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~Animated Video Series and Heat Maps are Visual Guides for What You Need to Know about CKD~
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has launched a new animated video series aimed at educating people on their chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk. "Kidney Numbers and the CKD Heat Map" is a new initiative that conveys complex health information while targeting patients with varying levels of health literacy. The "Kidney Numbers and the CKD Heat Map" initiative is supported by Bayer.
"Understanding the role of kidney numbers and how to read and interpret that data can be complex and difficult to convey to both patients and the general public," said Joseph Vassalotti, MD, Chief Medical Officer for the National Kidney Foundation. "Our experts have developed three short and engaging animated videos and a series of CKD heat maps to help explain these complex topics in the simplest terms possible."
The three patient-friendly videos, ranging from about one and a half to two and a half minutes each, are available in both English and Spanish. "Kidney Numbers and the CKD Heat Map" gives patients from diverse backgrounds the tools they need to better understand how kidney measurements such as eGFR and uACR are used to determine overall kidney health, as well as their associated risks for CKD and heart disease.
Public knowledge of CKD is notoriously low. In the United States, 37 million adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease, but approximately 90 percent don't know they have it. About 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. are at risk for chronic kidney disease. Risk factors for kidney disease include: diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and family history. People of Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander descent are at increased risk for developing the disease. Blacks or African Americans are almost 4 times more likely than White Americans to have kidney failure. Hispanics are 1.3 times more likely than non-Hispanics to have kidney failure.
Approximately 785,000 Americans have irreversible kidney failure and need dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. More than 555,000 of these patients receive dialysis to replace kidney function and 230,000 live with a transplant. Nearly 100,000 Americans are on the waitlist for a kidney transplant right now. Depending on where a patient lives, the average wait time for a kidney transplant can be upwards of three to seven years.
"Kidney disease is a public health crisis," added Dr. Vassalotti. "We have developed similar public education programs before, and they've been very well received. These animated educational videos will help us to communicate complex medical terminology in lay terms to help improve patient understanding of risk as well as promote awareness of CKD and the current treatment options available."
NKF's "Kidney Numbers and the CKD Heat Map" series is available now on YouTube both in English and Spanish. Both the videos and maps are also available on www.kidney.org. Here are additional details:
- Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR): https://www.kidney.og/atoz/content/gfr
- Kidney Tests: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/kidneytests
- Know Your Kidney Numbers: Two Simple Tests: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/know-your-kidney-numbers-two-simple-tests
- Kidney Numbers and the CKD Heat Map for providers and patients
Kidney Disease Facts
In the United States, 37 million adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease – and approximately 90 percent don't know they have it. About 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. are at risk for chronic kidney disease. Risk factors for kidney disease include: diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and family history. People of Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian American, or Native Americans are almost 4 times more likely than White Americans to have kidney failure. Hispanics are 1.3 times more likely than non-Hispanics to have kidney failure.
About the National Kidney Foundation
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is the largest, most comprehensive, and longstanding patient-centric organization dedicated to the awareness, prevention, and treatment of kidney disease in the U.S. For more information about NKF, visit www.kidney.org.
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Leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus indicated Friday that they’ll support an annual defense budget bill on the House floor, providing a huge boost to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and GOP leaders as they scramble to rally enough support to move the must-pass package to the Senate later this week.
Freedom Caucus conservatives had balked at an initial, bipartisan version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed through the Armed Services Committee last month by an overwhelming 58-1 vote. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), the group’s chairman, called that bill “untenable.”
But the approval of a series of conservative amendments Thursday — including measures to curb Pentagon policies on abortion and transgender rights — has invigorated the group’s members, who strongly suggested they will support the package when it hits the floor Friday morning.
“It has improved dramatically,” Perry told reporters in the Capitol on Friday morning, shortly before the scheduled vote.
Support from the Freedom Caucus will be critical for McCarthy as GOP leaders move to pass the bill on Friday after House Democratic leaders said their caucus will oppose the bill over the conservative culture war amendments. A lack of support from Democrats leaves McCarthy with little room for GOP defections, given the Republicans’ slim majority.
A history of Freedom Caucus members voting against the NDAA in previous years made the path forward without Democrats unclear. But conservative leaders appearing satisfied by additions on social issues is clearing the way.
The House Freedom Caucus is not taking an official position in support of the bill, Perry said, noting that amendments were still being considered Friday morning and that “there’s always going to be concerns.”
But a number of members of the group, echoing Perry, signaled they’ll back the bill. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) cited Thursday’s “major victories” when voicing her support.
Still, final passage is hardly a slam dunk.
Some members of the Freedom Caucus, such as Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), said Thursday night that they were leaning against voting for the bill. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who was recently booted from the group, said she intends to oppose the NDAA package after several of her amendments to block Ukraine funding were shot down on the floor Thursday.
Conservatives had won passage of a number of their favored amendments on the House floor Thursday evening, including measures to bar the Pentagon from paying travel costs for service members seeking abortions, bar the Pentagon from paying for gender-affirming surgeries, and gutting diversity and inclusion initiatives.
“The military is not the place for a social experiment,” Perry said.
Several members of the Freedom Caucus heaped praise on Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for helping them drive the debate and score victories on the floor. Tuberville has, for weeks, blocked all of President Biden’s Pentagon nominees to protest the administration’s policy of reimbursing the travel expenses of personnel who seek abortions out of state.
“We joined our colleague Tommy Tuberville in the Senate who stood strong for a long time by himself in the Senate to fight this fight,” said Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), lead sponsor of the amendment to reverse the Pentagon abortion policy. “He’s got backup here in the House.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is not a Freedom Caucus member but frequently works with them, credited Tuberville for the conservative amendments passing: “I do not believe we would have achieved the Republican unity in the House but for the courage of Senator Tubervillle on the other side of the rotunda.”
Several other conservative amendments will also get votes on Friday morning ahead of the bill’s final passage. That list includes a measure to prohibit military colleges from considering race in their admissions processes and another to block Biden’s climate change executive orders pertaining to the Defense Department.
Heading into the vote, it’s unclear if McCarthy has the 218 votes he’ll need to pass the measure. Several of the conservative amendments were supported by Democrats, including Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), an anti-abortion Blue Dog who joined Republicans on several of the controversial measures. But even Cuellar has not indicated how he’ll vote on final passage.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s central government and officials from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region reached a deal Tuesday to resume oil exports from northern Iraq via a pipeline to Turkey.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, announced the deal at a press conference in Baghdad.
“Halting the export of the region’s oil harms Iraq’s revenues,” Sudani said, adding that the governments would work toward passing a federal law detailing the sharing of funds from oil and gas exports.
Barzani said in a statement that while the deal is temporary, it is a “crucial step towards ending the long-standing dispute” between Irbil and Baghdad and “creates a positive and safe atmosphere to finally approve the national oil and gas law.”
Kurdish officials said the deal would allow exports to resume as early as Tuesday.
Iraq stopped sending nearly half a million barrels of oil through the pipeline last month after an arbitration process by the International Chamber of Commerce sided with Iraq in a long-standing dispute over the independent export of oil by the Kurdish regional government.
Baghdad and Irbil have been at loggerheads over oil revenues for years.
Iraq, OPEC’s second largest oil producer, filed for arbitration against Turkey in 2014 after the Kurdish region sidelined Iraq’s state-owned oil marketing company, SOMO, and began exporting crude oil through the neighboring country. Iraq claimed that all oil exports have to go through SOMO under a 1973 agreement with Turkey.
The deal struck Tuesday will allow SOMO to market the crude oil in coordination with Kurdish authorities, according to a Kurdish official privy to the arrangement. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Oil revenues will be under full control of the Kurdish region but will be deposited into an account that the federal government can audit, the official said.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a comfortable and convenient tent option for sleeping outdoors," said one of two inventors, from Dallas, Texas, "so we invented the SLEEPE LITE. Our design prevents rocks and twigs from jabbing you while sleeping and it eliminates the hassle of transporting a separate tent, mattress and sleeping bag."
The patent-pending invention provides a portable tent or shelter for outdoor enthusiasts. In doing so, it eliminates the need to transport a separate mattress and sleeping bag. As a result, it increases comfort and it offers an alternative to sleeping on the tent's bare floor or ground. The invention features an innovative and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for outdoor enthusiasts such as campers, hikers, hunters, and fishermen.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-154, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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WILLOW PARK, Texas, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProFrac Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: PFHC) ("ProFrac" or the "Company") announced today that Matt Wilks, Executive Chairman, and Lance Turner, Chief Financial Officer, will be presenting at the Barclays 2022 CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York City on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, from 10:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The presentation will be broadcast live over the internet and can be accessed via the Company's website at https://ir.pfholdingscorp.com/news-events/ir-calendar.
About ProFrac Holding Corp.
ProFrac Holding Corp. is a growth-oriented, vertically integrated and innovation-driven energy services company providing hydraulic fracturing, completion services and other complementary products and services to leading upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production ("E&P") of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. Founded in 2016, ProFrac was built to be the go-to service provider for E&P companies' most demanding hydraulic fracturing needs. ProFrac is focused on employing new technologies to significantly reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions and increase efficiency in what has historically been an emissions-intensive component of the unconventional E&P development process. For more information, please visit the ProFrac's website at www.pfholdingscorp.com.
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The conference will be held in San Diego, California on May 17, 2023, and will focus on the next 30 years in clean transportation.
PASADENA, Calif., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CALSTART was born almost 30 years ago, with its twin goals being to improve air quality and create jobs in clean transportation. With the help of over 300 dedicated member organizations, those goals have become a reality with the surge of on- and off-road electric vehicle adoption, and the attendant drop in harmful vehicle emissions, throughout the country. While we've seen growth in zero-emission vehicles and an increase in job opportunities, we also see new challenges for the industry. Now that the Biden-Harris Administration has signed the Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on behalf of the United States, and with the new EPA-proposed rules for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, what do the next 30 years in clean transportation look like for our country?
CALSTART's 2023 National Conference traces the organization's evolution as a changemaker in the zero-emission transportation industry. Throughout the event, CALSTART staff will host a dynamic group of EV industry leaders, government officials and policymakers, and lead them in exploring the options and best practices to accelerate the transition to zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure worldwide. CALSTART will also present the winners of the prestigious Blue Sky Award™, which recognizes outstanding market contributions to advance sustainable transportation. The event will close with remarks from CALSTART's CEO, John Boesel; a reception will follow.
"At our National Conference, we're bringing the decisionmakers and industry leaders together to further our goal to halve emissions by 2030: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act and the proposed EPA Phase 3 emission rules provide the framework and direction for clean transportation," says John Boesel, CEO, CALSTART. "Our members are the innovators leading zero-emission technology and will accelerate the industry to even faster growth."
Visit the event page to register and learn more or contact mfine@calstart.org.
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A nonprofit consortium with offices in New York, Michigan, Colorado, California and central Europe and partners world-wide, CALSTART works with 300+ member company and agency innovators to build a prosperous, efficient, and clean high-tech transportation industry. We overcome barriers to modernization and the adoption of clean vehicles. CALSTART is changing transportation for good.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues its investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Cavco Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVCO) resulting from allegations that Cavco may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On November 8, 2018, Cavco revealed in an SEC filing that it had "received a subpoena from the SEC's Division of Enforcement requesting certain documents relating to, among other items, trading in the stock of another public company." On this news, Cavco share price fell $49.48 per share, or over 23%, to close at $165.20 per share on November 9, 2018.
On February 4, 2019, Cavco revealed that it had received requests for additional documents. Cavco further disclosed that it spent, and expected to spend, millions of dollars on legal and insurance expenses in relation to the SEC's subpoenas and Cavco's independent investigation into the matter. On this news, Cavco's share price fell $26.92 per share, or about 16.7%, to close at $134.37 per share on February 5, 2019.
On September 2, 2021, the SEC filed a complaint against Cavco, former CEO Joseph Stegmayer, and former CFO and Chief Compliance Officer Daniel Urness. The SEC complaint alleged that Stegmayer and Urness caused Cavco to purchase shares of publicly traded companies on material non-public information. On this news, Cavco's share price fell $6.59 per share, or about 2.5%, to close at $252.48 per share on September 3, 2021.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Insurance losses from the March tornado that carved a path of destruction through parts of Mississippi are approaching $100 million, and uninsured losses will likely exceed that number, the state insurance department announced Tuesday. The damage is particularly severe in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the country.
The March 24 tornado lashed the Delta with 200 mph (320 kph) winds, devastating the rural communities of Silver City and Rolling Fork. About 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork were destroyed, and 13 people were killed. Large stretches of Amory, a north Mississippi town, were also damaged. Nearly 380,000 cubic yards of debris have been cleared since the storm, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says data is still being collected, but the trajectory toward over $100 million in both insured and uninsured losses underscores the daunting rebuilding process awaiting hard-hit areas.
“We just hope and pray we can get everything solved for these people,” Chaney told The Associated Press. “We've got some long lead times, and what bothers us is we've got about 3,000 claims that are still open.”
A patchwork of different policies can delay claims from being paid by insurance companies. Damage caused by tornadoes is covered under standard homeowners and business insurance policies, as well as some auto insurance policies, Chaney's office said.
Rolling Fork is in Sharkey County, where the poverty rate is around 35%, nearly double Mississippi’s roughly 19% rate and triple the nation’s nearly 12% rate. The tornado stacked the area's longstanding economic challenges on top of newer pressures, such as high inflation and rising interest rates.
Agriculture drives the local economy, with some families owning farmhouses and other properties that date back generations. As a result, heirs' property — or land passed down without a will from generation to generation, where numerous people often share an interest in the property — poses a challenge for towns in the Delta. Landowners may have trouble collecting relief funds or insurance benefits without a clear title or legal deed, documents that might be irretrievable after the storm.
“The challenge of heirs’ property is a serious issue in Sharkey, Humphreys, and Holmes Counties as elsewhere across the South," said Ryan Thomson, a professor of agricultural economics and rural sociology at Auburn University. “During disaster situations, many residents struggle to locate such files and have to rely on electronic records and community ties to validate their ownership.”
When tornadoes pummeled several Alabama counties in 2021, some people who lived in inherited homes had trouble accessing Federal Emergency Management Agency aid. This forced many residents to depart from their family residences because there was no money to rebuild, Thomson said.
FEMA later changed its policy and now accepts other ways to prove property ownership, such as motor vehicle registrations, court documents and letters from local organizations. There is some confusion as to how many uninsured private residences FEMA will cover, Chaney said.
President Joe Biden, who toured Rolling Fork after the tornado, approved a disaster declaration for Mississippi, freeing up federal funds for temporary housing, home repairs and loans to cover uninsured property losses. The state legislature also approved about $18.5 million for tornado relief in the latest state budget.
The Red Cross is helping Mississippi assist 533 citizens with food and lodging in 37 hotels. As of April 17, the U.S. Small Business Administration and FEMA had approved more than $12 million in aid, according to state officials.
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Monday, August 8, 2022
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313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
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Austin-
Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs around 100. Light and variable winds, becoming southeast
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ237-092100-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs in the mid 90s. Light and variable winds, becoming
southeast 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs around 90. West
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
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TXZ196-092100-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
$$
TXZ195-092100-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ214-092100-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Humid with lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ210-092100-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs in the upper 90s. Light and variable winds, becoming
southeast 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ227-092100-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny, then becoming mostly sunny this morning,
then becoming partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Light and
variable winds, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ238-092100-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early this morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with
highs in the mid 90s. Light and variable winds, becoming
southeast 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ198-092100-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ213-092100-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early this morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot
with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around 5 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with
lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ163-092100-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs
around 100. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ235-092100-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in
the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ200-092100-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early this morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot
with highs in the upper 90s. Light and variable winds, becoming
southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with
lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ176-092100-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ236-092100-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ199-092100-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in
the upper 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ179-092100-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny, then becoming mostly sunny this morning,
then becoming partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
$$
TXZ178-092100-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny, then becoming mostly sunny this morning,
then becoming partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
$$
TXZ164-092100-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs
around 100. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ177-092100-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs
around 100. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ212-092100-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs around 100. Light and variable winds, becoming southeast
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ197-092100-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ226-092100-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early this morning, then becoming mostly sunny. A
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around 5 mph, increasing
to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
around 5 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to
105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ300-092100-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early this morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning.
A chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs in the mid 90s. East winds around 5 mph, becoming south
this afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with
lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Humid with highs around
90. North winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny with showers and
thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ313-092100-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny with showers and
thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ338-092100-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms early, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ337-092100-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the
lower 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the
upper 80s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ336-092100-
Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ335-092100-
Coastal Jackson-
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid
90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper
70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ436-092100-
Matagorda Islands-
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny early this morning, then becoming sunny. A
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with highs in
the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid. Near steady temperature in the
mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid. Near steady temperature in
the mid 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid. Near steady temperature in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Near steady temperature in the lower 80s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Near steady temperature in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Near
steady temperature in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid
80s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ437-092100-
Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny, then becoming mostly sunny this morning,
then becoming sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the upper 80s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Near steady
temperature in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the
morning. Near steady temperature in the lower 80s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Near
steady temperature in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ438-092100-
Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers early, then a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning. A slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Humid with highs in
the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Humid
with lows in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Near steady temperature in the lower 80s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
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Bolivar Peninsula-
313 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy early, then becoming partly sunny. A
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms early, then a chance
of showers and thunderstorms this morning. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Humid with highs in the
lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows around 80. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the mid 80s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Charitable giving in the United States declined in 2022 — only the fourth time in four decades that donations did not increase year over year — according to the Giving USA report released Tuesday.
Total giving fell 3.4% in 2022 to $499.3 billion in current dollars, a drop of 10.5% when adjusted for inflation. The decline comes at a time when many nonprofits, especially ones providing services to those in need, report an increase in requests for help.
However, Josh Birkholz, chairman of the Giving USA Foundation, which publishes the report and provides data and insights about donation trends, said the results are actually much better than they could have been considering the tough economic climate of late 2022.
“I go back and forth on whether it’s encouraging or discouraging,” Birkholz told The Associated Press in an interview. “There was a 20 to 25% decline in the stock market and an 8% inflation rate, but Americans still gave nearly a half trillion dollars.”
Those 2022 donations came after two record-setting years for charitable giving, driven by the unprecedented needs of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Una Osili, associate dean for research and international programs at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and the Giving USA report’s lead researcher. It’s a sign of continued generosity, though there are some areas of concern.
