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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance Monday since a mercenary uprising demanded his ouster, inspecting troops in Ukraine. The Defense Ministry released a video showing Shoigu flying in a helicopter and then attending a meeting with military officers at the headquarters of a military headquarters in Ukraine. The video showed Shoigu for the first time since Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin declared a “march of justice” late Friday to oust the defense minister, during which the mercenaries captured the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and then marched on Moscow. The rebellion ended on Saturday when Prigozhin ordered his troops back. The Kremlin said it had made a deal that the mercenary chief will move to Belarus and receive an amnesty, along with his soldiers. The mutiny marked the biggest challenge to President Vladimir Putin in more than 20 years of rule. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/russian-defense-minister-makes-first-public-appearance-since-mercenary-revolt-demanded-his-ouster-2/ | 2023-06-26 14:16:43 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/russian-defense-minister-makes-first-public-appearance-since-mercenary-revolt-demanded-his-ouster-2/ |
(WJBF) — A beloved television tradition returns for the holidays this year, but you won’t be able to watch like you have in the past.
Three Charlie Brown specials – “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” – will only air on Apple TV+ after previously appearing on both the streaming service and PBS in 2021.
After airing on the network only one year, PBS says that they no longer hold the rights to the specials.
“Regretfully, PBS does not have the rights to distribute the Peanuts specials this year. We’ll all have to watch for the Great Pumpkin in a different pumpkin patch this Halloween,” said PBS in a reply tweet dated September 29.
It’s the second time that the specials will not air on broadcast television. In 2020, the specials moved exclusively to Apple TV+ after Apple acquired the rights to the Peanuts franchise in 2018. Previously, the specials aired from 1966 to 2000 on CBS and from 2001 to 2020 on ABC.
Of the original 35 Peanuts specials produced up until 1992, the Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas episodes remain the most popular and most re-aired. PBS was able to strike a deal with Apple in 2021 to air the three holiday classics.
Despite no longer airing on TV, non-subscribers can stream the holiday specials through Apple TV+ for free in a limited window. The Halloween special will be free to stream from Oct. 28 through Oct. 31, the Thanksgiving special from Nov. 23 through Nov. 27, and the Christmas special from Dec. 22 through Dec. 25. | https://www.koin.com/news/charlie-brown-holiday-specials-wont-air-on-tv-again-heres-how-to-watch-them/ | 2022-10-17 21:28:46 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/charlie-brown-holiday-specials-wont-air-on-tv-again-heres-how-to-watch-them/ |
WIMBLEDON – Novak Djokovic begins his bid for a fifth consecutive title at Wimbledon and eighth overall at Centre Court on Monday.
Djokovic also will be trying to add to his men's-record 23 Grand Slam singles titles — he broke a tie with Rafael Nadal by winning the French Open last month — and became the first player to collect 24 in the Open era. Oh, and then there's this: The 36-year-old from Serbia is halfway to the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men's tennis since Rod Laver won all four majors in 1969.
Djokovic faces Pedro Cachin, a 67th-ranked Argentine making his Wimbledon debut.
The reigning women's champion is Elena Rybakina, who won her first Slam trophy at the All England Club. She'll open play on Tuesday against American Shelby Rogers.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek, who won her fourth major championship at the French Open, debuts on Monday against Zhu Lin.
One significant change: Players from Russia and Belarus are back at Wimbledon. They were banned by the All England Club a year ago because of the attack on Ukraine launched by Russia, with the help of Belarus, in February 2022, but the tournament reversed course now even though the war continues.
So No. 7 men's seed Andrey Rublev, a Russian, and two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, a Belarusian, are among those on Monday's schedule.
Also slated to play on Day 1: Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams, who is 43 and appearing at the tournament for the 24th time. She meets 2019 semifinalist Elina Svitolina, who recently returned after taking time off tour to have a baby, at Centre Court.
WHEN ARE MONDAY'S MATCHES?
Play begins on most courts at 11 a.m. local time, which is 6 a.m. EDT; that’s when Rublev will play Max Purcell on No. 3 Court, and Azarenka will take on Yuan Yue at Court 15, while No. 4 seed Jessica Pegula goes up against Lauren Davis at No. 2 Court in an all-American matchup. Action at No. 1 Court begins at 1 p.m. local time, which is 8 a.m. EDT, and the first match there is Swiatek-Zhu. Centre Court is the last arena to get going, at 1:30 p.m. local time, 8:30 a.m. EDT. That is when Djokovic-Cachin is set to start. Williams-Svitolina follows, meaning it could begin around 4 p.m. local time, 11 a.m. EDT.
HOW TO WATCH WIMBLEDON ON TV
— In the U.S.: ESPN, Tennis Channel
— Other countries listed here.
BETTING GUIDE
Not surprisingly, Djokovic is a heavy favorite for the men's title, listed as a minus-190 money-line pick before play begins, ahead of Alcaraz at plus-370, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. No one else is really given much of a chance, so there are big payouts offered on some other top men, such as Jannik Sinner at plus-1,900 or Daniil Medvedev at plus-2,300. Young American Sebastian Korda is next at plus-3,600. Swiatek, who never has been past the fourth round at Wimbledon, is listed as the women's favorite at plus-290, followed by Rybakina at plus-500 and Aryna Sabalenka at plus-500. Two-time champion Petra Kvitova is at plus-1,000, Coco Gauff at plus-1,400 and 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur at plus-1,500. Looking at Monday's matches, Svitolina (minus-220) is favored against Williams (plus-180).
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What you need to know about Wimbledon, the year’s third Grand Slam tennis tournament:
— Novak Djokovic is pursuing more history, and his self-belief is a big part of his success
— Iga Swiatek succeeds everywhere else. Can she win Wimbledon?
— Aryna Sabalenka no longer wants to talk about the war in Ukraine
— Women's tennis is working toward equal pay at more tournaments
— Frances Tiafoe is the first African-American man in the Top 10 in nearly 15 years
— Facts and figures about Wimbledon, including a look back at 2022
TEST YOUR TENNIS KNOWLEDGE
Try your hand at the AP’s Wimbledon quiz.
THE NUMBER TO KNOW
11 — Number of Grand Slam titles won by Novak Djokovic since turning 30, the most by a man or woman in the Open era (which began in 1968). Serena Williams is next on the list with 10, followed by Rafael Nadal with eight and Roger Federer with four.
THE QUOTE TO KNOW
“Last year, I felt a lot of pressure here, because I was No. 1.” — Iga Swiatek, who still leads the WTA rankings, on her third-round exit at Wimbledon in 2022, ending a 37-match winning streak.
UPCOMING SINGLES SCHEDULE
— Monday-Tuesday: First Round (Women and Men)
— Wednesday-Thursday: Second Round (Women and Men)
— Friday-Saturday: Third Round (Women and Men)
— July 9-10: Fourth Round (Women and Men)
— July 11-12: Quarterfinals (Women and Men)
— July 13: Women’s Semifinals
— July 14: Men’s Semifinals
— July 15: Women’s Final
— July 16: Men’s Final
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The countdown to tip off the 2022-2023 season is here. The Pacers FanJam is back Sunday.
FanJam is a sold-out free event happening at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The doors will open at 11 a.m., and the first 5,000 people have the opportunity to receive free swag, a pacers t-shirt, a food voucher for chips, a hotdog, a soft drink, and more giveaways.
Some highlights of the day include the Live Indiana Pacers scrimmage and the Rookie Talent Show however, the fun doesn’t stop there. Fans will see an appearance by the Pacemates, Boomer, and the Power Pack.
Here are some things to know before you go. Fans can enter through the sky bridge in the Virginia Avenue Garage, Penn Street ground level, or Delaware Street ground level. Parking in the Virginia Avenue garage is free. There’s a new bag policy. No bags larger than a clutch are allowed. All tickets are mobile, and Gainbridge Fieldhouse is now cashless. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/pacers-fanjam-tip-off-2022-2023-season/ | 2022-10-09 16:34:18 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/pacers-fanjam-tip-off-2022-2023-season/ |
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Joining a team dedicated to delivering independent, trusted journalism and quality programming, this position demonstrates exemplary journalistic integrity and professional on-air delivery. The successful candidate must thrive in a professional and dynamic environment, work well both in a team environment and independently, and demonstrate a love of public broadcasting.
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BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) — A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian.
The victim told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a Bloomington Transit bus Wednesday afternoon when another passenger began striking her in the head, Bloomington police said in a release.
Bus surveillance footage showed no interaction between the two women prior to the attack.
A witness who also was riding the bus followed the woman’s attacker and contacted police, who later arrested Billie R. Davis of Bloomington. Davis has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery, according to court records.
The victim was treated at a hospital for multiple stab wounds. Her name was not released.
Court documents show Davis said the victim was targeted because of her race, according to WNDU-TV.
Citing court records, WRTV-TV reports that Davis told police she stabbed the woman multiple times in the head with a folding knife, because it “would be one less person to blow up our country.”
Records did not list an attorney representing Davis.
“This week, Bloomington was sadly reminded that anti-Asian hate is real and can have painful impacts on individuals and our community,” Indiana University Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs James Wimbush said in a statement. “No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage. Instead, the Bloomington and IU communities are stronger because of the vast diversity of identities and perspectives that make up our campus and community culture.”
Bloomington is in southern Indiana. Mayor John Hamilton called behavior like the bus attack “not acceptable” and said it will be “dealt with accordingly.”
“We know when a racially motivated incident like this resonates throughout the community, it can leave us feeling less safe,” Hamilton said in a statement Saturday. “We stand with the Asian community and all who feel threatened by this event.”
In recent years, Asian Americans have increasingly been the target of racially motivated harassment and assaults, especially after the start of the coronavirus pandemic. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-university-student-stabbed-on-bus-because-she-is-asian/ | 2023-01-15 03:30:31 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-university-student-stabbed-on-bus-because-she-is-asian/ |
McBAIN — The McBain Ramblers managed to do something Tuesday night that no other boys basketball team had done in more than two months. Beat Glen Lake.
The Ramblers put an end to the Lakers’ 15-game win streak with a 61-50 home victory. The win extended McBain’s win streak to nine games.
Evan Haverkamp led McBain (14-4, 12-1 Highland) with 24 points followed by Ben Rodenbaugh with 14 points, Claydon Ingleright with a dozen, and Kalvin McGillis with seven points.
McBain has not suffered a defeat since a Jan. 16 setback to Division 2 No. 10 Boyne City, 55-41. The Ramblers have also won all nine of those games by at least 11 points while averaging nearly 61 points per game.
The Lakers (15-2, 11-0 Northwest) had not lost since the first game of the regular season when they fell 41-39 on the road against Elk Rapids. During that stretch, Glen Lake won each game by at least 13 points, with its largest margin of victory of 56 points coming against Leland, 69-13.
The Ramblers travel to Houghton Lake on Friday. The Lakers head to Frankfort on Thursday.
BOYS BASKETBALL
TC Central 79
Alpena 50
Traverse City Central: Brayden Halliday 14 points, 6 rebounds 5 assists; Anthony Ribel 12 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals; Jack Hogan 12 points; JJ Dutmers 8 points; Jaden Clark 8 points.
UP NEXT: The Trojans (8-10, 8-2 Big North) host Gaylord on Friday.
TC St. Francis 74
Charlevoix 37
Traverse City St. Francis: Wyatt Nausadis 29 points, 6 assists, 2 steals; Owen Somerville 11 points, 2 steals; John Hagelstein 8 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals, 3 blocks Drew Hardy 8 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals; Joey Donahue 6 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, 3 steals.
Charlevoix: Joe Gaffney 18 points; Hudson Vollmer 6 points.
UP NEXT: The Gladiators (14-3, 10-1 Lake Michigan) head to Kalkaska on Friday. The Rayders (2-15, 1-10 Lake Michigan) travel to Boyne City on Friday.
Lake Leelanau SM 69
Leland 29
Lake Leelanau St. Mary: Dylan Barnowski 18 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists; Drew Thompson 13 points, 5 assists; Shawn Bramer 11 points, 6 rebounds; Nathan Schaub 10 points, 4 rebounds; Jack Glynn 9 points.
UP NEXT: The Eagles (15-1) host Grand Traverse Academy on Thursday. The Comets (3-14, 1-10 Northwest) welcome Benzie Central on Friday.
Cadillac 62
Reed City 43
Cadillac: Charlie Howell 16 points, 4 rebounds; 5 assists; Kyle McGowan 10 points, 7 rebounds, 4 steals, 2 blocks; Gavin Goetz 5 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists.
UP NEXT: The Vikings (14-3, 7-1 Big North) head to Petoskey on Friday.
Grayling 92
East Jordan 63
Grayling: Fletcher Quinlan 21 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists; Maddox Mead 16 points, 5 rebounds, 5 steals; Tristan Demlow 14 points; Ethan Kucharek 11 points; Jake Hartman 10 points.
East Jordan: Korbyn Russell 15 points; Lucas Stone 10 points; Eli Burns 10 points.
UP NEXT: The Vikings (11-6, 7-4 Lake Michigan) host Harbor Springs on Friday. The Red Devils (4-12, 2-9 Lake Michigan) travel to Elk Rapids on Friday.
Harbor Springs 50
Elk Rapids 49
Harbor Springs: Braeden Flynn 21 points; Collin Lang 10 points.
Elk Rapids: Haven Somers 15 points; Ryan McGuire 11 points.
UP NEXT: The Rams (8-9, 5-6 Lake Michigan) head to Grayling on Friday. The Elks (11-6, 6-5 Lake Michigan) host East Jordan on Friday.
Boyne City 73
Kalkaska 43
Boyne City: Mason Wilcox 24 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 3 steals; Alex Calcaterra 14 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 steals; Jack Neer 9 points, 4 rebounds; Jaden Alger 9 points; Mason Wilson 4 assists; Ryan Spate 3 steals; Chas Stanek 6 rebounds.
UP NEXT: The Ramblers (16-2, 11-0 Lake Michigan) host Charlevoix on Friday. The Blazers (5-10, 2-8 Lake Michigan) welcome Traverse City St. Francis on Friday.
Ellsworth 101
Alanson 42
Ellsworth: Jacob Jenuwine 39 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists; Patrick Puroll 34 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists; Kelan Pletcher 19 points, 10 rebounds, 7 steals, 6 assists.
UP NEXT: The Lancers (14-5, 7-2 Northern Lakes) host Burt Lake Northern Michigan Christian on Tuesday.
Boyne Falls 45
Petoskey SM 35
Boyne Falls: Ashton Spang 16 points; Jery Love 8 points; JT Greenier 8 points.
UP NEXT: The Loggers (1-13, 1-16 Northern Lakes) host Wolverine on Thursday.
Harbor Light 89
Atlanta 46
Harbor Light: Truett Kruger 11 3-pointers (school record); Kirk Rose 18 points; David Chamberlain 14 points.
UP NEXT: The Swordsmen (10-8, 7-3 Northern Lakes) welcome Posen on Monday.
TC Central JV 73
Alpena JV 38
Traverse City Central (14-2): Jack Potgeiter 19 points; Ethan Rademacher 16 points, 6 assists; Aden Moorhead 12 points; Cassius Feeney 9 points.
St. Francis JV 50
Charlevoix JV 27
Traverse City St. Francis (11-5, 10-1 Lake Michigan): Louis Rhein 11 points; Isaac Kerr 10 rebounds.
TC Central frosh 74
Alpena frosh 11
Traverse City Central (8-6): Carter Gle 10 points; Jack Reb 10 points.
St. Francis frosh 60
Charlevoix frosh 35
Traverse City St. Francis (8-7): George Heeringa 21 points; Alex Jetter 12 points.
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GT Academy 32
TC Bulldogs 17
Grand Traverse Academy: Megan Pavwoski 9 points, 5 blocks, 4 rebounds, 3 steals; Julia Jones 8 points, 9 steals, 5 rebounds, 2 assists; Alleah Dix 6 points, 4 rebounds, 4 steals, 1 block.
Traverse City Bulldogs: Anna Austhof 6 points; Lilly Bender 5 points.
UP NEXT: The Mustangs (6-8) host Mesick on Friday. The Bulldogs (0-3) play at Interlochen on Monday.
TC West 36
Ludington 45
Traverse City West: Ainslee Hewitt 13 points.
UP NEXT: The Titans (4-15, 2-6 Big North) travel to Alpena on Friday.
TC Central 47
Alpena 31
Traverse City Central: Jakiah Brumfield 11 points, 10 assists, 6 steals, 2 blocks; Lucia France 10 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 blocks; Halli Warner 9 points, 3 steals; Ashlen Hill 2 points, 3 assists, 3 steals; Cate Heethuis 7 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals.
UP NEXT: The Trojans (14-5, 7-1 Big North) host Gaylord on Friday.
TC St. Francis 49
Charlevoix 21
Traverse City St. Francis: Maggie Napont 22 points; Gwyneth Bramer 11 points; Brooke Meeker 4 points; Allee Shepherd 4 points; Adrianna Spranger 4 points.
Charlevoix: Abbey Wright 7 points, 5 rebounds; Ava Boss 5 points; Mikayla Sharrow 3 points, 4 rebounds, 2 steals.
UP NEXT: The Gladiators (16-2, 11-1 Lake Michigan) travel to Kalkaska on Thursday. The Rayders (8-11, 6-6 Lake Michigan) head to Boyne City on Thursday.
Boyne City 65
Kalkaska 26
Boyne City: Morgan Deming 10 points; Elly Wilcox 9 points; Ella Day 8 points.
UP NEXT: The Ramblers (6-14, 5-8 Lake Michigan) welcome Charlevoix on Thursday. The Blazers (1-15, 0-12 Lake Michigan) host Traverse City St. Francis on Thursday.
Gaylord SM 66
Central Lake 38
Gaylord St. Mary: Macey Bebble 22 points; Kaylee Jeffers 12 points.
UP NEXT: The Snowbirds (17-3, 14-0 Ski Valley) host Johannesburg-Lewiston on Thursday. The Trojans (8-11, 5-9 Ski Valley) welcome Inland Lakes on Thursday.
Leland 32
Frankfort 30
Leland: Elli Miller 14 points, 6 rebounds; Mallory Lowe 6 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals; Maeve Sweeney 5 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals.
Frankfort: Kinzee Stockdale 12 points.
UP NEXT: The Comets (11-7, 7-5 Northwest) head to Benzie Central on Friday. The Panthers (10-8, 5-5 Northwest) host Benzie Central on Wednesday.
Suttons Bay 49(OT)
Cadi Heritage 47
Suttons Bay: Lauren Lint 16 points; Sunshine Crisanto 16 points; Brooke Wilson 8 points; Abby Hursh 5 points; Lyndsay Collins 4 points.
UP NEXT: The Norse (3-13, 0-11 Northwest) host Buckley on Thursday.
Lake City 55
McBain NMC 32
Lake City: MacKenzie Bisballe 18 points, 6 rebounds; Alie Bisballe 14 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists; Emma Nickerson 7 points; Haylee Parniske 5 points; Rylee Cohoon 5 points.
McBain Northern Michigan Christian: Paige Ebels 12 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists; Jada VanNoord 8 points; Alaina Rozeveld 8 points, 3 rebounds.
UP NEXT: The Trojans (18-1, 13-1 Highland) host Manton on Thursday. The Comets (7-8, 5-9 Highland) travel to Pine River on Thursday.
Manton 40
Roscommon 34
Manton: Leah Helsel 12 points, 10 steals, 7 rebounds, 5 assists; Genna Alexander 11 points, 5 steals; Aliyah Geary 9 points.
UP NEXT: The Rangers (6-12, 6-8 Highland) head to Lake City on Thursday.
Harbor Light 44
Atlanta 30
Harbor Light: Jade Evoy 14 points; Laney Jakeway 12 points.
UP NEXT: Harbor Light (11-5, 8-4 Northern Lakes) hosts Alanson on Thursday.
Marion 57
Mesick 16
Mesick: Kayla McCoy 16 points.
UP NEXT: The Bulldogs (7-11, 6-8 West Michigan D) head to Pentwater on Thursday.
St. Francis JV 34
Charlevoix JV 12
Traverse City St. Francis (17-1, 11-1 Lake Michigan): Riley Collins 11 points; Sidney Peters 6 points.
Ludington JV 23
TC West JV 9
Traverse City West (7-10, 1-6 Big North): Ahna Springer 4 points. | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/prep-roundup-mcbain-snaps-glen-lakes-15-game-win-streak-ellsworth-drops-101-points-on/article_5d336c6c-ac9b-11ed-8a5b-ffb15fa4ebec.html | 2023-02-15 12:12:00 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/prep-roundup-mcbain-snaps-glen-lakes-15-game-win-streak-ellsworth-drops-101-points-on/article_5d336c6c-ac9b-11ed-8a5b-ffb15fa4ebec.html |
Seasoned leader in the security industry brings over 25 years of experience
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mulligan Security, a Protos Company, is pleased to announce that Chris Fitzpatrick has been named as President of the company. Chris will assume responsibilities of Kevin Mulligan, Founder and President of Mulligan Security, who will transition to serve as a Strategic Advisor to Mulligan effective immediately. Kevin will continue to serve as a Board Member and shareholder of Protos.
"It has been a tremendous honor to serve as the President of Mulligan Security since founding the company 30 years ago. As a leader, and especially as a founder, I take the responsibility of positioning the company for future growth and creating space for new leadership seriously," said Kevin. "I could not be prouder today of the clients we serve and playing a key role in keeping New York City and surrounding areas safe and secure every day."
Chris joins Mulligan from Arrow Security where he served as Executive Vice President, responsible for Arrow's Greater New York City area business serving customers in a variety of end markets. He has built his career in the security industry and has spent over 25 years in New York holding progressive leadership roles. Chris led Arrow's entry into the Manhattan market over the last few years where he helped position the company as a provider of choice. In his youth, Chris worked as a security officer at Madison Square Garden which was an early experience that led him later in his career to enter the security industry as a professional manager.
"I am confident that Chris is the right person to build on the foundation we have established," Kevin continued. "He is a collaborative leader focused on relationship building and has a customer-centric approach to driving service delivery and experience. Chris is a seasoned leader in the security industry, and we are lucky to have him as our new President."
"I am incredibly excited to join Mulligan Security during this stage of growth and am committed to carrying forward the great tradition and strong reputation Kevin has built into the future," said Chris. "Kevin and I are aligned in the future growth strategy of the business and the Mulligan and Protos leadership teams will work together to ensure a smooth transition. We will continue to enhance and expand our offerings to position Mulligan as the premier provider of security services in the Greater New York City area and advancing our approach at the center of everything we do. I am confident in the future of both Mulligan and furthering its partnership with Protos."
Mark Hjelle, Chief Executive Officer of Protos Security states, "Since joining Protos, I've been impressed and inspired by Mulligan's commitment to customers and track record of strong growth as the premier security services firm in New York City. I see tremendous opportunity as we work to accelerate growth off the incredible foundation that has been built by Kevin and the Mulligan team over the past 30 years. I look forward to working with Chris to leverage the partnership with the larger Protos platform, using technology and other resources to enable an even better experience for our customers and driving operational excellence."
About Protos Security
Protos Security, a portfolio company of Southfield Capital, is a technology-enabled security services company offering security guarding, monitoring and device solutions for a wide spectrum of customers across North America. Protos Security prides itself on delivering a high touch service, actionable insights, transparency and program flexibility for its clients. For more information on Protos Security, please visit www.protossecurity.com.
About Mulligan Security
Mulligan Security provides high-quality private security services, fire and life safety services, and the utmost customer service. Mulligan's protection programs are designed to meet your unique needs. Mulligan Security serves some of the largest corporations in NYC and the northeast. For more information on Mulligan Security, please visit www.mulligansecurity.com.
About Southfield Capital
Southfield Capital is a private equity firm that invests in exceptional, growing companies in the lower middle market outsourced business services sector. Southfield targets companies with $4-12 million in EBITDA and partners with owners and management teams that are enthusiastic about scaling their operations through a combination of organic and acquisition growth strategies. For more information on Southfield Capital, please visit www.southfieldcapital.com.
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Syntun Release: China's 618 Shopping Festival GMV of 695.9 billion
BEIJING, June 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China just concluded its mid-year e-commerce shopping festival known as "618". It's the second-largest e-commerce shopping festival in China—second only to "Single's Day" (November 11)—and possibly the second-largest shopping festival in the world.
As the most important consumer battle field in the first half of the year, the annual "618 Shopping Festival" has become a crucial market of business for all e-commerce platforms, and the pre-sale of "618" has also started as early as May. This year's "618" features better users' shopping experience and more simplified promotion rules, richer lists, more efficient logistics and more considerate after-sales services provided by each e-commerce platforms, which attracted more consumers to join the online shopping spree.
According to Syntun, a professional digital retail data service provider, during 2022 China "618" (from 20:00 on May 31st to 24:00 on June 18th), the GMV of the major e-commerce platforms (only including traditional e-commerce platforms and livestreaming e-commerce platforms) was 695.9 billion RMB. The GMV of traditional e-commerce platforms was 582.6 billion, with Tmall platform ranking first. Livestreaming e-commerce platforms performed brilliantly, with the GMV of 144.5 billion. New retail platform and community group buying platforms have begun to join the "618" competition, the GMV reached 22.4 billion yuan and 15.3 billion yuan respectively. In terms of sales categories, household appliances remained one of the popular categories with the GMV of 87.9 billion RMB .
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Mexican cartel reportedly apologizes for kidnapping, killing Americans
A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement source, the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel apologized to the residents of Matamoros where the Americans were kidnapped, the Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout, and the four Americans and their families.
Drug cartels have been known to issue communiques to intimidate rivals and authorities, but also at times like these to do some public relations work to try to smooth over situations that could affect their business.
READ MORE: How did four Americans get kidnapped in Mexico?
"We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline," the letter reads, adding that those individuals had gone against the cartel's rules, which include "respecting the life and well-being of the innocent."
The white van four Americans were traveling in when they were kidnapped by a Mexican cartel.
A photograph of five men face down on the pavement and bound accompanied the letter, which was shared with The Associated Press by the source on condition that they remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share the document.
State officials did not immediately publicly confirm having new suspects in custody.
A separate state security official said that five men had been found tied up inside one of the vehicles that authorities had been searching for, along with the letter. That official also spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case.
READ MORE: Survivors of deadly Mexico kidnapping returned to US
The cousin of one of the victims said his family feels "great" knowing that Eric Williams, who was shot in the left leg, is alive but does not accept any apologies from the cartel blamed for kidnapping the Americans.
"It ain’t gonna change nothing about the suffering that we went through," Jerry Wallace told The Associated Press on Thursday. Wallace, 62, called for the American and Mexican governments to better address cartel violence.
Last Friday, the four Americans crossed into Matamoros from Texas so that one of them could have cosmetic surgery. Around midday they were fired on in downtown Matamoros and then loaded into a pickup truck.
Another friend, who remained in Brownsville, had called police after being unable to reach the group that crossed the border Friday morning.
National Guard and military vehicles take part in an operation to transfer two of the four US citizens kidnapped in Mexico's crime-ridden northeast, back to Brownsville in the US, after the other two were found dead, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas State, M
Brownsville Police Department spokesman Martin Sandoval said Thursday that officers followed protocol by checking local hospitals and jails after receiving the report of the missing people. A detective was assigned to the case within the hour and then alerted the FBI after realizing the people had crossed into Mexico. Shortly after, the FBI took over the case as social media videos began to show a shootout with the victims matching the description of the missing people.
Authorities located them Tuesday morning on the outskirts of the city, guarded by a man who was arrested. Two of the Americans were dead, one was wounded and the other was unharmed.
On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland blamed the drug cartels for the Americans' deaths.
"The DEA and the FBI are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on" Garland said.
Also Thursday, the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office said it had seized an ambulance and a medical clinic in Matamoros that were allegedly used to provide treatment to the Americans after the shooting.
The Americans told investigators they were taken to the clinic in an ambulance to receive first aid, the statement said. By reviewing police surveillance video around the city, authorities were able to identify the ambulance and find the clinic. No arrests were made at the clinic, according to the statement. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/mexican-cartel-apologizes-kidnapping-killing-americans | 2023-03-09 22:43:09 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/mexican-cartel-apologizes-kidnapping-killing-americans |
Dear Amy: Six months ago, my fiancée and I split up after 13 years together because of my emotional cheating.
I know what I did was wrong, and I’ve taken full responsibility for my actions.
For obvious reasons, she has lost all trust in me, which I completely understand. I love her, we have two children together, and I wish for nothing more than to work things out and move forward with our life together.
This is the second time we’ve split up.
I’ve noticed that I throw chaos into our relationship. I tend to drift away from the relationship when things get tough.
I admit that when I violated her trust, I was in a dark place emotionally.
I was depressed and unhappy. I didn’t like the route our relationship was taking. We lacked communication (on both our parts) – but more from me.
It wasn’t easy for me to admit what I was feeling.
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We barely made any time to spend together, and when we did it would be either with the kids or a group of friends.
We almost never made time for us.
What can I do? Can we bounce back from this?
She says that things won’t be the same. I understand why she believes that, but I know that we can find a way past this. She has said she is still in love with me. She wants to be with me, but she needs time and space and doesn’t know how she can trust me again.
What should I do?
– Broken Trust
Dear Broken: You demonstrate impressive insight into what you believe is the root cause of your behavior.
Despite your insight, your behavior reflects an immature response to the stress in your life. Children lash out and then blame their behavior on their feelings. Adults are supposed to take their insights and actually do something differently in order to have a different outcome next time.
