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We are making our way through the last month of 2022! Can you believe it?! At BWI, the average daily morning low temperature is 33° at the start of the month, and then decreases to 27° by December 31st. A daily average high temperature of 52° at the beginning of the month drops down into the mid-40s by the end of the year. In terms of precipitation, the normal amount of rain through December is 3.71" and the average snowfall amount increased to 2.50".
Since the start of the month, there was one day with measurable rain of 0.47" at the BWI airport.
Now onto temperatures... they have been anything but consistent so far this month. On the first day of the month, the high temperature was 45°, which was 7° below normal. Temperatures then climbed to seasonal levels on the 2nd, before topping out above normal, in the 60s on the 3rd! A cold front knocked temperatures below normal on the 4th. Yesterday, temperatures were right on the money—hitting the average value of 50°.
The temperature trend for the next several days shows a slight warm up mid-week, before falling back to more seasonal levels this weekend.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) — Jalen Pickett scored 15 points, distributed 11 assists and collared 10 rebounds and Penn State beat Butler 68-62.
Andrew Funk and Camren Wynter each scored 11 for Penn State and Seth Lundy 10 to go along with nine rebounds.
Manny Bates scored 16 points and secured 10 rebounds, Jayden Taylor scored 14, Simas Lukosius 13 and Chuck Harris 11 for Butler. Lukosius’ 3-pointer with 13:55 remaining gave Butler its last lead of the contest.
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JoJo Siwa drops by Disney+'s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series for a special guest appearance in the latest episode, which dropped on the streaming service Wednesday.
"It's crazy to think that I'm a part of this world now. It's wild!" Siwa shared with ET over a recent Zoom interview. "I remember when I first got the ask, I immediately was like, 'Yes. Don't know when, don't know who, don't know how, but yes, make it happen,' to my team. And they did. It was honestly some of the most fun days of my life while filming this show. The cast is so kind, the crew was awesome. I mean, everything about this show was just perfect."
The JoJo Goes star swings by Camp Shallow Lake as Madison, Maddox's (Saylor Bell Curda) ex-girlfriend and also an ex-camper, and the former couple -- who broke up at a previous camp prom -- finally faced the realities of why their relationship didn't work out, eventually reconciling and turning over a new page.
"Madison and Maddox had a little love life in the past, but they are broken up with now. However, Maddox needs some help and her brother [Jet] brings this girl into play," Siwa said. "When you have a certain connection with somebody, they can heal a piece of you without even knowing it. And I think that's what Madison is able to do for Maddox."
Siwa acknowledged that though Madison and Maddox's romance is over, there may be some lingering feelings still at play. "There's still a little like between the two of them. That's going to be fun to explore, but it is really cool," she said. "Saylor, who plays Maddox, is an incredible human and so fun to work with. We laughed. We literally bonded so quickly in one day it was insane. Everybody was like, 'Wait, you guys really didn't know each other before this?' And we were like, 'No, we literally met an hour ago.'"
"We both just had an unspoken, 'You're down? I'm down. OK. Let's go,' you know what I mean?" Siwa recalled. "We both decided that if we want to make this as great as possible, we're just going to have to dive into the deep end head-first. We both did and we both committed. And it worked."
The Dance Moms alum also noted that while she's now ingrained in the High School Musical universe, it was the off-camera interactions in between "action" and "cut" that made the entire experience invaluable.
"As cool and as iconic as it is, the best part about it is the behind-the-scenes aspect of getting to work with the cast and the crew," she said. "Everyone was like, 'Oh my god, you're doing High School Musical. Have the best time. The cast is incredible and so nice and so fun.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, yeah. You say that about everyone.' But there was seriously something so special about this family. They really all were so welcoming, were so fun, were so funny, were so open."
Siwa praised HSMTMTS for capturing the world as it is, with characters from all walks of life, experiences and backgrounds and storylines that explore different ideas and themes. "It gives everyone who's watching something to relate to, someone to relate to. And it's cool. It's diverse in every which way," she credited.
As for the character she most relates to on the meta musical comedy, not surprisingly it's the one she plays herself. "I feel like the human I can relate to on the show is probably Madison," Siwa said. "Also in an odd way, Maddox. Just watching this season, I see a lot of myself in Maddox, just that techy [dork]."
Siwa also shared the message she hopes people take away after watching the latest episode, titled "Camp Prom."
"The message is that even if you don't love someone, you still care about them. Or I guess I should say, if you're not in love with someone, you still care about them. I think that's a really cool message because people nowadays think, 'Oh, you never should be to this person again.' And it's not how it is," she said, as Madison and Maddox end up reconciling. "I also am excited for people to get to see onscreen teenage high school love. Most teenagers probably know what it's like in summer camp to have a little crush, but I don't because I never went to summer camp and that was never what I did. But I think it's really cool. It's a fun story and it's a good show and it's put together well and it's clean and it's safe and it's nice and it's wholesome, but it's also gay. And it's awesome."
She expressed interest in returning to the HSMTMTS world in season 4 should the stars align.
"I told everybody at Disney, I told [creator] Tim [Federle], whatever they want me to do for this show I'm down. Because not only is it the coolest show to be a part of, but it also is just such a great environment to be immersed in that I would do anything," Siwa said.
For now, the 19-year-old promises "there is so much coming," and one of those upcoming projects is new music
"I am currently in the studio doing music almost every day. I actually have to take some time off right now though because I have strep throat currently, which is not fun. But that's coming," Siwa teased, adding that she also has another "huge project lined up for next year that might be my favorite project that I've ever done." "There's so much, but my music right now is definitely my No. 1."
Siwa, who was runner-up with dance pro Jenna Johnson on season 30 of Dancing With the Stars, says she plans on tuning in to the new season on Disney+ when it begins streaming Sept. 19.
"Oh for sure I'm going to tune in. I'm very excited," she said. "I've been talking to all the pros. Of course, Ezra [Sosa], who's one of my best friends. He's a part of troupe this year. So I've been very in the loop with what's going on with the show and I'm very excited for their new season."
The season 3 finale of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series drops Wednesday, Sept. 14 on Disney+.
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Society is an organized association of individuals, characterized by relationship patterns and interactions that share a set of distinctive ideologies.
Shared experiences affect communal identity, degrees of cohesiveness and local heritage. The socialization of core values now is rapidly intensified by social media platforms.
The days of engaging in factual, logical and reasonable deliberations provided healthy avenues for “normative” discussions. Normative means an evaluative standard, in which communities are bounded by a web of crisscrossing affective ties. It is the phenomenon of designating what is good, right and true within a given society.
However, society is extraordinarily complex and interconnected. As we find ourselves in an ever-changing spectrum of decisions, there are no right answers — only better arguments.
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Social capital and political trust are identified as the keys to the effective functioning of democratic states. If people feel the government does not share their concerns or institutions are rigged against them, their loyalty — trust and cooperation — are in danger of being eroded.
Additionally, there are specific events that cause added strain. They potentially fracture this cohesion and reliance, which make certain time periods for examining levels of capital and trust of being online especially relevant.
What do we mean by “being online”? It is the distinction between computer-mediated and face-to-face communication. People literally are living in an augmented virtuality versus being grounded in reality.
Nowadays, “deception is perception is reality,” begging the question: Are we ever really offline, as modern culture spins out of control, circling the deep web of darkened social media?
Google’s Ngram Viewer is a tool that charts how phrases have appeared in searches over the years. It provides a cursory examination of how “social media” has penetrated our societal mindset and lexicon, and the term’s influence is astronomically higher than “deep web” or “dark web”. Obviously, the frequency of each of these terms took off with the onset of the internet during the mid-2000s.
Even after removing social media from the lineup of terms, dark web beats out deep web 3-to-1 in the most recent data count of 2019. This reinforces the point that we currently live and thrive in the dark. It is no stretch of the imagination that social media, too, would fall down a darkened rabbit hole.
Paradigm shifts have incrementally occurred with the changing tides of social media. As those shifts have become more erratic, propaganda-driven punctuations are becoming more commonplace throughout our sphere of dialogue.
Propaganda dates back to the 17th century when the “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith” was created as a result of the ongoing missionary activities of the Catholic Church in Europe. Even with honorable intentions, things always can take a dark turn.
Political power dramatized the construct during World War I, and postwar years experienced intense revolutionary propaganda as a nationalist extension. Since then, appeals have been revolutionized by advances in communication technologies, again extending the influence of information and ideas.
Now, online content platforms are observing an increasing trend of various types of “aggressive” behavior with malicious intent to spread disinformation, often manifesting through persuasive language. Such behaviors pose a risk to the civil foundation of communities, by creating misleading social and political narratives to promote negative constructions of diverse institutions.
One example is the precipitous amount of harm and/or vulnerability toward our public health response to COVID-19. “No mask policy” disinformation campaigns contributed to more than 1 million deaths and a loss of $16 trillion to the U.S. economy alone, one study found. Partisan differences also resulted in additional inequalities related to race, gender and income, leaving more accountability, polarization and federalism questions.
A team of scientists at George Mason University — including Drs. Hemant Purohit and Antonis Anastasopoulos; doctoral student Yasas Wijesuriya; and myself — recently received funding from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative to address these kinds of challenges. CCI is a collaboration between Virginia policymakers, academics, industries and entrepreneurs to produce research and innovation on the cybersecurity issue.
A major outcome of our project includes developing an interactive and predictive tool for local government agencies to discover and counter disinformation narratives. The goal is to recognize the malicious behavior of propaganda by proactively identifying social media posts that could indicate likely events of concern before they occur.
Is the “philosophication” (or positioning) of social media as a new empire approach to information — or yet, disinformation — worth it? Unfortunately, paradigmatic shifts in the new wave of communication already have occurred, rendering Pandora’s box permanently open.
Tonya E. Thornton, Ph.D., is founder of Delta Point Solutions, an interdisciplinary, social, policy and administrative sciences consulting firm specializing in community resiliency and sustainability, emergency management, critical infrastructure and grid security. She previously was a professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Government. Contact her at: tonya.e.thornton@gmail.com | https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/tonya-e-thornton-column-new-tools-can-stem-the-erratic-tides-of-social-media/article_9ee2387c-415b-52f1-8057-56b125378c48.html | 2022-08-13 12:08:18 | 1 | https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/tonya-e-thornton-column-new-tools-can-stem-the-erratic-tides-of-social-media/article_9ee2387c-415b-52f1-8057-56b125378c48.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B spoke to girls in a police mentorship program Friday as part of what she says has been an eye-opening and emotional week performing court-mandated community service for her role in a pair of brawls at New York City strip clubs in 2018.
The 30-year-old “Bodak Yellow” singer visited an NYPD “Girls Talk” event at the police training academy in Queens and shared what the department said was “her rags to riches story.” She danced with teens and posed for photos.
Cardi B’s plea deal requires her to perform 15 days of community service by March 1 to avoid a 15-day jail sentence.
“I feel like there’s so many people that make y’all probably feel like, ‘This is what’s cool, this is what’s going on, this is what it takes to be lit, this is what it takes to be fire,’” Cardi B told her young audience.
“Sometimes that’s a little bit of peer pressure like on a girl. Don’t fall into that. You know what I’m saying? Like, be great. Be you. You’re amazing. You’re dope yourself.”
The NYPD posted a video to Twitter showing highlights of the event.
That drew criticism from some people, including a retired police lieutenant, who questioned whether Cardi B was an appropriate role model for children given her sometimes provocative lyrics, criminal record and past admission that she drugged and robbed men while working as a stripper before she got famous.
Cardi B, a New York City native whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, has been chronicling her community service on Twitter all week. On Saturday, she wrote: “Community service has been the best thing that has happened to me.”
She likened the experience to a spiritual journey that sometimes left her in tears. “Those people that we leave behind they just need somebody to talk and a lil push and YOU might be able to change their life forever,” she wrote.
In another post, on her way to the police academy, the multiple-platinum selling artist and mother of two complained about waking up early to perform community service before going to the recording studio, but added: “I did the crime ‘I only have myself to blame’.”
Cardi B agreed in September to a conditional discharge just as her case was about to go to trial. She pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from the August 2018 fights. Ten other counts, including two felonies, were dismissed. Two co-defendants also pleaded guilty.
In a statement at the time, Cardi B said: “Part of growing up and maturing is being accountable for your actions. As a mother, it’s a practice that I am trying to instill in my children, but the example starts with me. I’ve made some bad decisions in my past that I am not afraid to face and own up to. These moments don’t define me and they are not reflective of who I am now.”
According to prosecutors, Cardi B and her entourage were targeting employees of Angels Strip Club in Flushing, Queens, over an apparent personal dispute. In one fight, chairs, bottles and hookah pipes were thrown as the group argued with a bartender. She and another employee had minor injuries.
In 2019, Cardi B rejected a plea deal that would have given her a conditional discharge. Prosecutors then presented the case to a grand jury and obtained an indictment that included the two felony charges.
NYPD Chief of Training Juanita Holmes created the “Girls Talk” program to build trust and foster mentorships between police officers and girls, with occasional special guests. Ballet dancer Misty Copeland spoke to the group at police headquarters in December 2021.
Cardi B’s chart-topping hits include “I Like It” and the Maroon 5 collaboration “Girls Like You.”
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Deloitte's "Project 120" revamps its tech and leadership upskilling programs to anticipate broader market needs, marking a fundamental shift in how learning and development can be designed and delivered
NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte today announced a $1.4 billion investment to enhance its professional development experiences, doubling down on its people and setting a new industry standard for learning and development (L&D).
Inspired by the top speed of thought — 120 meters per second — Project 120 curates highly personalized learning and development pathways to develop critical tech and leadership skills among its growing employee base ahead of tomorrow's market demands. Through this bold, transformative investment, Deloitte will enhance its tech and leadership curricula and expand Deloitte University facilities, including new future academic and business collaborations.
Deloitte's investment comes at a time of unprecedented technological and societal change. As the new world of work continues to shift, expectations of companies' role in society and the lives of employees and communities continue to escalate. But even amidst economic headwinds, Deloitte is betting big on L&D to answer the call.
"At Deloitte, our people are our greatest asset, and Project 120 is an unprecedented investment in their potential," said Joe Ucuzoglu, Deloitte US CEO. "Now's the time to transform how we think about learning and development. It's not just about business performance. It's about enabling our people to feel even more fulfilled and driven by our work and our purpose, which in turn drives better business outcomes."
Anticipating the market
Traditionally, professional development focused on upskilling performance for current job and market demands. Deloitte's Project 120 takes a more predictive approach. With Project 120, Deloitte anticipates the needs of its professionals, clients, and the broader market in advance, designing customizable and immersive learning experiences to address needs as they are identified and deploying those trainings at the pace of innovation.
Project 120 is already delivering over one million hours of training on future applications of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, cyber, data analytics, 5G, and quantum computing through the Deloitte Technology Academy. Even beyond enhancing skillsets around specific technologies, Project 120 is building learning experiences that allow people to do work differently and transform how Deloitte delivers value to clients —from using analytics to create the audit of the future, to using automation in streamlining the work of tax professionals.
In this era of great disruption and transformation, professional growth becomes a more dynamic, always-on endeavor. Deloitte also sees the potential of Project 120 to democratize tech and leadership expertise, so that professionals across the organization can develop the agility for tomorrow's client needs and begin to shape the markets of the future.
"Project 120 enables more tailored, relevant and in-the-flow learning for all professionals, building agility now for the business opportunities tomorrow," said Deloitte's Chief Talent Officer, Stephani Long. "We're reimagining learning experiences, and I'm confident our new approach will continue to meet and exceed the evolving needs of our people and our clients."
Preparing our people to thrive
Earlier this year, Deloitte set out to understand how its already robust technology and leadership offerings could be further bolstered. Leaders gathered 150,000 data points from talent surveys, conducted 100 one-on-one interviews with business executives, did extensive market research, and leveraged a workforce -sensing tool to identify the skills of the future. What resulted is an upending of the traditional competency-based, top-down model in favor of an employee-led, data-driven approach — one that helps build not just better work, but more fulfilled employees.
"We feel an immense responsibility to support the growth of our people," said Anthony Stephan, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and Project 120 Executive Leader. "Project 120 broadens the aperture of professional development from focusing solely on the professional to focusing on the individual, enabling them to thrive holistically in business and in life."
For instance, Deloitte recently identified higher stress levels among a cohort of executives and, within weeks, curated a personalized learning experience on processing emotions as data and moving to a place of action.
Project 120 embeds worker well-being into L&D by developing skills like awareness, attention, acceptance, and belonging — elements today's talent values highly. In fact, the 2022 "Deloitte Global Millennial & Gen Z" report found that L&D opportunities ranked second among the reasons respondents chose to work for their current organization. To that end, Project 120 also meets professionals where they are, with omnichannel learning pathways like on-demand resources, interactive labs, and gamification that fit into employees' lives and work.
"Our approach to learning and development acknowledges the demands and preferences of all generations," added Stephan. "We're optimistic about technology while recognizing our continued obligation and opportunity to help prepare our people for the future of work."
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Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 7,000 private companies. Our people come together for the greater good and work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today's marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthier society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them. Building on more than 175 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte's approximately 415,000 people worldwide connect for impact at www.deloitte.com.
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Boebert claims she missed a vote as a ‘protest’ – but CNN’s camera caught her running up the House steps as it ended
By Daniel Dale and Morgan Rimmer, CNN
(CNN) — On Saturday, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado posted a video on Twitter in which she claimed that she had intentionally skipped Wednesday’s key House vote on a bill to suspend the nation’s debt ceiling.
“No excuses: I was ticked off they wouldn’t let me do my job, so I didn’t take the vote,” Boebert said, going on to allege that the voices of individual House members had been stifled during the legislative process. “Call it a no-show protest, but I certainly let every one of my colleagues and the country know I was against this garbage of a bill.”
But Boebert’s claim of a deliberate “protest” absence is contradicted by her own words in the congressional record. After the vote ended on Wednesday, Boebert submitted an official statement in which she said she had been “unavoidably detained” for the vote and would have voted against the bill had she been present.
And Boebert’s claim is further called into question by CNN footage from the House steps in the moments after the vote concluded.
Less than a minute after the vote was finalized, CNN photojournalist Jake Scheuer captured video of Boebert running up the steps as a CNN associate producer mentioned that the vote had just been closed. Boebert stopped running for a moment to turn back and ask, “They closed it?” After the associate producer confirmed, Boebert continued her dash toward the building entrance.
Boebert never said why she was in such a hurry. However, there were no significant House votes left that night after the debt ceiling vote.
CNN asked Boebert’s office on Monday to explain how her Twitter claim that the missed vote was a “protest” is compatible with her official statement in the congressional record or with her sprint up the stairs. A spokesperson responded by providing a link to Boebert’s Thursday statement, which outlined her opposition to the bill but did not substantiate her subsequent assertion in the social media video that she had missed the vote on purpose.
“I certainly wasn’t afraid to vote against the bill, as I have been advocating against it all week,” Boebert said in the statement.
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Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.
Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico's worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.
Last week, despite declaring the abductions and disappearances a “state crime” and saying that the army watched it happen without intervening, Encinas made no mention of six students being turned over to Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.
On Friday, Encinas said authorities were closely monitoring the students from the radical teachers’ college at Ayotzinapa from the time they left their campus through their abduction by local police in the town of Iguala that night. A soldier who had infiltrated the school was among the abducted students, and Encinas asserted the army did not follow its own protocols and try to rescue him.
“There is also information corroborated with emergency 089 telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students were held during several days and alive in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said. “Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of the colonel, allegedly the then Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.”
The defense department did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the allegations Friday.
The role of the army in the students’ disappearance has long been a source of tension between the families and the government. From the beginning, there were questions about the military’s knowledge of what happened and its possible involvement. The students’ parents demanded for years that they be allowed to search the army base in Iguala. It was not until 2019 that they were given access along with Encinas and the Truth Commission.
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The commission report says the army registered an anonymous emergency call on Sept. 30, 2014, four days after the students’ abduction. The caller reportedly said the students were being held in a large concrete warehouse in a location described as “Pueblo Viejo.” The caller proceeded to describe the location.
That entry was followed by several pages of redacted material, but that section of the report concluded with the following: “As can be seen, obvious collusion existed between agents of the Mexican state with the criminal group Guerreros Unidos that tolerated, allowed and participated in events of violence and disappearance of the students, as well as the government’s attempt to hide the truth about the events.”
Later, in a summary of how the commission's report differed from the original investigation's conclusions, there is mention of a colonel.
“On Sept. 30 ‘the colonel’ mentions that they will take care of cleaning everything up and that they had already taken charge of the six students who had remained alive," the report said.
In a witness statement provided to federal investigators in December 2014, Capt. José Martínez Crespo, who was stationed at the base in Iguala, said the base commander for the 27th Infantry Battalion at the time was Col. José Rodriguez Pérez.
Through a driving rain later Friday, the families of the 43 missing students marched in Mexico City with a couple hundred other people as they have on the 26th of every month for years.
Parents carried posters of their children's faces and rows of current students from the teachers’ college marched, shouted calls for justice and counted off to 43. Their signs proclaimed that the fight for justice continued and asserted: “It was the State.”
Clemente Rodríguez marched for his son Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, who was a second student identified by a tiny burned bone fragment.
Rodríguez said the families had been told last week before the report was released about the coronel and the six students.
“It’s not by omission anymore. It’s that they participated,” he said of the military. “It was the state, the three levels of government participated.”
He said the families had not been told that any of the arrest orders announced last week for members of armed forces had been carried out yet.
On Sept. 26, 2014, local police took the students off buses they had commandeered in Iguala. The motive for the police action remains unclear eight years later. Their bodies have never been found, though fragments of burned bone have been matched to three of the students.
Last week, federal agents arrested former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, who oversaw the original investigation. On Wednesday, a judge ordered that he stand trial for forced disappearance, not reporting torture and official misconduct. Prosecutors allege Murillo Karam created a false narrative about what happened to the students to quickly appear to resolve the case.
Authorities also said last week that arrest warrants were issued for 20 soldiers and officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers and 11 state police officers as well as 14 gang members. Neither the army nor prosecutors have said how many of those suspects are in custody.
It was also not immediately clear if Rodríguez Pérez was among those sought.
Rodríguez, the student's father, said Murillo Karam's arrest was a positive step.
Murillo Karam “was the one who told us the soldiers couldn’t be touched,” Rodríguez said. “And now it's being discovered that it was the state that participated.”
In a joint statement, the families said the Truth Commission’s confirmation that it was a “state crime” was significant after elements suggesting that over the years.
However, they said the report still did not satisfactorily answer their most important question.
“Mothers and fathers need indubitable scientific evidence as to the fate of our children,” the statement said. “We can’t go home with preliminary signs that don’t fully clear up where they are and what happened to them.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given Mexico's military enormous responsibility. The armed forces are not only at the center of his security strategy, but they have taken over administration of the seaports and been given responsibility for building a new airport for the capital and a tourist train on the Yucatan Peninsula.
The president has said often that the army and navy are the least corrupt institutions and have his confidence. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/official-6-of-43-missing-mexican-students-given-to-army/3346829/ | 2022-08-27 08:14:17 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/official-6-of-43-missing-mexican-students-given-to-army/3346829/ |
It’s the time of year for spring cleaning! With the weather getting warmer, are you doing any spring cleaning?
Experts say it’s a great time to freshen things up, especially if someone in your home has allergies.
Here are a few tips to make spring cleaning faster and easier.
1. First, make a plan. If you haphazardly move from room to room, you can waste time and energy on distractions and disorganization. So take some time to prioritize and create a schedule starting with either the messiest area or the most heavily used.
2. Be determined to get rid of things! Experts remind us that clutter is the enemy, not only messing up your surroundings but even having an impact on your mental health and well being. Studies show a clean, organized room helps us to feel more calm less anxious and more content.
3. Work from the top down. This way dust and dirt from higher surfaces fall to the ground, which is the last thing you’ll clean.
4. Don’t ignore storage spaces and the refrigerator. You might have to start by making sure you have a proper storage system in closets, garages and basements. And of course, the fridge needs an overhaul sometimes too! Take everything out of the refrigerator and throw away expired items or ones that have been opened for a long time that you don’t use. Wipe down the shelves and put things back in with an organization system that makes sense to you and your preferences.
5. And don’t forget about the outdoors. If you have an outside deck, porch or patio, those areas probably need to be swept and furniture wiped down.
If it all seems overwhelming, experts say break down your cleaning into chunks. Don’t try to tackle it all in one day or one weekend. Do what you can when you can and it will still make a difference. | https://www.wfmz.com/features/life-lessons/spring-cleaning-where-and-how-to-start/article_8764fade-d9e4-11ed-b342-db6ebcfde7b9.html | 2023-04-20 13:38:20 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/features/life-lessons/spring-cleaning-where-and-how-to-start/article_8764fade-d9e4-11ed-b342-db6ebcfde7b9.html |
ZURICH (AP) _ ABB Ltd. (ABB) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit of $1.13 billion.
The Zurich-based company said it had net income of 60 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 39 cents per share.
The industrial automation company posted revenue of $7.82 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $7.58 billion.
For the year, the company reported profit of $2.48 billion, or $1.30 per share. Revenue was reported as $29.45 billion.
ABB shares have increased 16% since the beginning of the year.
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BEIJING — Defying China, the president of self-ruled Taiwan affirmed the island’s ties with the Czech Republic in a phone call with the Central European nation’s President-elect Petr Pavel.
In the call, President Tsai Ing-wen said the countries “enjoy deep ties and share the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights,” the official Central News Agency said, quoting presidential spokesperson Lin Yu-chan.
“Based on these cordial ties, the government of Taiwan looked forward to deepening exchanges and cooperation with the Czech Republic in key areas, including semiconductor design, talent cultivation in cutting-edge technologies, and supply chain restructuring,” Lin was quoted as saying.
China had no immediate comment, but in past has responded with condemnation and threats of retaliation over contacts with Taiwan by politicians whose countries have formal relations with Beijing.
China in recent years has upped its threat to bring Taiwan under its control by force if necessary, prompting new sales of tanks and missiles to the island from key ally the U.S. and steps by Tsai’s administration to extend compulsory military service and bolster the domestic defense industry.
A string of visits in recent months by foreign politicians to Taiwan, including by then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and numerous politicians from the European Union, spurred displays of military might from both sides.
Taiwan has formal diplomatic ties with just 14 nations, mainly small states in the Caribbean and South Pacific, but maintains robust unofficial ties with more than 100 countries. European politicians, some of whose nations were formally dominated by the Soviet Union, have been among the most vocal in pursuing closer relations with Taiwan.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The leader of Indy’s Ten Point Coalition is sick and tired of people moving on after a child and/or teenager is killed.
Serenity Wilson lost her life at the age of 16 this week after being shot at a block party Monday. Dozens more people have been shot, some killed, over the last few weeks. Many of those killings have been at a typical party or gathering.
The silence from elected officials and community leaders is frustrating for Reverend Charles Harrison.
“I’ve been looking for elected officials, I’ve been looking for candidates who are running for public office, who tend to have a lot to say about a lot of other stuff, but when it comes to our children being gunned down, there seems to be a lot of silence in our community,” Rev. Harrison said Wednesday in a Twitter video.
Three people were shot at the canal in downtown Indianapolis just after midnight Wednesday.
Harrison doesn’t buy the crime-statistics narrative from certain Indy leaders, “quit telling me that things are getting better out here when I know the reality as a father. I can’t let my children go to certain events because I am fearful that something bad is going to happen.”
After three people were killed in a shooting in Broad Ripple two weeks ago, Mayor Joe Hogsett held a press conference alongside IMPD Police Chief Randal Taylor, blaming Indiana’s gun laws and bad business owners for not maintaining their properties. The Broad Ripple Village Association requested “Gun Free Zone” permits for the area, and several businesses have opted to close at 1 a.m., despite that being a valuable money-making timeframe.
Rev. Harrison says until public officials actually start addressing violent crime, murders will go unsolved.
“For every parent out there, this could be your child if we don’t say something or do something.” | https://wibc.com/154332/indy-ten-point-leader-talks-silence-from-city-officials-in-the-killing-of-serenity-wilson/ | 2023-07-06 13:43:54 | 0 | https://wibc.com/154332/indy-ten-point-leader-talks-silence-from-city-officials-in-the-killing-of-serenity-wilson/ |
1 lane opens after crash closes I-75N near Ellenton exit in Manatee County
ELLENTON, Fla. - One lane of northbound traffic has reopened after a crash closed Interstate 75 on the bridge near the Ellenton exit in Manatee County Friday.
Florida 511 traffic cameras showed traffic at a standstill for about 7 miles south of mile marker 224.
Officials said at least one person was hurt in the crash. Their condition and the cause was not released.
Emergency vehicles were on the roadway. Traffic began to flow at about 11:40 a.m., but only one lane remained open an hour later.
Meanwhile, impatient drivers were trying to illegally cross the interstate median at mile marker 221.
Drivers were asked to use caution.
This is a developing story, check back for updates. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/1-lane-opens-after-crash-closes-i-75n-near-ellenton-exit-in-manatee-county | 2022-11-25 18:07:19 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/1-lane-opens-after-crash-closes-i-75n-near-ellenton-exit-in-manatee-county |
2 dead, 3 hurt in shooting in front of DC senior residence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police said two people were killed and three others injured Wednesday in a shooting in front of a senior citizen’s center and near several schools in the nation’s capital.
The Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday’s shooting happened in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington in front of a residence for senior citizens and near several high schools.
The shooting happened just before 1 p.m. when a black SUV pulled up in front of the senior residence and two men hopped out and opened fire, Executive Assistant Police Chief Ashan Benedict said.
A total of five men were shot. Two died at the scene and three others were taken to area hospitals and were being treated Wednesday afternoon for their injuries.
Benedict said police were still trying to collect evidence at the scene and working to identify a definitive motive but said the area is known to officers as “an open-air drug market.”
Officers routinely make arrests there for the sale of narcotics and investigators believe the shooting was related to those drug sales, he said.
“This is an ongoing problem,” Benedict said.
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Sweepstakes Marks the Launch of the New Mr. Coffee® Latte, Iced and Hot Coffee Maker for an
Authentic Coffeehouse Experience at Home
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for National Coffee Day on September 29, Mr. Coffee®, a leader in the in-home coffee experience, announces today its partnership with AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys to launch its #IWantItLatte sweepstakes, sharing just how easy it is for coffee lovers to have their beverage their way at home with the new Mr. Coffee® Latte, Iced and Hot Coffee Maker.
If you've ever wanted to be serenaded by a boy band member, now is the chance. Starting today, fans can comment on the @ajmcleanofficial sweepstakes post on TikTok with their favorite coffee drink for a chance to win a personalized song inspired by their drink, sung by AJ. Five fans will be selected to win the custom sing back and a Mr. Coffee® Latte. Twenty-five additional winners will be selected to receive a Mr. Coffee® Latte.
"I'm pumped to be partnering with Mr. Coffee for the #IWantItLatte Sweepstakes to show how everyone can have their coffee their way," said McLean. "My go-to brew is a sugar-free white mocha, and I love that I can use my Mr. Coffee® Latte to make it right at home or while I'm on tour. I can't wait to see – and sing – fans' coffee orders!"
For more than 50 years, Mr. Coffee® has been the leader in helping coffee lovers brew their favorite drinks "just right" to create the perfect moment of comfort at home. With the new Mr. Coffee® Latte joining the brand's collection of specialty coffee makers, coffee drinkers can re-create their favorite coffeehouse drinks exactly how they want it- saving time, money, and waste.
Product features of the Mr. Coffee® Latte include:
- 4-in-1 Functionality: The convenient 4-in-1 functionality lets you brew, froth, and create coffeehouse-style lattes, cappuccinos, iced, and hot coffee drinks, all with one personal coffee maker.
- Built-In Frother: Integrated milk frother creates hot or cold foam for perfect coffeehouse-style lattes and cappuccinos.
- Brew Pod-Free: The pod-free brewing method lets you enjoy great-tasting coffeehouse drinks, with less waste.
- Easy Measuring System: The magic is in the measurements. The integrated measuring system makes it easy to brew the perfect amount of coffee and froth the right amount of milk for iced coffee, hot coffee, lattes, and cappuccinos.
- Compact Size Saves Valuable Counter Space: All the features of a standard-size latte maker, in a slimmer, space-saving design.
The Mr. Coffee® Latte Lux™ is also available for an upgraded experience with an elevated design and additional features including an integrated automatic milk frother and preset latte and cappuccino buttons that automatically adjust speed to create perfect hot or cold foam for coffeehouse-style lattes and cappuccinos at the touch of a button.
