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CARBONDALE, Pa., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- H&K Perforating, LLC ("H&K Perforating") is notifying individuals of a data privacy event. To date, we have no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident. This notice provides details about the incident, H&K Perforating's response, and resources available to help protect information.
What Happened? On or about March 5, 2022, H&K Perforating became aware of suspicious activity on its servers. H&K Perforating immediately took steps to secure its network, and with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists, deployed countermeasures to contain the event. H&K Perforating further began an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the activity. The investigation found suspicious activity occurred within H&K Perforating system between March 2 and March 5, 2022, including potential access to certain files.
Given that certain information was potentially accessed without authorization, H&K Perforating undertook a comprehensive review of the data to understand the specific information potentially impacted and to whom it related. H&K completed those efforts on June 13, 2022, and thereafter worked to provide notification not potentially impacted individuals as quickly as possible.
What Information Was Involved? The impacted information varied by individual but may include name, address, Social Security number, driver's license, financial accounting information, medical/health information, username/email and password, and digital/electronic signature.
What We Are Doing. H&K Perforating takes this event and the obligation to safeguard the information in its care very seriously. After discovering the suspicious activity, H&K Perforating promptly took steps to confirm its system security, and engaged third-party forensic specialists to assist in conducting a comprehensive investigation of the event to confirm its nature, scope, and impact. H&K Perforating also promptly notified federal law enforcement. Further, as part of its ongoing commitment to the privacy and security of personal information in its care, H&K Perforating is reviewing and enhancing existing policies and procedures relating to data protection and security. H&K Perforating instituted additional security measures to better protect against future similar events. H&K Perforating is also notifying relevant regulatory authorities, as required.
What Affected Individuals Can Do. Individuals are encouraged to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft by reviewing account statements and credit reports for unusual activity and report any suspicious activity immediately to their financial institution. Additional detail can be found below in the Steps You Can Take to Help Protect Personal Information.
For More Information. H&K Perforating understands that you may have questions that are not addressed in this notice. If you have additional questions or concerns, please call our dedicated call center at 1-800-939-4170 which is available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Central Time Monday through Friday (excluding major U.S. holidays). You may also write to H&K Perforating at 5420 W Roosevelt Rd, Suite 314, Chicago, IL 60644.
STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO HELP PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
Monitor Your Accounts
Under U.S. law, a consumer is entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also directly contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below to request a free copy of your credit report.
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a security freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
Additional Information
You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
For District of Columbia residents, the District of Columbia Attorney General may be contacted at: 400 6th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001; 202-727-3400; and oag@dc.gov.
For Maryland residents, the Maryland Attorney General may be contacted at: 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202; 1-410-528-8662 or 1-888-743-0023; and www.oag.state.md.us.
For New Mexico residents, you have rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as the right to be told if information in your credit file has been used against you, the right to know what is in your credit file, the right to ask for your credit score, and the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information. Further, pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the consumer reporting bureaus must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information; consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information; access to your file is limited; you must give your consent for credit reports to be provided to employers; you may limit "prescreened" offers of credit and insurance you get based on information in your credit report; and you may seek damages from violator. You may have additional rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act not summarized here. Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have specific additional rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We encourage you to review your rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act by visiting www.consumerfinance.gov/f/201504_cfpb_summary_your-rights-under-fcra.pdf, or by writing Consumer Response Center, Room 130-A, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
For New York residents, the New York Attorney General may be contacted at: Office of the Attorney General, The Capitol, Albany, NY 12224-0341; 1-800-771-7755; or https://ag.ny.gov/.
For North Carolina residents, the North Carolina Attorney General may be contacted at: 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; 1-877-566-7226 or 1-919-716-6000; and www.ncdoj.gov.
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WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Friday, March 24, 2023
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125 FPUS56 KOTX 250822
ZFPOTX
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern Washington and North Idaho
National Weather Service Spokane WA
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
WAZ031-261100-
Northeast Blue Mountains-
Including the cities of Anatone and Peola
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s, Lows in the lower
20s to lower 30s, Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Brisk.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s
to upper 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the 40s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent
chance of snow. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the
40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or
snow. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...
$$
WAZ034-035-261100-
Moses Lake Area-Upper Columbia Basin-
Including the cities of Moses Lake, Ephrata, Othello, Quincy,
Ritzville, Grand Coulee, Odessa, Wilbur, and Coulee City
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to lower
50s, Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s, Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s, Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s, Northeast wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. Lows in the lower to mid
30s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 50s. Lows
in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
rain. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...
$$
WAZ038-261100-
Okanogan Highlands-
Including the cities of Republic, Inchelium, and Wauconda
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the 40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 40s to lower 50s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the upper 40s to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...
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WAZ041-044-261100-
Wenatchee Area-Waterville Plateau-
Including the cities of Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, Cashmere,
Waterville, and Mansfield
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 40s, Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s, West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s
to lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s to mid 30s. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the 30s.
.SATURDAY...
$$
WAZ043-261100-
Okanogan Valley-
Including the cities of Omak, Okanogan, Brewster, Bridgeport,
Oroville, Nespelem, and Tonasket
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...
$$
WAZ047-261100-
Central Chelan County-
Including the cities of Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the upper 30s to upper 40s, Lows in the lower
20s to lower 30s, Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s to upper 40s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance
of snow. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the
mid 40s to lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to
mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...
$$
WAZ048-261100-
Western Chelan County-
Including the cities of Stevens Pass, Holden Village,
and Stehekin
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s, Lows in the lower
20s to lower 30s, Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then snow showers likely in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up
to 1 inch in the mountains. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Lows in the 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. East wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of snow. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...
$$
WAZ049-261100-
Western Okanogan County-
Including the cities of Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp, Methow,
and Conconully
121 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers. Highs in the
upper 30s to upper 40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Lows in the 20s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 20s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance
of snow. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Lows in the mid 20s
to lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...
$$
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NFL owners approve playoff plan after Bills-Bengals canceled
(AP) - NFL owners have approved a resolution that could lead to a neutral site for the AFC championship in response to the cancellation of Monday night’s Bills-Bengals game after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.
NFL teams held a special meeting Friday to consider the recommendation of Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league’s competition committee.
Hamlin is breathing on his own and able to talk after having his breathing tube removed, his agent said Friday. It’s the latest step in his remarkable recovery in the four days since going into cardiac arrest during the game at Cincinnati. Hamlin even joined the Bills’ team meeting via videoconference.
The Bills-Bengals game had major playoff implications for the AFC. Buffalo (12-3) entered Monday night needing a win to maintain the AFC’s No. 1 seed. The Kansas City Chiefs (13-3) now hold that spot. The Bengals (11-4) had a chance to earn that top seed with two more wins and a loss by the Chiefs.
The AFC championship will be played at a neutral site if the participating teams played an unequal number of games and both could have been the No. 1 seed and hosted the game had all AFC clubs played a full 17-game regular season.
The league is considering several sites, including indoor and outdoor stadiums.
Those circumstances involve Buffalo or Cincinnati qualifying for the game as a road team. If Buffalo and Kansas City both win or tie this weekend, a Bills-Chiefs AFC title game would be at a neutral site.
If Buffalo and Kansas City both lose and Baltimore wins or ties, a Bills-Chiefs AFC title game would be at a neutral site.
If Buffalo and Kansas City both lose and Cincinnati wins, Bills or Bengals against Kansas City in the AFC title game would be at a neutral site.
Also, if Baltimore defeats Cincinnati in Week 18, the Ravens would have two wins over the Bengals, a divisional opponent, but will not be able to host a playoff game because Cincinnati will have a higher winning percentage for a 16-game schedule than Baltimore will for a 17-game schedule.
Therefore, if Baltimore defeats Cincinnati and if those two clubs are schedule to play a wild-card game against each another, the site for that game would be determined by a coin toss.
However, if the Bengals win this weekend or if Baltimore and Cincinnati are not scheduled to play each other in the wild-card round, the game sites would be determined by the regular scheduling procedures.
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Allow me to paint a picture to illustrate the gravity of lying — denying facts, distorting reality, spreading falsehoods — in the public sphere as well as in private.
In the mid-1970s while I was a reporter on the Greensboro News and Record (at that time the Record), I took part in a Sunday evening interdenominational prayer group hosted by a Presbyterian elder and executive of Burlington Industries, Noel Garvin.
One evening while 10 or 11 of us were gathered in prayer in Noel’s living room and while thunder, lightning and a hard rain raged outside, we heard an insistent knock on the front door. Noel stopped the prayer and went to the door.
He found there a tall stranger in a trench coat, thoroughly drenched by the rain. The man asked, “Is there a prayer meeting here tonight?” To which Noel said, “Yes, we’re meeting right now.”
“May I come in and join you?” the stranger said.
So Noel welcomed him in. The man said, “Pardon me for interrupting your meeting, but may I give my testimony?” Noel said, “Yes,” and we all agreed.
I cannot recall the stranger’s name, but his story was riveting. Literally, because the man had worked as a riveter in a shipyard. One day while using his electric riveting tool high up on a platform next to a ship’s hull, he lost his balance and fell — not letting go of his device — and landed in a shallow pool of water below.
Just as happens when a person falls into a bathtub holding onto a hair dryer, the man was instantly electrocuted. Coworkers cut the power, rescued him from the water and rushed him to an emergency room, where he was pronounced clinically dead.
Long story short, the man later revived before nurses could send his body to the morgue. He said he had found himself in the afterlife — in short, in what is called “a near-death experience.”
He told us during the Greensboro prayer meeting that his life had become travelling from one city to the next — he had no wife — and telling his story to any church group that would listen.
After giving some graphic images from his afterlife sojourn, including an encounter with an angel, he said he learned during a review of his life that flashed before him that “the sin that God hates the most is the sin of lying.” He did not spell out why, but I had heard a teaching that said lying is involved in many of the sins people commit — adultery, cheating on taxes, slandering another’s good name and all manner of fraud.
I connected this recollection from 47 years ago to a recent Washington Post editorial under the headline “The Jan. 6 Hearing Showed How Lies Can Kill.”
Witnesses at the committee’s hearings have testified that Donald Trump plainly knew that the 2020 election “had not been stolen,” that the counting had been fair. He had been told this by White House attorneys and by his own attorney general, William Barr. Yet he chose deliberately to deny reality and enflame his followers with lie upon lie. “If you want to save your country,” he challenged them, “you’ve got to fight.”
Smitten by their hero’s rhetoric, thousands stormed the Capitol, leaving death, maiming and shameful destruction in their wake. And a country emotionally torn into pieces. | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinion/john-patrick-grace-the-ravages-of-lying-in-the-public-sphere/article_5b861ab8-edcd-5e8d-a727-19380f7a7047.html | 2022-07-19 06:09:07 | 0 | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinion/john-patrick-grace-the-ravages-of-lying-in-the-public-sphere/article_5b861ab8-edcd-5e8d-a727-19380f7a7047.html |
In-person Trainings Kick-off in Fort Worth at the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at TCU
OAKLAND, Calif., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding diversity in the news media and dismantling structural racism in newsrooms, announced today the recipients of its 2023 Maynard 200 Fellowship. Since the program's inception in 2018, more than 140 storytellers, editors, managers, leaders, and media entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds have been trained and mentored. With its latest class of 49 fellows, the Maynard Institute is on course to surpass its goal of cultivating 200 media leaders dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in journalism, in 2024.
The 2023 in-person program will open June 26th, hosted by the program's university partner this year, the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas.
A second week of training will be held virtually from October 23-27, when fellows will be paired with industry veterans and experts for ongoing, one-to-one mentorship.
"This year's Maynard 200 fellows join a community of journalists who have ascended into executive-level roles; received awards for coverage; led diversity initiatives that have shifted newsroom cultures; and launched innovative entrepreneurial ventures, many of which bolster local journalism," said Odette Alcazaren-Keeley, Maynard 200 Director.
"We welcome another impressive class of 49 media leaders, representing diverse gender, geographic, racial and ethnic backgrounds; and are affiliated with legacy, ethnic, community-powered media and emergent ventures. They join the community of peers that we build every year, propelling a mini-movement to dismantle systemic inequity in American media. Our fellows contribute to a program that an industry ally has referred to as one of the most powerful incubators for journalists of color." Alcazaren-Keeley added.
"Our graduates are reshaping American journalism," said Maynard Institute co-executive director Evelyn Hsu. "This program is part of the Maynard Institute's long record of service to a craft that is critical to the health of a functioning democracy."
MAYNARD 200 FELLOWSHIP ROSTER
Class of 2023
INVESTIGATIVE STORYTELLERS
Natalia Alamdari - Flatwater Free Press
Dorine Bethea - The Washington Post / Howard University
Janet Cho - Barron's
Sheila Dang - Reuters
Angela Dennis - Knoxville News Sentinel/USA Today Network
Rachel Hinton - Illinois Answers Project
Jason Troy Johnson - 16 WAPT News - Hearst Television
Michael Lyle - Nevada Current (States Newsroom)
Josh McGhee - Mindsite News
Jaisal Noor - Solutions Journalism Network
Kaila Philo - formerly Talking Points Memo
Farida Jhabvala Romero - KQED Public Radio
Helina Selemon - New York Amsterdam News
Kristoffer Tigue - Inside Climate News
FRONTLINE EDITORS & MANAGERS
Diego Barahona - La Noticia
Scott Bell - Dallas Morning News
April Bethea - The Washington Post
Momo Chang - Oakland Voices
Melinda Coleau - NBC4/T44, NBC Universal WRC / NBC4
Nia Decaille - The New York Times
Karim Doumar - Los Angeles Times
Christine Hendricks - Local Media Consortium
Yihyun Jeong - The Seattle Times
Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera - The Texas Tribune
Daniel Moattar - Mother Jones
Angelica Obioha - The Sacramento Observer
Walter Smith Randolph - Connecticut Public Radio
Rheaa Rao - Bloomberg
EXECUTIVE LEADERS
Eva-Marie Ayala - The Dallas Morning News
Cynthia Benjamin - Gannett-USA Today Network
Khary Brown - Mother Jones
Tercius Tarcisius Serrano Bufete -USA Today - Reviewed
Rachel James-Terry - Jackson State University
Nina Martin - The Center for Investigative Reporting
Nicole Ortiz - formerly AdWeek
Megha Satyanarayana - Scientific American
Jacob Simas - The Oaklandside (Cityside Journalism Initiative)
Ashley M. Slayton - The Dallas Morning News
Matthew Tinoco - Los Angeles Public Press
Michelle Zenarosa - Reckon News
MEDIA ENTREPRENEURS & PRODUCT DEVELOPERS
Priya David Clemens - Bridge Media Company/ KQED Public TV
Brandy Collins - Oakland Voices
Jazmin Goodwin - Stealth Startup
Ahmed Hamid - Refound Journalism
Caron LeNoir - CARONISMedia Group
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South Carolina high school girls basketball: Here's the schedule for Round 1
With the regular season coming to an end and the playoffs tipping off Wednesday, here's every matchup involving an Upstate-area girls basketball team in the first round of the SCHSL postseason.
Class AAAAA
All seven games will be played Wednesday.
Region 1, No. 1 Mauldin (18-5) hosts Region 4, No. 4 Chapin (8-12) at 7 p.m.
Region 2, No. 1 Dorman (15-9) hosts Region 3, No. 5 Nation Ford (12-13) at 6 p.m.
Region 4, No. 1 Lexington (18-6) hosts Region 1, No. 4 J.L. Mann (8-15) at 6 p.m.
Region 1, No. 2 Woodmont (19-6) hosts Region 2, No. 4 Spartanburg (11-13) at 6 p.m.
Region 2, No. 2 Byrnes (12-12) hosts Region 3, No. 3 Blythewood (15-13) at TBD
Region 3, No. 2 Rock Hill (19-6) hosts Region 2, No. 3 Gaffney (12-9) at 6 p.m.
Region 1, No. 3 T.L. Hanna (17-9) hosts Region 3, No. 4 Clover (15-8) at 6:30 p.m.
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Class AAAA
All eight games will be played Thursday.
No. 1 Pickens (22-2) hosts No. 16 South Aiken (4-16) at 7 p.m.
No. 8 Riverside (19-6) hosts No. 9 Lancaster (12-10) at 7 p.m.
No. 5 South Pointe (24-2) hosts No. 12 Greer (18-8) at 7 p.m.
No. 4 North Augusta (21-3) hosts No. 13 Westside (14-11) at 6 p.m.
No. 6 Easley (17-6) hosts No. 11 Airport (9-15) at 6 p.m.
No. 3 Wade Hampton (17-5) hosts No. 14 Northwestern (7-16) at 7 p.m.
No. 7 Aiken (14-10) hosts No. 10 Greenville (11-13) at 6:30 p.m.
No. 2 Catawba Ridge (20-4) hosts No. 15 Eastside (12-9) at 6:30 p.m.
Class AAA
All eight games will be played Thursday.
Region 2, No. 1 Southside (24-3) hosts Region 1, No. 4 Seneca (7-16) at 6 p.m.
Region 4, No. 2 Woodruff (13-10) hosts Region 3, No. 3 Chapman (10-13) at 6 p.m.
Region 1, No. 1 Walhalla (14-9) hosts Region 2, No. 4 Fountain Inn (14-12) at 6:30 p.m.
Region 3, No. 2 Travelers Rest (10-11) hosts Region 4, No. 3 Clinton (13-8) at 6:30 p.m.
Region 4, No. 1 Emerald (19-2) hosts Region 3, No. 4 Broome (11-11) at 6:30 p.m.
Region 2, No. 2 Wren (22-5) hosts Region 1, No. 3 Crescent (16-6) at 6 p.m.
Region 3, No. 1 Blue Ridge (22-4) hosts Region 4, No. 4 Chester (1-13) at 6 p.m.
Region 1, No. 2 West-Oak (17-7) hosts Region 2, No. 3 Powdersville (10-14) at 6 p.m.
Class AA
All four games will be played Wednesday.
Region 1, No. 1 Blacksburg (8-13) hosts Region 2, No. 4 Newberry (5-14) at 6 p.m.
Region 4, No. 2 Gray Collegiate (17-6) hosts Region 1, No. 3 Greer Middle College (7-18) at TBD
Region 1, No. 2 Landrum (17-6) hosts Region 2, No. 3 Ninety Six (10-6) at 6:30 p.m.
Region 4, No. 1 Keenan (15-6) hosts Region 1, No. 4 Liberty (6-17) at 7 p.m.
Class A
All four games will be played Wednesday.
Region 1, No. 1 High Point (20-5) hosts Region 4, No. 4 Williston-Elko (8-13) at 6 p.m.
Region 4, No. 2 Calhoun County (11-7) hosts Region 1, No. 3 St. Joseph's (12-9) at 6 p.m.
Region 1, No. 2 Christ Church (10-13) hosts Region 4, No. 3 Hunter-Kinard Tyler (13-7) at TBD
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A judge dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis, months after the state Supreme Court said indictments returned by a one-person grand jury were invalid.
Snyder, a Republican who left office in 2019, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. He was the first person in state history to be charged for alleged crimes related to service as governor.
Snyder also is the eighth person to have a Flint water case thrown out after the Supreme Court’s unanimous June opinion.
Genesee County Judge F. Kay Behm signed the order Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Senate approved her nomination to become a federal judge in eastern Michigan.
“The charges against (Snyder) were not properly brought and must be dismissed at this time,” Behm wrote, sending the case to a lower court for the final step, weeks after hearing arguments.
In response, prosecutors in the Democratic-led attorney general’s office said it will add the result to other appeals.
“Rulings up to this point have been on process alone, not on the merits of the case,” prosecutors said.
“We are confident that the evidence clearly supports the criminal charges against Rick Snyder,” they added, “and we will not stop until we have exhausted all possible legal options to secure justice for the people of Flint.”
Prosecutors could try to rerun the case with new charges, but any effort might encounter a six-year statute of limitations.
“That would be one of our many arguments,” Snyder attorney Brian Lennon told The Associated Press. “This is a victory and hopefully the end to this politically motivated prosecution.”
Only one case remains pending in the water scandal, which not only exposed children to toxic lead but was blamed for deaths linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. Activists who believe crimes were committed are frustrated that no one has been locked up.
The attorney general’s office has desperately tried to keep the cases alive but so far has lost at every turn. Prosecutors have argued that the indictments could simply be turned into common criminal complaints in district court, but Behm and another judge have rejected that approach.
Flint’s water became tainted with lead after city managers appointed by Snyder began using the Flint River in 2014 to save money while a new pipeline to Lake Huron was built. The water wasn’t treated to reduce its corrosive qualities, causing lead to break off from old pipes and contaminate the system for more than a year.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said it was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the water switch and the brush-off of complaints in the majority-Black city would have occurred in a white, prosperous community.
Flint residents complained about the water’s smell, taste and appearance, raising health concerns and reporting rashes, hair loss and other problems. Snyder didn’t acknowledge that lead was a problem until 17 months after the water switch, in fall 2015, when he pledged to take action.
He agreed that state government had botched the water switch, especially regulators who didn’t require certain treatments. But his defense team denies that Snyder’s conduct rose to the level of any crime.
Michigan prosecutors typically file charges in a district court after a police investigation. A one-judge grand jury was rare and had mostly been used in Detroit and Flint to protect witnesses who could testify in private about violent crimes.
State prosecutors, working with Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, chose that path in the Flint water saga to hear evidence in secret and get indictments against Snyder and others.
But the state Supreme Court unanimously said a one-judge grand jury can’t issue indictments. The process apparently had never been challenged.
Judge Elizabeth Kelly in October dismissed felony charges against seven people, including two senior health officials from Snyder’s administration, Nick Lyon and Eden Wells, who had been charged with involuntary manslaughter in nine Legionnaires’ deaths.
The attorney general’s office is trying to persuade the appeals court to intervene and somehow reverse the decision, despite the findings of the Supreme Court.
A former Flint public works official, Howard Croft, still has misdemeanors pending with a different judge.
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RIDGELAND, S.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy has reached the top of the world ranking eight times, and it's still not enough. Even if the feeling is nothing new, the reward never gets old.
McIlroy defends his title this week in the CJ Cup — which has moved from high above the Las Vegas Strip to the lowlands of South Carolina — with a mathematical chance to reach No. 1 in the world for the ninth time.
“It sort of illustrates you can have your runs and you can stay there, but I think the cool part is the journey getting back there,” McIlroy said Wednesday. “It's sort of like a heavyweight boxer losing a world title, and it's a journey to get that title back.”
A year ago, McIlroy was No. 14 in the world when he raced by the field in Las Vegas to win the CJ Cup at The Summit. He is a two-time winner this year, the FedEx Cup champion and has five straight top-10 finishes coming into this week.
He will need some help at Congaree Golf Club. According to “Nosferatu,” the Twitter handle of a world ranking guru, McIlroy can reach No. 1 by winning the CJ Cup as long as top-ranked Scottie Scheffler doesn't finish in a two-way tie for second or better, or by finishing alone in second provided Scheffler finishes out of the top 34.
Motivation is not lacking for McIlroy, even at the end of a long year and with only two tournaments left. There is the chance to reach No. 1 again, and he leads the DP World Tour points race in Europe.
Scheffler won the PGA Tour player of the year and was poised to claim the FedEx Cup until McIlroy rallied on the last day. He had the best year in golf, even if it feels like the best stuff was a long time ago.
Scheffler first reached No. 1 in the world by winning the Dell Match Play in Texas, his third victory in five starts, and then he ended his big run by winning the Masters. The rest of the year wasn't a dud, by any stretch. He lost in a playoff at Colonial and came within one putt of a playoff at the U.S. Open.
Scheffler needed time to relax, even though mind never strays to far from golf. That was particularly true this time.
“I’m very competitive and I was frustrated with how last season ended. I really want to win the FedEx Cup. So for me, it was kind of harder to check out this time of year,” he said.
He already made one big change with his putter. Scheffler said he was struggling to line up his putts toward the end of the year. He grabbed a mallet-style putter that he used in his junior amateur years and something clicked.
“I fooled around with that model, figured out what I liked and didn’t like and I talked to the guys at Titleist and they were able to get a putter to me in like a day from California,” he said. “I feel like I’m more consistent with it.”
The field features 15 of the top 20 players in the world, most of them seeing the course for the first time. Congaree also filled in for the Canadian Open, canceled last year because of travel restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CJ Cup was still uncertain how travel would be to South Korea, so it decided in June to play another year in the United States. It was in Las Vegas the last two years.
Among those in the field last year was Tom Kim. Now the 20-year-old is back with some star power behind him, two PGA Tour victories in his last five starts, a spark at the Presidents Cup and the No. 15 spot in the rankings.
“The rise that Tom's been on over the last few months has been incredible,” McIlroy said.
Kim was in the press center as McIlroy was speaking.
“Rory, I have a question for you,” Kim said. “What's it like having so much success as a young player?”
McIlroy laughed and replied, “I didn't have as much success as you're having at such a young age.”
And then he shared what Kim had missed earlier about reaching No. 1. Staying there can be more difficult than getting there. Only two other players have reached No. 1 on more than eight occasions — Tiger Woods and Greg Norman, each with 11.
“The hard work is actually staying there,” McIlroy said.
DIVOTS: Cameron Young was announced as the PGA Tour rookie of the year on Wednesday, winning over Kim and Sahith Theegala by getting 94% of the vote. Young was a runner-up five times, including the British Open, and he missed the PGA Championship playoff by one shot. It's the second straight year a Wake Forest alum won the award, following Will Zalatoris. ... Rickie Fowler is making his 300th career start on the PGA Tour. For Justin Thomas, it's No. 200.
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INDIANA, Pa., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&T Bancorp, Inc. (S&T) (NASDAQ: STBA), the holding company for S&T Bank with operations in five markets including Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, Central Ohio and Upstate New York, announced today that a conference call detailing the company's second quarter 2022 earnings will be held live over the Internet at 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Christopher J. McComish, chief executive officer, David G. Antolik, president, and Mark Kochvar, chief financial officer, will conduct the conference call. The public is invited to listen.
S&T Bancorp, Inc. intends to release its second quarter earnings before the market opens on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
PERTINENT USER INFORMATION:
To access the webcast, go to S&T Bancorp's webpage at the address listed above and click on "Events & Presentations." Select "2nd Quarter 2022 Conference Call" and follow the instructions. After the live presentation, the webcast will be archived on this website for at least 90 days. A replay of the call will also be available until July 28, 2022, by dialing 1.877.481.4010; the Conference ID is 45770.
Prior to the webcast, please email questions to investor.relations@stbank.com. Also, participants who log into the conference call will have an opportunity to email their questions directly from the webpage beginning at 12:55 p.m. ET until the conclusion of the presentation.
The S&T Bancorp, Inc. Second Quarter Earnings Press Release can be accessed on Thursday,
July 21, 2022 at www.stbancorp.com. Click on "Press Releases."
S&T Bancorp, Inc. is a $9.4 billion bank holding company that is headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania and trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol STBA. Its principal subsidiary, S&T Bank was established in 1902 and operates in five markets including Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, Central Ohio and Upstate New York. S&T Bank recently received the highest ranking in customer satisfaction for retail banking in the Pennsylvania region by J.D. Power. For more information visit stbancorp.com or stbank.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the Philippines despite being rejected by the Catholic church.
The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. About a dozen villagers registered but only eight men participated, including 62-year-old sign painter Ruben Enaje, who was nailed to a wooden cross for the 34th time in San Pedro Cutud.
In a news conference shortly after his brief crucifixion, Enaje said he prayed for the eradication of the COVID-19 virus and the end of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has contributed to gas and food prices soaring worldwide.
“It's just these two countries involved in that war, Russia and Ukraine, but all of us are being affected," said Enaje, who appeared to be well and showed his two bandaged hands to journalists.
The father of four said he wanted to end his extraordinary penitence because of his age but would decide with finality before Lent next year. While the pain from the nailing was not as intense as anticipated, he said he always felt edgy before each crucifixion.
“To be honest, I always feel nervous because I could end up dead on the cross,” he told The Associated Press before Friday's nailing.
“When I’m laid down on the cross, my body begins to feel cold," he said. "When my hands are tied, I just close my eyes and tell myself, ‘I can do this. I can do this.’”
Surviving nearly unscathed when he fell from a three-story building in 1985 prompted Enaje to undergo the ordeal as thanksgiving for what he considered a miracle. He extended the ritual after loved ones recovered from serious illnesses, one after another, turning him into a village celebrity as the “Christ” in the Lenten reenactment of the Way of the Cross.
Ahead of their crucifixion on a dusty hill, Enaje and the other devotees, wearing thorny crowns of twigs, carried heavy wooden crosses on their backs for more than a kilometer (more than half a mile) in the scorching heat. Village actors dressed as Roman centurions later hammered 4-inch (10-centimeter) stainless steel nails through his palms and feet, then set him aloft on a cross under the sun for about 10 minutes.
Other penitents walked barefoot through village streets and beat their bare backs with sharp bamboo sticks and pieces of wood. Some participants in the past opened cuts in the penitents’ backs using broken glass to ensure the ritual was sufficiently bloody.
The gruesome spectacle reflects the Philippines’ unique brand of Catholicism, which merges church traditions with folk superstitions.
Many of the mostly impoverished penitents undergo the ritual to atone for sins, pray for the sick or for a better life, and give thanks for miracles.
Church leaders in the Philippines have frowned on the crucifixions and self-flagellations, saying Filipinos can show their deep faith and religious devotion without hurting themselves and by doing charity work instead, such as donating blood.
Robert Reyes, a prominent Catholic priest and human rights activist in the country, said the bloody rites reflect the church’s failure to fully educate many Filipinos on Christian tenets, leaving them on their own to explore personal ways of seeking divine help for all sorts of maladies.
Folk Catholicism has become deeply entrenched in the local religious culture, Reyes said, citing a chaotic procession of a black statue of Jesus Christ called the Black Nazarene each January, which authorities say draw more than a million devotees each year in one of Asia's largest religious festivals. Many bring towels to be wiped on the wooden statue, believing it has powers to cure ailments and ensure good health and a better life.
“The question is, where were we church people when they started doing this?" Reyes asked, saying the clergy should immerse itself in communities more and converse regularly with villagers. “If we judge them, we'll just alienate them.”
The decadeslong crucifixion tradition, meanwhile, has put impoverished San Pedro Cutud — one of the more than 500 villages in rice-growing Pampanga province — on the map.
Organizers said more than 15,000 foreign and Filipino tourists and devotees gathered for the cross nailings in Cutud and two other nearby villages. There was a festive air as villagers peddled bottled water, hats, food and religious items, and police and marshals kept order.
“They like this because there is really nothing like this on earth,” said Johnson Gareth, a British tour organizer, who brought 15 tourists from eight countries, including the United States, Canada and Germany, to witness the crucifixions. “It's less gruesome than people think. They think it's going to be very macabre or very disgusting but it's not. It's done in a very respectful way.”
In the past, Gareth said tourists were “genuinely inspired and I think they left with a newfound respect for people's beliefs."
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Associated Press journalists Aaron Favila and Cecilia Forbes contributed to this report.
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A Tunkhannock physician improperly prescribed massive doses of steroids to treat a woman he believed had a tick-borne illness, causing her to develop serious medical issues, according to a federal lawsuit.
Dr. Henry Lindner, 230 West Tioga St., repeatedly assured Stacey Wolking that the excessive doses of prednisone and other steroids were needed to treat her for a purported case of babesiosis — a rare disease caused when a tick bite infects the blood with a microscopic parasite, according to the suit.
The doses frequently exceeded 1,000 milligrams a day, far exceeding the dose prescribed outside a hospital setting, and caused Wolking to develop serious medical issues, including a perforated bowel, sepsis, and bone density and muscle loss, the suit says.
Lindner specializes in hormone replacement therapy, according to his website, hormonerestoration.com. He has been licensed in Pennsylvania since 1996, and has not been subjected to any disciplinary action, according to the state Board of Medicine.
The suit, filed by Philadelphia attorney Conor Lamb, also names Tunkhannock Compounding Center, the pharmacy that filled many of the prescriptions, alleging staff should have known the level of steroids were excessive. It notes Lindner directed Wolking, who lives in Virginia, to use that pharmacy, also located at 230 West Tioga St., because he was concerned her local pharmacy “might complain to his medical board.”
Courtney Young, owner of Tunkhannock Compounding, declined to comment on the suit. Attempts to reach Lindner were unsuccessful.
According to the suit, Wolking began seeing Lindner in 2013, when she was 51. With the exception of one in-person visit, all consultations were by phone or email.
