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After more than a decade of dispute over precisely how much the Orioles and Washington Nationals each were owed by the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network for 2012 to 2016, the two clubs have reached a settlement, according to a person familiar with the agreement.
The network, majority-owned by the Baltimore club, will pay both teams $99.2 million, according to the person, who said the calculation of interest payments, had been among the sticking points. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because neither team had made an announcement.
The settlement closes a lengthy, bitter chapter between the teams during which they disagreed over the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars for the broadcast rights to each teams’ games.
But it does not necessarily end the quarrel between the clubs.
Going forward, they must agree on how much each are owed beyond 2016. That determination is to be made by a Major League Baseball arbitration panel that has not yet convened a hearing on the matter, the source said.
Earlier this year, attorneys for the teams argued their cases in New York’s highest court. The clubs previously had battled over how much the Nationals were owed in television rights fees and a Major League Baseball arbitration committee composed of three team executives, the Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee, had twice mediated. But the Orioles argued in the New York Court of Appeals that the arbitration had been biased and that a separate, independent arbiter would be better suited for the dispute.
The Nationals, in turn, argued that the teams were simply following an agreement that both teams previously signed. The New York court sided unanimously with the Nationals but said the arbitration committee overstepped its power by determining a money award because it did not have the authority to decide fees for nonpayment. That likely would send the litigation into “extra innings,” Justice Madeline Singas wrote in the court’s opinion.
Those extra innings, however, now appear to be cut short.
The Orioles declined to comment. The Nationals did not respond to a request for comment.
In February, John Angelos, CEO of both MASN and the Orioles, said: “I think it’s resolvable today, tomorrow — I’m oversimplifying — separate and apart from that appellate track. I mean, that’s litigation. My goal, as you might be totally surprised to hear, is to never be around any litigation again. You don’t need litigation to solve problems. You just need good partners. And we can sort that out and solve it very quickly.”
The Washington Post first reported the settlement agreement between the teams.
MASN, the network that airs both Orioles and Nationals games, was created in 2005 when the Montreal Expos moved to Washington. Based on an agreement from that time, the Baltimore and Washington club co-own the network with the Orioles receiving a majority stake in ownership and a majority of profits as compensation for the Nationals moving into their exclusive coverage area.
The clubs split rights fees paid out by MASN, but 90% of the network’s profits originally went to the Orioles, while the Nationals received 10%. That figure changes by one percentage point each year and is scheduled to culminate with the Orioles receiving 67% and the Nationals getting 33% in 2032.
However, the teams have long disagreed about how much each team was owed. In 2011, they could not come to a consensus on how much they should receive for the five-year period from 2012 to 2016. MASN paid the Nationals $198 million, but the Washington club argued it should be $475 million. An MLB arbitration committee decided that figure should have been $298 million.
The Orioles appealed that arbitration decision, which was thrown out by a New York judge because of “evident partiality” in the Nationals’ law firm (which had represented MLB and other teams, whose executives were on the arbitration committee, previously). Again, the dispute went before a different MLB arbitration committee, which came to a similar figure, roughly $100 million more than the Nationals had been paid.
The Orioles and Nationals fought over that amount until recently, when a settlement was reached.
Baltimore Sun reporter Nathan Ruiz contributed to this article.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ringo Starr has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the former Beatle to cancel several scheduled concerts in Canada with his All Starr Band.
Five concert dates from Tuesday to Sunday — in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Lethbridge, Alberta; and the British Columbia cities of Abbotsford and Penticton — will be rescheduled.
“Ringo hopes to resume as soon as possible and is recovering at home. As always, he and the All Starrs send peace and love to their fans and hope to see them back out on the road soon,” said a statement from the band.
The drummer-singer is 82.
Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band — consisting of Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men at Work’s Colin Hay, Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter — were also forced to cancel last weekend shows in New Buffalo, Michigan, and at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minnesota. | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-ringo-starr-tour-on-hold-as-he-recovers-from-covid-19/ | 2022-10-04 17:17:25 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-ringo-starr-tour-on-hold-as-he-recovers-from-covid-19/ |
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Country star Morgan Wallen has postponed his Hersheypark show due to needed vocal rest, according to a recent Instagram announcement.
The singer released a video stating that his vocal cords are damaged due to multiple performances and that he has been diagnosed with vocal fold trauma.
As a result, Wallen told his 5.5 million Instagram followers that he will be on vocal rest for the next six weeks.
"We're working on rescheduling all the dates during this time frame," the singer said in a posted video, "We've almost got that done, but some of them are pending, so I'll keep you updated."
Wallen was set to open Hersheypark's annual summer concert series on May 18.
At this time, Hersheypark has not announced any new performances for the opening date.
He is also canceling his scheduled performances at the ACM Awards or the Lifting Lives event.
"For the longevity of my career, this is just the choice I had to make. I hate it, but I love you guys. I appreciate the support that you always give me," Wallen said. | https://www.fox43.com/article/entertainment/music/country-star-morgan-wallen-postpones-hersheypark-show-may-18/521-504f43d6-099b-4d9e-9529-e92ed69246a4 | 2023-05-09 19:32:10 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/entertainment/music/country-star-morgan-wallen-postpones-hersheypark-show-may-18/521-504f43d6-099b-4d9e-9529-e92ed69246a4 |
Cloudastructure VP of Sales recognized in international competition
MIAMI, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Stevie Awards™ for Women in Business competition announced that Cloudastructure's Whitney Fraser has been named a finalist for Female Executive of the Year.
Whitney's status as a finalist for an international award comes as no surprise to Cloudastructure senior management. Within months of joining the company, Whitney closed her first multi-million dollar enterprise deal, and within a week, closed another. Her deals ramped up Cloudastructure's revenue by 700% in Q1 and Q2 of 2022 alone, while the needs of her clients altered the course of engineering and design at the company, and may optimize crime deterrence to a level previously unattainable in enterprise security. Whitney was promoted to Vice President in June.
CEO Rick Bentley commented, "We couldn't be prouder of Whitney and we welcome and support the business community recognizing her talents. Not only is she a model professional and executive, but she comes to work every day with a positive attitude and a level of energy that influences everyone around her."
Currently on maternity leave, finalist and VP of Sales Whitney Fraser responded, "A heartfelt thanks to the judges for elevating my nomination, and another to everyone at Cloudastructure for believing in me! I'm deeply flattered and humbly grateful to have found you guys. Special shout out to our CRO Lauren O'Brien, thank you for hiring me, and CEO Rick Bentley for enabling what was needed to make this all possible. You've given me a "work home" where women can be mentored, listened to, and advance purely based on their merits and that's rare."
Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 200 business professionals around the world, working on seven juries. Their scores will also determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements that will be revealed at the 19th annual awards dinner and presentations in Las Vegas.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, employees and the companies they run – worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced during a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday, November 11. Nominated women executives and entrepreneurs from the U.S.A and several other countries are expected to attend. The event will be broadcast on Livestream.
The full list of finalists can be found here.
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, with R&D in Silicon Valley, California, Cloudastructure's 21st century award-winning security platform utilizes a scalable cloud-based architecture that features cloud video surveillance with proprietary, state-of-the-art AI/ML analytics, a seamless remote guarding solution, IoT cybersecurity, and smart parking. The combination enables enterprise businesses to achieve proactive, end-to-end security, and pairs that platform with an attractive value proposition that eschews proprietary hardware and offers contract-free, month-to-month pricing and unlimited 24/7 support. With Cloudastructure, companies can achieve unparalleled situational awareness in real time and thereby stop crime as it is happening, while simultaneously achieving up to a 75% lower Total Cost of Ownership than other systems. For more information, visit www.cloudastructure.com.
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BOSTON (AP) — Brad Marchand had two goals and an assist in his season debut and the Boston Bruins extended their winning streak to four games, beating the Detroit Red Wings 5-1 on Thursday night.
Jeremy Swayman made 27 saves, David Pastrnak had a goal and two assists and Charlie Coyle and Craig Smith also scored to help Boston improve to 6-0 at home this season.
Marchand returned after undergoing arthroscopic surgery in May to repair the cartilage in his hips. The 34-year-old forward was expected to be off the ice for six months. Instead, he was proclaimed good to return by Bruins coach Jim Montgomery following the morning skate Thursday.
“He’s a world-class player. It’s amazing how he comes up with pucks. The puck is between three bodies and he’s like the Tasmanian devil, twirling all around,” Montgomery said about Marchand. “It’s amazing. He tracks and fights for it and bite your leg off for it. That’s why we love him.”
For now, Boston plans to rest Marchand on the second night of back-to-back games. That includes Friday night’s matchup in Columbus.
“We’ve been very careful throughout this progression,” Marchand said. “Definitely felt more comfortable as the game progressed.”
Adam Erne scored for Detroit.
“You don’t see lapses in their game. They’re a consistent team,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said.
MAKING MOVES
The Bruins completed a trade during the game, sending forward Jack Studnicka to Vancouver for goaltender Michael DiPietro and the rights to defenseman Jonathan Myrenberg, who is currently playing in Sweden. DiPietro appeared in three games (two starts) spanning three seasons with Vancouver, while Studnicka appeared in one game for Boston this season.
NOTES: Boston forward David Krejci left the game with an upper-body injury. Armstrong confirmed that Krejci won’t be traveling for Friday’s game at Columbus … With Marchand reinstated off long-term injured reserve, the Bruins assigned defenseman Mike Reilly to Providence of the NHL.
UP NEXT
Red Wings: Host Minnesota on Saturday night.
Bruins: At Columbus on Friday night.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion, ruled that New York's restrictions on the concealed carry of firearms in public violates the Second Amendment.
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The completion of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail is inching ahead with the start of more construction that would help connect the 70-plus-mile route between Troutdale and The Dalles.
Today, the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department announced that work has begun to improve the south campground and day-use area at Viento State Park, just 7 miles west of Hood River. Those sites are closed through next spring, but when they open, will serve as a refuge for bicyclists and people on foot who are traversing the linked sections of the route.
“The campground remodel that includes ADA campsites and addition of a dedicated hiker/ biker camp is exciting news for campers, visitors, hikers and cyclists in the Gorge,” David Spangler, Columbia Gorge park manager, stated in a press release. “When the Viento hiker/biker camp and trail section are finished, bicyclists can start their state trail cycling trip in Portland and spend a night at the Ainsworth State Park hiker/biker camp and then Viento, before continuing on their way to Mitchell Point.”
Drivers on Interstate 84 may notice work underway, like the removal of big leaf maple and Doug firs from a 1-acre plot. While it may sound counterintuitive to uproot trees from a state park, state officials say it’s necessary in order to allow the existing Oregon white oak ecosystem to thrive. Habitat restoration is scheduled to begin in late September.
After initial work is completed in the campground, upgrades will come next. Crews will build six campsites, including two that comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act, and a host site. A new, modern restroom with an upgraded septic system is also in the plans along with the hiker-biker overnight area, with eight gravel pads—four with three-sided shelters.
By the time Viento reopens, those not traveling by car will be able to do so a little more safely thanks to a loop road redesign that separates motor vehicle traffic from trail users.
Currently, 68 of the original 73 miles of the Historic Columbia River Highway are open. Work began to connect a 2-mile segment between Viento and Mitchell Point early this year, which should open in 2024. An additional .6 miles of trail will be needed to link the trail to the new Mitchell Point Tunnel—a 665-foot-long shaft that echoes the aesthetics of the original, which was regrettably destroyed in 1966 to make way for I-84.
A final portion of trail between Ruthton Point (3 miles west of Hood River) and Hood River awaits funding for completion of design and construction. | https://www.wweek.com/outdoors/2022/08/23/viento-state-park-is-closed-for-upgrades-that-will-help-complete-the-historic-columbia-river-highway-state-trail/ | 2022-08-23 21:47:23 | 1 | https://www.wweek.com/outdoors/2022/08/23/viento-state-park-is-closed-for-upgrades-that-will-help-complete-the-historic-columbia-river-highway-state-trail/ |
Bay State policymakers should do more to encourage non-traditional K-12 learning models that aren’t constrained by standardized testing and bureaucracy, according to a new policy brief by a Boston-based think tank.
The brief makes the case for loosening regulatory impediments that entrepreneurs face on the local and state level when trying to introduce or build a new learning model in Massachusetts.
“Emerging models like microschools, learning pods, hybrid schools and co-learning communities often don’t fit neatly into a regulatory box,” said Kerry McDonald, who authored the brief published Thursday by Pioneer Institute.
“And fitting into those boxes could strip them of their innovative characteristics and ability to adapt easily to changing needs of the families they serve.”
Among McDonald’s recommendations are reducing childhood care licensing requirements for emerging learning models, creating “innovation tracks” that support such models, expanding homeschooling freedoms, making it easier to start a private school and loosening compulsory school attendance laws.
“The states that are attracting entrepreneurs with new learning models are those that have at least begun to introduce some of these recommendations,” said Pioneer Director of School Reform Jamie Gass.
KaiPod Learning, which blends virtual learning with an in-person microschool experience, launched its pilot pod in Newton last year, but quickly scaled elsewhere, including New Hampshire and Arizona, where it saw fewer restrictions.
“When expanding to new areas, we primarily look for indicators of support for student personalization and parent choice,” said KaiPod founder Amar Kumar. “Sometimes those indicators are regulatory, such as the number of public online schools or the ability for families to homeschool.
“Other times they’re financial, such as educational savings account programs that allow families to direct their tax dollars towards learning options that might work better for them.”
McDonald said the interest in Massachusetts is there, and policymakers should do more to encourage the proliferation and progress of these “creative, flexible, low-cost private education options” to provide more choice for families.
Linda Cashman spent most of her 40-year teaching career in public education, but became disillusioned with the increased focus on standardized testing, which she said makes it difficult for teachers to tailor curriculum toward different learning styles.
Now she teaches at JEM Learning, a new microschool, or outsourced homeschooling community in Duxbury.
“If the public schools continue the way public schools are going, I think you will see more and more alternative schools,” Cashman said.
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NORTHBROOK, Ill., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UL Solutions, a global leader in applied safety science, today announced that Patrick Mazzariol has been named executive vice president and chief commercial officer.
Mazzariol joins UL Solutions from Dover Corporation, a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider, where he served as chief commercial officer and vice president, Digital Customer Experience. Prior to Dover Corporation, Mazzariol held senior-level sales and marketing roles with B2B and B2C companies such as 3M, Ingersoll Rand, Siemens and Whirlpool.
"Patrick's demonstrated successes leading large, global organizations through significant commercial transformations that resulted in growth and productivity make him uniquely qualified and the ideal leader to step into this role," said Jennifer Scanlon, president and CEO, UL Solutions Inc. "I am confident that Patrick's depth of experience in sales operations and marketing will help us further enhance our customers' overall experience."
Mazzariol earned a master's degree in marketing from ESSEC Business School, Paris, and an MBA from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
"UL Solutions has built its reputation as a trusted partner by putting our expertise, integrity and dedication to work for customers, helping them solve the challenges necessary to bring products to market safely," said Mazzariol. "I look forward to harnessing the collective strength of the commercial organization to enable our global go-to-market strategy so customers can innovate with confidence as we continue working for a safer world."
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflect an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
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‘24,’ ‘Runaways’ actor Annie Wersching has died at 45
(AP) - Actor Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series “24″ and providing the voice for Tess in the video game “The Last of Us,” has died. She was 45.
Wersching passed away Sunday morning in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer, her publicist told The Associated Press. The type of cancer was not specified.
Neil Druckmann, who created “The Last of Us,” wrote on Twitter that “We just lost a beautiful artist and human being. My heart is shattered. Thoughts are with her loved ones.”
Actor Abigail Spencer, who appeared with Wersching on the sci-fi series “Timeless,” tweeted, “We love you Annie Wersching. You will be deeply missed.”
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Wersching appeared on dozens of television shows over the course of her two-decade career.
Her first credit was in “Star Trek: Enterprise,” and she would go on to have recurring roles in the seventh and eighth seasons of “24,” “Bosch,” “The Vampire Diaries,” Marvel’s “Runaways,” “The Rookie” and, most recently, the second season of “Star Trek: Picard” as the Borg Queen.
She also provided the voice and motion capture performance for Tess for the popular video game “The Last of Us.”
Wershing was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, according to Deadline, and continued working. She’s survived by her husband, actor Stephen Full, and three sons. A GoFundMe page was set up Sunday to support the family.
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MAKING AN IMPACT: NE Iowa shelter brings pets, people together
DECORAH, Iowa (KTTC) – The Humane Society of Northeast Iowa (HSNEI) works every day to bring humans and animals together.
Pepper and Carly are just one success story.
Pepper is a 4-year-old bully mix who has lived with her parents Carly and Ethan Zierke in Decorah since November 2022.
“She’s been really, really perfect for us.”
But Pepper’s journey to find a forever home was not an easy one.
Pepper was brought into HSNEI as a stray at the beginning of last year.
“She was in the shelter for about eight months here,” Zierke said.
“I could see her week by week the stress just getting to her,” Ries Magnuson, Executive Director at HSNEI said. “She would get more depressed and crabbier at various times.”
Magnuson said shelter life for a prolonged period of time can cause a decline in any animals’ mental health.
“Being in the shelter with other dogs barking, constantly hearing and smelling other dogs, it can be stressful,” Magnuson said.
Staying true to the organization’s goal of finding every adoptable animal a home, Magnuson and HSNEI worked tirelessly to improve Pepper’s quality of life.
“We approached her when she was on her walk and sat down with the director for just a few minutes and talked about her and she immediately laid across my lap, with her arm out, and it was very cute,” Zierke said. “When I got to see her in person and hear how much she could benefit from getting into a home as soon as possible, I decided that I wanted to bring her home.”
Fast forward to today, Pepper is getting more comfortable in her settings.
Zierke added, “Every day she relaxes a little bit more and gets to know my husband and I a little bit better.”
“I’d like to think she picked me, but I think she’d do that to just about anybody. She’s a very sweet dog.”
“I’ve seen her a few times that she’s been adopted as well and it’s just great to see her being so much more comfortable and back to her true personality,” Magnuson said.
The humane society has been helping abused, neglected, abandoned, and unwanted companion animals in the five northeast Iowa counties of Allamakee, Winneshiek, Howard, Clayton, and Fayette since 1995.
365 days a year, staff members and volunteers are cleaning, feeing, medicating, and providing enrichment and exercise to dogs and cats in need.
“It really makes me feel so much purpose and joy and sometimes responsibility and a bit of pressure, too, but generally just such fulfilling work,” Magnuson said.
Currently, HSNEI is housing around 20 dogs and just under 50 cats in its 4,200-square-foot facility. All need new families to call their own.
Magnuson added, “Don’t think of the pets here in any way as damaged goods. They are all such wonderful animals with their diverse personalities just looking for a home where they will be loved forever.”
To learn more about the adoption process, click here.
The nonprofit is also always looking for volunteers and foster families.
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US citizen, Somali convicted of helping pirates kidnap journalist
The German-American journalist was freed after his family paid a $1.6 million ransom
Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said.
Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York on Feb. 24 of hostage-taking, conspiracy, providing material support for acts of terrorism and other crimes that carry potential life sentences.
Michael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles northeast of the capital of Mogadishu. He was working as a freelancer for the German publication Spiegel Online and researching a book about piracy.
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The kidnappers demanded $20 million in ransom and at one point released a video showing Moore surrounded by masked kidnappers who pointed a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade at him.
Moore was freed in September 2014. Moore has said his family raised $1.6 million for his release.
"Tahlil, a Somali Army officer, left his post to take command of the pirates holding Moore captive and obtained the machine guns and grenade launchers used to threaten and hold Moore," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "Hassan, the Minister of Interior and Security for the province in Somalia where Moore was held hostage, abused his government position and led the pirates’ efforts to extort a massive ransom from Moore’s mother."
Hassan, who was born in Mogadishu, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was arrested in Minneapolis in 2019 and charged with federal crimes.
Details of Tahlil's arrest haven't been disclosed but he was jailed in New York City in 2018.
In a 2018 book Moore wrote about his captivity, he said that Tahlil got in touch with him from Somalia by Facebook two months after the journalist's release and included a photograph. Moore recognized him as the ""boss" of his guards.
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The men began a correspondence.
"I hope u are fine," Tahlil said, according to the book. "The pirates who held u hostage killed each other over group vendetta and money issues."
According to the criminal complaint reported by the New York Times, that was consistent with reports that some pirates were killed in a dispute over division of Moore's ransom.
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Hassan and Tahlil were scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 6.
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Data supports further development of CYT-338 in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma
AVENTURA, Fla. and NATICK, Mass., June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cytovia Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company empowering natural killer (NK) cells to fight cancer through stem cell engineering and multispecific antibodies, announced today that the novel data it is presenting at the European Hematology Association's annual congress in Vienna, Austria on June 10th, 2022 is now available on both the EHA and Cytovia websites.
For details on in-person poster presentations, please see the following:
Title: NOVEL MULTIFUNCTIONAL TETRAVALENT CD38 NKP46 FLEX-NK ENGAGERS ACTIVELY TARGET AND KILL MULTIPLE MYELOMA CELLS
Session Title: Poster session
Session date and time: Friday, June 10 2022 - 16:30 - 17:45 CEST
Final Abstract Code: P842
Abstract Link: https://library.ehaweb.org/eha/2022/eha2022-congress/357704/antonio.arulanandam.novel.multifunctional.tetravalent.cd38.nkp46.flex-nk.html?f=listing%3D0%2Abrowseby%3D8%2Asortby%3D1%2Asearch%3DNK
Summary: CYT-338 is a tetravalent IgG1-like multifunctional NK cell engager antibody with a novel FLEX-linker that simultaneously binds CD38-expressing cells and NK cells via the activating receptor NKp46. CYT-338 pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics was studied using in vitro and in vivo multiple myeloma models. CYT-338 showed 3-fold higher dose-dependent binding to CD38 expressing MM cell lines compared to daratumumab. Epitope mapping studies indicated that CYT-338 binds to a different CD38 epitope compared to daratumumab. CYT-338 showed greater dose dependent NK cell redirected cytolysis, degranulation, and cytokine production against MM1S cells compared to daratumumab. CYT-338 showed minimal immune subset depletion, NK cell fratricide, and cytokine release compared to daratumumab in vitro. CYT-338 showed tumor growth inhibition and improved survival in in vivo models of multiple myeloma. These results support further development of CYT-338 as a therapeutic for targeting CD38 expressing multiple myeloma cells distinct from daratumumab.
About Cytovia Therapeutics
Cytovia Therapeutics aims to accelerate patient access to transformational cell therapies and immunotherapies, addressing several of the most challenging unmet medical needs in cancer. Cytovia focuses on harnessing the innate immune system by developing complementary and disruptive NK-cell and NK-engager antibody platforms. The company is developing three types of iPSC-derived (or iNK) cells: unedited iNK cells, TALEN® gene-edited iNK cells with improved function and persistence, and TALEN® gene-edited iNK cells with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR-iNKs) to improve tumor-specific targeting. The second complementary cornerstone technology is a quadrivalent multifunctional antibody platform designed to engage natural killer cells by targeting NKp46 using Cytovia's proprietary Flex-NK™ technology.
These two technology platforms are being used to develop treatment for patients with solid tumors such as HCC and glioblastoma as well as hematological malignancies such as refractory multiple myeloma.
Headquartered in Aventura, FL., Cytovia has research and development laboratories in Natick, MA., and a GMP cell manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico. The company's own R&D work is augmented through scientific partnerships with Cellectis, CytoImmune, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, INSERM, the New York Stem Cell Foundation and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Cytovia has recently formed CytoLynx Therapeutics, a strategic partnership focused on research and development, manufacturing, and commercialization activities in Greater China and beyond.
Find out more at www.cytoviatx.com and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.
About CD38
Cluster of differentiation 38 (CD38) is a type II receptor membrane glycoprotein that plays a role in cell adhesion, migration, and signal transduction. Additionally, CD38 is an ectoenzyme involved in generation of nucleotide metabolites, such as ADP-Ribose that regulate cell metabolism. CD38 is highly expressed in multiple myeloma (MM) on malignant plasma cells and is also moderately expressed on normal T, B, NK and myeloid cells. Antibodies targeting CD38, such as daratumumab and isatuximab, are FDA approved for the treatment of MM as monotherapy and in combination.
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Isleworth Healthcare Acquisition Corp. ("Isleworth") (NASDAQ: ISLE) intends to file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the Securities Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which will include a proxy statement/prospectus, that will be both the proxy statement to be distributed to holders of Isleworth's common stock in connection with its solicitation of proxies for the vote by Isleworth's stockholders with respect to the proposed business combination pursuant to a Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization entered into on April 26, 2022, by and between Isleworth, Cytovia Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Cytovia Therapeutics ("Cytovia"), IHAC First Merger Sub Inc., a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Isleworth, IHAC Second Merger Sub LLC, direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Isleworth, and Isleworth Healthcare Sponsor I, LLC (the "Business Combination") and other matters as may be described in the registration statement, as well as the prospectus relating to the offer and sale of the securities to be issued in the Business Combination. After the registration statement is declared effective, Isleworth will mail a definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents to its stockholders. This communication does not contain all the information that should be considered concerning the Business Combination and is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or any other decision in respect of the Business Combination. Isleworth's stockholders and other interested persons are advised to read, when available, the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus included in the registration statement and the amendments thereto and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed in connection with the Business Combination, as these materials will contain important information about Cytovia, Cytovia Therapeutics, Isleworth and the Business Combination. When available, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for the Business Combination will be mailed to stockholders of Isleworth as of a record date to be established for voting on the Business Combination. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the preliminary proxy statement, the definitive proxy statement and other documents filed with the SEC, without charge, once available, at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to Isleworth's secretary at 360 Central Avenue, First Central Tower, Suite #800, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701.
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Isleworth, Cytovia and their respective directors, executive officers and other members of their management and employees, under SEC rules, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Isleworth stockholders in connection with the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders may obtain more detailed information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of Isleworth directors and executive officers in Isleworth's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on March 29, 2022. To the extent that holdings of Isleworth securities have changed since the filing of the Annual Report on Form 10-K, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of Isleworth stockholders in connection with the proposed transaction will be set forth in the proxy statement/information statement/prospectus for the proposed transaction when available. Information concerning the interests of Isleworth participants in the solicitation, which may, in some cases, be different than those of Isleworth Healthcare Acquisition Corp.'s equity holders generally, will be set forth in the proxy statement/information statement/prospectus relating to the proposed transaction when it becomes available.
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This press release may contain forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words such as "aims," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "estimates," "expects," "forecasts," "goal," "intends," "may," "plans," "possible," "potential," "seeks," "will" and variations of these words or similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the potential of Cytovia's FLEX-NK multifunctional engager antibody and iNK cells. Cytovia may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in these forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including whether the outcome of preclinical studies will be predictive of clinical trial results. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and Cytovia expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether because of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett announced Tuesday he’ll seek a third term next year as leader of Indiana’s largest city and economic driver.
The 66-year-old Democrat was first elected mayor in 2015 and easily won reelection in 2019 but will be trying to become only the second mayor to win more than two terms since the city limits were expanded to include all of Marion County in the 1970s.
“All I can see as I stand here tonight is tomorrow,” Hogsett said in announcing his reelection bid.
Hogsett has overseen several major city projects as mayor, including this year’s opening of a new $590 million criminal justice complex housing the county courts and jail and the long-stalled redevelopment of a vacant General Motors plant site near the city’s downtown.
Hogsett, however, has faced criticism over the city’s crime rate, including a record number of homicides during 2021, along with his handling of violent protests in 2020 over the police killing of George Floyd and the sluggish recovery of downtown Indianapolis businesses.
Hogsett’s campaign touts increased city police spending — including a 16% pay increase for new officers — and new programs such as a 24-hour team with behavioral health workers to respond to calls about mental health and substance abuse problems.
Indianapolis has trended heavily Democratic and complaints about crime from Republicans didn’t seem to stick to Democratic Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears as he won election last week with nearly 60% of the vote.
No Republican mayoral candidates have yet emerged, but state Rep. Robin Shackleford announced last week that she would run in the Democratic primary. Shackleford, who is leader of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, said her campaign would focus on making the city safer and narrowing the gap between affluent and poor neighborhoods.
Hogsett was the top federal prosecutor in Indianapolis before making his first mayoral run. He started his political career in the 1980s as a top adviser to Evan Bayh and followed Bayh as secretary of state for six years after Bayh was elected governor.
Republican William Hudnut was the only recent Indianapolis mayor to win more than two terms as he served 16 years from 1976 to 1991. The only other mayor since then to seek a third term was Democrat Bart Peterson, who was upset in the 2007 election by Republican Greg Ballard. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Indianapolis-Mayor-Hogsett-announces-bid-for-3rd-17587659.php | 2022-11-16 01:29:59 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Indianapolis-Mayor-Hogsett-announces-bid-for-3rd-17587659.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of environmental and anti-nuclear organizations expressed opposition Tuesday to any attempt to extend the life of California’s last operating nuclear power plant, challenging suggestions that its electricity is needed to meet potential future shortages in the nation’s most populous state.
Last month, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom raised the possibility that the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant — which sits on a coastal bluff halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles — could keep running beyond a scheduled closing by 2025. His office said the governor is in favor of “keeping all options on the table to ensure we have a reliable (electricity) grid.”
In a letter to Newsom, groups that included San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, the Oregon Conservancy Foundation, the Snake River Alliance and the Ohio Nuclear Free Network said the plant is old, unsafe and too close to earthquake faults that pose a threat to the twin reactors.
“Your suggestion to extend the operational life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility is an outrage,” they wrote. “Diablo Canyon is dangerous, dirty and expensive. It must retire as planned.”
The Democratic governor has no direct authority over the operating license for the plant. He floated the idea that owner Pacific Gas & Electric could seek a share of $6 billion in federal funding the Biden administration established to rescue nuclear plants at risk of closing.
PG&E, which in 2016 decided to shutter the plant by 2025, did not directly address Newsom’s suggestion at the time or say whether the company would consider seeking federal dollars to remain open beyond the scheduled closing.
PG&E announced the closing plan in 2016 as part of a deal with environmentalists and union workers, citing a “recognition that California’s new energy policies will significantly reduce the need for Diablo Canyon’s electricity output.” But Newsom’s suggestion highlights that the thinking has shifted, as the state looks for reliable power sources amid a changing global climate as California gradually shifts to solar, wind and other renewables.
Recently, state officials warned that extended drought, extreme heat and wildfires — paired with supply chain and regulatory issues hampering the solar industry — will create challenges for energy reliability this summer and into coming years.
The environmental groups argued that continuing to operate the plant beyond its scheduled closing would generate hundreds of tons of highly radioactive waste, with no permanent storage site for it. And they said state, by its own account, is lining up enough wind, solar and other renewables to replace Diablo’s electricity.
