednesday, the third game of a six-game homestand.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean opposition lawmakers sharply criticized the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog on Sunday for its approval of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
They met with Rafael Grossi in a tense meeting in Seoul that took place while protesters screamed outside the door.
Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general, arrived in South Korea over the weekend to engage with government officials and critics and help reduce public concerns about food safety.
The IAEA last week approved the Japanese discharge plans, saying the process would meet international safety standards and pose negligible environmental and health impacts. South Korea’s government has also endorsed the safety of the Japanese plans.
In his meeting with members of the liberal Democratic Party, which controls a majority in South Korea’s parliament, Grossi said the IAEA’s review of the Japanese plans was based on “transparent” and ”scientific” research. He acknowledged concerns over how the Japanese plans would play out in reality and said the IAEA would establish a permanent office in Fukushima to closely monitor how the discharge process is implemented over the next three decades.
“Our conclusion has been that this plan, if it is carried out in the way it has been presented, would be in line, would be in conformity with the international safety standards,” Grossi said.
The lawmakers responded by harshly criticizing IAEA’s review, which they say neglected long-term environmental and health impacts of the wastewater release and threatens to set a bad precedent that may encourage other countries to dispose nuclear waste into sea. They called for Japan to scrap the discharge plans and work with neighboring countries to find safer ways to handle the wastewater, including a possible pursuit of long-term storage on land.
The party has also criticized the government of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for putting people’s health at risk while trying to improve relations with Japan.
“If you think (the treated wastewater) is safe, I wonder whether you would be willing to suggest the Japanese government use that water for drinking or for industrial and agricultural purposes, rather than dumping it in the sea,” Woo Won-shik, a Democratic Party lawmaker who attended the meeting, told Grossi. The party said Woo has been on a hunger strike for the past 14 days to protest the Japanese discharge plans.
Further details from the meeting weren’t immediately available after reporters were asked to leave following opening statements. Closely watched by parliamentary security staff, dozens of protesters shouted near the lobby of the National Assembly’s main hall where the meeting was taking place, holding signs denouncing the IAEA and Japan.
Grossi was to fly to New Zealand later on Sunday and would then travel to the Cook Islands as he further tries to reassure countries in the region about the Japanese plans.
Hundreds of demonstrators had also marched in downtown Seoul on Saturday demanding that Japan scrap its plans.
A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the Fukushima plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and release large amounts of radiation.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, which operates the facility, has been storing the treated water in hundreds of tanks that now cover most of the plant and are nearly full. Japanese officials say the tanks must be removed to make room to build facilities for the plant’s decommissioning and to minimize the risk of leaks in case of another major disaster. The tanks are expected to reach their capacity of 1.37 million tons in early 2024.
Japan first announced plans to discharge the treated water into the sea in 2018, saying the water will be further diluted by seawater before being released in a carefully controlled process that will take decades to complete.
The safety of Fukushima’s wastewater has been a sensitive issue for years between the U.S. allies. South Korea and Japan have been working in recent months to repair relations long strained over wartime historical grievances to address shared concerns such as the North Korean nuclear threat and China’s assertive foreign policy.
In a statement released by state media on Sunday, North Korea also criticized the Japanese discharge plans, warning against “fatal adverse impact on the human lives and security and ecological environment.” The statement, which was attributed to an unidentified official in North Korea’s Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, also criticized Washington and Seoul for backing the Japanese plans.
“What matters is the unreasonable behavior of IAEA actively patronizing and facilitating Japan’s projected discharge of nuclear-polluted water, which is unimaginable,” it said. “Worse still, the U.S. and (South) Korea openly express unseemly ‘welcome’ to Japan’s discharge plan that deserves condemnation and rejection, provoking strong anger of the public.” | https://www.cbs42.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-south-korean-lawmakers-berate-iaea-chief-over-japanese-plans-to-release-treated-fukushima-wastewater/ | 2023-07-09 15:01:54 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-south-korean-lawmakers-berate-iaea-chief-over-japanese-plans-to-release-treated-fukushima-wastewater/ |
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Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
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Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
Area residents enjoy the annual Hurricane Fire & Rescue Carnival -- with rides and games by Gambill Amusements -- on Wednesday evening, June 7, at Hurricane High School.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Awalé Resources Limited ("Awalé" or the "Company") (TSXV: ARIC) is pleased to provide the following update on ongoing exploration activities at the Odienné gold-copper earn-in Joint Venture ("JV") project in Cote D'Ivoire.
The Odienné project is subject to an earn-in joint venture agreement with Newmont Ventures Limited ("Newmont")(see Company News Release dated May 31, 2022), through which Newmont retains the option to earn-in to a 65% interest, from Awalé, in the project in return for sole funding USD 15M of the JV exploration program at Odienné. Awalé is the project manager for the first 3-year phase.
The JV is now fully operational, and the Company is pleased to report on recent progress and continuing development of a robust target pipeline at the Odienné project.
Recent work at Odienné has focused on advancing the Sceptre and Charger gold-copper prospects toward an expected scout drill program in Q4, 2022 (Figures 1 and 2). Recent pitting and geological mapping have confirmed the high order geochemical anomalism at Sceptre (Figures 3 and 4). Mapping at the Charger target revealed new artisanal pits containing blind gossan outcrops just 100m from previously reported drill intercepts Further prioritization of target areas at both Sceptre and Charger will be undertaken in Q3, 2022, utilizing ground geophysical surveys readying for initial drilling.
View Attached Figures: https://www.awaleresources.com/_resources/maps/Sceptre-Charger-Figures-Final.pdf
Sceptre East Target – a 2.2 km long Iron Oxide Copper Gold IOCG ("Cu/Au") Target:
- 9 pits spaced across the core of the Cu-Au anomaly (covering c.1km, see figure 3) were completed. All pits reached saprolite exhibiting both high strain fracturing and alteration associated with mineralization.