“At the beginning of the 21st century, two thirds of Americans gave,” Osili said. “Today, that is down to under 50% for the first time. So giving has grown, but fewer people are participating.”
The downturn in giving has led to issues at Community Help in Park Slope, better known as CHiPS, as it has in many charities across the country. The Brooklyn, New York, nonprofit operates a soup kitchen and food pantry, as well as supporting single mothers and their infants.
“We saw inflation rise and, with that, we saw more working class individuals on our lines,” said Shanice Brown, CHiPS development director. “Donations declined — and donated food as well — because as the price of things increase, people need more and so they donate less.”
CHiPS’ issues are compounded by the number of asylum seekers that are currently housed near the charity in Brooklyn. While CHiPS was providing 275 warm meals a day at this time last year, these days it is offering more than 400 meals daily. And sometimes, they simply run out of food.
“When we run out of hot meals, we still provide sandwiches,” said Brown, who has been collaborating with other nonprofits and food suppliers to try to make ends meet. “Anyone who comes to our door walks away with something.”
Even large-scale nonprofits have had to come up with new solutions to battle inflation’s effects on their resources.
Jared Perry, chief revenue officer at Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, said that while donations to the foundation, which grants the wishes of children fighting critical illnesses, were up slightly in 2022, they are currently declining in some areas this year. And those drops come while Make-A-Wish copes with increased costs for travel, which is involved in about 75% of the wishes they grant.
“I think we’ve seen a 37% increase in rental car prices and that translates to a cost we have to bear,” said Perry, adding that Make-A-Wish has stepped up calls for supporters to donate their airline miles and hotel points in order to help stretch its funding. The foundation has also turned to partners in the travel industry for more help.
The need, Perry said, is also an opportunity for Make-A-Wish and other nonprofits to engage individual donors and appeal to them for help. “The message we’re going to continue to send out is: There are easy ways for people to get to get involved with Make-A-Wish, whether that be through volunteering or certainly by donating,” he said. “For every wish that we’re granting, there’s another wish waiting.”
Jon Bergdoll, associate director of data partnerships at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and the lead analyst for the Giving USA report, said the long-running trend of “dollars up, donors down” in philanthropy offers potential growth for nonprofits who can engage those currently not giving.
Decision makers for donations are “not mom and pop donors, they’re wealthy individuals,” Bergdoll said. “That is indicative of where the money is coming from now versus 30 or 40 years ago.”
According to the Giving USA report, 64% of donations in 2022 came from individual donors, 21% from foundations, 9% from bequests, generally through a will or estate plan, and 6% from corporations. In 2022, corporations donated 0.9% of their pre-tax profits in the United States, though Bergdoll said the report does not track whether multi-national corporations donated more in other countries.
For CHiPS, they are simply hoping for help wherever they can find it. Brown said many foundations have told her they are not accepting new grantees this year because of the economy and other foundations that donated in 2020 and 2021 are saying, “Don’t ask us again until 2024.”
“People have less, so they’re concerned about themselves and that’s understandable,” Brown said. “But there are so many ways the community can help.”
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PHOENIX (AP) — A judge is mulling an Arizona death row prisoner’s request to have fingerprint and DNA tests conducted on evidence from the two 1980 killings for which he is scheduled to be executed next month.
A lawyer for Murray Hooper said at a hearing Wednesday that her client is innocent, that no physical evidence ties him to the killings and that forensic testing could lead to the identification of those responsible. Kelly Culshaw, Hooper’s attorney, also raised questions about the benefits received by witnesses who testified against her client, including favorable treatment in other criminal cases.
“Forensic evidence would have made a difference in this case,” Culshaw said.
Hooper was convicted before computerized fingerprint systems and DNA testing were available in criminal cases, according to his legal team.
Prosecutors say that even if someone else’s prints or DNA were found, that wouldn’t overcome the overwhelming evidence against Hooper.
Hooper is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection or lethal gas at a prison in Florence, Arizona, on Nov. 16 for the killings of William “Pat” Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, at Redmond’s home in Phoenix on Dec. 31, 1980. Redmond’s wife, Marilyn, was shot in the head but recovered.
Lawyers for Hooper say Marilyn Redmond’s description of the assailants changed several times before she identified their client, who claimed not to be in Arizona at the time.
Superior Court Judge Jennifer Green, who hasn’t yet issued a ruling on the forensic testing request, pointed out that a federal appeals court characterized the evidence implicating Hooper as overwhelming.
Asked about the criticism that some witnesses had an incentive to lie, prosecutor Jeffrey Sparks said jurors at Hooper’s trial and appeals courts considered those claims and concluded there was no chance that would have changed the verdict.
Two other men, William Bracy and Edward McCall, were convicted in the killings but died before their death sentences could be carried out.
Authorities say Robert Cruz, who was alleged to have had ties to organized crime, hired Hooper, Bracy and McCall to kill Pat Redmond, who co-owned a printing business. They said Cruz wanted to take over the business and was unhappy that Redmond had rejected his offers to enter several printing contracts with Las Vegas hotels, according to court records. In 1995, Cruz was acquitted of murder charges in both deaths.
Hooper would be the third prisoner put to death this year after Arizona resumed carrying out executions in May, following a nearly eight-year hiatus attributed to both the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs and criticism that a 2014 execution was botched.
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Next Pathway's code translation technology, SHIFT™, automates the conversion of legacy data warehouse code and ETLs to Microsoft Azure
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Next Pathway Inc., the Automated Cloud Migration company, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the migration from legacy data warehouses and data lakes to Microsoft Azure.
Next Pathway's SHIFT™ Migration Suite is being offered as part of the Service to plan and execute Cloud Migrations to Azure. The suite includes SHIFT™ Analyzer which provides a comprehensive review of source legacy application workloads to review the code types and objects which are present, and SHIFT™ Translator which accelerates the translation, testing and migration of complex workloads, such as, SQL, Stored Procedures, ETL pipelines/workflows, and various other code types. Moreover, Next Pathway's technology can also move workloads from other cloud platforms and cloud data warehouses to Azure with ease and efficiency.
An important feature of Next Pathway's technology is the ability to translate legacy ETL pipelines to run natively in Azure Data Factory (ADF). ADF is a cloud-based data integration service that allows users to create data-driven workflows in the cloud for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation.
This collaboration creates an accelerated path for customers to Azure. "At Next Pathway we are continuously innovating to make it easier, and faster for our customers to migrate to the cloud. We are extremely excited to be working with Microsoft", said Chetan Mathur, Chief Executive Officer at Next Pathway.
"We are pleased to partner with Next Pathway and provide our customers with a faster and more efficient migration path to Microsoft Azure," said Zia Mansoor, Worldwide Vice President Data and AI.
Next Pathway is the Automated Cloud Migration company. Powered by Crawler360™, the Migration Planner and the SHIFT™ Migration Suite, Next Pathway automates the end-to-end challenges companies experience when migrating applications to the cloud. For more information, please visit nextpathway.com.
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Second Pres Group Sale; 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; July 28, Second Pres, 404 N. Prairie St., Bloomington; 309-828-6297; Second Pres Annual Group Sale is back for 2023!
Christmas in July - Kids Night Out; 6:30-9 p.m.; July 28, Anderson Aquatic Center, 100 S. Maple St., Normal; $30; Parents, take a night off while your little ones enjoy a private, supervised kids-only pool party at Anderson Aquatic Center; https://go.evvnt.com/1659757-0.
Community Players Theatre presents: Disney's Newsies; 7:30-10 p.m.; July 28, Community Players Theatre, 201 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington; 309-663-2121; $10 to $20; Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Community Players Theatre is delivering a news-worthy show—Disney's Newsies!; https://go.evvnt.com/1790901-0.
Second Pres Group Sale; 8 a.m.-noon; July 29, Second Pres, 404 N. Prairie St., Bloomington; 309-828-6297; Second Pres Annual Group Sale is back for 2023!
Pride Fest; 3-10:30 p.m.; July 29, 200 N. Main St., 200 N. Main St., Bloomington; Celebrate Pride in Downtown Bloomington!
Sarah & The Underground; 6:30-9 p.m.; July 29, PK UnKorked Wine Shop & Tasting Room, 826 N. Ladd St., Pontiac; Live music with no cover charge.
Community Players Theatre presents: Disney's Newsies; 7:30-10 p.m.; July 29, Community Players Theatre, 201 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington; 309-663-2121; $10 to $20; Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Community Players Theatre is delivering a news-worthy show—Disney's Newsies!; https://go.evvnt.com/1790902-0.
Community Players Theatre presents: Disney's Newsies; 2:30-5:30 p.m.; July 30, Community Players Theatre, 201 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington; 309-663-2121; $10 to $20; Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Community Players Theatre is delivering a news-worthy show—Disney's Newsies!; https://go.evvnt.com/1790935-0.
Illinois Chamber Music Festival: Summer 2023 Faculty & Guest Artist Performance 5; 3-4:30 p.m.; July 30, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1312 Park St., Bloomington; 309-662-7861; Join the Illinois Chamber Music Festival in their final concert of the summer festival.
Tour Historic Ewing Manor; 4-6 p.m.; July 31, Ewing Manor, 48 Sunset Road, Bloomington; 309-438-6333; Ewing Manor is a unique home built out of concrete with towers, turrets, spiral staircases, and a slate roof. Tour Bloomington's only castle and learn about the family that lived there; https://go.evvnt.com/1663467-0.
Hot Dog Eating Contest St. Jude Fundraiser; 6-6:30 p.m.; Aug. 1, S. Pointe Park, 325 S. Sycamore St., El Paso; 919-830-1198; Petersen Health Care is hosting a Hot Dog Eating Contest on August 1 at 6:00pm at National Night Out in El Paso, IL. All proceeds will go to St. Jude’s Research Hospital.
August First Friday - Pet Central Helps at Mandy Roeing Fine Art; 5-8 p.m.; Aug. 4, Mandy Roeing Fine Art, 105 W. Monroe St., Bloomington; 919-413-7897; Downtown Bloomington's August First Friday is Dog Days, and pet portrait painter Mandy Roeing is hosting Pet Central Helps!; https://go.evvnt.com/1861608-0.
Gary Osterhoff; 7 p.m., Aug. 4, Bement Country Opry, 201 N. State St., Monticello; $10 per person; dinner served at 5 p.m.; 217-778-0990 or 217-377-0550. | https://pantagraph.com/calendar-briefs/article_b47c1502-2b1f-11ee-bdbb-db8164dcf9c0.html | 2023-07-28 19:00:41 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/calendar-briefs/article_b47c1502-2b1f-11ee-bdbb-db8164dcf9c0.html |
Crews continue to fight major Indiana scrap plastics fire
RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Schools in an Indiana city were closed for a second day Thursday while crews working in a smoky haze poured water and dug for hot spots at a major industrial fire fueled by tons of scrap plastics.
The smoke in Richmond, population 35,000, was not as dark or dense as earlier in the week, but an evacuation order for people living within a half-mile was still in effect. Authorities cautioned other residents who were suddenly seeing smoke due to shifting winds to avoid the outdoors.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it was awaiting test results to determine if any fire debris that landed outside the 14-acre site contained asbestos, which can harm lungs.
Authorities planned to give an update on the fire at 2:30 p.m. EDT. Richmond is 72 miles (115 kilometers) east of Indianapolis.
Oak Park Pentecostals was bracing for hundreds of people at its food pantry. The church has served as a key stop for people since fire blackened the sky with towering smoke Tuesday afternoon and stunned the community, just west of the Indiana-Ohio border.
The church was trying to “fill in and provide comfort to the greatest extent possible for our families that are displaced or evacuated, or somewhere in between those fears,” executive pastor Jesse Arthur said.
At least 1,500 people live in the evacuation zone, though it’s not known how many obeyed the call to leave.
Richmond schools were closed for a second consecutive day based on advice from county emergency managers.
The fire occurred at a former factory site that was used to store plastics that could be resold. The operation has long been under scrutiny by Richmond officials: A judge in 2020 affirmed a cleanup order after city inspectors found fire sprinklers missing and fire hazards among bulk packages of plastics.
Seth Smith, who has been identified as the operator, told the city in 2019 that he sends scrap materials to 29 countries, according to meeting minutes of the Unsafe Building Commission.
“I own a bunch of trailers,” Smith told the commission. “I set the semis at these facilities and they fill them up with their scrap materials. When I started in 1987, there was only 4,000 plastic companies. Now there is over 47,000 plastic companies. It has got out of control, but now I have a plan.”
It’s not clear what, if anything, Smith did to comply with the court decision about a cleanup or what steps the city took to enforce it. His attorney at the time, Ron Moore, declined to comment Thursday. Smith could not be reached.
“The city was devoting available resources to abate the problems, but unfortunately the fire occurred before complete remediation could occur,” city attorney Andrew Sickmann told WRTV-TV.
Smith’s business has been known as My Way Trading, Cornerstone Trading Group and Diversified Green Solutions, according to court documents and other public filings.
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AP reporter Ed White in Detroit contributed to this story.
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Alliance will create, drive and implement inclusion initiatives across the U.S.
MIAMI, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A bold, new initiative is under way across the U.S. to create a pathway for Black and Hispanic students to become future leaders in hospitality, one of the world's largest industries.
The Alliance for Hospitality Equity and Diversity (AHED), led by the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Florida International University (FIU), is on a mission to create a nationwide recruitment infrastructure to increase diversity among students at member universities. Targeting university recruitment is the first of many initiatives that will address the diversity pipeline that leads to hospitality C-suite opportunities. The Alliance brings together higher learning institutions and top hospitality brands and associations.
Black and Hispanic students represent less than one percent of all industry CEOs and presidents, and diverse student enrollments are down at almost all hospitality four-year colleges and universities. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, only 5.8 percent of U.S. hospitality students identified as Black or African American. Additionally, women comprise less than 12 percent of hospitality leadership positions.
AHED serves as an immediate call for leading hospitality companies to diversify at the highest levels of leadership. The Alliance, through its council, will offer strategies and implement concrete solutions to enhance pathways for Black and Hispanic hospitality management students to become leaders.
"Our alliance is focused specifically on bridging the diversity gap confronting our industry, we plan to create social equity by channeling directed resources to lower socio-economic Black and Hispanic students. We plan to form equitable and broad access to higher education that leads to executive leadership positions," said Brian Barker, FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management Endowed Diversity, Equity & Inclusion professor and director of the Alliance.
As the leading minority-serving institution in the country and a Top 10 hospitality school, FIU Chaplin School is initiating the establishment of the Alliance and will oversee the group's national efforts. The Alliance is made up of universities designated as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), and other four-year hospitality universities. Organizations represented in the DE&I Alliance Council include: Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, Hilton, Marriott International, Bacardi North America, Bloomin' Brands, JLL, CBRE, Castell Project, NABHOOD, AHLA Foundation, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, and The Advanced Leadership Institute.
"In order to effect positive change and create a level playing field for our future hospitality leaders, it is crucial that we address this ongoing challenge to leadership potential in the hospitality industry with intentionality and purpose by reaching out to those students with less access to financial, educational and social resources," said Michael Cheng, dean of FIU's Chaplin School.
Income disparities, lack of upward mobility, and lack of promotions are contributing factors leading to Black and Hispanic students electing not to pursue a hospitality education and careers. These factors further compound existing challenges these students face, such as lack of institutional commitment, academic preparedness, role models, and financial aid.
To learn more about the Alliance, please visit the AHED alliance website for more details.
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Goodwill is expanding in Waukesha County by opening a new store and donation center in this suburb
MUKWONAGO - Goodwill Industries International's chain of stores recently extended into Mukwonago, at 101 Arrowhead Drive, the seventh link in Waukesha County and a sign that Goodwill is continuing in its efforts to raise organizational funds through donated merchandise.
Goodwill, which has stood out in the thrift store market since 1902, isn't alone. In Waukesha County and beyond, the familiar secondhand retail store names include the Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul, whose thrift stores have become high-profile fixtures. Those customers also find their way to smaller, charity-based stores.
Opening in Mukwonago, with a 16,000-square-foot facility in a retail center just south of the Interstate 43 interchange with Highway 83, increases Goodwill's accessibility, said chief retail officer Skip Dexter of Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago.
"What makes shopping and donating at Goodwill Store and Donations Centers unique is that it offers consumers a sustainable way to give items a second life while giving back to their local communities ," Dexter said.
In the county, Goodwill also has store and donation centers in Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, Muskego, New Berlin and two locations in Waukesha. Collectively, using the most recent whole-year data available, Goodwill officials noted that the organization served 219 people in Waukesha County through its job resource and community-based support programs. It also employed 527 Waukesha County residents. Add to that the 629 county residents who got emergency assistance through the Goodwill Cares Community Assistance Program.
For those not interested in thrift shopping, the organization also accepts financial donations. Information on the region's Goodwill operations is available at goodwillsew.com/how-you-can-help.
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EEOC: 2 fired for not joining company Christian prayer
By TOM FOREMAN Jr.
Associated Press
A lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims two employees with a North Carolina company say they were fired after refusing to participate in the firm’s daily Christian devotionals. The plaintiffs, one an atheist and the other an agnostic, say the daily prayer meetings went against their respective religious beliefs. In the lawsuit, the EEOC says daily prayer meetings are part of the business model of Aurora Pro Services in Greensboro. According to the complaint, attendance at the prayer meetings was mandatory for employees and was a condition of employment regardless of a worker’s religious beliefs or affiliation. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/06/28/eeoc-2-fired-for-not-joining-company-christian-prayer/ | 2022-06-28 19:22:00 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/06/28/eeoc-2-fired-for-not-joining-company-christian-prayer/ |
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s top diplomat wants his country to sever diplomatic relations with Iran over its sale of so-called suicide drones to Russia.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Tuesday that Ukraine wouldn’t tolerate Iran’s “meanness and lies” on the issue.
The Iranian drones are precise, small, can effectively penetrate air defenses when fired in groups and are cheap at around $20,000 each. Moscow has used them extensively in recent days in its war against Ukraine, especially against civilian targets in Ukrainian cities.
“After Iran has become an accomplice in Russia’s aggression and crimes on our territory, we will take a clear and honest stand,” Kuleba said, adding that he advised President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to break off ties with Tehran.
Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said that after Iran provided Russia with a first batch of 1,750 drones, Moscow has placed orders for more.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Winter is coming: Ukrainians dig in for brutal season
— EXPLAINER: Killer drones vie for supremacy over Ukraine
— Ukrainian resilience persists amid Russian barrages
— NATO begins nuclear exercises amid Russia’s war
— EU approves Ukraine training mission
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine — A senior Ukrainian official says Russian attacks have damaged more than 400 infrastructure targets across Ukraine since early last week.
The Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, Oleksii Chernyshov, said Tuesday that Russian missiles and Iranian-made drones have struck 408 Ukrainian targets since Oct. 10.
The targets included 45 energy facilities. He said that more than 180 civilian buildings were also struck.
Chernyshov insisted that Ukrainians will not be cowed by Moscow’s onslaught. He said that “such terrorist actions of the aggressor mobilize and harden us even more.”
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HELSINKI — Estonia’s Parliament has adopted with unanimous support a resolution declaring neighboring Russia a terrorist regime and condemns Moscow’s annexation of Ukrainian territory.
Estonia’s 101-seat Riigikogu legislature voted Tuesday on the resolution with 88 lawmakers in favor and none against.
In the statement, the Parliament strongly condemned the military actions of the Russia against Ukraine and the illegal annexation of the territories conquered during the aggression.
It declared that Estonia will never recognize the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine through aggressions and sham referendums.
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin is refusing to confirm that the Russian military is using Iranian drones in its attacks on Ukraine.
Asked Tuesday whether Russia is using them to strike Ukrainian targets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded: “We don’t have such information.”
Speaking in a conference call with reporters, he emphasized that “Russian equipment with Russian names is being used.”
The Iranian Shahed drones reportedly have been rebranded Geran-2 by Russia and used extensively to carry out strikes across Ukraine.
They are often called suicide drones because they slam into targets and explode. Analysts say Moscow’s plan is to terrorize Ukraine’s civilian population with the drones.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Officials say two people have been killed in Russian missile attacks on Kyiv.
The Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office said the fatalities occurred Tuesday morning as Moscow’s forces targeted the capital’s energy facilities.
The attacks left some 50,000 people in Kyiv without power, according to Antonina Antosha, spokesperson for the DTEK group, which operates of the affected infrastructure.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president says that over the past week Russian attacks have knocked out 30% of his country’s power plants.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a tweet on Tuesday that the strikes have caused “massive blackouts across the country.”
Russian missiles have taken aim at Ukraine’s power grid since Oct. 10, in an apparent bid to deny Ukrainians heating in the approaching winter and eroding civilian morale.
Moscow has also been bombarding Ukrainian cities with Iranian-made drones that have smashed into apartment blocks.
The Institute for the Study of War think tank, in Washington, that Moscow is “prioritizing creating psychological terror effects on Ukraine over achieving tangible battlefield effects” amid Ukraine’s recent counteroffensive.
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BERLIN — Estonia’s foreign minister says that sanctions against Russia still haven’t gone far enough.
European Union countries so far have approved several packages of sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said Tuesday that the point of sanctions is to raise pressure to end the war, and the only person who can end the war at present is Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He argued that “as we have not reached that decision point, it means the sanctions have not reached the needed altitude.”
He didn’t specify what further sanctions should be imposed.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces are again peppering Ukraine with missile and drone attacks, mostly targeting energy facilities as winter approaches.
Moscow’s attacks during the night and into Tuesday morning mostly concentrated on cities in the south and east of Ukraine, which Russia invaded almost eight months ago.
Numerous explosions were heard in the eastern city of Kharkiv, especially in its industrial area south of the city center.
Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, wrote on Telegram that eight rockets were fired from the nearby Russian city of Belgorod. He said there were no injuries.
Russia also shelled the southern city of Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles, killing a man whose body was found in the debris of a two-story building, according to Regional Governor Vitalii Kim. Moscow’s forces also launched Iranian-made drones against the city, with Ukraine shooting down five of them, Operational Command South said.
In the southeast city of Dnipro, an energy facility was hit twice and severely damaged, the deputy head of the president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said.
In Kyiv, an energy facility was hit three times. In Zhytomyr, 140 kilometers (87 miles) west of the capital, another energy facility was struck.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, so-called suicide drones caused a fire at an infrastructure facility.
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WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russia has been using up its stock of munitions “at an unsustainable rate.”
Avril Haines, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said late Monday that Russian forces face a major supply shortage, especially of precision weapons such as cruise missiles.
Moscow is being forced to turn to countries such as Iran and North Korea for supplies and equipment, including UAVs, artillery shells and rockets.
International sanctions and export controls slapped on Russia are exposing its technological weaknesses, Haines said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russians forces have abducted two more employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
State nuclear operator Energoatom wrote on its Telegram channel that two people were detained and taken to an unknown location: the head of the information technology service Oleh Kostiukov and the assistant general director of the station Oleh Osheka.
At the beginning of October, another person, the deputy general director for personal Valeriі Martyniuk, was abducted, and his whereabouts are still unknown.
The first one among top management of the plant to be seized was the plant’s director, Ihor Murashov. He was blindfolded by Russian forces on his way home from work, then released in early October after being forced to make false statements on camera.
Ukrainian technicians have continued running the plant after it was seized by Russian troops.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced a wave of Russian drone attacks and strongly urged the country’s allies to provide it with air defense weapons.
“To guarantee the protection of our skies and reduce the possibilities for Russian terrorists to zero, we need much more air defense systems and more missiles for those systems,” he said in a televised address to the nation late Monday. “This is not only in Ukraine’s interests. The less opportunities for terror Russia has, the sooner this war ends.”
Explosives-laden suicide drones have struck Ukraine’s capital, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them. Authorities said four people died.
“Russia doesn’t have any chance on the battlefield, and it tries to compensate for its military defeats with terror,” Zelesnkyy said. “Why this terror? To put pressure on us, on Europe, on the entire world.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-14/ | 2022-10-18 16:51:13 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-14/ |
A trio of progressive Philadelphia City Council members will introduce a package of abortion-related bills this week that would strengthen privacy rules and make it harder for patients and doctors to face trouble under laws passed by other states.
One bill would restrict providers from volunteering information to other states about people who seek abortion care, and another would update the city’s laws to bar employers from discriminating against workers based on reproductive health care decisions.
» READ MORE: What you need to know about the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling and the future of abortion rights
The effort follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to an abortion, which was ostensibly to return control of abortion regulations to the states.
That means Harrisburg and the GOP-controlled legislature wield enormous power over what abortion access looks like in the state. In the face of that shift, local legislators who want to protect access to abortion — now including progressives in Philadelphia — are pushing to strengthen municipal laws.
“We want to send a very clear message that our city will affirmatively protect the rights of women, no matter where they may live, who are seeking their right to have an abortion in Pennsylvania,” said at-large Councilmember Helen Gym, a sponsor of the legislation.
Pennsylvania’s abortion laws did not change after the high court’s decision in June. The procedure is generally legal through about 24 weeks into a pregnancy, though the state’s GOP-controlled legislature has supported further restrictions. Several have been vetoed by the term-limited Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, and the Republican nominee seeking to replace him has championed a bill that would ban abortion after about six weeks into pregnancy with no exceptions.
» READ MORE: 'We’re at the beginning of a decades-long battle': Planned Parenthood execs gather in Philly to talk abortion access
Democrats statewide have spent much of the summer exploring ways to hedge against future restrictions, or prepare for statutes floated in other states that could apply to people who seek abortion care in Pennsylvania. For example, a bill pending in Missouri would allow private citizens to sue people in other states who help a Missouri resident have an abortion.
Any bill that restricts patients from traveling to another state for an abortion would face certain legal scrutiny. But at-large Councilmember Kendra Brooks, a member of the progressive Working Families Party, contended the city shouldn’t wait and see.
“This is to protect our providers here in Philadelphia,” she said. “We have a responsibility to codify this in city law.”
One of the bills would bar health-care providers or employers from volunteering information to anyone in another state for the purpose of prosecuting or suing someone who is either obtaining or providing an abortion that’s legal in Pennsylvania (unless required by court order). A violation could result in civil penalties.
Another bill, which will be introduced by Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, of West Philadelphia, would explicitly afford patients who receive an abortion that’s legal in Pennsylvania the right to countersue someone in another state who launches legal proceedings against them.
» READ MORE: Four Philadelphia abortion providers talk about what drives them
And a third, which will be introduced by Brooks, would update the city’s workplace discrimination ordinance to add “reproductive health status” as a protected class.
Gauthier said that while it’s unclear what the future of abortion access is in Pennsylvania, the city “can’t leave women’s rights up to chance.”
“We know what Philadelphia’s values are,” she said, “and we have to protect our citizens, regardless of what happens at the state level.”
Some of the legislation is largely symbolic. The group is also introducing a resolution that calls on the administration to restrict the use of any city resources to assist out-of-state investigations or lawsuits related to abortions, launch a public education campaign on available abortion options, and work with clinics to increase safety measures.
Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration recently donated $500,000 in city funds to the Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania, which provides financial assistance to people seeking abortions in the area. Last month, residents backed by a conservative law firm sued the city, claiming the move violated state law.
The bills will be introduced Thursday, the first Council meeting of the fall session, which will be held virtually. | https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/philadelphia-abortion-council-legislation-gym-brooks-gauthier-20220914.html | 2022-09-14 11:14:12 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/philadelphia-abortion-council-legislation-gym-brooks-gauthier-20220914.html |
The Capital Appreciation Equity ETF, Growth ETF, International Equity ETF, Small-Mid Cap ETF, and Value ETF offer distinct investment strategies and begin trading today
BALTIMORE, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ-GS: TROW), a global investment management firm, announced today the addition of five new active equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its active ETF roster:
- T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF (TCAF)
- T. Rowe Price Growth ETF (TGRT)
- T. Rowe Price International ETF (TOUS)
- T. Rowe Price Small-Mid Cap ETF (TMSL)
- T. Rowe Price Value ETF (TVAL)
All are available to the public beginning today on NYSE Arca, Inc. The five comprise the debut of fully transparent active equity ETFs from T. Rowe Price.
The new ETFs represent building-block strategies that focus on several major elements of the equity market. Each new ETF offers investment approaches that are separate and distinct from existing T. Rowe Price mutual funds and ETFs. The ETFs leverage the firm's world-class fundamental global research platform and its long history of active management expertise.
- The Capital Appreciation Equity ETF is managed by David Giroux, CFA, head of Investment Strategy and chief investment officer for T. Rowe Price Investment Management (TRPIM) and who manages the U.S. Capital Appreciation Strategy.
- The additional four ETFs (Growth ETF, International Equity ETF, Small-Mid Cap ETF, and Value ETF) are team-managed with Jodi Love as the lead portfolio manager. Love is vice president and member of the Investment Advisory Committees of the Blue Chip Growth, Diversified Mid-Cap Growth, Global Consumer, Growth Stock, Large-Cap Growth, and Value funds.
T. Rowe Price launched its first active ETFs in August 2020, and the newest ETFs expand the firm's total offerings to 15 funds, which include five semi-transparent equity ETFs, five transparent fixed income ETFs, and the five new transparent equity ETFs. This collective lineup of active ETFs complements the firm's traditional mutual fund offerings and delivers key features associated with existing ETFs that some investors may prefer, including competitive pricing, tax efficiency, and the flexibility to buy and sell shares throughout the trading day.
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Tim Coyne, Global Head of Exchange-Traded Funds
"With the new addition of our first transparent active equity ETFs, we've expanded the ways we can give investors access to even more of T. Rowe Price's best strategic investing ideas in the ETF wrapper. Backed by our world-class fundamental research, the new ETFs are developed with the ETF investor in mind and based on feedback directly from investors and advisors, as we continue to grow our ETF roster and deliver products that help meet clients' range of investing needs."
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ACTIVE EQUITY ETFs
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF (TCAF)
- Seeks to provide long-term capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of large U.S. companies of both growth and value styles. The ETF holds securities of companies displaying favorable traits, such as experienced and capable management, strong risk-adjusted return potential, leading or improving market position or proprietary advantages, and/or attractive relative market valuations.
- Managed by David Giroux, CFA, who has 24 years of investing experience, all at T. Rowe Price. Giroux is a six-time nominee and two-time winner of an annual Morningstar award for excellence in portfolio management.
- Net expense ratio is .31%
The four ETFs below are each team managed with Jodi Love as the lead portfolio manager. Love has 19 years of investment experience, including four at T. Rowe Price.
T. Rowe Price Growth ETF (TGRT)
- Seeks to provide long-term capital growth, by investing in primarily large-cap stocks with an above-average rate of earnings, cash flow growth, and a lucrative niche in the economy that gives them the ability to sustain earnings momentum even during times of slow economic growth.
- Net expense ratio is .38%
T. Rowe Price International Equity ETF (TOUS)
- Seeks to provide long-term capital growth by investing in a broadly diversified equity portfolio of companies across the market cap spectrum, with a majority of its exposure from developed non-U.S. regions and countries; may select stocks with growth or value characteristics while remaining mindful of the global economic backdrop.
- Net expense ratio is .50%
T. Rowe Price Small-Mid Cap ETF (TMSL)
- Seeks to provide long-term capital growth through a broadly diversified portfolio of small- and mid-cap U.S. stocks; may select stocks with growth or value characteristics.
- Net expense ratio is .55%
T. Rowe Price Value ETF (TVAL)
- Seeks to provide long-term capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of large-cap stocks that appear to be undervalued by various measures, and may be temporarily out of favor, but have good prospects for capital appreciation.
- Net expense ratio is .33%
ABOUT T. ROWE PRICE
Founded in 1937, T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) helps people around the world achieve their long-term investment goals. As a large global asset management company known for investment excellence, retirement leadership, and independent proprietary research, the firm is built on a culture of integrity that puts client interests first. Investors rely on the award-winning firm for its retirement expertise and active management approach of equity, fixed income, alternatives, and multi-asset investment capabilities. T. Rowe Price manages USD $1.35 trillion in assets under management as of May 31, 2023, and serves millions of clients globally. News and other updates can be found on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and troweprice.com/newsroom.
Consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. For a prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus containing this and other information visit troweprice.com. Read it carefully.
ETFs are bought and sold at market prices, not NAV. Investors generally incur the cost of the spread between the prices at which shares are bought and sold. Buying and selling shares may result in brokerage commissions which will reduce returns.
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Following three straight games decided by two scores or less, Little Rock Parkview Coach Brad Bolding was happy to have a change Thursday night at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
His team defeated De Queen 42-0, thanks to three running backs finding the end zone.
"We've been on a gauntlet for the last three weeks," he said. "Anytime you can keep your fresh legs and carry that into the following week, that's always going to be good."
Junior Jaden Ashford finished with 132 yards, 18 carries and 2 touchdowns to lead the Patriots.
Parkview (3-2, 2-0 5A-South) wasted little time getting its offense moving Thursday night. The Patriots' first drive went five plays for 53 yards, ending with a 3-yard touchdown run by running back Darien Bennett to make the score 7-0. The senior ended the night with 43 yards.
De Queen (0-5, 0-2) started near midfield following an unsuccessful onside kick attempt, but a three-and-out handed the ball back to Parkview.
The Patriots put together a nearly-identical drive to their first, driving 55 yards on five plays. Bennett scored his second touchdown on an 18-yard run and make it 14-0.
Parkview began its next drive at the De Queen 31 following a short punt. The drive lasted four plays and was ended with a touchdown run by Ashford to make it 20-0.
De Queen wasn't able to secure a first down throughout the game, routinely providing Parkview with short fields with which to work.
Because of that, De Queen's closest tip to the end zone came when Johnathan Bahena intercepted Parkview backup quarterback Chase Forte. He was tackled inside the opposing 20-yard line, but De Queen then lost a fumble.
Parkview's next drive lasted all of one play as quarterback Eric McGehee found Omarion Robinson behind the defense for a 45-yard touchdown to make it 27-0.
Before the season, Bolding said he was unsure id his starting quarterback would be McGehee or Forte, a sophomore. But Thursday night he said he's been impressed with how McGehee has played through five games.
"I think Eric's done a great job," he said. "He's picked up on the offense pretty good, and he's getting better each week throwing the ball."
The score was 29-0 to end the first quarter following a fumble by De Queen quarterback Cole Binkley that rolled out his own end zone.
Having gone 1-2 in their past three games, Bolding said he wanted a step up in play from his team Thursday. The Patriots' fast start was just what he asked for.
"We really challenged our players all week, you know, that 'Hey, we want to hit this certain amount,' " he said. "And it's not about who we're playing. It's always going be about how we play. And the kids really bought into it. I thought we came out and were hitting on all cylinders."
Parkview sophomore running back Cameron Settles' 40-yard touchdown run made it 35-0.
"I've got three really good backs," Bolding said. "One's a senior, one's a junior and one's a sophomore and can all run the football. They are all exceptional athletes."
Parkview's longest drive of the game brought its final score. A nine-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 2-yard touchdown run by Ashford. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/30/little-rock-parkview-runs-by-de-queen/ | 2022-09-30 08:50:38 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/30/little-rock-parkview-runs-by-de-queen/ |
Grassroots Pride event celebrates, educates LGBTQ+ community
In its inaugural Pride Month celebration, West Tennessee LGBTQ+ Support, LLC hosted members of the LGBTQ+ community and supporting friends and family at Pugh Bourne Park on June 24.
A number of vendors and resources set up shop at the park to take part in the celebration dedicated to providing a safe space for the Jackson and Madison County LGBTQ+ community.
Organizing against all odds
Event coordinator and cofounder of the LLC, Kal Reasons, explained that along with co-founder Megan McKee, they have been attempting to spearhead an event of this nature in a process that began in January.
"I'm just incredibly proud and grateful for the opportunity to be able to help head up something, and I've always dreamed of doing something like this," Reasons said.
The LLC, founded in September of 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, had a hindered ability to host events of the capacity in which they'd like, according to Reasons. Separate from Jackson Pride, the LLC aims to bridge the gap outside of Jackson Pride's once-a-year event and provide ample opportunities and spaces for those in the LGBTQ+ community.