They also questioned whether any federal funds would be enough to unravel the complex deal to close Diablo Canyon, which is regulated by state and federal agencies.
Issues in play at Diablo Canyon range from a long-running debate over the ability of structures to withstand earthquakes — one fault runs 650 yards (594 meters) from the reactors — to the possibility PG&E might be ordered by state regulators to spend potentially billions of dollars to modify or replace the plant’s cooling system, which sucks up ocean water and has been blamed for killing fish and other marine life.
Newsom continues to support closure of the plant “in the long term” as the state moves to renewable energy.
There are 55 commercial nuclear power plants with 93 nuclear reactors in 28 U.S. states. Nuclear power provides about 20% of electricity in the U.S., or about half the nation’s carbon-free energy. | https://www.wane.com/news/environmental-groups-oppose-longer-life-for-ca-nuclear-plant/ | 2022-05-17 21:14:59 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/environmental-groups-oppose-longer-life-for-ca-nuclear-plant/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A police K-9 in Michigan recently had himself a ‘ruff’ day after he was accused of stealing his owner’s lunch.
The Wyandotte Police Department shared a mugshot of K-9 Ice, who was accused of eating an officer’s half-eaten lunch in the breakroom while they were called to assist with an emergency.
When the officer returned to the breakroom, they found K-9 Ice “leisurely strolling out of the room licking his chops,” the department said in a social media post. The officer’s entire lunch was “gone….disappeared, vanished!”
The department said K-9 Ice invoked his fifth amendment right to remain silent and added, “frankly is not cooperating with the investigation.”
The department said K-9 Ice has a history of rummaging through trash cans that are within his reach. Several others have even accused Ice of taking food right from coworkers’ hands as they walk by.
“Stealing is not only a crime but it is morally wrong too,” the Department wrote.
The post racked up over 18,000 reactions from community members who sided with Ice.
“Dozens of attorneys have offered to defend Ofc. Ice ‘pro-bone-o!'” The department said. “Plus the overall public just doesn’t believe he is guilty. No video has been produced.”
The department concluded K-9 Ice would not face any internal discipline or criminal charges.
“Matter of fact one of his local supporters, Lunch Wyandotte, dropped him off a custom-made sandwich today because they felt like he wasn’t being fed enough.” the department said. “The public has spoken.” | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/police-k-9-mugshot-goes-viral-after-accusations-he-stole-officers-lunch/ | 2023-01-25 00:12:31 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/police-k-9-mugshot-goes-viral-after-accusations-he-stole-officers-lunch/ |
CEDAR FALLS — Thirteen area football players, coaches, managers and cheerleaders will participate in the 50th anniversary Iowa Shrine Bowl at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls on Saturday.
Shrine Bowl assistant general manager Michael Hensing said the game’s board of directors plans to honor all former participants in the annual best-on-best football game.
“We have over 5,000 alumni that have played in the game for us,” Hensing said. “Players, coaches, cheerleaders, game officials — anyone that has been involved — has been invited back. We are going to have an on-field recognition before the game for our alumni with hall of fame coach Ken Winkler …addressing the crowd and alumni.”
In addition to Winkler’s address, member of the Shrine Bowl Class of 1989, former Northern Iowa Panther and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner filmed a brief video to commemorate the event.
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In Warner’s video, which was shown to the game’s participants on Tuesday night, the former Regis Royal highlighted the spirit of the ‘classic game.’
“It was an incredible week for me back in 1989,” Warner said. “It started with building some incredible relationships with other great young people around the state of Iowa. Then, it was about going out in the community and being introduced to some incredible community work…Lastly, it was about competing one last time at the high school level.”
Warner also charged the participants in the game to take advantage of their opportunity, enjoy the moment, take it all in and ‘build relationships that will last a lifetime.’
According to Hensing, Warner’s charge to the participants in this year’s contest falls right in line with the feedback he received from alumni leading up to the 50th Anniversary.
“It is incredible to hear the feedback we get,” Hensing said. “How they have been able to leverage football to change the way they contribute in their communities.”
“We have players from all over the state,” Hensing said. “[They are] awesome athletes, awesome members of their communities, but this is an opportunity to use that to help us raise money for the Shriner’s hospitals. To date, we are approaching right around $3 million that we have raised.”
Last year, the game raised $100,000 dollars according to Hensing.
“That is our mission, that is our goal,” Hensing said. “It is what we want to do with the football game. So, to be able to connect with the players and coaches across the state to raise money is a win-win.”
This year, eight players will represent the north Cedar Valley on the North Squad.
Layne McDonald—Waverly-Shell RockMcDonald, a 6-foot-3, 215 pound tight end and defensive end for the Go-Hawks put together a productive season on both sides of the ball. On offense, he took advantage of limited opportunities in the passing game with eight receptions for 220 yards—27.5 yards per catch— and four touchdowns. Defensively, McDonald recorded 31.5 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, including three sacks, two fumble recoveries and a defensive touchdown.
Logan Knaack—Grundy CenterDuring his senior season, Knaack, an all-around player, helped the Spartans to an 11-2 record. Offensively, it is a question of what the Grand View commit cannot do with 2,845 all-purpose yards and 35 total touchdowns. Defensively, Knaack recorded 34 tackles and seven interceptions in the secondary. Knaack also handled punting duties for Grundy Center.
Tyree Gardner—Waterloo WestGardner, a soon-to-be St. Thomas Tommie, threw for 752 yards and nine scores while adding 414 yards and 11 touchdowns on the ground as the Wahawks starting quarterback. Gardner added 31 tackles and one interception on defense in his senior season at Waterloo West.
Kjuan Owens—Waterloo EastOne of the most dangerous running backs in Class 4A, Owens rushed for 663 yards on 74 carries—nine yards per rush—with 10 total touchdowns as the Trojans’ feature back in 2021. Owens also made his presence known on defense with 10.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery.
Marcus Beatty—IndependenceAn Iowa Western Community College commit for baseball, Beatty did work as the workhorse running back for the Mustangs. Beatty found consistent running room as he reeled off 2,334 yards on 332 carries—seven yards per carry—with 25 touchdowns. Beatty notched 27 tackles, one sack and three interceptions during his senior season at Indee.
Jake Bradley—Columbus CatholicA member of the 2021 All-Metro football team, Bradley helped pave the way for 1,162 rushing yards and 1,814 passing yards as a standout on the Sailors’ offensive line. Defensively, Bradley ate up blocks and recorded 31.5 tackles, 1.5 sacks and 4.0 tackles for loss.
Braden Powers—DenverAnother standout lineman, Braden Powers made an impact on both the offensive and defensive fronts for the Cyclones. Powers helped Denver’s ground attack pick over 2,000 yards during his senior season as a member of the offensive line. On defense, he made 30.5 tackles, 6.5 sacks and 13 tackles for loss in seven games. Powers will play for Upper Iowa.
Will Lynch—Cedar FallsA 6-foot-4, 232-pound tight end, Lynch caught six passes for 50 yards and a touchdown during his senior season. Despite classification as a tight end, Lynch lined up all over the field for the Tigers as a consistent and dependable run blocker. Lynch will play for Augustana University, next season.
Area players Israel Hernandez (North Fayette Valley) and Marcus Herold (Turkey Valley) will also participate in the Shrine Bowl.
Columbus Catholic head coach Brad Schmit will serve as an assistant coach for the North Squad while Alexis Mildre of Denver will serve as one of the team’s managers.
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HEFEI, China, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 15, Gotion High-tech signed a cooperation agreement with Nuovo Plus of Thailand-based PTT Group, to set up a joint venture called Thailand's NV Gotion Co., LTD (To be determined, NV Gotion for short). The joint venture focuses on the design, development, manufacturing, sales and export of battery modules and pack products, and aims to explore the ASEAN new energy market and build a battery export base in ASEAN. The PTT Group is the largest state-controlled energy and petrochemical company in Thailand. The partnership will help Thailand achieve full electrification and net zero carbon emissions by 2065.
On the morning of that day, the two sides signed the agreement via video link. Chief New Business and Infrastructure Officer of PTT Group and Chairman of the Board of Nuovo Plus, Buranin Rattanasombat and Chairman of Gotion High Tech, Li Zhen attended the meeting and witnessed the ceremony.
According to the agreement, Gotion Singapore PTE. Ltd. of Gotion High-tech has entered into strategic cooperation with Nuovo Plus Co., LTD of Thailand-based PTT Group, and plans to establish Thailand NV Gotion Co., Ltd. ("NV Gotion") in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) of Thailand. The business scope of the joint venture includes the design, development, validation and manufacturing of battery modules and battery packs, and battery management systems for a wide range of vehicles and energy storage systems. NV Gotion plans to build a lithium-ion power battery pack production line in the EEC. By the fourth quarter of 2023, the first phase of the production line is expected to be put into production and provide high-quality battery products to the market. NV Gotion will actively explore new energy markets in the ASEAN member states while realizing local battery manufacturing and market development in Thailand. It is committed to building the battery export base in ASEAN.
About Gotion High-tech
Gotion High-tech is a world-leading provider of new energy solutions. It focuses on the R&D, production and sales of EV lithium-ion batteries and ESS batteries, and ranks among the top in China and the global market in terms of comprehensive strength. Gotion High-tech currently operates more than 14 giga-scale battery manufacture bases worldwide. And with 5 battery material bases , its business also covers the entire battery supply chain from upstream to downstream, including battery recycle.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Reacting to a surprising and growing monkeypox outbreak, U.S. health officials on Tuesday expanded the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus.
They also said they are providing more monkeypox vaccine, working to expand testing, and taking other steps to try to get ahead of the outbreak.
“We will continue to take aggressive action against this virus,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 response coordinator, who has also been playing a role in how the government deals with monkeypox.
The administration said it was expanding the pool of people who are advised to get vaccinated to include those who may realize on their own that they could have been infected. That includes men who who have recently had sex with men at parties or in other gatherings in cities where monkeypox cases have been identified.
Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body.
The disease is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. It does not usually spread easily among people.
Last month, cases began emerging in Europe and the United States. Many — but not all — of those who contracted the virus had traveled internationally. Most were men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get monkeypox.
Case counts have continued to grow. As of Tuesday, the U.S. had identified 306 cases in 27 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4,700 cases have been found in more than 40 other countries outside the areas of Africa where the virus is endemic.
There have been no U.S. deaths and officials say the risk to the American public is low. But they are taking steps to assure people that medical measures are in place to deal with the growing problem.
One of the steps was to expand who is recommended to get vaccinated. Vaccines customarily are given to build immunity in people before they are ever infected. But if given within days or even a few weeks of first becoming infected, some vaccines can reduce severity of symptoms.
A two-dose vaccine, Jynneos, is approved for monkeypox in the U.S. The government has many more doses of an older smallpox vaccine — ACAM2000 — that they say could also be used, but that vaccine is considered to have a greater risk of side effects and is not recommended for people who have HIV. So it’s the Jynneos vaccine that officials have been trying to use as a primary weapon against the monkeypox outbreak.
So far, the government has deployed over 9,000 doses of vaccine. U.S. officials on Tuesday said said they are increasing the amount of Jynneos vaccine they are making available, allocating 56,000 doses immediately and about 240,000 more over the coming weeks. They promised more than 1 million more over the coming months.
Officials said limited Jynneos doses will be allocated “using a four-tier distribution strategy that prioritizes jurisdictions with the highest case rates of monkeypox,” and that the number of doses distributed would be based on the number of people at risk for monkeypox and on how many of them can’t get ACAM2000 because of HIV.
That suggests the largest number of doses might go to states like New York, California and Illinois, each of which has reported more than 40 cases. However, officials on Tuesday did not say exactly which jurisdictions would be at the top of the list.
David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, was critical of the government’s announcement.
“.We have more questions than ever about how this vaccine will make it to those most at-risk in an equitable way and how the U.S. will ramp up testing and provide access to the best therapeutics,” Harvey said, in a statement.
Another change announced Tuesday: Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that vaccines be given after exposure to people whom health officials identify as close personal contacts of cases. But on Tuesday, CDC officials say they are expanding the recommendation to people who were never identified but may realize on their own that they may have been infected.
That can include men who have sex with men who have recently had multiple sex partners in a venue where there was known to be monkeypox or in an area where monkeypox is spreading.
“It’s almost like we’re expanding the definition of who a contact might be,” said the CDC’s Jennifer McQuiston. If people have been to a party or other place where monkeypox has been known to spread “we recommend they come in for a vaccine,” she said.
The CDC’s expansion follows similar steps taken in New York City and the District of Columbia.
The District of Columbia has identified 19 cases, but case-tracking investigations revealed that some of the infected men had been in gatherings where they were hugging, kissing or in other forms of close intimate contact with people they didn’t know, said Anil Mangla of the D.C. health department.
It was clear that “we were missing something here,” and needed to start offering services to others, said Mangla, an epidemiologist.
Last Thursday, New York City’s health department — armed with 1,000 of doses of Jynneos from the federal government — announced it was opening a temporary clinic to offer the vaccine to all gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men who have had multiple or anonymous sex partners in the previous two weeks.
But all the appointments quickly filled up that day, and the last round of appointments was Monday. “Until we receive more supply we are unable to release additional vaccination appointments,” said Patrick Gallahue, a spokesman for the city’s health department, in an email.
On Monday, the District of Columbia’s health department took a similar step. The department started taking appointments at 1 p.m. Monday but had to stop after 20 minutes, Mangla said.
The department only had 200 doses of Jynneos, and it was clear at the point that it the department didn’t have the vaccine supply or staffing to continue to sign up new people, he said.
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Which propane deep fryer is best?
Low-country boils, large batch potato chips, snacks for a big party: all of these are made possible with a propane deep fryer. These are designed for outdoor use and can go anywhere your gatherings take you.
If you plan on using your fryer for everything from large batches of potato chips to a Thanksgiving turkey, the King Kooker Portable Propane Outdoor Deep Frying Package is a good choice. It has everything you need to get started.
What to know before you buy a propane deep fryer
Style of propane deep fryer
Portable propane deep fryers come in two basic configurations.
- Burner and a pot: One of the most common types consists of a burner on a sturdy base designed to hold a pot filled with oil. These may be more affordable, but they require large amounts of oil for their use. This can make them more dangerous for inexperienced cooks. You also need to have a large pot, which might be tricky if you don’t have storage space.
- Oil in a cup: If you plan on using your deep fryer for smaller snacks, you might prefer to look for one that uses a small well filled with oil. These typically look like an upside-down flying saucer, with a warming area surrounding a cup that holds a small amount of hot oil. These use less oil than a simple burner, but they cannot fry a whole turkey, and they tend to cost more.
Power
Power is measured in British thermal units (Btu). The more you have, the faster your food cooks. Power ranges from 10,000-50,000 Btu. Although you may be inclined to go for the largest number of Btu available, keep in mind that the higher the Btu the more propane the fryer uses.
Number of eaters
If you plan to use your propane deep fryer for a small household or as a single person, there is no need to buy one that comes with a large pot. Consider the number of eaters before deciding which one works best for you.
What to look for in a quality propane deep fryer
Included pots
For propane deep fryers that need a large pot, look for a total set that includes one or two of good quality. This means you can set it up and cook immediately without worrying about buying a separate pot.
Electric igniter
Sure, you could use matches or a stick lighter, but an electric igniter is easy and convenient. Simply open the propane tank valve, press the button and you’re ready to cook.
Thermometer
Most propane deep fryers don’t include a thermometer. but a thermometer is a crucial piece of equipment for ensuring that your oil is at the correct temperature. Too hot and your food burns without cooking — too cold and it soaks up grease as it cooks.
Safety features
While some experienced cooks may not want an automatic temperature regulator. If you are just beginning to explore the world of outdoor deep frying, this is a valuable safety feature.
Additionally, the hose that attaches the propane to the burner should be sturdy, durable and equipped with a pressure regulator to ensure a steady, safe and even flow of propane.
How much you can expect to spend on a propane deep fryer
The price varies depending on the type of deep fryer you select and whether or not it comes with accessories. Expect to spend $70-$250.
Propane deep fryer FAQ
How do you care for a propane deep fryer?
A. Proper maintenance is not difficult, but it is important for safe operation.
- Turn off your deep fryer and allow it to cool completely. Disconnect the propane cylinder or tank.
- Drain the cool oil through a sieve and into a food-safe container. If your deep fryer does not have a drain valve, carefully tip the oil into a container.
- Use degreasing dish soap and hot water to scrub out the fryer. A bristle brush can help remove any stuck food. Follow up with a dish sponge and more degreasing dish soap if needed.
- To clean a drain valve, allow some of the soapy water to flow through it before completely rinsing the pot and running clean water through the drain valve.
- Rinse the pot completely and dry thoroughly.
- Wipe down the hose or any other parts that have oil splashed on it.
- Store your deep fryer inside or in a garage if possible.
Can you reuse oil?
A. Frying oil can be used multiple times, but it needs to be strained after each use and stored in the fridge. If your oil begins to smell off or darken, throw it away and use fresh oil.
The oil used to fry breaded or battered foods should only be reused a maximum of four times. For frying things like potato chips, you can reuse the oil twice that amount.
What’s the best propane deep fryer to buy?
Top propane deep fryer
King Kooker Portable Propane Outdoor Deep Frying Package
What you need to know: If you want to buy everything all at once, this package is complete and ready to go — just add propane.
What you’ll love: It has 33,000 Btu for quick heating and cooking. The fuel hose is connected with a standard connection and has an auto shut-off. A 29-quart pot and an 11-quart aluminum fry pan with a basket are included.
What you should consider: Experienced cooks may not want an auto regulator. This takes away temperature control.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top propane deep fryer for the money
GasOne Burner With Steamer Pot
What you need to know: It is small but comes with power enough to get the job done.
What you’ll love: The high output burner has safety controls including a steel braided hose with regulator and O-ring for a more secure connection. It comes with a 24-quart aluminum pot and weighs less than 15 pounds.
What you should consider: The pot is not large enough to deep fry a turkey. There isn’t a steamer insert or frying basket.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Fryin’ Saucer Propane Deep Fryer
What you need to know: It sets up fast and works well for both large batches of food and frying for just a couple of people.
What you’ll love: It has 13,000 Btu and three temperature settings. The electric igniter means fast and easy lighting, and it uses a convenient 1-pound propane canister. Fry in just 1 quart of oil. The legs are adjustable and stable.
What you should consider: It is expensive for just occasional use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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TAIPEI, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- USERJOY Games announces Antivine has officially launched on December 21st on Steam, which is a puzzle game developed by Regeneration Studio and supports five languages, including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.
Antivine is originally designed by a group of students from Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Their concept is to re-connect the relationship between people, and create unique experience based on games. Antivine has earned many domestic awards in Taiwan and the team has received sponsorship from USERJOY Games in 2021.
In its story, human beings have been fighting against the nature, and a negative power between these two keeps growing. There is one day, people start to have strange symptoms on their bodies - branches and vines grow from a certain age. After becoming a Treeman, the person will return to nature. Berries will grow from the branches and be provided to later generation. Senhsu is a unique boy from the village, and at his coming-of-age ceremony there is still no sign on his body. Thus, he has been crowded out by his people and started his journey for seeking the truth. He meets a lost girl Mumei on his way, and they move together for the challenges in front of them.
With this game, players can explore each island during the adventure, which is designed with different gimmicks and delightful background music. The design team also put in lots of work on its scenes, changes in the daytime and nighttime. Players must learn to change the way of thinking to solve the puzzle because there only a way to solve all these. And with its game settings, players can easily experience its story and immerse into the characters. Change the way of thinking, and follow Senhsu the boy to the adventure, players can finally reveal the truth of Treeman.
The development team wants to produce a game that touches its players, recalls the time when everybody is still little, looking at a crystal ball from angles, and leads them to think in different aspects.
Antivine Official Website:
USERJOY Games is both a game developer and distributor located in Taiwan. Look forward to further increase on global markets, USERJOY expands its develop team, and devotes to create great contents for players all over the world.
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HENRICO, Va. (WRIC) — Teachers in Henrico County are up for a hefty bonus this year as the school division, like many across the country, works to hire new teachers amid a nationwide shortage.
The school will pay all full-time employees who return for the 2022-23 school year a one-time bonus of $500 next fall, in a move seemingly designed to improve teacher retention.
Additionally, the school will try to boost recruitment by paying a $500 bonus to any employee who refers someone to the school division who is eventually hired for a full-time position.
“Our staff members are the heart of Henrico, and these measures express that,” said Amy Cashwell, HCPS superintendent. “We’ll continue to work for opportunities to boost staff pay, benefits and well-being wherever possible.”
The county adopted a budget in March that provided for a 5%, across-the-board pay increase for teachers, totaling about $24 million in additional spending.
Full-time employees interested in making a referral for “a full-time teacher, exceptional education instructional assistant, nurse, psychologist, social worker, bus driver, custodian or school nutrition services staff member” can fill out a referral form.
Qualifying candidates must be “new to HCPS for the 2022-23 school year,” and the deadline is Aug. 15. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/henrico-to-offer-referral-bonus-to-boost-teacher-recruitment/ | 2022-05-10 10:50:35 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/henrico-to-offer-referral-bonus-to-boost-teacher-recruitment/ |
ANNUAL MEETING
Published 6:51 pm Sunday, April 2, 2023
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice of Annual Meeting
for Stormwater
Pollution Program
Notice is hereby given that the City of Austin will be holding an informational meeting to review the City’s Stormwater Pollution
Program.
Said annual meeting will be conducted on Tuesday, the 18 th day of April, 2023 at 4:00 pm at the City Hall Council Chambers.
/s/ Steven Lang
Public Works Director
Austin Daily Herald:
Apr. 1, 2023
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee last year has decided to mount an insanity defense, his attorneys said Monday.
Darrell Brooks Jr. faces more than 80 charges, including six homicide counts, in connection with the Nov. 21 incident in Waukesha. He pleaded not guilty in February. During a hearing Monday one of his attorneys, Jeremy Perri, told Judge Jennifer Dorow that Brooks is changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Perri did not elaborate. The judge ordered a mental evaluation for him.
When a defendant enters such a plea under Wisconsin law a judge or jury must determine whether he’s guilty or innocent of the alleged crime. If the defendant is found guilty, a judge or jury must determine whether the defendant was mentally responsible for his conduct at the time of the offense. Such a determination could result in the defendant being committed to a mental health facility rather than prison.
Perri announced the change after Dorow refused a defense request to move the trial out of Waukesha County or bring in jurors from outside the county. Perri has argued that the publicity around the incident has been so intense and so overwhelmingly negative that Brooks can’t get a fair trial in the county.
Dorow said that she has found media coverage has been prolific but objective and jurors aren’t required to be ignorant of a case. She went on to say that internet analytics show interest in articles about the parade has waned since the first few weeks immediately following the incident and she was confident the court could assembly a pool of about 150 prospective jurors who could decide the case fairly.
The criminal complaint detailing the charges against Brooks describes how he allegedly drove into crowds of onlookers during the parade. People bounced off his vehicle as police ordered him to stop. Police arrested Brooks later that night.
Brooks is being held on a $5 million cash bond. He appeared at Monday’s hearing in a surgical mask and an an orange jail T-shirt. He said nothing throughout the proceeding.
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The United States vs. the Netherlands: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 26
Published: Jul. 23, 2023 at 8:40 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
In the middle round of Group E matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 26 at 9:00 PM ET, the United States will square off against the Netherlands.
This matchup will be airing on FOX US.
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How to Watch the United States vs. the Netherlands
- Game Day: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Game Time: 9:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
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The United States Group Stage Schedule
United States' Recent Performance
- The United States took on Vietnam in its last game and was victorious by a final score of 3-0. The victorious United States side took 27 shots, outshooting by 27.
- Sophia Smith two goals for her side in the match versus .
- In Women's World Cup action, Smith has two goals and one assist for the United States in Women's World Cup.
- Lindsey Horan has scored one goal for the United States in Women's World Cup so far.
- During Women's World Cup play, Alex Morgan has picked up one assist (but no goals).
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United States' 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Alyssa Naeher #1
- Ashley Sanchez #2
- Sofia Huerta #3
- Naomi Girma #4
- Kelley O'Hara #5
- Lynn Williams #6
- Alyssa Thompson #7
- Julie Ertz #8
- Savannah DeMelo #9
- Lindsey Horan #10
- Sophia Smith #11
- Alana Cook #12
- Alex Morgan #13
- Emily Sonnett #14
- Megan Rapinoe #15
- Rose Lavelle #16
- Andi Sullivan #17
- Casey Murphy #18
- Crystal Dunn #19
- Trinity Rodman #20
- Aubrey Kingsbury #21
- Kristie Mewis #22
- Emily Fox #23
The Netherlands Group Stage Schedule
Netherlands' Recent Performance
- In its last match on July 23, the Netherlands beat Portugal 1-0. the Netherlands outshot Portugal 12 to three.
- The Netherlands' Stefanie van der Gragt scored its only goal -- on one shot -- in the match.
- In one Women's World Cup match for the Netherlands, Sherida Spitse has failed to score but does have one assist (first in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
- In one Women's World Cup match, van der Gragt has one goal.
Netherlands' 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Daphne van Domselaar #1
- Lynn Wilms #2
- Stefanie van der Gragt #3
- Aniek Nouwen #4
- Merel van Dongen #5
- Jill Roord #6
- Lineth Beerensteyn #7
- Sherida Spitse #8
- Katja Snoeijs #9
- Danielle van de Donk #10
- Lieke Martens #11
- Jill Baijings #12
- Renate Jansen #13
- Jackie Groenen #14
- Caitlin Dijkstra #15
- Lize Kop #16
- Victoria Pelova #17
- Kerstin Casparij #18
- Wieke Kaptein #19
- Dominique Janssen #20
- Damaris Egurrola #21
- Esmee Brugts #22
- Jacintha Weimar #23
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A Childersburg man is being held on a half-million dollar bond after being indicted by a grand jury for a total of 14 sex offenses involving two different victims.
Christopher Edward Guy, 36, was arrested by Childersburg Police on the indictment April 12, according to Talladega County Metro Jail records. He was still in jail as of Thursday afternoon.
According to Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens, the crimes alleged in the indictment took place in Childersburg between May and September 2019. The victims, who are related to Guy by marriage, were 15 and 12 to 13 at the time.
“I have been district attorney in this county for 23 years now, and I have to say this is one of the worst cases I have ever seen," Giddens said. "The physical, emotional and sexual abuse that he put those girls through is just unbelievable.”
Guy had allegedly been abusing the two victims for several years, starting when the older of the two was about 5 years old, but took place in another county, Giddens said. The crimes alleged in the current indictment took place after the family moved to Talladega County three years ago.
In total, Guy is charged with one count of rape in the first degree, three counts of sodomy in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree and incest against one of the victims and rape in the first degree, two counts of sodomy in the first degree, one count each of rape in the second degree and sodomy in the second degree, sex abuse in the first degree and incest regarding the other.
Giddens said the rape and sodomy in the first degree charges allege forcible compulsion. The rape and sodomy in the second degree charges stem from the victim being between the ages of 12 and 16 at the time of the abuse.
Rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree are both class A felonies in Alabama, punishable upon conviction by 10 to 99 years or life in prison.
Rape and sodomy in the second degree are class B felonies, punishable upon conviction by two to 20 years in prison.
Sexual abuse in the first degree and incest are class C felonies in Alabama, punishable upon conviction by one year and one day to 10 years in prison. | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/childersburg-man-accused-of-14-sex-offenses-involving-two-underage-girls/article_57604d0e-c1b5-11ec-9473-331d119cddf7.html | 2022-04-21 22:10:24 | 1 | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/childersburg-man-accused-of-14-sex-offenses-involving-two-underage-girls/article_57604d0e-c1b5-11ec-9473-331d119cddf7.html |
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (EKSO) on Tuesday reported a loss of $3.2 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the San Rafael, California-based company said it had a loss of 24 cents.
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The robotic exoskeleton company posted revenue of $3.6 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $15.1 million, or $1.16 per share. Revenue was reported as $12.9 million.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- Axon Cloud revenue of $368 million up 50% year over year
- Annual Net Income of $147 million supports Adjusted EBITDA of $232 million
- Operating cash flow of $235 million; Adjusted free cash flow of $195 million
- Company projects over $2 billion in 2025 revenue, confidence in sustained CAGR of 20%+
Fellow shareholders,
Axon brought 2022 to a phenomenal close — with demand for our mission-driven public safety solutions fueling Q4 revenue growth above 50%, and financial discipline supporting our fourth consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability. The year was headlined by the launch of our moonshot goal, the continued advancement of our mission to protect life, and disciplined execution across the board.
Underpinning Axon's success is a culture of continuous innovation and improvement, an inspiring mission that attracts top technology talent from around the globe, and an expanding suite of modern public safety solutions that meets the real needs of the public.
We are pleased to deliver this letter with a look back on 2022, an update on the market opportunity in front of us and view of our roadmap ahead, including the introduction of our goals for 2025.
Key 2022 Takeaways
Our teams brought Axon to new heights in 2022 with the following major accomplishments:
- Strong financial results: In 2022, Axon delivered record revenue growth of 38% to $1.19 billion and net income of $147 million (12.4% net income margin), supporting Adjusted EBITDA of $232 million, or 19.5% margin.
- Stand-out SaaS performance: The Axon Cloud software suite continues to be our top growth-driver, with revenue up approximately 50% in 2022 on top of 38% growth the year before, and making up an increasing share of our business. Axon Cloud revenue of $368 million represented 31% of total revenue, and drove 45% Annual Recurring Revenue growth to $473 million.
- Compelling Adjusted Free Cash Flow of $195 million: Full year operating cash flow of $235 million supported adjusted free cash flow generation of $195 million, exceeding the upper end of our guidance of $145 million.
- Strengthened balance sheet with convertible notes offering: In Q4 2022, we successfully completed our first-ever debt raise, with total net proceeds of approximately $603 million. A powerful combination of timing, market demand and the underlying health of our business, allowed us to be opportunistic and strengthen our capital structure at a low cost of capital. Year-end cash, cash equivalents and investments of more than $1 billion provide us with meaningful capital allocation optionality looking forward.
- Deepened management bench: In 2022, we made a number of strategic changes to our bench, including the appointment of Axon veterans Josh Isner to COO and Jeff Kunins to CPO & CTO, as well as the addition of Brittany Bagley as our new CFO & CBO. We are confident that we have assembled a visionary team to lead the company's next chapter of growth.
- Launched moonshot goal: Axon is joining forces with law enforcement and community leaders in a moonshot goal to cut gun-related deaths between police and the public in half over the next 10 years. In announcing this goal, Axon pointed to the relevance of our R&D product roadmap of hardware devices and SaaS software solutions. We are committed to investing in the technology, training and data that will help achieve better outcomes and deepen trust between law enforcement and communities.