You perpetually “throw chaos” into your relationship, and then disappear when things get tough. You help to create the problem and then you run away from the problem. This is classic “fight or flight” behavior, and you can change it.
You need to imagine what this is like for your family. Your children are being taught that they can’t count on you.
“Bouncing back” is not in the cards for you. But you can rebuild your relationship and help to repair your family’s life, as long as you are willing to put in the work.
Counseling would be helpful for you and the mother of your children. I also suggest that you start the process of dating her. If she is willing to see you, you should arrange responsible childcare, and you should start the process of trying to reconnect.
You and your partner might benefit from sharing, “9 Steps to Heal Your Resentment and Reboot Your Marriage,” by Tanja Pajevic (2014, Abbondanza Press).
Dear Amy: I’m an introvert and find it uncomfortable to participate in group discussions.
What bothers me is when someone in the group (usually the loudest person) turns to me and blurts out loudly, “Smile, John!” or “How come you’re so quiet?”
It usually derails the conversation with an awkward silence as the other group members stop talking to look at me.
I feel such remarks are not only rude, but commenting on another person’s facial expression or demeanor in a group setting is hurtful.
I often feel angry and wish to verbally retaliate, but remain silent in the interest of peace.
What could you recommend I do in such situations?
– Quiet
Dear Quiet: You are right about how disrespectful it is to call out someone publicly and to comment on their demeanor or facial expression – unless this is done out of concern for the person’s welfare.
As hard as it is for you to speak up during these moments, I wonder if you could say, “I’m quiet because – I’m listening.” To someone who tells you to “smile,” you could respond (privately, if that is preferable), “Please don’t tell me to smile. It makes me extremely uncomfortable.”
Dear Amy: In response to “Wondering,” she shouldn’t send money to two young college grads she barely knows. Just a card is enough. Why do so many columnists think people need monetary recognition for nothing?
They’ll be fine without your money.
– Being Real
Dear Being Real: I suggested that “Wondering” should only do what she wanted to do, but if she chose to send money, to keep the amount very modest.
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BRENTWOOD, Calif. (KRON) — Authorities are searching for three suspects linked to an armed robbery that happened last week, the Brentwood Police Department announced in a press release. The incident happened on Jan. 30 around 5:52 p.m. at an unnamed business on the 6900 block of Lone Tree Way.
Video (above) shows one of the suspects inside a 2006-2010 silver Dodge Charger. Police said all three suspects escaped in that car (pictured below).
The victim, who was an employee of the business, told police one of the suspects had an AR-15-style rifle when they entered. The other two were unarmed but stole items from the business, the release said.
The armed suspect is described as a Black man, 5-foot-7 and 200 pounds, last seen wearing dark clothing and a ski mask. The other two suspects are described as Black men with thin builds and wearing dark clothing.
The license plate of the suspect vehicle is believed to be stolen and may have been removed by now, according to police.
The victim was not physically harmed from the incident. There were no additional victims.
If you have any information about the suspects, suspect vehicle, or you are a victim or
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NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has signed an agreement with Sony to keep the Call of Duty video game series on the PlayStation console after the tech giant acquires video game maker Activision Blizzard.
The announcement was made Sunday in a Twitter post by Phil Spencer, who heads up Microsoft’s Xbox division.
“We look forward to a future where players globally have more choice to play their favorite games,” Spencer said in the post.
Call of Duty has been at the center of a corporate tug-of-war between Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation over Microsoft’s planned $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, which makes the best-selling Call of Duty lineup.
As it tried to persuade regulators around the world to approve the deal, Microsoft struck deals with Nintendo and some cloud gaming providers to license Activision titles like Call of Duty for 10 years and offered the same to Sony. Until now, Sony hadn’t signed on. It has now, as Microsoft inches closer to completing the buyout.
On Friday, a U.S. appeals court rejected a bid by federal regulators to block Microsoft’s acquisition.
Microsoft struck the deal for Activision in January of 2022 to expand its video game imprint beyond Xbox, which has less market share than longtime industry leader Sony and its PlayStation device. The company has been seeking regulatory approval in the U.S. and abroad over the past few months, trailed by objections from Sony, which feared losing access to what it describes as a “must-have” game title.
In testimony given during the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s legal dispute over the acquisition, Sony executive Jim Ryan said he initially expressed little worry about the deal after private conversations with Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick and Spencer.
Ryan said he later came to believe Microsoft would leverage Call of Duty’s popularity to disadvantage PlayStation, whose players might get a more “degraded experience.”
Sony did not immediately reply to a request for comment Sunday. Microsoft confirmed the agreement will run for 10 years.
“From Day One of this acquisition, we’ve been committed to addressing the concerns of regulators, platform and game developers, and consumers,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a tweet. “Even after we cross the finish line for this deal’s approval, we will remain focused on ensuring that Call of Duty remains available on more platforms and for more consumers than ever before.”
The tech giant must close the acquisition by Tuesday to avoid a potential $3 billion termination fee. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-microsoft-agrees-to-keep-call-of-duty-on-sony-playstation-after-it-buys-activision-blizzard/ | 2023-07-16 22:20:13 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-microsoft-agrees-to-keep-call-of-duty-on-sony-playstation-after-it-buys-activision-blizzard/ |
Top US Army Garrison West Point officer suspended pending investigation
Col. Anthony Bianchi has been removed from his duties pending an investigation, the U.S. Military Academy's Public Affairs Office said
A top commander at the U.S. Army Garrison West Point has been suspended, officials said.
The U.S. Military Academy's Public Affairs Office confirmed the suspension of Col. Anthony Bianchi with Fox News Digital but did not provide further details.
"U.S. Army Garrison West Point Commander has been suspended of his duties for alleged conduct pending the outcome of an investigation," it said in a statement.
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Bianchi, from Tampa, Florida, took command of the U.S. Army Garrison West Point last year. He was commissioned as a field artillery officer from West Point in 1997," according to his biography.
He also played Army football. He deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during his career.
West Point recently drew attention from Capitol Hill when some Republicans demanded answers from the military academy over the school’s role-play exercise for cadets on "respecting the pronouns people prefer."
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BOGOTA, Colombia, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The arrival of greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) had a significant rebound in the Bogota Region in 2021, exceeding USD 1,551 million through 115 investment projects. The investment amounts show a 78% growth compared to 2020, according to the analysis conducted by the investment promotion agency Invest in Bogota.
"FDI growth was in line with the significant economic recovery experienced by the city. We found that the main countries of origin of the projects were the United States (34%), Mexico (10%), Spain (9%), Argentina (6%) and China (5%)," explained the Executive Director of Invest in Bogota, Isabella Muñoz.
The sectors that led FDI attraction during 2021 in Bogota Region were software development, IT and outsourcing services (26%), communications (16%), corporate services (8%), consumer products (7%) and leisure-entertainment (7%).
FDI in new and expansion projects received by Bogota Region generated more than 20,000 direct jobs, double what was recorded during 2020.
Mergers and acquisitions, investment drivers
In addition to greenfield FDI, Bogota Region received investments through mergers and acquisitions through 140 transactions valued at more than USD 2,050 million during 2021. The main countries of origin of mergers and acquisitions were the United States (46%), Brazil (11%), Mexico (9%), Chile (8%) and Spain (7%).
"We celebrate that today Bogota is one of the most attractive cities for investors in the region. However, we have the challenge of continuing to generate confidence, strengthening the ecosystem to attract much more capital, but, above all, to ensure that all these projects translate into jobs and well-being for all Bogota residents," said Alfredo Bateman, Bogota's Secretary of Economic Development.
2022, the year to boost investment
In terms of FDI, the city aims to recover the dynamism it had before the pandemic. By 2022, the communications, software development, IT and service outsourcing sectors are expected to be the main industries receiving investment, in line with the capital's service vocation.
"From Invest in Bogota we have been working to strengthen the strategy of business attraction through FDI and, recently, the attraction of events and meetings in the capital. We are aware of the relevance of FDI as a driver of economic and social development, so we are focused on identifying opportunities that contribute to the generation of employment, the transfer of technology and knowledge, as well as investments that promote the Sustainable Development Goals in the city," Muñoz concluded.
CONTACT: Miguel Hernández, ahernandez@investinbogota.org
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NEW YORK (AP) — During the height of the coronavirus pandemic in November 2020, when Vienna was shut down and people were allowed outside mainly to walk their dogs, Christian Thielemann was stopped by a police officer in the Heldenplatz.
”What are you doing?‘” he recalled the officer asking.
“I said that I have something to conduct,” recalled Thielemann, who was prepared to pull out a special permission slip.
No explanation was needed.
“`Are you Mr. Thielemann? We come to your concerts.’” the conductor remembered the officer telling him before adding; ”`Go!”
And so Thielemann proceeded to work on recording a cycle of 11 Bruckner symphonies being released through next year — the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Thielemann will conduct the Eighth Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Sunday and at Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley, California, on March 9 as part of the Vienna Philharmonic’s six-concert U.S. tour that opens Friday. The Ninth Symphony was released Friday by Sony Classical, joining Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, with the others to follow.
Thielemann was home in Berlin, bored with nothing to do, when he received the invitation to record in Vienna. He arrived to desolation.
“I was sometimes the only guest in the Sacher. Can you imagine?” he said, referring to the famous 149-room hotel where the Sacher torte was invented in 1832.
Conditions for recording, however, were optimal. The Vienna Philharmonic supplies pit musicians to the Vienna State Opera, creating a hectic schedule, but the pandemic prompted the postponement of public performances.
‘We would have more rehearsals than ever. We could even go overtime,” Thielemann recalled Thursday during a lunch at Carnegie.
Now 63, Thielemann trained as an assistant to Herbert von Karajan and Daniel Barenboim, worked in smaller German houses and became music director of Nuremberg’s State Theater from 1988–1992.
Thielemann moved on to music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1997-2004 and of the Munich Philharmonic from 2004-11. He has been chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden since 2012-13, a role scheduled to end after the 2023-24 season.
Thielemann thought back to a review of his U.S. debut at the San Francisco Opera in 1991, leading Strauss’ “Elektra.”
“Somebody wrote, he’s only a kapellmeister,” Thielemann said, using a German word for a musical leader sometimes used in a derogatory manner, “which obviously meant boring, unsubtle conductor who has no inspiration.”
“We see that in a different way,” he said. “A kapellmeister is the same as a maestro, it’s only in German. It is somebody who has to be very aware of what happens in an orchestra.”
Thielemann was 28 when he made his Vienna State Opera debut in 1987. He led his first Vienna Philharmonic performance in 2000. He conducted 154 Vienna Philharmonic concerts heading into the tour and will be on the podium of the famous New Year’s Day concert at the Musikverein for the second time in 2024.
“He is a conductor who is really close to our orchestra because we are an opera orchestra,” said violinist Daniel Froschauer, chairman of the self-governing musicians.
Thielemann has led a record 185 performances at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, joining Felix Mottl as the only ones to conduct all 10 of the composer’s mature operas in the auditorium Wagner designed in Germany.
“Usually in Bayreuth, tempi are swifter,” he said. “Don’t exaggerate in Bayreuth because people will yawn.”
Thielemann did not conduct in the U.S. from 2013 until last October, when he led Bruckner’s sprawling 80-minute Eighth with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Vienna Philharmonic premiered the Eighth on Dec. 18, 1892, and will be playing it for the sixth time at Carnegie after performances with Karajan in 1959 and 1989, Karl Böhm in 1967, Georg Solti in 1993 and Bernard Haitink in 2002.
Theilemann realizes he will be measured against his heralded predecessors. He cautions score markings are a guide, not an absolute.
“Don’t forget that the orchestras were in Bruckner’s times weaker,” he said. “The violin players were not so good as they are now where everybody has also a very good instrument. And now we have different strengths we play with. The brass players are much more powerful because the instruments are better than in the time of Bruckner. So if Bruckner writes fortissimo, be very careful that you don’t do too much.”
Froschauer praises Thielemann for interacting with musicians, deferring in performance to the tempi of former concertmaster Rainer Küchl.
“This was to me was unbelievable,” Froschauer said. “This relationship: giving and taking.”
Thielemann insists dour-faced, shouters like Arturo Toscanini and Fritz Reiner are long gone from podiums, that the fictional conductor portrayed by Cate Blanchett in the Oscar-nominated “Tár” could not exist in the 21st century.
“One has to play the pingpong game,” he said.
Thielemann has not delved as heavily into Mahler, saying: “I’m still looking for a right way.”
“When (Leonard) Bernstein discovered, rediscovered with the Vienna Philharmonic these pieces, he would overdo certain things because he was such an exuberant character.” Thielemann said. “The worst we can do is follow this path and try to be more Bernstein than he was.”
His lesson when he teaches budding conductors is “you have to begin early.”
“I know Karajan said also: `The first 20 times Beethoven 9, you can forget,'” Thielemann proclaimed. “You have to make mistakes sometimes. If you’re always successful, it’s very dangerous. Everybody says you are great, great, and then you don’t have limits.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/christian-thielemann-leads-vienna-philharmonic-us-tour/ | 2023-03-04 12:30:31 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/christian-thielemann-leads-vienna-philharmonic-us-tour/ |
Here’s a roundup of high school varsity action from Friday, Oct. 21.
Girls soccer
Severn 3, St. Timothy’s 1: Madison Watson scored two goals to lead the host Admirals (9-5, 7-1 Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland B Conference) past St. Timothy’s (5-3-2, 4-3-1). Severn outshot St. Tim’s, 15-5. The win was the fourth straight. Eli Valencia also had a goal, while Watson, Alaina Subong and Madison Tryon had assists.
Gerstell 2, Catholic 1: The Falcons finished an undefeated IAAM C Conference season with the win. Reagan Ramsey and Olivia Sprinkle scored goals and Abby Redman tallied one assist.
Mount de Sales 3, Concordia Prep 0: Kathryn Lamont made five saves and Peach DeGeorge had four saves in a shutout by the host Sailors 10-2-1, 6-1-1 IAAM B Conference) over the Saints (4-8-2, 2-5-1). Goal scorers were Caroline Sloop, Grace Trott and Julia Conley.
Boys soccer
Key 1, Beth Tfiloh 1: Dylan Barnes scored for the visiting Obezags (8-3-2, 5-1-1 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C Conference) and Hunter Venick scored for the Warriors (3-4-2, 3-3-1).
Field hockey
River Hill 3, Glenelg 2: Maddie Vasilios had a goal and two assists to lead the host Hawks over the Gladiators. River Hill led 2-0 in the first half and finished the regular season undefeated in county play.
Glenelg Country 3, Annapolis Area Christian 2: The host Dragons (6-1-1, 6-1-1 IAAM C Conference) scored twice in the second half and held off the Eagles (5-6-1, 3-3-1). CJ Summa and Bailey Jayne each scored for AACS.
Manchester Valley 3, Harford Tech 0: The Mavericks closed their regular season with a shutout win to finish 9-2-1. Eden Kunert, Layla Lagunas and Ava Librizzi all scored in the win.
Volleyball
St. Mary’s 3, St. John’s Catholic Prep 2: St. Mary’s won an incredibly close IAAM A Conference quarterfinal match 23-25, 25-19, 19-25, 26-24, 15-13. Malani Martin lined 26 kills while picking up 28 digs in the match. Madison Sidney had 14 kills and Lucy Wood chipped in six. Elena Woody led the defense with 35 digs.
Harford Tech 3, Joppatowne 0: The host Cobras won, 25-13, 26-24, 25-15. Elyssa Kugler had nine aces and Alex Holzinger had five aces for Harford Tech. Hayden Kobert had six digs.
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The Latest on U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to the Mideast:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. oil and gas industry welcomed President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia but also urged him on Thursday to visit energy sites at home amid the gas crisis.
The American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s top lobbying group, said a strong relationship with the kingdom benefits U.S. geopolitical interests, given Saudi Arabia’s important role in maintaining regional stability in the Middle East.
“As it relates to the global oil market, Saudi Arabia is a key player and maintaining a constructive dialogue between our two nations is important,″ API president and CEO Mike Sommers said in a statement.
“That said, if the administration is serious about increasing (oil) supply, they should be meeting with producers here at home to bring real and lasting solutions instead of looking to governments overseas,” he added.
The oil industry has battled Biden in recent weeks amid record-high gasoline prices and industry complaints that the president has sought to vilify the industry while restricting new leases for domestic oil and gas production.
Sommers and other oil executives met with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm last month in a bid to find ways to increase gasoline supplies and lower prices. Biden has proposed a summer holiday on the federal gas tax, but the plan has met bipartisan opposition in Congress.
Gas prices in the United States averaged about $4.60 per gallon Thursday, down 41 cents from a month ago, according to AAA.
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JERUSALEM — President Joe Biden cheered on U.S. athletes at the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem on Thursday evening.
Biden was greeted by “USA” chants as he arrived at Teddy Stadium shortly before the opening ceremony to meet with the American delegation.
“I’m so damn proud of you,” Biden told the athletes. “You demonstrate to the world that we can do anything.”
Donning the Team U.S. hat, Biden said, “Godspeed and go get ‘em, guys,” before joining Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Israeli President Isaac Herzog to watch the ceremony.
The event, sometimes referred to as the ‘Jewish Olympics,’ takea place every four years in Israel and is open to Jewish athletes around the world and Israeli athletes of any ethnicity or faith. Biden’s attendance at the games comes amid his 48-hour visit to Israel and the West Bank on the first Middle East trip of his presidency.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s hard-line president issued a broad threat Thursday against the United States and Israel, warning them of a “harsh and regrettable response” to any action against the Islamic Republic.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke as U.S. President Joe Biden was in Jerusalem, discussing concerns over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program with Israeli leaders. Israel reiterated its commitment to stopping Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Raisi blamed the U.S. and “its regional allies” for stoking instability in the region, state-run IRNA news agency reported.
“Any mistake by the Americans and their allies in the region and the world will be met with a harsh and regrettable response,” Raisi said.
One of Biden’s aims on his trip to the Middle East is to boost Israel’s security alliance with Gulf Arab states, built on the shared fear of Iran.
Israel “can never have normal relations in the region,” Raisi added.
Negotiations to revive Tehran’s tattered nuclear accord with world powers have stalled. Raisi on Wednesday said Iran would stick to its its “rightful and logical stance” in the standoff, without elaborating.
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JERUSALEM — U.S. President Joe Biden received Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor on Thursday in recognition of 50 years of support for the country in his career as a politician.
Israeli Prime Minister Isaac Herzog praised Biden’s “uncompromising decades long commitment to Israel’s security” as he presented Biden with the award. Biden called the award a “great honor.”
In brief remarks at the ceremony, Biden, 79, joked that “it’s hard to say these words ‘for over 50 years.’”
He noted that the crowd included representatives of all faiths, as well as ambassadors of the Arab countries which have signed peace accords with Israel, noting that 50 years ago such an audience would have been unfathomable.
Biden assured Herzog that “America’s commitment to Israel’s security remains ironclad, today and in the future.”
He added: “That commitment is not about me or any other American president. It springs from a deep affinity and enduring connection between our peoples.”
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JERUSALEM — President Joe Biden received a warm welcome as he arrived at the official residence of Israel’s ceremonial president on Thursday.
Biden was greeted by President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal as they escorted him along a row of smiling children excitedly waving American and Israeli flags.
A loud technopop version of the Israeli song, “I was born for peace,” written in 1979 to mark Israel’s peace agreement with Egypt, blared in the background.
Biden signed the guest book and shook Herzog’s hand before noting that the president’s grandfather, the late Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, was the chief rabbi of Ireland. Biden often proudly boasts of his Irish roots.
“I also think it’s a great day for the Irish today,” Herzog said.
Herzog was to present Biden with Israel’s prestigious Presidential Medal of Honor.
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JERUSALEM — President Joe Biden declined to commit to mentioning the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based writer, when he meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom.
“I always bring up human rights,” Biden said during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday. “But my position on Khashoggi has been so clear. If anyone doesn’t understand it, in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else, then they haven’t been around for a while.”
Biden said the purpose of his trip to Saudi Arabia is “broader” and designed to “reassert” U.S. influence in the Middle East. He’s scheduled to attend a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes several Arab nations.
“I want to make clear that we can continue to lead in the region and not create a vacuum, a vacuum that is filled by China and or Russia, against the interests of both Israel and the United States and many other countries,” Biden said.
Khashoggi was a critic of the Saudi regime who wrote for the Washington Post. He was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
His widow recently told Spectrum News that she received a commitment from U.S. officials that Biden would mention him to the crown prince when they meet on Friday.
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JERUSALEM — The leaders of Israel and the United States aired their differences on how to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons Thursday even as President Joe Biden pledged America’s “ironclad commitment” to Israel’s security.
During a joint news conference in Jerusalem, Israel’s prime minister says the international community must be willing to use force against Iran in order to halt its nuclear program.
“The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing that if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force,” he said. “The only way to stop them is to put a credible military threat on the table.”
Biden defended his efforts to rejuvenate the international agreement intended to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, a strategy that Israel opposes.
“I continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome,” he said, adding that the U.S. is “not going to wait forever” rejuvenate the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump abandoned.
They spoke shortly after signing a joint declaration in which the U.S. vowed to use “all elements of its national power” to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
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JERUSALEM — The niece of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, says U.S. President Joe Biden should meet with her family as it seeks to hold Israel accountable for her death.
“We want him to hear personally our demands, our concerns and our calls for accountability and justice,” Lina Abu Akleh told CBS Mornings on Thursday.
Abu Akleh’s family has sharply criticized a State Department investigation that concluded Israeli gunfire was likely responsible for the journalist’s death in the West Bank. But the U.S. government said it found no reason to suggest the gunfire was intentional.
Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp. She was wearing a blue bulletproof vest that identified her as a member of the media at the time.
“We aren’t only seeking accountability for the soldier that killed Shireen, but but the entire chain of command who gave the order,” she said.
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JERUSALEM — The United States says it is ready to use “all elements of its national power” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. made the pledge Thursday in a joint statement with Israel affirming their “unbreakable bonds” and an American commitment to Israel’s security.
The joint statement was released after a meeting between the visiting U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem.
The U.S. has long said that it would be willing to use force as a last resort against Iran. But the tough language in Thursday’s statement, coming while Biden stood alongside Israel’s leader, holds symbolic significance.
Biden heads to Saudi Arabia on Friday on a mission aimed at strengthening Israel’s burgeoning ties with Gulf Arab countries — part of a larger effort to forge a broad anti-Iran alliance.
Thursday’s statement offered little to the Palestinians. Biden affirmed his commitment to a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians but offered no vision on how to make that happen. Israel, meanwhile, promised nothing more than trying to improve the Palestinian economy and quality of life.
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JERUSALEM —- The leaders of the United States, India, Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday held their first virtual summit as part of a new initiative that’s being called the I2U2, a collection of countries that have pledged greater collaboration.
The idea was hatched last year in Washington, at the home of the U.A.E. ambassador, according to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
“We sat around the table and spoke about how, after we get control over the pandemic, anyone trying to go back to how things used to be would fail,” Lapid said. “Anyone who understands that we live in a new world with new challenges would succeed and flourish.”
He added that, “In the 21st century, challenges are local, but the solutions are global.”
The virtual summit started more than an hour late, and there were some brief technical difficulties at the beginning until U.A.E. President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was unmuted.
“I also hope that our quartet will be a model for those who desire peace and prosperity,” he said in his opening remarks.
The countries announced that the U.A.E. would finance a $2 billion agricultural project in India, with potential help from U.S. and Israeli companies.
“The more we work together, the more we’ll see the benefits multiply and grow to advance our shared commitment to peace, stability and growing prosperity,” Biden said. “They all go together.”
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JERUSALEM — President Joe Biden says he is working to promote Israel’s burgeoning ties with Arab partners in the Middle East.
The U.S. president spoke after meeting Israel’s interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, in Jerusalem on Thursday.
“I talked about how important it was from my perspective for Israel to be totally integrated in the region,” Biden said.
Under the Trump administration, Israel struck diplomatic deals with four Arab countries known as the Abraham Accords.
Biden is hoping to build on those fledgling ties as he heads to Saudi Arabia to meet with Gulf Arab partners this weekend. The ties are largely based on shared concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and military activities across the region.
Lapid described Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia as “extremely important to Israel.”
Biden also appeared to give a boost to Lapid, who hopes to win a full term in November elections. “We had a good beginning of a long, God willing, relationship,” Biden said.
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JERUSALEM — The United Arab Emirates is investing $2 billion to launch food processing centers across India that will use climate-smart technologies to help reduce waste and conserve fresh water.
The initiative was announced on Thursday ahead of the first virtual leaders’ meeting of I2U2 — a new grouping of Israel, India, United States and UAE — that is looking to spur joint investments in water, energy, transportation, food security, and more.
India will provide land for the project. U.S. and Israeli private firms are invited to lend their expertise to the project that the group said will help maximize crop yields. The group has set tackling food insecurity in South and Middle East as a major goal.
President Joe Biden is taking part the video meeting from Israel, where he is in the second day of a whirlwind visit to the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM — U.S. President Joe Biden has begun a one-on-one meeting in Jerusalem with Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid.
Their talks are the centerpiece of a 48-hour visit by the U.S. president aimed at strengthening already tight relations between the two countries.
The leaders are expected to sign a joint declaration emphasizing military cooperation as well as their commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The commitments to Israel could hold important symbolic importance ahead of Biden’s meeting this weekend with Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia as he seeks to strengthen a regionwide alliance against Iran.
Thursday’s meeting also provides a boost to Lapid, who is Israel’s interim prime minister until elections in November. Lapid’s main opponent is the former prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. His joint appearance with Biden could help burnish his credentials as a statesman and leader. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/the-latest-biden-israeli-pm-lapid-meet-in-jerusalem/ | 2022-07-15 07:08:42 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/the-latest-biden-israeli-pm-lapid-meet-in-jerusalem/ |
Republicans and Democrats are on tenterhooks as results from the Nevada Senate race trickle in, with both parties expressing optimism that they’ll prevail in a race that will help determine who holds a narrow majority in the upper chamber.
Democrats feared that a favorable political environment for Republicans, coupled with the ever-present issue of inflation in the tourism-dominated economy, would thwart Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-Nev.) chances of reelection. But their mood has shifted as ballots counted in the counties of Clark and Washoe appear poised to help the senator close the gap with her GOP rival Adam Laxalt. Republicans, meanwhile, remain bullish that Laxalt will eke out a win.
Both parties are now playing the waiting game after local officials said counting will continue for several days. Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria predicted that by Saturday about 90 percent of ballots there would be counted.
“Based on the votes that are left to count, there’s more vote to be counted in the rural areas of the state, there is a lot of Election Day drop box vote to be counted in Clark [County], and Republicans think that when all of it is tallied, Adam Laxalt will come out on top,” said one GOP strategist.
But Democrats and allied groups were similarly hopeful.
“We’re very optimistic and also proud of ourselves for the work we did throughout the cycle to get Latinos out to vote,” said Cecia Alvarado, Nevada executive director of Somos Votantes, a group that engages Latino voters and who endorsed Cortez Masto’s reelection bid. The group knocked on over one million doors in the state alone.
Cortez Masto is fighting for a second term in the Senate after making history in 2016 as the first Latina senator elected to the Senate. A former state attorney general and the daughter of a four-term Clark County commissioner, she won her election by just over 2 percentage points six years ago.
Laxalt, also a former state attorney general and the 2018 GOP gubernatorial nominee who lost to Gov. Steve Sisolak (D), had enjoyed a slew of polls in recent weeks showing him edging out Cortez Masto. Many across the political spectrum agreed the race was a true toss-up, with Republicans holding the edge. But others — including some Republicans — said the race was always going to go down to the wire.
“I actually found that hard to believe that she was the most vulnerable,” said former Nevada GOP chair Amy Tarkanian, referring to Cortez Masto. “I completely disagree with that. I think she’s probably one of the most difficult to beat.”
“And the reason being is she has strong family roots in the state of Nevada. Her father was a very powerful county commissioner in Clark. She also was an attorney general, she’s very calculated. She doesn’t go off of script, so to speak, she doesn’t do anything crazy to bring attention to herself. And she also had the support of [former Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid before he passed away.”
Now both campaigns are waiting for the results to come in, which could stretch into early next week given the fact that ballots postmarked by Election Day can be received through Saturday.
At the time of the writing, Laxalt led the senator by just less than 16,000 votes. Cortez Masto was ahead of Laxalt by over 33,000 votes in Clark County and by just over 350 votes in Washoe, though many more still need to be counted.
Democrats and political observers alike, however, believe that the senator has a good chance of holding on for a second term after a batch of results from both counties on Wednesday showed Cortez Masto holding comfortable leads over Laxalt. Still, it’s unclear how those margins will hold in future reported batches.
“Looking at the numbers that continue to come in & we’re on track to win. CCM has been winning mail ballots 2-1 in Clark, which just cut Laxalt’s lead by 5k votes. There are 57k Dem-heavy votes in Clark County dropboxes + thousands of mail ballots that will come in through Sat,” tweeted Cortez Masto campaign spokesperson Josh Marcus-Blank on Wednesday, referring to the senator’s initials.
Even political observers like Cook Political Report editor Dave Wasserman suggested Wednesday’s ballot batches gave Democrats reason to be optimistic. He said the party has an “excellent chance” of heading into the Georgia runoff with a Senate majority already in place.
