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PHOENIX — Travelers looking for a quick and easy way to get to Sky Harbor Airport are going to have new options soon. Waymo announced that they're expanding their rider-only services to the airport.
Starting Tuesday, "Trusted Testers" will be able to hail a ride 24/7 in the company's fully electric autonomously driven cars anywhere between Downtown Phoenix and Phoenix Sky Harbor.
The company is partnering with the airport to offer pickups and drop-offs from the 44th Street Sky Train station.
Waymo says the rides will start with a remote autonomous specialist in the driver's seat, then transition into fully autonomous in the weeks to come.
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"Phoenix leads the nation in demonstrating autonomous vehicle technology, science, and safety," Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said.
"The future of travel is here, and Waymo One service to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport marks our city’s commitment to innovation and technological advancements that will impact the world."
The company says they'll be using this trial period to gather data on driving behavior that is unique to the airport, and expand service to pedestrians with different kinds of luggage.
You can download the Waymo One app on the App Store or Google Play to express interest in joining their Trusted Tester program and try the ride out for yourself.
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Republicans mock ‘demagogic’ Biden speech on threats to democracy with ‘blood red lighting backdrop’
Former President Trump called Biden's speech 'awkward and angry'
Republicans mocked President Biden’s speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia Thursday evening – in which he claimed that "equality and democracy are under assault" by "MAGA forces" – as "demagogic," "shameful" and with a "background that looks like the Soviet Union and Hitler had a baby."
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who posted a photo of the president and dramatic red background, called Biden’s speech the "most demagogic, outrageous, and divisive speech I have ever seen from an American president. Joe Biden essentially declared all those who oppose him and his agenda enemies of the republic. Truly shameful."
BIDEN SLAMMED FOR ‘RANCID’ PHILADELPHIA SPEECH ATTACKING AMERICANS WHILE FLANKED BY US MARINES
"Nothing screams unity like a backdrop of blood red lighting and Marines positioned behind Biden as he shouts with raised clenched fists from the podium," Town Hall reporter Mia Cathell wrote.
Sen. Ted Cruz’s special advisor for communications, Steve Guest, simply wrote: "The lighting for Joe Biden's speech tonight is so bad."
Cruz himself tweeted that Biden "vilified millions of Americans in a divisive & angry speech that was detached from the reality of his political failures. He isn’t actually interested in restoring the soul of the nation, he’s only interested pitting his fellow Americans against one another."
Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance said he couldn't believe it was a "real photograph."
"It depicts the president of our nation, as he took to the airwaves and spoke about his fellow citizens as if they were sewer rats," he tweeted.
Rep. Lauren Boebert turned the picture into a meme, writing "When they run out of ice cream…"
Former President Trump himself had a few words to say about Biden’s tough talk directed at him.
"If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech tonight, he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force," Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. "He must be insane, or suffering from late stage dementia!"
He added, "Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words can get, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! If he doesn’t want to Make America Great Again, which through words, action, and thought, he doesn’t, then he certainly should not be representing the United States of America!"
The former president also posted a photo split of Biden on one side holding his fists in the air angrily and Trump on the other kissing an American flag.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy tweeted, "The fact that this isn’t photoshopped is surreal," Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy tweeted, along with a photo of Biden with his fists raised in front of a backdrop of dark red lighting."
"Everytime I think Biden and crew can’t be dumber they outdo themselves," he added. "Seriously who gives a speech warning people about how dangerous Republicans are to Democracy while having a background that looks like the Soviet Union and Hitler had a baby?"
Conversely, Sawyer Hackett, senior adviser for Obama administration HUD Secretary Julián Castro, lambasted the media for their criticisms of the setting.
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"Biden gives a speech laying out in great detail the existential threats to our democracy and the press corp is clutching their pearls about the lighting and optics. Jfc.," he lamented.
The tone and setting of Thursday's speech underscored Biden's effort to portray the upcoming congressional elections as part of what a White House official said is "the continued battle for the Soul of the Nation." The president leaned on that sort of rhetoric regularly during his 2020 presidential campaign and appears poised to bring back some of those talking points ahead of the 2022 midterms.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the government plans to put a cap on how much families pay for child care as part of the Child Care & Development Block Grant program.
Speaking to reporters, Harris went through the details of a proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services that follows an executive order on the issue that President Joe Biden signed in April. Families would pay no more than 7% of their income for child care through the program and child care providers would find it easier to be paid on time. The proposal also wants to encourage states to let families apply online for care.
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Harris touted the possible savings for families.
“Let’s take a family in Montana making $46,000 a year—they could save about $80 every month, or almost over $1,000 a year,” the vice president said. “That money could go to gas and groceries or to fix a leaky roof.”
The program currently supports 1.5 million children. In 2016, the government established 7% of family income as the standard for affordable child care, but only 14 states follow that guidance in their offerings through the block grant program.
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Couple celebrates 65 years of marriage
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - They say time moves fast when you’re having fun and this is definitely true for one Lawton couple.
“Sometimes we just look at each other and say I can’t believe it’s been 65 years,” said Luwanna.
Not all couples get the joy of spending a lifetime next to the one they love but this couple just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Luwanna and Earnest Campbell are high school sweethearts who got married on March 30th, 1958, and have been together ever since.
The couple met in Ohio and after joining the military ended up staying in Lawton where they built their dream home.
They both say teamwork and their love for their family are what kept them together all these years.
“Just laugh a lot and work together and normally his interest is my interest and mine is his but our biggest interest is family,” she said.
Luwanna and Earnest had 5 kids together and the family continues growing with 15 grandkids and 15 great-grandkids.
They hope they left a positive impact on their children and hope their kids always remember all the love they gave them.
“My granddaughters always tell me, Grandma I learned how to love and be a good mom from you, so I guess that just means everything to me,” she said.
Luwanna said one of the many things she loves about their relationship is how well they complement each other.
“He keeps me leveled, I’m a worrier and I get excited and he keeps me calm and says don’t worry about this we’ll take of it, we’ll make it happen, don’t worry,” said Luwanna.
“She has, I guess all the qualities that I was looking for,” said Earnest, “he just didn’t know it,” she said.
The couple said they have been blessed with the love of an amazing family and friends,
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Biden heads to Kentucky to highlight cash for aging bridge
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s visit to a notoriously dilapidated bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky is a chance for him to showcase accomplishments and talk up the virtues of bipartisanship while rubbing shoulders with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
The trip on Wednesday is also about cold, hard cash.
“It’s a giant bridge, man,” Biden said this week when asked about his planned trip to the Brent Spence Bridge. “It’s a lot of money. It’s important.”
Indeed, the nearly $1 trillion that Biden’s administration is doling out for roads and bridges, broadband networks and water projects across America will be critical not just for the communities getting the help but to the Democratic president’s political theory that voters are hungry for bipartisanship that delivers tangible results.
As the prospects for massive, transformational legislating diminish rapidly this year in a divided Washington, the White House and top Cabinet officials aim to focus instead on selling Biden’s recent achievements and demonstrating how the new laws directly affect Americans.
That new effort kicks off as Biden stops in northern Kentucky at the perennially congested bridge spanning the Ohio River that has frustrated motorists for decades. The infrastructure law enacted in late 2021 will offer more than $1.63 billion in federal grants to Ohio and Kentucky to build a companion bridge that will help unclog traffic on the Brent Spence.
Other top administration officials are holding similar events Wednesday and Thursday at other major bridges in the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is stopping by the collection of bridges crossing the Calumet River in Chicago; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was appearing at the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London, Connecticut; and White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu was to be at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
All the bridges will get new funding under the infrastructure law, which is one of Biden’s marquee bipartisan accomplishments.
The Brent Spence, which connects Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, was declared functionally obsolete by the Federal Highway Administration in the 1990s. It has become an outsized symbol of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, with successive presidents from both parties singling out the aging span as they stumped for better roads and bridges.
In 2011, President Barack Obama name-checked McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, who represented the Cincinnati suburbs, as he stood near the Brent Spence and pushed the two Republican leaders to support a jobs package that would fix similarly ailing bridges. Six years later, President Donald Trump told a local Fox station that “I’ve already heard about the bridge. I love the area.”
“We’re going to get it fixed,” Trump said about the Brent Spence, which he called “dangerous.”
As for Biden, he said during a 2021 CNN town hall in Cincinnati that his administration would “fix that damn bridge of yours.” The span was designed for 80,000 vehicles a day but was easily doubling that on its narrow lanes.
On Wednesday, Biden can begin to make good on that promise.
The president will be accompanied at Brent Spence by McConnell, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, former Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican. Officials hope much of the work on the new project will be completed by 2029.
The White House also invited Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and newly sworn in J.D. Vance of Ohio, according to a White House official, but neither planned to appear with Biden in northern Kentucky.
McConnell, who was already home in Kentucky, will not fly with Biden on Air Force One but will greet him on the tarmac at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, according to a person who was not authorized to speak about the minority leader’s travel plans publicly and insisted on anonymity.
Biden dismissed any notion that the trip to northern Kentucky was about highlighting his longstanding relationship with McConnell, who has been both an ally and a foil during the president’s first two years in office. McConnell was one of 19 Senate Republicans to support the infrastructure law and has said repairing the Brent Spence has long been a priority.
“This is a bridge that has been a major national issue for 25 years, my top transportation project for decades. And it’s going to be fully funded by the infrastructure bill, which I supported,” McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “It’s important for me to be there.”
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What are the best New Year’s Eve dresses?
A New Year’s Eve dress should have a flattering fit that shows off your curves in all the right places without compromising comfort. While it can be a matte dress you accessorize with your favorite jewelry, it’s also nice if it has details that stand out from the rest of your wardrobe. After all, you’re wearing it to celebrate.
The best New Year’s Eve dresses let you pick from multiple hues with various finishes and come in a wide range of sizes.
What is a New Year’s Eve dress?
Your New Year’s Eve dress should match the event you’re attending. If you’re headed to an affair with a dress code, following it to the best of your ability is respectful to the host. Black tie events require more traditional gowns, and black tie optional is slightly less conservative, with sexier silhouetted dresses.
If you’re headed to a less formal event, club or house party, you have more leeway with a shorter hemline, plunging neckline and low back. Since it’s a once-a-year celebration, you are free to go all out with sequins, rhinestones and any other sparkle or shine you’d like to add.
New Year’s Eve dress styles
There are 10 New Year’s Eve dress silhouettes for you to consider. Each can flatter your figure differently.
- Mini: This has a hemline that lands mid- to low-thigh.
- Midi: This has a hemline that rests at your knee or mid-shin.
- Maxi: This sits at your low ankle or a little lower.
- Ball gown: This structured dress has a fitted bodice and a full, floor-length skirt.
- Shift: This is loose from top to bottom.
- Bodycon: This is fitted from top to bottom.
- Fit and flare: This is fitted at your top and waist, then gently flares from the top of your hip. It is also called the A-line.
- Wrap dress: This fits closer to your body on top, gathers at your waist with a tie and flares gently from your hips.
- Mermaid: This is fitted to your mid-thigh, then flares to its bottom hemline.
- Empire: This fits close to your bustline and gently flares over your midsection to its hemline.
New Year’s Eve dress necklines
The neckline on your New Year’s dress frames your bustline and can significantly affect how well it complements your shape. There are eight to consider.
- V-neck: This lands a V on your mid to low chest.
- Sleeveless: This has a structured bodice to keep your dress up without sleeves.
- Scoop neck: This rounded silhouette sits low on your chest, just above your bustline.
- Cowl neck: This rounded neckline drapes with extra fabric at the top of your bustline.
- Spaghetti strap: This holds up the dress with two thin straps attached to the bodice.
- Crew neck: This classic design has a round collar that sits high on your chest.
- One sleeve: The asymmetrical shape has a sleeve or strap on one arm and a sleeveless style on the other.
- Square neck: Thisrests a horizontal line above your bust and has straps that fall straight from your shoulders, creating a square shape on your chest.
Color variety
Finding a New Year’s Eve dress with various colors, patterns and textures can increase your chance of scoring your most flattering hue. If you end up loving the dress, it’s also helpful to know you can get it in other materials for future events.
Size variety
It’s helpful to get a dress with a wide range of sizes in case the one you order doesn’t fit. The best way to ensure you’ll find the right size is to go for a design that carries at least one size below and above your typical or expected size. That way, you can exchange it for the correct size if needed.
Standout material
If you prefer a matte finish on your dress, go for it. However, many enjoy getting a New Year’s Eve dress with material, textures or finishes that add a bit of shine and sparkle. A great way to accomplish that is by choosing sequined, satin or velvet designs that read well in photos and look even better in person.
What are the best New Year’s Eve dresses to buy?
Jasambac One-Shoulder Dress With Pockets
This flattering fit and flare silhouette has one strap with a bow and pockets at each hip. It is knee-length and comes in 32 hues with sequin, velvet and matte varieties, in S-XXL.
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Cosonsen Deep V-Neck Long-Sleeved Dress
This V-neck mini dress with a tie at the waist comes in short- and long-sleeved varieties in 32 hues and patterns. It has a flattering fit and flare shape with a light, flowy fabric and comes in sizes XS-XXL.
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Gobles Sexy Long-Sleeved V-Neck Dress
This stretchy bodycon dress has a ruching for a flattering fit, a short hemline with long sleeves and a deep V-neck. The material is soft and comes in 15 varieties, in sizes S-XL.
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Xxxiticat Sleeveless Spaghetti Strap Satin Dress
This mid-length satin dress has spaghetti straps, a low cowl neck with a high slit at the thigh and added stretch for a flattering fit. It’s machine-washable and comes in 23 hues and patterns, in sizes XS-XL.
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Meilun Celebrity Bandage Bodycon Dress
This mini bodycon dress has a V-neck with wide straps and a stretch that holds you in for a flattering fit. It comes in 20 hues with matte and shiny finishes in sizes XS-XL.
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Miss Ord V-Neck Long-Sleeved Sexy Mini Dress
This has a flattering sequin design, a short hemline with a body-hugging fit and a sexy deep V-neck. It’s a zip-up design and comes in two colors, in sizes S-XL.
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Lin Lin Q Maxi Formal Off-The-Shoulder Sequin Gown
This long gown has a mermaid silhouette with wide-set straps and sequin detailing. It’s made from a polyester and cotton blend, closes with a zipper at the back and comes in four hues, sizes XS-XL.
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BerryGo Sexy V-Neck Bodycon Sequin Gown
This long spaghetti-strap sequin gown has a deep V-neck, a high slit at the thigh and added stretch for comfort. It comes in pull-up and zippered designs in 10 varieties, sizes XS-XXL.
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Parthea Satin Lace-Up Backless High-Slit Dress
This satin gown has a sexy side slit with a square neckline, adjustable spaghetti straps and a low back. It’s made from a polyester and elastane blend for added stretch and comes in 10 hues, sizes 0-14.
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Dress The Population Women’s Zoe Sequin Mini Dress
This sequined mini dress has a deep V-neck, a flattering silhouette and a cap sleeve. It’s made from polyester blended with spandex for a comfortable fit and comes in 22 hues, sizes XXS-XXL.
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Belle Poque Vintage ‘50s Sequin Pencil Dress V-Neck
This is excellent if you’re looking for a little more coverage, sleeve options and a mid-thigh hemline.
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Metme 1920s Mermaid Maxi Long Sequin Gown
Art deco lovers should check out this dress, which has a high scoop neck and flattering design that comes in 12 hues.
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Heartgown Sequin Mermaid Evening Gown
If you’re attending a formal New Year’s Eve party, this is highly rated, has 17 varieties and comes in sizes 2-26 plus.
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BERLIN (AP) — A Greek national is under investigation in Austria for allegedly spying for Russia for years, the Austrian government said Monday.
The Interior Ministry said that the 39-year-old, who is not currently in detention, has Russian roots and is the son of a former Russian intelligence employee who was once stationed as a diplomat in Austria and neighboring Germany. It said that he is believed to have received “military special training” in Russia and was in Moscow shortly before and during the invasion of Ukraine.
The suspect barely worked and received only limited benefits in Austria, but was able to make 65 journeys within Europe and to Russia and Belarus between 2018 and early 2022, and also to acquire several properties in Vienna, Russia and Greece, the ministry said.
He is believed to have handed over information at locations in Vienna. Austrian authorities suspect that he was tapped as a source for information on discussions inside Austria to gauge possible foreign reactions ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A search of the suspect’s properties turned up a device to detect signals from bugs and hidden cameras as well as protective clothing, the Interior Ministry said. Cellphones, laptops and tables were seized. | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-austria-investigates-greek-man-as-suspected-spy-for-russia/ | 2022-12-19 14:07:57 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-austria-investigates-greek-man-as-suspected-spy-for-russia/ |
The race was swift and short to buy the home of Judi Duchossois, widow of former Arlington International Racecourse executive and industrialist Richard Duchossois. It attracted multiple offers and went under contract to a buyer in four days.
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Tips for a safe, healthy Halloween
(CNN) - Many children will be out trick-or-treating Monday, but experts say to make sure to do everything you can to protect little ones before heading out for a night of fun.
It’s time for carved pumpkins, costumes and candy, but make sure your child gets a good dinner, said Dr. Natalie Thoni, a pediatrician with Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.
“Something filling that will fuel them throughout the night of trick-or-treating but also will help so they don’t want to just binge candy all night long,” Thoni said.
Taking some water while trick-or-treating can help ghosts and goblins stay hydrated. When it comes to their costume, make sure it fits well so they don’t trip.
If there’s a mask, check that they can clearly see out of it. Use a flashlight or reflective tape so kids can easily be seen by others.
“The real key is making sure your child is visible to cars driving by, so anything bright is great,” Thoni said.
Trick or treat in well-lit areas and at houses clearly open to visitors.
Thoni said a best practice is to wait to eat the goodies.
“When your child brings the candy home, it’s always a good idea to have an adult look over the candy and make sure everything’s in commercially wrapped packages and that it is safe to be eaten,” she said.
And when it comes to goodies, set expectations early on how much they can consume.
“They’ll likely be able to eat a few more pieces of candy than normal, but make sure that we’re going to be saving a lot of the candy to eat in moderation throughout the next few weeks,” Thoni said.
The pediatrician says young children should be accompanied by an adult when trick-or-treating. For teens who go without parents make sure you go over the route they’ll take, when they should be home and pedestrian safety.
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By JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump will become one of them next week.
Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon after an investigation into payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself remains sealed for now in the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president.
Trump — a Republican who assailed the case Thursday as a Democratic prosecutor’s “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person” — is expected to turn himself in to authorities next week, according to three people familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. The people said the details of a surrender are still being worked out.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said it had contacted Trump’s lawyer to coordinate his surrender and arraignment.
For any New York defendant, poor or powerful, answering criminal charges means being fingerprinted and photographed, fielding basic questions such as name and birthdate, and getting arraigned. All told, defendants are typically detained for at least several hours.
There can be differences in where the different steps happen, how long they take, whether handcuffs come out and other particulars. A lot depends on the severity of the case and whether defendants arrange to turn themselves in.
But there is no playbook for booking an ex-president with U.S. Secret Service protection. Agents are tasked with the protection of former presidents unless and until they say they don’t need it. Trump has kept his detail, so agents would need to be by his side at all times.
“This would be a unique outlier,” said Jeremy Saland, a defense lawyer and former prosecutor in Manhattan.
When Trump turns himself in, expect a carefully choreographed and relatively quick process and release without bail (as is common in New York) — and with a focus on security. A former president isn’t likely to be paraded in cuffs across a sidewalk or through a crowded courthouse hallway, Saland predicts.
“It’s a public forum, but safety is also paramount,” he notes.
If defendants are notified of an indictment or an impending arrest, they often arrange to turn themselves in. Doing so can smooth the process and strengthen arguments for bail by showing that they aren’t evading the case.
For example, when the former finance chief of Trump’s company, Allen Weisselberg, was indicted in Manhattan on tax fraud charges in 2021, he was able to turn himself in at a courthouse side door before normal workday hours.
The aim was “to reduce the likelihood that the surrender would become a media frenzy,” his lawyers wrote in a subsequent court filing.
Weisselberg arrived around 6:15 a.m. and was taken to what his attorneys described as a “holding room” for booking, an interview about potential release, and other procedures. To pass the time, he’d brought a book — “Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan’s Soul” — and his lawyers supplied him with a snack, a face mask, breath mints and other items, according to the filing.
Weisselberg was arraigned and released about eight hours later, after being walked into a courtroom past a phalanx of news cameras in the hallway. (Weisselberg eventually pleaded guilty to dodging taxes on job perks including a free apartment and school tuition for his grandchildren.)
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, on the other hand, turned himself in at a Manhattan police station in 2018 to face rape and criminal sex act charges. He was briefly in a stationhouse cell, flipping through a biography of famed film director Elia Kazan, before being led out in handcuffs and taken to court under the gaze of journalists on the sidewalk — and other suspects in a courthouse booking area, where some hollered, “Yo, Harvey!”
Within about three hours after his surrender, Weinstein was arraigned and released on electronic monitoring and $1 million bail. (Weinstein was eventually convicted; his appeal is now before New York’s highest court. He’s also been convicted on similar charges in Los Angeles.)
But even a scheduled arrest is still an arrest. Defendants have to give up cellphones and some other personal items for safekeeping (and, in some cases, potential evidence), and lawyers generally aren’t allowed to accompany their clients through the process. Attorneys often advise traveling light and staying mum.
“Don’t make any statements. Because you think you’re helping your situation, but they can just use your statements against you — because you get caught up in the moment, you get nervous,” says Gianni Karmily, a defense lawyer who practices in New York City and on Long Island.
Many arrests in New York City aren’t preplanned. That can be a very different experience for defendants, even prominent ones.
When a hotel housekeeper accused then-International Monetary Fund chief and potential French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in 2011, he was pulled off a plane at Kennedy Airport.
Strauss-Kahn, who said his encounter with the woman was consensual, spent about 36 hours being questioned, arrested, undergoing various exams and waiting in such spots as a courthouse holding pen before being arraigned and jailed without bail. After several days at the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail, Strauss-Kahn was allowed out on $1 million bail, under house arrest with armed guards.
Manhattan prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal case against Strauss-Kahn, who later settled a civil suit brought by his accuser.
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Landslide tears apart a dozen California homes as families flee
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) - A landslide tore apart luxury homes on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula on Monday, leaving a confused jumble of collapsed roofs, shattered walls, tilted chimneys and decks dangling over an adjacent canyon.
The slide in the Los Angeles County city of Rolling Hills Estates began Saturday when cracks began appearing in structures and the ground. Twelve homes were red-tagged as unsafe, and residents were given just 20 minutes to evacuate.
The pace of destruction increased through the weekend and into Monday.
“It is moving quickly,” said Janice Hahn, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, who represents the area. “You can actually hear the snap, crackle and pop every minute when you’re there as each home is shifting, is moving.”
It was initially believed that all of the red-tagged homes were sliding, but Assistant City Manager Alexa Davis clarified Monday afternoon that 10 were actively moving. An additional 16 were being monitored but had not required evacuation, Davis said in an email.
The cause of the landslide was not known. But a fissure running among the homes raised suspicion that this past winter’s heavy rains may be involved, Hahn said.
“We won’t know until a geologist and a soil expert really does a post-op on this and tells us what happened,” Hahn said. “But because of that fissure, the initial thinking is that it was because of the heavy rains that we had last year and all that underground water has caused this. But we don’t know.”
Hahn said many of the displaced residents were unsure whether they were insured for such loss, including one who moved in two months ago after escrow closed. The county assessor was to meet with the residents to tell them they could apply for property tax waivers.
“My heart goes out to these people,” Hahn said. “We gave them 20 minutes Saturday night to evacuate and get their things. Obviously they didn’t get everything.”
Damaging landslides have occurred previously on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, which rises high above the Pacific on the county’s south coast and offers residents spectacular views of the ocean and greater Los Angeles.
A landslide that began in 1956 destroyed 140 homes in the Portuguese Bend area of the city of Rancho Palos Verdes, and earth continues to move there. The slide coincided with construction of a road through the area, which is atop an ancient landslide.
Among other notable earth movements on the peninsula, a 2011 slide severed the blufftop ocean road near White Point in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles several months after engineers began noticing cracks and fenced off the area for study.
Southern California’s complex landscapes contribute to landslides, according to an overview by the U.S. Geological Survey in conjunction with the California Geological Survey.
Some of the many potential factors include earthquakes, steep slopes, sedimentary soil that is not rock hard, and water percolating down into the earth after heavy rains, the report says.
Human-induced landslide factors include construction without proper grading of slopes, alteration of drainage patterns and disturbances of old landslides.
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Cookie Lovers Dreams Crumb True with Introduction of Girl Scout Thin Mints™ Seasoning Blend
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- B&G Foods announced today the release of Girl Scout Thin Mints™ Seasoning Blend, a delicious new seasoning blend that is made up of dark cocoa, mint flavor, and fine cookie crumbles that combine to perfectly emulate the flavor of the popular Thin Mints® cookie. Now, fans of the beloved cookie can sprinkle the seasoning on just about anything, bringing their favorite flavor to new recipes, beverages, confections, and more. Girl Scout Thin Mints™ Seasoning Blend is now available nationwide at select retail locations with greater retailer rollout in late spring.
"The demand for our fun flavored seasoning blends continues to grow, proving that consumers crave the flavors of their favorite cookies and sweets, and are eager to explore them in new forms," said Julie Gould, Senior Director Brand Marketing, Spices & Flavor Solutions, B&G Foods. "We're excited to license the Girl Scout Cookie flavors and launch a seasoning blend in a delicious and versatile cocoa and mint flavor, inspired by their #1 Girl Scout Cookie, Thin Mints. From milkshakes to cinnamon buns, party dips and beyond, we can't wait to see what fun recipes and uses consumers will create."
This Girl Scout Cookie™ inspired flavor is ideal for sprinkling on a variety of different foods and beverages, including brownies, cupcakes, pancakes, oatmeal, ice cream, coffee, hot cocoa and more.
"Thin Mints® is one of our most beloved cookie varieties, and we're excited to work with B&G Foods to bring its essence into seasoning form for the first time," said Wendy Lou, Chief Revenue Officer, GSUSA. "This seasoning product also presents the unique opportunity to enjoy the flavor of Thin Mints® cookies in all of your favorite recipes."
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor driving under the influence charges related to a May crash in Northern California wine country.
Paul Pelosi, 82, did not appear in person at Napa County Superior Court Wednesday. His attorney, Amanda Bevins, entered not guilty pleas on his behalf on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with a .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury.
The complaint comes as Speaker Pelosi makes global headlines with a trip to Asia this week, including a controversial visit to Taiwan that heightened tensions with China. The powerful Democrat said the U.S. will not abandon the self-governing island and will defend democracy around the world.
Paul Pelosi was arrested following a May 28 crash in Napa County, north of San Francisco, after a DUI test showed he had a blood alcohol content of .082%.
Officers responding to the crash after 10 p.m. near the wine country town of Yountville said they found Pelosi in the driver’s seat of a 2021 Porsche Carrera and the other driver standing outside a sport utility vehicle, according to the complaint made public Wednesday.
California Highway Patrol officers reported that Pelosi was “unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage.”
Pelosi offered to officers his driver’s license along with an “11-99 Foundation” card when asked for identification, the complaint says. The 11-99 Foundation supports CHP employees and their families.
The complaint charges Pelosi with being under the influence of “an alcoholic beverage and a drug” but both Bevins and Paul Gero, assistant district attorney for Napa County, said the drug reference was boilerplate language generated by the case management system.
Prosecutors filed the case as a misdemeanor because of injuries to the 48-year-old driver of the SUV. They have declined to identify the driver, saying the person has requested privacy.
In an interview with investigators from the district attorney’s office, the driver reported pain in his upper right arm, right shoulder and neck the day after the crash. He said he also had headaches.
Pelosi was released on $5,000 bail after his arrest. Speaker Pelosi was in Rhode Island to deliver the commencement address at Brown University at the time. Her office has declined to comment.
If convicted, Pelosi faces up to a minimum of five days in jail and up to five years of probation. He would also be required to complete a drinking driver class and install an ignition interlock device in his vehicle that requires the driver to blow into it to travel, prosecutors said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — It’s been 16 years since the borders of the Gaza Strip slammed shut after Hamas militants seized control of the territory.
The takeover forced the European Union to withdraw monitors who had been deployed at a Gaza border crossing to help the Palestinians prepare for independence. Yet the EU has regularly renewed funding for the unit since then, most recently late last month.
The continued existence of the unit known as EUBAM is an extreme example of the West’s willingness to keep pumping hundreds of millions of dollars a year into the moribund vision of a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.
Proponents say this approach remains the best chance for securing an eventual peace deal. Critics argue that opting for such costly conflict management helps keep a 56-year-old Israeli military occupation in place and allows Europe and the U.S. to avoid making the hard political decisions needed to end the conflict.
This week’s deadly Israeli raid of a West Bank militant stronghold and previous eruptions of violence also underscore the limits of international efforts to contain the conflict.
“The international community, in my view, understands the reality that the two-state solution is gone,” said Marwan Muasher, a onetime Jordanian foreign minister and former ambassador to Israel. “It does not want to acknowledge this publicly, because acknowledging it publicly is going to have to force the international community to start talking about alternatives, all of them problematic.”