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In June 2021, Lindner diagnosed her with babesiosis after she complained of brain fog, achiness, headaches, nausea and night sweats. Lindner made the diagnosis despite the fact that blood tests never confirmed she suffered from the disease.
Lindner initially prescribed antibiotics and later directed her to take the excessive amounts of steroids, the suit says. Wolking complied with the advice for more than a year, once taking as much as 1,848 milligrams of prednisone in a single day.
“A reasonable physician would rarely, if ever, prescribe 100 milligrams of prednisone or a corticosteroid equivalent per day to a patient outside a hospital setting … and would begin to taper down the dosage within a few days,” the suit says.
The suit says Wolking repeatedly told Lindner she suffered adverse effects, including abdominal pain, swelling, nausea and headaches that were so bad she wanted to die. He advised her she had no choice but to take the high doses, no matter what the side effects, because there was no alternative.
“Dr. Lindner knew or should have known that he was not properly knowledgeable, skilled and/or competent to treat Stacey for babesiosis, or to prescribe such unreasonably high doses of corticosteroids, and that doing so put Stacey at great and unreasonable risk of injury,” suit says.
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AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) – A very special reunion happened at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas over the weekend.
Former neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, babies and their families had the chance to reunite with the teams who cared for them in the hospital.
The reunion was held Sunday at Q2 Stadium by the nonprofit Hand to Hold in partnership with St. David’s HealthCare. There was also a graduation ceremony to celebrate former NICU babies of any age.
Since many NICU babies have a long stay in the hospital, parents often form lifelong relationships with their doctors and nurses, the nonprofit said. For many who attended, the reunion allowed them to get together for the first time since the pandemic.
“They see their NICU nurses more than they do their own family members because they’re in that NICU every day taking care of their child — and so it’s a very close bond that extends way past discharge,” Rhonda Reed, director of the NICU at St. David’s, said.
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Nebraska-based plant first and only to manufacture domestic creatine
PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CON-CRĒT by Vireo Systems, the #1 most widely licensed and best-selling bioavailable creatine, announces the grand opening of the first creatine manufacturing plant in the United States. The plant, located in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, is set to dramatically increase Vireo's economic impact in the Omaha region, provide domestically sourced raw materials for the growing distribution of creatine supplements, and improve supply chain and sustainability footprints.
Creatine is a naturally occurring amino acid-based molecule in the body that provides the energy for every cell to function optimally. Supplementing with creatine helps optimize and increase the body's much-needed creatine supply and assists with improved energy, immune health, sexual wellness, and especially brain functions. CON-CRĒT and Vireo Systems are committed to making this supplement widely available and educating people about the tremendously positive impact creatine naturally has on the body.
"Vireo is investing in this plant and in our CON-CRĒT® brand because concentrated creatine is arguably the most important supplement a person can take to support their overall health (and fitness)," says Mark Faulkner, Vireo CEO. "Basically, if a cell doesn't have adequate energy to function at its best, nothing else really matters. Creatine is the key to driving the energy of every cell in the body; and many American diets need more creatine. Being the first and only domestically made creatine aligns with our mission to provide innovative and science-backed products that every-body needs for health and wellness."
In addition to domestic production of the creatine supplement, the plant also is creating jobs and improving the local economy and work force. During this past year, the $16.6 million building project helped support 124 jobs in the construction industry and an additional 72 jobs in the community based on the increased economic activity. Looking forward, the plant will ramp up to create 200 new jobs in the coming years and a forecasted $174 million in economic impact each year.
"This marks the next step in expansion for Vireo and deepens its commitment and investment in Cass County," said Governor Jim Pillen. "The fact that Nebraska is now home to a business that is producing its product within the United States bodes well for opportunities like this in the future."
Previously, all creatine has been made overseas; and bringing this manufacturing to the United States assists in CON-CRĒT's goal of becoming entirely Made in the USA and improving Vireo's sustainability efforts. With domestic manufacturing, the plant will enhance supply chain protection, reduce overseas shipping fuel, and eliminate excess packaging.
The domestic raw material production of CON-CRĒT comes as the brand is experiencing increased distribution – CON-CRĒT is now available in all Walmart stores nationwide. Walmart has taken a leadership role in bringing high quality creatine to the market to help Americans experience and enjoy their best overall health and wellness.
"Walmart is proud to work with Vireo Systems as they are committed to investing in the U.S. manufacturing industry with excellent products that will have a big impact," said Silvia Azrai Kawa, Senior Vice President, Consumables Health & Wellness at Walmart. "This new facility will employ skilled American manufacturing workers in the Omaha region, and these jobs will apply American ingenuity and vision to products that help Walmart customers save money and live better."
For more information about CON-CRĒT visit www.con-cret.com or follow us on @concret_creatine on Facebook and Instagram.
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A dangerous new form of fentanyl — dyed and shaped so it looks like candy or children’s chalk — has made its way to the Pacific Northwest, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
In Oregon and at the United States’ southern border, law enforcement officers recently seized “rainbow fentanyl” in two forms: pills that could be mistaken for candy and pressed blocks that look like sidewalk chalk, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The shapes and colors used have law enforcement concerned that children may mistake it for candy or a toy, and also that teenagers could be more tempted to try the drug, the agency said.
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Survey results also show that 52% expect supporting their parent(s) will cost just as much or even more than supporting their children
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents have financial obligations for raising their children, with some estimates around $12,000 annually per child, but members of the "sandwich generation" are often financially supporting their own parent(s) as well.
A new survey shows that 66% of the sandwich generation — Americans who are raising or financially supporting children and also have at least one living parent age 65+ — are either "very stressed" (29%) or "somewhat stressed" (37%) about affording their family's financial obligations over the next 10 years. The Policygenius survey also found that more than half of the sandwich generation (52%) expect that supporting their parent(s) will cost just as much or even more than supporting their children over the next five years.
Other findings from the Policygenius Sandwich Generation Survey include:
- When asked how they would pay for long-term care for their parent(s):
- 24% haven't discussed financial needs, health care needs, a will, end-of-life care wishes, or estate planning with their aging parent(s).
- 49% don't have life insurance to help financially support their loved ones after they die.
"Being a caregiver, whether for your children or parents, can be extremely stressful, especially when you're balancing it with other responsibilities and your long-term goals," Myles Ma, personal finance expert at Policygenius, said. "What's really surprising is how seldom people are talking about what this entails, especially with their loved ones, which could explain why many of them also don't have financial protection, like life insurance, in place."
Policygenius commissioned YouGov to poll 2,368 Americans 18 or older, of whom 310 confirmed 1. having a living parent age 65 or older and 2. either being the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18, or giving financial support to an adult child age 18 or older in the last 12 months. Members of this group are referred to as the "sandwich generation" in this report. The survey was carried out online from Nov. 7 through Nov. 9, 2022. The results have been weighted to be representative of all U.S. adults. The margin of error was between +/-3% and +/-6% depending on the question. Percentages were rounded to the nearest whole number, so some totals may not add up to 100. You can see more data and the full methodology in the Policygenius Sandwich Generation Survey report.
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FORT MYERS — There will only be one day in the year 2100 where nuisance high tide flooding isn’t an issue in the Fort Myers area.
Naples will be flooded by incoming tides every day, according to the latest tide predictions coming from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.
Experts at NOAA last week released their forecast for high tide flooding days at various locations around the country.
Nuisance flooding can cause everything from flooded roads to backed-up septic and sewage systems to crumbling infrastructure.
Those scenarios are the intermediate predictions, and NOAA didn’t release data for high-range predictions.
Nuisance flooding is defined by NOAA as “minor tidal flooding that occurs at high tide oftentimes associated with minor impacts such as old sea walls being overtopped, water in low-lying areas of roads, storm water systems that actually have water coming in through the outtake pipes, so a degrading functionality.”
Basically nuisance flooding happens when tides are high enough to cause an impact to roads or services.
“Flooding is definitely occurring in the South Florida region,” Sweet said. “Flooding is definitely occurring in the South Florida region,” Sweet said. In South Florida, he said, as in most of the East Coast and Gulf Coast locations, flooding rates are increasing on a year-to-year basis.
Sweet said it’s important to think of the predictions as a long-term trend, one that has more ups than downs.
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Example: just because it snows really hard in the northern reaches of the nation on one day doesn’t mean overall global temperatures aren’t warming.
“Any given year may be below or above that trend,” Sweet said of nuisance high tides and climate change statistics. “It doesn’t mean you’re out of the situation. There may be years of reprieve with conditions like La Nina and the tides are impacted by the wobble of the moon over an 18-year cycle and we’re kind of in a low point from that perspective right now.”
Retired biologist and climate change planner Jim Beever said nature will, for the most part, adapt to changing conditions. It’s the human infrastructure and users of those roads and services that will suffer.
And the tides will be even higher as sea levels continue to rise, a fact documented by the U.S. Geological Survey for more than a century here.
“It makes them even higher,” Beever said of rising sea levels and higher high tides. “The mangrove and organisms are fine. They can adjust to this stuff. It’s human infrastructure that sees it the most. In Miami streets flood and water backs up through their drainage system. Septic systems don’t work under those conditions.”
While the major impacts may sound like they’re far off in the distance and for another generation to worry about, the impacts from larger, more powerful hurricanes, wildfires and extreme temperatures are already a part life.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Donaldson was activated from the 10-day injured list and in the lineup for the New York Yankees on Friday night for the first time since being suspended by Major League Baseball for a remark to Chicago White Sox star Tim Anderson.
Donaldson was suspended one game for making multiple references about Jackie Robinson while talking to Anderson on May 21. Donaldson has appealed the discipline.
Donaldson played the next day against Chicago but has been out of the lineup since due to COVID-19 and right shoulder inflammation. He was slated to play third base and bat cleanup against the Detroit Tigers in his return.
The 2015 AL MVP is hitting .239 with five homers, 15 RBIs and a .764 OPS over 37 games in his first season with New York.
Donaldson was isolated from the team for several days after the Anderson incident because he had COVID-19 symptoms. He apologized to the Robinson family during that time. Upon his return, he said he was hurt that teammates didn’t back him.
He’s likely to get a warm reception from fans, though, after they booed Anderson in the May 22 finale of the series against the White Sox.
Manager Aaron Boone said slugger Giancarlo Stanton could be activated off the 10-day IL this weekend. Stanton has been sidelined with a right calf strain and is eligible to return Saturday.
Meanwhile, Yankees reliever Chad Green has had Tommy John surgery and likely will be sidelined until at least the summer of 2023.
New York said the right-hander’s ulnar collateral ligament was reconstructed Wednesday by Texas Rangers team physician Dr. Keith Meister at Trinity Park Surgery Center in Arlington, Texas.
Green, 31, is eligible for free agency after this year’s World Series. He was 1-1 with a 3.00 ERA in 14 games when he was hurt during the sixth inning at Baltimore on May 19.
Green said after the game that he felt right forearm discomfort. The Yankees placed him on the 15-day injured list two days later and moved him to the 60-day injured list on May 27.
Green is 33-22 with a 3.17 ERA in seven major league seasons and has a $4 million salary this year. He was 10-7 with a 3.12 ERA in 67 appearances last year, striking out 99 in 83 2/3 innings.
The Yankees acquired Triple-A first baseman/outfielder Jake Bauers from the Cincinnati Reds for cash Friday. The 26-year-old Bauers has played in the majors for Tampa Bay, Cleveland and Seattle. He is hitting just .135 in Triple-A this season and has been assigned to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sam Reinhart tied it late in regulation, Carter Verhaeghe scored his second of the game in overtime and the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Florida Panthers beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 in Game 4 Monday night, tying the first-round series.
Verhaeghe scored 4:57 into overtime to keep the NHL’s best regular-season team from getting pushed to the brink of elimination much earlier in the playoffs than expected. It’s a best-of-three series now with Game 5 Wednesday night at Florida.
“It’s hard out there -- everyone’s got to play a little harder,” said Verhaeghe, who played eight games on the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2020 Cup run in the bubble. “We’re competing for the Cup. Nothing’s easy. Nothing’s given to you.”
The Panthers were just over two minutes away from facing the prospect of getting knocked out at home. Then, with goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky pulled for an extra attacker, Reinhart collected a loose puck after it bounced off Capitals forward Garnet Hathaway and beat Ilya Samsonov with 2:04 remaining in the third period.
“Those are the kind of situations you want to be in as a hockey player,” Reinhart said. “It’s a game that could really go either way at the end of it and we stuck with it and we’re happy with the result.”
Given the combination of nerves and playoff inexperience that contributed to Florida’s struggles in the series, Reinhart’s goal may turn out to be the one that saved its season.
Before that point, the Panthers outshot the Capitals by a wide margin, but again were unable to finish. They went 0 for 4 on the power play to make it 0 for 13 in the series and couldn’t put the puck in the net at 5 on 5.
Before Reinhart scored 6 on 5, their only other goal came 4 on 4 when Carter Verhaeghe finished a 2 on 1 rush late in the first.
Bobrovsky stopped 14 of 16 shots. T.J. Oshie scored on the power play in the first, and Evgeny Kuznetsov put Washington ahead on a breakaway goal midway through the third.
These teams have now traded victories. The Capitals have not won consecutive playoff games since 2019.
Florida is trying to break the franchise’s playoff series losing streak that dates to 1996, when the team reached the Stanley Cup Final.
The Panthers overcame more penalty problems Monday, when they were whistled for seven minors and needed to kill 43 seconds of a 5-on-3 Washington power play. Similar disciplinary issues caused them to get knocked out in the first round last season by eventual champion Tampa Bay.
Expectations are much larger this time around after compiling 111 points during the regular season. Interim coach Andrew Brunette and players lamented an inability for the Panthers to find their game in playoff hockey, which typically features a different style and more intensity.
More intensity is what Brunette wanted to see out of his team after getting waxed 6-1 in Game 3 on Saturday. The Panthers had that at times and pushed hard early in the third period, but they needed extra time -- in just the third game of 30 completed in the playoffs to go to overtime -- to even the series.
NOTES: The Panthers stuck with the same lineup from Games 1-3, but moved some players around at forward and on defense. ... Nicklas Backstrom’s secondary assist on Oshie’s goal gave him a team-leading five points in the playoffs.
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Shootout ensues after shotgun armed estranged husband breaks into wife’s home, deputies say
MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Deputies are investigating a shooting in Madison County.
The sheriff’s office says they were called Thursday morning to a home in the 1000 block of Mule Shed Lane, west of Richmond, for a report of an ongoing domestic situation.
We’re told the situation started when Tommy Edington, who had a protective order against him, went to his estranged wife’s home, armed with a shotgun.
According to the sheriff’s office, the woman, Amanda Edington, was inside the home with two other men, her son James Spicer and friend Hogan Rose.
The sheriff’s office says Amanda saw her estranged husband coming up to the home with the gun. She and the two men went into the master bedroom, locked the door, then locked themselves in the bathroom of that master bedroom.
The sheriff’s office says Tommy Edington kicked open a door to get inside the house and then fired his shotgun into the master bedroom door. Hogan then went out into the master bedroom and started firing back. Tommy Edington and Rose both sustained gunshot wounds.
As the husband was reloading his shotgun, Rose and Spicer escaped the home. As the wife was trying to escape, the husband grabbed her and barricaded himself in a room with her.
When deputies arrived at the scene, the sheriff’s office says Tommy Edington surrendered without incident and Amanda Edington was not hurt.
Rose was treated and released from Baptist Health Richmond.
Tommy Edington was taken to UK Hospital. The sheriff’s office says his condition is not known, but his injuries were initially believed to be non-life-threatening.
The sheriff’s office says he is facing charges of attempted murder, burglary, violation of a Kentucky EPO/DV and possession of firearm by a convicted felon.
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RA'ANANA, Israel, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inspira™ Technologies OXY B.H.N. Ltd. (NASDAQ: IINN) (NASDAQ: IINNW) (the "Company" or "Inspira Technologies"), a groundbreaking respiratory support technology company, announced today that the Israeli Patent Office (ILPO) granted a patent for a key safety component of the INSPIRA™ ART system.
The component is to be located on the patient's neck and is designed to secure a neck cannula from moving or dislodging. Cannula movement can occur during a change of a patient's posture in bed, during physiotherapy treatment, while an awake patient is taken by the medical staff out of bed for a short walk and/or during transportation within and between hospitals.
"We believe that the grant of this patent is another validation of our innovation and supports our core mission for the INSPIRA ART system – to reduce the dependency on invasive mechanical ventilation and improve patient safety and outcomes," stated Inspira's CEO, Dagi Ben-Noon. "This patent is part of the Company's portfolio of patents that are at various phases of the filing process and which we expect to see progress to grant status."
The ILPO is a certified International Searching and Examining Authority (ISA), appointed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and a party to the PCT-PPH Program, an international initiative amongst 30+ national patent offices to promote work-sharing and enable accelerated patent applicant processing. The Company plans to file for patent coverage in additional countries.
Enhances Usability and Medical Value of INSPIRA ART System
The newly patented technology shall be a key component of the INSPIRA ART system, a potential new mode of acute respiratory care under development, designed to minimize the need for invasive mechanical ventilation allowing the patient to remain awake and maintain spontaneous breathing
The component will be utilized during INSPIRA ART treatment with awake patients, potentially allowing them to be mobile with reduced risk of cannula movement and subsequent bleeding. The Company believes that such improvement in patient safety and mobilization increases patient benefit and enhances the INSPIRA ART system's usability and comprehensive medical value to both patient and medical staff, which may accelerate market adoption.
Potential Use For ECMO
While the component was initially intended to be a part of the INSPIRA ART system, the Company will also explore the potential early release of the component for the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) device market. The current ECMO market size (including devices) is estimated at $531 million per annum, with approximately 35,000 ECMO procedures performed each year.
About Inspira Technologies OXY B.H.N. Ltd.
Inspira Technologies is an innovative medical technology company in the respiratory treatment arena. The Company has developed a breakthrough Augmented Respiration Technology (INSPIRA ART), designed to rebalance patient oxygen saturation levels. This technology potentially allows patients to remain awake during treatment while minimizing the need for highly invasive, risky, and costly mechanical ventilation systems that require intubation and medically induced coma. The Company's products have not yet been tested or used in humans and has not been approved by any regulatory entity.
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This press release contains express or implied forward-looking statements pursuant to U.S. Federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements and their implications are based on the current expectations of the management of the Company only and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. For example, the Company is using forward-looking statements when it discusses the potential benefits to be realized by the newly patented component, the Company's ART System, that it intends to file for additional patent protections for other components in other jurisdictions, that the ART system's benefits may accelerate market adoption, and the Company's plan to explore the potential early release of our products and solutions for the ECMO device market.. These forward-looking statements and their implications are based solely on the current expectations of the Company's management and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Except as otherwise required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. More detailed information about the risks and uncertainties affecting the Company is contained under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which is available on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov
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SURF CITY, S.C., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Multimedia - TMM, Inc. ("TMMI" or the "Company") (OTC PNK: TMMI). Web site: http://www.tmmi.us
President, Michael Kozole announces the appointment of Susan Bala to the TMMI Board of Directors. Ms. Bala will serve as the Company's new Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
"The TMMI Board of Directors has unanimously voted for the appointment of Ms. Susan Bala to the Board of Directors. We have awaited this opportunity to place a seasoned businessperson at the helm of TMMI. Ms. Bala, a long-time shareholder of TMMI, possesses vision and the determination to meet challenges. Her business acumen will be fuel to move the Company forward with new strategies for its Microsoft Windows based technologies and other compatible products.
Ms. Bala is a former delegate for the United States Commerce Department and an entrepreneur who has successfully built industry and international business across multiple market sectors.
TMMI's Board of Directors, comprised of myself, David Wiggins and George Kearns, enthusiastically endorse Ms. Bala. Mr. Wiggins and Mr. Kearns have resigned their posts as Directors to make way for Ms. Bala to advance her administration."
Ms. Bala accepted the appointment making the following statement:
"I have accepted this appointment on behalf of all of the TMMI shareholders. My objective is to create a solid corporate foundation to prepare TMMI for future opportunities. The world of technology is a fast paced and changing environment in which TMMI was a leader in the arena of video technology. It is my intention to open communication and place TMMI in a strong position to establish new avenues of growth in today's markets."
TMMI TRUDEF Video Player with its patented TRUSCALE TM hardware accelerated upscaler also available as a bundled home entertainment solution in the TMMI Mini PCTM and TMMI Mini PC XTM small form factor Windows 10-64 computers.
TMMI's legacy technology: TRUDEF™ Fractal Video codec and its high efficiency
TRUDEF™ Player developed for cinema quality 4K playing directly from physical media.
TMMI patent pending suite: TRUPIX™, TRUSCALE™ and TRUZOOM™ - a patent pending, hardware accelerated, real time suite of video scaling solutions for the high-resolution market.
Garrett Brown – Cinematographer, USPTO Inventors Hall of Fame, Oscar and Emmy award winning inventor of the Steadicam™, Skycam™, Swimcam™, and Divecam™.
Mung Chiang - PHD, EE Waterman winning Professor at Princeton University. Recipient of the Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in engineering, founder of Princeton's EDGE Lab – connecting network theory with real world applications, investigating global bandwidth issues.
Hal Lipman – Emmy award winner, former executive NFL films.
Thomas Mackie - Lt. Col. USMC Reserve Pilot. Top Gun instructor. CEO of G-Force Leadership, market expert in digital cinema, cameras, sports and defense.
Ted Schilowitz – Co-founder of RED Digital Cinema, "cinemavangelist" to major Hollywood studio and cinema Technology Company.
Louis Siracusano – President Video Bank. A leading digital asset management firm serving defense, pro sports, education, and science.
Charles Wright – Founder and President of Fall River Investments, author and investment advisor.
Inquiries should be directed to info@tmmi.us or call toll free: 800-806-2148.
TMM, Inc. (OTC PNK: TMMI) is a high-quality video technology company specializing in digital video compression, video scaling and high-quality image management. Founded in 1990, the company was the pioneer in fractal video. TMMI develops digital video compression and scaling technologies that are targeted to global consumer electronics and provides solutions to systems and products with high quality video requirements.
The information provided herein may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, in particular, statements about our plans, strategies, business prospects, and the ongoing and future development of our technologies. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including without limitation, the impact of competitive products, the ability to meet customer demand, the ability to manage growth, acquisitions and development of technology, equipment, or human resources, the effect of economic business conditions and the ability to attract and retain skilled personnel. Neither management nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and subsequent facts or circumstances may contradict, obviate, undermine, or otherwise fail to support or substantiate such statements.
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Large asteroid coming close, but zero chance of hitting us
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies.
Saturday’s close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles away. That’s less than half the distance from here to the moon, making it visible through binoculars and small telescopes.
While asteroid flybys are common, NASA said it’s rare for one so big to come so close — about once a decade. Scientists estimate its size somewhere between 130 feet and 300 feet.
Discovered a month ago, the asteroid known as 2023 DZ2 will pass within 320,000 miles of the moon on Saturday and, several hours later, buzz the Indian Ocean at about 17,500 mph.
“There is no chance of this ‘city killer’ striking Earth, but its close approach offers a great opportunity for observations,” the European Space Agency’s planetary defense chief Richard Moissl said in a statement.
Astronomers with the International Asteroid Warning Network see it as good practice for planetary defense if and when a dangerous asteroid heads our way, according to NASA.
The Virtual Telescope Project will provide a live webcast of the close approach.
The asteroid won’t be back our way again until 2026. Although there initially seemed to be a slight chance it might strike Earth then, scientists have since ruled that out.
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Updated November 2, 2022 at 8:34 AM ET
SEOUL, South Korea — Three days after a deadly crowd crush in Seoul, South Korean authorities apologized to the victims and the public amid mounting scrutiny over their judgment and response.
Over 150 people, mostly young adults, died Saturday night in a narrow alleyway in the capital's Itaewon district, where more than 100,000 people flocked in for Halloween parties. The police had anticipated a large gathering but did not enforce crowd control measures.
But desperate calls for crowd control and police intervention came from the packed streets of Itaewon hours before the first call reporting the accident to the police.
"It looks like people will be squashed to death," said a person who called at 6:34 p.m. local time from the same alley. "There are too many people, and I barely got out. I think we need crowd control," the caller said.
According to transcripts released by police on Tuesday, similar calls warning them about a possible accident and asking for help followed. "There are so many people, and we are almost getting crushed to death," said a caller at 8:53 p.m.
"We are on the brink of having a major accident here," said a caller at 9 p.m..
"Please do something about this street. I really think people are going to die," said a caller at 9:02 p.m..
"Can you come as quickly as possible?" said a caller at 9:51 p.m. "It looks like a very dangerous situation here right now."
A total of 11 emergency calls came in from near the alleyway, but police dispatched officers on just four occasions. Soon after, starting at 10:15 p.m., calls reporting the fatal crush poured in.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Commissioner General Yoon Hee Keun of the National Police Agency admitted "inadequate response to the multiple emergency calls warning of the severe situation" and pledged to launch an independent investigation body to examine officers of all levels.
On Wednesday, the special investigation team raided the police agencies of Seoul and the Yongsan ward, where the Itaewon district is located, in addition to the city's subway operator and fire department.
Interior Minister Lee Sang-min also apologized. "As the head of the ministry responsible for people's safety, I offer my sincere apology to the nation," he said at the national parliament Tuesday. "The state bears infinite responsibility for people's safety, yet this accident occurred."
Lee is the highest-ranking government official yet to offer an explicit apology over the disaster.
Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon also made a tearful apology on Tuesday for failing to fulfill his duty to protect citizens' lives and safety and for offering the apology too late.
The apologies follow growing public and media criticism that authorities have avoided taking responsibility for the tragedy, saying repeatedly that the police do not conduct crowd management for a spontaneous gathering without a clear organizer, like the Halloween crowd.
They also come amid predictions that the tragedy can further weaken the public's support for President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose job approval rate fell below 30% for most of the past three months.
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New data show proportions of patients treated with TREMFYA who achieved clinical-biomarker response ranged from 47.5-66.7 percent across dose groups in the Phase 2 GALAXI 1 study
Other data presented demonstrate the long-term safety profile of STELARA® (ustekinumab) in bio-naïve and bio-failure patients living with inflammatory bowel disease
SPRING HOUSE, Penn., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced new data from the Phase 2 GALAXI 1 clinical trial of TREMFYA® (guselkumab) in adult patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease (CD), and from three separate long-term pooled analyses of adult patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and CD treated with STELARA® (ustekinumab).1,2,3,4 These data are being presented as oral and poster presentations and are among 29 Janssen abstracts presented during the Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) meeting taking place in person and virtually in San Diego, California on May 21-24, 2022.
The GALAXI 1 data showed study participants with an inadequate response or intolerance to conventional therapies and/or biologics treated with TREMFYA achieved high levels of clinical-biomarker responsea (47.5-66.7 percent), endoscopic responseb (44.3-46 percent), and clinical remissionc with C-reactive protein (CRP) ≤3 mg/L or fecal calprotectin ≤250 μg/g (39.3-66.7 percent) at 48 weeks across dose groups.1 TREMFYA is not approved to treat adult patients with CD or UC in the U.S.5
The STELARA pooled analyses of long-term safety data in bio-naïve and bio-failure CD/UC patients treated with STELARA demonstrated a favorable safety profile consistent with analyses in the overall inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) population and the established safety profile across approved indications.2,3 In addition, a STELARA pooled safety analysis from 13 total studies across all approved indications (including data up to one year in psoriatic arthritis [PsA], two in UC, and five in CD and plaque psoriasis [PsO]), showed no increased incidence (adjusted for duration of follow up) of malignancy with STELARA treatment compared to placebo.4
"These new data from the GALAXI 1 study are encouraging as we continue to investigate long-term treatment solutions to address the unmet needs for our patients who live with the burden of moderately to severely active Crohn's disease," said GALAXI 1 presenting study author Remo Panaccione, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.d "The clinical-biomarker response and endoscopic response data from the Phase 2 GALAXI 1 clinical trial build upon the study's clinical remission outcomes and give us insight into the potential that TREMFYA may provide sustained remission."
- Clinical-biomarker response:a The proportions of patients treated with TREMFYA across dose groupse (n=185) who achieved clinical-biomarker response at week 48 ranged from 47.5-66.7 percent.f,g
- Endoscopic response:b The proportions of patients treated with TREMFYA achieving endoscopic response ranged from 44.3-46 percent across dose groupse (n=185) at week 48.f
- Clinical remission and achieving CRP or fecal calprotectin normalization:c The proportions of patients treated with TREMFYA achieving clinical remission and CRP ≤3 mg/L or fecal calprotectin ≤250 μg/g ranged from 39.3-66.7 percent across dose groups (n=185).e,f,h
- Safety: Safety results were consistent with the known safety profile of TREMFYA in approved indications.
Janssen previously announced 48-week clinical remission and corticosteroid-free clinical remission results from the GALAXI 1 Phase 2 study.6 Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating TREMFYA for the treatment of moderately to severely active CD are ongoing and actively enrolling participants. Learn more through the Janssen Global Trial Finder.
- Safety profile similar to placebo in bio-naïve patients: In a pooled long-term safety analysis of four Phase 2/3 IBD studies, 771 bio-naïve patientsi received STELARA with 1511 patient-years of follow up and 425 bio-naïve patients received placebo with 376 patient-years of follow up.3 Event rates adjusted per 100 patient-years for adverse events (AEs), serious AEs, infections, serious infections, major adverse cardiac events (MACE), and malignancies were similar between STELARA and placebo through up to one year.3 Rates per 100 patient-years (adjusted for duration of follow up) for AEs, serious AEs, infections, serious infections, and MACE were similar and/or numerically lower for STELARA versus placebo through up to five years in bio-naïve patients with CD and up to two years in bio-naïve patients with UC (Poster #Tu1440).3
- Safety profile similar to placebo in bio-failure patients: In a pooled long-term safety analysis of five Phase 2/3 IBD studies, 1596 bio-failurej patients with 1970 patient-years of follow up received STELARA and 847 bio-failure patients with 473 patient-years of follow up received placebo.2 Event rates per 100 patient-years (adjusted for duration of follow up) for AEs, serious AEs, infections, serious infections, MACE, and malignancies were similar between STELARA and placebo through up to five years in bio-failure patients with CD and up to two years in bio-failure patients with UC.2 The safety profile of STELARA was consistent with the established safety profile in IBD and across approved indications (Poster #Tu1438).2
- Malignancy risk comparable to placebo: In an analysis of pooled long-term safety data from 13 studies across approved indications, including CD and UC, in 2501 placebo-treated patients with 1244 patient-years of follow up and 6710 STELARA-treated patients with 13807 patient-years of follow up, STELARA showed no increased incidence (adjusted for duration of follow up) of malignancy compared to placebo through up to five years of STELARA follow up.4 Comparisons between the number of malignancies observed for patients treated with STELARA compared to expected malignancies based on the National Institutes of Health Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (SEER),7,k which does not include nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) and cervical cancer in situ,8 resulted in a standard incidence ratio (SIR)l of 0.85 (95 percent confidence intervals:m 0.65, 1.09) for STELARA across approved indications, suggesting no increased malignancy risk with STELARA treatment. (Oral presentation #14).4
"These data provide validation and underscore our commitment to continuing to innovate for patients with disease where considerable need remains," said Jan Wehkamp, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President, Gastroenterology Disease Area Leader, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "Drawing from a two-decade legacy of immunology innovation, we continue to generate new evidence for STELARA and are investing deeply in our pipeline to usher in a new era of treatment, leveraging the continued research of pathway science aiming to establish TREMFYA as a trusted therapeutic option for healthcare professionals and people who are living with inflammatory bowel disease."
a. Clinical-biomarker response is defined as clinical response and ≥50 percent reduction from baseline in CRP or fecal calprotectin.1
b. Endoscopic response is defined as ≥50 percent improvement from baseline in Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) or SES-CD ≤2.1 SES-CD score at week 48 was based on all observed segments scored at week 48. Subjects who had insufficient data to calculate the total SES-CD score at week 48 were considered not to be in endoscopic response.1
c. Clinical remission is defined as a Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) score of <150.1
d. Dr. Panaccione is a paid consultant for Janssen. He has not been compensated for any media work.
e. The GALAXI 1 48-week analyses report the results of 248 patients randomized to TREMFYA or STELARA: patients receiving TREMFYA 200 mg intravenous (IV) were shifted to TREMFYA 100 mg subcutaneous (SC) dose every eight weeks (q8w); patients receiving TREMFYA at 600 or 1200 mg IV changed to TREMFYA 200 mg SC every four weeks (q4w).1 Please see the 'About GALAXI 1' section below for further details regarding dose and study design.
f. Patients who had a prohibited change in concomitant CD medication, a CD-related surgery, or discontinued study agent due to lack of efficacy, or an AE of worsening CD prior to the designated analysis timepoint were considered not to be in clinical remission, clinical response, clinical-biomarker response, endoscopic response, or clinical remission and CRP concentration ≤3 mg/L or fecal calprotectin concentration ≤250 μg/g from that timepoint onwards. Patients who had discontinued the study agent due to any other reasons prior to the designated analysis timepoint had their observed data used, if available, to determine responder and non-responder status from that timepoint onwards.1
g. Patients who had a missing CDAI score or who were missing both CRP and fecal calprotectin values at the designated analysis timepoint were considered not to be in clinical-biomarker response at that timepoint.1
h. Patients who had missing CDAI score or who were missing both CRP and fecal calprotectin values at the designated analysis timepoint were considered not to be in clinical remission and CRP concentration ≤3 mg/L or fecal calprotectin concentration ≤250 μg/g at that timepoint.1
i. All patients who received ≥1 dose of STELARA and were never treated with a biologic were included in the analysis.3
j. All patients who received ≥1 dose of STELARA and were identified as having a history of prior biologic failure were included in the analysis.2
k. The expected number of patients with malignancies is based on the SEER Database (year 2016), adjusted for age, gender, and race. Only patients with race belonging to White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander were included since SEER only contains incidence rates for these populations.8
l. Standard incidence ratio is the observed number of patients with malignancy divided by the expected number of patients with malignancy.9
m. Confidence intervals are based on an exact method assuming that the observed number of events follows a Poisson distribution.4
GALAXI 1 is a double-blind, placebo-controlled, active-reference arm, global, multicenter, treat-through, Phase 2 dose-ranging study evaluating the efficacy and safety of TREMFYA in adult participants with moderately to severely active CD with inadequate response/intolerance to conventional therapies (corticosteroids, immunosuppressives) and/or biologics (tumor necrosis factor [TNF] antagonists, vedolizumab).