"Coffee drinkers are looking to have it all when it comes to their favorite beverages and being able to easily customize their coffee at the click of a button is a priority," said Chris Robins, Business Unit CEO, Home Appliances at Newell Brands (parent company of Mr. Coffee®). "The Mr. Coffee® Latte's innovative design and brewing capability allows everyone to become their own at-home barista by creating any drink on the menu including lattes, cappuccinos, iced, and hot coffee drinks."
The Mr. Coffee® Latte is now available to purchase (MSRP: $139.99) at Target, Walmart (online only) and Meijer. The Mr. Coffee® Latte Lux is also available for purchase (MSRP: $159.99) at Amazon (online only), Walmart (online only), Bed Bath and Beyond and Kohls.
To check out how AJ McLean takes his coffee, visit MrCoffee.com for his custom coffee recipe and follow Mr. Coffee® for more info on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Sweepstakes Abbreviated Rules
The Mr. Coffee® #IWantItLatte Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:00 am Eastern Time on September 27, 2022, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET on October 3, 2022. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 or older at time of entry. Void where prohibited. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. To enter, fans must follow @therealmrcoffee on TikTok and comment on @ajmcleanofficial's sweepstakes post with the name of their favorite coffee drink and include the hashtag #IWantItLatteSweepstakes.
Fans can also enter via email by sending their favorite coffee drink, first and last name, age, complete mailing address (no PO Boxes and including ZIP Code), telephone number and email address to mrcoffeecollaborations@gmail.com, using subject line "#IWantItLatteSweepstakes." Subject to the Official rules which can be found here. Sponsor: Sunbeam Products, Inc., 6655 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30328.
About Mr. Coffee®
Mr. Coffee® is a leading manufacturer of coffeemaker and tea machines for the in-home coffee experience. Based in Boca Raton, Fla., Mr. Coffee® is a part of Newell Brand's global portfolio.
About Newell Brands
Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, FoodSaver, Calphalon, Sistema, Sharpie, Paper Mate, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer's, Yankee Candle, Graco, NUK, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Spontex, Coleman, Campingaz, Oster, Sunbeam, and Mr. Coffee. Newell Brands' beloved, planet friendly brands enhance and brighten consumers lives at home and outside by creating moments of joy, building confidence, and providing peace of mind.
This press release and additional information about Newell Brands are available on the company's website, www.newellbrands.com.
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Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid told teammates he will play in Game 2 Wednesday night against the Celtics, according to a report.
Embiid, who is dealing with a sprained LCL in his right knee, did not play in Philadelphia’s Game 1 win Monday. The team initially listed him as doubtful before ruling him about 90 minutes before tipoff.
Coach Doc Rivers did not sound optimistic on Tuesday, and told reporters that he assumed Embiid was doubtful. He said the plan was for Embiid to work out Tuesday afternoon — and try running for the first time since suffering the injury April 20.
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The 76ers took Game 1 without their star center, who was named league MVP on Tuesday after averaging 33.1 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game.
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 31, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Hanford CA
1251 PM PST Sat Dec 31 2022
.Moderate to heavy rain has fallen in this area over the last 24
hours and will continue throughout much of today. Ponding and
debris, such as mud and rocks, falling onto roadways have been
reported by CHP.
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of central California, including the following
counties, Madera and Mariposa.
* WHEN...Until 300 PM PST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1249 PM PST, local law enforcement reported heavy rain in
the advisory area. Minor flooding is already occurring.
Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Yosemite South Entrance, Oakhurst, Bootjack, Yosemite
National, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa, Metcalf Gap, Ahwahnee,
Wawona Campground, Jerseydale, Fish Camp, Wawona Visitor
Center, Wawona, Mariposa Grove, Bass Lake Ranger District,
Batterson, El Portal, Badger Pass Ranger Station, Bridalveil
Creek Campground and Poison Ridge.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — While there are two tropical storms out there (one in the Caribbean and one in the Atlantic) neither of these are expected to impact our weather here in South Florida.
However, we'll still see our fair share of weekend showers & t'storms due to heat, humidity, and the sea breeze.
Storms will likely develop near the east coast by midday today and tomorrow before a slow drift off to the west occurs during the afternoon hours.
While little to no severe weather is expected the atmosphere is loaded with moisture so heavy downpours and local street flooding is possible near some of the stronger storms.
If the long-range models are right, then a noticeable change in our weather pattern might occur by the middle of next week with very hot weather but fewer storms around.
In the meantime, keep the umbrellas handy this weekend. There are no advisories for the boaters or beachgoers this weekend but keep an eye out for scattered, locally strong midday storms.
MORE WEATHER: Radar |Alerts | 7-Day Forecast | Hourly Forecast
TODAY: Hot sun, storms developing then moving inland. Highs: Lower 90s Winds: SSE 10-15
TONIGHT: Warm and muggy, inland storms early. Lows: Mid 70s Winds: S 5
TOMORROW: Hot and humid, showers & storms likely. Highs: Near 90 Winds: SE 10 | https://www.wptv.com/weather/hot-and-humid-weekend-storms-likely | 2023-06-24 11:48:32 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/weather/hot-and-humid-weekend-storms-likely |
NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Alico, Inc. ("Alico" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ALCO). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Alico and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On December 13, 2022, Alico filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2022 (the "2022 10-K"). In the 2022 10-K, Alico "restate[d] the Company's previously issued audited consolidated balance sheet, audited consolidated statements of changes in equity and related disclosures as of September 30, 2021 included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2021 (the '2021 10-K') previously filed with the SEC and the Company's previously issued unaudited consolidated balance sheet, unaudited consolidated statements of changes in equity and related disclosures as of the end of each quarterly periods ended June 30, 2022, March 31, 2022, December 31, 2021, June 30, 2021, March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 included in the Company's respective Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for each of the quarters then ended previously filed with the SEC (together with the 2021 10-K, the 'Financial Statements')." The Company also disclosed that "[o]n December 12, 2022, the audit committee (the 'Audit Committee') of the board of directors of the Company concluded that the Company's previously issued Financial Statements can no longer be relied upon due to an error identified during the completion of the 2022 10-K." Specifically, Alico stated that "[t]he error that led to the Audit Committee's conclusion relates to the calculation of the deferred tax liabilities for the fiscal years 2015 through 2019, which resulted in a cumulative reduction in the Company's deferred tax liability, and a corresponding cumulative increase in retained earnings, of approximately $2,512,000 on the Company's balance sheet as of September 30, 2022."
On this news, Alico's stock price fell $2.64 per share, or 9.53%, to close at $25.05 per share on December 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Senate Republicans aired concerns Tuesday about former President Trump’s viability in a 2024 presidential election after a civil jury found he had sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters that he does not believe Trump stands a chance in a November setting but added he didn’t think the verdict would move voters.
“I don’t think it changes anybody’s minds, one way or the other. … I think people who support President Trump, support President Trump. People who don’t support President Trump, don’t support him, and I don’t think this will have any impact,” Cornyn said.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has long been one of Trump’s foremost antagonists in the GOP, argued the verdict is further proof the 45th president has no business being the party’s standard bearer once again.
“I hope the American people, the jury of the American people, reach the same conclusion as the jury of his peers, which is that Donald Trump should not be our nominee and he certainly shouldn’t be president of the United States,” Romney said. “We have other people who are highly qualified that could lead our party to victory, and someone who’s been found to have committed sexual assault should not be the face of the Republican Party.”
“I think that there will be some people, surely, who say, ‘You know, I don’t think it’s a good idea to have someone who’s been convicted of sexual assault to be the face for my children and my grandchildren and the world,’” Romney added.
A number of other Senate Republicans questioned Trump’s ability to win a second, non-consecutive term if he is the GOP presidential nominee next year.
“Of course it creates a concern. How could it not create a concern? If what the woman says … he’s been found to be civilly liable, how could it do anything else but create a concern?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters when asked about the verdict.
When questioned if the decision should disqualify him from office, Cassidy said: “That’s up to voters, I’ll just say that — but think about it.”
“If she were your sister, what would you think?” added Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump over his role in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “It kind of speaks for itself. You feel for Miss. Carroll, a woman should not be assaulted, period, end of story, period.”
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who has said in recent months that he plans to support Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) if he announces a presidential bid, called for a “unity” candidate in the party.
“The jury has spoken. And I know there’s a concern about, ‘what about our ticket,’” Rounds said. “I’m just looking for someone who will unite the party, and I think we’ll have several members who will unite the party and that’s what I’m waiting on.”
Trump maintained his innocence in an all-caps post on Truth Social shortly after the verdict was handed down.
“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!,” Trump wrote.
A number of Senate Republicans, however, declined to wade into whether the latest development will hurt him in the looming 2024 contest.
“I think it’s clearly up to the voters. They’ll figure out what’s important to them,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is up for reelection next year, told reporters.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said that he still believes the ex-president will be the GOP presidential nominee and added that Trump being found liable for sexual abuse will make the general election “interesting.” He said voters will have to weigh that against the “continuing pileup of scandals from the Biden White House.”
“That’s a choice that the voters make. … I’d be very surprised if he wasn’t [the nominee]” Hawley said.
Trump’s team has already said that they plan to appeal the ruling. Some Republicans leaned on that plan when asked about the Tuesday decision by the jury.
“We have the verdict and he’s going to appeal. I’m sure [there’s] more to follow,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said. “We’ll see what the appeals process brings.” | https://www.qcnews.com/hill-politics/senate-republicans-question-trumps-2024-viability-after-sexual-abuse-verdict/ | 2023-05-10 00:40:51 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/hill-politics/senate-republicans-question-trumps-2024-viability-after-sexual-abuse-verdict/ |
‘Pink Tax’ on feminine hygiene products, diapers ends in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) – Sales tax will no longer be applied to diapers and feminine hygiene products in Louisiana.
The “Pink Tax” exemption state law went into effect July 1, according to WAFB.
Items like tampons, menstrual pads, sanitary napkins and panty liners are now exempt from Louisiana’s 4.45% state sales tax.
“Ending the tax puts more money in the pockets of women and families who will spend that money in our economy, and it has a significant impact in the pockets of low-income families,” Michelle Erenberg with LIFT Louisiana told WAFB in a previous report.
The bill passed without opposition and carries a $9 million price tag.
Proponents have consistently argued that other essentials like food and water are exempted from state sales taxing, so these essentials should be too.
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No. 1 Tar Heels hold down UNCW in opening win
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Caleb Love and RJ Davis scored 17 points apiece and No. 1 North Carolina began a season of grand expectations by pulling away from UNC Wilmington with a 69-56 victory Monday night.
Armando Bacot added 16 points and nine rebounds for the Tar Heels, who were perhaps most impressive at the defensive end. UNCW shot just 29.8 % from the field.
The Tar Heels, who were the NCAA Tournament runner-up in April, began the new season with the top ranking for the first time in seven years. It’s a record 10th time that North Carolina has been ranked No. 1 to start a season – one more than rival Duke.
Trazarien White scored 19 points for UNCW, which faced a top-ranked team for the first time in program history. Skykeim Phillips had 11 points and Donovan Newby added 10. The Seahawks went 4-for-16 on 3-pointers.
North Carolina led 32-21 at halftime behind Davis’ 11 points, but it wasn’t easy.
It was tied 17-17 with six minutes to go in the first half before a 12-2 run for the Tar Heels, who missed 10 of their first 14 shots prior to that spurt.
The Tar Heels have won their first game of a season for 18 years in a row. North Carolina has won 21 consecutive Smith Center openers.
North Carolina reserves managed only six points. UNCW held a 37-32 rebounding edge.
BIG PICTURE
UNCW: The Seahawks were competitive for most of the game and provided a good deal of the physicality in the game. They pulled in 16 offensive rebounds, though they had lots of opportunities for those considering their horrid shooting touch. It was probably a good barometer for the Seahawks while they fell to 0-6 all-time vs. North Carolina.
North Carolina: This wasn’t the smoothest performance for the Tar Heels, but they’ll have time to address glitches as they’ll play their first four games at home. With four starters returning from last season’s team, there’s plenty of experience in the lineup. Northwestern transfer Pete Nance completed the starting five. This was the 47th straight win against in-state, non-conference competition for the Tar Heels.
UP NEXT
UNCW: Friday at home vs. Allen
North Carolina: Friday at home vs. College of Charleston
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ST. GABRIEL, La. (AP) — A guard at Louisiana's second-largest prison has been arrested after she allegedly falsified records following an inmate's suicide.
Iberville Parish sheriff's deputies arrested Master Sgt. Samantha Joubert, 28, of Baton Rouge, on Tuesday for malfeasance in office and injuring public records for allegedly falsifying public documents. It as unknown if she has an attorney who could speak on her behalf.
Joubert, who has worked at Elayne Hunt Correctional Center since 2018, was suspended pending the investigation, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said.
According to the department, an inmate committed suicide at the prison on June 2. During the investigation of the death, it was discovered that Joubert wrote in the cellblock logbook that she had made routine rounds at the prison when she had not, officials said.
The department, in a news release, said it turned over its findings to the sheriff’s office and Joubert was arrested.
The arrest was the second of an Elayn Hunt employee in the past month. A department spokesperson said Friday that the prison’s warden, Kirt Guerin, had been arrested by Louisiana state troopers on Memorial Day after crashing his state-issued vehicle while under the influence of an unnamed pain medication, the department said.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. (WISH) — An 18-year-old Whiteland man has been arrested in connection with the Thursday morning shooting death of a 16-year-old Whiteland Community High School sophomore, the Johnson County sheriff says.
Temario Stokes Jr. was shot and killed while waiting for a school bus in Greenwood, the city’s police department says.
Tyrique Radford El was arrested by Greenwood police on Thursday on a preliminary charge of murder. He’s in the Johnson County Jail, says Sheriff Duane Burgess.
Greenwood police said in a Facebook post that Temario was “specifically targeted” while he standing at the bus stop at Providence Drive and Winterwood Drive in the Summerfield Housing addition. The shooting is believed to be an isolated incident.
A statement from the Clark-Pleasant school district indicates the shooting involved a dispute. “Young people need to know that differences can be settled in other ways and that violence is never the appropriate response to any dispute,” the statement said in part.
Greenwood Police Department said Thursday afternoon that it would release no more information until a news conference at 11 a.m. Friday at the Greenwood City Center. WISH-TV will air the news conference live, and also livestream it on the WISH-TV app and on WISHTV.com/live-stream.
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Parents of Whiteland sophomore: ‘He wasn’t a bad kid’
Temario and his family had just moved to Johnson County a few months ago His mother, Tiera Evrin Montgomery, said her son was getting along well at the school and had given her no reason to worry. Seconds after her son left the house Thursday morning, she heard gunfire.
Just before 7 a.m. Thursday, Temario was standing at the corner waiting for the bus when police say someone wearing a black hoodie got out of a car and fired several rounds. Police believe the attack was deliberate, and Stokes was the target.
Montgomery said, “When I heard the shots I ran outside and seen my son laying on the ground, shot multiple times.”
The mother added, “I thought it was going to be a regular day … my baby went to school and he would come home. I just cooked last night, made him a pot of greens because that is what he liked, and I’m thinking my baby is going to return home, and he didn’t even get to make it school. The only thing I have to say to the suspect is you didn’t have to do my baby like that. You took my heart right out of my chest, and I hope you find peace within yourself.”
She didn’t see the person that shot her son. She didn’t see a car pull away. She did see her son on the ground. Her grief was too much to talk about the person that pulled the trigger. Her friends and family stood beside her in support as she talked with the gathered news media.
The 16-year-old’s father, Temario Stokes Sr., paints a picture of his son as looking forward to a future working alongside of his dad. “Landscaping. ‘Daddy get me a mower. Let’s do landscaping.’ He wasn’t a bad kid. All kids make bad decisions at one time, but he wasn’t a bad kid. He didn’t deserve this,” Stokes Sr. said.
I-Team 8’s Richard Essex contributed to this report.
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LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Despite it being one of the hottest days of the year in Lackawanna County. It is just another day of work for Louis LaCapra of Dunmore.
The owner-operator at LaCapra Stone and Supply in Throop was outside all day long filling orders as the sun takes its toll.
"I'm one guy and when you got five guys loading in, a lot of people get impatient sometimes in the heat," said Louis LaCapra. "They get a little frustrated...You just got to tell them I'll be right with you and do the best I could."
His family's stone yard in Throop sells construction materials, mulch, and gravel for businesses all over the area.
So, a day off because of the heat is not an option.
"They rely on us to be open whether they need topsoil or mulch we are supposed to be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and we got to be here to supply them," said Louis.
It's not just Louis who is feeling the heat. Other landscapers and the occasional customer are also looking to make some home improvements, sweating it out on a hot day with temperatures in the upper 90s.
David, a Landscaper from Scranton, came to pick up a trailer full of dark brown mulch for a job he's planning to finish up today.
"The jobs got to get done. We are willing to push that extra mile to do what we got to do, but the heat takes its toll, and we have to work through it," said David.
As the day goes on and the equipment keeps running, Louis's brother Rocco LaCapra returns from a morning of deliveries in his air-conditioned truck with a few tips for beating this late summer heat.
"Stay hydrated; try to break up your day into little breaks," said Rocco. "You know, let yourself rest for five, ten minutes. It's hot and the heat takes it right out of you."
With his brother's advice in mind and his water bottle in hand, Louis hopped in his machine and continued his day, helping customers no matter the forecast.
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Man accused of killing and dismembering wife shot and killed by police
BURTON, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) - A Burton man who was accused of killing and dismembering his wife was shot and killed by police.
The Burton Police Department responded to Kings Lane Apartments for a welfare check about 7:20 p.m. Saturday.
Police were given information that a woman was dead inside the apartment, Burton Police Chief Brian Ross said.
Upon arrival, officers found garbage bags that contained human body parts inside the bathtub of the apartment, Ross said.
After an investigation, police determined 44-year-old Tony Roy killed his wife, 41-year-old Shauna Roy, and then dismembered her body, Ross said, adding Tony Roy placed her body parts in garbage bags and left them in the apartment.
An arrest warrant was issued for Tony Roy on Monday.
Michigan State Police attempted to arrest Tony Roy in Detroit on that warrant during a traffic stop at 11:40 p.m. Monday, but he met officers with a firearm, Ross said.
Michigan State Police said Tony Roy pointed the gun at himself and then at a female passenger who was in the car with him. As he pointed the gun toward the passenger, he was shot by multiple troopers, the state police said.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
The passenger suffered minor injuries from glass fragments, authorities said.
The officer-involved shooting is being investigated by the Detroit Police Department.
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MINNEAPOLIS, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A settlement has been reached in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed on behalf of Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs with Defendant Smithfield Foods, Inc. and related or affiliated entities ("Smithfield" or "Settling Defendant"). The Settlement requires Smithfield to pay $42,000,000. There will be no payments to the Settlement Class at this time. You will be notified later of an opportunity to file a claim. Before any money is paid, the Court will hold a hearing to decide whether to approve the Settlement.
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota authorized this notice. This Court ordered notice may affect your rights. Please read this notice carefully.
For settlement purposes, members of the Settlement Class are defined as all entities who indirectly purchased Pork from Defendants or co-conspirators or their respective subsidiaries or affiliates in the United States from January 1, 2009, to April 19, 2022, for their own business use in commercial food preparation.
Only Settlement Class members in the following jurisdictions are eligible to potentially recover money from the settlement: Arkansas Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and/or Wisconsin.
For purposes of the Settlement, "Pork" means porcine or swine products processed, produced or sold by Smithfield, or by any of the Defendants or their co-conspirators, including but not limited to: primals (including but not limited to loins, shoulders, picnics, butts, ribs, bellies, hams, or legs), trim or sub-primal products (including but not limited to backloins, tenderloins, backribs, boneless loins, boneless sirloins, riblets, chef's prime, prime ribs, brisket, skirt, cushion, ground meats, sirloin tip roast, or hocks), further processed and value added porcine products (including, but not limited to bacon, sausage, lunch meats, further processed ham, or jerky products), offal or variety products (including, but not limited to hearts, tongues, livers, head products, spleens, kidneys, feet, stomach, bladder, uterus, snoot, ears, tail, brisket bone, intestines, jowls, neck bones or other bones, skin, lungs, glands, hair, or pet food ingredients), rendered product and byproducts (including, but not limited to, lard, grease, meat meal, bone meal, blood meal, or blood plasma), casings (including, but not limited to, mucosa), and carcasses.
In addition to Smithfield, the Defendants and alleged co-conspirators in this lawsuit are JBS USA Food Company, JBS USA Food Company Holdings, Swift Pork Company, Clemens Food Group, LLC, The Clemens Family Corporation, Hormel Foods Corporation, Seaboard Foods LLC, Triumph Foods, LLC, Tyson Foods, Inc., Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc., Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., and Agri Stats, Inc.
If you are not sure you are included, you can get more information, including a detailed notice, at www.PorkCommercialCase.com or by calling toll-free 1-855-867-0738.
Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs allege that Defendants and their co-conspirators conspired and combined to fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize the price of Pork products, from at least January 1, 2009, with the intent and expected result of increasing prices of Pork products in the United States, in violation of federal antitrust laws and various state antitrust, consumer protection and unfair trade practices, and unjust enrichment laws. Smithfield denies it did anything wrong. The Court did not decide which side was right, but both sides agreed to the Settlement to resolve the case and get benefits to the Settlement Class. The case is still proceeding on behalf of the Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs against other Defendants who may be subject to separate settlements, judgments, or class certification orders.
The Settlement Agreement provides that Smithfield will pay $42,000,000 to resolve all Settlement Class members' claims against Smithfield for the Released Claims (as defined in the Settlement Agreement). In addition to this monetary benefit, Smithfield has also agreed to certain injunctive relief and to provide specified cooperation in the Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs' continued prosecution of the litigation. No money will be distributed at this time. Settlement Class Counsel will continue to pursue the lawsuit against the other Defendants. Settlement Class Counsel may request that the Court award attorneys' fees and permit the reimbursement of certain litigation costs and expenses. Settlement Class Counsel will also seek permission to set aside up to five percent of the Settlement Fund for future litigation expenses to be used in the continuing lawsuits against the non-settling Defendants and will seek service awards for the class representatives. When Settlement Class Counsel's motion for fees, costs, expenses, and service awards is filed, it will be available on the Settlement Website. The motion will be posted on the website at least 14 days before the deadline for objecting to, commenting on, or excluding yourself from the Settlement. Settlement Class Counsel will ask the Court for attorneys' fees based on their services in this litigation, not to exceed one third of the Settlement Fund net of any expense reimbursement and class representative service awards, and will ask to be reimbursed for certain expenses already incurred on behalf of the Settlement Class in an amount up to $1,600,000. All Settlement funds that remain after payment of the Court ordered attorneys' fees, costs, expenses, and service awards will be distributed at the conclusion of the lawsuit or as ordered by the Court. You will be notified later, if and when there is an opportunity to make a claim to receive a payment.
You do not need to take any action to remain a member of the Settlement Class and be bound by the Settlement Agreement. As a Settlement Class member, you may be able to participate in (or exclude yourself from) any future settlements or judgments obtained by Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs against other Defendants in the case.
If you do not want to be legally bound by the Settlement Agreement, you must exclude yourself. Your exclusion request must be postmarked by September 3, 2022, or you will not be able to sue or to continue suing the Settling Defendant for the Released Claims (as defined in the Settlement Agreement). If you exclude yourself, you cannot get money from the Settlement. If you do not exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you may object to the Settlement. Your objection must be postmarked by September 3, 2022. The detailed notice explains how to exclude yourself or object. Details may also be found on the FAQs page of the Settlement website.
While this Settlement is only with the Settling Defendant at this time, the Settlement Class includes purchasers of Pork products (as defined in the Settlement Agreement) from any of the Defendants or their co-conspirators. If you are a member of the Settlement Class and do not exclude yourself, you may be eligible to participate in (or exclude yourself from) any additional settlements which may arise with any other Defendants in the case.
The Court will hold a hearing in this case In re Pork Antitrust Litigation (Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Actions), Case No. 0:18-cv-01776 (D. Minn.) on October 17, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. via video conference, to consider whether to approve the Settlement Agreement. You may ask to speak at the hearing, but you do not have to.
This notice is a summary only. You can find more details about the Settlement at www.PorkCommercialCase.com or by calling toll-free 1-855-867-0738. Please do not contact the Court.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Olivier Nkamhoua and Josiah-Jordan James each scored 18 points to lead No. 22 Tennessee to a 81-50 victory over Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday night.
The Volunteers (2-1) bounced back from a loss to Colorado over the weekend by focusing on defense and limiting Florida Gulf Coast to 30% shooting (14 of 46).
Zach Anderson led the Eagles (2-2) with 11 points.
Julian Phillips had 11 points and Jahmai Mashack came off the bench and scored 10 points in the second half for Tennessee.
Florida Gulf Coast went nearly five minutes without scoring midway through the first half. Meanwhile, Tennessee scored 14 points and built a a double-digit lead. The Vols led 37-20 at the break.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Tennessee’s miserable game against Colorado on Sunday, a team that lost to Grambling, dropped the Vols 11 spots in the poll, to 22nd. The key to recovery is finding a plan that can be implemented when they shoot like they did against the Buffaloes (25% from the field, 27% from 3-point range).
BIG PICTURE
Florida Gulf Coast: A season-opening win at Southern California was a step in the right direction for the Eagles. Since then, losses to San Diego and Tennessee sandwiched a win over Ave Maria. The tough early season schedule should pay off as they bid for the title in the Gulf Coast Showcase.
Tennessee: After shooting 25% from the field in a loss to Colorado, the Vols went back to the drawing board. They tinkered with the starting lineup, sending Zakai Ziegler to the bench — where the point guard excelled in his “sixth man” role last season — and put Josiah-Jordan James back as a starter. He was slowed at the start of the season after offseason knee surgery. Big man Uros Plavisic missed Wednesday's game with an ankle injury from Sunday's loss to Colorado.
UP NEXT
Florida Gulf Coast: The Eagles return home for the three-game Gulf Coast Showcase Monday-Wednesday. They begin competition against Northern Kentucky on Monday.
Tennessee: The Vols will be facing Butler on Wednesday in the first game of the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP)Marcus Carr scored 20 points, Sir’Jabari Rice added 18 and No. 10 Texas rallied again in the second half Saturday night to beat Texas Tech 72-70, snapping the Red Raiders’ four-game win streak on the Longhorns’ home court.
Carr’s off-balance 3-pointer to beat the shot clock early in the second half started a 20-4 Texas run that pulled the Longhorns out of a 10-point deficit. Texas had rallied from 18 down against TCU a few days earlier, the program’s biggest comeback victory in a decade.
Brock Cunningham’s 3-pointer with 1:09 to play put Texas ahead 63-58 and Timmy Allen followed with a three-point play. Rice, whose 3-pointer pulled Texas even in the rally, combined with Carr to make four three throws over the final 15 seconds to close out the victory.
Allen scored 17 for the Longhorns (15-2, 4-1 Big 12). Carr, Rice and Allen scored 40 of Texas’ 47 points in the second half.
”We knew this was going to be a tough game We were going to get their best game,” Texas coach Rodney Terry said. ”We were just a little timid to start.”
Pop Isaacs scored 23 points to lead Texas Tech (10-7), which played better after a 34-point loss at No. 14 Iowa State, but still fell to 0-5 in conference play for the first time since 2015. A season after reaching the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, the Red Raiders share the Big 12 basement with West Virginia.
”Our record doesn’t show who we are,” Red Raiders guard Jaylon Tyson said. ”We’ve been in a lot of games we could have won.”
BIG PICTURE
Texas Tech: The Red Raiders will rue a missed chance at a big upset, but they may yet get a boost out of this one for the rest of the season. Transfer 6-foot-11 forward Fardaws Aimaq played his first game after a preseason foot injury. Last season’s Western Athletic Conference player of the year at Utah Valley, he had 12 points and five rebounds in 28 minutes, but also had a key turnover late.
”He brought so much more to us in versatility,” said Tyson, who had 12 points and 14 rebounds. ”He’s going to help us tremendously.”
Texas: The Longhorns have survived a run of poor play in the first half of several games. The struggles have come with a rash of early turnovers and defensive lapses. Texas had nearly as many turnovers (seven) as baskets (nine) in the first half as the Red Raiders took a 34-25 lead into the break.
”I wouldn’t say we’re a second half team. We’re not trying to get off bad starts,” Carr said. ”We know, especially on the road, you can’t dig yourself in hole. I do like we’re still able to fight.”
LATE SHOTS, MISSED CHANCES
Texas Tech got to the free throw line twice in the final four seconds and trailing by three both times. In each case, the Red Raiders shooter had to make the first and miss the second, hoping for a rebound and a chance to tie. Tyson and De’Vion Harmon both made their first shots, but both times the rebound off the missed second shot went to Texas.
SECOND HALF SCORER
Rice continues to play the role of second-half scorer and ultimate sixth man. He’s scored 30 points in the second half of the past two games.
Starting guard Tyrese Hunter’s production, however, seems to be falling off. Hunter had no points and one assist against Texas Tech and has just 11 points in the last three games.
”He’ll find his groove. He’s too good of a player not to,” Terry said. ”He’ll be playing at a high level when we needed him to play at a high level.”
UP NEXT
Texas Tech hosts Baylor on Tuesday.
Texas plays at No. 14 Iowa State on Tuesday.
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AUBURN, Wash., June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Funeral announced today Nevada is now the seventh U.S. state to legalize natural organic reduction (NOR) as consumer demand for greener, more sustainable deathcare options continues to gain momentum. Championed by freshman Assemblyman Max Carter, Nevada House Bill 52 was signed into law by Governor Lombardo. Nevada joins Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, California, and New York in paving the way for more environmentally-friendly deathcare.
"Being part of bringing NOR to my home state of Nevada has always been about light in the darkness," said Assemblyman Max Carter. "I've experienced all-consuming grief and remember how a plan and a pinky promise from my granddaughter about how her Grandmother Bunny's ashes were going to be distributed provided the only ray of sunshine during an otherwise terrible time. Natural Organic Reduction and the comfort of knowing a loved one's wishes are being honored just may provide that ray of light for you or someone you love."
Earth Funeral applauds the new Nevada law and welcomes the opportunity to serve more families interested in NOR.
"Nevadans have spoken: they want a sustainable alternative to traditional burial and cremation. Burial inters millions of gallons of carcinogens each year, and cremation emits over a billion pounds of CO2," said Tom Harries, Earth Funeral CEO and co-founder. "Natural organic reduction, sometimes known as human composting, is a carbon neutral alternative. It offers a regenerative approach to deathcare versus one of pollution."
The Order of the Good Death, a funeral reform nonprofit, emphasized that Nevada's choice to expand funeral care options reflects current national trends.
"With the passing of Nevada House Bill 52, Nevadans have made it clear that they support the belief that everyone deserves the right to choose deathcare that is meaningful to them," said Sarah Chavez, Executive Director, Order of the Good Death. "This move reflects trends we're seeing nationwide as people are beginning to shift away from standard burial and cremation, to seek out more eco-friendly options that also reflect their current beliefs and values."
LEARN MORE ABOUT NOR:
- Natural Organic Reduction: key figures and statistics
- Answers to the most common questions about Natural Organic Reduction
- How does the Natural Organic Reduction process work and how is it sustainable?
- How can I choose Natural Organic Reduction for myself or a loved one?
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Headquartered in Auburn, WA, Earth was co-founded in 2020 by experienced funeral industry executives CEO Tom Harries and CFO Richard Benton. Its state-of-the-art soil transformation facility has a 78-vessel capacity and is the largest, most advanced facility of its kind in the world. Arrangements can be made at time of need, or years in advance, through Earth Prepaid.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CDNA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether CareDx and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 28, 2021, CareDx filed its quarterly report for the third quarter of 2021 on Form 10-Q with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). In the quarterly report, CareDx revealed for the first time that CareDx was the subject of at least three government investigations, reporting that: (1) the Company had "recently received" a civil investigative demand ("CID") from the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") requesting the Company produce documents in connection with a DOJ False Claims Act investigation; (2) the Company received a subpoena from the SEC in relation to an investigation by the SEC "in respect to matters similar to those identified in the CID, as well as certain of our accounting and public reporting practices"; and (3) the Company received an information request from an unnamed state regulatory agency. On this news, CareDx's stock price fell $19.34 per share, or more than 27%, to close at $51.00 per share on October 29, 2021.