On the heels of an exceptional 2022, we started the new year by unveiling our first major technology advancement since announcing our moonshot goal. To that end, the historic launch of the TASER 10 device, discussed in detail below, is ushering in a new era in less-lethal technology, and deepening Axon's relationships with customers globally.
2025 target model
With our strong foundation of operational excellence to date, estimates regarding the durable nature of our business and our estimates with respect to the runway in front of us, we are positioned to drive solid top and bottom-line growth, generate significant cash flow and create meaningful value for our shareholders over our planning horizon, and are introducing the following financial goals.
- In 2025, we aspire to achieve:
We provide Adjusted EBITDA margin guidance, rather than net income margin guidance, and adjusted free cash flow conversion on Adjusted EBITDA, rather than cash flow from operations conversion on net income, due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting certain types of expenses and gains such as stock-based compensation, income tax expenses and gains or losses on strategic investments, which affect net income but not Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted free cash flow but not cash flow from operations. We are unable to reasonably estimate the impact of such expenses, if any, on net income and adjusted free cash flow. Accordingly, we do not provide a reconciliation of projected net income to projected Adjusted EBITDA or projected cash flow from operations to free cash flow.
Large and underpenetrated total addressable market
Axon is executing against a $50 billion total addressable market. Our four key customer categories of US state and local governments, the US federal government, international governments and commercial enterprises comprise $45 billion, of that TAM, and grew ~33% over our 2021 published estimate.
The largest growth drivers in our updated analysis reflect TAM expansion in Axon's key customer categories of state and local law enforcement and the US federal government, as well as key product categories, encompassing camera devices, TASER devices and robotic security, including Axon Air. We have reframed our expectations on the market size of the consumer personal protection market — from $18 billion down to less than $5 billion — to better reflect our near-term focus on the significant opportunity we have in our core.
Against the backdrop of this large and growing TAM and our ability to deliver solutions that solve real world challenges, which are more in demand than ever before, we are embarking upon our next chapter of growth with commitment, passion and an unwavering sense of purpose.
We encourage you to check out our latest investor relations presentation at investor.axon.com.
Select product advancements
Introducing TASER 10
Axon CEO and Founder Rick Smith first introduced TASER devices to the world 30 years ago — and we are proud to have had advanced less-lethal technology ever since.
In 2018, Axon introduced TASER 7 — the most innovative less-lethal weapon to date. And in 2020, we made the strategic decision to accelerate our investment in further advancing this technology to better serve public safety and communities.
Over the course of 2021 and 2022, we invested about $100 million in TASER segment research and development. We are incredibly proud of the results.
On January 24, 2023, Axon unveiled TASER 10 — a game-changing, life-saving weapon that is a feat of human ingenuity and engineering. TASER 10 represents a giant leap in innovation, with several step-function improvements compared to previous versions.
TASER 10 is the most sophisticated, accurate and effective TASER energy weapon to date. Future generations may simply take for granted the existence of this less-lethal technology — as if it had always existed — and like with all technological advancements that drive society forward, that is our aim. We are proud to be innovative category creators.
Major new advancements that TASER 10 delivers, include:
- Individually targeted probes. A key improvement for TASER 10 is the individually targeted probes. Each probe comes in a single cartridge with its own dedicated propellant. This allows each probe to be precisely targeted and individually deployed, with officers controlling their own probe spread.
- The ability to deploy up to 10 probes compared with four probes previously. With 10 opportunities to deploy a cartridge probe, the calculated probability of an officer obtaining a sufficient electrical connection is approximately 98%, based on data from TASER X2 deployments in the UK. We are still evaluating field data, however we believe we will see dramatically higher effectiveness rates.
- A longer range of up to 45 feet (13.7 m), compared with only 25 feet (7.6 m) previously. This provides more time and distance for the officer, which allows greater opportunity for de-escalation and may avoid the need for lethal force.
"As public servants, our goal is never to bring harm to anyone in a difficult situation. The TASER 10 adds a new level of confidence for our deputies when intervention is required to ensure that they can de-escalate with accuracy and enhanced safety. I believe that the TASER 10 will play a key role in reducing situations where our deputies may otherwise have to resort to lethal options, and we believe that the TASER 10 will serve as a key tool to continue to keep our communities safe." —Dennis Lemma, Sheriff at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office in Sanford, Fla., and a key agency in Axon's TASER 10 evaluation program
We expect the TASER 10 platform to be gross margin neutral once we are at scale, beginning in the second half of 2023. And we expect TASER 10 to support expanding TASER segment gross margins over time. Bundled pricing on TASER 10 starts at $50 per user per month, on a five-year contract, and extends to our $299 per user per month highest tier Officer Safety Plan bundle, which also includes body cameras and a suite of SaaS cloud-software features. The TASER 10 magazine holds 10 cartridges each containing a single probe, wire bundle and propellant. Following a deployment, unspent cartridges are still usable and the user can easily replace spent cartridges, which are typically included as part of customers' subscription bundles.
Axon Cloud achieves FedRAMP High
In November, the US General Services Administration upgraded Axon Cloud to FedRAMP High — its highest level security certification. This change allows Axon's government customers to store the most sensitive, unclassified data handled by federal civilian agencies.
Previously, Axon's FedRAMP status was Moderate. US Axon FedCloud offerings include Axon Evidence, Axon Respond, and Axon Records, and also act as the core control center over Axon devices and client applications. Axon FedCloud is currently used by multiple agencies across the federal sector, including the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of Interior.
In 2023, we have increased our Federal total addressable market estimate from $8.9 billion to $10.3 billion, due to our ability to deliver against the complex requirements our solutions need to meet to serve this market at scale.
"We are proud to be leaders in data security, which is an ongoing challenge across the federal sector. There is a constant need to ensure sensitive information is protected across agencies and administrations as the government securely conducts business. Axon is proud to serve the US government in this capacity and we continue to deepen our trusted relationships with federal agencies who see the value in our products, mission, and commitment to law enforcement and communities." —Richard Coleman, President of Axon Federal
Summary of Q4 2022 results
- Q4 2022 revenue of $336 million grew 54% year over year, led by 66% growth in our domestic business, driven by demand for our premium products and bundles. Q4 2022 revenue included $8.5 million in previously underreported Axon Cloud revenue related to software and professional services in prior periods, and accounted for approximately 4% of the year-over-year growth.
- Total company gross margin of 61.2% in Q4 2022 was in line with our expectations, and reflects the positive impact of previously underreported software revenue and our renewed agreement with Microsoft Azure, offset by a higher mix of Axon Fleet hardware shipments, which more than doubled year over year.
- Operating expenses for the quarter of $183 million included $30 million in stock-based compensation expenses.
- Our quarterly net income of $29 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, supported non-GAAP net income of $51 million, or $0.70 per diluted share. Our full year net income of $147 million reflects a net income margin of 12.4%.
- Adjusted EBITDA was $232 million for the full year and $66 million in Q4 2022. Expense controls, offset by mix and inflation-driven gross margin pressure throughout the year, drove full year Adjusted EBITDA margin of 19.5%.
- In the fourth quarter, cash flow from operations of $131 million supported free cash flow generation of $119 million and adjusted free cash flow generation of $122 million. We define adjusted free cash flow as operating cash flow less capital expenditures and purchases of intangible assets. Adjusted free cash flow excludes campus investments.
- For the full year, we generated $235 million in cash flow from operations, and $195 million in adjusted free cash flow, representing an 84% adjusted free cash flow conversion on Adjusted EBITDA of $232 million, compared with 2021 adjusted free cash flow of $85 million, at a 47% conversion.
- As of December 31, 2022, Axon had $1.09 billion in cash, equivalents and investments, and outstanding convertible notes in principal amount of $690 million, for a net cash position of $402 million. Axon's net cash position grew $31 million sequentially and was roughly flat year over year, even after investing $83 million in acquisitions and strategic investments.
- Axon Cloud revenue growth of 65% reflects strong domestic demand for our software-heavy premium integrated bundles and healthy momentum in our digital evidence management, productivity and real-time operations platforms. Axon Cloud revenue of $114 million includes $8.5 million in previously underreported software and professional services revenue from prior periods, accounting for 12% of the annual growth.
- Axon Cloud gross margin of 75.5% included 120 basis points of benefit from previously underreported revenue. Axon Cloud gross margin also includes the low-to-no margin professional services costs of teams who help our customers deploy Axon's solutions. The software-only revenue in this segment, which is annually recurring and includes cloud storage and compute costs, has consistently exceeded our gross margin target of 80%.
- Sensors & Other revenue growth of 91% year over year reflected strength in shipments of Axon Fleet in-car cameras, followed by larger body-camera shipment volumes. Strong Axon Fleet shipments reflect both high demand for the hardware platform as well as our execution against inventory constraints to better fulfill growing demand backlog.
- Sensors & Other gross margin was 41.5%, reflecting hardware shipment mix.
TASER
- TASER segment revenue growth of 32% in Q4 2022 was driven by strong demand for our TASER 7 platform, as well as expanding sales related to training and VR.
- TASER segment gross margin declined 150 basis points from Q3 2022. The quarter on quarter decline can primarily be traced to year-end inventory adjustments and component cost inflation.
Forward-looking performance indicators
- Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) grew 45% year over year to $473 million, bolstered by sales of our premium bundles and strong reception of our new products, including Axon Fleet with automatic license plate reading software and virtual reality.
- Net revenue retention was 121% in the quarter, reflecting our ability to deliver additional value to our customers over time and de minimis attrition. We drive adoption of our cloud software solutions through integrated bundling. Our customers often sign up for five to ten-year subscriptions. This SaaS metric purposely excludes the hardware portion of customer subscriptions.
- Total company future contracted revenue grew to $4.6 billion. We expect to recognize between 15% to 25% of this balance over the next twelve months, and generally expect the remainder to be recognized over the following ten years. This metric is also known as "remaining performance obligations."
- The percentage of TASER devices sold on a subscription was 79% in the quarter. As a reminder, Axon has been successfully transitioning its TASER hardware business into a subscription service in more mature markets and expanding into new markets where some initial sales are not on a subscription, with the intention of building subscription businesses in those markets over time.
2023 Outlook
The following forward-looking statements reflect Axon expectations as of February 28, 2023, and are subject to risks and uncertainties.
- Axon expects to deliver revenue growth of approximately 20% in 2023, or revenue of at least $1.43 billion.
- We are targeting 2023 Adjusted EBITDA margin of 20%, which implies $286 million in Adjusted EBITDA.
- We expect stock-based compensation expense to be approximately $140 million for the full year. Because our stock-based compensation expense may vary based on changes in the actual timing of attainment of certain operational or market capitalization metrics, it is inherently difficult to forecast future stock-based compensation expense.
- We expect 2023 CapEx to be in the range of $50 million to $65 million, including investments in:
Thank you for investing in our mission.
-The Axon team
Quarterly conference call and webcast
We will host our Q4 2022 earnings conference call webinar on Tuesday, February 28, at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET.
The webcast will be available via a link on Axon's investor relations website at https://investor.axon.com, or can be accessed directly via https://axon.zoom.us/j/98164681437
Statistical Definitions
Net revenue retention: Dollar-based net revenue retention is an important metric to measure our ability to retain and expand our relationships with existing customers. We calculate it as the software and camera warranty subscription and support revenue from a base set of agency customers from which we generated Axon Cloud subscription revenue in the last month of a quarter divided by the software and camera warranty subscription and support revenue from the year-ago month of that same customer base. This calculation includes high-margin warranty revenue but purposely excludes the lower-margin hardware subscription component of the customer contracts, as it is meant to be a SaaS metric that we use to monitor the health of the recurring revenue business we are building. This calculation also excludes the implied monthly revenue contribution of customers that were added since the year-ago quarter, and therefore excludes the benefit of new customer acquisition. The metric includes customers, if any, that terminated during the annual period, and therefore, this metric is inclusive of customer churn. This metric is downwardly adjusted to account for the effect of phased deployments – meaning that for the year-ago period, we consider the total contractually obligated implied monthly revenue amount, rather than monthly revenue amounts that might have been in actuality smaller on a GAAP basis due to the customer not having yet fully deployed their Axon solution. For more information relative to our revenue recognition policies, please reference our SEC filings.
Total company future contracted revenue: Total company future contracted revenue includes both recognized contract liabilities as well as amounts that will be invoiced and recognized in future periods. The remaining performance obligations are limited only to arrangements that meet the definition of a contract under Topic 606 as of December 31, 2022. We expect to recognize between 15% to 25% of this balance over the next twelve months, and generally expect the remainder to be recognized over the following ten years, subject to risks related to delayed deployments, budget appropriation or other contract cancellation clauses.
Non-GAAP Measures
To supplement the Company's financial results presented in accordance with GAAP, we present the non-GAAP financial measures of EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Non-GAAP Net Income, Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share, Free Cash Flow, and Adjusted Free Cash Flow. The Company's management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating the Company's performance in comparison to prior periods. We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance, and when planning and forecasting our future periods. A reconciliation of GAAP to the non-GAAP financial measures is presented herein.
- EBITDA (Most comparable GAAP Measure: Net income) - Earnings before interest expense, investment interest income, income taxes, depreciation and amortization.
- Adjusted EBITDA (Most comparable GAAP Measure: Net income) - Earnings before interest expense, investment interest income, income taxes, depreciation, amortization, non-cash stock-based compensation expense, realized and unrealized gains/losses on strategic investments and marketable securities and pre-tax certain other items (identified and listed below in the reconciliation).
- Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share (Most comparable GAAP Measure: Earnings Per share) - Measure of Company's Non-GAAP Net Income divided by the weighted average number of diluted common shares outstanding during the period presented.
- Free Cash Flow (Most comparable GAAP Measure: Cash flow from operating activities) - cash flows provided by operating activities minus purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets.
- Adjusted Free Cash Flow (Most comparable GAAP Measure: Cash flow from operating activities) - cash flows provided by operating activities minus purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets, excluding the net impact of investments in our new Scottsdale, Ariz. campus.
Caution on Use of Non-GAAP Measures
Although these non-GAAP financial measures are not consistent with GAAP, management believes investors will benefit by referring to these non-GAAP financial measures when assessing the Company's operating results, as well as when forecasting and analyzing future periods. However, management recognizes that:
- these non-GAAP financial measures are limited in their usefulness and should be considered only as a supplement to the Company's GAAP financial measures;
- these non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, the Company's GAAP financial measures;
- these non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered to be superior to the Company's GAAP financial measures; and
- these non-GAAP financial measures were not prepared in accordance with GAAP or under a comprehensive set of rules or principles.
- Further, these non-GAAP financial measures may be unique to the Company, as they may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. As such, this presentation of non-GAAP financial measures may not enhance the comparability of the Company's results to the results of other companies.
About Axon
Axon is a technology leader in global public safety. Our moonshot goal is to cut gun-related deaths between police and the public by 50% before 2033. Axon is building the public safety operating system of the future by integrating a suite of hardware devices and cloud software solutions that lead modern policing. Axon's suite includes TASER energy devices, body-worn cameras, in-car cameras, cloud-hosted digital evidence management solutions, productivity software and real-time operations capabilities. Axon's growing global customer base includes first responders across international, federal, state and local law enforcement, fire, corrections and emergency medical services, as well as the justice sector, commercial enterprises and consumers.
Non-Axon trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Axon, Axon Air, Axon Body, Axon Evidence, Axon Fleet, Axon Respond, TASER, TASER 7, TASER 10, X2, Protect Life and the Delta Logo are trademarks of Axon Enterprise, Inc., some of which are registered in the US and other countries. For more information, visit www.axon.com/legal. © 2023 Axon Enterprise, Inc. All rights reserved.
Forward-looking statements
Forward-looking statements in this letter include, without limitation, statements regarding: proposed products and services and related development efforts and activities; expectations about the market for our current and future products and services; strategies and trends relating to subscription plan programs and revenues; strategies and trends, including the benefits of, research and development investments; the timing and realization of future contracted revenue; the fulfillment of bookings; expectations about customer behavior; statements concerning projections, predictions, expectations, estimates or forecasts as to our business, financial and operational results and future economic performance, including our outlook for 2023 full year revenue, gross margin, stock-based compensation expense, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and capital expenditures; our 2025 target revenue, adjusted EBITDA margin, and adjusted free cash flow conversion; future average annual dilution; statements regarding our TAM; statements of management's strategies, goals and objectives and other similar expressions; as well as the ultimate resolution of financial statement items requiring critical accounting estimates, including those set forth in our Form 10 K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the soon-to-be-filed Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. Such statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events; they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "predict," "potential," "continue," "expect," "anticipate," "future," "intend," "plan," "believe," "estimate," and similar expressions, as well as statements in future tense, identify forward-looking statements. However, not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
We cannot guarantee that any forward-looking statement will be realized, although we believe we have been prudent in our plans and assumptions. Achievement of future results is subject to risks, uncertainties and potentially inaccurate assumptions. The following important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: our exposure to cancellations of government contracts due to appropriation clauses, exercise of a cancellation clause, or non-exercise of contractually optional periods; the ability of law enforcement agencies to obtain funding, including based on tax revenues; our ability to design, introduce and sell new products or features; our ability to defend against litigation and protect our intellectual property, and the resulting costs of this activity; our ability to manage our supply chain and avoid production delays, shortages, and impacts to expected gross margins; the impacts of inflation, macroeconomic conditions and global events; the impact of stock-based compensation expense, impairment expense, and income tax expense on our financial results; customer purchase behavior, including adoption of our software as a service delivery model; negative media publicity or sentiment regarding our products; the impact of product mix on projected gross margins; defects in, or misuse of, our products; changes in the costs of product components and labor; loss of customer data, a breach of security, or an extended outage, including by our third party cloud-based storage providers; exposure to international operational risks; delayed cash collections and possible credit losses due to our subscription model; changes in government regulations in the U.S. and in foreign markets, especially related to the classification of our products by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; our ability to integrate acquired businesses; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; litigation or inquiries and related time and costs; and counter-party risks relating to cash balances held in excess of FDIC insurance limits. Many events beyond our control may determine whether results we anticipate will be achieved. Should known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could differ materially from past results and those anticipated, estimated or projected. You should bear this in mind as you consider forward-looking statements. The Annual Report on Form 10 K that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 25, 2022 lists various important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected and historical results. These factors are intended as cautionary statements for investors within the meaning of Section 21E of the Exchange Act and Section 27A of the Securities Act. Readers can find them under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Report on Form 10 K, and investors should refer to them. You should understand that it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors. Consequently, you should not consider any such list to be a complete set of all potential risks or uncertainties.
Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects in our Form 10 Q, 8 K and 10 K reports to the SEC. Our filings with the SEC may be accessed at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
Update on Legal Matters:
Axon v. FTC
Axon continues to vigorously prosecute its federal court constitutional case against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) while the FTC's separate antitrust administrative action against the company regarding its 2018 acquisition of Vievu LLC remains stayed.
In January 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted review of an important jurisdictional issue raised by Axon's constitutional challenges to the FTC's administrative structure and procedures. The high Court's action is a critical first step for all businesses seeking to vindicate their constitutional rights and hold government regulators accountable. Oral argument occurred at the Supreme Court on November 7, 2022. A decision is expected before June 2023. Links to all court filings and opinions can be found on Axon's FTC Investor Briefing page at https://www.axon.com/ftc.
Parallel to these matters Axon is evaluating strategic alternatives to litigation, which Axon might pursue if determined to be in the best interests of shareholders and customers. This could include a divestiture of the Vievu entity and/or related assets. While Axon continues to believe the acquisition was lawful and a benefit to Vievu's customers, the cost, risk and distraction of protracted litigation merit consideration of settlement if achievable on terms agreeable to the FTC and Axon.
For investor relations information please contact Investor Relations via email at IR@axon.com.
Effective in Q1 2023, we will be retiring unit disclosures on a product-specific level, which is a reporting practice that began when Axon's annual revenue was less than $200 million. These unit disclosures no longer reflect how we manage the business. We will continue to provide detailed, transparent and relevant disclosures regarding the health of our business and will introduce updated disclosures in Q1 that we believe will be helpful to investors in evaluating our business and measuring our success going forward.
CONTACT:
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Axon Enterprise, Inc.
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SAN DIEGO — The Port of San Diego’s 22nd Big Bay Boom fireworks celebration will light up the San Diego Bay Tuesday night.
As fireworks launch simultaneously from four barges strategically placed across the bay, FOX 5 San Diego will bring you all the action live so you can enjoy the largest July 4th fireworks show on the West Coast from home. FOX 5 will have cameras around the bay — on the ground and in the sky — to give you the best view.
Up to half a million people are expected to take in the show in America’s Finest City, gathering at popular vantage points like Shelter Island, Harbor Island, the Embarcadero, Seaport Village and the Coronado Ferry Landing. Fireworks will be choreographed to music broadcast on 101.5 KGB.
Coverage will start at 8 p.m. on FOX 5. Viewers outside of San Diego County can watch the show live on KTLA 5 in Los Angeles or FOX40 in Sacramento starting at 8:30 p.m. The show will be broadcast on KSEE24 and CBS47 in Fresno and KGET TV 17 in Bakersfield from 10 to 11 p.m.
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The New WF-C4310 Compact and Efficient Printer Built for Reliability
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson America, a worldwide leader in inkjet printing solutions, today announced its newest color printer for business, the WorkForce® Pro WF-C4310. Designed for reliability and reduced downtime, the WF-C4310 is ideal for virtually any work environment that requires a simple solution for everyday business printing. Powered by PrecisionCore Heat-Free® technology, it is engineered for high-precision printing and has the lowest power consumption in its class.1
The WF-C4310 has an impressive recommended monthly page volume (MPV) of up to 1,600 pages and print speeds of 21 black/11 color ISO ppm† with a fast first page out. With its compact design, the WF-C4310 can fit into small or tight spaces, making it an ideal choice for almost any setting – especially those with limited desk, back office or counter space.
"The WF-C4310 is a great fit for small businesses and offices with multiple users that need an easy-to-use color printer," said Madison Phillips, product manager, Epson America Inc. "Businesses such as retail, government agencies, hospitality, and corporate offices will appreciate that the WF-C4310 can keep up with high-volume demand."
With the latest in wireless security and connectivity, including built-in wireless, Wi-Fi Direct®2 and Ethernet networking, the WF-C4310 is designed for easy setup and use. The WF-C4310 uses DURABrite® Ultra instant-dry pigment inks for professional-quality prints with sharp text. It comes with a standard 2-year limited warranty and product protection businesses can count on.
Availability
The Epson WorkForce Pro WF-C4310 color printer is now available through authorized BusinessFirstSM dealers. For more information, visit epson.com/business-inkjet-printers.
About Epson Business Inkjet
Epson's portfolio of high-performance business inkjet printing solutions forge the future of office printing and set the new standard for minimal intervention, affordability and low energy consumption. Engineered with Epson's innovative PrecisionCore Heat-Free technology, Epson's groundbreaking business printing solutions – from Supertank, WorkForce, WorkForce Pro and WorkForce Pro HC for hybrid work-from-home and in-office small businesses to WorkForce Enterprise – deliver high performance with few moving parts to exceed market needs.
To learn more about Epson's portfolio of business inkjet printing solutions, visit Epson.com/BusinessInkjet. To learn more about Epson PrecisionCore Heat-Free technology, visit Epson.com/Heat-Free.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/
Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica), and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).
† Black and color print speeds are measured in accordance with ISO/IEC 24734. Actual print times will vary based on factors including system configuration, software, and page complexity. For more information, visit www.epson.com/printspeed
Designed for use exclusively with Epson® ink cartridges.*
1 Compared to similarly featured conventional color laser printers priced at $499 (USD) or less and 30 ppm or less based on industry available data as of April 2022. Actual power savings will vary by product model and usage.
2 Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™; level of performance subject to the range of the router being used. Wi-Fi Direct may require printer software.
EPSON, DURABrite, PrecisionCore Heat-Free, and WorkForce are registered trademarks, and EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation. Wi-Fi Direct® is a registered trademark and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ is a trademark of Wi-Fi Alliance®. BusinessFirst is a service mark of Epson America, Inc. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2022 Epson America, Inc.
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Winter Weather Advisory issued April 13 at 3:18AM MDT until April 13 at 3:00PM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Snow. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches above
6500 feet MSL and 3 to 6 inches below 6500 feet. Winds gusting
as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE…Inkom, McCammon, Downey, Lava Hot Springs, Malad,
Preston, Thatcher, Emigration Summit, Grace, Soda Springs,
Henry, Bone, Wayan, Swan Valley, and Victor.
* WHEN…Until 3 PM MDT this afternoon.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning commute.
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Chippewa Valley residents encouraged to take ‘Chippewa Valley Community Health Survey’
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A partnership spanning three counties is releasing a survey to gather input in effort to help guide future community health improvements.
According to information from the Eau Claire City-County Health Department, residents of Chippewa, Dunn and Eau Claire counties are encouraged to take the survey.
The “Chippewa Valley Community Health Survey” is available online HERE. Paper copies are also set to be available at area events as well as by request.
According to information from the Health Department, survey results are said to help the partnership identify and work to find solutions for the health issues that community members decide are the “highest priorities.”
Additional information is available on the City of Eau Claire website HERE.
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Which ‘My Hero Academia’ plushies are best?
“My Hero Academia” is a popular anime show featuring tons of colorful and unique characters that make for great plushies. And if you want to give an anime fan an extra cozy gift, they will love snuggling with a “My Hero Academia” plush doll.
If you want a large plush doll to gift to someone or add to your bed, the My Hero Academia Plush Stuffed Doll Pillow is a top choice. Pick from Deku, Bakugo and Todoroki to add some extra character to your bedding.
What to know before you buy a ‘My Hero Academia’ plush
Unique anime gift
Over the past few years, “My Hero Academia” has become an immensely popular shonen anime and manga series. With its popularity, manufacturers created several anime plush toys of some of the most memorable characters. If you want to get a unique gift for an anime fan, these plush toys are a great idea.
Popular ‘My Hero Academia’ characters
If you’re buying a gift for a “My Hero Academia” fan and aren’t familiar with the show, opt for one of the more popular characters. Some of the most well-known ones are Monoma, Kaminari, All Might, Deku and Tsuyu. Lesser-known characters may be hard to find in plush form. If you’re unable to find your favorite character in a plushie, you may be able to find a more inclusive depiction of the MHA characters in a decorative pillowcase or bedspread.
Plush size
Plushies come in all kinds of sizes. Some come in the form of a keychain which you could easily attach to a key ring or bag. If you want a small, portable plush doll that doesn’t take up much space, you can find plush dolls about the size of a small to medium stuffed animal. And if you have plenty of space to fill, there are larger plush characters, too.
What to look for in a quality ‘My Hero Academia’ plush
Style
Most of the “My Hero Academia” plush toys showcase a simplified or stylized version of a character from the show. Make sure to check out the various available options, so you find a soft plush that closely matches the character you want without being too oversimplified.
Pose
Plushies usually have limited pose options. The best ones design a character in a pose you can easily prop up or display. Consider where the plushie will likely end up before you make a purchase. The best plush characters either sit up all on their own or are soft enough to bend and move around.
Expression
Each plush typically has a unique expression. If the face does not suit your personal tastes, it’s worth finding an alternative with a fun facial expression that makes you smile. If it is for a gift, try to find a plush with either a neutral or happy expression, especially if the plush is for children.
How much you can expect to spend on a ‘My Hero Academia’ plush
Depending on the size and brand of the plush toy, it will usually be between $15-$30. Smaller plush keychains or dolls are usually less expensive than larger plush toys or pillows.
‘My Hero Academia’ plush FAQ
What is the most unique MHA plush?
A. There are plenty of unique “My Hero Academia” characters, but it may be hard to find them in plush form. However, you can look for other cozy options. For example, you or someone you love may enjoy a soft pair of slippers that look like Deku’s shoes. MHA fans will love slipping them on every morning.
Which ‘My Hero Academia’ plush character should I get?
A. If you want to get a gift for a “My Hero Academia” fan, ask them who their favorite characters are. If you are not sure and don’t want to ask, try finding one of the main characters, like Deku or Kaminari.
What are the best ‘My Hero Academia’ plushies to buy?
Top ‘My Hero Academia’ plush
My Hero Academia Plush Stuffed Doll Pillow
What you need to know: This large, detailed plush doll sports a heroic outfit with a stylized expression. It’s perfect for lounging in bed or posing on a shelf.
What you’ll love: It comes in three different characters, so you can pick between Deku, Bakugo or Todoroki. Each has plush cotton material and measures about 18-inches long.
What you should consider: Some users found the stitching to be a little too weak.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ‘My Hero Academia’ plush for the money
3PCS Anime Plush “My Hero Academia”
What you need to know: You can split up this affordable set of three plush keychain dolls into separate gifts or keep them together as a complete set.
What you’ll love: Each character is about 5-inches long and has a simple metal chain attached to the head, so you can fasten it to a backpack or keyring.
What you should consider: Some customers reported receiving damaged or missing parts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Great Eastern Entertainment “My Hero Academia” Sitting Plush
What you need to know: This Ochaco plush toy sits in a relaxed pose and features a detailed hero suit.
What you’ll love: It’s about 8-inches high and features a fun, stylized design. The company also makes other plush “My Hero Academia” characters, including Kirishima, Tsuyu, Aizawa and more.
What you should consider: Some customers reported the plus arrived damaged.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ARDMORE, Ala. (WHNT) — “Barring any other developments,” the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) is set to move forward with bringing down the Saturn 1B Rocket along Interstate 65.
USSRC said that its business and executive committees met on Friday afternoon to ensure reasonable efforts had been made to save the rocket, which sits at the Ardmore Welcome Center just south of the Alabama/Tennessee state line.
The committees reportedly voted that all efforts have been made, and now the USSRC will move forward with taking the rocket down and returning it to NASA, which actually owns the iconic rocket.
This comes just two days after Governor Kay Ivey signed Senate bill 313 (SB313), which would require the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) to oversee “the design, construction and installation” of a replica of the Saturn 1B Rocket.
The Ardmore Welcome Center opened in 1977, and two years later the Saturn 1B rocket was donated by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. The Saturn 1B rocket has now been in place for 44 years at the Welcome Center on I-65 just south of the Tennessee state line, a proud symbol of the state’s input to NASA space exploration. The welcome center itself is currently closed for renovations.
But, in January, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) and the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) began saying it may be time for the rocket to come down amid its continuing deterioration and decay.
Now that SB313 bill has been made law, it will allow ADECA to “accept public or private gifts, grants, and donations, including in-kind services, for use in commissioning the rocket, and may also use funds appropriated to the department by the Legislature for the purposes provided in this section.”
The USSRC said that concerns over repairs and safety are behind the plans to remove the Saturn 1B from its home at the rest stop.