Participants were randomized equally into five treatment arms, including treatment with TREMFYA dosed at 200, 600, or 1200 mg IV at weeks 0, 4 and 8, respectively; or treatment with the reference product, STELARA, dosed at ~6 mg/kg IV at week 0 and then dosed at 90 mg SC at week 8; or IV placebo. The study was not powered to evaluate differences between treatment groups after the primary endpoint at week 12.
The primary endpoint of the Phase 2 GALAXI 1 study is change from baseline in CDAI scores at week 12.12 All three induction doses of TREMFYA significantly improved CDAI scores from baseline as compared to placebo, with placebo- subtracted Least Squares Mean reductions of 124.2 (p<0.001), 102.7 (p<0.001), and 108.7 (p<0.001) for the 200 mg IV, 600 mg IV, and 1200 mg IV groups, respectively. Additional key outcomes evaluated at week 12 include clinical remission (CDAI<150), clinical response (decrease from baseline in CDAI ≥100 or CDAI<150), PRO-2 remission (abdominal pain mean daily score ≤1 and mean daily stool frequency score ≤3 and no worsening from baseline), clinical-biomarker response (clinical response and ≥50 percent reduction from baseline in CRP or fecal calprotectin), endoscopic response (≥50 percent improvement from baseline in the SES-CD or SES-CD≤2), and safety in participants treated with TREMFYA compared with placebo.12 Participants may receive treatment through five years.10
The 48-week analyses report the results of the 248 patients randomized to TREMFYA or STELARA.13 After completing 12 weeks of IV induction therapy, patients transitioned to their long-term maintenance treatments as follows: patients receiving TREMFYA 200 mg IV were shifted to TREMFYA 100 mg SC dose q8w; patients receiving TREMFYA dosed at 600 mg IV or 1200 mg IV changed to TREMFYA 200 mg SC q4w; patients receiving STELARA continued with a 90 mg SC dose q8w; in addition to the 248 randomized patients, placebo non-responders began STELARA IV followed by STELARA SC q8w; and placebo responders continued on a placebo SC q4w.13
Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. Jointly sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), DDW is an in-person and virtual meeting from May 21-24, 2022. The meeting showcases more than 5000 abstracts and hundreds of lectures on the latest advances in GI research, medicine, and technology. More information can be found at www.ddw.org.
CD is one of the two main forms of IBD, which affects an estimated three million Americans.14 CD is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract with no known cause, but the disease is associated with abnormalities of the immune system that could be triggered by a genetic predisposition, diet or other environmental factors.15 Symptoms of CD can vary, but often include abdominal pain and tenderness, frequent diarrhea, rectal bleeding, weight loss and fever.16 There is currently no cure for CD.17
In the United States, about one million people are affected by UC.18 UC is a chronic disease of the large intestine, also known as the colon, in which the lining of the colon becomes inflamed and develops tiny open sores, or ulcers, that produce pus and mucus.19 It is the result of an abnormal response by the body's immune system.19 Symptoms vary, but may include loose and more urgent bowel movements, persistent diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloody stool, loss of appetite, weight loss and fatigue.20
Developed by Janssen, TREMFYA is the first approved fully human monoclonal antibody that selectively binds to the p19 subunit of interleukin (IL)-23 and inhibits its interaction with the IL-23 receptor.5,21 IL-23 is an important driver of the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases such as moderate to severe plaque PsO and active PsA. TREMFYA is approved in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and a number of other countries for the treatment of adults with moderate to severe plaque PsO who are candidates for injections or pills (systemic therapy) or phototherapy (treatment using ultraviolet light), and for the treatment of adult patients with active PsA.5,22,23 It is also approved in the EU for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque PsO in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy and for the treatment of active PsA in adult patients who have had an inadequate response or who have been intolerant to a prior disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy.24
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson maintain exclusive worldwide marketing rights to TREMFYA®.
What is the most important information I should know about TREMFYA®?
TREMFYA® is a prescription medicine that may cause serious side effects, including:
- Serious Allergic Reactions. Stop using TREMFYA® and get emergency medical help right away if you develop any of the following symptoms of a serious allergic reaction:
- Infections. TREMFYA® may lower the ability of your immune system to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections. Your healthcare provider should check you for infections and tuberculosis (TB) before starting treatment with TREMFYA® and may treat you for TB before you begin treatment with TREMFYA® if you have a history of TB or have active TB. Your healthcare provider should watch you closely for signs and symptoms of TB during and after treatment with TREMFYA®.
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have an infection or have symptoms of an infection, including:
Do not take TREMFYA® if you have had a serious allergic reaction to guselkumab or any of the ingredients in TREMFYA®.
Before using TREMFYA®, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have any of the conditions or symptoms listed in the section "What is the most important information I should know about TREMFYA®?"
- have an infection that does not go away or that keeps coming back.
- have TB or have been in close contact with someone with TB.
- have recently received or are scheduled to receive an immunization (vaccine). You should avoid receiving live vaccines during treatment with TREMFYA®.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if TREMFYA® can harm your unborn baby.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if TREMFYA® passes into your breast milk.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
What are the possible side effects of TREMFYA®?
TREMFYA® may cause serious side effects. See "What is the most important information I should know about TREMFYA®?"
The most common side effects of TREMFYA® include: upper respiratory infections, headache, injection site reactions, joint pain (arthralgia), diarrhea, stomach flu (gastroenteritis), fungal skin infections, herpes simplex infections, and bronchitis.
These are not all the possible side effects of TREMFYA®. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
Use TREMFYA® exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to use it.
Please read the full Prescribing Information, including Medication Guide for TREMFYA®, and discuss any questions that you have with your doctor.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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STELARA is a fully human monoclonal antibody and is the first biologic treatment to selectively inhibit the IL-12 and IL-23 pathways.25,26 Janssen commercializes STELARA in the U.S., EU, and in countries around the world. STELARA is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of: 1) adults and children six years and older with moderate to severe plaque PsO who are candidates for phototherapy or systemic therapy; 2) adult patients (18 years or older) with active PsA, used alone or in combination with methotrexate (MTX); 3) adult patients (18 years and older) with moderately to severely active CD; 4) adult patients (18 years and older) with moderately to severely active UC.
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson maintain exclusive worldwide marketing rights to STELARA®.
STELARA® (ustekinumab) is a prescription medicine that affects your immune system. STELARA® can increase your chance of having serious side effects including:
Serious Infections
STELARA® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections. While taking STELARA®, some people have serious infections, which may require hospitalization, including tuberculosis (TB), and infections caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses.
- Your doctor should check you for TB before starting STELARA® and watch you closely for signs and symptoms of TB during treatment with STELARA®.
- If your doctor feels that you are at risk for TB, you may be treated for TB before and during treatment with STELARA®.
You should not start taking STELARA® if you have any kind of infection unless your doctor says it is okay.
- think you have an infection or have symptoms of an infection such as:
- are being treated for an infection or have any open cuts.
- get a lot of infections or have infections that keep coming back.
- have TB, or have been in close contact with someone with TB.
After starting STELARA®, call your doctor right away if you have any symptoms of an infection (see above). These may be signs of infections such as chest infections, or skin infections or shingles that could have serious complications. STELARA® can make you more likely to get infections or make an infection that you have worse. People who have a genetic problem where the body does not make any of the proteins interleukin 12 (IL-12) and interleukin 23 (IL-23) are at a higher risk for certain serious infections that can spread throughout the body and cause death. People who take STELARA® may also be more likely to get these infections.
Cancers
STELARA® may decrease the activity of your immune system and increase your risk for certain types of cancer. Tell your doctor if you have ever had any type of cancer. Some people who had risk factors for skin cancer developed certain types of skin cancers while receiving STELARA®. Tell your doctor if you have any new skin growths.
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES)
PRES is a rare condition that affects the brain and can cause death. The cause of PRES is not known. If PRES is found early and treated, most people recover. Tell your doctor right away if you have any new or worsening medical problems including: headache, seizures, confusion, and vision problems.
Serious Allergic Reactions
Serious allergic reactions can occur. Stop using STELARA® and get medical help right away if you have any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction such as: feeling faint, swelling of your face, eyelids, tongue, or throat, chest tightness, or skin rash.
Lung Inflammation
Cases of lung inflammation have happened in some people who receive STELARA® and may be serious. These lung problems may need to be treated in a hospital. Tell your doctor right away if you develop shortness of breath or a cough that doesn't go away during treatment with STELARA®.
Before receiving STELARA®, tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have any of the conditions or symptoms listed above for serious infections, cancers, or PRES.
- ever had an allergic reaction to STELARA® or any of its ingredients. Ask your doctor if you are not sure.
- are allergic to latex. The needle cover on the prefilled syringe contains latex.
- have recently received or are scheduled to receive an immunization (vaccine). People who take STELARA® should not receive live vaccines. Tell your doctor if anyone in your house needs a live vaccine. The viruses used in some types of live vaccines can spread to people with a weakened immune system, and can cause serious problems. You should not receive the BCG vaccine during the one year before receiving STELARA® or one year after you stop receiving STELARA®.
- have any new or changing lesions within psoriasis areas or on normal skin.
- are receiving or have received allergy shots, especially for serious allergic reactions.
- receive or have received phototherapy for your psoriasis.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if STELARA® can harm your unborn baby. You and your doctor should decide if you will receive STELARA®.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is thought that STELARA® passes into your breast milk.
- talk to your doctor about the best way to feed your baby if you receive STELARA®.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over‐the‐counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them to show your doctor and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.
- Use STELARA® exactly as your doctor tells you to.
- STELARA® is intended for use under the guidance and supervision of your doctor. In children 6 years and older, it is recommended that STELARA® be administered by a healthcare provider. If your doctor decides that you or a caregiver may give your injections of STELARA® at home, you should receive training on the right way to prepare and inject STELARA®. Your doctor will determine the right dose of STELARA® for you, the amount for each injection, and how often you should receive it. Do not try to inject STELARA® yourself until you or your caregiver have been shown how to inject STELARA® by your doctor or nurse.
Common side effects of STELARA® include: nasal congestion, sore throat, and runny nose, upper respiratory infections, fever, headache, tiredness, itching, nausea and vomiting, redness at the injection site, vaginal yeast infections, urinary tract infections, sinus infection, bronchitis, diarrhea, stomach pain, and joint pain. These are not all of the possible side effects with STELARA®. Tell your doctor about any side effect that you experience. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Please click to read the full Prescribing Information and Medication Guide for STELARA® and discuss any questions you have with your doctor.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding TREMFYA® (guselkumab) and STELARA® (ustekinumab) product development. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; manufacturing difficulties and delays; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or regulatory action; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2022, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in Johnson & Johnson's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
- Panaccione, R. et al. Efficacy and Safety of Guselkumab Maintenance Therapy in Patients with Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease: Week 48 Analyses from the Phase 2 GALAXI 1 Study. Presented at DDW 2022, May 21-24.
- Loftus, EV. et al. Long-term Safety of Ustekinumab in IBD Patients with a History of Biologic Failure: Pooled Safety Analysis Through 5 Years in Crohn's Disease and 2 Years in Ulcerative Colitis. Presented at DDW 2022, May 21-24.
- Sands, BE. et al. Long-term Cumulative Safety of Ustekinumab in Bio-naïve Patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Presented at DDW 2022, May 21-24.
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truecaller, one the world's leading global communications platforms, has launched a brand-new version of their iPhone app for users around the world. The iOS app has been completely re-written from the ground up to be lighter, more efficient, and most important of all, it offers significantly better number identification, spam, scam and business call identification compared to previous versions of the app. The new app offers up to 10 times better spam and business identification compared to the previous version
This change has been brought about by an all-new architecture that leverages Truecaller's state-of-the-art spam detection algorithms and takes full advantage of Apple's technology to deliver the optimal caller ID solution. The app seamlessly integrates with Apple's default phone app to show results from Truecaller right in the call log. Truecaller has developed the most current, accurate, and complete first ring Caller ID and spam detection for every geography and we ensure this by automatically updating spam information in the background. It also includes a huge design refresh and new user experience flow that results in far shorter times for initial onboarding and quicker day-to-day navigation through the app.
"We've been innovating within Apple's platform to bring users more powerful features like Call Alerts and a convenient search extension. Our new totally rewritten iPhone-app is now on par with our Android-app when it comes to identifying spam & verified business calls,'' said Alan Mamedi, Co-founder and CEO of Truecaller. This update has been a long time coming for many iPhone users which today account for approximately 5% of our more than 320 million Monthly Active Users. Now we can offer them and new iPhone users the best performing identifier of spam and scam to help them separate the noise from the communication they want to respond to."
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ATLANTA — Local faith leaders are reacting to Georgia's "heartbeat law" going into effect this week. It bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is normally around six weeks.
This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling in June.
11Alive News reached out to The Temple in Atlanta. They weren't available, but the Women's Rabbinic Network calls abortion access a Jewish value.
On the other side of the debate, many conservative Christians praised the high court's ruling, but we found some denominations have a different opinion.
“Presbyterians have long affirmed a woman's right to choose to medically safe abortions and reproductive justice," Rev. Andy Acton said.
Rev. Andy Acton with Emory Presbyterian Church in Decatur said his denomination has traditionally been progressive and believed in a woman's right to choose.
“I think also Presbyterians take the stance that if you're going to be pro-life, then you should be pro-life about everything, right? That pro-life means that we shouldn't... have the death penalty or kill young black men and those kinds of things," Acton said.
However, some other religions, including Islam, have quite a different take.
“In terms of abortion, terminating the pregnancy or whatever it was started, the default also is that it is haram, which means that it is prohibited in Islam," Imam Bashir Mundi said.
Imam Bashir Mundi of the West Cobb Islamic Center said there are some exceptions if a Muslim wants to have an abortion. That includes a recommendation from a doctor, and in certain cases, it can be accepted up to 40 days after conception.
“Traditional belief is that it is at the 40th day after that conception that a soul is breathed into them," Mundi said.
A Gallup poll in May found 55% of Americans identified as pro-choice, while 39% said they are pro-life.
The nonprofit Public Religion Institute found in a 2018 study the religion most accepting of abortion is Judaism at 70%, followed by Buddhism at 69% and Hinduism at 62%.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic waited. He waited for Nick Kyrgios to lose focus and lose his way. Waited to find the proper read on his foe’s big serves. Waited until his own level rose to the occasion.
Djokovic is not bothered by a deficit — in a game, a set, a match. He does not mind problem-solving. And at Wimbledon, for quite some time now, he does not get defeated.
Djokovic used his steady brilliance to beat the ace-delivering, trick-shot-hitting, constantly chattering Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Sunday for a fourth consecutive championship at the All England Club, seventh overall there, and 21st from all Grand Slam tournaments.
“It’s weird. I felt like he didn’t do anything amazing today,” said the unseeded Kyrgios, offering an assessment with which some might not concur, given that Djokovic accumulated 31 winners and merely eight unforced errors over the last two sets, while facing zero break points in that span.
“But he was just so composed. That’s what I was just thinking to myself. In big moments, it just felt like he was never rattled. I feel like that’s his greatest strength: He just never looks rattled,” said Kyrgios, about whom those words likely have not been uttered. “He just looks completely within himself the whole time. Didn’t look like he was playing overaggressive, even though it felt like he was playing big.”
Among men, only Roger Federer owns more Wimbledon titles than Djokovic, with eight, and only Rafael Nadal owns more major trophies, with 22.
“The more you win, it’s logical the more confident, the more comfortable you feel out there every next time you step out on the court,” said the top-seeded Djokovic, who was pleased to hear some spectators at Centre Court chanting his nickname, “No-le! No-le!” as he served out the final point of a tremendously well-played tiebreaker.
As of now, Djokovic will not be able to try to pull even with Nadal by winning the U.S. Open, which begins in late August: The 35-year-old Serbian can’t enter the United States because he decided not to get any shots against COVID-19, the same reason Djokovic missed the Australian Open in January.
“I’m not vaccinated,” Djokovic said Sunday, “and I’m not planning to get vaccinated.”
Aside from his experience — 32 Grand Slam final appearances versus one for the unseeded Kyrgios — his skill and his clutch gene shined in the concluding tiebreaker, and all of those qualities were present for two particularly pivotal games that helped swing the match.
“Key moments,” Djokovic called them.
They were games in which Djokovic steeled himself, and Kyrgios blinked. And games that Kyrgios would not let go as he began engaging in running monologues, shouting at himself or his entourage (which does not include a full-time coach), earning a warning for cursing, finding reason to disagree with the chair umpire he fist-bumped before the match, and chucking a water bottle.
With Djokovic serving for the second set at 5-3, Kyrgios got to love-40 — a trio of break points. But Kyrgios played a couple of casual returns, and Djokovic eventually held. When that set ended, Kyrgios waved dismissively toward his box, sat down and dropped his racket to the turf, then groused to no one in particular: “It was love-40! Can it get any bigger or what?! Is that big enough for you?!”
Djokovic noticed.
“He knew on this stage, when Nick starts to talk, he’s going to be vulnerable,” said Djokovic’s coach, 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic. “That happened.”
In the third set, with Kyrgios serving at 4-all, 40-love, he again let a seemingly sealed game get away, with Djokovic breaking there.
“It was a huge momentum shift,” Djokovic said, “because up to that point we were quite even.”
Kyrgios was almost perfect in the first set, with 11 winners before he made a second unforced error. The 40th-ranked Kyrgios, a 27-year-old from Australia, never had been past the quarterfinals in 29 previous Grand Slam appearances — and the last time he made it even that far was 7 1/2 years ago.
His talent is unmistakable. But over the years, Kyrgios has drawn more notice for his preference for style over substance on court, his tempestuousness that has earned him ejections and suspensions and his taste for the nightlife.
During the past two weeks alone, Kyrgios racked up $14,000 in fines — one for spitting at a heckling spectator after a first-round victory, another for cursing during a wildly contentious win against No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the third round — and caught flack for wearing a red hat and sneakers before or after matches at a place where all-white clothing is mandated. Word also emerged that he is due in court next month in Australia to face an assault allegation.
On Sunday, Kyrgios tried shots between his legs, hit some with his back to the net, pounded serves at up to 136 mph and produced 30 aces. He used an underarm serve, then faked one later.
For all of the significant records and other factoids logged in the 560-page Wimbledon Compendium — including categories such as “ambidextrous players” or “runners-up who wore glasses in a final” — no mention is made of “underarm serves in a gentleman’s final,” but it seems safe to say that was a first.
Perhaps, in some ways, it would have been fitting for such a unique player to emerge as the champion at such a unique Wimbledon.
All players representing Russia or Belarus were barred by the All England Club because of the war in Ukraine; among those banned was No. 1-ranked Daniil Medvedev, the reigning U.S. Open champion. In response, the WTA and ATP tours took the unprecedented step of revoking all ranking points from Wimbledon (Djokovic, for example, earned zero points for his title and will slide to No. 7 on Monday).
A woman who was born in Russia but has represented Kazakhstan for four years, Elena Rybakina, won the women’s trophy Saturday with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Ons Jabeur. There’s more: Federer missed the tournament for the first time since the late 1990s, The No. 2 man in the rankings, Alexander Zverev, sat out injured. Three of the top 20 seeded men, including 2021 runner-up Matteo Berrettini, pulled out of Wimbledon after testing positive for COVID-19. And Nadal withdrew with a torn abdominal muscle before he was supposed to face Kyrgios in the semifinals.
On Sunday, it was Djokovic holding the trophy, as he has so often. He trailed in the final, just as he had in the quarterfinals (when he was two sets down) and the semifinals. Just as he had in last year’s French Open and Wimbledon finals. Just as he had in the 2019 final at the All England Club, facing two championship points against Federer.
Each time, he waited for the opportunity to seize control. Each time, he won.
“So the run keeps going,” Djokovic said after his unbeaten streak at Wimbledon reached 28 victories. “I feel very connected with this court and with this tournament, without a doubt.”
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New to BPS staff
Jacob Knodel has been hired as assistant principal of Horizon Middle School by Bismarck Public Schools.
Knodel has experience in the field of education, having worked as a dean, teacher, team leader and administrative intern. The majority of his career was spent working at Discovery Middle School in Fargo.
Technician gets award
Kevin Malmedal of Kramer Chevrolet in Mandan has received top honors with the Mark of Excellence Award and listed in the top 20 for technicians in the General Motor Company, Chevrolet, and Buick Zone that he represents.
Director recognized
Shae Helling, Bismarck, has been honored with the 2022 NATA Future Leader Award by the National Air Transportation Association. The award recognizes an individual who has shown outstanding promise, passion and professionalism within the general aviation community.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Parents and families fear they are out thousands of dollars after the daycare they take their kids to has suddenly stopped operating over the weekend.
Northwest Adventure Program has left parents scrambling for childcare after they received an email from staff, saying the owner Lesley Marshall dissolved the company and seemingly disappeared.
Parents started receiving contradicting emails on Friday and into Saturday. Staff said the owner, Marshall, dissolved the daycare then messages from Marshall called those claims “rumors” and said care would continue on Monday.
Then on Sunday night, a final email from a staff member said the program had been dissolved, staff had experienced checks that had bounced and some staff had not been paid for two pay periods.
“I could not in good conscience do nothing,” the employee wrote.
“I took [Marshall’s] word for it, I took her word for it. I thought maybe something went down, maybe they are trying to restructure, maybe they had to let some staff go, but we’ve been ghosted, we’ve been absolutely ghosted,” said Julie Mallory, a parent of a child in the after-school program.
Brendan Knapp said he found out the daycare was closed Monday morning at 1 a.m, sending him scrambling to find care for his child before he and his wife had to work.
“Because of the daycare desert we are in, we had to rely on them for our daycare and kind of trust that people would do the right thing,” Knapp said.
Both Knapp and Mallory report a great relationship with counselors and employees of the Northwest Adventure Program. The program typically picks kids up from school or sets a meeting spot, brings kids to a park or for a day trip to places like Sauvie’s Island and on rainy days, to churches to watch over kids.
For meet-ups and other situations, parents and counselors would be in regular contact, Mallory says.
“They care for our children, and that’s what we the parents are so lucky for, they truly care about our kids,” she said.
Adding to the concern for Mallory and Knapp is a promotional email sent by Marshall on Friday, advertising discounted rates on care for upcoming months and summer camp. Mallory paid thousands of dollars for the upcoming months and Knapp paid $2,800 for summer camp. One parent reportedly paid $7,000 to enroll three kids.
“You want to save your spot, right? You’ve got to save your spot because there are only a limited amount of spots and options available,” Mallory said.
Mallory says Marshall promised to hold a zoom call to confront parents’ concerns and questions, but that never happened.
From Tuesday morning and through the afternoon, KOIN 6 News tried to call Marshall at several numbers, and left a voicemail with her. The phone would ring in the morning, but in the afternoon, it went straight to voicemail. KOIN 6 News has still not heard back.
Then, at 2:47 p.m., parents received an email from Marshall to parents that revealed some, but far from all, answers to questions parents like Mallory and Knapp have.
“Last Thursday I made the difficult decision of needing to step away from my role,” the email reads.
Mallory had been emailing Marshall on Friday and Saturday and had heard nothing of the decision to step away.
The email goes on to say that some employees were willing to support the daycare through the week of November 21, but that a “very disgruntled employee” sent out false information and Marshall said she had been admitted into the hospital. The email, riddled with typos, eventually says that Marshall has a list of families that have prepaid and “that is not something I will be ignoring.”
Both Knapp and Mallory say they feel for Marshall if she is in the hospital, and hope for her quick recovery, though Knapp says this should have been disclosed days ago and NWAP should have some protocols to communicate with families about changes “that greatly impact our lives.”
For Mallory, she says the Tuesday afternoon email offers no answers, little resolution and says the last four days have been “pure chaos.”
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Scientists and sailors say orcas, also known as killer whales, are stepping up "attacks" on yachts along Europe's Iberian coast, with one skipper who's been pursued by the marine mammals on two separate occasions suggesting that their tactics are becoming more stealthy.
Delivery skipper Dan Kriz, who had to be towed into port after orcas destroyed the rudder on a boat he was on in 2020, had an almost identical experience in April.
"My first reaction was, 'Please! Not again,'" Kriz told Newsweek.
Unlike last time, the orcas made a stealthier approach without the characteristic squeaks they normally use to communicate, he says. They made quick work of the two rudders on the catamaran Kriz was delivering. "Looks like they knew exactly what they are doing. They didn't touch anything else," he said.
Most marine scientists have characterized hundreds of encounters between boats and orcas that have sunk at least three vessels and damaged dozens of others over the years as a "fad," implying that the animals will eventually lose interest and resort to more typical behavior.
But if that's the case, there are few signs this behavior is going out of style anytime soon. According to a June 2022 study published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, orcas have stepped up the frequency of their interactions with sailing vessels in and around the Strait of Gibraltar, the busy waterway that links the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.
Some researchers think it's merely playful behavior
As NPR first reported last August, many scientists who study orca behavior believe these incidents — in which often one or more of the marine mammals knock off large chunks of a sailboat's rudder — are not meant as attacks, but merely represent playful behavior.
One hypothesis put forward by Renaud de Stephanis, president and coordinator at CIRCE Conservación Information and Research, a research group based in Spain, is that orcas like the feel of a boat's rudder.
"What we think is that they're asking to have the propeller in the face," de Stephanis told NPR last year. "So, when they encounter a sailboat that isn't running its engine, they get kind of frustrated and that's why they break the rudder."
In another recent encounter, Werner Schaufelberger told the German publication Yacht that his vessel, Champagne, was approached by "two smaller and one larger orca" off Gibraltar.
"The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the ship with full force from the side," he said.
The Spanish coast guard rescued Schaufelberger and his crew, towing Champagne to the Spanish port of Barbate, but the vessel sank before reaching safety.
The encounters could be a response to past trauma
Since 2020, there have been more than 500 encounters between yachts and orcas in the area, according to one of the study's co-authors, Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and a representative of the Grupo de Trabajo Orca Atlántica, or Atlantic Orca Working Group.
López Fernandez believes that a female known as White Gladis, who leads the group of around 40 animals, may have had a traumatizing encounter with a boat or a fishing net. In an act of revenge, she is teaching her pod-mates how to carry out revenge attacks with her encouragement, researchers believe.
"The orcas are doing this on purpose, of course, we don't know the origin or the motivation, but defensive behavior based on trauma, as the origin of all this, gains more strength for us every day," López Fernandez told Live Science.
It's an intriguing possibility, says Monika Wieland Shields, director of the Orca Behavior Institute.
"I definitely think orcas are capable of complex emotions like revenge," she says. "I don't think we can completely rule it out."
However, Shields is not ready to sign on to the "revenge" hypothesis just yet. She says that despite humans having "given a lot of opportunities for orcas to respond to us in an aggressive manner," there are no other examples of them doing so.
Deborah Giles, the science and research director at Wild Orca, a conservation group based in Washington state, is also skeptical of the hypothesis. She points out that killer whale populations in waters off Washington "were highly targeted" in the past as a source for aquariums. She says seal bombs, small charges that fishers throw into the water in an effort to scare sea lions away from their nets, were dropped in their path while helicopters and boats herded them into coves.
"The pod never attacked boats after that," she says. "It just doesn't ring true to me."
Shields says it's important to remember that whatever the motive is for the behavior of the orcas off the Iberian coast, it isn't being transmitted to pods in other parts of the world.
"We've had folks here in Washington [asking] 'is it safe to go out in the water here with these orcas?'" she says. "While this is kind of an ongoing situation in that specific place, I don't think there's any reason to think it's going to start spreading to other populations of orcas."
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INDIANAPOLIS – Thousands of fire and rescue professionals from around the world will be in Indianapolis this week for the 2022 Fire Department Instructors Conference.
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Agency will bring paid media, data strategy excellence to bear for portfolio of consumer fitness, health & wellness brands
WOODBURY, Minn., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Self Esteem Brands (SEB), the parent company of a global portfolio of fitness, health and wellness franchise brands with more than 5,500 locations around the world, has named Wpromote, the top independent marketing agency, as its new digital Agency of Record. Effective immediately and in partnership with marketing leadership across the portfolio, Wpromote delivers all paid media and data strategy and management for Anytime Fitness, Basecamp Fitness, The Bar Method, Stronger U, and Waxing The City.
"The successful track record of Wpromote with clients of all sizes, combined with its data-driven approach and deep consumer curiosity, made it clear it's the right partner for us," said April Anslinger, global chief marketing officer, Self Esteem Brands. "We look forward to collaborating and building impactful campaigns that drive our business growth."
The Wpromote team is charged with powering SEB's overall goal to disrupt the global fitness industry by leveraging a full suite of digital media channels, from search and social to programmatic and CTV, to connect with customers and drive business outcomes.
SEB chose to work with Wpromote thanks to the agency's deep bench of best-in-class full-funnel media experts and the innovative power of Polaris, its award-winning proprietary tech platform, as the company seeks to grow its market edge and take its brands to new levels of consumer consideration and conversion. The combination of strategy, tech and data will help SEB unlock stronger media performance for each brand while analyzing insights at the different stages of marketing maturity across the portfolio and accelerating profitability as a whole.
"We knew right away that we speak the same language as SEB, from cultural values to our approach to the business," said Mike Stone, chief relationship officer, Wpromote. "We outlined a fresh approach to give every brand and franchisee the tools to tackle the challenges and capitalize on opportunities at the national and local level. We're excited to show the world what this partnership with SEB will accomplish: together, we will find and scale new paths to profitability and growth for each and all of the brands."
About Wpromote
Wpromote is a digital marketing agency that helps our clients Think Like A Challenger: from enterprise brands to fast-growing digital disruptors, we believe that the right media strategy can help every business connect with customers. We combine best-in-class expertise and proprietary technology to drive profitable growth for leading brands like Whirlpool, Quickbooks, Samsung, Spanx, and TransUnion. For additional information, visit http://www.wpromote.com. Contact: Jessica Brunner, jessica.brunner@wpromote.com
About Self Esteem Brands
Headquartered in Woodbury, Minnesota, USA, Self Esteem Brands is the world's largest health and wellness franchisor, and is the parent company to Anytime Fitness, Basecamp Fitness, The Bar Method, and Waxing the City. With the mission to improve self-esteem around the globe, Self Esteem Brands, through its suite of health and wellness brands, has more than 5,500 operating locations across all seven continents. Additionally, Self Esteem Brands is the owner of Stronger U Nutrition, Healthy Contributions, and Provision Security. For more information on Self Esteem Brands and its various franchise opportunities, please visit https://sebrands.com/.