While the counties of Washoe and Clark went for President Biden in 2020 by 5 and 9 points respectively, the GOP strategist who requested anonymity said he “absolutely” still felt optimistic Laxalt could pull off a win.
“He’s actually ran a very impressive campaign. I know both Catherine and Adam, and so Adam is the one politician that had the largest Rolodex that I’ve ever encountered, and he had everything going for him — financially, endorsement-wise. I mean, he had people who even don’t like each other endorse him. He had both Senator Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. So I mean, that’s impressive,” Tarkanian, the former state GOP chair, said.
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RED WING, Minn. (AP) — Officials say a Minnesota woman has been charged in the death of her newborn who was abandoned at a lake nearly 20 years ago and that she also abandoned another baby whose body was found in the Mississippi River years earlier.
Fifty-year-old Jennifer Matter, of Red Wing, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the December 2003 death of a newborn boy whose body was found in Frontenac on the shore of Lake Pepin, a body of water on the Mississippi River.
According to court documents, Matter is also the mother of another infant, a girl, found in the Mississippi River in 1999.
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MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi meets with U.S. President Joe Biden this week in Washington as Europe faces another “whatever it takes” moment with Russia’s war in Ukraineraging on its eastern flank.
Both Rome and Washington will emphasize their historic friendship and shared desire to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s two-month-old invasion when the leaders meet on Tuesday. Energy, climate change and promoting global economic prosperity also are on the agenda.
Still, there are differences in tone over the war, and public sentiment in Italy against sending arms to Ukraine is growing.
Draghi is pushing for even a limited truce to allow talks to resume, mindful also of the impact on Italy should the war spill over Ukraine’s borders. Statements by Biden and his emissaries have been more aggressive, suggesting both regime change and the goal of weakening Russia.
These differences reflect not only Italy’s geographic closeness to the fighting, but also its historic political and economic ties with Russia. Italy gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia, and economic trade last year amounted to 20 billion euros ($21 billion) — much of that for energy purchases that Italy is trying to divert elsewhere.
“There are two currents regarding Russia,” Sergio Romano, a Cold War-era Italian ambassador to Moscow, told The Associated Press. “There is the position of the countries that see in the war in Ukraine the possibility, or the hope, of the diminishment of Russian power. I think this current is strong in the U.S.
“I don’t think this is the position of the Italian government, which in the past has had cordial and positive relations with Russia,” he said.
Draghi, a former central banker skilled at measuring his words, is one of the only European Union leaders to visit Washington since the war broke out, and can be expected to represent not only Italy’s perspective, but also that of Europe. His “whatever it takes” posture as the European Central Bank chief famously saved the euro during the currency bloc’s crisis a decade ago.
Arming Ukraine has become a political issue in Italy, with growing public opposition to sending Italian weaponry out of fear of provoking a wider conflict spilling over into neighboring EU and NATO member states.
A key government party, the 5-Star Movement, is insisting that only defensive, short-range weapons be shipped, not any with offensive capabilities, while right-wing leader Matteo Salvini, a former interior minister, is against more arm shipments to Ukraine.
Members of the left-wing Democratic Party also are asking Draghi to urge the U.S. to lower its tone.
Public sentiment against sending arms to Ukraine has grown to around half, according to Renato Mannheimer, a sociologist at the Eumetra social and market research agency. Some of that sentiment is rooted in pacifism, partly conditioned by Italy’s closeness to the Vatican, as well as in a strain of anti-Americanism derived from U.S.-led wars on foreign soil. That is accompanied by fears over igniting a wider war that could escalate into a nuclear threat, he said.
Italians over 40 have palpable memories of their close geographic location to Ukraine. Shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, nuclear contamination reached Italy and Italians were warned not to eat salad or drink milk for weeks.
Italy already has invoked secrecy over its military support out of security concerns. But Draghi can also point to parliament’s overwhelming support to aid Ukraine in March to play down any friction within his broad-based coalition.
“Maybe the message that Draghi will bring to Biden in these hours is: ‘We are on the side of the Americans, but let’s not make this a war of good against evil, of light against darkness,’” said Alessia De Luca, a political analyst at the ISPI think tank in Milan.
“This is a risk because Americans have this binary way of seeing things. For us Europeans, the consequences of the war spilling over are dramatic.”
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June is Caribbean Heritage Month! There are 16 countries in The Caribbean but 3 are not Islands like the others. Guyana, Belize and Suriname are countries located in Central and South America so why are they a part of The West Indies?
Belize, Guyana, and Suriname have a shared history, culture, and political system with The Caribbean, which is why they are a part.
Belize
From religious practices and beliefs to sensibilities, Belizeans have more in common with African and Jamaican societies than neighboring nations like Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Belize is part of the social and economic Caribbean community. As a member of CARICOM (the Caribbean community) which aims to provide economic integration, foreign policy coordination, human and social development, and security for its members. Belize’s roots are an amalgam of ethnicities and although Spanish is spoken it’s considered a second language and English is the main language. Source: belizeanddreams.com Read More Here.
Guyana
One reason for this is that Guyana was once a British colony, like many of the Caribbean islands. None of the other South American countries were British colonies and Guyana is therefore the only one. This part of the country’s history has undoubtedly affected the lives of the people who live there and also given them a shared history with many Caribs. Guyana has a massive Indian and African community. Most other South American countries have a larger Latin American population. Guyana is most similar to the dual-island state of Trinidad and Tobago. Also, Guyana is a founding member of CARICOM (the Caribbean community) which aims to provide economic integration, foreign policy coordination, human and social development, and security for its members. Source: flycrc.com Read More Here
Suriname
Suriname is the smallest country in South America but considered one of the largest of the Caribbean. Suriname is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which aims to provide economic integration, foreign policy coordination, human and social development, and security for its members. Suriname is the only sovereign nation outside of Europe where Dutch is the official and prevailing language of government, business, media, and education. Source: Wikipedia Read More Here
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ESTERO, Fla. — The Florida Everblades’ Kelly Cup Playoffs series schedule against the Newfoundland Growlers has been released.
The Everblades advanced to their first Eastern Conference Finals since 2019. The series schedule is shaped up like this:
- Game 1: Friday, May 20 at 5:30 p.m. | Mary Brown’s Centre in St. Johns, Newfoundland
- Game 2: Sunday, May 22 at 5:30 p.m. | Mary Brown’s Centre in St. Johns, Newfoundland
- Game 3: Wednesday, May 25 at 7:30 p.m. | Hertz Arena
- Game 4: Friday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. | Hertz Arena
- Game 5: Saturday, May 28 at 7:00 p.m. | Hertz Arena (if necessary)
- Game 6: Tuesday, May 31 at 5:30 p.m. | Mary Brown’s Centre in St. Johns, Newfoundland (if necessary)
- Game 7: Wednesday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m. | Mary Brown’s Centre in St. Johns, Newfoundland (if necessary)
The Everblades advanced to the conference finals after completing the sweep against the Jacksonville Icemen on Monday, May 16 with a 1-0 overtime victory.
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ROME – Italy will push for a law imposing stiff, five-figure fines on vandals who damage monuments or other cultural sites, to help pay for the repairs and clean-up.
At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government approved proposed legislation championed by the culture minister that would impose fines starting at 10,000 euros (nearly $11,000) and as high as 60,000 euros (about $65,000).
Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government has a comfortable majority in Parliament, so the proposal is expected to be easily approved and adopted into law.
Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said that it recently cost the government 40,000 euros (almost $44,000) to clean the façade of the 15th-century Palazzo Madama, which is home to the Italian Senate, after it was vandalized. Just days ago, activists pressing for more action on climate change dumped black dye into the waters of a monumental fountain sculpted by Bernini at the foot of the Spanish Steps.
“The attacks on monuments and artistic sites produce economic damage to all,'' the minister said in a statement. ”To clean it up, the intervention of highly specialized personnel and the use of very costly machines are needed,'' he said. “Whoever carries out these acts must assume also the financial responsibility.”
The Bernini fountain was also trashed in 2015 by Dutch soccer fans, who left empty beer bottles floating in its water.
In July 2022, Italian environmental activists glued their hands to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s iconic painting “Spring” in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, police said. The museum said thanks to the glass, which was installed as a precaution several years ago, the masterpiece was unharmed. | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2023/04/11/italy-planning-5-figure-fines-for-monument-and-art-vandalism/ | 2023-04-11 19:57:08 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2023/04/11/italy-planning-5-figure-fines-for-monument-and-art-vandalism/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman MLP and Energy Income Fund Inc. (NYSE American: NML) (the "Fund") has announced a distribution declaration of $0.02266 per share of common stock. The distribution announced today is payable on November 30, 2022, has a record date of November 15, 2022 and has an ex-date of November 14, 2022.
The Fund currently intends to make regular monthly cash distributions to holders of its common stock at a fixed rate per share, to be determined based on the projected net rate of return of the Fund's investments as well as other factors, subject to ongoing review and adjustment from time to time. The Fund currently intends to pay its regular monthly distributions out of its distributable cash flow, which generally consists of (1) cash and paid-in-kind distributions from master limited partnerships ("MLPs") or their affiliates, dividends from common stocks, interest from debt instruments and income from other investments held by the Fund less (2) current or accrued operating expenses, including leverage costs, if any, and taxes on its taxable income.
The Fund expects that a portion of its distributions to stockholders will constitute a non-taxable return of capital. A "return of capital" is a distribution by the Fund which represents a return of a common stockholder's original investment, and should not be confused with a dividend. To the extent the Fund pays a return of capital, a common stockholder's basis in Fund shares will be reduced, which will increase a capital gain or reduce a capital loss upon sale of those shares. There is no assurance that the Fund will always be able to pay a distribution of any particular amount, or that a distribution will consist solely of the Fund's current and accumulated earnings and profits.
In compliance with Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, a notice would be provided for any distribution that does not consist solely of net investment income. The notice would be for informational purposes and not for tax reporting purposes, and would disclose, among other things, estimated portions of the distribution, if any, consisting of net investment income, capital gains and return of capital. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions paid in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
The Fund is subject to federal income tax on its taxable income, unlike most investment companies. Any taxes paid by the Fund will reduce the amount available to pay distributions to stockholders, and therefore investors in the Fund will likely receive lower distributions than if they invested directly in MLPs.
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 26 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,600 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). Neuberger Berman is a PRI Leader, a designation, since last assessed, that was awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. In the 2021 PRI Assessment, the firm obtained the highest possible scoring for its overarching approach to ESG investment and stewardship, and integration across asset classes. The firm manages $408 billion in client assets as of September 30, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
Statements made in this release that look forward in time involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets or a decline in the Fund's performance, a general downturn in the economy, competition from other closed end investment companies, changes in government policy or regulation, inability of the Fund's investment adviser to attract or retain key employees, inability of the Fund to implement its investment strategy, inability of the Fund to manage rapid expansion and unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations.
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ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president invited his powerful Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to visit the war-torn nation, saying they haven’t been in contact since the war began and he is “ready to see him here.”
“I want to speak with him,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Associated Press on Tuesday, the week after Xi visited Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. China had no immediate response about whether a Xi visit to Ukraine would happen.
China has been economically aligned and politically favorable toward neighboring Russia across many decades, and Beijing has provided Putin diplomatic cover by staking out an official position of neutrality in the war. Xi, a powerful leader who commands the resources of the world’s most populous nation, is an important player in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and even China’s lack of involvement is a potent statement.
Zelenskyy spoke to the AP aboard a train shuttling him across Ukraine, to cities near some of the fiercest fighting and others where his country’s forces have successfully repelled Russia’s invasion. The AP is the first news organization to travel extensively with Zelenskyy since the war began just over a year ago.
Zelenskyy has extended invitations to Xi before in recent months, but this explicit call to visit comes days after the Chinese leader visited Putin in Russia last week. But the Ukrainian leader said he hasn’t communicated with Xi for the duration of the conflict.
“We are ready to see him here,” Zelenskyy said. “I had contact with him before full-scale war. But during all this year, more than one year, I didn’t have.”
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning was asked whether Xi would accept an invitation from Zelenskyy — or whether one had been officially extended. She told reporters she had no information to give. She did say that Beijing maintains “communication with all parties concerned, including Ukraine.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked whether a meeting between Xi and Zelenskyy would be useful to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, said Russian authorities “highly appreciate” China’s balanced position on the issue and “have no right to come up with any advice” on whether the two should meet. “The Chinese leader himself decides the appropriateness of certain contacts,” Peskov said during his daily conference call with reporters Wednesday.
Xi’s Russia visit last week raised the prospect that Beijing might be ready to provide Moscow with the weapons and ammunition it needs to refill its depleted stockpile. But Xi’s trip ended without any such announcement. Days later, Putin announced that he would be deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which neighbors Russia and pushes the Kremlin’s nuclear stockpile closer to NATO territory.
Zelenskyy suggested Putin’s move was intended to distract from the lack of guarantees he received from China.
“What does it mean? It means that the visit was not good for Russia,” Zelenskyy speculated.
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DENVER — As hot temps soar, squirrels are surprising people with how they're trying to keep cool.
"Squirrel splooting" describes the odd behavior of squirrels stretching out on top of cool surfaces, like concrete or grass in the shade, to chill out in hot temperatures.
But, "splooting" isn't an exclusive summer sport to squirrels – even our pets use the technique to cool down their bodies and rest when they become overheated.
Most experts don’t recommend interacting with wildlife, but they do say it is OK to leave out clean water for them to drink from.
We have reports from viewers on the 9NEWS Facebook page from all around the metro area who have found animals trying to keep cool by spreading out.
Viewer Dawn Jeske Dahl said she puts out ice in a bowl and birdbath for them and spray down the ground where they can cool off.
Betin Macha posted, "We had one doing that on the driveway in the shade under our trees. We had to honk at the little guy to get him to move!"
"I can report that squirrels are splooting in Longmont," posted Lorna Edwards.
Christian Riekert posted, "My resident squirrels around my Denver area yard do this all the time on my maple tree...cracks me up."
"Ours comes over daily to sploot! He likes the bowl of water we leave out," posted Rachel Moonflower.
9NEWS viewers have been sharing their "splooting" pictures with us and you can too – view the picture gallery.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia alleges that dozens of Ukrainian militants crossed into one of its border towns in its Belgorod region, striking targets and forcing an evacuation, before over 70 of the attackers were killed or pushed back by what the authorities termed a counterterrorism operation.
Ukraine denied any involvement in the skirmishes Monday and Tuesday, instead blaming two Russian groups that claim to be volunteers fighting alongside Kyiv’s forces in an uprising against the government of President Vladimir Putin.
While neither version could be independently verified, whatever happened appears to have sent Moscow scrambling to respond to one of the most serious border incursions since Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said an elderly woman died in the chaotic evacuation, and 12 people were wounded in the attack and shelling. As fighting there apparently continued Tuesday morning, he urged residents not to return to their homes, and only in late afternoon declared the operation was over.
A look at what’s known about the attack and the murky groups who say they carried it out:
WHO’S CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY?
Two groups — the Freedom of Russia Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps – claimed responsibility for the attack and announced an ambitious goal of “liberating” the Belgorod region. Little is known about them beyond what they say about themselves, and it’s not clear how they are.
The website of the Freedom of Russia Legion says it was formed last spring “out of Russians’ desire to fight against Putin’s armed gang” and is “officially recognized” by Kyiv’s military. “We are fighting in full cooperation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and under the leadership of the Ukrainian command,” the website says.
The website said it fought last summer in “small battle groups,” and now was involved in the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut.
The Russian Volunteer Corps’ page in the messaging app Telegram used to say it was a formation within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It now describes itself as merely fighting on the Ukrainian side.
In August 2022, an announcement posted there said: “We, Russian volunteers living in Ukraine, decided to take up arms and create a military formation, the Russian Volunteer Corps, in order to together with our Ukrainian comrades defend their homeland which gave us shelter, and then continue the fight against the criminal Putin regime and his henchmen.”
Other posts claimed the group was fighting in southeastern Ukraine, or as volunteers serving elsewhere in the country, including in Kyiv’s suburbs of Bucha and Irpin.
In March, the Russian Volunteer Corps claimed responsibility for an incursion in Russia’s Bryansk region, another border area. Media reports at the time identified some of its members as Russian nationalists.
In a post Tuesday, the Russian Volunteer Corps described its political views as “right-wing conservative and traditionalist.”
WHAT DOES UKRAINE SAY?
Ukrainian officials have never confirmed any ties with either group. The government in Kyiv denied involvement in this week’s Belgorod incident, calling it an act by disgruntled Russians.
When they did talk about it, officials were vague. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said “patriots of Russia” and “people who actually rebelled against Putin’s regime” were behind the attack. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak blamed “underground guerrilla groups” that are “composed of Russian citizens.”
In remarks to the news outlet Suspilne, Ukraine intelligence official Andrii Yusov said it was the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
Andrii Cherniak, another intelligence representative pointed to the fact that the two groups claimed responsibility. “This is the consequence of aggressive politics of Putin’s regime and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” he told The Associated Press.
WHAT DOES RUSSIA SAY?
Russia calls it an incursion by saboteurs deployed by Kyiv, with officials and state media using various epithets ranging from “militants” to “terrorists.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Belgorod attack was a diversion, meant “to draw attention away” from Russia’s victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which Moscow claimed to have captured over the weekend after months of bloody fighting.
Asked Tuesday about claims that the invaders were ethnic Russians, Peskov insisted that “these are Ukrainian militants from Ukraine.”
“There are lots of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, but these are still Ukrainian militants,” Peskov said.
Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said more than 70 “Ukrainian terrorists” were killed in Russia’s operation. He also referred to the attackers as “nationalists.”
Russian state TV reported the invaders were from Ukraine’s armed forces. One report alleged the attackers used U.S. military equipment despite Washington’s assurances its weapons won’t be used for attacks on Russia.
WHAT’S THE TRUTH?
It’s hard to know. Analysts and commentators say both Russia and Ukraine would likely benefit from its own version of the events.
The British Defense Ministry tweeted Tuesday that “Russia will almost certainly use these incidents to support the official narrative that it is the victim in the war.”
Russian state media coverage appears to support this notion, with its allegations that U.S. weapons were used in the attack and the general tone of some reports that overlaid video from the region with tense, dramatic music.
For Kyiv, it’s beneficial “to take up the position of an observer and not admit its involvement,” said Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov.
“The fact is that the war is happening on Russian territory, the Kremlin is being clearly indicated that Russians are not the only ones who can employ hybrid (warfare) methods,” Zhdanov told AP.
The involvement of the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion should serve as signs that “there are forces inside Russia who can resist Putin’s regime,” he said.
At the same time, the Belgorod attack “showed Russia’s helplessness,” Zhdanov said.
“Russia turned out to be completely unprepared -– neither its security forces, nor border guards, nor special services were prepared for hostilities on their own turf. The myth that Russia keeps its border locked has been busted,” he added.
Some Russian voices echoed that sentiment. Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military contractor, used the incident as yet another chance to bash the Russian Defense Ministry for not adequately protecting the border.
Alexander Kots, military correspondent with the pro-Kremlin newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, also raised questions on his Telegram page.
“What’s with our technical equipment of the border, surveillance systems, motion detection systems?” he asked. “What’s with mining of the potentially dangerous areas? What’s with anti-tank equipment? Why did an enemy armored group breach deep into our territory?”
These are the questions “to which there are no answers,” Kots said. “To be more accurate, there are, but they’re very unpleasant.”
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Karmanau reported from Tallinn and Arhirova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kyle Busch Motorsports is switching from Toyota to Chevrolet for its two new drivers in the NASCAR Truck Series.
Chase Purdy will drive the No. 4 full-time and Jack Wood will have at least 10 races in the No. 51 while sharing it with Busch, other Cup and Xfinity drivers. Busch even teased seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson might get a start in his truck.
Busch, the all-time wins leader in the Truck Series, is eligible to run five races as a Cup driver under NASCAR rules. He signed to drive the Richard Childress Racing No. 8 car in September.
KBM also announced Friday it is forming a technical alliance with Rev Racing for an entry in the Truck Series with Nick Sanchez driving the No. 2.
“Obviously, there will be a lot of change at KBM in 2023, but our goal as an organization remains the same that it always has been and that’s to go out and win races and provide the young drivers in our lineup everything they need to reach their full potential,” Busch said. “We have the right people in place to be able to accomplish those goals for our two trucks.”
KBM has won seven owner championships, two driver championships and has 98 wins since debuting in 2010.
The 23-year-old Purdy has five top-10 finishes in 51 career Truck Series starts. The 22-year-old Wood has one top-10 finishes in 34 career starts.
CHASTAIN LEADS PRACTICE
NASCAR championship contender Ross Chastain was fastest at Phoenix Raceway in Friday's only practice and he didn't need the wall to help him do it.
Chastain became a viral sensation last week when he used a video-game inspired move on the final lap at Martinsville Speedway to earn a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series championship round with Joey Logano, Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell.
Chastain topped the entire board Friday — not just the title contenders — with a a lap at 133.24 mph on the mile oval. Chastain crew chief Phil Surgen doesn't believe Friday practice gives the Trackhouse Racing team any early advantage.
“Obviously the final four are here for a reason,” Surgen said. “I would expect all ... championship drivers to be fast on Sunday.”
Logano in a Ford for Team Penske was seventh in practice, Elliott in a Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was 10th and Bell 20th as the drivers prepare for Sunday's winner-take-all finale. The Joe Gibbs Racing camp didn't hide from its poor early showing for Bell, who twice won playoff elimination races to make it to the finale.
“We just didn’t unload like we thought we would and the speed chart definitely showed it,” Bell crew chief Adam Stevens said of the Toyota. "But they’re not handing out any trophies on Friday.”
Chastain, meanwhile, is now a fan favorite and his garage stall was crowded with cheering fans not usually seen by the journeyman or his Trackhouse team, which was Chip Ganassi Racing until it was bought by Justin Marks and Pitbull ahead of its second season.
“The vibe was great. A lot of excitement. A lot of people around,” said Surgen, who praised the rare three-day weekend for the Cup Series and Friday practice. The COVID-19 pandemic has cut the Cup weekend to two days and limited practice at all but a handful of events.
Championship weekend at sold-out Phoenix Raceway is a traditional three-day Cup weekend, which brought a crowd to Chastain's stall that the crew rarely sees.
“It felt really good to have a 50-minute practice. We had been a couple years now with pretty limited practice,” Surgen said. “Most of us remember three, four, five years ago ... when it was four and a half hours of practice. A lot of us get excited for the extra practice now. There was a good vibe in the garage.”
PASSING THE JOURNAL
Kyle Larson looked forward to receiving the Champion's Journal from Chase Elliott when he won his first NASCAR Cup Series title last year.
He won't repeat as champion, but is relishing his turn to pass on his thoughts to whoever wins the title this weekend.
“It’s something that’s so special that you want to read it once when you get it and once again before I give it to the next guy,” Larson said Friday. “It’s an extremely special book. That was the thing that I was most excited about from winning the championship was to receive that. I’m sure everyone in the final four right now feels the same way.”
The Champion's Journal tradition started in 2011, when NASCAR vice chairman Mike Helton suggested champion Jimmie Johnson write something in a small brown leather book. The book has been passed to the winning driver every year since, with the contents remaining a secret to everyone except the select few who have won a title.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Mullen Automotive, Inc. f/k/a Net Element, Inc. ("Mullen" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MULN; NETE) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-00976, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded Mullen securities between June 15, 2020 and April 6, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Plaintiff seeks to recover compensable damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Mullen securities during the Class Period, you have until July 5, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Mullen purports to be an electronic vehicle ("EV") manufacturer. On November 5, 2021, Mullen Technologies, Inc. underwent a merger with and into Net Element, Inc., and the Company changed its name to Mullen Automotive, Inc..
The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Mullen overstates its ability and timeline regarding production; (2) Mullen overstates its deals with business partners, including Qiantu; (3) Mullen overstates its battery technology and capabilities; (4) Mullen overstates its ability to sell its branded products; (5) Net Element did not conduct proper due diligence into Mullen Technologies; (6) the Dragonfly K50 was not (solely) delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
On April 6, 2022, during trading hours, market analyst Hindenburg Research released a report regarding the Company entitled "Mullen Automotive: Yet Another Fast Talking EV Hustle" which detailed several alleged issues with the Company.
On this news, Mullen's stock price fell $0.27 per share, or 10%, to close at $2.38 per share on April 7, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume, damaging investors.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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HAMMOND, IN - Louise Agnes Diane Mary Patricia Ann Johnsen, Sisters of St. Joseph, T.O.S.F. "Little Louise", age 73, of Hammond, IN passed away Monday September 26th, 2022. Preceding her in death were her parents: Donald and Louise Johnsen; and sister, Patricia (Franco) Mazzon. She is survived by her four sisters and six brothers: Linda (Tom) Hoolehan, Susan (Bob) Dabrowski, Don (Linda Beth) Johnsen, Teresa Johnsen, Ray (Carol) Johnsen, David Johnsen, Chuck (Tricia) Johnsen, Greg (Debbie) Johnsen, Harry Johnsen, Diane (Mike) Czaja. She has 30 nieces and nephews and 57 great-nieces and nephews.
Louise excelled at remembering names, addresses and phone numbers, which certainly helped while she was the school secretary at St. John Bosco (SJB) for 50 years. Louise enjoyed learning and completed eight years at SJB followed by two years at Lourdes HS in Chicago, IL and one year at St. Joseph Convent in Stevens Point, WI and her senior year at Bishop Noll Institute.
Since her first day of grade school, Louise has always been in the SJB family, as Athletic Director, Girls Volleyball Coach, the church choir and in the Altar and Rosary Society. Louise also volunteered for several years as a mentor to residents at Father Blaney's Sharing Meadows. Always up for a challenge, she ventured back into the world of academia and set her sights on the halls of higher education where she attained a bachelor's degree in Communications from Purdue University Calumet Campus.
Louise loved to travel, by air, car, cruise ship or ferry boat to her favorite destination, Beaver Island, MI. On most trips, she would travel with Teresa, and more times than not, they would include some of her many nieces and nephews. On those trips, she would serve as tour guide and entertainment director. Louise loved family best, even more than The Beatles or her collection of over 800 elephant statues, pictures and jewelry she acquired in her travels and from friends, family and students. She loved to laugh and make people smile. She will be missed.
Visitation will be held at HILLSIDE FUNERAL HOME, 8941 Kleinman Rd, Highland, IN on Sunday, October 2, 2022 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The funeral mass will be on Monday, October 3, 2022 at St. John Bosco Church, 7113 Columbia Ave, Hammond, IN at 10:00 a.m. Her good friend, Father Pat Gaza will officiate. Interment will be at St. John-St. Joseph Cemetery, Hammond, IN.
In lieu of flowers, a contribution can be made to St. John Bosco School.
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It's Blake Shelton's final season of The Voice, and he's leaving some big boots to fill!
The NBC singing competition kicked off season 23 on Monday with a new batch of Blind Auditions that left Blake as impressed by the level of talent as he was by new coach Niall Horan.
The pair seem to have hit it off right away, with plenty of father-son jokes and Niall's spot-on impression of Blake's Oklahoma accent.
"Blake is really on Team Niall," the Irish singer joked after Blake endorsed him to a hopeful contestant. "Or, he just really hates Kelly Clarkson. I've yet to figure it out."
Their connection got put to the test, however, when Niall had a "tough start to day one," as the last coach standing without any singers on his team. Heartbroken, he even asked Blake to join his team!
But everything changed when Ross Clayton took the stage with his cover of Keith Urban's "Blue Ain't Your Color" which earned him a four-chair turn.
Niall had an uphill battle ahead of him, but he was prepared and pulled out a major stunt: turning all the other coaches' chairs back around!
"See how much power I've got around here?" Niall joked. "I can spin chairs. That's never been done!"
"There's fans of mine that would really love to take you under their wing," he added, even getting on his knees to plead with Ross to join his team!
Thankfully, it paid off, as Ross became the first singer to join Team Niall -- and impressed the new coach's on-screen father figure in the process.
"Niall needed that one, I'm actually happy for Niall," Blake teased. "I feel like Niall is gonna take my seat on this show. Playing those kind of dirty tricks gives me confidence that he can be the liar that he needs to be to cover for Team Blake from now on."
ET spoke with the season 23 coaches ahead of the premiere, who all shared how excited they were to be on the show for The Cowboy's last go-round.
"I texted him," Kelly shared. "If he was gonna do a last season, I wanted to make sure I was there."
However, the talk show host insisted that she won't be letting nostalgia affect her competitive nature.
"If [Blake] wins, I am very happy for him, because that is super cool to win on the last season and he's literally the show, from its conception," she conceded. "But, like, I'm not, like, rooting for him to win. I'll be happy for him if he does, but I'm obviously trying to win myself."
As for the show's new coaches, Niall and Chance said they were ready to put in the work against the Team Blake dynasty.
"It's been awesome," Chance said of joining the show. "Kelly's very, very sweet, very nice to me. And Blake is... here."
The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. PT/ET on NBC.
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King Charles salutes late queen, public workers in speech
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III evoked memories Sunday of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as he broadcast his first Christmas message as monarch in a speech that also paid tribute to the “selfless dedication” of Britain’s public service workers, many of whom are in a fight with the government over pay.
Charles, 74, also empathized in the prerecorded message with people struggling to make ends meet “at a time of great anxiety and hardship.” Like some other parts of the world, the U.K. is wrestling with high inflation that has caused a cost-of-living crisis for many households.