Then, on April 15, 2022, CareDx's former Head of Community Nephrology, Dr. Michael Olymbios, filed a complaint in California Superior Court that provided extensive detail about misconduct by the Company and its top officers, including improper bundling of expensive testing services. Following the filing of the complaint, CareDx's stock price fell $2.86 per share, or roughly 8%, to close at $32.55 per share on April 18, 2022.
Finally, on May 5, 2022, CareDx announced the Company's results for the first quarter of 2022. Among other items, CareDx reported testing service revenue that fell well short of analysts' expectations and yet another decline in average sales prices for its testing services in which the Company's average price declined by approximately 4.9% versus the last quarter of 2021, or what one analyst described as "another big deterioration in price." On this news, CareDx's stock price fell $5.97 per share, or 18.5%, to close at $25.87 per share on May 6, 2022.
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A major space milestone is being planned for Monday morning in Texas.
SpaceX plans to launch Starship on its test flight from the Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica.
“SpaceX is targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The 150-minute test window will open at 7:00 a.m. CT,” SpaceX said on its website.
SpaceX got approval on Friday for the test launch from the Federal Aviation Administration, according to CNN. If all goes well, the rocket will orbit the Earth before Starship splashes down in the ocean.
Targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK pic.twitter.com/Ry25Uuvknh
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 14, 2023
SpaceX says Starship and its super heavy rocket is the most powerful spacecraft ever built, standing at nearly 400 feet tall.
The rocket was designed to be fully reusable, with the goal of taking people and cargo to the Moon and Mars eventually. That includes the rocket’s super heavy first stage which, like other first-stage rockets built by SpaceX, is meant to land back on Earth after launch.
Last November, NASA selected Starship to support a sustained program on the Moon with the Artemis IV mission.
SpaceX is also building a Starship launch facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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SOMBOR, Serbia (AP) — It was barely dawn when Nikola Jokic’s hardcore fans in his Serbian hometown of Sombor chanted “MVP! MVP!” and celebrated the Denver Nuggets’ first NBA title.
Denver trailed the Miami Heat at halftime of Game 5 but rallied to win 94-89, with two-time league MVP Jokic posting 28 points and 16 rebounds and collecting the trophy for the most valuable player of the NBA Finals.
Every shot, rebound or block the Serb center made sparked loud cheers and shouts in a decrepit sports hall in the small and otherwise sleepy northern Serbian city near the borders with Croatia and Hungary where fans watched the game on a large screen.
The loudest ovation came when the typically humble and stone-faced Jokic said in a post-game, on-court interview: “It’s time to go home.”
Soon, those fans who spent sleepless nights watching the NBA Finals will see him in person as he returns home to take care of his racehorses.
For the small Balkan state of just over 6 million people, June has been a month few will ever forget. A Serbian sweep gave Jokic his first NBA ring and tennis star Novak Djokovic a record-setting 23rd Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open on Sunday.
“It’s just amazing,” Jokic’s father Branislav, who runs a local harness racing club on the outskirts of Sombor, said in an interview. “I don’t think this great accomplishment can ever be repeated again.”
The stables are called the Dream Catcher after the name of the first racehorse that Jokic ever purchased years ago, as he developed a strong passion for horses and horse racing.
Not far away is a basketball court where Jokic first trained near his elementary school, which features a large wall painting of him in a Nuggets’ No. 15 jersey and an inscription: “Don’t be Afraid to Fail Big.”
Branislav Jokic, wearing a blue Denver Nuggets jersey, said that nobody could have predicted Nikola’s success as a basketball player as he progressed from a small-town talent, “who was a bit overweight at one point,” to moving to the regional league and then signing his first contract with the Nuggets.
“He had something special within him. I rarely mention it today, but I simply knew that he would be a good basketball player,” he said. “But as to what heights he would reach, nobody could have known then.”
Branislav Jokic said that although his son has trained hard to reach the top level, his mind was always set on a love of horses.
“He started growing, both in height and in size, and he started to become aware that he could be a basketball player, but he had a great desire in those days. He would say, ‘Dad, I want to become a horseman.’ And I used to tell him: ‘Son, become a basketball player first, and you’ll become a great horseman later,’” Branislav Jokic said.
Jokic became the lowest drafted player — 41st overall in the second round in 2014 — to win the MVP of the finals. He also became only the third second-round pick to win the award.
Jokic also became the first player in NBA history to lead the playoffs in points scored, rebounds and assists. With 600 points, 269 rebounds and 190 assists in total, he led in all three categories.
Jokic and Djokovic, once-in-a-generation athletes who grew up about a 2 1/2 hour-drive apart in a country not much more populous than Colorado, have been in the hunt to win titles and reach records that stamped their names in the history books.
“Sport is something that is special in Serbia. We have Novak, who is probably the best ever, Novak is the best ever for us, now we have an NBA champion,” Jokic said in a news conference. “It’s a very good feeling to be a Serb now.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — It has been nearly two years since the United States began pressing Mexico over labor rights violations by using rapid dispute resolution methods contained in the U.S.-Mexico Canada free trade agreement.
The administration of President Joe Biden has brought six such complaints and brags that, for the first time, someone is challenging Mexico’s anti-democratic, old-guard unions that have kept wages painfully low for decades.
But workers and union organizers are mixed on the results, saying it’s hard to build a real union movement overnight, and that employers and old union bosses continue to resist change.
The first complaint was filed in May 2021 about attempts by the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) union to interfere with a vote at the GM plant in Silao, in the north-central state of Guanajuato.
Under the pressure of the U.S. complaint — which could eventually have led to trade sanctions — Mexican officials and observers oversaw a squeaky-clean union vote in which the old-guard CTM union was thrown out, and a new, independent union won the right to negotiate.
The new union quickly won an 8.5% wage increase and more bonuses.
“On the economic side, the truth is the change came very quickly, though they were a little slow in giving us the increase,” said Manuel Carpio, a GM worker. Carpio credits the reformed Mexican labor laws and the pressure brought to bear under the USMCA complaint.
“I think that had a lot to do with it,” Carpio said.
Before, pro-company unions signed contracts behind workers’ back, and employed thugs to keep workers from questioning the contracts, or relied on the company to fire dissidents. Carpio, an early union supporter, said that before, it was impossible to organize.
“There was a lot of retaliation, but now we were protected by the law, that protected us a little, they couldn’t do as much against us,” he said. Before, “if we had tried to do it, heads would have rolled.”
Which is not to say the problems are all solved; Carpio said the new union, known by it initials as SINTTIA, has a learning curve, and has been slow to hand out benefits derived from union dues. And autoworkers in Mexico still earn as little as $300 per month, or $12 per day.
The new union got the minimum increased to about $14 per day, but that's still less than a U.S. autoworker earns in an hour. The U.S. government hopes one day wages will equalize with the United States, stemming the outflow of manufacturing jobs, though that's not going to happen for a very long time.
“That is very far away,” said José Guadalupe Alonso, a representative of the new union, who is still trying to cope with the fact that the old CTM union took everything down to the chairs and computers in union offices, and left the treasury bare.
Alonso has no doubt that the U.S. labor complaints were key to getting the new union at GM.
“What really made the difference here was that the U.S. government forces pressured to get certain things,” said Alonso.
But Alonso says similar organizing efforts at other area plants, which have not attracted as much international attention, are still often as hard as ever.
For example, an organizing effort by the same union at a German plant making automotive pipes and tubing met resistance recently. Alonso said that when Mexican labor authorities tried to carry out an inspection at the plant, guards told them they had the wrong address.
“Maybe we will have to submit another complaint to the U.S. government,” Alonso said.
Mexico's Labor Department says it is committed to making the country's new labor laws work. The reforms guarantee workers the right to vote by secret ballots, see their contracts and periodically approve union leaders, all of which did not happen before. But Mexico still hasn't built the labor boards, inspectors and outreach that would make it all work.
But the U.S. labor complaints are no magic wand: the best example so far is the VU Manufacturing auto parts plant in the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila,
It is the only place where the United States has had to file not one, but two labor complaints under the USMCA, asking Mexico to ensure that it’s laws guaranteeing freedom to organize are being enforced.
The plant, located across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, illustrates some of the uphill battles that organizers face in making union freedom a reality.
The VU facility is largely staffed by women who often work 12-hour shifts assembling visors, armrests and dashboard parts for cars. Their base wage is about $15 per day.
Piedras Negras is a relatively small, isolated border city where there is so little tradition of unions that the old-guard CTM union dominated the plant but never even bothered to ask the owners for a labor contract, says Pablo Franco, a Piedras Negras labor lawyer.
After the U.S. filed a first labor complaint in July, the company was forced to allow a vote, but they let the CTM union inside to try to cow workers into rejecting the new union, the Mexican Workers Union League.
“They spoke to the workers and they told them they couldn’t allow an outside union like the league in, that it would be better to go with the people they knew,” said Franco. “They (the company) spoke to workers, and allowed the CTM to speak to workers, to try to convince them. That was what the company did.”
Even though the new union won a vote in late August by an almost two-to-one margin, the harassment hasn’t ceased, and the company has been loathe to negotiate, said union organizer Julia Quiñonez, a Piedras Negras labor activist.
Quiñonez has been the target of a number of social media videos in which workers at the plant were allowed to leave the factory — in their company uniforms — and hold a press conference attacking the new union for asking too much in terms of wage increases: a scandalous $32 per day.
“No company can do that,” said one of the dissidents in the video. “Not even the owner has that much (money).”
Quiñonez disputes that — she says the new union is only asking for $19 per day — but says the company has refused to negotiate, and has allied with the CTM union to launch a smear campaign against the union.
“They say we are egging the workers on to ask for more than the companies can give, so they will close down and return to the United States,” Quiñonez says.
The company also allegedly severely limited the new union's access to hold an assembly in the plant, and refused to hand over information as part of the negotiations.
VU Manufacturing did not respond to requests by phone and email for comment.
The situation drew an unprecedented second U.S. complaint on Jan. 30.
"Despite this facility taking positive actions in 2022, some of the failures we identified previously appear to be recurring.” said U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Tribal leaders in Arizona said Tuesday they hope to build on the momentum of President Joe Biden's recent designation of a national monument in neighboring Nevada to persuade the administration to create similar protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon, which they consider sacred.
“This designation is of the highest priority to the Hopi people,” said Timothy Nuvangyaoma, chairman of the tribe in northern Arizona. “We have to protect the beauty and grandeur of this place many tribes call home.”
Tribes in Arizona are looking to persuade Biden to use his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to make the designation for a little more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares), or about 1,560 square miles (4,000 square kilometers).
The announcement during a virtual news conference came days before Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is scheduled to visit Nevada. The state is home to Avi Kwa Ame, a newly designated monument on a desert mountain northwest of Laughlin — the largest community in the remote southern tip of the state — that some Native Americans consider sacred. Haaland will join Nevada’s congressional delegation and tribal leaders Friday in Las Vegas to celebrate the move.
Biden last month also granted national monument status to Castner Range, located on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and moved to create a national marine sanctuary in the central Pacific Ocean around the Pacific Remote Islands.
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, a ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee and a Democrat representing southern Arizona, said the effort to have lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon named a national monument called Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni is part of a sustained effort to protect Indigenous sacred and cultural sites.
“Baaj Nwaavjo" means “where tribes roam,” for the Havasupai people, while I’tah Kukveni translates to “our footprints,” for the Hopi tribe.
Grijalva in 2008 introduced legislation to withdraw about 1,560 square miles (4,000 square kilometers) around the park from mineral development, after uranium prices spiked in 2008 and more than 10,000 mining claims were filed on public lands.
That move prompted the Interior Department to launch an environmental analysis of uranium mining in the area, leading to a 2012 moratorium on new claims on those miles of federal land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park.
Grijalva said that although the 20-year ban remains in effect, the national monument designation is needed to offer permanent protections against mining that could damage areas import to tribes as well as the environment.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent, and local elected officials also backed the campaign to have the Grand Canyon made a national monument.
Tribes and conservationists were startled in 2020 when a $1.5 billion proposal by then-President Donald Trump's administration to prop up the country’s nuclear fuel industry emboldened at least one company to take steps toward boosting operations at dormant uranium mines around the West, including outside Grand Canyon National Park. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/tribes-want-national-monument-protection-for-17891809.php | 2023-04-11 23:03:22 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/tribes-want-national-monument-protection-for-17891809.php |
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Valentine’s Day may be over, but the love for chocolate never stops! Chocolate lovers should be happy to hear that Dunkin’ has introduced some new menu exclusives to satisfy your sweet tooth.
This month, Dunkin’ has introduced some new innovations including the Caramel Chocolate Cold Brew and Carrot Cake Muffin, and it brings back the fan-favorite Chocolate Croissant and Member Exclusive Irish Creme Flavored Coffee.
Want to learn more about the new decadent treats this month? Here’s what you can expect and try at a Dunkin’ near you.
Dunkin’ Chocolate Specials
Caramel Chocolate Cold Brew
Love Twix, Milkyway’s or any other chocolate with caramel? If so you’ll love the all-new Caramel Chocolate Cold Brew.
Crafted with Dunkin’s ultra-smooth Cold Brew and flavor notes of gooey caramel and rich milk chocolate, this crave-worthy sip is topped with Chocolate Cold Foam and Cocoa Caramel Sprinkles for just the right amount of flavor and crunch.
Central New York chocolate lovers can fuel up with this dreamy build that doubles down on all things chocolate with this immersive cocoa drink.
Chocolate Croissant
Say “Salut” to the Dunkin’ fan-favorite Chocolate Croissant, which is back for a period of time on the new menu.
Enjoy pairing your hot coffee with this delicious, buttery croissant with three batons of chocolate tucked inside, served hot to order and perfect for morning, noon or night.
Carrot Cake Muffin
If you’re not too much of a chocolate lover but do love a good sweet treat, you’ll love the all-new Carrot Cake Muffin.
This muffin makes for a perfect grab-and-go treat, featuring shredded carrots, raisins and crystalized ginger pieces.
Complete with a drizzle of cream cheese icing, this dessert has all the flavor guests love with the convenience of taking the snack on the road.
Irish Creme Flavored Coffee
Feel lucky with Dunkin’ next month as you sip an Irish Creme Flavored Coffee.
The Irish Creme Flavored Coffee is back exclusively for Dunkin’ Rewards members in CNY just in time to be charmed this St. Patrick’s Day.
Dunkin’s legendary Irish Creme Flavored Coffee has a smooth velvety flavor with sweet crème and vanilla, enhanced with the flavor of Irish Creme whisky notes. Guests can enjoy this festive flavor in iced or frozen coffee for a limited time through March 21.
Dunkin’ Rewards sweet March offers
Not only can Dunkin’ Rewards members enjoy all these new menu additions but be rewarded with a new lineup of sweet offers. From March 1 through 31, the following is available exclusively through the Dunkin’ app:
- FREE Medium Cold Brew (including the new Caramel Chocolate Cold Brew) with any purchase*
- FREE Carrot Cake Muffin with any beverage purchase when you order ahead*
- $1 Chocolate Croissant with any beverage purchase*
- $2 Medium Iced Coffee, ft. Irish Creme when you order ahead, once daily
Guests who aren’t Dunkin’ Rewards members yet can join the fun by creating a free account on the Dunkin’ app or visiting dunkinrewards.com.
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Workers and Allies Protest Planned Layoffs, Attack on Organizing Rights
STOCKTON, Calif. , May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, May 31 at 10:30 AM PST, AAA Insurance Sales Agents and their allies in will rally outside of the company's Stockton, Calif. branch to protest the planned closure of the facility.
The workers recently voted to affiliate with the Teamsters and are in the midst of negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement. The branch is the fourth most profitable out of 70, indicating that the decision to shutter it is a clear retaliatory action. Furthermore, none of the affected workers have been offered jobs elsewhere, in a clear break from past practice on behalf of AAA.
Teamsters Local 665 represents over 5,000 members throughout the Bay Area in a wide variety of industries. For more information, go to https://www.teamsters665.org/.
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Matt McQuaid, (202) 624-6877
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Nikola Vucevic Player Prop Bets: Bulls vs. Heat - April 14
Nikola Vucevic and the Chicago Bulls hit the court versus the Miami Heat at 7:00 PM ET on Friday.
In this piece we'll examine Vucevic's stats and trends, helping you with your prop bets.
Nikola Vucevic Prop Bets vs. the Heat
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Nikola Vucevic Insights vs. the Heat
- This season, he's put up 16.1% of the Bulls' attempted field goals, as he's averaging 14.0 per contest.
- Vucevic is averaging 4.2 three-point field goal attempts per game this season, which is 14.7% of his team's tries from beyond the arc.
- Vucevic's opponents, the Heat, have one of the NBA's slowest tempos with 99.2 possessions per game, while his Bulls rank 20th in possessions per game with 101.3.
- Defensively, the Heat are ranked second in the NBA, allowing 109.8 points per contest.
- On the glass, the Heat have given up 41.9 rebounds per game, which puts them sixth in the NBA.
- In terms of assists, the Heat have given up 25.6 per game, 14th in the league.
- Conceding 13.1 made 3-pointers per game, the Heat are the 28th-ranked squad in the NBA.
Nikola Vucevic vs. the Heat
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Trusted manufacturer will display and demonstrate a range of innovative products at the leading event for plumbing system design professionals in Indianapolis Sept. 19-20
ROCHESTER, N.H., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Laars® Heating Systems, an industry-leading manufacturer of commercial, residential, and industrial water and space heating products, will showcase a selection of high-efficiency, innovative products at the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) Convention & Expo in Indianapolis in September.
Representatives from Laars will be available at Booth #601 during the Expo Sept. 19-20.
"ASPE is one of the year's best opportunities to connect with the people who trust and rely on Laars products," said Chuck O'Donnell, director of marketing for Laars Heating Systems. "This world-class event allows us to hear directly from the front lines of the industry and to present close-up, hands-on demonstrations of our comprehensive range of solutions for commercial or residential applications."
The ASPE Convention & Expo (Sept. 16-21) is the premier event for plumbing system design professionals, introducing attendees to game-changing innovations, profitable solutions, and new ideas that help them maintain their competitive edge. The two-day ASPE Expo (Sept. 19-20) is a unique opportunity to discover new plumbing technologies and practical solutions to plumbing design challenges directly from product experts.
During the Expo, information and demonstrations for the following Laars products will be available:
- Laars NeoTherm®: The Laars NeoTherm® boilers and volume water heaters are available in 12 sizes from 80 to 1200 MBH with 95%+ AHRI certified efficiencies and ultra-low NOx emissions.
- Laars OmniTherm®: The Laars OmniTherm® boilers and volume water heaters are available in six sizes from 1250 to 3000 MBH, with stainless steel heat exchangers and Laars Linc® intuitive controls.
- Laars Pennant®: With field proven reliability and intuitive touchscreen controls, the Pennant line of fan-assisted, modular boilers and water heaters ranks among the industry's most versatile and environmentally friendly commercial systems for hydronic and hot water applications. All Pennant® models are now standard with the Laars Linc® Control System.
- Laars Plate™: The Laars Plate™ is a double-wall plate and frame water-to-water heater constructed with a 316 Stainless Steel heat exchanger.
Visit https://www.laars.com/ for more information about Laars Heating Systems.
About Laars® Heating Systems
Laars® Heating Systems, headquartered in Rochester, N.H., manufactures and distributes products widely used in residential and commercial space heating, radiant floor heating, volume water heating, and in industrial process markets. For your home, business or commercial heating needs Laars® products are the quality choice. For more information, visit http://www.laars.com.
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei showcased the latest AR search function and On-screen Lens function of its mobile search engine, Petal Search, at MWC Barcelona 2023. These functions allow Petal Search to assist users by serving in roles like interpreter and product narrator, meeting user requirements for text, image, and object recognition across multiple scenarios including travel and entertainment. Based on deep learning and large-scale machine learning technologies, Petal Search can recognize hundreds of thousands of objects from dozens of categories in centiseconds, while also supporting translation between multiple mainstream languages. The search engine can quickly identify content on the screen, display search results, and then translate them, delivering a convenient and intelligent mobile search experience to consumers.
Constantly enhance AR search to expand application scenarios
According to Statista, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of global paying users of AR-related services reached 64% during the 2020 to 2022 period. This year, Petal Search upgrades its AR search capability. The function trains models based on hundreds of millions of data records to learn the abstract features of images and builds an online index library of tens of billions of images. This function, combined with the efficient and stable online retrieval capability, allows the system to complete retrieval and return accurate results in just centiseconds. The AR search function built into the app means that users do not need to take photos anymore when they want to recognize an object. Instead, they simply need to tap the visual search icon and point their Huawei phone camera at the content they want to recognize in order to receive real-time results. This greatly increases recognition speed while ensuring stability, and expands application scenarios. For example, users can utilize AR search to quickly recognize unknown plants while outside, or seamlessly translate restaurant menus while traveling abroad. Currently, the AR search function can recognize hundreds of thousands of objects, including celebrities, animals, plants, and landmarks. In addition, with the support of Huawei-developed optical character recognition (OCR) and machine translation technologies, many major languages can be translated into multiple others.
Aside from helping users quickly learn more about the world in front of their cameras, Petal Search offers the On-screen Lens function to help them discover even more. In general mode, this function identifies content on the screen and displays related search results, such as information about the object in the image and similar images. In translation mode, users can translate screen content and save translation results on the go, making browsing websites and reading news in foreign languages a hassle-free experience.
Aggregate tools, content, and services to elevate the one-stop search experience
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CONYNGHAM TOWNSHIP, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania State Police say human remains have been found in Conyngham Township.
On July 21, PSP released a missing person report for 50-year-old David M Lamb out of the Locustdale area in Conyngham Township.
Saturday night state police said that human remains have been found in a wooded area of the victim’s home.
State police note because of the nature of the remains and decomposition, a positive ID is pending an autopsy and/or DNA analysis.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific has become the second major freight railroad in the past week to back away from the industry’s longstanding push to cut train crews down to one person as lawmakers and regulators increasingly focus on rail safety following last month’s fiery derailment in Ohio.
The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad said in a statement Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the union that represents conductors to drop its proposal to take those workers out of the cabs of locomotives just months after it was pressing to test out the idea of stationing conductors in trucks in parts of its 23-state network. Norfolk Southern made a similar announcement several days earlier.
The Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that forced the evacuation of roughly half the town of East Palestine near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border after officials released and burned toxic chemicals is what sparked the renewed interest in railroad safety. A bipartisan bill that’s gaining support in Congress would require railroads to maintain two-person crews and make several other changes designed to reduce the chances of future derailments. And regulators, who are also pushing railroads to make reforms, were already considering a rule that would require two-person crews.
The major freight railroads have long argued that technological advances — particularly the automatic braking system they were required to install in recent years — had made it unnecessary to have a second person in every locomotive. And railroad executives had said they believed that moving conductors off of trains would improve their quality of life by giving them more predictable schedules and keeping them from going on the road.
But the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union and the other rail unions have long refused to agree to reducing the size of train crews because they believe train conductors play a crucial safety role and they want to preserve jobs.
The unions say conductors help monitor track conditions and radio communications while ensuring that engineers remain alert and respond to any emergencies or mechanical problems on the train. In the case of a derailment or collision, conductors are the first ones to respond before any additional help can arrive and they provide emergency responders key details about what a train is hauling.
Union Pacific Executive Vice President Beth Whited said the railroad will now focus on other ways to address the concerns about demanding schedules that workers expressed during last fall’s difficult contract negotiations. The rail industry reached the brink of a strike that could have crippled the economy before Congress intervened in December and imposed a contract to prevent a walkout.
“We are pleased that Union Pacific is focusing on quality of life for our conductor workforce,” said Jeremy Ferguson, president of SMART-TD.
Railroads have also been under pressure over the past year to improve their service because they were struggling to handle all the shipments companies want them to deliver. And the industry has been defending its safety record after eliminating nearly one-third of all railroad jobs over the past six years as railroads overhauled their operations. Unions say all those cuts have left workers spread too thin and made it more difficult to keep up with all the inspections and maintenance that are needed.
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LONDON (AP) — A committee of British lawmakers said Sunday that the U.K. will break its international human rights commitments if it goes through with government plans to detain and deport people who cross the English Channel in small boats.
Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights said the Illegal Migration Bill “breaches a number of the U.K.’s international human rights obligations and risks breaching others.”
Scottish National Party lawmaker Joanna Cherry, who chairs the committee, said the law would leave most refugees and victims of modern slavery with no way of seeking asylum in Britain.
“By treating victims of modern slavery as ‘illegal migrants’ subject to detention and removal, this bill would breach our legal obligations to such victims and would risk increasing trafficking of vulnerable people,” she said.
The committee urged the government to make sweeping amendments to the bill, including exempting trafficking victims and curbing the government’s power to detain people indefinitely. The government, which had pledged to “stop the boats,” is unlikely to heed the recommendations.
The legislation bars asylum claims by anyone who reaches the U.K. by unauthorized means, and compels officials to detain and then deport refugees and migrants “to their home country or a safe third country,” such as Rwanda. Once deported, they would be banned from ever re-entering the U.K.
Britain’s Conservative government says the law will deter tens of thousands of people from making perilous journeys across the Channel and break the business model of the criminal gangs behind the trips. Critics, including the United Nations’ refugee agency, have described the legislation as unethical and unworkable.
The parliamentary committee questioned whether the law would act as a deterrent and said it “could lead to people taking other, potentially more dangerous, routes into the UK.”
The bill has been approved by the House of Commons, where the governing Conservatives have a majority, but is facing opposition in Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords. The Lords can amend the legislation but not block it.
More than 45,000 people, including many fleeing countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Syria, arrived in Britain in small boats last year, up from 8,500 in 2020.
The government has housed many of those awaiting asylum decisions in hotels, which officials say costs taxpayers millions of pounds (dollars) a day. Authorities have said they plan to place new arrivals in disused military camps and a barge docked on the southern English coast.
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LOS ANGELES — "That 70's Show" actor Danny Masterson will soon face three women in a California courtroom who have accused him of raping them about two decades ago.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced in June 2020 that Masterson was charged with three counts of rape by force or fear.
Masterson is accused of raping a 23-year-old woman between January and December 2001, raping a 28-year-old woman in April 2003, and raping a 23-year-old woman sometime between October and December 2003, at his home, according to the district attorney’s office.
In 2021, the Associated Press reported that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo ordered Masterson to stand trial after she found the women's testimony during a preliminary hearing credible.
The Scientology church could loom large over the trial as the women, one of whom used to be the actor's long-term girlfriend, are all former members of the church, of which Masterson is still a member, the news outlet reported.
During a pre-trial hearing, Olmedo said, “this is not going to become a trial on Scientology,” but added that the church could be brought up to explain why the women delayed going to the authorities, the Associated Press reported.
Olmedo said the women could also talk about their beliefs about church policy, where crimes committed by other Scientologists are prohibited from being reported to law enforcement, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Opening statements are slated to begin Tuesday, the news outlet reported.
The 46-year-old has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and if convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/church-of-scientology-could-loom-large-at-that-70s-show-actor-danny-mastersons-rape-trial | 2022-10-18 17:37:25 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/church-of-scientology-could-loom-large-at-that-70s-show-actor-danny-mastersons-rape-trial |
If inflation and the cost of gas have put a damper on your summer travel plans, there’s no need to give up on vacation relaxation. You can create a vacation-like feel at home when you plan a staycation instead of an expensive trip.
Although a staycation takes place where you live, you can still explore and kick back just like you would away from home. Chances are there are many fascinating places to visit in your area. The right items will help you enjoy your local adventures.
Benefits of a staycation
Traveling is a favorite pastime for many people, especially during the summer months when the weather is warm and kids are out of school. However, a vacation far from home isn’t in the budget for everyone. Not only will a staycation save you dollars but there are other benefits to taking vacation time and not leaving home.
- No packing: If you take a staycation, you don’t have to worry about packing.
- Get to know your town: When you stay at home, you’ll be able to explore the sites in your city or town.
- Less stress: A staycation will eliminate the stresses of traveling and make it possible to spend more quality time with the kids, family and friends.
- More time for fun: When you aren’t traveling, you’ll have more time to enjoy your staycation and less time in the car or on an airplane.
Things to do on a staycation
If you think a staycation sounds boring, you may be surprised at all the fun activities you can do during one. Here are some examples:
- Explore local activities: A staycation gives you opportunities to try new restaurants, visit museums, take the kids to area amusements, see a play and more.
- Spend time outdoors: Whether grabbing your hiking shoes and taking to the trails or hanging out at a local park for some serious birdwatching, a staycation is perfect for being outdoors. Field guides and binoculars will come in handy while exploring.
- Try a new sport or fitness activity: Classes for sports like golf, tennis, yoga and more are available in many communities. Grab your fitness tracker and water bottle, and stay active while you enjoy your free time.
- Ride a bike: Regardless of whether you are an avid bike rider, riding a bike is an ideal staycation activity for all ages.
- Make your outside area feel like a vacation resort: Lights, outdoor decor and lounging areas will make your yard staycation-friendly.
- Include fun activities: During your staycation, congregating outside, barbecuing and playing yard games will make you feel like you are on vacation even though you are at home.
- Add a pool: Spending time in a pool is a big part of many people’s vacation plans. Fortunately, there are affordable above-ground pools that are easy to install in your backyard.
Best items for a staycation
Top items for exploring your town
[ Celestron Nature DX 10×32 Binoculars ]
Observing nature at your local park or on your favorite trail is easy with binoculars like these. They are simple to focus and provide vivid image quality. You’ll also get a collection of useful accessories, including a rain guard, lens cap, case and more.
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[ Schwinn Traxion Mountain Bike ]
A staycation is perfect for spending time riding a bike on your favorite trails. This top-selling model features tires with reliable tread, a suspension fork, disc brakes and 24 speeds for impressive performance.
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[ Yeti 20-Ounce Rambler Tumbler ]
You’ll love that this Yeti Rambler has a proprietary MagSlider opening that works with magnets to keep it securely closed when you aren’t sipping your favorite beverage. It’s constructed of vacuum-insulated double-walled stainless steel to keep drinks hot or cold for hours while you’re out on excursions.
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Top items to give your backyard vacation appeal
[ Newhouse Lighting Outdoor Edison Bulbs String Lights ]
These LED string lights produce an inviting glow that will light up your outdoor living space. They come with a remote that can be used to dim them to produce the right illumination level. You can connect as many as five strands to transform your porch, deck or patio into a cozy getaway.
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[ Intex Metal Frame Pool Set ]
If dipping in a pool is one of your favorite things to do on vacation, you may want to consider a frame pool for your backyard for your next staycation. In addition to being straightforward to set up, this Intex pool is 12 feet by 30 inches in size, which is suitable for several adults or a family. You’ll get a filter and pump with your purchase.
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[ Vivere Double Cotton Hammock and Stand ]
Nothing quite says you’re on vacation like lounging in a hammock. This one is ideal to set up in your yard, thanks to the included durable steel stand. The hammock is crafted of a strong cotton material that can hold up to 450 pounds. You can choose from a large selection of colors.
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[ Baden Champions Volleyball Badminton Combo Set ]
Lawn games add an element of fun to the time you spend in your yard during your staycation. This set includes components for indulging in some friendly competition in either volleyball or badminton. The included carrying bag will come in handy for storage or taking the set to the park or beach.
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An increase across all of the TASE's key performance indicators; adjusted EBITDA exceeded NIS 30 million and recorded a growth of over 30% compared to the same quarter last year
- 15% growth in revenues in the third quarter, amounting to NIS 86 million, compared to revenues of NIS 75 million in the same quarter last year.
- 34% growth in adjusted EBITDA in the third quarter, amounting to NIS 30.5 million, compared to revenues of NIS 22.8 million in the same quarter last year
- The adjusted profit in the third quarter reached almost NIS 8.8 million, a 10% decrease compared to the adjusted profit in the same quarter last year, mainly due to the increase in financing expenses.
Ittai Ben Zeev, CEO of TASE: "TASE is continuing its organic growth trajectory and has recorded an increase of 15% in revenues, an increase in all areas of activity and an increase of more than 34% in EBITDA compared to the same quarter last year. Despite the storms and high volatility in global markets, TASE is continuing to maintain stability and resilience compared to the world's leading stock exchanges, with an increase of almost 30% in trading volumes compared to last year, reaching a daily average of NIS 2.4 billion since the beginning of the year."
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: TASE) reports its financial results for the third quarter of the year ended September 30, 2022.