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL) between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 15, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Unilever securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Unilever class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7063 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 15, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that in July 2020, Ben & Jerry's board passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" as well as the risks attendant to the board's decision. Additionally, Unilever's s description of its legal risks was materially false and misleading because Unilever acknowledged that complying with all applicable laws and regulations was important but omitted discussing Ben & Jerry's boycott decision, which risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states ("Anti-BDS Legislation").
On July 19, 2021, Unilever and its hand-picked Ben & Jerry's CEO, finally "operationalized" the Ben & Jerry's board's resolution to boycott. Ben & Jerry's announced on its website and through its Twitter account that, upon the expiration of the current licensing agreement by which its products had been distributed in Israel for decades, Ben & Jerry's would end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" but Ben & Jerry's would purportedly continue to sell its products in Israel.
Ultimately, the states of New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Colorado, and Arizona announced decisions to divest their pension fund investments in Unilever due to violations of their Anti-BDS Legislation.
When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Unilever class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7063 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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OAKLAND, Calif., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MindSite News, the only national news site dedicated exclusively to mental health reporting, earned seven honors in the 2023 Digital Health Awards contest this June. The awards, which were announced online, recognize the best online health stories and resources aimed at consumers and health professionals.
The publication had earlier won two awards from the SF Press Club and a Peter Lisagor award from the Chicago Headline Club, bringing the total to 10 awards over a year's time.
"We're honored that our stories on mental health issues are being recognized as trustworthy, compelling and authoritative," says MindSite News founding editor Rob Waters. "Kudos to our talented team, which has worked tirelessly to make us the country's leading source for mental health news."
Below is a list of MindSite News' honorees over the last 12 months by contest and category:
Gold Award:
Astrid Landon, "How I Passed a Test To Be a Grief Therapist Without Really Trying," with "Buyer, Be Aware: An Inside Look at Four Grief Counseling Programs" and sidebar
Silver Award (Series on the case against corporal punishment):
–Diana Hembree, "Why School Paddling Is Legal Child Abuse: First Person"
–Laurie Udesky, "'Corporal Punishment Is Violence: Black Communities Vow to Ban School Paddling"
–Courtney Wise, "Spare the Child: Spanking Harms Both Children and Caregivers"
Silver Award (Individual):
Diana Hembree, "Why School Paddling Is Legal Child Abuse: First Person"
Merit Awards:
Akintunde Ahmad, "The Confess Project: Barbers Help Black Men Talk About Mental Health"
Diana Kapp, "Eco-Anxiety: The Real Tsunami of Climate Change"
Holly Korbey, "Young Advocates Take the Lead to Curb Campus Suicides"
Laurie Udesky, "Combating Veteran Suicides with Peers, Therapy, Housing – and a Little Horse Sense"
Best Reporting on Crime and Justice/Small Print/Online
Josh McGhee, MindSite News staff reporter and Ola Giwa, WBEZ, Illinois is Getting Better at Answering Calls to the Suicide Crisis Line. Will Chicago's South Side Be Left Behind?
First Place, Digital Media Series:
Sarah Henry, three Arts & Culture stories on the portrayal of mental illness in popular culture, including Ted Lasso, Anthony Bourdain's suicide, and the making of the psych ward drama WAKEFIELD
Blog/Commentary Award:
Julia Landau, essay: "An Interrogation of Grief"
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TOKYO – Business sentiment among large manufacturers worsened for the third straight quarter, a Bank of Japan survey showed Monday, as the nation grappled with rising costs, the dropping value of the yen and restrictions on economic activity over the coronavirus pandemic.
The headline measure for the “tankan,” measuring sentiment among large manufacturers, was plus 8, down from plus 9 the previous quarter.
The tankan measures corporate sentiment by subtracting the number of companies saying business conditions are negative from those responding they are positive.
Worries are growing about how the Bank of Japan hasn’t gone along with other central banks in tightening interest rates to curb growing inflation. Japan has been trying to fight deflation in recent years and has kept interest rates at near zero.
The nose-diving yen is also a concern, although a cheap yen has in the past been lauded as helping the nation’s big exporters like Toyota Motor Corp., by raising the value of overseas earnings.
The rising costs of imports, including energy as well as food, is hurting Japan, when the U.S. dollar is now trading at nearly 145 yen, when it used to be at 130-yen levels just a few months ago. A year ago, the dollar cost 111 yen.
Sentiment among large nonmanufacturers improved to 14 from 13, according to the latest tankan.
The world’s third-largest economy has struggled for decades to keep growth going. But the stagnation has worsened the last two years because of reduced travel and supply shortages caused by the pandemic.
The war in Ukraine has added to the problems for a resource-poor nation that imports almost all its oil.
The return of individual visa-free travel later this month is certain to work to boost incoming tourists.
The pandemic had squelched overseas tourism, which had sustained economic activity in recent years.
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Announces Build Out of Macro Strategy
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cinctive Capital Management ("Cinctive"), a multi-manager alternative investment firm focused on long/short equities, has announced the hiring of macro investing veteran Giles Coppel. Mr. Coppel will serve as Macro Chief Investment Officer of the strategy. In addition to Mr. Coppel, the firm announced several other senior team appointments.
Mr. Coppel has over 20 years of trading and business management experience. Most recently, he was a Portfolio Manager at Millennium focusing on a Global Macro strategy. Prior to Millennium, Mr. Coppel managed his own firm—Phillimore Investments. Previous to launching Phillimore, he was at Brevan Howard USA as a Partner and Head of Trading. Mr. Coppel has also held roles as a Portfolio Manager at Tudor and as Partner and Portfolio Manager at Brevan Howard in London. Before his move to the buyside, he started his career on the sell-side at several large global firms focused on FX Options trading. Mr. Coppel holds a MA in Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
"As Cinctive continues to expand its platform, we are excited to bring Giles on to build out our macro capabilities," said Rich Schimel, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Cinctive. "Our goal is to create a differentiated multi-manager platform that will benefit our investors, and we feel strongly that Giles' experience both as an investor and as an operator will be instrumental in the launch of our dedicated macro strategy.
"Cinctive has built an outstanding multi-manager platform with a unique culture and dedication to excellence. I am delighted to join the firm and work with the team to create a premier macro investing business," said Mr. Coppel.
"Given our robust infrastructure and my and Rich's previous experience in macro strategies, it's a natural evolution for Cinctive to add complementary strategies to our platform. Having the opportunity to add Giles to our team will lend to us building a first-class macro business," said Larry Sapanski, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Cinctive. "Rich and I started our careers in fixed income and ran a macro strategy at Diamondback and we understand the value this dedicated strategy offers investors. We also appreciate the synergy that additional research, shared insights and internal dialogue between the macro and equities teams will have on our overall investment capabilities."
"We are excited to see this latest development with Cinctive. We believe this opportunity reflects the benefits in building early partnerships and relationships with our emerging manager program," said Panayiotis Lambropoulos, Portfolio Manager – Hedge Funds, Employees Retirement System of Texas.
Cinctive's macro unit will include FX, G20 rates, relative value, volatility, and commodities related strategies.
Cinctive also announced the appointment of Greg Kaldor as Macro Strategist. Mr. Kaldor has worked with Mr. Coppel over the course of his career. Most recently he was a strategist with Millennium. Prior to Millennium, Mr. Kaldor ran macro strategy at Phillimore Investments. Before that he held various senior trading, strategy and sales roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and London. Mr. Kaldor holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
To further build out the macro investment team, Cinctive additionally announced the appointment of the following individuals:
Ray most recently was a Member and Portfolio Manager at DV Trading Group. Prior to the that, he worked as a Portfolio Manager for BlueCrest Capital Management. He joined BlueCrest from RBC Capital Markets where he was an Executive Director at the government bond trading desk. He started his career in government bond trading for Barclays Capital. Ray holds a B.A. from Cornell University.
Mitch most recently was the Head of America's Macro Trading at MUFG Securities. Prior to the that, he spent about ten years at Morgan Stanley in senior roles across several fixed income trading desks, including Head of Americas Macro Trading, Co-Head of Global Interest Rates and Head of Japan Fixed Income. He joined Morgan Stanley from Bank of America where he was Head of Japan and Australia Rates and FX trading in Japan. Prior to that he worked in a trading capacity at Deutsche Bank. Mitch holds a B.S. from Penn State University.
Rak most recently served in FX Options and EMFX trading roles at BNY Mellon. Prior to that, he worked for three years in Risk and Trading roles at Autonomy Capital. He joined Autonomy from ANZ Banking Group where he was an EMFX Trader and also worked as a trader at BNP Paribas. Rak holds a B.S. from Cornell University.
Cinctive Capital Management is a multi-manager investment platform. Headquartered in New York City's Hudson Yards, Cinctive was founded by alternative industry veterans Richard Schimel and Larry Sapanski to introduce a new, evolved version of the multi-manager model. The firm's portfolio management teams incorporate proprietary quantitative tools backed by a robust approach to risk management. Cinctive is dedicated to its mission of delivering the highest quality returns to its clients. Cinctive seeks top investment talent and offers a collaborative teamwork-oriented culture. For more information visit: www.cinctive.com.
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What are the best Under Armour golf shorts?
Golf takes a lot of practice and patience. The right swing fundamentals go a long way in helping you score low. But the right fashion does, too, since a comfortable golfer swings more freely and probably has a better mental approach to the game.
For the hottest days and warmest climates, golf shorts are the perfect choice to maintain a full range of motion for your golf game. Under Armour is one of the leading golf apparel brands and offers a wide array of golf shorts. For their lightweight design and reputation for supreme comfort, the best of these are the Under Armour Men’s Drive Shorts.
What to know before you buy Under Armour golf shorts
What is the best length of golf shorts?
Golf shorts typically come with an inseam between 7 to 12 inches. Shorter inseams work better for shorter golfers. The length of golf shorts, though, is a matter of preference. Some golfers like a little space above the knee for greater flexibility, while others prefer the shorts fall at the knee for a longer, sleeker look. The longer inseam may also provide more space at the waist.
What styles of Under Armour golf shorts are there?
Most golf shorts are either tailored or tapered. Tailored shorts are a traditional style with a waistband, belt loops and hip pockets. Tapered shorts tend to narrow at the bottom and give a tighter, more athletic look.
Under Armour also offers field shorts, which have half of an elastic waistband in the back and a drawstring front for adjusting the tension and providing plenty of space for swinging.
There are also skorts, which combine shorts with a skirt for a classic look with greater functionality.
What shorts are best for humid, rainy climates?
Under Armour golf shorts come with patented Storm technology that repels water while maintaining breathability. The durable water-resistant finish channels water away from the shorts to keep golfers dry and cool.
What to look for in quality Under Armour golf shorts
Material
Under Armour golf shorts are made from polyester and, often, a blend of elastic and nylon. Polyester is lightweight, looks stylish and helps repel water. The nylon and elastic increase the shorts’ flexibility.
Four-way stretching
Golf shorts have four-way stretching, which lets the material stretch both vertically and horizontally to increase range of motion.
Moisture wicking
Moisture-wicking material draws sweat away from the skin and moves it to the shorts’ surface to evaporate. This design innovation is essential on the warmest days.
Colors
Under Armour golf shorts come in a wide array of colors and patterns meant to complement your shirt and shoes. Many can be wore off the course in casual settings. Explore your retail options since some merchants offer different colors.
How much you can expect to spend on Under Armour golf shorts
They are priced between $65-$80, with the Tech line listed slightly lower between $55-65. This makes it easy for golfers to pick the right pair without having to worry about large price fluctuations.
Under Armour golf shorts FAQ
Do golf shorts require belts?
A. Most Under Armour golf shorts have belt loops for the many styles of golf belts. Some golfers prefer to play without a belt if the shorts are tight enough to stay up, or perhaps they wear their golf shirt outside the shorts. Only Under Armour field shorts come with a drawstring and no belt requirement.
What is the best way to wash Under Armour golf shorts?
A. Under Armour recommends washing golf shorts on a cold cycle with similar colors and drying on low. Bleach, softeners and dry cleaning should all be avoided.
What is a skort?
A. A skort is a combination of a skirt and golf shorts. The shorts are attached underneath to give you the classic look of a skirt with the functional support and comfort of shorts. They are popular both on and off the course in casual settings.
What are the best Under Armour golf shorts to buy?
Top Under Armour golf shorts
Under Armour Men’s Drive Shorts
What you need to know: Known for their comfort, these are regular fit with a button closure waistband and 10-inch inseams.
What you’ll love: Made from a 90-10 polyester-elastane blend, the material is four-way stretching for flexibility. The shorts feature four flat front pockets and have the Storm technology for repelling water.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the inseam measurements are slimmer than other styles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Under Armour golf shorts for the money
Under Armour Men’s Tech Shorts
What you need to know: These affordable shorts have a loose fit and are designed to be lightweight and durable.
What you’ll love: They are polyester with four-way stretching material. They have four flat front pockets and moisture-wicking properties. The shorts come without a liner to reduce overall bulk and make them extra light.
What you should consider: It’s challenging to find shorts in odd sizes for this style.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Under Armour Women’s Links Golf Shorts
What you need to know: These are lightweight and designed for a perfect fit with an adjustable waistband.
What you’ll love: The shorts are regular cut, with 9-inch inseams. Made from a polyester-elastic blend, they have four-way stretch material and four pockets. They are durable and flexible.
What you should consider: Some customers were disappointed in the limited number of available colors.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of Sarah Huckabee Sanders' first acts as Arkansas governor was to ban most state agencies from using the gender-neutral term Latinx, tapping into a debate that's divided Hispanics along generational lines.
Sanders called the word “culturally insensitive” in an order that's prompted complaints from some critics who view it as yet another attack by Republicans on the LGBTQ community. Yet her move may have limited impact, given that the word does not appear to be widely used in Arkansas government.
It was among several orders the 40-year-old former White House press secretary signed within hours of taking office office that were cheered by conservatives, including restrictions on teaching critical race theory in public schools and banning TikTok on state devices. The Latinx prohibition gives agencies 60 days to revise written materials to comply.
“One of the things as governor that I will not permit is the government using culturally insensitive words," Sanders said as she signed the order.
Sanders' order adds to the debate over a word that's found little widespread support among Latinos and even prompted backlash from some Democrats. It comes as Republicans have sought to rally around culture war issues. They also are seeking to make inroads with Latino voters, but fell short of the major shifts some in the party were hoping for in last year’s elections.
The term Latinx was coined in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina, since all nouns in the Spanish language are gendered. Many in the LGBTQ Latino community have embraced the word, but it has been slow to catch on more widely, with some Latino figures calling the term unnecessary.
The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights group in the U.S., announced in 2021 that it would no longer use the term Latinx. The group declined to comment on Sanders' order.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego from Arizona also said that year his staff was not allowed to use the term in official communications.
“When Latino politicos use the term it is largely to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use," Gallego tweeted in 2021.
The Log Cabin Republicans, which represents LGBT members of the party, praised Sanders' order.
“The term Latinx is just another misguided product of the modern left’s relentless obsession with stripping gender from American life, an obsession that LGBT conservatives fight back against daily," Charles Moran, the group's president, said in a statement.
Sanders' order doesn’t apply to the state’s institutes of higher education or other state agencies considered constitutionally independent, such as the Arkansas Department of Transportation. It also allows the governor to grant exemptions for the word’s use.
Several state agencies said they were reviewing their forms to make sure they would comply. Health Department spokeswoman Meg Mirivel said two jobs that had been unofficially called the Latinx public information coordinator and the Latinx outreach coordinator will continue to work with the Latino community but will no longer include Latinx in their titles.
Sanders isn't the first governor to ban or restrict the use of certain words. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul last year signed a bill in New York removing from state education law the word “incorrigible," a term that critics had called sexist and racist.
In 2015, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott was criticized after former officials said they were instructed to not use the terms “climate change” and “global warming." Scott, a Republican who now serves in the Senate, denied he banned the terms.
Critics of Sanders' order have said that just because the term isn't universal among Spanish speakers, that doesn't mean it's insensitive to use.
“Language is constantly evolving,” said Manuel Hernandez, head of the Latino LGBTQ group Association of Latinos/as/xs Motivating Action. “We don’t speak Old English. I’ve never met someone who says ‘thy.’”
Hernandez called Sanders' order “an attempt to erase" the LGBTQ Latino community.
Sanders signed the order the day after Arkansas lawmakers kicked off a session that's already included newly proposed restrictions on the LGBTQ community. One bill would classify drag shows as adult-oriented businesses, and another would ban transgender people from using bathrooms at K-12 schools that align with their gender identity.
Sanders has also said she would support legislation similar to Florida's law that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Critics have dubbed it the “Don't Say Gay” law.
Sanders’ executive order banning Latinx cites a 2020 report from Pew Research Center, which found that 1 in 4 U.S. Hispanics have heard the term “Latinx,” but just 3% use it.
Age is an important factor. Hispanics ages 18-29 are six times more likely than older generations to have heard of the term — 42% compared with 7% of those ages 65 or older, Pew found.
Its popularity has risen since 2016, but remains below Latina, Latino and Hispanic, according to the report.
“If you’re trying to categorize a community with the term that they seemingly are rejecting or in some cases are even openly hostile against, it makes sense that that term would in essence, go the way of the dodo, which Latinx seems to have done," said Fernand Amandi, president of Bendixen & Amandi, a multilingual public opinion research firm.
Among those using the term is Angel Castillo Reyes, a 21-year-old nonbinary student at the University of Arkansas who uses the pronouns they/them. Castillo Reyes uses both Latinx and “Latine," another gender-neutral term that's been used by some in the Latino community to describe their ethnic identity.
“I appreciate those terms because I know it doesn’t come from a sense of wanting to divide," Castillo Reyes said. “It comes from the sense of wanting to unite."
Conversations with older Latino people about gender neutrality can be difficult, Castillo Reyes said. Their parents, who are evangelical Pentecostal Christians, find the terms “ridiculous.”
Castillo Reyes criticized Sanders' order as unnecessary, but said they think it will offer an opportunity to discuss the need for gender-neutral terms with a wider community.
“Now that I know Spanish can be used in a way that is inclusive, it’s like, ‘Wow, I never thought this was possible,’” they said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Whale Watch Week in Oregon returned in-person for the first time since the pandemic on Wednesday, drawing visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the annual gray whale migration to the state’s coastline.
By early afternoon, more than 500 people had flocked to the Whale Watching Center in Depoe Bay, where a volunteer equipped with binoculars pointed out whales in the distance. A spokesperson for Oregon State Parks, which organizes the event, described scenes of excited spectators as several were spotted.
“She’s seeing the spray and calling it out,” Stefanie Knowlton told The Associated Press on the phone as she watched the center’s volunteer, the crowd cheering in the background. “There’s just so much energy. You could just really feel that people were ready to come back and watch whales together.”
Volunteers will be at 17 state parks along the coast through Sunday to help people spot the nearly 20,000 gray whales that make the southward journey to Mexico every year.
One of the sites, Cape Meares, was closed Wednesday after strong winds the previous day knocked over trees, Knowlton said.
Oregon State Parks organizes whale-watching events twice a year, in the winter for gray whales’ southern migration and in the spring for their return to northern waters near Alaska.
Oregon’s central coast is also a hot spot for whale-watching from June to mid-November, when the gray whales that remained in the state’s coastal waters during the summer migration come close to shore to feed, according to the agency.
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Green Hills Software announces new features and expanded microcontroller support for its mature, proven µ-velOSity real-time operating system
NUREMBERG, Germany, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Embedded World, Hall 4 Stand 325 — Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security, today announced important updates to its µ-velOSity™ real-time operating system (RTOS) for the growing use of new microcontrollers in vehicle electronics. Even with the consolidation of functions in zonal and domain controllers, the required number of microcontroller cores to support the surge of new safety and real-time applications remains large and growing in new designs from OEMs and Tier 1s. To support these new real-time processors, µ-velOSity has been updated with new RTOS features for new processors, along with optional capabilities that can be tailored for specific customer requirements, including:
- ISO 26262 ASIL certified (SEooC)
- Cybersecurity – adopting ISO 21434
- Memory Protection Unit (MPU) support
- Supported 32-bit architectures found on NXP®, STMicroelectronics, TI and other processors:
- Support for additional architectures including future Armv8-M, Armv8-R and others
These new capabilities join the µ-velOSity RTOS' existing features and capabilities including:
- Maximum execution speed and minimal boot time
- Tiny memory footprint
- Simple native API
- Open architecture supports domain-specific microcontroller accelerators
- µ-velOSity applications using the latest revisions of C and C++
In the car, today's microcontrollers need an RTOS that is purpose-built for the task. Cybersecurity, functional safety, cost and scalability are front of mind for OEMs for ECU nodes like e-fuses, battery management, zonal controllers, low-end radar and more, which in many cases have ultra-small memory footprint requirements. On the one hand, the RTOS must enable applications to fit in the limited internal-only memory of microcontrollers. On the other, the RTOS must be able to provide application layer enablement for the new domain-specific hardware features of modern microcontrollers and expose a unified application interface across different core architectures and silicon solutions. And finally, the software solution built on the RTOS needs to be certified to the highest levels of safety and security. The Green Hills µ-velOSity RTOS supports all these requirements.
µ-velOSity is also a perfect complement to the traditional use of AUTOSAR Classic because it can cover the class of applications, memory footprint, performance, and features not well suited for AUTOSAR Classic.
µ-velOSity is perfect for use in:
- Smart e-fuses
- Zonal and Domain Controllers
- Battery Management Systems (BMS)
- Communication Modules
- Radar
- Safety Islands / Safety Checker
- Traction, Braking, Steering Systems
- And many more
"The automotive industry is adopting increasingly capable microcontrollers that deliver the safety and performance capabilities it requires, and Arm technology is well-placed to meet this demand," said Tom Conway, senior director product management, Automotive and IoT Line of Business, Arm. "The Green Hills µ-velOSity real-time operating system is a great addition to the ecosystem, making it easier and more cost-effective for developers to deliver robust and competitive systems based on Arm."
"Green Hills is pleased to be seeing substantial adoption of its µ-velOSity RTOS in the next generation of vehicle architectures and automotive microcontrollers," said Dan Mender, VP of business development, Green Hills Software. "With its aggressive cost profile, safety and security certifications and extremely small memory footprint, global OEMs and Tier 1s are achieving on-time deployments with measurable cost savings when using µ-velOSity."
Availability
The Green Hills µ-velOSity RTOS and support for current processors is available today. An early-access version is being demonstrated in the Green Hills Software booth at Embedded World, Hall 4 Booth 325.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY®-178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at https://www.ghs.com.
Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, µ-velOSity and INTEGRITY are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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NEW YORK (AP) — As the comedy “black-ish” ended its run after eight seasons with a relatively modest live audience of 2.52 million viewers, ABC is already pivoting to what it hopes is its next defining sitcom.
The “black-ish” series finale last week featured a storyline where series stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross move their fictional Johnson family from the predominantly white area where they had been living to a neighborhood with more Black families.
It was the largest audience for the series since its final season debut in September, according to the Nielsen company, and certain to increase when delayed viewing is taken into account.
The series earned four Emmy Award nominations for best comedy in an era where it's unusual for a broadcast series to be recognized.
Less than a week later, at a New York dinner held by ABC parents Walt Disney Co. on Monday to showcase its creators, a spotlight was on Quinta Brunson, creator and star of the new sitcom “Abbott Elementary.”
The series based in a Philadelphia elementary school and inspired by Brunson's mother, a kindergarten teacher, debuted in December to strong reviews. It ended its first season on April 12 with an average of 2.9 million viewers per episode, which swelled to 8 million when a full month's delayed viewing is counted in, Nielsen said.
Brunson said that she's a fan of workplace and family comedies, which have been a staple of ABC's lineup for generations.
“I think the world was really longing for that kind of feeling again — the things we got from older shows like ‘Family Ties’ and more modern shows like ‘The Office’ and ‘Parks & Rec,’” she said.
The show will be back for a second season in the fall.
CBS won the week in prime-time last week with an average of 4.5 million viewers, led by “60 Minutes,” which was the week's top-ranked show for the sixth time this season. NBC averaged 3.01 million viewers, ABC had 2.96 million, Fox had 2 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 970,000 and Ion Television had 960,000.
TNT led cable networks with a prime-time average of 2.62 million viewers. Fox News Channel had 2.25 million, ESPN had 1.33 million, MSNBC had 1.09 million and HGTV had 1.03 million.
ABC's “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings race with an average of 7.8 million viewers. NBC's “Nightly News” averaged 6.7 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.9 million.
For the week of April 18-24, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.6 million.
2. “FBI,” CBS, 7.51 million.
3. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 7.26 million.
4. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.21 million.
5. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.94 million.
6. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.66 million.
7. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.34 million.
8. “Ghosts,” CBS, 6.25 million.
9. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 6.08 million.
10. “FBI: International,” CBS, 6.02 million.
11. “American Idol (Sunday),” ABC, 5.88 million.
12. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.65 million.
13. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 5.57 million.
14. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.43 million.
15. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.37 million.
16. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.25 million.
17. “United States of Al,” CBS, 5.19 million.
18. “This is Us,” NBC, 5.088 million.
19. “NCIS: Hawaii,” CBS, 5.087 million.
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BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The city of Changzhou, in east China's Jiangsu Province, ranked the fifth in the 2022 Hurun China New Energy Intensity City list, which was released during the 2022 World Industrial and Energy Internet Expo held in the city from Nov. 11 to Nov. 13.
According to the Hurun Research Institute, factors of the intensity of leading enterprises, small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) and investment in terms of the field of new energy were considered when rating all levels of cities in China to compose the list.
Among the top ten of the list, Changzhou is the only second-tier city with a GDP less than a trillion yuan (about 142.2 billion U.S. dollars), while others ranked before it are all first-tier cities, including Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and Wuhan, which reflects that Changzhou has attached great importance to the new energy industry, said Rupert Hoogewerf, or Hu Run in Chinese, Chairman and Chief Researcher of Hurun Report.
Hu Run accredited the miracle to the "industrial ecology" of new energy constructed by Changzhou, which others cannot easily copy.
In recent years, Changzhou has seized the opportunities brought by new industries and the integration of digital and real economy, building an ecological framework with Changzhou characteristics. New energy has become a signature industry of Changzhou where more than 3,400 enterprises on the NEV industrial chain are located.
Chen Jinhu, Secretary of the CPC Changzhou Municipal Committee, noted that the city has made a development blueprint for the future of its new energy industry with two major goals. One is to realize over a trillion yuan of industrial output in the city's new energy sector by 2025, and the other is to achieve a market value of over a billion yuan in the sector in capital market during the same period.
The two-day expo witnessed agreements on 21 key projects with a total investment of 47 billion yuan, mostly covering new energy, industrial and energy internet, and digitalization. Two hundred products from 161 enterprises in numerous fields including new energy vehicles (NEVs) and intelligent manufacturing will stay virtually exhibited until Dec. 10 at the expo site.
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The addition of two key leaders will further enhance the company's business goals
PHOENIX, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fullscript, the leading care delivery platform for integrative medicine, has appointed Ninan Chacko, chief executive officer of Monotype, and Solmaz Shahalizadeh, founding partner of Backbone Angels, to the company's board of directors. As the first independent board members to join Fullscript, these two highly experienced leaders offer a wealth of knowledge and a dynamic background to advance the organization's growth strategy. This brings the total number of Fullscript board members to eight.
"It's an honor to have Ninan and Solmaz on our board," said Kyle Braatz, chief executive officer of Fullscript. "We were looking for individuals who had diverse perspectives, great leadership abilities, strong data and software experience, and vast knowledge of business development to strengthen our growth initiatives. We've more than succeeded in reaching this criteria."
Ninan has more than 20 years of global technology leadership experience. He has held executive positions at Travel Leaders Group, one of the largest retail, corporate, and entertainment travel companies in North America and the UK, along with PR Newswire, and Worldspan. Ninan brings his experience in digital acceleration and revenue generation to Fullscript.
"I am delighted to join Kyle and the talented team at Fullscript as they pioneer this innovative approach to integrative medicine," Ninan said. "I look forward to working with my board colleagues and the management team, drawing on my background in global technology leadership and strategic operations to support Fullscript's business goals."
As an executive, investor, and advisor in the technology and data space, Solmaz is well-versed in building companies and scaling businesses. She previously spent more than eight years as vice president and head of data at Shopify, building their entire portfolio of data and machine learning products, and overseeing a team of more than 500. Her extensive career also includes previous positions at Morgan Stanley and McGill University.
"Throughout my career, I have used technology to solve challenging problems and create new opportunities across multiple industries including healthcare and commerce," Solmaz said. "I'm thrilled to join Kyle and the Fullscript team and support them in their mission as they scale integrative medicine for everyone and tap into the power of data and machine learning to make it a reality."
To learn more about Fullscript, visit Fullscript.com.
Fullscript is a powerful care delivery platform for integrative medicine practitioners offering access to personalized treatment planning, ongoing wellness education, and healthcare's best supplements and wellness products. With over a decade of development and used by more than 70,000 healthcare professionals serving over 5 million patients, Fullscript delivers the scale, technology and expertise to support the growth of integrative medicine and delivery of high-quality care. For more information, visit Fullscript.com or follow Fullscript on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 10x Genomics (Nasdaq: TXG), a life sciences leader focused on mastering biology to advance human health, today announced it will report financial results for the first quarter 2023 after market close on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. The company will host a conference call and live webcast for analysts and investors beginning at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss its results, business developments and outlook. The news release with the financial results will be accessible from the company's website prior to the conference call.
Live audio of the webcast will be available on the "Investors" section of the company website at: www.10xgenomics.com. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 45 days after the event.
About 10x Genomics
10x Genomics is a life science technology company building products to interrogate, understand and master biology to advance human health. Our integrated solutions include instruments, consumables and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. 10x Genomics products have been adopted by researchers around the world including in all of the top 100 global research institutions as ranked by Nature in 2021 based on publications and all of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies by 2021 research and development spend and have been cited in over 4,500 research papers on discoveries ranging from oncology to immunology and neuroscience. Our patent portfolio comprises more than 1,750 issued patents and patent applications.
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It was an eventful week for the Chicago Sky with huge road victories over Connecticut and New York as well as a visit with former President Barack Obama.
The Sky went 2-1 on a three-game road trip, edging the Sun and Liberty after a close loss to Washington. Chicago was able to overcome the second triple-double of New York’s Sabrina Ionescu’s career with a last-second 3-pointer by Courtney Vandersloot.
Before embarking on the trip, the Sky spent about 20 minutes with Obama at his office in Chicago. The meeting was set up by the team’s ownership group.
“It was amazing. I know him from being from Illinois,” Candace Parker said. “The first time I met him I was like 14. To see him was cool. “
Chicago coach James Wade, one of three Black male head coaches in the WNBA, was moved by the meeting.
“Once he comes into the room you’re in awe” he said. “All these feelings come up since he changed the way you think. He gave you hope for what you can imagine and what your kids can imagine.
“All those come to light when he talks to you. Having that feeling there was something you can’t put into words.”
Wade and the players said Obama talked about many of their strengths and weaknesses.
“He knows the players. He told them how they play and what they do,” Wade said. “He’s not just a basketball guy, but he’s a WNBA fan. He’s a Chicago Sky fan. To know he watches us and knows our players is pretty cool.”
POWER POLL
This week’s WNBA poll:
1. Las Vegas (11-2): The Aces continue to be the class of the league with the dominant inside-outside combination of A’ja Wilson and Kelsey Plum.
2. Connecticut (10-4): The Sun play three games this week with matchups against Atlanta, Seattle and Washington. Connecticut is still looking to get more consistent on the defensive end without Jasmine Thomas (ACL).
3. Chicago (9-4): The Sky have won five of their last six games and Emma Meesseman has been a major reason why. The free agent signee averaged 17.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists last week.
4. Washington (9-6): The Mystics got a scare when Elena Delle Donne had her back tighten up in a win over Chicago. The team has been cautious with her return this season after she missed all of last year. In her absence, Myisha Hines-Allen stepped up to help fill the void.
5. Seattle (8-5): The Storm have been on a roll lately, winning three straight behind Breanna Stewart and Jewell Loyd. The two have combined to average over 47 points a game during the winning streak.
6. Atlanta (7-6): The Dream have dropped two in a row and have a challenging week ahead with road games against top teams Connecticut and Chicago.
7. Phoenix (5-8): Three straight wins have lifted the Mercury out of the bottom of the standings. Next up this week are games at Washington, Indiana and Dallas.
8. Dallas (6-7): The Wings have struggled at home this season going 1-4 and hope to change that when Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles all come to Dallas this week.