The king’s first remarks, however, recalled his mother, who died in September at age 96 after 70 years on the throne.
“Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones,” Charles said. “We feel their absence that every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition.”
Charles immediately ascended to the throne upon the queen’s death. His coronation ceremony is scheduled for May.
For his televised Christmas message, he wore a dark blue suit. Unlike Elizabeth, who often sat at a desk to deliver the annual speech, Charles stood by a Christmas tree at St. George’s Chapel, a church on the grounds of Windsor Castle where his mother and his father, Prince Philip, were buried.
Charles said he shared with his mother “a belief in the extraordinary ability of each person to touch, with goodness and compassion, the lives of others and to shine a light in the world around them.”
“The essence of our community and the very foundation of our society” can be witnessed in “health and social care professionals and teachers and indeed all those working in public service whose skill and commitment are at the heart of our communities,” the king said.
Strikes this month by nurses, ambulance crews, teachers, postal workers and train drivers have put pressure on U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government. Opinion polls show a high level of support for the workers, especially nurses. Unions are seeking pay raises in line with inflation, whch stood at 10.7% in November.
Soaring food and energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have created financial strains for many individuals and families.
Speaking over video footage of food banks and other charity work, Charles expressed sympathy for “those at home finding ways to pay their bills and keep their families fed and warm.”
Charles also reached out to people of other faiths in the United Kingdom and across the British Commonwealth, saying the meaning of Jesus Christ’s birth crosses “the boundaries of faith and belief.”
Charles believes the monarchy can help to unite his country’s increasingly diverse ethnic groups and faiths. It is part of his effort to show that the institution still has relevance.
The six-minute message concluded with an appeal to heed “the everlasting light” which, Charles said, was a key aspect of Elizabeth’s faith in God and belief in people.
“So whatever faith you have or whether you have none, it is in this life-giving light and with the true humility that lies in our service to others that I believe we can find hope for the future,” he said.
The king made no reference to the recent clamor over this month’s Netflix documentary series about the acrimonious split from the royal family that accompanied the decision of his son Prince Harry and daughter-in-law Meghan to step back from royal duties and move across the Atlantic Ocean.
Video footage accompanying the Christmas message showed working members of the royal family at official events. Harry and Meghan didn’t appear, nor did Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his honorary military titles and removed as a working royal over his friendship with the notorious U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew did, however, join Charles and other senior royals for a Christmas morning walk to a church located near the family’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk county England.
The king and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, led family members to a service at St. Mary Magdalene Church. They included Prince William, Charles’ older son and heir to the throne, and William’s wife, Kate, and the couple’s three children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4.
Joining them on the walk was Charles and Andrew’s younger brother, Prince Edward, and his wife, Sophie.
After the family entered the church, congregants sang “God Save the King” followed by the Christmas hymn “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
Sandringham has been the private country home of four generations of British monarchs for more than 160 years, but this was the royal family’s first Christmas there since 2019, according to Britain’s Press Association news agency.
Elizabeth spent her last two Christmases at Windsor Castle because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Crowds lined the streets near Sandringham to greet the royal family Sunday for its return to the holiday tradition.
“It will be in King Charles’ thoughts about his mother, about her legacy. They will be thinking about it over Christmas,” said John Loughrey, 67, who lives in south London and camped out overnight to be first in line. “It’s going to be a sad time and a happy time for them. That’s how it’s got to be.”
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Freese has decided to decline his induction into the St. Louis Cardinals’ Hall of Fame.
The former third baseman was a postseason hero for his hometown team in helping the Cardinals win the 2011 World Series. He was chosen for the Hall of Fame by fans, garnering the most votes in online balloting for this year’s class.
But in a statement Saturday, the Cardinals said Freese recently informed them he wanted to withdraw his candidacy. That leaves José Oquendo and Max Lanier to be enshrined during ceremonies on Aug. 20.
“This is something that I have given an extreme amount of thought to, humbly, even before the voting process began. I am aware of the impact I had helping the team bring great memories to the city I grew up in, including the 11th championship, but this honor means more to me,” Freese said in the statement.
One of baseball’s most storied and successful franchises, the Cardinals count the likes of Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Rogers Hornsby and Stan Musial among members of their robust Hall of Fame.
Freese was the MVP of the 2011 World Series and NL Championship Series. He batted .397 with five home runs and 21 RBIs in 18 postseason games that year.
With the Cardinals down to their final out in Game 6 of the World Series against Texas, he hit a two-run triple that tied the score in the bottom of the ninth inning. His leadoff homer in the 11th gave them a 10-9 victory that forced Game 7, which St. Louis won 6-2 with the help of Freese’s two-run double.
Freese spent his first five major league seasons with the Cardinals, hitting .286 with 44 homers, 237 RBIs and a .783 OPS. He was traded to the Los Angeles Angels, and later played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I look at who I was during my tenure, and that weighs heavily on me. The Cardinals and the entire city have always had my back in every way. I’m forever grateful to be part of such an amazing organization and fan base then, now and in the future,” Freese said.
“I’m especially sorry to the fans that took the time to cast their votes. Cardinal Nation is basically the reason why I’ve unfortunately waited so long for this decision and made it more of a headache for so many people. I feel strongly about my decision and understand how people might feel about this. I get it. I’ll wear it. Thank you for always being there for me, and I am excited to be around the Cardinals as we move forward.”
The 40-year-old Freese attended St. Louis Community College and went to high school in the city’s suburbs. The Cardinals said he “plans to remain an active member of the team’s alumni activities and fan-related events.”
“Although we are disappointed that David has declined to be inducted into our Hall of Fame, we respect his decision and look forward to celebrating his great Cardinals career in other ways going forward,” Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III said. “He is always welcome at Busch Stadium.”
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Legislation that would create a separate court system run by unelected judges in part of Mississippi’s capital city is racially motivated, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said Monday.
At a Monday news conference, Lumumba excoriated several bills moving through the state legislature that would affect Jackson. He said the proposal by legislators from outside the 80% Black city to create a separate court system within its borders is colonialist and racist.
“It reminds me of apartheid,” Lumumba said. “They are looking to colonize Jackson. Not only in terms of putting their military force over Jackson but also dictating who has province over decision-making.”
House Bill 1020, introduced by Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican from Senatobia, would create a separate judicial district within an area around downtown Jackson called the Capitol Complex Improvement District, where many state-owned buildings are located.
Rather than being selected by city residents or elected officials, the new court system’s judges would be appointed by the chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, and prosecutors would be appointed by the attorney general. The bill would also grant the courts exclusive jurisdiction over cases in which the state government is a party.
The Associated Press left a message with Lamar’s staff seeking comment.
A special police force patrols the district to guard the state-owned buildings located in the area. The bill would also expand the district’s boundaries to include a larger portion of the city, giving the Capitol Police a larger territory.
“They’re talking about a court system in which the judges would not be elected by Jackson residents, and a police force that has no accountability,” Lumumba said.
Capitol Police officers have been involved in several shootings, prompting some residents to suggest the force deploys overzealous tactics. Bo Luckey, the Capitol Police Chief, said his officers practice “proactive policing,” which involves patrolling areas more often to show an increased police presence.
In addition to the proposal for a new court system, Lumumba also criticized a bill that would transfer ownership of Jackson’s water system to a new public entity overseen by a nine-member board, the majority of which would be appointed by state leaders. Those bills, along with another that would allow recall elections for municipal officials in the state, show a “paternalistic relationship” between state officials and the city, Lumumba said.
“To be able to make decisions that dictate what people in Jackson should have the ability to dictate is not only colonialist but racist,” Lumumba said. “It is plantation politics at its finest.”
The measure creating the separate court system, House Bill 1020, passed out of committee and can now be brought before the full state House of Representatives. Should it pass, it will go to the Senate. Republicans control both chambers of the Mississippi Legislature.
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Independent Developers can Upload Their Games for Free and Monetize Their Content
Players from Around the World can Discover Great Indie Games to Play at No Cost
NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GATO launched today as the new indie, social gaming platform, offering game developers worldwide the opportunity to upload their games for free while monetizing their content. The premium platform also offers players a wide selection of curated games, recommendations, social gaming experiences, and personalized avatars. GATO, available on desktop, App Store, and Google Play, is a game-changer for developers looking for new ways to generate revenue from their passion.
"GATO, our new social gaming platform, is designed to cater to the needs of game developers and anyone who loves video games," said Patricio Ruiz Yanzi, CEO of GATO. "The community-driven platform democratizes the gaming experience by offering a free service where developers can monetize their content."
The new free-to-play platform allows developers to easily upload their games with the service earning revenue through advertising placements. Developers will be able to deliver assets, collectibles, and services providing them with additional revenue streams from their games. Users can discover new games, play for free on multiple devices, connect with the creators, make social connections, and help build, boost & empower the gaming community.
For advertisers, GATO offers a highly engaging user base reaching millions of potential Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha consumers through its innovative approach to gaming. The platform provides a perfect opportunity for advertisers to showcase their products and services via customized campaigns such as pre-roll premium "insert coin" ads, sponsored collections, and ad hoc branded games built in collaboration with the GATO community.
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GATO is a global social gaming platform that aims to connect gamers and indie game developers from around the world. It provides a curated catalog of unique and diverse games, offering players free and unlimited access to a wide range of gaming experiences. GATO is focused on democratizing the gaming industry by empowering independent developers and giving them the tools they need to reach global audiences and monetize their games. With a strong emphasis on community and innovation, GATO strives to create a vibrant and inclusive gaming ecosystem for players and creators alike.
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Ruling Will Partially 'Restrain' the Biden Effort to End All Border Enforcement
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in response to a preliminary injunction blocking the Biden administration's plan to cancel Title 42, effective Monday:
"The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) applauds Judge Robert R. Summerhays' preliminary injunction ruling blocking the Biden administration from lifting Title 42, the only remaining mechanism for controlling our southern border.
"In its 16 months in power, the Biden administration has consciously created an unprecedented surge of illegal migration with Title 42 serving as the last constraint on its plan to completely abandon enforcement of our border. By the Department of Homeland Security's own reckoning, their decision to cancel Title 42 would have led to at least an immediate doubling of April's record number of illegal entries, all of whom they planned to quickly process and disperse around the country.
"Judge Summerhays' ruling may prevent the crisis from becoming exponentially worse, but it is not a solution to the problem the Biden administration is deliberately inflicting on the American public. The ball is now in Congress' court, which has the power to hold this rogue administration accountable for its ongoing refusal to carry out its constitutional obligation to enforce our nation's immigration laws."
Media contact: Preston Huennekens (phuennekens@fairus.org)
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Going up against a solid and big Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary team on Tuesday, Bullock Creek had a golden opportunity to make a statement. Instead, the Lancers were left with a question – What if?
Creek battled the visiting Cardinals tooth-and-nail for 32 minutes, but too many missed opportunities – and too many turnovers – proved too much to overcome, as MLS edged the Lancers 39-37 in nonconference girls’ basketball.
The Cardinals improve to 8-3, while Creek slips to 5-8.
“We needed to cut down on the turnovers and win some of those 50/50 balls. Some things that are uncharacteristic of us happened tonight,” noted Lancers’ coach Jeff Kozak. “Usually, we win those 50/50 balls, and we’re usually pretty good on our box-outs and rebounding. We gave some away tonight. … I was happy with how we defended … but we gave up quite a few offensive rebounds, which is something we don’t normally do.”
MLS scored the game’s first six points and went on to build an 11-4 advantage before Creek countered with a 7-2 run on a 3-pointer by Zofia Jean, a pair of free throws by Delaney Violette, and a lay-in by Mattie Midkiff off of a nice dump-down pass by Jean, cutting the Cardinals’ lead to 13-11 at the end of the first quarter.
The Lancers played their best stretch of offensive basketball in the second quarter, drawing fouls repeatedly and running off 11 consecutive points on a pair of 3-pointers by Jean and five free throws to take a 22-15 lead. Seminary answered, however, by ending the half on a 7-2 run – capped by a 3-point shot by Kaylee Schuette which bounced high off the front rim and through the basket at the buzzer – to cut the deficit to 24-22 at the break.
Both teams struggled to score throughout the third quarter, as MLS had a 9-4 edge to regain the lead, 31-28, entering the fourth.
The Cardinals were up 37-32 with time winding down in the fourth quarter when Jean tied it with a nice one-handed runner in the lane, followed by a tough driving layup in traffic which resulted in a foul and a subsequent 3-point play with 2:08 remaining.
“Zofia’s confidence is growing,” Kozak said of Jean. “She has the ability to knock down the 3, she can come off the screen really hard and fast, she uses a change-of-pace move with the ball, and, defensively, she always gives great effort.
“I’m super excited that she’s starting to grow in confidence and looking to score more,” he added. “Hopefully, she keeps building on that.”
Seminary countered Jean’s five quick points with a driving layup by Autumn Wakefield, giving the Cardinals a 39-37 edge with 47 seconds to play. After both teams missed the front end of 1-and-1 situations down the stretch, the Lancers had one last crack at tying or taking the lead in the final seconds, but Avery Campau’s 3-point attempt from the left corner was swatted away by MLS’s 6-foot-2 Julia Wenzel just before time expired.
The Cardinals shot only 27 percent (15 of 56) to Creek’s 26 percent (10 of 38) but had many more shot opportunities due to the Lancers’ 26 turnovers. Creek had a 40-36 edge in rebounding, but half of Seminary’s boards came on the offensive glass.
Gabi Wenzel led MLS with nine points and three steals, while Ava Slieff also had nine points, Julia Wenzel had nine rebounds, Wakfield had seven rebounds, and Maddie Miller added five steals.
Jean paced the Lancers with a game-high 19 points, while Midkiff had six points and seven rebounds, Daisy Schwartz had nine rebounds, Campau had eight rebounds, and Emily Kozak added five rebounds.
Creek will head to Carrollton on Friday.
“The kids’ effort was there, and I told them after the game to walk out with their heads held high, because their effort is always there. For me, that’s a huge thing for what we want to be here at Bullock Creek,” said Jeff Kozak.
“They continue to do that and set that bar high for the work ethic. Some things just didn’t bounce our way tonight, but that’s how sports go,” he added. “We expect to bounce back from it and have a good week of practice here before we head to Carrollton on Friday.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/highschool/article/So-close-Lancers-lose-nail-biter-to-MLS-17724361.php | 2023-01-18 04:04:54 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/highschool/article/So-close-Lancers-lose-nail-biter-to-MLS-17724361.php |
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CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) — After three years of separating fireworks shows into three different locations because of the coronavirus pandemic, the city of Carmel will return to a single Fourth of July fireworks show in 2023.
This year’s event will be the city’s biggest and longest fireworks show ever, with nearly 30 minutes of breathtaking pyrotechnics lighting up the skies over downtown Carmel, city officials said Thursday.
“We hope the community comes back together in the spirit of the holiday to enjoy CarmelFest, our biggest summer festival, and to celebrate our nation’s independence in the traditional way we’ve celebrated for many decades,” Jeff Worrell, city council president, said in a release.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, community safety was a key concern, according to Worrell, but having three fireworks shows came with extra cost and added pressure for the Carmel police and fire departments.
Now that state and federal COVID restrictions have come to an end, it’s the perfect time to bring the community back together for the traditional, single fireworks display, Worrell says.
There will be a new location for launching the fireworks in 2023.
This year’s display will blast off from the parking lot of the Ice Skadium, located on Third Avenue Southwest, just south of Gradle Drive. Organizers believe the new location will make the display visible to those at CarmelFest and to people at other viewing spots in the area.
The show will be about eight minutes longer than in years past and will include a musical score that will play over the airwaves of the Carmel High School radio station.
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The Grand Rapids, Minn. service is accessible by design and will demonstrate how AVs reach their greatest impact when used for public transportation – even in rural, wintry settings
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, May Mobility, a leader in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, and Via, the global leader in TransitTech, will launch the first public transit project using American Disability Act (ADA)-compliant AVs in rural America.
The companies' goal for the Grand Rapids, Minnesota project is to demonstrate that AVs reach their greatest societal impact when used for public transportation. The deployment will allow anyone to book a free, on-demand, shared ride from an AV. The project will also advance the deployments of AVs in rural terrains and diverse and sometimes harsh weather conditions.
"We're passionate about making transportation better for everyone, and providing innovative, accessible transportation solutions to rural communities is a key next step in that journey," said Edwin Olson, CEO for May Mobility. "May Mobility and Via are proud to bring cutting-edge technology and services to Grand Rapids with the first commercial fleet of Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicles."
"Via is proud to partner with May Mobility for the new Grand Rapids site launch, which advances our shared belief that AVs are most impactful when they are accessible, shared, and complementary to a community's public transit system," said Israel Duanis, Head of Autonomous Vehicles at Via. "Via is committed to supporting rural connectivity for riders of all needs. We believe that Grand Rapids will serve as a pioneer for how autonomous, innovative mobility can transform the way small communities move."
May Mobility's fleet in Grand Rapids will mark the first commercial launch of the Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS platform, including the first ADA-compliant versions of the vehicle that the company announced earlier this year.
Powered by Via's AI-based booking and routing algorithms, on-demand rides are available to anyone through the Via app (available on iOS and Android), which matches riders headed in the same direction into one vehicle to create efficient, flexible shared trips. Throughout the city, more than 70 pick-up and drop-off locations have been identified and established based on popular travel patterns and community input, which helped shape the service zone, hours of operation and other considerations. Riders without smartphones can also book by calling 211.
While rides are open to all, they are designed to serve those without a private car or who have mobility challenges — with the aim of using technology to help everyone achieve an independent lifestyle supported by convenient travel, regardless of income or ability.
This project will expand mobility access for the Grand Rapids community by complementing the town's existing fixed-route bus lines and will cover nearly 17 square miles, allowing residents and visitors to easily connect with the city's restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, churches, fitness centers, and more. The service will also provide coverage on weekday nights and weekends when other options aren't available.
The deployment signifies another step forward for May Mobility and Via's history of introducing AVs as public transportation to communities across the country and follows the launch of three other AV services in Arlington, Tex., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Grand Rapids, Mich. in 2021.
Via and May Mobility look forward to continuing to help cities and communities integrate autonomous vehicles into their public transit systems to expand access to safe, efficient, equitable and sustainable mobility.
The 18-month project, called "goMARTI," was created, built and deployed with the support of the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the City of Grand Rapids, The PLUM Catalyst, 211 and Mobility Mania, among others.
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Senate could hold impeachment trial this session for Ky. prosecutor
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - The Kentucky State Senate could hold a trial sometime this session as part of impeachment proceedings.
Ronnie Lee Goldy was impeached by the House and now the Senate will decide whether to convict and remove him from office.
Goldy resigned but could technically hold office again.
The resignation takes effect next week but if two-thirds of the Senate votes to convict, according to the Kentucky constitution, he won’t be able to hold office again.
The House voted unanimously to impeach Goldy who is accused of doing favors for a criminal defendant in exchange for nude photos of her.
Goldy has been the prosecutor for Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, and Rowan counties since 2013. Friday, the Kentucky Senate adopted a resolution that will put them as part of the impeachment proceedings.
”It would be what most people would perceive to be a trial. A jury trial with 38 members sitting but with a sub-committee making recommendations,” said Senate President Robert Stivers.
Goldy’s case marks the first time since 1991 the Kentucky House has moved forward with articles of impeachment.
The evidence against Goldy included 190 pages of illicit messages between him and a woman who was a criminal defendant. He is accused of having improper communication with her.
The legislative session ends on March 30, so it is expected the trial will take place in the Senate before then. Stivers also said an agreement could be reached before that trial would take place.
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Cohen to testify before grand jury in Trump hush money probe
NEW YORK - Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments he arranged and made on the former president’s behalf.
Cohen's impending grand jury appearance was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about grand jury proceedings and did so on the condition of anonymity.
Cohen's closed-door testimony is coming at a critical time as the Manhattan district attorney's office closes in on a decision on whether to seek charges against Trump.
A Trump loyalist turned adversary, Cohen is likely to provide critical details about whatever involvement the Republican presidential candidate may have had in the payments, made in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, to two women who alleged affairs or sexual encounters with him.
Trump denies being involved with either of the women, the porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal.
Cohen has given prosecutors evidence, including voice recordings of conversations he had with a lawyer for one of the women, as well as emails and text messages. He also has recordings of a conversation in which he and Trump spoke about an arrangement to pay the other woman through the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer.
Michael Cohen is seen leaving court after grand jury testimony in the Trump probe on March 10, 2023 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
Prosecutors appear to be looking at whether Trump committed crimes in how the payments were made or how they were accounted for internally at Trump’s company, the Trump Organization.
One possible charge would be falsifying business records, a misdemeanor unless prosecutors could prove it was done to conceal another crime. No former U.S. president has ever been charged with a crime.
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Appearing Monday on ABC’s "Good Morning America," Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina said it is unlikely the former president will accept an invitation, extended by prosecutors last week, to testify before the grand jury.
"We have no plans on participating in this proceeding," Tacopina said. "It's a decision that needs to be made still. There's been no deadline set, so we'll wait and see."
He characterized Trump as a victim, saying he was pressured into making the payment to Daniels.
"This was a plain extortion and I don’t know since when we’ve decided to start prosecuting extortion victims," Tacopina said. "He’s denied — vehemently denied — this affair. But he had to pay money because there was going to be an allegation that was going to be publicly embarrassing to him, regardless of the campaign."
Daniels and the attorney who helped arrange the payment for her, Keith Davidson, have both denied extorting anyone.
Tacopina is also accusing the Manhattan district attorney’s office of prosecutorial misconduct, writing in a letter to New York City's inspector general that prosecutors are trying to hamper Trump’s chances in the 2024 presidential election. Tacopina asked the city's Department of Investigation to probe a "patently political prosecution."
A message seeking comment was left with the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
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Trump’s lawyers have tried several times to get judges in New York and Florida to intervene in or halt investigations of Trump and the Trump Organization, arguing that they are politically motivated. All of those attempts have failed.
Cohen served prison time after pleading guilty in 2018 to federal charges, including campaign finance violations, for arranging the payouts to Daniels and McDougal to keep them from going public. He has also been disbarred.
Trump’s lawyers could point to those factors in an attempt to undermine Cohen's credibility, if the former president is charged and Cohen ends up testifying at trial.
Cohen has been meeting regularly with Manhattan prosecutors in recent weeks, including a daylong session Friday to prepare for his grand jury appearance.
The panel has been hearing evidence since January in what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, has called the "next chapter" of his office’s yearslong Trump investigation. But the hush money payments — perhaps the most salacious of the avenues of inquiry into Trump — are familiar ground.
Federal prosecutors and Bragg's predecessor in the DA's office, Cyrus Vance Jr., each scrutinized the payments but didn't charge Trump.
Cohen declined to comment to reporters as he left the meeting, saying he’d be "taking a little bit of time now to stay silent and allow the DA build their case."
Trump continued to lash out at the probe on social media on Friday, calling the case a "Scam, Injustice, Mockery, and Complete and Total Weaponization of Law Enforcement in order to affect a Presidential Election!"
Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 through his own company and was then reimbursed by Trump, whose company logged the reimbursements as "legal expenses."
McDougal’s $150,000 payment was made through the publisher of the National Enquirer, which squelched her story in a journalistically dubious practice known as "catch-and-kill."
According to federal prosecutors who charged Cohen, the Trump Organization then "grossed up" Cohen’s reimbursement for the Daniels payment for "tax purposes," giving him $360,000 plus a $60,000 bonus, for a total of $420,000.
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Federal judge denies Del. gun groups preliminary injunction in assault weapons ban lawsuit
A federal judge this week denied Delaware gun groups a preliminary injunction in their lawsuit seeking to block legislation that bans assault weapons and high-capacity firearm magazines.
This past summer, the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association, among others, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, weeks after the General Assembly passed a sweeping gun reform package.
The bills came as a result of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two adults were killed. Lawmakers also voted to increase the purchasing age from 18 to 21 for most firearms.
The lawsuit centers on two pieces of the legislation. The first is the law that now makes it illegal to make, sell, purchase or possess assault-style weapons, including AK-47s and AR-15s. The legislation does grandfather currently owned weapons and protects owners from being misidentified as those breaking the law and grants certain exceptions for law enforcement and military members.
The other is the ban on high-capacity firearm magazines, which outlawed the sale or possession of any magazine capable of holding more than 17 rounds.
BACKGROUND:Delaware lawmakers pass historic gun legislation, including ban on sale of assault weapons
In November, the groups filed for a preliminary injunction against the two laws, looking for the judge to temporarily block the legislation from going into effect until the court made a decision in the case. The groups cited that Delawareans’ rights were being violated under the 2nd and 14th Amendments.
Judge Richard Andrews wrote in his decision that the gun groups “failed to meet their burden” of proving two necessary factors: The likelihood of success on the merits and irreparable harm in the absence of a preliminary injunction.
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Attorney General Kathy Jennings, in a statement, that the state “will continue to argue for common sense, and the safety of our kids, for as long as it takes.” She pointed to AR-15s often being the weapon used in mass shootings.
A spokesman for the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association could not be immediately reached for comment.
This decision by the judge was filed on March 27. On the same day, in Nashville, Tennessee, three children and three adults were shot and killed at a private Christian elementary school. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/30/judge-denies-injunction-stop-delawares-assault-weapons-ban-ar-15-ak-47/70063863007/ | 2023-03-30 16:47:05 | 0 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/30/judge-denies-injunction-stop-delawares-assault-weapons-ban-ar-15-ak-47/70063863007/ |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Tucson Electric Power responded to various power outages throughout Tucson.
More than 8,000 people have been without power since around 6 p.m.
Stay with KGUN 9 for further updates.
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Tucson Electric Power responded to various power outages throughout Tucson.
More than 8,000 people have been without power since around 6 p.m.
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LA Galaxy (0-1-0) vs. Sporting Kansas City (0-1-1)
Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Sporting Kansas City +131, Los Angeles +188, Draw +253; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Sporting Kansas City and the LA Galaxy meet in a conference matchup.
Sporting KC was 11-16-7 overall in the 2022 season while going 9-6-2 at home. Sporting KC scored 42 goals last season while allowing opponents to score 54.
The Galaxy finished 14-12-8 overall a season ago while going 6-8-4 on the road. The Galaxy scored 58 goals and recorded a goal differential of +7 last season.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Sporting KC: Khiry Shelton (injured), Logan Ndenbe (injured), Kortne Ford (injured), Gadi Kinda (injured), Alan Pulido (injured), Johnny Russell (injured).
Galaxy: Douglas Costa (injured), Chicharito (injured).
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On May 11, 2022, Investigators from the Louisiana State Police Special Victims Unit, (LSP-SVU) Bossier Field Office arrested 66-year-old Robert Singleton on 49 counts of Distribution of Pornography Involving Juveniles.
In April of 2022, LSP-SVU began an investigation of a suspect that was downloading and distributing images of pornography involving juveniles. The suspect was identified as Robert Singleton. A search warrant was obtained through the 1st Judicial District Court for Singleton’s residence, located in the 1100 block of Island Park Boulevard in Shreveport. On May 11, 2022, LSP-SVU Troopers, along with agents from the Northwest Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served the search warrant. As a result of the search, Singleton was placed under arrest for 49 counts of Distribution of Pornography Involving Juveniles. He was subsequently booked into the Caddo Correctional Center.
Oil City – On May 11, 2022, Investigators from the Louisiana State Police Special Victims Unit, (LSP-SVU) Bossier Field Office arrested 38-year-old Anthony Remedes on three counts of Distribution of Pornography Involving Juveniles.
In April of 2022, LSP-SVU began an investigation of a suspect that was downloading and distributing images of pornography involving juveniles. The suspect was identified as Anthony Remedes. A search warrant was obtained through the 1st Judicial District Court for Remedes’ residence, located in the 500 block of Northland Avenue in Oil City. On May 11, 2022, LSP-SVU Troopers, along with agents from the Northwest Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served the search warrant. As a result of the search, Remedes was placed under arrest for three counts of Distribution of Pornography Involving Juveniles. He was subsequently booked into the Caddo Correctional Center.
The LSP Special Victims Unit works to rescue and seek justice for the victims of crimes involving the exploitation of children and the trafficking of humans for sex or labor. The public plays an important role in identifying suspects accused of these crimes and is urged to report criminal or suspicious activity. The Louisiana State Police online reporting system is available to the public through an anonymous reporting form that is submitted to the appropriate investigators. The form can be found by visiting http://la-safe.org/ and clicking on the “Suspicious Activity” link. | https://bossierpress.com/two-men-arrested-in-separate-child-pornography-cases-in-caddo-parish/ | 2022-05-12 02:52:39 | 0 | https://bossierpress.com/two-men-arrested-in-separate-child-pornography-cases-in-caddo-parish/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. – As she introduced South Carolina's next senator, then-Gov. Nikki Haley said her decision to appoint Tim Scott was “pretty simple.”
“This man loves South Carolina,” Haley said of Scott, a congressman at the time. “He is very aware that what he does and every vote he makes affects South Carolina and affects our country. And so it was with that that I knew he was the right person.”
Scott was just as effusive, praising Haley as someone who governed with “conviction” and “integrity.” He pledged to “get on the team with Nikki Haley to make sure that all of America continues to hear the great things about South Carolina.”
Haley and Scott are forever linked by that announcement at the South Carolina Statehouse on a winter day in 2012, cementing their status as rising stars in a Republican Party frustrated by Barack Obama's reelection just a month earlier. But nearly a dozen years later, they find themselves poised to run against each other for the GOP presidential nomination. Haley has already launched a campaign, and Scott took steps last week toward initiating a bid of his own.