TASE is continuing to show strength compared to the world's stock exchanges in this volatile period as well. Share trading in the first nine months of the year amounted to moderate decreases in rates compared to those recorded on the world's leading stock exchanges: The TA-35 index and TA-90 index were down an average 9% compared to a decrease of 25% and 21% in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones in the USA, respectively, and a decrease of 23% and 27% in the EURO STOXX 50 in Europe and the global MSCI, respectively. The TA-Oil & Gas index was the only index that increased during those months with a rise of 48% due to the effect of the increasing energy crisis in Europe and the growth in demand for natural gas imports from Israel, together with the rise in oil and gas prices. Vigorous trading volumes with a daily average of NIS 2.4 billion was recorded on the stock market in the nine months, a figure that is 27% higher than the average volume in the entire 2021. The increase in trading volumes was due mainly to the volatility of the share prices and the increasing investments by foreign residents in shares on TASE, with NIS 12.6 billion net in January to August, 2022, further to acquisitions amounting to NIS 13 billion net in the entire 2021.
TASE recently presented a new strategic plan for the coming five years that includes 4 key objectives: strengthening TASE's international profile as a global financial center, development of direct activity with the end customer, assessment of the establishment of a location-based platform for digital assets (DLT) and the sale of technological services and solutions intended for foreign stock exchanges.
Based on TASE's goals, the strategic plan is expected to increase revenue CAGR by 10%-12% over the next five years, as a result of organic growth in activity. TASE intends to promote a restructuring that will support the implementation of the strategic plan; this will include a structure similar to that of other stock exchanges around the world, of a holding company under which various subsidiaries will operate that will be set up to implement the plan's objectives. TASE also intends to assess a program of strategic acquisitions and investments in its areas of activity and other areas of activity that will generate added value.
As part of the examinations that TASE performed in relation to the restructuring, TASE have received an opinion from a corporate law expert professor. According to the opinion, the amendment to the Securities Law determines that the historic TASE members that were shareholders shortly before the restructuring are not entitled to receive for their shares – as a dividend, in a sale or otherwise – any amount exceeding the shareholders equity of TASE in 2015. Therefore, the maximum consideration that the historical shareholders members may receive upon the sale of those shares must be adjusted for all the dividends that have been and that will actually be distributed by TASE, up to the sale of the shares. In accordance with the amendment to the Law, the maximum consideration receivable by the historical TASE members that hold the Shares is NIS 5.08 per share. To date, and pursuant to the opinion, the consideration is NIS 4.58 per share, in dividend-adjusted values. The difference between the share price at the time of sale and the dividend-adjusted price will be transferred to TASE and will be used for technological upgrades and developments of the TASE's systems.
Below are the key results of the quarter and the nine months ended September 30, 2022:
Revenues in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 86 million compared to revenues in the same quarter last year of NIS 75 million, an increase of 15%. In the quarter, a growth in revenues was recorded in all activities:
Revenues from trading and clearing commissions amounted to NIS 33.4 million, a growth of 16% compared to the same quarter last year, mainly as a result of an increase in trading volumes between the periods. The Company's trading and clearing revenues were impacted, inter alia, by the number of trading and clearing days. The number of trading days in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to 61 compared to 56 in the same quarter last year, an increase of 9%.
Revenues from listing fees and levies recorded a growth of 18% to an amount of NIS 19.9 million, mainly resulting from a growth in revenues from listing fees and an increase in annual levies due to an increase in the number of companies and funds.
An increase of 9% was recorded in clearing service revenues, due mainly to a rise in revenues from clearing services to members.
Revenues from the distribution of information and connectivity increased at a rate of 11% to NIS 14.4 million, mainly due to an increase in revenues of 6% from the distribution of information to business customers outside Israel, primarily in view of an increase in activity and changes in the price list that came into effect in the second quarter of the year. Furthermore, the increase in revenues from connectivity services and the sale of information through the API services lead to a 2% rise in revenues in each.
Revenues in the nine months of 2022 recorded an increase of 15% in the period, amounting to a total of NIS 274.7 million compared to revenues in the same quarter last year of NIS 237.9 million. The increase in revenues is due to an increase in all activities, with emphasis on a 15% rise in the trading and clearing segments and an increase of 26% in revenues from listing fees and levies, including the effect of a change in the estimated listing fee revenues for the recognized period, which is 3% of the total increase. We should recall that in the second quarter of 2021, with the signing of an agreement between the TASE and the Ministry of Finance, nonrecurring revenue in the amount of NIS 3.8 million was included in respect of listing fees of government bonds in the lending pool.
Costs in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 68.8 million compared to NIS 64.4 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of 7%. The rise in costs is due mainly to an increase in marketing expenses (4% of the total costs), an increase in depreciation expenses (2% of the total costs), and an increase in IT and communication expenses and general and administrative expenses that were partially offset by a decrease in employee benefit expenses.
Costs in the nine months of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 210.3 million compared to NIS 200.5 million in the same period last year, an increase of 5%. The increase in costs is due mainly to an increase in in depreciation and amortization expenses, marketing expenses, employee benefits and IT and communication expenses (1% of the total costs).
Net finance expenses in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 4.1 million compared to NIS 1.8 million in the same quarter last year. The transition to finance expenses in the quarter is due to a negative return of 2.2% on the Company's investments in Israeli government bonds managed in the marketable securities portfolios, compared to a positive return of 1.0% in the same quarter last year.
Net finance expenses in the nine months of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 12.8 million compared net finance expenses in the same period last year, which amounted to NIS 3.3 million. The transition to finance expenses in the quarter is due to a negative return of 6.4% on the Company's investments in Israeli government bonds managed in the marketable securities portfolios, compared to a positive return of 1.8% in the same period last year.
Net tax expenses in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 4.4 million compared to NIS 2.7 million in the same quarter last year. The increase in expenses is due to a rise in earnings before tax and a decrease in the fair value of the Company's investments in government bonds for which no deferred taxes were created.
Net tax expenses in the nine months of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 14.0 million compared to NIS 9.3 million in the same period last year. The increase in expenses is due to a rise in earnings before tax and a decrease in the fair value of the Company's investments in government bonds for which no deferred taxes were created.
Adjusted EBITDA in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 30.5 million compared to NIS 22.8 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of 34%. The increase is due to an increase in revenues of 15% as a result of an increase in activities and a rise in expenses of 6%, mainly in respect of the timing of marketing costs.
Adjusted EBITDA in the nine months of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 103.1 million compared to NIS 73.5 million in the same period last year. The increase is due to an increase in revenues of 15% mainly as a result of an increase in activities, offset by an increase in expenses of 4%, primarily in respect of marketing costs and employee benefits.
Earnings in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 8.7 million compared to NIS 9.6 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of 10%. The decrease in earnings is due mainly to finance expenses resulting from a negative return on the Company's investments in financial assets held for trading and an increase in tax expenses, which were partially offset by an increase in earnings before finance expenses, as specified above.
Earnings in the nine months of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 37.6 million compared to NIS 31.4 million in the same period last year, an increase of 20%. The increase is due to an increase in revenues from services, which was partially offset by an increase in expenses, transition to finance expenses and an increase in tax expenses.
Adjusted earnings in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 8.8 million compared to NIS 9.8 million in the same quarter last year, a decrease of 10%. This is while operating profit increased at a rate of 64% compared to the same quarter last year. The decrease in adjusted earnings is due mainly to finance expenses resulting from a negative return on the Company's investments in financial assets held for trading and an increase in tax expenses, which were partially offset by an increase in earnings before finance expenses, as set out above.
Adjusted earnings in the nine months of 2022 amounted to a total of NIS 38.0 million compared to NIS 32.0 million in the same period last year, an increase of 19%. This is while operating profit increased at a rate of 72% compared to the same period last year. The increase in adjusted earnings is due to an increase in revenues of 15% mainly as a result of an increase in activities, offset by an increase in expenses of 5%, primarily in respect of marketing, employee benefit and depreciation costs and the transition to finance expenses resulting from a negative return on the Company's investments in financial assets held for trading and an increase in tax expenses.
This announcement is not in lieu of the Company's financial statements, which include complete and accurate information.
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Opposition parties in Nigeria call for fresh elections as ruling party takes the lead
By Stephanie Busari, Nimi Princewill, and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN
Nigeria’s main opposition parties are calling for fresh elections, describing results currently being announced by electoral body as “heavily doctored and manipulated,” in a joint press conference in the capital, Abuja.
They said their parties would no longer be part of the ongoing collation process in the capital Abuja and added they had lost confidence in the electoral body Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, said a joint statement from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and African Democratic Congress in Abuja on Tuesday.
The parties called for new polls to be held under a new chairman for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“We call on the international community to note that the results being declared at the National Collation centre have been heavily doctored and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the polls on February 25, 2023,” they said.
‘Lacked transparency’
The election process has been dogged with controversy, and the announcement at the national collation center in Abuja has seen some tense moments, with opposition party members walking out of the collation center as the results were being announced Monday.
Several observers including the European Union have said the election fell short of expectations and “lacked transparency.”
“The election fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ reasonable expectations,” said a joint observer mission of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu is so far leading the race with nearly half of the vote already tallied Tuesday, according to the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) results.
23 out of 36 states have declared their results at state level. The leading opposition party PDP’s Atiku Abubakar is in second place, according to INEC figures.
Despite his shock win over Tinubu on his home turf in Lagos State, Peter Obi, the much-touted ‘third force’ candidate is trailing in third place.
According to INEC’s iRev results portal, 83.798 out of 176.846 polling units have submitted their results.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was also among those who have criticized the electoral process in a strongly-worded letter late Monday where he alleged results had been doctored.
But the government warned him not to truncate the elections with “his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the elections,” in a statement from Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.
APC has however dismissed Obasanjo’s allegations as “frivolous, unfounded, and baseless,” emphasizing that the former leader did not offer any evidence to back up his claims that the electoral technology was manipulated.
APC blasted Obasanjo’s statement as tantamount to “subtly calling” for “a coup against democracy and the constitution.”
The party acknowledged Tinubu’s loss in his stronghold state of Lagos and questioned Obasanjo’s queries into the outcome.
INEC meanwhile continues to announce results coming in, despite the criticism of the commission.
Meanwhile Yakubu asked any candidate with complaints to seek redress in the courts during a results announcement in Abuja Monday.
Yakubu says he plans to continue with results announcement despite complaints.
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Bladeless tower fans
As the summer heats up, the need for ways to cool off inside is growing. One of the best ways to lower the temperature and increase the airflow inside without wasting energy by turning on the air conditioning is a bladeless tower fan. Bladeless tower fans can help provide cooling air to any living space without the possible risk of getting cut or hurt that a bladed fan poses. However, finding the right bladeless tower fan for the specific needs of any type of room or living space can be difficult.
Bladeless tower fan features to consider
Before buying a bladeless tower fan, there are several factors to take into consideration. Especially when taking into account the varying price points and feature options available across the market, knowing what to look for can make a big difference.
Noise level
One of the biggest points towards a bladeless tower fan is how quiet it can be. Having a less noisy fan can make it easier to watch TV, have conversations with others, or even work quietly without being disturbed. Many bladeless tower fans have a nighttime mode for even less noise while sleeping or taking a nap.
Energy efficiency
Another big advantage of bladeless tower fans over other options can be the higher level of energy efficiency. Without the need to rotate large blades, the fans can reduce energy consumption, though some have more efficient settings than others.
Oscillation
For larger spaces, the ability to have air reach all corners of the room can make a major difference. Having an oscillating bladeless tower fan can help more evenly spread out air flow to a space, lowering the overall temperature or stuffiness. However, for smaller spaces, the feature may be unnecessary and more expensive.
Remote or voice control options
For fans placed in the far corners of large spaces, having a remote or voice control option can help change settings with relative ease. Especially for those who have trouble getting around, a remote or voice control option can make temperature significantly easier.
Six best bladeless tower fans
Best of the best bladeless tower fan
What you need to know: A top of the line bladeless tower fan equipped with quiet but powerful airflow that cools off any room.
What you’ll love: The remote control can magnetically stick directly on to the fan for easy storage and has sleep timer options. It is safe to be used around children and pets.
What you should consider: Easily one of the most expensive bladeless tower fans on the market at around $500.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best bang for your buck bladeless tower fan
Lasko Portable Electric Oscillating Tower Fan
What you need to know: At an affordable price, the fan still offers great air flow and a remote control for setting control from across the room.
What you’ll love: The nighttime setting allows for a quiet air flow for easy cooling without being disturbed by the sound of the fan.
What you should consider: Some users report loud fan noises even at lower settings and poor oscillating functionality.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Honorable mentions
What you should know: A sturdy and affordable bladeless tower fan with several different height sizes available for purchase.
What you’ll love: A remote control and 7.5 hour timer allow for easy use while sleeping or in bed.
What you should consider: With only 3 speed settings, the fan has significantly less versatility in power than many of its competitors.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Vornado 184 Whole Room Air Circulator Tower Fan
What you should know: A well-rounded bladeless tower fan with a stronger internal motor than other, similar fans.
What you’ll love: The V-flow technology allows for a wider range of air dispersion throughout a room as well as air flow up to 100 feet.
What you should consider: Users report difficulty cleaning the fan leading to dust being emitted after extended use if not properly taken care of.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: Equipped with all the basic features, this bladeless tower fan offers everything needed for an average user.
What you’ll love: Standing at 48 inches, the fan has a large air grill for a larger area of cooling and maximum air flow.
What you should consider: The nighttime speed setting has been reported to have an annoying noise by many users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: Thin and quiet, the bladeless tower fan provides cooling air with even less noise than many other devices.
What you’ll love: With three speeds and three modes, users can mix and match nine different combinations to find the perfect setting for them.
What you should consider: Some users report that the fan may accidentally connect to other remote controls, leading to mistaken inputs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the first multi-brand interactive virtual reality (VR) worlds, Tomato Galaxy, officially launched on Meta Horizon Worlds on December 30th. The project is led by Tomato US, a subsidiary of BlueFocus Intelligent Communications Group Co., Ltd (BlueFocus) (SHE:300058); with the world itself created by designers at Vidyuu.
Meta Horizon Worlds is a social VR platform where users can explore over 10,000 different worlds on Meta Quest 2. Tomato Galaxy is a tomato-themed world where users can interact with ten brands, including ECOVACS, Hisense, Lilysilk, Xtep, IQOO, Ugreen, Wave, Smileader, Moody, and OSOTEK.
Tomato Galaxy consists of four interconnected worlds: Spaceship Tour, Day Hemisphere, Night Hemisphere, and Tomato Eye. Players need to play mini-games and collect Tomato Energy, which is a key resource to activate the magical portals that connect the worlds.
Andrew Wong, Director, Head of Reseller Business at Meta, said: "It is one of the most complex worlds I have ever seen in Meta Horizon Worlds... it can be regarded as an interactive brand gallery and offers an enhanced user experience as well. This is something pretty new for Horizon Worlds."
Tomato Galaxy is more than just a virtual playground. Besides the fun gameplay, it offers unprecedented brand immersion. "Many brands have already built their own worlds in Meta Horizon Worlds, but we haven't seen any world containing multiple brands of different categories," said Joy Guo, Project Manager of Tomato Galaxy.
The immersive VR experience of Tomato Galaxy provides a new approach for brands to reach and interact with existing and potential consumers. A deeper connection between brands and players will be built through tailor-made mini-games. "With the aim of using innovative technology to empower our clients' business, BlueFocus has taken important steps into metaverse marketing," said Jiao Li, Vice President of BlueMedia and General Manager of Tomato Interactive.
For those who don't have headsets, an AR filter called "Tomato Together" has also been launched on Facebook and Instagram. "Through our dedication to metaverse marketing, we'll keep focusing on promoting creative campaigns and creating immersive experiences for brands and consumers. Tomato Galaxy is just the beginning," said Jiao.
With its vast industry experience, BlueFocus will continue to optimize its metaverse marketing strategy by connecting with brands and content creators and bringing users into the metaverse.
CONTACT: BlueFocus Metaverse Center, BLUENEO@BLUEFOCUS.COM
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- Fc enables early stage founders to build 'Enterprise Grade' from Day 1, by bridging the gap from enterprise tech ideation to marketplace entry and institutional investment viability.
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- Early stage enterprise technology companies and their founders can benefit from Fc's dedicated community of enterprise IT decision makers, executives and institutional investor partners.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Messrs. DelVecchio and Alberi have launched Fc, a new enterprise technology accelerator model. DelVecchio, former CEO and founder of an enterprise data company and technology research firm and Alberi, formerly a technology, media and telecommunications-focused institutional investor, have created a model in which all enterprise technology stakeholders can benefit. This is achieved by de-risking a founder's journey from ideation to market, improving the quality of solutions that optimize the enterprise technology stack and increasing the probability of accretive outcomes for venture and growth investors. Fc will partner with various companies on the spectrum from prospective founders up to and including growth companies that have customers, revenue and venture-backing. The platform provides a range of resources throughout the milestone-based process to companies and their founders, including validation-at-scale of their solution or product, mentorship from high-level enterprise IT decision makers, sales pipeline generation and access to Fc's partners in the institutional investment space.
"We believe how enterprise tech gets from idea to market needs to evolve. We set out to redesign the assembly line, by putting enterprise IT decision makers at the start of the process — and not just at the end," said Thomas DelVecchio, founder of Fc.
"Our motivation was driven by the goal to mitigate a founder's risk while enhancing and expediting their journey from concept to a legitimate and mature enterprise technology company," said Scott Alberi, founder of Fc.
DelVecchio and Alberi bring over 20 years each of relevant experience to Fc and their community of founders, IT decision makers and investors. Before founding Fc, DelVecchio was the CEO of ETR (aka Aptiviti) an enterprise data company and research firm that he founded and operated for over a decade. Prior to founding Fc, Alberi was a technology, media and telecommunications Portfolio Manager for over 22 years, most recently at Point72 and prior to that at Eminence Capital.
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Alabama leaders blasted reports that President Biden may block the move of the Space Command headquarters to the state over its abortion laws.
Alabama lawmakers voiced their concerns Tuesday over a recent NBC report that quotes people familiar with the matter saying the move was delayed over the state’s abortion polices passed last year that ban nearly all abortions — including for incest and rape.
“Alabama is the only choice for Space Command Headquarters — no ifs, ands or buts about it. The contest wasn’t even close,” Gov. Kay Ivey (R) tweeted. “The Pentagon knows it. And the White House knows it.”
“I’ll keep saying it, and Alabama will keep proving it until HQ is officially in Huntsville,” Ivey wrote.
Alabama Republicans announced in 2021 that the Space Command headquarters will be housed in their home state. The Space Command is separate from the Space Force, which is the military service responsible for carrying out the the actions of the command.
The Space Command is the military’s 11th unified combatant command, and uses forces from each of the military services to carry out directed missions in the space domain.
GOP lawmakers that represent the state also expressed their outrage in statements following the NBC report.
Sen. Katie Britt (R) accused the Biden administration of playing politics with the headquarters, saying that it’s in the best interest of national security.
“President Biden’s plans would irresponsibly yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics,” Britt said in a statement. “Huntsville finished first in both the Air Force’s Evaluation Phase and Selection Phase, leaving no doubt that the Air Force’s decision to choose Redstone as the preferred basing location was correct purely on the merits.”
“That decision should remain in the Air Force’s purview,” Britt added.
Rep. Dale Strong said in a statement that any change in location for the headquarters would be a “slight” against those serving in the military, and accused the White House of “bowing down to political pressure over what’s best for the military and national defense.”
“I’ve seen all the reviews and reports on the basing process — but don’t remember access to late-term abortions being one of the 21 criteria used to evaluate the sites,” he tweeted.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville also accused the Biden administration of “undermining” the U.S.’s readiness by delaying the move of the headquarters, noting that the headquarters “would be best served in Huntsville.”
The state’s lone Democrat in the House shared similar sentiments with her GOP counterparts.
“The White House should immediately reconfirm Huntsville as the headquarters of Space Command,” Rep. Terri Sewell posted to Twitter. “To change course would be because of politics and not merit. Surely, the Biden Administration would not allow politics to improperly influence this decision.” | https://www.wane.com/hill-politics/alabama-leaders-balk-at-report-biden-may-block-space-command-hq-move-over-abortion-laws/ | 2023-05-16 23:42:28 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/hill-politics/alabama-leaders-balk-at-report-biden-may-block-space-command-hq-move-over-abortion-laws/ |
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(KTLA) – Cineworld, the bankrupt owner of Regal Cinemas, said Friday that shareholders may lose all their money regardless of any recovery plan for the company.
The theater chain had announced plans to file for bankruptcy in September 2022, on the heels of what the company said was a massive decline in the domestic box office during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company’s net debt at the time, excluding lease liabilities, was $4.84 billion, Variety reported.
Cineworld now says it has been in talks with “key stakeholders” — i.e., people it owes money to — to come up with a reorganization plan as a pathway to exiting bankruptcy.
Cineworld, the world’s second-largest movie theater chain after AMC, also said it had received offers from investors to buy some or all of its assets, but nothing that would trickle back to shareholders.
“Based on the proposals received to date, it is not expected that any sale transaction will provide any recovery for the holders of the company’s equity interests,” Cineworld said.
Cineworld’s troubles may be a sign of things to come within the theater industry, which has scrambled to figure out a sustainable business model amid rising popularity for streaming services and home entertainment.
Last month, Cineworld revealed in bankruptcy filings that 39 Regal theaters across the country would be closing for good in 2023.
The theaters planning to close are:
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Tikahtnu Stadium 16 IMAX & RPX, in Anchorage
California
Berkeley 7, in Berkeley
Metro Point, in Costa Mesa
Parkway Plaza Stadium 18 & IMAX, in El Cajon
Escondido Stadium 16 & IMAX, in Escondido
Hemet Cinema 12, in Hemet
Sherman Oaks Galleria 16, in Los Angeles
Yorba Linda & IMAX, in Yorba Linda
Colorado
SouthGlenn Stadium 14, in Centennial
Meadows Stadium 12, in Littleton
Florida
Shadowood 16, in Boca Raton
South Beach Stadium 18 & IMAX, in Miami
Hawaii
Keauhou Stadium, in Kailua Kona
Illinois
Bolingbrook Stadium 12, in Bolingbrook
Round Lake Beach Stadium 18, in Round Lake Beach
Maine
Brunswick 10, in Brunswick
Maryland
Bowie Stadium 14, in Bowie
Rockville Center Stadium 13, in Rockville
Massachusetts
Fenway Stadium 13 & RPX, in Boston
Nebraska
Omaha Stadium 16, in Omaha
Nevada
Village Square Stadium 18, in Las Vegas
New Hampshire
Concord 10, in Concord
New Jersey
Hamilton Commons Stadium 14, in Mays Landing
Pohatcong Stadium 12, in Phillipsburg
New Mexico
Santa Fe Stadium 14, in Santa Fe
New York
Elmwood Center 16, in Buffalo
Ithaca Mall Stadium 14, in Ithaca
Cortlandt Town Center, in Michigan Lake
Union Square Stadium 14, in New York
Greece Ridge Stadium 12, in Rochester
Transit Center Stadium 18 & IMAX, in Williamsville
North Carolina
Beaver Creek Stadium 12, in Apex
Ohio
Montrose Movies Stadium 12, in Akron
Pennsylvania
Barn Plaza Stadium 14, in Doylestown
Oaks Stadium 24, in Oaks
Virginia
Stonefield Stadium 14 & IMAX, in Charlottesville
Greenbrier Stadium 13, in Chesapeake
Washington
Meridian 16, in Seattle
Washington, D.C.
Gallery Place Stadium 14
Cineworld, meanwhile, says it hopes to keep most of its global theater locations in operation.
Cineworld’s larger rival, AMC Theaters, so far has weathered the storm. But amid ongoing economic uncertainty and growing acceptance of home viewing, the industry will have to find a new batch of secret sauce to make average $10 ticket prices palatable for moviegoers.
Vivian Chow and Darcie Loreno of Nexstar’s KTLA contributed to this report. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/major-theater-chain-warns-that-shareholders-could-be-wiped-out/ | 2023-02-25 21:56:41 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/major-theater-chain-warns-that-shareholders-could-be-wiped-out/ |
PARIS (AP) — Loewe's thrust Paris Fashion Week into a bleak and dystopian vision of the future on Saturday -- turning its runway into a dead space where nature and animal life only existed to be harnessed and exploited by humankind. A sanitized white wall descended onto a bare deck as models walked by robotically, bathed in misty white light.
Here are some highlights of spring-summer 2023 menswear collections:
LOEWE'S NATURE MORTE
Models wore plates of television screens showing deep water fish in the ocean, and plasma screen visors beamed out growing chrysanthemums. The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by.
The British designer used the remarkable set and concept not only as a springboard for some of the most accomplished designs seen this season, but to make a thoughtful comment about ecology and humanity’s contempt for the natural world. If we continue, Anderson warned, that world will be destroyed and the only way to see bees will be on video.
The organic versus the robotic was explored in Anderson's conceptual designs that were intentionally off-kilter. A white minimalist sweater had surplus sleeves that flapped about limply at the side of the model, on top of white sports leggings and loafers sprouting 10-centimeter (4-inch) clumps of grass.
Bare chests and legs exposed vulnerability, while hard, square-strap bags slung across the shoulder added a contrasting fierceness. But the piece de resistance must have been the giant mustard toggle shoes that looked like the hooves of a horse but could equally have come from the set of a “Star Wars” planetary village. A tour de force!
THE ART OF THE INVITATION
The art of the chic invite is still very much a staple of the luxury industry in Paris.
Houses compete to produce the most eye-catching, inventive and flamboyant show invitations, delivered often by gas-guzzling couriers to each guest’s personal or professional address with little thought for the climate.
The little works of art sometimes provide a hint as to what a collection has in store; other times, they are just plain wacky.
Louis Vuitton’s sent out a huge board game -- something akin to a trendy snakes and ladders -- for its invite to a show plunging guests into the creative universe of the late designer Virgil Abloh.
For Dior’s bloom-inspired show, the house sent out flower seeds that one fashion reporter planted and have already produced sprouts.
But surely Loewe’s was the most bizarre: a limp box of real watercress growing in soil.
CRAIG GREEN IMPRESSES
British designer Craig Green, who was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II this year for his contribution to fashion, is one menswear designer who continues to impress.
On Saturday he brought his utilitarian-edged wares from London back to the Paris runway for an inventive, fashion-forward take on uniforms.
Green developed his cutting-edge aesthetic after internships with names such as Walter van Beirendonck and Henrik Vibskov, leading to collaborations with Moncler.
Dangling stirrups, straps, pockets and accessories saw equestrian and fencing wear in pastel shades deconstructed with a transgressive or even an aggressive edge.
Green blurred the line deftly between art and fashion. One DIY look -- with a top that seemed to be an upside-down sink with a builder’s ladder on the back -- also evoked an armor breastplate.
Is Green steadily taking the mantle of the late Alexander McQueen? | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/Loewe-s-presents-dystopian-future-at-Paris-17265304.php | 2022-06-25 14:58:25 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/Loewe-s-presents-dystopian-future-at-Paris-17265304.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office reported Wednesday that economic and job growth so far this year has been stronger than forecast in February, but an updated outlook sees parts of the economy as weakening through 2024.
The latest 10-year budget and economic outlook from the nonpartisan office shows how difficult it is to figure out where the United States is going in the wake of the pandemic. Many economists and investors were caught off guard as Federal Reserve interest rate increases, intended to combat high inflation, have not led to mass layoffs and a recession. Rather, growth and hiring have stayed relatively solid.
The CBO said it expects rates to continue to rise, as well as slower growth in the gross domestic product for the rest of this year and unemployment reaching 4.7% by the end of 2024.
In February, the agency projected that the unemployment rate would jump to 5.1%. It currently stands at 3.6%. The CBO now estimates that rate will end the year at roughly 4.1%.
Consumer spending is expected to flag later this year and labor force participation to decline as employers need fewer workers.
In a bright spot, inflation is expected to decline due to actions by the Fed to tame price increases, which rose at the highest annual pace in four decades in June of last year. The central bank has tried to reduce inflation by raising its benchmark interest rates. The Fed on Wednesday raised its key rate for the 11th time in 17 months, from roughly 5.1% to 5.3%, its highest level since 2001.
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Prosecutors: Sweet potato links suspect to cold case murder
BARNSTABLE, Mass. (WCVB/CNN) - A man has been charged in Massachusetts in connection to a cold case murder, thanks to DNA, a GPS tracker and a sweet potato.
Forty-year-old Devarus Hampton was charged Monday. The charges come 12 years to the day after Todd Lampley was found shot to death in 2011.
The lead that resulted in Hampton’s arrest was a phone tied to the name Marlo Stanfield, a fictional character in the HBO series “The Wire.”
In the show, a potato was used as a silencer.
Investigators found a sweet potato at the real scene of Lampley’s murder.
According to officials, the sweet potato had Hampton’s DNA on it.
Prosecutors say they can place Hampton at the home at the time of the murder because of data from a GPS monitor he was wearing due to a previous crime.
They also say GPS tracking puts him at a pond where a gun was later recovered.
Hampton is being held without bail. He has a court date scheduled for April 5.
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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP)Clemson’s top scorer PJ Hall will need right knee surgery and there’s no timetable yet for when he might return to the court, the school said Monday.
Hall is a 6-foot-10 rising junior who averaged 15.5 points and 5.8 rebounds last season, and led Clemson with 38 blocks – nearly half of the team’s 77.
He had an MRI on Friday that revealed a subluxation of the patella, meaning his right kneecap had slid out of place.
Hall had surgery on one of his feet in the offseason to correct a problem that had lingered much of last year.
”It’s unfortunate, but you can’t change it,” Hall said in a statement. ”Not every road is paved perfectly.”
Hall was expected to take another big step forward for the Tigers next season. Coach Brad Brownell said Hall will stay engaged throughout his latest rehab and help the team will his leadership.
”I know he will attack this latest obstacle with the same grit and determination that we’ve grown accustomed to seeing from him,” Brownell said.
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CLARE, Mich. (WRIC) — A former hotel manager was sentence to one year and one day in prison for filing false tax returns over the course of four years, according to the United States Department of Justice.
Harold Walls, 58, of Clare, Michigan, managed the day-to-day operations of a hotel owned by his father, Karl Walls, 86. He did not report to the IRS any of the income he earned working there from 2013 to 2017, the Department of Justice confirmed.
Instead of paying himself through the hotel’s payroll system, Harold Walls used other methods to receive wages such as writing checks to himself from the hotel operating account and using a hotel bank account to pay for personal expenses.
Harold Walls also provided the hotel’s tax return preparer with false and incomplete information from 2012 to 2017. This resulted in the hotel’s business income being understated as well as the among of property taxes paid to the City of Clare being overstated.
After the investigation began by the IRS, Harold Walls, as well as his father, obstructed the investigation through instructing hotel employees to make false statements to the IRS. Karl Walls plead guilty to obstructing the grand jury’s investigation of his son after he instructed an employee to testify that Harold did not work at the hotel and for trying to convince his tax return prepare to make a false statement to the grand jury.
In addition to his imprisonment, Harold Walls was ordered to serve one year of supervised release and pay $254,562 in restitution to the United States. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/michigan-hotel-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-false-tax-returns/ | 2022-07-18 14:39:23 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/michigan-hotel-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-false-tax-returns/ |
Entrenchment and conflicts of interest plague current Ceragon Board
Voting expected to begin soon, giving Ceragon shareholders the chance to elect new, highly qualified independent directors to ensure Ceragon pursues opportunities to create value
AUSTIN, Texas, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) ("Aviat"), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today sent another letter to shareholders of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) ("Ceragon" or "the Company"), in connection with the upcoming extraordinary meeting of shareholders.
Dear fellow Ceragon shareholders:
We have written to you previously regarding the destruction of shareholder value brought about by Ceragon's current management and Board. Most recently, Ceragon has rebuffed an opportunity to create value by refusing to engage with Aviat to negotiate a mutually beneficial transaction. While the Board continues to delay setting a date for the extraordinary shareholder meeting, we expect voting will begin shortly and want to provide more information regarding the opportunity you will have to effect change at Ceragon. We have proposed to increase the size of the Ceragon Board to nine, remove three current directors, and elect five highly qualified, independent directors who will be better able to represent the interests of all Ceragon shareholders and seriously consider all opportunities to create value.
Change at Ceragon is much needed and long overdue. Ceragon's entrenched Board members are not the right people to determine the future of your Company. The three directors Aviat seeks to replace – Ira Palti, Yael Langer, and David Ripstein – have close ties to Ceragon and to other companies founded, owned, or formerly led by Ceragon Chairman Zohar Zisapel, and as a result, lack the necessary independence to make decisions in the best interests of all Ceragon shareholders. We believe their presence deters transparent governance, frustrates value creation, and makes a mockery of the concept of an independent Board.