9. New York (5-9): Sabrina Ionescu has been a major reason for the Liberty’s success lately as they’ve gone 4-2 over their last six games. She’s averaging 24.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 6.5 assists during that span and tied the WNBA record with her second career triple-double on Sunday against Chicago.
10. Los Angeles (5-8): A coaching change didn’t immediately help the Sparks, who were routed in their lone game last week. Having some practice time under Fred Williams hopefully will help the Sparks get better on defense.
11. Indiana (4-12): The Fever snapped a five-game skid with a win over Minnesota thanks in part to No. 2 pick NaLyssa Smith. She’s been a bright spot for the team this season and is part of the talented young core the franchise is building around.
12. Minnesota (3-11): The Lynx lost center Sylvia Fowles indefinitely to a knee injury last week. Fowles is playing her final season in the WNBA this year.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Breanna Stewart of Seattle was voted the AP Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks. Stewart averaged 25.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists to help the Storm to three wins. Ionescu of New York and Wilson of Las Vegas also received votes.
HEARING ABOUT BRITTNEY
The Phoenix Mercury had a meeting with State Department officials on Monday to learn about the Biden administration’s effort to secure Brittney Griner’s release from Russia.
“Knowing the State Department at the highest level, from U.S President Joe Biden to the team that is working on bringing back all Americans who are wrongfully detained, gives us a lot of confidence that they’re working on it,” Mercury guard Diana Taurasi said in a release from the team.
DOCUMENTING HISTORY
A documentary (“Unfinished Business) about the New York Liberty debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday. The Liberty are the only remaining original WNBA franchise not to win a title. The film gave a behind-the-scenes look at last year’s team as well as splicing in footage and interviews with many former Liberty greats like Teresa Weatherspoon.
“It was great to be part of that film and spend a night out with this group,” Ionescu said on the red carpet before the premiere. “As the film title states we still have work to do.”
GAME OF THE WEEK:
Storm at Liberty, Sunday. The Storm visit New York in what is most likely Sue Bird’s final appearance in her hometown as a player. Bird has said that this will most likely be her final year in the WNBA.
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LUCASVILLE — Scioto Countians got their golden tickets punched on Thursday.
That ticket being their fair passes and a trip to the Scioto County Fairgrounds to see Noah Thompson — a Louisa, Ky. native and the winner of the 20th season of American Idol.
The 20-year-old said the performance was his first large-scale concert since winning American Idol earlier this year.
Thompson performed his version of Rihanna’s “Stay” that was released as a single, along with a host of other popular country tunes such as Chris Stapleton’s “Fire Away”.
Prior to winning American Idol, Thompson was a construction worker in his native Lawrence County — just 73 miles from Lucasville.
Thompson’s friend and co-worker Arthur was who signed the contest’s winner up for an audition without his knowledge. His performance of Kameron Marlowe’s “Giving You Up” at his audition drew high praise from judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan — earning him a spot in the next round in Hollywood.
Prior to the concert, Scioto County commissioners Kathy Coleman, Brian Davis, and Scottie Powell were introduced, along with the Scioto County Fair Board and Fair Queen and Court.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just over 20 years ago while on a recruiting trip to Pittsburgh, Bob Huggins collapsed at the airport while catching a flight home, awaking to find himself surrounded by strangers who were lifting him into an ambulance.
Then the coach at Cincinnati, Huggins drifted in and out of consciousness on the ride to the hospital, where doctors told the future Hall of Fame coach that he’d suffered a massive heart attack. Huggins wound up having a device implanted to help normalize his heartbeat, and he was told to make some lifestyle changes — exercise more, watch what he was eating, lose some weight and try to lower his stress level.
That last one? That might have been the toughest one.
Long days and longer nights, coupled with the increasingly high stakes of major college basketball, naturally put the health of coaches in peril. Huggins is just one of many who have dealt with issues over the years.
So when Huggins, now the coach at West Virginia, learned Thursday that longtime friend and Kansas counterpart Bill Self had gone to the emergency room ahead of the Big 12 Tournament — and subsequently admitted to the hospital for an undisclosed illness — he could relate in a way that struck him close to home.
“It comes to there are times when you don’t have any choice (but to slow down). And I went through that. I had no choice,” Huggins said, shortly after his Mountaineers were beaten by Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals.
“I was in the hospital with a whole bunch of tubes and somebody coming in, seeming like every 15 minutes, and sticking me with something,” he recalled. “You know, I want Bill to get well — I want to say as soon as he can, but really, I think what I need to say or mean to say is, I want him to come out of there the way he’s always been.”
Officials from Kansas have been short on details of what led Self to be admitted to the hospital late Wednesday. Dr. Steve Stites, the chief medical officer at the University of Kansas Health System, said in a statement that Self did not suffer a heart attack, which some outlets had reported, but that he had a procedure done.
The school initially said Self would miss the Jayhawks’ postseason opener with an illness, then announced Thursday night that he would miss the remainder of the Big 12 Tournament as well. The defending champion Jayhawks were due to play Iowa State on Friday night for a spot in the championship game.
Longtime assistant Norm Roberts intends to lead Kansas for as long as Self is out. Whether that will include the NCAA Tournament, where the Jayhawks are a likely No. 1 seed and also the defending champions, is entirely unknown.
“Coach is doing good,” Roberts said Thursday night. “I talked to him on the phone (after beating West Virginia). He’s doing well. He already wants to watch film and all of that. He’s doing well. He’s doing better.”
Whether the stress of the season — and playing in arguably the toughest league in college basketball — contributed to Self’s health problems is purely conjecture. But there have been plenty of examples that drive home the point that the profession, by its very nature, puts at risk those that demand the most from it.
Huggins is one of them. So is Skip Prosser. The Wake Forest coach suffered his own heart attack after taking a midday run in 2007, and was found slumped on his office couch and unresponsive; he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The stressful lifestyle isn’t exclusive to basketball, either. Football coach Urban Meyer has said on several occasions that the strain of the job has contributed to his health issues and accompanying leaves of absences and retirements.
“It brings to reality how short life is,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said.
Self is expected to make a full recovery, his doctors said, and the 60-year-old Hall of Fame coach could be in charge of the Jayhawks for years to come. His rolling contract basically gives him the freedom to decide when he hangs it up.
Only he knows when that will be. And what factors he will take into consideration.
“I’m sure at some point in time we’ll talk,” Huggins said. “He and I talk. I’ve been through those things and it’s not any fun. Especially, I think it would be really hard for Bill this time of year, because of them trying to make another run at a national championship, and him being in the state he’s in now. I think that would be very difficult for him.
“He’s a great competitor,” Huggins said. “A tremendous competitor.”
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How well do you know the Australian Open, which is scheduled to begin at Melbourne Park on Monday morning (Sunday night EST)? Try this AP quiz about the year’s first Grand Slam tennis tournament:
a.) Andreas Seppi
b.) Hyeon Chung
c.) Tennys Sandgren
d.) Kei Nishikori
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2nd Round: Barring an unexpected comeback by one or the other, 2023 will be the first tennis season since what year with neither Serena Williams nor Roger Federer participating in any Grand Slam tournament? (Bonus: Before 2022, when neither Williams or Federer reached at least the quarterfinals at any of the four majors, what was the last year that one or the other failed to do so?)
a.) 1997
b.) 1998
c.) 1999
d.) 2000
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3rd Round: In 2022, Ash Barty beat Danielle Collins in the Australian Open final to win the title without dropping a set. Barty, who would retire soon afterward at age 25, was the first Australian woman to win the country’s Grand Slam tournament since who? (Bonus: Who was the last Australian man to win the singles title there and when did he do it?)
a.) Wendy Turnbull
b.) Kerry Melville Reid
c.) Evonne Goolagong
d.) Chris O’Neil
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4th Round: Who has spent the most weeks at No. 1 since computerized tennis rankings were introduced in the 1970s? (Bonus: What is the record?)
a.) Novak Djokovic
b.) Steffi Graf
c.) Jimmy Connors
d.) Martina Navratilova
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Quarterfinals: Australian great Rod Laver is the only man to win a calendar-year Grand Slam twice. How many Australian Open singles titles did Laver win in all? (Bonus: Name the years for each one.)
a.) 3
b.) 4
c.) 5
d.) 6
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Semifinals: Of the past 10 women’s semifinals at Melbourne Park, how many were won by someone without a previous victory at that stage of the Australian Open? (Bonus: Name all of the semifinal winners in that span who HAD previously won a semifinal there — if there were any.)
a.) 3
b.) 7
c.) 9
d.) 10
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Women’s Final: How many women won at least one of the past 15 Australian Open singles titles? (Bonus: Name them.)
a.) 4
b.) 6
c.) 8
d.) 10
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Men’s Final: How many men have won at least one of the the past 15 Australian Open singles titles? (Bonus: Name them.)
a.) 4
b.) 6
c.) 8
d.) 10
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ANSWERS
1st Round. b. Djokovic’s most recent on-court setback at the Australian Open was a 7-6 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (3) loss to Hyeon Chung. Bonus: It happened in the fourth round in 2018, when Djokovic was dealing with a painful right elbow; he would soon have surgery.
2nd Round. a. Williams made her Grand Slam debut in 1998 and entered at least one major tournament every year until 2022, when she said she would be “evolving” away from her playing days after the U.S. Open. Federer’s first major came in 1999 and he participated in at least two — but usually all four — every season until 2020, when he only appeared at the Australian Open before a series of knee operations that hastened the end of his career. He played in two more Slams in 2021, then announced his retirement last September. Bonus: In 2006, Williams made it to the third round at the Australian Open and fourth round at the U.S. Open, while sitting out the French Open and Wimbledon because of pain in her left knee.
3rd Round. d. O’Neil won the 1978 Australian Open for her only Grand Slam singles trophy, defeating Betsy Nagelsen 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the final. O’Neil never made it past the second round on any other appearance at the Open — or past the third round at any other major tournament. Bonus: The most recent Australian man to win the singles championship at the Australian Open was Mark Edmondson, who beat countryman John Newcombe in four sets in the 1976 final.
4th Round. b. Bonus: Graf led the WTA for 377 weeks. Djokovic holds the ATP mark of 373.
Quarterfinals. a. Laver’s first major trophy came in his home country in 1960 and he also won in Australia in 1962 and 1969 as part of his two true Slams. Laver won Wimbledon four times and the French Open and U.S. Open twice apiece, for a total of 11 majors, but he missed out on a chance to add more during much of the 1960s because he turned professional before Grand Slam tournaments allowed pros to enter.
Semifinals. c. All but one of the past 10 women’s finalists at the Australian Open had never been there before. Bonus: The exception was Naomi Osaka, who was a first-timer in 2019, when she won the title, but of course was not when she returned to the championship match — and won it again — two years later.
Women’s Final. d. Since 2008, when Maria Sharapova won her Australian Open trophy, 10 different players have been the last woman standing at the hard-court tournament that opens each Grand Slam season. Bonus: The other champs in that span were Serena Williams (2009, 2010, 2015, 2017), Kim Clijsters (2011), Victoria Azarenka (2012, 2013), Li Na (2014), Angelique Kerber (2016), Caroline Wozniacki (2018), Naomi Osaka (2019, 2021), Sofia Kenin (2020) and Ash Barty (2022).
Men’s Final. a. Only four men have managed to claim the championship at Melbourne Park over the past 1 1/2 decades; indeed, that quartet’s dominant streak extends to 2006, when Roger Federer earned the second of his total haul of six Australian Open titles. Bonus: Federer’s other triumphs in the last 15 years were in 2007, 2010, 2017 and 2018. The other men’s trophies went to Djokovic (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021), Stan Wawrinka (2014) and Rafael Nadal (2009, 2022).
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Police: Attempt to exchange goods turned robbery in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Sioux Falls police report a person attempted to sell a phone and the potential buyer stole it.
Police spokesman Sam Clemens said the person who wanted to sell the phone found the potential buyer on Facebook. The two people agreed to meet at a gas station around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, when the potential buyer grabbed the phone, ran, and jumped into a car. The victim apparently saw a gun in the suspect’s car before it drove off.
Off. Clemens says the gun was not used or pointed at the victim and no injuries were sustained.
This is the second time this week that someone has been robbed in Sioux Falls while meeting a buyer through online interactions.
A safer way to exchange goods
Off. Clemens suggests that if citizens are going to exchange goods with someone they came in contact with over social media, or with strangers in general, the Law Enforcement Center has designated areas for such meetings.
At the very least, Off. Clemens says that the LEC offers a secure location with surveillance footage, and should a crime occur, police officers and cameras are everywhere.
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A limited-edition collection including a beverage bag, glass straws, embroidered napkins, and beaded coasters inspired by the iconic varietals launches today
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Tis the season for festive gatherings and gorgeous gifts. Ketel One Botanical and popular New York City-based designer, Susan Alexandra, are partnering for the second time to create a botanical-inspired collection that offers dazzling entertaining solutions, delightful host gifts, and bespoke accessories to elevate holiday occasions all winter long. Fans of both brands can get their hands on the charming collection beginning today, giving holiday hosts plenty of time to plan their perfect seasonal celebration.
As Susan Alexandra continues to expand beyond fashion and into lifestyle and decor, this collaboration with Ketel One Botanical is perfectly suited to bring inspired entertaining into homes across the country, and provide playful adornments for the bright and bubbly Botanical Spritz. The latest collection also represents a long-standing partnership between the two brands, which have collaborated to bring consumers delightful drinks accessories and spritz-worthy experiences over the years.
The Ketel One Botanical x Susan Alexandra holiday collection includes hand-blown glass straws, delicately embroidered napkins, beaded coasters, and the centerpiece of the collection, the Beverage Bag - a Susan Alexandra fan favorite that has been refreshed to fit a bottle of Ketel One Botanical to bring along as a host gift. All of these original items are available in colorways and designs inspired by the three award-winning Ketel One Botanical varietals - Grapefruit & Rose, Cucumber & Mint, and Peach & Orange Blossom.
"We're delighted to work with Susan Alexandra on this very special collection," says Olivia Kupfer, Director, Ketel One. "Everything she creates is brimming with elevated charm and joy, and is a beautiful complement to Ketel One Botanical's equally effervescent serve - the Ketel One Botanical Spritz. With the holidays nearly upon us, the coming months will be full of gatherings with friends and loved ones, making it the perfect time to toast with a sensational sip that is an upgrade from a typical glass of wine or bubbly."
When making cocktails the star of an event or stuffing a stocking with something fun and unique, The Ketel One Botanical x Susan Alexandra holiday collection offers a spirited solution for anyone's holiday needs.
- Botanical Bag - Move over, dusty wine bag! Featuring the beautiful hues plucked from the Ketel One Botanical varietals, this fabulous bag is designed to carry a bottle anywhere over the holidays. Give it for the best hostess gift ever or sport it as the chicest accessory to a festive look ($285)
- Perfect Sip Straws - Add a delicate flourish and pop of color to a spritz, whether enjoying in a perfectly chilled glass or taking a nightcap on-the-go in a can. Handblown in the USA, these straws showcase the signature details of the Ketel One Botanical varietals - miniature glass peaches, orange blossoms, roses, grapefruit slices, cucumber and mint (set of 3 for $118)
- Spritz Napkins - Elevate any holiday tablescape with these charming embroidered cocktail napkins that are all at once classic, delightful and fresh (set of 4 for $88)
- Beady Botanical Coasters - Freshly harvested and always in season, this fruity and floral foursome of coasters provides the perfect seat for a flavorful Botanical Spritz, featuring beaded cucumber, peach, rose and grapefruit motifs (set of 4 for $128)
Susan Korn, Founder and Creative Director of Susan Alexandra says, "I am so inspired by the beautiful, thoughtful and delicious Ketel One Botanical varietals and was so excited to design and create these pieces. I love that this collection fully embodies the joy of the holiday season and adds sparkle to an already magical time of year."
No Beverage Bag would be complete without a bottle of Ketel One Botanical, which is available for purchase at local liquor stores or straight to doors on drizly.com. Whether hosting or being hosted, Ketel One reminds consumers 21+ to drink responsibly.
As Ketel One Botanical is proud to partner with a woman-owned business throughout the season of giving, they will also be making a $10,000 donation in honor of the collection’s launch to Ladies Who Launch. The organization’s mission is to celebrate, elevate and empower a global community of women and non-binary small business owners and entrepreneurs to grow and sustain the businesses of their dreams.
The collection is available now nationwide and exclusively on susanalexandra.com. For more information, cocktail and holiday entertaining inspiration, visit @ketelonebotanical and @susan_alexandra.
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Ketel One Botanical is a first-of-its kind spirit made from vodka distilled with real botanicals and infused with natural fruit and botanical essences. Made with 100% non-GMO grain, this 30% ABV spirit is an exceptionally smooth, fresh-tasting drink with no carbs, no artificial flavors, no added sugar and no artificial sweeteners. Ketel One Botanical is available nationwide in three varietals: Peach & Orange Blossom, Cucumber & Mint, and Grapefruit & Rose, at your local spirits retailer for a suggested retail price of $24.99 per 750ml bottle. With Ketel One Botanical now offering inspirations of its signature spritz serve in multiple formats, there is something for everyone to enjoy anytime, anywhere. For those looking to inject some creativity and personalization into their cocktail, the Ketel One Botanical Spritz is made simply with a chosen varietal, sparkling water, and any fresh herb or citrus garnish, built over ice in a chilled wine glass. For moments when convenience is key, consumers can enjoy the Ketel One Botanical Vodka Spritz – a premium canned offering inspired by the beloved cocktail at 4.5% ABV, recently enhanced with more flavor essence and effervescence. For more information please visit www.ketelonebotanical.com.
Susan Alexandra is a New York City-based brand founded by Susan Korn. With an emphasis on elevating experiences, the core belief is that every single thing in life should be dazzling, rich with color and joy evoking. Initially launching as a jewelry brand, in the past years Susan Alexandra has expanded into widely celebrated beaded bags seen on celebrities and on the arms of cool tastemakers across the globe. Each piece is lovingly made by hand in New York City. The collaboration with Ketel One Botanical marks the brand's first foray into the home sphere.
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Bryan Norcross: Hurricane season starts with tropical depression in Gulf and big question about El Nino
The spin in the air aloft induced a low-pressure system at the surface that found a small patch of marginally conducive atmosphere that allowed it to organize enough to be called a depression. But could tropical systems be limited this year with El Nino's increased wind shear? Or will the super-warmed Atlantic waters overcome the disadvantage?
MIAMI – Tropical Depression TWO formed out of a disturbance in the northern Gulf of Mexico that was initially triggered by a sharp dip in the jet stream.
The spin in the air aloft induced a low-pressure system at the surface that found a small patch of marginally conducive atmosphere that allowed it to organize enough to be called a depression. (An oddball storm formed back in January in the North Atlantic that took the ONE spot.)
The difference between a tropical depression, which has winds of less than 40 mph, and a tropical storm with winds of 40 mph or higher is a fine line. If the upper-level winds let up just briefly, the system could become Tropical Storm Arlene, but it won’t make any difference.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TROPICAL DEPRESSION VS. TROPICAL STORM VS. HURRICANE?
As the system tracks to the south through the Gulf, the upper winds will become increasingly hostile, which should start to rip the circulation apart late Friday. The National Hurricane Center is forecasting the system to dissipate by late Saturday.
The thunderstorms associated with Tropical Depression Two, or Tropical Storm Arlene if it briefly becomes that, are confined to the Gulf of Mexico. The circulation around the system is pulling excess tropical moisture over the Florida peninsula. That moisture, combined with the dip in the jet stream over the Gulf, will trigger extra-heavy thunderstorms again Friday. As a result, the National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for part of the state.
By late Saturday, both the depression, or what’s left of it, and the extra-heavy-rain ingredients will move into the Atlantic, and a more typical June weather pattern will take over in Florida.
Tug of war to determine Atlantic Hurricane Season's fate
Hurricane Season began Thursday, of course. Colorado State University forecasters updated their seasonal forecast by increasing the numbers slightly. The thinking about the season is the same, however.
The equatorial Pacific waters south of Hawaii are forecast to warm, which causes hostile upper winds over the Atlantic, which normally limit storm development. The phenomenon is called an El Niño. At the same time, the tropical Atlantic is exceptionally warm, which means systems will have more fuel to develop.
EL NINO, CLIMATE CHANGE TO LIKELY MAKE NEXT 5 YEARS HOTTEST RECORDED ON EARTH, WMO SAYS
It comes down to which force will be stronger. If the Pacific waters warm dramatically, the hostile winds will likely limit the number of systems that can develop, even with the extra Atlantic energy. But if the Pacific ends up only moderately warm, the excess Atlantic heat might overcome the negative effects of a modest El Niño.
It’s like a tug of war. And since we don’t know if one or the other will win, the forecasts for this hurricane season have been more-or-less right down the middle – close to average.
WHAT ARE EL NINO AND LA NINA CLIMATE PATTERNS?
Even if the storm-squashing El Niño is strong, however. The hostile winds can briefly let up enough for a powerful hurricane to form. And in general, the El Niño has the least effect on storms developing in the Gulf of Mexico.
So regardless of the forecast, it’s up to everybody in the hurricane zone to have their plans in place and stay informed. | https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/bryan-norcross-hurricane-season-starts-tropical-depression-gulf-el-nino | 2023-06-02 18:00:17 | 0 | https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/bryan-norcross-hurricane-season-starts-tropical-depression-gulf-el-nino |
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) — Monmouth University has hired Clive Bentick as an assistant coach.
Coach King Rice announced the hiring Wednesday. Bentick spent the past 15 seasons at St. Francis in New York City.
“Clive is a guy that could be a head coach right now," Rice said. “He’s one of the most respected recruiters on the East Coast. He was a great player at Canisius, he knows the game and had a great run on the staff at St. Francis Brooklyn.”
Bentick has more than 20 seasons of Division I basketball experience, and helped lead the Terriers to two national postseason tournaments. The 2014-15 team won 23 games en route to the NEC regular season crown and a berth in the NIT for the first time since 1963. He also helped the team to the 2019 CIT after a 17-win season.
Bentick joins Brian Reese as new hires on the men’s staff.
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NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — ExlService Holdings Inc. (EXLS) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $31.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 94 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.56 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.47 per share.
The provider of outsourcing services posted revenue of $374.7 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $361.1 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $143 million, or $4.23 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.41 billion.
ExlService Holdings expects full-year earnings in the range of $6.60 to $6.80 per share, with revenue in the range of $1.56 billion to $1.6 billion.
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More than three months after Patrick Holland's first shot at getting a heart transplant was ruined by winter weather that upended his travel and prevented him from getting to the Washington state hospital in time, the Alaska man has been given a second chance.Video above: Doctors warn heart attack deaths in young people have gone up dramatically in the last three yearsThe father of seven is among the thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest whose flights were canceled or redirected in December as severe storms swept through the region. But even after his airline jumped through hoops to reschedule Holland on subsequent flights, they were all canceled. The heart transplant was given to somebody else.Determined to not miss his next opportunity, Holland temporarily relocated from his home near Fairbanks, Alaska, to live near the transplant hospital in Seattle, Washington, so he could be available at a moment's notice. There, he was staying with a family who heard about his story on the news.In the passing months, a few hearts became available for Holland, who has congestive heart failure, but none of them were viable. Finally, a fifth call came last week alerting Holland to a potential transplant, and everything fell into place."It really didn't feel real until he told me, 'They told me I have like 20 minutes to say goodbye because we're going in for intubation,' and then a nurse came into the room, and he had to hang up," Holland's wife, Haley Holland, told CNN. When her husband called back, the couple had just seconds to speak before he had to go again."I barely had time to tell him that I loved him," said Holland, who has been documenting the family's transplant journey on Facebook. She and her children flew down to Seattle to be with Patrick after the surgery on Friday.Haley Holland has been giving each potential donor, whose names are not typically shared with their organ recipients, an imagined name of her own.Her husband is now recovering at the University of Washington Medical Center with a heart transplant from the donor she has dubbed "Andrew.""Number five — Andrew, as we affectionately call this donor unless we become blessed enough to find out his true name — was the perfect one," Haley Holland wrote in a Facebook post.In the days since the transplant, Haley Holland has felt and listened to her husband's new heartbeat."It feels like a miracle," she told CNN, adding that with the help of a nurse, she first felt her husband's new heartbeat through a pulse on his foot. On Saturday, she used a stethoscope to hear the beating."It just makes you cry because this isn't the heart that he was born with. It's not the heart that he spent 57 years with. This is someone else's heart. And so it's very touching and it's miraculous that Patrick now has this new heart that he'll be able to enjoy life with."Video below: After receiving new hearts, two men share a brotherly bondThough the surgery was successful, Patrick Holland's recovery is just beginning. In a Tuesday Facebook update, his wife said he has been able to stand but still has uncomfortable IV ports and extreme nausea that is making eating difficult.Haley Holland has created a GoFundMe to support the family's expenses following the surgery.As her husband recovers, Haley Holland's thoughts have also been with his heart donor."Remembering that this is Andrew's heart and that someone had to pay the ultimate price," she said. "Someone had to make an enormous sacrifice in order for this miracle to happen. So, it's a very emotional thing, feeling the pulse or listening to the heart."Patrick Holland told CNN in December that he had a "massive heart attack at 29" followed by a series of heart-related complications. He said he dreamed of keeping up with his children, who then ranged in age from 3 to 36.Following the transplant, Haley Holland said her husband is thankful."Even in the worst times he will look at me and he'll say, 'It was worth it,'" she said.
More than three months after Patrick Holland's first shot at getting a heart transplant was ruined by winter weather that upended his travel and prevented him from getting to the Washington state hospital in time, the Alaska man has been given a second chance.
Video above: Doctors warn heart attack deaths in young people have gone up dramatically in the last three years
The father of seven is among the thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest whose flights were canceled or redirected in December as severe storms swept through the region. But even after his airline jumped through hoops to reschedule Holland on subsequent flights, they were all canceled. The heart transplant was given to somebody else.
Determined to not miss his next opportunity, Holland temporarily relocated from his home near Fairbanks, Alaska, to live near the transplant hospital in Seattle, Washington, so he could be available at a moment's notice. There, he was staying with a family who heard about his story on the news.
In the passing months, a few hearts became available for Holland, who has congestive heart failure, but none of them were viable.
Hearst Owned
Patrick Holland temporarily moved to Seattle, Washington, so he could be available for a transplant at a moment’s notice. (Courtesy of Patrick Holland via CNN)
Finally, a fifth call came last week alerting Holland to a potential transplant, and everything fell into place.
"It really didn't feel real until he told me, 'They told me I have like 20 minutes to say goodbye because we're going in for intubation,' and then a nurse came into the room, and he had to hang up," Holland's wife, Haley Holland, told CNN. When her husband called back, the couple had just seconds to speak before he had to go again.
"I barely had time to tell him that I loved him," said Holland, who has been documenting the family's transplant journey on Facebook. She and her children flew down to Seattle to be with Patrick after the surgery on Friday.
Haley Holland has been giving each potential donor, whose names are not typically shared with their organ recipients, an imagined name of her own.
Her husband is now recovering at the University of Washington Medical Center with a heart transplant from the donor she has dubbed "Andrew."
"Number five — Andrew, as we affectionately call this donor unless we become blessed enough to find out his true name — was the perfect one," Haley Holland wrote in a Facebook post.
In the days since the transplant, Haley Holland has felt and listened to her husband's new heartbeat.
"It feels like a miracle," she told CNN, adding that with the help of a nurse, she first felt her husband's new heartbeat through a pulse on his foot. On Saturday, she used a stethoscope to hear the beating.
"It just makes you cry because this isn't the heart that he was born with. It's not the heart that he spent 57 years with. This is someone else's heart. And so it's very touching and it's miraculous that Patrick now has this new heart that he'll be able to enjoy life with."
Video below: After receiving new hearts, two men share a brotherly bond
Though the surgery was successful, Patrick Holland's recovery is just beginning. In a Tuesday Facebook update, his wife said he has been able to stand but still has uncomfortable IV ports and extreme nausea that is making eating difficult.
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Patrick Holland received a heart transplant on March 31 after four potential donor organs fell through.
Haley Holland has created a GoFundMe to support the family's expenses following the surgery.
As her husband recovers, Haley Holland's thoughts have also been with his heart donor.
"Remembering that this is Andrew's heart and that someone had to pay the ultimate price," she said. "Someone had to make an enormous sacrifice in order for this miracle to happen. So, it's a very emotional thing, feeling the pulse or listening to the heart."
Patrick Holland told CNN in December that he had a "massive heart attack at 29" followed by a series of heart-related complications. He said he dreamed of keeping up with his children, who then ranged in age from 3 to 36.
Following the transplant, Haley Holland said her husband is thankful.
"Even in the worst times he will look at me and he'll say, 'It was worth it,'" she said. | https://www.wtae.com/article/alaska-man-heart-transplant-after-missing-first-due-to-severe-weather/43514246 | 2023-04-07 03:55:41 | 1 | https://www.wtae.com/article/alaska-man-heart-transplant-after-missing-first-due-to-severe-weather/43514246 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced Thursday.
In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden was experiencing "very mild symptoms" and has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral therapy recently been approved to reduce the severity of the disease.
Biden, 79, is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, the last of which he received March 30. His last test prior was Tuesday, when he tested negative, she said.
This is believed to be the first time Biden has tested positive for COVID since the pandemic began.
Biden's doctor described in a memo that the president began experiencing symptoms Wednesday night which includes a "runny nose," fatigue and an "occasional dry cough."
Dr. Kevin O'Connor explained that the positive test occurred during the routine screening program for the president and the antigen test result was later confirmed via PCR testing.
White House policy dictates that anybody who tests positive for COVID should isolate themselves until they test negative.
The White House confirmed the president had been in contact with staff members by phone and will participate in meetings via phone and zoom from the White House's residential areas.
Once the president tests negative, he will return to in-person work.
Jean-Pierre said there would be daily updates about Biden's status until he recovers.
The president's COVID-19 diagnosis comes one day after he visited Massachusetts for a speech on the effects of climate change. During his remarks, Biden seemingly indicated that he has cancer, but the White House quickly clarified the president was referring to a previous diagnosis before his presidency.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is visiting Charlotte on Thursday, tested negative for COVID-19 and was last with Biden on Tuesday, a White House official said. The vice president had her own bout with COVID in April.
Biden isn't the first president to contract the virus during his presidency. Former president Donald Trump tested positive for the virus in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was taken to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he spent several days receiving treatment.
Up to this point, Biden’s ability to avoid the virus seemed to defy the odds, even with the testing procedures in place for those expected to be in close contact with him. Prior waves of the virus swept through Washington’s political class, infecting Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet members, White House staffers and lawmakers. Biden has increasingly stepped up his travel schedule and resumed holding large indoor events where not everyone is tested.
Top White House officials in recent months have been matter-of-fact about the likelihood of the president getting COVID, a measure of how engrained the virus has become in society — and of its diminished threat for those who are up to date on their vaccinations and with access to treatments.
White House statement on President Biden's COVID-19 diagnosis:
This morning, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms. He has begun taking Paxlovid. Consistent with CDC guidelines, he will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time. He has been in contact with members of the White House staff by phone this morning, and will participate in his planned meetings at the White House this morning via phone and Zoom from the residence.
Consistent with White House protocol for positive COVID cases, which goes above and beyond CDC guidance, he will continue to work in isolation until he tests negative. Once he tests negative, he will return to in-person work.
Out of an abundance of transparency, the White House will provide a daily update on the President’s status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation.
Per standard protocol for any positive case at the White House, the White House Medical Unit will inform all close contacts of the President during the day today, including any Members of Congress and any members of the press who interacted with the President during yesterday’s travel. The President’s last previous test for COVID was Tuesday, when he had a negative test result. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/white-house-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19/507-20243fa3-4c9b-41e3-b105-b1dcd10e9e55 | 2022-07-21 15:50:13 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/white-house-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19/507-20243fa3-4c9b-41e3-b105-b1dcd10e9e55 |
DALLAS (AP) — Three people were killed and eight others injured when several men fired indiscriminately into a crowd of hundreds that had gathered in a Texas neighborhood following a festival in the area, authorities said Tuesday.
No arrests have yet been made or suspects identified in the shooting at about 11:47 p.m. Monday in the Fort Worth neighborhood of Como, police said. Police said none of the injured are suspects in the shooting.
The shooting erupted about two hours after the end of the Independence Day celebration called ComoFest in the historically Black neighborhood. That celebration had been held in a park a several blocks away from the area where the shots were fired.
Police said Tuesday that the shooting on Horne Street, where a large crowd had gathered, was “separate from and unrelated to ComoFest.”
A chaotic scene followed the shooting as people tried to flee on foot and in vehicles as shots rang out, according to authorities.