Both carry historic potential, with Haley aiming to become the first woman and first person of Indian descent to win the presidency. Scott would be the first Black Republican president. But much of the race's early attention has focused on former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is presumed to be on the cusp of announcing his own bid.
As the GOP field begins to take shape, the potential of a Haley-Scott faceoff is putting some of their mutual supporters in the critical early voting state of South Carolina in a conundrum as they weigh which candidate to support.
One of those longtime donors and backers is Mikee Johnson, a South Carolina businessman who has known Haley since high school and serves on the board of her Original Six Foundation, which provides after-school programming and literacy resources for children in rural South Carolina school districts. But like many Republicans across the state, Johnson has also been a friend and ally of Scott, whom he said he'll back over Haley in the presidential race.
“I really admire all the things Nikki’s done, her friendship’s important to me, but at this point, I think his style is more what I would like to see our leaders — not just our president — aspire to getting things done in the style and approach that he goes about it," Johnson said.
Another is David Wilkins, who was South Carolina's state House speaker when Haley was in the Legislature, later chairing her gubernatorial transition team and now serving alongside her on the board of Clemson University. Saying he has the “greatest respect” for Scott, whom he has supported in his Senate bids, Wilkins — who also served as ambassador to Canada under President George W. Bush — said his bond is stronger with Haley.
“He's an outstanding senator, and we're very proud of him here in South Carolina," Wilkins said, of Scott. "I just have a very strong friendship with her. It's not choosing one person over another. It's just going with the person that I believe in, that I'm dear friends with, somebody I've known for 20 years.”
The intertwined relationships of those who have supported both Haley and Scott mirror the politicians themselves, whose shared political history dates back further than the pivotal Senate appointment. The two worked alongside each other for a single term in the state House of Representatives, after Scott joined Haley in the chamber following the 2008 election.
That next session, they both signed onto a number of resolutions and bills, including a constitutional amendment — ultimately approved by the state’s voters — guaranteeing workers the right to voting by secret ballot on union representation.
They also teamed up, along with a number of co-sponsors, on other less successful bills, including measures to audit state education funds, endow “rights of due process and equal protection” at fertilization and a “truth in spending” measure for all state and local government entities. Other measures that didn’t pass would have made several statewide positions like the agriculture commissioner, secretary of state and education superintendent appointed, not elected, positions.
In 2010, Scott briefly ran for lieutenant governor, ultimately abandoning that pursuit to seek the 1st District seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Henry Brown. At that time, South Carolina’s governor and lieutenant governor were elected separately; had Scott stayed in that race and won it, he and Haley would have served together as South Carolina’s top officeholders.
But two years later, when Jim DeMint abruptly announced his resignation from the Senate, the paths of Haley and Scott crossed yet again. Rob Godfrey, a longtime Haley adviser who served for a time as her chief spokesperson, said the governor's process was deliberate, making a short list that included Scott, Rep. Trey Gowdy and former first lady Jenny Sanford, ex-wife of former Gov. Mark Sanford, who was Haley's predecessor.
Also on the short list was former Attorney General Henry McMaster, one of Haley’s 2010 rivals who went on to become one of her biggest backers and eventual successor. Catherine Templeton, a labor lawyer who Haley appointed to lead the state’s labor and then public health agencies, was under consideration as well.
“She took every one of those candidates and their background and their credentials and what they offered the state seriously during this process, and at the end of the day determined that there was one person who was best suited to take on the job and carry on the legacy of Sen. DeMint but also blaze his own trail," Godfrey said.
In picking Scott, Haley said she wanted to appoint someone she felt could retain the seat in subsequent elections, and who was in the same ideological vein as DeMint.
“It’s not how much political experience you have, it’s about the fight,” Haley said at the time. “It’s about the philosophical beliefs. It’s about knowing what you’re sent to Washington to do.”
Scott more than proved Haley correct, winning a 2014 special election to fill the remaining two years of DeMint’s term, then winning a full one of his own two years later. Last fall, Scott won reelection by more than 20 percentage points, a Senate race he had long said would be his last.
“Absolutely, she was thinking into the future,” said Chad Connelly, who was state GOP chair at the time.
That future is now, as Haley and Scott both prepare to compete against each other for the nation's highest office. A day after Haley’s announcement, Scott embarked on a “listening tour." Haley declined to comment about Scott when asked by The Associated Press.
“I have such great respect for Nikki Haley," Scott said in a recent interview, adding he hadn't spoken with Haley before launching his exploratory committee. "She is a strong, powerful force for good.”
He also dismissed any awkwardness in running against the Republican who appointed him to the Senate, and with whom he would be in direct competition in vying for the very voters that had elected them both statewide.
“You put your uniform on, you shake hands, and you go on the field. You fight for good. You fight to win the game," Scott said. "You take your uniform off, you shake hands and you continue down the road.”
“We were friends before,” he added. “We’ll be friends after.”
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PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — The tornado warning in effect for parts of coastal Pasco County has been allowed to expire.
The National Weather Service says at 10:30 a.m., a confirmed waterspout was located offshore near Beacon Square — near Holiday — moving northeast at 10 mph.
There have been, so far, no reports of damage in the area.
People living in New Port Richey, Holiday and Beacon Square were told to take cover immediately.
"Flying debris will be dangers to those without shelter," the weather service said in a statement.
There are two types of waterspouts, according to NOAA. One is a fair-weather waterspout, which someone might see hanging off a cloud on an otherwise partly cloudy day. Another is a tornadic waterspout, though there are no reports this one moved onshore to become an actual tornado. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/weather/severe-weather/pasco-county-tornado-warning/67-78f38fed-f3f2-4d71-9a05-46ea5614eb9c | 2022-07-11 15:42:00 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/weather/severe-weather/pasco-county-tornado-warning/67-78f38fed-f3f2-4d71-9a05-46ea5614eb9c |
In the wake of the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the naming-rights holder for the Miami Heat’s downtown Arena, the team and Miami-Dade County announced Friday they immediately will “take action to terminate” that business relationship and seek a new naming-rights partner for the team’s home alongside Biscayne Boulevard.
In the interim, the Heat are in the process of removing FTX branding from the facility, a process that began Friday, yet to designate an interim name for the facility that previously had been AmericanAirlines Arena before the naming-rights switch to FTX last year.
Due to time constraints, the building will be called FTX Arena at least for Saturday night’s game against the Charlotte Hornets. The Heat then next play at home on Monday night against the Phoenix Suns, before leaving for a seven-day trip.
Just Wednesday, the Heat had released a statement that read, “It is far too premature for us to comment.”
Friday evening, a joint statement from the team and county then was released that read:
“The reports about FTX and its affiliates are extremely disappointing. Miami-Dade County and the Miami HEAT are immediately taking action to terminate our business relationships with FTX, and we will be working together to find a new naming rights partner for the arena.
“We are proud of the impact our Peace & Prosperity Plan — sponsored by County Commissioner Keon Hardemon and funded through the original deal — is already having in preventing violence and creating opportunity for young people across Miami-Dade, and we look forward to identifying a new partner to continue funding these important programs in the years ahead.”
Miami-Dade County in March 2021 agreed to a 19-year, $135 million contract with FTX for naming rights to the facility alongside Biscayne Bay, with the official renaming coming three months later.
Last month, the FTX logo was formally placed on the arena’s roof, replacing the airplane logo of American Airlines, on what had been AmericanAirlines Arena until the air carrier moved on from the sponsorship.
According to the Associated Press, “The embattled cryptocurrency exchange, short billions of dollars, sought bankruptcy protection after the exchange experienced the crypto equivalent of a bank run. FTX, the hedge fund Alameda Research, and dozens of other affiliated companies filed a bankruptcy petition in Delaware on Friday morning. FTX US, which originally was not expected to be included in any financial rescue, was also part of the company’s bankruptcy filing.”
CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who had been prominently featured when the Heat’s arena deal with FTX was announced in March 2021, has resigned in the wake of FTX’s failure and seen his previous $23 billion net worth all but evaporate.
In its bankruptcy filing, FTX listed assets between $10 billion to $50 billion, with a similar estimate for liabilities.
The failure of FTX comes amid calls for stricter oversight of the cryptocurrency industry.
Mercedes, which had a Formula 1 sponsorship agreement with the company, is removing the company’s logo from its race cars.
FTX made a significant splash with its entry into the sports realm. Beyond the Heat’s arena, the company has a sponsorship-patch agreement with Major League Baseball for umpire uniforms, the naming rights for Cal-Berkeley’s football field, and marketing agreements with Tom Brady, Stephen Curry and Shohei Ohtani, among others.
Heat captain Udonis Haslem is featured in a commercial for FTX that plays inside the arena and on the team’s broadcasts. Haslem told the Sun Sentinel he was not an investor.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University student from Ohio who went missing near campus roughly a week ago was found dead Thursday, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said.
Misrach Ewunetie, 20, was found by an employee at about 1 p.m. behind tennis courts on the campus facilities grounds, Onofri said. There were no obvious signs of injury “her death does not appear suspicious or criminal in nature,” but an official cause of death will be determined after a medical examiner’s review, he said.
“Misrach’s death is an unthinkable tragedy. Our hearts go out to her family, her friends and the many others who knew and loved her,” University Vice President W. Rochelle Calhoun said in a statement.
An extensive search was launched for Ewunetie after she was reported missing. A large law enforcement presence remained on campus and in nearby areas Thursday.
Ewunetie was last seen heading into her dorm room at the Ivy League school in the early morning hours of Oct. 14, school officials said. But when her roommate returned to the dorm about 90 minutes later, Ewunetie was not there.
Family and friends said they had not heard from Ewunetie. Appearing Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” her brother, Universe Ewunetie, said his sister’s phone last pinged sometime after 3 a.m. Friday at a housing complex that’s about a 30-minute walk from her dorm, which he said was out of character for her to be in such a location.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary raised the death toll Monday in a blaze at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, saying that at least eight prisoners were killed as protests continue nationwide.
Details still remain scarce over the fire at Evin prison, which broke out on Saturday night as nationwide anti-government protests triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody entered a fifth week.
The judiciary’s Mizan news agency offered the new toll, saying the prisoners had succumbed to their injuries Sunday from the incident.
It said all those dead had been held on theft charges. Mizan described the incident as a “fight between inmates and a fire,” though it offered no evidence to support the claim. Activists outside of Iran say they remain skeptical of the Iranian government’s claims, particularly as their recent descriptions of the nationwide protests have drastically differed with those on the ground.
The semiofficial Fars news agency also reported that the death toll from the blaze has doubled, and said six inmates remain hospitalized following the fire.
Flames and thick smoke rising from Tehran’s Evin Prison had been widely visible Saturday night. In online videos, gunshots and explosions could be heard in the area of the prison.
The blaze was extinguished after several hours and no detainees escaped, state media said.
Authorities have attempted to distance the events at the prison from the ongoing protests, while state media has offered conflicting accounts of the violence. Hundreds are being held at Evin, where human rights groups have reported repeated abuses of prisoners.
The protests erupted after public outrage over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. She was arrested by Iran’s morality police in Tehran for violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code. Iran’s government insists Amini was not mistreated in police custody, but her family says her body showed bruises and other signs of beating after she was detained.
President Joe Biden, on a weekend trip to Oregon, said the Iranian “government is so oppressive” and that he had an “enormous amount of respect for people marching in the streets.”
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The Colorado-based company joins Amazon's new global community of agencies and tool providers
ASPEN, Colo., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartMedia Technologies (SMT), the Enterprise Web3 platform the future is being built on,has been accepted to the Amazon Advertising Partnership Network, a new global community of agencies and tool providers that can help advertisers achieve their business goals through Amazon Advertising products.
As an Amazon Advertising partner, SMT is dedicated to executing the best possible service and results for its current and future client roster. The Partner Network enables SMT to further develop their capabilities, engage more deeply with Amazon Advertising, and continue to grow the business. Through offering marketers an omni-sales channel approach for their direct to consumer businesses, this collaboration brings a new level of innovation to the table for the SmartMedia Stack.
"We are thrilled to join this new community because it perfectly aligns with SMT's philosophy of always embracing new methods of connectivity," says Michael Chock, Chief Solutions Officer of SMT. "We can't wait to utilize the network and its tools to further deliver successes for current and future clients."
SMT believes that Amazon will continue to be a major growth driver for its brands' and direct-to-consumer businesses and with this, there will be new challenges in understanding how search and social budgets should be attributed to Amazon sales. This admission into the network is the latest step in SMT's growth, securing its space amongst some of the top agencies and tool providers in the industry.
To learn more about SmartMedia Technologies, visit www.smartmediatech.io. For media inquiries, please contact smartmediatech@kcsa.com.
SmartMedia Technologies is the Enterprise Web3 platform the future is being built on. The SmartMedia Stack, including its self-serve, no-code, drag and drop NFT and Web3 design studio democratizes Web3 for users and Enterprise. It leverages the scale and reach of programmatic media. SmartMedia' Technologies' end-to-end solution drives engagement, acquisition and loyalty across a digital and mobile-first audience.
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Kevin Spacey asks judge to dismiss Anthony Rapp’s sex abuse suit
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday to throw out actor Anthony Rapp’s sex abuse lawsuit, saying through his lawyers that allegations that he abused the then-teenage Rapp at a 1980s party are false.
The lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that the alleged events Rapp described never occurred. Rapp has appeared in “Rent” on Broadway and in “Star Trek: Discovery” on television.
He alleged in his lawsuit that he went to a party in 1986 at Spacey’s Manhattan home, where a 26-year-old Spacey, without Rapp’s consent, “engaged in a sexual advance” by grabbing Rapp’s buttocks and lifting him onto a bed and laying on his body. Rapp claimed he “was forced to extricate himself” before leaving the party.
Spacey’s lawyers argued the alleged encounter cannot qualify as sexual abuse under New York’s laws because the only alleged contact with an “intimate” part of the body by Spacey was when his hand grazed the 14-year-old Rapp’s buttocks when the older actor picked him up. The lawyers said Rapp “wriggled out” with no resistance during an encounter of less than 30 seconds.
There was no other evidence that would suggest any fleeting contact between Spacey’s hand and Rapp’s buttocks was for the purpose of sexual gratification or to degrade or abuse Rapp, the lawyers wrote.
The lack of evidence means Rapp’s claims for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress must fail, the lawyers said.
They said Spacey “flatly denies” that any of what Rapp described took place.
Lawyers for Rapp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
When Rapp first spoke publicly of his claim in 2017, others went public too and Spacey’s then-celebrated career abruptly halted. At the time, Spacey issued a statement saying he didn’t remember the encounter but apologized.
Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “American Beauty,” a 1999 film in which he played a frustrated suburban father who lusts after his daughter’s best friend.
In recent filings, Rapp’s lawyers have asked to transfer the case to state court, saying Spacey cannot prove he has been living in Maryland and qualifies for the diversity of citizenship necessary to remain in federal court.
In fact, they argue, he has been mostly living in London since 2003.
They said he only lived in Maryland when he was acting in his Emmy-winning role in “House of Cards” from 2014 through 2017. He was fired from the show days after Rapp went public and former show workers claimed that Spacey made the production a “toxic” workplace and one ex-employee alleged the actor sexually assaulted him.
In November, an arbitrator said Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind the Netflix political thriller $31 million because of losses they incurred after his firing.
Spacey appealed the decision to a panel of three more private arbitrators, who found for the plaintiffs, making the decision final, and public.
A criminal case brought against him, an indecent assault and battery charge stemming from the alleged groping of an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket resort, was dismissed by Massachusetts prosecutors in 2019.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mac Jones threw for 253 yards and a touchdown and the New England Patriots edged the Pittsburgh Steelers 17-14 on Sunday.
The Patriots (1-1) haven't lost consecutive games to start a season since 2001. They took advantage of a handful of mistakes by the Steelers (1-1), including a muffed punt in the third quarter by ex-Patriot Gunner Olszewski that set up a 2-yard touchdown run by Damien Harris. That gave New England an 11-point lead it didn't relinquish.
Jones finished 21 of 35, including a 44-yard touchdown pass to a leaping Nelson Agholor late in the first half. Jones, who dealt with back spasms last week against Miami and missed practice time this week with an illness, also threw an interception on a lob that was easily picked off by safety Minkah Fitzpatrick. The second-year quarterback narrowly avoided a second in the third quarter when Cam Sutton dropped a pass that hit him squarely in the hands, one of a handful of missed opportunities by the Steelers.
Harris ran for 71 yards, most of them coming on a clock-chewing drive in the final minutes that let New England play keep away as Pittsburgh's defense sagged late without star outside linebacker T.J. Watt, who is out indefinitely with a left pectoral injury.
Mitch Trubisky threw for 168 yards with a touchdown and an interception for the Steelers, whose offense sputtered for long stretches as it struggled to find any sense of rhythm.
Trubisky hit Pat Freiermuth for a 7-yard touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter to draw the Steelers within three and briefly quiet the chants for rookie backup quarterback Kenny Pickett.
Those cheers don't figure to go away anytime soon, however, after the Steelers went three and out twice when they got the ball back with a chance to tie or take the lead.
The first meeting between two of the NFL's marquee franchises to feature neither Tom Brady nor Ben Roethlisberger in years lacked the high stakes that long defined the rivalry between former AFC superpowers.
Instead, New England came in looking for a spark following a blah Week 1 loss to Miami while the Steelers are still in the nascent stages of the post-Roethlisberger era, a journey that began with a thrilling and slightly bizarre victory over Cincinnati last Sunday.
The overtime victory came at quite a cost. Without Watt, Pittsburgh failed to generate any sort of sustained pass rush against Jones. The Steelers failed to record a single sack, and while Jones wasn't spectacular, he didn't have to be while extending drives with responsible and safe throws over the middle.
It was enough to help the Patriots improve to 13-4 against the Steelers under coach Bill Belichick. New England celebrated its 500th game under Robert Kraft's ownership the same way it celebrated so many others: with a victory short on style but long on substance.
UP NEXT
Patriots: Host Baltimore next Sunday.
Steelers: Travel to Cleveland to face the Browns on Thursday night. Pittsburgh swept their longtime AFC North rivals last season.
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164, Saquon Barkley, NYG at TEN 9/11 (18 att., 1 TD)
161, Rhamondre Stevenson, NE vs. DET 10/9 (25 att., 0 TD)
161, Jonathan Taylor, IND at HOU 9/11 (OT) (31 att., 1 TD)
157, Khalil Herbert, CHI vs. HOU 9/25 (20 att., 2 TD)
154, Josh Jacobs, LAS at KC 10/10 (21 att., 1 TD)
151, Rashaad Penny, SEA at DET 10/2 (17 att., 2 TD)
146, Saquon Barkley, NYG vs. CHI 10/2 (31 att., 0 TD)
144, D'Andre Swift, DET vs. PHI 9/11 (15 att., 1 TD)
144, Josh Jacobs, LAS vs. DEN 10/2 (28 att., 2 TD)
141, Cordarrelle Patterson, ATL at SEA 9/25 (17 att., 1 TD)
141, Nick Chubb, CLE at CAR 9/11 (22 att., 0 TD)
134, Nick Chubb, CLE vs. LAC 10/9 (17 att., 2 TD)
134, Miles Sanders, PHI vs. JAC 10/2 (27 att., 2 TD)
132, Aaron Jones, GB vs. CHI 9/18 (15 att., 1 TD)
131, Dameon Pierce, HOU vs. LAC 10/2 (14 att., 1 TD)
127, Leonard Fournette, TB at DAL 9/11 (21 att., 0 TD)
122, David Montgomery, CHI at GB 9/18 (15 att., 0 TD)
120, Jeff Wilson Jr., SF at CAR 10/9 (17 att., 1 TD)
120, Cordarrelle Patterson, ATL vs. NO 9/11 (22 att., 1 TD)
119, Lamar Jackson, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (9 att., 1 TD)
118, Nick Chubb, CLE at ATL 10/2 (19 att., 1 TD)
114, Derrick Henry, TEN at IND 10/2 (22 att., 1 TD)
113, Raheem Mostert, MIA at NYJ 10/9 (18 att., 1 TD)
113, Nick Chubb, CLE vs. PIT 9/22 (23 att., 1 TD)
112, Taysom Hill, NO vs. SEA 10/9 (9 att., 3 TD)
110, Aaron Jones, GB vs. NE 10/2 (OT) (16 att., 0 TD)
108, Jamaal Williams, DET vs. SEA 10/2 (19 att., 2 TD)
108, Christian McCaffrey, CAR vs. NO 9/25 (25 att., 0 TD)
107, Lamar Jackson, BAL at NE 9/25 (11 att., 1 TD)
105, Tony Pollard, DAL at NYG 9/26 (13 att., 0 TD)
103, Alvin Kamara, NO vs. SEA 10/9 (23 att., 0 TD)
102, Christian McCaffrey, CAR at NYG 9/18 (15 att., 0 TD)
102, Derrick Henry, TEN at WAS 10/9 (28 att., 2 TD)
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ISS Concludes Current Offer from Frontier is Preferable for Spirit Stockholders and Recognizes JetBlue's All-Cash Offer Limits Potential Upside
With Favorable Recommendation from Glass Lewis & Co., Both Independent Proxy Advisory Firms Now Recommend FOR the Merger of Spirit and Frontier
Spirit Board of Directors Continues to Unanimously Recommend Stockholders Vote FOR the Merger with Frontier on the WHITE Proxy Card
Special Meeting of Spirit Stockholders to be Held on June 30, 2022
For More Information, Stockholders Can Visit www.votespiritfrontier.com
MIRAMAR, Fla., June 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit Airlines, Inc. ("Spirit" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAVE) today announced that leading independent proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") recommends Spirit stockholders vote FOR the merger agreement with Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. ("Frontier") (NASDAQ: ULCC), parent company of Frontier Airlines, Inc.
This recommendation follows a June 3 report from Glass, Lewis & Co., another leading independent proxy advisory firm, also recommending that stockholders vote FOR the proposed merger.
For more information regarding the compelling benefits of a merger with Frontier and how to vote, stockholders can visit www.votespiritfrontier.com.
Ted Christie, President and CEO of Spirit, said: "We are very pleased that both leading proxy advisory firms – ISS and Glass Lewis – recommend that stockholders vote in favor of our merger with Frontier. We are especially grateful to our Team Members who have stayed focused on providing the best experience for our Guests while the Board conducted its process, arriving at the best possible outcome for Spirit and its stockholders. We look forward to our stockholder vote on June 30 and continuing our ongoing discussions with regulators as we advance toward completing the transaction and delivering on the value of this combination for our stockholders, Team Members and Guests."
"While we appreciate the great support from Spirit stockholders who have voted, we remind all Spirit stockholders that not voting will have the same effect as a vote against the merger. To ensure your vote is counted, vote FOR the transaction on the WHITE proxy card," added Mr. Christie.
Highlights from the ISS Report include:
- "[…] shareholders are best served by taking the deal that provides the best combination of long-term value and compensation in the event of regulatory rejection. […] Given these facts and circumstances, the current offer from Frontier appears preferable as it matches JetBlue's $350 million protection against regulatory failure, matches the $2.00 increase in JetBlue's offer price, provides a higher prepayment of $2.22 per share compared to $1.50 per share from JetBlue, and allows Spirit shareholders to benefit from the potential upside of the combined company and the expected $500 million of synergies."
- "[…] the all-cash nature of the offer from JetBlue caps the potential upside for Spirit shareholders – if an agreement is struck at the currently proposed terms, Spirit shareholders could not receive more than $33.50 per share in cash, even if the value of the combined company's synergies prove to be higher. This can be contrasted with the potential upside of owning 48.5 percent of a combined Spirit and Frontier, which forecasts annual synergies of $500 million and could benefit from a recovery in the U.S. airline industry. Shareholders may also look to the fact that Spirit shares traded above $33.50 from February to June 2021, with a high value of $39.74 on March 17, 2021, as an indicator of where standalone Spirit shares could trade in the event of an industry recovery."
- "JetBlue's $33.50 offer […] may appear to be opportunistic relative to Spirit shares' recent trading and the potential value of an industry recovery […]."
As a reminder, this vote is for the Frontier transaction, NOT for a transaction with JetBlue. If the Frontier transaction does not receive stockholder approval, the substantial regulatory issues in JetBlue's proposal remain and there can be no assurance that a transaction with JetBlue will be agreed upon. If you vote against the transaction or do not vote at all, you are risking a value accretive transaction with Frontier for the illusion of a transaction with JetBlue that we believe is highly unlikely to be completed.
Your Vote Is Important
Spirit has scheduled the Special Meeting of Stockholders (the "Special Meeting") to approve the proposed merger with Frontier for Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time. All stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 6, 2022 are entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.
The Spirit Board of Directors strongly recommends you vote FOR the merger on the WHITE proxy card today. For more information on how to vote for the merger, please call the Company's proxy solicitor, Okapi Partners, on their toll-free number 855-208-8903 or email info@okapipartners.com.
About Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) is committed to delivering the best value in the sky. We are the leader in providing customizable travel options starting with an unbundled fare. This allows our Guests to pay only for the options they choose — like bags, seat assignments and refreshments — something we call Á La Smarte. We make it possible for our Guests to venture further and discover more than ever before. Our Fit Fleet® is one of the youngest and most fuel-efficient in the U.S. We serve destinations throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean and are dedicated to giving back and improving those communities. Come save with us at spirit.com.
Additional Information About the JetBlue Tender Offer
Spirit has filed a solicitation/recommendation statement with respect to the tender offer with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE TENDER OFFER AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT ARE FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TENDER OFFER. You will be able to obtain free copies of the solicitation/recommendation statement with respect to the tender offer and other documents filed with the SEC by Spirit through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors and stockholders will be able to obtain free copies of the documents filed with the SEC by Spirit on Spirit's Investor Relations website at https://ir.spirit.com.
No Offer or Solicitation
This communication is for informational purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy, or a solicitation of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, sale or solicitation would be unlawful, prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and otherwise in accordance with applicable law.
Important Additional Information Will be Filed with the SEC
Frontier has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") a Registration Statement on Form S-4 in connection with the proposed transaction, including a definitive Information Statement/Prospectus of Frontier and a definitive Proxy Statement of Spirit. The Form S-4 was declared effective on May 11, 2022 and the prospectus/proxy statement was first mailed to Spirit stockholders on May 11, 2022. Frontier and Spirit also plan to file other relevant documents with the SEC regarding the proposed transaction. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT/ INFORMATION STATEMENT/ PROSPECTUS/ PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS TO BE FILED BY FRONTIER OR SPIRIT WITH THE SEC IN THEIR ENTIRETY CAREFULLY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT FRONTIER, SPIRIT, THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS AND RELATED MATTERS. Investors and stockholders are able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement and the definitive Information Statement/Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC by Frontier and Spirit through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors and stockholders will be able to obtain free copies of the information statement and the proxy statement and other documents filed with the SEC by Frontier and Spirit on Frontier's Investor Relations website at https://ir.flyfrontier.com and on Spirit's Investor Relations website at https://ir.spirit.com.
Participants in the Solicitation
Frontier and Spirit, and certain of their respective directors and executive officers, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Information regarding Frontier's directors and executive officers is contained in Frontier's definitive proxy statement, which was filed with the SEC on April 13, 2022. Information regarding Spirit's directors and executive officers is contained in Spirit's definitive proxy statement, which was filed with the SEC on March 30, 2022.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
Certain statements in this communication, including statements concerning Frontier, Spirit, JetBlue, the proposed transactions and other matters, should be considered forward-looking within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on Frontier's, Spirit's and JetBlue's current expectations and beliefs with respect to certain current and future events and anticipated financial and operating performance. Such forward-looking statements are and will be subject to many risks and uncertainties relating to Frontier's, Spirit's and JetBlue's operations and business environment that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied in such forward looking statements. Words such as "expects," "will," "plans," "intends," "anticipates," "indicates," "remains," "believes," "estimates," "forecast," "guidance," "outlook," "goals," "targets" and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Additionally, forward-looking statements include statements that do not relate solely to historical facts, such as statements which identify uncertainties or trends, discuss the possible future effects of current known trends or uncertainties, or which indicate that the future effects of known trends or uncertainties cannot be predicted, guaranteed, or assured. All forward-looking statements in this communication are based upon information available to Frontier and Spirit on the date of this communication. Frontier and Spirit undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements due to numerous factors including, without limitation, the following: the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the right of one or both of the parties to terminate the merger agreement; failure to obtain applicable regulatory or Spirit stockholder approval in a timely manner or otherwise; failure to satisfy other closing conditions to the proposed transactions; failure of the parties to consummate the transaction; risks that the new businesses will not be integrated successfully or that the combined companies will not realize estimated cost savings, value of certain tax assets, synergies and growth, or that such benefits may take longer to realize than expected; failure to realize anticipated benefits of the combined operations; risks relating to unanticipated costs of integration; demand for the combined company's services; the growth, change and competitive landscape of the markets in which the combined company participates; expected seasonality trends; diversion of managements' attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships, including those resulting from the announcement or completion of the transaction; risks related to investor and rating agency perceptions of each of the parties and their respective business, operations, financial condition and the industry in which they operate; risks related to the potential impact of general economic, political and market factors on the companies or the proposed transaction; that Frontier's cash and cash equivalents balances, together with the availability under certain credit facilities made available to Frontier and certain of its subsidiaries under its existing credit agreements, will be sufficient to fund Frontier's operations including capital expenditures over the next 12 months; Frontier's expectation that based on the information presently known to management, the potential liability related to Frontier's current litigation will not have a material adverse effect on its financial condition, cash flows or results of operations; that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impact the businesses of the companies; ongoing and increase in costs related to IT network security; the outcome of any discussions between JetBlue and Spirit with respect to a possible transaction, including the possibility that the parties will not agree to pursue a business combination transaction or that the terms of any such transaction will be materially different from those described herein; the conditions to the completion of the possible transaction, including the receipt of any required stockholder and regulatory approvals and, in particular, the companies' expectation as to the likelihood of receipt of antitrust approvals; JetBlue's ability to finance the possible transaction and the indebtedness JetBlue expects to incur in connection with the possible transaction; the possibility that JetBlue may be unable to achieve expected synergies and operating efficiencies within the expected timeframes or at all and to successfully integrate Spirit's operations with those of JetBlue, and the possibility that such integration may be more difficult, time-consuming or costly than expected or that operating costs and business disruption (including, without limitation, disruptions in relationships with employees, customers or suppliers) may be greater than expected in connection with the possible transaction; and other risks and uncertainties set forth from time to time under the sections captioned "Risk Factors" in Frontier's, Spirit's and JetBlue's reports and other documents filed with the SEC from time to time, including their Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Sunday, March 5, 2023
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483 FPUS56 KHNX 060801
ZFPHNX
Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Tuesday.