- Ira Palti served as Ceragon CEO from 2005 to 2021, during which time he oversaw the destruction of shareholder value. Mr. Palti is the architect of Ceragon's failed chip strategy, and has wedded the Company to seeing his strategy through. From his position on the Board, he has the ability to impede any efforts that current management could make to abandon his own failed strategy and pursue a new one.
- Yael Langer is General Counsel at RAD Data Communications, a company founded by Mr. Zisapel and led by his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, and has served on the Ceragon Board since 2000, during which time Ceragon's stock price has fallen approximately by 80%. With her own fortune tied so closely to Mr. Zisapel, we have little confidence that she would put the interests of Ceragon shareholders above the interests of Mr. Zisapel.
- David Ripstein spent nine years as CEO of RADCOM, another company founded by Mr. Zisapel and a part of the RAD Group (of which Ceragon is also a member). His loyalties, too, are more aligned with Mr. Zisapel than with ordinary Ceragon shareholders.
The Ceragon Board (including Mr. Palti, Ms. Langer and Mr. Ripstein) and management continue to ask you to patiently wait for a turnaround at Ceragon, but Mr. Zisapel himself seems to lack this patience. Look at what he does, not at what he says:
- In February 2021, Mr. Zisapel sold approximately one-third of his Ceragon shares, when the stock was trading at over $5.00 per share, well above where it has traded since. By selling a substantial portion of his shares, Mr. Zisapel has demonstrated his lack of confidence in the Company's current strategy and management's ability to protect the value of his investment. In fact, the company has not reported any positive free cash flow for investors in its quarterly earnings and has generated cumulative negative free cash flow of $29 million since Mr. Zisapel's sale. Actions speak louder than words, and Mr. Zisapel's actions contradict the narrative he and his Board cronies continue to push shareholders to accept.
As Ceragon shareholders, why should we wait patiently for Ceragon's strategy to generate value, when the Company's own Chairman has made efforts to minimize his financial exposure to the failure of Ceragon's standalone strategy?
In contrast to these three current Ceragon directors, Aviat's five nominees have the expertise and independence needed to turn Ceragon around. All five nominees – Michelle R. Clayman, Paul Delson, Jonathan F. Foster, Dennis Sadlowski, and Craig Weinstock – are seasoned leaders in their respective fields and have extensive experience leading and advising companies across sectors (including technology, financial services, industrials, manufacturing, energy, and hospitality) and situations (including corporate finance, M&A, restructurings, financing transactions, and more). You can read more about the qualifications of the nominees in our June 27, 2022 press release.
In addition to bringing strong operational and financial expertise to the Company, Aviat Networks is confident these directors will carefully evaluate our proposal to acquire Ceragon, which would deliver immediate and certain value – at a premium – to shareholders, and recognize that we offer a significant opportunity to build a leading global wireless transport specialist that is best positioned for future growth and innovation.
Ceragon shareholders have waited far too long for the Company to create meaningful value for shareholders. The time has come to take action. Shareholders should receive information about how to vote their shares soon. When you do, please immediately complete and return Aviat's GOLD proxy card, voting FOR our proposals to expand the Board, remove Mr. Zisapel's cronies from the Board, and elect all five of the Aviat nominees, who will bring fresh unbiased and objective perspectives to Ceragon, seriously consider all value creation opportunities, and commit to correcting Ceragon's downward trajectory.
Sincerely,
Aviat Networks
President and Chief Executive Officer
About Aviat Networks, Inc.
Aviat Networks, Inc. is the leading expert in wireless transport solutions and works to provide dependable products, services and support to its customers. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high-performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com or connect with Aviat Networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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The information contained in this document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, without limitations, statements regarding the proposed transaction between Aviat and Ceragon, the results of the requested extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Ceragon and Ceragon's actions in connection therewith. All statements, trend analyses and other information contained herein regarding the foregoing beliefs and expectations, as well as about the markets for the services and products of Aviat and trends in revenue, and other statements identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including, without limitation, "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "will," "see," "continue," "delivering," "view," and "intend," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, forward-looking statements are based on estimates reflecting the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the senior management of Aviat regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should therefore be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in this document. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in the forward-looking statements include the following:
- the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and cash flows;
- continued price and margin erosion as a result of increased competition in the microwave transmission industry;
- our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of any proposed or recent acquisitions, including our proposed transaction with Ceragon, within the anticipated timeframe or at all, including the risk that proposed or recent acquisitions will not be integrated successfully;
- the results of the extraordinary general meeting of Ceragon's shareholders;
- the impact of the volume, timing, and customer, product, and geographic mix of our product orders;
- the timing of our receipt of payment for products or services from our customers;
- our ability to meet projected new product development dates or anticipated cost reductions of new products;
- our suppliers' inability to perform and deliver on time as a result of their financial condition, component shortages, the effects of COVID-19 or other supply chain constraints;
- the effects of inflation and the timing and extent of changes in the prices and overall demand for and availability of our inputs;
- customer acceptance of new products;
- the ability of our subcontractors to timely perform;
- weakness in the global economy affecting customer spending;
- retention of our key personnel;
- our ability to manage and maintain key customer relationships;
- uncertain economic conditions in the telecommunications sector combined with operator and supplier consolidation;
- our failure to protect our Intellectual property rights or defend against Intellectual property infringement claims by others;
- the results of our restructuring efforts;
- the ability to preserve and use our net operating loss carryforwards;
- the effects of currency and interest rate risks;
- the effects of current and future government regulations, including the effects of current restrictions on various commercial and economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- general economic conditions, including uncertainty regarding the timing, pace and extent of an economic recovery in the United States and other countries where we conduct business;
- the conduct of unethical business practices in developing countries;
- the impact of political turmoil in countries where we have significant business;
- the impact of tariffs, the adoption of trade restrictions affecting our products or suppliers, a United States withdrawal from or significant renegotiation of trade agreements, the occurrence of trade wars, the closing of border crossings, and other changes in trade regulations or relationships; and
- Aviat's ability to implement our stock repurchase program or the extent to which it enhances long-term stockholder value.
For more information regarding the risks and uncertainties for Aviat's business, see "Risk Factors" in Aviat's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 25, 2021 as well as other reports filed by Aviat with the SEC from time to time. Aviat does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.
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This document does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor will there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer or sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities will be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933 or an exemption therefrom.
In connection with any transaction between Aviat and Ceragon that involves the issuance of Aviat shares to the Ceragon shareholders, Aviat will file a registration statement with the SEC. INVESTORS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION. Investors will also be able to obtain copies of the registration statement and other documents containing important information about each of the companies once such documents are filed with the SEC, without charge, at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
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COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – The state rested its case Friday after lengthy testimony presenting a timeline from the night of the murders in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife Margaret and youngest son Paul at their family property in June of 2021.
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SLED agent Peter Rudofski presented a timeline comprised of over 4,000 data points aggregating and cross-referencing information gathered from cell phones, cell phone towers, and car GPS systems. The timeline recounts the movements of Alex, Maggie, and Paul Murdaugh the night of June 7, 2021.
Prosecutors hoped the timeline would place Murdaugh at the scene just minutes before Maggie and Paul are believed to have been killed. Several witnesses have identified the voices of Murdaugh, Maggie, and Paul on a video taken in the kennels at 8:44 p.m. Maggie and Paul’s phones lock for the final time at 8:49 p.m.
Murdaugh’s defense team aimed to poke holes in that theory, noting Maggie’s phone showed her walking around 8:53 p.m., and Murdaugh’s car showed him getting in at 9:06 p.m., giving him less than 10 minutes to slaughter his family, dispose of the evidence, get back to the house, clean up, and leave to visit his sick mother.
Throughout the testimony, defense worked to provide what they claim are reasonable explanations for points in the timeline that prosecutors claim are incriminating, hoping the jury will take them into consideration when analyzing the data for themselves.
After the state rested its case, defense called its first two witnesses to the stand. They began with Colleton County Coroner Richard Harvey, who confirmed that the time of death listed on the death certificates — 9:00 p.m. — could really be anywhere within between around 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. The second witness, CCSO public information officer Shalane Tindal, confirmed that her agency and SLED sent a joint press release the morning after the murders saying there was no threat to the public.
There will be no court Monday due to the President’s Day holiday. Defense is expected to pick up with a “lengthy witness” Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
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4:33 p.m. – Since the next witness will be lengthy, Judge Newman agrees to adjourn for the weekend and pick up at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. There is no court Monday because of President’s Day.
4:20 p.m. – Defense calls Shalane Tindal to the stand. She is the public information officer for the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office.
Harpootlian presents a quote attributed to Tindal from a Post and Courier article the morning of June 8, 2021. She says the quote was not directly hers, it was coordinated with SLED.
Tindal reads the quote, which was provided to News 2 at the time as well. The quote says that there is no threat to the public at this time. Harpootlian asks about the process of sending out that release. She says SLED and CCSO put it together in consultation with one another.
4:16 p.m. – The state begins cross-examination. State prosecutors point out that Harvey did not use a rectal thermometer, which is typically the best way to determine a more accurate time of death. Harvey says no.
4:04 p.m. – The state rests. Defense calls Colleton County coroner, Richard Harvey, as their first witness.
Harvey responded to Moselle the night of the murders. He arrived on scene at 11:04 p.m. Harvey took photographs of the scene, including in the feed room, before SLED had fully processed the crime scene. Harpootlian asks how he avoided contaminating the crime scene. He says he follows the same path in and same path out and avoids disrupting evidence.
Harvey says that he estimates the time of death for Paul and Maggie was around 9:00 p.m. When he got there, he put his hands in Maggie and Paul’s armpits to see if the bodies were still warm and checked for rigor. There were no signs of rigor, which sets in within about one to three hours, according to Harvey. He says it could’ve been around 8:00 p.m., it could’ve been around 10:00 p.m., but 9:00 p.m. is his estimation.
3:50 p.m. – The state rests. Waters asks for a brief recess for housekeeping matters.
During the recess, defense presents the motion for a directed verdict. According to the American Bar Association, a motion for a direced verdict asks the judge to “dismiss the charges, arguing that the government has failed to prove its case.”
Griffin brings up that the evidence in this case is exclusively circumstantial. Murdaugh’s mere presence at the scene of the crime is not enough to prove he is guilty.
Waters argues that the circumstantial evidence points to Murdaugh.
Judge Newman says that there has been direct and circumstantial evidence, and the law makes no distinction on the weight of value to be given to direct and circumstantial evidence. He says cases can be proven by either or both. Newman says at this point in the investigation, there is evidence to support a guilty verdict if it is believed by the jury. The motion is denied.
2:31 p.m. – Defense attorney Phillip Barber begins cross-examination of Rudofski.
He asks Rudofski how long the drive to Alameda took Murdaugh. Rudofski says about 15-16 minutes. The return trip took about 18 minutes. The top speed on the way back was faster, but the return trip took a bit longer.
Barber points out that SLED agent David Owen and Rudofski conducted a test drive from Moselle to Alameda. Barber says it took about 17 minutes. Rudofski says he doesn’t recall off the top of his head and would have to check.
Barber asks if when Murdaugh arrived home and drove up to the kennels, he could have illuminated the bodies with his headlights while driving up. Rudofski says that is possible. Barber points out that Murdaugh parked near Maggie’s body. Rudofski says he can’t say what Murdaugh saw when he pulled up because he wasn’t there.
Barber sets a timer for 20 seconds. The timer plays out in court. Barber asks if that was enough time for someone who had already seen the bodies to get out and call 911. Rudofski says he’s there to explain the data, not testify about hypotheticals.
Barber asks about a sideways orientation change on Maggie’s phone between 9:06:12 p.m. and 9:06:20 p.m. He asks if that means it would remain in landscape until the next change or if it went back to portrait. Rudofski says he does not know, he is not a phone expert.
Barber asks if every time Maggie’s screen went off and on was recorded. Rudofski says he is not sure, but he thinks everything should be included. Barber points to a screen on note that does not have a corresponding screen off note.
Barber asks if Rudofski was provided the corresponding distance data with the step data. Rudofski says no, he was told it was not reliable. Barber asks if Rudofski was told that the feet-per-step data was extremely consistent and likely indicated it was the same person moving, would it matter? Rudofski says maybe. Barber asks if anyone checked how quickly or slowly Maggie was moving at the time her phone last recorded steps. Rudofski says no.
Barber points out that the brief activation of the camera on Maggie’s phone at 8:53 p.m. was not on Rudofski’s timeline. Barber points out that other experts have testified it is possible to find out what caused that activation, but that no one has looked into it. Rudofski agrees.
Barber asks if Maggie’s camera coming on could’ve been the reason for her phone being taken and not Paul’s. He implies she tried to take a photo of the killer, so her phone was taken. Rudofski says that his inference is that the camera activated because it saw a face and was trying to unlock. Barber again points out the reason for the activation is knowable but has not been investigated.
Barber points out Murdaugh’s phone was at the house at 9:02 p.m. and then recorded steps, and Maggie’s phone recorded steps at 8:53 p.m. while she was out by the kennels. Barber says Murdaugh would’ve had less than 10 minutes to “do everything if he did it.”
Rudofski says that as an investigator, he does find it odd that Murdaugh made so many calls that night. He says that if it were him, he would’ve been in a state of shock. Barber asks if he would not be calling family? Rudofski says maybe he would be calling family.
Barber says speaking of being in a state of shock, Murdaugh appeared to do several strange things that night. He read a text from Michael Gunn, Googled the name of a restaurant in Edisto,, and called someone he had not spoken to in years. Barber implies he was not really aware of what he was doing.
Barber asks about Murdaugh calling Maggie at 9:06 p.m.
Murdaugh’s phone shows him being walking at that time and Barber implies he could be walking to the car because his phone connects soon after and his car starts and shows him leaving. Maggie’s phone was not in a period of steps at that time.
Barber asks if there is any evidence that the phones were ever moving together at the same time. Previous experts have testified that there is not. Rudofski says he thinks there is evidence someone was carrying the phones at the same time at 9:06 p.m. Barber asks if another explanation is that someone else had Maggie’s phone, saw Murdaugh call, and tossed it out the window. Rudofski says that could be Barber’s explanatioin. Barber asks why that explanation is any less viable that Rudofski’s explanation based on the data. Rudofski says it is all about how you interpret the data.
Barber publishes a May 6, 2021 Murdaugh sent to Maggie, which he says is in response to the text Paul sent about Maggie finding drugs in his computer bag.
1:07 p.m. – Court is breaking for lunch and is expected to return around 2:30 p.m.
1:01 p.m. – Prosecution presents several pieces of evidence seized from Paul, Maggie, and Alex’s phones.
The first is a text sent from Paul to Murdaugh on May 6 saying they needed to talk because “mom found some pills” in Murdaugh’s computer bag.
Maggie’s phone revealed that on May 26, 2021, she searched the internet to try and identify several pills.
On June 3, 2021, Murdaugh texted Russell Laffitte saying he needed to extend the credit line on the farm.
11:23 a.m. – Waters publishes the condensed timeline from the night of the murders.
The timeline includes extracted data from Paul, Maggie, and Alex’s cell phones, call records from Paul, Maggie, Alex, and Buster Murdaugh and Rogan Gibson, steps taken, Snapchat data, data from the PMPED building access log, and the GPS data from Murdaugh’s car.
The timeline starts at about 6:00 p.m. It includes calls and texts between Maggie and Paul talking about dinner, Maggie and Marian Proctor, Maggie and her mom, Paul and his friends, Alex and his law partners, etc. It also shows the family members arriving back to Moselle from their various previous locations.
Between 6:52 p.m. and 9:04 p.m., there was no cell-pinging activity on Murdaugh’s cell phone. There is step activity from that time period. Rudofski also notes that there are several calls on Murdaugh’s phone found in the extracted data that did not appear in his call log.
For clarity purposes, this blog will begin listing more condensed data points from closer to the time of the murders. Watch the video above for the full account.
Timeline:
- 7:14 p.m. – Paul and Alex’s phones note them both taking around 200 steps within a similar time frame.
- 7:25 p.m. – Paul and Alex’s phones note them both taking around 45 steps within a similar time frame.
- 7:39 p.m. – Paul takes the Snapchat video of Alex and the tree.
- 7:45 p.m. to 7:56 p.m. – Paul’s phone is located around the kennels. Around 85 steps are taken.
- 7:55 p.m. – Paul and Alex’s phones note them both taken around 270 steps within a similar time period.
- 7:56 p.m. – Paul’s Snapchat video of Alex and the tree finally sends.
- 8:05 p.m. – 52 steps taken on Murdaugh’s phone.
- 8:06 p.m. – Paul’s phone moving towards main house
- 8:08 p.m. to 8:35 p.m. – Paul’s phone at main house.
- 8:17 p.m. – Maggie arrives home.
- 8:23 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Paul is continuously in communication with friends.
- 8:30 p.m. to 8:33 p.m. – Maggie’s phone records about 42 steps.
- 8:31 p.m. – Maggie and Alex receive a group message from John Marvin Murdaugh about going to visit their dad in the hospital.
- 8:32 p.m. – Paul’s phone records 283 steps.
- 8:38 p.m. to 8:44 p.m. – Paul’s phone at kennels.
- 8:40 p.m. – Paul calls Rogan Gibson and talks for about four minutes.
- 8:44 p.m. – Paul tries to FaceTime Rogan Gibson.
- 8:44 p.m. – Paul takes the kennel video.
- 8:47 p.m. to 8:48 p.m. – Paul is texting back and forth with Megan Kimbrell.
- 8:49 p.m. – Paul’s phone locks for the last time.
- 8:49 p.m. – Paul receives a text from Rogan Gibson. The text is not read.
- 8:49 p.m. – Maggie reads the group text.
- 8:49 p.m. – Maggie’s phone locks for the last time.
- 8:53 p.m. – Maggie’s phone records 59 steps and orientation changes.
- 9:02 p.m. to 9:07 p.m. – Alex’s phone records 283 steps.
- 9:04 p.m. – Alex calls Maggie.
- 9:05 p.m. – Alex calls Randolph Murdaugh.
- 9:06 p.m. – Maggie’s phone orientation changes from portrait to sideways.
- 9:06 p.m. – Alex calls Maggie twice.
- 9:06 p.m. – Alex’s suburban starts and his phone connects to his car.
- 9:07 p.m. – Alex leaves Moselle.
- 9:08 p.m. – Alex texts Maggie that he is going to his mom’s house.
- 9:10 p.m. – Alex calls Buster for one minute.
- 9:12 p.m. – Alex calls Chris Wilson for less than a minute.
- 9:12 p.m. to 9:18 p.m. – Verizon cell tower data indicates Alex was traveling from Moselle to Alameda.
- 9:18 p.m. – Alex calls John Marvin Murdaugh for just under two minutes.
- 9:20 p.m. – Chris Wilson calls Alex for just over two minutes.
- 9:22 p.m. – Alex’s car transmission shifts. GPS data puts him at Alameda.
- 9:22 p.m. to 9:24 p.m. – Alex’s phone records steps
- 9:24 p.m. – Alex calls his mom’s landline for 20 seconds.
- 9:34 p.m. – Rogan Gibson texts and calls Maggie.
- 9:42 p.m. – Alex’s car starts, his phone connects.
- 9:43 p.m. – Alex’s car leaves Alameda.
- 9:44 p.m. – Alex calls Maggie.
- 9:46 p.m. – Alex calls Paul.
- 9:47 p.m. – Alex texts Maggie “call be, babe.”
- 9:52 p.m. – Alex texts Chris Wilson to call him.
- 9:53 p.m. – Chris Wilson calls Alex and they talk for just under two minutes.
- 9:56 p.m. to 10:06 p.m. – Alex travels 231 steps.
- 10:00 p.m. – Alex’s car arrives home and goes to the house.
- 10:03 p.m. – Alex calls Maggie’s phone.
- 10:05 p.m. – Alex’s car leaves main house.
- 10:05:57 p.m. Alex’s car arrives at kennels.
- 10:06:14 p.m. – Alex calls 911.
- 10:11 p.m. – Alex leaves kennels to go get a gun.
- 10:13 p.m. – Alex leaves main house to go back to kennels.
- 10:14 p.m. – Alex arrives back at kennels.
- 10:17 p.m. – 911 call ends.
- 10:18 p.m. – Alex texts Randy to call him about an emergency.
- 10:18 p.m. – Paul’s phone backlight comes on.
- 10:22 p.m. – Alex receives a group text from Michael Gunn and others.
- 10:24 p.m. – Alex tries to call, text, and FaceTime Rogan Gibson.
- 10:25 p.m. – Law enforcement arrives.
- 10:34 p.m. – Paul’s phone dies.
Rudofski also created a spreadsheet reflecting the steps taken by each individual the night of the murders.
11:19 a.m. – Judge Newman says he received a note from the jury after lunch Thursday saying they thought they would select their own foreperson and that they had already selected one. He said they asked if they could keep the person they picked. Newman said no.
11:00 a.m. – The jury is sent to the jury room for a break.
10:16 a.m. – SLED agent Peter Rudofski is called to the stand.
Rudofski investigated the murders, with a focus on consolidating data into a timeline. He has been working on the document for about a year. There is a version that includes the full day of June 7, 2021, and a condensed version from 6:00 p.m. on.
The timeline is still considered a working draft. Additional information has since come in even since the trial has started. It includes data from GM on Murdaugh’s suburban.
Data from Murdaugh’s suburban had already been analyzed by an FBI expert, but it lacked GPS data. That data mostly had to do with the car and its systems turning on and off, going into and out of park, etc. The GM data has more information about the location of the car.
The GM data is presented in court.
A track of the car’s GPS data from June 7, 2021 is presented. Over 4,000 “dots” or data points were used to map out the drives. It shows Moselle, Hampton, and Alameda.
Murdaugh’s track according to GM data:
- 12:06 p.m. – Murdaugh leaves for work
- 12:24 p.m. – Murdaugh arrives at work
- Max speed driving to work 65mph, average speed around 35mph
- 6:24 p.m. – Murdaugh leaves work
- 6:42 p.m. – Murdaugh arrives home
- Max speed driving home 54mph, average speed 41mph
- 9:07 p.m. – Murdaugh leaves for Alameda
- 9:08 p.m. – Murdaugh passes where Maggie’s phone was located the next morning, traveling at 42mph
- 9:22 p.m. – Murdaugh arrives at Alameda
- Max speed to Alameda 74mph, average speed 51mph
- 9:43 p.m. – Murdaugh begins leaving Alameda. Car pauses in driveway for about one minute
- 10:00 p.m. – Murdaugh arrives home
- Max speed from Alameda 81mph, average speed 46mph (including car idling in driveway)
- 10:05 p.m. – Murdaugh leaves house for kennels and arrives less than one minute later.
- Max speed 28mph driving to kennels
- 10:06 p.m. – Murdaugh calls 911
- 10:11 p.m. – Murdaugh heads back to house (indicated on 911 call he was going to get a gun)
- 10:13 p.m. – Arrives at house
- 10:14 p.m. – Drives back to kennels
Waters brings up the fact that it was dark out and the roads along Murdaugh’s route to and from Alameda had not been recently paved as of June 7, 2021. He asks Rudofski if Murdaugh was traveling at safe speeds. Rudofski says no. He asks if Rudofski has responded to emergency situations at night along that route. Rudofski says yes. He says he would not have driven that fast even when responding to an emergency. The posted speed limit is 65mph.
10:04 a.m. – In redirect, State Prosecutor Creighton Waters asks Kelly if Murdaugh gave consistent, coherent answers when he was interviewed multiple times in the hospital. Kelly says yes.
Waters asks if a phone interview was the preferred method for the September 13 interview. Kelly says that they wanted to go to wherever Murdaugh was, they didn’t know and interview him in person, but that was not an option. Murdaugh’s lawyers offered a phone interview, so they took what they could get.
Harpootlian asks if Kelly at any point in time told Murdaugh’s family that they only wanted to talk to Murdaugh while he was in rehab to show him a picture of the truck. Kelly says they wanted to ask him about that, among other things.
Harpootlian asks Kelly if he asked Murdaugh’s doctors if Murdaugh was competent to speak to him on September 4. Kelly said no, but that the doctors would not have discussed that with them without a subpoena for medical records. Harpootlian points out that Murdaugh was on barbituates and benzos. He asks if Kelly still would’ve conducted the interview had he known. Kelly says yes, Murdaugh was the victim and only witness of a crime, and the statement he gave matched his two previous statements.
9:35 a.m. – Court is in session. Defense begins cross-examining SLED senior special agent Ryan Kelly, who investigated Murdaugh’s roadside shooting.
Harpootlian goes over Murdaugh’s medical records confirming he suffered a brain bleed. He shows Kelly photos of Murdaugh taken by medical personnel.
They discuss the phone interview Kelly conducted with Murdaugh and his lawyers on September 13, 2021.
After Murdaugh admitted to the scheme, it was agreed that he would be brought directly from the rehab facility in Orlando to Hampton County to be charged. Kelly says the agreement was that Griffin and Harpootlian would bring Murdaugh directly to Hampton with no stops, but SLED “encountered” Murdaugh and Buster at Alameda, and he was arrested there. Kelly says he doesn’t fault Buster and that he didn’t know he was doing anything wrong, but it was out of the scope of the agreement.
Murdaugh was allowed to return to rehab in Orlando after his arraignment, then was extradited from Orlando again.
Harpootlian hones in on the fact that Murdaugh willingly admitted to all of his crimes and was indicted upon that admission. Kelly says they already knew about the crimes, Murdaugh just confirmed them.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced two former Minneapolis police officers who were convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights to lighter terms than recommended in sentencing guidelines, calling one “truly a rookie officer” and describing the other as “a good police officer, father and husband.”
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced J. Alexander Kueng to three years in prison and Tou Thao to 3½ years for violating Floyd’s rights in the May 25, 2020, killing in which then-Officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd’s neck with his knee for more than nine minutes as the 46-year-old Black man said he couldn’t breathe and eventually grew still. The killing, captured in bystander video, sparked protests worldwide and a reckoning of racial injustice.
Kueng pinned Floyd’s back, Thao held back concerned bystanders, and a fourth officer, Thomas Lane, held Floyd’s feet. Lane was sentenced last week to two years — also below guidelines and a sentence that Floyd’s brother Philonise called “insulting” — while Chauvin was sentenced earlier to 21 years. Floyd’s immediate family members did not attend Wednesday’s hearings in person or comment afterward.
Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney Ross, made statements at both men’s sentencing hearings and said afterward that she was disappointed, particularly with Thao’s sentence. It “didn’t really seem to match the crime to me. I was asking for the maximum sentence,” she said.
The lower sentences for Kueng, who is Black, and Thao, who is Hmong American, raise questions about whether they would consider a plea deal or risk a state court trial on Oct. 24, when they face counts of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Lane, who is white, pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing in that case.
Federal sentencing guidelines — which judges do not have to follow — recommended 4¼ to 5¼ years for Kueng and 5 ¼ to 6 ½ years for Thao. For both men, prosecutors argued for sentences higher than that. Prosecutor Manda Sertich argued that Kueng “didn’t say a word” as Floyd lay dying. Prosecutor LeeAnn Bell said Thao had “a bird’s-eye view of what was going on” with Floyd, and had “years on the force” that meant he should have known better.
The federal government brought the civil rights charges against all four officers in May 2021, a month after Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in state court. They were seen as an affirmation of the Justice Department’s priorities to address racial inequities in policing, a promise made by President Joe Biden before his election. They came a week after federal prosecutors brought hate crimes charges in the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and announced sweeping probes into policing in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky.
Magnuson said there was no question that Kueng violated Floyd’s rights by failing to get off him when Floyd became unresponsive. But he also mentioned what he called “an incredible number” of letters from other officers supporting Kueng.
“You were truly a rookie officer,” Magnuson told Kueng.
At his subsequent hearing, Thao spoke for more than 20 minutes, frequently quoting from the Bible as he said his arrest and time in jail led him to turn toward God, but did not directly address his actions or offer any words to Floyd’s family. Thao — like Lane and Kueng — remains free on bond, but spent several weeks in jail after his 2020 arrest on the state charges.
Magnuson again acknowledged letters supporting the former officer, including one with 744 signatures, and cited what he called Thao’s “completely clean record.”
“You had a difficult childhood and have done well to become a good police officer, father and husband,” the judge said.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and activist, said the sentences were “especially light.”
“This little punishment signals to other law enforcement officers that they could receive a slap on the wrist if they violate people’s rights and engage in extreme abuse towards defenseless people,” she said.
But Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and former federal prosecutor, called the sentences “groundbreaking” and noted that it’s rare for officers to be held accountable for killings they didn’t directly commit.
“We should hope that it has the impact of changing behavior and prodding them to intervene when a life can be saved,” he said.
Osler said it’s likely that Kueng and Thao will seek a plea deal on the state charges that would not exceed the federal sentence and would let them serve the sentences concurrently.
Both men are due to report to federal prison on Oct. 4, though Magnuson noted that could change because of their state trial. Magnuson said he would recommend that they be allowed to serve their time at minimum-security federal facilities in Duluth or in Yankton, South Dakota, to be near family. The final decision is up to the Bureau of Prisons.
Chauvin, who is white, was the most senior officer at the scene and was sentenced to a 22 1/2-year state sentence that he’s serving concurrently with his federal sentence. He’s been held in solitary confinement in the state’s maximum security prison at Oak Park Heights for his own safety since his murder conviction and will eventually be transferred to federal prison.
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76ers vs. Nets: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Playoffs Game 1
In Game 1 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs, the Philadelphia 76ers will be eyeing a win against Brooklyn Nets.
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76ers vs. Nets Game Info
- Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Wells Fargo Center
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76ers vs. Nets Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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76ers vs. Nets Betting Trends
- The 76ers average 115.2 points per game (14th in the league) while allowing 110.9 per outing (third in the NBA). They have a +354 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 4.3 points per game.
- The Nets have a +70 scoring differential, putting up 113.4 points per game (19th in league) and allowing 112.5 (eighth in NBA).
- The teams average 228.6 points per game combined, 14.1 more points than this game's total.
- These teams surrender a combined 223.4 points per game, 8.9 more points than this matchup's total.
- Philadelphia is 48-34-0 ATS this season.
- Brooklyn has compiled a 42-39-1 ATS record so far this year.
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Teen collapses during baseball practice, coaches save his life with CPR
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMBC/Gray News) – Coaches at a high school in Missouri jumped into action when a student-athlete collapsed during baseball practice.
It started out as a normal hitting practice when 17-year-old Davis Dwight was gearing up for the start of the fall season with Coach Nik Crouch.
But before the first swing, practice took a turn – Davis went into cardiac arrest and his coaches said they couldn’t feel a pulse.
Coach and former catcher for the Kansas City Royals Mike MacFarlane and Crouch began chest compressions right away.
“What we were trying to help him with for 12 minutes felt like an absolute eternity,” Crouch said.
Those 12 minutes saved his life.
“Other than seeing my children born, it was probably the most emotional day I’ve ever had,” MacFarlane said.
Davis spent nearly a week in the hospital – five of those days in the ICU. He has since been released from the hospital and one of his first stops was to thank his coaches.
“I turn the corner and I just see him. You see the face. It was an incredible moment to see him. He looked great. His smile, it just lit up my life heavily,” Crouch said.
It will take time before Davis can return to practice, but he is just thankful to be alive.
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Man steals jewelry off car crash victim’s body right after fatal accident in St. Louis, police say
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A man is facing charges after police say he stole jewelry off a dead man’s body Sunday night following a fatal car crash.
According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the victim, identified as 46-year-old Arthur Fulton, died when he pulled out of a driveway and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
Before first responders arrived, 46-year-old Elmer Perry went up to Fulton’s crashed vehicle and stole jewelry off Fulton’s body, police said.
Perry was not involved in the accident.
Perry was later arrested and charged with one count of felony stealing. Police said he confessed to the crime.
Perry is being held in the St. Louis County Jail on a $25,000 cash-only bond. The jewelry was later returned to the victim’s family.
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In search of a lost cemetery, dig begins at a former Native American school in Nebraska
(AP) - Bodies of dozens of children who died at a Native American boarding school have been lost for decades, a mystery that archeologists aim to unravel as they begin digging in a central Nebraska field that a century ago was part of the sprawling campus.