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"We are a small grassroots organization that is dedicated to ensuring that nobody in this area feels alone. We are not here to fight with people because of what they want to believe, we just want to be left alone for what we believe," Reasons said.
With this event being the first of its kind hosted by the organization, challenges included insurance, cost, and threats of potential protests.
"The biggest issue we had was with, honestly, people wanting to bring attention and say bad things about us. Wanting to say that we're grooming children and indoctrinating children, when we're out with our families trying to celebrate who we are authentically. We are trying to be ourselves and have a good time, support small LGBTQ+ locally-owned businesses run by people that are members in our group that need the support."
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Reasons noted that talk of protests ran rampant across social media in the weeks leading up to the celebration, but the event ultimately went smoothly without disruption.
Charlee Vaultonburg, 19, was accompanied by their dad Dave at the event and explained the importance of having spaces to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
"For years, the only exposure I had was online to other gay people," Vaultonburg said. "My first Pride was last year after I came out to my parents and it was very relieving and now I know it's not scary or weird."
Support from local entities and businesses
Vendors in attendance at the event got to register their booth through a sign-up list that warranted a $30 vendor cost.
"These are people in the group, by the group, for the group," Reasons said.
The Madison Area Democratic (MAD) Women set up a booth at the Pride event in what the organization's president Debbie Swacker described as being "in support of what Kal is doing" by providing a positive space for the LGBTQ+ community. MAD's mission on that day in particular was focused on voter registration and voter education.
"Your vote is your superpower," Swacker said. "We're confident that with our mission and in partnering with organizations like Kal's that we can be a part of the change and the swing to inclusiveness and diversity and rights for all of us."
Another booth providing legal services for those in attendance was an intentional move that Reasons saw as being beneficial to those who might need it.
"We tried to reach out and make sure we had some social services so that we could be able to provide anti-discrimination and housing information to people within our community," Reasons said. "That's something a lot of our individuals face, they need a lot of legal services for name changes, discrimination, housing, work, healthcare, anything. Really, every part of our daily lives are affected by us being a part of the [LGBTQ+] community."
Future events for the community
Reasons explained that this event is not going to be the organization's last and hopes to expand its reach in the coming months.
"We are here to educate, enlighten, and empower all the LGBTQ+ community across West Tennessee and our surrounding areas," Reasons said. "So we're starting small in Jackson mostly, but we want to eventually be able to branch out to places like Savannah, Paris, things like that where we can have more events and bigger events with more people." | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2023/07/05/grassroots-pride-event-in-jackson-supports-educates-lgbtq-community/70372822007/ | 2023-07-05 13:38:57 | 1 | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2023/07/05/grassroots-pride-event-in-jackson-supports-educates-lgbtq-community/70372822007/ |
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Making time for a healthy breakfast isn’t always easy to fit into a weekday morning. Foods that are convenient to eat while on the go are not always the best for you (see: pastries, prepackaged cereal bars). And sitting down to eat breakfast is not a possibility when you’re time-crunched and need to get out the door.
Fortunately, there is a great and super-simple solution to this problem: smoothies! Using fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables, you can pack a smoothie with tons of nutritious ingredients you have sitting around in your kitchen. It’ll be delicious, too. Throw some ice, peanut butter, a banana, a few spinach leaves, and your choice of milk into a blender and within minutes, you’ll have a sweet, high-protein breakfast shake that’s ready to be consumed.
However, if you want to up your smoothie game, an inexpensive single-serving blender, like the Hamilton Beach personal blender, is a must-have kitchen gadget for any busy person.
We love that the entire machine is portable and ultra-lightweight at only two pounds, which means you can take it to the office with you. Plus, the BPA-free blender jar itself can detach from the blender’s base and be used as a to-go cup. It even comes with its own tight-fitting travel lid.
To use the Hamilton Beach personal blender, all you have to do is load up the 14-ounce jar with your favorite smoothie ingredients, hit the one-touch blend button, and voilà! The blender’s stainless steel blades quickly work to mix your drink. And when it’s time to clean up, the blender jar, blades and travel lid are all conveniently dishwasher-safe.
Amazon reviewers love the Hamilton Beach personal blender, rating it an average of 4.3 stars with over 86,500 reviews to date. Customers who like the product say it’s easy to use, easy to clean, versatile, and sheer.
Reviewer Janine D. found that having the blender made days start out better.
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The Hamilton Beach personal blender costs between $21.85-$26.99, depending on color — so choose your favorite hue or pick one that matches your kitchen decor. The version shown above (raspberry, our favorite) is $21.99.
Are you time-crunched in the morning? Would starting your day with a smoothie be a healthy way to fit breakfast in?
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Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin immediately acknowledged one of the biggest stories in college football during his comments from the dais Thursday at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
“Second time here. Excited to be here,” Harsin told reporters. “I know some of you out there looking at me didn’t expect me to be here at this time. I’m going to dive into that here in just a second, address the gorilla in the room. Going back to what happened in February, I’m going to address it now. Moving forward, that will be the last time I talk about this subject.”
Now former Auburn University President Jay Gouge made an unprompted announcement that Auburn would investigate allegations into the program on February 4th in Montgomery during a Board of Trustees meeting to confirm current President Dr. Chris Roberts.
“There have been a lot of rumors and speculation about our football program,” Gogue told reporters. “I just want you to know we’re involved in trying to separate fact from fiction. We’ll keep you posted and make the appropriate decision at the right time.”
Harsin survived the ten-day inquiry, thus remaining the Auburn head coach.
“There was an inquiry. It was uncomfortable. It was unfounded,” Harsin said defiantly. “It presented an opportunity for people to personally attack me, my family, and also our program. And it didn’t work.”
Harsin continued his message with spirited determination. He believes the outcome will positively impact the team seeking to recover from a season-ending five-game losing streak.
“What came out of that inquiry were a lot of positives,” Harsin said. There was a silver lining in all of this. What I saw from our players and our coaches were leadership opportunities for them to step up, which is exactly what they did. You got a chance to see guys provide leadership. You got a chance to see coaches provide leadership.”
Auburn opens the season in less than 45 days against Mercer on September 3rd at Jordan-Hare. The Tigers have five home games to start the year, including a week three rematch against Penn State. Harsin enters his second season with a four-person quarterback battle and will play one of the most demanding schedules in college football.
While there are several questions about the offensive line and other positions, there isn’t any doubt in Harsin’s mind that his team is moving onward.
“What it did is it united our football team, our players, our staff, our football team. I’m really proud of our guys,” Harsin said. I’m proud of what something like that that could be very challenging and difficult for a lot of people, how our guys stepped up and handled it. We had coaches and players that could have went to different places, and avoided all the adversity and challenges. They didn’t could that.”
Harsin eventually talked football, but not before getting in one last quip about an awkward situation.
Our players are working extremely hard,” Harsin said. They’re doing a fantastic job, in my opinion, getting themselves ready to go for this season. That will be the last I talk about that. There’s plenty of interviews on it. If you want any more information on it, just go Google it.”
Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group. | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2022/07/bryan-harsin-addresses-auburn-inquiry-for-the-last-time.html | 2022-07-21 15:45:17 | 1 | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2022/07/bryan-harsin-addresses-auburn-inquiry-for-the-last-time.html |
(The Hill) – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the court’s majority opinion in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade last year, said he has a “pretty good idea” of the identity of the person who leaked the draft ruling.
Alito said in an interview with two Wall Street Journal opinion writers that the leak of the court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last May, more than a month before the opinion was officially announced, “created an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust.”
Chief Justice John Roberts directed the court’s marshal to launch an investigation to try to identify the person responsible for leaking the information to Politico, but the high court said in January that they were unable to find the source.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe in a 5-4 ruling in the Dobbs case last June. Roberts voted to uphold a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi that was being reviewed, but he joined the court’s liberals in opposing the overturning of the precedent.
Alito said in the interview that the marshal “did a good job with the resources available” but the evidence was not sufficient to name a suspect.
“I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but that’s different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody,” Alito said.
He said he believes the motive for the leak was to prevent the early draft of Dobbs from becoming the court’s ultimate ruling. The vast majority of the final ruling was similar to the text of the leaked draft.
“And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court,” Alito said.
The court’s ruling in Dobbs, which struck down the federal right to abortion, was followed by more than a dozen states taking action to severely restrict or ban access to the procedure.
Regardless of the identity of the leaker and their motive, the leak effectively “froze the votes”
in the case and prevented the opportunity for compromise in the final weeks before the decision was released, according to reporting in the book “Nine Black Robes,” a portion of which was adapted for a CNN article last month. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/alito-says-he-has-pretty-good-idea-of-the-identity-of-dobbs-decision-leaker/ | 2023-04-29 15:22:07 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/alito-says-he-has-pretty-good-idea-of-the-identity-of-dobbs-decision-leaker/ |
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The 9-month-old was attacked inside the single-family home and died at the scene; the child's grandmother was seriously injured in the attack.
Police arrested the man but had to take him out of the police car because of his aggressive behavior. He is still at large. | https://kenoshanews.com/matthew-greg-hansen/article_71de2d4a-ef5e-11ed-83d7-3bfcb08429c0.html | 2023-05-10 18:38:46 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/matthew-greg-hansen/article_71de2d4a-ef5e-11ed-83d7-3bfcb08429c0.html |
11 AUGUST 2022, Start 11am, 31 KM, 2,200 M ELEVATION GAIN
SIERRA, SWITZERLAND
ANNECY, France, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a small revolution in the world of trail running! While European and American runners have seemed to dominate the Golden Trail World Series races for years, this weekend African runners took control in the 4th stage in Sierre-Zinal in Switzerland.
The Africans performed magnificently!
While they have dominated road running for decades, African runners have never really succeeded in establishing themselves in trail running, a speciality that requires technical and muscular qualities that did not seem to fully correspond to their running style. However, during the 4th stage of the Golden Trail World Series in Switzerland, it was the Africans who stood out! Winners in both the men's and women's races, ahead of the best European runners in the world, they also managed to take many places of honour with five Africans in the men's top 10 and four women in the women's top 10. An unprecedented result in a world cup round!
Bracelets for a win
This result is very encouraging and is in line with what the Golden Trail World Series aims to do: have the best athletes in the world compete against each other at each stage. It is not always easy, however, for these African runners who struggle to get visas in time to participate in events and who sometimes have to be resourceful in financing their travel. This was particularly the case for Esther Chesang (team Sky Runners, Kenya) who had to sell bracelets to raise 1,400 Euros to pay for her trip to Switzerland. This victory in the Golden Trail World Series should make it easier for her to participate in other European races. Especially as African runners have a real desire to shine on the trails of Europe. This is the case of Mark Kangogo (team Daudin / On Running, Kenya), winner of the men's race, who claims to have trained for more than six months especially for this round of the GTWS.
Get ready for the USA!
After this incredible 4th stage in Switzerland, it's time for the runners to take a short month's rest before heading to the United States where two legendary races await them. The first one will take place on September 17 in Manitou Springs in Colorado which is to host the Pikes Peak Ascent!
Results
Men
1 – MARK KANGOGO (KEN – DAUDIN / ON RUNNING): 02:27:31
2 – ANDREU BLANES (ESP – HOKA ONE ONE / CARNICAS SERRANO): 02:29:19
3 - PATRICK KIPNGENO (KEN - RUN2GETHER): 02:29:35
4 – PETRO MAMU (ERI – SCARPA): 02:30:18
5 – KILIAN JORNET (ESP – NNORMAL): 02:30:19
Women
1 – ESTHER CHESANG (KEN – SKY RUNNERS KENYA): 02:52:01
2 – MAUDE MATHYS (SUI – SALOMON): 02:52:32
3 – PHILIARIES KISANG (KEN – DAUDIN / ON RUNNING): 02:58:00
4 – TERESIAH OMOSA (KEN – RUN2GETHER): 03:01:13
5 – SARAH MCCORMACK (IRL – INOV-8): 03:04:12
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The addition is emblematic of a growing recognition in U.S. healthcare of the critical role language barriers play in perpetuating health inequity
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeenie, a modern interpreting platform poised to transform the $60B Language Services Industry, announced today the addition of Peter Fine, President and CEO of Banner Health, to its Board of Directors. Mr. Fine brings over four decades of experience and expertise in the healthcare industry to the Jeenie team, including the last 22 years at the helm of Banner, one of the largest secular healthcare systems in the country, operating 30+ hospitals, employing over 50,000 people, and providing critical healthcare services across six states.
"Mr. Fine's leadership, vision, and deep expertise in U.S. healthcare is a powerful addition to Jeenie's growing Board of Directors, and will prove pivotal to our ability to further penetrate this market," said Kirsten Brecht Baker, CEO and Co-Founder of Jeenie. "Peter shares our vision for eliminating language barriers in order to increase equitable access to quality healthcare for all, especially the most vulnerable among us."
The addition of Mr. Fine to the Board signifies critical recognition by thought leaders in U.S. healthcare of the growing need to focus on the underlying issues causing health inequity and how to address them in the short and long term. It also represents an industry-wide movement to empower patients to participate more actively and holistically in their health, including those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and those who are deaf.
"I accepted the invitation to join the Jeenie Board because of the quality and experience of the management team, the sophistication and knowledge of their financial supporters, and the highly differentiated products and services they have developed for the customer," said Mr. Fine. "As Jeenie has only begun to tap into the broad array of markets that could get great value from their game changing product, significant growth and scale up is sure to follow."
As the U.S. population continues to diversify, and as the country continues to face new and evolving public health challenges, Jeenie's versatile, device-agnostic platform offers the healthcare system a uniquely simple and elegant way to eliminate the language barriers that cause serious consequences for patients, providers, payors, and administrators, redefining the way language services are delivered in U.S. healthcare.
Jeenie is a virtual interpreting platform that connects users to a video or audio call with live, qualified interpreters for on-demand language assistance, 24/7. Jeenie is available in over 300 languages on any smartphone, tablet or computer, as well as for call centers and through third-party integrations. Jeenie was named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2022.
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Heartwarming video of barber, child sharing special haircut goes viral
CINCINNATI (WLWT) - A barber in Cincinnati is giving free haircuts for kids with special needs.
And a heartwarming video of one of those cuts, showing a fun bonding moment, has gone viral.
Ellison Eubanks, 7, recently visited barber Vernon Jackson.
Ellison has Down syndrome and has been through three open-heart surgeries. His family said he has an infectious smile and he loves to laugh. However, he does face daily challenges, including getting a haircut.
“My husband and I both would kind of play rock-paper-scissors on who gets to take Ellison to get his hair cut because we both knew what we were in for,” Ellison’s mother Julie Eubanks said.
But that’s before Ellison and his family found out about GIFTED, an initiative started in 2021 to give kids with special needs free haircuts.
And Ellison’s haircut experience with Jackson went viral on social media with a video recorded by the boy’s mother.
“We were laughing as if we’d been friends for 20 years. So, that’s a good, good spirit connection,” Jackson said.
Ellison’s mother said it was a proud moment watching her child get through what has been a difficult time with Jackson’s help.
“That’s why at the end of most of my haircuts we are giving high-fives and fist-bumps,” Jackson said. “And some of the best moments we are giving hugs.”
The haircuts are free for parents and paid for by donors through a GoFundMe fundraiser, where more than $13,000 has currently been raised.
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Senate passes stopgap bill to avert shutdown, aid Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a partial government shutdown when the current fiscal year ends at midnight Friday and provide another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine as it seeks to repel Russia’s brutal invasion.
The bill finances the federal government through Dec. 16 and buys lawmakers more time to agree on legislation setting spending levels for the 2023 fiscal year. It passed by a vote of 72-25 and now goes to the House for consideration.
As has become routine, lawmakers waited until the final hours before the shutdown deadline to act. But passage of a bill to fund the government was hardly in doubt, particularly after Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin agreed to drop provisions designed to streamline the permitting process for energy projects and greenlight the approval of a pipeline in his home state of West Virginia. Those provisions had drawn opposition from both sides of the political aisle.
Still, the bill merely puts off for a few months the maneuvering that will be required after the midterm election to pass a massive government funding package, as negotiators will have to bridge their differences over spending on hot-button issues such as abortion, border security and climate change.
The bill approved Thursday, with some exceptions, keeps spending at federal agencies at current levels through mid-December. The most notable of those exceptions is the more than $12 billion that will be provided to aid Ukraine, on top of more than $50 billion provided in two previous bills. The money will go to provide training, equipment and logistics support for the Ukraine military, help Ukraine’s government provide basic services to its citizens and replenish U.S. weapons systems and munitions.
“Seven months since the conflict began, it’s crystal clear that American assistance has gone a long way to helping the Ukrainian people resist (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s evil, vicious aggression,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “But the fight is far from over.”
Republican leader Mitch McConnell also voiced support for the Ukraine aid, while admonishing the Biden administration to get it out the door more quickly.
“Assisting Ukraine is not some feel-good, symbolic gesture,” McConnell said. “It’s literally an investment in our own national security and that of our allies.”
Disaster assistance was attached to the stopgap bill, including $2.5 billion to help New Mexico communities recover from the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, the largest wildfire in the state’s history; $2 billion for a block grant program that aids the economic recovery of communities impacted by recent disasters and $20 million for water and wastewater infrastructure improvements previously authorized for Jackson, Mississippi.
An additional $18.8 billion was included for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to current and future disasters, such as Hurricane Ian, which hit Florida on Wednesday.
The bill would provide an additional $1 billion for a program that helps low-income households heat their homes. And it would transfer $3 billion from a Pentagon aid program to the State Department for continued Afghan resettlement operations.
Lawmakers also included a reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration’s user fee agreements for five years, which ensures the agency can continue critical product safety reviews and won’t need to issue pink slips for thousands of employees working on drug and medical device applications.
One thing missing from the bill is the billions of dollars in additional funding that President Joe Biden sought to aid the response to COVID-19 and monkeypox. Republicans criticized the health spending as unnecessary. The White House said the money would have been used to accelerate the research and development of vaccines and therapeutics, prepare for future COVID variants and support the global response.
The bill’s passage is the last must-do item on lawmakers’ list before returning to their home states and districts to campaign before the mid-term elections that will determine which party controls the House and Senate over the next two years. Lawmakers were anxious to get out of Washington and focus on campaigning without the specter of a shutdown.
“The last thing the American people need right now is a pointless government shutdown,” Schumer said.