Muasher, now a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is unusual among his peers. The legions of diplomats and politicians who have devoted their careers to Mideast peacemaking remain committed to the two-state vision, even as the ground around them has shifted.
“I am still a believer,” said Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister who led the last round of substantive peace talks with Palestinian leaders before leaving office in 2009.
“There is no other solution. Everything else is almost inevitably a prescription for disaster,” Olmert said.
The two-state approach has guided international diplomacy since the 1993 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The interim accords were meant to lay the groundwork for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, for their state. The land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, made up of pre-1967 Israel and the occupied lands, is populated in roughly equal parts by Palestinians and Israeli Jews. Pollsters predict an eventual Palestinian majority because of higher birth rates.
Proponents of partition say it would create a democratic Israel with a clear Jewish majority in defined borders and enable Palestinians to realize their national aspirations.
Without partition, the default is an apartheid-like reality in which a shrinking Jewish minority controls a growing Arab majority with few political rights. Leading rights groups say an apartheid system is already in place.
Since the Oslo accords 30 years ago, the U.S. and EU have spent billions of dollars on development projects and direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to promote the two-state vision. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both pledged support for a partition deal.
Yet the West has little to show for its efforts. Peace initiatives led by successive U.S. presidents were derailed by violence, Israeli settlement expansion and mutual distrust.
Hamas, shunned by the West as a terrorist group, has fought four wars against Israel and remains entrenched in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority, which governs semi-autonomous enclaves in the West Bank, is weaker than ever. Israel’s far-right government opposes Palestinian independence and is racing to expand a settler population that has ballooned to over 700,000 people.
Preoccupied with the war in Ukraine and its rivalry with China, the Biden administration has done little more than condemn Israeli settlement plans and call for de-escalation.
Recent opinion polls show that only about one-third of Israelis and Palestinians still favor a two-state solution.
Even some members of the Palestinian Authority, which has the most to gain from independence, have begun to speak publicly about equal rights between the river and the sea, rather than two states.
“The basis for us is ending the occupation, obtaining freedom,” said Mahmoud Aloul, an aide to President Mahmoud Abbas. He said it does not matter if the conflict ends with two states or a single binational state for Israelis and Palestinians.
In academic and human rights circles, many now speak about a “one-state reality” – in which Israel wields overall control over Palestinians. Muasher said given this environment, it is time for the world to focus on Palestinian human rights instead of unrealistic peace plans.
Ines Abdel-Razek, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, an advocacy group, said calls for a two-state solution are “comfortable” for the international community, but insincere.
She said that if the U.S. were serious about peace, it would force Israel to reverse its settlement enterprise. Instead, she said, Washington gives Israel billions in military aid, allows settlement groups to raise funds in the U.S., engages with institutions promoting the annexation of the West Bank and pushes for normalization with other Arab countries.
“The problem is the dire gap and hypocrisy between the discourse and then the policies and practices that are put in place,” she said.
Nearly a generation ago, when EUBAM was established, Palestinian statehood hopes hadn’t yet been crushed.
The unit was set up after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. The border monitors helped the Palestinian Authority run the territory’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, while coordinating with Israel. It had 130 workers and helped some 2,700 people cross the border each day.
Florin Bulgariu, the current director of EUBAM, said the initial agreement included plans to help the Palestinians develop a seaport, airport and take over additional border crossings.
Those plans came crashing down when Hamas won Palestinian parliament elections in 2006 and took control of Gaza in 2007, driving out Abbas’ forces. The EU shuttered the Rafah operation but still maintains a scaled-down office in Israel.
With a staff of 18 and a budget of 2.5 million Euros a year, EUBAM helps train Palestinian officials in the West Bank to spot counterfeit documents, use X-ray technology and stop drug and weapons smuggling.
“The idea is for the PA to be fully prepared to take over the Rafah crossing point when the time comes,” he said, acknowledging that the odds of this happening anytime soon are nonexistent. Some of this training has bolstered PA border agents in the West Bank as well, he said.
Bulgariu said he is proud of what the mission has accomplished but also frustrated “because I cannot share or implement all what I know.”
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Ryan McMahon Player Prop Bets: Rockies vs. Marlins - May 23
Published: May. 23, 2023 at 12:24 PM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
The Colorado Rockies, including Ryan McMahon (.278 batting average in his past 10 games), battle starter Eury Perez and the Miami Marlins at Coors Field, Tuesday at 8:40 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless performance (0-for-4) against the Marlins.
Ryan McMahon Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Coors Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Eury Pérez
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +360)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +135)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -118)
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Ryan McMahon At The Plate
- McMahon has 13 doubles, a triple, four home runs and 17 walks while hitting .220.
- McMahon has gotten at least one hit in 61.4% of his games this season (27 of 44), with at least two hits seven times (15.9%).
- In four games this season, he has hit a long ball (9.1%, and 2.2% of his trips to the dish).
- McMahon has driven home a run in 13 games this season (29.5%), including more than one RBI in 6.8% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on two occasions..
- He has scored at least once 19 times this season (43.2%), including one multi-run game.
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- The pitching staff for the Marlins has a collective 9.4 K/9, the fifth-best in the league.
- The Marlins have a 4.47 team ERA that ranks 21st among all league pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combine to give up 58 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 19th in baseball).
- Perez (1-0) pitches for the Marlins to make his third start of the season.
- His most recent time out was on Thursday against the Washington Nationals, when the right-hander went five innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up three hits.
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Justices reject appeal from man arrested for spoofing police
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, backed by the satirical site The Onion, from a man who was arrested and prosecuted for making fun of police on social media.
The justices on Tuesday left in place a lower court ruling against Anthony Novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the Parma, Ohio, police force in Facebook posts.
After his acquittal on criminal charges, Novak sued the police for violating his constitutional rights. But a federal appeals court ruled the officers have “qualified immunity” and threw out the lawsuit.
The Onion filed its brief in defense of parody. Its lawyers wrote that the First Amendment protects people from prosecution when they make fun of others.
“The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists,” the site’s lawyers wrote in a brief filed in October. “This brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment.”
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- Plans to finalize its U.S. distribution strategy in 2023
- Aims to enter the U.S., the world's largest diabetes market, with its current disposable wearable insulin pump 'EOPatch'
SAN JOSE, Calif. , Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EOFlow Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 294090) (EOFlow or the Company), a provider of wearable drug delivery systems (DDS), announced today that it submitted a 510(k) application to the U.S. FDA for its wearable disposable insulin pump EOPatch on December 27.
EOFlow plans to enter the US, the world's largest diabetes market, with its current disposable wearable insulin pump the 'EOPatch'.
EOFlow has said that the number of accumulated EOPatch users in Korea has been steadily increasing and is over 600 although the product has not been covered by the national health insurance since its domestic launch in April 2021. It was also reported that the monthly average number of new users increased 78 percent compared to previous sales from Huons in three months from August to October, when it began to conduct its own marketing and sales in Korea.
As EOFlow begins to expand its market reach outside Korea, the Company officially launched EOPatch in Europe in September 2022; obtained the U.A.E. approval in September 2022, and Indonesia approval in October 2022. The 510(k) filing is the latest move from the Company on its global expansion plan.
A 510(k) is a premarket submission made to the FDA to demonstrate that the submitted device is as safe and effective, that is, substantially equivalent, to a legally marketed device.[1] An EOFlow official said that they just submitted FDA 510(k) application, but the expected clearance date was still unknown. The Company official also commented that the commercial launch plan with its potential partner will be strategically crafted in lieu of the FDA clearance schedule.
The Company is currently negotiating terms with potential U.S. distributors and aims to conclude a distribution agreement within the first half of 2023.
EOFlow's founder and CEO, Mr. Jesse J. Kim said, "I am very proud to begin the US clearance process. With this submission we have taken a major step forward in entering the world's largest diabetes market. Furthermore, as the 510(k) device shares a common backplane with all EOFlow products, this submission is an important step in our efforts to commercialize extended wear and closed loop systems in the US."
Earlier in November, EOFlow announced that it had developed a 7-day wearable pump prototype and is moving it to productization. Completing various tests with the samples that have a 3ml reservoir and can operate for 7 days based on EOFlow's ultra-low-power, high-performance pumping technology, the Company declared the 'EOPatch 3.0' to be the next-generation product aiming for a 2024 launch. However, it is the 'EOPatch' with the reservoir size of 2ml that filed to the FDA this time. The company also has a Breakthrough Device Designation from FDA on a wearable integrated 'artificial pancreas' solution which is a wearable disposable device that has a glucose monitoring sensor, an insulin pump and automated insulin delivery algorithm integrated.
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Biden to have tea with King Charles and promote clean energy
LONDON (AP) - President Joe Biden’s itinerary this week in Europe is dominated by the ongoing war in Ukraine and his continued efforts to rally an international coalition against Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.
But first, some tea.
The U.S. president’s initial stop on his three-nation trip is Britain, where he’ll meet with King Charles III for the first time since the latter was crowned in May. Biden did not attend Charles’s coronation, sending first lady Jill Biden instead, and Monday’s visit will be marked by a bit of royal pomp — including a royal salute, a viewing of U.S.-related artifacts at Windsor Castle and teatime for the two men.
Biden and Charles will also use their visit to bring attention to climate issues, hosting a forum that will focus on how to encourage private companies to engage in more clean energy efforts, specifically in developing economies.
“The president has huge respect for the king’s commitment on the climate issue in particular, that he has been a clarion voice on this issue and more than that, has been an actor, someone who’s mobilized action and effort,” Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, told reporters on Air Force One as Biden traveled to London. “So the president comes at this with enormous goodwill.”
That visit will be paired with what will be the sixth meeting between Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak since he assumed his role in October. It’s all meant to highlight the so-called enduring “special relationship” between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. When Biden declined to attend Charles’s coronation, he promised the king in a phone call that he would visit soon.
Biden last had formal talks with Charles, then prince, at the COP26 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. The U.S. president also attended the state funeral of Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September as well as a reception for heads of state at Buckingham Palace the night before the service.
The climate portion of Biden and the king’s visit on Monday also underscores the high priority that the environment has been for the 74-year-old Charles, who has long fought to protect wildlife and battle climate change. Formally called the Climate Finance Mobilisation Forum, Biden and Charles will be briefed by officials from the financial and philanthropic sectors on their discussions about expanding clean energy initiatives in developing nations.
Before making his way to Windsor Castle, Biden will sit down with Sunak in a session that the White House says will focus on a range of global issues but is sure to be dominated by their continued efforts to back Ukraine. The two nations have been among the most stalwart defenders of Kyiv, and the U.K. has pushed the White House to take more aggressive steps in providing military aid to Ukraine.
But now it’s the Biden administration that has taken steps that 10 Downing Street feels go too far, with the U.S. president’s decision this week to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, a weapon that more than two-thirds of the members of the NATO military alliance have barred for their potential threat to civilian life.
Biden has acknowledged that providing the bombs — which open mid-air and release smaller “bomblets” across a broad swath of land — was a “difficult decision” but he noted that the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition and that the weapons were necessary for them to continue their fight against Russian forces.
“It took me a while to be convinced to do it,” Biden said in a CNN interview ahead of his trip to Europe. “But the main thing is, they either have the weapons to stop the Russians ... from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they don’t. And I think they needed them.”
Sunak, for his part, has distanced himself from the U.S. decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
“The U.K. is signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use,” he told broadcasters on Saturday. The U.S. is not a party to that agreement.
“We will continue to do our part to support Ukraine against Russia’s illegal and unprovoked invasion, but we’ve done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long-range weapons, and hopefully all countries can continue to support Ukraine,” Sunak added.
Sullivan downplayed the disagreement over cluster munitions, saying that “I think you will find Prime Minister Sunak and President Biden on the same page strategically on Ukraine, in lockstep on the bigger picture of what we’re trying to accomplish and as united as ever — both in this conflict and writ large.”
The prime minister’s office said his meeting with Biden on Monday “will be an opportunity to monitor progress on measures and initiatives under the Atlantic Declaration,” which the two leaders signed when Sunak visited the White House last month.
“This includes negotiations which have now begun on a U.K.-U.S. Critical Minerals Agreement, which will support the UK and US’ shared leadership in green technology,” the statement said.
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cartica Acquisition Corp (the "Company") (Nasdaq: CITE) today announced that its extraordinary general meeting in lieu of an annual meeting (the "Meeting") will be rescheduled from 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 23, 2023 to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 30, 2023. The meeting can still be accessed virtually by visiting https://www.cstproxy.com/carticaspac/2023. The record date for the Meeting remains the close of business on May 19, 2023 (the "Record Date"). The Company encourages its shareholders to vote in favor of the proposal to amend its charter to extend the date by which the Company has to complete a business combination from July 7, 2023 to April 7, 2024 (the "Extension") and to vote in favor of the proposal to ratify the selection by the Company's audit committee of Marcum LLP to serve as its independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023.
Shareholders who have previously submitted their proxies or otherwise voted and who do not want to change their vote need not take any action. Shareholders as of the Record Date can vote, even if they have subsequently sold their shares. In connection with the rescheduled Meeting, the deadline for holders of the Company's Class A ordinary shares issued in the Company's initial public offering to submit their shares for redemption in connection with the Extension has been extended to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 28, 2023. Any demand for redemption, once made, may be withdrawn at any time until the deadline for exercising redemption requests and, thereafter, with our consent.
About Cartica Acquisition Corp
Cartica Acquisition Corp is a blank check company formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
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The Company and its sponsor, directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company's shareholders in respect of the Meeting. Information regarding the Company's directors and executive officers is available in its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Additional information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests are contained in the Proxy Statement (defined below).
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Elevating smartphone camera imaging quality to levels that can even rival what some DSLR cameras offer
SHENZHEN, China, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HONOR, a global technology brand, today shared insights from the perspective of an industry leader at a Counterpoint Research event. Titled "Smartphone Imaging Trends: New Directions Capturing Magic Moments", the webinar invited HONOR to discuss its leading role in delivering cutting-edge smartphone imaging solutions and the prevailing trends that are directing the future of smartphone cameras.
"Smartphone photography is not just about hardware or software. At HONOR, we excel in leveraging fusion computational photography and multiple cameras to achieve what we call 'all for one and one for all' synergy, elevating smartphone camera imaging quality to levels that can even rival what some DSLR cameras offer," said Dr. Weilong Hou, Technical Expert, HONOR Imaging. "The HONOR Magic4 Series exemplifies the work of our R&D team, featuring the HONOR Image Engine that not only enables users to harness the full capabilities every camera equipped on an HONOR smartphone, but also makes incredible image quality accessible to everyday users."
The webinar was moderated by Peter Ricardson, Vice President of Research, Counterpoint Research, with a panel of industry veterans and subject experts in attendance, including Dr. Hou; Hervé Macudzinski, Image Science Director, DXOMARK; Judd Heape, Vice President of Product Management, Qualcomm and Eugenio Recuenco, renowned professional photographer, film director and two-time Cannes Lion Award winner, who has also recently shot a film entirely on the HONOR Magic4 Pro. The event complements a Counterpoint Research whitepaper that is publishing today.
HONOR Image Engine: The Core of HONOR Smartphone Cameras
In his presentation, Dr. Hou introduced the HONOR Image Engine, HONOR's cutting edge camera solution that enables the hardware to work in unison with AI and algorithms to generate high quality visuals. Underpinning the camera experience, the solution helps users elevate simple camera captures to artistic renditions of their creative vision. As the latest HONOR flagship smartphones, HONOR Magic4 Pro and HONOR Magic4 Ultimate are a testament to the efficacy of the solution, with the latter scoring 146 on DXOMARK Overall Camera Score – the highest score ever given by the authoritative product evaluation organization.
Addressing user pain points around mobile photography and video capture, the two smartphones debuted with a wide range of cutting-edge features, including the ability to take high quality photos while capturing a video. Going forward, according to Dr. Hou, HONOR will continue striving to empower consumers to take great images anytime, anywhere through R&D, with a focus on achieving performance parity between mobile and dedicated cameras, improving image quality, and harnessing a wider array of sensors with more advanced software to comprehensively improve imaging outcomes.
Currently, all HONOR Magic Series and HONOR N Series smartphones are equipped with HONOR Image Engine, which works in the background to ensure better photo and video capturing results.
Evaluating Smartphone Cameras
From the perspective of a trusted product evaluation expert, Macudzinski shared his views on the requirements for a great photograph – a photographer's skill to identify and frame the scene, the occurrence of a decisive moment to be captured with clarity, and the camera's capabilities to understand user's intention and modify images accordingly. For a smartphone camera to be regarded as exceptional, according to Macudzinski, it needs to support these features in the camera's default shooting mode. The expert illustrated his viewpoints with HONOR Magic4 Ultimate, which has remained the top of DXOMARK's smartphone camera rankings since its test report was published in March. Commending the HONOR flagship smartphone for its exceptional user experience, capture capability and AI processing, Macudzinski discussed key highlights from DXOMARK's report, focusing on HONOR Magic4 Ultimate zoom performance across various focal lengths and the fusion between hardware and software allowing the various camera lenses to work together and produce objectively better image quality.
Smartphone Photography from a Professional's Perspective
Renowned for his works as a photographer and film director, Recuenco recently shot his film Kaleidoscope entirely on HONOR Magic4 Pro. Recounting his experience during the presentation, Recuenco said filming with the HONOR smartphone felt familiar, as the array of professional features such as the powerful camera system and Magic-Log provided him with the creative freedom he enjoys with professional gear, but in a much more pocketable form factor. Recuenco, as one of the judges for the HONOR Magic Moments competition, also selected a few submissions from the year's contest and commented on the myriad possibilities today's smartphone cameras have enabled for people to be more expressive on their captures than ever before.
Technological Integration
Representing Qualcomm, Heape shared insights into the collaboration that brought the HONOR Image Engine to life. The HONOR Magic4 Series took full advantage of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform and the latest Qualcomm AI Engine for Ultra Fusion Photography, allowing images taken by different lenses and processed by multiple ISP to complement each other to achieve an improvement in image quality. The innovative algorithm HONOR developed fully released the RAW domain computational photography capabilities. With HONOR Image Engine's flexible frame work, while Qualcomm's ISP can support the high throughput of multi-threading and parallel processing, which leads to innovative functions and user experiences like "Advanced Photoshoot While Video Recording".
Complementary Counterpoint Research Whitepaper
The webinar is a complement to a new Counterpoint Research whitepaper which offers a holistic view on the wider industry trends with contributions from webinar panelists. The whitepaper is available for download on Counterpoint Research's website.
About HONOR
HONOR is a leading global provider of smart devices. It is dedicated to becoming a global iconic technology brand and creating a new intelligent world for everyone through its powerful products and services. With an unwavering focus on R&D, it is committed to developing technology that empowers people around the globe to go beyond, giving them the freedom to achieve and do more. Offering a range of high-quality smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables to suit every budget, HONOR's portfolio of innovative, premium and reliable products enable people to become a better version of themselves.
For more information, please visit HONOR online at www.hihonor.com or email newsroom@hihonor.com
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The maternal mortality rate for Black women is three times the rate for white women in the U.S. The new documentary “Aftershock” profiles two Black women who died after giving birth and looks at how their families are working to prevent other women from dying.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Paula Eiselt who co-directed the film with Tonya Lewis Lee and Shawnee Benton Gibson, mother of Shamony Gibson whose story is told in the film. “Aftershock” is now streaming on Hulu.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Grizzlies vs. Lakers: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Playoffs Game 1
The Memphis Grizzlies and the Los Angeles Lakers will go head to head in Game 1 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs.
In this article, you will see the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Grizzlies vs. Lakers matchup.
Grizzlies vs. Lakers Game Info
- Date: Sunday, April 16, 2023
- Time: 3:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ABC
- Location: Memphis, Tennessee
- Venue: FedExForum
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Grizzlies vs. Lakers Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Here's a look at the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup available on several sportsbooks.
Grizzlies vs. Lakers Betting Trends
- The Grizzlies average 116.9 points per game (eighth in the league) while allowing 113 per contest (11th in the NBA). They have a +323 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 3.9 points per game.
- The Lakers have a +47 scoring differential, putting up 117.2 points per game (sixth in league) and conceding 116.6 (20th in NBA).
- These teams average 234.1 points per game between them, 6.6 more than this game's total.
- Opponents of these two teams average 229.6 points per game combined, 2.1 more points than this matchup's total.
- Memphis has covered 36 times in 82 chances against the spread this season.
- Los Angeles has covered 40 times in 82 chances against the spread this year.
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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday issued a first-of-a-kind warning to the maker of nicotine gummies, saying the illegal candies pose a growing risk to teenagers and younger children.
The Food and Drug Administration said the fruit-flavored gummies from Florida manufacturer VPR Brands could cause nicotine poisoning or even death if eaten by small children. Regulators also cited recent research suggesting nicotine candies and similar products are becoming more popular among high school students.
“Nicotine gummies are a public health crisis just waiting to happen among our nation’s youth, particularly as we head into a new school year,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
In March, Congress passed a law granting the FDA authority over all forms of nicotine, regardless of whether from tobacco plants or manufactured in a laboratory. That closed a loophole in FDA’s oversight, which until then only included nicotine from plants.
Manufacturer VPR Brands markets its square-shaped gummies as containing “tobacco-free nicotine.” In recent years, many vaping companies have similarly claimed that they’ve switched to synthetic nicotine.
An employee at VPR Brands reached by phone Thursday declined to comment. The FDA’s warning letter gives the company 15 days to remove or address the violations. The agency said VPR Brands has not applied for permission to market the gummies. FDA warnings are not legally binding, but the agency can take companies to court if they are ignored.
The FDA has been working for years to reverse a rise in electronic cigarette use among U.S. teenagers, with mixed results. Last month the agency announced plans to ban e-cigarettes from Juul, only to put the order on hold after facing legal pushback from the popular vaping company.
A recent FDA-funded study found nicotine candies were the second-most popular tobacco product used by high school students in Southern California, behind only e-cigarettes. The FDA said Thursday's action is the first warning to a maker of nicotine gummies.
The FDA has come under intense congressional pressure after announcing last month it would miss a deadline to remove thousands of unauthorized synthetic nicotine products from the market. The agency said it is working as quickly as possible to review nearly 1 million marketing applications it received from 200 companies.
The lack of action has sparked frustration from lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who called the delay “deeply disappointing and unacceptable," in a letter last month.
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Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
(THE CONVERSATION) California is embarking on an audacious new climate plan that aims to eliminate the state’s greenhouse gas footprint by 2045, and in the process, slash emissions far beyond its borders. The blueprint calls for massive transformations in industry, energy and transportation, as well as changes in institutions and human behaviors.
These transformations won’t be easy. Two years of developing the plan have exposed myriad challenges and tensions, including environmental justice, affordability and local rule.
For example, the San Francisco Fire Commission had prohibited batteries with more than 20 kilowatt-hours of power storage in homes, severely limiting the ability to store solar electricity from rooftop solar panels for all those times when the sun isn’t shining. More broadly, local opposition to new transmission lines, large-scale solar and wind facilities, substations for truck charging, and oil refinery conversions to produce renewable diesel will slow the transition.
I had a front row seat while the plan was prepared and vetted as a longtime board member of the California Air Resources Board, the state agency that oversees air pollution and climate control. And my chief contributor to this article, Rajinder Sahota, is deputy executive officer of the board, responsible for preparing the plan and navigating political land mines.
We believe California has a chance of succeeding, and in the process, showing the way for the rest of the world. In fact, most of the needed policies are already in place.
What happens in California has global reach
What California does matters far beyond state lines.
California is close to being the world’s fourth-largest economy and has a history of adopting environmental requirements that are imitated across the United States and the world. California has the most ambitious zero-emission requirements in the world for cars, trucks and buses; the most ambitiouslow-carbon fuel requirements; one of the largest carbon cap-and-trade programs; and the most aggressive requirements for renewable electricity.
In the U.S., through peculiarities in national air pollution law, other states have replicated many of California’s regulations and programs so they can race ahead of national policies. States can either follow federal vehicle emissions standards or California’s stricter rules. There is no third option. An increasing number of states now follow California.
So, even though California contributes less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, if it sets a high bar, its many technical, institutional and behavioral innovations will likely spread and be transformative.
What’s in the California blueprint
The new Scoping Plan lays out in considerable detail how California intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 48% below 1990 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
It calls for a 94% reduction in petroleum use between 2022 and 2045 and an 86% reduction in total fossil fuel use. Overall, it would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 85% by 2045 relative to 1990 levels. The remaining 15% reduction would come from capturing carbon from the air and fossil fuel plants, and sequestering it below ground or in forests, vegetation and soils.
To achieve these goals, the plan calls for a 37-fold increase in on-road zero-emission vehicles, a sixfold increase in electrical appliances in residences, a fourfold increase in installed wind and solar generation capacity, and doubling total electricity generation to run it all. It also calls for ramping up hydrogen power and altering agriculture and forest management to reduce wildfires, sequester carbon dioxide and reduce fertilizer demand.
This is a massive undertaking, and it implies a massive transformation of many industries and activities.
Transportation: California’s No. 1 emitter
Transportation accounts for about half of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, including upstream oil refinery emissions. This is where the path forward is perhaps most settled.
The state has already adopted regulations requiring almost all new cars, trucks and buses to have zero emissions – new transit buses by 2029 and most truck sales and light-duty vehicle sales by 2035.
In addition, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard requires oil companies to steadily reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. This regulation aims to ensure that the liquid fuels needed for legacy cars and trucks still on the road after 2045 will be low-carbon biofuels.
But regulations can be modified and even rescinded if opposition swells. If battery costs do not resume their downward slide, if electric utilities and others lag in providing charging infrastructure, and if local opposition blocks new charging sites and grid upgrades, the state could be forced to slow its zero-emission vehicle requirements.
The plan also relies on changes in human behavior. For example, it calls for a 25% reduction in vehicle miles traveled in 2030 compared with 2019, which has far dimmer prospects. The only strategies likely to significantly reduce vehicle use are steep charges for road use and parking, a move few politicians or voters in the U.S. would support, and a massive increase in shared-ride automated vehicles, which are not likely to scale up for at least another 10 years. Additional charges for driving and parking raise concerns about affordability for low-income commuters.
Electricity and electrifying buildings
The key to cutting emissions in almost every sector is electricity powered by renewable energy.
Electrifying most everything means not just replacing most of the state’s natural gas power plants, but also expanding total electricity production – in this case doubling total generation and quadrupling renewable generation, in just 22 years.
That amount of expansion and investment is mind-boggling – and it is the single most important change for reaching net zero, since electric vehicles and appliances depend on the availability of renewable electricity to count as zero emissions.
Electrification of buildings is in the early stages in California, with requirements in place for new homes to have rooftop solar, and incentives and regulations adopted to replace natural gas use with heat pumps and electric appliances.
The biggest and most important challenge is accelerating renewable electricity generation – mostly wind and utility-scale solar. The state has laws in place requiring electricity to be 100% zero emissions by 2045 – up from 52% in 2021.
The plan to get there includes offshore wind power, which will require new technology – floating wind turbines. The federal government in December 2022 leased the first Pacific sites for offshore wind farms, with plans to power over 1.5 million homes. However, years of technical and regulatory work are still ahead.
For solar power, the plan focuses on large solar farms, which can scale up faster and at less cost than rooftop solar. The same week the new scoping plan was announced, California’s Public Utility Commission voted to significantly scale back how much homeowners are reimbursed for solar power they send to the grid, a policy known as net metering. The Public Utility Commission argues that because of how electricity rates are set, generous rooftop solar reimbursements have primarily benefited wealthier households while imposing higher electricity bills on others. It believes this new policy will be more equitable and create a more sustainable model.
Industry and the carbon capture challenge
Industry plays a smaller role, and the policies and strategies here are less refined.
The state’s carbon cap-and-trade program, designed to ratchet down total emissions while allowing individual companies some flexibility, will tighten its emissions limits.
But while cap-and-trade has been effective to date, in part by generating billions of dollars for programs and incentives to reduce emissions, its role may change as energy efficiency improves and additional rules and regulations are put in place to replace fossil fuels.
One of the greatest controversies throughout the Scoping Plan process is its reliance on carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS. The controversy is rooted in concern that CCS allows fossil fuel facilities to continue releasing pollution while only capturing the carbon dioxide emissions. These facilities are often in or near disadvantaged communities.
California’s chances of success
Will California make it? The state has a track record of exceeding its goals, but getting to net zero by 2045 requires a sharper downward trajectory than even California has seen before, and there are still many hurdles.
Environmental justice concerns about carbon capture and new industrial facilities, coupled with NIMBYism, could block many needed investments. And the possibility of sluggish economic growth could led to spending cuts and might exacerbate concerns about economic disruption and affordability.
There are also questions about prices and geopolitics. Will the upturn in battery costs in 2022 – due to geopolitical flare-ups, a lag in expanding the supply of critical materials, and the war in Ukraine – turn out to be a hiccup or a trend? Will electric utilities move fast enough in building the infrastructure and grid capacity needed to accommodate the projected growth in zero-emission cars and trucks?