- The program has confirmed high order Copper/Molybdenum ("Cu/Mo") surface geochemistry (figures 3 and 4)
- Handheld Innov-X portable X-Ray Fluorescence* ("pXRF") analysis of 9 composite pit floor samples from each pit from this program are consistently high order with up to 0.44% Cu in Pit OEPT-13.
- Gold analysis for all pit samples is pending and expected in 3 to 4 weeks, multielement ICP analysis is expected in 6 to 8 weeks. Pit floor composite sample pXRF Cu/Mo values are shown in Table 1 below.
Sceptre Main Target – a 1km long Au/Cu polymetallic vein target
- Mapping at Sceptre Main has revealed several polymetallic veins (figure 5) returning selective rock chip results*;
- Results are pending for Infill soil geochemistry at this prospect and expected in 3 to 4 weeks (491 Samples, figure 3).
Charger Target - a 800m long Au/Cu/Ag IOCG target (Figure 6):
- High order pXRF results from a gossan found in new artisanal mining zone some 100m west by southwest of original high order drill intercepts.
- This new development opens new mineralization orientations for the Charger target.
- These results complement the previously reported results from reverse circulation ("RC") hole OERC-89 (news release dated July 22 2021). The results shown below are from subsequent ICP multielement analysis at Intertek Australia and both confirm and enhance the previously reported pXRF results.
OERC-89:- Inc. 3m @ 9g/t Au from 30m
- Inc. 3m @ 89.6g/t Ag from 30m
- Inc. 2m @ 0.54% Cu from 30m
- Inc. 2m @ 0.29% Pb from 30m
Company CEO Glen Parsons commented today:
"We are excited that the JV at Odienné is now in full swing and our exploration work on the ground continues to deliver exciting results. Pitting at Sceptre East has revealed in situ brecciated mineralisation and high strain confirming the previously reported Geochem anomalies. We eagerly await the gold analysis from this work which we think will complement the copper results reported in this release. Discovery of gossan at Charger reinvigorates the prospectivity and priority of this target and the potential of alternate orientations to the mineralisation drilled in the 2021 field season.
This continued work is integral to developing scout drilling programs and we look forward to working with Newmont on rapidly progressing Sceptre and Charger through IP geophysics and drilling in the remainder of 2022. At the same time, we are advancing a target pipeline for the project area, which continues to build excitement around the greater potential of the Odienné project and the potential of the Odienné West application.
Along with the advancement of these 2 targets the company has also collected some 1934 soil samples and 771 termitaria samples on the new Lando target and BBM trend to the North and Northeast of the permit, which we will be reporting on in the coming weeks. Mapped geology at the Lando target is particularly encouraging with artisanal mining presence associated with iron rich quartz breccias. The BBM trend is >10km long and is targeting an interpreted belt basin margin in the NE of the Odienné Permit"
The Sceptre and Charger Prospects
The >5km long Sceptre IOCG prospect is now defined as 3 distinct geological target areas from a western Au dominated prospect through central polymetallic vein targets at Sceptre Main (Au/Cu/Zn/Pb) to the high deformation fracture zones and shears at Sceptre East (Cu/Au/Ag/Mo, figure 3).
Based on the regional geological setting of Odienné, the soil/termitaria data from the Sceptre prospect. and the initial drill results and newly found gossan from the adjacent Charger prospect the Company interprets the geological setting of the Odienné district to be comparable to that of other significant IOCG provinces globally. IOCG deposits are significant contributors to global copper and gold inventories, and the Company considers the Odienné project to contain significant potential for the discovery of the first major IOCG style known in west Africa.
Planned exploration for the remainder of the 2nd half of 2022 will include ground geophysics – consisting of targeted IP surveys (gradient array and pole dipole sections) at both Charger and Sceptre this will be accompanied by targeted pitting and/or trenching. These surveys will commence as soon as the monsoon season abates in late September 2022. If warranted these surveys will be followed with scout drilling in Q4. All pitting samples have been submitted for Gold and multielement analysis.
Soil samples collected for the Lando have been shipped to InnovX laboratories for 52-element ICP analysis (sampling complete). At the BBM prospect collection of soil and Termitaria samples is ongoing. Results expected in c. 2 months. However, in the interim all samples are being analyzed by pXRF and will be reported in the ensuing weeks.
*Notes:
- A Handheld InnovX Delta pXRF was used for some analysis reported here. pXRF analysis is considered indicative of metal grades. All samples reported here were sieved to -80 mesh before analysis.
- Rock chip or selective grab samples rock chip sampling is not necessarily representative of mineralization at the target it does indicate presence of Au/Cu/Ag mineralization at Sceptre Main.
Precambrian IOCG provinces globally (e.g., Olympic Dam- Gawler Craton, Australia and Carajás - Amazonian Craton, Brazil) are important sources of copper and gold, and are characterized by their association with iron-oxides such as hematite and magnetite. These IOCG deposits formed during brief episodes of extension that postdated accretion of Paleoproterozoic terranes onto an Archean craton nucleus (Hayward and Skirrow 2010, Porter 2010) depict the crustal setting of both the provinces and Figure 6 includes Odienné location and as a comparison.
These periods of extension and mineralization in the Gawler craton were characterized by bimodal volcanism and plutonism characterized by the Gawler range volcanics and the Hiltaba Suite plutons. The Olympic dam province hosts Carapateena (950Mt at 0.57% Cu, 0.25g/t Au, 2.7 g/t Ag – Oz Minerals Resources and Reserves statement June 2020) and Prominent Hill (150 Mt at 0.9% Cu, 0.75 g/t Au and 2.5 g/t Ag – Oz Minerals Resources and Reserves statement June 2021) along with the giant Olympic Dam deposit (10.1 Gt @ 0.61% Cu, 0.27 g/t Au, 1.0 g/t Ag, 0.21 kg/tonne U3O8– BHP Annual report 2021) – Olympic Dam has a current projected mine life of some 40 years and has been operating since 1988*. All Resources stated above are a 'Total Resource' including Measured, indicated and Inferred Resources.