CAZ300-070000-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
44 to 52. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows 32 to 38. West
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
46 to 54. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 48 to 54. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A
40 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 53 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs 53 to 59. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
58 to 64.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs 59 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 53 38 54 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ301-070000-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. South winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds around 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 54 36 55 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ302-070000-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast
after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs around 60. Lows
around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 55 34 57 / 20 20 10
Merced 55 34 57 / 20 10 0
Chowchilla 55 34 56 / 10 10 0
Madera 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Firebaugh 55 33 58 / 10 10 0
Mendota 56 33 58 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ303-070000-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in
the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. A 30 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 54 35 56 / 20 10 0
Le Grand 54 34 56 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ304-070000-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs around
60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Highs around 60. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 54 35 55 / 10 10 0
Avenal 53 36 55 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ305-070000-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Patchy
frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Five Points 57 34 58 / 10 10 0
NAS Lemoore 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Kettleman City 55 36 57 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ306-070000-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the south
around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Areas of
frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 56 35 57 / 0 10 0
Kingsburg 56 34 57 / 0 10 0
Sanger 55 34 56 / 0 10 0
Kerman 56 33 57 / 10 10 0
Caruthers 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ307-070000-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. East winds around 5 mph shifting to the south in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Areas of
frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs around 60. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 55 36 57 / 10 10 0
Fresno 56 37 57 / 0 10 0
$$
CAZ308-070000-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
46 to 54. West winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 47 to 55.
Northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
49 to 55. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 54 to 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs 54 to 62.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
59 to 67.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs 59 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 55 34 57 / 20 20 10
Merced 55 34 57 / 20 10 0
Chowchilla 55 34 56 / 10 10 0
Madera 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ309-070000-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. Lows
in the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 55 35 56 / 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 57 36 57 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ310-070000-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the
northwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 56 34 56 / 0 0 0
Allensworth 56 34 57 / 0 0 0
Wasco 56 36 56 / 0 0 0
Delano 55 35 56 / 0 0 0
McFarland 55 35 56 / 0 0 0
Shafter 56 36 56 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ311-070000-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Partly cloudy in the evening then
becoming mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the
lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 56 34 57 / 10 10 0
Hanford 57 34 59 / 0 10 0
Corcoran 56 34 57 / 0 10 0
$$
CAZ312-070000-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North
winds up to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs around 60. Lows
around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Dinuba 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Visalia 55 34 57 / 0 10 0
Exeter 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Tulare 55 35 56 / 0 10 0
Lindsay 54 35 56 / 0 10 0
Porterville 54 36 55 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ313-070000-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming partly
sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs 50 to 56.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 57. Northwest winds around 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 58. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 64 to 71. Lows
around 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 53 39 54 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ314-070000-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest
5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows around 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 55 38 55 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ315-070000-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. North
winds around 5 mph shifting to the southeast up to 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs around
60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 54 35 55 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ316-070000-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs 51 to 57. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 51 to 57. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs
52 to 57. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 65 to 71. Lows in
the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 55 37 55 / 10 10 0
Lamont 56 38 55 / 10 0 0
Mettler 54 36 54 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ317-070000-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 40s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
south in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in
the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. A 40 percent
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cool. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in
the evening, then rain likely after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Near steady temperature in the lower
50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Highs around 60. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 44 29 46 / 20 30 10
$$
CAZ318-070000-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Slight
chance of snow showers early in the morning. Slight chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 35 to 45.
South winds up to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 22 to 30.
East winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
37 to 47. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the evening.
Chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows 24 to 30. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 38 to 46. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 23 to
29.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. A 40 percent chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs 45 to 53.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Chance of rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Light snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs 45 to 53. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs 48 to 56. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows 38 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
50 to 58.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 46 25 48 / 20 20 10
Bass Lake 39 22 41 / 20 20 10
$$
CAZ319-070000-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
47 to 53. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 49 to
55. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
50 to 56. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows around 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
59 to 65.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 60 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 52 35 54 / 10 10 0
Three Rivers 51 31 53 / 10 10 0
Springville 46 30 47 / 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 49 35 50 / 10 0 0
$$
CAZ320-070000-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost until late afternoon.
Highs 35 to 45. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Widespread
frost. Lows 22 to 32. East winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 37 to
47. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 24 to 32.
Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 48. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 25 to 33.
Highs 46 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain likely. Light snow
accumulations. Lows 35 to 43. Highs 46 to 54. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then chance
of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs 47 to
57.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows 38 to 46. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
49 to 59. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 44 31 46 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ321-070000-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs
around 50. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
around 50. Southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 40s.
$$
CAZ322-070000-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost until late afternoon.
Highs 36 to 44. West winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 25 to 33. North
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
38 to 46. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 27 to 33.
Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
39 to 47. Northwest winds up to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost after
midnight. Lows 28 to 34.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 55.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows 36 to 42. Highs 48 to 56.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain. Lows 43 to 49. Highs 50 to 58.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 41 to 47. Highs
52 to 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 33 18 37 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ323-070000-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of thunderstorms in the
morning. Chance of snow showers through the day. Chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 14 to 28. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of thunderstorms and snow
showers in the evening, then slight chance of thunderstorms and
snow showers after midnight. Lows 1 to 15. South winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 18 to 30. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers. Lows 5 to 17. South winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 17 to 29. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 16.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. A 40 percent chance of snow in
the afternoon. Highs 27 to 39.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Chance of snow in the evening, then snow and
rain likely after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after
midnight. Heavy snow accumulations. Lows 17 to 27. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 30 to 40. Lows
24 to 34. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
and rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow and rain.
Highs 30 to 42.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 25 -1 28 / 20 30 10
Wawona 37 18 39 / 30 30 10
Hetch Hetchy 37 22 40 / 40 50 30
$$
CAZ324-070000-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers through the day.
Chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 31 to 37.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of thunderstorms and snow
showers in the evening, then slight chance of thunderstorms and
snow showers after midnight. Lows 16 to 22. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 33 to 39. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers. Lows 19 to 25. Southeast winds up
to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs 32 to 38. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 24.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Highs 41 to 47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow may be
heavy at times after midnight. Moderate snow accumulations. Near
steady temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs 42 to 48. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs 43 to
49. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 44 to 50. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 37 20 39 / 30 40 20
$$
CAZ325-070000-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning. A
20 percent chance of thunderstorms and snow showers late in the
afternoon. Highs 30 to 38. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows 16 to 24. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 33 to 41. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 26. Northeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 41. Southwest winds up to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Highs 41 to 49.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then rain likely after midnight. Light snow
accumulations. Lows 30 to 36. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Highs 43 to 49. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain likely. Near steady temperature
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of rain. Lows 34 to 40. Highs 44 to 52.
$$
CAZ326-070000-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Slight chance of snow showers early in the
morning. Slight chance of thunderstorms and snow showers in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times early in the afternoon.
Highs 13 to 27. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
45 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows 1 below to 11 above zero. South winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 18 to 30. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 3 to 13. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
afternoon. Highs 16 to 30. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph
increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 3 to 13.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 26 to 38.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 16 to 26.
.FRIDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain likely in the morning, then rain
with snow likely in the afternoon. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 28 to 40. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy
at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
around 30. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain in the
evening. Lows 19 to 29. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow and rain in the afternoon.
Highs 29 to 41. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 22 8 25 / 30 20 10
$$
CAZ327-070000-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning.
Highs 19 to 29. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Widespread
frost after midnight. Lows 1 to 13. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 22 to 32. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 15. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 21 to 31. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 6 to 16.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 30 to 40.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain likely
after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Lows 17 to 27. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 32 to 42. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Snow may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain likely in the morning,
then chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy
at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 32 to 42. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening.
Lows 20 to 30. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs 33 to 43. Chance
of precipitation 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 24 9 27 / 10 10 10
Shaver Lake 31 16 34 / 10 10 0
Lake Wishon 31 11 34 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ328-070000-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 11 to 25. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 below to 7 above zero. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TUESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 15 to 29. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows zero to 10 above. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph increasing to 50 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Highs
12 to 26. West winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 12 above.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 21 to 35.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 11 to 23.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain likely.
Precipitation may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs 25 to 37. Lows 18 to 30. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Highs 25 to 37.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the
evening. Lows 13 to 25. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 25 to 39.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 40 14 43 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ329-070000-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning.
Widespread frost in the afternoon. Highs 23 to 35. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows 9 to
21. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the afternoon. Highs 27 to
37. Southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the evening.
Lows 12 to 24. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 26 to 38. Southwest winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 35 to 45.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain likely
in the afternoon. Precipitation may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Highs 37 to 47. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the evening, then
chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Near steady
temperature around 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow
in the evening. Lows 27 to 39. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 39 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 32 14 34 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ330-070000-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Not as cold. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
late morning and early afternoon. Widespread frost early in the
afternoon. Highs 15 to 31. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 1 below to 17 above zero. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 18 to 34. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 1 to 19. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
afternoon. Highs 15 to 33. West winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to
15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 2 to 20. Highs
26 to 42.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with chance of snow in the
evening, then mostly cloudy with chance of snow and rain after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 13 to 31. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow and rain likely. Snow may
be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 27 to 43. Lows
19 to 37. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and
rain. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning. Highs 28 to 44.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the
evening. Lows 14 to 32. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 29 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 31 12 34 / 10 10 0
$$
CAZ331-070000-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 25 to 35. West winds 10 to
25 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 9 to 23. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 29 to 39. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 11 to 25. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the
afternoon. Highs 28 to 38. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 45 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 36 to 46.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows 22 to
34. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Highs 37 to 47.
Lows 28 to 40.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs 38 to 50. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Lows 24 to 38.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 39 to 51.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 39 16 42 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ332-070000-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows around 30. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 30.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 31 21 34 / 0 10 0
Kernville 46 27 50 / 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 46 31 49 / 0 0 0
Weldon 46 29 50 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ333-070000-
Piute Walker Basin-
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 43. West winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 21 to 33. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 35 to 45. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows 22 to 32. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 45. West winds
10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts
up to 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 23 to 33.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 44 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Chance of rain after midnight.
Lows 31 to 41. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Highs 45 to 55. Lows 38 to 48.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 48 to 60. Lows
37 to 47.
$$
CAZ334-070000-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers early
in the morning. Highs 34 to 44. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph shifting to the northwest
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 36 to
46. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 32. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 46. West winds
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 55.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Chance of rain after midnight.
Lows 35 to 41. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain. Highs 48 to 56. Lows 42 to 48.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 52 to 61. Lows
40 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 37 28 39 / 20 10 0
Tehachapi 40 25 42 / 10 10 0
Twin Oaks 43 32 45 / 10 10 0
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CAZ335-070000-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and
snow showers early in the morning. Highs 36 to 44. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
around 30. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 39 to 45. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows around 30.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 40 to 46. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
30s. Highs 48 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain. Highs 49 to 57. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 54 to 61. Lows in
the mid 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 46 31 47 / 20 10 0
$$
CAZ336-070000-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning.
Highs 35 to 47. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows
24 to 36. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 48. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 25 to 35.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 48. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows 26 to 36.
.THURSDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 57.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain. Highs 49 to 59. Lows 41 to 51.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 52 to 63. Lows
39 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 36 23 39 / 10 0 0
Frazier Park 42 21 44 / 10 0 0
$$
CAZ337-070000-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 55. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Windy. Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Southwest
winds 15 to 30 mph decreasing to 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 53 to 59. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the west 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 53 32 56 / 0 0 0
Ridgecrest 55 29 58 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ338-070000-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs 39 to 49. West winds 10 to
25 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. West winds
10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.TUESDAY...Breezy, sunny. Highs 41 to 53. West winds 10 to
25 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Windy, sunny. Highs 42 to 52. West winds 10 to
30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
30s. Highs 49 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain
after midnight. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs 51 to 61. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs 56 to 66.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 49 32 52 / 0 0 0
$$
CAZ339-070000-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1201 AM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds
10 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost.
Lows in the lower 30s. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 48 34 52 / 0 0 0
California City 52 31 55 / 0 0 0
Edwards AFB 52 30 56 / 0 0 0
Rosamond 52 30 55 / 0 0 0
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Apple unveiled its new iPhone 14 lineup at a press event on Wednesday, along with three new Apple Watch models, an update to its popular AirPods product line and a feature that could save lives when cell service isn't available.
At a closely-watched event from its headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple showed off four new smartphones, including a larger 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Plus model and an updated iPhone 14 Pro that rethinks the much-maligned notch. In typical Apple fashion, the devices also offer better battery life and camera features than the year prior.
The biggest surprise, however, may be the price: The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus will start at $799 and $899, respectively, the same starting price as last year's model. The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max start at $999 and $1,099, respectively, also unchanged from the year prior. Analysts widely predicted Apple would hike the price of the premium models by $100.
"It is impressive that Apple has maintained year-on-year pricing parity on the new iPhone 14 devices in the US," said Leo Gebbie, Principal Analyst, Connected Devices at CCS Insight. "We had anticipated that inflation, increased production and component costs, and other expenses such as more expensive shipping would have led Apple to increase its retail pricing."
For Apple, the stakes are always high to convince customers to upgrade devices, and especially the iPhone, which remains its central product. That task is potentially made more difficult this year by broader economic jitters, including fears of a looming recession.
Throughout the event, Apple appeared to alternate between pitching its suite of products as tools for living our best lives and also for avoiding any number of ills that may befall customers in an uncertain world, ranging from car crashes to getting stranded in the wild.
Apple announced several new Apple Watch models, including a higher-end version that costs $799 and is designed to support the needs of a rarefied group of outdoor enthusiasts.
At the same time, it added an option for its watches to detect when a user has been in a car crash as well as a satellite connectivity feature for phones, which is intended to help people communicate when their cell service isn't working.
Here are the big highlights from the event:
The new iPhone 14 lineup
Apple unveiled four new smartphones, including the new iPhone 14 with a 6.1-inch screen and the iPhone 14 Plus with a larger 6.7-inch screen.
The new iPhone 14 features a 12 MP main camera with bigger pixels, a faster aperture and improved sensors. It also uses the same chip as last year's iPhone 13 Pro model (the A15), the first time it's repeated a chip in years.
For the first time, however, the new front camera has auto focus, allowing it to focus at multiple distances in low light for better individual and group selfies. It also has a new action mode that lets users keep videos stable while moving.
Apple's new Pro line features an always-on display and the ability to receive notifications and activities through what the company is calling "the dynamic island," the much polarizing notch at the top of the phone that is now considered a feature. The Pro line also comes with the first-ever 48 MP camera on iPhone.
In a notable shift, the iPhone 14 lineup also eliminates the need for a physical SIM card and instead uses a digital "e-SIM" card. Now, users can store multiple e-SIMs on the same device and have multiple cellular plans and phone numbers on the same phone.
It also prevents others from removing the physical SIM card if your iPhone is lost or stolen. Apple said all US models of iPhone will no longer have the SIM tray.
The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro will come in five colors: midnight, starlight, blue, purple and red.
New Apple Watches
Apple unveiled three new smartwatches at the event: the Series 8, the SE and the Ultra.
At the high end, the new Ultra model is designed to help users track endurance training, scuba diving adventures and triatholons. The device gets about 36 hours on a single charge, is more water resistant and an enhanced compass that can work at night, in the ocean and other conditions.
At the low end, Apple updated the SE to be up to 20% faster than the prior version. It starts at $249 for GPS models and $299 for cellular models.
And in the middle is the Series 8 model, which starts at $399. Like prior versions of Apple's smartwatch, the Series 8 is intended to motivate users to stay active and fit.
Apple also emphasized the Watch's features for women's health, with revamped period cycle tracking tools that can predict ovulation. The tracking data is kept on each device and only accessible through a passcode or face ID, according to the company. Apple does not have key to encrypted data and so it cannot access it without your express permission.
The announcement comes as data security for women has become a major flashpoint in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
New AirPods Pro 2
Apple showed off its latest generation of AirPods Pro, one of its bigger breakout products of recent years. The new AirPods Pro will have six hours of listening time with a single charge, better than the original version. Each headphone and the case itself are now equipped to make a noise to help you find it. And a light swipe up and down the headphone will increase or decrease volume.
AirPods Pro now comes with improved dynamic noise-cancellation technology, and can cancel out double the amount of noise compared to the original version. Meanwhile, a new adaptive transparency mode aims to reduce harsh environmental noise.
The AirPods Pro 2 cost $249 and hit stores on Friday.
Satellite connectivity for emergency situations
While Apple did not unveil any groundbreaking new hardware products, at least one new feature could prove to be a game changer for customers -- albeit in rare situations.
The new Emergency SOS via Satellite feature, which Apple said has been in the works for years, was designed and built specifically for iPhone 14 devices to connect to satellites when not near a terrestrial tower. By allowing users to point their device toward a satellite, which the phone will help locate, users will be able to send and receive information to get emergency help.
The company said it created a short text compression mechanism to condense messages that take about 15 seconds to send if a user has a clear view of the sky. (It may take a few minutes longer if something like foliage is in the way.)
Apple said local providers will be alerted to help call for help.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
241 PM CST Tue Dec 13 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST
FOR NORTHEASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY...
At 241 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Morrill, or 15
miles south of Rusk, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Grapeland, Kennard and Weches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 500 PM CST for southeastern
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Universal announces new year-round horror entertainment experience in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (Gray News) – A new horror entertainment experience from Universal will have a permanent spot in Las Vegas.
Universal Parks & Resorts announced the plan Wednesday, saying the year-round horror experience will be reminiscent of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights.
The experience will be part of a new 20-acre expansion of Las Vegas’ immersive AREA15 entertainment district, which first opened in September 2020.
The new concept marks the first time Universal has created a permanent horror experience outside of its theme parks.
According to a news release, the project will include a “variety of unique, immersive, fantastic horror-centric experiences that surround high energy food and beverage spaces by day turned haunting bars and eateries by night.”
“We are excited to give our global fanbase yet another way to get scared and have fun with fear in the heart of Las Vegas, the perfect place for this type of unique concept,” said Page Thompson, president of new ventures at Universal Parks & Resorts.
Details right now are limited and Universal did not reveal a name or opening date for the experience.
The news of the horror experience in Las Vegas on Wednesday came with a second announcement from Universal. The company also said it is planning to open a new family-friendly theme park in Frisco, Texas.
Universal is also working on a massive expansion of its Orlando resort. A third theme park called Universal’s Epic Universe will be added to the existing two – Universal Studios Florida and Universal’s Islands of Adventure. After delays due to the COVID-19 panic, Universal said Epic Universe is expected to open sometime in 2025.
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Extreme weather disrupting the locations of its flight crews has put Southwest Airlines in a tailspin and caused ire for numerous travelers attempting to fly with the airline out of SFO or any Bay Area airport.
According to flight tracking service FlightAware, Southwest Airlines canceled 2,909 flights on Monday — 71% of its flight schedule. Stranded travelers at airports were left to face long lines, uncertain reschedules and checked luggage in disarray.
The cancellations are continuing into today, and the airline announced that it plans to continue flying about a third of its schedule for the next several days.
Other airlines endured cancellations over the past few days, but nothing compares to Southwest. The next-worst-performing U.S.-based airline yesterday was Delta, which had 276 canceled flights — 9% of its flight schedule.
Southwest Airlines maintains that it was fully staffed and prepared for the holiday but admitted concerns for safety due to a repositioning of its flight crew from Winter Storm Elliott. When one flight is canceled, it disrupts the positioning of the crew for a future flight. Multiplied by numerous cancellations, the ripple effect disables the airline’s ability to operate.
“The domino effect you mention is the result of flight crews and aircraft being out of position after the storm,” a spokesperson with Southwest told SFGATE.
Southwest customers posted on social media their discontent with the airline from hourslong lines at the San Jose airport, “absolute chaos” at SFO and a “total collapse” at Oakland.
The mishap triggered an examination from the Department of Transportation to determine if the airline is taking care of its customers.
“USDOT is concerned by Southwest’s unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays & reports of lack of prompt customer service,” the department wrote in a statement. “The Department will examine whether cancellations were controllable and if Southwest is complying with its customer service plan.”
Speaking to ABC7 News, Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association and a captain with the airline, said he has witnessed a failure at every level with his employer.
“Our processes, our IT, our infrastructure just wasn't there to support the operation and unfortunately our customers are bearing the brunt of it,” he said. “We have pilots, we have flight attendants who don't have hotels, who truly — they just don't know where they are.” | https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/southwest-airlines-cancels-most-flights-17679635.php | 2022-12-27 22:42:31 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/southwest-airlines-cancels-most-flights-17679635.php |
U.S. first lady Jill Biden greets Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, outside a public school in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, May 8, 2022. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS
First lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday to show support for its people amid Russia's invasion, visiting a school that is serving as a temporary shelter and meeting Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska.
"I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and this war has been brutal and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine," Biden said, according to a report by a Washington Post reporter shared with other media organizations.
The school is serving as a shelter for 163 displaced Ukrainians, including 47 children, the report said.
Biden, who had been traveling in neighboring Slovakia, gave flowers to Zelenska, who was making her first public appearance since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, according to a U.S. official. The two women hugged.
Zelenska said Biden was courageous for making the trip.
"We understand what it takes for the U.S. first lady to come here during a war when the military actions are taking place every day, where the air sirens are happening every day even today," she said through an interpreter, according to the report.
"We all feel your support and we all feel the leadership of the U.S. president, but we would like to note that the Mother's Day is a very symbolic day for us because we also feel your love and support during such an important day."
U.S. President Joe Biden has been leading efforts to impose economic sanctions on Russia and pressure President Vladimir Putin to end the war. The U.S. president has not been to Ukraine since the invasion, but other top U.S. officials have: Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Kiev in the last two weeks.
Jill Biden returned to Slovakia after her trip across the border. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/military/first-lady-jill-biden-makes-unannounced-visit-to-ukraine/article_248d1b38-a13d-5d62-9fc7-1d17a68b442c.html | 2022-05-08 20:37:58 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/military/first-lady-jill-biden-makes-unannounced-visit-to-ukraine/article_248d1b38-a13d-5d62-9fc7-1d17a68b442c.html |
A majority of Northampton County Council is having second thoughts on funding renovations to the home of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs and a hydroelectric project.
During Tuesday’s amendment meeting for the county’s 2023 budget, members were skeptical if they should continue funding the projects.
About $50,000 is slated for Coca-Cola Park, which would go toward $10 million of renovations mandated by Major League Baseball. Another $1.15 million is slated for New England Hydropower Co.’s project to build small hydroelectric generating plants at three Lehigh Valley canals.
Commissioner John Cusick led the opposition on both items, saying money could be better spent on other priorities, such as student loan repayment programs to attract professional workers to county positions and preserving open space.
“This is nothing more than corporate welfare,” Cusick said of the hydroelectric project. “And I just felt that the county taxpayers should not be venture capitalists and I’ve always opposed this in that it shouldn’t be in the general budget. If anything, this should be under the auspices of the [Industrial Development Authority], not the county general fund.”
Council President Lori Vargo-Heffner reminded the audience that final consideration on these items will be Thursday, when the council votes on Executive Lamont McClure’s budget and the amendments put forward Tuesday. The proposed 2023 budget is a $544.8 million spending plan that would not raise property taxes.
“I wanted to clarify that if we vote to move any of these forward, it’s just that we’re moving them forward to Thursday. This does not mean that it’s a final vote on the item,” she said.
Coca-Cola Park
Northampton County has been asked to contribute $50,000 from its hotel tax fund as Major League Baseball has threatened to move minor league franchises that do not complete upgrades to their stadiums, including larger clubhouses, coaches’ offices, training rooms, weight rooms, kitchen and storage areas for both teams — plus a women’s locker room.
Coca-Cola Park, which is in Allentown, is owned by Lehigh County, though Commissioner Tara Zrinski pointed out that it employs many people from Northampton.
Allentown City Council voted in October to deny $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding for those upgrades, while Lehigh County said it has committed up to $4.5 million toward the stadium improvements. The IronPigs have vowed to remain in the Valley.
“The answer is very simply that Coca-Cola Park is located in Lehigh County, number one, and number two, the municipality in which it is located, Allentown, chose not to fund it at all,” Cusick said.
Commissioner Kevin Lott said minor-league affiliates are being held hostage by the majors and found that process “aggravating” especially with the profits the parent club, the Philadelphia Phillies, is making.
“Major League Baseball spends a lot of money bragging about how they’re so community oriented and yet they put it on the affiliates and on the community,” Lott said. “I think that’s dead wrong, but the problem is if we end up losing a baseball team, it will be devastating to the growth, the energy and the marketing that the Lehigh Valley has seen in the last several years.”
Commissioner Kerry Myers said Allentown’s reluctance made him a yes vote on the proposal.
“This is crazy when the local jurisdiction won’t give them a dime. I think that’s the embarrassing part about it,” Myers said.
Council voted 6-2 to move the funding denial forward.
Hydropower
Zrinski said pulling money from New England Hydropower’s project would open the county to litigation from the company, which has been slowly moving forward with the projects along the Lehigh Canal in Easton and Allentown, and the Delaware Canal in Williams Township. The company said several issues have slowed those plans, including the pandemic, supply-chain challenges, rising costs for materials and labor, and a state ruling regarding selling power.
“It’s my understanding that this would be a breach of an agreement, a contract that we’ve already committed to,” Zrinski said. “New England Hydropower has already engaged in some actions, at least $285,000 from this year and $85,000 pending next year. We would be liable for that.
“We’d also be liable for any damages because they would have to forfeit the match from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania that would open us up to a lawsuit because of that breach of contract,” she said. “This money has been allocated for several years now.”
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Council voted 5-3 to move that proposal forward.
New England Hydropower proposed the plants in 2018 and ‘19 to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The company has received a $1.4 million state grant, matched by a $1.4 million fund pledge from Northampton County toward the Easton canal.
The company, which operates a small-scale generator in Meriden, Connecticut, wants to cut a trough laterally from the Lehigh Canal beginning about 1,000 feet from Lock 47, also known as the Abbott Street Lock, and the park. Water would flow from the canal through the turbines and discharge into the river. The river-fed canal offers a steadier supply of water compared with the river, which is subject to low flows during warmer months. Electricity would be fed from distribution lines to transmission towers nearby.
Cusick noted that the estimated price has doubled to $10 million from $5 million in four years.
He said using the funding for a student loan forgiveness program would be an advantage to attract applicants for positions that require college degrees at places such as Gracedale nursing home and the district attorney’s office.
“We need some sort of incentive and bonus to bring people in,” he said.
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THIS WAS A CASE OF THE MOTORCYCLIST GOING TOO FAST. AUTHORITIES MADE AN ARREST IN A DEADLY SHOOTING IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY. TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND TWO INJURED MONDAY MORNING ON ROGUE RIVER DRIVE NEAR WHITEWATER WAY. SACRAMENTO DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO THE HOUSE AROUND 1:15 THAT MORNING. ALL FOUR VICTIMS LIVED IN THE HOME. THE SUSPECT WAS SOMEONE THE FAMILY NEW. >> HE WAS A HOUSEGUEST THERE AT THE RESIDENCE ON ROGUE RIVER. HE WAS KNOWN TO THE FAMILY FOR YEARS. AFTER SOME DISPUTE, HE WENT BACK IN AND UNFORTUNATELY SHUT FOUR PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE, TWO OF WHICH ULTIMATELY PASSED AND TWO REMAINED
Houseguest accused of killing 2, wounding 2 others in Sacramento County shooting
Updated: 1:31 PM PST Mar 9, 2023
A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the Sacramento County shooting death that left two dead and two others injured, according to the sheriff’s office.The shooting happened at a home on Rogue River Drive near Larchmont Community Park at about 1:15 a.m.The man was identified Wednesday as 31-year-old Robbene Luke Bryson, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.Sgt. Amar Gandhi told KCRA 3 that Bryson was taken into custody at a bar in Nevada City.| PREVIOUS COVERAGE BELOW | 2 killed, 2 others injured in early morning Sac County shooting; video captures gunshotsHe said the Bryson was a houseguest at the home on Rogue River Drive and had been known to the family for years.“After some dispute, went back and unfortunately shot four people in the house, two of which ultimately passed, and two still remain in critical condition today,” Gandhi said.Bryson faces charges that include two counts of murder, two counts of attemped murder and felon in possession of a firearm.Authorities are not searching for another suspect.Gandhi said this incident is not something that is typical for the area.“I'm sure it shook everybody to their core. But please rest assured, the community is safe. It was a very isolated incident and there was no danger to the public,” he said.Other stories: Northern California Storm Coverage: Region prepares for next round of heavy rain, wind, snow Newsom adds 21 additional counties to list of State of Emergency proclamation Motorcyclist killed in Sacramento County crash, CHP says Modesto mobile home park residents worry over potential floods An atmospheric river will impact California starting Thursday. Here's what that means
A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the Sacramento County shooting death that left two dead and two others injured, according to the sheriff’s office.