Police said arriving officers found multiple victims in a parking lot, including one who was pronounced dead at the scene. Others were taken to hospitals by ambulance or private vehicles.
Paul Willis, 18, was among those killed, this mother, Ka’Desha Weatherly, told The Dallas Morning News. Weatherly told the newspaper that after hearing what sounded like 100 gunshots late Monday, she began running down the street to find her son and nephews. She found her nephews but not her son. She said she hadn’t realized that she’d run past his body.
Cynthia Santos, 22, was also killed, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office, which said she died at a hospital early Tuesday.
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said she was “devastated” by the news of the shooting.
“My heart breaks for the victims, their loved ones, and the entire Como community that works to build positivity and celebration in their community and our city,” Parker said on Twitter.
One of the 11 victims is a juvenile, police said.
The ComoFest celebration had been held in a park a several blocks away from where the shots were fired. Following the inaugural celebration in 2021, eight people were shot and wounded near a car wash in the area.
The neighborhood also has been holding an annual Fourth of July parade for more than 70 years. On Tuesday morning, people gathered for the parade along the street where the shooting had occurred the night before.
Weatherly was among those attending the parade. She sat in the spot where her son was killed, a bouquet of flowers next to her folding chair.
She told the Morning News that her son, who worked nearly every day at a McDonald’s, had recently graduated from high school and planned to become an electrician.
“He was a beautiful young man,” Weatherly said. “He did everything right. He did not deserve to die.”
Authorities haven’t released the identity of the third person killed.
In Philadelphia on Monday right, a heavily armed gunman in a bulletproof vest opened fire on the city’s streets, killing five people and wounding two boys before surrendering, police there said. On Sunday in Baltimore, two people were killed and 28 others were wounded in a shooting at a holiday weekend block party. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-shooting-after-local-festival-leaves-three-dead-and-eight-injured-in-texas-police-say/ | 2023-07-05 04:26:34 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-shooting-after-local-festival-leaves-three-dead-and-eight-injured-in-texas-police-say/ |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
08-09-11-12-25
(eight, nine, eleven, twelve, twenty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $171,000
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California-based Peak 1031 Exchange encourages taxpayers to speak with an advisor to determine if they qualify for 1031 exchange deadline extensions.
LOS ANGELES, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The IRS has extended the 45-day and 180-day 1031 exchange deadlines for eligible taxpayers. Those who qualify will now have an extended General Postponement date of October 16, 2023 to find a replacement property and close on their 1031 exchange transaction.
"This is an unprecedented opportunity for eligible taxpayers who are either in the middle of an exchange, or are seeking to open an exchange in the near future," says Kevin M. Levine, Partner and Executive Vice President at Peak 1031 Exchange (peakexchange.com). "Exchangers who qualify now have more time to complete their transaction. That being said, it's important to talk with a tax advisor, as well as a qualified intermediary like Peak 1031 Exchange, to determine the best path forward for one's specific transaction."
For the disaster proclamation beginning December 27, 2022, the postponement includes: Alameda, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Merced, Monterey, Placer, Sacramento, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Trinity, Tulare, Ventura, and Yolo counties.
For the disaster proclamation beginning January 8, 2023, the postponement includes Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Kings, Lake, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Ventura, Yolo, and Yuba counties.
The Covered Disaster Area is the counties listed above. Affected Taxpayers include individuals who live and businesses whose principal place of business is located in the Covered Disaster Area, regardless of where the relinquished or replacement property is located. Taxpayers who do not meet the definition of Affected Taxpayers do not qualify for Section 6 General Postponement relief.
Affected Taxpayers have two options: General Postponement under Section 6 of Rev. Proc. 2018-58, which postpones any 45-day or 180-day deadline falling on or after the Disaster Date to the General Postponement date, or Section 17 Alternative, available to Affected Taxpayers and other taxpayers who have difficulty meeting the exchange deadlines.
The second option is only available if the relinquished property was transferred on or before the Disaster Date, and extends any 45-day or 180-day deadline falling on or after the Disaster Date to the longer of 120 days from such deadline or the General Postponement Date. It's important to note, the 10/16/23 date cannot be extended beyond one year or the due date of the tax return for the year of the disposition of the relinquished property.
For more information, taxpayers may review Revenue Procedure 2018-58, Section 17, and the Notices at https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-relief-in-disaster-situations.
Peak 1031 Exchange does not provide legal or tax advice. Always consult your tax or legal advisor regarding your specific transaction.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has sold its remaining share of a streaming service technology company to the Walt Disney Co. for $900 million.
The sale was disclosed Tuesday in Walt Disney Co.'s annual filing report through the SEC. MLB received the $900 million in exchange for the 15% stake it still had in a company called BAMTech, which originally started as MLB Advanced Media in 2000.
The technology helped MLB become a leader in sports streaming in the 2000s.
Walt Disney Co. has been buying chunks of BAMTech for the past five years and now owns 100% of the company. The National Hockey League sold its 10% share of BAMTech to Walt Disney Co. for a reported $350 million in 2021.
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Each share of planet-warming emissions bought and sold in Washington’s forthcoming carbon market will cost between $22 and $81, the state announced Thursday.
The final price of each credit will be determined by demand in next year’s emission-allowance auctions, a key program in Washington’s efforts to eliminate carbon pollution from its biggest industries.
But, “Everybody pays the same price for allowances,” said Claire Boyte-White, a spokesperson for the Department of Ecology, the state agency charged with the program’s implementation and regulation.
The Climate Commitment Act and its carbon-pricing scheme is one of three major climate policies taking effect in Washington early next year. The state’s ability to decarbonize by 2050, and take advantage of federal support to fight climate change, relies heavily on how seamlessly these laws mesh.
Final preparations are being made in the rules and operations of the state’s carbon-pricing program, the country’s second of its kind and a centerpiece of the CCA, which kicks off on Jan. 1.
The first auction for emission allowances will be held in late February. The exact dates and how many allowances will be up for grabs will be announced in December. A practice auction will be held in January.
Quarterly auctions will be held in February, May, August and November.
Account registration for the auction platform is underway and training on how to use it will begin next week.
Under the CCA, each credit, or “emission allowance,” represents 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The allowances are bought and sold in auctions, but over time the number of available allowances will be incrementally decreased.
The resulting price increase is supposed to wean polluters off fossil fuels and incentivize investments in clean energy.
The program’s revenue, which will be allocated by the state Legislature, is to be spent on operation costs then invested in vulnerable communities, Indigenous tribes and conservation projects.
The program was originally projected to bring in $220 million the first year, then $500 million annually in subsequent years until 2040. In October, those estimates were revised. Now the state expects to collect $480 million next year, and almost a billion in both 2024 and 2025.
The CCA covers 75% of statewide emissions.
Under the law, nearly 100 of the state’s biggest polluters are required to reduce emissions 45% below 1990 levels by 2030, and to eliminate or offset them completely by 2050.
Almost half of those emitters will be given emission allowances at little or no cost for at least the next 12 years, a concession critics say cripples the impact of an already controversial climate solution.
The CCA aims to decarbonize entrenched sources of industrial pollution, while the 2019 Clean Energy Transition Act looks to remove greenhouse gases from the state’s electricity. The Clean Fuel Standard, the final rules for which were adopted Monday, targets the carbon intensity of fuels in the transportation industry, which accounts for the largest portion of statewide and global carbon emissions.
Still, carbon markets are ambitious but aggressive and often garner as much opposition as they do support.
Voters in Washington have rejected twice each a carbon tax and cap-and-invest. Still lawmakers passed the trio of major climate policies taking effect next year.
During a hearing Friday, the Senate Environment, Energy and Technology Committee convened to discuss final steps before the laws kick in, and how these overlapping policies will interact with each other.
“We can grow and we can do it with a lighter touch upon the Earth,” Committee Chair Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, said during the hearing. “We need to make sure that that interconnectedness of those policies is supportive of meaningful decarbonization in the years to come.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/wa-sets-price-limits-for-new-carbon-trading-market/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-12-03 01:24:30 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/wa-sets-price-limits-for-new-carbon-trading-market/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
01-09-16-18-35
(one, nine, sixteen, eighteen, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
01-09-16-18-35
(one, nine, sixteen, eighteen, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17737431.php | 2023-01-24 06:20:27 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17737431.php |
Fast-growing division continues expansion and bullishness on the housing market
PORTLAND, Ore., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Churchill Mortgage, an industry leader providing conventional, FHA, VA and USDA residential mortgages across 49 states and the District of Columbia, continues its expansion across the Pacific Northwest with the appointment of Kelly Lee as Senior Vice President of Production for the Northwest region. Lee will oversee the rapidly growing PNW division, including all production across the region's 30 branches.
With more than 20 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Lee brings a wealth of knowledge to the table through an impressive track record of continual market growth and senior positions at noteworthy companies, including EVP, Divisional Manager at PrimeLending. In this role, Lee was able to grow PrimeLending's West Coast presence over the course of seven years from $280 million to $3.1 billion, eventually leading to a role expansion that allowed him to oversee the management of $7.25 billion. Prior to PrimeLending, Lee was Vice President of Sales and EVP for a regional mortgage company and is a U.S. Army veteran.
"In addition to being a natural servant leader with a proven track record of developing profitable branches in the Pacific Northwest, Kelly has been a longtime mentor to me since I first started out in this business," said Kevin J. Hanna, President of the Churchill Mortgage Pacific Northwest Region. "He's an undeniable asset to the team with his attention to detail, knack for collaborative problem solving and dedication to a people-centric culture. We're assembling the dream team to create something that hasn't been seen or done before in the mortgage industry. Our people over profits approach, commitment to debt-free homeownership and creation of a truly revolutionary platform will propel us to the top as we keep our clients and customers top-of-mind."
The PNW division started in 2019 with just a single office in Portland and four team members. Now, the branch has grown to over 30 locations with 150 teammates across seven states, boasting a diverse mix of industry veterans and rising stars that are ingrained in their local communities. While the rest of the mortgage industry appears to be retreating, Churchill continues to move in the opposite direction, hitting record numbers and targeting high growth projections.
"Many mortgage companies are having a difficult time right now weathering market headwinds, but Churchill, especially on the West Coast, is moving in the opposite trajectory," said Jeff Miller, Vice President of the Churchill Mortgage Northwest Region. "Business is booming and we're fully invested in growing our team and our regional presence as we enhance our customer service capabilities. Prospective buyers have quickly recognized that Churchill's process-oriented approach puts them in the best position for long-term financial growth and stability. We're building something different here and we're proud of what we've been able to accomplish thus far."
Headquartered in Portland, the PNW division has branches in several markets across the region, including Astoria, Ore.; Lake Oswego, Ore.; Bend, Ore.; Spokane, Wash.; Battle Ground, Wash.; Auburn, Wash.; Tri Cities, Wash.; Boise, Idaho; Orem, Utah; Las Vegas, Nev.; Kihei, Hawaii; and Anchorage, Alaska. The company offers a debt reduction program for all employees and has partnered with charitable organizations throughout its geographic footprint, including Hunger Fighters, The Oregon Food Bank, Sackcloth & Ashes, With Love, Meg's Moments for Life Jackets, Shepherd's House Ministries and Youth Music Project.
Founded in 1992, Churchill Mortgage is a privately-owned company by its more than 800 teammates. A full-service and financially sound leader in the mortgage industry, the company provides conventional, FHA, VA and USDA residential mortgages across 49 states and the District of Columbia. As heard on personal finance expert and author Dave Ramsey's nationally syndicated radio show, the lender's mission is to help borrowers achieve debt-free homeownership and build wealth through a smarter mortgage plan, regardless of their starting point. Churchill Mortgage is a wholly owned subsidiary of Churchill Holdings, Inc.
Churchill Mortgage's notable achievements include recognitions as a "National Top Workplace", "Top Lender" by Scotsman Guide: Residential, an eight-time "Top Workplace" by The Tennessean, one of the "Best Mortgage Companies to Work For" by National Mortgage News and a "Fast 50" company, "Top 100 Private Company" and "Best in Business" by the Nashville Business Journal. For more information about Churchill Mortgage, visit churchillmortgage.com or follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter @ChurchillMtg, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook.
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LONDON, ON, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Voices, the world's leading voice over marketplace, announced today the launch of #VoiceMyValentine, a Valentine's Day campaign giving lovers and friends the opportunity to send a Valentine's Day message read by a professional voice actor.
This Valentine's Day, Voices will send a professionally voiced valentine's message on behalf of ten lucky winners. A written message will be submitted by the sender, and professional voice actors from Voices will bring those words to life. Those entering the contest will be able to submit the exact message they want to send and their loved ones will get that personalized, professionally read message on Valentine's day.
"We wanted to put a fun spin on the classic Valentine's Day love note," says Tara Parachuk, Manager, Communications at Voices. "We have so many talented voice actors on the platform, and what better way to celebrate the day than to lean on the incredible talent we have in our community."
Submissions will be open from February 1 to February 8, 2023 at 10pm. Winners will be notified on February 13, and audio files of messages will be shared on February 14. Anyone interested in submitting a message for a chance at having it read can enter at www.voices.com/voice-my-valentine.
About Voices
Voices is the world's #1 voice marketplace, with over 2 million registered users. Since 2005, the biggest and most beloved brands have entrusted Voices to help them find professionals to bring their projects to life. Headquartered in London, Canada, Voices helps match clients with voice over, music, audio production, and translation professionals in over 160 countries and 100+ languages and dialects.
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Keokuk built a comfortable first-quarter advantage in a 64-20 win over Chicago Clark on January 2 in Illinois girls high school basketball action.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bed & Bath & Beyond will live on, online at least, after Overstock.com acquired the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million.
The online retailer Overstock.com is dumping its name online and will become Bed & Bath & Beyond, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year. Overstock.com’s CEO Jonathan Johnson told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Thursday that the company is considering changing its corporate name but won’t make any decisions until after it digests the assets.
The switcheroo to a very recognizable brand was cheered on Wall Street. Shares of Overstock.com Inc., based in Midvale, Utah, soared nearly 20% during afternoon trading Thursday.
The deal doesn’t include Bed Bath & Beyond stores, the last of which are expected to be shuttered Friday, or the Buybuy Baby chain.
The name change will roll out in Canada next month and in August, a relaunch of the company’s website and mobile app as Bed Bath & Beyond will appear in the U.S. Those visiting overstock.com will be redirected to bedbathandbeyond.com.
The name Overstock still confuses some customers and suppliers who thought it was a liquidator. That’s how it got its start in 1999. It transformed in 2004 into a general merchandise retailer, selling a wide variety of items. In 2021, Overstock finetuned its strategy to focus on furniture and home decor, getting rid of items like clothing.
When Bed Bath & Beyond’s financial woes deepened last year, Overstock.com tried to court the retailer’s suppliers but it met with some skepticism. But after its bid for Bed Bath became public last week, it was able to add 100,000 bed and bath items to its site, Johnson said. He expects that pace will pick up.
“I can’t count how many times we were asked when we were going to change the company name,” he said. “This opportunity is too good to be true. We are Bed Bath and a bigger beyond.”
Johnson said that it will offer some coupons to cater to the Bed Bath & Beyond customers who were used to the popular perk, but he noted that customers will be surprised that the discounts offered by Overstock.com are actually better on an every day basis. He also added that Overstock plans to step up marketing to Bed Bath & Beyond customers to make them aware of the change.
He estimated Overstock.com has about 5 million customers; Bed Bath & Beyond’s online customers number about 10 million.
Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — filed for bankruptcy protection in April. The filing followed years of dismal sales and numerous attempts to turn the flailing business around. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/bed-bath-beyond-name-lives-on-overstock-com-buys-rights-and-assumes-name/ | 2023-06-30 12:06:04 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/bed-bath-beyond-name-lives-on-overstock-com-buys-rights-and-assumes-name/ |
A new sphinx-like statue has been discovered in Egypt -- but this one is thought to be Roman.The smiling sculpture and the remains of a shrine were found during an excavation mission in Qena, a southern Egyptian city on the eastern banks of the River Nile.The shrine had been carved in limestone and consisted of a two-level platform, Mamdouh Eldamaty, a former minister of antiquities and professor of Egyptology at Ain Shams University, said in a statement Monday from Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities. A ladder and mudbrick basin for water storage were found inside.The basin, believed to date back to the Byzantine era, housed the smiling sphinx statue, carved from limestone.Eldamaty described the statue as bearing "royal facial features." It had a "soft smile" with two dimples. It also wore a nemes on its head -- the striped cloth headdress traditionally worn by pharaohs of ancient Egypt, with a cobra-shaped end or "uraeus."A Roman stela with hieroglyphic and demotic writings from the Roman era was found below the sphinx.The professor said that the statue may represent the Roman Emperor Claudius, the fourth Roman emperor who ruled from the year 41 to 54, but noted that more studies are needed to verify the structure's owner and history.The discovery was made in the eastern side of Dendera Temple in Qena, where excavations are still ongoing.Sphinxes are recurring creatures in the mythologies of ancient Egyptian, Persian and Greek cultures. Their likenesses are often found near tombs or religious buildings.It is not uncommon for new sphinx statues to be found in Egypt. But the country's most famous sphinx, the Great Sphinx of Giza, dates back to around 2,500 BC and represents the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre.Eldamaty, who is also president of the university, said in a separate release on the university's website that this is the first Egyptian mission to the site at Dendera. Work there will continue for many seasons to come, Eldamaty said, as excavations at the site promise to "add a lot to the history of Egyptian civilization in the Greek and Roman ages."
A new sphinx-like statue has been discovered in Egypt -- but this one is thought to be Roman.
The smiling sculpture and the remains of a shrine were found during an excavation mission in Qena, a southern Egyptian city on the eastern banks of the River Nile.
The shrine had been carved in limestone and consisted of a two-level platform, Mamdouh Eldamaty, a former minister of antiquities and professor of Egyptology at Ain Shams University, said in a statement Monday from Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities. A ladder and mudbrick basin for water storage were found inside.
The basin, believed to date back to the Byzantine era, housed the smiling sphinx statue, carved from limestone.
Eldamaty described the statue as bearing "royal facial features." It had a "soft smile" with two dimples. It also wore a nemes on its head -- the striped cloth headdress traditionally worn by pharaohs of ancient Egypt, with a cobra-shaped end or "uraeus."
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook
The team from Ain Shams University discovered the mini sphinx in the southern Egyptian city of Qena.
A Roman stela with hieroglyphic and demotic writings from the Roman era was found below the sphinx.
The professor said that the statue may represent the Roman Emperor Claudius, the fourth Roman emperor who ruled from the year 41 to 54, but noted that more studies are needed to verify the structure's owner and history.
The discovery was made in the eastern side of Dendera Temple in Qena, where excavations are still ongoing.
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook
The smiling sculpture and the remains of a shrine were found during a university excavation mission in Qena, a southern Egyptian city on the eastern banks of the Nile.
Sphinxes are recurring creatures in the mythologies of ancient Egyptian, Persian and Greek cultures. Their likenesses are often found near tombs or religious buildings.
It is not uncommon for new sphinx statues to be found in Egypt. But the country's most famous sphinx, the Great Sphinx of Giza, dates back to around 2,500 BC and represents the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre.
Eldamaty, who is also president of the university, said in a separate release on the university's website that this is the first Egyptian mission to the site at Dendera. Work there will continue for many seasons to come, Eldamaty said, as excavations at the site promise to "add a lot to the history of Egyptian civilization in the Greek and Roman ages." | https://www.koat.com/article/archaeologists-sphinx-statue-shrine-egypt/43230551 | 2023-03-07 22:43:20 | 1 | https://www.koat.com/article/archaeologists-sphinx-statue-shrine-egypt/43230551 |
Pope clarifies homosexuality and sin comments after questions
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis has clarified his recent comments about homosexuality and sin, saying he was merely referring to official Catholic moral teaching that teaches that any sexual act outside of marriage is a sin.
And in a note Friday, Francis recalled that even that black-and-white teaching is subject to circumstances that might eliminate the sin altogether.
Francis first made the comments in an interview Jan. 24 with The Associated Press, in which he declared that laws criminalizing homosexuality were “unjust” and that “being homosexual is not a crime.”
As he often does, Francis then imagined a conversation with someone who raised the matter of the church’s official teaching, which states that homosexual acts are sinful, or “intrinsically disordered.”
“Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime,” Francis said in the pretend conversation. “It’s also a sin to lack charity with one another.”
His comments calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality were hailed by LGBTQ advocates as a milestone that would help end harassment and violence against LGBTQ persons. But his reference to “sin” raised questions about whether he believed that merely being gay was itself a sin.
The Rev. James Martin, an American Jesuit who runs the U.S.-based Outreach ministry for LGBTQ Catholics, asked Francis for clarification and printed the pope’s handwritten response on the Outreach website late Friday.
In his note, Francis reaffirmed that homosexuality “is not a crime,” and said he spoke out “in order to stress that criminalization is neither good nor just.”
“When I said it is a sin, I was simply referring to Catholic moral teaching, which says that every sexual act outside of marriage is a sin,” Francis wrote in Spanish, underlining the final phrase.
But in a nod to his case-by-case approach to pastoral ministry, Francis noted that even that teaching is subject to consideration of the circumstances, “which may decrease or eliminate fault.”
He acknowledged he could have been clearer in his comments to the AP. But he said he was using “natural and conversational language” in the interview that didn’t call for precise definitions.
“As you can see, I was repeating something in general. I should have said: ‘It is a sin, as is any sexual act outside of marriage.’ This is to speak of ‘the matter’ of sin, but we know well that Catholic morality not only takes into consideration the matter, but also evaluates freedom and intention; and this, for every kind of sin,” he said.
Some 67 countries or jurisdictions worldwide criminalize consensual same-sex sexual activity, 11 of which can or do impose the death penalty, according to The Human Dignity Trust, which works to end such laws. Experts say even where the laws are not enforced, they contribute to harassment, stigmatization and violence against LGBTQ people.
Catholic teaching forbids gay marriage, holding that the sacrament of marriage is a lifelong bond between a man and a woman. It reserves intercourse for married couples while forbidding artificial contraception.
In his decade-long pontificate, Francis has upheld that teaching but has made outreach to LGBTQ people a priority. He has stressed a more merciful approach to applying church doctrine, to accompany people rather than judge them.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Bible will return to the shelves in a northern Utah school district that provoked an outcry after it banned them from middle and elementary schools last month.
The Davis School District, which educates 72,000 students north of Salt Lake City, said in a statement on Tuesday that its board had determined the sacred text was age-appropriate for all district libraries. In allowing the Bible to be accessible to students regardless of their grade level, the board sided with 70 people who filed appeals after it was banned last month.
“Based on their assessment of community standards, the appeal committee determined that The Bible has significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains,” the committee wrote in a decision published along with school board materials on Tuesday.
The committee's reversal is the latest development in the debate over a Utah law allowing parents to challenge “sensitive materials” available to children in public schools. Parents' rights activists successfully lobbied for the legislation in 2022 amid a broader national wave of scrutiny facing the materials accessible in schools and libraries — particularly about race, gender and sexuality.
In statehouses from Florida to Arkansas, Republicans have enacted laws that expand parents' power to challenge what's available in schools and libraries and, in some places, subject librarians to criminal penalties for providing materials deemed harmful to minors. The legislative effort is one prong of growing push to ban certain titles; the number of attempts to ban or restrict books across the U.S. in 2022 was the highest in the 20 years, according to the American Library Association.
In Utah, the effort to ban the Bible reignited debate about the standards used to judge the content in books. The initial challenge was filed by an unnamed individual who criticized the conservative parents' activists clamoring to remove books from libraries and the standards they have lobbied the state to adopt.
“Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: The Bible,” the challenge said, referring to one of the primary groups involved in curriculum battles. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible .. has no serious values for minors because it’s pornographic by our new definition ... If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk.”
The challenge also derided a “bad faith process” and said the district was “ceding our children’s education, First Amendment Rights, and library access” to Parents United.
The committee's decision to remove the Bible vexed advocates for expanding local control and parents’ ability to challenge books. Republican Ken. Ivory, the lawmaker who sponsored the state’s “sensitive materials” law at first opposed the Bible’s removal and called the challenge “a mockery.” He later said the text was best read at home but ultimately pushed for its return to schools and attacked the process that removed it from Davis County schools.
In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this month, Ivory said lawmakers should revise the law to ensure book-removal decisions have to be overseen by elected officials at open public meetings, not the kind of committee that decided to remove the Bible from middle and elementary schools in the Davis School District.
At Davis School District's board meeting on Tuesday, school board members said their majority-parent review committee was convened and had made its initial decision — and weighed appeals — in line with the law.
“The magnitude of the value of the Bible as a literary work outweighs any violence or profanity which may be contained in the book,” Davis School District Board Vice President Brigit Gerrard said. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/utah-school-district-returns-the-bible-to-shelves-after-appeals-and-outcry/QLKA7OK5HBAINKAU26ISJHZJDM/ | 2023-06-21 01:30:57 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/utah-school-district-returns-the-bible-to-shelves-after-appeals-and-outcry/QLKA7OK5HBAINKAU26ISJHZJDM/ |
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A ransomware gang that infiltrated some Costa Rican government computer systems has upped its threat, saying its goal is now to overthrow the government.
Perhaps seizing on the fact that President Rodrigo Chaves had only been in office for a week, the Russian-speaking Conti gang tried to increase the pressure to pay a ransom by raising its demand to $20 million.
Chaves suggested Monday in a news conference that the attack was coming from inside as well as outside Costa Rica.
“We are at war and that’s not an exaggeration,” Chaves said. He said officials were battling a national terrorist group that had collaborators inside Costa Rica.
Chaves also said the impact was broader than previously known, with 27 government institutions, including municipalities and state-run utilities, affected. He blamed his predecessor Carlos Alvarado for not investing in cybersecurity and for not more aggressively dealing with the attacks in the waning days of his government.
In a message Monday, Conti warned that it was working with people inside the government.
“We have our insiders in your government,” the group said. “We are also working on gaining access to your other systems, you have no other options but to pay us. We know that you have hired a data recovery specialist, don’t try to find workarounds.”
Despite Conti’s threat, experts see regime change as a highly unlikely — or even the real goal.
“We haven’t seen anything even close to this before and it’s quite a unique situation,” said Brett Callow, a ransomware analyst at Emsisoft. “The threat to overthrow the government is simply them making noise and not to be taken too seriously, I wouldn’t say.
“However, the threat that they could cause more disruption than they already have is potentially real and that there is no way of knowing how many other government departments they may have compromised but not yet encrypted.”
Conti attacked Costa Rica in April, accessing multiple critical systems in the Finance Ministry, including customs and tax collection. Other government systems were also affected and a month later not all are fully functioning.
Chaves declared a state of emergency over the attack as soon as he was sworn in last week. The U.S. State Department offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the identification or location of Conti leaders.
Conti responded by writing, “We are determined to overthrow the government by means of a cyber attack, we have already shown you all the strength and power, you have introduced an emergency.”
The gang also said it was raising the ransom demand to $20 million. It called on Costa Ricans to pressure their government to pay.
The attack has encrypted government data and the gang said Saturday that if the ransom wasn’t paid in one week, it would delete the decryption keys.
The U.S. State Department statement last week said the Conti group had been responsible for hundreds of ransomware incidents during the past two years.
“The FBI estimates that as of January 2022, there had been over 1,000 victims of attacks associated with Conti ransomware with victim payouts exceeding $150,000,000, making the Conti Ransomware variant the costliest strain of ransomware ever documented,” the statement said.
While the attack is adding unwanted stress to Chaves’ early days in office, it’s unlikely there was anything but a monetary motivation for the gang.
“I believe this is simply a for-profit cyber attack,” Callow, the analyst said. “Nothing more.”
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Consumers uninformed about harm reduction products
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New inflation survey data examining the opinion of smokers found that, due to higher prices, smokers were more likely to switch to cheaper cigarettes rather than less expensive as well as less harmful alternative nicotine products. In examining smoker attitudes, this survey also found a lack of education regarding harm reduction products, with almost a third of smokers surveyed saying that nicotine pouches were more harmful than traditional cigarettes.
"In times of rising inflation, it is even more critical that smokers are well informed about the benefits of harm reduction products as it is an opportunity both for health and wallet," said Markus Lindblad, head of external affairs at Nicokick. "Instead of switching to a lower-cost traditional cigarette due to rising prices, a better outcome would be switching to cheaper, harm-reduced alternative products like nicotine pouches, gum, or lozenges. Unfortunately, this survey found many smokers are not aware of the health benefits of switching to alternative products like nicotine pouches, and it is incumbent upon policymakers to address this misconception if they are serious about better public health outcomes."
More results from the survey:
- Half of Americans say more education on the less harmful nature of alternative nicotine products would help them switch from cigarettes to products like vapes or nicotine pouches.
- Only 21% of those surveyed view nicotine pouches as less harmful than cigarettes, with an astounding 30% saying that nicotine pouches are more harmful than traditional cigarettes.
- 36% of respondents said vaping was more harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes.
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Generation has collaborated with The BlackRock Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp. and Verizon to successfully tackle global unemployment, placing thousands of people into jobs that have generated more than $140 million in salary income to date
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Generation, the global nonprofit employment network, today announced that it has surpassed the milestone of 25,000 graduates across 16 countries since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, placing thousands of people into jobs and bringing total graduates to 65,000 since it launched more than seven years ago.
With the combined commitment of Generation's Global Jobs Recovery coalition – The BlackRock Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp., and Verizon – the organization has trained, placed, and supported people of all ages into careers that would otherwise be inaccessible. In these new jobs, the 25,000 pandemic graduates have together already earned more than $140 million in salary income.
"We are thrilled to reach this milestone alongside our collaborators, and we are inspired by the hard work and dedication of the thousands of individuals who have transformed their lives through our programs during the pandemic," said Mona Mourshed, Founding Global CEO of Generation. "We have seen firsthand how, even in remote environments, people can learn new skills, demonstrate talents, and excel in the workplace. But truly inclusive employment still faces many challenges, and we continue to work alongside employers, governments, and practitioners to create opportunities for talented candidates of every race, gender, ethnicity, and educational background."
Notably, while the majority of Generation's programs moved permanently to online or blended delivery during the pandemic, results have remained strong. 74% of graduates have been placed in jobs within 3 months of program completion, rising to 85% within 6 months. They earn 3-4 times the income they had prior to Generation. At one year after job placement, 78% remain employed.
The individuals that Generation serves typically face a variety of challenges before participating in the employment program. 40% have been unemployed for 6 months or longer. For 2020 graduates, only 38% of them report being able to afford daily needs prior to the Generation program whereas 81% of them say they can do so today. They are a diverse group as well. Two-thirds of this group of pandemic graduates has only secondary school education or vocational training, 53% are female, the majority are from underrepresented communities where they live, and more than 30% have dependents.
Per dollar of support Generation has received to date from the Global Jobs Recovery coalition, these 25,000 graduates have generated $2.74 in earnings. The organization expects these graduates to earn an additional $474.5 million through 2027, which means that each dollar of philanthropic support to Generation will have produced $11.85 in five-year earnings for this group.
In late 2020, Generation received a commitment of $77 million in new funding and $50 million in in-kind resources over two years from BlackRock, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp., and Verizon, encompassing cash funding, in-kind resources, and connections to employers in their ecosystems for Generation graduates. To date, this support, alongside that of other national and local funders, has enabled the significant expansion of Generation's collaboration with governments and other workforce partners, globally, supporting the embedding of Generation's approach within large-scale, existing systems.
Generation's work with its partners continues, and the organization expects to have 20,000 graduates in 2022, growing from ~12,000 last year.
Nasira, Generation Graduate and Disability Support Worker, Royal Rehab AFEA Care Services, said:
"When my son was born with Down syndrome, working was out of the question. Shortly after, the pandemic hit, and I felt incredibly useless stuck at home. In the depths of isolation, I received an email about Generation's disability support worker program. The course was fully online – meaning I could complete it around caring for my son. It changed the trajectory of family life forever, providing me with the knowledge to monetise my nurturing tendencies and turn them into a career".
Luciano, Generation Graduate and Programmer, Salesforce, said:
"Generation's facilitation of the digital economy and its mission to provide opportunities for those most affected by the global pandemic is so powerful. Covid's impact on commercial flights and the tourism industry meant that I lost my job right at the start of the pandemic. Before Generation, I was not that familiar with the world of programming , but guided by the placement team, I very soon discovered it was a fascinating field with continuous challenges and opportunities to learn, which very much matches my skill set."
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature overturned Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ recent veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Tuesday.