The Carajás IOCG province is developed on the NE margins of Southern Amazonian Craton, although older than the Gawler has a similar setting is similar with accreted terranes, bimodal volcanism and plutonism and similar age to the Leo-Man Craton in west Africa. The deposits are located within the east-southeast trending 150 km long Itacaiúnas Shear Belt, which cuts obliquely across the bimodal, but mainly mafic to intermediate volcanism which overlies the Mesoarchaean granitoid nucleus of the Amazonian craton (Porter 2010). Combined, all the Carajás deposit have been estimated to contain combined resources of >8 Gt @ 0.9 wt.% Cu and 0.2 g/t Au (Xavier et al., 2010)*.
Awalé has now adopted an IOCG model as the setting of the Odienné Project which consists of a suite of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of basaltic to felsic composition that are synchronous or intruded by a series of late plutons. The Odienné Project sits on the margins of an interpreted deep seated major crustal structure where Paleoproterozoic rocks have accreted on to an Archean nucleus (Man Craton) that extends from Côte d'Ivoire westward into Guinea for over 200km. Recent studies show that a large igneous intrusive province has formed along this paleosuture zone, and this province extends through Odienné.
The similarities in Odienné crustal setting to the Major Olympic Dam and Carajás IOCG provinces in Australia and Brazil are convincing. The Sceptre and Sceptre East and Charger Prospects are associated with a sequence of late bimodal intrusions likely coeval undeformed bimodal volcanic rocks along with hematite breccia within magnetite altered diorite at the Charger prospect. When paired with the Cu Au and Silver (Ag) mineralization and polymetallic zonation containing pathfinder elements typically associated with IOCG systems (including bismuth, silver, molybdenum, and tungsten) all provides compelling evidence for the comparison to the major global IOCG provinces.
*References made to mines and analogous deposits provide context to the prospectivity for the Odienné Project but are not indicative that the Odienné Project host similar tonnages or grades of mineralization.
BHP Annual Report 2021, section 4.6 Resources and reserved pp 245, https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/investors/annual-reports/2021/210914_bhpannualreport2021.pdf?sc_lang=en&hash=15F0B58BC27ADFA860F0BE29B61E199D
OZ Minerals Ltd, Mineral Resource and Reserve Statement and Explanatory notes, Prominent Hill, 30 June 2021. https://www.ozminerals.com/ArticleDocuments/362/20211116-2021ProminentHillMineralsResourceAndOreReserveStatement-ASXRelease.pdf.aspx?Embed=Y
OZ Minerals Ltd, Mineral Resource and Reserve Statement and Explanatory notes, Carapateeena, 30 June 2020. https://www.ozminerals.com/ArticleDocuments/364/201116_ASX_Release_OZL_Carrapateena_MROR_Final.pdf.aspx?Embed=Y
Porter, T.M., 2010 - Current Understanding of Iron Oxide Associated-Alkali Altered Mineralised Systems: Part II, A Review; in Porter, T.M., (ed.), Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, v. 3 - Advances in the Understanding of IOCG Deposits; PGC Publishing, Adelaide, pp 33-106.
Xavier, R.P., Monteiro, L.V.S., Souza Filho, C.R., Torresi, I., Carvalho, E.R., Dreher, A.M., Wiedenbeck, M., Trumbull, R.B., Pestilho, A.L.S. and Moreto, C.P.N., 2010 - The Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits of the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: an Updated and Critical Review; in Porter, T.M., (ed.), Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, v. 3 - Advances in the Understanding of IOCG Deposits; PGC Publishing, Adelaide, pp. 285-306.
Analytical work for auger/soil and termitaria geochemical samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek Laboratories Australia Ltd. an ISO 17025 (2017) Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company's field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company's secure Bondoukou or Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their laboratory in Tarkwa, Ghana for preparation. Samples are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried, and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Australia where 10-gram split is analysed by ICP/MS with an Aqua Regia digest. Blanks, duplicates, and certified reference material (standards) are being used to monitor laboratory performance during the analysis. Analytical work for drill samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek Laboratories Ghana Ltd. an ISO 17025 Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company's field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company's secure Bondoukou or Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their preparation laboratory in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire for preparation. Samples are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried, and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Ghana where a 50g charge is Fire Assayed with an AAS finish. Blanks, duplicates, and certified reference material (standards) are being used to monitor laboratory performance during the analysis. Any ICP analysis on drill cores are conducted in the same manner as the geochemistry samples reported above.
The technical and scientific information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved for release by Andrew Chubb, the Company's Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr Chubb is the Company's Chief Operating Officer and holds an Economic Geology degree, is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and is a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Mr Chubb has more than 18 years of experience in international minerals exploration and mining project evaluation.
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AWALE RESOURCES LIMITED.
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Glen Parsons, President and CEO
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Struggling Rams aim to get back on track against Cardinals
By The Associated Press
ARIZONA (3-6) at LOS ANGELES RAMS (3-5)
Sunday, 4:25 p.m. EST, FOX
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Rams by 1 1/2.
AGAINST THE SPREAD: Cardinals 4-5; Rams 2-5-1.
SERIES RECORD: Rams lead 48-39-2.
LAST MEETING: Rams beat Cardinals 20-12 on Sept. 25 in Glendale, Ariz.
LAST WEEK: Cardinals lost to Seahawks 31-21; Rams lost to Buccaneers 16-13.
CARDINALS OFFENSE: OVERALL (17), RUSH (17), PASS (17T), SCORING (16T).
CARDINALS DEFENSE: OVERALL (26), RUSH (13), PASS (25), SCORING (31).
RAMS OFFENSE: OVERALL (31), RUSH (31), PASS (21), SCORING (29).