The shooting happened at a home on Rogue River Drive near Larchmont Community Park at about 1:15 a.m.
The man was identified Wednesday as 31-year-old Robbene Luke Bryson, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sgt. Amar Gandhi told KCRA 3 that Bryson was taken into custody at a bar in Nevada City.
| PREVIOUS COVERAGE BELOW | 2 killed, 2 others injured in early morning Sac County shooting; video captures gunshots
He said the Bryson was a houseguest at the home on Rogue River Drive and had been known to the family for years.
“After some dispute, [he] went back and unfortunately shot four people in the house, two of which ultimately passed, and two still remain in critical condition today,” Gandhi said.
Bryson faces charges that include two counts of murder, two counts of attemped murder and felon in possession of a firearm.
Authorities are not searching for another suspect.
Gandhi said this incident is not something that is typical for the area.
“I'm sure it shook everybody to their core. But please rest assured, the community is safe. It was a very isolated incident and there was no danger to the public,” he said.
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Many families debate whether to get a fresh Christmas tree every year or opt for a fake tree that will last for years to come. The decision comes down to preference.
Cost?
The average price of a real Christmas tree was reportedly about $70 in 2021. However, that price was expected to go up in 2022 by about 5 to 15 percent due to inflation.
“Like all areas of agriculture, real Christmas tree reproduction, the costs are up,” said Marsha Gray, the executive director of the Real Christmas Tree Board.
Artificial trees vary dramatically in price. Consumer Reports says the average artificial tree cost $131 in 2020. However, inflation has hit just about every industry, so shopping may expect to pay more in 2022.
How long does a real Christmas tree last?
Most experts agree that a real Christmas can last about a month.
The lifespan of an artificial tree varies by brand and how it's cared for. Some can reportedly last up to 20 years.
Tips for caring for a real tree
Getting a real tree in water is important to maintaining its freshness. The National Christmas Tree recommends that stands should provide 1 quart of water per inch of the stem's diameter.
It adds that drilling a hole in the base of the trunk does not improve water uptake.
Tips for caring for an artificial tree
Balsam Hill recommends storing artificial trees in a bag or container. The company says keeping it in a cool, dry location can help prevent it from acquiring a musty odor. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/real-or-artificial-which-type-of-christmas-tree-is-right-for-you | 2022-12-14 19:27:42 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/real-or-artificial-which-type-of-christmas-tree-is-right-for-you |
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned a wave of “cruel” and “callous” state laws curbing the rights, visibility and health care access of LGBTQ+ people, especially children, leaving them feeling under attack like never before and the White House with limited options to intervene.
“These are our kids. These are our neighbors. It’s cruel and it’s callous,” Biden said at a White House news conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “It matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country.”
Biden commented hours after the White House postponed a large Pride Month celebration with thousands of guests Thursday night on the South Lawn because of poor air quality from hazardous air flowing in from Canadian wildfires.
The president noted steps he has taken to help protect the rights of non-heterosexual people, but said “our fight is far, far from over because we have some hysterical and, I would argue, prejudiced people who are engaged in all what you see going on around the country.”
He said what is happening in some states is an “unjustified and ugly” appeal to fear and called on lawmakers to pass legislation, which has been stalled in Congress, that would protect the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals.
“Congress must pass, must pass the Equality Act and send it to my desk,” Biden said of a legislative measure he had named a top priority during his 2020 campaign.
The president then spoke directly to LGBTQ+ Americans, especially children. “You’re loved, you’re heard and this administration has your back, and I mean it. We are not relenting one single second to make sure that they’re protected.”
Biden also described new initiatives the administration announced earlier Thursday to protect LGBTQ+ communities from attack, help young people in foster care, suffering with mental health or experiencing homelessness, and to counter book bans, though the effects may be limited.
Thousands of guests had been invited from around the country for an evening filled with food, games and other activities on the South Lawn. Queen HD the DJ was handling the music, and singer Betty Who was on tap to perform.
But the nation’s capital by late morning Thursday was under a “code purple” air quality alert, the fifth-highest level on the six-level U.S. air quality index, with authorities recommending that everyone limit their exposure to the hazardous smoke wafting south from Canada. District of Columbia schools canceled all outdoor activities for a second day Thursday, and the National Zoo also closed.
The White House initially resisted altering its plans for the celebration, even as the air quality steadily worsened along the East Coast on Wednesday and into Thursday.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer individuals, marked June’s Pride Month by declaring a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ individuals in the United States and releasing a guidebook outlining laws it deems discriminatory in each state.
The campaign said it acted in response to an “unprecedented and dangerous” spike in discriminatory laws sweeping statehouses this year, with more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced and more than 70 signed into law so far — more than double last year’s number.
Kelley Robinson, the campaign’s president, called for a “swift and powerful” response by people in power, including in government, business and education.
“This is a full-out crisis for our communities that demands a concerted response,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think this is kind of a national call to action and a call to arms to stand up and fight back.”
Biden, a Democrat, announced that the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice and Health and Human Services departments, will partner with LGBTQ+ community organizations to provide safety resources and training to help thwart violent attacks.
Separately, HHS and the Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide resources to help LGBTQ+ young people with mental health needs, support in foster care and homelessness.
To confront a spike in book bans, the Department of Education’s civil rights office will appoint a new coordinator to work with schools to address that threat. The White House said banning books erodes democracy, deprives students of material needed for learning and can contribute to the stigma and isolation that LGBTQ+ youth feel because books about them are often the ones that are prohibited.
Biden has many LGBTQ+ people serving in prominent positions throughout government, such as Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House press secretary. He signed legislation to protect marriage equality and lifted a ban on transgender people serving in the military.
Polls show public support for the rights of people who are gay and lesbian has expanded dramatically over the last two decades, with about 7 in 10 U.S. adults in polling by Gallup saying that same-sex marriages should be legally valid and that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable.
But attitudes toward transgender people are complex: In polls conducted in 2022 by KFF and the Washington Post and by the Pew Research Center, majorities said they support laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in areas such as housing, jobs and schools.
At the same time, both polls found that a majority of Americans think that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by sex assigned at birth. Many also support restrictive policies aimed at people who are transgender, for example preventing transgender women and girls from participating in sports teams matching their gender identity, along with restrictions on access to certain medical treatments.
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Associated Press writers Emily Swanson in Washington and Hannah Schoenbaum in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06/08/biden-condemns-wave-of-state-legislation-restricting-lgbtq-rights-says-these-are-our-kids/ | 2023-06-09 03:55:07 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06/08/biden-condemns-wave-of-state-legislation-restricting-lgbtq-rights-says-these-are-our-kids/ |
US economy likely grew modestly, if at all, last quarter
WASHINGTON (AP) — After going backward from January through March, the U.S. economy probably didn’t do much better in the spring.
On Thursday morning, the government will reveal just how weak economic growth was in the April-June quarter — and perhaps offer clues about whether the United States may be approaching a recession.
The report comes at a critical time: On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a sizable three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its push to conquer the worst inflation outbreak in four decades. The Fed is aiming for a notoriously difficult “soft landing”: an economic slowdown that manages to rein in rocketing prices without triggering a recession.
Forecasters surveyed by the data firm FactSet have estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic output — eked out a tepid annual gain of 0.8% last quarter. Modest as it would be, that would amount to a sharp improvement over the economy’s 1.6% contraction in the January-March quarter.
Still, quarterly growth that sluggish would represent a drastic weakening from the 5.7% growth the economy achieved last year. That was the fastest calendar-year expansion since 1984, reflecting how vigorously the economy roared back from the brief but brutal pandemic recession of 2020.
Some economists fear that GDP actually shrank again from April through June, delivering the back-to-back negative quarters that constitute an informal definition of recession. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s running estimate of GDP growth, based on available economic data, is signaling a 1.2% second quarter decline.
Most economists, though, point, in particular, to a still-robust labor market, with 11 million job openings and an uncommonly low 3.6% unemployment rate, to suggest that a recession, if one does occur, is still a ways off.
For one thing, the first-quarter economic contraction wasn’t as alarming as it looked. It was caused mainly by factors that don’t reflect the economy’s underlying health: A wider trade deficit, a consequence of Americans’ keen appetite for foreign-made goods, slashed 3.2 percentage points from first-quarter growth. And a post-holiday-season drop in company inventories lopped off an additional 0.4 percentage point.
The strength of America’s job market, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference Wednesday, “makes you question the GDP data.’’
The economy posted some encouraging news Wednesday: June reports on the trade deficit (narrower), inventories (higher) and orders for high-priced factory goods (better than expected) suggested that second quarter GDP might turn out to be stronger than previously feared. Economists at JP Morgan have doubled their forecast for April-June growth to an annual pace of 1.4%.
Even so, recession risks are growing as the Fed’s policymakers pursue an aggressive course of rate hikes that, while they may ease in the months ahead, will likely extend into 2023. The Fed’s hikes have already led to a doubling of the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage in the past year, to 5.5%. Home sales, which are especially sensitive to interest rate changes, have tumbled.
Some economists have echoed an observation Powell made at his news conference Wednesday, that the economy, looked at as a whole, does not appear to be in the grip of recession.
“We do not think the economy is in recession at present,’’ Tim Quinlan and Shannon Seery, economists at Wells Fargo, wrote this week.
Quinlan and Seery estimated that GDP expanded at a glacial 0.2% annual pace in the April-June quarter — “a harbinger of worse to come as we are forecasting the economy to enter a mild recession early next year.”
Even if the economy does record a second straight quarter of negative GDP, most economists would not regard it as signaling a recession. The definition of recession that is most widely accepted is the one determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of economists whose Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.”
The committee assesses a range of factors before publicly declaring the death of an economic expansion and the birth of a recession — and it often does so well after the fact.
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North Dakota’s top law enforcement officer on Wednesday offered a glimpse of his plan to curtail a continuing increase in the number of violent crimes in the state, pointing at more law enforcement staffing and stricter sentencing legislation that more closely follows federal guidelines.
Attorney General Drew Wrigley released the 2021 crime statistics, which highlighted increases in the crimes against persons category and several crimes within it. It’s a trend that presents “clear and very real and present danger to the communities of North Dakota,” Wrigley said.
He plans in coming weeks to release a violent crimes legislation package, which he plans to present to the 2023 Legislature should he win election in November. Gov. Doug Burgum appointed Wrigley to the post after then-Attorney General Wayne's Stenehjem's Jan. 28 death due to cardiac arrest. Wrigley must win election over Democrat Tim Lamb in November to keep his job.
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Wrigley's plan will include proposals for increased staffing at the Attorney General’s Office and its Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and a push to conduct more missions on the state’s American Indian reservations.
“We going to need more people. It’s that simple,” he said.
Wrigley said he will push for legislation that adds greater mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes, and a consecutive sentence if a firearm was used in a crime. Some 500 guns are stolen in the state annually, he said, and many of the guns used in crimes are obtained illegally. It’s “extremely infrequent,” he said, that someone who is arrested for armed robbery still has the receipt for a recently purchased gun they later used to commit an armed robbery.
“That’s not how this works,” he said.
Statutory changes are needed so it’s certain that violent criminals not only serve time but also sentences of the proper length, Wrigley believes.
“It needs to be enhanced. We’re going to make that case,” he said.
His plan doesn’t rule out rehabilitation or treatment programs, but he said punishment and public safety are “legitimate and central, important features of the criminal justice system."
“We can do both of these things,” he said.
Lamb said he disagreed with the approach Wrigley outlined because it takes jurisdiction away from communities and local authorities. The attorney general should instead focus on assisting local jurisdictions if they need additional resources, he believes.
"The Attorney General's Office is not the U.S. Attorney's Office," he said. "If you run it like the U.S. Attorney's Office it will fail."
Wrigley is a former U.S. attorney for North Dakota.
Judges in the state don't want mandated sentences, Lamb said, adding that they already can impose proper penalties based on a person's criminal history.
"To try to usurp that at the state level is counterproductive," he said.
Lamb said nothing in the 2021 report jumped out to him as being a big problem.
By the numbers
The 2021 crime report showed homicides in North Dakota fell from 32 in 2020 to 17 last year. Thirteen of those were committed with firearms.
Overall crimes against persons as reported by national standards increased by more than 10%. When robbery is added in, crimes against persons rose 11.5%, from 10,960 in 2020 to 12,246 in 2021.
Wrigley includes robbery in his stats on crimes against persons, which differs from the FBI’s standard method of reporting robbery as a property crime.
“When you talk to robbery victims, they’re not talking about the fact that they lost property,” he said. “They’re talking about the fact that somebody put a gun to their head and demanded property.”
Of the 51,784 crimes reported in 2021, 23% were considered crimes against persons, the report showed. Another 27% were crimes against society and the remainder, 50%, were crimes against property.
Assaults in the state are a continuing upward trend, moving to 8,225 in 2021 from 7,551 in 2020.
DUI arrests fell from 4,175 in 2020 to 4,040 in 2021. It’s a trend Wrigley called positive but said “it’s still too high.”
“That is a completely avoidable crime,” he said.
The full report, which includes breakdowns of city and county law enforcement activity, can be seen at https://bit.ly/3exsEZ9. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/violent-crime-numbers-up-in-2021-in-north-dakota/article_3eb2ef42-2edd-11ed-be51-b309cb4bfb3c.html | 2022-09-07 23:20:38 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/violent-crime-numbers-up-in-2021-in-north-dakota/article_3eb2ef42-2edd-11ed-be51-b309cb4bfb3c.html |
By AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to celebrate a new $20 billion investment by IBM in New York’s Hudson River Valley with two House Democrats running in competitive races in next month’s critical midterm elections.
Biden is taking part in a Thursday afternoon announcement at the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is expected to hold out the company’s plans as part of what the White House says is a manufacturing “boom” spurred by this summer’s passage of a $ 280 billion legislative package intended to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and scientific research.
Democrats facing tough midterms races have largely avoided appearing with Biden in the leadup to November’s elections. But Biden, whose approval ratings remain underwater, will be joined by two House incumbents in competitive New York races who are bucking the trend: Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Pat Ryan.
“When I heard @POTUS was looking to see the benefits of the CHIPS & Science Act first-hand, I told him that the Hudson Valley was the perfect place,” Maloney wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. “I’m thrilled to host him in Poughkeepsie this week to celebrate the major wins and good-paying jobs we are delivering here in NY.”
The CHIPS and Science Act, which Biden signed into law in August, was a rare piece of legislation for which the president was able to win bipartisan support.
IBM’s $20 billion investment over the next decade is intended to bolster research and development and manufacturing of semiconductors, mainframe technology, artificial intelligence and quantum computing in New York’s Hudson River Valley, according to the White House.
“As we tackle large-scale technological challenges in climate, energy, transportation and more, we must continue to invest in innovation and discovery — because advanced technologies are key to solving these problems and driving economic prosperity, including better jobs, for millions of Americans,” said Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chairman and CEO.
The IBM investment comes on the heels of chipmaker Micron announcing earlier this week an investment of up to $100 billion over the next 20-plus years to build a plant in upstate New York that could create 9,000 factory jobs.
Maloney, chairman of the powerful Democratic congressional campaign fundraising arm, is running against Republican state Assemblyman Mike Lawler in New York’s 17th District. Ryan is up against state Assemblyman Colin Schmitt in the 18th District.
The boundaries of most New York districts, including Maloney’s and Ryan’s, have been affected by redistricting.
Ryan in August won a close special election to serve out the term of Democrat Antonio Delgado, who vacated his 19th District seat after he was appointed lieutenant governor by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul. Ryan is running to serve a full term in the 18th District, where he lives.
Maloney, who had served New York’s 18th District since 2013, decided to run in the 17th District. His Hudson Valley home fell inside the new boundaries after redistricting.
Hochul, who took office last year after Democrat Andrew Cuomo resigned amid sexual harassment allegations, is also scheduled to attend. She’s looking to win a full term in next month’s election against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin.
Later Thursday, Biden will head to central New Jersey for a fundraiser at the home of Gov. Phil Murphy in support of the Democratic National Committee. In the evening, he heads to Manhattan for a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser hosted by James Murdoch, the son of conservative News Corp. publisher Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, a climate change activist, were major donors to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. In 2020, Murdoch resigned from the board of News Corp. amid differences over editorial content at his father’s company, which operates The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. The elder Murdoch is also chairman of Fox Corp., which includes Fox News Channel.
While Biden has been kept at arms length by many Democratic candidates, he’s been a prodigious fundraiser for his party this election cycle, raising more than $19.6 million for the Democratic National Committee.
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Associated Press writers Michelle L. Price in New York City and Michael Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey, contributed to this report.
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KRASNOHORIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Valentyna Mozgova sweeps shattered glass and other debris from the vacant halls of the bombed-out hospital where she began her career. Living in the basement, the 55-year-old lab technician now works as its solitary guard.
Russian artillery strikes targeted Marinskaya Central District Hospital in 2017 and again in 2021. But numerous barrages over the last seven months forced the hospital’s medical staff to flee, destroying key departments such as neurology and gynecology, as well as a general medical clinic in the process.
Mozgova chose to stay. Having worked in the hospital’s laboratories since graduating from medical school in the late 1980s, she agreed to act as the hospital’s security guard for 10,000 hryvnia ($250) a month. She and her husband were soon joined in the basement shelter by five others who had lost their homes to bombing, a dog and a cat.
Mozgova picks up the broom at 8 a.m. sharp every three days to inspect the hallways, carefully avoiding the fragments of Russian Grad rockets strewn across the floors for fear of yet another explosion.
“Everything is decaying and falling apart,” she told The Associated Press. “But I’m so sick of it. I want to live my life normally, sleep in my bed, watch my TV, not jump at the sound of an explosion, go to work calmly and do my job.”
A year into Russia’s war in Ukraine, hundreds of attacks against the health care system have begun to take a toll. More than 700 attacks have targeted health care facilities and staff since the Feb. 24 Russian invasion , according to data verified by five organizations working inside Ukraine.
The World Health Organization has similarly documented more than 750 attacks and 101 deaths, and Ukraine’s health minister said recently that more than 1,200 facilities have been damaged either directly or indirectly, with 173 hospitals damaged beyond repair.
The report released Tuesday, which was shared in advance with the AP, said Russia has targeted the Ukrainian health care system “deliberately and indiscriminately” — an allegation that the organization said amounted to a war crime.
The attacks were at their most ferocious early in the war, according to the report, which found a total of 278 attacks in the last four days of February and all of March — an average of eight per day.
The report defines attacks not just as weapons strikes, but also threats aimed at forcing doctors to keep working in occupied territories, and incidents of theft in areas that Russian forces failed to hold on to.
In the city of Kherson, residents said retreating Russian forces took most of the ambulances with them. As they captured the city of Mariupol, the Russians took over the city’s last functioning hospital, days after a Russian airstrike devastated a maternity ward.
“Russian soldiers were on all the floors. They counted the patients, counted the employees, so that no one would leave. They said that if the doctors left, they would shoot,” Maryna Gorbach, a nurse from Mariupol Hospital No. 2, told the AP in an interview in December.
Gorbach, like most of the staff, managed to flee a few days later.
In Izium, explosives ripped through the main hospital’s walls in March, shredding its wiring and forcing doctors and patients into the basement.
“Before we went to the basement we covered our patients with mattresses because we thought they would protect patients from shrapnel,” said Dr. Yurii Kuznetsov, a trauma surgeon who for a time was the only doctor still at the hospital. At this point, three of the four floors are functional. Water drips from the roof. But patients have already seen how much repair has been accomplished.
For a year, AP journalists across Ukraine have also witnessed the result of attacks on hospitals, ambulances and medical staff firsthand.
“They follow specific patterns, and it is those patterns that are important, not even the number,” said Pavlo Kovtoniuk of the Ukrainian Health Care think tank, which was among the groups gathering data. “Because patterns mean that that most likely was a deliberate policy, not just a coincidence or separate events.”
Russia claims Ukraine has also hit hospitals in territory it occupies. But Kovtoniuk said there’s a vast difference between the huge number of systematic attacks recorded and what he described as accidents that happen in the course of a war for survival.
The international organization Physicians for Human Rights long documented Russian attacks on medical facilities in Syria and said the war in Ukraine indicated a continuation of that policy. The U.K. defense mnistry said that Russian attacks on medical and educational facilities intensified in January.
The attacks show keen awareness of “the cascading effects that attacks on health have on the civilian population,” said Christian De Vos, director of research and investigation for Physicians for Human Rights, who contributed to the report. “It’s part of a destabilizing tactic to sow fear in the wider population.”
In the short term, attacks have forced many hospitals to shut down or sharply reduce services. In Izium, which was liberated by Ukrainian troops last fall, around 200 people from a staff of 500 have returned to work, and one of the damaged wings is operating again after repairs. At least one pharmacy has reopened as well, enabling people whose medication ran out during six months of occupation to be resupplied.
Ukraine had the second-highest number of HIV infections in Europe and Central Asia and one of the highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis. But since the invasion, the number of people being treated for these ailments has dropped precipitously. Drug quantities aren’t an issue thanks to a steady supply from donations. But it’s harder to follow-up or track new infections because of the mass displacement of Ukrainians within the country and across Europe.
Andriy Klepikov runs the Alliance for Public Health, an organization whose mobile clinics reach towns near the front lines. He worries about cases of tuberculosis or HIV that are going undiagnosed, but remains optimistic about his country’s capacity to overcome.
“The health system is (not about) walls or buildings or even equipment. It is about people,” he said. “The Ukrainian military are known for their strength and resilience, but in the area of public health, we are equally strong and resilient.”
Back in Krasnohorivka, a tank shell took out the signal for a Russian television show about the lives of doctors that Mozgova enjoyed. Despite the loss of what little made life comfortable for her, Mozgova said neither she nor her husband have any plans of permanently rejoining their adult children in the western city of Lviv, considered among the safest in Ukraine.
“They tell us to come and they have space, but what will I do? I’ll be a guest there. So I’ll be here as long as I have work. I’m trying to be useful here,” she said. “However good it was with my children and grandchildren I still think about this place because it’s my home.”
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Lori Hinnant reported from Paris. Vasilisa Stepanenko reported from Izium. Inna Varenytsia contributed to this report from Kyiv.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Ravens players and coaches are taking notice. Lamar has definitely returned.
"When he’s not here you kind of forget what it feels like and then he shows up and you are like, ‘Yo, that’s Lamar Jackson back out here’," said Ravens wide receivers coach Tee Martin. "He came in ready. Man, the ball shot out of his hands and the first thing the wideouts were like, ‘It got on me fast’."
Receiver Devin Duvernay is readjusting to QB1 after Jackson missed all of voluntary offseason work.
"A lot of zip on the ball, strong arm. Just been getting used to that," said Duvernay about Jackson. "Happy to see him back."
Plenty of Ravens fans will be happy to hear the team is emphasizing the deep ball this week at mandatory minicamp. Martin said head coach John Harbaugh wants more downfield passing. That should be good for a burner like Duvernay.
"Of course I think I can stretch the field. Me and [Rashod Bateman] for sure stretch the plays, make plays down the field," he said.
Duvernay is entering his third NFL season and Rashod Bateman is entering his second. They are now the Ravens' top two wideouts after the trade of Marquise Brown. Management is showing faith in Duvernay’s ability after an all-pro year as a punt returner and it is showing faith in an unproven, young receiver group.
"The guys do have a chip on their shoulder and they want to go out and prove they are ready for their opportunity," said Martin.
Thursday brings the final practice of minicamp. Following the session Jackson is scheduled to answer questions for the first time since December.
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Let’s imagine Family Feud dropped in at the Springfield Elks Club and asked 100 people in the studio audience “Who would you be happiest to find out made it to the Field of Dreams game the Reds played against the Chicago Cubs?” Moments later, after discovering that all 100 people had given the same answer, Steve Harvey would say: Survey says — hey, who is this Spanky Rinker, anyway?
As tons of Springfielders know, Don “Spanky” Rinker, ran and then owned the now defunct Meeks Sporting Goods store. As well liked as the day is long, he may have spent more time on area baseball diamonds and football fields in the past 95 years than chalk and dust.
Although he gave up softball five years ago, Rinker still plays golf and has been a Reds season ticket holder since 1974, the summer Gerald Ford stepped on the mound to relieve Richard Nixon.
But, in a way, the story of his trip to the Field of Dreams games goes back farther than that — to 1960, the year Frank Robinson and Billy Martin played for the Redlegs and the year Rinker’s late wife, Ginger, wanted a girl to go with the boy they already had.
That was taken care of with a trip to Columbus and through the services of the attorney Bill Hicks — “the old Bill Hicks,” Rinker said, to distinguish him from the comparatively younger one who also is a Springfield attorney.
Although the couple was thrilled when they returned, their emotion was not universally shared.
Don Rinker still doesn’t know why his father-in-law, a millwright at the old International Harvester plant, was unhappy about the adoption. He is entirely certain that, “she became his best friend when she was about this tall.”
Kim Rinker was, in fact, Horatio Johnson’s “doll baby,” Rinker said.
“They used to come over on nights when I refereed (football).”
Because of their genetic disconnect, Rinker denies having anything to do his daughter’s intelligence, which aided her success in studies and in the violin section at North High School. From the start, the girl also knew what she liked.
At young Kim’s request, “Her mother took her out to a farm out near Enon out the back a road someplace,” Rinker said. There, she met a horse and her future was set.
During her high school years, “They advertised for someone to work on a farm in Switzerland,” Rinker said, “so she signed up. She’d never worked on a farm, and she went over for the summer by herself.”
With a writing talent developed at the Ohio State School of Journalism, she then forged a career in racing, sketched out by writer Marty Evans in 2015 when the Ohio Racing Commission hired her as director of its Standardbred Development fund:
Rinker has a 35-year involvement in the sport of harness racing as a writer, publicist and author. She served on the publicity staffs of Sportsman’s Park, Scioto Downs, Maywood Park, Balmoral Park, and The Meadowlands, and has written for some of racing’s top …. She is the author of eight books, including Chicago’s Horse Racing Venues and An Adventure Guide to Switzerland.
Rinker has also been involved as a trainer-driver, competing mostly on the Chicago circuit, and in 1995 represented the United States in the International Drivers Championship in Moscow, Russia as the lone female vying against 15 male rivals from various countries.
She has covered the sport in Australia, New Zealand, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
She had come back to the area — and eventually bought a farm for horses near Christiansburg — to be closer to her aging parents.
Í never said this to my Mom,” she said, “but the best thing that ever happened to me was that I met my biological parents, because (it made me) realize I hit the jackpot.”
There was nothing wrong with her biological parents — she really likes them and her biological brothers. But, as she did explain to her mother, ‘They’re Frank and Delta. They were not my parents. I’m still coming home for Christmas.’”
They were together many other times.
She took them to Switzerland to meet the family she’d stayed with there. She invited her dad to meet Our Gang leader Spanky McFarland, when he appeared at the Chicago Silent Film Society, of which she was a member.
She also served as her parents’ tour guide on a couple of trips to Europe and arranged their 60th wedding anniversary trip through the Panama Canal. She did smaller things, too, like find the black-and-white photo of Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Stan Musial that sits in her father’s living room. More recently, getting on the phone with the requisite code number in front of her, she snagged the tickets to the Field of Dreams game.
Although Kim Rinker was happy to pay $350 a seat, it will please many readers to know the $77 handling fee almost caused her to curse under her breath.
But since her mother’s death by a stroke two years ago, she said, “Whatever my Dad wants to do, we’re there.”
Some of her father’s favorite “theres” are:
- Arnold Palmer’s Bay View Golf Course, where “their golf carts aren’t like ours -- they’re bigger, they’re fancier, they’ve got leather seats.”
- A five-auctioneer sale of horses, many raised by Amish people, that went for $500,000 to $1 million dollars, where “she told me not to raise my hand.”
- Outings to Grimes Field in Urbana and Marie’s Candies in West Liberty.
Despite Spanky Rinker’s assessment that the game matched the quality of the Reds current season, all the trappings of the Field of Dreams visit put it “right up there” among the memories they share – memories his daughter helped to create through two characteristics she and her father clearly share: genuine personal connections with others, and a penchant for getting things done.
One of her favorite memories of her father goes back to a Christmas of her childhood when, as usual, her father was called to Meek’s Sporting Goods because someone had broken in.
When the thief told him he’d broken in to get his son a baseball glove — Rinker told the man to take the glove and never come back.
He’s probably the kindest person I’ve ever met,” she said. “And he’s a fun guy.”
Over at the Elks, Spanky’s version of Our Gang knows that well.
A final word.