Crews toting shovels, trowels and even smaller tools planned to start searching Monday at the site experts suspect is the Genoa Indian Industrial School cemetery. Genoa was part of a national system of more than 400 Native American boarding schools that attempted to integrate Indigenous people into white culture by separating children from their families and cutting them off from their heritage.
The school, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Omaha, opened in 1884 and at its height was home to nearly 600 students from more than 40 tribes across the country. It closed in 1931 and most buildings were long ago demolished.
For decades, residents of the tiny community of Genoa, with help from Native Americans, researchers and state officials, have sought the location of a forgotten cemetery where the bodies of up to 80 students are believed to be buried.
Judi gaiashkibos, the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, whose mother attended the school in the late 1920s, has been involved in the cemetery effort for years and was set Monday to travel to Genoa. She said it’s difficult to spend time in the community where many Native Americans suffered, but the vital search can help with healing and bringing the children’s voices to the surface.
“It’s an honor to go on behalf of my ancestors and those who lost their lives there, and I feel entrusted with a huge responsibility,” gaiashkibos said.
Newspaper clippings, records and a student’s letter indicate at least 86 students died at the school, usually due to diseases such as tuberculosis and typhoid, but at least one death was blamed on an accidental shooting.
Researchers identified 49 of the children killed but have not been able to find names for 37 students. The bodies of some of those children were returned to their homes, but others are believed to have been buried on the school grounds at a location long ago forgotten.
As part of an effort to find the cemetery, last summer dogs trained to detect the faint odor of decaying remains searched the area and signaled they had found a burial site in a narrow piece of land bordered by a farm field, railroad tracks and a canal.
A team using ground-penetrating radar last November also showed an area that was consistent with graves, but there will be no guarantees until researchers can dig into the ground, said Dave Williams, Nebraska’s state archeologist.
The process is expected to take several days.
“We’re going to take the soil down and first see if what’s showing up in the ground-penetrating radar are in fact grave-like features,” Williams said. “And once we get that figured out, taking the feature down and determining if there are any human remains sill contained within that area.”
If the dig reveals human remains, the State Archeology Office will continue to work with the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs in deciding what’s next. They could rebury the remains in the field and create a memorial or exhume and return the bodies to tribes, Williams said.
DNA could indicate the region of the country each child was from, but narrowing that to individual tribes would be challenging, Williams said.
The federal government is taking a closer examination at the boarding school system. The U.S. Interior Department, led by Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and the first Native American Cabinet secretary, released an initial report in 2022 and is working on a second report with additional details.
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Erling Haaland backed away from his marker, set himself with his back to goal, and leapt high to deliver an acrobatic scissor-kick into the bottom corner.
Tap-ins, headers, majestic flying volleys. The Manchester City striker really can do anything.
Haaland took his tally of English Premier League goals in his first season with City to 30 with a double in a 4-1 victory at Southampton that kept the pressure on Arsenal in the title race on Saturday.
His first goal, a close-range header, couldn’t have been easier. His second simply took the breath away.
After meeting Jack Grealish’s cross with that stunning volley, Haaland sat on the ground and celebrated with a zen pose. Before long, he was laughing at the brilliance of his own goal — his 44th in all competitions for City this season.
City could still have 18 more matches to play if it goes all the way in the FA Cup and Champions League. Fifty goals looks inevitable for Haaland.
“We lived two incredible decades with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi,” City manager Pep Guardiola said, “but (Haaland) is on that level.”
City, meanwhile, is on one of those end-of-season winning runs that has become its trademark. Make that eight straight victories in all competitions — the team’s best streak of the season — to really put the pressure on Arsenal, which takes a five-point lead into its match at Liverpool on Sunday.
Grealish and Julian Alvarez scored City’s other goals on the south coast.
“I would like to be in the position Arsenal are in,” Guardiola said. “I would love that.”
TOP-FOUR RACE
The race for third and fourth place behind Arsenal and City is heating up, too, with Newcastle, Manchester United and Tottenham all winning.
Newcastle came from behind to beat Brentford 2-1 thanks to an own goal by David Raya and a strike by Alexander Isak, while Manchester United overwhelmed Everton 2-0 at Old Trafford.
Scott McTominay and Anthony Martial scored United’s goals in a match that ended with a big injury concern as Marcus Rashford hobbled off with a suspected groin problem.
Newcastle, in third, and Man United, in fourth, are tied for points and have three more than Tottenham, which beat Brighton 2-1 courtesy of Harry Kane’s winner. It was his 23rd goal of the season.
Both team managers — Tottenham’s Cristian Stellini and Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi — were issued red cards for a touchline scuffle by the time Kane ran onto a cutback from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and scored with a fierce drive in the 79th.
Tottenham has played one one more game than Newcastle and Man United.
LAMPARD’S RETURN
It wasn’t the return to Chelsea that Frank Lampard would have hoped.
His second spell as the team’s manager started with a 1-0 loss at Wolverhampton in a match that probably meant more to the host, which is among the many clubs involved in a scrap to avoid relegation. Matheus Nunes scored with a rasping, first-time strike into the far corner.
While the win pushed Wolves four points clear of the bottom three, Chelsea moves on to a competition that will define the end to its season — the Champions League.
Chelsea visits Real Madrid in the first leg of the quarterfinals on Wednesday, with Lampard giving N’Golo Kante the weekend off to ensure he is fit after a long injury.
Lampard, a former Chelsea player and manager, has been appointed interim coach until the end of the season after the firing of Graham Potter and is still learning about his expensively assembled team that is languishing in 11th place.
“There has been a lot of change and that’s not an excuse but things need to improve,” Lampard said, “and I think that performance summed it up.”
ROYAL VISITORS
Prince William — who is known to be an Aston Villa fan — and his oldest child, Prince George, were at Villa Park to see if the team could continue its regal form in the league. They weren’t disappointed.
Villa climbed to sixth place after beating Nottingham Forest 2-0 and is on course for its highest finish since 2010, when it ended the season in that position.
Ollie Watkins continued his hot streak with a stoppage-time goal to seal victory and take him to nine in his last 11 games. Villa has won six of its last seven matches.
RELEGATION FIGHT
Leicester might not be too good to go down, after all.
Without a manager after firing Brendan Rodgers last weekend, Leicester looks increasingly without hope of staying up after getting beaten by lowly Bournemouth 1-0 for a seventh loss in its last eight league games.
Leicester stayed in next-to-last place, two points from safety with eight games remaining.
England midfielder James Maddison, one of Leicester’s many established internationals, was to blame for the only goal after playing a blind backpass that was pounced on by Philip Billing. He slotted home in the 40th.
Leicester was joined in the relegation zone by Forest, which is tied for point with fourth-to-last Everton.
Bournemouth moved three points clear of the bottom three as did West Ham, which won 1-0 at Fulham thanks to Harrison Reed’s own goal.
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The 50-year-old man’s last will and testament was just 50 words long, handwritten on a random notepad.
“No funeral service whatsoever,” the note states clearly. “No casket. No embalming. No viewing.”
It has no legal authority. No witnesses. No notary signature.
“Only cremation, and scatter the ashes anywhere. Total price — well under $500. Have immediate family and a couple of friends go out to dinner and have a drink on me.”
That’s it, except for his printed name and signature. It could be the shortest will in history. It’s definitely the briefest one I’ve ever read. Nonetheless, it conveyed to his loved ones his final wishes before he died Jan. 21, 2009.
His attempt at a will is still more than most people do.
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“Half the people out there don't even have wills,” said Kent Jeffirs, a Crown Point attorney who specializes in wills, trusts and estates.
Many people suffer from the "paralysis of analysis,” getting overly consumed in the details, family history and procrastination. By the time they die, they fail to have anything in place, or they have a grossly outdated estate plan that no longer suits their situation, Jeffirs said.
“This can result in distributions to people you never intended to receive your estate, as well as long probate proceedings and guardianship proceedings for any minor heirs. All this could have been avoided with a little planning.”
A little planning.
These three simple words have haunted me since my mother’s death last month. My family could have a done a better job of making plans for after her death, just as millions of other families before us. We also failed to properly discuss her end-of-life wishes, either legally or lovingly.
Near the end of her life, we learned that she expressed a desire to be buried, not cremated, something surprising most of us. My mom had always referred to her cremation, so we assumed this would be the route to take after her death.
We were wrong.
She actually wanted to be buried at Calumet Park Cemetery in Merrillville, where many family members are interred. There are four open gravesites available — and paid for — near my father’s plot.
This decision made sense to me and my family. My mom could be be buried next to my father, who died in 1987. A plot has been waiting for her for three decades.
We were wrong again.
My mom actually wanted to be buried next to her maternal grandmother, Maud Steen, who’s buried next to her husband and sister. I didn’t have to break the news to my father, so it was fine with me.
Trouble was, we had to get notarized signatures from my mom’s three siblings stating that they were OK with her using that plot. They live in different states. My mother was living her final days in hospice care. The clock was ticking.
“Families should make pre-arrangements as much as they can,” said Rick Stake, a family services counselor at Calumet Park Cemetery. “Otherwise, you’re dealing with everything as your world is crumbling around you and you’re besieged with grief and confusion.”
During Memorial Day weekend, cemeteries are typically besieged with grieving families. It’s not uncommon for up to 6,500 vehicles to drive into Calumet Park Cemetery over this period. It’s one of the largest cemeteries in the country, with 400 acres. Only 170 acres have been developed, leaving enough land for 600 more years of interments, allowing one casket or two cremains for every plot.
“The longer you live, the more you will save,” Stake said.
The three plots where my mom is buried cost my great-grandmother $300. Today, those same three plots would cost nearly $12,000.
“Everything doubles in price every eight to 10 years,” Stake said.
Stress levels seem to double every week as a loved one’s death approaches. The daily pressures can be overwhelming. My family can attest to this. In hindsight, we should have explored our planning options. Our lack of foresight reflects similar situations with most families.
“The biggest problem or oversight I see is failure to act at all,” said Jeffirs, who has 32 years of experience handling wills, trust and estates.
Such oversights are especially true with second-marriage couples, specifically when kids are from previous relationships. And with parents of young children. Also, with people who don't realize state law requirements for disposition of their assets if they don't have any plan in place, he said.
Otherwise, “intestate laws” dictate who gets what when you don't have a plan.
My advice to those who need to hear it: Make a plan. And make one soon. Ask questions that may feel awkward. Explore end-of-life issues with loved ones. And initiate conversations about after-death preferences.
Most people ignore all of this until it’s too late. It usually costs them, as it did for my family, financially and emotionally.
I explore this sensitive topic on the new episode of my “She Said, He Said” podcast, released Tuesday. I share my emotional experiences with listeners and viewers about my mother’s last days and my family’s efforts to proceed without a plan. (Watch it at NWI.com or listen to it wherever you stream podcasts.)
As for that remarkably short, makeshift will that I mentioned earlier, it was written by my big brother, Joe Davich. He penned it in his 40s. He died at 50.
My family followed his handwritten wishes except for one request: We didn’t scatter his ashes. We kept them. Not all plans go as planned.
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Historic gift will provide thousands more youth with a paid, professional mentor for 12+ years and establish a National Center of Excellence
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The national organization Friends of the Children announced today its network received a three-year, $33 million gift from philanthropists Gary and Christine Rood of Vancouver, Wash. Friends of the Children is the only national mentoring program in the country with paid, professional mentors called "Friends" who walk alongside youth for 12+ years, no matter what. This gift offers powerful sustaining momentum for the organization to serve thousands more children, many of whom are in—or at risk of entering—foster care.
"Gary and Christine have been generous supporters of Friends of the Children since 2018. But when we learned about this gift, and the timing, we were astonished and overwhelmed at their sincere generosity," said Terri Sorensen, CEO of Friends of the Children - National. "It is incredible to kick off both our 30th anniversary and National Mentoring Month with this extraordinary gift. This investment opens up unfettered opportunities for the network and the youth we serve and provides us the unique opportunity to establish the first-ever national learning hub for long-term mentoring."
Of the $33 million gift, $28 million will support expanding the organization's child and whole-family well-being services to thousands more children and families throughout the nation, including $5 million to be directly given to the Friends of the Children - SW Washington chapter located in the Rood's community. The remaining $5 million will establish the Friends of the Children National Center of Excellence, which will be named after its founder, Duncan Campbell, and his wife Cindy, and will be headquartered in the historic flagship building of Friends of the Children's first chapter at 44 NE Morris St. in Portland, Ore.
"Friends of the Children's proven track record and long-term commitment to youth deserves not just recognition but continued and sustaining investment," said 84-year-old Gary Rood, owner of Rood Investments in Vancouver, Wash. "We are deeply committed to giving generously now because so many children and families need support now more than ever. We also want to see the fruits of this gift within our lifetime. It will be an honor to witness how this gift may transform youth and their communities across the country in the next few years."
Initially, the Roods had planned to include Friends of the Children as a legacy gift of their estate but then chose to make a gift now so the couple could see the impact in their own lifetimes. The gift, which is the largest ever given by the Roods to a single organization, comes off the heels of philanthropist MacKenzie Scott's historic $44 million gift to the Friends of the Children national network in August of 2022.
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KYIV – More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released as part of a major Easter exchange with Russia, a top official said Sunday, as Orthodox Ukrainians marked the holiday for a second time since Moscow unleashed its brutal full-scale war last February.
While celebrations were subdued due to security risks, with a curfew barring the faithful from customary all-night services, Ukrainian authorities and ordinary people shared messages of hope, linking the story of Jesus’ resurrection to their longing for peace and a Ukrainian victory.
Dozens of families had special reasons to rejoice, as presidential adviser Andriy Yermak announced that 130 soldiers, sailors, border guards and others captured by Moscow were on their way back home following a “big Easter prisoner exchange.”
Yermak said in a Telegram post Sunday that those released included troops who fought near Bakhmut, the eastern mining city which has for months been the focus of Russia’s grinding offensive.
“The lives of our people are the highest value for us,” Yermak said, adding that Kyiv’s goal was to bring back all remaining POWs.
There was no immediate information on how many Russian prisoners were released, but the press service of the founder of the Wagner Group, the Kremlin-affiliated paramilitary force whose fighters are prominent in eastern Ukraine, also released a video Sunday showing Ukrainian prisoners of war being readied for an exchange.
The video, published on the Telegram messaging service, features Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin instructing a soldier to prepare the Ukrainian captives to leave Russian-controlled territory “by lunchtime” on Sunday. The POWs are then shown boarding trucks and walking along a road.
In his Easter address released on Sunday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the holiday as marking “the victory of good, the victory of truth, the victory of life,” and he stressed what he said was Ukrainian unity in the face of Russian aggression.
“Belief in victory unites all of us always, and especially today. At Easter, which from time immemorial has been a family holiday for Ukrainians, a day of warmth, hope and great unity. We are one big family — Ukrainians. We have one big home — Ukraine. We have one big goal — victory for all,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine's top soldier, Gen. Valery Zaluzhnyy, likewise drew parallels between the Christian message of resurrection and renewal and Ukraine's hopes for victory.
“Easter is a holiday of great hope. Hope that will bring us peace. I believe that together, united, we will overcome the enemy,” he wrote in a Facebook post. He also thanked all front-line soldiers who he said will “hold the defense in the trenches, stay in the dugouts, (...) carry out combat duty" as the rest of the country celebrates.
In central Kyiv, people gathered in the courtyard of the landmark St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery on Sunday morning to have their Easter eggs and baskets of food blessed by a priest. A curfew had prevented most from attending the traditional all-night service there hours earlier, with many tuning into a live stream instead.
Ukrainian churches are usually crowded on Orthodox Easter Sunday. But this year, the wide courtyard was barely half full, and the line of people waiting for the priest to sprinkle holy water on their adorned baskets was moving briskly.
For a second year in a row, Moscow's brutal war has interrupted holiday routines. Ukraine's main security service this week issued a statement urging residents not to linger in churches on Sunday, in order to avoid crowding and minimize security risks.
Alla Voronina, one of the people who came to St. Michael's with baskets containing Easter cakes and multi-colored eggs, said that the restrictions were “very hard" on residents' morale.
“You constantly recall how it used to be before the war," she told The Associated Press. She said that she and her family would nevertheless follow the security recommendations and go straight home after receiving the blessing.
Others in the line echoed Zaluzhnyy's words about a wartime Easter being a symbol of hope.
“As never before, Easter at a time of war inspires us with hope and faith in the future, in the victory of Ukraine, in God’s protection of our Motherland,” said Inna Holivets.
Another worshipper, Tetiana Voloshyna, said she was praying for Ukrainian troops “who defend us and make it possible for us to have this holiday.” She added she had come to the monastery with her “personal pain and personal requests to God for victory, peace and life.”
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved a half-mile Friday to Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia museum that continues to expand its emphasis on African American history.
Built 25 years before the American Revolution, the original structure stood near the college campus of William & Mary. The pinewood building held as many as 30 students at a time, some of them free Black children studying alongside the enslaved.
Hundreds of people lined the streets to celebrate its slow-speed trip into the heart of the living history museum, which tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and restored buildings.
For historians and descendants alike, the Bray School contradicts the belief that all enslaved Americans were uneducated. But the school’s faith-based curriculum — created by an English charity — also justified slavery and encouraged students to accept their fate as God’s plan.
“Religion was at the heart of the school, and it was not a gospel of abolition,” said Maureen Elgersman Lee, director of William & Mary’s Bray School Lab.
“There was this need to proselytize and to bring salvation while still not doing anything to destabilize the institution of slavery,” Lee said. “Save the soul, but continue to enslave the body. It was the here versus the hereafter.”
It was a brand of duplicity that fit easily into the larger contradictions of the country's founding, when the Democracy being forged explicitly denied rights and freedoms to many of its people.
Williamsburg is less than 10 miles from Jamestown, which England established in 1607. The colony was supplied with enslaved Africans for labor just a dozen years later. A century and half after that, Black people, most of them still enslaved, represented just over half of Williamsburg’s 2,000 people.
The Bray School was established in 1760 at the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, chairman of a London-based Anglican charity named after philanthropist Reverend Thomas Bray. The charity also set up schools in other cities, including New York and Philadelphia.
The curriculum ranged from spellers to the Book of Common Prayer. But even within the schools’ paternalistic framework, the education could still be empowering, perhaps even subversive.
“I was going through a facsimile of one of the books, and there are words like ‘liberty,’” Lee said. “What did learning those words do to expand these children’s sense of themselves? Their sense of the world?”
Isaac Bee, a Bray School student, would run away as an adult from a slave owner named Lewis Burwell. An ad that Burwell placed in The Virginia Gazette in 1774 offered a cash bounty for his return and warned that Bee could read.
The white teacher, a widow named Ann Wager, lived upstairs at the school, and taught an estimated 300 to 400 students, whose ages ranged from 3 to 10, according to surviving records.
The Williamsburg Bray School operated until 1774; only Philadelphia's reopened after the Revolutionary War. The structure became a private home for many years before it was incorporated into William & Mary’s campus.
The former schoolhouse eventually was moved from its original spot to make way for a dormitory. The original structure had 1.5 stories, with a small upstairs. It was expanded over the years to include two full stories, and was last used as an office for ROTC, the college program that prepares military officers.
Historians believed they had identified the original Bray School building, but it wasn’t confirmed until 2021, through the use of dendrochronology, a scientific method that examines tree rings in lumber to determine the wood’s harvest date.
“This is a remarkable story of survival,” said Matthew Webster, Colonial Williamsburg’s executive director of architectural preservation and research. “And for us, it’s so important to put it back (to its original state) and tell the full and true story.”
The Bray School was exceptional: Although Virginia waited until the 1800s to impose anti-literacy laws, white leaders across much of Colonial America forbid educating enslaved people, fearing literacy would encourage their liberty. South Carolina criminalized teaching slaves to write English in 1740.
Inside the schoolhouse, the original post at the bottom of the walnut staircase still stands, its square top rounded and nicked from centuries of use, Webster said, adding that it’s a “very powerful piece for a lot of people.”
For Tonia Merideth, the Bray School Lab’s oral historian, the building stirred up many emotions upon her first visit. It was material proof against the narrative that her ancestors were illiterate and dumb.
“Everything that I learned about my ancestors was wrong,” she said. “They could learn. They did learn. They were able.”
Merideth added: “Regardless of the intentions of the school, the children were still taking that education and possibly serving it for their own good and aiding in their community.”
Merideth can trace her roots to the Armistead family, which enslaved people in the Williamsburg area and is known to have sent at least one child, named Locust, to the Bray School. But only three years of student lists have survived.
The moving of the Bray School is part of Colonial Williamsburg’s ongoing reckoning over its past storytelling of Black history and the nation’s origin story. The museum was founded in 1926 but did not tell Black stories until 1979.
In 2021, it uncovered the brick foundation of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. Last year, archeologists began to excavate graves at the site.
The Bray School’s new location is right next door.
“We’re going back and we’re getting that school and we’re getting that legacy,” Merideth said. “And we’re bringing it back to the historic area.”
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This story was first published on February 10, 2023. It was updated on February 11, 2023, to correct the misspelling of the last name of the Bray School’s teacher. The correct spelling of her full name was Ann Wager, not Ann Wagner. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/02/10/oldest-schoolhouse-for-black-children-in-us-moving-to-museum/ | 2023-02-12 19:39:18 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/02/10/oldest-schoolhouse-for-black-children-in-us-moving-to-museum/ |
By 2030, 1 out of every 5 people living in Indiana will be a senior citizen, according to population projections released by the Indiana Business Research Center. This projected increase represents an unprecedented number of elderly individuals in our state.
Silver Birch Living is a growing family of premier affordable assisted living communities that promote wellness, convenience and community with nine locations across Indiana, including two in Fort Wayne.
We are designed to serve seniors of all financial backgrounds, including Medicaid, and offer a full spectrum of personalized services to help older adults maintain their independence in a supportive, caring environment.
Our hard work recently earned our locations a 2023 Commitment to Quality Award from the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living.
To continue to provide this quality of care, I joined my industry colleagues during a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., recently to advocate for strengthening the assisted living industry, including the workforce.
We met with several Indiana lawmakers and their staff, collaborating with them to support policies that would bolster the quality of care for seniors as they age.
Lawmakers we met with included U.S. Reps. Erin Houchin, Frank J. Mrvan, Greg Pence and Victoria Spartz, as well as Sen. Todd Young.
A primary focus of our conversation was presenting how the proposed nursing home minimum staffing requirements through the Unfunded Staffing Mandate Proposal will not solve the health care labor crisis, but exaggerate it.
Almost 900,000, or one-fifth of registered nurses, intend to leave the profession by 2027, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. And there’s no pipeline of new nurses to replace them.
Enrollment in nursing programs decreased for the first time in more than two decades last year. Meanwhile, the changing demographics of the country demonstrate that with a rapidly growing elderly population, we won’t have enough younger people to care for them in the future.
As Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living, put it best in a letter to President Joe Biden this week, “A skilled and available workforce is the industry’s biggest challenge.”
It’s obvious that the federal minimum staffing mandate sounds like a good idea, but in practice, it is not.
Staffing issues can lead to closures and the elimination of key services. According to SaveOurSeniors.org, 500 facilities already have shuttered since 2022.
The reason? “Often due to an inability to find workers,” cites the report.
For communities such as Silver Birch, accepting Medicaid is a huge benefit for our residents, yet poses additional challenges from a workforce standpoint.
“Facilities that primarily care for residents on Medicaid won’t have the resources to recruit staff or pay for this mandate,” Parkinson wrote. “Those facilities, as well as those who they serve and employ, will be hurt the most.”
I am thankful for the productive conversations we had with Indiana’s congressional leaders, and it was refreshing to see their level of knowledge and engagement for senior programs.
However, both at the state and federal levels, there remains an urgent need to further support the assisted living communities’ workforce so we can provide the quality care our aging population needs.
Jo Ellen Bleavins is president and CEO of Silver Birch Living. | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/care-concerns-facilities-serving-seniors-lobby-as-mandates-constrict-workforce/article_eafb28ca-27cd-11ee-9ea5-1b535aa32de4.html | 2023-07-24 02:02:01 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/care-concerns-facilities-serving-seniors-lobby-as-mandates-constrict-workforce/article_eafb28ca-27cd-11ee-9ea5-1b535aa32de4.html |
Top Player Prop Bets for Rays vs. Orioles on July 21, 2023
The Tampa Bay Rays host the Baltimore Orioles at Tropicana Field on Friday at 6:40 PM ET. Those looking to place a player prop bet can find odds on Wander Franco, Adley Rutschman and others in this game.
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Rays vs. Orioles Game Info
- When: Friday, July 21, 2023 at 6:40 PM ET
- Where: Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: BSSUN
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MLB Props Today: Tampa Bay Rays
Zach Eflin Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Eflin Stats
- The Rays' Zach Eflin (10-5) will make his 19th start of the season.
- In 18 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Eflin has 16 starts of five or more innings this season in 18 chances. He averages 5.8 innings per outing.
- He has made 18 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified major league pitchers this season, the 29-year-old's 3.59 ERA ranks 26th, 1.025 WHIP ranks fifth, and 9 K/9 ranks 29th.
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- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -256)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +800)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +215)
Franco Stats
- Franco has collected 100 hits with 23 doubles, four triples, 11 home runs and 34 walks. He has driven in 45 runs with 28 stolen bases.
- He's slashing .273/.337/.448 so far this season.
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- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +200)
Diaz Stats
- Yandy Diaz has 100 hits with 19 doubles, 13 home runs, 40 walks and 45 RBI.
- He's slashed .318/.401/.503 on the year.
- Diaz has picked up at least one hit in two games in a row. In his last five games he is hitting .318 with two doubles, a home run, a walk and six RBI.
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +215)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has put up 96 hits with 16 doubles, 13 home runs and 56 walks. He has driven in 42 runs.
- He's slashing .274/.373/.431 on the year.
- Rutschman will look for his eighth straight game with a hit in this contest. During his last 10 outings he is hitting .278 with three doubles, two home runs, four walks and six RBI.
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Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -204)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +290)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +155)
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- Anthony Santander has 94 hits with 25 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs and 37 walks. He has driven in 54 runs with three stolen bases.
- He's slashed .269/.343/.491 so far this year.
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190, Tyreek Hill, MIA at BAL 9/18 (11 rec., 2 TD)
184, Justin Jefferson, MIN vs. GB 9/11 (9 rec., 2 TD)
179, T.J. Hockenson, DET vs. SEA 10/2 (8 rec., 2 TD)
171, Gabe Davis, BUF vs. PIT 10/9 (3 rec., 2 TD)
171, Jaylen Waddle, MIA at BAL 9/18 (11 rec., 2 TD)
169, DeVonta Smith, PHI at WAS 9/25 (8 rec., 1 TD)
160, Tyreek Hill, MIA at CIN 9/29 (10 rec., 0 TD)
158, Mack Hollins, LAS at TEN 9/25 (8 rec., 1 TD)
156, DeVante Parker, NE vs. BAL 9/25 (5 rec., 0 TD)
155, A.J. Brown, PHI at DET 9/11 (10 rec., 0 TD)
154, Justin Jefferson, MIN vs. CHI 10/9 (12 rec., 0 TD)
149, DK Metcalf, SEA at DET 10/2 (7 rec., 0 TD)
148, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. TEN 9/19 (12 rec., 3 TD)
147, Chris Olave, NO at CAR 9/25 (9 rec., 0 TD)
147, Justin Jefferson, MIN at NO 10/2 (10 rec., 0 TD)
141, Davante Adams, LAS at LAC 9/11 (10 rec., 1 TD)
140, Marquise Brown, ARI vs. LAR 9/25 (14 rec., 0 TD)
134, Mike Williams, LAC at CLE 10/9 (10 rec., 0 TD)
129, Ja'Marr Chase, CIN vs. PIT 9/11 (OT) (10 rec., 1 TD)
128, Cooper Kupp, LAR vs. BUF 9/8 (13 rec., 1 TD)
125, Cooper Kupp, LAR vs. DAL 10/9 (7 rec., 1 TD)
124, Davante Adams, LAS at KC 10/10 (3 rec., 2 TD)
124, Tee Higgins, CIN vs. MIA 9/29 (7 rec., 1 TD)
122, Stefon Diggs, BUF at LAR 9/8 (8 rec., 1 TD)
122, Courtland Sutton, DEN vs. HOU 9/18 (7 rec., 0 TD)
122, Cooper Kupp, LAR at SF 10/3 (14 rec., 0 TD)
121, Travis Kelce, KC at ARI 9/11 (8 rec., 1 TD)
121, Michael Pittman Jr., IND at HOU 9/11 (OT) (9 rec., 1 TD)
120, Mike Williams, LAC at HOU 10/2 (7 rec., 0 TD)
117, Christian Kirk, JAC at WAS 9/11 (6 rec., 0 TD)
116, Amon-Ra St. Brown, DET vs. WAS 9/18 (9 rec., 2 TD)
116, Allen Lazard, GB vs. NE 10/2 (OT) (6 rec., 0 TD)
115, Deebo Samuel, SF vs. LAR 10/3 (6 rec., 1 TD)
114, Jarvis Landry, NO at ATL 9/11 (7 rec., 0 TD)
113, Mike Williams, LAC at KC 9/15 (8 rec., 1 TD)
111, Jakobi Meyers, NE vs. DET 10/9 (7 rec., 1 TD)
110, Nelson Agholor, NE at PIT 9/18 (6 rec., 1 TD)
108, Cooper Kupp, LAR vs. ATL 9/18 (11 rec., 2 TD)
108, Rashod Bateman, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (4 rec., 1 TD)
107, Tyler Lockett, SEA at SF 9/18 (9 rec., 0 TD)
105, Dyami Brown, WAS vs. TEN 10/9 (2 rec., 2 TD)
105, Tyler Boyd, CIN at NYJ 9/25 (4 rec., 1 TD)
105, Tre'Quan Smith, NO at CAR 9/25 (4 rec., 0 TD)
104, Tyler Lockett, SEA at NO 10/9 (5 rec., 2 TD)
104, Mark Andrews, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (9 rec., 1 TD)
104, Marvin Jones Jr., JAC vs. HOU 10/9 (7 rec., 0 TD)
103, Mike Evans, TB vs. KC 10/2 (8 rec., 2 TD)
102, Garrett Wilson, NYJ at CLE 9/18 (8 rec., 2 TD)
102, Jerry Jeudy, DEN at SEA 9/12 (4 rec., 1 TD)
102, Robbie Anderson, CAR vs. CLE 9/11 (5 rec., 1 TD)
102, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. PIT 10/9 (8 rec., 1 TD)
102, Jaylen Waddle, MIA vs. BUF 9/25 (4 rec., 0 TD)
102, George Pickens, PIT vs. NYJ 10/2 (6 rec., 0 TD)
102, Terry McLaurin, WAS vs. PHI 9/25 (6 rec., 0 TD)
101, Amari Cooper, CLE vs. PIT 9/22 (7 rec., 1 TD)
101, Amari Cooper, CLE vs. NYJ 9/18 (9 rec., 1 TD)
101, Davante Adams, LAS vs. DEN 10/2 (9 rec., 0 TD)
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Governor signs ‘sales tax holiday’ package; gas, diapers, essential items becoming tax free
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WWSB/Gray News) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a package on Thursday that will give residents a series of sales tax “holidays.”
WWSB reports the tax breaks will be on items like school clothes, hurricane supplies, tools and a suspension of the state gas tax in October.
Tax package HB 7071 was passed by the Legislature in March and is said to reduce state and local revenues by $804.3 million during the upcoming fiscal year.
Officials said the package will eliminate taxes during the 2022-2023 fiscal year on baby clothes, diapers, children’s books, Energy Star appliances, impact-resistant doors and windows, new mobile homes and admissions to Formula One Grand Prix races and the Daytona 500.
“This bill comes at an opportune time, as families grapple with the rising costs of everyday expenses like gas, food and clothing,” said Department of Children and Families Secretary Shevaun Harris. “I know that every penny saved counts.”
State leaders touted that the election-year package would help consumers.
“The tax relief you’re going to see are going to be breaks for really critical needs, like gas, diapers, disaster supplies, tools for skilled trades, recreational activities, you name it,” DeSantis said. “And, so, families are going to be able to save for things that really matter to them.”
DeSantis, whose youngest child is 2-years-old, highlighted the tax breaks for diapers and baby clothes during a bill-signing ceremony at Sam’s Club in Ocala. The ceremony included a stack of Huggies diapers and several families.
While most of the tax breaks will not take effect until July 1 or later, two parts will start this month.
A sales-tax exemption on children’s books will run from May 14 to Aug. 14. Also, a tax holiday will start on May 28 on hurricane supplies.