It is encouraging that the state has already created just about all the needed policy infrastructure. Additional tightening of emissions limits and targets will be needed, but the framework and policy mechanisms are largely in place.
Rajinder Sahota, deputy executive officer of the California Air Resources Board, contributed to this article.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/how-californias-ambitious-new-climate-plan-could-help-speed-energy-transformation-around-the-world-197094. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/how-california-s-ambitious-new-climate-plan-could-17743347.php | 2023-01-26 15:16:02 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/how-california-s-ambitious-new-climate-plan-could-17743347.php |
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Darrion Williams hit two free throws with 23 seconds left to allow Nevada to hold off Fresno State, 60-56 on Friday night.
Nevada took a nine-point lead on Jarod Lucas' jumper with seven minutes left, 55-46, but Fresno State answered with a 10-2 run to make it 57-56 when Jordan Campbell dunked with 3:30 left. But it was the final field goal made by either team the rest of the way. Will Baker hit the second of two free throw attempts with 54 seconds left to take a two-point lead and the Isaiah Hill and Jemari Baker each missed 3-point attempts for Fresno State. After Williams made it a four-point lead, the Bulldogs missed three more 3-point attempts.
Baker finished with 13 points to lead Nevada (22-7, 12-4 Mountain West). Kenan Blackshear finished with 11 points and six assists and Willams had 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
Hill finished with 15 points to lead Fresno State (10-18, 6-11). Baker scored 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds and Anthony Holland added 12 points and six rebounds.
Nevada has a week off before playing host to UNLV March 4. Fresno State plays at New Mexico Tuesday.
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Saint Louis City SC (5-1-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. Seattle Sounders FC (4-1-1, second in the Western Conference)
Seattle; Saturday, 10:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Seattle -147, Saint Louis +357, Draw +300; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Saint Louis City SC hits the road against the Seattle Sounders looking to extend a three-game road winning streak.
The Sounders are 4-0-1 against Western Conference opponents. Jordan Morris paces the fourth-ranked scoring team in the MLS with eight goals. The Sounders have scored 12.
Saint Louis is 4-1-0 in Western Conference games. Saint Louis has a 2-1 record in games decided by one goal.
Saturday's game is the first time these teams square off this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Morris has scored eight goals for the Sounders. Heber has two goals.
Klauss has five goals and one assist for Saint Louis. Nicholas Gioacchini has two goals and one assist.
SEASON SO FAR: Sounders: Averaging 2.0 goals, 4.5 shots on goal and 4.2 corner kicks through six games while allowing 0.5 goals per game.
Saint Louis: Averaging 2.5 goals, 5.8 shots on goal and 5.7 corner kicks through six games while allowing 0.8 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Sounders: Dylan Teves (injured), Alex Roldan (injured), Kelyn Rowe (injured).
Saint Louis: Joakim Nilsson (injured), Rasmus Alm (injured).
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IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) today reported total November sales of 26,906 vehicles, an increase of 30.6 percent compared to November 2021. Year-to-date sales totaled 267,616 vehicles; a decrease of 14.6 percent compared to the same time last year. With 25 selling days in November, compared to 24 the year prior, the company posted an increase of 25.4 percent on a Daily Selling Rate (DSR) basis.
CPO sales totaled 4,344 vehicles in November, an increase of 13 percent compared to November 2021.
Sales Highlights
- Second best-ever November total sales with 26,906 vehicles sold.
- Best-ever November sales of CX-30 with 4,457 vehicles sold.
- Best-ever November sales of CX-9 with 4,025 vehicles sold.
Mazda Canada, Inc., (MCI) reported November sales of 3,067 vehicles, an increase of 3.1 percent compared to November last year. Year-to-date sales decreased 21.8 percent, with 47,135 vehicles sold.
Mazda Motor de Mexico (MMdM) reported November sales of 4,123 vehicles, a decrease of 14.4 percent compared to last year. Year-to-date sales decreased 2.6 percent, with 41,090 vehicles sold.
Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, California, and oversees the sales, marketing, parts, and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States, Canada, and Mexico through approximately 780 dealers. Operations in Canada are managed by Mazda Canada Inc. in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at News.MazdaUSA.com.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- We're excited to share that Lasso Labs raised $4.2M in a round led by Electric Capital. Lasso makes it easy to discover and create utility for digital assets like NFTs.
In addition to Electric Capital's involvement, this round includes Ethereal Ventures, Village Global, OpenSea, and Page One Ventures, as well as individuals such as Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), 0x650d, Chandan Lodha (CoinTracker), Will Papper (SyndicateDAO), David Choi (MetaStreet), Soso Sazesh (43), leaders from Coinbase, Google, Phantom, Celestia, and more.
We believe that NFTs will be the most common form of verifiable digital ownership: the native SKU type of the evolving internet. We're particularly bullish about NFTs that provide holders with ongoing value across digital, physical, and hybrid contexts. This design space is vast: encompassing online & IRL access, claims on products, airdrops, community memberships, and rights such as governance, IP, and royalties.
Lasso aims to accelerate this trend towards NFTs with tangible utility. Even in the current bear cycle, there is significant momentum in this direction. We've indexed thousands of NFT projects, along with associated off-chain data. Across the Top 500 projects on Ethereum (by all-time volume), more than 70% have already provided at least one token-based benefit to their communities, with more to come as utility becomes essential to existing projects and new drops alike.
Beta launch on Ethereum
Today, we're also announcing an invite-only beta program for our first product: a discovery platform that gives users a real-time view of any access, offers, rights, or other opportunities tied to specific NFTs.
It's currently hard for individuals to understand the utility attached to their NFTs; it's equally difficult for project creators to introduce utility after their tokens are minted. This is because records of utility are unstructured, evolving, and off-chain, while NFTs live on-chain. We've also heard from many creators that token-gating infrastructure itself remains a challenge to set up and maintain properly.
Lasso's data platform ingests real-time data from on-chain and off-chain sources (social media APIs and websites), automatically tags instances of utility, and populates our utility registry with structured records. Once verified, these are visible to people using Lasso.
Rich metadata around how NFTs can be used, and how consumers engage with these assets, enables a far more expansive knowledge graph. This, in turn, enables a greater degree of personalization, with next-level search and recommendation experiences, as well as the ability to browse with token-specific or utility-centric intent. Over time, this will be a key differentiator in Lasso's product.
The road ahead
We're focused on establishing Lasso as the best place to discover and interact with programmable digital assets: beyond speculation to deep engagement with the functionality provided by any NFT.
To that end, Lasso provides real-time information flows that make it easy to stay current with new opportunities, as well as approachable analytics that improve understanding of different communities and assets. Lastly, we make it simple to take action on airdrops, mints, product claims, content exclusives, event RSVPs, voting, and more.
Our ultimate goal is to build the most robust foundation and universal standards for digital asset utility, thus addressing the needs of both consumers and creators. We'll be expanding access to our beta over the coming weeks, and adding functionality, as well as support for other NFT ecosystems beyond Ethereum. Follow us on Twitter for ongoing updates and market insights, and join the beta waitlist from Lasso's site.
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UPLIFTING FAMILY MOVIE, STARRING ANNA CAMP, INSPIRED BY A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a two-night theater debut, the newest AFFIRM Originals movie 5000 BLANKETS will be available to stream exclusively on Pure Flix on January 5, 2023.
The film is inspired by the remarkable true story of a young boy, Phillip, and his mother, whose lives are changed forever after his father disappears during a mental health crisis. Phillip's generosity and determination spark an entire city's movement to help the homeless.
"I'm so honored to be part of such a moving story," said actress Anna Camp, who plays Cyndi Bunch in the film. "This is a story about a woman of faith who believes in God, but who's really struggling with why this painful thing happened to her. She has doubts and fears but ultimately, it's a movie about overcoming them in the face of personal struggle. It's also about loving others and making a difference on a daily basis."
The new film stars Anna Camp (Jerry & Marge Go Large, PITCH PERFECT), Carson Minniear (RALLY CAPS), Rob Mayes (THOR: RAGNAROK), Rod Hallett (The Last Kingdom, Red Rose, MacGyver), and Kim Myers (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2). It is directed by Amin Matalqa and produced by Doug Shaffer.
"I was really moved when I first read the screenplay based on Cyndi and Phillip's story," said Director Amin Matalqa. "I love capturing stories of dreamers and unsung heroes on film. I know audiences will find the story as inspiring as I did."
The new film is inspired by the remarkable true story of the Bunch family. When her husband and father of her son went missing during a mental health crisis, Cyndi and her son Phillip discovered an unmet need in their city of Forth Worth, Texas: thousands of homeless were going to be left cold as the temperatures plummet in the coming winter months. Together, the mother and son founded the charity PHILLIP'S WISH and began collecting blankets to provide to those in need.
"One night as I was tucking Phillip into bed, he asked me, 'Mommy, are you cold?' And I said, 'No, I'm fine.' He goes, 'Do you think daddy's cold?,'" said Cyndi about the inspiration behind the charity. "I was just taken aback. I didn't know how to even answer that… He just kept saying, 'We need to get these blankets so we can warm them all up.'"
Watch the trailer for 5000 BLANKETS right now.
Pure Flix is your home for faith and family-friendly movies and shows where you can confidently stream with the entire family. With new premium and exclusive original entertainment choices every week, you can strengthen your faith and family with Pure Flix – a streaming service that inspires, uplifts and entertains.
You'll get access to the largest variety of high-quality wholesome movies, series and kids' content at one low price. Experience the difference that positive, encouraging entertainment can have in your home.
Pure Flix is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
AFFIRM Films, launched in 2007, is an industry leader in faith-based/inspirational films with worldwide box office of over $660 million including such hits as SOUL SURFER, WAR ROOM, RISEN, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN, OVERCOMER, A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD in partnership with TriStar Pictures, and most recently The Kendrick Brothers' SHOW ME THE FATHER. AFFIRM produces, acquires and markets content that inspires, uplifts and entertains audiences around the world focusing on family and faith through its three divisions, AFFIRM Films, AFFIRM Television and AFFIRM Originals. Sony Pictures Entertainment is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. Register to get all the latest news from AFFIRM Films at www.affirmfilmsupdates.com and follow AFFIRM Films on social media at @AFFIRMFilms.
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LEHI, Utah, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purple Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRPL) ("Purple"), a comfort innovation company known for creating the "World's First No Pressure® Mattress," today confirmed that on September 17, 2022 it received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from Coliseum Capital Management, LLC to acquire all of the outstanding capital stock of Purple for $4.35 per share.
The Purple Board of Directors will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of Purple and all Purple shareholders.
About Purple
Purple is a digitally-native vertical brand with a mission to help people feel and live better through innovative comfort solutions. We design and manufacture a variety of innovative, premium, branded comfort products, including mattresses, pillows, cushions, frames, sheets and more. Our products are the result of over 30 years of innovation and investment in proprietary and patented comfort technologies and the development of our own manufacturing processes. Our proprietary gel technology, Hyper-Elastic Polymer®, underpins many of our comfort products and provides a range of benefits that differentiate our offerings from other competitors' products. We market and sell our products through our direct-to-consumer online channels, traditional retail partners, third-party online retailers and our owned retail showrooms. For more information on Purple, visit purple.com .
Investor Contact:
Brendon Frey, ICR
brendon.frey@icrinc.com
203-682-8200
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Detroit (AP) — Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated the end of slavery after the Civil War.
While many have treated the long holiday weekend as a reason for a party, others urged quiet reflection on America’s often violent and oppressive treatment of its Black citizens. And still others have remarked at the strangeness of celebrating a federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the nation while many Americans are trying to stop parts of that history from being taught in public schools.
“Is #Juneteenth the only federal holiday that some states have banned the teaching of its history and significance?” Author Michelle Duster asked on Twitter this weekend, referring to measures in Florida, Oklahoma and Alabama prohibiting an Advancement Placement African American studies course or the teaching of certain concepts of race and racism.
Monday’s federal holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the bloody Civil War.
On Juneteenth weekend, a Roman Catholic church in Detroit devoted its service to urging parishioners to take a deeper look at the lessons from the holiday.
“In order to have justice we must work for peace. And in order to have peace we must work for justice,” John Thorne, executive director of the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance, said to the congregation at Gesu Catholic Church in Detroit.
Standing before paintings of a Black Jesus and Mary, Thorne said Juneteenth is a day of celebration, but it also “has to be much more.”
It was important to speak about Juneteenth during Sunday Mass, the Rev. Lorn Snow told a reporter as the service was ending.
“The struggle’s still not over with. There’s a lot of work to be done,” he said.
Most Black Americans agree, according to a recent poll. A full 70% of Black adults queried in a AP-NORC poll said “a lot” needs to be done to achieve equal treatment for African Americans in policing. And Black Americans suffer from significantly worse health outcomes than their white peers across a variety of measures, including rates of maternal mortality, asthma, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease.
Although end-of-slavery celebrations are new in many parts of the country, in Memphis, where the slave trade once thrived, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated since long before it became a designated federal holiday in 2021. The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill earlier this year making it a state holiday, as well.
Festivities there include a multi-day festival including food, music, arts and crafts, and cultural exhibitions in a tree-lined park in the city’s medical district. The Memphis park once held an equestrian statue and the grave of slave trader and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. The statue and the body were moved in recent years.
Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum located at the site of the old Lorraine Motel, the former Black-owned hotel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. The museum is offering free admission on Monday to mark the holiday. At the museum, visitors can hear recorded speeches from civil rights leaders including King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers and others.
Ryan Jones, the museum’s associate curator, said Juneteenth should be celebrated in the U.S. with the same emphasis that July 4 receives as Independence Day.
“It is the independence of a people that were forced to endure oppression and discrimination based on the color of their skin,” Jones said.
The Juneteenth holiday, Jones said, should also be viewed as more than a day when people attend parties and cookouts. In fact, he said, it is a time to reflect on the past.
“It acknowledges the sacrifices of those early civil rights veterans between World War I and World War II, and of course in the modern society, the protests, the demonstrations, the non-violence, the marches,” Jones said.
As Americans gathered to mark the holiday, it wasn’t without incident. In a Chicago suburb late Saturday night, one person was killed and 22 were injured in a shooting still being investigated Sunday by police. One witness said the party in the parking lot of a Willowbrook, Illinois, strip-mall was a Juneteenth celebration.
The White House released a statement Sunday afternoon, saying: “The President and First Lady are thinking of those killed and injured in the shooting in Illinois last night. We have reached out to offer assistance to state and local leaders in the wake of this tragedy at a community Juneteenth celebration.”
The holiday observance continues Monday with Vice President Kamala Harris appearing on a CNN special with musical guests including Miguel and Charlie Wilson.
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Caribbean food truck Island Vibes is moving to Bentonville, according to a recent social media post. The relocated food truck will open May 9 and will operate on Eighth Street, according to owner Kemar Mowatt.
Mowatt, a former Razorback and Jamaican Olympian, serves authentic Caribbean and Jamaican dishes at the food truck. The menu includes jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail, pepper steak and curry chicken in addition to Jamaican lemonade and Jamaican sodas.
Island Vibes is open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the food truck's website.
The truck originally opened at 3570 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in south Fayetteville last year.
Bonchon
Bonchon, a Korean fried chicken chain, will open locations in Bentonville and Fayetteville, Eric Harrison with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported last week.
The future Northwest Arkansas restaurants are franchised by Jeff Poole, according to a QSR magazine news release. Poole attended the University of Arkansas and comes from a family of restaurant operators.
Bonchon, which translates from Korean to English as "my hometown," serves a Korean variety of fried chicken that is hand-battered, hand-brushed and double-fried. The menu also offers Asian-fusion and Korean specialties.
No opening dates have been announced.
Heroes Coffee
Heroes Coffee Company opened its third shop earlier this week.
A new mid-town Rogers store at 301 S. Dodson Road began welcoming customers on Tuesday.
According to a social media post, the shop is already operating its full hours, 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekends.
Heroes' other two cafes are located at 124 S.W. Eighth St. in Bentonville and 5102 Pauline Whitaker Parkway in the Pinnacle area of Rogers.
Domino's
Domino's Pizza is planned for the southwest corner of New Hope Road and South First Street in Rogers.
A sign at the location indicates it will be a "pizza theater store."
"The new store design allows flexibility for a number of features otherwise unheard of when it comes to the 'traditional' Domino's store," according to the Domino's website. "Features include a comfortable lobby, open-area viewing of the food preparation process and the ability to track carryout orders electronically on a lobby screen."
No opening date has been announced yet.
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Ben Collins moved to the Northwest Arkansas area over 10 years ago from Austin, Texas, to be closer to family. He attended the University of Arkansas, where he earned a degree in media communications and journalism, graduating in 2021. This is Ben's first regular feature, having worked for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for over a year as an online producer. Has a restaurant recently opened or closed near you? Does your favorite spot have a new menu? Let us know. Email bcollins@nwaonline.com. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/05/lets-eat-island-vibes-in-bentonville-korean-fried/ | 2023-05-05 07:02:44 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/05/lets-eat-island-vibes-in-bentonville-korean-fried/ |
A slow moving coastal storm that has dropped rain and snow on New Jersey will stick around well into the afternoon, but once the rain ends, the attention will turn to the long-range forecast showing potential for a snowstorm heading into Christmas weekend.
We’ll only receive another few hundredths of an inch of rain Friday, but conditions will remain gray and gloomy for much of the day, the National Weather Service said.
By afternoon most of the state will begin to dry out with highs mostly in the mid 40s.
Accumulating wet snow that was falling overnight in western Passaic County has ended as temperatures have climbed above freezing.
While more than 10,000 homes and businesses were without power at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, that number has been reduced to about 2,600 as of 7 a.m.
The nasty weather has led to several road closures across the state on Friday morning.
Route 40 in both directions in Egg Harbor Township west of the Atlantic City Expressway remains closed as of 7:15 a.m. due to road flooding, according to 511nj.org, the state department of transportation’s traffic website.
Also, flooding on Route 130 in Brooklawn has shut down the road in the area of County Route 551. In addition, a downed tree on Route 206 in Princeton south of Ewing Street has closed the road in both directions.
The storm has led to moderate flooding in the Barnegat Bay in Waretown and minor flooding in the bay near Barnegat Light, the weather service said. Minor flooding is also reported at several other spots along the Jersey Shore in Ocean County.
A coastal flood advisory will be in effect from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and southeast Burlington counties. Flooding is expected on the most vulnerable roads coastal and bayside communities and along inland tidal waterways with road closured possible.
In northwestern New Jersey, some school districts in Morris, Passaic and Sussex have delayed openings on Friday.
Wildwood received 2.24 inches of rain as of 10 p.m. Thursday, the highest total in the state. Haddon Township picked up 2 inches, while many other towns in Camden and Cape May counties had at least an inch-and-three-quarters of rain, the weather service said.
By Friday night, temperatures will plunge into the upper 20s and low 30s. The next five days will be almost identical weather-wise — sunny and chilly during the day with temps in the upper 30s or low 40s. Overnight temps will dip into the 20s.
Late next week, forecasters are eying “a potentially major” coastal storm around Thursday into Friday.
Forecasters caution that it’s too early to start talking about snowfall totals, but note that Christmas weekend travel could be affected.
The weather service said in its morning forecast discussion that some snow, gusty winds, heavy rain and coastal flooding are all possible.
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Little Rock names court after Foley, NEA natives Salary and Eaton lead Ole Miss to win
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - Jonesboro alum Destiny Salary and Nettleton great Elauna Eaton combined for three triples, helping Ole Miss to a 58-40 win over Little Rock at the Jack Stephens Center Sunday afternoon.
The Trojans dedicated the court at the Jack Stephens Center to their longtime head coach Joe Foley. Foley, who had a prior stint at Arkansas Tech, has won 378 games over his 20 seasons at Little Rock.
He couldn’t make it 379, though, as the Rebels defense held the Trojans to 38 percent shooting from the field.
Eaton, an Arkansas transfer hit two threes for a season-high six points. She’s made the most of her minutes so far, scoring 9 points in 25 total minutes played through three games.
Salary has been the first off the bench for Ole Miss, averaging 20 minutes a game and has 21 points so far.
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Jan. 6 witnesses push Trump stalwarts back to rabbit hole
(AP) - One by one, several of Donald Trump’s former top advisers have told a special House committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection that they didn’t believe his lies about the 2020 election, and that the former president knew he lost to Joe Biden.
But instead of convincing Trump’s most stalwart supporters, testimony from former attorney general Bill Barr and Trump’s daughter Ivanka about the election and the attack on the U.S. Capitol is prompting many of them to simply reassert their views that the former president was correct in his false claim of victory.
Barr’s testimony that Trump was repeatedly told there was no election fraud? He was paid off by a voting machine company, according to one false claim that went viral this week. Ivanka Trump saying she didn’t believe Trump either? It’s all part of Trump’s grand plan to confuse his enemies and save America.
The claims again demonstrate how deeply rooted Trump’s false narrative about the election has become.
“It’s cognitive dissonance,” said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a Syracuse University professor who has studied how Trump used social media and advertising to mobilize his base. “If you believe what Trump says, and now Bill Barr and Trump’s own daughter are saying these other things, it creates a crack, and people have to fill it.”
The lawmakers leading the hearings into the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol said one of their goals is to show how Trump repeatedly lied to his supporters in an effort to hold onto power and subvert American democracy.
“President Trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false, and convincing millions of Americans that the election was corrupt and he was the true president,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the panel’s vice chair. “As you will see, this misinformation campaign provoked the violence on January 6th.”
For those who accept Trump’s baseless claims, Barr’s testimony was especially jarring. In his interview with investigators, he detailed Trump’s many absurd allegations about the election 2020, calling them “bogus” and “idiotic.”
Barr told the committee when he talked with Trump, “there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.”
“He’s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff,” Barr said.
Following his testimony, many Trump supporters using sites like Reddit, GETTR and Telegram blasted Barr as a turncoat and noted that he’s disputed Trump’s election claims before.
But many others began grasping for alternative explanations for this testimony.
“I’m still hoping Barr is playing a role,” one poster said on a Telegram channel popular with Trump supporters.
One post that spread widely this week suggested Barr was paid by Dominion Voting Systems, a company targeted by Trump and his supporters with baseless claims of vote rigging. “From 2009 to 2018, DOMINION PAID BARR $1.2 million in cash and granted him another $1.1 million in stock awards, according to SEC filings. (No wonder Barr can’t find any voter fraud!),” the post read.
Wrong Dominion. Barr was paid by Dominion Energy, a publicly traded company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, that provides power and heat to customers in several mid-Atlantic states.
Unlike Barr, Ivanka Trump has remained intensely popular with many Trump supporters and is seen by many as her father’s potential successor. That may be why so many had to find an an alternative explanation for why she told Congress she didn’t accept her father’s claims.
Jordan Sather, a leading proponent of the QAnon theory, claims both Barr and Ivanka Trump lied during their testimony on Trump’s orders, part of an elaborate scheme to defeat Trump’s enemies by confusing Congress and the American public.
“I can just imagine Donald Trump telling Ivanka: ‘Hey, go to this hearing, say these things. Screw with their heads,’” Sather said last week on his online show.
Some Trump supporters dismissed Ivanka Trump’s testimony entirely by questioning whether any of it was real. That’s another common refrain seen on far-right message boards. Many posters say they don’t even believe the hearings are happening, but are a Hollywood production starring stand-ins for the former president’s daughter and others.
“She looks different in a big way,” one poster asked on Telegram. “CGI?”
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Join moomoo's paper trading competition during the month of April.
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moomoo, a tech-driven financial services platform offering professional trading tools and an engaged social community, announces its virtual paper trading competition as part of its Financial Literacy Month activities in April.
Paper trading simulates trading by utilizing virtual funds allowing investors to practice different strategies without risking real money. The competition launched on April 1, 2023, with the first day of simulated trading starting on April 3rd and will officially close on April 30th.
Details:
- Participants must download and register for the moomoo app
- Participants must register for the Financial Literacy US Stocks Paper Trade competition
- The competition is for US stock trading only
- Each participant will receive initial assets for US $100,000 in virtual funds
- Participants can join at any point during the month of April and must complete at least one trade to qualify
"Financial education is a pillar of our trading platform. We believe that everyone should have access to educational materials that provide people with the ability to gain knowledge to make financial decisions," states Justin Zacks, VP of Strategy, Moomoo Technologies Inc. "This paper trading competition gives people an opportunity to practice buying and selling US stocks without the risk of using their own money, while providing a community to share ideas and learn from other participants."
The top 20 participants at the end of the competition will be awarded cash coupons. Each participant will be eligible for a one-month free trial of Benzinga Pro.
Terms and conditions apply, for more information, visit: https://j.moomoo.com/00x305
About Moomoo
Moomoo is a next-generation one-stop digital financial services platform created by Moomoo Technologies Inc., a fintech company based in Palo Alto, California.
Moomoo integrates trading, market data, and social networking with advanced features, such as AI-powered analytics and anomaly detection functions. It supports online account-opening and provides access to trade stocks and ETFs in multiple global markets such as the United States, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, and Australia. Moomoo and its brand affiliates also offer rich financial education content and an interactive online community with over 19 million users in more than 200 countries and regions globally. In the U.S., investment products and services on Moomoo are offered by Moomoo Financial Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC.
Moomoo's parent company is the Nasdaq-listed fintech company Futu Holdings Limited ("Futu"), which is headquartered in Hong Kong SAR. Futu's subsidiary is also one of the largest brokerages in Hong Kong SAR. On March 8, 2019, Futu was listed on Nasdaq (stock symbol: FUTU).
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TX Lubbock TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Zone Forecasts for the South Plains Area
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National Weather Service Lubbock TX
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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Lubbock-
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Including the cities of Lubbock, Wolfforth, and Slaton
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows around 50. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs around 70. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper
30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
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becoming west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Childress-
Including the cities of Childress and Kirkland
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper
60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
the upper 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph,
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becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Parmer-
Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, and Farwell
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 70s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming
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west around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 60s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder with lows around 30.
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Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph in the
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afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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Castro-
Including the cities of Dimmitt and Hart
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 70s. West winds
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15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Southwest winds 20 to 25 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the lower
60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder with lows in the lower
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30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Swisher-
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Including the cities of Tulia and Happy
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west 15 to 25 mph this afternoon.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the lower
60s. North winds 20 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the
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afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
the lower 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Briscoe-
Including the cities of Silverton and Quitaque
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph this morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 15 to
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20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, windy and much cooler with highs in the mid
60s. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
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the upper 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph,
becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Not as cool with lows
in the mid 50s.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Hall-
Including the cities of Turkey and Memphis
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. West winds 15 to 20 mph
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with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper
60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
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the upper 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph, becoming northwest 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Bailey-
Including the city of Muleshoe
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 70s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 40s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder with lows around 30.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing
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to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
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.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Lamb-
Including the cities of Littlefield, Amherst, and Olton
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. West winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 15 to
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20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower
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30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
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Lows around 50. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Including the cities of Plainview and Hale Center
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
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winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid
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60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
the lower 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph,
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diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower
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40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
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rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Floyd-
Including the cities of Floydada and Lockney
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper
60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
the mid 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
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after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
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the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Motley-
Including the cities of Matador and Roaring Springs
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest
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winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph this morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs around 70.
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Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper
30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Cottle-
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Including the cities of Paducah and Cee Vee
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph this afternoon.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the lower
70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows
around 40. North winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 60.
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Cochran-
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Including the cities of Morton and Whiteface
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs around 80. West winds 15 to
25 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 40s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs around 70. Northwest
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 30s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northeast
5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
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5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows around 50. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Hockley-
Including the cities of Levelland and Sundown
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 40s. West
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winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs around 70. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
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North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Crosby-
Including the cities of Ralls and Crosbyton
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy, cooler with lows in
the upper 30s. North winds 15 to 25 mph, diminishing to 10 to
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15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Including the cities of Spur and Dickens
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
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Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper
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30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Including the cities of Dumont and Guthrie
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid
70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower
40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph,
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diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
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Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Including the cities of Denver City and Plains
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs around 80. West winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 40s. West
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winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northeast
5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Including the cities of Brownfield, Meadow, and Wellman
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the lower 80s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming
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west 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northeast
5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
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rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Including the cities of Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell
234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, windy with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
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winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest
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winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming northeast
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Including the cities of Post and Lake Alan Henry
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.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows around 40. North
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms.
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Breezy with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds
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15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower
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40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Breezy and not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Including the cities of Aspermont and Old Glory
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234 AM CDT Fri Apr 14 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph,
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diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
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20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
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partly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
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Migrant survivors of West Texas shooting detained by ICE
Posted/updated on: October 19, 2022 at 8:46 amAUSTIN (AP) — One migrant is dead, another is wounded and at least seven others are languishing in detention three weeks after twin brothers allegedly opened fire on them in the Texas desert, claiming they thought they were firing on wild hogs. Now, advocates for the survivors are calling for immigration authorities to release the migrants. They cite a 2021 immigration directive that specifies being a victim of a crime in the U.S. should be considered during enforcement. The accused shooters, Mark and Michael Sheppard, who both worked in local law enforcement, were initially released on half a million dollars bail. They were re-arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the Sept. 27 shooting. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1172848 | 2022-10-19 14:01:19 | 0 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1172848 |
TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Primo Water Corporation (NYSE: PRMW) (TSX: PRMW) (the "Company" or "Primo"), a leading provider of sustainable drinking water solutions in North America and Europe, today announced the appointment of David W. Hass as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hass is replacing Mr. Jay Wells, who previously announced his planned retirement as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 1, 2023. Mr. Wells will assist with the CFO transition through his retirement date.