RAMS DEFENSE: OVERALL (8), RUSH (4), PASS (17), SCORING (17).
TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Cardinals plus-3 (5T); Rams minus-5 (29T).
CARDINALS PLAYER TO WATCH: LB Zaven Collins is the team’s second-leading tackler in his second season. After an uneven rookie season, Collins has been much better in Year 2, anchoring the middle of the defense. He had a 30-yard interception return for a touchdown that briefly gave the Cardinals a 14-10 lead in last week’s loss to the Seahawks.
RAMS PLAYER TO WATCH: WR Cooper Kupp. Where would Los Angeles be without its offensive playmaker? Kupp had 128 of the Rams’ 206 yards in the loss at Tampa Bay, catching his sixth touchdown reception of the year. With Matthew Stafford in concussion protocol, coach Sean McVay will have to find ways to keep Kupp involved regardless of who plays QB.
KEY MATCHUP: Cardinals QB Kyler Murray vs. Rams DT Aaron Donald. Considering its uncertainty at the most important position, Los Angeles must get superstar performances from its best players to stay in the thick of the playoff race. Donald has demonstrated a remarkable knack for making the critical plays in the biggest moments, and he will have to be at his best to pressure Murray. Donald has 6 1/2 sacks against Murray. Murray has struggled against Donald and the Rams, holding a 1-6 record in the regular season. He has never rushed for more than 61 yards against Los Angeles, so unlocking his mobility might be needed to reversing those struggles.
KEY INJURIES: Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said starting S Budda Baker will miss Sunday’s game because of a sprained ankle. He is the team’s leading tackler. … Arizona is down three starting offensive lineman. LG Justin Pugh (knee) is out for the season, C Rodney Hudson (knee) has missed the past several weeks and RG Will Hernandez (chest) was put on IR earlier this week with a chest injury. … Stafford entered concussion protocol on Wednesday. If he can’t play, John Wolford would likely make his second career regular-season start; he was 22 of 38 passing for 231 yards and one interception in a Week 17 win against Arizona to clinch a playoff berth in the 2020 season. … C Brian Allen (knee) and LT Alaric Jackson (knee) missed practice time but should be able to go Sunday. … DT Greg Gaines is dealing with an elbow injury.
SERIES NOTES: The Rams have won three straight against the Cardinals, including a 34-11 drubbing in the wild-card round to start their drive to the Super Bowl. … Arizona snapped a seven-game losing streak in the series with a 37-20 win at SoFi Stadium in Week 4 last season. … Under McVay, the Rams have scored 20 or more points in 10 of 11 games against the Cardinals.
STATS AND STUFF: The Cardinals have a 10-3 record over their past 13 road games. … Arizona’s defense has returned four touchdowns over the past four games, including three interception returns and one fumble recovery. … The Cardinals will start their seventh different offensive line combination on Sunday after Hernandez was put on IR. … Cardinals TE Zach Ertz has 46 receptions this season, which ranks second in the NFL for a TE behind Kansas City’s Travis Kelce, who has 57. … WR DeAndre Hopkins has caught a pass in 139 consecutive games, which is the longest active streak in the league. … The Cardinals have a 4-11 record, including the playoffs, since starting last season with a 10-2 mark. … The Rams scored at least 20 points in all but two games during Stafford’s first season with the team, but they have done it just three times in eight games this season. … McVay is 50-3 when leading at halftime, having failed to protect leads in each of the past two weeks against San Francisco and Tampa Bay. … The Rams are allowing 4.08 yards per carry, fifth fewest in the NFL. The defense gave up a season-low 51 yards rushing against the Buccaneers. … Donald has five tackles for loss and four sacks in his past two regular-season games versus Arizona. He has multiple tackles for loss in seven of 17 games against the Cardinals. … LB Bobby Wagner had a season-high 13 tackles last week. In 19 games against Arizona, he has amassed double-digit stops nine times. … DB Jalen Ramsey does not have an interception in six games against Arizona, but he has eight pass defenses and four tackles for loss.
FANTASY TIP: Kupp and Hopkins shape up to be the best fantasy options in what should be an offensively challenged game simply because of volume. Hopkins has been targeted 32 times in three games since making his season debut, making 26 grabs, while Kupp is averaging 10.1 touches per game.
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Gas prices tumble to 15-month low
Published: Dec. 17, 2022 at 9:31 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
(CNN) - Your wallet is likely taking a hit this holiday season, but prices at the pump are providing some relief.
Gas prices have dropped again, falling to a 15-month low.
AAA reports the average cost for a gallon of gas is now $3.18.
That is 14 cents lower than the previous week and 56 cents lower than a month ago.
Nineteen states now have an average gas price of under $3 a gallon, including Minnesota, Ohio and Colorado.
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France arrests more than 1,300 people after fourth night of rioting over teen's killing by police
Paris – Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite a huge police deployment and 1,311 arrests, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted, as family and friends prepared Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest.
France's Interior Ministry announced the new figure for arrests around the country, where 45,000 police officers fanned out in a so-far unsuccessful bid to quell days of violence that was triggered after the teen's death on Tuesday.
Despite an appeal to parents by President Emmanuel Macron to keep their children at home, street clashes between young protesters and police raged on. About 2,500 fires were set and stores were ransacked, according to authorities.
Rituals to bid farewell to the teen, identified only as Nahel, who was killed in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, began on Saturday with a viewing of the open coffin by family and friends.
Later, the coffin was to be brought to a mosque for a ceremony, then to a Nanterre cemetery for burial.
As the number of arrests continued to mount, the government suggested the violence was beginning to lessen thanks to tougher security measures. Since the unrest began on Tuesday night, police have made a total of 2,400 arrests – more than half of those in the fourth night of violence.
Still, the damage was widespread, from Paris to Marseille and Lyon and even far away, in the French territories overseas, where a 54-year-old died after being hit by a stray bullet in French Guiana.