Louisiana, where the ban is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, 2024, will join 20 other states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care, which includes puberty-blockers, hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery. Most of those states face now lawsuits, and in some places the bans have been temporarily blocked by federal judges.
Like statehouses across the country, for the last three months Louisiana lawmakers have heard and held debates over gender-affirming care — something that has been available in the United States for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations. Discussions over the ban were marred by misinformation, swarmed with religious arguments and saw hours of emotional testimony from the LGBTQ+ community
At one point, during the regular legislative session, the proposed ban was presumed dead after a veteran Republican lawmaker cast a tie-breaking vote to kill the bill. However, amid pressure from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is a GOP gubernatorial frontrunner, and the Republican Party of Louisiana, the bill was resurrected and passed.
Gov. Edwards used his power to veto the bill, but in return the GOP-led Legislature gathered at the Capitol Tuesday for a brief one-day veto session. It was only the third time a veto session has been held since 1974 and the second time lawmakers have overridden the governor — the only other being last year when lawmakers overturned Edwards’ veto of a congressional redistricting bill.
Republicans maintain that they are trying to protect children, while opponents argue the bill would do the opposite, leading to heightened risks of stress, depression and suicidal thoughts among an already vulnerable group.
“I think that in this instance, in following other Southern states passing this bill, legislators put politics over people without considering the practical impacts of the bill,” Edwards said in a scathing veto message. “I firmly believe that the legislature has overstepped its authority and is interfering in critical healthcare decisions that only parents should make in consultation with their children and their children’s physicians and psychologists.”
In order to override the governor and force a bill into Louisiana law, two-thirds approval from both the House and Senate is needed. The GOP currently holds a two-thirds majority in both chambers. The override had the votes needed, with a few Democrats siding with Republicans — forcing the bill to law, pending any possible court battles that may block or delay the ban.
Louisiana joins a growing list of states that have enacted bans. But opponents say they are confident that courts will find the laws unconstitutional and strike them down.
A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban as unconstitutional, and federal judges have temporarily blocked bans in Alabama and Indiana. A federal judge in Kentucky who had temporarily blocked that state’s ban later lifted his order and allowed the law to take effect. A federal appeals court has allowed Tennessee’s ban, which had been blocked by a federal judge, to take effect. Oklahoma has agreed to not enforce its ban while opponents seek a temporary court order blocking it. In addition, a federal judge has blocked Florida from enforcing its ban on three children who have challenged the law. The rulings against the bans so far have come from judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents.
Louisiana lawmakers also attempted to overturn two other controversial LGBTQ+ bills that Edwards vetoed; a “ Don’t Say Gay ” bill that broadly bars teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation in public school classrooms; and a measure requiring public school teachers to use the pronouns and names that align with what students were assigned at birth. Both attempts were unsuccessful and as a result will not become law.
Louisiana’s culture divide over LGBTQ+-related legislation echoes what has been seen in GOP-led statehouses across the country. Bills targeting transgender people have topped conservative agendas, and LGBTQ+ advocates say a dangerous and blatant attack is happening on their community. This year alone, more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced in 41 states, according to data collected by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/louisiana-lawmakers-overturn-governors-veto-on-gender-affirming-care-ban-for-transgender-minors/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-18 23:28:02 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/louisiana-lawmakers-overturn-governors-veto-on-gender-affirming-care-ban-for-transgender-minors/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Mikaela Shiffrin matches Lindsey Vonn's World Cup record with win No. 82
Mikaela Shiffrin matched Lindsey Vonn’s women’s World Cup skiing record with her 82nd win Sunday.
Shiffrin led from start to finish to win a giant slalom by a large margin and can now break Vonn’s mark in a night slalom scheduled for Flachau, Austria, on Tuesday.
“I was so nervous this run. I have a rash on my face I was so nervous,” Shiffrin said. “I don’t know why, maybe a little bit was because of 82. I just really wanted to ski well, and I did."
Shiffrin celebrated with a scream then bent over and rested her hands on her poles before kissing her skis in the awards ceremony.
“It was a fight. But it was pretty amazing conditions and I got a report from the coaches and they were like, ‘It’s really attackable, so just go for it,’" she said. "I’ve been in this position before and I’ve given it away and today I wanted to fight for it.”
Already with eight wins this season, Shiffrin is also quickly approaching Ingemar Stenmark’s overall record — between men and women — of 86 victories.
Vonn retired four years ago when injuries ended her pursuit of Stenmark's record.
Shiffrin and Vonn now each have 20 more wins than the next woman on the all-time list, Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria at 62.
While the often-injured Vonn required 395 races for her 82 wins, Shiffrin has done it in just 233 races. And at age 27, Shiffrin could compete for several more years and win many more races.
Shiffrin’s achievement comes almost a year after a disappointing performance at the Beijing Olympics, when she competed in six events without winning a medal.
Winning this race, though, never really seemed in doubt.
On an overcast morning, Shiffrin was the first starter and laid down a much more aggressive opening run than either of her two trips down the steep Podkoren course on Saturday, when she finished in a tie for sixth.
“I couldn’t ski faster,” Shiffrin said after her first run. “I felt much, much better this first run than yesterday. I had to try to change my feeling from yesterday. It was very good skiing and I’m happy with that.”
Shiffrin was the last skier to start the second run and increased her advantage at every checkpoint to finish a whopping 0.77 seconds ahead of Italy’s Federica Brignone and 0.97 ahead of Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami.
With few American fans at the race near the Italian border, supporters of Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova cheered Shiffrin loudly. A few kids were waving American flags and family members of Paula Moltzan, another American skier, were on hand wearing USA hockey jerseys.
Shiffrin also moved ahead of Moser-Pröll and Tessa Worley of France with her 17th giant slalom win for second on the women’s career list behind only Vreni Schneider, the Swiss skier who won 20.
New Zealand skier Alice Robinson was the victim of an ugly fall during her second run, crashing face first into the snow, but she quickly got up and skied to the bottom. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/mikaela-shiffrin-matches-lindsey-vonns-world-cup-record/42426354 | 2023-01-08 16:59:17 | 0 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/mikaela-shiffrin-matches-lindsey-vonns-world-cup-record/42426354 |
The House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Friday it's cooperating with a Justice Department request to share transcripts of their witness interviews.
The committee is "engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the Department of Justice. We are not inclined to share the details of that publicly," the panel said in a statement. "We believe accountability is important and won’t be an obstacle to the department’s prosecutions.”
In a letter to the committee this week, senior DOJ officials ramped up pressure on the panel to comply with their request from April for the transcripts, saying the documents are "critical" to its work investigating the riot.
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IIAI, the premier AI research institution in the Middle East and subsidiary of G42, is announcing a partnership with Petuum to build powerful AI applications through the principles of composability, scalability, and automation
PITTSBURGH, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Petuum, the creator of the world's first composable platform for MLOps, and the Inception Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), have agreed to partner on the development of revolutionary AI applications.
Petuum has recently announced a limited release of the composable platform, which includes the AI OS, Universal Pipelines, Deployment Manager, and Experiment Manager, for select private beta partners. Through the partnership with Petuum, IIAI's enterprise AI/ML teams will operationalize and scale their applications into production.
Founded in 2018, IIAI's mission is to build full-stack AI solutions and operating systems for enterprise businesses and developers. Besides being the research arm for G42, IIAI is also empowering stakeholders with AI applications and incubating new technology at the cutting edge of ML innovation.
"IIAI is the clear leader in the Middle East in terms of raw talent, investment, and focus on AI. Their powerful infrastructure is a perfect fit for Petuum's ability to multiply the value of their on-prem and cloud resources. Through our collaboration, the amazing engineers at IIAI see exponential productivity improvements as they automate all but the most interesting and research-intensive tasks." -Adil Islam, Lead Product Manager at Petuum
IIAI's state of the art engines range through NLP, particularly translation, audio recognition and analysis, computer vision and image understanding, video content analysis, and knowledge graphs. In particular, IIAI's robust Machine Translation engine breaks the boundaries of file types, language types, and communication formats. The self-improving multi-modal translation engine allows users to speak or take pictures to receive streaming translations that can be compiled into files for further analysis. This engine is being expanded to sign language, as part of a focus on differently abled communities.
After an initial proof of concept with the Petuum Platform, the IIAI team is confident that the productivity and cost enhancements from the partnership will rapidly expand the institute's lead in building state of the art engines, taking it from its position as leader in MENA to becoming a global champion for the adoption of AI in enterprises.
"IIAI uses the Petuum platform for developing, deploying, and managing our AI services. Petuum's platform is accelerating the development of our market-leading Arabic NLP AI product. With Petuum AI OS, we can wrap up anything and everything, as long as it runs with Docker. In that sense, we not only have this graph system, but we can also easily standardize all of our pipelines." - Guowei He, Principal HPC Engineer at IIAI
IIAI is rapidly expanding and adding top talent to its stellar community of Scientists, Software Engineers, ML Engineers, and MLOps Engineers in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. To learn more, email contact.iiai@g42.ai.
Petuum's award-winning team continues to grow across all roles. To learn more, please visit petuum.com or email careers@petuum.com.
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Petuum is building the world's most composable and scalable platform for MLOps designed to help customers scale up their AI operations for speed, cost, and productivity. With low/no code interfaces and universal representations for data, pipelines, and infrastructure, the Petuum Platform provides an easy-to-use experience to supercharge your ML Engineering. Petuum was named a 2018 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, one of only 61 start-ups in the world to be so honored. Visit petuum.com to find out more about our exclusive private beta.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – To coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Green Bay Police Department is allowing sworn personnel to voluntarily wear a pink badge or patch through the month of October.
The initiative was started back in 2016 by Green Bay Police Lieutenant Steve Mahoney, whose wife Jeniffer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014.
“During a preventative exam, a small mass was detected in one of her breasts, leading Jen to the decision of undergoing a double mastectomy. I believe that early detection saved my wife’s life and that is why she is a cancer survivor as well as cancer-free to this day,” said Mahoney. “If wearing a pink badge through the month of October inspires one person to get a mammogram, then the badge or patch has served its purpose to create awareness of breast cancer, preventative exams, and the opportunity for breast reconstruction.”
Green Bay Police Chief Chris Davis has been very supportive of the idea saying women’s health issues impact everyone at the GBPD.
“This awareness effort is especially important to our members of the department who have been personally affected by breast cancer,” explained Chief Davis.
Each sworn police personnel who wishes to wear a pink badge or patch is asked to donate to the Ribbon of Hope Foundation, a local non-profit and volunteer-based organization that offers emotional and informational support to anyone diagnosed with breast cancer.
Officials say from each dollar raised, the foundation will use 97 cents to support those in the community currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
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The 2023 Travelers Championship Odds & Preview: Aaron Rai
The Travelers Championship is entering the final round, and Aaron Rai is currently in 26th with a score of -9.
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Aaron Rai Insights
- Rai has finished under par 10 times and carded 10 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 15 rounds.
- He has posted the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five three times and with a top-10 score in four of his last 15 rounds played.
- Rai has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in three of his last 15 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day eight times.
- In his past five events, Rai has finished in the top five once.
- Looking at the past five tournaments he has entered, he made the cut three times.
- Rai has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his past five tournaments. In that span, he finished within five shots of the winner two times and with a better-than-average score three times.
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Travelers Championship Insights and Stats
- Rai has had an average finish of 33rd with a personal best of 26th at this tournament.
- Rai made the cut in each of his last two attempts at this event.
- The most recent time Rai played this event was in 2023, and he finished 26th.
- In the past year, the Tour has played on courses with an average length of 7,024 yards, 172 yards longer than the 6,852-yard par 70 at this week's tournament.
- The average course Rai has played in the past year has been 412 yards longer than the 6,852 yards TPC River Highlands will be at for this event.
Rai's Last Time Out
- Rai was relatively mediocre over the 12 par-3 holes at the RBC Canadian Open, averaging par to finish in the 44th percentile of the field.
- He finished in the 89th percentile on par 4s at the RBC Canadian Open, averaging 3.92 strokes on those 48 holes.
- On the 12 par-5 holes at the RBC Canadian Open, Rai was better than 98% of the competitors (averaging 4.00 strokes).
- Rai recorded a birdie or better on one of 12 par-3s at the RBC Canadian Open, worse than the field average of 1.2.
- On the 12 par-3s at the RBC Canadian Open, Rai recorded one bogey or worse (the field averaged 1.2).
- Rai's 11 birdies or better on par-4s at the RBC Canadian Open were more than the tournament average of 6.3.
- At that most recent outing, Rai's showing on the 48 par-4s included a bogey or worse six times (the field's average was worse, at 7.5).
- Rai finished the RBC Canadian Open with a birdie or better on 11 of the 12 par-5s, more than the tournament average of 4.2.
- The field at the RBC Canadian Open averaged 0.8 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Rai finished without one.
Travelers Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: TPC River Highlands
- Location: Cromwell, Connecticut
- Par: 70 / 6,852 yards
- Rai Odds to Win: +15000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Tampa Police Chief Mary O’Connor has been placed on administrative leave after she and her husband were pulled over by a Pinellas County deputy for driving a golf cart without a license plate tag last month.
During the stop, the police chief also flashed her badge for the deputy, before suggesting that he just “let us go tonight,” as seen in the deputy’s body-camera footage.
Chief O’Connor will be on administrative leave until further notice, pending the outcome of an investigation into the incident, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor confirmed.
Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw will serve as acting chief in the meantime, Castor said.
Chief O’Connor and her husband were stopped by a Pinellas County deputy outside of an Oldsmar neighborhood on Nov. 12. O’Connor was captured on body camera video asking if the deputy’s camera was on.
“It is,” the duty responded.
O’Connor then said, “I’m the police chief in Tampa,” before flashing her badge.
“I’m hoping you’ll just let us go tonight,” she said.
The deputy said he thought he recognized O’Connor, who has been chief of the Department since February 2022.
In response to the incident, Chief Mary O’Connor released a statement acknowledging her behavior, which “could be viewed as inappropriate,” she wrote.
“I have expressed great remorse to the Mayor, and I apologize to the residents of Tampa who have a reasonable expectation of better judgment from their chief of police,” O’Connor said, in part.
Tampa City Councilman Bill Carlson said Chief O’Connor’s actions are a violation of basic ethics training.
“[What we’re taught in] ethics training in government, Ethics 101, is don’t use your position to get any kind of special favors. You’re taught in particular not to mention your title or your position to try and convince anyone of anything and so it’s not a good idea to do that,” said Carlson.
He said he believes O’Connor should — and will — resign.
“I imagine that the police chief will resign from this. I don’t know, but I imagine. It’s embarrassing for her, it’s embarrassing for the mayor,” said Carlson.
Yvette Lewis, the President of the NAACP of Hillsborough County, was opposed to O’Connor’s hiring as police chief and said this incident shows she was given special treatment that others would not receive.
“Had that been an African American person, let’s say that, that person would have been handcuffed, sat on the side of the road, frisked and held there and taken to jail,” said Lewis, who also believes O’Connor should not return as police chief.
“The suspension was the right step and honestly, I don’t think she should be allowed to come back to hold that position,” said Lewis.
Late Friday, the Tampa Police department issued a statement on the situation, saying: “In light of Mayor Castor’s decision to place Chief Mary O’Connor on leave as the Professional Standards Bureau completes its review of an off-duty traffic stop, the department will continue operating with Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw serving as Acting Chief of Police. We have full confidence that all members of the Tampa Police Department will continue with their duties to serve the citizens of Tampa with the highest level of professionalism. The findings of the internal review will be made available upon completion.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/tampa-police-chief-placed-on-leave-after-bodycam-video-shows-her-flashing-badge-during-traffic-stop-2/ | 2022-12-03 16:09:33 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/tampa-police-chief-placed-on-leave-after-bodycam-video-shows-her-flashing-badge-during-traffic-stop-2/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio – J.J. McCarthy was a freshman bit player in Michigan's 42-27 victory over Ohio State last season at the Big House.
A year later, the 19-year-old from the Chicago suburbs is the starting quarterback for unbeaten Michigan, preparing to play in front of the largest and most hostile road crowd he's ever seen with the season on the line.
“It feels just like the stars are aligning,” McCarthy said. “And now it's finally here. It's meant to be."
Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud is as weathered as a two-year starter can be. A Heisman Trophy favorite and one of the most prolific passers in the country, Stroud remembers the agony of losing to the Wolverines a year ago despite throwing for nearly 400 yards and two touchdowns.
“We’ve been licking our wounds for 365 days," the 21-year-old Californian said.
Before last year, Ohio State had won eight straight in the series. Stroud, who is eligible for the NFL draft in the spring, wants to make sure back-to-back losses to Michigan aren't part of his legacy in Columbus.
Stroud has 35 TD passes this season, tying him with Houston's Clayton Tune for most in the nation. Moreover, he has emerged as a more mature and demonstrative leader. Stroud hasn't been as sharp in some games — notably when high winds all but grounded the Buckeyes' passing attack at Northwestern — but has done everything necessary to lead the Buckeyes to 11-0 and on the verge of the College Football Playoff.
“I think his leadership and his consistency has to be on display for 60 minutes for Ohio State to beat Michigan," said Kirk Herbstreit, the ESPN college football analyst and former Buckeyes quarterback. “There's going to be an ebb and flow to his game. How he maintains his poise, how he maintains his leadership and pushing his team to try to find a way to win, that's going to be the culmination of all that growth.”
Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Stroud's maturation has influenced the entire program.
"I think you can see his attitude on the sideline," Day said. “He is not concerned about statistics. I think he understands that they’re going to happen and they’re going to come, but he’s focused on one thing and that’s winning and being a leader for his teammates. And when you truly play like that and just have an open heart, I think it carries over to your team.”
In Ann Arbor, McCarthy beat out incumbent Cade McNamara early in the season. McCarthy is nowhere near the talented passer Stroud is, but his mobility allows him to — as coach Jim Harbaugh describes it — “turn water into wine.”
“He’s got that ability,” Harbaugh said. “I’m so glad that he’s on our team. He’s got that grit and determination, too, all in one package.”
McCarthy this season also had the luxury of playing alongside running back Blake Corum, who has rushed for 1,457 yards and 18 touchdowns while emerging as a Heisman Trophy candidate. Corum suffered a knee injury in last week's win over Illinois but said early this week that he expects to play Saturday.
If he can't, more of the load could settle on the shoulders of McCarthy, one of what Harbaugh likes to call his “happy warriors.”
“J.J. is very loose,” said center Olu Oluwatimi, a transfer who started for three years at Virginia. “I love that from a quarterback. Just being able to like, no matter what the outcome of the previous play is, focus on the next play. And do it while smiling, having fun. I love being in the huddle with J.J.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The former national police chief of Honduras made an initial appearance in a New York courtroom Wednesday after his extradition to the United States to face criminal drug trafficking charges, a day after the former president of the Central America country pleaded not guilty to related criminal charges.
Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, 62, was detained without bail after a 10-minute proceeding before a magistrate judge in Manhattan federal court.
A lawyer who was appointed to represent him declined comment outside court.
Better known as “El Tigre,” or “The Tiger,” Bonilla Valladares served as the country’s top police official in 2012 and 2013. He was arrested March 9 after he was labeled by U.S. prosecutors as a co-conspirator of former President Juan Orlando Hernández and the president’s brother Tony Hernández.
A prosecutor said he was turned over to U.S. authorities before noon on Tuesday and arrived in the New York area last night. He faces drug trafficking and weapons charges.
“Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez would not have risen to power and successfully benefited from massive drug proceeds had it not been for his expansive network of corrupt associates,” said Anne Milgram, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
“These associates, including Bonilla Valladares, likewise exploited their positions to traffic cocaine to the United States and violently protect other politically connected drug traffickers, all for their own personal gains,” she said in a release. “Bonilla Valladares further betrayed the Honduran people by using his law enforcement badge to cover for his crimes.”
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said the extradition of Bonilla Valladares "demonstrates that no one is exempt by virtue of their title or position of authority — even foreign Presidents and police chiefs — from criminal prosecution for contributing to the flood of illegal narcotics into this country that causes so much harm.”
U.S. charges against Bonilla Valladares were announced in April 2020 when authorities alleged that he used his law enforcement clout to protect U.S.-bound shipments of cocaine. Bonilla denied at the time being a drug trafficker.
He said then he would go wherever necessary to prove the accusations untrue and suggested drug traffickers were behind the accusations. He cited his long cooperation with the U.S. State Department as proof he was trusted by the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for Honduras' former president made similar claims weeks after Hernández was extradited to New York to face charges that he received millions of dollars from 2004 to 2022 to support a drug trade that delivered hundreds of thousands of kilograms of drugs to the U.S.
Hernández, who led the Central American nation from 2014 through 2022, has denied charges including participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. A trial was tentatively set for Jan. 17.
Attorney Raymond Colon said outside court Tuesday that he believed the former president was the victim of lies told by drug traffickers seeking to reduce long prison sentences. He also cited what he described as his client's long support of U.S. agencies that pursue drug traffickers and his willingness to let them be extradited to the U.S.
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The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent low.
Here are some answers to questions about bull and bear markets:
WHY IT IS CALLED A BULL MARKET?
Wall Street’s nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market because bulls charge, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. In contrast, bears hibernate, so bears represent a market that’s retreating.
WHEN DID THE NEW BULL MARKET BEGIN?
This latest bull market is considered to have begun on Oct. 13, 2022, a day after the S&P 500 closed at its most recent low of 3,577.03.
WHY HAS THE MARKET RALLIED?
Largely because the economy has defied predictions by not falling into a recession, at least not yet.
Markets tumbled last year on fears about how the worst inflation in decades would ravage the economy. More precisely, Wall Street got spooked by the aggressive measures the Federal Reserve took to combat high inflation.
The Fed has yanked interest rates to their highest level since 2007, up from virtually zero early last year. The aim was to drive down inflation by slowing the economy and dragging down prices for stocks, bonds and other investments. That left many investors bracing for a recession for months, but a remarkably resilient job market has kept the economy afloat.
Inflation, meanwhile, has eased off since hitting a peak last summer. That has Wall Street hoping for the Fed to soon stop hiking interest rates.
Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq are already in bull markets, having entered them in November and May, respectively.
SO EVERYTHING’S FINE?
Hardly. The Fed is likely still not done hiking interest rates. Even if it hold rates steady at its next meeting, which would be the first time that’s happened in more than a year, the expectation among traders is for the Fed to resume hiking in July. The hope is that will ultimately be the last rate hike, but persistent inflation could upend that.
That keeps up the pressure on the overall economy and particularly on the banking and manufacturing industries, which have already shown some cracks.
Most of the gains for the S&P 500 this year have come from just a small group of stocks, which critics say is unsustainable. Apple (+30%), Microsoft (+44%) and Alphabet (+25%), the companies with the highest market values in the S&P 500, all outpaced the index. Their huge size gives their movements extra weight on the index, while nearly half the stocks in the index have dropped so far in 2023.
HOW LONG DO BULL MARKETS TYPICALLY LAST?
Since 1932, bull markets have lasted an average of nearly 5 years and the S&P 500 sees a gain of 177.8%. The longest bull market started in March 2009, near the end of the Great Recession, and roamed Wall Street for almost 11 years.
WHEN WAS THE PREVIOUS BULL MARKET?
The previous bull market started on March 23, 2020, as the market recovered from a lightning-fast bear market caused by the onset of the global pandemic. That bull market was the shortest dating back to 1932, lasting about 21 months, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. Still, the S&P 500 more than doubled (up 114.4%).
WEREN’T WE JUST IN A BEAR MARKET?
By entering a bull market, the S&P 500 effectively put an end to the bear market that began on Jan. 3, 2022. Officially, the bear market is considered to have ended on Oct. 12, 2022.
Declaring the end of a bear market may seem arbitrary, and different market watchers use different definitions, but it offers a useful marker for investors.
HOW MEAN WAS THAT BEAR?
The now-deceased bear market lasted about nine months and saw a drop of 25.4%. It was rather tame as far as bear markets go. Since 1950, the average bear market has lasted 13 months and the S&P 500 fell 34.2%. Since 1929, the average bear market has lasted 19.6 months and the S&P 500 has dropped 39.4% | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/the-sp-500-is-in-a-bull-market-heres-what-that-means-and-how-long-the-bull-might-run/ | 2023-06-09 10:18:01 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/the-sp-500-is-in-a-bull-market-heres-what-that-means-and-how-long-the-bull-might-run/ |
Missouri teenager shot while picking up siblings at wrong house, police say
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A teenager picking up his siblings at the wrong home in Missouri was shot by a homeowner in a possible case of mistaken identity, according to authorities.
Officers were called to the reported shooting just before 10 p.m. local time on April 13 at a home in Kansas City, authorities said. The victim was picking up his siblings at a house on N.E. 115th Terrace, but mistakenly went to a house on N.E. 115th Street, according to FOX4KC, citing police.
The victim was taken to a local hospital and said to be in "stable condition" as of Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
The homeowner, who was not identified, was taken to the police station and later released.
"After consulting with the Clay County Prosecutor’s Office, the homeowner was released pending further investigation due to the need to obtain a formal statement from the victim," Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said on Sunday.
The teen victim was identified as Ralph Yarl, a Black, 16-year-old high school junior, according to a joint statement from civil rights attorneys S. Lee Merritt and Benjamin Crump.
"Despite the severity of his injuries and the seriousness of his condition, Ralph is alive and recovering," the statement said.
The Kansas City Police Department said upon completion of the investigation, the case will be forwarded to the prosecutor’s office to determine if charges are warranted.
"We want the community to know that we are committed to justice in this case and every case, and work every day to seek that justice for all victims of the crime," Graves added.
Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 people gathered on Sunday to march near the home where the shooting happened in support of the teen.
"Ralph is quiet, he loves to play video games, play the saxophone, and he’s just a good kid, a smart kid, you know," Paul Yarl, Ralph’s father, told FOX4KC.
"Our message for the prosecutor: we want charges, that’s what we want," Paul Yarl added. "If he goes free, the next Black kid that rings that doorbell could get shot again. We don’t want that."
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Inspired by the Magic of the Holidays, the One-of-a-Kind Limited-Edition Collectible Brings Fun to the Gift Giving Season
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The holidays are right around the corner and this year, Hidden Valley® Ranch is bringing flavor to seasonal traditions with the launch of "Ranch on a Branch," a limited-edition collectible boxed set that includes a stuffed plushie Hidden Valley Ranch and an artfully illustrated storybook depicting the main character's dream: to become a REAL bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch.
Sparked by the magic of the holidays, Ranch on a Branch was created to remind everyone to spread joy throughout the season. In the story, Ranch on a Branch ("Ranchie") does just that through simple acts of kindness, like playing frisbee with their dog and helping someone in need. Those who purchase the collectible are asked to help Ranchie become a real bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch by moving them to a new spot each day as a reminder to spread joy to the people (and animals) in their life.
"We were inspired to create Ranch on a Branch by the happiness we see Hidden Valley Ranch bring to ranch fans," said Deb Crandall, Marketing Director at Hidden Valley Ranch. "This Collector's Edition set is a perfect, and adorable, way to help put a little more joy out there this holiday season."
Starting today, fans can purchase Ranch on a Branch for $30 while supplies last when they visit www.hiddenvalley.com and look for the Ranch Shop. In honor of the collectible, Hidden Valley Ranch will also be donating $30,000 to Feeding America®, which will help provide 300,000 meals* to people facing hunger this holiday season and beyond.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow unleashed another massive missile barrage in Ukraine on Monday, striking homes and buildings and killing civilians, hours after the Kremlin claimed Ukrainian drones struck two air bases deep inside Russian territory.
The unprecedented attack in Russia threatened a major escalation of the nine-month war because it hit an airfield housing bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons. President Vladimir Putin has threatened to use all available means to defend his land, a remark many have interpreted to include nuclear weapons.
Russia has been launching almost weekly bombardments of Ukraine in retaliation for another bold attack — the Oct. 8 truck bombing of a vital bridge linking its mainland to the Crimean Peninsula.
On Monday, Putin tried to show his country could bounce back from that embarrassment by driving a car across the partially repaired bridge. Putin personally opened the 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge in 2018 as part of an expensive effort to solidify his claim on Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
In Monday’s retaliatory barrage, missiles knocked out basic services in several Ukrainian regions in Moscow’s strategy to inflict more pain just as winter approaches. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said four people were killed in Monday’s barrage.
Ukraine’s air force claimed it shot down more than 60 of the 70 missiles, and Zelenskyy again showed defiance, praising workers who immediately tried to restore power.
“Every downed Russian missile is concrete proof that terror can be defeated,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.
Ukraine said early indications showed Russia fired 38 cruise missiles from carriers in the Caspian Sea and from the southern Rostov region. In addition, 22 Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from Russia’s Black Sea fleet, and long-range bombers, fighter jets and guided missiles were also involved, it said.
Electricity provider Ukrenergo said its facilities had been hit, triggering some blackouts, although the prime minster said later that power facilities were damaged in only three areas, not as widespread as in previous attacks.
In the capital of Kyiv, scores of people quickly filled the central Zoloti Vorota metro station after air raid warnings. There were no immediate signs the city or surrounding region had been hit.
Ukrainian media reported explosions south of Kyiv, in Cherkasy, Krivyi Rih and Odesa. Officials said water, electricity and central heating were cut to many parts of Odesa.
“The enemy is again attacking the territory of Ukraine with missiles!” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, wrote on Telegram.
In neighboring Moldova, the Interior Ministry said on its Facebook page that border patrol officers had found a rocket in an orchard near the northern city of Briceni, near the border with Ukraine. A bomb squad went to the scene, but it was not immediately clear when the rocket fell or who fired it.
In detailing the attacks on the air bases, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had shot down two Ukrainian drones. It said three Russian servicemen were killed and four others wounded by debris, and that two aircraft were slightly damaged.
The attacks on the Engels base in the Saratov region on the Volga River and the Dyagilevo base in the Ryazan region in western Russia were part of Ukraine’s efforts to curtail Russia’s long-range bomber force, the ministry said.
The Engels air base houses nuclear-capable bombers and is located more than 600 kilometers (more than 370 miles) east of the border with Ukraine. The Dyagilevo air base, which houses tanker aircraft used to refuel other planes in flight, is about 500 kilometers (over 300 miles) northeast of the Ukrainian border.
The attacks showed the vulnerability of some of Russia’s most strategic military sites, raising questions about the effectiveness of their air defenses if drones could come so close to them.
The ministry didn’t say where the drones had originated, but Russian military bloggers said they likely were launched by Ukrainian scouts.
Russian news agencies earlier had reported explosions at both sites, giving slightly different details than the Defense Ministry on casualties.
Zelenskyy’s adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, trolled the Russians over the drone attack on Engels, stopping short of claiming responsibility.
“If something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point,” Podolyak tweeted.
In other developments, Zelenskyy’s office said three rockets hit his hometown of Krivyi Rih in south-central Ukraine, killing a factory worker and injuring three other people. In the northeastern region of Kharkiv, a person was killed in strikes by S-300 missiles on civilian infrastructure in the town of Kupiansk, it said.
The war that began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has displaced millions from their homes, killed and injured tens of thousands of people and shaken the world economy — driving up the price and curtailing the availability of food, fertilizer and fuel that are key exports from Ukraine and Russia.
Western countries on Monday imposed a $60-per-barrel price cap and a ban on some types of Russian oil, part of new measures aimed at stepping up pressure on Moscow over the war.
The Kremlin rejected the move, and Zelenskyy has criticized it as insufficient.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, in charge of energy, warned Sunday that Russia won’t sell its oil to countries that try to apply the price cap.
“We will only sell oil and oil products to the countries that will work with us on market terms, even if we have to reduce output to some extent,” Novak said.
In another step that took effect Monday, the 27-country European bloc imposed an embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.
Russia, the world’s No. 2 oil producer, relies on oil and gas to underpin its economy, already under sweeping international sanctions.
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Eduardo Castillo in Kyiv, Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, and Andrew Katell in New York contributed.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Christian Bethancourt had two run-scoring hits in the same inning and later moved from behind the plate to the mound to pitch a scoreless ninth as the surging Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-1 on Tuesday night.
The Rays own the top AL wild-card spot. They have won four straight and 10 of 12, and they moved a season-best 12 games over .500 at 67-55.
Bethancourt homered and hit a two-run single in a six-run seventh that gave the Rays a 9-1 lead. With Tampa Bay ahead by 10 in the ninth, manager Kevin Cash sent his catcher to the mound.
Bethancourt was no ordinary position player pitching. His fastball topped out at 95 mph as he allowed two hits and struck out Luis Rengifo.