"David is a strategic and purpose-driven leader with an exceptional depth of experience across our business," said Tom Harrington, Chief Executive Officer of Primo. " As David assumes this new role, we will draw on that experience in helping us drive innovation, accelerate growth and propel operational excellence of our differentiated 'Water Your Way' platform."
Since 2020, Mr. Hass has been Chief Strategy Officer for the Company. From 2011 to 2020, Mr. Hass served in various roles with legacy Primo, including Chief Strategy Officer, Vice President of Strategy, Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), as well as GM of the Canadian Business Unit and the Water Direct Business Unit. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Hass served as Vice President of Consumer Investment Banking at Stifel (formerly Thomas Weisel Partners). Prior to that, Mr. Hass served as an Associate in the Client Financial Management practice at Accenture.
Primo Water Corporation is a leading pure-play water solutions provider in North America and Europe and generates approximately $2.1 billion in annual revenue. Primo operates largely under a recurring razor/razorblade revenue model. The razor in Primo's revenue model is its industry leading line-up of sleek and innovative water dispensers, which are sold through retailers and online at various price points. The dispensers help increase household penetration which drives recurring purchases of Primo's razorblade offering. Primo's razorblade offering is comprised of Water Direct, Water Exchange, and Water Refill. Through its Water Direct business, Primo delivers sustainable hydration solutions across its 21-country footprint direct to the customer's door, whether at home or to businesses. Primo sells dispensers online and in approximately 10,000 retail locations. Complementing the dispenser business, Primo offers pre-filled Water Exchange in approximately 17,500 retail locations and approximately 23,500 self-service Water Refill machines at retail locations. Primo also offers water filtration units across its 21-country footprint.
Primo's water solutions expand consumer access to purified, spring, and mineral water to promote a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle while simultaneously reducing plastic waste and pollution. Primo is committed to its water stewardship standards and is proud to partner with the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) in North America as well as with Watercoolers Europe (WE), which ensure strict adherence to safety, quality, sanitation and regulatory standards for the benefit of consumer protection.
Primo is headquartered in Tampa, Florida (USA). For more information, visit www.primowatercorp.com.
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The mayor of Norwalk is declaring a water emergency for the city, effective Friday, because of drought conditions.
Mayor Harry Rilling said in a news release that he is issuing mandatory water conservation measures “to prevent a much larger water crisis.”
The city said Norwalk has had historically low levels of rain, including the least amount of rain on record in 43 years, which affects reservoir levels and the water supply on hand.
What's Prohibited During Water Emergency in Norwalk
The following activities are prohibited during the water emergency in Norwalk.
- Sprinkling, watering or irrigating of shrubbery, trees, lawns, grass, ground cover and plants except when these items are intended for sale, are new plantings within the current season, or are new trees that have been planted within the past three years.
- Washing automobiles, trucks, or trailers except at automated facilities using no more than 45 gallons of potable water per vehicle.
- Washing or power-washing walks, driveways, buildings, pavement, porches, or other outdoor surfaces.
- Use of fire hydrants for purposes other than the protection of public safety by a public agency.
- Filling or draining ponds or lakes used for private or public recreational purposes.
- Knowingly allowing leaking internal plumbing fixtures or leaks on customer water lines.
Violators Could Be Fined
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The city said Norwalk police officers will first advise violators to curtail prohibited activities and failure to comply will result in the issuance of a “fine not to exceed $90 per day for each day the violation exists.”
How to Conserve Water
Residents are asked to take the following steps to continue to help conserve water:
- Take shorter showers and skip baths altogether (a full bathtub can use up to 70 gallons of water)
- Only wash full loads of laundry
- Check for leaks around the house, including leaky toilets
- Keep drinking water in the refrigerator so you don't have to run the faucet while it cools
- Stop rinsing dishes before you place them in the dishwasher
- Take your car to the automatic car wash instead of washing it at home
- Reuse water for your plants wherever you can
- Apply mulch to plants, shrubs and ornamental trees to reduce water evaporation from the soil
- Switch from a hose to a broom for cleaning your patio. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/norwalk-declares-water-emergency-due-to-drought/3896343/ | 2022-10-06 14:49:09 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/norwalk-declares-water-emergency-due-to-drought/3896343/ |
Alzheimer’s advocates move one step closer to research diversity
A Hawaii native is sharing her mother’s story of living with Alzheimer’s to lawmakers on Capitol Hill to push for the ENACT Act.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - “Alzheimer’s disease affects everybody, not just white people.” Alzheimer’s advocate, Amy Truong, said. She knows that firsthand. Her mother, an Asian American, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s 14 years ago.
Truong started volunteering with the Alzheimer’s Association, and noticed she was one of just a few non-white advocates. She explained that diversity is also lacking in Alzheimer’s studies.
“For Native Hawaiians, for Asian Americans, and for Native Americans, there’s actually not enough data at all to even come to a conclusion,” Truong said.
Truong is taking her concerns to Washington: she’s meeting with lawmakers from her state of Hawaii about the ENACT Act. If passed, the bill would require increased participation of underrepresented populations in research and clinical trials for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M) co-sponsored the legislation, which has broad bipartisan support.
“Alzheimer’s doesn’t care how you’ve registered to vote,” Lujan said. “This is an issue affecting all of America.”
Dr. Christina Prather from George Washington University’s Institute for Brain Health and Dementia believes expanding these studies can help medical professionals improve diagnoses for minority patients.
“When we are better able to engage with people who are traditionally underrepresented, it means earlier connection to care and services,” said Dr. Prather.
Sen. Lujan said he does not know yet when the bill might see a vote, but hopes to attach it to the next package of health legislation moving through Congress.
Multimedia journalist Natalie Grim contributed to this report.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged lower in uncertain trading on Wall Street Monday as investors brace for higher interest rates from central banks to fight inflation.
The S&P 500 fell 0.2% as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 60 points, or 0.2%, to 32,983 and the Nasdaq fell 0.7%. Small company stocks also fell. The Russell 2000 slipped 0.4%.
Every major index is coming off of two weeks of losses. Markets have been slumping as hopes for a gentler Federal Reserve vanish amid stubbornly hot inflation. The Federal Reserve last week raised its forecast of how long interest rates have to stay elevated to cool inflation that has been hurting businesses and threatening spending. The European Central Bank also warned that more rate hikes are coming.
Technology stocks were among the biggest losers. Microsoft fell 1% and Apple fell 1.2%.
Facebook’s parent company fell 2.9% after the European Union accused the company of breaching antitrust rules by distorting competition in the online classified ads business.
U.S. crude oil prices rose 2%. European markets gained ground and Asian markets closed lower overnight.
Treasury yields gained ground. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, rose to 3.58% from 3.49% late Friday.
Investors have several economic reports to review this week as they try to determine the continuing path of inflation.
The National Association of Realtors delivers its November tally of U.S. home sales Wednesday. Home sales have been falling, but prices in the housing market have remained strong.
The Conference Board will release its consumer confidence report for December on Wednesday. Consumer confidence and spending has been another strong area of the economy, but inflation is starting to put a tighter squeeze on consumers.
The government will release a closely watched monthly snapshot of consumer spending on Friday, the personal consumption expenditure price index for November. The report is monitored by the Fed as a barometer of inflation.
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BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qynapse Inc., a medical technology company with a commercialized Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered neuroimaging analysis platform for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, is pleased to announce a collaborative project with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to examine effects of COVID-19 on vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID), funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Covid-19 has infected over 540 million people and contributed to more than 6.32 million deaths globally. As a multisystemic disease, neurological symptoms have been observed to different extents including strokes, headaches, seizures, anosmia and dysgeusia. However, the association between COVID-19 and cognitive impairment remains poorly understood.
To investigate this topic, the University of Miami is recruiting 250 patients who will undergo deep phenotyping through the acquisition of clinical, neuropsychological, MRI, and biological data with a 24 month follow-up visit. Qynapse's AI-solution QyScore®, an FDA-approved software providing automatic segmentation and quantification of regional brain and white matter hyperintensities volumes will be deployed in this study to generate rapid, precise and objective MRI brain imaging analysis.
"We hope to leverage Qynapse's advanced AI tool to enhance the quality of the study's brain imaging analysis and to facilitate the discovery of new insights about COVID-19's potential impacts on vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia." said James E. Galvin, MD, MPH, director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurology and Principal Investigator of the study.
Bringing artificial intelligence to additional CNS research, Qynapse, Dr. Galvin, and the University of Miami have signed another agreement in 2021 for two studies in dementia and Parkinson's Disease. The first is a Multicultural Community Dementia Screening study enrolling 500 individuals analysed with Qynapse's MRI, amyloid, and tau PET neuroimaging platform and the second to investigate neuroantomical correlates of Parkinson's Disease Dementia,which is funded through the Michael J Fox foundation.
"Prof. Galvin and his team are leading such important work across this trilogy of devastating diseases and we are very excited to bring our AI and advanced neuroimaging solutions to provide quantifiable insights into these conditions that impact so many lives", said Elizabeth Gordon, Ph.D., Scientific Director at Qynapse.
About Qynapse
Qynapse Inc. is a medical technology company commercializing an AI-powered and proprietary neuroimaging software platform, creating the potential for earlier clinical precision on the frontlines of CNS disease.
Qynapse's flagship solution, QyScore®, FDA-Cleared, adds the potential for more precise and objective brain scan analysis. Qynapse's predictive AI technology, QyPredict®, available for research-use-only, has the potential to predict disease trajectory and improve targeted patient selection in clinical trials.
Qynapse is headquartered in France, in the US and in Canada.
Find more on Qynapse's solutons at: https://qynapse.com/
Contact: Ruizhe Huang - rhuang@qynapse.com
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A man charged with attacking two staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly with a baseball bat in his district office is also being charged with a hate crime, accused of damaging a car and chasing a woman in a Virginia neighborhood less than an hour earlier.
Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax was arraigned Tuesday by video hookup from the Fairfax County jail. Pham refused to appear, so a judge read the four counts against him while he huddled under a blanket in his cell.
The charges include aggravated wounding and malicious aggravated wounding for the baseball bat attack on two staffers at Connolly’s district office in Fairfax. They also include a misdemeanor hate crime charge, and a felony count of destroying property. ‘
Police say Pham approached a woman parked in her car Monday morning, asked if she was white, and then hit her windshield with a baseball bat. A video recorded on a neighbor’s home camera system shows a man with a bat chasing a woman who can be heard screaming.
The judge ruled Tuesday that he’ll be held without bond pending a preliminary hearing in July.
Pham’s father, Hy Pham, told The Washington Post his son was diagnosed with schizophrenia and has dealt with mental illness since his late teens. He told the Post that he had been trying without success to arrange mental health care for his son. The father could not immediately be reached by The Associated Press.
None of the injuries Pham inflicted were life threatening, but Connolly said it shows how vulnerable public servants are in an era when political rhetoric has become more bellicose.
“I have no reason to believe that his motivation was politically motivated, but it is possible that the sort of toxic political environment we all live in, you know, set him off, and I would just hope all of us would take a little more time to be careful about what we say and how we say it,” the veteran Democratic congressman, who wasn’t in the office at the time, said in an interview.
Connolly said his staffers — an intern was struck in the side and an outreach director was hit on the head — were released after hospital treatment.
“It does underscore for all of us the vulnerability potentially of our district offices because we don’t have the level of security we have here on Capital Hill,” said Connolly, currently serving his eighth term representing a Fairfax County-based district in the Washington suburbs.
One Fairfax police officer involved in detaining Pham also received treatment, for a minor injury, police spokesperson Sgt. Lisa Gardner said.
“At this time, it is not clear what the suspect’s motivation may have been,” Capitol Police and Fairfax City Police said in announcing a joint investigation.
In May 2022, a person whose name and community of residence matches Xuan-Kha Pham’s sued the Central Intelligence Agency in federal court.
In a hand-written complaint, the plaintiff alleged the CIA had been “wrongfully imprisoning me in a lower perspective” and “brutally torturing me with a degenerating disability consistently since 1988 till the present from the fourth dimension.”
Last year, Pham assaulted responding officers and tried to take a firearm after calling dispatch saying he wished to harm others, Fairfax County Police said in a statement. It said the officers sustained minor injuries.
Pham was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer, and then entered an agreement designed to ensure he received mental health treatment, according to a person with the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office who spoke on condition of anonymity because Pham now has an ongoing criminal case.
Pham complied with conditions requiring him to seek treatment from his arrest in January through a nine-month period, and then the charges were dropped in September, the person said.
Since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, threats to lawmakers and their families have increased sharply. The U.S. Capitol Police investigated around 7,500 cases of potential threats against members of Congress in 2022. The year before, they investigated around 10,000 threats to members, more than twice the number from four years earlier.
In October, a man broke into the San Francisco home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, demanding to speak with her, before he smashed her husband, Paul, over the head with a hammer.
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking in Washington, and Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report. Lavoie reported from Richmond. | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/authorities-mentally-ill-man-who-attacked-congressional-staffers-has-violent-history/ | 2023-05-16 18:27:45 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/authorities-mentally-ill-man-who-attacked-congressional-staffers-has-violent-history/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — It raised eyebrows six weeks ago when Saudi Arabia’s aged king, Salman, named his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as prime minister. The kingdom’s laws designate the king as prime minister. King Salman had to declare a temporary exception to loan out the title, and at the same time made clear he retains key duties.
But that move reaped dividends Thursday, when the Biden administration declared that Prince Mohammed’s standing as prime minister shielded him from a U.S. lawsuit over what the U.S. intelligence community says was his role in Saudi officials’ 2018 killing of a U.S.-based journalist. A judge will now decide whether Prince Mohammed has immunity.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby insisted Friday that the administration’s declaration of immunity for Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was purely a “legal determination” that “has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case itself.”
Many experts in international law agreed with the administration — but only because of the king’s late September title boost for the crown prince, ahead of a scheduled U.S. decision.
“It would have been just as remarkable for the United States to deny MBS’s head-of-state immunity after his appointment as Prime Minister as it would have been for the United States to recognize MBS’s head-of-state immunity before his appointment,” William S. Dodge, a professor at the University of California-Davis School of Law, wrote, using the prince’s initials.
State Department spokesman Vedant Patel gave examples Friday of past instances of the U.S. recognizing immunity for heads of government or state — Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Narendra Modi of India, both in allegations of rights abuses.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington by the fiancée of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi and by a D.C.-based rights group he founded. It accuses the crown prince and about 20 aides, officers and others of plotting and carrying out Khashoggi’s slaying at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The killing, condemned by Biden on the campaign trial in 2019 as “flat-out murder” that must have consequences for Saudi rulers, is at the core of a rift between strategic partners, the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Before and immediately after taking office, Biden vowed to take a stand on Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, as part of a presidency that would be based on rights and values. But Biden has since offered a fist bump and other conciliatory gestures in hopes — disappointed so far — of persuading the crown prince to pump more oil for world markets.
Biden’s administration argues that Saudi Arabia is too important to the global economy and to regional security to allow the United States to walk away from the decades-old partnership.
But rights advocates, some senior Democratic lawmakers, and Khashoggi’s newspaper, The Washington Post, on Friday condemned the administration’s move.
“Jamal died again today,” Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, tweeted.
Fred Ryan, publisher of the Post, called it a “cynical, calculated effort” to manipulate the law and shield Prince Mohammed. Khashoggi wrote columns for the Post that in his last months criticized the crown prince’s rights abuses.
“By going along with this scheme, President Biden is turning his back on fundamental principles of press freedom and equality,” Ryan wrote.
Cengiz and Khashoggi’s rights group, Democracy for the Arab World Now, or DAWN, had argued that the crown prince’s late September title change was no more than a maneuver to escape U.S. courts, without legal standing or any change in authority or duties.
Saudi Arabia has not commented publicly on the administration’s decision. Spokespeople with the Saudi Embassy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Friday.
Saudi Arabia blames what it says were “rogue” officials for Khashoggi’s killing. It says the prince played no part.
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, as opposed to a constitutional one like the United Kingdom, where a prime minister rather than king or queen governs.
“Pretty pathetic,” Sarah Leah Whitson, head of Khashoggi’s rights group, said Friday of the title change.
“If anything, it just demonstrated how afraid Mohammed bin Salman was and has been of our lawsuit and actual accountability and actual discovery of his crimes,” Whitson said.
The Biden administration appeared to dismiss her group’s argument that Prince Mohammed’s recent title change ran counter to Saudi Arabia’s governing law and should be disregarded.
King Salman has continued making appointments and presiding over meetings of his council since the title change.
But Prince Mohammed for years has been a key decision-maker and actor in the kingdom, including representing the king abroad.
Some Western news outlets had presented the temporary transfer of the prime minister title as King Salman — who is in his late 80s — devolving responsibility to Prince Mohammed, who is 37.
A federal judge had given the U.S. until Thursday to offer an opinion, or not, on the claim by the crown prince that his standing shields him from U.S. courts.
Rights advocates had hoped up to the moment of filing that the administration would stay silent, offering no opinion on Prince Mohammed’s immunity either way.
Sovereign immunity, a concept rooted in international law, holds that states and their officials are protected from some legal proceedings in other foreign states’ courts.
Prior criminal and civil cases brought against foreign governments and leaders in which the U.S. has not intervened have generally involved countries with which the U.S. has no diplomatic relations or does not recognize their heads of state or government as legitimate.
Cases brought against Iran and North Korea seeking damages for deaths or injuries to American citizens are two prominent examples of instances where the executive branch has not weighed in with an opinion about sovereign immunity.
By contrast, the United States has full diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. The State Department stressed Thursday that honoring the principle for other governments’ leaders helps ensure that courts in other countries don’t seek to haul U.S. presidents before them to answer to lawsuits there.
Kirby, the National Security Council spokesman, said the U.S. decision had “absolutely nothing” to do with “tense” U.S.-Saudi relations over Saudi-led oil production cuts, and other matters.
Biden has been “very, very vocal” about the “brutal, barbaric murder of Khashoggi,” Kirby said.
But some of Biden’s fellow Democrats in Congress expressed disappointment at the administration’s move.
“Is the Administration casting aside its confidence in its own intelligence community’s judgment?” Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, said in a statement. “If the friends and family of Khashoggi are denied a path to accountability in the American court system, where in the world can they go?”
Whitson, the official for Khashoggi’s rights group, said the lawsuit would continue against the others named in the lawsuit.
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Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani contributed to this report. | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-saudi-princes-new-title-key-to-dodging-lawsuit-over-killing/ | 2022-11-19 01:11:24 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-saudi-princes-new-title-key-to-dodging-lawsuit-over-killing/ |
What is the best shoe stretcher?
Buying new shoes can be rewarding. The fresh style and cushioning keep your feet comfortable and looking good. Breaking in new shoes can be challenging, though. Narrow toes, pressure points and firm materials such as suede and leather can make the early weeks of wearing new shoes uncomfortable, even painful.
New shoes need to be stretched to better accommodate your feet and make it easier to put on and take off. Shoe stretchers have been around for a long time and make new shoes comfortable and painless. They apply consistent pressure to stretch shoes and keep patent leather from cracking if stretched too quickly.
For its stellar reputation and ability to accommodate both men’s and women’s sizes, the FootFitter Premium Professional Two-Way Shoe Stretcher is the the best available.
What to know before you buy a shoe stretcher
What are one-way and two-way stretchers?
One-way shoe stretchers stretch shoes in one direction — either the length or width of the shoe. Two-way stretchers can stretch the shoe in both directions, offering greater impact. Some stretchers claim to stretch three or four ways by focusing on the midsole or instep, but they really are modified two-way stretchers with different points of emphasis.
What shoe materials work best with stretchers?
Natural materials such as canvas, suede and leather work best with stretchers because they tend to hold the new shape the stretcher pushes out. Polyurethane and other synthetic materials also can be stretched, but they may need to be stretched again since they tend to lose their shape over time.
What kind of shoes work with a stretcher?
All kinds of shoes works with stretchers, but each type has a stretcher designed for that size and shape. A stretcher for flats or heels won’t work in boots, just as a loafer stretcher isn’t intended for industrial work shoes. Make sure your stretcher matches the type of shoe you want to stretch.
How much can a stretcher stretch a shoe?
Stretchers are meant to stretch a shoe slightly to increase comfort and address problem areas. If you stretch a shoe beyond one additional size, it could damage the shoe.
When you first use a stretcher, try to limit the stretching to small increments, such as overnight. You can see how much stretching occurs in that time frame before deciding whether a 24- or 48-hour stretching period is required.
What to look for in a quality shoe stretcher
Toe block
This end part of the stretcher is designed like the inside of the shoe and pushed deep inside to the toe area. It can stretch the toe of the shoe one or two ways depending on the type of stretcher.
Heel block
The solid heel block is placed in the back of the shoe to hold the toe block steady while it stretches the front of the shoe.
Lengthening and widening wheels
The wheels or handles are the mechanisms that expand the toe and heel blocks. They can expand the shoe in both directions and should use the tension recommended by the manufacturer.
Stretching plugs
Stretching plugs are an important accessory. They can be placed in pre-drilled holes on the toe or heel block to address problem areas where blistering or rubbing is occurring. The plugs help that area of the shoe expand even more to give that part of the foot more space.
How much you can expect to spend on a shoe stretcher
For $10-$15, you can get basic stretchers with limited accessories. Stretchers with plugs are $15-$30, while premium ones made from hardwood with multiple plugs cost $30-$60.
Shoe stretcher FAQ
Does a shoe tree help stretch shoes?
A. Shoe trees do not stretch shoes, but they do play an important role in the process. Shoe stretchers stretch the shoe material, but a quality shoe tree can help hold the newly stretched shape in place.
Can shoe stretchers damage shoes?
A. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions when using a shoe stretcher. The type of material being stretched and the length of time the stretcher is in use are important. The placement of the stretching plugs also can affect the final results. Stretching too long or with too much pressure can permanently change the shoe’s composition.
What’s the best shoe stretcher to buy?
Top shoe stretcher
FootFitter Premium Professional Two-Way Shoe Stretcher
What you need to know: It’s solidly crafted and works with sizes for both men’s and women’s shoes.
What you’ll love: Made from beech wood, it’s designed to last. It provides two-way stretching and has three relief plugs. The stretcher has 14 holes that can be used to target problem areas. An instructional book is included.
What you should consider: It comes with only one stretcher and is more expensive than most other stretchers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top shoe stretcher for the money
Miserwe Premium Two-Way Shoe Stretchers
What you need to know: This affordable pair of stretchers can be used on both shoes at the same time.
What you’ll love: Available in multiple sizes, they’re made from polyurethane plastic with a steel shaft. There are eight bunion and two high pad plugs. They come with a convenient carrying bag.
What you should consider: They’re not as durable as wooden stretchers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
XYH Women’s Premium Shoe Stretchers
What you need to know: These stretchers are a favorite for their consistent stretching pressure and stylish look.
What you’ll love: Designed for smaller women’s sizes — 5.5 to 10 — these are excellent at stretching shoes. They have 10 spot relief plugs and stretch both the length and width of the shoe. They’re made in designer pink with heart-shaped hooks.
What you should consider: They are limited in the number of sizes they are built for.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will have to move quickly to comply with a court order to draw new congressional districts for the 2024 elections, and judges indicated Friday that they will give legislators until July 21 to adopt a new map.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week affirmed a lower-court ruling finding Alabama likely violated the Voting Rights Act with an Alabama congressional map that had only one majority Black district out of seven in a state where more than one in four residents is Black. The state must now draw a new map where Black voters comprise a majority, or close to it, in a second district.
"The time constraints struck the court as very real and very immediate,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus said during a status conference in the case. The primaries are set for March 5, 2024, and candidates must qualify with the political parties in November, giving little time to get a new map drawn and approved by the court.
Marcus said the Alabama Legislature will have the first opportunity to draw a new map.
Lawyers for Alabama's Republican elected leaders and the Black voters who challenged the existing map agreed during a Friday status conference to give the state until July 21 to adopt a new map. That would set the stage for a possible July 17 special session followed by court review by a three-judge panel on whether the approved plan complies with the Voting Rights Act.
Deuel Ross, an attorney representing Black voters who challenged the map, said the plaintiffs agreed to give the state “about a month” to draw a new plan. Ross said the three-judge panel will decide whether the new map complies with its order.
“Plaintiffs would file objections and perhaps its own alternative map,” Ross said on what would happen if plaintiffs disagreed with the map adopted by lawmakers.
State lawyers wrote in a court filing that a special session held July 17 would give time “to receive public input regarding the plan and then propose it to legislators for review before a vote.”
A spokeswoman for Gov. Kay Ivey, who would call any special session, did not confirm the July special session date.
"We are reviewing the outcome and are in discussions. Any possible announcements would come from our office,” Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola wrote in an email.
Groups argued Alabama violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters when it failed to create a second district in which they make up a majority, or close to it. Plaintiffs argued the existing map divided historically connected communities to limit the influence of Black voters in the state's other six districts. | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/alabama-must-move-quickly-to-draw-new-18156315.php | 2023-06-16 17:14:51 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/alabama-must-move-quickly-to-draw-new-18156315.php |
AUSTIN, Texas — H-E-B is closing its Central Texas stores early on Tuesday night as the area expects another round of freezing rain to move in overnight.
The Texas grocery chain said the following Central Texas stores will close at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, and reopen on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 8 a.m.:
- Austin (all stores)
- Bastrop Plus!
- Buda
- Burnet
- Dripping Springs
- Elgin
- Georgetown (all stores)
- Hutto Plus!
- Kingsland
- Kyle Plus!
- Lakeway
- Lampasas
- Leander (all stores)
- Lockhart
- Luling
- Marble Falls
- Pflugerville
- Round Rock (all stores)
- San Marcos (all stores)
- Taylor
- Wimberley
The following Hill Country stores will close at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, and reopen on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 8 a.m.
- Kerrville (all stores)
- Fredericksburg
- Boerne
- Bulverde
Central Market stores will close at 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
Curbside and home delivery may have limited availability, H-E-B said.
“At H-E-B, our top priority is taking care of Texas, and we are committed to help our fellow Texans in any situation our company and communities might face. Across our business, we are familiar with and regularly prepare for extreme weather events. Our dedicated Partners – at our stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and transportation team – are ready and well-equipped to serve our customers with the products they need,” H-E-B said. “In preparation of the inclement winter weather, we are taking precautions to protect and support our Partners and our stores. Any out-of-stocks are temporary. Our Partners restock shelves with more product throughout the day. Additionally, H-E-B has prioritized conserving energy across our business to do our part to help preserve the energy grid in Texas.”
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NEW YORK – By the numbers, the Jan. 6 committee hearings attracted 20 million live viewers on opening night, 11 million for the first daytime session and nearly 9 million for Thursday's third installment.
Yet those traditional Nielsen company yardsticks don't begin to measure the true reach of what is being said there.
Memorable moments from each hearing are sliced for quick consumption on countless news programs, comedy shows and online, to the point where some have been seen more times later than when they were live.
In many respects, it's the first congressional hearing in memory that seems specifically designed with modern media needs in mind, said Jeff Jarvis, a City University of New York journalism professor and frequent blogger on the media.
“That has already worked,” he said.
While it's impossible to know what — if anything — covered in the initial stages of the hearing will stick much beyond the week's news, there are already breakout moments and characters.
GIULIANI AND ALCOHOL
Receiving wide circulation: snippets where President Donald Trump's former political director, Bill Stepien, aide Jason Miller and committee member Liz Cheney say that lawyer Rudy Giuliani had too much to drink before advising Trump on election night 2020.
Hours after the allegation had been made, the clips were featured in the monologues of top-rated late-night comics Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. The shows are typically seen by a combined audience of nearly 5 million people each night, with many more people watching online the next morning. Kimmel accompanied it with a film package of times when Giuliani acted oddly in defense of Trump.
The episode resonated in part because it was a connectable moment in an otherwise very serious story, said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.
“Having people who are major figures in a national political setting outed for being wasted is something that people can find immediately understandable,” Thompson said.
BARR'S REALITY
Former Attorney General William Barr's recorded testimony that he found Trump “detached from reality” with some of his claims about election fraud was the lead in several news stories about Monday's hearing. It was a vivid and disturbing image of a former president from the man who ran Trump's Justice Department.
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts that night all featured the clip of Barr's comment, and together the three programs typically reach more than 20 million viewers — or double the amount of people who saw the hearing live.
There's no count of how many times it was repeated on cable news, or estimate of how many people saw it that way.
Two anecdotal examples illustrate the extent to which it was seen online. A clip of the moment posted by Reuters on Facebook was watched 928,000 times, and the clip posted on The New York Times' Instagram account was seen 404,000 times.
DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW
Filmed testimony from Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner has been particularly potent, in large part simply because they come from the family of a man who prizes loyalty.