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TX Austin/San Antonio TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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ZFPEWX
Zone Forecast Product for South Central Texas
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
TXZ192-292145-
Travis-
Including the city of Austin
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy with a chance of
showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. North
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Not
as cool with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then
partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ205-292145-
Bexar-
Including the city of San Antonio
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then cloudy with a
slight chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ183-292145-
Val Verde-
Including the city of Del Rio
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ220-292145-
Atascosa-
Including the city of Pleasanton
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ187-292145-
Bandera-
Including the city of Bandera
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy dense fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows around 50. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ193-292145-
Bastrop-
Including the city of Bastrop
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy with a chance of
showers. A chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Not
as cool with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then
partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
TXZ190-292145-
Blanco-
Including the city of Blanco
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs around 70.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ172-292145-
Burnet-
Including the city of Burnet
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs around 70. South
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ208-292145-
Caldwell-
Including the city of Lockhart
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then
partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ206-292145-
Comal-
Including the city of New Braunfels
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
South winds around 5 mph, becoming north around 5 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs
around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ224-292145-
De Witt-
Including the city of Cuero
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Lows around 50. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ228-292145-
Dimmit-
Including the city of Carrizo Springs
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ184-292145-
Edwards-
Including the city of Rocksprings
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ209-292145-
Fayette-
Including the city of La Grange
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then
showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
around 50. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Not
as cool with lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the upper 40s.
$$
TXZ219-292145-
Frio-
Including the city of Pearsall
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ188-292145-
Gillespie-
Including the city of Fredericksburg
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ223-292145-
Gonzales-
Including the city of Gonzales
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ207-292145-
Guadalupe-
Including the city of Seguin
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy with a slight chance of
showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest
this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ191-292145-
Hays-
Including the city of San Marcos
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy with a slight chance of
showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming west
this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then
partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ222-292145-
Karnes-
Including the city of Karnes City
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy with a slight chance of
showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ189-292145-
Kendall-
Including the city of Boerne
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy dense fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs around 70.
South winds around 5 mph, becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ186-292145-
Kerr-
Including the city of Kerrville
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy dense fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming north this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 60s. North winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ202-292145-
Kinney-
Including the city of Brackettville
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows around 50. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ225-292145-
Lavaca-
Including the city of Hallettsville
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance
of thunderstorms this morning, then showers likely with a chance
of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Southeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows around 50. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy. A
50 percent chance of showers. Highs around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ194-292145-
Lee-
Including the city of Giddings
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then showers
likely with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable
winds, becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Light and
variable winds, becoming southwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Not
as cool with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with showers likely in the morning, then partly
cloudy with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
TXZ171-292145-
Llano-
Including the city of Llano
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs around 70.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then cloudy with a
slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ217-292145-
Maverick-
Including the city of Eagle Pass
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ204-292145-
Medina-
Including the city of Hondo
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ185-292145-
Real-
Including the city of Leakey
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows around 50. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ203-292145-
Uvalde-
Including the city of Uvalde
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ173-292145-
Williamson-
Including the city of Georgetown
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 50. North winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then
partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ221-292145-
Wilson-
Including the city of Floresville
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
South winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then cloudy with a
slight chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ218-292145-
Zavala-
Including the city of Crystal City
239 AM CST Thu Dec 29 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows around 50. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.NEW YEARS DAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
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(CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is appearing Tuesday before a Georgia grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Prosecutors in Fulton County, who are investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to subvert the results of the 2020 election in the Peach State, want to question Graham about calls he made to Georgia election officials after the presidential election, as well as his interactions with the Trump campaign, according to court documents.
Graham had fought for months to quash his subpoena. The Supreme Court ultimately declined to block the subpoena for the Republican senator’s grand jury testimony.
The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Graham arrived at the courthouse around 8 a.m. ET.
While Graham was ordered to appear for questioning, courts have left room for the senator to object to certain questions, which could limit the scope of his testimony and responses.
Graham had argued he should not have to comply with the subpoena because he is protected under the Constitution’s Speech or Debate clause, which shields lawmakers from some criminal or civil proceedings related to their legislative duties.
The courts ruled Graham could not be questioned about fact-finding he embarked on related to his decision to certify the 2020 election results. However, a federal appeals court noted that “coordination with the Trump campaign regarding its post-election efforts in Georgia, public statements regarding the 2020 election, and efforts to ‘cajole’ or ‘exhort’ Georgia election officials” did not constitute legislative activity.
After Graham’s 2020 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Raffensperger said he was under the impression that Graham was suggesting he should discard some ballots.
“It was just an implication of, ‘Look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out,’” Raffensperger told CNN at the time. Raffensperger has since testified before the Fulton County grand jury.
Graham has denied that he ever suggested Raffensperger should toss any ballots.
Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who spread conspiracies about the 2020 election, was initially scheduled to testify Tuesday, but was granted a provisional stay by an appeals court while he attempts to challenge his subpoena.
Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann was also summoned to testify Tuesday, according to court documents. However, it’s unclear if he will be appearing. Other witnesses have been able to negotiate privately to shift their subpoena dates or have challenged their subpoenas in court. An attorney for Herschmann did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has continued to battle in court for testimony from a handful of witnesses she would still like to hear from in her probe. Willis previously said she wants to wrap up the grand jury’s investigative work this year. And in a separate court proceeding, a prosecutor from her office said the grand jury was not planning to hear testimony for much longer. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/lindsey-graham-testifies-before-georgia-grand-jury-investigating-2020-election-aftermath/ | 2022-11-22 19:55:06 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/lindsey-graham-testifies-before-georgia-grand-jury-investigating-2020-election-aftermath/ |
An update on the crisis in Sri Lanka By Ruksha Kumar Published July 14, 2022 at 2:14 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Sri Lanka spent its first night under curfew, with a government in chaos, and protesters on the streets of the capital Colombo. How will calm be restored? Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-07-14/an-update-on-the-crisis-in-sri-lanka | 2022-07-14 10:21:38 | 0 | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-07-14/an-update-on-the-crisis-in-sri-lanka |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a fast and easy way to apply protective boards over windows before a hailstorm or other bad weather," said an inventor, from Hitchcock, Texas, "so we invented the J & J STORM CLIPS. Our design enables the boards to be applied without drilling holes or needing another person to help."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved way to install plywood over glass windows prior to major storms. In doing so, it eliminates the need to drill holes or pound nails into siding or window frames. As a result, it helps to prevent unwanted damage and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a practical and durable design that is easy to install without assistance so it is ideal for households and businesses.
The original design was submitted to the Houston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-HOF-232, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Though far away from Florida, Hurricane Fiona is creating rip current risk along the Central Florida coast.
Fiona, a Category 4 hurricane, on Thursday was hundreds of miles southwest of Bermuda with winds up to 130 mph.
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There will be a high rip current risk through Saturday morning off Florida beaches in Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, Saint Lucie and Martin counties, according to weather officials.
Rip currents are shallow, localized currents that quickly flow away from the shoreline toward the ocean. They claim about 100 lives annually across the U.S. Beachgoers assume if the water is calm, the threat of rip currents is less. That is not true. Even when there is little wave activity, rip currents can form in different sizes and speeds.
How to escape rip currents
If you’re caught in a rip current, do not panic and try to swim against the current. You’ll want to turn on your back and float for a few seconds, while trying to alert people on the beach.
Then, start swimming parallel to the coastline until you feel the pull relax. Once you’re able to swim to shore, you’ll want to swim at an angle to not swim against the current.
One of the first things beachgoers should do when arriving at the beach is to look for the colored beach flag, located near lifeguard towers. The flags are posted to identify different tide and surf conditions in that area. This nationwide warning flag system was adopted by the International Lifesaving Federation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden touted “unprecedented” climate efforts by his administration on Thursday in an annual White House summit that was overshadowed by Russia's war in Ukraine and other immediate threats to the world's short-term oil and gas supply.
Biden used the Major Economies Forum, convened virtually, to announce that the U.S. hoped to give $500 million to Brazil over the next five years to help slow the destruction of the Amazon, one of the world's vital natural reserves soaking up the climate-damaging fumes from oil, natural gas, coal and methane. The funding would require congressional approval.
Climate leaders and scientists have sharply criticized the U.S. and many other nations, though, for responding to oil and gas shortages and greater supply concerns by ramping up oil and gas production and expansion plans, saying it is impossible to keep global warming to hoped-for limits while increasing drilling.
Biden, a Democrat, pointed to climate achievements including the United States' record investments and initiatives in legislation passed last year, moves by the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies to mandate cuts in tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks and other emissions cuts, and U.S. efforts at home and abroad to cap massive methane leaks from natural gas production.
“We're willing to do the hard work to limit global warming" to the amount pledged by the U.S. and roughly 200 other nations in the 2015 Paris climate accord, Biden told global leaders of countries and agencies shown listening on a grid of screens.
“That's what today is all about,” Biden said in his opening remarks, ahead of what were to be private consultations among leaders. “Coming together and candidly discussing how we can bridge the gap between our pledge ... and our policies.”
But Biden's climate forum was markedly more subdued than those of his first two years in office, with leaders of just seven nations — President Lula da Silva of Brazil and the heads of Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, Germany and Mexico — shown on screen and listening to his remarks.
Past years' summits have been held with greater White House fanfare.
President Barack Obama initiated the Major Economies Forum as a way to get the world's biggest economies and polluters talking among themselves about emissions cuts.
This year's event, however, is accompanied by oil and gas supply worries stemming from Russia's market-disrupting invasion of Ukraine and reluctance by Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to increase their short-term pumping in response.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects the U.S. will pump a record 12.4 million barrels of crude oil a day this year and top that with 12.8 million barrels a day next year. While praising other U.S. climate efforts, climate experts especially fault Biden's approval of the big new Willow drilling project in previously off-limits areas of Alaska, saying it will lock in increased production for decades to come. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/biden-touts-us-efforts-as-oil-overshadows-climate-17908427.php | 2023-04-20 15:50:42 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/biden-touts-us-efforts-as-oil-overshadows-climate-17908427.php |
PHILADELPHIA (AP)Kyle Schwarber mashed the first pitch for the Phillies under their new Canadian manager for a home run and Bryson Stott sent the final pitch of a weekend sweep into the right field seats.
Make it 3-0 for interim manger Rob Thomson.
Philadelphia’s season — with a team loaded with All-Stars, an MVP and the fourth-highest payroll in baseball — just might not be dead yet.
The Phillies put everything together in a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels and showed flashes of why they were a trendy preseason playoff pick following a free-agent spending spree.
The front end of the rotation delivered: Zack Wheeler struck out nine in six innings in Saturday’s win and Zach Eflin tossed eight shutout innings on Friday.
The weekend ended with an impressive comeback capped by Bryce Harper’s tying grand slam in the eighth inning followed by Stott’s winning, three-run homer with two outs in the ninth.
Where were these Phillies during the season’s first two months?
It’s a question president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski surely wondered last week before he fired manager Joe Girardi after two-plus seasons without a whiff of the postseason. The Phillies had lost 12 of 17 and dropped well out of the NL East race when Dombrowski dismissed Girardi, who won a World Series with the Yankees, and promoted Girardi’s long-time bench coach and close friend in Thomson.
Three wins, 26 runs, and a comeback that had kids crying later, and the Phillies entered Monday 4+ games out of the second NL wild card. Yes, the wins came against an Angeles team that left Philly on an 11-game losing streak and Mike Trout in a career-worst slump. But the rest of the schedule might actually break in the Phillies’ favor.
”I hate talking about it’s early, it’s early,” Harper said. ”It’s not so early. We’ve got to go. We’ve got to play our game and understand that we’re a good team in here.”
The Phillies open a three-game series Tuesday at NL Central-leading Milwaukee. Then comes six games at home against the sub-.500 Diamondbacks and Marlins. Then four games at Washington (only the Reds are worse in the NL) and two games at Texas.
That’s 13 straight games from June 10-22 against teams with losing records.
And, yes, even with four straight wins, the Phillies have a losing record at 25-29.
The 58-year-old Thomson is charged with getting the Phillies and their $233 million payroll back over .500 and into the playoffs for the first time since 2011, the longest postseson drought in the National League.
Thomson is set on giving some of the younger Phillies regular playing time, with Stott paying immediate results.
Stott, one of Harper’s closest friends, hit his first big league home run on Friday and followed with the winner on Sunday. The 24-year-old infielder made the Phillies out of spring training only to get sent to the minors in late April after Girardi rarely played him. Stott started all three games against Los Angeles at shortstop and doesn’t figure to leave the lineup any time soon.
”Being able to put our trust in our young guys the last couple of days and really let them play, it’s been great,” Harper said.
Girardi stuck with veterans such as Didi Gregorious while Thomson played Mickey Moniak twice over Odubel Herrera in center field against the Angles and started Nick Maton at second base in the opener. Maton sprained his right shoulder on a diving catch and went on the injured list. Thomson has also stuck with Alec Bohm and let the error-prone third baseman try and swing his way out of a slump.
”I’m a little bit different than Joe. I’m not going to go into the differences, but I like to think that I’m prepared and I’m a good communicator with these guys,” Thomson said. ”The plan is to make sure that all these guys know where they’re supposed to be at any given time whether it’s our bullpen, the lineup, whatever it is. I just want to make sure that the guys are prepared.”
They were prepared against the Angels, and certainly Harper’s three homers and eight RBIs over the three games covered a lot of blemishes. But problems persist: Nick Castellanos and Schwarber need to start hitting and Dombrowski should scour the trade market to tighten the bullpen; Corey Knebel gave up the go-ahead run in the ninth).
But for three games in June, there was a reminder of how good it could be in Philly.
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A new battle in the political war over former President Trump’s indictment took place in New York on Monday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a key Trump ally, held a field hearing.
The hearing’s official title was “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan” — and several such victims did testify.
But the hearing was plainly aimed at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who led the probe that resulted in Trump’s indictment earlier this month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Here are the big takeaways from the four-hour hearing.
Trump loomed over everything
The centrality of the former president to the proceedings was obvious from the opening moments.
Jordan, in the process of making the broader argument that Bragg was too lenient on criminals, asserted that “the scales of justice are weighed down by politics” in Manhattan.
The GOP aimed to hit Bragg with a combination punch — arguing that the DA and his party are soft on crime, while also suggesting Bragg is wrongfully focused on Trump’s alleged wrongdoing for partisan reasons.
Even many Trump critics believe the case against the former president looks flimsy.
Once Jordan turned the microphone over to Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the issue of Trump came into even sharper relief.
Nadler insisted that the hearing was only taking place at all was because Jordan was “doing the bidding of Donald Trump.”
Nadler further charged that Republicans on the committee had designed the event “to intimidate and deter the duly elected district attorney of Manhattan from doing the work his constituents elected him to do.”
The shadow of Trump hung over the rest of the hearing.
Democrats tread carefully around witnesses
The Democratic members of the panel had to grapple with a politically delicate task — assailing the hearing itself but without making it seem as if they were also downplaying the experiences of key witnesses.
Those witnesses included Madeline Brame, who lost her son, Army Sgt. Hason Correa, in an especially brutal 2018 homicide. Brame is now the chairwoman of the Victims Rights Reform Council.
She alleged that Bragg and his office had treated her family “like garbage.”
Also testifying was Barry Borgen, whose son was badly beaten in a 2021 antisemitic attack.
Republicans contended that the Democrats on the panel were being dismissive of those voices. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) accused Democrats of engaging in a smear of “brave New Yorkers.”
Some Democrats on the panel struggled more assiduously than others in how to balance respect for the witnesses with skepticism of the proceedings.
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said it was right and proper that the witnesses “raise their voices.”
But, addressing them directly, she added: “There is an underlying sham going on here. I know you don’t like to hear it. Your voices are important. But two things can be true at the same time.”
A pitched battle over statistics
If any neutral observers were watching proceedings, they would surely have been confounded by the blizzard of statistics pointing in different directions.
Jordan in his introductory remarks referred to “a 23 percent surge in major crimes” in New York during 2022.
Jim Kessler of the moderate-liberal Third Way group contended that, “New York is safer, on average, than Ohio, Texas and many other places.”
Various other statistics were slung back and forth between the parties.
The hearing, in that respect, was a continuation of the ongoing battles between Bragg and Jordan.
Jordan has repeatedly asserted that Bragg has been soft on crime and that crime has risen as a result.
Bragg, in a legal filing suing Jordan last week, contended that homicides in New York City had declined 14 percent, year-on-year, as of this month.
One more battle in the culture wars
Monday’s hearing was just one more battle in a much broader culture war.
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) characterized Bragg as a “woke district attorney” aligned with liberal financier and philanthropist George Soros, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement.
A short time earlier, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) pressed Borgen, the father of the man who was beaten in an antisemitic attack, about whether verbal attacks on Bragg that referenced Soros were antisemitic. Though the witness averred in general terms, he agreed that one sign from an anti-Soros protester was plainly antisemitic.
There were, too, the attacks on the media that are commonplace on the most pro-Trump wing of the GOP.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) during his remarks blasted the “dishonest media.”
“You in the back, you are the greatest threat to this country,” he told reporters.
Democrats seek to focus on guns
Democrats tried throughout the hearing to focus on the connection between crime and guns.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) said of trying to address crime without putting guns front and center, “You just can’t do it.”
At one point, Jordan contended that if Democrats cared so passionately about gun control, they should have done more to advance it when they held both chambers of Congress as well as the White House up until January.
That charge sparked an interjection from Nadler, who pointed to the impossibility of getting such legislation through the Senate without some degree of GOP support.
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BALTIMORE — BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles lost the series opener by a dozen runs, then rebounded to win the next two games.
By now, that shouldn't be much of a shock.
"It's not football, where it's once a week and you're getting blown out. Things happen in a game, and sometimes you get beat by a lot of runs," manager Brandon Hyde said. "Our guys, and major league players in general, don't really let that carry over."
Anthony Santander robbed Julio Rodríguez with a super catch in right field in the first, then homered two innings later to help the Orioles to a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday.
Kyle Bradish (4-3) allowed two hits in seven innings, and the Orioles won the three-game series despite dropping Friday's opener 13-1. A day after he had four hits, Santander was again a star for Baltimore. He homered for the fifth time in six games and made an early contribution with his glove.
Rodríguez, the game's second batter, hit a drive to right, but Santander reached above the fence to make the catch.
"I thought I got a chance," Santander said. "It was a high fly ball, so I was making sure, running all the way back to the fence, and make good timing."
Cal Raleigh hit a two-run home run in the second for Seattle, but that was the last hit allowed by Bradish, who struck out seven with two walks. Danny Coulombe pitched a perfect eighth, and Félix Bautista rebounded after allowing a ninth-inning homer Saturday, striking out three in the ninth for his 21st save in 26 chances.
"Saw a lot of 102s up there," Hyde said. "He was irritated how yesterday went and wanted to get back out there today."
George Kirby (6-7) allowed two earned runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings. Santander's two-run homer to right tied the game in the third.
Jorge Mateo drew a one-out walk off Kirby in the fifth, and then Anthony Bemboom blooped a single to right. Second baseman José Caballero, who had chased the play into right field, couldn't retrieve the ball cleanly, allowing Mateo to score from first. Caballero was charged with an error and the Orioles led 3-2.
"Honestly, I didn't know if it was going to be fair or not," Bemboom said. "The way I hit it, it was pretty far in, so I thought it was going to hook foul, but it just kind of stayed true."
The Orioles have a five-game lead over the New York Yankees for the American League's first wild card. Baltimore has had winning streaks of seven, five and four games this season, and the Orioles have had only one three-game skid.
They followed their lopsided defeat against Seattle with a 10-inning victory Saturday and another tight win Sunday.
"Whatever happened in that first game, we just leave in the past," Santander said. "We came the next two days with the right mentality."
STICKING WITH HIM
Bradish threw 103 pitches, two shy of his career high.
"The first couple innings, I thought we had some deep at-bats. I thought we'd continue that, we could get him out of the game a little earlier," Seattle manager Scott Servais said. "To give him credit, he settled in."
TRAINER'S ROOM
Orioles: Cedric Mullins played in center field in his second game back from a groin strain. He was the DH Saturday.
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Baltimore welcomes a surging Cincinnati team for a three-game series at Camden Yards. Cole Irvin (1-3) starts for the Orioles on Monday night against Brandon Williamson (1-0).
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Former Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Dan Prenzlow wasn't initially aware he had misspoken when he referred to a Black employee as being in the "back of the bus" during a conference organized by the agency this spring, he has told investigators.
But that comment, for which he soon apologized, likely violated agency policies, the investigation found. And when combined with the fact that Prenzlow "has not likely created a healthy workplace around issues of equity," an investigator concluded that she found it "unlikely that he can be an effective leader going forward," she wrote in a report.
The Sept. 21 report by investigator Elizabeth Rita with Investigations Law Group LLC, which was contracted by the state Department of Natural Resources to look into concerns surrounding Prenzlow's comment, preceded Prenzlow's subsequent retirement from the agency last week after 37 years working for it. A separate investigation by Rita and a second ILG investigator into the employee to whom Prenzlow directed his comment, Alease "Aloe" Lee, found that race-based, expletive-laced statements she made in response to Prenzlow, and regarding conference participant and Colorado Wildlife Council Chair Dan Gates, also likely violated state or agency policy. She resigned last week.
Both Prenzlow and Lee had been on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigations.
The investigations arose from events at the agency's Partners in the Outdoors Conference in Vail in April. At an awards ceremony, Prenzlow called out from the conference stage to Lee, who was in the back of the room, to thank her for role in organizing the event, saying, 'Oh, there's Aloe, in the back of the bus."
Rita wrote in her report that that phrase "back of the bus" comes from Jim Crow era segregationist laws requiring Black and Brown people to sit in the rear of buses, with white people allowed to sit in the front.
According to Rita's report, Prenzlow said he didn't initially understand the significance of his remark, but a few minutes later someone pointed out it was insensitive, and he immediately went to a room where Lee had gone and apologized, though she didn't acknowledge him. He later apologized in public and by email to Lee.
Prenzlow told investigators he had no racist intent in making the statement, and no track record of making racists comments. Rita wrote that she found no record of race-based misconduct by Prenzlow during his Parks and Wildlife career, and no credible evidence of a pattern of race-based statements by him, and the evidence suggests he had no conscious intent to harm Lee.
But she said the Jim Crow context is "too well known for the statement to be interpreted as anything other than a reference to segregation when used by a white person toward a Black person," and was a "dehumanizing statement tied to race," whatever Prenzlow's conscious intention might have been.
Rita found that Prenzlow likely violated anti-harassment, nondiscrimination, ethics, and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies, and a Department of Natural Resources employee and supervisor code of conduct.
Rita also found that over half of the individuals investigators interviewed described problems around issues of equity at Parks and Wildlife, including a "good ole boy" atmosphere, a lack of commitment around EDI by Prenzlow, and fear of retaliation for speaking up and other concerns. Rita noted concerns specific to Prenzlow that included him initially questioning the use of the word "decolonizing" in a conference presentation titled "Decolonizing Colorado Land Through Community Partnerships," reportedly using sexual stereotyping in questions to an employee about new hires, and questioning training on nonbinary employees by saying that it's not appropriate to have more than two genders.
Rita wrote that 17 of 22 witnesses investigators interviewed said they were unsure if Prenzlow could continue in his role and be successful given his statement at the conference and the workplace equity concerns.
"This is a significant vote of no confidence, particularly when considering that many of these witnesses stated support for Director Prenzlow as a person and said good things about his leadership before this situation," the report said.
Lee told investigators that since the April incident she has received emails and communications calling her "back of the bus Aloe" and saying she is weak, and she has a lot of anxiety and feels unsafe.
Lee posted messages on a messaging app for conference participants, and one, directed to Prenzlow after his comment about her, contained expletives and accusations of racism. So did a second message about Gates. In a letter to Gov. Jared Polis that was made public, she used the more derogatory form of the word Negro in referring to "(N-word) Dan Gates," calling it his own "affectionate nickname due to his frequent use of the slur."
Gates filed a complaint with Parks and Wildlife in May about Lee's "threatening, degrading, defaming" accusations. He told those investigating Lee that the accusations have no substance and Lee was a liar for accusing him of using "the N word."
Investigators into Lee interviewed 19 witnesses, and none provided an example of Gates exhibiting race-based behavior, according to the investigators' report.
Lee isn't apologizing for her comments, according to the investigation into her, and she told investigators she thinks her comments reacting to Prenzlow were "a response to trauma and racism."
The investigators found that Lee likely violated anti-harassment, nondiscrimination and equity, diversity and inclusion policies.
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MUMBAI, India, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avaada Group, a leading integrated energy platform, has announced the successful closure of INR 10,700 crore ($1.3 billion) funding round, marking a historic moment for the green energy industry in Asia and India's renewable energy sector. This funding round is the largest equity round ever raised by any green energy company in Asia.
The funding will be used to bolster Avaada's green hydrogen, green methanol, green ammonia, solar manufacturing and renewable power generation ventures, as part of India's commitment to a sustainable future. This achievement underscores the effectiveness of government policies encouraging investment in green energy and the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
In a significant boost to its solar manufacturing capabilities, Avaada Group had previously won a production-linked incentive of INR 961 crore ($116.78 million) for 3 GW of wafer-to-module capacity under the PLI Scheme. This win, coupled with the successful funding round, further solidifies Avaada's position as a leader in the renewable energy sector and underscores its commitment to harnessing green energy for a sustainable future.
Adding to its list of achievements, Avaada Energy Private Limited has won several tenders, amounting to almost 1.8 GW, in the last three months from corporate customers and utilities. This success demonstrates Avaada' s ability to meet the growing demand for renewable energy and its commitment to delivering high quality, sustainable energy solutions.
Brookfield Renewables, through its Brookfield Global Transition Fund (BGTF), has earlier committed to investing up to INR 8,225 crore ($1 billion) in Avaada Ventures Private Limited. In addition, Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC), an existing shareholder with a 42.93% equity holding in Avaada Energy Private Ltd (AEPL), has pledged to increase its capital by investing an additional INR 1,917 crore ($233 million) in AEPL, further supporting the company's growth. This follows GPSC's previous investment of INR 558 crore ($68 million) in AEPL in April, bringing their total investment in Avaada to around INR 6,037 crore ($779 million).
This successful funding round is a testament to India's commitment to choosing innovation and technology over traditional energy sources. The country stands at a pivotal moment, with the potential to grow using either conventional energy or the latest green technologies. The choice of the latter is creating enormous opportunities through the global transition fund.
Vineet Mittal, Chairperson and Founder, Avaada Group, commented: "This funding round marks a significant milestone in Avaada Group's journey and India's energy transition. We are grateful for the support from our investors and the Indian government, which is enabling us to contribute to the global energy transition and deliver on our promise of a sustainable future."
Mr. Worawat Pitayasiri, President and CEO of Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC), said "Our decision to invest further in AEPL is based on our confidence in their strategic approach to the renewable energy sector, aiming to achieve at least 11 GW in 2026. AEPL's commitment to renewable power generation aligns well with our own focus on sustainable growth and innovation."
Avaada Group has diversified into manufacturing Green Hydrogen, Green Methanol, Green Ammonia, and expanded its footprint into the Solar PV supply chain with the manufacturing of solar cell and module. The company currently operates a renewable energy portfolio of ~4 GW and around 7 GW in different stages of implementation.
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NOVI, Mich., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) recognized ITC Holdings Corp., the largest independent electricity transmission company in the U.S., for its exemplary leadership in corporate conservation during the WHC Conservation Conference in Detroit on June 15. ITC received the 2022 WHC Gold Tier Program Award and WHC Forests Project Award for various projects at its corporate headquarters in Novi, Mich.
Encompassing 92 acres, ITC's corporate campus features a naturalized transmission corridor, diverse woodlands, open green space, wetlands, as well as a nature trail and a large pond. The campus is also home to a corridor demonstration and pollinator garden including native species, bluebird nesting boxes and bat roosting boxes. The grounds are maintained year-round under sustainable environmental principles utilizing native plantings, invasive species removal, wildlife trial cameras and annual flora and fauna surveys.
"Our work at ITC is focused on providing a greater grid for a greener future," said Mike McNulty, Environmental Manager at ITC. "That longstanding focus extends not only to our corporate campus, but is also evident throughout our entire footprint and how we build, operate and maintain our electric transmission systems. We're honored to be recognized by WHC."
With the addition of this year's WHC Awards, ITC now holds 14 WHC Conservation Certifications®. To date, ITC's certifications involve the restoration, creation, protection and enhancement of habitat and individual species management at sites across Michigan and Iowa. ITC has participated in the program since 2008.
ITC Holdings Corp. is the largest independent electricity transmission company in the United States. ITC provides transmission grid solutions to improve reliability, expand access to markets, allow new generating resources to interconnect to its systems and lower the overall cost of delivered energy. Through its regulated operating subsidiaries ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains, ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission infrastructure in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in development in Wisconsin. These systems serve a combined peak load exceeding 26,000 megawatts along 16,000 circuit miles of transmission line, supported by 700 employees and 1,000 contractors. ITC is based in Novi, Michigan. For further information visit WWW.ITC-HOLDINGS.COM. ITC is a subsidiary of Fortis Inc., a leader in the North American regulated electric and gas utility industry. For further information visit WWW.FORTISINC.COM.
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Egg prices jumped nearly 50% in 2022, data shows
Published: Dec. 27, 2022 at 3:44 PM CST|Updated: 15 minutes ago
(CNN) - While several grocery store items became more expensive this past year, nothing comes close to the rise in egg prices.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the price of eggs jumped 49 percent in 2022 through November, not adjusted for seasonal swings.
One reason for the increase was a deadly avian flu that reduced poultry flocks, specifically turkeys and egg-laying hens.
Rising feed and energy costs for producers, as well as high demand, also factored into the price increase.
Experts think the peak has passed, but consumers should expect to pay more for eggs until the conditions improve.
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Justin Bieber says he has Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which causes facial paralysis
Justin Bieber announced Friday that he is taking a break from performing because he is suffering from paralysis on one side of his face.
In a video posted on his verified Instagram account, the singer explained that he has Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which has left him unable to move half of his face and unable to take the stage.
"It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis," he said in the video. "As you can see this eye is not blinking. I can't smile on this side of my face; this nostril will not move. So there's full paralysis on this side of my face."
According to the Mayo Clinic, Ramsay Hunt syndrome "occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears. In addition to the painful shingles rash, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss in the affected ear."
Bieber addressed those who have been frustrated by the recent cancellations of his concerts and said he's "physically, obviously, not capable of doing them."
"This is pretty serious, as you can see. I wish this wasn't the case, but, obviously, my body's telling me I've got to slow down," he said. "I hope you guys understand. I'll be using this time to just rest and relax and get back to a hundred percent so that I can do what I was born to do."