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GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — GXO Logistics Inc. (GXO) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $25 million.
On a per-share basis, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company said it had net income of 21 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 49 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 43 cents per share.
The contract logistics provider posted revenue of $2.32 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.3 billion.
GXO Logistics expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.40 to $2.60 per share.
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ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – What started as a police chase down North State Road 68 on May 20th, ended in a muddy mess, when a suspect fled his truck and jumped off a small hill into the fast-running Rio Grande river. Police officers responded to reports of a suspicious car outside of a local business, which led to the chase. Abel Trujillo, who seemed to regret his decision, was heard asking officers “There’s not like an easier way up there?”
For several minutes, officers tried to lift him as he crawled up the hill. One of the responding officers even recognized Trujillo, who has a criminal history of dealing Xanax and Oxycodone.
The criminal complaint said Trujillo told police he had been living in his truck and was aware that he had several felony warrants out for his arrest. He told them he ran hoping he could avoid being put back into jail.
While he was charged with resisting an officer, reckless driving, and failure to register his vehicle, responding officers believe things could have ended much worse for Trujillo. One officer said, “That big water barrier is right there he would have got caught in that thing. He made the smart decision by just coming back.”
Online court records show Trujillo was released on pretrial services on May 23. His next court date is July 19. | https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/video-espanola-police-chase-turns-into-a-river-rescue-when-the-suspect-tries-to-flee/ | 2023-07-01 00:04:44 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/video-espanola-police-chase-turns-into-a-river-rescue-when-the-suspect-tries-to-flee/ |
Indiana becomes first state in nation to approve near-total abortion ban post Roe
Indiana's abortion ban does include some exceptions
Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill Friday evening prohibiting most abortions.
The new law bans the procedure except in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life and physical health of the mother. The rape and incest exceptions only apply in the first 10 weeks post-fertilization. Victims would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack.
Indiana is the first state in the nation to approve new legislation restricting abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
"Following the overturning of Roe, I stated clearly that I would be willing to support legislation that made progress in protecting life," Holcomb said in a statement. "In my view, [the abortion law] accomplishes this goal."
The Indiana Senate had approved the legislation 28 to 19 on Friday, just hours after the House passed it by a 62 to 38 vote.
GOP Rep. Wendy McNamara sponsored the bill, and told reporters after the vote in the House that the legislation makes Indiana "one of the most pro-life states in the nation."
But fellow Republican Rep. Ann Vermilion slammed the members of her party who have called women "murderers" for receiving an abortion.
"I think that the Lord’s promise is for grace and kindness," she said. "He would not be jumping to condemn these women."
The House added exceptions for protecting the health and life of the mother. Abortions will also be allowed if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
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CHANGSHA, China, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of SANY's acquisition of Putzmeister. Back in 2012, SANY Germany and CITIC PE acquired 100% of the equity shares in Putzmeister for 360 million euros. As a young and ambitious enterprise, this was a milestone move for SANY as well as a game-changing event in the landscape of the global construction machinery industry.
Over the past decade, Putzmeister, already a top concrete machinery manufacturer in Europe, has achieved steady growth and development under SANY Group. Putzmeister's sales volume grew from €500 million in 2011 to more than €800 million in 2021, maintaining its leading position in the global concrete machinery market.
With its R&D, manufacturing and sales network expanding to cover Europe, America, and Asia-Pacific regions, the former German family company now enjoys a broader global presence in 154 countries and regions.
Over the past decade, Putzmeister has been integrated into SANY's global business map. Today, nearly half of the concrete machinery products around the world bear the logo of Putzmeister or SANY.
For SANY, Putzmeister provides applicable experience in internationalization, intelligent manufacturing, and concepts and practices compatible with the fourth industrial revolution. For Putzmeister, its capability of developing new businesses is reinforced by SANY's financial support and resources.
The R&D cooperation between the two companies has been evidently fruitful. The joint R&D teams have successfully launched the V8 series and the 45m truck-mounted concrete pump for the European market and are now taking the lead in the new arena of electric, intelligent, and digital products. Putzmeister has released the world's first hybrid truck-mounted concrete pump - "iONTRON" and has applied big data technology in the concrete production, transportation, and placement process to improve productivity, operations, and fuel efficiency.
Both companies serve to open up markets for one another. More Putzmeister products gained access to the Chinese market through SANY, such as Putzmeister's shotcreting machines, mortar machines, industrial pumps, and telebelt. Similarly, many of SANY's products have become globally visible through Putzmeister's network. "Compared to the sales growth," said Dr. Jiang Xiangyang, Chairman's Representative on behalf of SANY and Board member at Putzmeister Holding GmbH, "the significance of the acquisition lies in that it gave SANY a closer view of a leading company in the west, the market in developed countries, and their way of company governance."
To date, the partnership between SANY and Putzmeister has yielded exponentially positive results in the areas of training, employee exchanges, R&D, and business development. Hand in hand, their partnership has yielded far better results than either company alone. One plus one has created far greater results than two.
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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shay Mitchell, actress, producer and entrepreneur, today announced her collaboration with HydraLyte, a globally trusted rapid hydration solution born in Australia, to launch her new flavor, Lemon Squeeze.
Since the announcement of their partnership in May of 2022, Mitchell has led the co-development process to create a rejuvenating hydration option for the entire family. Throughout the process, Mitchell assumed an elevated role as an investor and part owner in the company, personally testing 12 variations of the product to find the perfect flavor balance. Beyond just perfecting a delicious flavor, Mitchell remained closely involved in the journey, spearheading execution details such as packaging, marketing strategy, and creative.
"Maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle has always been a priority," said Mitchell. "HydraLyte is a science-based, low-sugar hydration solution for all the things I love – travel, fitness, pregnancy. And this new Lemon Squeeze flavor is tangy, sweet, and totally refreshing."
This citrusy electrolyte mix is sized to serve in 16-ounces of water and is proven to be effective in preventing and relieving mild to moderate dehydration. Trusted by the medical community, professional athletes and families around the world, HydraLyte's products are acclaimed for their all-natural formula scientifically developed with:
- Almost half the sugar of leading electrolyte drink brands
- Clean, vegan, non-GMO ingredients
- No artificial colors, flavors or sweeteners, gluten, dairy, or caffeine
- A ratio of glucose and electrolytes that activates rapid rehydration faster than water alone
"Shay is a superstar," said HydraLyte CEO Oliver Baker. "She has a track record of building brands with style, passion, fun and, most importantly, quality. Creating this product with her team has been an incredible journey and their insights into marketing and social media have been an integral part of developing this launch plan. For someone looking for a refreshing citrus flavor, this is sure to be one of the best they've ever tasted and we are delighted it will become available in time for the holiday season when dehydration from travel and alcohol is so prevalent. The launch of Shay's flavor is the culmination of months of strategic development and we look forward to continued success with her on our team."
HydraLyte x Shay Mitchell Lemon Squeeze flavor will be available for $24.99 on the HydraLyte website and Amazon on November 30 with more retailers to come in the new year. For more information about HydraLyte's features and benefits, visit www.hydralyte.com.
Shay Mitchell is an actress, multi-faceted entrepreneur and producer. Her acting credits include her acclaimed performances in Freeform's Pretty Little Liars, Netflix's You and Hulu's Dollface. Additionally, Shay serves as an executive producer on FOX's breakout drama series The Cleaning Lady. Next, Shay will be seen in the Prime Video film Something From Tiffany's which premieres globally on December 9th, 2022. As a businesswoman and entrepreneur, Shay founded the leading travel and lifestyle essentials brand BÉIS in 2018, as well as co-founded the ready-to-drink tequila seltzer brand Onda in 2020. With over 49 million followers, Shay is one of the most celebrated and recognized voices in entertainment.
Born in Australia and trusted by the medical community, professional athletes and families around the world, HydraLyte is scientifically formulated to rehydrate faster than water alone. Based on the World Health Organization's formula for rapid rehydration, HydraLyte is doctor-approved and proven effective with four times the electrolytes and 75 percent less sugar than popular sports drinks. HydraLyte North America is headquartered in San Diego, California with key manufacturing facilities in Utah and Switzerland. Follow HydraLyte: Instagram and Facebook
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Award celebrates industry excellence and honors the most forward-thinking customers
NEW YORK, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Smarsh, the global leader in digital communications compliance and intelligence, today announced NatWest Group as a winner of the 2023 Smarsh Customer Innovator Award at SmarshCONNECT 2023. NatWest Group has leveraged the Smarsh platform to enhance its application of industry-leading communications surveillance and archival solutions and was selected for its creativity and use of technology for compliance innovation.
"We are thrilled to honor NatWest Group with the Customer Innovator Award at the 2023 SmarshCONNECT Conference," said Kim Crawford Goodman, Chief Executive Officer of Smarsh. "With support from FTI Consulting, NatWest Group is driving the innovation required to meet the evolving challenges of digital communications compliance and legal services at enterprise scale. The organization has recognized the important role each component of the Smarsh Enterprise Platform serves in rising to these challenges. NatWest Group is a visionary best prepared for the regulatory landscape of tomorrow – we are excited to continue our industry-leading work together."
NatWest Group, supported by FTI Consulting for implementation of the Smarsh Enterprise Platform, set out with the goal of providing a single source of truth for all strategic and valuable electronic communications data from across the organization. The implementation, bolstered by a custom data conversion layer architected by FTI Consulting, is now embedded across a diverse group of functions with varying needs throughout the bank, including legal, investigations, disputes, regulatory compliance, privacy and customer rectifications. The benefits of this implementation include improved efficiencies in collecting and searching data, the ability to deploy new capabilities quickly and thoughtfully, and expanded artificial intelligence-driven functionality that enables stakeholders to drive their unique business outcomes.
"Our teams have worked diligently to streamline our compliance archive and legal systems, improving efficiency and functionality and enhancing end-user experience. We are delighted to have this work and our innovation in compliance solutions recognized at SmarshCONNECT 2023," said Gearoid O'Laoithe, Head of eDisclosure, at NatWest Group.
"This recognition demonstrates the powerful results that can be achieved when people, process and technology modernization come together seamlessly. NatWest Group's dedication to improving its programs proactively and holistically has driven efficiencies, helped reduce costs and supported digital transformation objectives. We're proud of the end result of this implementation and congratulate our valued client for this award," said Richard Palmer, Senior Managing Director within the Technology segment at FTI Consulting.
Presentation of the Smarsh Customer Innovator Awards follows an annual competitive nomination process and assessment. NatWest Group will be recognized today at SmarshCONNECT in New York on April 19, 2023.
The 2024 Smarsh Innovator Awards kick off in November with a call for nominations. Nominations can be made by Smarsh staff, partners or customers directly. A panel of judges will review the nominations in February, with nominee preparations beginning in March. The Customer Innovator Award will be announced at SmarshCONNECT 2024.
About Smarsh:
Smarsh enables companies to transform oversight into foresight by surfacing business-critical signals in more than 100 digital communications channels. Regulated organizations of all sizes rely upon the Smarsh portfolio of cloud-native digital communications capture, retention, and oversight solutions to help them identify regulatory and reputational risks within their communications data before those risks become fines or headlines.
Smarsh serves a global client base spanning the top banks in North America, Europe, and Asia, along with leading brokerage firms, insurers, and registered investment advisors and U.S. state and local government agencies. To discover more about the future of communications capture, archiving and oversight, visit www.smarsh.com.
About NatWest Group:
NatWest Group is a relationship bank for a digital world. Championing potential, helping people, families and businesses to thrive. By supporting its customers at every stage of their lives, it can build long-term value, invest for growth, make a positive contribution to society and drive sustainable returns for shareholders.
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CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 89 higher elevations...83 to
92 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Lows 45 to 60. Prevailing
west winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 67 to 82 higher elevations...76 to
86 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Colder. Lows 40 to 55.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 51 to 66.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 45. Highs
51 to 66.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 33 to 48.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Warmer. Highs 55 to 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 49.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 57 to 72.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 94 62 90 / 0 0 0
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CAZ014-192300-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 86. Prevailing east winds up to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 51. Prevailing east winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 84. Prevailing east winds up to
10 mph in the morning becoming light.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 50. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 66 to 77. Light winds becoming west
up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Colder. Lows 32 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 45 to 57.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 21 to
36. Highs 45 to 57.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
showers. Not as cool. Highs 51 to 63.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 24 to 38. Highs
51 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 84 35 83 / 0 0 0
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CAZ015-192300-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 97. North winds around 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 52 to 62. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 92. North winds around 10 mph
shifting to the southeast up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 61. Light winds
becoming north up to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 84. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Lows
52 to 58.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 67 to 72.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 50.
Highs 67 to 72.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 69 to 75.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 51. Highs
69 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 96 50 91 / 0 0 0
RED BLUFF 96 56 91 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ016-192300-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 52 to 62. East winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 90. North winds up to 10 mph in
the morning becoming light.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 59. Light winds
becoming northeast up to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 86. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 51 to 57.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 68 to 74.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 43 to 50. Highs
67 to 75.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 50. Highs
69 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 92 58 88 / 0 0 0
OROVILLE 89 56 86 / 0 0 0
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 88 52 87 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ017-192300-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 91. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 52 to 62. East winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 87. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
in the morning becoming light.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 60. South winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 79 to 85. South winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 52 to 58.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
67 to 75.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Cooler. Lows 45 to 53.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Highs 67 to 75. Lows 43 to 53.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 52. Highs
69 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 88 56 88 / 0 0 0
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 89 53 88 / 0 0 0
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CAZ018-192300-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 91. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 53 to 59. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 89. West winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 54. Southwest winds around
10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Near the bay, mostly cloudy in the
morning then clearing. Highs 75 to 81. Southwest winds around
10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 56.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 68 to 74.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 52.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 68 to 74. Lows 46 to
52.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 94 55 91 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ019-192300-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 83 to 89. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 54 to 64. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 83 to 89. Light winds becoming
south up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 62. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 86. Light winds becoming
southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 59.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 65 to 73.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 46 to 54.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Highs 64 to 74. Lows 43 to 53.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 53. Highs
66 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 88 57 87 / 0 0 0
MODESTO 87 58 88 / 0 0 0
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CAZ063-192300-
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 70 to 85 higher elevations...87 to
93 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 55 to 69. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 82 higher elevations...84 to
90 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 53 to 65. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 63 to 78 higher elevations...78 to
84 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Colder. Lows 44 to 59.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 50 to 65.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 36 to 51.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 50 to 65. Lows 38 to 53.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Warmer. Highs 54 to 69.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 56. Highs
55 to 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 78 60 75 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ066-192300-
Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 82 to 94. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 55 to 69. Prevailing northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 90. Prevailing east winds up to
10 mph in the morning becoming light.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Cooler. Lows 52 to 66. Light winds becoming east up to
10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 72 to 84. Prevailing east winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Cooler. Lows 48 to 59.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 56 to 68.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 37 to 52.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 58 to 68. Lows 38 to 53.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 60 to 72. Lows
40 to 55.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 85 66 81 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ067-192300-
Motherlode-
Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 89. Prevailing east winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 55 to 65. Prevailing north winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 88. Prevailing east winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 53 to 63. Light winds
becoming east up to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 85. Prevailing east winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 49 to 59.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 57 to 67.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 38 to 48.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Highs 59 to 71. Lows 38 to 49.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 51. Highs
61 to 72.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 84 56 82 / 0 0 0
JACKSON 85 62 84 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ068-192300-
Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 66 to 81 higher elevations...73 to 86 lower
elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 44 to 59. Prevailing northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 79 higher elevations...70 to
84 lower elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 42 to 57. Prevailing west winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 58 to 73 higher elevations...64 to
78 lower elevations. Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 34 to 49.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 43 to 58.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to 42. Highs
44 to 59.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 29 to 44.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 50 to 65. Lows
30 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 85 37 84 / 0 0 0
CHESTER 81 40 80 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ069-192300-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
Including the city of Blue Canyon
1237 AM PDT Wed Oct 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 78 higher elevations...77 to 87 lower
elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 55 higher elevations...50 to
65 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 76 higher elevations...74 to
84 lower elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 53 higher elevations...
48 to 63 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 57 to 72 higher elevations...70 to
80 lower elevations. Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows 36 to 51.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Cooler.
Highs 42 to 57.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Colder. Lows 25 to 40.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Highs 47 to 62. Lows 27 to 42.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 45. Highs
50 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 77 60 73 / 0 0 0
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, October 28, 2022
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FROST ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
1018 PM PDT Thu Oct 27 2022
...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost
formation.
* WHERE...Northern Humboldt Interior, Southern Humboldt
Interior, Northern Trinity, Mendocino Coast, Northwestern
Mendocino Interior, Northeastern Mendocino Interior,
Southeastern Mendocino Interior, and Northern Lake.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM Friday.
* IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if
left uncovered.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings are issued during the local
growing season as defined by climatology and local agriculture
experts. Once the growing season has ended these statements will
no longer be issued until the spring.
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHERE...Southwestern Humboldt, Southwestern Mendocino Interior
and Southern Lake Counties.
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AARP Florida speaking out about nursing home staffing standards
Smith said AARP has noticed declines in some regulations that’s helped Florida nursing homes’s care quality levels through the years
Smith said AARP has noticed declines in some regulations that’s helped Florida nursing homes’s care quality levels through the years
AARP Florida is speaking out about nursing home staffing standards in the Sunshine State. Its new study shows roughly 400,000 people have left the industry between January 2020 and 2022.
“For over 20 years, we’ve had minimum staffing standards and attempts to reduce what constitutes nursing care,” said Zayne Smith, AARP Florida’s director of advocacy.
Smith said AARP has noticed declines in some regulations that’s helped Florida nursing homes’ care quality levels through the years.
“I think that’s why Florida had been a leader in nursing home care all those years. Unfortunately, in the last few years after legislative changes, Florida is no longer in the top five,” Smith said.
Increased costs of living have also been a strain for even some of the state’s top-ranked homes, such as the Gardens at DePugh in Winter Park.
“My concern is, since COVID, nobody new is coming into the industry,” said Liz Barton, the executive director of The Gardens at DePugh.
AARP’s 16-page study shows higher quality care was accompanied by more time patients spent with nurses or caregivers.