A clip of Ivanka Trump saying she trusted Barr’s assessment of the fraud allegations amassed more than 1.6 million views in an Instagram post published by The Shade Room, a media outlet that focuses on celebrity entertainment, and 1 million when Bloomberg shared it on Twitter. Twitter posts of the video uploaded by MSNBC and the committee itself got more than 900,000 views together.
A video of her recollection of a phone call her father made to Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021 was shown on each of the three evening newscasts on Thursday, sometimes accompanied by the colorful descriptions of his language.
Kushner's halting response when asked about what he had said to his father-in-law about Giuliani — as if he was weighing in real time what it meant to be under oath — became fodder for jokes.
NEW STAR
Previously little-known, former White House attorney Eric Herschmann has become a breakout star this past week for his filmed testimony concerning his conversations with John Eastman, architect of Trump's failed maneuvering to hold onto power.
Editing his own colorful language, Herschmann recalls saying “are you out of your effing mind?” when Eastman talks the day after the Capitol riot about a potential appeal of Georgia election results. Like a stern parent, he tells Eastman that the only words he wants to hear from him are “orderly transition” and advises him to “get a great f-ing criminal defense lawyer. You're going to need it.”
Recognizing the testimony's potential impact, Cheney released it on Twitter the day before it was prominently featured in the hearing, giving it extra attention. That also served to highlight the committee's finding that Eastman had unsuccessfully sought a presidential pardon.
Politico even did a story on the art hanging on the wall behind Herschmann during his testimony.
CHENEY'S PREDICTION
Cheney's prosecutor-like outline of the committee's case at the top of its only prime-time hearing drew wide attention, along with some advice that may live longer than her political career.
"Tonight, I say this to our Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone — but your dishonor will remain,” she said.
The Associated Press' tweet with video of Cheney making that remark has been seen more than 1 million times.
Someday, depending on how history regards the events of Jan. 6, 2021, it may wind up the moment most recalled, like when it was revealed during the Watergate hearings that John Dean has warned Richard Nixon about a “cancer on the presidency,” Thompson said.
“I see that as the classic quote,” Thompson said.
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Associated Press correspondent Arijeta Lajka in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2022/06/20/the-moments-resonating-from-the-jan-6-hearings-so-far/ | 2022-06-20 05:28:44 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2022/06/20/the-moments-resonating-from-the-jan-6-hearings-so-far/ |
CA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Friday, January 13, 2023
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GALE WARNING
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
300 AM PST Fri Jan 13 2023
...HAZARDOUS SEAS WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM THIS
AFTERNOON...
...GALE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 3 AM EARLY THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Very steep and hazardous seas 18 to 23 feet expected.
* WHERE...Cape Mendocino to Pt Arena 10 to 60 nm.
* WHEN...Until 3 PM this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Very steep and hazardous seas could capsize or cause
damage to vessels.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Recreational boaters should remain in port. Commercial vessels
should prepare for rough seas and consider remaining in port
until hazardous seas subside.
...HAZARDOUS SEAS WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Very steep and hazardous seas 14 to 18 feet expected.
* WHERE...Pt St George to Cape Mendocino out 10 nm.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM this morning.
* WHERE...Cape Mendocino to Pt Arena out 10 nm.
...STORM WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 3 AM EARLY THIS MORNING...
* WHERE...Pt St George to Cape Mendocino 10 to 60 nm.
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CT Current Conditions as of 02:00 AM EST Saturday, December 3, 2022
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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)
Bridgeport;Mostly cloudy;42;S;2;85%
Chester;Cloudy;43;SSE;7;87%
Danbury;Mostly cloudy;43;S;6;62%
Groton;Cloudy;39;SW;2;81%
Hartford;Cloudy;39;S;2;85%
Meriden;Mostly cloudy;37;S;1;89%
New Haven;Mostly cloudy;46;S;4;80%
Oxford;Mostly cloudy;39;S;6;75%
Willimantic;Mostly cloudy;31;Calm;0;96%
Windsor Locks;Cloudy;38;SSE;2;84%
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee quietly sent six subpoenas as part of their investigation into Biden family finances, according to a memo from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
Raskin, the ranking member of the committee, wrote in a memo to other Democrats on the committee that Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has issued six subpoenas and sent 39 letters in the Biden investigation.
Subpoenas went to Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC USA N.A. and Mervyn Yan, a former business associate of Hunter Biden. The initial subpoena to HSBC Bank USA N.A. was misaddressed and did not include the word “Bank,” causing Comer to issue the subpoena a second time with the correct name.
Raskin previously disclosed the Bank of America subpoena to the public in a letter to Comer last month.
The memo accuses Comer of breaking longstanding committee precedent in issuing the subpoenas privately and not giving the minority proper notice.
“Committee Republicans’ decision to conduct this probe behind a veil of secrecy runs counter to the Committee’s traditional commitment to transparency and raises serious questions about the integrity of the investigation,” Raskin said.
The memo comes as Raskin sent Comer a letter on Thursday alleging that he has withheld evidence or misled the public about the witnesses who Republicans have spoken to in relation to the investigation into Biden family finances. He said he was concerned with a statement from Comer that committee Republicans had spoken with four witnesses in the investigation.
“Your repeated statements about ‘four people’ suggest that either you have intentionally misrepresented the Committee’s investigative progress to your conservative audience or that key investigative steps have been deliberately withheld from Committee Democrats,” Raskin said in the letter.
The subpoenas cover financial records for six people and at least 10 entities and in “most cases” cover more than 14 years.
Comer said in a statement to The Hill that Raskin disclosed the subpoenas “in a cheap attempt to thwart cooperation from other witnesses.”
“Given his antics with the first bank subpoena, the American people and media should be asking what information Ranking Member Raskin is trying to hide this time. No one should be fooled by Ranking Member Raskin’s games,” he said.
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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Vehicle crashes into school bus, hurting several people
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) - Several people were injured Monday after a reckless driver in a stolen vehicle crashed into a school bus and ran from the scene, police said.
Two people are seen hanging out the windows of a white Kia as it swerves then slams into a parked school bus. The portion that shows a passenger being dragged across the road has been blurred.
Therese Nelson says she was dropping her kid off at Morse Middle School when she first saw the white Kia swerving south on 80th Street.
“I see them turn around in my mirror, and next thing I know, they hit the bus,” Nelson said. “And the passenger was on the ground, and the rest of them took off.”
After hitting the bus, the Kia collided with an Milwaukee Public Schools vehicle. Milwaukee police says the car was stolen.
A 15-year-old boy who was a passenger suffered life-threatening injuries. An 11-year-old boy who was on the bus was hurt but is expected to be OK.
“I feel for the person that did get hurt, but they messed around and found out,” Nelson said. “There has to be a line that’s drawn, and maybe this will be a turnaround moment for that person.”
“I’m actually happy my son wasn’t on the bus because he normally rides the school bus,” parent Marcia Jenkins said. “So I don’t know. I guess God stopped us from getting him to the bus this morning.”
Parents said that reckless driving out here happens regularly.
“They just don’t care. It’s been plenty of times I’ve been dropping my son off, and you see the swerving. You see kids just doing doughnuts or teenagers whoever is stealing these cars,” Jenkins said.
“One time there was a car that was all over the sidewalk. I called. No police showed up,” Nelson said.
Both Jenkins and Nelson believe the ongoing rash of stolen cars is a big part of it.
“Something has to change. Someway, somehow, something,” Jenkins said.
The Milwaukee Police Department said it’s investigating the crash and looking for unknown suspects. They’re urging anyone with information to contact them.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Yatsen Holding Limited (NYSE: YSG): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about November 19, 2020 (the "IPO"); and/or (ii) between November 19, 2020 and March 10, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important November 22, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
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The Broadway production of “Aladdin” wowed critics and audiences alike, and now is your chance to see the national tour of this Broadway blockbuster right here in Indianapolis.
“Aladdin” runs at Clowes Memorial Hall on the Butler University Campus in Indy running from Wednesday, November 16 – 20.
The character, Babkak will be played by Jake Letts, who is on his first national tour. He was born in Noblesville, raised in Carmel, and is a recent Ball State University graduation
To purchase tickets, click here.
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When the Century Patriots get the ball in Ryan Erikson’s hands, good things tend to happen.
Erikson, the Patriots’ 6-foot-10 senior center, powered the No. 2-ranked Patriots to a 95-65 West Region road win over Bismarck High on Tuesday night at Karlgaard Gymnasium.
Erikson finished with 28 points, tying a career high, and 11 rebounds as Century won its fifth straight game to open the season.
He scored 10 points in the game’s opening 10 minutes as Century jumped out to an early 27-12 lead. And the attention he drew in the paint opened things up for the Patriots’ perimeter shooters.
Century hit six first-half three-pointers – three from Isaiah Schafer – including a trio of long-range bombs in a 14-1 run late in the first half to give the Patriots a 28-point lead at 46-18.
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“If they double me, I’m going to find my open teammates and they’re going to shoot their open shots and they’re pretty good at that,” Erikson said.
“First and foremost, Ryan is a willing passer,” Century coach Darin Matter said. “When we throw it in to him, he’s been making good decisions early in the season. If the double comes, he’s been finding the open guy. Guys have to be ready because … we’re going to get a good shot on the kickout. We have to continue to play inside out and use the resources we have and good things happen when we play that way.”
Erikson added 18 points, including a pair of three-pointers of his own, in the second half as the Patriots pulled away.
Four other players hit double figures for Century (5-0, 4-0 West Region) – Schafer and William Ware had 16 apiece, Joel Edland added 13 and Anthony Doppler 10. Century shot 47.6 percent (31 for 65) from the field.
“I thought we did a nice job moving the ball. When we play unselfish and get the ball zipping around, a lot of good things happen,” Mattern said.
“The biggest thing with this group is they’ve been willing to share the ball and any time you do that there’s a lot of room for growth. Any time you can get four, five guys in double figures, it makes it difficult for other teams to defend you. That’s going to be an emphasis going forward.”
Century made things tough on the Demons’ offense, holding them to 31 percent shooting (9 for 29) in the first half and 43 percent (25 for 58) for the game. The Patriots outrebounded BHS 47-27.
“A big key for me was talking on defense and getting everybody communicating,” Erikson said “Because I’m in the middle of the floor all the time and I see everyone.”
“That’s the backbone of our team – defense and rebounding. That’s what we emphasize,” Mattern said. “There are going to be nights the ball doesn’t go in so you’ve got to have something to fall back on and we think that’s going to be our team defense.
"I thought we challenged a lot of shots and they played really fast and we did a nice job of keeping the ball in front of us and carrying out our game plan. It’s something to build on. Coming into this building and winning a basketball game is a nice feat for our basketball team.”
“We needed to focus on their middle penetration and their kickouts – we wanted to stay out on shooters,” Erikson said. “Against Williston they shot like 60 threes so that was a big key for us, to run them off the line.”
Carter Henke scored 11 points and Carson Henke 10, combining for five three-pointers, to lead the way for the Demons (4-2, 4-2 West Region).
Both teams return to West Region play on Friday, with the Demons travelling to Minot and the Patriots at St. Mary’s. | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/basketball/erikson-powers-patriots-past-demons/article_8283cbd4-8bca-11ed-b729-37896a7fb7de.html | 2023-01-04 07:07:52 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/basketball/erikson-powers-patriots-past-demons/article_8283cbd4-8bca-11ed-b729-37896a7fb7de.html |
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A funeral service is scheduled Wednesday for Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in Akron, Ohio, which declared a citywide day of mourning after days of protests over his death.
A public viewing was planned at the Akron Civic Center prior to the 1 p.m. funeral. Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan declared Wednesday a day of mourning in the city.
Walker was killed June 27 at the end of a vehicle and foot chase that followed an attempted traffic stop. He wasn’t armed when he was shot, but authorities said Walker had fired a shot from his car 40 seconds into the chase. Police body camera footage released by the city on July 3 shows Walker wearing a ski mask, jumping out the front passenger door of his still-moving car and then running into a parking lot.
That blurry footage does not clearly show what authorities say was a threatening gesture before he was shot by eight officers, seven who are white and one who is Black.
Investigators haven’t confirmed how many rounds were fired or how many times he was shot. The Summit County Medical Examiner’s office said it found more than 60 wounds on Walker’s body, but hasn’t said how many were entrance and exit wounds.
Walker did not have a gun when he was killed. Akron police released a photo that showed an unloaded handgun, an ammunition clip and what appeared to be a wedding ring on the driver’s seat of Walker’s car.
Walker’s fiancée was killed a month earlier when a semi struck the back of a van she was riding in, tossing her from the vehicle, on Interstate 71 outside Cincinnati. She was then struck by another vehicle that fled the scene without stopping.
Bobby DiCello, an attorney for Walker’s family, said that Walker, a Door Dash driver with no criminal record, did not deserve to be killed.
Less than 24 hours earlier, an officer in nearby New Franklin Township had tried to stop a car believed to be Walker’s for the same equipment violations that led to the Akron chase. A police supervisor called off the pursuit when the driver crossed the township border into Akron.
DiCello said Walker’s actions during both pursuits was “odd behavior relative to who he was as a person. He was obviously dealing with something because he never acted like that before and his record proved that.”
Downtown Akron has seen daily protests since city officials released body camera footage from the eight officers. They’ve announced a nightly curfew in downtown Akron from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The eight officers have not been identified. Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett said on Monday that rumors about the names of the officers have led to disinformation and that “bounties” have been placed on their lives.
A community relations team from the U.S. Department of Justice has been monitoring Walker’s shooting and has offered to help communications with groups about the city and its police policies.
Akron police asked the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to handle the investigation into the shooting. BCI’s findings will be turned over to the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office to present evidence to a grand jury to determine if any officers will be charged criminally.
Akron police are conducting an internal investigation to determine if officers followed procedures, including the department’s pursuit policy, that night. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/jayland-walkers-funeral-follows-days-of-protest-in-akron/ | 2022-07-13 14:20:24 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/jayland-walkers-funeral-follows-days-of-protest-in-akron/ |
Police announced two arrests in the early September bizarre car chase turned armed robbery that was almost hard to believe, expect the whole thing was caught on camera.
The Upper East Side brazen chase earned the pair of thieves a hefty payday Sept. 3, when they speed after and spun out a car to steal and get away with a $9,000 haul (police previously said the theft was for $20,000).
Authorities apprehended Christian Santana, 32, and Denis Piters, 29, on Sept. 21 and 29, respectively. Each faces charges of robbery and reckless endangerment; attorney information was not known.
The chaos shocked bystanders near East 92nd Street and 2nd Avenue around 5 p.m. when a black Mercedes-Benz came charging down the road after the driver of a silver Toyota Rav-4, police said.
Witness video shows the Mercedes catch up to the Toyota, crashing into the car and causing it to spin out. The Mercedes driver then steps on the gas and pushes the other car up onto the sidewalk.
The Toyota driver is able to accelerate and get back onto the roadway, but is chased down a second time by the Mercedes driver who rams into the car, sending it spinning out once again, the video shows.
Apparently having successfully pinned the Toyota, the video shows a passenger jump out of the passenger side of the Mercedes. A bystander can be heard in the video yelling, "he's got a gun, he's got a gun."
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This is when police say the armed assailant ran over to the Toyota and stole thousands in cash, before jumping back inside the Mercedes and driving off.
NYPD officials said the armed robbers ditched their ride a handful of blocks away. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/2-arrested-for-manhattan-car-chase-crash-armed-cash-grab-caught-on-camera-ny-only/3889050/ | 2022-09-30 21:41:02 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/2-arrested-for-manhattan-car-chase-crash-armed-cash-grab-caught-on-camera-ny-only/3889050/ |
ACME — The Bay Reps routed Gaylord 8-0 in Saturday's Division 3 regional hockey game at Centre Ice Arena.
The game was called after two periods because of the mercy rule.
Grant Lucas netted a hat trick, and the Reps' other goals came from Zander Griffore, Mason Barnhard, Ethan Egelski, Riley Pierce and Carter Denoyer.
Lars Millar had three assists, with Ethan Coleman picking up two apples and single helpers going to Drew Hardy, Pierce, Barnhard, Nick Dashner, Griffore and Ryan Lannen.
Gaylord goalie Finn Kelly made 31 saves. The Reps' Garrett Hathaway stopped 10 shots.
The Reps (18-6-2) move on to play Cadillac, which beat Cheboygan 5-4 in overtime Friday.
The Vikings (13-12-1) and Reps, who have won five in a row, meet Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Centre Ice for the regional championship.
ICE HOCKEY REGIONALS
Alpena 5
TC Central 0
TC Central: No stats reported.
UP NEXT: The Trojans finish the season 14-9-3.
BOWLING REGIONALS
West's Phillips wins regional, 3 qualify for states
Traverse City West junior Taylor Phillips won the Division 1 individual bowling regional at Royal Scot in Lansing, edging out teammate Jordan LaFleur for the title.
Phillips rolled a 1,174 across six games, with LaFleur second at 1,129.
West sophomore Alyssa Tanner also qualified for states with a 1,032 to place seventh.
The D1 finals are March 3-4 at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park.
Central's Banton, Wilkinson headed to state finals
Traverse City Central sophomore Carter Banton and senior Brian Wilkinson qualified for the Division 1 boys state championship, each placing in the top 10 of Saturday's regional at Royal Scot in Lansing.
Banton shot a six-game total of 1,265 to finish third in the regional, 16 pins out of second. Wilkinson took fifth with a 1,175.
The D1 finals are March 3-4 at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park.
TC Christian's Smith wins regional crown, Burch 2nd
Traverse City Christian senior Brooke Smith won with a 1,203 series that also would have won the boys Division 4 regional at the Gaylord Bowling Center in Gaylord.
TC Christian junior Rebekah Burch shot a 1,186 series that also would have topped the boys standings, placing second behind Smith.
Houghton Lake's James Wright won the boys regional with a 1,147.
Glen Lake placed two bowlers in the top 10 to qualify for the D4 state finals March 3-4 at M-66 Bowl in Battle Creek. Senior Amelia Kish and senior Chloe Crick were fourth and sixth with series scores of 1,069 and 1,022, while TC Christian junior Naomi Elenbaas took eighth with a 1,006. Among those placing in the top 40 were TC Christian senior Ava Wendel (22nd), Glen Lake senior Taylor Semple (26th), TC Christian junior Kacy Porter (28th), Manistee Catholic sophomore Lila Ann Betchel (34th), TC Christian junior Gwen Oliver (35th), Bellaire senior Jasmine Middaugh and Glen Lake sophomore Annabelle Roach.
On the boys' side, TC Christian junior Luke Rasmussen took fourth to book a trip to the state finals, rolling a 1,112 series.
Benzie Central seniors Alberto Lopez and Dominic Lopez placed fifth and sixth with scores of 1,096 and 1,093.
Bellaire junior Nick Schumaker just missed the top 10 by four pins with an 11th-place 1,073.
Other area bowlers in the top 40 were TC Christian junior Tristan Lhmon (15th), Glen Lake freshman Tanner Crick (23rd), Sabres eighth-grader Josh Millward (26th), Bellaire junior Ronan Clapp (28th), Bellaire senior Matthew Lopardo-Lovett (29th), Glen Lake freshman Reilly Kinnee (31st), Bellaire sophomore Milan Astle (32nd), Glen Lake senior Tucker Brown (34th), Benzie sophomore Jeremiah Wilkinson (36th), Benzie sophomore Tyler Brooks (38th) and TC Christian eighth-grader Jacob Furtah (39th).
Division 2 regional at Flint
Cadillac senior Connor Putman missed out of qualifying for the Division 2 state finals by seven pins at Richfield Bowl in Flint.
Putman rolled a 1,146 series. Aiden Bourassa of Iron Mountain and Luke LeClaire of Clio had 1153 to go into a roll-off tiebreaker seventh gam, which Bourassa won to claim the 10th and final state finals spot from the region.
Putman ended up 14th. Cadillac freshman Brecken McNutt took 31st with a 1,039, Petoskey freshman James Hendrick placed 37th and Gaylord freshman Calvin White was 38th.
Gaylord senior Isabel Messinis placed 22nd in the girls regional with a 918, one spot ahead of sophomore teammate Sarah Oldenburg.
The Division 2 finals are March 3-4 at Century Bowl in Waterford.
GIRLS HOOPS
Brethren 41
Manistee CC 40
Freshman Natalie Myers hit a free throw in the waning seconds to give Brethren a 41-40 win over Manistee Catholic Central and its first West Michigan D League championship since 2017. An Alice Amstutz free throw tied the game at 40.
Brethren: Amstutz 9 points, 4 rebounds; Paige Gutowski 7 points, 3 rebounds; Stella Estes 6 points, 5 rebounds, 4 blocks; Maddy Biller 5 points, 6 rebounds; Elly Sexton 5 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, 1 block; Olivia Sexton 5 points5 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals; Myers 4 points, 3 rebounds, 3 steals.
Manistee Catholic Central: Kaylyn Johnson 14 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 assists; Ashley VanAelst 8 points; Grace Kidd 7 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists.
UP NEXT: The Bobcats (19-3, 15-1 West Michigan D) play the Buckley/Bear Lake winner in districts Wednesday at Buckley; the Sabers (17-5, 13-3 WMD) play the Mason County Eastern/Baldwin winner in districts Wednesday at Walkerville.
Elk Rapids 45
Frankfort 27
Elk Rapids: Kendall Standfest 18 points, 11 rebounds, 6 steals, 3 blocks; Morgan Bergquist 11 points, 2 steals; Lily Morton 7 points; Lauren Bingham 4 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks.
UP NEXT: The Elks (17-3) play the winner of East Jordan/Charlevoix winner in districts Wednesday at Harbor Springs; the Panthers (10-11) host Suttons Bay in districts Wednesday.
Boyne City 47
Bellaire 27
Boyne City: Mackensy Wilson 13 points; Morgan Deming 10 points; Brook Williams 7 points; Ramblers win 6th in a row, haven't lost in February.
Bellaire: Jacey Somers 21 points, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks; Alayna Elandt 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals.
UP NEXT: The Ramblers (8-14) play district host Kalkaska, Wednesday; the Eagles (12-10) face Ellsworth in districts Wednesday at Gaylord St. Mary.
Leland 58
TC Bulldogs 24
Leland: Maeve Sweeney 15 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists; Elli Miller 14 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals; Mallory Lowe 9 points, 5 steals, 4 assists; Ella Knudsen 6 points.
TC Bulldogs: Lilly Bender 9 points; Zoe Hoffman 8 points.
UP NEXT: The Comets (13-8) take on Lake Leelanau St. Mary in districts Monday at Frankfort.
BOYS HOOPS
Gaylord St. Mary 55
Central Lake 46
Gaylord St. Mary: Gavin Bebble 26 points, 4 steals; Daniel Jacobson 15 points; Brody Jeffers 8 points, 9 rebounds, 9 steals, 3 assists; Snowbirds stay 0.5 game up on Onaway and Inland Lakes in Ski Valley Conference race.
Central Lake: Garrison Barret 16 points; Drayten Evans 13 points; Grant Miller 9 points; Mason Hoppe 6 points.
UP NEXT: The Snowbirds (17-3, 13-1 SVC) travel Tuesday to Inland Lakes (15-5, 13-2) and Thursday to Pellston (7-12, 4-9); the Trojans (8-13, 7-8 SVC) travel Tuesday to Pellston.
Lake City 46
Roscommon 61
Lake City: Brody Gothard 22 points; Jace Goodrich 7 points; James VanderBrook 7 points; Corbin Bisballe 6 points.
UP NEXT: The Trojans (3-18, 2-14 Highland) travel Tuesday to Beaverton. | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/prep-roundup-reps-rout-gaylord-8-0-in-hockey-regional-brethren-wins-nail-biter-for/article_2d3b8a28-b577-11ed-b559-c32f4675d419.html | 2023-02-26 11:56:11 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/prep-roundup-reps-rout-gaylord-8-0-in-hockey-regional-brethren-wins-nail-biter-for/article_2d3b8a28-b577-11ed-b559-c32f4675d419.html |
Life is about the journey, not the destination, so the saying goes. What better way to embrace this mantra than by hitting the highway for a road trip, enjoying scenic stops and quirky roadside attractions along the way?
Even with the higher-than-normal gas prices right now, road tripping remains one of the most affordable ways to wander.
From blazing fall foliage beautifying the Blue Ridge Parkway to the craggy Oregon Coast where you can spot whales and a hot springs loop connecting mineral pools in Colorado, here’s 10 affordable U.S. road trip ideas.
Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana
The Great River Road traces the Mississippi River along its path from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota all the way down to New Orleans.
Pack some binoculars because there are lots of great birdwatching opportunities: The Mississippi River flyway is a migration route followed by 40% of North America’s water and shore birds. You can also learn all about eagles at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota.
The complete 3,000-mile route rolls through 10 states and intersects with another famous trip, Route 66, near Alton, Illinois. Along the way, nearly 100 historical sites, museums and attractions (many of which are free) tell the story of the Mighty Mississippi and its people.
For music lovers, the stops along the southern section of this trip are the equivalent of a greatest hits list, and includes Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home in Arkansas, the famed Sun Studio and Elvis’ Graceland in Memphis, and the New Orleans Jazz Museum. When in Memphis, enjoy a free nightly light show that illuminates the Hernando de Soto and Big River Crossing bridges.
Historic Hot Springs Loop in Colorado
How does a spa-inspired road trip sound?
An abundance of thermal hot springs flow through the Western side of Colorado and an 800-mile Historic Hot Springs loop itinerary connects the burbling hot tubs, beckoning travelers to relax after a long drive. The route highlights two dozen destinations including vapor caves, the world’s deepest geothermal aquifer in Pagosa Springs, and Japanese-inspired cedar soaking tubs at Durango Hot Springs Resort and Spa. Iron Mountain Hot Springs even has an “Experience Pool” that rotates mineral blends and mimics famous hot springs like Iceland’s Blue Lagoon.
In addition to saving on international airfare by visiting top-notch hot springs at home, budget-conscious road-trippers will also find plenty of camping spots along the route, too.
State Route 12 in Utah
Utah is spoiled with many national parks, and there’s plenty of untamed beauty to witness in the crimson-colored, otherworldly landscape of fins, buttes, hoodoos and canyons.
Known as the “Mighty Five,” Utah’s national parks include Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion. If you’ve got the time, do an extensive survey of the southern part of the state and visit them all. But for a more concise sojourn, road-trippers can enjoy a scenic 124-mile drive along State Route 12, which links Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon. Technically, you could drive the road in a few hours, but there’s so many detour-worthy parks and recreation areas along the way, including hiking paths in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park and exhibits at Anasazi State Park Museum, an ancestral Puebloan village that was likely occupied from 1050 to 1200 A.D.
As for the actual parks? Capitol Reef is known for geographic anomalies like the Waterpocket Fold, which is a wrinkle in the Earth, and Bryce Canyon features the highest concentration of hoodoos in the world.
You can sync up your trip with one of the free days in the National Parks (there’s usually five per year). Or, an annual park pass is $80 and grants you access to 2,000 recreation areas. Seniors can get a lifetime pass for $80. Veterans and Gold Star families can now get a free lifetime pass.
Blue Ridge Parkway
The Blue Ridge Parkway is nicknamed “America’s Favorite Drive,” and this ribbon of open road is especially fun to meander along in the fall when the leaves are changing colors.
The parkway spans 469 miles along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, and the drive connects Shenandoah National Park with the Great Smoky Mountains, with plenty of pull offs for picnicking and hiking.
Travelers looking to save on lodging will find several campgrounds along the route, including Crabtree Falls Campground, which is near a 70-foot waterfall. The parkway also has an events calendar with a variety of free things to do. Stop in at The Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Virginia, where you can order from a soda fountain and enjoy live music at the Friday Night Jamboree and other weekly jam sessions.
Peak to Peak Highway in Colorado
New England may get all the fame for its fall foliage. But after making this 55-mile drive in the fall, you’ll see why this Rocky Mountain state is nicknamed “Colorful Colorado.”
As Colorado’s oldest scenic byway, Peak-to-Peak skirts the lower ridges of the Front Range and is a great day trip. You can spot elk roaming Estes Park in the fall, try your luck at the twin casino towns Black Hawk and Central City, pan for gold in a creek, see what’s left of the Nevadaville ghost town and hike in Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
In Nederland, a quirky mountain town, rides on the lovingly restored 1910 Carousel of Happiness are just $3.
Road to Hana in Maui, Hawaii
Maui is an expensive island to vacation on, but travelers can offset the hotel costs by enjoying the island’s many free outdoors activities like beaches, hiking trails and waterfalls.
For a beautiful showcase of Maui, the Road to Hana is a daring 64-mile drive on Maui’s northern coast between Paia, a laid-back surf town, and Hana, a peaceful and secluded retreat. But don’t let the short distance of this road trip fool you. The road has 620 twists and turns and lots of narrow bridges, plus lots of stops that beckon, like waterfall pools, ocean overlooks and local fruit stands. Pack a swimsuit and towels. The out-and-back drive makes a nice day trip that’s easy on the wallet.