Hundreds of police and firefighters have been injured, including 79 overnight, but authorities haven’t released injury tallies for protesters.
The reaction to the killing was a potent reminder of the persistent poverty, discrimination, unemployment and other lack of opportunity in neighborhoods around France where many residents trace their roots to former French colonies – like where Nahel grew up.
“Nahel’s story is the lighter that turned on the gas. Hopeless young people were waiting for it. We lack housing and jobs, and when we have (jobs), our wages are too low,” said Samba Seck, a 39-year-old transportation worker in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
Clichy was the birthplace of weeks of riots in 2005 that shook France, prompted by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation while fleeing from police. One of the boys lived in the same housing project as Seck.
Like many Clichy residents, he lamented the violence targeting his town, where the remains of a burned car stands beneath his apartment building, and the town hall entrance was set alight in rioting this week.
“Young people break everything, but we are already poor, we have nothing,” he said, adding that "young people are afraid to die at the hands of police.”
France’s national soccer team – including international star Kylian Mbappe, an idol to many young people in the disadvantaged neighborhoods where the anger is rooted – pleaded for an end to the violence.
“Many of us are from working-class neighborhoods, we too share this feeling of pain and sadness” over the killing of Nahel, the players said in a statement. “Violence resolves nothing." Instead, the players said, it's time for “mourning, dialogue and reconstruction."
Nahel’s mother, identified as Mounia M., told France 5 television that she was angry at the officer, but not at the police in general. “He saw a little Arab-looking kid, he wanted to take his life,” she said.
“A police officer cannot take his gun and fire at our children, take our children’s lives,” she said. The family has roots in Algeria.
Early Saturday, firefighters in Nanterre extinguished blazes set by protesters that left scorched remains of cars strewn across the streets. In the neighboring suburb Colombes, protesters overturned garbage bins and used them for makeshift barricades.
Looters during the evening broke into a gun shop and made off with weapons in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, police said.
Buildings and businesses were also vandalized in the eastern city of Lyon, where a third of the roughly 30 arrests made were for theft, police said. Authorities reported fires in the streets after an unauthorized protest drew more than 1,000 people earlier Friday evening.
With fewer fires, cars burned and police stations attacked around France than on the previous night, according to the Interior Ministry, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin claimed the violence was of “much less intensity.”
There has been brazen daylight violence, too. An Apple store was looted in the eastern city of Strasbourg on Friday, That same day windows of a fast-food outlet were smashed in a Paris-area shopping mall.
In the face of the escalating crisis that hundreds of arrests and massive police deployments have failed to quell, Macron held off on declaring a state of emergency, an option that was used in similar circumstances in 2005.
Instead, his government ratcheted up its law enforcement response, with the mass deployment of police officers, including some who were called back from vacation.
The rioting puts new pressure on Macron, who blamed social media for fueling violence.
Macron postponed a state visit to Germany because of the unrest in his country, the German president’s office. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s office said Macron requested the postponement in a telephone conversation on Saturday. It said that Steinmeier “regrets the cancelation and has the fullest understanding in view of the situation in our neighboring country.”
It said that the aim is for the visit to go ahead as soon as possible, but gave no date. Macron’s state visit, the first by a French president to Germany in 23 years, was supposed to take him to Ludwigsburg, Berlin and Dresden on Monday and Tuesday. There wasn't immediate comment from French officials.
The cancellation is a clear sign of the gravity of France’s unrest, given the importance of the French-German relationship. This is the second time in a few months that unrest in France has hurt Macron diplomatically, after King Charles III canceled his first foreign visit as U.K. monarch, initially planned for France, because of pension reform protests.
Darmanin ordered a nationwide nighttime shutdown Friday of all public buses and trams, which have been among rioters’ targets. He also said he warned social networks not to allow themselves to be used as channels for calls to violence.
“They were very cooperative,” Darmanin said, adding that French authorities were providing the platforms with information in hopes of cooperation identifying people inciting violence.
Macron, too, zeroed in on social media platforms that have relayed dramatic images of vandalism and cars and buildings being torched. Singling out Snapchat and TikTok, he said they were being used to organize unrest and served as conduits for copycat violence.
The violence comes just over a year before Paris and other French cities are due to host Olympic athletes and millions of visitors for the summer Olympic Games, whose organizers were closely monitoring the situation as preparations for the competition continue.
The police officer accused of killing Nahel was given a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide. Preliminary charges mean investigating magistrates strongly suspect wrongdoing, but need to investigate more before sending a case to trial. Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache said that his initial investigation led him to conclude that the officer’s use of his weapon wasn’t legally justified.
Race was a taboo topic for decades in France, which is officially committed to a doctrine of colorblind universalism. In the wake of Nahel’s killing, French anti-racism activists renewed complaints about police behavior.
Thirteen people who didn’t comply with traffic stops were fatally shot by French police last year. This year, another three people, including Nahel, died under similar circumstances. The deaths have prompted demands for more accountability in France, which also saw racial justice protests after George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota.
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Jade le Deley in Clichy-sous-Bois, France, Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon, Angela Charlton in Paris, and Geir Moulson in Berlin, contributed to this report. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2023/07/01/france-rioting-arrests-arab-teen-macron/70375720007/ | 2023-07-01 14:18:10 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2023/07/01/france-rioting-arrests-arab-teen-macron/70375720007/ |
Turns out the pandemic hasn’t permanently dissuaded people — especially immigrants — from seeking their fortunes amid Manhattan’s streets.
The county that encompasses Manhattan added more than 17,000 residents in the year ending last July after losing almost 111,000 people in the previous 12-month period, according to population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The earlier decline was among the worst urban population losses from the COVID-19 outbreak.
New York County was among several large, urban U.S. counties that either gained residents or stemmed the rate of declines between July 2021 and July 2022 compared with a year earlier.