Officials said shoppers would be able to avoid paying sales taxes on an array of items, from packages of batteries and radios under $50 to generators up to $1,000. The hurricane-season holiday for the first time, will include pet supplies.
The second tax holiday will be for what lawmakers have dubbed “Freedom Week,” which will run from July 1 through July 7. Shoppers will be able to avoid paying sales taxes on such things as tickets for concerts, movies, ballgames, museum visits and select outdoor gear.
A back-to-school tax holiday will start July 25 and last through Aug. 7. Shoppers will be able to avoid paying sales taxes on clothes and shoes that cost $100 or less, school supplies that cost $50 or less and personal computers with price tags of $1,500 or less.
Economists estimate the holiday’s impact to total $100.1 million.
In the month before voters go to the polls for the November elections, they also will get a break at the gas pump. The package includes suspending a .25-cent gas tax per gallon in October.
“There are certain things when you have inflation that you can maybe dial back, certain entertainment, whatever, people can make decisions with their family budget,” DeSantis said. “You can’t just not get to your job. So, you’ve got to fill up your gas tank.”
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor, issued a statement Friday that said many of the tax breaks were aided by federal stimulus money.
“This tax relief package was made possible by the American Rescue Plan, which provided Florida with more than $10 billion in federal funds,” Fried said.
Officials said parents are projected to see savings of $74.7 million by not having to pay sales taxes on clothes and shoes for toddlers and another $35.7 million on the costs of diapers.
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In Jan. 6 cases, 1 judge stands out as the toughest punisher
An Ohio couple climbed through a broken window of the U.S. Capitol and livestreamed a video of themselves inside. A Texas mortgage broker posed for a selfie in front of rioters breaching the building. An Indiana hair salon owner celebrated on Facebook a day after she joined the pro-Donald Trump mob.
Federal prosecutors did not seek prison time for any of them after they pleaded guilty to petty offenses for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
The judge had other ideas.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan put them all behind bars, describing it as the appropriate punishment for their participation in the riot that halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, sent lawmakers running for their lives and left dozens of police officers beaten and bloodied.
As the number of people sentenced for crimes in the insurrection nears 200, an Associated Press analysis of sentencing data shows that some judges are divided over how to punish the rioters, particularly for the low-level misdemeanors arising from the attack.
“We’re asking judges to do what they think is right, and they don’t agree on what’s right,” said Greg Hunter, a lawyer defending several Jan. 6 defendants.
A House committee that held it first public hearing on Thursday cast a wide net in its investigation of the insurrection, examining how President Trump and his allies tried to undermine the election results. So far, the Justice Department’s criminal investigation has focused primarily on the hundreds of Trump supporters who broke through police barricades, shattered windows, attacked officers and stormed into the Capitol.
Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, has consistently taken the hardest line against Jan. 6 defendants of any judge serving on Washington’s federal trial court, which is handling the more than 800 cases brought so far in the largest prosecution in Justice Department history.
Chutkan has handed out tougher sentences than the department was seeking in seven cases, matched its requests in four others and sent all 11 riot defendants who have come before her behind bars. In the four cases in which prosecutors did not seek jail time, Chutkan gave terms ranging from 14 days to 45 days.
Overall, the 20 judges who have sentenced riot defendants have given lighter sentences than prosecutors were seeking in nearly three-fourths of the cases. The judges have exceeded prosecutors’ recommendation for about only 10% of the defendants, according to AP’s analysis.
Most judges — appointed by presidents of both political parties — have gone easier on defendants than prosecutors wanted in most or all of their cases so far. While some judges have sentenced few Jan. 6 defendants, no other judge besides Chutkan has exceeded prosecutors’ recommended punishment in most of the cases assigned to them.
“Depending on the judge you get, the same facts could get you anything from probation to months in jail,” said Hunter, the defense lawyer. “When you can literally look at who the judge is, who has been assigned to a case, and know that every defendant is going to get more time or less time because of the judge they drew ... that doesn’t promote respect for the law,” he added.
In one case, two friends from Indiana, Dona Sue Bissey and Anna Morgan-Lloyd, both pleaded guilty to the same misdemeanor offense for engaging in essentially the same conduct inside the Capitol. Prosecutors did not seek jail time for either, noting their lack of a criminal record.
Chutkan sentenced Bissey to 14 days in jail. A different judge sentenced Bissey’s friend to probation.
While Judge Royce Lamberth did not send Morgan-Lloyd to jail, he has also been among the toughest judges on defendants. In one case, Lamberth, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan, gave a Pennsylvania man two months behind bars for a misdemeanor when prosecutors were seeking only two weeks.
More than 300 people have pleaded guilty in connection with the insurrection to crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felony seditious conspiracy. Five others have been convicted at trial. A judge decided two other cases without a jury, acquitting one defendant and partially acquitting the other.
The Jan. 6 cases pose a unique challenge for judges in that even though the riot was unlike anything the country has seen before, hundreds of people were charged only with misdemeanors such as illegal entry that typically do not land first-time offenders behind bars.
Some judges have criticized prosecutors for what they see as disparities in prosecutors’ charging decisions across the cases and their recommendations for punishment. Chief Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama nominee, has sharply questioned whether prosecutors are letting some rioters off too easy with misdemeanor plea deals even as they describe the insurrection as an attack on democracy.
To be sure, every case and defendant is different. Also, judges must weigh a slew of factors, including the seriousness of the crime, the person’s criminal history, whether the defendant admitted guilt and showed remorse and what sentences similarly situated defendants have received in order to avoid unwarranted disparities.
In the case of a Maryland man who sprayed a fire extinguisher at officers defending the Capitol, prosecutors sought more than four years in prison.
But Judge Randolph Moss sentenced Matthew Ryan Miller to less than three years, noting that the man was just 22 years old on Jan. 6, 2021, was intoxicated when he stormed the Capitol and has shown remorse.
Before handing down the punishment, Moss said he believes judges have done a good job at ensuring the punishments are consistent while also weighing the individual factors of each case.
“When one looks at these sentencing decisions that have been made by this court across many judges, it’s remarkable how consistent sentencing has been,” said Moss, an Obama nominee. “When I see differences, I’m able to go back through the record and look at it and understand the basis for those differences.”
In case after case, Chutkan has expressed her belief that prison can be a powerful deterrent against the threat of another insurrection.
“Every day we’re hearing about reports of anti-democratic factions of people plotting violence, the potential threat of violence, in 2024,” she said before sentencing a Florida man who attacked police officers to more than five years behind bars — the longest sentence so far in the attack.
“It has to be made clear that trying to violently overthrow the government, trying to stop the peaceful transition of power and assaulting law enforcement officers in that effort is going to be met with absolutely certain punishment,” she said.
Of the more than 190 defendants sentenced so far, about 20 admitted to felony charges, including nine who assaulted police officers. The rest pleaded guilty to misdemeanors punishable by no more than one year imprisonment. Prosecutors recommended prison terms in more than 70% of the cases. Judges have agreed to prison in about 45% of them, with terms ranging from nine days to more than five years.
In one case, prosecutors sought a month in prison for California bartender Kevin Cordon, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Judge Trevor McFadden, who was nominated by Trump, said jail time was not appropriate given his lack of criminal record.
“In my experience as a judge and former prosecutor, it’s almost unheard of for someone who is essentially a first-time offender to get jail time for a nonviolent misdemeanor,” McFadden said. “I think it’s important that I’m consistent in sentencing, not only compared with other judges in Jan. 6 cases but also with an eye to how misdemeanors are handled more generally outside of this politically fraught event.”
McFadden has condemned the Jan. 6 riot as a “national embarrassment,” while also suggesting that the Justice Department was being too hard on those who broke into the Capitol compared with the people arrested during racial injustice protests following George Floyd’s 2020 murder.
Without naming her colleague, Chutkan slammed McFadden’s suggestion days later.
“People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man. Some of those protesters became violent,” Chutkan said during an October hearing.
“But to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights, to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores a very real danger that the Jan. 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy.”
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Kunzelman reported from College Park, Maryland, and Richer from Boston.
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and Elton John were in a London court Monday as the lawyer for a group of British tabloids asked a judge to toss the lawsuit they brought with several other high-profile people who allege phone hacking and other invasions of privacy.
Harry’s presence at the High Court in London signals the importance of the case, one of several lawsuits the Duke of Sussex has brought in his battle against the press. The hearing is expected to conclude Thursday.
The case alleges Associated Newspapers Ltd., which publishes The Daily Mail and The Mail On Sunday, commissioned the “breaking and entry into private property,” and engaging in unlawful acts that included hiring private investigators to bug homes, cars and record private phone conversations.
“They were the victim of numerous unlawful acts carried out by the defendant, or by those acting on the instructions of its newspapers,” attorney David Sherborne said in a court document.
Sherborne who also represents John’s husband, David Furnish, and actresses Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost, said the intrusions were “habitual and widespread” and later “concealed or covered up.”
Articles were falsely attributed to “friends,” a family source, palace sources, royal insider, or similar phrases to throw subjects “off the scent” of the true origin, Sherborne said.
Among the allegations in court papers were that Associated Newspapers unlawfully obtained the birth certificate of John and Furnish’s child before they had seen the document and illegally gleaned information on Harry’s previous relationship with Chelsy Davy, a jewelry designer from Zimbabwe.
The publisher is also alleged to have hired a private investigator to hack Hurley’s phone, stuck a mini-microphone on a window outside her home and bugged ex-boyfriend Hugh Grant’s car to gather financial information, travel plans and medical information during her pregnancy.
John and Furnish arrived in court after a lunch break and sat in the gallery for part of the afternoon before bowing out. Harry sat near Frost toward the rear of the court during the whole session and occasionally took notes.
The case is a replay to some extent of the British phone hacking scandal that was front page news a decade ago and eventually brought down another tabloid and ended with the conviction of the former spokesperson for then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
The allegations date primarily from 1993 to 2011 but also stretch beyond 2018, Sherborne said.
The publisher denies the allegations and said the claims are too old to be brought and information about the phone hacking scandal was so widely known the subjects could have sued years ago.
“It would be surprising indeed for any reasonably informed member of the public, let alone a figure in the public eye, to have been unaware of these matters,” attorney Adrian Beltrami said in writing.
He also argued that the suit should be thrown out because it relies on information the newspapers turned over in confidentiality for a 2012 probe into media law breaking.
Beltrami said it was ironic Harry and others claimed the publisher illegally obtained information about them from evidence that was supposed to have been kept private and, thus, was itself gathered in violation of the law.
Sherborne argued that documents used in the 2012 inquiry were presumed to be public unless marked confidential.
Britain held a year-long inquiry into press ethics after revelations in 2011 that News of the World tabloid employees eavesdropped on the mobile phone voicemails of celebrities, politicians and a teenage murder victim.
Owner Rupert Murdoch shut down the newspaper amid a criminal investigation and public uproar. Several journalists were convicted, and Murdoch’s company paid $388 million in settlements to dozens of hacking victims, legal fees and other costs associated with investigations.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who had resigned and became communications chief to Conservative Party leader Cameron, was convicted of phone hacking and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In the inquiry’s 2012 report, Lord Justice Brian Leveson said “outrageous” behavior by some in the press had “wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent people whose rights and liberties have been disdained.”
Justice Matthew Nicklin, who is hearing the current eavesdropping case, is also overseeing a separate libel lawsuit Harry brought against Associated Newspapers over an article about his quest for police protection when he and his family visit the U.K.
Harry, the younger son of King Charles III, and his wife, the former actress Meghan Markle, stepped down as working royals in 2020 and moved to the U.S., citing what they described as the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media.
Harry has said he wants to make reforming the British media his life’s work. He fumes at British media throughout his memoir “Spare,” published in January. He accused them of hounding Meghan and blamed an overly aggressive press for the 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana, which is mentioned in court papers.
The prince’s lawyer said the unlawful conduct by Associated Newspapers was “a major betrayal given promises made by the media to improve its conduct following the tragic and untimely death of his mother.”
The couple has turned to British courts to combat what they see as media mistreatment. In December 2021, Meghan won an invasion-of-privacy case against Associated Newspapers over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of a letter she wrote to her estranged father.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon designed to boost its nuclear fighting capability, state media reported Sunday, a day before its chief rivals the United States and South Korea begin annual drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
The 13th weapons test this year came amid concerns that North Korea may soon conduct an even larger provocation. That may include a nuclear test in an effort to expand the country’s arsenal and increase pressure on Washington and Seoulwhile denuclearization talks remain stalled.
The official Korean Central News Agency said leader Kim Jong Un observed what it called the weapon’s successful launch. It released a photo showing a beaming Kim clapping his hands with military officers.
KCNA said the weapon tested has “great significance in drastically improving the firepower of the front-line long-range artillery units, enhancing the efficiency in the operation of (North Korea’s) tactical nukes and diversification of their firepower missions.”
KCNA didn’t elaborate, but its use of the words “tactical nukes” suggested the weapon is likely capable of carrying a nuclear warhead that could hit strategic targets in South Korea, including U.S. military installations. The KCNA dispatch didn’t say when and where the launch occurred.
“North Korea is trying to deploy not only long-range nuclear missiles aimed at American cities but also tactical nuclear weapons to threaten Seoul and U.S. bases in Asia,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.
“Pyongyang’s purposes likely exceed deterrence and regime survival. Like Russia employs the fear it could use tactical nukes, North Korea may want such weapons for political coercion, battlefield escalation and limiting the willingness of other countries to intervene in a conflict,” he said.
Some observers said the weapon showed in North Korean photos suggested it might be a smaller, lighter version of its nuclear-capable KN-23 missile that has a highly maneuverable flight aimed at defeating missile defense systems. Others said it could be a new missile that combines the technical characteristics of the KN-23 and another short-range ballistic missile called the KN-24.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it had detected two launches from the North’s eastern coastal town of Hamhung early Saturday evening.
It said the missiles flew about 110 kilometers (68 miles) at an altitude of 25 kilometers (16 miles) and a maximum speed of Mach 4. South Korea’s presidential office said officials have met twice this weekend to discuss the North Korean military activities.
South Korea’s military said later Sunday that its nine-day springtime drills with the United States will start on Monday. It said the allies decided to hold computer-simulated command post exercises that don’t involve field training after reviewing factors like the COVID-19 pandemic and the allies’ combined defense readiness.
The exercises could further intensify animosities on the Korean Peninsula because North Korea has previously responded with its own weapons tests and fiery rhetoric.
North Korea has started this year with a slew of weapons tests, including its first flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. homeland since 2017. South Korea recently said it has detected signs that North Korea is rebuilding tunnels at a nuclear testing ground it partially dismantled weeks before it entered now-dormant nuclear talks with the United States in 2018.
A possible nuclear test by North Korea would involve a tactical nuclear warhead, said analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. He predicted that North Korea would push to mount a tactical nuclear warhead on the weapon tested this weekend and deploy such nuclear missiles near the border with South Korea.
“North Korea has a domestic imperative to make and perfect weapons ordered by Kim Jong Un last year regardless of what the U.S. does or doesn’t do. The test also tells his people that their country is strong despite their apparent economic difficulties,” said Duyeon Kim, a senior analyst at Washington’s Center for a New American Security. “One reason for the political timing could be to protest anticipated U.S.-South Korea military drills.”
On Friday, Kim attended a massive civilian parade in Pyongyang that marked the milestone 110th birthday of his state-founding grandfather, Kim Il Sung. It appeared the country passed its most important national holiday without a highly anticipated military parade to showcase its new weapons systems.
Kim may still hold a military parade on the April 25 founding anniversary of North Korea’s army. But if that anniversary goes without a military parade again, some experts say that might mean Kim doesn’t have new powerful missiles to display and that his next provocative step will likely be a nuclear test.
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Associated Press writer Kim Tong-hyung contributed to this report. | https://www.wane.com/news/north-korea-says-it-tested-new-tactical-guided-weapon/ | 2022-04-17 14:16:55 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/north-korea-says-it-tested-new-tactical-guided-weapon/ |
WASHINGTON — From Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Queen Elizabeth's death, it's been quite an eventful past 12 months, with major events happening at a fast pace.
While it would be impossible to cover everything that happened over the last year, here are 37 important events that shaped the year 2022.
Apple's stock hit $3 trillion
Apple's stock hit an all-time high on Jan. 3, reaching a market cap of $3 trillion. It's the first company ever to do so. Over four years, the company's stock has tripled in value. While the massive market cap is largely symbolic, it's a sign that Apple continues to be ubiquitous in the smartphone and tech markets going forward.
Elmo vs. Rocko
While this rivalry didn't start in 2022, it definitely deserves to be on this list. The origin of Elmo's hatred for Rocko can be traced back to the rock's first appearance in 1999, while 2022 saw the internet explode with laughter over Sesame Street character Elmo's beef with his friend Zoe's imaginary friend after a viral tweet on Jan. 4. It seems people even now can relate to not wanting to give their favorite cookie to a rock that isn't even alive.
Wordle
The biggest puzzle craze to hit the world since, well, crosswords. Originally designed by one man for his wife's entertainment, the game gives players six guesses to determine a five-letter word, with the only clues being the letters you got right. The New York Times bought the game on Jan. 31 and although many players say it made the game harder, it actually remained the same.
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics were a big one, held between Feb. 4 and Feb 20, just a year after the Summer Olympic Games (which were pushed back by COVID). While the U.S. placed fourth in the final medal rankings, the widely viewed event relaunched a familiar conversation about mental health among the world's top athletes. U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish any of the five individual races she competed in despite being a favorite to medal, with her visible frustration drawing support from athletes such as Simone Biles. Meanwhile, a doping scandal erupted involving Russian figure skating star Kamila Valieva. While she helped the Russian team win gold in the team event, the case has yet to be settled and no medals have been given for that competition.
Baby Formula Shortage
On Feb. 17, Abbott Labs announced a recall of baby formula produced at their Michigan plant. As one of the three major formula producers in the U.S., Abbott's recall exacerbated pandemic-related supply chain issues. For months, formula was hard to come by, with the Biden administration authorizing shipments from Europe to cover the gap.
Brittney Griner detained
WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained by Russia on Feb. 17, arrested on charges of having hashish oil in her luggage. In a saga that has paralleled the Ukraine invasion, U.S. diplomatic efforts with Russia focused on returning Griner over nearly a year. Finally, on Dec. 8, she was traded in a one-to-one prisoner swap for a Russian arms dealer and returned home to the United States.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Perhaps the single biggest event of 2022 was the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces on Feb. 24. In the ten months since, what Russia believed would be a swift victory has turned into a drawn-out military conflict. Ukraine, supported by the West, has managed to push back much of Russia's advances in the early days of the war, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his troops won't stop until all of Ukraine is returned — including Crimea, which was annexed in 2014.
Will Smith slaps Chris Rock
Was that real? During the Oscars on March 27, while comedian Chris Rock was about to present an award, he made fun of Will Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith. In a shocking moment, Smith got on stage and slapped Rock, later heckling him from the audience and saying to "keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth." In the months since, Smith has publicly apologized for the incident, and has been banned for a decade from future Academy Award shows.
Microplastics discovered in human blood
In another distressing headline from 2022, scientists on March 28 announced that a majority of humans likely have microplastics swimming around in their blood. The study found about 77% of people tested had the tiny particles. Plastic shreds over time into microscopic particles, and scientists for years have warned of the danger these microplastics could have on the ecosystem. Now, it looks like the birds are coming home to roost.
Depp v. Heard trial
One of the most-talked about trials of the year involved two major celebrities: Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard. While the case was ostensibly about libel — Heard wrote an op-ed in 2018 accusing Depp of domestic abuse without naming him — it focused largely on accusations of domestic abuse lobbed by both parties. The trial ended with Depp being awarded more than $10 million.
Monkeypox outbreak
As if COVID-19 wasn't bad enough, the World Health Organization announced that a monkeypox outbreak had been reported outside of Africa on May 6, 2022. While the initial cluster of cases was in the UK, the virus' spread to the U.S. caused concern that another pandemic was coming. Luckily, monkeypox is treatable with the smallpox vaccine, and the outbreak didn't grow to the level that some epidemiologists feared.
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting
Ten people, all Black, were killed when a white gunman opened fire at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York in an apparent hate crime on May 14. The shooter was revealed to be a white supremacist who had written a manifesto before attacking the store, which predominantly catered to Black customers. The gunman was arrested and pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting.
Uvalde School Shooting
On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, wounding seventeen others. Law enforcement received heavy criticism after the shooting because officers waited more than 40 minutes to enter the classroom, despite phone calls from victims inside the room pleading for help.
Roe v. Wade overturned
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn nearly 50 years of precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade sent a ripple through the U.S. unseen for years. With the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24, the court granted anti-abortion activists what they'd been asking for decades. Conservative states immediately set out to ban abortion, with more than a dozen enacting trigger laws immediately. Women upset by the decision flocked to Democratic candidates, helping them hold the Senate and nearly maintain the House in the 2022 midterms. And it ignited a series of legal battles that are still continuing now over the future of abortion in the country.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
On June 30, retiring Justice Stephen Breyer administered the oath of office to Ketanji Brown Jackson, officially welcoming her to the Supreme Court. Jackson is the first Black woman to be appointed to the court.
Shinzo Abe assassinated
On July 8, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was giving a speech in Nara when an assassin with a homemade gun fatally shot him. The gunman was reportedly upset over Abe's involvement with the Unification Church, a religious movement that had bankrupted the shooter's parents, not Abe's controversial politics. Abe's death sparked a conversation comparing gun deaths in Japan and the U.S.
RIP Choco Taco
The Choco Taco, that delightful ice cream treat, saw the end of its production with Klondike announcing it would be discontinued on July 25. By August, however, the overwhelming support for the Choco Taco appears to have made the company reconsider its plans, hinting that the Choco Taco could make a return. To be fair, its death did reveal that although many people have fond memories of the treat, almost nobody remembers the last time they bought one.
Chess scandal
The world of chess was rocked on Sept. 4 when Magnus Carlsen lost to Hans Neimann in a surprise outcome. Many interpreted the sudden withdrawal from the tournament by Carlsen, widely considered the world's best chess player, as an accusation that Neimann was cheating. Chess fans came up with some... creative.... possible cheating methods he could have used, but none were ever proven, although Neimann has admitted to cheating in online matches. Carlsen later said he believed Neimann had cheated more often than he admitted, and possibly did so during their match.
Drama over "Don't Worry Darling"
Don't Worry Darling was a period thriller starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh. But the movie's drama was overshadowed by the off-set drama. Fans first noticed some tension between Pugh and director Olivia Wilde when the two were seated as far away from each other as possible at press events, or when Pugh just didn't go to some events Wilde was at. Rumors say it stemmed from Wilde's relationship with Styles. But it got even wilder when at the Venice premiere of the movie on Sept. 5, eagle-eyed fans seemed to see Styles spitting on co-star Chris Pine as he made his way to his seat. While the cast has denied the rumor, it was still an odd moment in a series of strange occurrences related to the film's production.
Queen Elizabeth II's death
After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, seven months after the UK celebrated her Platinum Jubilee. After a week of ceremonies and parades in her honor, Elizabeth was laid to rest beside her husband, Prince Phillip. Her son Charles succeeded her on the throne.
Iran erupts with protests over hijab laws
Civil unrest broke out in Iran on Sept. 16 against the government after 23-year-old Mahsa Amina died in police custody after being arrested for for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly. The protests have gained international support, and were a point of contention during the team's stint at the World Cup, including when the team refused to sing their national anthem in their opening match against England.
NASA smashes rocket into asteroid
It's a headline that looks like it could be the ending of a great sci-fi movie. NASA's DART spacecraft was flown on a one-way trip out to space, where it collided with an asteroid and changed its trajectory. The collision on Sept. 26 was the culmination of 10 months of interstellar flight for the rocket. NASA used the mission as a test of a planetary defense system: basically, they were looking to see if they could do anything if an asteroid was ever aimed straight at Earth. The answer, it appears, is yes.
Try Guys cheating scandal
In a move nobody saw coming, the Try Guys let go of one of their founding members Ned Fulmer, announcing his departure in a video on Oct. 3 after it was revealed that he cheated on his wife Ariel. Fulmer had branded himself as the "wife guy" whose on-camera love for his spouse made the betrayal that much more of a shock for the internet. The cheating was publicly disclosed after Reddit and Twitter sleuths pieced together that he had been removed from several recent videos from the group and finally found video of him making out with a coworker.
Alex Jones goes to trial against Sandy Hook parents
Some parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting and others who were affected by the tragedy received a win in court after conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages for defamation in a series of lawsuits against him. The largest of the settlements, nearly $1 billion, was imposed on Oct. 12. In the aftermath of the 2012 attack, Jones claimed the parents and their dead children were "crisis actors" as part of a government conspiracy to take away guns from Americans.
Liz Truss and the cabbage
Liz Truss' reign as prime minister didn't even last as long as a head of cabbage. That's the takeaway from her historically short seven-week stint at the top of the British government. Her first (and only) weeks in office were marred by blowback from an economic proposal she made that would cut taxes for top-income earners. A Twitter account monitoring if her tenure would last as long as a head of cabbage purchased when she was elected on Sept. 6 concluded with her Oct. 25 resignation that the cabbage did in fact have a longer shelf life than Truss.
Elon Musk buys Twitter
In possibly the wildest Twitter saga yet, Elon Musk concluded his purchase of the social media platform on Oct. 27. The purchase was made after months of Musk trying to back out of the deal, and since it went through, his reign over the social media platform has been chaotic to say the least. A majority of Twitter's staff appears to have been fired or resigned. Twitter now allows people to buy the blue verified checkmarks (leading to chaos and mass impersonations). And Musk appears to be walking back a promise to step down as CEO after a poll on his Twitter showed a resounding number of users want him gone.
Midterm Elections
The 2022 midterm elections were supposed to be a blowout for Republicans. President Biden had a low favorability rating, and the president's party tends to lose seats in midterm elections. But Democrats defied the odds on Nov. 8, partly due to voters angry about the overturning of Roe, and kept control of the Senate. Republicans will start the next session of Congress with a single-digit margin in the House even smaller than what Democrats had for the past two years.
$2.04 billion Powerball drawing
On the morning of Nov. 8, one lucky Powerball player in California learned that they had won more than $2 billion as the single person to get the jackpot. It's the largest lottery prize in history. It was also the highest prize in a year full of massive jackpots. A $1.337 billion Mega Millions ticket was sold in July in Illinois.
The world's population reaches 8 billion
The United Nations projected that the world reached a population of 8 billion people on Nov. 15, 11 years after hitting 7 billion. The news reflects improvement in fields such as global health and poverty eradication, although experts warn more humans could increase the stress on the planet's resources. India is expected to surpass China as the country with the highest population by 2023 with 1.4 billion residents.
NASA launches Artemis 1
On Nov. 16, NASA's Artemis 1 rocket launched into orbit. The Artemis, an unmanned rocket orbiting the moon, is the first major flight from the rocket's namesake program, which aims to return humans to the moon after the Apollo program decades earlier.
Club Q nightclub shooting
Five people were killed and 25 were injured when a gunman opened fire just before midnight on Nov. 19 at a gay club in Colorado Springs during a drag queen's birthday party. Patrons and employees at the club were able to subdue the gunman until police arrived.
The world's largest active volcano erupts
The world's largest active volcano — Mauna Loa in Hawaii — began erupting on Nov. 27, creating a spectacular display of molten rock gushing down the island's slopes and drawing crowds of spectators. It also threatened structures, prompting evacuations for weeks until the eruption finally subsided about halfway through December.
Student debt forgiveness put on hold
The Biden administration announced in August that they would be removing as much as $20,000 in debt from many Americans who went to college. But following a Republican-led legal challenge, the Supreme Court kept the program paused until they could rule on it sometime in 2023.
The world's oldest DNA sample found in Greenland
Scientists in Denmark announced on Dec. 7 that they had found the world's oldest DNA in Greenland. Although it won't be used to make Jurassic Park a reality, the DNA shows what life was like near the Arctic 2 million years ago. Back then, the land was abundant with plant and animal life, including mammoths.
Nuclear fusion announced
The U.S. government announced on Dec. 13 that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction with a net energy gain. While it's still a test case in a lab, the announcement could signal the way for a new generation of clean energy.
U.S. marks 10 years since Sandy Hook
Dec. 14 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, in which a gunman killed twenty children and six adults at the school in Connecticut. The shooting outraged Americans, but little gun reform has been made at the federal level in the 10 years since, despite pushes from Presidents Obama and Biden and countless school shootings since.
Argentina wins the World Cup
They did it! They really did it! Lionel Messi and Argentina managed to win the World Cup on Dec. 18, granting Messi the one trophy that has eluded him his entire career during his last World Cup match. The final game came down to a penalty kick shootout with France after the game tied 2-2 in regular play and 3-3 in extra time. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/year-in-review/2022-events/507-ac17c13b-ae0d-4adf-9cfc-327a5fec52cf | 2022-12-31 15:36:09 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/year-in-review/2022-events/507-ac17c13b-ae0d-4adf-9cfc-327a5fec52cf |
Former President Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) have submitted a total of four candidates to be potentially appointed as special master in charge of reviewing the documents the FBI took at Mar-a-Lago last month.
The submissions came after a federal judge on Monday granted Trump’s request to have a special master review the materials that the FBI obtained to see if any are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege.
The DOJ also filed an appeal on Thursday to request that the special master not review the more than 100 classified documents that the FBI took, arguing that a pause in its review of those materials could cause “irreparable harm” to the government and the public in delaying the investigation.
The Trump legal team and the DOJ each proposed two candidates to conduct the review.
Here are the four people that Trump and the DOJ have proposed to serve as special master:
Raymond J. Dearie
Trump chose Raymond J. Dearie, a retired U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York, as one of his picks. Dearie was nominated to the seat and confirmed by the Senate in 1986 by then-President Reagan.
He served as chief judge of the court from 2007 to 2011, according to his profile page on the court’s website. Dearie assumed senior status on the court in 2011, moving to a form of semi-retirement that allows judges older than 65 to take a lighter caseload.
Dearie also served as a U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1982 to 1986. He also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign spies in the U.S., according to Trump and the DOJ’s court filing announcing their choices.
Paul Huck Jr.
Paul Huck Jr., who is Trump’s other pick, has spent his legal career working in both the public and private sectors. Huck served as deputy attorney general in Florida for four years and then served as general counsel to then-Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican at the time who has since joined the Democratic Party, from 2007 to 2008.
While serving as general counsel, he was the top legal adviser to Crist on constitutional, legislative and statutory matters involving the executive branch, according to his profile page on the site for conservative legal organization The Federalist Society, where he is a contributor.
The Federalist Society defines a contributor as speaking or participating in its events, publications or multimedia presentations, and the title does not necessarily imply any other endorsement or relationship with the organization.
Huck also founded his own law firm, the Huck Law Firm, and is a former partner at the multinational law firm Jones Day, according to the court filing.
Barbara S. Jones
One of the DOJ’s picks is Barbara S. Jones, who served as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York for more than a decade and a half. She was nominated to the seat in 1995 by then-President Clinton.
She presided over cases on a wide range of topics, including accounting and securities fraud, antitrust, corruption, labor racketeering and terrorism while serving, according to her profile page for Bracewell LLP, where she is a partner.
Before she began serving as a district judge, she served as chief assistant to Robert Morgenthau, the district attorney of New York County at the time.
Jones also served as the chair of the Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel, which Congress created to analyze investigations of sexual assault in the military.
She served as a special master in 2018 to review documents from Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, to examine if any were privileged.
Thomas B. Griffith
Thomas B. Griffith, the DOJ’s other candidate, served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. He serves as special counsel for the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
Griffith served as the Senate legal counsel, the body’s nonpartisan top legal officer, from 1995 to 1999, according to his profile page on his law firm’s website. He advised Senate leadership and committees on investigations in the role.
Griffith was also the general counsel to Brigham Young University in Utah for five years. He is a lecturer of law at Harvard University and has served in that role in the past for Stanford University and Brigham Young. | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/who-are-the-four-people-trump-and-the-doj-have-proposed-for-special-master/ | 2022-09-12 23:47:53 | 1 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/who-are-the-four-people-trump-and-the-doj-have-proposed-for-special-master/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — Of course a Junior had to do something special in Seattle.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. won the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, matching Vladimir Sr.’s 2007 title to become the first father-son duo to accomplish the feat.
As far as who might win a head-to-head swing-off, well, that depends.
“It’s kind of difficult right now,” the Toronto Blue Jays star said with a wide grin, speaking through a translator. “With the time, with the minutes, I’ll win. If it’s by outs, he’ll win.”