Quality of care scores in Florida improved by more than 26 percent between 2002 and 2005, when minimum CAN staffing requirements rose from 2.3 hours spent per resident, per day, to 2.6 hours spent per resident, per day. It is why Barton said recruiting helps.
“The regulations say you have to provide individualized patient care that meets the needs of that resident,” Barton said.
In Florida, about 70,000 people need daily care from across roughly 700 nursing homes throughout the state. Smith said each minute a caregiver can spend with a patient may not seem like much but makes a huge difference in quality of care.
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Roof collapse at house near Ohio State University injures 14
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Part of a house collapsed and 14 people were injured near The Ohio State University Saturday evening when people climbed onto a roof that was not designed to hold significant weight, authorities said.
Columbus Division of Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin said his department received a report around 7:40 p.m. of a roof collapse on East 13th Avenue and arrived to find the roof above a front porch had collapsed while the rest of the home remained intact.
“The few people that were trapped, I believe, were probably unpinned,” Martin said. “It was like their leg was caught under some of the structure and some of the students lifted that off the students. So everybody was kind of out.”
First responders initially found 10 injured people and eventually transported 14 accident victims to area hospitals with “various states of injuries” but they all were in stable condition, Martin said.
“It appears the roof was overloaded with students,” Martin said, with estimates ranging from 15 to 45 people on a rooftop “that was not designed to have anybody on it, and it gave way.”
The names of the home owner or occupants were not immediately available.
The home is not on the property of The Ohio State University. The main campus in Columbus has an enrolled student population of 61,677 for the 2022-2023 school year, according to the university’s website.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff’s Senate campaign said Wednesday that the California Democrat had raised $8.1 million over the past three months, a period that includes his recent censure by the Republican-led House.
His team said that was a record for a Senate campaign for the April-through-June quarter of a year in which an election is not taking place. The 2024 race is to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Schiff rose to national prominence as the lead prosecutor in then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and has long been recognized as a prolific small-dollar fundraiser. His donations averaged $34 from 144,000 donors across the country, and 98% of the contributions were $200 or less, coming from every state and every county in California, according to the campaign.
It was not immediately clear how much of the three-month total came after or around the censure vote on June 21.
Schiff, first elected to Congress in 2000, represents parts of Hollywood and suburbs north of Los Angeles. He has been a frequent target of conservatives — Trump in particular — since the then-GOP-led House Intelligence Committee he served on started investigating Trump’s ties to Russia in the 2016 election.
Schiff was censured on a party-line vote for comments he made during the investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia. In and around the time of the censure vote, Schiff was a frequent presence in headlines and on TV. He made online fundraising pitches, including on the day of the vote when he urged supporters to “become a founding donor” of his Senate campaign.
He frequently used Trump as a foil, and in an online video, Schiff blamed Trump for helping engineer his censure. “We’ve already known that the GOP is completely unhinged and beholden to Donald Trump. Join me in fighting back,” Schiff wrote in one online appeal.
Overall, Schiff has nearly $30 million cash on hand for the 2024 race to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, his campaign said. The large field of Democratic candidates includes two House colleagues, Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
Schiff’s figures have not yet been documented with the federal agency that oversees election fundraising. Those do not have to be submitted by campaigns until mid-July.
At the end of March, he led the Senate field in fundraising by a wide margin with nearly $25 million in the bank. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-rep-adam-schiff-censured-by-gop-led-house-raises-8-1-million-for-his-california-senate-race/ | 2023-07-05 20:46:55 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-rep-adam-schiff-censured-by-gop-led-house-raises-8-1-million-for-his-california-senate-race/ |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.
No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert floor.
The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during commercial space launches and landings.
Blue Origin’s launch commentary went silent when the capsule catapulted off the rocket Monday morning, eventually announcing: “It appears we’ve experienced an anomaly with today’s flight. This wasn’t planned.”
“Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. Escape system performed as designed,” the Kent, Washington-based company tweeted close to an hour later.
The company later said the rocket crashed.
The mishap occurred as the rocket was traveling nearly 700 mph (1,126 kph) at an altitude of about 28,000 feet (8,500 meters). There was no video shown of the rocket — only the capsule — after the failure. It happened around the point the rocket is under the maximum amount of pressure, called max-q.
The rocket usually lands upright on the desert floor and then is recycled for future flights.
The webcast showed the capsule reaching a maximum altitude of more than 37,000 feet (11,300 meters). Thirty-six experiments were on board to be exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness. Half were sponsored by NASA, mostly from students.
It was the 23rd flight for the New Shepard program, named after the first American in space, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the ninth flight for this particular rocket-capsule pair, which was dedicated to flying experiments.
Blue Origin’s most recent flight with paying customers was just last month; the ticket price hasn’t been released. Bezos was on the first New Shepard crew last year. Altogether, Blue Origin has carried 31 people on 10-minute flights, including actor William Shatner.
The rocket should have launched nearly two weeks ago, but was grounded until Monday by bad weather. | https://www.krqe.com/news/space-news/bezos-blue-origin-flight-suffers-launch-failure-rocket-crashes-back-to-earth/ | 2022-09-13 00:39:04 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/space-news/bezos-blue-origin-flight-suffers-launch-failure-rocket-crashes-back-to-earth/ |
President Bush, on a trip through several Asian countries, answers American critics of his handling of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
In his first public response to Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), whose remarks on bringing the troops home sparked a fiery debate in Congress, Bush said that pulling U.S. troops from Iraq now would aid terrorism.
The president, speaking to U.S. troops in South Korea, said those who believe its time to withdraw American forces from Iraq are wrong. He went on to say that setting a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq would be a disaster.
Bush is in Beijing, where he will hold weekend talks with China's President Hu Jintao.
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BERLIN — German authorities raided a luxury yacht belonging to a wealthy Russian businessman as part of a probe into possible breaches of Western sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said Wednesday.
The ship belongs to a 67-year-old Russian businessman, whose name wasn’t released for privacy reasons, prosecutors said.
Authorities are trying to determine whether the businessman tried to hide valuables on the yacht, which he is required to report under European Union sanctions imposed last year.
The investigation is separate from a case against Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, whose luxury yacht was raided in Germany last year. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/03/germany-russia-superyacht-sanctions-raid/48406bc8-e997-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html | 2023-05-03 10:28:31 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/03/germany-russia-superyacht-sanctions-raid/48406bc8-e997-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Digital Turbine, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPS).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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DALLAS, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Royal House Partners ("RHP") a leading provider of residential and commercial HVAC, plumbing and electrical services in Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma welcomes the addition of Dave's Heating & Air Conditioning based in Taylor, Texas, to their family of businesses.
RHP was founded in 2021 by CPS Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm, and 1801 Holdings, a Dallas-based group of seasoned home services professionals, who have spent a considerable amount of time developing a residential and light commercial HVAC, plumbing and electrical roll-up strategy.
As a leadership team, we have been busy the last several months acquiring businesses in the Home Services space. The addition of Dave's marks our third Texas investment in the last 12-months to further expand our HVAC footprint.
Dave's HVAC team consists of experienced and licensed journeymen. Dave's has been caring for their loyal residential and light commercial clients for 30+ years.
Paul Adams, Chief Growth Officer & Founder of RHP, notes "Dave's is a nice fit for our existing HVAC operation, and it allows us to further expand our Central Texas customer radius east."
Darwin Tanksley, Regional Vice President Texas, notes, "Dave's Heating and Air Conditioning is such a spectacular addition to our team. What Dave and Wendy have built is such a blessing. Not only for Royal House Partners but more importantly the community. To be able to continue this wonderful legacy is one of my life's greatest honors."
HVAC businesses interested in joining the RHP team should contact Paul Adams paul@royalhousepartners.com
For more information about RHP, visit https://www.royalhousepartners.com/home
CPS Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm, based in Toronto, founded by owner-operators who look to partner with business owners to realize their growth and transition goals. CPS Capital is focused on North American opportunities to invest in exceptional businesses in growing industries with attractive characteristics. We look to become value-added partners with every business we work with. We bring significant capability, expertise, and capital to provide business owners with an attractive option compared to traditional financial or strategic buyers.
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Video game workers form Microsoft’s first US labor union
(AP) - A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft’s first labor union in the U.S., which will also be the largest in the video game industry.
The Communications Workers of America said Tuesday that a majority of about 300 quality-assurance workers at Microsoft video game subsidiary ZeniMax Studios has voted to join the union.
Microsoft already told the CWA it would accept the formation of the union at its Maryland-based video game subsidiary, fulfilling a promise it made to try to build public support for its $68.7 billion acquisition of another big game company, Activision Blizzard.
Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5 billion in 2021, giving the Xbox-maker control of ZeniMax’s well-known game publishing division Bethesda Softworks and popular game franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.
Senior game tester Wayne Dayberry said in an interview with The Associated Press that the unionization campaign began before Microsoft took over and reflected workplace concerns that are common at video game companies.
“Throughout the industry, the quality assurance departments are treated poorly, paid very little, and treated as replaceable cogs,” said Dayberry, who has worked for five years at ZeniMax’s Rockville, Maryland headquarters on games such as Fallout, Prey and The Evil Within.
“There’s not a lot of dignity involved in it,” he said. “That’s something we’re hoping to show people in the industry who are in like situations, that if we can do it, they can do it as well.”
The unionization campaign accelerated thanks to Microsoft’s ongoing bid to buy California-based game giant Activision Blizzard. Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington, made a June pact with the CWA union to stay neutral if Activision Blizzard workers sought to form a union.
The worker-friendly pledge sought to appeal to U.S. regulator concerns under President Joe Biden about the labor implications of massive business mergers, though it didn’t stop the Federal Trade Commission from suing last month to block Microsoft’s planned Activision Blizzard acquisition. The case has its first scheduled hearing Tuesday and could drag on for months.
Two small units of Activision Blizzard workers were the first to certify unions last year in Middleton, Wisconsin and Albany, New York. A third, Boston-based Activision Blizzard subsidiary Proletariat, filed a Dec. 27 petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize its 57 workers.
Microsoft’s legally binding neutrality agreement specifically applied to Activision Blizzard workers after the closing of the merger. But it also reflects Microsoft’s broader principles on handling unionization, which is still uncommon in the tech and gaming industries.
Dayberry said Microsoft’s neutrality promise gave workers confidence that there wouldn’t be any “retaliation or union-busting, which there has been none of.”
Microsoft’s green light allowed the ZeniMax union certification to go through a third-party arbitrator rather than the lengthier process typically overseen by the NLRB.
“They have definitely stood by their word all along,” said CWA spokesperson Beth Allen. “It’s pretty momentous. Microsoft is an outlier in the way tech companies have been behaving.”
The unionizing workers are based in Hunt Valley and Rockville, Maryland, as well as the Texas cities of Austin and Dallas.
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Air Force at San Diego St., 9 p.m.
Grand Canyon at Utah Tech, 9 p.m.
New Mexico at Fresno St., 9 p.m.
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Coastal Carolina vs. Marshall at Pensacola, Fla., 12:30 p.m.
Loyola Chicago vs. Duquesne at Wilmington, Del., 2:30 p.m.
Northwestern vs. Rutgers at Minneapolis, 4:30 p.m.
Bryant at Vermont, 5 p.m.
Akron at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
American at Bucknell, 6 p.m.
Lehigh at Army, 6 p.m.
Binghamton at Maine, 7 p.m.
Boston U. at Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
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Texas A&M vs. Vanderbilt at Greenville, S.C., 11 a.m.
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W. Carolina vs. Wofford at Asheville, N.C., 11 a.m.
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Presbyterian vs. Radford at Charlotte, N.C., 2 p.m.
Syracuse vs. NC State at Greensboro, N.C., 2 p.m.
Furman vs. Chattanooga at Asheville, N.C., 3:30 p.m.
Coppin St. at Morgan St., 5:30 p.m.
NC Central at SC State, 5:30 p.m.
Norfolk St. at Howard, 5:30 p.m.
Samford vs. ETSU at Asheville, N.C., 5:45 p.m.
Alabama A&M at Grambling St., 6 p.m.
Auburn vs. Georgia at Greenville, S.C., 6 p.m.
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Rice at FAU, 7 p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at Elon, 7 p.m.
UTEP at W. Kentucky, 7:30 p.m.
Longwood vs. Campbell at Charlotte, N.C., 8:30 p.m.
Michigan St. vs. Nebraska at Minneapolis, 12:30 p.m.
N. Kentucky at Youngstown St., 5:30 p.m.
Bradley at Indiana St., 6 p.m.
Wisconsin vs. Purdue at Minneapolis, 6:30 p.m.
Illinois St. at Evansville, 7 p.m.
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Missouri vs. Arkansas at Greenville, S.C., Noon
Jackson St. at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 6:30 p.m.
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Loyola Marymount vs. Saint Mary's (Cal) at Las Vegas, 5:30 p.m.
Utah Tech at Utah Valley St., 8 p.m.
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Texas Rio Grande Valley at Cal Baptist, 9 p.m.
UC San Diego at Cal Poly, 9 p.m.
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Xavier vs. Seton Hall at Uncasville, Conn., 4 p.m.
Princeton at Penn, 7 p.m.
Georgetown vs. Butler at Uncasville, Conn., 11 a.m.
Providence vs. DePaul at Uncasville, Conn., 1:30 p.m.
W. Illinois vs. St. Thomas (MN) at Sioux Falls, S.D., 1:30 p.m.
CS Northridge at Hawaii, 12 a.m.
UMKC vs. Denver at Sioux Falls, S.D., 4 p.m.
Elon at Towson, 1 p.m.
Marist at Rider, 1 p.m.
Siena at Canisius, 1 p.m.
Brown at Yale, 2 p.m.
Cornell at Columbia, 2 p.m.
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W. Michigan at Buffalo, 2 p.m.
Marquette vs. St. John's at Uncasville, Conn., 2:30 p.m.
NC A&T at Drexel, 3 p.m.
Dartmouth at Harvard, 4 p.m.
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Iona at St. Peter's, 7 p.m.
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Rice at FIU, 2 p.m.
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Search giant Google dwarfed Microsoft’s recent announcement of mass layoffs, with CEO Sundar Pichai telling employees Friday that 12,000 roles would be cut globally — about 6% of its workforce.
Economists have said hiring sprees by big tech companies during the pandemic have left them top heavy, and that many recent layoffs in the sector were part of a rebalancing as the economy slowed. That appeared to be the case with the Google cuts as well.
“Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.” Pichai wrote to employees in a note. Like other recent tech CEOs before him who have cut staff, he apologized and said he took responsibility for the decision’s impacts on peoples’ lives.
The company has about 187,000 employees globally, a recent regulatory filing showed. It wasn’t immediately clear how many people would be affected in Google’s Mountain View headquarters, or throughout the Bay Area. Reports last year suggested the company has 45,000 employees in this region.
Neither Google nor its parent company Alphabet had filed mass layoff notices with the California Employment Development Department this week, the agency said. The notices are required by law when a large company makes sizable cuts. If an affected employee’s last day is more than 60 days from Friday, the company would not have to file the notices yet.
In a statement, the Alphabet Workers Union, which which represents more than 1,000 of the company’s contractors and employees on a minority basis, slammed the decision.
“In one email Sundar Pichai has taken away the livelihoods of thousands of workers” Parul Koul, executive chair of the union, said in a statement. “This is egregious and unacceptable behavior by a company that made $17 billion dollars in profit last quarter alone.”
Alphabet is expected to announce fourth quarter earnings next month. In its third quarter results, the company saw 6% revenue growth compared to the same quarter in 2021. That was far below the 41% revenue jump between the third quarter of 2020 and the same period of 2021.
Pichai said the company had taken a hard look at its products and services, and the cuts reflected sections of the business that did not pass muster. The jobs being eliminated “cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions,” Pichai said. He said he was “deeply sorry” for the layoffs.
He did not specify, but noted the company’s early investments in AI, hinting that the hot industry could see increased attention.
Pichai said Google will pay U.S. employees during the legally required 60 day notification period and offer them 16 weeks of severance pay, with more depending on seniority at the company, along with accelerated stock vesting.
The company would pay out employee bonuses and vacation time, and offer six months of healthcare, as well as job placement and immigration services for employees that needed them, he added.
The cuts come as layoffs have roiled the technology industry in recent months, and as fears of an economic slowdown and apparent over-hiring during the pandemic created pressure for companies to streamline their operations.
Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, said this month it would slash 8,000 jobs, about 10% of its workforce, while online retail giant Amazon also said late last year that it planned to cut 10,000 workers.
Twitter has reportedly laid off about 67% of its once 7,500 person strong workforce since Elon Musk bought the company late last year. Since then, companies in tech from cryptocurrency, to biosciences, to software, many of whom hired aggressively during the pandemic, have continued to cut staff.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Chase DiFeliciantonio is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: chase.difeliciantonio@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ChaseDiFelice | https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Google-cuts-12-000-jobs-as-global-tech-layoffs-17730956.php | 2023-01-20 18:16:51 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Google-cuts-12-000-jobs-as-global-tech-layoffs-17730956.php |
CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Friday, August 19, 2022
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332 AM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022
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values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
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Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
332 AM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89. Light winds becoming northeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 49. Southwest winds around 10 mph in
the evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89. Light winds becoming south
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 50. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89. Light winds becoming west around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 48.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 79 to 89. Lows
43 to 53.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs 77 to 87.
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Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
332 AM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 98. Light winds becoming south around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 69. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 56 to 66. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 98. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 53 to 63.
.TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 99. Lows 56 to 66.
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Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
332 AM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 51 to 61. West winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 59. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 57.
.TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs 87 to 97. Lows 50 to 60.
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Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
332 AM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 90. Light winds becoming east around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming clear. Lows
46 to 56. East winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the west after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 90. Light winds becoming southeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
46 to 56. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 91. Light winds becoming east around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
46 to 56.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 91.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
46 to 56.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 46 to 56.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs 77 to 87. Lows 45 to 55.
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NEW YORK — As Frances Tiafoe celebrated with friends and family, Bradley Beal wrapped his arms around him for a hug.
“I met him when I was in D.C. when I was a little kid coming up trying to make my name and the same with him,” Beal said. “He was trying to make his name, too. So I’m just happy for him.
“I couldn’t be more proud of him, honestly.”
Beal was just finishing his second season in Washington in 2014 when Tiafoe, who grew up in Maryland, made his ATP Tour debut in the city’s tournament.