The reversal in population losses was particularly notable in King County, Washington, home to Seattle; as well as in large Sunbelt counties such as Dallas County, Texas; and two South Florida counties, Miami-Dade and Broward. The locations all had something in common: international immigration led the gains.
“I wasn’t expecting this quick of a bounce back for some cities and urban areas. It’s not a full recovery from before the pandemic but moving in the right direction,” demographer William Frey, of the Brookings Institution’s metropolitan policy program, Brookings Metro, said Thursday.
Population change is driven by migration, both within U.S. borders as people move around, and international trends as people arrive from abroad. It also depends on whether births outpace deaths, or vice versa.
Maricopa County, Arizona, home to Phoenix, had the biggest gain of any U.S. county, with almost 57,000 new residents last year. Domestic migration was primarily responsible. Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, followed with more than 45,000 new residents and international arrivals and natural increases propelling that growth; 20,000 residents left. Collin County, a northern suburb of Dallas, ranked third in rising population, with more than 44,000 new residents who primarily came from other U.S. counties.
Los Angeles County, the most populous in the U.S. with 9.7 million people, lost the most residents last year, more than 90,000, as Angelenos moved elsewhere. One bright spot: The loss from domestic migration was 20% less than the previous year. The next biggest population loss was in Cook County, Illinois, home to Chicago, and the nation’s second most populous county. That change was also driven by people leaving.
Several San Francisco and San Jose-area counties that saw populations dramatically wane from July 2020 to July 2021 — primarily due to tech workers working remotely — had significantly smaller declines in 2022.
The counties with the biggest influx of international immigration last year were Miami-Dade County, Florida; Harris County, Texas; and Los Angeles County.
Harris County, Los Angeles County and Dallas County had the biggest natural increases. Three Florida counties — Pinellas, Sarasota and Volusia — led the U.S. in natural decreases attributed to deaths outpacing births. Florida’s median age of 42.7 is one of the highest in the nation.
The growth in Manhattan’s New York County was propelled by international migration, and to a lesser extent by domestic migration and births outpacing deaths. It came despite rising Manhattan rents and coincided with many businesses’ partial return to their offices, which ended some opportunities for remote work.
All the population estimates rely on birth, death and migration data.
Despite the most recent gains, New York County was still running a population deficit of almost 98,000 residents as of last July when compared with April 2020, when COVID-19 spread quickly across the U.S. and the metropolitan area became an epicenter of the virus, spurring tens of thousands of residents to flee. Surrounding counties continued losing population last year. The three counties encompassing the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens recorded among the biggest population declines in the U.S., with losses ranging from 40,000 to 50,000 residents.
“This is still not really a COVID recovery year. It’s only sort of a recovery,” City University of New York sociology professor emeritus Andrew Beveridge said Thursday. “They haven’t recouped.”
Several New Jersey counties near New York also experienced outflows last year. They included Hudson County, where the COVID-19 omicron variant closed preschools around Christmas 2021 and drove David Polonsky and his family to move temporarily to South Florida, near his parents. The move became permanent in 2022, as the family acclimated to being near relatives and because Polonsky and his wife could work their tech jobs remotely. They sold their home in Jersey City and purchased one in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Polonsky said he misses some things about the New York area, such as being able to walk places instead of driving, and getting a decent slice of pizza instead of mahi mahi, the fish ubiquitous on Florida menus.
“I love mahi mahi as much as the next person,” he said. “But there’s only so much mahi mahi you can eat.”
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Former President Donald Trump is bracing for a third possible criminal indictment this year as a Washington grand jury meets Thursday to review evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the effort to block the transition of power following the 2020 election.
Smith has been investigating numerous ways Trump and those in his orbit sought to unwind the 2020 election, from pushing false claims about election fraud, pressuring Justice Department officials to take action and asking former Vice President Mike Pence to reject his ceremonial duty to certify President Biden’s victory.
When those efforts failed, Trump’s Jan. 6 address encouraged attendees to “fight like hell” and march to the Capitol, where his supporters violently ransacked the building.
Trump’s attorneys met with Smith on Thursday morning, according to multiple reports, and were told to expect an indictment, according to reporting from NBC.
The special counsel’s office declined to comment on the meeting, and Trump’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump, who is leading polls for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, released a series of videos on his social media platform Wednesday targeting the probes into him, repeating his debunked claims of election fraud and turning to a favorite phrase in blasting inquiries into him as a witch hunt.
“They don’t go after the people who cheated in the election, they only go after the people who report on, or question the cheating,” he said.
The normal buzz of activity at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington has continued, even as dozens of reporters near the grand jury room await the potential indictment.
Reporters spotted the grand jurors entering the courthouse earlier Thursday. The grand jury typically meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, although they were not seen Tuesday earlier this week.
Various media organizations have also assembled satellite trucks outside the courthouse, nestled between the White House and the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue, in preparation for the high-stakes proceedings.
It’s unclear what specific charges Trump will face, though reporting on the target letter suggests he could face charges for conspiring to deprive citizens the “free exercise” of constitutional rights like voting.
If convicted, offenders face a fine or up to 10 years in prison.
The inclusion of a conspiracy charge also suggests there could be other co-defendants included in the indictment.
A model prosecution memo from former prosecutors analyzing the case also suggests the former president could face charges on conspiracy to defraud the United States after creating fake electoral certificates that were submitted to Congress.
Creating those fake electoral certificates could also implicate statutes that prohibit obstruction of an official proceeding, one of the charges also leveled at numerous rioters who entered the building, including members of the Oath Keepers and military and chauvinist group the Proud Boys.
Trump was indicted in New York earlier this year on charges stemming from efforts to conceal hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
And he is facing federal charges in a 37-count indictment in relation to the Mar-a-Lago probe after mishandling classified records.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Demolition will soon begin on a resort once favored by Elvis Presley and other Hollywood royalty before it was heavily damaged by a hurricane three decades ago.