He thanked his fans for being patient, said he's been doing facial exercises to help. He said he doesn't know how long it will take for him to recover, but earlier this week, it was announced that three of his upcoming performances were postponed.
"It's going to be OK," he said. "I have hope, and I trust God."
In March, his wife Hailey Bieber was hospitalized due to a small blood clot in her brain.
The model later explained that she had suffered a mini-stroke due to a small hole in her heart from which the clot traveled to her brain.
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Young girl drowns after being pinned underneath inflatable tube in river, police say
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - Arizona authorities say a teenager has drowned in the Colorado River this week.
According to the Bullhead City Police Department, a 14-year-old girl died after being pinned underneath an inflatable tube while out on the Colorado River Tuesday night.
Authorities said the girl was tossed from the tube when the jet ski pulling her capsized.
The 14-year-old was wearing a life vest but ended up pinned between the tube and the piling of the Laughlin Bridge, unable to get up for air.
According to police, she was pulled from the water, and emergency crews started CPR. They transported her to the hospital but she was pronounced deceased.
Authorities said the jet ski rider wasn’t impaired or operating the watercraft recklessly.
The girl was visiting the area from Downey and police did not immediately release her name.
Bullhead City police said the 14-year-old’s death remains under investigation.
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Pelicans vs. Thunder Injury Report Today - April 12
The New Orleans Pelicans (42-40) are dealing with three players on the injury report as they ready for an opportunity to win a spot in the playoffs in a play-in tournament matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder (40-42) at Smoothie King Center on Wednesday, April 12 at 9:30 PM ET.
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In their most recent matchup on Sunday, the Pelicans suffered a 113-108 loss to the Timberwolves. In the Pelicans' loss, Brandon Ingram led the way with a team-high 42 points (adding 12 rebounds and seven assists).
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The Thunder took care of business in their last game 115-100 against the Grizzlies on Sunday. Jared Butler scored 25 points in the Thunder's victory, leading the team.
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Pelicans vs. Thunder Game Info
- When: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- Where: Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana
- TV: ESPN
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Pelicans Season Insights
- The Pelicans score 114.4 points per game, only two fewer points than the 116.4 the Thunder allow.
- New Orleans is 27-7 when scoring more than 116.4 points.
- On the offensive side of the ball, the Pelicans have increased their output slightly over their last 10 games, scoring 117 points per contest over that stretch as opposed to the 114.4 they've put up over the course of this season.
- New Orleans connects on 11 three-pointers per game (23rd in the league) while shooting 36.4% from beyond the arc (15th in the NBA). It is making 1.2 fewer threes per contest than its opponents, who drain 12.2 per game while shooting 33.9%.
- The Pelicans rank 19th in the NBA with 111.8 points scored per 100 possessions, and sixth in the league defensively with 109.9 points conceded per 100 possessions.
Thunder Season Insights
- The Thunder's 117.5 points per game are five more points than the 112.5 the Pelicans give up.
- When it scores more than 112.5 points, Oklahoma City is 31-22.
- Over their previous 10 games, the Thunder are posting 116.4 points per game, compared to their season average of 117.5.
- Oklahoma City connects on 12.1 three-pointers per game (15th in the league) compared to its opponents' 12.9. It shoots 35.6% from deep, and its opponents shoot 35.8%.
- The Thunder's 112.3 points per 100 possessions on offense rank 14th in the NBA, and the 111.4 points they allow per 100 possessions rank 11th in the league.
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You know things are getting dicey in the economy when the phrase "Federal Reserve" enters daily conversation.
Typically, the "Fed" is a pretty wonky and sleepy corner of America, known for shockingly dull press conferences. When economic sailing is smooth, there's not much news coming out of the central bank that is of even remote interest to people other than economists or journalists.
But a few weeks ago, I sat next to a woman on an airplane. She described herself as knowing "zero" about the economy and then proceeded to ask me whether I thought the Federal Reserve would continue raising interest rates to help fight inflation.
I immediately felt an acute sense of dread: When the Fed becomes a topic of general conversation, it means big shifts are happening. The Federal Reserve is an immensely powerful organization that is part of our economy's foundation--it's tectonic plates. And, personally, I like my tectonic plates boring, predictable and giving regularly scheduled, shockingly dull press conferences.
But the truth is, at this moment, we should all be interested in the Federal Reserve. Because big shifts are happening in our economy and the fate of our country may rest on the actions the Fed is taking currently and in the coming months.
The two parts of the Fed's dual mandate are starting to duel with each other
At its core, the Federal Reserve has two main jobs: keeping inflation low and making sure maximum number of people are employed in America. This is known as the Fed's "dual mandate."
The Fed is mandated to deploy its formidable powers to watch and protect both areas as they are considered the most important elements to a strong economy.
"Economic security depends on both jobs and stable prices. Together, these two pillars form the foundation for everything else," Mary Daly, head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, said in a recent speech at Boise State University.
However, the Fed is currently being challenged in a way it hasn't been in over 40 years. And as it tries to do one part of its job it is hurting the other. In a way, the two parts of its dual mandate are starting to duel with each other.
High inflation "undermines the basic American promise which says that if you work hard, you can get ahead"
Inflation is on everybody's mind right now. Prices are rising in the U.S. at a pace not seen in over 40 years. Inflation is up 8.3% and many things are costing way more than that compared to last year: Gasoline prices are up 25.6%, food prices are up 11.4%, rent is up 6.7%, and health insurance prices are up 24.3%, the largest ever increase.
Daly points out that this level of inflation hits everyone. But it is especially hard on the country's most economically vulnerable. "The toll... lands hardest on those with low and moderate incomes," she said. "This corroding of real wages is more than just painful. It also undermines the basic American promise, which says that if you work hard, you can get ahead. Inflation traps people in an endless loop of running fast and falling behind, unrelated to effort or input."
The cinnamon roll moment
For many people, it hits them suddenly — often while shopping for a favorite item — that they realize they're paying a lot more for things than they usually do. Jeff Smith, 54, who works in marketing in California, recalled the first moment when inflation really hit him.
"It's really dumb, because it's not a huge item," he laughed. "I was buying these prepackaged cinnamon rolls...of all things."
Smith and his wife have four children and Smith says they often like to have a big Sunday breakfast together and he will sometimes buy cinnamon rolls as a treat. "It's something I have bought periodically for years and it was eight bucks for a package of six cinnamon rolls." He immediately felt it was about double what he had typically paid. "It felt dramatic," he said.
After that cinnamon roll moment, Smith did a deep dive into the family budget and realized their overall spending had gone up by almost 40%. He and his wife were shocked. "We were like, 'Good grief! That is way too much. How did we do that? Where did we go?'"
As it turned out, the Smith family hadn't done anything differently or gone anywhere unusual, the prices of their normal purchases and activities had just risen and it had added up fast in a family of six. So Smith and his family started making a bunch of cutbacks: no more eating out, no summer road trip to Utah to see relatives.
"My kids complained, 'We, didn't do anything this summer!'" he said. "They were right and it was largely because gas that used to cost us, you know, maybe $150 to travel somewhere now costs three or $400."
Fighting inflation could lead to job cuts
This is where the Fed comes in. Rising prices prompted the Federal Reserve to spring into action earlier this year and start raising interest rates.
When the Fed raises interest rates, it becomes more expensive for people and businesses to borrow money, so they buy less stuff, demand goes down and that (eventually) brings prices down.
Here's where another problem comes in: When spending drops, companies aren't selling as much stuff and they're not making as much money. They tend to react by slowing down hiring or even laying people off. Bottom line: Raising interest rates can be really hard on jobs.
The economic shock of the 1970s and 80s
The last time inflation got really high in the U.S. was back in the 1970s and 80s, when it topped 13%. The head of the central bank at the time, Paul Volcker was determined to bring prices under control. He pushed interest rates high--rates peaked at about 20% (to give a little perspective, the current interest rate is around 3%).
The result: a big economic shock. The economy fell into a terrible recession, unemployment spiked to 11% and people and politicians unleashed all kinds of wrath onto Chair Volcker. But Volcker was totally focused on bringing inflation under control. Eventually, it worked, and inflation did come down. But it took years of serious economic pain and millions of people lost their jobs.
To be clear, that is NOT the situation the country is in right now. The most recent jobs report shows a very strong employment market with more job openings than unemployed workers and an unemployment rate of 3.5%. This has led many to speculate that the Fed will see this as a green light to keep pushing interest rates up to try and get inflation down.
The worry is if that continues, the Fed's two jobs could end up being at odds: if it tries to bring inflation down by cranking up interest rates too much, it could lead employers to not just put the brakes on hiring, but also cut jobs.
Jobs versus prices is not a choice anybody wants to make. So what will Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell choose?
Actually, he seems to have already made the call... in code. The Federal Reserve has a history of communicating in code (or, basically, not communicating and leaving everybody to desperately try and interpret things like tie color choice and body language).
This summer, Powell dropped a bombshell, saying: "We are taking forceful and rapid steps to...keep inflation expectations anchored. We will keep at it until we are confident the job is done." As unexciting as that might seem, for Fed-watchers, this moment was a veritable fireworks spectacular, and code for choosing to fight inflation just like Volcker who battled inflation at the cost of millions of jobs and a recession. That's because the title of Volcker's book was "Keeping at It".
More recently in a press conference on September 21, Powell made it even clearer that he was willing to tolerate some pain from a slower economy and "softening of labor market," because inflation was just too harmful for families and needed to be dealt with.
"If your family is one where you spend most of your paycheck, every paycheck cycle, on gas, food, transportation, clothing, basics of life, and prices go up the way they've been going up, you're in trouble right away," Powell said. "We're hearing from people is very much that inflation is really hurting...it would be nice if there were a way to just wish it away but there isn't."
Hopefully the inflation report that's coming this Thursday will show prices coming down and if unemployment stays low, the dual mandate will never have to duel. My airplane conversations can go back to complaining about legroom and we can all have our cinnamon rolls and afford them, too.
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BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese archbishop who carried more than $460,000 from Israel to Lebanon is at the center of the latest sectarian showdown in crisis-hit Lebanon, and the case could even spill over into presidential politics.
The situation has ramped up discord between two powerful political camps: Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group and the Maronite Church.
The clergyman was briefly detained last month by Lebanese border agents who confiscated 20 suitcases stuffed with cash and medicine, arguing he violated Lebanon's strict laws against normalization with Israel.
Hezbollah's opponents say the Iran-backed group has sway over Lebanese institutions and security agencies, and have used them to target the Maronite Church. The archbishop, Moussa el-Hajj, is a senior member of the Maronite Church, whose patriarch has become increasingly critical of the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its growing influence in Lebanon.
Much of the Christian community saw the archbishop’s detention as an attack on the church.
In a sermon late last month, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai denounced the legal proceedings against el-Hajj as a fabrication, arguing that the money was for charity. He demanded that the charges be dropped and that the military judge who presides over the case resign.
Al-Rai was met with a standing ovation and protesters gathered the following week at his summer residence to rally in support of the church.
Underlying the dispute are decades of hostile relations between Israel and Lebanon. The two countries have formally been at war since Israel's founding in 1948, and Lebanon has tough anti-normalization laws on the books. The border remains closed, though several top Lebanese Christian officials have permission to cross on occasion to visit their flock in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan.
On July 20, Lebanese border agents held el-Hajj for eight hours after he returned from Israel with 20 suitcases of medicine and cash. El-Hajj said he was delivering money and assistance from Lebanese Christians in northern Israel to their relatives in the cash-strapped country. The agents confiscated the money, the medicine, el-Hajj’s cellphone and passport.
Hezbollah officials saw el-Hajj's act as normalization with Israel and accused him of delivering money from Lebanese affiliated with a militia that once fought alongside Israel.
Thousands of Lebanese moved to Israel after it ended an 18-year occupation of parts of southern Lebanon in 2000. Many of those who fled to Israel were linked to the main pro-Israeli militia in the region, the South Lebanon Army, which collapsed after Israeli troops withdrew.
The case could have wider political implications.
The country for months has been without a fully functional government and is expected to hold presidential elections before the end of October.
Under Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, its president must always be a Maronite. Incumbent President Michel Aoun is an ally of Hezbollah, but the Maronite patriarch's increasingly vocal criticism of Hezbollah suggests there is no guarantee the next president will continue an alliance with the militia.
Lebanon’s parliament once had a clear majority for Hezbollah and its allies but since elections in May it now stands neck and neck with some of its staunchest opponents, most notably the Christian Lebanese Forces party.
Most Christian members of parliament and legislators of other sects who oppose Hezbollah rallied to back the archbishop and the Maronite church.
“We agree with everything they have said, whether it’s their calls for removing the judge, or the selectivity in how the archbishop was treated,” said Elias Hankash, a Christian legislator of the Kataeb Party. ”They (Hezbollah officials) shouldn’t just take out their anger on a religious official to send their message to the patriarch.”
Imad Salamey, a political science professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, said much is at stake for Hezbollah.
“We’re coming to a presidential election and following that we have to form a new government, and set a government policy to negotiate with the IMF (International Monetary Fund,” he said. “I think Hezbollah wants to send all kinds of messages at the moment, and is determined to show it continues to be the major player among all.”
Hezbollah’s leadership didn’t comment. Its leader Hassan Nasrallah in a recent interview denied the group’s influence in security agencies and the judiciary. “In Lebanon there are laws, and the security agencies take action towards any collaborator or possible collaborator,” he said.
The head of Hezbollah’s block in parliament Mohammad Raad was more explicit, saying the archbishop’s delivery of money and medicine was normalization, which he called a “national betrayal and a crime.”
A person close to el-Hajj's case told The Associated Press that authorities offered to al-Rai to return the archbishop's confiscated passport and phone, but keep the bags of cash and medicine. Al-Rai reportedly refused and the archbishop will not attend any hearings
Meanwhile, poverty deepens for millions of Lebanese, about three-quarters of its population. Rampant power cuts, breadlines and inflation plague households across the country’s mosaic of 18 religious sects following decades of nefarious economic mismanagement and corruption from Lebanon’s ruling parties.
People demand accountability and reform, so divisive political tension could be a good smokescreen, said Mohanad Hage Ali, research fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
“The political class is resorting to the old method of sectarian polarization,” Hage Ali said. “It has been effective, and I think it will continue to be effective.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Clergy-bags-of-cash-set-off-new-sectarian-brawl-17347498.php | 2022-08-03 07:39:03 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Clergy-bags-of-cash-set-off-new-sectarian-brawl-17347498.php |
Colorado police officer falls from bridge during chase
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - An officer was “critically” injured following a reported carjacking and chase Thursday night near Colorado Springs, according to Fountain police.
Lisa Schneider, spokesperson for the city of Fountain, said multiple agencies were involved in a pursuit at around 7:45 p.m. for someone who was suspected in multiple felony crimes.
When the pursuit ended near an area interstate, Schneider said the suspect got out of the vehicle.
An officer who was trying to apprehend the suspect then fell from the bridge, according to officials.
Schneider said the fall was about 30 feet.
The injured Fountain police officer was taken to the hospital by helicopter in “critical condition,” according to Schneider.
Three suspects were taken into custody.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Responses from public officials in New Mexico to the killing of 19 children and two teachers by a lone gunman at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are falling along partisan lines when it comes to proposals to improve public safety and regulating access to guns.
Democratic candidates for the state's top law enforcement job say New Mexico needs new gun control legislation, more enforcement resources for gun safety, or both. A top Republican Party official said Thursday that gun control is not the right answer.
In a Wednesday night debate, state auditor and Democratic candidate for attorney general Brian Colón said he supports legislation to ensure safe gun storage proposed by legislators including state Rep. Pamelya Herndon of Albuquerque.
A failed bill from Herndon this year would have established gun storage requirements and established new crimes with misdemeanor and felony penalties for recklessly making a firearm available to a minor.
Albuquerque-based District Attorney Raúl Torrez — also seeking the Democratic nomination for attorney general — said law enforcement agencies need greater funding and training to harness New Mexico's 2020 “red flag” law that allows police or sheriff’s deputies to ask a court to temporarily take away guns from people who might hurt themselves or others. The legislation was proposed in response a racist attack targeting Hispanics at a Walmart in El Paso that killed 23 people in 2019.
Torrez also said parents who fail to secure firearms from child access need to be held accountable, and that he supports the creation of a gun-violence prevention office within the state Department of Health.
State Republican Party Chairman Steve Pearce on Thursday said that “gun control is not the answer” to school safety concerns.
“We must provide better security, more police presence, metal detectors, one-point secure entrances and take other appropriate measures to make our schools a safe place for all,” Pearce said in a statement.
Since Tuesday's school shooting, Democratic governors and lawmakers across the country have issued impassioned pleas for Congress and their own legislatures to pass gun restrictions. Republicans have mostly called for more efforts to address mental health and to shore up protections at schools, such as adding security guards.
Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says elected officials should do everything they can to reverse the proliferation of firearms.
“We must do everything in our power to reduce the number of firearms and deadly weapons on our streets to make sure that everyone in this country lives in peace and free of fear,” said Lujan Grisham in a statement.
Since 2019, Lujan Grisham has signed a raft of legislation that restricts access to guns, including an extension of background-check requirements to nearly all private gun sales and a ban on firearms possession for people under permanent protective orders for domestic violence.
Five Republican candidates are vying for the nomination in New Mexico's June 7 primary for the chance to challenge Lujan Grisham as she runs for a second term.
The Uvalde attack was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
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Eastern Ky. flood victims attend Kentucky Rising benefit concert
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Tuesday night, Eastern Kentucky flood victims were set to take in a special benefit concert that will help people affected by the historic flooding.
It’s called “Kentucky Rising” and it took place at Rupp Arena we were on the scene to talk to flood victims who were in attendance.
Thousands descended on Rupp Arena for Kentucky Rising, a benefit concert featuring some of Kentucky’s biggest names in music.
ARH is hosted a pre-concert party to celebrate the occasion.
ARH CEO and president Hollie Phillips said the organization has invited more than 40 flood survivors to take part in this night. ARH has also partnered with new frontier to create Appalachia merchandise for sale…with all of the proceeds going towards supporting the flood-ravaged region.
Phillips says 172 of her own employees lost everything in the flooding this summer. So she appreciates the support of fellow Kentuckians and hopes as many people as turned up to hear some good tunes for a good cause.
“We’re so hopeful that people can join in tonight whether it’s here in person or live streamed and let’s just have a little celebration tonight,” ARH President/CEO Hollie Phillips told WKYT.
Tonight we heard from some of those flood survivors who shared their story with us and spoke about what it meant to be a part of a night like this after having been through so much over the past couple of months.
If you wanted to watch the livestream of the concert, it costed 20 dollars.
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ORISKANY, N.Y. – A Missouri woman was arrested Friday and charged with arson following a fire at the Motel 6 in Oriskany on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Fire crews were called to the motel after the owner reported fire and smoke in the main entrance.
The motel, which is currently under renovation, was about 70% full at the time of the fire. Several people were evaluated at the scene and one person was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
After authorities reviewed security footage, they determined the fire was suspicious and began searching for a female suspect.
On Thursday, an arrest warrant was issued for 36-year-old Crystal Newbold. She was located in the village of Waterloo on Friday and arrested with the help of the Waterloo Police Department and Seneca County Sheriff’s Office.
Newbold is charged with felony arson and criminal mischief.
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There is no sign of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Sudan. Millions of Sudanese civilians continue to be displaced as the country teeters on the brink of full-scale civil war.
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There is no sign of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Sudan. Millions of Sudanese civilians continue to be displaced as the country teeters on the brink of full-scale civil war.
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Sam Phillips would have been 100 years old on Thursday.
The rock and roll pioneer -- famed as the founder of Sun Studio, an influential producer and the first to record Elvis Presley -- was born on Jan. 5, 1923, in the Shoals area of Alabama. When Phillips died at age 80 -- on July 30, 2003, at a hospital in Memphis -- music fans around the world mourned his passing.
Phillips wasn’t a performing artist, but he made a huge impact on the entertainment world. Here’s a refresher on his life and career, as we celebrate his accomplishments and acknowledge his roots.
GROWING UP
Phillips spent his childhood on a farm near Florence, helping in the fields and listening to Black workers sing as they picked cotton. The music “awakened my spirit,” Phillips often said, and was a key influence on the choices he made as a record producer.
‘’A day didn’t go by when I didn’t hear black folks singing in the cotton fields,’’ Phillips said. ‘’Did I feel sorry for them? In a way I did. But they could do things I couldn’t do. They could outpick me. They could sing on pitch. That made a big impression on me.’’
In a 1995 interview with Howard Miller of The Huntsville Times, Phillips talked about battling childhood illness. However, he said it sparked his curiosity and powers of observation.
“I think one of the things that meant as much to me ... as anything in the world, was that as a child I was very sickly and almost died twice,” Phillips said. “Back then, about all you had was an aspirin tablet when I was coming up. ... I guess that me being sickly and my mother getting older, I got to noticing things, observing people and what happened. I found it to be a fascinating thing -- what makes people feel, do and think the way they do. ... The only way I can explain it is that there is a certain element of curiosity that I have about people. I always wanted to find out what was taking place in people’s souls and their minds.”
Phillips attended Coffee High School in Florence, where he led a marching band and played trombone, sousaphone and drums. At one point, he also took an extension course on electrical engineering at Florence State, offered by Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later known as Auburn University). In 1942, Phillips married Rebecca “Becky” Burns, an aspiring singer from the Shoals. The couple had two sons, Knox and Jerry.
RADIO DAYS
In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a radio DJ and engineer at WLAY-AM, a small station in Muscle Shoals. He moved on to stations in Decatur, Nashville and Memphis. At WREC in Memphis, Phillips was the host of ‘’Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance,’’ playing blues, pop and jazz from the Peabody Hotel. He soon became enamored of the music he heard on Beale Street, home to blues clubs that presented vibrant and compelling Black musicians.
In January 1950, Phillips opened his own recording studio at 706 Union Ave. in Memphis. At first, it was called Memphis Recording Service, then renamed Sun Records. According to The New York Times, Phillips began renting the storefront space in October 1949 for $150 per month.
“Phillips worked at the radio station all day and then went to his studio to record ‘anything, anywhere, anytime’ just to make a go of his new venture,” said Claudia Luther of the Los Angeles Times, tracing Phillips’ past in a 2003 obituary. “For a long time, that meant mostly weddings and $2-a-side personal recordings. Slowly, Phillips began recording some of the musicians he had so long wanted to popularize. The rawer the music, the better. He started getting what he wanted with local blues artists like B.B. King, who recorded some early tunes with Phillips, and Howlin’ Wolf.
“(In 1951), Phillips recorded ‘Rocket 88′ with singer Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner’s band. Many critics say Brenston’s fast, upbeat recording, which Phillips took to Chess Records for release, is really the first rock ‘n’ roll record.”
Phillips shared his thoughts on “Rocket 88″ in a 1998 interview with Sound on Sound. “I cannot truly judge what the first rock ‘n’ roll record was, because that would be unfair,” Phillips said, “but in the sense of the term rock ‘n’ roll -- which to me wrapped up Black and white youth and vitality -- it really was the first rock ‘n’ roll record.”
ELVIS (AND MORE)
As a record producer, Phillips looked for originality and a distinctive sound. “He wasn’t looking for somebody who sounded like someone who was already out there,” Roland Janes, former Sun session guitarist, said in a 2003 interview with Scripps Howard News Service. “If you had a unique sound musically or vocally, that would impress him.”
With this mindset, Phillips immediately saw potential in Elvis Presley, an 18-year-old truck driver who stopped by Sun Records in 1953. Some reports say the young Presley wanted to cut a couple of tracks for his mother’s birthday; others claim he was simply ambitious and wanted a start at the label.
“Within a year, Phillips would draw out of Presley the stirring sound that would not only launch the singer’s career but also shove rock ‘n’ roll smack into the middle of American popular culture, where it has remained for more half a century,” Luther said in the Los Angeles Times. “Sun released only five Presley singles -- an impressive roster of 10 songs that included ‘That’s All Right,’ ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky,’ ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight,’ ‘I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone,’ ‘Baby, Let’s Play House’ and, finally, ‘Mystery Train’ -- all recorded between July 5, 1954, and July 11, 1955.”
Although Presley is credited as the lightning rod for Sun Records, Phillips also helmed early recording sessions with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich and more.
“I could take these people, totally untried and unproven -- but that damn sure didn’t mean they didn’t have potential talent,” Phillips told The Huntsville Times. “I was looking for the creativity of the people that never had an opportunity. I didn’t give a damn whether they were poor, rich or whatever.”
MOVING ON
As Presley and other artists gained fame, they outgrew Sun Records and signed deals with larger labels. Phillips moved on in the 1960s, as well, pursuing business ventures such as an investment in the Holiday Inn company. He sold Sun Records in 1969, and the label continues today. The Sun Studio building also still exists, as a tourist attraction and National Historic Landmark.
Phillips kept a hand in the music world throughout his lifetime; he owned a music publishing company in Nashville and radio stations in Alabama and elsewhere. In his 1995 interview with The Huntsville Times, Phillips said he was proud of the music produced in his home state, and pointed to Muscle Shoals as a prime example.
“Man, did you see what they did?,” Phillips said. “I mean if you think they didn’t put Muscle Shoals on the map around the damn world! You can’t go anywhere in the world and speak about Muscle Shoals that they don’t know what you’re talking about -- and it’s not the dam, and I’m not taking a thing away from TVA power. It’s music!”
Phillips was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1987, along with Sonny James, Jerry Wexler and W.C. Handy. Florence named a street after Phillips, as well.
NATIONAL ACCLAIM, ENDURING LEGACY
In 1986, Phillips was among the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“One of the most important figures in the history of rock,” the Rock Hall’s website says. “Sam Phillips discovered Elvis Presley, pioneered rockabilly and founded Sun Records, where he quietly went about the business of building and recording the rock and roll canon. ... The sound of Sun Records was the epitome of rock and roll’s origins. Owner Sam Phillips not only recorded the varied streams of ethnic music throughout the South, from blues to country, but was convinced he could bring them together in one irresistible pop package.”
Phillips also is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
In 2000, he was the subject of a two-hour documentary on A&E, “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll.” That’s also the title of a 2015 biography by Peter Guralnick, who says Phillips valued “perfect imperfection” and believed every recording session was meant to be “like the making of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ with all its epic grandeur -- but at the same time, every session had to be fun, too.”
Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star as Phillips in a film adaptation of Guralnick’s book, according to 2016 reports by Variety, Rolling Stone and other entertainment media. However, the movie never materialized and apparently got stalled in development. Josh McConville played Phillips in “Elvis,” the 2022 movie directed by Baz Luhrmann. Dallas Roberts portrayed Phillips in a key scene from the 2005 Johnny Cash bio-pic “Walk the Line.”
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The Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville has planned a birthday celebration for Phillips on Feb. 1, teaming with Sun Records. The event (postponed from its original date of Jan. 5) is set to include a Q&A with Phillips’ son, Jerry Phillips, and a tour of museum exhibits related to the Sun label. | https://www.al.com/life/2023/01/sam-phillips-6-things-to-know-about-the-rock-pioneer-on-his-100th-birthday.html | 2023-01-05 23:16:35 | 0 | https://www.al.com/life/2023/01/sam-phillips-6-things-to-know-about-the-rock-pioneer-on-his-100th-birthday.html |
The rates of death for pregnant Black women have doubled the last 20 years By Brianna Scott, Jeanette Woods, Scott Detrow Published July 7, 2023 at 1:22 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:09 NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with nurse midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah about Black maternal health. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kcbx.org/2023-07-07/the-rates-of-death-for-pregnant-black-women-have-doubled-the-last-20-years | 2023-07-07 20:47:25 | 0 | https://www.kcbx.org/2023-07-07/the-rates-of-death-for-pregnant-black-women-have-doubled-the-last-20-years |
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Krane Funds Advisors, LLC ("KraneShares"), an asset management firm known for its global exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and innovative investment strategies, announced that the KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF (Ticker: KSET) now tracks the S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index—the first-to-market benchmark for the current performance of global voluntary carbon futures markets.
KSET, listed on the New York Stock Exchange on April 27 this year, is the first US-Listed ETF to track the global Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM)1, which is complementary to the global carbon allowance markets tracked by KraneShares' flagship global carbon ETF (KRBN).
KSET's new index tracks carbon offset futures contracts. These contracts include nature-based global emission offsets (N-GEOs) and global emission offsets (GEOs), which trade through the CME Group, the world's largest financial derivatives exchange. Due to the evolving nature of carbon markets, an important characteristic of the index is the flexibility to reweight, add or remove constituents at regular intervals to ensure that it can adapt over time.
"Previously, KraneShares and IHS Markit, which is now part of S&P Global, made history when we launched the KraneShares Global Carbon Strategy ETF (KRBN). KRBN uses the IHS Markit Global Carbon Index as its benchmark," said Luke Oliver, Managing Director and Head of Strategy at KraneShares. "We are pleased to deepen our relationship with S&P Global and leverage their extensive history as an index provider and their strong research capabilities to capture the complex and ever-changing voluntary carbon market through KSET's new index."
"We're excited that KraneShares has selected our S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index as the underlying benchmark for its exchange-traded fund," said Fiona Boal, Head of Commodities and Real Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). "This new voluntary carbon futures index is a key addition to S&P DJI's continued efforts to grow its suite of new and innovative thematic alternative indices for the commodities space."
"The voluntary carbon market serves as a powerful tool in the global fight to combat climate change and an important way to accelerate the transition to a decarbonized world," said Eron Bloomgarden, co-founder of Climate Finance Partners (CLIFI) KSET's non-discretionary sub-advisor. "At the same time, it provides price discovery, a potential hedge for climate risk exposure, and diversification* from traditional asset classes."
The S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index was launched on June 22, 2022.
What are Carbon Offsets?
Carbon offsets are intended to counteract emissions that corporations, governments, or individuals generate as part of their business-as-usual activities. The governing bodies overseeing the registration and verification of carbon offset projects are called carbon offset registries. These registries issue credits for emission-reducing projects or programs such as forest conservation, the creation of wind farms, methane gas capture in a landfill, and hydropower projects. Credits are issued proportionate to the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) a project takes out of the atmosphere. Entities can calculate their emissions and purchase a corresponding quantity of credits to offset their activity. Entities often utilize offsets as a short-term bridge to abate emissions that they cannot avoid within their own operations while they work on implementing longer-term decarbonization measures.
For additional information on the KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF (Ticker: KSET), contact your financial advisor or visit kraneshares.com/KSET.
*Diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against a loss.
About Krane Funds Advisors, LLC
Krane Funds Advisors, LLC is the investment manager for KraneShares ETFs. KraneShares is a premier platform that develops and delivers differentiated, high-conviction investment strategies to global investors.