In Field of Dreams, the dream that comes true is a tear-jerking game of catch Kevin Costner’s character has with his late father, from whom he’s been painfully estranged.
Although the Rinkers are not often given to elaborate shows of emotion, both appreciate that they’re not estranged; that they have long enjoyed one another’s company; that they continue to do so; and that for 62 years, their relationship has been firmly rooted not in feuds but in family.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's two top Democratic state officials are urging the Republican-led legislature to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in light of President Joe Biden's pardon Thursday of thousands of Americans convicted of "simple possession" under federal law.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein, the state's top lawyer who is considering a run for governor in 2024, shared their support for the president's decision at a Friday task force meeting on racial equity and criminal justice.
Established by Cooper in June 2020 after George Floyd's murder, the 24-member panel of law enforcement officers, attorneys, civil rights advocates and state officials had recommended in a 2020 report that state lawmakers replace the misdemeanor charge for possessing up to 1.5 ounces of marijuana with a civil offense on par with a traffic infraction.
The General Assembly did not act on this recommendation.
"Conviction of simple possession can mar people's records for life and maybe even prevent them from getting a job," Cooper told the task force Friday. "The General Assembly didn't pass your recommendations on this last session, but I believe they should. North Carolina should take steps to end this stigma."
Acknowledging that drug charging practices disproportionately impact people of color, Biden called on governors Thursday to issue similar pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses, which reflect the vast majority of possession cases. Although no one is currently in federal prison solely for "simple possession" of the drug, according to the White House, Biden said the pardon could help thousands overcome obstacles to renting a home or finding work. His pardon excludes those convicted of possessing marijuana with intent to distribute.
Cooper, who is term-limited and cannot seek reelection in 2024, said he has asked lawyers to examine state law and determine whether North Carolina can and should take further action to pardon these convictions. The clemency provision of the state constitution grants the governor near-absolute pardoning power.
While federal law still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I drug, 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized its recreational use, and 37 states and the District of Columbia have legalized its medical use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. North Carolina, however, has been slow to follow suit.
The Republican-led state Senate passed a bill earlier this year with strong bipartisan support that would have legalized marijuana for medical use with a physician's prescription, if purchased through dozens of tightly regulated dispensaries.
But the bill idled in the House, where many Republicans held reservations about legalizing cannabis in any form. Opponents of the bill warned the health benefits remain uncertain and may not outweigh the health risks.
House Speaker Tim Moore said in June that the chamber would wait until 2023 to reconsider legalizing medical marijuana.
Current state law makes possession of more than 0.5 ounces punishable by up to 45 days in jail and up to $1,000 in fines, without exemptions for medical use. Possession of more than 1.5 ounces is classified as a felony.
"People should not have a federal criminal record for something that is legal in an increasing number of states," Stein said Thursday. "Let's act, and let's get it right. That means decriminalizing adult use, expunging past convictions for simple possession, and including strong protections for kids, no advertising, state controlled sales and putting N.C. farmers first."
Although Black and white North Carolina residents use marijuana at approximately the same rate, the task force found that people of color make up a disproportionate percentage of those convicted of simple possession, paralleling nationwide concerns of racial bias. Roughly 60% percent of North Carolinians convicted for possessing up to half an ounce of marijuana in 2019 were non-white, according to the most recent report.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Zeke Rankin kicked four field goals, including a 37-yarder for the go-ahead score with 2:05 left, and Middle Tennessee State beat San Diego State 25-23 in the Hawaii Bowl on Saturday night.
The Blue Raiders (8-5) overcome a 14-0 first-quarter deficit to turn back the Aztecs (7-6) in a game that featured six lead changes.
Rankin converted four of his five field goal attempts to tie the Hawaii Bowl record for field goals. He made kicks from 44, 49, 26 and 37 yards and missed from 42.
San Diego State took a 23-22 lead with 5:43 to play on a 52-yard field goal by Jack Browning, but Middle Tennessee State drove 55 yards in 12 plays, capped by Rankin’s 37-yard field goal to put his team ahead for good.
Middle Tennessee State finished with 170 yards of total offense to 364 total yards for San Diego State.
The Blue Raiders won despite allowing seven sacks and being held to minus-61 yards rushing.
San Diego State led 14-13 at halftime.
It was the first meeting between the schools.
THE TAKEAWAY
Middle Tennessee State: After being picked by league media to finish eighth (out of 11 teams) in the C-USA preseason poll, the Blue Raiders finished the season out in a strong way by winning their final four games, capped off by their sixth bowl in eight seasons and 10th overall in 17 seasons under coach Rick Stockstill.
San Diego State: The Aztecs were projected by Mountain West media to finish second in the West Division behind Fresno State. Their season saw personnel changes at offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and quarterback, which helped to spur five wins in seven games following a 2-3 start to the year.
UP NEXT
Middle Tennessee State will visit Bryant-Denny Stadium for its first game against Alabama since 2015 on Sept. 2. The Blue Raiders have lost all three of their previous meetings against the Crimson Tide.
San Diego State opens at home against Idaho State on Aug. 26 before back-to-back Pac-12 opponents in UCLA and Oregon State on Sept. 9 and 16, respectively.
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Man jailed after sister awakens from two-year coma dies in police custody
JACKSON COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ/Gray News) – A man who was arrested last week in connection with an attack that left his sister in a two-year coma has died, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
Daniel Palmer of Cottageville was pronounced dead Thursday, a day after he was taken to a Charleston hospital, said the state’s Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Division of Corrections, in a news release.
Palmer, 55, was uncooperative while in custody and during booking procedures at the South Central Regional Jail, where he was taken July 15, the Associated Press said.
He was arrested July 15 and was facing charges of attempted murder and malicious wounding following an incident in June of 2020 near Cottageville.
His sister, Wanda Palmer, was discovered by lawn care workers at her home suffering from severe head injuries.
“They came that morning to mow her grass and found her in a pool of blood,” said Eileen Palmer, Wanda Palmer’s mother.
Daniel Palmer had been suspected in the attack, but authorities didn’t have enough evidence to arrest him until Wanda Palmer woke up from the coma this month and identified him as her attacker.
The cause of death for Daniel Palmer wasn’t disclosed, and state law only allows the agency to release autopsy information to relatives and law enforcement, the Associated Press reported.
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World's "favorite little blue can" continues to inspire, celebrate and connect consumers around the world
AUSTIN, Minn., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The SPAM® Brand has sizzled in millions of kitchens since it was first introduced on July 5, 1937. From the late 1930s to today, the brand has evolved from a wartime delicacy to a trending ingredient on TikTok, a 16,000 square foot museum, a celebrity chef staple, an annual Hawaiian street festival and so much more. The iconic brand is now reflecting on 85 years of recipes, 85 years of memories and 85 years of cultural celebration - all while looking ahead to what is next.
Jay Hormel and Hormel Foods Corporation introduced the SPAM® Brand to the forefront in 1937 with six simple ingredients - pork with ham, salt, water, potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrite. The goal was to create a convenient and affordable protein with an extended shelf life. The SPAM® Brand got its name from Ken Daigneau, the brother of a Hormel Foods vice president, after he won a contest and $100 for naming the product.
During World War II, more than 100 million pounds of SPAM® luncheon meat was shipped abroad to feed allied troops. The product also reached England and the countries of the Asian Pacific, where rationing and American GIs made the canned meat a necessity but was then adopted as a star ingredient in several popular dishes. Hence, an international love affair was born.
In the year 2022, the SPAM® Brand is showing no signs of slowing down. From tacos to Korean barbeque to the famous SPAM® Musubi, 12.8 cans of SPAM® products are consumed every second. The brand has also hit several other milestones including:
- Over 9 billion units sold across 48 countries
- 11 different varieties featured in hundreds of delicious and creative recipes
- 7 years of consecutive record sales
- Almost 500,000 visitors to the SPAM® Museum, which can be visited in person or virtually
And you can find the SPAM® Brand beyond your local grocer. In fact, SPAM® products and recipes are on the menus of over 700 American restaurants, available at 7-Elevens and McDonald's in Hawaii and in the pantries of celebrity chefs like Dale Talde, Jordan Andino, Jamie Chung, Roy Choi and more.
"From recipes passed down from generation to generation to family get-togethers, people's connection to the SPAM® Brand is deeply rooted in longevity, versatility, convenience and cultural heritage," said Steven Venenga, vice president of marketing for the SPAM® Brand. "While we celebrate all that the SPAM® Brand has accomplished, the most important achievement is the inspiration and joy this little blue can has given its fans in the kitchen and beyond."
As for what is upcoming, the brand is eager to share several announcements later this year, including a new limited-time SPAM® variety that is sure to excite around the holiday season.
For more information about the SPAM® Brand and recipe inspiration, visit www.SPAM.com and follow along on social at www.facebook.com/SPAMbrand, www.youtube.com/SPAMbrand, www.twitter.com/SPAMbrand or @SPAMBrand on Instagram.
Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $11 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on Corporate Responsibility Magazine's "The 100 Best Corporate Citizens" list for 12 years, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com and http://csr.hormelfoods.com/.
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2 teens in custody after officer dragged by car, police say
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) - Two Ohio teenagers are in police custody after an incident that put an officer in the hospital.
Police said two special duty officers were in the parking lot of a bingo hall in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday when an altercation involving two teenagers and a car started.
“Something occurred in the parking lot, where two suspects were in a car. At that time, the passenger got out,” said Melanie Amato, a police spokesperson. “We’re still trying to figure out why they were there.”
Moments after the altercation, an officer and one teenager were dragged by a car.
Police said the driver of the vehicle sped off, but the other officer on scene drew his weapon and shot at the car, hitting the driver. The car continued out of the parking lot and hit another car.
The officer who was dragged was taken to the hospital, where he is in stable condition.
Both teens involved in the incident were also taken to the hospital and are in stable condition, according to police.
Police are calling the teens suspects, but it’s unclear what they are suspected of having done.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the officer-involved shooting.
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Willie Colon didn’t like the Jets’ 2022 NFL Draft. He loved it.
“Man, they dominated. I honestly think that’s, if not [the], one of the best drafts in Jets history,” Colon, 39, the Super Bowl champion ex-Steeler and Jet, said Monday at his eighth annual charity event to raise money for the Lupus Research Alliance.
“They needed to address talent, depth and overall team speed,” Colon added, before teeing off at Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit, N.J. “They hit all of them. And they set it up for the future.”
Former Jets standout linebacker David Harris, a Michigan man, said Ohio State receiver Garrett Wilson is a special talent.
“I went to Michigan. That guy is a really good player,” Harris, 38, said. “If he can do the same thing he did at Ohio State on this level, that would be a huge addition to our offense.”
Harris said Jets coach Robert Saleh is “very intense” and that he has no doubt GM Joe Douglas “drafted guys that match his personality.”
That’s one thing that set this draft apart for Colon: he didn’t just like the Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner and Wilson picks at the top of the first round. He also liked how Douglas completed the draft to complement Saleh’s system and style on defense.
“For them to get Jermaine Johnson at 26 and in the later rounds get the kid [Micheal] Clemons from Texas A&M, an animal himself,” said Colon, a host on Mad Sports Radio’s ‘The Morning Men’ for SiriusXM Radio. “Now you’ve got two edge rushers in Saleh’s defense, which you need for that defense to be effective. You need guys to get after the quarterback. So to have two young guys you can put in the pipeline who can grow together and have that type of talent? That’s enormous.”
Football wasn’t foremost on Colon’s mind on Monday, though. Raising money for the Lupus Research Alliance through his Willie Colon Foundation is a cause close to his heart.
His mother, Jean Davis, who died in July 2020 at age 70, suffered from lupus and battled it throughout her son’s life.
“She was diagnosed when I was roughly in the first grade,” Colon said Monday. “But in her time on Earth, she always put our family before herself and never succumbed to it. She was pretty tough. And between my playing days and being on this platform and the outlets I have, I’m always trying to find a cure for lupus and working closely with the LRA. I’m never gonna stop fighting for lupus.”
LRA executive director Andrea O’Neill said Monday’s event raised more than $350,000, with 61 foursomes going out on Canoe Brook’s two courses.
“It’s for a great cause,” O’Neill said. “Our research is progressing. There’s great promise. There’s been three new treatments in the last two years since the pandemic. It keeps growing. And the more we can get more research, the better treatments and hopefully a cure.”
Max Starks, a two-time Steelers Super Bowl champion and former teammate, said one of his best friends since childhood has battled lupus most of her life. So he’s always there for Colon and the fight for a cure.
“Dealing with it on a personal level family wise, seeing what he started here with the Lupus Research Alliance, working on ways to help people deal and live with lupus was really important to me,” Starks said.
Knicks legend Allan Houston, great Steelers linebacker James Farrior, former Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and Titans star defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons were among the many big names who attended to support Colon and the lupus cause.
It also brought a smile to Colon’s face, though, to see the Jets maybe turning a corner.
“I think all their draft picks make sense,” he said. “Sometimes the Jets in the past you’d be like, ‘Man this guy, there’s always something about him,’ or you’re chasing the quarterback,” he said. “Everybody who was drafted, they make sense.
“Like [Iowa State running back] Bryce Hall, the fact you got Garrett Wilson,” he continued. “You’re talking about now Elijah Moore can play outside, it frees him up to play anything, he doesn’t have to be a dominant slot. It just opens up the offense. I thought they did a phenomenal job.”
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Whoopi Goldberg denied "doubling down" on her comments over the Holocaust this week, telling ET it was "never my intention" to cause harm.
Goldberg's statement comes a few days after she faced a new wave of backlash following an interview with The Sunday Times published Dec. 24. The controversy is the second time this year the actor has raised eyebrows for her opinions on the Holocaust.
In the recent article, Goldberg told the Times that the Holocaust "wasn't originally" about race. "Remember who they were killing first," she said. "They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision."
As a response, the Times reporter told Goldberg that "the Nazis measured the heads and noses of Jews to 'prove' they were a distinct race." Goldberg said: "They did that to Black people too. But it doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them."
After the interview caused more backlash, Goldberg issued a statement to ET, saying, "Recently while doing press in London, I was asked about my comments from earlier this year. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time. It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down on hurtful comments."
Goldberg added that since February, she has talked with "people like rabbis and old and new friends."
"I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me," she added. "I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people. My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not. In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. My support for them has not wavered and never will."
Goldberg first came under fire for her opinions in February, when speaking on The View. "The Holocaust isn't about race. It's about man's inhumanity to man," she said at the time. "These are two white groups of people."
Her comments caused her to be suspended from the talk show for two weeks.
Prior to the suspension, however, Goldberg offered an apology to viewers. "Yesterday on our show, I misspoke," she said. "[The Holocaust] is indeed about race," she continued, "because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter, and mine are no exception. I regret my comments and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people, as they know and y'all know, because I've always done that." | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/whoopi-goldberg-addresses-holocaust-comment-controversy-im-still-learning/603-c8f1f1ca-8693-43bf-90cc-bff157883f03 | 2022-12-29 00:33:51 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/whoopi-goldberg-addresses-holocaust-comment-controversy-im-still-learning/603-c8f1f1ca-8693-43bf-90cc-bff157883f03 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even in the monotony of a long season, Padres manager Bob Melvin knows some results are more important than others when it comes to sustaining a team’s confidence.
That’s why Sunday’s 4-2 comeback by San Diego over the Los Angeles Dodgers might resonate for a while.
“This would have been a really tough game to lose. There’s some games in the middle of the season that are bigger than others. This was a huge swing for us,” Melvin said.
Besides a mental boost, the Padres made it a physical win. Jake Cronenworth lined a single off closer Craig Kimbrel’s back to spark a four-run rally in the ninth inning.
The victory helped the Padres avoid a four-game sweep by their Southern California NL West rivals and puts them 3 1/2 games back at the midway point. San Diego improved to 47-34.
It also snapped a nine-game losing streak at Dodger Stadium and marked only their second win in the last 16 games over the Dodgers.
“It keeps us within shouting distance. We’re still not fully whole. They went after us this series pretty hard and took advantage,” Melvin said.
The Padres had only one runner get beyond second base in the first eight innings before breaking through for all their runs in the ninth.
Down 1-0, Cronenworth began the comeback with his infield hit that struck Kimbrel (1-4). Luke Voit then followed with a deep flyball that bounced off the top of the Dodgers’ bullpen gate in left center — Cronenworth scored the tying run while Voit wound up with a double.
Eric Hosmer, who had two hits, singled home the go-ahead run to chase Kimbrel.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said scans on Kimbrel’s back were negative. By going three of the past four days, Kimbrel is expected to be down a couple days after blowing his third save opportunity in 17 chances.
“There was thought (of taking him out after getting hit by Cronenworth) but a guy like that when he says he’s good to go and throw some pitches, we liked what we saw,” Roberts said. “We let him go and he got behind to Voit.”
With two outs, Ha-Seong Kim homered off Yency Almonte for a 4-1 lead.
“We felt like we were putting good pressure on and kept fighting to the end. This series didn’t go our win but to get this one against (Clayton) Kershaw and Kimbrel is big,” Hosmer said.
Mookie Betts returned from the injured list with two doubles and scored both Dodger runs. Kershaw threw four-hit ball over seven innings.
Taylor Rogers worked the ninth for his 23rd save, giving up a double by Betts and a sacrifice fly by Freddie Freeman in the ninth.
Nick Martinez (3-3) allowed one hit in 2 1/3 innings to get the win.
Kershaw had gone 1-2 and allowed 10 runs in 19 innings in four starts since returning from the IL, but the Dodgers ace had one of his best starts of the season. The lefty struck out eight and walked only one as he went seven innings for the first time since May 7 against the Chicago Cubs.
“It was better for sure. Better command of my fastball and slider made for a better day,” Kershaw said.
Betts was activated before the game after being sidelined two weeks due to a cracked right rib. He was back in his familiar leadoff spot and playing right field and he reached base four times.
Betts led off the Dodgers first with a double into the left-field corner and scored when Trea Turner lined a fastball from MacKenzie Gore down the left-field line for a double.
In the fourth, Betts tried to score from second on a base hit to left by Freeman, but Jurickson Profar quickly made a play on the ball and threw home, where catcher Jorge Alfaro applied the tag. Betts, who is still feeling some effects from the injuries, did not try to slide.
Gore allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings on five hits and struck out four.
LOOKING AHEAD
The Dodgers and Padres have 12 more meetings, with nine in September. They won’t face each other until a three-game weekend series in San Diego beginning Aug. 5.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: IF Hanser Alberto is likely to miss three games after he received an injection for knee pain. … OF Chris Taylor was available off the bench after leaving Saturday’s game in the sixth inning due to a left foot contusion.
ROSTER MOVE
The Padres called up RHP Tayler Scott from Triple-A El Paso to help shore up the bullpen. LHP Ray Kerr was optioned and RHP Kyle Tucker designated for assignment.
UP NEXT
Padres: Return home for a two-game series against Seattle starting Monday. LHP Sean Manaea (3-3, 3.92 ERA) went 1-0 in five June starts.
Dodgers: LHP Julio Urias (5-2, 2.94 ERA) gets the start on Monday as Los Angeles opens a three-game set against Colorado.
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CLEVELAND, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Preformed Line Products Company (NASDAQ: PLPC) announced today that it has acquired Delta Conectores, S.A. de C.V.
Founded in 1979 and based out of Aguascalientes, Mexico, Delta designs and manufactures substation connector systems and accessory hardware for high-voltage AC systems and is a market leader in Mexico. The acquisition of Delta will greatly expand PLP's operational and technical capabilities in the region while supporting its overall global substation strategy.
"The addition of Delta to the PLP family expands our existing substation product offering. They bring a high level of design expertise and bolster our manufacturing capabilities in North America. We are excited to welcome the Delta team to PLP," stated Ryan Ruhlman, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at PLP.
PLP protects the world's most critical connections by creating stronger and more reliable networks. The company's precision-engineered solutions are trusted by energy and communications providers worldwide to perform better and last longer. With locations in over 20 countries, PLP works as a united global corporation, delivering high-quality products and unparalleled service to customers around the world.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG).
Class Period: November 19, 2020 – March 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 22, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Yatsen investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period and in the Offering Documents, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) cosmetic and skincare sales of Perfect Diary and Little Ondine products were substantially declining in the period leading up to (and including at the time of) the IPO, and continued to decline throughout 2021, and (2) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Housing Increasingly Constrained by High Mortgage Rates, Slowing Economy
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid record inflation and higher interest rates, expectations for full-year 2022 and 2023 real GDP growth were downgraded in July due to softening consumer spending and a downward revision to business inventory investment data, according to the July 2022 commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. The ESR Group forecasts real GDP will increase 0.1 percent in 2022 and decrease 0.4 percent in 2023, down from the previously predicted 1.2 percent increase and 0.1 percent decrease, respectively. Notably, the ESR Group now expects a recession to begin in the first quarter of 2023, earlier than previously forecast, due to the aggressive monetary policy response required of the Federal Reserve to bring inflation down from its current decade-high levels. By Q4 2022, the ESR Group expects inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, to have moderated to 5.7 percent on a year-over-year basis, down from the June reading of 9.1 percent, and then to 1.6 percent by the end of 2023, below the Fed's 2-percent target.
The ESR Group revised downward its forecast for total home sales growth in 2022 to a decline of 15.6 percent, compared to a decline of 13.5 percent predicted last month, but revised upward its home price appreciation forecast to 16.0 percent year-over-year-growth in 2022 from the previously projected 10.8 percent. The ESR Group continues to anticipate strong deceleration in home price growth going forward due to the lagged effects of higher mortgage rates and the slowing economy weighing on purchase demand.
"The economy slowed significantly, though unevenly, in the first half of 2022 on the expectation that the Fed will aggressively raise interest rates," said Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. "With inflation running well above the target rate, the market's expectation that further, substantial monetary tightening is needed has driven interest rates even higher, and interest rate-sensitive sectors, including housing, are slowing in response. Homes listed for sale are increasingly seeing asking-price reductions, and both construction and home sales – both existing and new – are slowing."
Duncan continued: "Consumer confidence measures increasingly indicate dissatisfaction with current levels of inflation, offering support to the Fed's aggressive posture. We continue to believe that it's unlikely the economy will avoid a modest recession, but given recently released consumer spending and business investment data, we currently anticipate that it'll begin in the first quarter of 2023, slightly earlier than we previously predicted."
Visit the Economic & Strategic Research site at fanniemae.com to read the full July 2022 Economic Outlook, including the Economic Developments Commentary, Economic Forecast, Housing Forecast, and Multifamily Market Commentary. To receive e-mail updates with other housing market research from Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research Group, please click here.
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Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NCAA Tournament First Round
The No. 5 seed Saint Mary's Gaels (26-7) will try to beat the No. 12 seed VCU Rams (27-7) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday at MVP Arena. This contest tips off at 2:00 PM.
In this article, you will see odds and spreads for the Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
- Where: MVP Arena in Albany, New York
- How to Watch on TV: TBS
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Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup posted at individual sportsbooks.
Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU Betting Trends
- Saint Mary's (CA) has covered 17 times in 32 matchups with a spread this season.
- The Gaels and their opponents have combined to go over the point total 15 out of 32 times this season.
- VCU is 17-15-2 ATS this season.
- The Rams and their opponents have combined to go over the point total 14 out of 34 times this season.
Saint Mary's (CA) Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +5000
- Saint Mary's (CA) is 16th-best in college basketball in terms of its odds to win the national championship (+5000), much lower than according to the computer rankings (10th-best).
- The Gaels' national championship odds have jumped from +15000 at the start of the season to +5000, the 42nd-biggest change among all teams.
- With odds of +5000, Saint Mary's (CA) has been given a 2% chance of winning the national championship.
VCU Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +50000
- The Rams were +20000 to win the national championship at the start of the season, and have now dropped to +50000, which is the 19th-biggest change in the country.
- The implied probability of VCU winning the national championship, based on its +50000 moneyline odds, is 0.2%.
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RICHLAND, Wash. and BOISE, Idaho, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Christensen Inc., (www.christensenusa.com) a leader in fuel, lubricants, and propane distribution across the Pacific Northwest, is excited to announce the acquisition of United Oil, one of the industry's premier distributors, with operations based in southern Idaho.
The addition of United Oil strengthens our distribution network in one of the fastest-growing markets in the country.
This acquisition brings together two dedicated, family-owned, and operated organizations. Together, they have over 100 years of serving the fuel, lubricant, and propane needs of their customers.
With the completion of the acquisition, Christensen will add an additional 3000 customers to its client roster, which spans retail fuel, commercial and fleet organizations.
"The Franklin family has built a great organization with wonderful people that truly care about each other and their customers," said Tony Christensen, CEO of Christensen, Inc. "The addition of United Oil and its entities support the Christensen growth strategy by strengthening our distribution network in one of the fastest growing markets in the country. We are excited to welcome the United Oil team and look forward to providing our quality products and differentiated services to customers in Idaho and Nevada."
Christensen offers an innovative suite of products and services to more than 10,000 retail fuels, commercial, industrial, and fleet card customers. As a recent winner of the Phillips 66 Innovation Award, Christensen leads the industry with its technology-driven tools that enable customers real-time access to business reporting, delivery details, and other crucial data, anytime and anywhere through its mobile app or customer-based web portal.
Robert Franklin, Co-Owner of United Oil said, "We've valued our customers and employees, who have felt like an extended part of our family over the years. This is an exciting opportunity for everyone involved, as we know our customers and employees are in good hands and will continue to be the priority."
This acquisition builds on the strong momentum Christensen has generated over the course of 2021, with the acquisition of two other distributors. As Christensen expands its footprint into Idaho, it will allow the company to continue to accelerate its long-term, sustainable growth plans.
ABOUT CHRISTENSEN, INC.
Founded in 1935, Christensen is family-owned and operated. Headquartered in Richland, Washington, the company employs more than 500 people across the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Built on decades of industry experience and the latest technology, Christensen is revolutionizing the way fuels, lubricants, and propane are ordered, delivered, and managed. For the past 10 years, the Christensen Company has grown 8x faster than the industry average and has emerged as a market leader.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City FC broke a scoreless tie with a three-goal outburst late in the second half and Sean Johnson had three saves in a 3-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes in MLS action on Sunday.
Keaton Parks scored the first goal for NYCFC (4-3-1) in the 74th minute on a give-and-go with Talles Magno. Gabriel Pereira notched the second goal from inside the box four minutes later. Chris Gloster capped the scoring when he took an overhead pass and beat San Jose keeper JT Marcinkowski to the left side in the 88th minute.
NYCFC outshot the Earthquakes (1-5-3) 24-11 with a commanding 11-3 advantage in shots on goal.
Marcinkowski finished with eight saves.
NYCFC has scored 14 goals in its last three matches.
The Earthquakes fell to 0-4-0 all-time at Yankee Stadium.
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If we are serious about making reparations for our past wrongdoings, we need to start with native “Americans.” In an ideology known as Manifest Destiny we forced most onto reservations, then hunted down and slaughtered the rest for their lands. California was particularly brutal, authorizing and subsidizing roving bands of troops and frontiersmen to eradicate the indigenous population. After participating in the Sacramento River Massacre in 1846, a famous Indian hunter, Kit Carson, called it “a perfect butchery.”
If that doesn’t meet the criteria for reparations, then nothing does.
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Inflation and Consolidation Threatens Small Farm Extinction
LA FARGE, Wis., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inflation threatens farmers across the U.S. as the farm crisis deepens with small family farms facing feed price shocks and consolidation pressures.
Organic Valley, working within the Organic Trade Association (OTA) and with other friends in the organic sector, recently elevated the dire situation organic livestock farmers face with USDA and Senate and House Appropriations and Agriculture Committee leadership urging action to support farmers. USDA responded by announcing up to $100 million for the new Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program, an effort that will help small organic family farms by covering a portion of milk marketing costs for 2023.
"USDA and Congress were right in recognizing the unique challenges facing organic dairy farmers. We need all efforts to try and stem farm exits," said Adam Warthesen, Organic Valley director of government and industry affairs and OTA board member. "The USDA's creation of a new Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program (ODMAP) is a welcome relief and the resources can't come soon enough."
Organic Valley is dedicated to supporting small organic family farms across the rural landscape amidst inflationary and climatic pressures. The cooperative has been unwavering in its mission and has made it a priority to welcome 84 farms in 2022, many of which were dropped by other companies in the dairy industry.
"Our mission is more critical than ever as we see small family farms losing their market with little notice and facing inflationary pressures that make it harder for them to survive," said Travis Forgues, Organic Valley executive vice president of membership. "If you care about family farms, we need people to join us, support Organic Valley products in the marketplace, and put their milk money where their values are. We're committed to reversing the trend of farming consolidation by providing an organic marketplace for small family farmers. We're also working to increase aid to small organic family farms, calling on Congress and leadership across the country to take action."
The cooperative plans to continue its unwavering efforts to save small organic family farms and will update the public throughout the year.
About Organic Valley
Organic Valley is the leading organic farmer-owned cooperative on a mission to save, serve and safeguard small organic family farms. The brand's products are ethically sourced, which we define as food raised on organic farms where families manage the daily care for the animals and the earth while living up to the requirements of the USDA National Organic Program as well as our cooperative's own high standards and practices designed to promote the principles of organic agriculture, including respect for the dignity and interdependence of human, animal, plant, soil and global life. Founded in 1988, today the cooperative is owned by more than 1,700 organic family farms. Visit ov.coop for more information. Organic Valley is also @OrganicValley on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok and Twitter.
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