The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
The resort is best known in movie lore as the location where Presley and Joan Blackman’s characters married in the 1961 movie “Blue Hawaii.”
It’s also the site of other key scenes in the movie, including the last where Presley sings the “Hawaiian Wedding Song” and holds Blackman’s hand while they board a raft to cross a lagoon.
In its heyday, it was famed for being frequented by other Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Bing Crosby.
The 46-acre (19-hectare) grounds were also once home to Kauai’s last queen, Deborah Kapule, who died in 1853.
The resort opened in 1953 next to a historic coconut grove and an ancient Hawaiian fishpond. The property fell into disrepair after being damaged when the powerful Hurricane Iniki hit the island in 1992.
Several attempts to restore the property have failed over the years.
The $250 million project will take three years to complete, said Patrick Manning, a managing partner of Reef Capital Partners from Utah.
Reef Capital served as the lender to a previous developer and took over the property in 2018 when they defaulted on a loan. Manning said the plan was to sell the property, but that changed after he investigated its history.
“I called my partners, and I said, ‘This property is too important to sell,’” Manning said.
The new hotel and a cultural center to honor the property’s history will be built on about 10 acres (4 hectares) of the property.
At one time, the community wanted the resort rebuilt, but those sentiments have changed, said Kauai Council Chairman Mel Rapozo. “They don’t want to see a resort built,” he added.
At a state Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting Friday, some spoke in opposition to the development, citing a number of ancestral bones buried on the property.
Cultural practitioner Joseph Kekaulike Kamai said his great-grandmother is buried there, and others are buried under the hotel, driveway and tennis courts.
“I really don’t want them to be digging anymore. I don’t want them grubbing our land,” Kamai said.
Manning said something needs to be done or the site will be an eyesore for another 30 years.
“Even though we know there are many that don’t want it rebuilt, we intend to be viewed and earn a reputation for doing everything we can to honor its past and respect the people of Kauai and guests of Kauai and how we manage its future,” Manning said. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/resort-famous-for-elvis-blue-hawaii-movie-will-be-rebuilt/ | 2023-04-16 17:01:20 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/resort-famous-for-elvis-blue-hawaii-movie-will-be-rebuilt/ |
France: Car hits, kills boy amid World Cup game celebrations
PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a suspect driving a car in the southern French city of Montpellier “violently hit” and killed a teenage boy as crowds celebrated France’s victory in the World Cup semifinal. The vehicle was found nearby but the driver fled the scene. Police are trying to locate the suspect and have opened an investigation into into the precise circumstances of the incident, according to the Montpellier prosecutor’s office. Video emerged on Twitter showing a car being driven dangerously near crowds in the street following the French national team’s Wednesday night win over Morocco. A French lawmaker expressed her “immense sadness” that a sporting event ended “in absolute tragedy.” France has a large Moroccan community. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/12/15/france-car-hits-and-kills-boy-as-fans-celebrate-wcup-win-2/ | 2022-12-15 18:10:40 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/12/15/france-car-hits-and-kills-boy-as-fans-celebrate-wcup-win-2/ |
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Six days after the earthquake that flattened parts of Turkey and Syria, two survivors emerged from the rubble. They were dogs, the focus of a parallel rescue effort underway.
“One of the dogs clung to its owner’s corpse, and it was absolutely a miracle that it was rescued six days later,” said Csenay Tekinbas, a representative of the local HAYTAP animal welfare group.
“I hope it holds on to life,” Tekinbas said of the dog that finally left its dead owner. “I hope we can give it a new life.”
Already, field hospitals have been set up in four cities to care for rescued pets.
Survival is just the first step. Those hurrying to find and care for pets also struggle to give them proper care. “There is no food, bird food, chicken feed or anything in any pet shop at the moment. Because everywhere is either closed or collapsed,” Tekinbas said.
Large bags of pet food are stacked at a relief station in one Antakya square, their crisp images of green lawns and happily panting pets contrasting with the grim surroundings. Nearby, a burly dog nibbles at a bowl.
The outreach to save pets goes as far as pounding down doors. After being alerted to a dog apparently left alone on the fourth floor of a building, HAYTAP workers put on hard hats and broke into the apartment to rescue a large, fluffy German shepherd.
As the dog slurped noisily at a metal bowl of water downstairs in a crumbling alley, the workers lavished affection on it. ___
Robert Bandendieck in Istanbul contributed to this report. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/amid-quakes-devastation-parallel-rescue-bid-targets-pets/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2023-02-14 08:14:15 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/amid-quakes-devastation-parallel-rescue-bid-targets-pets/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes"), the premier investment firm focused exclusively on monetizing Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"), is pleased to share a notable development in the market as Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. ("Virgin Mobile" or the "Company") previously terminated its TRA.
Virgin Mobile disclosed that the Company, Sprint Nextel Corporation ("Sprint Nextel") and Corvina Holdings Limited and Cortaire Limited (together with certain affiliates, the "Virgin Group") entered into a termination and mutual release agreement in connection with Sprint Nextel's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, to effect a mutual release of the respective obligations of each party under the Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2007, by and between the Company, Sprint Ventures, Inc. and the Virgin Group. Pursuant to the terms of the termination, Sprint Nextel will contribute to the Company, and the Company will pay to the Virgin Group, approximately $50 million to terminate the TRA. The Virgin Mobile TRA provided for the payment of 100% of the net cash tax savings realized from certain tax attributes, including savings from the utilization of Virgin Group's net operating losses attributable to periods prior to the IPO.
Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is the premier investment firm focused exclusively on monetizing Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). Parallaxes offers private equity sponsors, co-investors and management team members solutions to achieve liquidity, diversification and optionality from their TRAs. Parallaxes was founded in 2017 and is comprised of experienced investment professionals from leading private equity and growth equity firms. To learn more, please visit https://www.parallaxescapital.com
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — After two public meetings and an online survey, Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation (FWPR) says it is ready to unveil its Master Plan for the Foster Park Golf Course.