Since 2013, KraneShares has become one of the leading China ETF providers. Given China's importance in addressing the global climate challenge, our Climate Suite is a natural extension of our China focus. KraneShares strives to deliver innovative first-to-market strategies based on strong partnerships and deep investing knowledge. KraneShares helps investors stay current on global market trends and provides meaningful diversification.
Krane Funds Advisors, LLC, is a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investing (UN PRI). The firm is majority-owned by China International Capital Corporation (CICC).
About Climate Finance Partners
Climate Finance Partners delivers innovative climate finance solutions and investment products to address capital needs for emerging environmental challenges. CLIFI is led by a team of investment professionals with deep experience in the fields of traditional investment and environmental finance.
Carefully consider the Fund's investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found in the Fund's full and summary prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting www.kraneshares.com Read the prospectus carefully before investing.
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Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. There can be no assurance that a Fund will achieve its stated objectives. Indices are unmanaged and do not include the effect of fees. One cannot invest directly in an index.
This information should not be relied upon as research, investment advice, or a recommendation regarding any products, strategies, or any security in particular. This material is strictly for illustrative, educational, or informational purposes and is subject to change. Certain content represents an assessment of the market environment at a specific time and is not intended to be a forecast of future events or a guarantee of future results; material is as of the dates noted and is subject to change without notice.
The market for carbon offset credit futures may be less developed, and potentially less liquid and more volatile, than more established futures markets. While the market has grown, there can be no assurance that this growth will continue. The price for carbon offset credit futures is based on a number of factors, including the supply of and the demand for carbon offset credit futures as well as the supply and demand for carbon offset credits. The performance of carbon offset credit futures and carbon offset credits may differ and may not be correlated with each other, over short or long periods of time. There is no assurance that cap and trade regimes will continue to exist, or that they will prove to be an effective method of reduction in GHG emissions. Changes in U.S. law and related regulations may impact the way the Fund operates, increase Fund costs and/or change the competitive landscape. New technologies may arise that may diminish or eliminate the need for cap and trade markets. Ultimately, the cost of emissions credits is determined by the cost of actually reducing emissions levels. If the price of credits becomes too high, it will be more economical for companies to develop or invest in green technologies, thereby suppressing the demand for credits.
The Fund invests through a subsidiary, and is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary's investments. Since the Subsidiary is organized under the law of the Cayman Islands and is not registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as such the Fund will not receive all of the protections offered to shareholders of registered investment companies. The Fund and the Subsidiary will be considered commodity pools upon commencement of operations, and each will be subject to regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC rules. Commodity pools are subject to additional laws, regulations and enforcement policies, which may increase compliance costs and may affect the operations and performance of the Fund and the Subsidiary. Futures and other contracts may have to be liquidated at disadvantageous times or prices to prevent the Fund from exceeding any applicable position limits established by the CFTC. The value of a commodity-linked derivative investment typically is based upon the price movements of a physical commodity and may be affected by changes in overall market movements, volatility of the Index, changes in interest rates, or factors affecting a particular industry or commodity.
The Fund and the Subsidiary will be considered commodity pools upon commencement of operations, and each will be subject to regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC rules. Commodity pools are subject to additional laws, regulations and enforcement policies, which may increase compliance costs and may affect the operations and performance of the Fund and the Subsidiary. Futures and other contracts may have to be liquidated at disadvantageous times or prices to prevent the Fund from exceeding any applicable position limits established by the CFTC. The value of a commodity-linked derivative investment typically is based upon the price movements of a physical commodity and may be affected by changes in overall market movements, volatility of the Index, changes in interest rates, or factors affecting a particular industry or commodity. The Fund may invest in derivatives, which are often more volatile than other investments and may magnify the Funds' gains or losses. A derivative (i.e., futures/forward contracts, swaps, and options) is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying asset. The primary risk of derivatives is that changes in the asset's market value and the derivative may not be proportionate, and some derivatives can have the potential for unlimited losses. Derivatives are also subject to liquidity and counterparty risk. Liquidity risk means that certain investments may become difficult to purchase or sell at a reasonable time and price. If a transaction for these securities is large, it may not be possible to initiate which may cause the Fund to suffer losses. Counterparty risk is the risk of loss in the event that the counterparty to an agreement fails to make required payments or otherwise comply with the terms of derivative.
The use of futures contracts is subject to special risk considerations. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts include: (a) an imperfect correlation between the change in market value of the reference asset and the price of the futures contract; (b) possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a futures contract and the resulting inability to close a futures contract when desired; (c) losses caused by unanticipated market movements, which are potentially unlimited; (d) the inability to predict correctly the direction of market prices, interest rates, currency exchange rates and other economic factors; and (e) if the Fund has insufficient cash, it may have to sell securities or financial instruments from its portfolio to meet daily variation margin requirements, which may lead to the Fund selling securities or financial instruments at a loss. Fluctuations in currency of foreign countries may have an adverse effect to domestic currency values. The Fund is subject to interest rate risk, which is the chance that bonds will decline in value as interest rates rise. Narrowly focused investments typically exhibit higher volatility. The Fund's assets are expected to be concentrated in carbon offset credit futures and carbon credit futures and its investments could react similarly to market developments. Thus, the Fund is subject to loss due to adverse occurrences that may affect these futures. KSET is non-diversified.
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During her consistently impressive career in Boston theater, one of Lyndsay Allyn Cox’s trademarks has been versatility — a quality that, like consistency, is sometimes underrated.
As a performer, Cox has proven adroit at comedy or drama or plays that live in the spaces between the two, as so many works of the stage do nowadays.
As a director, Cox’s stylish work on Gloucester Stage Company’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” earned her an Elliot Norton Award this year from the Boston Theater Critics Association.
Now she’s starring as a high-flying, high-powered New York publicist brought crashingly but eye-openingly down to earth in Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine” at Lyric Stage Company of Boston.
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Cox’s vibrant stage presence and the brisk direction by Dawn M. Simmons help to power “Fabulation” past its flaws.
In essence, “Fabulation” is a parable about status hunger and the awful things it can make ambitious people do, about coming to terms with your actions and the character flaws that gave rise to those actions, and about the possibility of emerging as a better person at the end of that bruising journey.
Heavy stuff, but Nottage, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes (for “Ruined” and “Sweat”), has structured the 2004 “Fabulation” as a satire. Her wit and gift for expressive language ensure it’s a lively one. But I still found myself at some points wondering if the play might have worked better as a straight-up drama. It is when “Fabulation” operates in a dead-serious vein that it wrenches you beneath the surface of the issues it raises; that’s when its impact registers most forcefully.
For 37-year-old Undine (Cox), her “re-education” begins with a humbling return from tony Manhattan back to the Brooklyn housing project where she grew up, and where her parents (Shani Farrell and Damon Singletary), brother Flow (a vivid Sharmarke Yusuf), and grandmother (Dayenne CB Walters) still live.
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They have not seen her for more than a dozen years. Intent on severing ties with the past and with her working-class family as she traveled the path of upward mobility and accumulated upscale friends, Undine has changed her name from Sharona and allowed a mistake in an article written about her in Black Enterprise magazine — that her family died in a fire — to go uncorrected. In short, she has betrayed them.
But then she learns that her suavely charming husband, Hervé (a winning Jaime José Hernández), has been systematically embezzling money from the business she has painstakingly built. The now-disappeared Hervé has left Undine not just penniless but pregnant, the FBI is on her doorstep, and the one-time entrepreneurial star has become a pariah in the social circles she battled so hard to get into.
“Apparently it is a crime to be a broke Black woman in New York City,” she observes with a combination of rue and acid.
Undine’s downward spiral sends her back to Brooklyn. Her mother, father, and brother all work as security guards; as for her grandmother, Undine is startled to learn that she has developed a heroin habit. Undine’s family has not forgotten her neglect; will they forgive her? I’d have liked to see a fuller exploration of the dynamics within that tangled question, and a fuller focus on the family itself, so they register more distinctly.
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Not unreasonably, though, Nottage wants to send Undine through a wider odyssey that reacquaints her with what daily existence is like far from her erstwhile life of privilege. When Undine reluctantly agrees to buy “white lace” for grandma from a neighborhood dealer, she ends up getting arrested, jailed, and eventually sentenced to six months of mandatory drug counseling.
Along the way, “Fabulation” underscores what poor and marginalized people have to go through, how abruptly their lives can be upended, and how maddening are the obstacles thrown up by the bureaucracies of agencies ostensibly created to help them.
Undine learns, for instance, how hard it is to get a doctor’s appointment for prenatal care when you don’t have health insurance. She learns what it’s like to deal with a social services caseworker who takes near-sadistic glee in wielding the power she has to make vulnerable people fill out endless forms.
And Undine also learns a few things about herself and the kind of person she can be, with the help of Guy (Hernández), a recovering addict.
As a romantic interest, Guy is a tad too perfect, and the ending of “Fabulation” a bit too tidy. But there’s no denying it warms the heart. It feels like a homecoming.
FABULATION OR, THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE
Play by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Dawn M. Simmons. Presented by Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Through Oct. 9. $15-$80. 617-585-5678, www.lyricstage.com
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russians “totally insane terrorists” after yesterday’s airstrike on a shopping mall. The attack left at least 18 people dead and dozens are still missing.
While the energy crisis spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has held many headlines recently, the human toll is ongoing.
It’s something Yuliya Tychkivska knows all too well. Tychkivska is the executive director for The Aspen Institute Kyiv. She’s a civic activist from Ukraine but was displaced after the Russian invasion.
She currently lives in the U.K. and has been in the U.S. for the Aspen Ideas Festival. We sit down with her in Aspen to talk about the differences she experienced in war coverage in the U.S. versus back home.
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MANASSAS, Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- I-66 Express Mobility Partners is holding an open house job fair at 7450 Century Park Drive, Manassas, Virginia 20109. Wednesday July 27th 10am to 3pm. Bring your resumes for review and an opportunity to interview on-the-spot with hiring managers. For more information visit 66expresspartners.com to view a list of job openings.
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What to pack in your car to stay safe during severe winter weather
If you're ever stranded in your car because of a bad winter storm, being prepared can be the difference between survival and serious harm or death.
For nearly two days back in January 2022, motorists were stuck on Interstate 95 in snowy and icy conditions in eastern Virginia after a storm left more than a foot of snow in the area.
And now at the end of 2022, we're grappling with a "once-in-generation" bomb cyclone that could bring dangerous cold to much of the United States.
Winter storms, bad weather and sloppy road conditions can be frightening and dangerous for travelers, and "are a factor in nearly half a million crashes and more than 2,000 road deaths every winter," according to AAA.
Because of these risks, "it's always important to be prepared versus get caught in a situation that turns dangerous or potentially deadly, especially in the winter season when temperatures can drop very, very cold in a short amount of time," said CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray.
"Just as we prepare for hurricane season — even if a hurricane doesn't come to our location, it's still better to be prepared," she added.
Gray speaks from experience. "I learned it the hard way — that Atlanta snow jam in 2014. I was stuck on the road for 15 hours, and I didn't have anything in my car," she said. "It was incredibly scary."
You should, of course, minimize non-essential travel during severe winter weather, the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency recommends.
Regardless of where you live, "no part of the U.S. can handle a road turning into an ice rink," Gray said. "It doesn't matter how good you are as far as a driver in winter weather." But if you simply must travel, here's how to prepare in case you encounter severe weather this winter.
Winterizing your car
Regardless of whether a severe storm is coming, prepping your car to handle winter weather is something you should do every fall, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Have your vehicle serviced as often as its manufacturer recommends, and do the following, the CDC advises:
• Have the radiator system serviced or check the antifreeze level with an antifreeze tester. Add antifreeze as needed.
• Replace windshield wiper fluid with a winter-suitable mixture (which will contain additives to prevent freezing).
• Ensure the tires have sufficient tread and air pressure, which you can measure with a tire gauge. Replace worn tires and fill low tires with air to the pressure recommended for your car.
• Keep the gas tank near full to help avoid ice in the tank and fuel lines.
• Keep your car in proper working condition by checking the heater, defroster, brakes, brake fluid, ignition, emergency flashers, exhaust, oil and battery.
Preparing and packing
Before leaving, check the weather forecast and tell loved ones where you're going. If you become stuck in your car during a storm, being able to keep warm, signal distress, and stay safe, energized and nourished are top priorities, according to AAA, the Georgia agency, State Farm, the CDC and Almanac magazine.
For such purposes, these organizations recommend you pack the following items:
Well-being
• Nonperishable, high-energy foods such as nuts, granola bars, dried fruit or beef jerky
• Extra bottled water (Using an insulated bottle can help prevent freezing.)
• Cup or makeshift cup in which you can melt snow — using waterproof matches — for drinking water
• First aid kit including adhesive bandages, medical tape, antiseptic wipes, gauze pads, antiseptic cream, medical wrap and pocketknife
• Rags and hand cleaner (such as baby wipes)
• Medications
• Books, games or DVDs for occupying children, if applicable
Warmth
• Hats, wool socks, coat, hand and feet warmers, gloves, scarves, and blankets (which you can use to both cover up with and insulate your car by putting them in your windows)
• Hiking boots (especially important if you must leave your car)
• Sleeping bag
• Rain poncho
Tools, distress signals and navigation
• Battery-powered flashlight, extra batteries and flares
• A brightly colored cloth, which you could tie to your vehicle's antenna or secure atop your rolled-up window to ensure you are visible
• A cell phone (which you should fully charge beforehand) and portable cell phone charger
• Jumper cables, booster cables with fully charged battery or an external battery charger to start your car if the battery dies
• Basic tool kit
• Battery-powered radio with extra batteries
• Small fire extinguisher (5-pound, Class B or Class C type) in case of car fire
• Tire gauge to check pressure
• Canned compressed air with sealant for emergency tire repair
• Tire or tow chains
• Glass scraper for clearing windows
• Small, collapsible shovel to clear snow from exhaust pipe, since a blocked exhaust pipe can cause sickening or deadly carbon monoxide gas to leak into the vehicle while the engine is running
• Sand or cat litter for gaining traction
• Road salt
• Anti-gelling fuel additive if your vehicle runs on diesel
• Extra winter windshield wiper and antifreeze
• General car emergency kit, which you should have on hand during any season: local and regional road maps, garbage bags, toilet paper, paper towels, and gas can.
• Jack and lug wrench to change tires
• Duct tape
• Foam tire sealant for minor tire punctures
• Scissors and string or cord
• Spare change and cash
• Compass
Behaviors to avoid
If you're stuck in snowy or icy conditions, there are a few behaviors you should avoid. Don't leave your car unless you have to, as staying inside it provides temporary shelter and makes it easier for rescuers to find you, according to AAA.
You can exercise in your vehicle to keep warm, but don't exhaust yourself while doing this or clearing your windows or exhaust pipe. Turning your car on for about 10 minutes each hour — and then off for the rest of the hour — can help you conserve gas and ensure you're able to occasionally generate warmth.
During nighttime, keep your dome light on if possible, since it uses only a small amount of electricity and can help rescuers find you.
If traffic is still moving, slow down to at least half your normal speed and use a low gear, but not cruise control. When driving up a hill, don't stop — get some inertia going on a flat road before you drive up the hill. Avoid steering or braking in an abrupt manner so you don't skid or spin out. At night, keep your headlights on low beam to avoid glare, and leave at least double the typical following distance between yourself and the car in front of you.
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Playermaker, whose wearable performance tracker is already used by over 250 elite, professional, and recreational soccer teams, academies, colleges, as well as by aspiring athletes worldwide, looks to further expand to serve athletes of all sports and skill levels
LONDON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Playermaker, the wearable footwear-mounted performance tracker, today announced that it has raised $40M in funding to date, led by Ventura Capital Group, with additional investment by MIG Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, and others. The funding will be used to further extend the company's global reach with an emphasis on accelerating its growth within the consumer market and developing a new Multi-Sport Platform to drive Playermaker's expansion beyond soccer, beginning with basketball.
Playermaker's wearable performance tracking device turns any footwear into a connected solution that captures professional-grade technical, tactical, biomechanical, and physical data from the source of motion. This provides valuable insights and analysis to enable and empower athletes at any level to maximize their skills, monitor injury risk, as well as expedite injury recovery.
Until now, performance tracking resources, which help to inform coaches and athletes about training impact, match performance, and managing injuries, have typically only been widely available for male professional athletes – reflecting a historic disparity in funding and technology between male and female athletes. Playermaker's mission is to infuse data with purpose, with the goal of bringing equal opportunities for all athletes no matter their age, skill level, or gender. By making elite-level performance tracking and data insights affordable and accessible to all athletes, Playermaker is leading the sport technology market towards a more equitable future.
"Our mission is to challenge the disparities in sport, striving to attain fair play and equal opportunity for all by ensuring that everyone can access the knowledge they need to improve their game," said Guy Aharon, CEO and Co-Founder of Playermaker. "We are empowering and inspiring boys and girls across the world of sports to stay active, pursue their dreams, and be the best they can be regardless of their discipline, location, or resources. Ultimately, wherever there is passion and shoes, that's where we want to be."
Unlike other fitness trackers on the market, the Playermaker solution is able to track technical performance and offer further-reaching insights due to the position on both the left and right shoe. This enables it to pair the usual surface-level metrics with complex functional factors such as foot placement/angle, foot velocity, acceleration on hard cuts vs. straightaway runs, and more - allowing for more unique and astute insights. The device requires no additional infrastructure or installation and doesn't require WIFI, cell service, or external power to collect and analyze data from any given session. It can also be used both indoors and outdoors, differentiating it from GPS systems and making it easily adaptable across a range of sporting activities.
"Such a groundbreaking sports technology is extremely rare to find. Playermaker "ups the game" for professional and recreational footballers alike, creating a unique level of deep insight and competitive edge for players in a simple and user-friendly way," said Mo El Husseiny, Ventura's Managing Partner. "We now have the ability to track performance data and provide deep and instant insight far beyond the usual metrics - something that every athlete can benefit from and a vision that we at Ventura are very excited to back. Guy and the team have proven Playermaker's immense value by already dominating the world of football. More importantly, the Playermaker team is driven by a clear purpose and goal - to better the world of sports for all who play them. They digitized and gamified the world's favorite game and that's just for starters."
This announcement comes after a series of successful partnerships, including the announcement of Liverpool FC wonderkid, Harvey Elliott, as brand Ambassador, the expansion of its partnership and launch of a community initiative with Fulham FC, as well as an extended project with the English Football Association (FA) and Leeds Beckett University to explore and provide in-depth insights into the demands of women's soccer. The company has experienced substantial international growth across academy, college, semi-professional, and elite level teams, with one of the most popular sports in the world - across demographics. Using the institutional knowledge and data it has gained in soccer, Playermaker has already begun rolling out its Multi-Sport Platform. In doing so, Playermaker is working with a number of elite and recreational basketball teams in the US and EU, establishing the foundation for a new, multisport, B2C offering.
"We have been blown away by the support Playermaker has received internationally and our investors have shown great faith in our team and the potential of our technology," continued Aharon. "Our journey began with soccer but the data, knowledge, and experience we've gained is a rock-solid foundation that we are excited to leverage to elevate all athletes across sports. We are confident that the success we have seen in soccer will be replicated in other sports because nothing feels better than having all the tools you need to improve when playing a sport you love at any level."
About Playermaker:
Established in 2016, Playermaker is a sports technology company revolutionizing the way that athletes at all levels develop their skills by providing next-level insight into performance with its wearable footwear performance tracker. Now the fastest-growing footwear performance platform, Playermaker's ground-breaking technology transforms any footwear into a connected solution. It then provides in-depth analysis and monitoring of key athletic performance indicators via foot movements for team and individual use. With offices in London, Miami, and Tel Aviv, Playermaker's solutions are used by elite clubs, academies, and recreational athletes worldwide and deliver a competitive advantage to some of the most forward-thinking athletes, teams, and coaches with no additional infrastructure or installation required. To find out more, visit www.playermaker.com.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man inadvertently filmed his own drowning on a glacial lake with a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet, but authorities who recovered the camera have not yet found his body, officials said Tuesday.
Alaska State Troopers said teams would continue to search Mendenhall Lake for the body of Paul Rodriguez Jr., 43, of Juneau.
Troopers said a helmet with a camera attached to it that was confirmed to have belonged to Rodriguez was recording on July 11 when his kayak overturned and he went into the water.
“The recording continued showing that the kayak overturned due to a strong current coming from the glacier,” Troopers spokesperson Tim DeSpain said by email.
DeSpain said the helmet was found on the lakeshore. He said it was turned in to troopers on Monday.
Juneau police on Monday said Rodriguez was believed to have gone missing on July 11 somewhere in the vicinity of the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Police received a report Sunday from U.S. Forest Service employees that a vehicle had been parked at the recreation area since July 11 and determined it was registered to Rodriguez.
Rodriguez’s son, Jaden Rodriguez, said his father was kindhearted and enjoyed being outdoors, doing activities like fishing, paddleboarding and snowboarding. Rodriguez also was a gifted photographer, his son said.
He said Rodriguez’s life changed for the better when he found God, and Rodriguez would often tell him that life is short.
“He was a good person,” he said.
According to police, Rodriguez’s roommate reported last seeing him on July 10, and friends said a social media post by Rodriguez on July 11 showed a kayak on a beach that appeared to be near Nugget Falls, which is in the recreation area and along the lake.
A kayak had been found floating unattended on the lake July 11 that police said resembled the one in Rodriguez’s post. As authorities put the pieces together, a search got underway. | https://phl17.com/nmw/alaska-man-inadvertently-filmed-his-own-drowning-on-a-glacial-lake-officials-say/ | 2023-07-19 02:53:32 | 0 | https://phl17.com/nmw/alaska-man-inadvertently-filmed-his-own-drowning-on-a-glacial-lake-officials-say/ |
- Equipped with the biggest angle of tilt ability, TECNO's innovative dual-prism tele camera technology delivers true AI-tracking shooting through rotation of the dual prisms.
- As it can track objects like the eagle, TECNO also calls it the Eagle Eye Lens.
- The Eagle Eye Lens delivers an advanced video stabilization and works unanimously with an optical stabilizer, allowing users to capture impeccable images even when shooting moving objects. Ultimately, granting users the freedom to capture indefectible images in extreme conditions such as scenarios of F1 racing.
LONDON, Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TECNO, a global innovative technology brand with operations in over 70 markets, recently unveiled the industry first dual-prism periscope tele camera technology (called as Eagle Eye Lens). The innovation was exhibited at a webinar centered around the evolution of premium technological advances that are inundating the global smartphone domain at present. Anticipated to be deployed in tandem with premium smartphone models debuting in 2023, TECNO's Eagle Eye Lens, is set to be the first dual-prism, periscope camera, equipped with the largest tilt capability introduced till date.
The lens's internal rotational dual prisms, which provide true AI tracking and shooting, allow for an ultra-stabilization angle that can be as wide as 6 degrees on both the positive and negative axis. The two prisms can tilt uniaxially by +/- 8°or +/- 10°resulting a combined uniaxial tilt range of +/-16° in the short side direction and +/-20° at the long side direction for the image, which allows them to intelligently track moving objects in the image. Consequentially, the center of the telephoto lens' view area will constantly be occupied by the moving objects.
The advanced features present in the revolutionizing Eagle Eye Lens are redefining technology. Notably, the tracking and shoot features present in most smartphones, be that Android or iOS, use digital cutting technology to center the object within the frame. Comparatively, TECNO's Eagle Eye Lens technology is the first to achieve real physical tracking and shooting experience, providing users with impeccable images, devoid of any defects or digital chopping.
The novel image technology that The Eagle Eye Lens offers further optimizes the pleasure of shooting thrilling videos with moving objects for users, resulting in superior video stabilization shooting experiences. "The Eagle Eye Lens can solve the enduring issue of telephoto lens's limited view when capturing sports videos like the F1 racing. Instead, cutting-edge equipment can acutely monitor, detect and capture the racing automobiles' rapid movement most ably", said Jimmy Hsu, Deputy Director of TECNO Image R&D Center, "this equips the remote shooting users with the best possible experience."
TECNO is dedicated to consistently focusing on developing flagship imaging capabilities and to make substantial advancements in portrait, zoom, picture stability and other photography dimensions. The company does this by adhering to its glocalization strategy and the major trends in the development of mobile imaging technology worldwide. In the not so distant future, it is anticipated that more fundamentally novel technologies will be unveiled. Stay tuned!
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Which Under Armour football gloves are best?
Football players don’t have a lot of options for personalizing their uniforms, but they can show off their personality and style with football gloves. Thanks to high-quality construction and a wide range of design options, Under Armour football gloves are among the most popular brands.
For the best mix of style and performance, many players trust Under Armour’s F7 Adult Football Gloves.
What to know before you buy Under Armour football gloves
Purpose of football gloves
Football gloves do not deliver warmth when playing in cold weather. Instead, they protect the hands during collisions and provide some tackiness to help players catch the football successfully.
Position of players
Players who handle the football frequently need Under Armour football gloves that help them grip the ball and catch passes. These gloves have some tacky materials in the palms and the fingers. They also use thin fabrics that do not restrict the hand movements of the players.
Linemen and linebackers want football gloves that have some padding and that are thicker. These gloves may help to prevent injuries and abrasions from blocking and tackling.
Most UA football gloves work better for receivers and running backs. However, the Combat line of gloves from Under Armour delivers the highest level of padding and protection for linemen.
Style and color
Under Armour athletic gear is known for design styles and colors that grab attention, and its football gloves are no exception. UA has dozens of design options and color combinations for adult and youth players. Matching the design of your UA football glove to your personal style can make the game more exciting to play and can give you a boost of confidence.
If you like the look of the Under Armour logo, it’s prominently visible on every pair of the company’s football gloves.
What to look for in quality Under Armour football gloves
Breathable fabrics
Sweaty hands are a common problem for football players wearing gloves while practicing in the heat of summer and early fall. Under Armour offers gloves with breathable fabric, which the company calls ArmourMesh, on the back of the hand and fingers to keep them cooler. Since this part of the glove undergoes less stress than the palms, using breathable fabric in this area does not significantly affect the gloves’ durability.
Tackiness
UA football gloves use tacky material in the palms and fingers. This tackiness helps players keep a solid grip on the ball during running plays or while catching passes.
Gloves made for linemen also have tackiness in the palms, giving the linemen a better chance of maintaining contact with the opponent while blocking.
Adjustable wrist strap
Some Under Armour football gloves have a Velcro strap at the wrist that allows the player to tighten the fit as desired. This adjustable strap also makes it easier to pull the gloves on and take them off, eliminating unnecessary stress on the wrist cuff.
Durability
Under Armour football gloves offer good durability, as they are a trusted brand name that follows precise manufacturing tolerances. However, you may want to have an extra pair of gloves on standby in case of a tear during practices or games.
How much you can expect to spend on Under Armour football gloves
Under Armour packages gloves in pairs rather than offering single gloves. Expect to spend $20-$60 for a pair of UA football gloves.
Under Armour football gloves FAQ
How tight should my UA football gloves be?
A. All football gloves — including those from Under Armour — should fit tightly. They should feel like part of your hand. However, they shouldn’t be so tight that you cannot open and close your hand easily.
How long do UA football gloves last?
A. Most players can wear their UA football gloves for an entire season of practices and games. However, if you see any ripped seams or tears, replace the gloves immediately.
What are the best Under Armour football gloves to buy?
Top Under Armour football gloves
Under Armour Adult F7 Football Gloves
What you need to know: Wide receivers and other players who must catch the ball appreciate the tacky fabrics used for this pair of gloves.
What you’ll love: These durable gloves should last the entire season. The fabrics are breathable, so your hands won’t sweat excessively on hot days. Players can show off their style with numerous designs.
What you should consider: The UA logo is shown prominently on the palm of these gloves.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Under Armour football gloves for the money
Under Armour Youth Novelty F8 Football Gloves
What you need to know: These UA gloves have striking designs that kids will love to wear, and parents will love their reasonable prices.
What you’ll love: The designs make them stand apart from the rest, as almost any color combination is available. The tacky material in the palm and fingers helps younger players have more success when catching the ball.
What you should consider: These gloves don’t offer an adjustable closure strap at the wrist, so some younger children may struggle to pull them on by themselves.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Under Armour Adult Blur Football Gloves
What you need to know: This pair of gloves is among the most lightweight and comfortable that Under Armour offers.
What you’ll love: The breathable mesh fabric in the back keeps the hands cool. The adjustable strap at the wrist gives players the most secure fit. Several different color choices are available with metallic-colored highlights and accents.
What you should consider: The palm of the gloves has a large “U” and “A” rather than the traditional Under Armour logo.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Firm recognized for multiple areas of litigation expertise, including personal injury, product liability, labor & employment
BEAUMONT, Texas, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Powerhouse Texas-based trial law firm Provost Umphrey has earned honors from US News – Best Lawyers, winning a spot on the prestigious Best Law Firms list for 2023.
The firm ranked in the top-tier of the Beaumont region for personal injury, product liability and mass torts/class actions on behalf of plaintiff clients harmed through corporate negligence and dangerous products. Provost Umphrey's Nashville office made the top-tier of firms in that metro area for labor and employment litigation.
The firm also earned honors for its environmental litigation and its admiralty and maritime work in Beaumont.
The annual Best Law Firms list is developed through feedback from clients and peer lawyers and additional research by the US News-Best Lawyers team. The firm has been given this honor since the listing's inception. To be eligible law firms must have at least one attorney who is on the Best Lawyers in America list. Provost Umphrey has 16 lawyers on the latest list, with four ranked as elite "Lawyers of the Year." The full list of Best Law Firms can be found at https://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/.
Over decades, Provost Umphrey has built a solid record of verdicts and settlements achieving justice for families who have lost loved ones or have been severely injured through dangerous or negligent practices by powerful corporations.
Most recently, the firm won a $16 million verdict against CenterPoint Energy for injuries to a young electrical worker who fell 50 feet from an electrical pole in an accident that could have been avoided.
Other Provost Umphrey trial wins and settlements have included recovering a $160 million unpaid overtime settlement for VA health care workers, compensation for victims of chemical exposure, and damages related to wrongful death cases in a variety of situations. The firm's lawyers have taken on big hospitals, petrochemical companies, pharmaceutical companies and apartment management companies.
For over 50 years, our firm's mission has remained to seek justice for those who have suffered a personal injury or death due to the wrongful conduct of others. Our attorneys fight for our clients nationwide with offices in Beaumont, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee. We continue to be one of the most successful trial law firms in the nation by remaining "Hard-Working Lawyers for Hard-Working People." To learn more, visit https://www.provostumphrey.com.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 8, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Norman OK
854 AM CST Thu Dec 8 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.
* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, northern,
northwest, southeast, southern, southwest and western Oklahoma
and northern Texas.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM CST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
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SAGINAW, MI — After less than two hours of deliberation, a jury exonerated a Saginaw man accused of fatal shooting another man during a fight on a West Side street, finding he acted in defense of his brother.