By contrast, Los Angeles infielder Phil Gosselin got three straight outs in the ninth on five pitches that ranged from 48 to 51 mph.
Los Angeles' Mike Trout homered in the sixth for his 1,500th career hit. It gave him 1,023 runs scored, which is one short of Garret Anderson’s franchise record.
Corey Kluber (8-7) gave up one run on five hits in six innings.
Shohei Ohtani singled in three at-bats as the Angels' designated hitter. The AL MVP left his pitching start at Detroit on Sunday after four innings with a stomach virus, and he pinch-hit in Monday's 2-1 loss to the Rays.
The Angels have lost seven of eight and have totaled six runs over their last five games. Los Angeles (52-71) fell 19 games under .500 for the first time since Sept. 22, 2016.
Manuel Margot and Harold Ramirez had run-scoring singles in the third off José Suarez (4-6) as the Rays took a 2-0 lead.
Suarez struck out five in a row after Ramirez’s hit. The lefty allowed three runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Trout made it 2-1 on his 25th homer off Kluber, a shot that struck an overhanging left field catwalk. Ohtani hit a drive later in the inning that was caught near the warning track in left.
Tampa Bay went up 3-1 in the sixth on Isaac Paredes’ homer.
Taylor Walls had a two-run single in Tampa Bay's big seventh inning. Yandy Diaz, Margot and Randy Arozarena had RBI doubles.
TROUT TIME
Trout has three homers is 21 at-bats against Kluber. He has connected eight times in 90 at-bats at Tropicana Field. ... Trout, who returned Friday after missing 28 games with an upper back-ribs injury, was lifted in the eighth for pinch-hitter Jo Adell.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: INF Matt Duffy (lower back) continued his rehab assignment with Triple-A Salt Lake.
Rays: RHP Tyler Glasnow (Tommy John surgery) threw 21 pitches during his second bullpen session. ... SS Wander Franco (hand soreness) hit in an indoor cage.
UP NEXT
Angels RHP Mike Mayers (1-0, 5.22 ERA) will make his first start of the season Wednesday night after 18 relief appearances. He made two of his previous three career starts as an opener last year. The Rays will counter with All-Star Game starter Shane McClanahan (11-5, 2.29). The left-hander has given up four runs over 13 innings in his previous two starts after a two-outing stretch where allowed nine runs in 10 2/3 innings.
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Officials: Missing woman’s remains found in remote area, 2 expected to be charged
Published: Nov. 7, 2022 at 3:53 PM EST|Updated: 36 minutes ago
MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - The remains of a Tennessee woman who was reported missing in October were found Sunday, according to authorities.
According to WVLT, 24-year-old Chelsie Autum Walker was reported missing on Oct. 29.
Officials said she was last seen at a home in Tellico Plains. Officers with the Madisonville Police Department and Monroe County Sheriff’s Office investigated her disappearance and said they found her remains in a remote area in Monroe County on Nov. 6.
Two people were arrested and charges are coming, but the investigation is still active, officials said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter on Saturday launched a subscription service for $8 a month that includes a blue checkmark now given to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification system.
In an update to Apple iOS devices, Twitter said users who “sign up now” can receive the blue checkmark next to their names, “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.”
The change represents the end of Twitter’s current verification system, which was launched in 2009 to prevent impersonations of high-profile accounts such as celebrities and politicians. Twitter before the overhaul had about 423,000 verified accounts, many of them rank-and-file journalists from around the globe that the company verified regardless of how many followers they had.
Experts have raised grave concerns about upending the platform’s verification system that, while not perfect, has helped Twitter’s 238 million daily users determine whether the accounts they were getting information from were authentic. The update Twitter made to the iOS version of its app does not mention verification as part of the new “blue check” system.
It comes a day after the company began laying off workers to cut costs. About half of the company’s staff of 7,500 was let go, tweeted Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety & integrity.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on Saturday took blame for such widespread job losses. He had two runs as CEO of Twitter, with the most recent stretching from 2015 into 2021.
“I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly,” he tweeted. “I apologize for that.”
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MELBOURNE, Fla., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eve Air Mobility ("Eve") (NYSE: EVEX; EVEXW) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Bluenest, a company powered by Globalvia dedicated to innovation in advanced air mobility with a focus on vertiport infrastructure, to supply Eve's Urban Air Traffic Management (UATM) software solution in support of future Vertiport Automation Systems. As part of the agreement, the companies will jointly study the use of the software for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations by developing an operational model in specific regions and missions according to Bluenest's needs.
"We firmly believe collaboration is the best way to make the future air mobility a reality," highlighted Gema Ferrero, Managing Director of Bluenest by Globalvia. "Therefore, through this strategic collaboration, Eve and Bluenest will be able to better manage vertiport urban air mobility operations and related infrastructure, thus bonding sky and ground between the two companies."
"Collaborating with Bluenest by Globalvia will further increase industry knowledge and perception of Eve as a strong provider of UATM solutions and continue to foster our understanding of vertiport operations," said Andre Stein, Co-CEO of Eve. "Our software will support the integrated operation of UAM aircraft, optimising operational performance and safety, as well as preparing for both scale and eventual integration of uncrewed vehicles."
Eve's UATM software is an agnostic solution aiming to maximize vertiports' efficiency and ensure high resource utilization as well as safe, effective air traffic management. Eve's further development of its UATM customer base demonstrates its commitment to safe and successful vertiport operations and the full ecosystem necessary for a robust UAM market. Bluenest enters a selected group of partners to better improve their UAM operations.
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Eve is dedicated to accelerating the Urban Air Mobility ecosystem. Benefitting from a start-up mindset, backed by Embraer S.A.'s more than 50-year history of aerospace expertise, and with a singular focus, Eve is taking a holistic approach to progressing the UAM ecosystem, with an advanced eVTOL project, a comprehensive global services and support network and a unique air traffic management solution. Eve is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares of common stock and public warrants trade under the tickers "EVEX" and "EVEXW". For more information, please visit www.eveairmobility.com.
Bluenest is a Globalvia company for innovation in advanced air mobility, focusing on what we do best, infrastructure. The strategy of Bluenest is to operate a network of vertiports technologically agnostic and designed to be interoperable and environmentally sustainable. Bluenest is firmly committed to empowering the life quality of the citizens and tackling important challenges in congested cities and remote areas by bridging and connecting people and goods. And always adding value across all the UAM/AAM chain while also minimizing the carbon footprint involved. Bluenest is the home or nest for all eVTOLs to land in this new 3D mobility concept. For more information, please visit www.bluenest.io and our Linkedin profile.
Certain statements in this press release include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "target", "may", "intend", "predict", "should", "would", "predict", "potential", "seem", "future", "outlook" or other similar expressions (or negative versions of such words or expressions) that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Eve's and Bluenest's expectations with respect to the announced agreement and future performance. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and may differ from assumptions, and such differences may be material. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of Eve and Bluenest.
These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, among others: (i) changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political and legal conditions; (ii) failure to realise the anticipated benefits of the announced agreement between Eve and Bluenest; (iii) risks relating to the uncertainty of the projected financial information with respect to Eve; (iv) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Eve; (v) future global, regional or local economic and market conditions, including the growth and development of the urban air mobility market; (vi) the development, effects and enforcement of laws and regulations; (vii) Eve's ability to grow and manage future growth, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its key employees; (viii) Eve's ability to develop new products and solutions, bring them to market in a timely manner, and make enhancements to its platform; (ix) Eve's ability to successfully develop, obtain certification for and commercialise its eVTOL; (x) the effects of competition on Eve's future business; (xi) the outcome of any potential litigation, government and regulatory proceedings, investigations and inquiries; (xii) the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic and (xiii) those factors discussed in Eve's Registration Statement on Form S-1/A filed on August 25, 2022 under the heading "Risk Factors," and other documents of Eve filed, or to be filed, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
If any of these risks materialise or our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that Eve does not presently know or that Eve currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect Eve's expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this press release. Eve anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause Eve's assessments to change. However, while Eve may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Eve specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Eve's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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TX Fort Worth TX Zone Forecast for Friday, April 28, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for Texas
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
TXZ119-290915-
Dallas-
Including the city of Dallas
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs around
70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
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TXZ118-290915-
Tarrant-
Including the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with wind gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs around 80. North winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
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TXZ159-290915-
McLennan-
Including the city of Waco
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs around 70. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph with wind gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
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TXZ158-290915-
Bell-
Including the cities of Killeen, Temple, and Fort Hood
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with wind gusts up to 35 mph are
possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 90s.
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TXZ104-290915-
Collin-
Including the cities of Plano, McKinney, Allen, and Frisco
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs around
70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ103-290915-
Denton-
Including the cities of Carrollton, Denton, Lewisville,
and Flower Mound
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs around 70. Northwest
winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
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TXZ093-290915-
Grayson-
Including the cities of Sherman and Denison
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ092-290915-
Cooke-
Including the city of Gainesville
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming 10 to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ091-290915-
Montague-
Including the cities of Bowie and Nocona
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ102-290915-
Wise-
Including the cities of Decatur and Bridgeport
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ101-290915-
Jack-
Including the city of Jacksboro
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ100-290915-
Young-
Including the cities of Graham and Olney
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 80s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ115-290915-
Stephens-
Including the city of Breckenridge
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the upper 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ116-290915-
Palo Pinto-
Including the city of Mineral Wells
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ117-290915-
Parker-
Including the cities of Weatherford and Briar
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs around 70. Northwest winds
20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Wind
gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ131-290915-
Hood-
Including the cities of Granbury and Oak Trail Shores
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with wind gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ132-290915-
Somervell-
Including the city of Glen Rose
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ130-290915-
Erath-
Including the cities of Stephenville and Dublin
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph this morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ129-290915-
Eastland-
Including the cities of Cisco, Eastland, Ranger, and Gorman
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ141-290915-
Comanche-
Including the cities of Comanche and De Leon
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ142-290915-
Mills-
Including the city of Goldthwaite
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ156-290915-
Lampasas-
Including the city of Lampasas
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the lower
70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with wind gusts up to 35 mph
are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ157-290915-
Coryell-
Including the cities of Copperas Cove and Gatesville
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with wind gusts up to 35 mph are
possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ143-290915-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Hico
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with wind gusts up to 35 mph are
possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much warmer with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ144-290915-
Bosque-
Including the cities of Clifton, Meridian, and Valley Mills
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with wind gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ133-290915-
Johnson-
Including the cities of Cleburne and Burleson
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ134-290915-
Ellis-
Including the cities of Waxahachie, Ennis, and Midlothian
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs around
70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this
morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ145-290915-
Hill-
Including the city of Hillsboro
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ146-290915-
Navarro-
Including the city of Corsicana
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s. West
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ161-290915-
Limestone-
Including the cities of Mexia and Groesbeck
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs around 80. West winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ160-290915-
Falls-
Including the city of Marlin
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with wind gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ174-290915-
Milam-
Including the cities of Cameron and Rockdale
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs around 70. Northwest
winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
Wind gusts up to 35 mph are possible.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ175-290915-
Robertson-
Including the cities of Hearne, Franklin, and Calvert
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ162-290915-
Leon-
Including the cities of Buffalo, Centerville, Jewett, Normangee,
and Oakwood
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, warmer with highs around 80. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ147-290915-
Freestone-
Including the cities of Teague, Fairfield, and Wortham
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ148-290915-
Anderson-
Including the city of Palestine
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this morning, then partly sunny this
afternoon. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s. West
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ135-290915-
Henderson-
Including the cities of Athens and Gun Barrel City
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
perhaps an isolated thunderstorm this morning, then mostly sunny
this afternoon. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s. West
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ122-290915-
Van Zandt-
Including the cities of Canton, Grand Saline, Wills Point, Van,
and Edgewood
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
perhaps an isolated thunderstorm this morning, then mostly sunny
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ121-290915-
Kaufman-
Including the cities of Terrell, Kaufman, and Forney
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs around
70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ120-290915-
Rockwall-
Including the cities of Rockwall and Heath
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs around
70. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ105-290915-
Hunt-
Including the cities of Greenville and Commerce
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ123-290915-
Rains-
Including the cities of Emory, East Tawakoni, and Point
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
perhaps an isolated thunderstorm this morning, then mostly sunny
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ107-290915-
Hopkins-
Including the city of Sulphur Springs
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this morning, then mostly sunny this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ106-290915-
Delta-
Including the city of Cooper
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
perhaps an isolated thunderstorm this morning, then mostly sunny
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ095-290915-
Lamar-
Including the city of Paris
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this morning, then mostly sunny this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ094-290915-
Fannin-
Including the city of Bonham
303 AM CDT Sat Apr 29 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Reservations Dogs co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo says he grew up surrounded by the "best storytellers in the world."
Harjo remembers sitting in his grandmother's kitchen as a kid, listening to tales of amazing characters — either real or imagined — often doing mundane or ordinary things. The magic was in the telling; a story about someone making a simple run to the store could be infused with sadness and regret, coincidence and magic.
"That's how I learned to tell stories. ... You can't say that cinema is a Native American art form, but storytelling is, " Harjo says. "I try to capture just a small amount of that in [Reservation Dogs]."
Reservation Dogs is the first and only TV series where every writer, director and series regular is Indigenous. Part comedy and part drama, the FX series streaming on Hulu follows four teenagers who long to escape the dead ends they face living on a reservation. They're frustrated and alienated, caught between what's left of traditional Native culture on the reservation and the broader pop culture. The show highlights the importance of Native traditions — while also mocking how tradition can be turned into sanctimonious pop culture clichés.
Harjo belongs to the Seminole and Muscogee Nations, and he says the positive feedback from his community — including his parents — is what keeps him going: "My dad, one day, said to me, 'This show has given people, Native people, a reason to hold their heads up a little higher.'"
Last Halloween, Harjo noticed something he hadn't seen before: "Every year at Halloween, there's people that dress up in these fake, dime-store Indian clothing. And they are 'Indian' for Halloween. And we've all seen that growing up. We've all seen it. And my kids are going to have to see it. But all of a sudden, after Season 1, people, kids started dressing up as the Reservation Dogs. So many pictures flooded in on social media of them dressed as the Reservation Dogs."
Interview highlights
On why he prefers the term "Indian" to "Native American"
My grandma said "Indian," so I'm not here to change what my grandma said. And it's what I know. I'm sorry that Christopher Columbus got it wrong, but that's what we call ourselves, you know? That's what we call ourselves. I also say "Native" and I say "Indigenous." Just depending on where I'm at and who I'm talking to, those are all interchangeable to me. "Native American" is just a mouthful.
On the show's name Reservation Dogs title paying homage to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
It came out when I was in college, and it was right as I discovered that I could be a filmmaker. ... My father had a friend who worked for the cable company, and that's the only way that we got cable. So I was able to watch movies for free because his friend did some backdoor stuff and hooked us up with a cable box that allowed us to watch HBO and Showtime. I just became immersed in movies and pop culture. MTV was out at the time. I think that when you're from a rural community, that's kind of how you live your life. You almost live your life through movies and through pop culture. ... First of all, it's a catchy title, not a lie, Taika [Waititi] and I came up with it. And then it was, well, if we're going to have this show where these kids are living through and constantly referencing pop culture, like we have to tip our hat to the master of that.
On playing with the stereotypical "Indian warrior" imagery in the pilot
Most of the time people are very precious with Native people, like, "This is no laughing matter." This is very serious and stoic, and that's kind of how the world is trained to view us. We realize we need to bake into the show permission to laugh with us.
And I think that that spirit character, he comes in at this moment in the pilot. ... If I asked most people in the world to draw a Native American, that's what they would draw. They would draw an Indian that was dressed in buckskins from the 1800s. They wouldn't draw me. They wouldn't draw any of the characters on the show. So it was almost like giving people some familiar territory and then turning it on its head.
On growing up on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma
Right now I live on the Muscogee Reservation, which is part of Tulsa. Through a lot of complicated government policy and interactions with tribal governments that I can't go into because it'd be another show, it was not identified as a reservation before, but it is now. But if you look at Oklahoma, it used to be Indian Territory, which was essentially one big reservation. Then, of course, oil and the land and other things disrupted that.
But this is where Trail of Tears ended. This is where all of the tribes that were forcibly removed by the U.S. government were brought to Indian Territory, which is Oklahoma now. So essentially it was one giant reservation. And you go an hour in any direction in Oklahoma or 30 minutes in any direction, in Oklahoma, you're going to be in a new tribal territory, with different tribal languages on the stop signs and on signage in the town. Different cultures, different customs. And so it's ... a melting pot of Indigenous Native people from America. And I think there's something like 38 tribes here.
So you grow up different when you're in Oklahoma as a Native kid. ... People know Native culture, people know who Native people are. And it's a very diverse state. I think that not a lot of people know about Oklahoma and the diversity here, but in rural Oklahoma, it's very diverse. And I don't know, it was something that I wanted to celebrate in the show, growing up in Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
On why Native teens connected to rap music when he was coming of age
Rap was reaching the height of popularity ... and being a Native kid, we gravitated towards it because it was the sort of punk rock that we were growing up with. It gave Native kids a culture and identity that they could grab a hold of at a time where our own identity was a bit lost and our own identity was less celebrated, we could grab a hold of hip-hop, and that became something that we could identify with that was taking it to the man that was exposing problems within our culture. I think that it became something that, as a term, as a means of endearment to us, that it helped us in our own identity and in our own struggle.
On the importance of ghosts and spirits in his culture – and in his work
I think that part of growing up and with Muscogee and Seminole culture is death is such a part of our experience. It's very community-driven. Your cousins are like your brothers and sisters. Your aunts are your extended parents, and you're close to your elders and everyone's a part of this tight community.
I was constantly at funerals. I've been a pallbearer, like, 12 to 15 times, I think, give or take. And our songs, the songs that we sing, there's these spiritual songs that we sing that mostly get sung and you hear them at funerals, and it's all about facing death and mortality head on. There's something really beautiful about a funeral in our community, where everyone comes together and it's really funny. And you're getting to see people that you haven't seen in a long time and you say, "I love you," to people that you wouldn't normally say, "I love you" to. It's just a part of being in a community.
Someone was always passing away. ... In the culture you're taught that they're not gone and that you can still speak to them and talk to them and there's ghost stories and things like that. But I just grew up with this sense of magic, and there's a sense of like we can communicate, we can reach people in other places, and there's ceremonies for it and there's different things. It's something that I'm fascinated with ... and I explore it as much as I can through my work.
On the casting process for Reservation Dogs
You can't go to Hollywood to cast a show like this. ... [Native actors usually] get to play, like, a dead Indian outside of a teepee every five to 10 years, you know? So there's not a big pool of Native actors in L.A. So we went to the communities, and shout out to Angelique Midthunder, who was our casting director. She went in and we went to different communities and we also had tapes sent to us from communities, but it was important that they were from an Indigenous community. ... It wasn't unnecessarily unorthodox for me, because I've been making these films for so long, and I know that there's talent out there. There's just not opportunities for Native actors to even know that there's an opportunity to be in a movie.
On seeing Indian stereotypes in pop culture as a kid
My dad watched Westerns. ... There was a way to sort of separate what was happening in the Western for me, because I didn't recognize the Indians in the Western. They weren't my experience. When you grow up and your grandma and your mom and your dad and everyone's Native around you, and then you see this version of Native people in these Westerns that are just the bad guys that are faceless and sort of like the zombies. ... They're in the way and the white man has to exterminate them for Western expansion purposes and to tame the West or whatever, I don't recognize that as my people. So it wasn't painful to watch for me. I could separate it. I do see the issues in that now I have to explain to my kids why they can't watch Peter Pan, and if there was a Western on, I would have to explain to them, like everything all of a sudden becomes a lecture, where I'm having to talk about film analysis with my children. It has an effect.
On absolving himself of the guilt that he can't speak Muscogee
For a long time, I felt really guilty about that. ... But at a certain point, I just came to the realization that government policy, genocide, colonization, ... the forced removal by Andrew Jackson. So many things caused that. And I let go of that sense of guilt, because it's all been about survival and there's things that were taken away and there's things that perish because of that. And all I can do is try to learn and realize that it's not my fault, it came before me. The darkness that can take a language away, came before me. And you look at boarding schools ... and how they actively took away our language. My parents and grandparents went to these boarding schools, so the fact that we have any of it left is a miracle. So I try to really focus on that: the miracle of it, the magic of the fact that we still have our culture and it is about survival. I try to focus on that instead of the guilt that I think you grow up with when you can't speak the language.
Lauren Krenzel and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Beth Novey adapted it for the web.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy made 38 saves, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos scored 1:48 apart midway through the second period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning earned their sixth straight playoff berth with a 5-0 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.
Tampa Bay will play Toronto in the first round of the postseason.
The Lightning, who have appeared in the Stanley Cup Final each of the past three years and won back to back in 2020 and 2021, have reached the playoffs in nine of coach Jon Cooper’s 10 full-seasons with the team.
Mikhail Sergachev, Tanner Jeannot and Brayden Point also scored for the Lightning.
Vasilevskiy has two shutouts in his last three game and four overall this season. He has allowed one goal during Tampa Bay's three-game winning streak.
The Islanders hold a two-point lead over Florida for the top wild card in the Eastern Conference.
New York goalie Ilya Sorokin was pulled with 8:15 left in the second after allowing four goals on 21 shots. He is 0-4 against the Lightning.
Point's power-play goal in the third period was his 48th this season, and joined Stamkos (36, 2011-12) as the only Tampa Bay players to have 30 goals at home during a single season.
Jeannot’s goal came in the left wing’s 18th game with Tampa Bay after being acquired from Nashville.
Kucherov had a breakaway goal 9:57 into the second before Stamkos made it 4-0 and ended Sorokin’s night at 11:45.
Stamkos tied Islanders Hall of Famer Denis Potvin for the 75th on the career point list with 1,052. The center has 514 goals, which is one away from tying Pierre Turgeon for 40th place.
Sergachev had a first-period goal, while Jeannot scored early in the second. Sergachev left in the third after hurting his right leg.
Darren Raddysh and Point both had two assists. It was Raddysh's first NHL points, coming in his 16th career game.
INJURED ISLANDERS
Islanders general manager Lou Lamoriello said C Mathew Barzal, who hasn’t played since leaving a game at Boston on Feb. 18 with a lower-body injury, is ready to resume staking.
“Him skating is extremely positive, and then we just go from there,” Lamoriello said. “How long it takes, I couldn’t tell you.”
RW Oliver Wahlstrom, injured on Dec. 27, is out for the rest of the season due to a lower-body injury. Lamoriello said Wahlstrom will definitely be ready before the summer is over.
UP NEXT
Islanders: At Carolina on Sunday night.
Lightning: At the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
01-21-22-23-32-39, Doubler: N
(one, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, thirty-two, thirty-nine; Doubler: N)
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Four-Evening" game were:
4-0-8-6, Fireball: 7
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4-0-8-6, Fireball: 7
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of students who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain will automatically get their federal student loans canceled, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, a move that aims to bring closure to one of the most notorious cases of fraud in American higher education.
Under the new action, anyone who attended the now-defunct chain from its founding in 1995 to its collapse in 2015 will get their federal student debt wiped clean. It will erase $5.8 billion in debt for more than 560,000 borrowers, the largest single loan discharge in Education Department history, according to the agency.
“As of today, every student deceived, defrauded and driven into debt by Corinthian Colleges can rest assured that the Biden-Harris Administration has their back and will discharge their federal student loans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said. “For far too long, Corinthian engaged in the wholesale financial exploitation of students, misleading them into taking on more and more debt to pay for promises they would never keep.”
Tens of thousands of former Corinthian students were already eligible for debt cancellation, but they had to file paperwork and navigate an application process that advocates say is confusing and not widely known about. Now, the relief will be made automatic and extended to additional borrowers.
Those who have a remaining balance on their Corinthian debt will also get refunds on payments they have already made, Education Department officials said. But the action does not apply to loans that have already been paid off in full.
At its peak, Corinthian was one of the nation’s largest for-profit college companies, with more than 100 campuses across the country and more than 110,000 students at its Everest, WyoTech and Heald schools.
But the company shut down in 2015 amid widespread findings of fraud. The Obama administration — working with Kamala Harris, who was then California attorney general and later became vice president — found that scores of campuses were falsifying data on the success of their graduates. In some cases, the schools reported that students had found jobs in their fields of study even though they were working at grocery stores or fast food chains.
Hundreds of students told investigators they were pressured to enroll with promises of lucrative employment, only to end up with huge sums of debt and few job prospects. Federal officials also found that the company falsely told students their course credits could be transferred to other colleges.
The case inspired a federal crackdown on for-profit colleges, and the Obama administration promised to forgive loans for Corinthian students whose programs lied about job placement rates. The administration went on to expand a process known as borrower defense to repayment, which allows any defrauded student to apply for debt cancellation.
But an explosion in applications for debt forgiveness, along with political battles over the process, created a years-long backlog in the process, leaving many former Corinthian students still awaiting relief.
As of December, the Education Department reported it had more than 109,000 pending applications from students alleging fraud by their colleges, including many Corinthian students. Borrowers and their advocates have been urging the government to erase all Corinthian debt, saying evidence of misconduct was so widespread that all the chain’s students were the victims of fraud.
The administration announced the action Wednesday as President Joe Biden considers broader student loan forgiveness for millions of Americans. As a candidate, Biden said he supports forgiving $10,000 in student loans for all borrowers. He later indicated that such action should come through Congress, but the White House has said he is considering whether to pursue it through executive action.
Advocates said the Biden administration’s decision brings long-delayed justice.
“This is a tremendous student victory, and it belongs to the tens of thousands of borrowers who were cheated and abused by Corinthian Colleges,” said Eileen Connor, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which has represented Corinthian students in lawsuits. “They never stopped fighting — over three administrations — for the justice they deserve under the law.”
Libby DeBlasio Webster, senior counsel for the advocacy group Student Defense, said the news gives a “fresh start” to former Corinthian students, but she noted that many defrauded students from other for-profit colleges are still awaiting help.
“We also hope today’s news is a sign that other decisions are on the horizon for thousands of similarly situated students who are waiting for this kind of relief,” she said.
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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Few rock bands are as prolific, dynamic and ambitious as The Smashing Pumpkins. The group just released the final act of a 33-song rock opera called "ATUM."
(SOUNDBITE OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS' "ATUM")
SIMON: The Chicago band has been making powerful and complex rock for decades. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan joins us now from Los Angeles. Hey, hey, as they say at Wrigley Field.
BILLY CORGAN: Hello, sir. How are you today?
SIMON: Fine. Thank you. Opera begins with an instrumental piece that sort of takes us into the vastness of space.
(SOUNDBITE OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS' "ATUM")
SIMON: And here we meet Shiny, the banished rock star. What is Shiny doing here?
CORGAN: Well, the contrivance of the narrative is that he's an artist whose - maybe his best days are past him. He doesn't have a lot of cultural or social significance, but for whatever reason, he represents a threat to a global order which doesn't necessarily want any dissonant voices. He's basically given an option, which is rather than put you in a jail and let you languish away, we're willing to put you in space in a spacecraft for one, and that's where you'll spend the rest of your days. And so he's exiled.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUTTERFLY SUITE")
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) Who sweeps the squalid rain to scan through pinks and gray?
SIMON: Tell us about June, his comrade.
CORGAN: So June is a fan or an acolyte who is obsessed with Shiny. He doesn't know this person, but she's from a wealthy family, so she puts herself next to him in space where she can kind of keep tabs on him, even if it's sort of an emotional sense that at least somebody is there for him. So the second song in the musical, The "Butterfly Suite," that's her kind of daily love song in an old Hollywood musical way.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUTTERFFLY SUITE")
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) It's morning to good morning. Good morning to you, sun. Don't ever set on our love, as our love has begun. I'm here to be, to stave the dream with you. Believe.
CORGAN: On this particular day, he punches in a code which is like, hey, you always have the option of taking this very noble - the act has been propagandized as a sort of a noble end. So it's called the March of Life. You punch in a code, and your ship breaks orbit and just starts to float towards the sun. Of course, she's heart-stricken because this is the great love of her life floating away in space.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUTTERFLY SUITE")
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) ...You unto I.
SIMON: Now, I gather this builds on your 1995 double album, "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness." What were you picking up from that album? What made you kind of complete that arc?
CORGAN: When we were doing what became our big style of "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness," we were at the height of sort of rising fame, MTV time, and I felt this need to do a larger work, which became conceptual. Behind the scenes, when I went to the record company, they said, please, please don't do a double album. No one cares about those things anymore. And we went on to make something which really touched a generation and became - you know, I think it's one of the only albums that's ever gone diamond. Enough of my bragging, but my point is I took this intellectual and creative leap, and it ended up sort of working out. In 2000 when the band was breaking up, we did a second conceptual work called "Machina," which sort of documents my descent into madness, which was, on some level, somewhat literal, and then the band's implosion, which was real. So I never thought there would be a third chapter to this story, but the band ended up getting back together, at least three-quarters of it.
SIMON: I don't want to just slide over that phrase, descent into madness.
CORGAN: Is that a question, or a...
SIMON: Well, that was real?
CORGAN: Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. You know, there were a lot of forces going on. One was dealing with loss. My mother had died. The band, of course, imploding far before its due date was very haunting for me. And then, you know, we had what now, of course, everybody understands in hindsight is this coming technological revolution. It changed the dynamic models within the music business about how artists made their money. Suddenly, everybody was losing money. No one was selling records anymore. So as you can imagine, within the record business, the reaction was to become very conservative, which is not my normal MO. So suddenly, you had a lot of fear. And when you put fear and art together, it tends not to result in a great work. It doesn't touch people at a deeper level because it's based in something that I don't think most people resonate to, which is fear.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FIREFLIES")
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) We stand on clover shield - hunted, yet unloved, seasick as one preys through tasteless, dray haze. I'm waiting on your fireflies.
SIMON: Mr. Corgan, may I ask you about your father?
CORGAN: Sure. Anything you want.
SIMON: You've spoken about him in the past - three-time convicted criminal. I will say so you don't have to, from - in your explanation, often cold and cruel to you.
CORGAN: Well, you know, my father, in an unkind way, used to say it's good you had such a terrible childhood because it made you a better rock star. And my argument was always, Dad, you don't know who I would have become without that, you know? Maybe I would've been a great classical composer and not some dissociative, struggling artist in a musical business that doesn't value people like me often. And I certainly receive validation from my father, who was a musician, a very good musician. He did have opportunities in the music business and squandered every opportunity he had, mostly because of drugs and his issues with addiction.
So navigating his disappointment and bitterness with his life experience and then him trying to figure out what to do with mine, it was both tangible in the sense that he understood music - he understood what I was trying to do, but he oftentimes couldn't understand the scale of the challenge. So when I would call him up and say, yeah - you know, he'd say, what are you doing? Well, I was just at the White House yesterday. It was hard for him to navigate that.
SIMON: But I'm struck by the fact that you still called him.
CORGAN: Well, we had our ups and downs. There were years there where we didn't talk, and there were years that we did. My father passed away, for everybody listening, about a year and a half ago. And we certainly had made our peace, but I can't say I ever felt like we reached a point of true understanding. After our second album came out and it was quite successful, he called me and said - and I sort of was bracing for the conversation because I thought, oh, here comes the horrible criticism. And he said, I don't know the person that made this record. And I said, he's been standing in front of you the whole time.
SIMON: Wow. One of the last songs - and what I'll call this project - is "Spellbinding."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SPELLBINDING")
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) It's Berlin, baby, Luxor and daisies, and I'm plumb crazy for your tomorrows. It's Weimar lately, Luxor and daisies, and I'm plumb crazy for your tomorrows.
SIMON: Crazy for your tomorrows. There's a lot of hope there.
CORGAN: It happens to me occasionally. I have moments of optimism.
SIMON: And what do we make of, take me away. I'm going to find you?
CORGAN: If you don't mind, I'll share a story with you I've never shared. The day where we recording the song that you just played, the song was basically the part you just played. That's all there was. Well, that morning, I had a dream. And it doesn't happen to me often, but it has happened where I'll dream a song that I have not yet written.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SPELLBINDING")
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) Take me away. I'm gonna find you.
CORGAN: When I came to the studio that morning, we start recording, and we reached a point in the song where I thought, it gets a bit boring here. And I said, hey, you know what? I wonder if that dream that I had fits in this song. And it was the exact right key change, and we literally just dropped the dream into the song. It's magical the way it happened. I wish it happened to all the songs. But on that song, it was just a kind of a one-in-a-zillion thing.
SIMON: Billy Corgan, frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins. And "ATUM," the third and final act of their rock opera, is out now. Mr. Corgan, thank you so much.
CORGAN: Oh, thank you, my friend. Nice talking to you.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SPELLBINDING")
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