FWPR announced a public meeting will be held Thursday, Nov. 3, to present the final drawings for the golf course.
The meeting will be from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Foster Park Golf Course Clubhouse.
Golfers and residents who live near or around Foster Park Golf Course provided input in the online survey and the two prior public meetings.
Foster Park Golf Course opened in 1928 as Fort Wayne’s first public golf course. It was originally a nine-hole course before expanding to an 18-hole course in the 1930s. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/fort-wayne-parks-and-recreation-to-present-final-drawings-for-foster-park-golf-course/ | 2022-11-02 21:56:26 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/fort-wayne-parks-and-recreation-to-present-final-drawings-for-foster-park-golf-course/ |
Oldest, most prestigious international design awards recognize innovation that inspires, improves lives
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Instant Brands, maker of consumer favorites like Instant Pot®, Corelle®, Pyrex® and more, is celebrating the recognition of six products across its consumer housewares portfolio, each winning the coveted 2022 Good Design® Award. Instant Brands' award-winning products reflect the world's best in innovation, user experience and design, as recognized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The Good Design Award is bestowed to innovations reflecting "meaningful, superb, and timeless product design that withstand function, lasting use, and inspiring and profound relevance," according to Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Good Design's chief curator since 1987 and President/CEO of The Chicago Athenaeum.
Instant Brands' 2022 Good Design Award-winning and patent-pending innovations, recognized as encouraging, inspiring and pushing the global design and manufacturing industry forward, are as follows:
- Instant™ Solo™ Single Serve Coffee Maker: Single-serve coffee maker features a specially designed, reusable pod to reduce landfill waste and activates a unique brewing process that extracts more flavor, aroma, and body in just 20 seconds. The large removable water tank makes refilling easier and less frequent for more cups of coffee.
- Instant™ Vortex Clear Cook Air Fryer: Features a see-through window to check on cooking progress without opening the basket. EvenCrisp™ air flow technology delivers crispy, tender results every time with 95% less oil. Guided cooking via patent pending message bar keeps a user informed through the cooking journey, and odor erase reduces smells from entering the kitchen.
- Instant™ Precision Dutch Oven: Offers digital precision control for braising, searing/sautéing and slow cooking with the flavor enhancing qualities of traditional cast iron, delivering gourmet results. The inner cast iron Dutch oven, with durable enamel coating can also be used on the stovetop, in the oven, and on the table for serving.
- Instant™ Duo Crisp 6.5-quart with Ultimate Lid Multi-Cooker & Air Fryer: Uses a single lid for all cooking. Features a large LCD display with status messages to guide cooking. Whisper quiet, advanced steam release and dishwasher safe inner pot and pressure cooking insert.
- Corelle® Stoneware Dinnerware and Mug Set (Artisan Glaze): Designed with higher rims and deeper shapes to easily hold one-bowl meals, reflecting how people eat today. Handcrafted with double bead edge design for added strength. The artisan glazes available in two signature colors, Navy and Nordic blue, can mix and match on a table. The reactive glazes are handcrafted and no two pieces are the same.
- Instant™ Air Purifier Series: Delivers cleaner air, providing peace of mind. Works to remove bacteria, virus and mold from treated air. Built-in sensors monitor the air quality and adjust the fan speed automatically, to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"Instant Brands is synonymous with innovative products that make it easier for consumers to spend quality time with the people they love," said Ben Gadbois, President and CEO of Instant Brands. "We appreciate Good Design Awards' recognition of our team's ingenuity and unrelenting commitment to transform the way people cook and live. And we're excited to unveil our next product innovations."
Instant Brands' winning products will be honored and celebrated at the Good Design Show, which opens at The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in Athens, Greece starting March 31, 2023.
To learn more about Instant Brands' continuously expanding portfolio of innovative, consumer insights-informed and sustainability-minded products that make togetherness easier, visit Instant Brands.
About Instant Brands
Instant Brands designs, manufactures and markets a global portfolio of innovative and iconic consumer lifestyle brands: Instant®, Pyrex®, Corelle®, Corningware®, Snapware®, Chicago Cutlery®, ZOID® and Visions.® With people-first and purpose-driven solutions in mind, Instant Brands is reimagining how people live, eat, connect, and play inside the home—and in the spaces where people gather. The Cornell Capital-backed company is headquartered in Downers Grove, Ill., and employs more than 2,000 people across four continents. Today, Instant Brands' products are in millions of homes worldwide. For more information visit Instant Brands or join the community at LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
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“We were hoping to get more out of this” Sen. Tuberville reacts to Griner release
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - It’s a victory nearly a year in the making - made possible by what Biden is calling “painstaking and intense negotiations” with Russia.
“Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones,” said Biden. “She should’ve been there all along.”
Griner was arrested back in February at an airport outside of Moscow for possession of less than a gram of hashish oil.
She was sentenced to nine years in one of Russia’s most notorious penal colonies.
“This is a day that has taken a long time. We’ve never stopped pushing for her release” said Biden.
The deal came together last minute, with key players from the state department, Russia and the United Arab Emirates all in talks.
In exchange for Griner, the US is releasing Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death”.
He was serving a 25-year sentence in the US on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, supporting a terrorist organization and conspiracy to acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles.
For some on Capitol Hill, while they’re happy Griner is home, feel we got fleeced in the deal.
“We played all of our cards. We were all hoping to get more for what we got out of this” said Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.
For Brittneys wife Cherelle, Thursday is a prayer answered.
“Today I’m just standing here overwhelmed with emotion.. but the most important emotion I have right now is sincere gratitude”
While Thursday is a day of celebration, the Biden administration says there’s still work to be done.
American Paul Whelan is still in Russian custody after a 2018 arrest for his alleged involvement in a spy operation.
Whelan denies that and has said he is disappointed the Administration wasn’t able to include him in the swap.
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