Jurors in the trial of Delvon M. Jackson, 23, delivered their verdicts about 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, finding the defendant not guilty of open murder, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, carrying a concealed weapon, and two counts of felony firearm. Had he been convicted, Jackson would have faced life imprisonment.
“This was a justified killing,” said Alan A. Crawford, the defense attorney representing Jackson. “He was relieved, of course, but we were confident the entire way through the trial. When you listen to the witnesses and review the evidence, it’s honestly the only decision that could come about.
“This was very gratifying to see happen,” he continued. “This was the outcome we always knew and expected.”
During the trial that began Aug. 23, Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Melissa J. Hoover argued Jackson shot and killed 42-year-old Demethic D. Warren on May 23, 2021, near Durand and Pleasant streets. She presented the case that Warren’s niece, Jamesha Nash, had attended a party where she encountered and was assaulted by Jackson’s 29-year-old brother Johnnie L. Jackson III.
Nash testified she called her uncle, who picked her up and then drove her to Johnnie Jackson’s house. Warren then confronted Johnnie Jackson, who called Delvon Jackson and arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. Nash’s mother — Warren’s sister — also arrived at the scene, she said.
Nash testified Johnnie Jackson punched her uncle, who initially did not retaliate. Moments later, Nash claimed Warren punched Johnnie Jackson one time, knocking him out and dropping him to the ground, only for Delvon Jackson to then shoot her uncle. Delvon Jackson then gathered his brother in a vehicle and they left the scene, she testified.
Crawford painted a different picture, that Warren went to the scene armed with five knives and attacked Johnnie Jackson. He presented 911 recordings showing Warren asked his sister if he could go to jail, followed by the sound of Johnnie Jackson apologizing, only for his statement to be cut off.
Delvon Jackson testified in his own defense that Warren sucker-punched his brother, who stumbled backward and was then punched a second time by Warren, thereby being knocked unconscious. Warren then pulled a knife and squatted over Johnnie Jackson, he said.
“Delvon said that’s when he shot him,” Crawford said. “He honestly and reasonably believed he was about to kill his brother and if didn’t pull that trigger, his brother would have been the one who would have died.”
Crawford also showed the jury photos of Johnnie Jackson taken the day after the incident, showing he had numerous cuts and bruises, a bloodshot eye, and swollen bruises around both eyes. Such injuries indicated he was struck more than once, Crawford said.
Police testified during the trial they recovered five knives from the scene, including two from Warren’s vehicle. They said none of these knives were sent for DNA testing or fingerprint analysis as they already knew they belonged to Warren.
Saginaw Police Sgt. Jeffrey Doud testified several additional witnesses at the scene were not interviewed by police.
The Jackson brothers contacted Crawford the day after the shooting and surrendered to police on May 27, 2021, before warrants were issued for their arrests.
“This was a legit rush to judgment,” Crawford said. “Delvon and Johnnie were charged four days after the incident. (Prosecutors) charged them and they had one side of the story.”
The prosecution differed on what the evidence showed.
“We respectfully disagree with the jury’s decision and thank them for their service,” the Saginaw County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Held in custody since he surrendered on May 27, 2021, Delvon Jackson was freed from the Saginaw County Jail around 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26.
Johnnie Jackson was likewise charged with open murder and two counts of felony firearm, but a few days before his brother’s trial, he pleaded guilty to one count of accessory after the fact to a felony in exchange for the other charges’ dismissal. He was released from the jail Aug. 19.
Saginaw County Circuit Judge Manvel Trice III, who presided over Delvon Jackson’s trial, is to schedule Johnnie Jackson at 9 a.m. on Sept. 26.
Warren was the owner of Demethic DQ Bullies, according to his obituary.
“From the age of seven years, he always had a passion for dogs,” his obituary states. He raised five American bullies: Diago, Zoey, Dopeboy, Nina and Dosha; and three yorkies, Nigel, Mocha and Christmas”
Warren would travel “across the states to get dogs from ethical and responsible breeders, because he was also ethical and responsible. He was a respectful man, an encourager, and always found a way to make you smile or laugh to uplift your spirit. He was loved by family and friends and will truly be missed.”
Warren’s death was Saginaw’s sixth homicide of 2021. The city ended the year with 19 homicides, 18 of which involved gunfire. As of Aug. 24 of this year, Saginaw has had 13 homicides, 11 of which resulted from gunfire.
Read more:
Woman testifies to seeing uncle shot dead in front of her on Saginaw street
Fight led to Saginaw man’s death by gunfire, witnesses testify
2 brothers arraigned on murder charge in Saginaw man’s shooting death
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief announced Saturday that Serbia and Kosovo have agreed on how to resolve a dispute over their identity documents, settling one of the problems that have sparked the latest tensions between the former Balkan war foes.
The comments by Josep Borell come after a flurry of international diplomatic efforts to defuse concerns that the problems could escalate further amid the war in Ukraine and Serbia’s close ties with Russia.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, which Belgrade does not recognize.
Tensions soared late last month when Kosovo’s government declared that Serb-issued identity documents and vehicle license plates would no longer be valid in Kosovo’s territory, just as Kosovo-issued ones are not valid in Serbia. Serbia in the past years required Kosovo ID holders to acquire special passes when traveling through Serbia to show it does not recognize Kosovo’s independence.
Kosovo said it was responding with reciprocity to Serbia. But Kosovo Serbs reacted furiously, blocking roads in the Serb-dominated north. Belgrade accused Kosovo of pressuring minority Serbs in the north, who largely reject Kosovo-issued documents in defiance of Kosovo’s statehood and hold Serbian ones.
In the past two weeks, EU officials mediated a meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Brussels, and U.S. and EU envoys traveled to the region to try to resolve the issue.
“We have a deal,” Borrell said on Twitter. “Serbia agreed to abolish entry/exit documents for Kosovo ID holders and Kosovo agreed to not introduce them for Serbian ID holders.”
“Kosovo Serbs, as well as all other citizens, will be able to travel freely between Kosovo & Serbia using their ID cards,” he added.
Kosovo President Vlosa Osmani said on Facebook that the deal meant “reciprocity and equality.”
“Freedom of movement is the foundation of democratic societies and European values,” she said, adding that Kosovo will continue to strive for “mutual recognition.”
Earlier Saturday, Vucic told reporters that if the ID deal is reached, Serbia will issue a “general disclaimer” on the boundary, saying the use of Kosovo ID cards is enabled for “practical reasons and freedom of movement,” and does not mean Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo or its future status.
However, he said the Serbian car registration plates that many Kosovo Serbs still use remains an unresolved issue.
Kosovo’s independence has been recognized by Washington and most EU countries, while Serbia has relied on support from Moscow and China for its bid to retain the former province. Belgrade lost control over Kosovo in 1999 after NATO bombed the country to stop its brutal crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatist rebels.
For several years, the EU has mediated negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia, seeking to normalize their relations and move forward their efforts to join the European Union.
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NEW YORK — Stocks are back to falling on Wall Street Thursday as worries about a possible recession and rising bond yields put the squeeze back on markets.
The S&P 500 was 2.5% lower in afternoon trading and dropped to its lowest level since late 2020 earlier in the morning. The washout has the index on track to erase its big rally from a day before. That’s when forceful moves by the Bank of England to get suddenly spiking U.K. yields under control led to a global burst of relief among investors.
That renewed calm seems to have lasted just a day. For markets to really turn higher, after U.S. stocks have lost more than 20% of their value this year, analysts say investors will need to see a break from the high inflation that’s swept the world.
That hasn’t arrived yet, with even more data arriving Thursday showing the opposite. And that means the Federal Reserve and other central banks will likely keep pushing interest rates higher to slow their economies in hopes of pushing down inflation. By doing that, they’re also risking recessions if they go too far.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 557 points, or 2.5%, at 29,126, as of 3:28 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 3.4% lower.
Stocks fell as Treasury yields climbed and raised the pressure on markets. The yield on the 10-year Treasury was at 3.76% in afternoon trading, up from 3.73% late Wednesday. It had been above 3.85% earlier in the morning.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely tracks expectations for Fed moves, rose more aggressively to 4.18% from 4.14%.
A stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. jobs market bolstered expectations for the Fed to keep raising rates and hold them at high levels for a while, potentially through 2023.
Fewer workers filed for unemployment benefits last week than economists expected. That’s good news for workers in general and an indication layoffs aren’t widespread despite worries about the economy. But it also keeps upward pressure on inflation, which gives the Fed more reason to keep rates high.
“The economy doesn’t look to be softening if you look at employment data,” said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial Network. That undercuts any investor hopes a weakening economy could convince the Fed to take it easier on interest rates.
The Fed's benchmark overnight interest rate has already zoomed to a range of 3% to 3.25%, up from basically zero as recently as March. That’s its highest level since 2008, and the wide expectations is for the Fed to hike it by at least another full percentage point by early 2023.
Rate increases have a notoriously long lag time before they hit the broad economy. But they're already causing big pain for the housing industry, where the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has more than doubled over the last 12 months to 6.70%.
Higher interest rates not only invite the possibility of a recession, they also push down on prices for stocks and other investments regardless of what the economy's doing. Investments seen as the most expensive or the riskiest tend to take the hardest hits.
Economic reports elsewhere around the world also firmed expectations for higher rates coming in the future. In Germany, for example, a reading on inflation came in hotter than expected.
In the U.K., meanwhile, Prime Minister Liz Truss defended her plan to cut taxes even though critics said it would worsen inflation. The plan had sent U.K. bond yields spiking, forcing the Bank of England on Wednesday to pledge to buy however many U.K. government bonds are needed to lower yields. The bond-buying announcement came just before the central bank had planned to do the opposite and sell some of the bonds it had purchased earlier to support the economy.
Even beyond the worries about central banks and rates, many other concerns continue to hang over markets.
A supercharged U.S. dollar has climbed so much so quickly against other currencies that investors worry something could break somewhere in global markets. Europe’s already struggling economy looks to be facing more pressure from high energy prices amid accusations that someone deliberately damaged pipelines delivering gas from Russia to Germany. And in the U.S., investors are concerned that one of the main levers setting stock prices may be under threat as corporate profits bend under higher interest rates, a slowing economy and high inflation.
CarMax, the auto seller, plunged 23.7% for the largest loss in the S&P 500 after it reported weaker profit than expected for the three months through August. It said the used auto market is tough generally, as higher interest rates make getting auto loans more expensive.
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NJ top news for Monday
Here are the top New Jersey news stories for Monday
⬛ We need answers: GOP councilwoman killed execution-style
Flags flew at half-staff with purple and black bunting placed above the door Friday at Sayreville Borough Hall in honor of slain councilwoman Eunice Dwomfour as the investigation into her death continued.
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⬛ Will gas prices keep dropping in NJ?
NJ gas prices have continued to fall, but maybe not much longer
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⬛ Restraining order against a stranger? Not so easy in New Jersey
Harassers and stalkers are too protected under New Jersey law, according to legislators and concerned residents who want to change the state's rules on restraining orders.
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⬛ 'Selfless' Marine vet from NJ killed aiding civilians in Ukraine
Pete Reed, a 34-year-old Marine Corps veteran from Bordentown whose humanitarian work began in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey, was killed Thursday while helping Ukrainian civilians evacuate.
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⬛ Still no snow
Another week, and still no snow in the forecast
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New York City unveiled the "Gate of the Exonerated" in Central Park Monday to honor the group of Black and Hispanic teens known as the "Central Park Five" who were wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a White female jogger in the park more than 30 years ago.
Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson and Yusef Salaam -- individuals from the group, also known as the "Exonerated Five" -- each served several years in prison before being exonerated in 2002.
New York Mayor Eric Adam's reflected on the historic moment and presented a key to the city to the exonerated five.
"History has an opportunity to rewrite the lines," he said.
Adams, a police officer at the time, said it "was a challenging time to be in that department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, and standing up and fighting on behalf of these brothers."
"We knew what had happened to them was wrong and we refuse to remain silent," he added.
"The exonerated five is the American black boy-man story," he said, adding, "They stood firm, they stood tall."
Adams said the DOE should implement school trips to talk about what happened.
"I think all of our young men and boys, the Board of Education. Chancellor Banks, we should be having school trips to talk about this story because as time moves forward, we believe that there were not real struggles to get us where we are right now and we lose the historical moments that took place," the mayor said. "That's why this is so significant."
The gate was unveiled near Central Park North, between 5th Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard.
The entrance, at 110th Street, now has "Gate of the Exonerated" inscribed on the perimeter wall. It features a historical sign with background information about the entrance's name and a QR code linking to online resources.
The New York City Public Design Commission unanimously approved the project earlier this year.
The unanimous vote was the fruit of years of work "with the Harlem community and Manhattan Community Board 10 to commemorate the Exonerated Five and all those wrongfully convicted of crimes," a spokesperson for the Central Park Conservancy said in a statement earlier this year.
The city settled a lawsuit in 2014 with the five men, who were teens at the time of the crime and coerced amid a public uproar over race into confessing to the attack.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan. 6 committee a wide-ranging pressure campaign from Donald Trump’s allies aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress and stifling potentially damaging testimony about him.
In extraordinary closed-door testimony made public Thursday, Hutchinson recounted how those in the former president’s circle dangled job opportunities and financial assistance as she was cooperating with the committee investigating the Capitol riot and how her own lawyer — a former ethics counsel in the Trump White House — advised her against being fully forthcoming with lawmakers and told her “the less you remember, the better.”
The nine-member committee released two never-before-seen transcripts of Hutchinson’s testimony as it tries to wrap up its investigation and make its work public. The committee, which will dissolve when Republicans take over the House on Jan. 3, was also expected to release its final report Thursday.
The transcripts provide previously unknown details about what Hutchinson called the “moral struggle” — torn between the desire to speak the truth and to remain loyal to Trump — that she says she endured on the way to becoming one of the most memorable witnesses of the committee’s investigation.
In a televised hearing in June, Hutchinson went public about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. She described his directive that magnetometers be removed from a rally of his supporters that day and detailed his angry — and ultimately rebuffed — demands to be taken by the Secret Service to the Capitol to join the crowd trying to disrupt the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election as president.
“In my mind this whole time I felt this moral struggle,” she said, according to the transcripts. She described a first interview with the committee in which she concealed testimony about Trump that, months later, she would deliver to a rapt hearing room.
Looking back now, she added, “It feels ridiculous, because in my heart I knew where my loyalties lied, and my loyalties lied with the truth. And I never wanted to diverge from that. You know, I never wanted or thought that I would be the witness that I have become, because I thought that more people would be willing to speak out too.”
But to hear her tell it, that testimony was never a sure thing.
Like other aides whose proximity to Trump entangled them in investigations, Hutchinson scrambled to find a lawyer after receiving a subpoena from the committee last year. Former White House officials and Trump allies worked to line up a lawyer for her despite her own discomfort at being represented by someone in “Trump world” — an affiliation she feared would make her “indebted to these people.”
She said she was contacted in February by Passantino, a former White House ethics counsel, who told her he would be her lawyer. He said she would not have to pay for his services but demurred when she asked from where the money was coming. She later learned that it was from Trump allies.
“If you want to know at the end, we’ll let you know,” she described him as saying, “but we’re not telling people where funding is coming from right now. Don’t worry, we’re taking care of you. Like, you’re never going to get a bill for this, so if that’s what you’re worried about.”
As Hutchinson prepared for her first interview with the committee later that month, she said Passantino advised her to “keep your answers short, sweet, and simple, seven words or less. The less the committee thinks you know, the better, the quicker it’s going to go.”
She said that when she mentioned to him having heard about an angry outburst by Trump in which he lashed out inside the presidential vehicle at Secret Service agents over their refusal to take him to the Capitol, Passantino counseled her not to delve into that account with the committee.
“No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that,” she described him as saying.
Passantino, in his own statement, said that he had “represented Ms. Hutchinson honorably, ethically, and fully consistent with her sole interests as she communicated them to me.”
All the while, Hutchinson told the committee, other Trump advisers appeared to be taking a keen interest in her cooperation, as well as her financial situation and job status. She said two other lawyers allied with Trump offered in May to front her money as they tried to help her find a job and offered her a job on a campaign out West. Other Trump allies reached out with potential job opportunities.
She said that a friend and Meadows aide, Ben Williamson, had spoken with her the night before the second interview with the committee and told her, “Well, Mark wants me to let you know that he knows you’re loyal and he knows you’ll do the right thing tomorrow and that you’re going to protect him and the boss. You know, he knows that we’re all on the same team and we’re all a family.”
Williamson declined to comment Thursday.
During her first interview, she said, the committee asked Hutchinson repeatedly whether she knew anything about a kerfuffle inside the presidential SUV known as the “Beast.” She was nervous and froze and said she knew nothing about it.
But that wasn’t true.
During a break in the interview, a distressed Hutchinson told Passantino that “I’m (expletive). I just lied.” She said Passantino did not encourage her to correct the record, instead telling her, “They don’t know what you know, Cassidy. They don’t know that you can recall some of these things. So you saying ‘I don’t recall’ is an entirely acceptable response to this.”
In his statement, Passantino said he believed “Hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the Committee throughout the several interview sessions in which I represented her.”
By April, though, Hutchinson said she had resolved to break from the constraints of “Trump world.” She did Internet research on the Watergate saga, finding resonance in the story of Alexander Butterfield, the young Richard Nixon loyalist who became a key witness against him.
She drove to the house of Alyssa Farah, a former White House official who had had her own public split from the Trump administration, and asked her to serve as a back channel to the committee because she still had more she wanted to say.
She testified publicly in June — this time accompanied by a new lawyer — and in one of the more dramatic moments of the committee’s hearings. She said she had been told that Trump had actually tried to lunge at the agent driving the SUV that took him back to the White House on Jan. 6.
Last September, she returned to the committee and privately recounted the pressure campaign. The information has also been shared with the Justice Department, where Jack Smith, a special counsel named by Attorney General Merrick Garland, is now conducting an investigation.
“I’m not sitting here trying to make myself out to be some hero. I know I handled things wrong. At least, I think I handled some things wrong in the first interview,” she said in the interview. “You know, I hate that I had this moral struggle, because it shouldn’t have existed.”
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri and Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
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Bill making SFA part of UT system passes preliminary Senate votes
Published: Apr. 17, 2023 at 12:55 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
AUSTIN, Texas (KTRE) - A bill which would include Stephen F. Austin University in the University of Texas system passed its first two votes on the senate floor on Monday.
SB 1055, written by Sen. Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) and Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo), would remove SFA’s independent status and give it a spot in the large system of UT schools. The bill has been supported by authorities from both SFA and the UT system throughout its journey through the Texas legislature.
A companion bill in the House of Representatives, HB 2639, has passed committee and awaits a vote on the house floor.
SB 1055 has one vote left to fully pass the senate.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jonquel Jones had 20 points and 14 rebounds, DeWanna Bonner added 19 points to move into 12th on the WNBA’s career scoring list, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 89-81 on Wednesday.
Bonner passed Seattle star Lauren Jackson (6,007) on the career scoring list, becoming the 14th player in WNBA history to reach 6,000 points. Lisa Leslie is 11th in career scoring with 6,263 points.
Brionna Jones added 17 points, Natisha Hiedeman had 11 and Courtney Williams scored all 10 of her points in the first half for Connecticut (15-8), which has won all four meetings with the Fever this season.
Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 11 rebounds in the first half to help Connecticut build a 41-28 lead. Indiana was just 8-for-30 shooting (26.7%) in the first half. The Fever scored 35 points in the fourth quarter.
Kelsey Mitchell scored 21 points and Victoria Vivians added 17 for Indiana (5-20), which has lost seven straight. Rookie NaLyssa Smith had 12 and 13 rebounds for her seventh double-double.
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MORGAN CITY, La., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conrad Industries, Inc. (OTC Pink: CNRD) announced today its second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2022 financial results and backlog at June 30, 2022.
For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, Conrad had net loss of $3.4 million and loss per diluted share of $0.67 compared to net income of $8.6 million and income per diluted share of $1.71 during the second quarter of 2021. The Company had net loss of $3.5 million and loss per diluted share of $0.69 for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to net income of $9.3 million and earnings per diluted share of $1.85 for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Net income in the second quarter and first six months of 2021 included the Paycheck Protection Program loan being forgiven in the second quarter of 2021 and our qualification for the Employee Retention Credit for the first two quarters of 2021. The Company's financial reports are available at www.otcmarkets.com.
During the first six months of 2022, Conrad added $198.8 million of backlog to its new construction segment compared to $60.8 million added to backlog during the first six months of 2021. Conrad's backlog was $245.1 million at June 30, 2022, the second-highest backlog in our company's history, $148.5 million at December 31, 2021 and $170.9 million at June 30, 2021. Since the end of the second quarter the Company has signed an additional $34.9 million in contracts.
Conrad Industries, Inc., established in 1948 and headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana, designs, builds and overhauls tugboats, ferries, liftboats, dredges, barges, offshore supply vessels and other steel products for both the commercial and government markets. The company provides both repair and new construction services at its five shipyards located in southern Louisiana and Texas.
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WEST CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Venerable is pleased to welcome Ron Tanner to the role of Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, reporting to Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Tim Brown.
In his role, Tanner will support registered insurance product securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and the corporate secretary function. Additionally, Tanner will provide advice to the firm's corporate functions and compliance staff, and assist with post-acquisition business integrations and strategic initiatives.
Prior to joining Venerable, Tanner served as Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel for FS Investments where he led securities regulation, financial reporting, and corporate governance efforts in addition to orchestrating fund mergers, product development efforts, and preparation of securities documentation and corporate governance. Tanner spent the early part of his career as an associate with Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP, as well as Proskauer Rose LLP, performing a variety of assignments related to securities matters, agreement writing, negotiations, and other corporate related matters.
Tanner is admitted to the bar in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a certificate in business and public policy from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
"Ron is a fantastic addition to the Venerable legal team", said Brown. "His talent and expertise will directly impact Venerable's ability to execute on our growth objectives and the leadership team and I value the perspective and experience he brings to our organization."
Venerable is a privately held company with business operations based in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Des Moines, Iowa. Venerable owns and manages legacy variable annuity business acquired from other entities. Created by an investor group led by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Crestview Partners, Reverence Capital Partners, and Athene Holdings, Ltd., Venerable is a business with well-established, strategic investors, experienced in successfully building and growing insurance businesses with patient, long-term capital. For more information, please visit www.venerable.com.
Contact:
Allison Proud
Corporate Communications
610-249-9730
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Timberwolves vs. Trail Blazers Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - April 2
Published: Apr. 2, 2023 at 8:54 AM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
The Portland Trail Blazers (32-45) are big, 17-point underdogs as they try to break a five-game losing streak when they visit the Minnesota Timberwolves (39-39) on Sunday, April 2, 2023 at Target Center. The contest airs at 3:30 PM ET on BSNX and ROOT Sports NW.
Timberwolves vs. Trail Blazers Game Info & Odds
- Date: Sunday, April 2, 2023
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: BSNX and ROOT Sports NW
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue: Target Center
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Timberwolves vs. Trail Blazers Score Prediction
- Prediction: Timberwolves 119 - Trail Blazers 112
Spread & Total Prediction for Timberwolves vs. Trail Blazers
- Pick ATS: Trail Blazers (+ 17)
- Pick OU:
Over (224.5)
- The Timberwolves have covered the spread more often than the Trail Blazers this season, tallying an ATS record of 36-40-2, as opposed to the 34-42-1 mark of the Blazers.
- Portland and its opponents have gone over the total 49.4% of the time this season (38 out of 77). That's more often than Minnesota and its opponents have (36 out of 78).
- As a moneyline underdog this season, the Trail Blazers are 13-31, while the Timberwolves are 18-17 as moneyline favorites.
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Timberwolves Performance Insights
- So far this year, Minnesota is scoring 115.6 points per game (12th-ranked in NBA) and giving up 116 points per contest (18th-ranked).
- This season, the Timberwolves rank eighth in the league in assists, averaging 26 per game.
- With 12.1 treys per game, the Timberwolves are 14th in the NBA. They have a 36.2% shooting percentage from three-point land, which ranks 16th in the league.
- So far this season, Minnesota has taken 61.8% two-pointers, accounting for 71.8% of the team's baskets. It has shot 38.2% threes (28.2% of the team's baskets).
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Distinctive Brand Of Long-Lasting Lighters Introduces Revamped Retail Strategy And Striking New Design Collections
SHELTON, Conn., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Djeep lighters is reigniting its presence in the US with a robust new distribution strategy and fresh product collections available exclusively first at 7-Eleven stores and on Amazon.com, beginning in July. Following this initial rollout, a broad selection of several new convenience, E-commerce, and retail stores will be added in the months ahead.
Since 1973, Djeep lighters have been unique in both form and function with their signature patented rectangular tank, distinctive contemporary designs, and embossed wraps that provide an appealing tactile quality. The large flat push-button provides comfort when igniting, while the 3-compartment tank technology boasts up to 3,500 lights per lighter. Djeep's accelerated US growth is made possible by the manufacturing and marketing prowess of the BIC Corporation, which acquired the Djeep brand in 2020 to reach a new lighter segment.
"The name 'Djeep' was originally coined to mimic the sound made when igniting a lighter," said Katty Pien, VP of Marketing at BIC. "When you combine that sound with eye-catching sleeve patterns, long-lasting function, and textures you can feel, it's easy to see why Djeep loyalists have loved this multi-sensory experience for almost 50 years. We look forward to introducing this dynamic brand of lighters to new fans across the country."
Four new design collections will be available at launch, including the marble-themed Elegant series, the whimsical floral graphics of the Vibrant series, the sophisticated yet understated metallic pallet of the Bold series, and the Limited Edition series, which will refresh regularly to reflect current events and consumer trends. With this attention to delivering a product that can double as an accessory and form of self-expression as much as it fulfills a basic need, Djeep has become famous for its flowing of brand loyalists who are known to collect and keep their favorite lighters for years.
For more information, please visit www.djeep.com
A world leader in stationery, lighters and shavers, BIC brings simplicity and joy to everyday life. For more than 75 years, the Company has honored the tradition of providing high-quality, affordable, essential products to consumers everywhere. Through this unwavering dedication, BIC has become one of the most recognized brands and is a trademark registered worldwide. Today, BIC products are sold in more than 160 countries around the world and feature iconic brands such as BIC ® Kids, BIC Flex™, BodyMark™ by BIC ®, Cello®, Djeep ®, Lucky ® Stationery, Rocketbook ®, Soleil®, Tipp-Ex®, Us.™, Wite-Out®, Inkbox™ and more. In 2021, BIC Net Sales were 1,831.9 million euros. The Company is listed on "Euronext Paris," is part of the SBF120 and CAC Mid 60 indexes and is recognized for its commitment to sustainable development and education. It received an A- Leadership score from CDP.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc. (OTC PINK: ALJJ) (the "Company") announced today the final results of its reverse "Dutch auction" tender offer (the "Offer"), which expired on December 29, 2022 at 12:00 midnight New York City time.
Based on the final count by the depositary for the Offer, a total of approximately 11.73 million shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn at a per share purchase price within $1.84 to $2.00 range. Based on the total number of shares tendered and the prices specified by the tendering stockholders, the Company has determined the lowest per share price that would enable the Company to purchase 10,000,000 shares of its common stock under the Offer to be $1.99 per share. In addition, the Company has determined to purchase additional 236,945 shares of its common stock tendered at $1.99 per share pursuant to its right to purchase up to an additional 2% of its common stock outstanding. As such, the Company accepted for purchase an aggregate of 10,236,945 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $1.99 per share, for a total cost of approximately $20.37 million, excluding fees and expenses related to the Offer. The 10,236,945 shares purchased in the Offer represent approximately 28.2% of the Company's shares outstanding immediately prior to the Offer. Following consummation of the Offer, the Company expects to have approximately 26.1 million shares of outstanding common stock, excluding shares issuable for convertible debt and outstanding warrants and stock options totaling 13.2 million shares.
Payment for the shares accepted for purchase under the Offer will be made promptly, and all shares tendered and not accepted for purchase will be returned.
Okapi Partners LLC is acting as the information agent for the Offer. The depositary for the Offer is American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC.
Stockholders may obtain documents related to the Offer for free from our website at www.aljregionalholdings.com or from the information agent for the Offer by directing such request to: Okapi Partners LLC, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10036, (888) 785-6709, info@okapipartners.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws about ALJ and the tender offer, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expect," "likely," "outlook," "forecast," "preliminary," "would," "could," "should," "can," "will," "project," "intend," "plan," "goal," "guidance," "target," "continue," "sustain, "synergy," "on track," "believe," "seek," "estimate," "anticipate," "may," "possible," "assume," and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these statements, as they involve certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results or performance may differ materially from those discussed in any such statement. Although forward-looking statements contained in this release are based upon what management of the Company believes are reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. All forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc. is the (i) 100% owner of Faneuil, Inc., a leading provider of call center services, back office operations, and staffing services to commercial and governmental clients across the United States; (ii) 100% owner of Realtime Digital Innovations, Inc. d/b/a Vistio, a provider of workflow automation and business intelligence services to Faneuil and other unrelated companies; (iii) 99% owner of QOF; and (iv) 80.01% owner of Ranew's Companies a leading supplier of industrial coating services to multinational manufacturers of equipment and a provider of precision fabrication and assembly and logistics services.
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INDIANAPOLIS – It appears the Indianapolis Colts’ long coaching search ends with Shane Steichen.
Multiple outlets are reporting Sunday the Colts have targeted the Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive coordinator as their new head coach and have informed the other candidates they’re no longer under consideration.
Steichen met in person with the Colts last weekend in Philadelphia – owner Jim Irsay, general manager Chris Ballard and other upper-tier personnel were involved – and speculation subsequently increased he would succeed Frank Reich, who was fired Nov. 7.
A contract can’t be finalized until after Philadelphia’s Super Bowl LVII meeting with Kansas City Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.
There was no immediate comment from the team. That likely is a byproduct of the team’s experience the last time it was searching for a head coach.
After firing Chuck Pagano following the 2017 season, the Colts reached an agreement with New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels prior to Super Bowl LII, and had a press conference scheduled. However, McDaniels reneged on the agreement and remained with the Patriots.
Interestingly, hiring Steichen would mark the second straight time the Colts have looked to Philly for their on-field leadership. In 2018, Irsay and Ballard turned to Reich after the McDaniels’ fiasco.
Steichen, 37, would be the Colts’ youngest head coach in 60 years. Hall of Fame coach Don Shula was 33 when he replaced Weeb Ewbank in 1963.
He also would be the NFL’s third-youngest coach, trailing only the Los Angeles Rams’ Sean McVay and the Minnesota Vikings’ Kevin O’Connell.