In a ballpark made famous by the Mariners’ Ken Griffey Jr. a generation earlier, Guerrero beat Tampa Bay’s Randy Arozarena 25-23 in the final round. He was 8 when his father won the crown in San Francisco.
“I don’t remember much about 2007,” Vladimir Jr. said. “I guess I was too young.”
Guerrero totaled 5 1/2 miles of homers — 29,390 feet to be exact. He defeated Julio Rodríguez 21-20 in the semifinals after the Mariners star hit a record 41 in the first round in front of his hometown fans.
Batting against Blue Jays manager John Schneider, Guerrero was the last semifinalist to swing and the first finalist, setting a final round record for homers to top the mark Pete Alonso set when he beat Guerrero 23-22 in 2019.
With Guerrero Jr. catching his breath while watching, Arozarena hit against Tampa Bay field coordinator Tomas Francisco. Arozarena had 21 homers in his initial 2 minutes. He had 23 with 7 seconds left in his automatic 30 seconds of bonus time before lining and popping up on his final four swings.
Guerrero had 1 minute of bonus time, earning an additional 30 seconds because he twice reached 440 feet.
“Obviously, the power that he has was incredible,” Arozarena said through a translator. “For me, I felt good going into that round. But also he was able to get a minute of bonus time. I only had the 30 seconds of bonus time.”
Vladimir Guerrero Sr. won the 2007 derby while with the Los Angeles Angels, beating the Blue Jays’ Alex Rios 3-2 in the final.
Arozarena had the most overall homers over the three rounds, 82 to Guerrero’s 72, and the most distance at 33,077 feet. Arozarena overcame Luis Robert of the Chicago White Sox 35-22 in the semifinals. Robert hit the longest drive of the night, a 484-foot shot to left in the second round. That topped the high of 476 feet by Barry Bonds in the 2001 derby in Seattle.
Trying to become the youngest Derby winner at age 22, Rodríguez knocked out Alonso, a two-time champion who hit 21. Rodríguez beat Corey Seager 32-24 in the first round last year at Dodger Stadium, then knocked out Alonso 31-23 before losing to Juan Soto 19-18 in the final.
Arozarena beat Texas’ Adolis García 24-17 in the opening pairing before a crowd of 46,952 at T-Mobile Park. García is the godfather to Arozarena’s daughter, and the two jumped into each other’s arms during warmups.
Robert knocked out Baltimore’s Adley Rutschman 28-27 in the opening round. Rutschman hit 21 left-handed, and the switch hitter then turned around to the right side and hit six more right-handed during a 30-second bonus round. From Portland, Oregon, Rutschman grew up attending Mariners games.
Guerrero, back for the first time in four years, defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts 26-11 in the first round. Four years ago at Cleveland, Guerrero hit 29 in the first round and 40 in the second, then lost to Alonso in the final.
Alonso was trying for his third title in four years. Griffey Jr. is the only three-time winner, taking the title in 1994, ’98 and ‘99.
Guerrero Sr. was a nine-time All-Star but never won a World Series. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018.
Guerrero Jr. is a three-time All-Star and was MVP of the game two years ago in Denver. What’s in the future? A World Series ring? Joining dad in the Hall?
“I’m a little bit too young to think about that right now,” he said. “When I get there, then I’ll think about it, I’ll see if I match my dad or was better than my dad or not.”
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-4-9-8-0
(two, four, nine, eight, zero)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-4-9-8-0
(two, four, nine, eight, zero) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17353384.php | 2022-08-05 04:54:55 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17353384.php |
Toray's Carbon Fiber and Resin System will be part of Overair's all-electric aircraft expected to take flight in 2023
TACOMA, Wash., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Overair, Inc. and Toray Composite Materials America, Inc., the leading manufacturer of advanced carbon fiber and composite prepreg materials, today announced a strategic collaboration on utilization of Toray's advanced prepreg system in Overair's Butterfly prototype program. Unparalleled in safety and efficiency, the Butterfly is a low-noise, zero-emission electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that will provide sustainable aerial ridesharing in densely populated cities where traffic is a problem.
The Butterfly prototype aircraft utilizes Toray's T1100/3960 prepreg system, a material that is formulated for high-performance aerospace applications where the optimal ratio of strength to modulus properties is critical. Toray's 3960 is a highly-toughened 350°F/177°C cure epoxy resin with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 400°F/204°C. It is optimized for increased performance and allows for autoclave and out-of-autoclave curing. The resin is synergistic with the TORAYCA™ T1100 next-generation intermediate modulus plus (IM+) carbon fiber, which is the highest tensile strength fiber available today. The T1100/3960 unidirectional and plain weave prepreg is utilized in the Butterfly's airframe structure and propulsion units.
"We're excited to be working closely with Toray's advanced materials as we continue the development of our all-electric Butterfly experimental prototype aircraft," said Ben Tigner, Co-Founder and CEO at Overair. "Our unique propulsion system requires materials that provide a unique combination of high stiffness and high strength, while also maintaining the optimal weight targets for the vehicle."
Overair recently completed full-scale testing of Butterfly's propulsion system. The successful testing program validated Overair's design choices and Butterfly's expected performance capabilities. Butterfly's propeller will be showcased at the Farnborough International Air Show from July 18 to July 22 in Farnborough, England.
"It is an honor for Toray to partner with Overair on this endeavor and provide the Butterfly a unique performance advantage with our 3960 prepreg system," according to Jeff Cross, Director of Business Development for Aerospace at Toray. "We're excited for the future as Overair proceeds with full-scale development and testing. The proven performance of our materials gives me confidence that we can help achieve Overair's objective of producing the safest, most efficient, and reliable eVTOL aircraft."
Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. (Toray CMA) is a subsidiary of Toray Industries, Inc. (Toray). Toray addresses global challenges by delivering high value-add products including fibers and textiles, resins and films, and carbon fiber composite materials. Toray operates in 29 countries and regions with more than 48,000 employees worldwide. Toray Composite Materials America is the manufacturer and supplier of TORAYCA™ carbon fiber materials and high quality advanced composite prepreg. Toray CMA serves the needs of aerospace and defense, sports and recreation, automotive, and industrial markets. For more information about Toray CMA, visit www.toraycma.com. For information on Toray Industries, visit www.toray.com.
Overair is an advanced air mobility company located in Orange Country, California. The company is developing Butterfly, a breakthrough all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft ideally suited for sustainable aerial ridesharing. Overair's proprietary propulsion system provides enhanced safety and a superior experience for passengers and communities. With eVTOL adoption revolutionizing urban mobility, Butterfly is positioned to set the bar on real-world dependability, with best-in-class payload, noise emissions, and weather capability. Overair has operating partnerships with companies such as Hanwha Systems and Bristow Group, and the team completed its full-scale propulsion testing in the first quarter of 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.overair.com / Twitter: @overair_inc
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Leading Marketing and Tech Entrepreneur Tapped to Oversee and Manage Creation of Commercial Opportunities for Women's and Men's Professional Tennis Players
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sports Marketing and Tech Entrepreneur Neeta Sreekanth has been named Senior Vice President, Operations of Winners Alliance, the for-profit affiliate of the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) – global advocates on behalf of men's and women's professional tennis players. She will also serve a dual role as Senior Advisor to PTPA Executive Director and Winners Alliance CEO Ahmad Nassar, as the organization accelerates its growth to support operations and long-term development. Ms. Sreekanth joins Winners Alliance after three years at NIL tech platform INFLCR, most recently as the company's first chief operating officer. Prior to INFLCR, Ms. Sreekanth spent time at ESPN, the Dallas Cowboys, and IGN Entertainment.
In her capacity as SVP, Ms. Sreekanth will oversee development of the Winners Alliance platform, company operations, scaling the business and advancing new initiatives to prioritize the interests of women's and men's tennis players. Moreover, she will also advise Mr. Nassar on PTPA matters.
"I am thrilled that Neeta has joined Winners Alliance to help create commercial opportunities for all players," said Mr. Nassar. "Having a dedicated advisor on these issues will allow us to look broadly at how we scale the business, build a global group licensing program, innovate athlete services, and create a company culture that attracts top talent. Neeta is the ultimate 'cheat code.' Her experience, insight, and resourcefulness will ensure our efforts are innovative and effective. We're excited to welcome her and leverage her wealth of knowledge in delivering transformational strategies."
"I couldn't be more excited to join Winners Alliance and work directly with Ahmad to maximize off-the-court commercial opportunities for athletes," said Ms. Sreekanth. "I've long admired Ahmad's vision, innovation, and leadership principles. The opportunity to impact athletes through Winners Alliance is unparalleled. I look forward to working closely with athletes and our partners throughout the industry to scale and modernize group licensing. I'm enormously thankful for the opportunity of a lifetime to work on behalf of athletes."
Neeta Sreekanth brings extensive experience as a leading specialist in growing and maximizing athlete rights. She is the first executive hire at Winners Alliance and the PTPA. Winners Alliance is designed to generate and maximize off-the-court commercial opportunities for players and their agents, emulating the successful model of players associations in other sports. Among its first initiatives, Winners Alliance will establish a sustainable group licensing program for video games, trading cards, collectibles, and related opportunities.
Before joining Winners Alliance and the PTPA, she was named Chief Operating Officer at INFLCR in October 2019, a leading brand building, content, and NIL technology platform for college athletes. With NIL going into effect in 2021, she spearheaded the company's collegiate NIL strategy, partnerships and product innovation while supporting the athletes' ability to monetize their brands through technology. Under her leadership, INFLCR launched groundbreaking partnerships to increase the scope and scale of NIL programs with iconic brands such as the World Wrestling Entertainment, Meta, TikTok and ESPN.
She joined INFLCR from video game media company IGN Entertainment, where she was head of social content and strategy, overseeing relationships with social platforms, monetizing content partnerships, and strategy around key events. Early in her career, the former Division I college basketball player gained leadership experience in sports and digital, leading social media initiatives at both ESPN and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.
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(KTLA) – An Australian actress who had been reported missing by her family was actually in custody after being arrested by police in Santa Monica days prior.
Last Friday night, Santa Monica police say they were dispatched to a restaurant on Arizona Avenue for a report of a battery.
Officers were told a woman, later identified as Laura McCulloch, had thrown a drink at a restaurant patron and their 2-year-old child.
According to police, McCulloch showed “obvious signs of intoxication,” and continued acting aggressively while officers tried to calm her.
“During efforts to detain her, she became physically combative, kicked at officers and bit one officer on the shoulder,” authorities said.
The 37-year-old actress was arrested and booked on suspicion of public intoxication and resisting arrest.
She appeared in court on Tuesday, but not before her family reported her missing to the Los Angeles Police Department. Authorities told Nexstar’s KTLA that McCulloch’s family made the report Monday.
A GoFundMe page created to help in the search indicated she had been getting ready for a date with a person she met on Tinder or Bumble. As of Tuesday night, that GoFundMe has been disabled.
McCulloch appeared in an independent film called “Covid Support Group,” this year and had appeared in an Australian film called “The Black Sheep” in 2010, according to her IMDB page.
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ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed lavender scrubs as she walks through a door frame that hangs from a crumbled wall into what used to be an administrative office of her hospital in Zolochiv.
Not one building in the facility in the northeastern Ukrainian town near the Russian border has escaped getting hit by artillery shells.
Since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, space to treat patients at the hospital has shrunk constantly because of damage. Her staff has dwindled to 47 from 120. And the number of people seeking treatment in the small town 18 kilometers (11 miles) from the border is often higher now than before the fighting began.
Ukraine’s health care system struggled for years because of corruption, mismanagement and the COVID-19 pandemic. But the war has only made things worse, with facilities damaged or destroyed, medical staff relocating to safer places and many drugs unavailable or in short supply. Care is being provided in the hardest-hit areas by doctors who have refused to evacuate or have rushed in as volunteers, putting themselves at great risk.
“It’s very hard, but people need us. We have to stay and help,” said Butova, a neurologist who also is the administrator of the hospital in the town near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. She added that she has had to do more with fewer resources.
The World Health Organization declared its highest level of emergency in Ukraine the day after the invasion, coordinating a major relief effort there and in neighboring countries whose medical systems also are under strain.
About 6.4 million people have fled to other European countries, and a slightly higher number are internally displaced, according to U.N. estimates. That presents a major challenge to a health care system built on family doctor referrals and regionally separate administrations.
Across Ukraine, 900 hospitals have been damaged and another 123 have been destroyed, said Health Minister Viktor Liashko, noting: “Those 123 are gone, and we’re having to find new sites to build replacements.”
In addition, scores of pharmacies and ambulances have been destroyed or are seriously damaged, and at least 18 civilian medical staff have been killed and 59 others seriously wounded, he said.
“In occupied areas, the referral system has totally broken down,” Liashko told The Associated Press. “People’s health and their lives are in danger.”
Kyiv’s economy was drained by the conflict with Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that began in 2014. When he came to power five years later, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inherited a health care system that was undermined by reforms launched under his predecessor that had slashed government subsidies and closed many small-town hospitals. During the pandemic, people in those communities had to seek care in large cities — sometimes waiting as long as eight hours for an ambulance in severe cases of COVID-19.
As Russia has expanded the territory it controls in eastern and southern Ukraine, the supply of drugs in those areas has dwindled, along with medical staff to administer them. In the southern front-line town of Mykolaiv, “things have been very difficult,” volunteer Andrii Skorokhod said.
“Pharmacies have not been working, and shortages have become increasingly acute: Hospital staff were among those evacuated, including specialists. We just need more staff,” said Skorokhod, who heads a Red Cross initiative to provide residents with free medications.
Volunteers like Skorokhod saved the life of 79-year-old Vanda Banderovska, whose home near Mykolaiv was destroyed by Russian artillery. Her 53-year-old son, Roman, was killed, and she was brought to the hospital badly bruised and barely conscious.
“My son went out to the car to get his mobile phone when the Russians started shelling. He was hit in the head,” she said at a recovery ward, her voice trembling with emotion. “They’ve destroyed everything and I have nothing left.”
Banderovska said she was deeply grateful to the people who saved her life but also overcome by grief and anger.
“The pain I feel is so great. When doctors took me to the hospital I was bruised black and blue but I slowly recovered,” she said.
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Derek Gatopoulos reported from Kyiv. Vasilisa Stepanenko and Hanna Arhirova contributed to this report from Kyiv.
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
with highs in the lower 80s. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
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Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
northeast 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
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afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
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25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
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after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
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rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Breezy and much colder with lows in the upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50.
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TXZ026-112000-
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Including the cities of Childress and Kirkland
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Patchy blowing dust this morning. Mostly sunny. Breezy
and not as cool with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 20 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 60.
Northeast winds around 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the
mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Temperature
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falling into the mid 60s in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
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showers after midnight. Breezy and much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, and Farwell
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust this morning, then
areas of blowing dust this afternoon. Very windy with highs in
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the mid 70s. West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph,
becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Cold with
lows in the lower 30s.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy and much cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Temperature
falling into the mid 50s in the afternoon. Chance of rain
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30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow
showers in the evening. Brisk and much colder with lows in the
mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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TXZ022-112000-
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Very windy and not as
cool with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 25 to 35 mph with
gusts up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
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clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming east around 10 mph
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
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afternoon. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
around 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold with lows in
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the upper 20s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Not as
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cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper
70s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
Temperature falling into the mid 50s in the afternoon. Chance of
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rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
showers in the evening. Brisk and much colder with lows in the
mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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TXZ023-112000-
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
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clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northeast around 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
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Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of rain showers, mainly
in the evening. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
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lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper
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70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Temperature
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falling into the upper 50s in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Breezy and much colder with lows in the mid 20s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
$$
TXZ024-112000-
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Including the cities of Silverton and Quitaque
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
with highs around 80. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to
45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Much
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cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
East winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of rain showers, mainly
in the evening. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
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10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 60s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Not as cool with highs in
the lower 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
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Temperature falling into the lower 60s in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Breezy and much colder with lows around 30.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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TXZ025-112000-
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Breezy and not as
cool with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with
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gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Much
cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 60.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the
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mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
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midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower
80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Temperature falling into the mid 60s in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Breezy
and much colder with lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ027-112000-
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Very windy and not as
cool with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 25 to 35 mph with
gusts up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Much cooler with lows in the
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mid 30s. Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph,
becoming north around 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds
around 10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 25 mph in the
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afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold
with lows around 30. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
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to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the
lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
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afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Temperature
falling into the upper 50s in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow
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showers in the evening. Breezy and much colder with lows in the
mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
$$
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Very windy and not as
cool with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 25 to 35 mph with
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gusts up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming
northeast 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
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showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold
with lows around 30. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
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the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Temperature falling to around 60 in the afternoon. Chance of rain
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20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
in the evening. Breezy and much colder with lows in the mid 20s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Very windy and not as
cool with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 25 to 35 mph with
gusts up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
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Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
northeast around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold
with lows around 30. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Temperature falling into the lower 60s in the afternoon. Chance
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of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Breezy and much colder with lows in the mid 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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TXZ030-112000-
Floyd-
Including the cities of Floydada and Lockney
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
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with highs around 80. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph
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after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
Northeast winds around 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Cold with
lows in the lower 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Temperature falling into the lower 60s in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Breezy and much colder with lows in the mid 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
$$
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TXZ031-112000-
Motley-
Including the cities of Matador and Roaring Springs
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up
to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
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North winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 60.
Northeast winds around 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the
mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
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morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Temperature
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falling into the mid 60s in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
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showers after midnight. Breezy and much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
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TXZ032-112000-
Cottle-
Including the cities of Paducah and Cee Vee
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Not as cool with highs in the
mid 80s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40. North winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 60s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the
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mid 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Temperature falling into the mid
60s in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
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the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Breezy and much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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TXZ033-112000-
Cochran-
Including the cities of Morton and Whiteface
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
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with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
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north around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Southeast winds around 10 mph, becoming west with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold
with lows in the lower 30s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
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lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs
around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
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afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Temperature falling into the lower 60s in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
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in the evening. Breezy and much colder with lows in the upper
20s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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TXZ034-112000-
Hockley-
Including the cities of Levelland and Sundown
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool with
highs around 80. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming
northeast 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. East
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winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cold
with lows in the lower 30s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
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gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
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mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
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afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Temperature falling into the lower 60s in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
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in the evening. Breezy and much colder with lows in the upper
20s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50.
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TXZ036-112000-
Crosby-
Including the cities of Ralls and Crosbyton
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Windy and not as cool
with highs in the lower 80s. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
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up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming
east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
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showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
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morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Breezy and much colder with lows around
30. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50.
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TXZ037-112000-
Dickens-
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Including the cities of Spur and Dickens
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust this afternoon. Breezy
and not as cool with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 20 to
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25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 60.
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Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
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morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Breezy and much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50.
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TXZ038-112000-
King-
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Including the cities of Dumont and Guthrie
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
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Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
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.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
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30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Not as cool with
lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
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Breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers, mainly
in the evening. Breezy and much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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TXZ039-112000-
Yoakum-
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Including the cities of Denver City and Plains
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust this afternoon. Breezy and
not as cool with highs around 80. West winds 20 to 25 mph with
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gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
north 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs around 70. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Southeast winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs
around 70.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
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in the evening. Breezy and much colder with lows in the upper
20s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50.
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TXZ040-112000-
Terry-
Including the cities of Brownfield, Meadow, and Wellman
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust this afternoon. Windy and not
as cool with highs in the lower 80s. West winds 20 to 30 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40. Northwest
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming north around
10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
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the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers
in the evening. Breezy and much colder with lows in the upper
20s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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TXZ041-112000-
Lynn-
Including the cities of Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust this afternoon. Windy and not
as cool with highs in the lower 80s. West winds 20 to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40. Northwest
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northeast
around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
East winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
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20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Breezy and much colder with lows around 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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TXZ042-112000-
Garza-
Including the cities of Post and Lake Alan Henry
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316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust this afternoon. Breezy
and not as cool with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
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East winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
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morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers, mainly
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in the evening. Breezy and much cooler with lows in the lower
30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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TXZ043-112000-
Kent-
Including the city of Jayton
316 AM CST Sat Mar 11 2023
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. East winds around 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
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30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Not as cool with
lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is growing concern about temperatures rising, glaciers and snow melting, and weather getting harsh and unpredictable on the world’s tallest mountain.
Since the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) mountain peak was first scaled by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953, thousands of climbers have reached the peak and hundreds of lost their lives.
The deteriorating conditions on Everest are raising concerns for the mountaineering community and the people whose livelihoods depend on the flow of visitors.
The Sherpa community, who grew up on the foothills of the snow-covered mountain they worship as the mother of the world, is the most startled.
“The effects of climate change are hitting not just the fishes of Antarctica, the whales or the penguins, but it’s having a direct impact on the Himalayan mountains and the people there,” said Ang Tshering, a prominent Sherpa who has been campaigning for years to save the Himalayan peaks and surrounding areas from the effects of global warming.
Almost every year, he and his Asian Trekking agency organize a cleaning expedition in which clients and guides alike bring down garbage left by previous Everest climbing parties.
The effects of climate change and global warming have been severe in the high Himalayan area, Ang Tshering said. “The rising temperature of the Himalayan area is more than the global average, so the snow and ice is melting fast and the mountain is turning black, the glaciers are melting and lakes are drying up.”
Growing up on the foothills of the mountain, Ang Tshering said he remembers sliding on the glacier near his village. But that’s gone now.
Other Sherpas also said they have seen the changes in the Khumbu Glacier at the foot of Everest, near the base camp.
“We don’t really need to wait for the future; we are seeing the impact already,” said Phurba Tenjing, a Sherpa guide who recently scaled the peak for the 16th time guiding foreign clients to the summit.
Phurba Tenjing has been climbing Everest since he was 17. He said both the snow and ice have melted and the trek that used to take five or six hours over the icy path now only takes half an hour because the glaciers have melted and bare rocks are exposed.
“Before, the building-like ice chunks of the Khumbu Glacier used to come all the way up to the base camp. But now we don’t see it near the base camp,” Phurba Tenjing said.
Recent research found that Mount Everest’s glaciers have lost 2,000 years of ice in just the past 30 years.
Researchers found that the highest glacier on the mountain, the South Col Glacier, has lost more than 54 meters (177 feet) of thickness in the past 25 years. A team of 10 scientists visited the glacier and installed two weather monitoring stations — the world’s highest — and extracted samples from a 10-meter-long (33-foot) ice core. The glacier, which sits around 7,900 meters (26,000 feet) above sea level, was found to be thinning 80 times faster than it first took the ice to form on the surface, according to research published in 2022.
The glaciers are losing ice at rates that likely have no historic precedent, said Duncan Quincey, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
The change is happening “extremely rapidly” he said. “It’s causing challenges for everybody within that region and, of course, for the millions of people who are living downstream,” since much of Southern Asia depends on rivers that originate in the Himalayas for agriculture and drinking water.
Both floods and droughts are likely to become more extreme, he said.
“There’s a huge amount of unpredictability within these systems now, and it makes it very difficult for people who require water at a particular time of year to know that they’re going to have that water available,” he said.
Nepal’s government and mountaineering community plan to celebrate Everest Day on May 29 with a parade around Kathmandu and a ceremony honoring the climbers and veteran Sherpa guides.
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Associated Press climate writer Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India, contributed to this report.
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SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, leads former gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey by six points in the Republican race for the 12th Congressional District, according to a poll released Wednesday.
The poll, conducted by Cor Strategies, an Illinois-based center-right political firm, found Bost with 43% and Bailey with 37%. About 20% were undecided. There were 661 people polled and the margin of error was 3.8%.
We just released the first poll for the IL-12 Republican primary race between Mike Bost and Darren Bailey on Live from the Lincoln Desk which shows Bost holding an early 6-point lead over Bailey (43%-37%). Watch the full release on YouTube here: https://t.co/rJ9VX2yE6C pic.twitter.com/sSWnJRlgrU
— Cor Strategies (@CorStrategies) July 12, 2023
The results offer a first glimpse at the state of the race since Bailey announced his primary challenge of the five-term incumbent last week.
Collin Corbett, the polling firm's founder, said the results suggested "a much different race than what you saw with Rodney Davis and Mary Miller" last year in Illinois 15th Congressional District.
In that contest, Miller defeated Davis 58% to 42%. The former started with a lead, but Miller surged ahead with a boost from former President Donald Trump.
"In that race, Rodney started off with a huge lead and Mary just kept chipping away day after day, week after week until the very end when Trump came in, they were able to put it away and defeat Rodney in that primary," Corbett said. "This will not be that type of race. This is going to be a neck-and-neck race, this will be a dogfight all the way through Election Day."
The poll was not commissioned by either campaign, the firm confirmed.
It also found Trump leading the GOP presidential field in the district with 53%, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 16% and former Vice President Mike Pence at 9%. All other candidates were in the low single digits.
Bost campaign manager Myles Nelson said the result proves "that Republican voters are happy with the job Mike Bost is doing."
"At a time when no one can agree on anything, only 8% disapprove of the job he's doing in Congress," Nelson said. "Mike also holds an outside the margin of error lead against a candidate who JB Pritzker spent $30 million supporting in an effort to convince Illinois Republicans to vote for him just last year. We're happy with where we're at and know we will have the resources to continue building our support moving forward.”
Bailey's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
Bost was first elected to the Southern Illinois congressional seat in 2014 after serving for two decades in the Illinois House. His most serious challenge until now came in 2018, when he defeated Democrat Brendan Kelly by about seven percentage points in the general election.
The district has changed significantly since, with Springfield Democrats redrawing it during the last redistricting process to remove more liberal pockets of the Metro East region while adding vast swaths of conservative southeastern Illinois.
Under the old district lines, Trump carried the district with 56% of the vote in 2020. Under the current lines, Trump would have received 70% of the vote.
An added consequence of this is the inclusion of most of Bailey's former state Senate district into the new congressional district.
The poll results bear out this geographic split. Bost leads by 30 percentage points in the Metro East region near St. Louis and by 26 points in the deep Southern Illinois region known as Little Egypt.
Bailey, on the other hand, leads by 27 percentage points in the Wabash Valley in southeastern Illinois and by 11 points in Central Illinois.
Other data points in the poll showed positives for both candidates.
Bailey actually has higher name recognition in the district than Bost. Though typically unusual for a challenger to be more well-known than the incumbent, it makes sense in this context given that Bailey was the Republican nominee for governor in 2022.
Bailey was viewed favorably by 55% and unfavorably by 14% of those polled. Bost was viewed favorably by 54% and unfavorably by 8%.
Though it is not ideal for an incumbent to register under 50% in a head-to-head matchup, Corbett said Bost's lower name recognition means he has more room to grow than Bailey does.
This could be aided by the more than $1 million cash Bost has on hand plus promised support from the National Republican Congressional Committee. Bailey only opened his federal campaign account at the start of the month.
Another factor is a possible Trump endorsement. About 31% of respondents said they would vote for the candidate endorsed by the former president, 8% would vote against and 52% said it would have no impact.
Doing some back-of-the-napkin math, Corbett said, they determined that a Trump endorsement could move support up to 10 points either way.
If Trump endorses Bost, it might put the race out reach for Bailey given the incumbent's structural advantages. And while a Trump endorsement of Bailey wouldn't necessarily seal the deal for the challenger, it would give the challenger's campaign something to run on.
"A Trump endorsement gives you something to talk about," Corbett said. "And that's the gift here for the Bailey campaign. It isn't necessarily the fact that it gives you the bump in the polls. It's that now for nine months, you can just say the name Donald Trump over and over and over again, and now you actually have something to campaign on."
Bailey is running a campaign as an outsider. He will try to portray Bost as a swamp creature who has been in Washington too long. There is very little if any distinction that can be made between the two on policy.
There is no indication the former president intends to get involved in the race anytime soon.
Polls are a snapshot in time. The election is still eight months away and much can change. Still, the poll result forebodes a contentious, potentially expensive GOP primary battle once again in downstate Illinois. | https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/poll-bost-leads-bailey-in-southern-illinois-congressional-primary/article_c91a6a7c-20e3-11ee-ad8f-cf7ce903beec.html | 2023-07-13 19:31:24 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/poll-bost-leads-bailey-in-southern-illinois-congressional-primary/article_c91a6a7c-20e3-11ee-ad8f-cf7ce903beec.html |
Jake Rogers hit a go-ahead grand slam but the St. Louis Cardinals answered immediately with a seven-run sixth inning and went on to beat the Detroit Tigers 12-6 on Sunday afternoon at Busch Stadium.
The Tigers (15-18) snapped a five-game win streak while the Cardinals (11-24) snapped an eight-game losing streak.
Rogers’ slam came with two outs and a full count and put the Tigers ahead 6-3 in the top of the sixth.
But the Tigers had precious little time to celebrate. The Cardinals sent 12 batters to the plate, took advantage of three Tigers’ fielding errors and struck their biggest blow when Brendan Donovan hit a three-run home run off reliever Mason Englert.
Although five of the Cardinals’ runs were unearned, they also got plenty of big hits, including three home runs by slugger Paul Goldschmidt.
Tigers starter Alex Faedo allowed three runs (two earned) in 4 2/3 innings. He allowed just three hits, although two of them were homers.
Cardinals starter Steven Matz allowed one run in 5 1/3 innings. Former Tiger Drew VerHagen pitched two perfect innings of relief, striking out three.
The Tigers have already had two separate five-game winning streaks in the young season. Their last such streak (April 13-18) was followed by a four-game losing streak. The Tigers will try to avoid a repeat of that as they head to Cleveland for a three-game series beginning Monday at 6:10 p.m.
Up next: Tigers left-hander Joey Wentz (0-3, 6.67 ERA) will face Guardians rookie right-hander Tanner Bibee (1-0, 2.45).
Bibee was drafted in the fifth round in 2021 out of Cal State Fullerton. In his Major League debut against the Colorado Rockies, he struck out eight batters in 5 2/3 innings. | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2023/05/cardinals-barrage-of-homers-miserable-inning-sink-tigers-5-game-win-streak.html | 2023-05-07 21:16:01 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2023/05/cardinals-barrage-of-homers-miserable-inning-sink-tigers-5-game-win-streak.html |
CHICAGO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four Hightower advisors have been named to Forbes' America's Top Wealth Advisors List, which features 250 of the country's most experienced financial advisors. The Hightower advisors included in the rankings are:
- Moss Crosby, Twickenham Advisors, Huntsville, Ala.
- Jeffrey Grinspoon, VWG Wealth Management, LLC, Vienna, Va.
- Richard Saperstein, Treasury Partners, New York, N.Y.
- Jordan Waxman, Nucleus Advisors, New York, N.Y.
"We want to congratulate Moss, Jeff, Rich and Jordan for their extraordinary commitment and dedication to their clients over the years," said Hightower Chairman and CEO Bob Oros. "At Hightower, we're proud to support our advisors with value-added services and resources that allow them to focus on serving their clients and growing their businesses."
Of the 250 advisors named to the list, virtually everyone has more than 20 years of experience, and more than 80% of advisors have exceeded 25 years in business. Forbes' America's Top Wealth Advisors list was compiled by SHOOK Research, which interviewed candidates nominated by firms. SHOOK made its selections based on an algorithm of qualitative and quantitative criteria, including in-person interviews, industry experience, compliance records, revenue produced and assets under management. View the complete Forbes' list here https://www.forbes.com/top-wealth-advisors/#3059568b1a14.
In 2022, Forbes has named Hightower advisors to several of its other best-of lists, including America's Best Women Wealth Advisors 'Best-in-State' List, Best-in-State Wealth Advisors List and Best-in-State List of Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors. This year, Barron's has also named Hightower advisors to its advisor rankings, including 2022 Top 1200 List and 2022 List of Top 100 Financial Advisors
About Hightower
Hightower is a wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices, as well as 401(k) consulting and cash management services to corporations. Hightower's capital solutions, operational support services, size and scale empower its vibrant community of independent-minded wealth advisors to grow their businesses and help their clients achieve their vision of "well-th. rebalanced." Based in Chicago with advisors across the U.S., the firm operates as a registered investment advisor (RIA). Learn more about Hightower's collaborative business model at www.hightoweradvisors.com.
Securities offered through Hightower Securities, LLC member FINRA/SIPC. Hightower Advisors, LLC is a SEC registered investment advisor.
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — With brush in hand, nature sets off to paint autumn. Mike Stevens takes a look at a few of the finished works you've shared during this visit to the PhotoLink Library.
Check out the PhotoLink Library Photo Gallery and learn how to submit your photos HERE.
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