Highway 101 along the Oregon Coast
Oregon’s 363-mile stretch of coastline is known as the “People’s Coast” because Oregonians and visitors alike have public access to all of the beaches. In fact, Oregon’s is the only ocean-adjacent public coastline in the United States. Those making the drive along Highway 101 (i.e. the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway) can pull over at many scenic outlooks and state parks and watch for whales: These gentle giants visit Oregon’s shores from mid-December through mid-January and again from late March through the end of May. To celebrate the migrations, Oregon State Parks hold Whale Watch Week twice a year in late December and late March. Volunteers are stationed at more than 20 of the best whale watching sites along the coast, ready to help visitors spot whales as well as share facts about the marine mammals.
In addition to free whale watching, road-trippers can find lots of free oceanfront hotels along the coast, with nightly rates between $100 to $200. Or, for a road trip on two wheels, Escape Adventures runs six-day bike tours along the Oregon Coast, with an option to stay in inns or save money and camp.
Route 66 from Illinois to California
Arguably the most iconic stretch of asphalt in America, Route 66 (also known as “The Mother Road”) starts in Chicago and ends near the Santa Monica Pier in California.
The 2,400-mile drive is a historically significant one as it carried thousands of Depression-era migrants from the Midwest who went to California with hopes of better jobs. Several iconic, quirky and photo-worthy roadside stops make Route 66 an entertaining drive. Some of the most noteable free stops include the The Museum Under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the row of graffiti-covered Cadillacs standing upright at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, and a turquoise blue swimming hole in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
Florida Overseas Highway
A transportation wonder, the southernmost stretch of U.S. Highway 1 is often called the “Highway that Goes to Sea” as a network of 42 bridges connect’s Florida’s mainland with the Florida Keys. Take turns in the passenger seat as this 113-mile stretch of roadway has fantastic views of the Atlantic Ocean, Florida Bay and Gulf of Mexico.
The trip has lots of great free stops, including a self-guided tour of Art Deco architecture in Miami and swimming and birdwatching at Bahia Honda State Park. Snorkeling is great in the Keys, but because most of the reefs are several miles off the shore, you’ll need to splurge a little for snorkeling charters. Expect prices starting at about $25 for kids and $50 for adults.
Texas Hill Country
Wildflowers are in bloom in Texas each spring, making for pretty drives though the Lone Star State. (Give hat tips to Lady Bird Johnson who was a beautification champion and the Texas Department of Transportation that plants 30,000 pounds of seeds on Texas roadsides each year.)
While there are lots of wildflower loops you can drive in Texas, the Fredericksburg and Hill Country area is especially scenic with bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes, red poppies, ox-eyed daises and wine cup flowers that are in bloom in the spring. You can view the flowers from roadside fields and at Wildseed Farms, as well as at The Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site, where more than 400 wildflower species sprout up.
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DALLAS (AP) _ MoneyGram International Inc. (MGI) on Friday reported second-quarter net income of $3.1 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had profit of 3 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 9 cents per share.
The money transfer company posted revenue of $329.6 million in the period.
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By KYLE HIGHTOWER
AP Sports Writer
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New York Giants hired Brian Daboll in the hopes he could get more production out of quarterback Daniel Jones and the offense.
The first preseason game of Daboll’s tenure revealed signs they may be heading in the right direction.
Graham Gano hit a 24-yard field goal as time expired, Daniel Jones was solid in limited work and New York beat the New England Patriots 23-21 on Thursday night to open the preseason.
It gave Daboll a victory in his head coaching debut against his predecessor and the team he started his NFL career with.
Despite some breakouts by the offensive line, the Giants moved the ball well, with Jones completing 6 of 10 passes for 69 yards. Running back Saquon Barkley had four carries for 13 yards and one catch for 8 yards.
“I thought (Jones) operated the offense well. He led them down on the first drive,” Daboll said. “We stalled there in the red zone. Good first start, but certainly things to clean up.”
Antonio Williams had a 2-yard touchdown run and Gano made three field goals.
“There’s going to be good, there’s going to be bad. We got to go back and watch film and learn from it, but that’s what the preseason’s for,” Barkley said. “Try to sharpen up the tools, sharpen up the game.”
Brian Hoyer and Bailey Zappe each threw touchdown passes for New England which, except for rookie left guard Cole Strange, gave quarterback Mac Jones and most of its projected starters the night off.
The Giants elected to play their starters for one quarter, which amounted to the first two series.
Zappe was 19 of 32 for 205 yards and touchdown. Hoyer was 5 of 8 for 59 yards and a TD. Kevin Harris had a 3-yard touchdown run and Kristian Wilkerson finished with eight catches for 99 yards.
The Giants led 20-14 in the fourth quarter before the Patriots took the the lead after a 20-yard TD pass from Zappe to Lil’Jordan Humphrey.
But New York responded on the ensuing series, with Davis Webb leading the Giants on an 11-play, 69-yard drive capped by Gano’s winner.
It wasn’t all positive for the Giants, though. Starting left guard Shane Lemieux played the opening series before leaving with a toe injury. He was replaced by rookie Josh Ezeudu.
Defensively, two of New England of free agency acquisitions made their presence felt. Cornerback Terrance Mitchell forced a fumble and finished with four tackles. Linebacker Mack Wilson had five tackles and was credited with a quarterback hit.
One of the biggest questions for the Patriots has been who’d be tasked with play calling for the Patriots following the departure of former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to become the Las Vegas Raiders coach.
There still doesn’t appear to be a definitive successor.
Senior football advisor Matt Patricia and offensive assistant Joe Judge, back in New England after being fired by the Giants after two seasons, have both taken turns doing it throughout training camp.
That continued Thursday with Patricia handling the duties for the first two series. Then, after rookie Zappe was inserted in the second quarter, Judge took over the headset.
Coach Bill Belichick said it’s still a work in progress.
“We did a lot of things in this game that are going to be beneficial in the long run, whether it was on the coaching staff, playing time, players that played and so forth. That’s all part of the process,” he said. “We’ll work it out.”
Working against New England’s second-team defense, the Giants moved the ball well on the opening drive of the game, moving all the way to the 6 before settling for Gano’s 25-yard field goal.
EARLY ACTION
With Hoyer at quarterback, New England punted on their first touch of the night. But following a Giants punt, the Patriots went to work.
First, Hoyer connected with Wilkerson on a 33-yard pass to get the Patriots into the red zone. Six plays later, Hoyer found Thornton for a touchdown from 2 yards out.
The Giants answered just before halftime via a 7-yard TD pass from backup Tyrod Taylor to receiver Richie James.
INJURIES
Giants: Backup center Jamil Douglas left in the second quarter with an ankle injury and did not return. … Rookie CB Cor’Dale Flott exited in the third quarter with a groin injury.
Patriots: Offensive lineman Yodny Cajuste was helped off the field in the third quarter.
UP NEXT
The Giants host Carolina on Sunday, Aug. 21. The Patriots have a week of joint practices with Carolina before their matchup next Friday.
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WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The federal trial for Richard "Bigo" Barnett, one of the most prominent people seen storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, has officially closed with the jury finding him guilty on all eight counts related to the incident.
Arguments came to a close in the federal trial on Friday, Jan. 20 and the jury began deliberation Monday.
The 61-year-old from Gravette became well-known after photos were posted online of him with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's office desk. He also took an envelope from her office, put a quarter on her desk, and left her a note that said, "Nancy, Bigo was here, you B****."
Barnett entered the U.S. Capitol alongside other rioters while carrying a U.S. flag and a stun gun walking stick.
Barnett, testifying near the end of his trial, said he regrets coming to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally where then-President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters.
Barnett said he was looking for a bathroom inside the Capitol when he unwittingly entered Pelosi's office and encountered two news photographers. He said one of the photographers told him to “act natural,” so he lounged back in a chair and flung his legs onto the desk.
According to CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane, the jury took "barely two hours" to render their verdict. Barnett's sentencing will take place on May 3— the judge denied the prosecutor's request for him to stay in jail until sentencing.
Barnett faced eight total charges, including:
- civil disorder
- obstruction of an official proceeding & aiding and abetting
- entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon
- disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon
- entering and remaining in certain rooms in a capitol building
- disorderly conduct in a capitol building
- parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building
- theft of government property
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PITTSBURGH, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) today announced the redemption on June 28, 2022, of all of the outstanding Senior Notes due July 28, 2022, issued by PNC Bank, National Association in the amount of $750,000,000 (CUSIP 69353RFE3). The securities have a distribution rate of 2.450% and an original scheduled maturity date of July 28, 2022. The redemption price will be equal to $1,000 per $1,000 in principal amount, plus any accrued and unpaid distributions to the redemption date of June 28, 2022.
Payment of the redemption price will be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the United States, organized around its customers and communities for strong relationships and local delivery of retail and business banking including a full range of lending products; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management and asset management. For information about PNC, visit www.pnc.com.
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Fed official: Regulators will ensure all deposits are ‘safe’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top financial regulator pledged Monday that the Federal Reserve and other agencies will take whatever steps they deem necessary to protect depositors and the banking system two weeks after two large bank collapses triggered financial turmoil in the United States and Europe.
Regulators “are prepared to use all of our tools for any size institution, as needed, to keep the system safe and sound,” Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, said in written testimony that will be delivered Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee.
The Senate panel will hold the first formal congressional hearing on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and New York-based Signature Bank and the shortcomings of supervision and regulation, by the Fed and other agencies, that preceded them. The committee will also likely question Barr and other officials about the government’s response, including its emergency decision to insure all the deposits at both banks, even though the vast majority exceeded the $250,000 limit on insured deposits.
The Fed has come under harsh criticism by groups advocating tighter financial regulation for failing to adequately supervise Silicon Valley Bank and prevent its collapse, and Barr will likely face tough questioning by members of both parties.
In his prepared testimony, Barr blamed the management of Silicon Valley Bank for its failure. But he also said he would ensure that the Fed “fully accounts for any supervisory or regulatory failings” in a previously announced review of the bank’s collapse.
Barr said officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which directly supervised Silicon Valley Bank, sent multiple warnings to the bank’s management about the risks it was taking, including its substantial holdings of Treasurys and other bonds that were steadily losing value as interest rates rose. Ultimately, when large depositors sough to withdraw more than $40 billion in a single day, the bank couldn’t pay out the funds. On March 10, the bank was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
As recently as mid-February 2023, Barr says in his prepared testimony, Fed staffers told the central bank’s board of governors that rising rates were threatening the finances of some banks and highlighted, in particular, the risk-taking at Silicon Valley Bank.
“But, as it turned out,” Barr says, “the full extent of the bank’s vulnerability was not apparent until the unexpected bank run on March 9.”
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Three former fraternity members were sentenced Thursday to jail terms for their roles in the hazing death of a Bowling Green State University student, while two others were ordered to serve house arrest.
Jarrett Prizel, 19, of Olean, New York, Daylen Dunson, 22, of Cleveland, and Ben Boyers, 21, of Sylvania, Ohio, had all pleaded guilty to reckless homicide and hazing counts. Dunson and Boyers also pleaded guilty to obstructing justice, while Dunson also admitted to tampering with evidence.
Niall Sweeney, 21, of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Aaron Lehane, 21, of Loveland, Ohio, both pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and hazing, while Lehane also admitted to obstructing official business.
The charges stemmed from the March 2021 death of Stone Foltz, 20, a sophomore from Delaware, Ohio.
Authorities have said Foltz died of alcohol poisoning after a fraternity initiation event in which he was hazed into finishing an entire bottle of alcohol. He was found unconscious by a roommate after members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity dropped him off at his apartment.
Foltz died three days after he was put on life support.
Prizel was sentenced to 28 days in jail and two years’ probation. Dunson received a 21-day jail term and three years of probation, while Sweeney was given a 14-day jail sentence and two years of probation. All three were also sentenced to serve 28 days of house arrest.
Boyers and Lehane were each sentenced to 28 days of house arrest and two years’ probation.
Sentencing is pending for three other former fraternity members.
In a statement they issued Thursday, Foltz’s parents, Shari and Cory Foltz, noted the sentencings were the conclusion for the former fraternity members. But the couple said “there will be no closure for our family until hazing is permanently eradicated on college campuses.”
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Margaritaville planned for Indian River site to get Planning and Zoning review, Melbourne mayor says
LAKE MARY, Fla. - The Margaritaville project planned for the City of Melbourne that was announced late last year is moving forward through city boards despite some opposition, according to Melbourne Mayor Paul Alfrey.
The $50 million resort complex will be built along the Indian River on U.S. Highway 1 near NASA Blvd. Plans call for approximately 150 hotel rooms and five restaurants
It has received some negative pushback from residents who have expressed concerns over the environmental impact the project will have on the river.
"I prefer the development of Margaritaville as opposed to 20,000 pounds of trash that we cleaned up on our riverbank," Mayor Alfrey wrote in a Facebook post. "The Margaritaville project will be developed under the latest stormwater codes and provide a quality venue for our residents and visitors."
The Planning and Zoning board will review the development this week, and then it will come before the city council possibly next month, Alfrey said.
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Institution of Engineering and Technology scholarships will help students who have faced challenges enter the industry
LONDON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bechtel has donated an additional £50,000 to the Institution of Engineering and Technology for its Launch Scholarship programme in celebration of the company's 70 years in the UK. The Launch Scholarship supports engineering students, degree apprentices, and apprentices who have faced financial challenges or personal obstacles. Bechtel's donation will support at least eleven students every year for the duration of their education. The donation adds to the £680,000 (US$970,000) that Bechtel has gifted to the IET for its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics educational outreach over the past decade.
"Bechtel has been a valued partner of the IET for almost a decade, including our founding sponsor for the FIRST® LEGO® League," said Sir Julian Young, IET president. "This year's additional donation will enable us to support even more young people on their academic or apprenticeship path into engineering. We thank Bechtel for its continued support of the next generation as they each pursue their dreams."
"Engineering is a fulfilling career that helps tackle some of the world's biggest challenges, including diversifying our energy supply and achieving net zero. We need people from varied backgrounds to help us find the best solutions," said John Williams, Bechtel's UK and Ireland managing director. "We hope that this support will remove some of the obstacles that talented people can face in earning the qualifications needed to join our industry."
Bechtel has supported the IET since 2013, including as a founding supporter of the FIRST® LEGO® League competition that enables young people between the ages of 4-16 years old to develop STEM skills through hands-on learning. Some 100,000 children have participated in the UK program with over 15,500 children participating in 2020-21 competition. Bechtel also supports FIRST® programs in Australia, Chile, and the United States. Read more about FLL in the UK here.
Bechtel's 70th year in the UK coincides with Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, and earlier this year it celebrated the opening of a new railway named in her honor, the Elizabeth Line, through central London. The company's global infrastructure business is headquartered in the UK, from which it has directly supported projects across the UK, Ireland, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, accelerating progress, creating access and opportunity, building a path to net zero, and protecting people and our planet so that future generations thrive.
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IET scholarships help people like Simone who is a Degree Apprentice studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering and working at Sellafield. Read about Simone here.
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Bechtel serves the Energy; Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. www.bechtel.com
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We inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community to engineer a better world.
We are a diverse home for engineering and technology intelligence throughout the world. This breadth and depth means we are uniquely placed to help the sector progress society.
We want to build the profile of engineering and technology to change outdated perceptions and tackle the skills gap. This includes encouraging more women to become engineers and growing the number of engineering apprentices.
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Did Khloe Kardashian's daughter True Thompson just reveal the name of Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's baby boy?
That what TikToker Marissa Spagnoli thinks. In a Sept. 22 video, the content creator shared a theory about whether True accidentally dropped the moniker during the season two premiere of "The Kardashians."
The social media user pointed to a clip from the episode where Khloe FaceTimes True after welcoming her son via surrogate in July. Upon seeing her new sibling, the 4-year-old greets him by saying, "Hi, Snowy!" And while Khloe makes it clear to True "his name is not Snowy," Spagnoli wondered if it could be the name of Kylie's son, saying it would go with the name of her daughter Stormi Webster.
"Snowy? Snowy and Stormi!" Spagnoli said. "Snowy baby! It has a ring."
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But this wasn't the only part of the episode that caught the TikToker's attention. Spagnoli also recalled a scene before the birth where Khloe -- who had been keeping the baby news private amid the discovery that Tristan Thompson was having a child with a woman named Maralee Nichols -- informed her BFF Malika Haqq that she told True the newest member of the Kardashian family was on the way.
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When asked if True understood what getting a brother means, Khloe said she thought she did, noting that True sees Stormi with her brother (who was born in February). And it seemed like True couldn't wait to share the news.
"She just, like, tells people," Khloe said. "Like, when she sees the baby, she'll say, 'I'm going to have a brother, too.' And I'm like, 'Haha, no you're not.' 'Cause she'll just tell random people."
Spagnoli thought this was similar to how Khloe brushed off the name Snowy in the hospital scene.
"I could be completely off," the vlogger said. "It could be Sunny. But I don't know, I'm kind of feeling Snowy."
Some followers seemed to agree with the theory. "Snow & Stormi make sense," one commenter wrote. Together they are their own little snowstorm." Added another, "Snow 'snow' makes so much [sense] to me...starting with the letter S like Stormi."
Others, however, weren't convinced. "Ngl I think True just wanted his name to be snow," a social media user wrote. Chimed in another, "It's def not Snowy."
Of course, Kylie and Travis are the ones who know the name for sure. However, the makeup mogul and the rapper have been keeping the moniker a secret ever since they revealed in March that they were changing it from his original name Wolf. Although, Kylie recently shared they haven't legally changed the name yet.
"We're just not ready to share yet," she said on an episode of "The Late Late Show" earlier this month. "You know, Travis... one day he'll be like 'Ooh, this seems kind of cool' and change it again. So, we're just not officially probably going to change it until maybe..."
The answer remains a mystery. Another name fans want to know? The name of Khloe and Tristan's baby boy. However, the Good American founder did reveal a clue on the season two premiere of The Kardashians.
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KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second-largest city Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring at least 23 others with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses.
Police in the northeast city of Kharkiv said cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market, where Associated Press journalists saw a woman crying over her dead husband’s body. Local officials said the shelling also struck a bus stop, a gym and a residential building.
The bombardment came after Russia on Wednesday reiterated its plans to seize territories beyond eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has spent months trying to conquer the Donbas region, which is south of Kharkiv. It also followed Ukrainian attacks this week on a bridge the Russians have used to supply their forces in occupied areas near Ukraine’s southern Black Sea coast.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attacks early Thursday targeted one of the most crowded areas of the city, which had a prewar population of about 1.4 million.
“The Russian army is randomly shelling Kharkiv, peaceful residential areas. Civilians are being killed,” Terekhov said.
At the market, Sabina Pogorelets’ desperate screams pierced the air as she begged Ukrainian police to let her embrace her husband, Adam, a vendor whose body was lying partly covered with cloth next to a small stall. A bloody wound could be seen on his head as policemen gently pulled his wife away so medical workers could take away his body.
“Please! I need to hold his hand!” Pogorelets cried.
Nearby, a man hugged his small daughter as he and other visitors stood in shock. Emergency teams treated at least two of the wounded in nearby ambulances.
“People started working little by little, they came out to sell things, and residents came here to buy things,” said Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the National Police in the Kharkiv region. “And exactly this place was hit by Uragan rockets with cluster bombs to maximize the damage to people.”
The cluster bombs claim could not be independently confirmed. AP journalists at the scene saw burned-out cars and a bus pierced by shrapnel.
The Kharkiv regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said four people were in grave condition and a child was among those wounded in the shelling. Russian forces also shelled wheat fields, setting them on fire, he said.
Elsewhere, Russian forces shelled the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight as well as the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka, where two schools were destroyed, Ukrainian officials said. A man’s body was recovered from the rubble of the school in Kramatorsk, and emergency workers say two more people were feared trapped there.
The scattered attacks illustrate broader war aims beyond Russia’s previously declared focus on the Donbas region’s Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, which pro-Moscow separatists have partly controlled since 2014.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian news outlets on Wednesday that Russia plans to retain control over more territory, including the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in southern Ukraine. Moscow also envisions making gains elsewhere, Lavrov said.
Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, said the Russian offensive in Donetsk was likely to stall before reaching the cities of Sloviansk and Bakhmut. “Russian troops are now struggling to move across relatively sparsely settled and open terrain. They will encounter terrain much more conducive to the Ukrainian defenders,” their assessment said.
Richard Moore, head of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6, had a similar take, saying the Russians “are about to run out of steam” in Ukraine.
“They will have to pause in some way, and that will give the Ukrainians opportunities to strike back,” Moore said.
He said it is important for Ukraine to demonstrate its ability to respond militarily to Russia, both to maintain morale and as “an important reminder to the rest of Europe that this is a winnable campaign by the Ukrainians, Because we are about to go into a pretty tough winter.”
Ukraine’s military reported Thursday that Russian forces attempted to storm the Vuhlehirska power station in the Donetsk region, but said “Ukrainian defenders made the enemy resort to fleeing.”
In other developments Thursday:
— The operator of a major pipeline from Russia to Europe says natural gas has started flowing again after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance. But the gas flow was well short of full capacity and the outlook was uncertain. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance. The pipeline is Germany’s main source of Russian gas. German officials had feared that the pipeline might not reopen at all amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
— Turkish officials said a deal on a U.N. plan to unblock the exports of Ukrainian grain and to allow Russia to export grain and fertilizers will be signed Friday in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said that he, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and officials from Russia and Ukraine will oversee the signing ceremony. Guterres has been working on a plan to enable the export of millions of tons of grain stockpiles that have been stuck in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports due to the war. The move could ease a global food crisis that has sent wheat and other grain prices soaring. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment.
— Ukraine’s nuclear energy plant operator says Russian forces have placed explosives and weapons in parts of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant where they pose significant danger. Energoatom said the heavy weapons and explosives are in the building that houses one of six reactors at Europe’s largest nuclear power station. “They are continuing to cynically, absolutely violate all norms and demands of fire, nuclear and radiation safety,” the statement said.
— Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said Moscow will consider boosting natural gas supplies to Hungary following a formal request from Budapest. He spoke after a meeting in Moscow with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. Russian news agencies say Szijjártó sought to get an additional 700 million cubic meters of gas from Russia this year.
— Russia barred 39 representatives of Australian security services and defense companies from entering the country, in response to sanctions imposed by Canberra earlier this year.
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This story corrects the assessment of the Study of War, which said Russian forces were unlikely to reach Sloviansk and Bakhmut, not that they might.
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In the middle of a pinballing conversation about jazz and the mystery of existence, Wayne Shorter once asked, "This ever happen to you? You're sitting by yourself and you start to drift off. And the question 'Why?' appears. 'Why is there anything?' And there's an answer coming, but it always goes away. It's strange, man. Strange!"
Completely exhilarated but not all the way clear, I tried to confirm what he meant: "So when your mind quiets down, you feel like the meaning of life is approaching, but it disappears when it gets too close?"
Shorter replied, "I think it happens to a lot of people, but nobody talks about it."
Having spent the past few years trying to untangle this generous knot of metaphysical chitchat, here's where I'm at: According to Wayne Shorter, the meaning of existence is not only available to the high seers of jazz, but to you and me, too - with the caveat that it remains just outside of everyone's grasp. So instead of seeking the big answer, let's all just slow down and allow it to come to us, let it get as near and clear as it can, and make sure we keep listening for it, too, because our music might contain life's meaning in ways that our words cannot.
Shorter - the empathic saxophonist and composer who died in Los Angeles on Thursday at 89 - loved dishing out words, even when it felt difficult for him to locate the right ones. He was a garrulous jazz philosopher whose dizzying oratory often whirled in the opposite direction of his music, which, at its finest, felt so lucid, so logical, so clarifying, so edifying, as if casually laying life's deepest mysteries bare. Shorter knew that if there were words available to describe all this, it wouldn't need to be music.
His sound wasn't esoteric, though. Check out the elongated melody line that Shorter and trumpeter Freddie Hubbard throw down at the outset of 1966's "Speak No Evil" and it's so easy to imagine a freshly washed car gliding down a boulevard of green lights, or a lazy wave rolling onto a moonlit shoreline, or a bird tracing an arc across the sky without bothering to flap its wings. And it's all of those things, obviously. Shorter held a fundamental belief that "everything is connected" - a concurrently modest and complicated idea that set his music apart from the questing saxophone heroism of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, making him one of the most celebrated composers in jazz history along the way.
Which is funny because Shorter loved superheroes. He grew up devouring comic books in his native Newark, establishing a lifelong affection for characters with powers beyond themselves. But he eventually converted his faith to heroes with horns, got serious about his playing and ultimately earned his place in two different supergroups, enlisting in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, a roaring engine of a hard-bop troupe, in the 1950s; then joining the Miles Davis Quintet in 1964, a legendary ensemble whose pursuit of "anti-music" allowed Shorter to throw his intuition in reverse and see which way the music might go.
By the time the 1970s rolled around, Shorter's sound had begun to feel like an omnidirectional thing. As a member of Weather Report, the bonzo-successful jazz fusion band he shared with keyboardist Joe Zawinul, Shorter brought the most empathetic and absorbent elements of his playing to the fore, providing the music with its aura more than its architecture. If you listened close enough, you might have heard him basking in the infinite space of unknowable possibility. Or, as Shorter once put it, "'Potential' is another way of saying 'mystery.'"
That enigmatic sense of endless potential saturates even Shorter's most forthright compositions, too. Just listen to the sublime version of "Footprints" from Shorter's 1966 album "Adam's Apple." Notice how the song's main melody feels as solid as the world beneath your feet. Then keep listening. This music is moving. We're moving. Slowly, yes, but surely. Toward what? And why are we headed there? What will we find? Why is there anything? It's strange, man. Strange! | https://www.phillytrib.com/wayne-shorters-jazz-offered-a-glimpse-at-the-meaning-of-life/article_188d6431-fb92-5ce9-803d-04ab53215ae4.html | 2023-03-04 01:02:31 | 0 | https://www.phillytrib.com/wayne-shorters-jazz-offered-a-glimpse-at-the-meaning-of-life/article_188d6431-fb92-5ce9-803d-04ab53215ae4.html |
TAMPA, Fla. — Suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren and his legal team rested their case against Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday.
During day two of the trial, DeSantis’s Public Safety Czar Larry Keefe wrapped up his testimony. Keefe was largely behind the effort to remove Warren from office. The court also heard from Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’s communications director.
Fenske testified DeSantis did not want to sensationalize the coverage of Warren's suspension.
Loking forward, the governor’s legal team will make its case Thursday and likely wrap up with final arguments then.
Warren, suspended by DeSantis, opened his federal civil trial against the governor Tuesday with testimony that alleged his removal was based on his personal political positions on abortion and transgender rights.
Warren, a Democrat suspended from his twice-elected post as state attorney in Hillsborough County, sued DeSantis seeking his reinstatement.
The suspension came as DeSantis, a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, joined a wave of Republican opposition to progressive prosecutors who exercise discretion over whether to charge people with what they deem to be low-level crimes.
Warren was elected in 2016 and 2020 as prosecutor of Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa. He has said he thinks DeSantis was overturning the will of voters by removing him from office.
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MARLTON, N.J. -- First, they hit the streets. Then, they hit the mat.
One hundred and seventy combat veterans, families and friends took part in the 2nd annual Ruck and Roll in June.
The McHugh Jiu Jitsu School in partnership with the We Defy Foundation, holds the two-part event to honor the fallen and raise funds to help combat veterans today.
It consists of a 5-mile walk with weighted backpacks followed by a round of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on the open mats of the school.
"We've really found jiu jitsu fills this void for veterans," says owner Pete McHugh. "It's comradery. For instance, we don't call them teammates. We're the tribe. They're a part of something here; that shared brotherhood. Memorial Day for us is more than just burgers, hot dogs and pools. It's just a way to remember we have the best country in the world."
"I'm a Navy Veteran; Memorial Day means a lot to me," says Pete Lingesso of the We Defy Foundation. A lot of people payed the ultimate price. We're lucky to be here because they put it all on the line."
Connor Nachurski is glad to hit the streets for a good cause.
The Villanova ROTC Senior says it's a way to remember the fallen.
They raised more than $6,000 that goes straight to supporting combat veterans get scholarships to enroll in the school.
The benefits of jiu-jitsu on combat veterans with military-related disabilities or PTSD can be life-changing.
For more information on the Mchugh School of Jiu Jitsu in Marlton, NJ please visit them at Mchughbjj.com For more info on the We Defy Foundation Wedefyfoundation.org. | https://6abc.com/topical-memorial-jiujitsu-training/13319232/ | 2023-06-07 20:40:01 | 1 | https://6abc.com/topical-memorial-jiujitsu-training/13319232/ |
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack detailed former President Trump's "complete dereliction of duty" as he ignored pleas to condemn the violence and call off the mob from his White House Counsel, top aides and members of his own family.
"This man of unbridled destructive energy could not be moved, not by his aides, not by his allies, not by the violent chants of rioters, or the desperate pleas of those facing down the rioters," said Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., during Thursday's prime-time hearing.
The Democrat-led committee shed light on the much-talked about but still murky 187 minutes that stretched from his speech to his supporters at 1:10 p.m. ET to his 4:17 p.m. ET video statement asking them to return home.
The hearing, led by military veterans Reps. Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., used witness testimony to piece together Trump's actions the afternoon of Jan. 6, as there was not an official call log from the White House that afternoon and nothing included in the presidential daily diary.