Beal was at the match when Tiafoe knocked off No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal on Monday, then recounted what Tiafoe’s brother told him before he was back on the court against the ninth-seeded Rublev.
“He was sitting there after he beat Nadal, and he was kind of obviously enjoying the moment, but it’s like, believe it,” Beal said. “Believe that you belong and believe that you’ve worked so hard for this moment. This is your time, so embrace it. Embrace being on this stage, and he’s doing that.”
Beal isn’t sure if he will stick around New York because he and his wife have a newborn child back in Washington. But he will be watching.
“Like he said, he’s got two more,” Beal said. “So we’re just happy to support him in any way we can.”
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police confirmed Tuesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the city this week for the 25th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule.
Xi will attend a number of official events including the inauguration of Hong Kong’s next leader on Friday, Assistant Police Commissioner Lui Kam-ho said at a news conference.
Xi’s visit will be his first trip outside of mainland China since the coronavirus pandemic took hold about 2 1/2 years ago. It comes as Hong Kong is facing a new spike in infections following what was by far its worst and deadliest COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year.
The United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997. The anniversary is highly symbolic for Xi, who wants to be seen as propelling a “national rejuvenation” as he prepares to start an expected third 5-year term as head of China’s ruling Communist Party this fall.
Part of that rejuvenation is erasing the legacy of colonialism and what the party regards as unequal treaties that granted territorial concessions to Britain and other foreign nations during the waning years of the Qing Dynasty, which ended in 1911.
A series of security measures will be put in place to protect Xi, including security zones and road closures around the venue for the ceremony, police said. Barriers have already been erected in the area.
“We will not tolerate anything that may interfere and undermine the security operation,” Lui said. “In the event that any person behaves in a manner that threatens life or property and undermines public order or endangers public safety, we will take resolute action.” | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/hong-kong-confirms-chinese-leader-xis-visit-for-anniversary/ | 2022-06-29 01:01:28 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/hong-kong-confirms-chinese-leader-xis-visit-for-anniversary/ |
ISKENDERUN, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers pulled several earthquake survivors from the shattered remnants of buildings Friday, including some who lasted more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete after the disaster slammed Turkey and Syria and killed more than 23,000 people.
The survivors included six relatives who huddled in a small pocket under the rubble, a teenager who drank his own urine to slake his thirst and a 4-year-old boy who was offered a jelly bean to calm him down as he was shimmied out.
But the flurry of dramatic rescues — some broadcast live on Turkish television — could not obscure the overwhelming devastation of what Turkey’s president called one of the greatest disasters in his nation’s history. Entire neighborhoods of high-rise buildings have been reduced to twisted metal, pulverized concrete and exposed wires, and the magnitude 7.8 quake has already killed more people than Japan’s Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, with many more bodies undoubtedly yet to be recovered and counted.
Four days after the earthquake hammered a sprawling border region that is home to more than 13.5 million people, relatives wept and chanted as rescuers pulled 17-year-old Adnan Muhammed Korkut from a basement in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the quake’s epicenter. He had been trapped for 94 hours, forced to drink his own urine to survive.
“Thank God you arrived,” he said, embracing his mother and others who leaned down to kiss and hug him as he was being loaded into an ambulance.
For one of the rescuers, identified only as Yasemin, Adnan’s survival hit home hard.
“I have a son just like you,” she told him after giving him a warm hug. “I swear to you, I have not slept for four days. … I was trying to get you out.”
In Adiyaman, meanwhile, rescue crews pulled 4-year-old Yagiz Komsu from the debris of his home, 105 hours after the quake struck. They later managed to rescue his mother, Ayfer Komsu, who survived with a fractured rib, according the HaberTurk television, which broadcast the rescue live.
The crowd was asked not to cheer or applaud to avoid scaring the child, who was given a jelly bean, the station reported.
Elsewhere, HaberTurk television said rescuers had identified nine people trapped inside the remains of a high-rise apartment block in Iskenderun and pulled out six of them, including a woman who waved at onlookers as she was being carried away on a stretcher. The crowd shouted “God is great!” after she was brought out.
The building was only 600 feet (200 meters) from the Mediterranean Sea and narrowly avoided being flooded when the massive earthquake sent water surging into the city center.
There were still more stories: A married couple was pulled from the rubble in Iskenderun after spending 109 hours buried in a small crevice. A German team said it worked for more than 50 hours to free a woman from a collapsed house in Kirikhan. In the hard-hit city of Kahramanmaras, two teenage sisters were saved, and video of the operation showed one emergency worker playing a pop song on his smartphone to distract them.
And the work continued: A trapped woman could be heard speaking to a team trying to dig her out in video broadcast by HaberTurk television. She told her would-be rescuers that she had given up hope of being found — and prayed to be put to sleep because she was so cold. The station did not say where the operation was taking place.
Even though experts say trapped people can live for a week or more, the chances of finding survivors are dimming.
The rescues Friday provided fleeting moments of joy and relief amid the misery gripping the shattered region where morgues and cemeteries are overwhelmed and bodies lie wrapped in blankets, rugs and tarps in the streets of some cities.
In Kahramanmaras, a sports hall served as a makeshift morgue.
Temperatures remain below freezing across the large region, and many people have no shelter. The Turkish government has distributed millions of hot meals, as well as tents and blankets, but was still struggling to reach many people in need.
The disaster compounded suffering in a region beset by Syria’s 12-year civil war, which has displaced millions of people within the country and left them dependent on aid. The fighting sent millions more to seek refuge in Turkey.
The conflict has isolated many areas of Syria and complicated efforts to get aid in. The U.N. said the first earthquake-related aid convoy crossed from Turkey into northwestern Syria on Friday — a day after an aid shipment planned before the disaster arrived.
The U.N. refugee agency estimates as many as 5.3 million people have been left homeless in Syria. Sivanka Dhanapala, the country representative in Syria for UNHCR, told reporters Friday that the agency is focusing on providing tents, plastic sheeting, thermal blankets, sleeping mats and winter clothing.
Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asmaa, visited survivors at the Aleppo University Hospital, according to Syrian state media. It was the leader’s first public appearance in an affected area of the country since the disaster. He then visited rescuers in one of the city’s hardest-hit areas.
Aleppo has been scarred by years of heavy bombardment and shelling — much of it by the forces of Assad and his ally, Russia — and it was among the cities most devastated by the earthquake.
The Syrian government on Friday also announced that it will allow aid to reach all parts of the country, including areas held by insurgent groups in the northwest.
Also Friday, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said it was declaring a cease-fire in its separatist insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, including some areas affected by the quake.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s conflict with Kurdish militants in Syria who are linked to the PKK has further complicated the delivery of aid. On Thursday, Kurdish officials in Syria said that Turkish-backed Syrian rebels had blocked an aid convoy destined for earthquake victims.
Turkey’s disaster-management agency said more than 20,200 people had been confirmed killed in the disaster so far in Turkey, with more than 80,000 injured.
More than 3,500 have been confirmed killed in Syria, bringing the total number of dead to more than 23,000.
Some 12,000 buildings in Turkey have either collapsed or sustained serious damage, according to Turkey’s minister of environment and urban planning, Murat Kurum.
Engineers suggested that the scale of the devastation was partly explained by lax enforcement of building codes.
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Alsayed reported from Bab al-Hawa, Syria. Bilginsoy reported from Istanbul. Associated Press journalists Robert Badendieck in Istanbul; Mehmet Guzel in Antakya, Turkey; Emrah Gurel and Yakup Paksoy in Adiyaman, Turkey; Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey; Bassem Mroue and Abby Sewell in Beirut; Salar Salim in Erbil, Iraq; Hogir al-Abdo in Manbij, Syria; and David Rising in Bangkok contributed to this report. | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-death-toll-rises-rescues-dwindle-in-earthquake-aftermath/ | 2023-02-10 18:58:10 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-death-toll-rises-rescues-dwindle-in-earthquake-aftermath/ |
Curtisville Christian Church
In Sunday’s worship service, minister James Snapp Jr. will deliver the sermon “The Sanctity of Life,” continuing the sermon series on the Ten Commandments. All are welcome to attend. More information and a virtual tour of the church are available at curtisvillecc.com.
Anyone in need of prayer or who wants to learn more about the beliefs of the church may call 765-623-4400.
Second Missionary Baptist Church
All are invited to join Second Missionary Baptist Church, 818 N. Apperson Way, each Sunday at 11 a.m. for worship. Masks, social distancing and temperature and wellness checks are required.
For more information, visit smbchurch.com or call 765-452-8214.
New Beginnings Christian Fellowship
“Dealing With Difficult People” will be the theme at 10 a.m. Sunday at the church, 1900 S. Berkley Road. It is based on Matthew 5:38-48. There will also be online worship at the New Beginnings Christian Fellowship Facebook page.
For more information or to request prayer, contact Pastor Jeff Russell at 765-776-0868.
First Friends Meeting
On Sunday at 9:30 a.m., the church will be discussing topics from the book “Who Moved my Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson. The topics include being open to change, moving forward in life and experiencing growth. For more information, call the church at 765-453-9490.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at Indiana University Kokomo, First Friends Meeting of Kokomo, IUK, Howard County Community Supervision and the Carver Community Center will join to present six one-hour community forums addressing issues meaningful to our community needs. The events will be 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27; March 6, 13, 20 and 27; and April 3.
The first Community Forum on Feb. 27 will be “Law Enforcement: How can our community help and what can law enforcement do.” The guest presenters will be Howard County Sheriff Jerry Asher and Kokomo Police Chief Douglas Stout.
For more information, contact 765 434-1701. Refreshments will be served.
St. Andrew Episcopal Church
The Holy Days of Lent begin on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22. At St. Andrew, Lent is an invitation to slow down, reflect, simplify and offer time and energy for the sake of others. The 40 days of Lent prepares us for the Easter season when the mystery of resurrection is reflected in the new life in Spring. On Feb. 21, the eve of Ash Wednesday, a “Shrove Tuesday” Pancake supper will be open to the public from 5-6:30 p.m. A freewill donation for supper is appreciated. On Feb. 22, Ash Wednesday Services will be offered at noon and 6 p.m. All are welcome to receive ashes representing humility and a connection with the elements of the earth.
First EPC
Join them as they start their Lent journey on Feb. 22, Ash Wednesday. There will be a 7 p.m. service in their sanctuary with an opportunity to take on the sign of the cross. Alternatively, you can join them at Big Ben Coffee at any time between 7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on the same day to take on the sign of the cross. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/religion-news-feb-18-2023/article_2ca53776-af05-11ed-9093-b356f36a3479.html | 2023-02-18 07:03:45 | 0 | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/religion-news-feb-18-2023/article_2ca53776-af05-11ed-9093-b356f36a3479.html |
LONDON (AP) — Protesters turned out Saturday on the streets of London and in the Scottish city of Glasgow to demand faster action against climate change following the record-smashing temperatures that scorched the U.K. this week.
Activist groups including Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain led protesters in a sit-in on Parliament Square in London to demand that the Conservative government stop giving new licenses for oil and gas production, tax big polluters and help people install more energy efficient heating in their homes.
“Tuesday’s extreme heatwave was a warning about what we will face as the climate collapses –- thousands of deaths, homes lost to wildfires and emergency services stretched to breaking point,” said Indigo Rumbelow from Just Stop Oil. “We are so unprepared for extreme heat and it’s only going to get worse.”
The U.K.’s Met Office weather agency recorded 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in England on Tuesday, the highest-ever temperature registered in a country ill-prepared for such extreme heat. British summers are usually quite moderate and few homes, schools or small businesses have air-conditioning.
The heat wave paralyzed major train networks, damaged airport runways and saw 15 fire departments across the country declaring major incidents. The London Fire Brigade said that Tuesday was the busiest day for firefighters since World War II.
In Glasgow, climate activists staged a “die-in” protest to demand urgent action to tackle climate change. Protesters laid on the ground in one of the city’s busiest shopping areas, covered in white sheets with “causes of death” including heat stress, famine and water scarcity.
“We’ve been sounding the alarm about the global climate emergency for years,” said Wolf Saanen, 39. “Now it has arrived on our shores, will those with the power to change things finally listen?”
Some climate groups warned they will stage more disruptive demonstrations in the autumn to bring Westminster — the seat of Parliament — to a standstill.
The groups also want the British government to reduce energy bills amid a soaring cost-of-living crisis that’s expected to squeeze households further in the fall when the weather turns colder.
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Your furnace is one of the most important systems in your home, and it's also one of the most expensive appliances to replace. As a result, homeowners may find themselves wondering just how many years they can expect to get out of a furnace. In this article, we'll share how long a furnace typically lasts, how to know when it's time to replace your furnace and a few things you can do to extend its life.
How long does a furnace last?
The typical lifespan of a furnace can be anywhere from 15 to 30 years. If you've had your furnace for less than 15 years, you likely don't have to worry about replacing it any time soon. But if it's older than 15 years and you've started noticing problems, it may be on its last leg. And if your furnace is nearing 30 years old, then it's probably time to make sure you have the money set aside to replace it in the near future.
Keep in mind that the lifespan of your furnace depends on a variety of factors, including the type of furnace you have, how often you use it, how well it was installed and whether you regularly maintain it during its lifetime.
How to know when it's time to replace your furnace
It's important to pay attention to your furnace so you know when it's time to replace it. It's worth paying especially close attention once your furnace surpasses its expected lifespan since that means it's likely you'll need to replace it sooner rather than later. Here are a few ways you can tell it's time to replace your furnace:
- Your furnace is making different noises: If you've noticed that your furnace is suddenly making strange noises, pay attention. Noises such as popping, rattling, humming, clicking and more could be a sign that your furnace is no longer working properly.
- Your energy bill has increased: When a furnace is nearing the end of its life, it doesn't heat your home as efficiently. As a result, it takes more energy -- and therefore, more money -- to heat your home.
- Your home is being heated unevenly: Have you noticed that certain areas of your home are colder than others? If your furnace is heating your home unevenly, it could be a sign that it's on its last leg.
- You're experiencing poor air quality: You may find that toward the end of your furnace's life, the air quality in your home has worsened, and there's more dust and other particles being distributed through your home.
- You're having to make frequent repairs: If your furnace has needed quite a few repairs lately and it's more than 15 years old, then it may be time to replace it. Extending the life of your furnace past its useful life may do more harm than good.
How to extend the life of your furnace
Worried about having to replace your furnace? The good news is that there are several things you can do to extend its lifespan and get more value from your furnace.
- First and foremost, it's important that you have regular maintenance done on your furnace. At the very least, schedule a maintenance appointment once per year. Fall is a great time to do this since you'll be relying heavily on your furnace during the upcoming winter months. It's also important to clean your furnace regularly.
- Another simple way to extend the life of your furnace is by cleaning or replacing your furnace filters regularly. Most filters should be replaced roughly every three months, but certain types may need to be replaced more or less often. If filters go too long without being replaced, they can harm the air quality in your home and reduce the life of your heating and cooling system.
- When you're shopping for your next furnace, you can ensure a longer lifespan by buying a high-quality system and ensuring it's installed properly. Poor installation can be one of the causes of a furnace going out earlier than expected. And the fact is that some furnaces are simply better than others. You can work with a professional to find the best furnace for your home.
The bottom line
Your furnace is one of the most important systems in your home, especially if you live in a cold region. It's important to understand just how long your furnace's expected lifespan is. Not only will this help you be on the lookout for a furnace that needs to be replaced, but you can also take steps to extend its lifespan. Taking the right measures could help you to get an additional decade of use from your furnace, so it's worth taking the extra time to properly maintain it. | https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/signs-you-need-a-new-furnace-this-winter/ | 2022-09-10 15:29:25 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/signs-you-need-a-new-furnace-this-winter/ |
WASHINGTON — The U.S. dollar is nearly equal to the euro for the first time in 20 years, complicating an already uncertain outlook for the United States, the world’s biggest economy.
One of the European currency was worth 1.00005 dollars Tuesday. For an average $100 purchase, that doesn't make much difference. But for global finance and banking, that 0.00005 still keeps the euro slightly ahead of the dollar.
The last time the euro was below the dollar was on July 15, 2002 — nearly 20 years ago to the day — when huge U.S. trade deficits and accounting scandals on Wall Street pulled down the U.S. currency. The last time the two currencies were this close was in December of that year.
The trend is likely to hurt American companies because their goods will be more expensive in foreign markets, meaning fewer sales. Fewer exports could hurt the already vulnerable U.S. economy, which is in a dangerous position because of high employment and inflation.
Economists say the risk of recession is already rising in the United States as the Fed raises borrowing costs and consumers deplete the savings they built up during the pandemic.
“The strength of the dollar,’’ said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, “will certainly do no favors for U.S. exporters.’’
Yet there's a positive side for Americans, too: A stronger buck provides modest relief from runaway inflation because the vast array of goods that are imported to the U.S. — from cars and computers to toys and medical equipment — become less expensive.
A strengthened dollar also delivers bargains to American tourists sightseeing in Europe, from Amsterdam to Athens.
The dollar is climbing mainly because the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates more aggressively than central banks in other countries are in its effort to cool the hottest U.S. inflation in four decades. The Fed's rate hikes cause yields on U.S. Treasurys to rise, which attracts investors seeking richer yields than they can get elsewhere in the world. This increased demand for dollar-denominated securities, in turn, boosts the dollar's value.
Also contributing to the currency's appeal, notes Rubeela Farooqi of High Frequency Economics, is that despite concern about a potential recession in the United States, “the U.S. economy is on firmer footing compared to Europe.’’
This year, the euro has sagged largely because of growing fears that the 19 countries that use the currency will sink into recession. The war in Ukraine has magnified oil and gas prices and punished European consumers and businesses.
In particular, Russia’s recent reduction in natural gas supplies has sent prices skyrocketing and raised fears of a total cutoff that could force governments to ration energy to industry to spare homes, schools and hospitals. European leaders have denounced Moscow's move as an effort to blackmail Europe for backing Ukraine and embracing Western sanctions in the aftermath of Russia's invasion. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/1-dollar-1-euro/507-bd8a7231-ba34-4070-b6f6-7ca7f05b9ab8 | 2022-07-12 16:42:46 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/1-dollar-1-euro/507-bd8a7231-ba34-4070-b6f6-7ca7f05b9ab8 |
Police: 2 Ford Mustangs totaling nearly $200k stolen from Atlanta dealership
By Jasmina Alston
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ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Thomaston police are investigating after thieves allegedly stole two Ford Mustang cars totaling nearly $200,000 from the Southern Ford of Thomaston dealership.