It’s been a busy few weeks for Steichen. Along with considering his head coaching options, he’s been preparing the Eagles’ potent offense for the showdown with the Chiefs.
Steichen is the first domino to fall in what must be a transformational offseason for the Colts. The next is acquiring their quarterback of the future in the April NFL Draft. The Colts hold the 4th overall selection and could trade up, perhaps to No. 1 with the Chicago Bears, to ensure they get the quarterback they covet.
The Colts are coming off a 4-12-1 season – they’ve won just four of their last 19 games – and have failed to make the playoffs in back-to-back seasons and in six of the last eight seasons since reaching the AFC Championship game in 2014.
Quarterback instability has been a major impediment – Reich had five full-time starters in his five seasons, and eight overall – and offensive impotency in 2022 cost Reich his job.
The Colts bounced from Matt Ryan to Sam Ehlinger to Nick Foles and the overall lack of production reflected it: tied-No. 30 in scoring (17.0), No. 27 in yards per game, No. 23 in rushing and passing, No. 29 in third-down conversions and No. 30 in red-zone efficiency. The offense scored two TDs or fewer in 13 of 17 games, suffered a league-high 34 turnovers and finished with a league-worst minus-13 in turnover differential.
An organizational overhaul is underway and begins with one of the NFL’s brightest offensive minds.
Steichen’s NFL career began in 2011 as a defensive assistant with the San Diego Chargers, but his lifeblood has flowed on offense.
From 2014-15, he served as an offensive quality control coach with the Chargers. That led to overseeing quarterbacks from 2016-19 and advanced to interim coordinator in ’19 and full-time coordinator in 2020. For three years, he worked with Reich on the Chargers’ staff.
In 2021, Steichen relocated to Philly as Sirianni’s coordinator.
The Eagles’ offense has taken flight with Steichen overseeing things and Jalen Hurts developing into one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks.
Over the past two seasons, Philadelphia’s offense ranks No. 5 in total yards (374.5 per game), No. 1 in rushing (153.7), No. 15 in passing (220.9), No. 4 in points (27.1) and No. 3 in third down efficiency (45.8).
So much of the Eagles’ success the last two seasons – 23-11, two playoff appears, one trip to the Super Bowl – is tied to Hurts’ accelerated growth as a multi-dimensional threat.
After starting the final four games as a rookie in 2020 when the Eagles benched Carson Wentz, Hurts has been Philly’s offensive catalyst.
The 2020 second-round draft pick always could do damage with his legs: 354 yards and three touchdowns on 63 attempts as a rookie, a team-best 784 yards and 10 TDs on 139 attempts in ’21 and 760 yards and 13 TDs this season.
But Hurts has steadily improved as a passer. He set career highs this year with 3,701 yards, 22 TDs, a 66.5% completion rate and a 101.5 passer rating.
Steichen’s influence with Hurts had to be enticing as the Colts have made clear their intention of ending their quarterback carousel and selecting one at the top of the April draft.
Before helping elevate Hurts’ game, Steichen worked with Justin Herbert and Philip Rivers during his time with the Chargers.
The Colts wouldn’t allow defensive coordinator Gus Bradley to talk with other teams in case their new head coach wanted to retain him. It’s worth noting Steichen and Bradley share a history with the Chargers. From 2017-20, Steichen was heavily involved on offense as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator while Bradley was the team’s defensive coordinator.
The Colts’ long coaching search began with Zoom interviews with 13 candidates, then advanced to extensive in-person interviews with eight second-round candidates.
The final eight: Steichen, Cincinnati offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, Colts’ interim coach Jeff Saturday, Green Bay special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia, Detroit defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, Denver defensive coordinator Ejior Evero and New York Giants defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale. | https://fox59.com/sports/colts/colts-have-targeted-philly-offensive-coordinator-shane-steichen-as-head-coach/ | 2023-02-12 17:46:41 | 0 | https://fox59.com/sports/colts/colts-have-targeted-philly-offensive-coordinator-shane-steichen-as-head-coach/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vehere, a key player in the cybersecurity sector with unparalleled expertise in cyber network intelligence, is proud to be included under 'Example of NDR Vendors' in two 2023 Gartner reports, namely Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response and Emerging Tech: Security — Adoption Growth Insights for Network Detection and Response.
As mentioned in one of the reports, "Based on user adoption, the network detection and response market is driven by three core use cases. To maximize revenue, product leaders should enhance capabilities and focus roadmap efforts on detection, incident response and response use cases."1
Vehere Network Detection and Response (NDR) is an AI-driven solution that ensures lossless packet monitoring, real-time threat detection, consumption of millions of IOCs & IOAs, and comprehensive network forensics.
Enterprise security programs have struggled to keep up with rapidly evolving threats using traditional network security tools. We believe that Vehere NDR closes this gap in identifying and responding to threats," said Mr. Praveen Jaiswal, Co-founder, Vehere. "Vehere's cutting-edge Network Detection & Response solution uniquely positions us among NDR vendors to provide security teams with complete visibility, detection, and investigation at the enterprise level."
1 Gartner, Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response, 5 April 2023.
Gartner, Emerging Tech: Security — Adoption Growth Insights for Network Detection and Response, 4 April 2023.
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SHERWOOD, Ark. (AP) — One person was fatally shot Wednesday morning at a Little Rock-area hospital, and authorities have a person in custody in the shooting, police said.
Sherwood Police Chief Jeff Hagar said police found one person dead at CHI St. Vincent North in Sherwood, which was on lockdown as authorities responded to reports of shooting at the hospital
Hagar did not release the name of the victim, or the name of a person of interest he said was later taken into custody.
Police did not say whether the person killed was a patient, employee or visitor.
Sherwood is a city of about 33,000 people located northeast of Little Rock.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Belco Community Credit Union, headquartered in Harrisburg, PA, held its 84th Annual Business Meeting on March 29 at the Penn Harris Hotel, Camp Hill, PA.
"We were excited to welcome so many of our members in person and virtually at our 84th Annual Business Meeting. In addition to sharing the story and impact of a strong financial year, we announced the results of our Board of Directors and Supervisory Committee elections," says Amey Sgrignoli, President and CEO of Belco. "We grew our asset size by $123 million in 2022 to reach total assets of $935 million, and we're on track to reach $1 billion in assets ahead of our 2025 goal. Celebrating a legacy of improving the financial well-being of our 74,000 members and investing in the communities we serve, we remain driven by conservative banking principles. As we centralized lending efficiencies this year, we doubled loan production and now 70% of loan applications originate online or by phone. Our deposit growth has increased by 8.99%, and we are proud to make member satisfaction our foremost priority."
During the Annual Business Meeting, Belco announced incumbents Dawn E. Gamble, Eric E. Leidigh, and Beverly A. Lilley were elected to serve three-year terms on the Board of Directors. Jeffrey L. Sterner was re-elected to the Board for a one-year term, and Chris R. Feather was re-elected to serve another three-year term on the Supervisory Committee. Sgrignoli thanked the Board of Directors for their continued service and commitment to Belco Community Credit Union.
The Board also welcomed Associate Volunteer Jeian Rauchut who brings more than 25 years of financial service expertise and a reputation for servant leadership. A Pennsylvania resident for nearly 30 years, Rauchut's deep community relationships and support for Belco's uncompromising member services will be a tremendous asset to the Board of Directors.
Belco announced the following slate of Officers and Directors for 2024:
Board of Directors
- Terry M. Hessler – Board Chair
- Richard P. Myxter – Vice Chair
- Stephanie F. Miller – Treasurer
- Dawn E. Gamble – Secretary
- William F. O'Donnell – Assistant Treasurer
- Beverly A. Lilley – Assistant Secretary
- Eric E. Leidigh – Director
- Jeffrey L. Sterner – Director
Supervisory Committee
- Allen M. Brewer – Chair
- Gina M. Bond – Vice Chair
- Chris R. Feather – Secretary
- Nancy A. Clay – Member
Belco's Board of Directors and Supervisory Committee are comprised of member-volunteers who dedicate their time and expertise to the betterment of the credit union.
A copy of Belco's 2022 Annual Report highlighting the credit union's accomplishments and financial reports can be found at www.belco.org/annualreport.
About Belco Community Credit Union
Belco Community Credit Union is a full-service financial institution offering checking, savings, loan, investment, and small business products and services. Established in 1939 to serve employees of Bell Telephone Company in Harrisburg, PA, Belco became a community-chartered credit union in July 2005, opening membership to businesses and individuals who live, work, worship, or attend school in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, or York counties. Belco has more than 74,000 members and $935 million in assets, 15 branches, numerous ATM/ITM locations, and 24-hour account access through mobile, online, and telephone banking. For more information, visit www.belco.org or call (800) 642-4482.
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BlackRock is cutting 500 jobs as Wall Street layoffs continue
By Matt Egan, CNN
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is cutting about 500 jobs following a period of rapid hiring.
A spokesperson for BlackRock told CNN on Wednesday that the layoffs amount to less than 3% of the company’s workforce.
BlackRock, a leader on Wall Street, has been on a major hiring spree in recent years.
The company hasn’t conducted a major round of layoffs since 2019 and has increased its headcount by about 22% over the past three years, a BlackRock spokesperson told MarketWatch, adding the job cuts are coming in the face of an “unprecedented market environment.”
News of the job cuts was first reported by Business Insider.
BlackRock is just the latest major company and Wall Street firm to cut jobs.
Earlier this week, a person familiar with the matter told CNN that Goldman Sachs planned to cut up to 5,200 jobs amid a slump in global dealmaking and economic uncertainty.
Amazon revealed last week it is laying off about 18,000 employees, exceeding rumors of layoffs of about 10,000. Salesforce, the tech company run by billionaire Marc Benioff, also said last week it is cutting about 10% of its roughly 73,000 employees.
Last year marked the second-best year of job growth in American history.
However, a growing number of companies have disclosed plans to lay off workers.
Led by tech and media companies, employers announced 43,651 job cuts in December, up 129% from the same period of 2021, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Despite the uptick in layoffs, many other companies appear reluctant to cut jobs amid the ongoing worker shortage. Last week, the Labor Department said initial jobless claims unexpectedly declined to a three-month low.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Freight railroads should reexamine the way they use and maintain the detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings, federal regulators urged Tuesday in the wake of a fiery Ohio derailment and other recent crashes.
The safety advisory from the Federal Railroad Administration stopped short of telling the railroads exactly what to do. Instead, it encouraged them to make sure the detectors are getting inspected often enough by trained employees and that the railroads have safe standards for determining when to stop a train or park a railcar when a warning is triggered.
The National Transportation Safety Board has said the crew operating the Norfolk Southern train that derailed outside East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border on Feb. 3 got a warning from such a detector but couldn’t stop the train before more than three dozen cars came off the tracks and caught fire. The Federal Railroad Administration said overheating bearings likely caused at least four other derailments since 2021.
The Ohio derailment forced half the town of about 5,000 people to evacuate for days as toxic chemicals burned, leaving residents with lingering health concerns. Government tests haven’t found dangerous levels of chemicals in the air or water in the area. The EPA opened an office in the town Tuesday to help address residents’ questions.
“For trains containing hazardous materials, the potential consequence of a derailment is catastrophic, and allowing a train transporting a hazardous material to continue to operate, without restriction, after an HBD (hot bearing detector) alert is likely not appropriate,” the FRA advisory said.
Norfolk Southern officials didn’t immediately respond to the advisory. After the NTSB issued its preliminary findings last week, the railroad said the derailment had prompted it to inspect all of the nearly 1,000 trackside heat detectors on its network. That was on top of regular inspections it normally does on those sensors every 30 days, Norfolk Southern said.
Dave Clarke, the former director of the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Tennessee, said the safety advisory was not surprising.
“This is just FRA proposing the obvious, in my opinion. I doubt if any Class I (major freight railroad) was waiting for this,” he said.
But railroad labor groups welcomed the move. Unions say the major freight railroads have become riskier because workers are spread so thin after deep job cuts over the past six years, inspections are being rushed, and preventative maintenance may be neglected.
“There are no federal regulations guiding wayside detectors, including their placement along tracks or temperature thresholds. There’s not even a federal definition of wayside detection technologies,” said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department coalition that includes all rail unions. “Rail workers are eager to see a complete set of federal regulations on the installation, operation, testing, repairs, and maintenance of all wayside detection technologies, including defect detectors.”
In the Ohio derailment, the bearing that failed got hotter as it passed three detectors before the crash but didn’t get hot enough to set off a warning until the last detector, according to the NTSB. The FRA said railroads should consider developing ways to analyze temperature trends those sensors spot to help identify potential problems sooner.
The Association of American Railroads trade group said the industry has a strong track record of pushing for safety improvements and tough tank car standards to prevent hazardous materials spills. The group said the widespread use of these detectors is an example of the industry’s commitment to safety.
Professor Allan Zarembski, who leads the University of Delaware’s rail engineering and safety program, noted that overheating bearings cause only a handful of the more than 1,000 derailments each year, indicating that the existing system already finds nearly all such problems.
“There’s great political pressure to do something now — knee-jerk reaction, `Do something now. We’ve got to do something now.’ But I’m not convinced the knee-jerk reaction is going to do a lot of good,” Zarembski said.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg proposed a number of safety improvements last week, but the industry has been pushing to delay any major changes until after the NTSB completes its investigation a year or more from now.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious patients.
At least 20 states already have consent laws for this practice. Montana’s governor signed a bill in April, Missouri has legislation that needs the governor’s signature to become law and Ohio lawmakers are also considering it.
Colorado lawmakers want to go a step further, with Democratic Gov. Jared Polis expected to sign a bill that one bioethicist calls the broadest she’s seen — and says may go too far — due to a requirement of naming the involved students ahead of time and introducing them to the patients.
Proponents “see the Colorado bill as a model we hope other states will pass,” said Elizabeth Newman, public policy director at the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which testified in favor of the legislation.
It’s hard to track and quantify how often medical students are asked to do intimate exams — like pelvic, rectal or prostate exams — on patients who are anesthetized. Opponents of the various bills and laws, who are often doctors, argue it’s government overreach which could compromise the established trust between patient and provider and should instead be left to recommendations from medical associations.
Typically, a patient signs a number of forms giving broad consent for a range of procedures that might be medically necessary while someone is anesthetized. That can also include consent for educational purposes.
“Most folks just sign them and assume they are going to get the care that they need,” said Colorado Democratic Rep. Jenny Willford, who co-sponsored the bill.
But patients often don’t know they were examined while unconscious, and if they do, they may fear coming forward, according to Newman. Plus, she said, medical students who could report it are often afraid to raise concerns with superiors who have power over their careers.
Colorado’s bill would require an informed consent process, as well as ensure that the pelvic, breast, rectal or prostate exam is within the scope of the treatment. While this would be required even without students, practitioners are excepted from the consent process in emergency situations.
The bill goes beyond others across the U.S. to include whistleblower protections for medical students who want to speak out, as well as liability for doctors and hospitals if they don’t follow the consent rules. It’s also unique in the requirement that the involved students would be named on the consent form, and be introduced to the patient prior to the procedure.
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, a clinical ethicist, said Colorado’s proposal is the broadest she’s seen and worries that listing the names of involved students could limit learning opportunities. Getting consent is typically done days or weeks ahead of time, but students may be unavailable on the day of the procedure — and Colorado’s proposed law wouldn’t allow others to step in and learn, she said.
“We want people to generally know how to take care of women, and (these exams are) a critical component of that,” said Spector-Bagdady, who co-authored a 2019 recommendation by the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics for such exams. “It’s a balance of respecting the autonomy of our patients and ensuring that the next time they go see a doctor, that doctor knows how to care for them properly.”
That association’s 2019 recommendation, endorsed by major obstetric and gynecological professional associations, says students should only perform pelvic exams that are “explicitly consented to” and “related to the planned procedure.”
Newman, however, said the mandates are important not only for patients to give complete informed consent, but for medical students to know that the client has given their consent and to learn the rules governing the consent process.
Alexandra Fountaine, a medical student at Ohio University, was asked to do a pelvic exam on an unconscious female patient by the doctor overseeing Fountaine’s training on her first day of rotation at an OhioHealth hospital in Columbus.
She said she didn’t know whether the woman, who was anesthetized for an abdominal surgery that Fountaine said didn’t require a pelvic exam, had given consent for it.
Fountaine also did not ask the physician whether the woman had consented, telling The Associated Press that students are taught “to be seen and not heard.” Fountaine said the physician assured her that doing a pelvic exam was fine and “for her education.”
“I initially froze,” said Fountaine, who didn’t end up doing the exam but told the physician she did when her back was turned. The experience led Fountaine to testify in front of an Ohio House committee; her school says it supports students “on their professional journey.”
OhioHealth, which has several teaching hospitals, told the AP in a statement that its policies “regarding patient consent are consistent with current law” and that attending physicians oversee patient exams, which are “a component of the medical education process.”
There can be an intense disconnect between patient understanding and provider understanding on consent and procedures, said Phoebe Friesen, a bioethicist at McGill University in Montreal whose research helped bring the practice back into focus following the #MeToo movement.
Providers view these unconscious exams as strictly medical or educational; the vagina and other intimate areas are “just another body part,” so specific informed consent isn’t necessary.
But for patients, Friesen believes it’s absolutely necessary. Such exams can leave a patient feeling robbed of their bodily autonomy, or even retraumatize people who have survived sexual assault.
“The solution is so simple,” Friesen said. “Just ask people whether they’re comfortable with this particular practice.”
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Jesse Bedayn reported from Denver.
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TX San Angelo TX Zone Forecast for Sunday, November 27, 2022
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. Temperature
rising into the upper 50s after midnight. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ154-281030-
McCulloch-
Including the cities of Brady, Fife, Lohn, Rochelle, and Voca
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ098-281030-
Haskell-
Including the cities of Irby and Haskell
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Not as
cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy and much colder with lows around
30. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 15 to 25 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ099-281030-
Throckmorton-
Including the cities of Throckmorton and Woodson
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s. South
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Not as
cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy and much colder with lows in the
lower 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 15 to
25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ049-281030-
Fisher-
Including the cities of Rotan and Roby
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Breezy
and not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much colder with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ113-281030-
Jones-
Including the cities of Stamford, Stith, Anson, Funston, Truby,
Tuxedo, and Hamlin
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s. South
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Breezy
and not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much colder with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
Highs in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ114-281030-
Shackelford-
Including the city of Albany
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ128-281030-
Callahan-
Including the cities of Clyde, Eula, Dudley, Baird,
and Cross Plains
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy and much colder with lows in the
lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 15 to 25 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper
20s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 50.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the mid
40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the
upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 50. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ064-281030-
Sterling-
Including the cities of Broome and Sterling City
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much colder with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming north 15 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ065-281030-
Coke-
Including the cities of Robert Lee, Sanco, Silver, Bronte,
and Tennyson
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ066-281030-
Runnels-
Including the cities of Ballinger, Benoit, Hatchel, Rowena,
Crews, Winters, and Pumphrey
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy and much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 15 to 25 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ139-281030-
Coleman-
Including the cities of Coleman, Echo, Fisk, Valera, Voss,
and Trickham
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy and much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 15 to 25 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ071-281030-
Irion-
Including the cities of Barnhart, Arden, Mertzon, and Sherwood
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ073-281030-
Concho-
Including the cities of Eden, Live Oak, and Lowake
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy and not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming north 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ155-281030-
San Saba-
Including the cities of Chappel, Cherokee, Harkeyville,
and San Saba
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. Temperature
rising into the upper 50s after midnight. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to northwest 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ076-281030-
Crockett-
Including the city of Ozona
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ077-281030-
Schleicher-
Including the city of Eldorado
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 50. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ168-281030-
Menard-
Including the cities of Erna, Fort Mckavett, Hext, and Menard
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. Temperature
rising into the mid 50s after midnight. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ170-281030-
Mason-
Including the cities of Fredonia, Katemcy, Koockville,
Loyal Valley, Mason, Pontotoc, and Streeter
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. Temperature
rising into the upper 50s after midnight. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to northwest 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ078-281030-
Sutton-
Including the city of Sonora
328 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
West winds around 5 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Former Phillies 3B Scott Rolen selected to baseball Hall of Fame
PHILADELPHIA - Slick-fielding third baseman Scott Rolen was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday with five votes to spare above the 75% needed.
The seven-time All-Star and eight-time Gold Glove winner earned induction in his sixth appearance on the ballot, picked on 297 of 389 ballots cast by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America for 76.3%. A player needed 292 votes for election.
He became the 18th third baseman elected to the Hall, the fewest of any position. Rolen will join Fred McGriff, elected last month by the contemporary baseball era committee, as the inductees at Cooperstown on July 23.
"You don't think about this. You think about doing the best you can," Rolen said. "I never thought the Hall of Fame was going to be the answer."
Rolen had a .281 batting average with 316 homers and 1,287 RBIs for Philadelphia (1996-2002), St. Louis (2002-07), Toronto (2008-09) and Cincinnati (2009-12). He was a unanimous pick as the 1997 NL Rookie of the Year and hit .421 as the Cardinals won the 2006 World Series.
Rolen’s five-vote margin tied for the 12th-smallest among players elected by the writers and his 76.3% of the vote was the 10th lowest. Rolen increased from 63.2% last year and 10.2% in his first ballot appearance in 2018.
That became the lowest first-ballot percentage of a player later elected. The previous mark had been Duke Snider’s 17% in 1970. Snider was voted in with 86.5% in 1980.
First baseman Todd Helton was second with 281 votes (72.2%) and reliever Billy Wagner third with 265 (68.1%). Helton moved up from 52% and can have five more appearances on the ballot, while Wagner rose from 51% and has two additional chances.
Several others also saw large increases: Andruw Jones moved from 41.1% to 58.1%, Gary Sheffield from 40.6% to 55% in his next-to-last possible appearance and Jeff Kent from 32.7% to 46.5% in his final year. Kent can be considered by the contemporary baseball era committee in future years.
Players tainted by drug suspensions again lagged. Alex Rodriguez was at 35.7%, up from 34.3%, and Manny Ramirez at 33.2%, up from 28.9%.
Eight blank ballots were submitted by writers, who are eligible to vote after 10 consecutive years of membership in the BBWAA.
Among 14 players appearing on the ballot for the first time, just two reached the 5% threshold required to remain under consideration next year. Carlos Beltrán received 181 votes (46.5%), his total likely impacted by his role in the Houston Astros cheating scandal en route to the 2017 World Series title.
Relief pitcher Francisco Rodríguez received 42 votes (10.8%).
Next year’s first-time eligibles include Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer, David Wright, José Bautista and Matt Holliday. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/former-phillies-3b-scott-rolen-selected-to-baseball-hall-of-fame | 2023-01-25 01:41:49 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/former-phillies-3b-scott-rolen-selected-to-baseball-hall-of-fame |
PHOTOS: Deion Sanders’ home hits market for $1.5 million
CANTON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - Pro Football Hall of Fame player Deion Sanders is selling his Mississippi home.
Sanders has listed his Canton property for $1.5 million which includes a 5,300-square-foot home that sits on more than 42 acres.
The home is described as a “farmhouse oasis” with five bedrooms and six bathrooms that was built in 2011, according to the listing.
A barn is located on the property with stables along with a pool, hot tub and lake.
The Hall of Famer has listed his property for sale after taking over as head coach at the University of Colorado.
Before announcing the move, Sanders was Jackson State’s head coach from 2020 where he guided the Tigers to consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference titles.
More information on the property is available online.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s wealthy high tech allies don’t seem too happy about receiving subpoenas from Twitter as part of the company’s legal battle with the Tesla CEO.
San Francisco-based Twitter is suing Musk in Delaware in an attempt to get him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, a deal Musk is trying to get out of. According to a report from The Washington Post, Twitter’s legal team on Monday asked for information about a host of tech investors and entrepreneurs connected to Musk in a wide-ranging subpoena. Twitter declined to comment.
According to the Post, the subpoena includes “extensive requests for communications, including ‘checklists, timelines, presentations, decks, organizational calls, meetings, notes, recordings’ related to the deal’s financing.'”
Well-known venture capitalists included in the subpoena, according to the report, are Marc Andreessen, founder of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz; former Facebook exec and CEO of Social Capital Chamath Palihapitiya; and David Sacks, the founding chief operating officer of PayPal and current general partner at Craft Ventures.
Sacks posted Monday on Twitter that “news that I am being subpoenaed by Twitter’s lawyers reminded me of this issue of Mad Magazine, I don’t know why.” He included a photo of the magazine’s cover showing a hand raising a middle finger.
Joe Lonsdale, general partner at 8VC, called Twitter’s subpoenas sent to “friends in the ecosystem” surrounding Musk, Andreessen and Sacks a “giant harassing fishing expedition.”
“I have nothing to do with this aside from a few snarky comments, but got a “YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED” document notice,” he tweeted on Monday.
Representatives for Sacks, Andreessen and Palihapitiya did not immediately respond to messages for comment on Tuesday. Lonsdale did not immediately respond to a message sent through LinkedIn. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/elon-musks-tech-allies-miffed-about-twitter-subpoenas/ | 2022-08-02 21:46:43 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/elon-musks-tech-allies-miffed-about-twitter-subpoenas/ |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Republican Rep. David Schweikert used to win his wealthy, suburban Phoenix congressional district by nearly 30 points. Then Donald Trump was elected president, and his victories started shrinking.
Schweikert, who won his last election by just 3,200 votes, is now among the top 2024 targets for Democrats, who sense better-than-expected odds of retaking the House majority they lost last year.
After an anemic showing in the midterms, Republicans have virtually no cushion in their quest to retain control of the House, which was made all the more complicated by a surprise U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that will likely bring two new safely Democratic districts. Democrats need to pick up just five seats to control the House.
Republicans are counting on a strong showing from incumbents like Schweikert, one of 18 GOP lawmakers representing districts that supported Democrat Joe Biden for president in 2020. Many are in upscale suburbs like Scottsdale that lean conservative but have rejected Trump and the party he now dominates.
In contrast, only five Democrats represent districts that Trump won.
“I’ve been Republican since JFK,” said Roy Ross, a 74-year-old retired oil company manager who registered as an independent when he moved to Schweikert’s district from Tennessee two years ago. “But the last two elections, I just said, ‘I can’t do that.’”
Still, he said, “I can’t say that I’m hearing a lot from Democrats, either.”
Schweikert’s fate in Arizona, and that of the GOP’s House majority, will come down to the decisions of voters like Ross.
Other factors make for a volatile 2024 House landscape and point to terrain much more favorable to Democrats than what they faced in last year’s midterms.
Trump is the early front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, which could drive up turnout among his critics and force vulnerable Republicans to take uncomfortable positions. And abortion, which helped power Democratic victories in the midterms, remains salient a year after the conservative majority on the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
Democrats are already targeting key Republicans over abortion and looking to tie them to GOP figures like Trump who are unpopular with swing voters.
“Between overturning state-level protections for reproductive freedoms to prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthiest few and big corporations, vulnerable Republicans are signing their own pink slips ahead of next November’s election,” said Courtney Rice, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Republicans see plenty of reasons for optimism. Looking to expand the playing field beyond the 18 districts that voted for Biden, Republicans are targeting 37 other districts where they believe a Democratic incumbent is vulnerable.
Two Democrats from swing districts — Reps. Elissa Slotkin in Michigan and Katie Porter in California — are leaving their House seats to run for the Senate, improving the odds for Republicans who won’t have to run against an incumbent. Biden’s lackluster popularity could be a drain on his party, and prices for gas, food and housing remain high.
“Democrats are reminding voters why they took away the Democrats’ gavels in the first place – extreme, unreasonable, and out of touch,” said Rep. Richard Hudson, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP’s House race arm. “Republicans are on offense, recruiting dynamic candidates and out-raising the Democrats, putting us in position to grow our majority.”
After Trump’s 2016 election, Schweikert’s district started trending toward the center as some voters who historically backed Republicans reluctantly voted for Democrats or left their ballots blank. Redistricting ahead of the 2022 midterms accelerated the trend.
Schweikert eked out a victory of less than 1 percentage point last year against a relatively unknown rival who got minimal support from national Democrats. Neither party will be ignoring the district this time around. Democrats have already started attacking Schweikert over abortion.
The race has attracted interest from a crowded field of Democrats, with no obvious front-runner.
Schweikert has walked a fine line, managing to avoid associating too closely with Trump without jeopardizing his path to the GOP nomination. On abortion, he says he opposes it but believes it should be left to the states.
“The parties have changed,” Schweikert said, describing the district’s shifting voting patterns between conversations with doctors, entrepreneurs and a physicist at a neighborhood parade in Arcadia, one of Phoenix’s most prestigious enclaves. “These people want me to fixate on their prosperity and not the eccentricities of the virus, the last election, those sorts of things.”
The U.S. Supreme Court found last month that Alabama’s congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act, a ruling that will require the state to create a second majority-Black district that strategists in both parties believe will be safely Democratic. Thanks to the ruling, a similar process is likely to play out in Louisiana, giving Democrats another safe seat.
In New York, Democrats are hopeful an ongoing lawsuit will allow them to draw new boundaries that tilt in their favor.
But Republicans have the advantage in North Carolina, where conservatives recently took the majority of the state Supreme Court and are expected to draw new maps that favor the GOP. The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed the court’s power to get involved.
Control of the House will largely come down to staunchly red or blue states that won’t get much attention from presidential campaigns.
More than half of the 18 Republican-held districts that Biden won are in New York and California, two states that defied the midterm Democratic successes in much of the rest of the country. Most of the rest are scattered around the West — two in Arizona and one each in New Mexico and Oregon.
Strategists who work on House races believe several factors were behind Democrats’ struggles in New York and California, states they usually dominate. They say voters there were uniquely drawn to Republican messaging targeting crime and homelessness and, as residents of states staunchly supportive of abortion rights, were less swayed by fears of losing access. Republicans still see crime and homelessness as potent issues, along with immigration.
“There are two public policy issues that look as though they could dominate next year’s election, abortion and immigration,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist who now teaches politics at three California universities. “Both of the parties are not only vulnerable on one of those issues but don’t appear to have any clue as to how to deal with them.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-the-us-house-majority-is-in-play-next-year-after-a-weak-gop-midterm-showing-and-recent-court-ruling/ | 2023-07-13 13:54:00 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-the-us-house-majority-is-in-play-next-year-after-a-weak-gop-midterm-showing-and-recent-court-ruling/ |
BAILEY, Joyce Ann
Age 86, passed away May 15, 2022. Services are private. Tobias Funeral Home, Beavercreek Chapel, Beavercreek, OH.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Visa Inc. (V) on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $3.41 billion.
The San Francisco-based company said it had net income of $1.60 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and investment costs, came to $1.98 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 15 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.74 per share.
The global payments processor posted revenue of $7.28 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Thirteen analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $7.06 billion.
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