"The chief White House photographer wanted to take pictures because it was, in her words, 'very important for his archives and for history.' But she was told: 'no photographs'," Luria said.
White House counsel and White House officials testified that Trump did not make any calls to the secretary of defense, the attorney general or the secretary of homeland security during the siege.
Although the White House call logs are empty, Trump lawyer and ally Rudy Giuliani's call logs show at least two calls between him and the president that day. The committee also noted that other Trump calls that day are known, including several to Republican senators to urge them to delay the certification of Biden's win.
'I've seen the impact that his words have on his supporters'
A major theme from the hearing was how much television the former president consumed as the chaos and violence unfolded.
"President Trump sat in his dining room and watched the attack on television while his senior-most staff closest advisers and family members begged him to do what is expected of any American president," Luria said. "When lives and our democracy hung in the balance, President Trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power."
The committee played video clips of news coverage from Fox News, to show what Trump watched in real time as he tuned in from his dining room, just off from the Oval Office. He watched as his supporters, donning red caps and chanting his name, overwhelmed and outnumbered police as they flooded the Capitol grounds and attempted to breach the Capitol.
What was he doing while the Capitol was under siege? See for yourself. Donald Trump is a disgrace to America. pic.twitter.com/tgjdSe2zYZ
— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) July 21, 2022
At 1:49 p.m. ET, just as D.C. police were declaring a riot at the Capitol, Trump tweeted out a video of his speech at the Ellipse earlier that day and did not comment on the violence.
Kizinger noted that between 1:49 and 2:24, when Trump posted a subsequent tweet, "staff repeatedly came into the room to see him and plead that he make a strong public statement condemning the violence and instructing the mob to leave the Capitol."
The panel shared video testimony from top advisers and his children imploring Trump to call off the attack.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House staffer, has previously testified to a conversation between White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
"I remember [Cipollone] saying something to the effect of, 'Mark we need to do something more. They're literally calling for the vice president to be effing hung.'
Hutchinson recalled Meadow responding: 'You heard him Pat, he thinks Mike deserves it, he doesn't think they're doing anything wrong.' "
Trump eventually relented to calls from his aides and allies and recorded a video in the Rose Garden late that afternoon to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.
The committee shared a draft of his remarks, which read: "I'm asking for you to leave the Capitol region now and go home in a peaceful way."
But in the video, Trump went off script, and didn't say those words. Instead, he repeated his false claim that the election was stolen and praised the rioters, saying, "Go home, we love you."
Thursday's witnesses were Trump aides who resigned following Jan. 6
Testifying live Thursday were Matthew Pottinger, Trump's deputy national security adviser at the time, and Sarah Matthews, Trump's deputy press secretary. The pair resigned following the events of Jan. 6, dismayed by what they deemed an inadequate response from the president at quelling the violence.
Matthews recalled the 2:24 p.m. ET tweet from Trump that read, in part: "Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done."
"I thought that the tweet about the vice president was the last thing that was needed in that moment. And I remember thinking that this was going to be bad for him to tweet this because it was essentially him giving the green light to these people telling them that what they were doing at the Capitol and entering the Capitol was OK, that they were justified in their anger," said Matthews, who described herself as a "life-long Republican".
She added that as a Trump campaign aide, she had seen the impact his words had on his supporters. "They truly latch on to every word and every tweet that he says, and so I think that in that moment for him to tweet out the message about Mike Pence, it was him pouring gasoline on the fire," she said.
Matthews said White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told her "in a hushed tone" that Trump "did not want to include any sort of mention of peace in that tweet."
She said McEnany told her "it took some convincing on their part those who were in the room and she said that there was a back and forth going over different phrases to find something that he was comfortable with, and it wasn't until Ivanka Trump suggested the phrase 'stay peaceful', that he finally agreed to include it."
Pottinger said he was "disturbed" by Trump's tweet attacking Pence and that it was "the opposite of what we really needed in that moment which was a de-escalation."
The panel described one of Trump's final interactions on Jan. 6, as he departed the White House dining room at 6:27 p.m. ET to go to the residence.
"As he was gathering his things in the dining room to leave, President Trump reflected on the day's events with an unnamed White House employee," Kinzinger said, adding the employee recalled Trump saying: "Mike Pence let me down."
What comes next?
In his closing statement, Kinzinger said Trump abandoned his responsibilities as commander-in-chief on Jan. 6.
"Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this: Donald Trump's conduct on Jan. 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation," he said. "It is a dishonor to all those who have sacrificed and died in service of our democracy."
He said when the committee releases its report, it will recommend "changes to laws and policies to guard against another January 6."
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Hocus Pocus 2
September 2, 2022 12:15PM CDT
We are less than one month away from the release of Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2. The 1993 cult classic movie is getting a reboot with a twist. Thankfully, the original witches are back Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. Check out the latest trailer below. | https://www.kfrxfm.com/hocus-pocus-2-3/ | 2022-09-02 23:21:18 | 1 | https://www.kfrxfm.com/hocus-pocus-2-3/ |
BERLIN (AP) — A suspect has been arrested over last week’s stabbing attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg in which four people were seriously wounded, authorities said Sunday.
The man, a 26-year-old Syrian citizen, was arrested shortly after midnight, police and prosecutors said in a statement. He was to be brought before a judge on Monday to determine whether he can be kept in custody on suspicion of attempted murder and other offenses pending possible charges.
Police on Friday had released pictures of a man sought in the attack after obtaining footage from a surveillance camera located near the John Reed Fitness studio where the attack took place late Tuesday. Authorities offered a reward of 2,000 euros ($2,200) for information leading to his arrest.
Two men, a Syrian and a German, went to police on Saturday afternoon with information on the suspect, whom they had recognized from the pictures. The suspect was arrested at his apartment in Duisburg, where police found two knives that may have been used in the attack.
The man applied successfully for asylum in Germany in 2016 and had no previous police record, police and prosecutors said. They said they are still investigating what the motive might have been.
Officials have said the attacker appeared to have targeted the most seriously injured victim, a 21-year-old man who is still in a life-threatening condition. The other victims, also men, were two 24-year-olds and a 32-year-old. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/suspect-arrested-in-german-gym-attack-that-left-4-wounded/ | 2023-04-23 17:58:54 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/suspect-arrested-in-german-gym-attack-that-left-4-wounded/ |
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The father of an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia who died this week after contracting bird flu has tested positive for the virus but has not displayed any major symptoms, health authorities said Friday.
The death came amid heightened concerns over a wave of bird flu that has spread through much of the world since late 2021, posing a potential public health risk.
The girl, from a village in the southeastern province of Prey Veng, died Wednesday at a hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh, shortly after tests confirmed she had Type A H5N1 bird flu, according to Cambodia’s Health Ministry. She had fallen ill on Feb. 16, and when her condition declined she was sent to the hospital with a fever as high as 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) with coughing and throat pain.
Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, normally spreads between sick poultry but can sometimes spread from poultry to humans. The recent detection of infections in a variety of mammals, including at a large mink farm in Spain, has raised concern among experts that the virus could evolve to spread more easily between people, and potentially trigger a pandemic.
Health Ministry spokesperson Ly Sovann told The Associated Press that the Cambodian father’s case is under investigation, and it was not yet known how he was infected. He has been put in isolation at a local district hospital for monitoring and treatment.
A ministry team collected samples from 12 people from the dead girl’s village known to have had direct contact with her, and laboratory tests confirmed Friday that only her father was infected.
Health professionals have expressed concern about a wave of bird flu that has spread worldwide in the past year and a half, but consider the current risk to humans to be low.
“There is always a risk of human infection, particularly in people in close contact with poultry or wild birds, and this risk increases during times where circulation of avian influenza is particularly high, as it is now,” Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at England’s University of Nottingham, said in an emailed statement.
“Thankfully, human infections are still rare, and the likelihood of onward human to human transmission very low. But this virus keeps cropping up in various mammals and this could potentially increase the possibility of further human infections. The risk to humans is still very low, but it’s important that we continue to monitor circulation of flu in both bird and mammal populations and do everything we can to reduce the number of infections seen,” Ball added.
According to the World Health Organization, there were 56 bird flu cases in humans in Cambodia from 2003 until 2014, and 37 of them were fatal. Globally, about 870 human infections and 457 deaths have been reported to the WHO in 21 countries, for an overall case fatality rate of 53%. But the pace has slowed, and there have been about 170 infections and 50 deaths in the last seven years. In the vast majority of cases, the infected people got it directly from infected birds.
“Between 2005 and 2020, 246 million poultry died or were culled because of avian influenza,” says the World Organization for Animal Health.
“Since October 2021, an unprecedented number of outbreaks has been reported in several regions of the world, reaching new geographical areas and causing devastating impacts on animal health and welfare,” the Paris-based agency says on its website.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agrees that the current H5N1 outbreak is mostly an animal health issue.
“However, people should avoid direct and close contact with sick or dead wild birds, poultry, and wild animals,” it warns on its website. “People should not consume uncooked or undercooked poultry or poultry products, including raw eggs. Consuming properly cooked poultry, poultry products, and eggs is safe.”
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Associated Press writer Peck reported from Bangkok. | https://cbs4indy.com/health/ap-health/ap-experts-say-bird-flu-threat-small-despite-cambodian-fatality/ | 2023-02-25 03:43:01 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/health/ap-health/ap-experts-say-bird-flu-threat-small-despite-cambodian-fatality/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Tuan Tuan, one of two giant pandas gifted to Taiwan from China, died Saturday after a brief illness, the Taipei Zoo said.
No cause of death was immediately given, but earlier reports said the panda was believed to have a malignant brain tumor, prompting China to send a pair of experts to Taiwan earlier this month to help with his treatment.
Tuan Tuan did not respond and after a series of seizures Saturday was placed in an induced coma, according to Taiwanese news reports.
Tuan Tuan and his mate, Yuan Yuan, were gifted to the zoo in 2008 during a time of warming relations between China and Taiwan, which split amid civil war in 1949. Both were born in China in 2004 and succeeded in having a pair of cubs in Taiwan.
The average life span for pandas in the wild is 15-20 years, while they can live for 30 years or more under human care.
Ties between Beijing and Taipei have declined sharply in the year’s since the pair’s arrival, with China cutting off contacts in 2016 following the election of independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen, who was reelected in 2020.
China sends pandas abroad as a sign of goodwill but maintains ownership over the animals and any cubs they produce. An unofficial national mascot, the animals are native to southwestern China, reproduce rarely and rely almost exclusively on a diet of bamboo.
An estimated 1,800 pandas live in the wild, while another 500 are in zoos or reserves, mostly in Sichuan, where they are a protected species but remain under threat from habitat loss. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/science-and-technology/ap-symbol-of-reunion-with-china-panda-tuan-tuan-dies-in-taipei/ | 2022-11-19 10:43:10 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/science-and-technology/ap-symbol-of-reunion-with-china-panda-tuan-tuan-dies-in-taipei/ |
General Motors is recalling 668,187 vehicles because of problems with its child seat safety system known as LATCH. Those are the anchors to which drivers attach child safety seats.
The recall involves 2020-2023 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain vehicles.
"The four rear-seat lower child seat LATCH anchorage bars may have excessive powder coating, which could prevent a child seat from being installed with the anchorage bars," the company states in a notice that will go out to owners in June.
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Dealers have been notified about how to fix the child seat anchors. It requires them sanding off the excessive powder coating to between 5.9 millimeters to 6 millimeters, so child seats can be installed properly and meet federal safety standards.
Drivers can still use their SUVs, but they are advised to install child seats using the vehicle's rear seat belts.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, using the rear seat belts is equally as safe as using the LATCH system.
General Motors is not aware of any injuries related to the LATCH issues.
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First heat wave of the summer continues to bear down on Southern California. How hot could it get?
Southern Californians should brace for another few days of high temperatures, as the first heat wave of the summer continues to bear down on the region, according to the National Weather Service.
High pressure will bring hot conditions to the mountains, deserts and interior valleys through Monday, with cloudy skies at the beaches and warm temperatures over the coastal valleys, according to the weather service’s forecast. Tuesday and Wednesday are expected to be slightly cooler but still toasty. Significant cooling is expected Thursday, with warmer temperatures expected again next week.
It’s expected to reach 80 degrees downtown Monday with temperatures possibly reaching the triple digits in the valleys, said NWS forecaster David Gomberg. The hottest locations are expected to be in the Santa Clarita Valley and Woodland Hills, where forecasters estimate the temperature may peak at 102. Out in the desert, it could heat up to 108 in Lancaster.
“This is fairly normal — July and August are our hottest months in Southern California for interior areas,” Gomberg said. “It’s certain we’ve seen worse heat waves that lasted a longer duration, so I would call this a more routine heat wave.”
The weather service has issued a heat warning until Monday at 8 p.m. for the Santa Clarita Valley, the Antelope Valley and its western and eastern foothills, Eeastern Antelope Valley Ffoothills and Antelope Valley. A heat advisory has also been issued for Cuyama Valley, the San Luis Obispo County mountains, Santa Barbara County‘s interior mountains, northern Ventura County‘s mountains, the Interstate 5 corridor, the western San Gabriel Mountains and the 14 Freeway corridor.
High temperatures are expected to moderate Tuesday to around 80 degrees downtown and the upper 80s and mid-90s in valleys. Santa Clarita and Woodland Hills are still expected to be hottest at 93 to 95 degrees. Deserts are expected to cool down to below 100.
By Thursday, temperatures are expected to drop into the 80s in the valleys and 70s along the coast. It could warm up again early next week around Monday and Tuesday, with temperatures pushing back into the 90s for most of the valleys.
On Sunday, Los Angeles County’s health officer urged the public to prepare against heat-related illness, especially outdoor workers, older adults, young children, athletes and people with chronic medical conditions susceptible to effects from extreme heat.
The county health agency advised people to stay hydrated by drinking water, avoid going outside during the hottest hours, wear lightweight clothing with a hat or an umbrella and use sunscreen. Children and pets should never be left inside cars, even if the windows are open.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted a warmer than normal summer. The temperature map shows that in California, especially northern parts of the state, there will be a 33% to 50% probability that temperatures will be above average.
Through Thursday, wildfire risk is heightened for interior valleys, lower mountains and deserts, where vegetation is starting to dry out, Gomberg said. Santa Clarita and the Antelope Valley are “really dry and susceptible to more fire threat issues,” he said. Higher elevations aren’t as dry as past seasons because of all of the rain and snow Southern California received this winter.
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RUIDOSO, N.M., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit against PNM Resources (PNM) alleging the utility company is responsible for the McBride Fires which were ignited by its poorly maintained electric wires. The lawsuit also names the utilities' vegetation management contractor, Trees, Inc.
The complaint was filed on behalf of dozens of plaintiffs who owned property in and near Ruidoso, New Mexico. Plaintiffs' property was destroyed when the 6,000+ acre fire tore through the area earlier this year.
According to the complaint, high winds pushed a pine tree onto PNM's utility lines, which caused an electrical fault that ignited dry vegetation and debris. As it was PNM's duty to manage these utility lines, easements and other right of way issues, PNM is accused of completely failing in its obligation to maintain its equipment. The resulting disaster caused tens of millions of dollars' worth of damage in Lincoln County alone according to the assessor's office.
- Failing to properly inspect and report hazardous vegetation in and around PNM facilities;
- Failing to properly repair, maintain, install and operate facilities in and around hazardous vegetation;
- Failing to properly protect facilities from tall trees which were often rooted in shallow soils, on a steep slope or in close contact with electric conductors;
- Failing to perform timely inspections as well as identify and deal with trees, brush and vegetation;
- Failing to follow the National Electric Safety Code and industry standards for vegetative management;
- And much more.
"The list of ways PNM Resources mismanaged this entire process is extensive, egregious, and ultimately dangerous," said Gerald Singleton, Managing Partner of Singleton Schreiber. "Had PNM followed standard procedure, this horrific fire would never have occurred. Their negligence in managing their equipment, facilities and the vegetation which fueled this nightmare is unforgivable."
According to the complaint, PNM failed to comply with the standards applicable to electric utilities in the State of New Mexico, including those set out at New Mexico Administrative Code§ 17.9.560.13, and National Electric Safety Code 214, amongst others.
"PNM's failure to abide by state laws during repairs, construction and maintenance put the public at risk," said Singleton Schreiber's Vern Payne, the Former Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. "Making matters worse, they were made aware of these dangerous conditions and their subsequent behavior actually contributed to the size and spread of this fire."
The case is Dennis R. Pyle, et al. v. PNM Resources, Trees, Inc., County of Bernalillo Second Judicial District Court, Case No. D-202-CV-8478111.
With more than 100 employees and offices throughout the western United States, Singleton and his team have represented more than 10,000 victims of utility fires and has recovered approximately $1 billion in settlements and verdicts for its clients. The firm currently represents thousands of victims of the numerous fires in New Mexico, California, and Oregon. For more information, please visit https://singletonschreiber.com/mcbride-fire-lawyer/.
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EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes
By JIM SALTER and MICHAEL PHILLIS
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.
The rule defines which “waters of the United States” are protected by the Clean Water Act. For decades, the term has been a flashpoint between environmental groups that want to broaden limits on pollution entering the nation’s waters and farmers, builders and industry groups that say extending regulations too far is onerous for business.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army said the reworked rule is based on definitions that were in place prior to 2015. Federal officials said they wrote a “durable definition” of waterways to reduce uncertainty.
In recent years, however, there has been a lot of uncertainty. After the Obama administration sought to expand federal protections, the Trump administration rolled them back as part of its unwinding of hundreds of environmental and public health regulations. A federal judge rejected that effort. And a separate case is currently being considered by the Supreme Court that could yet upend the finalized rule.
“We have put forward a rule that’s clear, it’s durable, and it balances that protecting of our water resources with the needs of all water users, whether it’s farmers, ranchers, industry, watershed organizations,” EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox told The Associated Press.
The new rule is built on a pre-2015 definition, but is more streamlined and includes updates to reflect court opinions, scientific understanding and decades of experience, Fox said. The final rule will modestly increase protections for some streams, wetlands, lakes and ponds, she said.
The Trump-era rule, finalized in 2020, was long sought by builders, oil and gas developers, farmers and others who complained about federal overreach that they said stretched into gullies, creeks and ravines on farmland and other private property.
Environmental groups and public health advocates countered that the Trump rule allowed businesses to dump pollutants into unprotected waterways and fill in some wetlands, threatening public water supplies downstream and harming wildlife and habitat.
“Today, the Biden administration restored needed clean water protections so that our nation’s waters are guarded against pollution for fishing, swimming, and as sources of drinking water,” Kelly Moser, senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Clean Water Defense Initiative, said in a statement.
Jon Devine, director of federal water policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council, called repealing the Trump-era rule a “smart move” that “comes at a time when we’re seeing unprecedented attacks on federal clean water protections by polluters and their allies.”
But Jerry Konter, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, said the new rule makes it unclear if the federal government will regulate water in places such as roadside ditches and isolated ponds.
“Rather than providing clarity and certainty for home builders and other affected stakeholders, this proposed definition of waters of the U.S. adds uncertainty and confusion to the regulatory process, raises housing costs and drastically increases federal overreach in the process,” Konter said in a statement.
A 2021 review by the Biden administration found that the Trump rule allowed more than 300 projects to proceed without the federal permits required under the Obama-era rule, and that the Trump rule significantly curtailed clean water protections in states such as New Mexico and Arizona.
In August 2021, a federal judge threw out the Trump-era rule and put back in place a 1986 standard that was broader in scope than the Trump rule but narrower than Obama’s. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Marquez in Arizona, an Obama appointee, said the Trump-era EPA had ignored its own findings that small waterways can affect the well-being of the larger waterways they flow into.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court justices are considering arguments from an Idaho couple in their business-backed push to curtail the Clean Water Act. Chantell and Michael Sackett wanted to build a home near a lake, but the EPA stopped their work in 2007, finding wetlands on their property were federally regulated. The agency said the Sacketts needed a permit.
The case was heard in October and tests part of the rule the Biden administration carried over into its finalized version. Now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in 2006 that if wetlands “significantly affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity” of nearby navigable waters like rivers, the Clean Water Act’s protections apply. The EPA’s rule includes this test. Four conservative justices in the 2006 case, however, said that federal regulation only applied if there was a continuous surface connection between wetlands and an obviously regulated body of water like a river.
The Biden rule applies federal protections to wetlands, tributaries and other waters that have a significant connection to navigable waters or if wetlands are “relatively permanent.”
The agencies said input was received at 10 regional roundtables that sought information on what was working well, and what wasn’t.
Fox said the rule wasn’t written to stop development or prevent farming.
“It is about making sure we have development happening, that we’re growing food and fuel for our country but doing it in a way that also protects our nation’s water,” she said.
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US weather satellite, test payload launched into space
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A satellite intended to improve weather forecasting and an experimental inflatable heat shield to protect spacecraft entering atmospheres were launched into space from California on Thursday.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite and the NASA test payload lifted off at 1:49 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base, northwest of Los Angeles.
Developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, JPSS-2 was placed into an orbit that circles the Earth from pole to pole, joining previously launched satellites in a system designed to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
Mission officials say it represents the latest technology and will increase precision of observations of the atmosphere, oceans and land.
After releasing the satellite, the rocket’s upper stage was to reignite to position the test payload for re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere and descent into the Pacific Ocean.
Called LOFTID, short for Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, the device is an “aeroshell” that could be used to slow and protect heavy spacecraft descending into atmospheres, such as those of Mars or Venus, or payloads returning to Earth.
According to NASA, effectively slowing heavy spacecraft will require greater atmospheric drag than can be created by traditional rigid heat shields that fit within the shrouds that surround payloads aboard rockets.
The LOFTID aeroshell inflates to about 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter.
In the thin atmosphere of Mars, for example, having such a large aeroshell would begin slowing the vehicle at higher altitudes and reduce the intensity of heating, according to the space agency.
The aeroshell was expected to impact the ocean a few hundred miles east of Hawaii, where a vessel was waiting. NASA hoped to recover the aeroshell as well as a data recorder that was to be ejected before splashdown. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/11/10/us-weather-satellite-test-payload-launched-into-space-3/ | 2022-11-10 11:27:13 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/11/10/us-weather-satellite-test-payload-launched-into-space-3/ |
ONALASKA, Wis. (WXOW) - Chick-fil-A Onalaska is set to open with a full dining room and drive throughs on Thursday at 6:30 a.m.
News 19 was given an exclusive look inside the restaurant on the eve of its first day.
A special ribbon cutting and tasting of menu items was available for invited guests while staff gets ready for what is expected to be a very busy day.
Owner and operator of the location Pam Chaney worked for the company in Grand Rapids, Michigan for nearly five years before acquiring the new store. She says Chick-fil-A determined Onalaska as a place to set up shop as the chain looks to increase their footprint in the Midwest.
Chaney says that while staffing hasn't been fully taken care of, they are content with where they stand prior to Thursday's launch.
“We are currently at 105 in staffing," Chaney said. "We’re definitely comfortable with that. The goal is going to be closer to 130-135 team members. So we are currently still hiring. In the community, staffing for a new restaurant I would say was slow getting started. But once the word got out and once the building was looking more complete, we’ve seen definitely an increase in the number of applicants.”
Among the guests on Wednesday were members of the La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce. CEO Neal Zygarlicke says the community should benefit in more ways than one with the extra dining option.
“The anticipation has been good," Zygarlicke said. "A lot of our local contractors have been working here on the job for quite some time getting the building up and everything like that. For us as a chamber, we’re excited about Chick-fil-A being here because they make an impact on the community. They tend to give back to communities that they’re in. It’s a perfect opportunity for them to give back here to local organizations in different ways in the community here.”
The restaurant is located at 3015 S Kinney Coulee Road in Onalaska.
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The hours of operation will be Monday-Thursday from 6:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Friday-Saturday from 6:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays. Chaney says she plans to spend her next day off unwinding with family and seeking out a new church in the area to join following her relocation to the Coulee Region. | https://www.wxow.com/news/sneak-peek-inside-chick-fil-a-onalaska/article_463820ba-2ef2-11ed-aa95-97b7fc799d46.html | 2022-09-07 22:49:11 | 1 | https://www.wxow.com/news/sneak-peek-inside-chick-fil-a-onalaska/article_463820ba-2ef2-11ed-aa95-97b7fc799d46.html |
Missouri’s ballot initiative to legalize abortion will be allowed to move forward after the state Supreme Court ruled the state’s attorney general was improperly stonewalling the effort.
The court ruled unanimously Thursday that Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) was using “misleading” and “incorrect” arguments to justify delaying his approval of the cost estimates ballot measure that would allow residents to vote on whether to legalize abortion, a crucial step in the certification process.
The delay stretched far beyond the normal time the state allows for reviewing and approving ballot initiatives, meaning supporters were unable to start collecting signatures to try to place the measure on the ballot for next year’s election.
The court acknowledged the harm to plaintiff Anna Fitz-James and the initiative process. The process should take approximately 54 days, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which represented Fitz-James. Instead, it’s taken at least 135 days.
“Until the official ballot title is certified – a critical step being held up solely by the Attorney General’s unjustified refusal to act – Fitz-James cannot challenge that title in circuit court or circulate her petitions,” the judges wrote. “Fitz-James’s constitutional right of initiative petition is being obstructed, and the deadline for submitting signed petitions draws nearer every day.”
In a statement, the ACLU of Missouri applauded the decision.
“While today is a tremendous victory for Missourians and the right to direct democracy, it is clear that some who hold office will not hesitate to trample the constitution if it advances their personal interests and political beliefs,” said Luz María Henríquez, the group’s executive director.
The dispute dates back to March, when as part of the procedure to qualify a ballot initiative, the state auditor’s office conducted a cost estimate. State auditor Scott Fitzpatrick found the proposal would have no known impact on state funds and an estimated cost of at least $51,000 annually in reduced local tax revenues, although “opponents estimate a potentially significant loss to state revenue.”
Bailey rejected those estimates and refused to approve them. He instead said his office estimated the measure’s impact would be “drastic” and could cost taxpayers upward of $12 billion because of a loss of Medicaid funding.
Missouri was the first state to enact a “trigger law” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. There are some exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for rape or incest.
The proposed ballot initiative would enshrine the right to make decisions about abortion, birth control, childbirth and other issues related to pregnancy in the state’s constitution.
Ballot measures to protect abortion have been successful in other conservative states. As a result, state officials have been working to try to make the measure process much more difficult, if not ban it completely.
The court ruled the attorney general has the authority only to review the “legal content and form” of the auditor’s reports, “not their substance.”
Nothing in state law “gives the attorney general authority to question the auditor’s assessment of the fiscal impact of a proposed petition,” the court ruled.
The attorney general must now approve the auditor’s fiscal assessment by 1 p.m. Friday, and the amendment will then be able to move forward.
The proposal will next go to the office of the Missouri secretary of state, who is tasked with certifying the fiscal assessment and a summary of the proposal that would appear on the ballot. Once that occurs, supporters can start gathering the more than 100,000 signatures needed. | https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/missouri-supreme-court-orders-attorney-general-to-let-abortion-ballot-initiative-go-forward/ | 2023-07-21 18:48:29 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/missouri-supreme-court-orders-attorney-general-to-let-abortion-ballot-initiative-go-forward/ |
FULL FORECAST IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES. MIKE, THANK YOU. NEW TONIGHT, THE OWNER OF AN OKEECHOBEE FUNERAL HOME BELIEVES $180,000 OF THEIR EQUIPMENT WAS STOLEN WHILE THEY WERE CLOSED DURING. HURRICANE NICOLE. OUR ANGELA ROZIER TELLS US WHAT WAS TAKEN. AND A BREAK IN IN THE CASE. A BREAK IN, THE CASE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A SCAM. NOW I TALK TO THE OWNER OF THE FUNERAL HOME. I ASKED HIM, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS? HE SAYS, ALL HE CAN DO IS PRAY FOR THEM BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS JUST SAD. YEAH, THAT’S WHEN WE FIGURED OUT EVERYTHING WAS WHEN WE WERE IN THE PARK, SETTING UP. MATTHEW ROBERTSON SAYS WHEN HE LEFT HIS FUNERAL HOME WEDNESDAY, HIS EQUIPMENT WAS RIGHT HERE, SO EVERYTHING WAS PARKED RIGHT UP AGAINST THE BUILDING HERE, HE SAYS. THAT WAS THE DAY BEFORE HURRICANE NICOLE HIT. THE STAFF HERE AT BELSEN AND BATH OKEECHOBEE FUNERAL HOME SENT HOME EARLY TO RIDE OUT THE STORM. LATER LEARNED AN EXCAVATOR, A TRAILER A PICKUP TRUCK AND ALL THE EQUIPMENT LOCKED UP INSIDE THE VEHICLES WERE ALL GONE AND ALL TOGETHER TO REPLACE EVERYTHING. THERE’S GOING TO BE TWO IN 160 AND $180,000. I’M NOT JUST A FUNERAL HOME. I MEAN, I TAKE CARE OF FAMILIES EVERY DIRECTION FROM NOT ONLY THE THE FUNERALS AND BURIALS AND CREMATIONS, BUT WE DIG OUR OWN GRAVES. AND WE DO OUR OWN MONUMENT WORK. BUT HE SAYS THAT HASN’T STOPPED HIM. NO, MA’AM, IT HASN’T. IT’S JUST MADE LIFE A LOT MORE COMPLICATED. SO, LIKE I SAID, I HAVE CONTINUED THESE FOUR THINGS. NO FAMILY IS GOING TO EVER GOING TO KNOW OTHER THAN ALL THE TOWN UNDERTAKER, YOU KNOW, LOST ALL HIS EQUIPMENT. THAT’S ALL THEY’RE GOING TO KNOW. BUCKS AND OFFERED A 20 $500 REWARD. AND ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, HE THOUGHT THERE WAS A BREAK IN THE CASE. HE CALLED AND HE SAYS, I KNOW WHERE ALL THIS STUFF’S OUT. I KNOW WHO’S INVOLVED. BUT IT WAS ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS WHERE I’D LIKE TO 50 NOW AND I WANT TO 50 AFTER YOU GET EVERYTHING BACK, AND I GUARANTEE YOU YOU’LL GET IT BACK. SO WE KIND OF WENT BACK AND FORTH AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE A SCAM. THIS IS THE EQUIPMENT THAT IS THE BUSINESS? I’M JUST A SMALL GUY AND IT’S HARD FOR ME TO RECOUP SOMETHING LIKE THIS. IT’S NOT GOING DETER ANYTHING. WE’RE GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. BUT IT’S VERY, VERY FRUSTRATING. OKEECHOBEE POLICE, THEY ARE INVESTIGATING THIS CASE. THE OWNER AGAIN SAYS HE IS OFFERING A 20 $500 REWARD FOR
Florida funeral home owner vows to continue serving community after equipment stolen during Nicole
Updated: 9:17 AM EST Nov 15, 2022
The owner of a funeral home in Okeechobee, Florida, vows to continue serving his community after he said someone stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment while the business was closed during Hurricane Nicole.Matthew Buxton said when he left his funeral home Wednesday, his equipment was there."Everything was all parked right up against the building here," Buxton said. Buxton said that was the day before Hurricane Nicole hit. The staff at Buxton and Bass Okeechobee Funeral Home were sent home early to ride out the storm.He later learned an excavator, a trailer, a pickup truck, and all the equipment locked up inside the vehicles were all gone."Altogether to replace everything, it's going to be between $160,000 to $180,000," Buxton said. "I'm not just a funeral home. I mean, I take care of families in every direction — not only with the funerals, the burials, the cremations. But, we dig our own graves. We do our own monument work." He said that hasn't stopped him."It just made life a lot more complicated," Buxton said. "I have contingencies for things. No family is ever going to know other than, well, the town undertaker lost all of his equipment — that's all they're going to know."Buxton offered a $2,500 reward for information."I'm just a small guy and it's hard to recoup something like this," Buxton said. "It's not going to deter anything. We're going to make it happen, but it's very, very frustrating."
OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — The owner of a funeral home in Okeechobee, Florida, vows to continue serving his community after he said someone stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment while the business was closed during Hurricane Nicole.
Matthew Buxton said when he left his funeral home Wednesday, his equipment was there.
"Everything was all parked right up against the building here," Buxton said.
Buxton said that was the day before Hurricane Nicole hit. The staff at Buxton and Bass Okeechobee Funeral Home were sent home early to ride out the storm.
He later learned an excavator, a trailer, a pickup truck, and all the equipment locked up inside the vehicles were all gone.
"Altogether to replace everything, it's going to be between $160,000 to $180,000," Buxton said. "I'm not just a funeral home. I mean, I take care of families in every direction — not only with the funerals, the burials, the cremations. But, we dig our own graves. We do our own monument work."
He said that hasn't stopped him.
"It just made life a lot more complicated," Buxton said. "I have contingencies for things. No family is ever going to know other than, well, the town undertaker lost all of his equipment — that's all they're going to know."
Buxton offered a $2,500 reward for information.
"I'm just a small guy and it's hard to recoup something like this," Buxton said. "It's not going to deter anything. We're going to make it happen, but it's very, very frustrating." | https://www.wmur.com/article/florida-nicole-okeechobee-funeral-home-equipment-stolen/41965744 | 2022-11-15 14:52:00 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/florida-nicole-okeechobee-funeral-home-equipment-stolen/41965744 |
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Olight, a global enterprise delivering illumination tools held a Black Friday New Product Launch Online Event on 11/17 at 7:00 PM EST. The fascinating lineup of products unveiled has stirred up heated discussion among consumers and peers around the world.
During this event, Olight introduced a wide range of lights including popular rail-mounted lights, outdoor lights, EDC flashlights etc. Notably, 2 innovative products drew the most attention with their powerful performance – The PL-3 and Marauder Mini.
PL-3 With industry-leading sliding key-block
PL-3 Valkyrie is a compact Rail-mounted Light. With a maximum output of 1,300 lumens and a throw of 225 meters, it's a perfect fit for field search, self-defense, and law enforcement.
However, the biggest new feature is its adjustable sliding key-block. This innovative industry-leading design allows for more flexible positioning with a wider range of rails. Another big breakthrough is its screw locking mechanism, greatly boosting reliability.
To ensure that the PL-3 holds up against the shock and recoil of a weapon, and maintains its durability, so far 600 rounds of live-fire field tests were conducted. The PL-3 remained intact and fully functional. Meanwhile, simulated extreme reliability tests using very high recoil (approximately 37 ft-lb or 50J) were also carried out on 10 samples, which verified that with 45,000 rounds of continuous testing, the PL-3 remained firmly mounted on the rail, shot after shot. More tests are still underway to see how far they can go.
Marauder Mini Smaller size, still powerful
Marauder is a classic flagship series of Olight. From the initial X7R to the popular Marauder 2, both are sought-after for their outstanding performance.
Olight has now rolled out a miniature version of this series. Following the Marauder 2's lens design, it boasts a 600-meter round spotlight from the central LED and a 7,000-lumen floodlight beam from 9 surrounding LEDs. Smaller in size but still a powerful beast. 3 RGB color LEDs are also uniformly distributed around the converging lens, making it suitable for use during any occasion.
Apart from this, there are special products customized only for their fans with unique meanings, such as the Friendship 2023 and iTHX. "The economic downturn caused by inflation and a terrible pandemic are unprecedented challenges to everyone. Thankfully we have thousands of O-Fans who never stopped supporting us so that Olight made it through these challenges. That's why we created the Friendship 2023 and iTHX, exclusive gifts to show our appreciation" . The CEO Fox of Olight pointed out.
What new will be showcased at Olight's next event? Let's stay tuned!
Learn more about Olight.
With more than 15 years' experience in lighting tools, Olight is dedicated to offering high-quality lighting products, including EDC lights, outdoor lights, tactical lights, rail-mounted lights, ambient lights, headlamps, bike lights, accessories, and more. Olight has always committed to delivering reliable illumination tools and unique experiences to outdoor enthusiasts, adventurers, firearm owners, and everyday users.
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LG MAGNIT leverages AI and machine learning to deliver stunning visuals
DALLAS, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA has unveiled the LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch Micro LED residential display (LSAD Series), offering integrators and end users an extraordinary home cinema, digital art and entertainment experience. Complete with LG's webOS smart TV platform, popular streaming apps, screen sharing and AI-enhanced processing, the new Micro LED Extreme Home Cinema screen is being demonstrated for the first time at the CEDIA Expo 2022 (booth #14041).
According to Michael Kosla, vice president, LG Electronics USA, the LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch display contains numerous high-end features that deliver premium home viewing for any type of content in any room environment.
"With its groundbreaking performance, LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch is a luxury residential display offering viewers the cutting-edge color, clarity and contrast of LG's Micro LED combined with Alpha 9 AI-enhanced processing designed to present movies, TV shows or pieces of digital art optimally," said Kosla. "Today's discerning homeowners expect an increasingly high level of technological sophistication, and LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch delivers with stellar visuals and an air of exclusivity that can't be replicated in retail stores."
LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch offers a trove of special features including LG's α (Alpha) 9 AI Processor that uses deep learning technology to reduce picture noise and optimize saturation and contrast based on room conditions. It also is designed to enhance the clarity and legibility of faces and text, while an ambient light sensor adjusts brightness and tone mapping to maintain optimal appearance in varying lighting conditions.
To help homeowners make the most of the breathtaking visuals, LG has included screen share capabilities through AirPlay 2* and Miracast protocols that allow content from any iOS, Android, macOS or Windows 10 device to be wirelessly streamed to LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch.
LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch also provides a dedicated mobile app** that will allow users to load digital art directly onto the display. A collage feature in the app will enable owners to display a wall full of their personal photos that can be sized and adjusted as desired.
The LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch display is ideal for home environments ranging from home theaters to media rooms to living rooms, with 2,000 nits of peak brightness helping to deliver excellent performance and visibility even in rooms with higher ambient light.
Micro LED is a relatively new technology for residential displays, delivering superb performance with exceptional brightness, years of lifespan, incredible viewing angles and excellent color gamut even in rooms with lots of windows and high ambient light. Notably, LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch is visibly and fundamentally different from LED TV Displays, which are simply LCD TVs with LED backlighting to boost brightness. With Micro LED, images are generated directly by millions of individual diodes that can turn off completely when presenting the color black. This enables the displays to deliver stunning contrast and color.
LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch displays offer connectivity including four HDMI in ports, LAN in, digital out, two USB in and an RS232C port. The display's 120 Hz frame rate ensures smooth playback of fast-moving visuals such as sports or action content.
LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch is the latest luxury LG Micro LED display solution designed specifically for residential installations, following the 2021 introduction of the DVLED Extreme Home Cinema line that features multiple models and sizes including a gigantic 325-inch 8K display.
The new LG Micro LED display is a premium product available in the United States exclusively through specially-certified LG distribution partners. Since luxurious appearance and high-performance are both expected at this level, LG has collaborated with Danish audio legend Bang & Olufsen to bundle the flagship Beolab 90 home speaker as the preferred sound system for LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch display when sold through Bang & Olufsen stores. Kosla said, "When paired with Beolab 90, LG MAGNIT delivers one of the most incredible home cinema experiences ever imagined." The display also can be paired with Bang & Olufsen's wider portfolio of home theater loudspeakers including Beolab 50 and 28 models.
For more information on LG's luxury DVLED solutions, click here. For high-res images, click here.
*AirPlay 2 compatibility available in the fourth quarter of 2022.
**Mobile app available in the fourth quarter of 2022.
LG Electronics USA Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, solar energy solutions and vehicle components. LG's "Life's Good" marketing theme encompasses how the company is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. For more info, visit www.LG.com.
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CrimeStoppers of Central Alabama honored four Talladega police officers as Officers of the Year during Monday’s City Council meeting.
The honorees were Sgt. Jeff Hamm and officers Jeremy King, Gabriel Bridges, Jason Robinson and Quinterious Hill. Former officer Rashad Billingsly was also involved, but has taken a new position and is no longer an officer with the city.
According to Tony Garrett of CrimeStoppers, these officers were chosen because of their response to an incident Jan. 7 which “showed they (were) willing to go even further when it comes to the protection of life.”
According to the commendation, Billingsly was dispatched to a residence near Winston Drive to see about a vehicle in someone’s back yard with emergency flashers on.
He “went to check on the vehicle and noticed a female slumped down over the middle console, unconscious.” When he could not get the woman to respond, he called for backup.
The passenger side door was locked, but Billingsly was able to get the driver’s side window down far enough to unlock the doors from the inside.The driver’s side doors were both blocked by a large tree limb. Once he got in the passenger side, he realized that the woman appeared to have been shot.
Once the other officers arrived, they assisted in giving first aid and attempting to talk to the victim as she went in and out of consciousness. The officers also had to work together to move the car out of the heavily wooded area to give the paramedics more room to work. When they were not successful in moving the vehicle, the officers lifted the woman out of the car, helped get her on a stretcher and assisted the paramedics in loading her into an ambulance.
This all “happened during a short time under very stressful conditions. During this, the officers never once hesitated and made quick decisions to make every effort to save the victim’s life. The officers put their health and welfare in danger multiple time from trying to get the car out of the woodline so the victim could be treated, and even climbing into the car to give first aid and to get the victim out because of the unknown circumstances … The city of Talladega should be proud to have such outstanding officers to that are willing to risk their safety and welfare to care for the citizens…”
Although it was not mentioned Monday, the woman in the car did live, although she is paralyzed after having been shot through the neck.
Her husband, Micahel Wayne Franklin, 42, of Talladega, was arrested last month and charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle. The charges against him are still pending. | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/four-officers-commended-for-helping-rescue-shot-woman/article_dcee2bfa-fbe1-11ed-9c64-3ba600efc418.html | 2023-05-26 20:35:35 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/four-officers-commended-for-helping-rescue-shot-woman/article_dcee2bfa-fbe1-11ed-9c64-3ba600efc418.html |
(The Hill) – Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is stepping down from his committee assignments, he informed House GOP colleagues on Tuesday in a conference meeting.
The representative had faced a whirlwind of criticism over numerous fabrications and misrepresentations of his resume and personal history, as well as questions about his personal and campaign finances.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said that that Santos informed the Conference he would recuse himself from committees “temporarily” until “things get settled.”
“And then he asked that we all support him when everything settles down for him to serve on committees,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters after the meeting.
The House GOP Steering Committee, the panel of Republican leaders who assign committees, had assigned Santos to the Small Business Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee earlier this month.
Santos’s move comes after he reportedly met with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday.
Greene said Santos also colleagues he was recusing himself amid the controversy surrounding him, and as Republican leadership works to shore up support to block Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee, which has drawn some opposition within the conference.
Some Democrats have pointed to Santos being seated on committees as a point of criticism for the effort against Omar.
“Just all the controversy surrounding him and then while we’re working to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs,” Greene said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/santos-steps-down-from-committee-assignments/ | 2023-01-31 19:18:47 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/santos-steps-down-from-committee-assignments/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams’ honeymoon from their Super Bowl championship didn’t even last until the first Sunday of the next regular season.
Their 31-10 thrashing from the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night was a brutal reminder that last season’s title — and even the last half-decade of success under Sean McVay — guarantees the Rams nothing in a new year.
“Did that bother me? Of course,” McVay said Friday. “You wake up with a pit in your stomach, and the only way I know how to get rid of that thing is to go back to work, and work hard for these players and coaches.”
While Los Angeles still possesses elite talent, it couldn’t keep up with Buffalo, widely considered to be a top contender for the crown. The Rams’ best opponents will all be hungry for what the champs have, and perhaps even hungrier.
“That’s an easy excuse to make, but I wouldn’t say that,” McVay said. “Our guys were ready to go. I just think there were a lot of instances where we didn’t execute to our full capacity.”
Motivation and hunger aside, the opener also revealed the Rams have plenty of problems to solve if they hope to be considered among the NFL’s elite again this season. McVay attempted to blame himself, as usual, but almost every aspect of his team showed vast room for improvement.
This loss even threw open the possibility that the Rams don’t even have the personnel to be among the NFL’s best teams. Los Angeles general manager Les Snead has been able to build a competent roster core below his superstars during several years spent largely without high draft picks, but those big loans against the future could be coming due.
The Rams’ offensive line frequently looked overmatched against Buffalo’s defensive front while Matthew Stafford struggled to get the ball to Los Angeles’ array of playmakers, with only Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp making a difference. The Rams got even worse news about that line Friday with injuries to center Brian Allen and left tackle Joseph Noteboom.
Allen will be out for at least two weeks after undergoing a “procedure to remove loose bodies from his knee” on Friday, while Noteboom strained his knee ligaments, McVay said. Noteboom isn’t expected to miss Week 2.
The defense forced three turnovers, but couldn’t force a punt and otherwise failed to stop Josh Allen, although that’s hardly a unique predicament. More dismaying was the lack of pressure on Allen from a defensive front that lost Von Miller to the Bills, along with an apparently cautious secondary that didn’t make enough big plays.
The Rams have a ton of work to do — and it’s fortunate that after a loss on opening night, they’ve got plenty of time to do it.
WHAT’S WORKING
Kupp followed one of the greatest seasons by a receiver in NFL history with 13 catches for 128 yards and a touchdown. The AP’s Offensive Player of the Year remains uncoverable by most defenses, and Stafford’s connection with him remains strong.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Plenty, but the Rams’ offensive line was the most obvious. Along with Stafford’s seven sacks and 15 hits from a defense that didn’t even need to blitz once, Los Angeles rushed for only 52 net yards and was particularly ineffective running up the middle, McVay’s most frequent route. The Rams lost two Super Bowl starters on the line and replaced them from within, but the new group looked overmatched.
STOCK UP
Troy Hill marked his return to Los Angeles after a year in Cleveland with a team-high eight tackles and his first interception since 2020. He wasn’t perfect, but he made more plays than any other defender.
STOCK DOWN
All-Pro Jalen Ramsey allowed six of the seven passes thrown his way to be caught, including the 53-yard TD pass to Stefon Diggs to seal it. Plenty of factors contribute to such a number, but the Rams need Ramsey to be great after their talent appeared to decrease in the secondary for the second consecutive offseason.
INJURIES
Right guard Coleman Shelton will move to center in Allen’s absence, and Tremayne Anchrum will step in at right guard, McVay said. The Rams don’t expect Noteboom to miss playing time, but A.J. Jackson will play left tackle if he does. … Rookie RB Kyren Williams will have surgery on a high ankle sprain after getting hurt early in his NFL debut. He will be out six to eight weeks. … Long snapper Matt Orzech strained his calf.
KEY NUMBER
0: Rushing yards by Cam Akers, the Super Bowl starter and the running back with the most explosive capabilities. The Rams say he isn’t hurt, but Akers played only 12 snaps and got three carries to Darrell Henderson’s 55 snaps and 13 carries. McVay also said Friday that the Rams wanted to get Williams involved on offense before the injury ruined the plan.
NEXT STEPS
McVay and his staff have an extra-long week to address the flaws exposed by Buffalo, and McVay’s competitive fire is decidedly stoked. The Rams host the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, and McVay said the opener can be nothing more than “a little blip on the radar” if Los Angeles responds properly.
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Bret Michaels Says No One Believed in ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’
Poison scored the only No. 1 single of their career with 1988’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” despite deep misgivings from radio programmers.
Poison was already a household name, having several songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20, including “Talk Dirty to Me” (No. 9), “I Won’t Forget You” (No. 13), “Nothin’ But a Good Time” (No. 6) and “Fallen Angel” (No. 12). Still, a chart-topping track eluded them.
"We had had great luck with 'I Won't Forget You,' but that one didn't start with an acoustic kind of country-esque Eagles Americana feel," Bret Michaels told the Arizona Republic, describing how “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” was a tougher sell than the group’s previous single. "I said, 'Please, this song is from the heart.'"
Despite Michaels’ pleas, few radio stations showed interest in playing Poison’s power ballad. That is until a cluster of stations in Dallas decided to put the song into rotation. “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” then “went No. 1 like a freight train,” Michaels added.
"No one believed in this song, and we just kept at it," he added. "Then, suddenly, everyone's like, 'Oh, we always knew this was a No. 1 song – and I'm like, 'Yeah, that's because it's a No. 1 song now.' I said, 'Three months ago, you guys wanted to take it off the record.'"
Decades later, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” remained one of Poison’s signature tunes. According to Setlist.fm, it ranks as the third most played song during the band’s concerts.
Poison is currently on the road as part of the Stadium Tour, serving as an opening act for Motley Crue and Def Leppard with Joan Jett.
Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Poison, Joan Jett, Classless Act Opening Night 2022
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IMF to assess Sri Lankan governance as part of $3B bailout
By KRISHAN FRANCIS
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says it is assessing Sri Lanka’s governance in the first case of an Asian country facing scrutiny for corruption as part of a bailout program. The IMF executive board approved a nearly $3 billion bailout program for the bankrupt nation Monday and about $333 million will be disbursed immediately. Sri Lanka suspended repayment of its debt last year as it ran short of foreign currency needed to pay for imports of fuel and other essentials. The crisis led to street protests that forced out Sri Lanka’s president. The economic situation has improved under current President Ranil Wickremesinghe, but his plans to privatize state companies have raised objections. | https://kion546.com/news/2023/03/21/imf-to-assess-sri-lankan-governance-as-part-of-3b-bailout-2/ | 2023-03-21 08:52:07 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2023/03/21/imf-to-assess-sri-lankan-governance-as-part-of-3b-bailout-2/ |
Embiid scores career-high 59, leads 76ers past Jazz 105-98
PHILADELPHIA - Joel Embiid scored a career-high 59 points and added 11 rebounds, eight assists and seven blocked shots in a historically dominant performance, carrying the Philadelphia 76ers to a 105-98 victory over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night.
Embiid has clearly rounded back into form over the last week after recovering from an illness. The reigning NBA scoring champion dropped 42 points a night earlier in a win against Atlanta.
Embiid scored 26 of Philadelphia’s 27 points in the fourth quarter and he became the first player in NBA history with 50 points, 10 boards, five rebounds, five assists and five blocks in a game since blocks became an official stat in 1973-74.
"I've never seen a more dominating performance when you combine defense and offense," coach Doc Rivers said.
Malik Beasley scored 18 points for the Jazz.
With the Sixers up 101-98 and 1:19 left, Embiid blocked Collin Sexton's driving layup and then the All-Center came right down and hit a little jumper that sealed the victory.
Embiid shook off nagging injuries to post his breakthrough game of the season on the second night of a home back-to-back. He made 19 of 28 shots from the floor, 20 of 24 free throws and kept the Sixers from folding against the upstart Jazz.
Tyrese Maxey chipped in 18 points for the Sixers but they had only 10 points from their other three starters. Embiid scored 13 points in the first quarter, 11 in the second and nine more in the third.
Embiid sank two free throws with 4:56 left in the fourth for a 96-94 lead and he matched his career high with 50 points. Embiid had twice before scored 50 points. The 7-footer hit two more free throws at the 4:17 mark for a 98-96 lead.
He had Sixers fans chanting "MVP! MVP! and one yelled "He’s gonna get 60!"
So close.
The Jazz gave him every opportunity with a string of fouls down the stretch and the big man kept knocking 'em down from the line. He missed just his fourth free throw attempt late in the game that made it 101-98.
TIP-INS
Utah: Went 4-3 on a stretch of six of seven games on the road. ... Missed 8 of 13 free throws in the first half.
76ers: Embiid scored 24 points in the first half, the 30th time since the start of last season he has scored 20-plus points in a half. ... Matisse Thybulle had five steals.
AINGE TRIBUTE
Rivers was in the midst of an 18-game losing streak as coach of the Boston Celtics during the 2006-07 season and wondered if perhaps a coaching change was on the horizon. Instead, team President Danny Ainge often apologized for his role in putting together the roster. Rivers said Ainge would tell him, be patient, hang in there. Patience paid off, Ainge and Rivers would win the NBA championship with Boston in 2008.
Ainge is now Utah’s CEO and has preached similar patience as he was set to undergo a rebuild this season. He’s also put his faith in rookie coach Will Hardy.
"He’s never very emotional with his reaction," Hardy said. "As a young coach, as a first-time head coach, that’s very calming. He’s never too riled up. He’s been unbelievably supportive and I definitely feel like I have his trust."
UP NEXT
Jazz: Host the New York Knicks on Tuesday.
76ers: Have the next four days off until another back-to-back home set against Milwaukee on Friday and Minnesota on Saturday. | https://www.fox29.com/sports/embiid-scores-career-high-59-leads-76ers-past-jazz-105-98 | 2022-11-14 05:37:36 | 0 | https://www.fox29.com/sports/embiid-scores-career-high-59-leads-76ers-past-jazz-105-98 |
- 94% of design engineering respondents believe that a strong understanding of power is critical, with 83% asserting that power poses one of the greatest design challenges
- More than half of engineers surveyed simultaneously balance demands for power efficiency, cost, capacity and performance monitoring
- Energy efficiency, functional safety, signal and power interference, as well as battery requirements, emerge as top design considerations
LISLE, Ill., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Molex, a global electronics leader and connectivity innovator, today announced the results of a global survey of design engineers and managers to better understand top power-system design experiences, challenges, opportunities and attitudes that are enabling or inhibiting the development of critical power-system designs. Respondents representing different industries and geographies shared valuable insights into today's power expectations while addressing how best to anticipate and adapt to evolving power demands.
Power systems increasingly are becoming smaller, lighter and more streamlined while taking on more vital roles driving state-of-the-art data centers, higher-voltage EV charging infrastructures, major breakthroughs in consumer electronics and more. The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), factory automation and connected healthcare all depend upon efficient, safe and reliable power systems, which creates unique engineering obstacles and major opportunities.
"Engineers must grapple with multiple priorities when it comes to designing effective, efficient and sustainable power systems that fuel product innovations of all kinds," said Brian Hauge, SVP and president, Consumer & Commercial Solutions, Molex. "We continually work with our customers and suppliers across the power ecosystem to clear conductivity and connectivity hurdles, risk-reduce product designs, and ultimately create reliable, durable and capable power interfaces and distribution systems tailored for specific applications and environments."
Molex commissioned Dimensional Research to survey 824 qualified design engineers and engineering managers globally to gauge their experiences and expertise working with power systems. According to 94% of those polled, understanding how to work with power is a critical requirement, with 83% asserting power is one of their greatest design challenges. While nearly three-quarters of the participants strive to increase energy efficiency in their power-system designs, more than half report simultaneously addressing efficiency, cost, capacity and performance monitoring requirements.
Design Engineering Priorities
Energy efficiency (73%) and functional safety (66%) were the most frequently reported design considerations, closely followed by signal and power interference (57%), battery requirements (49%), along with system and device miniaturization (47%). Addressing harsh environments (41%) and environmental noise (38%) also were cited as important priorities taken into consideration in system designs and implementations. The most daunting obstacles are cost effectiveness (56%), safety (51%), thermal management (48%), electromagnetic interference (EMI) (45%), reliability over time (44%), power integrity (40%) and compliance (36%).
Innovation in Power-System Designs
An abundance of design priorities and challenges continue to fuel the need for both custom and off-the-shelf solutions, according to 72% of those surveyed, underscoring the need for power expertise among design engineers and power-solution providers. Respondents ranked the most impactful improvements as battery performance (34%), materials advancements (30%), more efficient thermal management (29%), and battery lifetime (27%).
Additionally, 60% of those polled agree that higher efficiency demands will drive power-design innovations, along with advancements in battery technology (51%), higher-power voltage consumption demands (49%), wireless connectivity (42%) and miniaturization (40%). A wide range of macro trends appear to be forcing innovations among those polled, including a shift to renewables (54%), higher functionality demands (53%) and increasing energy costs (52%).
Power Experience and Expertise
More than four in five respondents expect the demand for power expertise to increase in the next five years, with 57% reporting a significant effort is needed to better understand and comply with power-related regulatory requirements. Moreover, keeping pace with rapid changes in technologies, trends and regulations has elevated the need for hands-on experience (71%) and vendor product training (58%), as well as greater access to resources, such as software tools (61%), design reference documents (54%) and supplier customer support (52%).
On a global scale, engineers from China reported a greater need to understand and comply with power-related regulatory requirements while respondents from this region also were most likely to leverage hands-on experience to keep pace with power innovations. Meanwhile, engineers based in the United Kingdom reported the most value from peer mentoring or coaching, whereas design engineers from Germany led the world in being most likely to incorporate power considerations at the initial concept phase of product development.
Molex Engineers Transformative Power Solutions
Molex offers a vast selection of power-delivery and distribution products in wire-to-wire, wire-to-board and board-to-board configurations that enable performance breakthroughs for next-gen automotive, consumer electronics, medtech, industrial, data center and telecom applications. Molex's portfolio of reliable, durable and efficient power solutions ranges from very small, low-power micro-miniature systems to extremely large power distribution systems, delivering 500 amps of power—and everything in between. Long recognized for advancements in design engineering, materials science, state-of-the-art testing, and industry collaborations, Molex is transforming today's power solutions to meet tomorrow's needs.
About Molex
Molex is a global electronics leader committed to making the world a better, more-connected place. With presence in more than 40 countries, Molex enables transformative technology innovation in the automotive, data center, industrial automation, healthcare, 5G, cloud and consumer device industries. Through trusted customer and industry relationships, unrivaled engineering expertise, and product quality and reliability, Molex realizes the infinite potential of Creating Connections for Life. For more information, visit www.molex.com.
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Recently retired and seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady will become a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, pending NFL approval, principal owner Mark Davis told ESPN on Monday.
“We’re excited for Tom to join the Raiders, and it’s exciting because he will be just the third player in the history of the National Football League to become an owner," Davis said.
George Halas and Jerry Richardson were the other two.
Brady and Davis also have a business relationship with the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces. Davis is the majority owner, and Brady has a stake in the club.
At least 24 NFL owners will need to approve Brady's deal with the Raiders.
He also has a 10-year, $375 million broadcasting contract with Fox Sports than begins in 2024.
Brady won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On the way to his first title, in 2002, Brady beat the Raiders in an AFC playoff game after having a fumble overturned in the famous “Tuck Rule” game.
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