A Ford Mustang GT500 Heritage and a blue Ford Mustang GT500 were both taken overnight Friday.
“It’s really a special car, we are one of the lucky dealers that have it,” General Manager Chip Richardson said. “The Heritage was a numbered car; less than a thousand of them were built and everything was certified on it.”
According to Thomaston Police, the thieves broke into the showroom and took not only the cars but the keys to most of the cars in the lot.
“I don’t think this was someone coming to do a joyride, they knew what they were looking for,” Chief Mike Richardson said. “And I don’t think these are going to be chopped up anywhere, they’re heading somewhere.”
The thieves disabled the security cameras, according to police.
For those that run the dealership, it’s incredibly disappointing.
“We’re a small country town and normally nothing happens,” Chip Richardson said.
Investigators are asking anyone with information to call Thomaston Police.
There is a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
6-9-2-3, WB: 9
(six, nine, two, three; WB: nine)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
6-9-2-3, WB: 9
(six, nine, two, three; WB: nine) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17467843.php | 2022-09-26 19:44:03 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17467843.php |
Visit Booth #C8101 to See Sony's Versatile Ecosystem and Learn About the Latest Products and Workflows for Hybrid, On-Prem, Cloud, Live, and Cinematic Productions
LAS VEGAS, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- During NAB Show 2023, April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (#C8101), Sony Electronics is showcasing beneficial products, solutions and workflows for broadcast, live event, newsgathering and cinematic content creators at every level. With a focus on trending topics in imaging, cloud, networked capabilities, as well as virtual production, Sony will present its comprehensive end-to-end ecosystem, provide demos and offer hands-on time with the latest technologies.
"NAB Show continues to be a testament to the power and ingenuity of our industry and as the event celebrates 100 years, it's truly amazing to reflect on how much has changed during that time," said Theresa Alesso, President, Imaging Products and Solutions Americas, Sony Electronics. "The event is a springboard for revolutionary innovations and serves as a catalyst for connections – in every sense of the word. Building on that notion, our theme at this year's show is Creativity Connected. You'll experience the multi-faceted connections Sony is unlocking through focusing on trends and forging through our people and technologies."
Networked Live – Remote and Distributed Production
Sony's expansive Networked Live ecosystem of solutions, products, services and partners combines hybrid on-premises, and cloud processing and operations with network connectivity to transform live production. Key capabilities include network and resource orchestration, hybrid processing and operations and media processing and transport.
Network and Resource Orchestration:
- HDC-5500V / HDC-3500V: 4K 2/3" 3CMOS Global Shutter System Camera with Variable Neutral Density (ND) Filter (NEW)
The HDC-5500V and HDC-3500V cameras come with a native variable ND filter, as well as a slide mechanism to enable use with Sony's new viewfinders (HDVF-EL760/EL740). When used in conjunction with the HDCU-5000 camera control unit, the new HDC-5500V and HDC-3500V1 can be upgraded to support High Frame Rate (HFR) at up to 4x 4K and 8x HD. With an exchangeable side panel for third party integration, numerous HDR settings (Live, Mild and Natural), Live Tone control, efficient Live HDR/SDR workflows and a lens compensation function, the camera can be purchased to include the features users require now while providing sustainable options to grow into the future. HDC-5500, HDC-3500 and HDC-P50 customers can upgrade their existing cameras to enable these new capabilities2. The variable ND filter system camera models are planned to be available this fall. - CNA-2: Camera Control Network Adaptor (NEW)
The scalable CNA-2, expected to be available in the fall, can be used at locations to extend Sony's camera systems and enable remote and distributed live production, as well as camera monitoring and configuring. With a secure web API, users can take advantage of camera painting and formatting settings.
Hybrid Processing and Operations:
- Sony will demonstrate a newly developed software-based live production platform that can be deployed in various environments including virtual private cloud, data centers, and COTS servers. It can be combined with on-premises solutions like the MLS-X1 stackable switcher and third party live production systems to enable flexible, hybrid production.
- MLS-X1: Scalable Live Production Platform (NEW TO NAB SHOW)
The agile, modular live production processor/switcher enables integrated control from a single user interface. It supports real-time processing of 4K (UHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) content with ultra-low latency. NEP Australia has selected the new system with plans to deploy more than 20 MLS-X1 modules to support their 4K operations.
Media Processing and Transport:
- NXL-ME80: Media Transport Appliance (NEW)
The NXL-ME80 enables high quality video transport on low-bandwidth networks, with an ultra-low latency processing time. - HZCE-JX50H / HZCE-JX50F: Software for Sony's IP HDCE-TX30 and HDCE-TX50 Camera Extension Adapters
The latest software enables multiple compressed streams of HD (HZCE-JX50H) or 4K (HZCE-JX50F) JPEG XS, compatible with the SMPTE ST2110-22 standard. - Nevion:
VideoIPath Updates - The company's media orchestration platform, VideoIPath, supports federation of resources, allowing multiple autonomous instances of the platform to collaborate. Additionally, it is integrated with AWS Media Services for ground-to-cloud connectivity and support for AWS MediaConnect and MediaLive services.
Virtuoso RE (NEW) - An expansion of Nevion's Virtuoso family, the latest software-defined media node is smaller and lighter, making it ideal for shallower racks and rackmount flight cases. It can securely perform a variety of real-time transport, processing and monitoring functions in the converged IP LAN/WAN network.
In addition, Sony will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) through the vLRP (Virtual Live Remote Production) Partner Acceleration Initiative and will drive the construction of live production workflows on the cloud, together with other partners.
Creators' Cloud – Next Generation Cloud Production
With easy to implement cloud-based solutions, services and integrations, Sony's leading technologies support ubiquitous accessibility, paired with security and scalability that are purpose-built to address customers' largest challenges.
Sony's Creators' Cloud is a cloud-based platform that provides enterprises in the Media & Entertainment industry, individual creators and small teams with secure access to efficient services and apps to maximize their production workflows. It is comprised of the following elements.
For Enterprises:
- C3 Portal is a cloud gateway service that enables seamless content delivery from the field to the cloud, alleviating traditional physical limitations, while vastly accelerating distribution and edit workflows. Custom metadata-tagged camera clips can automatically be pushed from cameras to a production system or non-linear editor (NLE), resulting in simplified search, identification and editing. New integration with Marquis and Avid automates this process, eliminating the need for user interaction. This innovative workflow is currently deploying and being refined by Sinclair. Additionally, Teradek support is now available to enable fast and secure content delivery from the field to virtually any location.
- Ci Media Cloud is a media management and collaboration service that allows teams to access and collaborate on in-production files and finished media content from virtually anywhere. Recent Ci updates include enhancements to functionality, updated workflows, new pricing plans, and integrations with Atomos CONNECT products via Atomos Cloud Studio (ACS) and Pomfort's Silverstack Lab dailies creation and data management software.
- M2 Live makes multi-camera live production quick and efficient by providing scalable cloud-based tools that enable the creation of engaging live event streaming, social and web content.
- A2 Production is an AI-based workflow automation process that provides data analysis, subtitling, clip creation and content enrichment.
- NavigatorX manages and orchestrates assets, data, workflows and devices.
- Cloud Master Control Content Browser by Crispin enables prep and review of playback content from the cloud, supporting full cloud, or hybrid cloud/on-prem master control, operated from Crispin's Core web-based user interface.
For Individuals:
- Creators' App enables access to content and upload capabilities from a mobile device, as well as remote control of select Sony cameras3.
- Free Storage (5GB) for Creators' Cloud account holders and 25GB for owners of select cameras4.
- Discover is a place for creators to connect and share their content.
- Ci Media Cloud is also open to individual creators and small teams and can be accessed through a Sony account.
Imaging Innovations
The imaging expertise ingrained in Sony's DNA will be on display at NAB Show from studio cameras and electronic news gathering (ENG) options to cinematic solutions and drones for every step of a creator's journey. Sony's diverse offerings support high frame rate, IP, HDR and shallow depth of field and provide a sustainable pathway for continued growth to help creators at all levels achieve a new era in storytelling.
- BVM-HX3110: 30.5 Inch 4K HDR Monitor with IP Interface (NEW)
The high luminance BVM-HX3110 reference monitor features a wide viewing angle and wide color gamut for accurate color reproduction and consistent color matching with Sony's BVM-HX310, PVM-X series and LMD-A lineup of monitors. With support for IP ST2110, the BVM-HX3110 complements Sony's Networked Live ecosystem. Optional tool sets include fast pixel response mode for reduced motion blur and support for JPEG-XS and SNMP. The monitor is expected to be available November 2023. - FR7: Full-frame PTZ Interchangeable-lens camera (NEW TO NAB SHOW)
FR7 combines cinematic expression, remote control, powerful connectivity and multi-camera workflow, delivering the best image quality in a versatile PTZ footprint for studio, live production and filmmaking settings. Firmware Version 1.1, planned for May 2023 or later, will support S700 protocol and internal recording and playback over PoE++. Version 2.0, expected in September 2023 or later, will support FreeD protocol to simplify AR/VR production, external zoom adjustment and PTZ trace functionality. - VENICE Extension System 2 (NEW TO NAB SHOW)
The VENICE Extension System 2 offers support for the 8K sensor of the VENICE 2 as well as greater mobility and compatibility with either a 3m or a 12m cable – without the need for a repeater. It has a tilt/roll sensor in the imaging block to support VFX and virtual production.
Creative & Cohesive Virtual Production
Virtual production brings together the worlds of virtual reality and practical production in real time, offering numerous creative and cost-saving benefits. As its implementation expands, products, solutions and workflows are addressing challenges and creating efficiencies. At NAB Show 2023 presentations and demonstrations in Booth #C8101 will showcase Sony's end-to-end virtual production capabilities including multi-camera live switching for broadcast and an exploration of Live AR using system cameras such as the HDC-5500 series.
- VENICE Lineup and Crystal LED:
As the only manufacturer to offer high-end digital cinema cameras and displays, Sony will feature its comprehensive virtual production solution including Sony's VENICE 2 full-frame camera and select Crystal LED displays. Together, this technology creates a fully integrated and streamlined workflow that supports high dynamic range and empowers visual storytelling and virtual production. - Virtual Production Tool Set: Improve pre-production and on-set workflows (NEW)
Sony's new tool set address common virtual production challenges such as color matching, moire and enhances in-camera visual effects. The Camera and Display Plugin is a software plug-in for Unreal Engine that allows productions to identify and solve common virtual production workflow issues. The Color Calibrator addresses color shifts in LED wall technology. The complimentary tool set is expected in summer or later. - ELF-SR2: 27 inch Spatial Reality Display (NEW)
The larger Spatial Reality Display provides realistic 3D content without the use of glasses or VR headsets5. With an upgraded high-speed vision sensor, powerful imaging features and installation flexibility, the ELF-SR2 also enables more robust functionality through its versatile support of applications and software development. At the booth, Spatial Reality Display's expanded use cases will be showcased through a wide range of 3D content that aids in creation and visualization.
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1 Requires HKC-FB50 to upgrade to HDC-5500V
2 HDC-P50 does not support 4x 4K
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4 Creators' App will soon be compatible with Alpha 7 IV, ZV-1F. Spring 2023: FX3, FX30. Alpha 7 IV, Alpha 7R V, FX3, FX30 will need software update. More information at https://www.sony.net/cca/
5 Computer required with a recommended CPU of Intel i5-6 core or faster; and a graphics card with a PassMark – G3D Mark score of 18,000 or higher. (GeForce RTX2070 SUPER equivalent). PC memory size of 16 GB or larger and SSD storage is required. Windows 10 (64-bit) and Windows 11(64-bit) are supported.
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LONDON (AP) — A 12-year-old boy who had been in a coma for four months died Saturday at a London hospital after doctors ended the life-sustaining treatment his family had fought to continue.
Archie Battersbee’s mother, Hollie Dance, said her son died at 12:15 p.m., about two hours after the hospital began withdrawing treatment. British courts had rejected both the family’s effort to extend treatment and a request to move Archie to a hospice, saying neither move was in the child’s best interests.
“I’m the proudest mum in the world,” Dance said as she stood outside the hospital and wept. “Such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end.”
The legal battle is the latest in a series of very public British cases in which parents and doctors have sparred over who is better qualified to make decisions about a child’s medical care. That has sparked a debate about whether there’s a more appropriate way to settle such disagreements away from the courts.
Archie was found unconscious at home with a ligature over his head on April 7. His parents believe he may have been taking part in an online challenge that went wrong.
Doctors concluded Archie was brain-stem dead soon after the accident and sought to end the long list of treatments that kept him alive, including artificial respiration, medication to regulate his bodily functions and round-the-clock nursing care. But his family objected, claiming Archie had shown signs of life and wouldn’t have wanted them to give up hope.
The disagreement triggered weeks of legal arguments as Archie’s parents sought to force the hospital to continue life-sustaining treatments. Doctors at the Royal London Hospital argued there was no chance of recovery and he should be allowed to die.
After a series of courts ruled it was in Archie’s best interest that he be allowed to die, the family asked for permission to move the him to a hospice. The hospital said Archie’s condition was so unstable that moving him would hasten his death.
On Friday, High Court Judge Lucy Theis rejected the family’s request, ruling that Archie should remain in the hospital while treatment was withdrawn.
“Their unconditional love and dedication to Archie is a golden thread that runs through this case,″ Theis wrote in her decision. “I hope now Archie can be afforded the opportunity for him to die in peaceful circumstances, with the family who meant so much to him as he clearly does to them.”
That ruling was carried out Saturday after both the U.K. Court of Appeal and the European Court of Human Rights refused to take up the case.
But Archie’s family said his death was anything but peaceful.
Ella Carter, fiance of Archie’s eldest brother, Tom, said Archie was stable for about two hours after the hospital stopped all medication. That changed when the ventilator was turned off, she said.
“He went completely blue,” she said. “There is absolutely nothing dignified about watching a family member or a child suffocate. No family should ever have to go through what we’ve been through. It’s barbaric.”
Carter put her head on Dance’s shoulder and sobbed as the two women hugged.
The hospital expressed its condolences and thanked the doctors and nurses who had looked after Archie.
“They provided high quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances,” said Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer of Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital. “This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country.”
Legal experts insist cases like that of Archie are rare. But some disputes pitting the judgment of doctors against the wishes of families have been fought in the public eye, such as the 2017 legal battle over Charlie Gard, an infant with a rare genetic disorder. The parents unsuccessfully fought for him to have experimental treatment before he died.
Under British law, it is common for courts to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on a child’s medical treatment. The best interests of the child take primacy over the parents’ right to decide what they believe is best.
Ilora Finlay, a professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University and member of the House of Lords, said this week she hopes the Conservative government will hold an independent inquiry into different ways of handling these cases. Deciding such disputes through an adversarial court process doesn’t help anybody, she said.
“The parents don’t want to go to court. The doctors don’t want to go to court. The managers don’t want to go to court,” Finlay told Times Radio. “My worry is that these cases are going forward to court too quickly and too early, and that we need an alternative way of managing the communication between the doctors and the parents.”
The difficulty for parents is that they are in shock and often want to deny that there has been a catastrophic brain injury, Finlay said.
“When there’s brain injury, often their child looks intact, so their face looks as it always did,” she said. “So understanding what has gone on inside the brain and the amount of injury is something that needs to be sensitively explained to parents, and that takes time.”
Archie’s family was supported by the Christian Concern, which campaigns on end-of-life issues and the role of religion in society. The group said it was a “privilege” to stand beside the family.
“The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family,” Christian Concern Chief Executive Andrea Williams said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/mother-of-comatose-uk-boy-says-hospital-to-end-care-soon/ | 2022-08-06 21:00:24 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/mother-of-comatose-uk-boy-says-hospital-to-end-care-soon/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jordan Clarkson scored 23 points, reserve Collin Sexton added 22 and the Utah Jazz beat the Los Angeles Clippers 110-102 on Sunday night.
The Jazz rallied after blowing a 10-point lead in the first half and trailing in the third and fourth quarters.
“Finding ways to win is fun,” rookie Utah coach Will Hardy said. “I’m very proud of the team to overcome 20 turnovers.”
The Jazz are second in the Western Conference at 8-3. They earned a rare sweep in Los Angeles, having beaten the Lakers 130-116 on Friday.
Paul George scored 34 points, the third time in four games that he topped 30, but Los Angeles had its three-game winning streak snapped. Marcus Morris added 18 points for the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard missed his eighth game while dealing with knee stiffness.
“We got to stick together,” Nicolas Batum said. “We’ll be OK.”
The Clippers missed all 11 of their 3-point attempts in the fourth. George missed several shots down the stretch when the Jazz pulled away after erasing a four-point deficit.
“Lauri (Markkanen) did a really good job of making Paul George work hard and not just to make shots but to get the ball,” Hardy said. “Not all 11 (3-pointers) were guarded perfectly. There were just some that were missed.”
The Jazz scored nine in a row, capped by Malik Beasley’s 3-pointer to take the lead for good with 5 1/2 minutes remaining. It was part of a 14-2 run that extended Utah’s lead to 106-98. Sexton had seven points in the spurt.
“I’m starting to get more comfortable in myself,” Sexton said. “Just staying ready and being present throughout the game.”
The Clippers pulled within four on a dunk and inside basket by Ivica Zubac before Sexton dunked with 54 seconds left.
“We battled the entire game and we didn’t get down when Paul George made a tough shot,” Sexton said.
Sexton fed Markkanen for an inside basket in the closing seconds. Playing his first season in Utah, Markkanen finished with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Clarkson’s 3-pointer early in the fourth tied it at 87-all.
The Clippers scored the first seven points of the third to pull into a 63-all tie. They closed within two five times before John Wall’s steal and basket forced an 81-all tie.
Wall followed with a dunk that put the Clippers ahead for the first time since the first quarter.
The Jazz took an 84-83 led on Clarkson’s 3-pointer before Wall scored again, sending the Clippers into the fourth leading by one point.
George’s 3 drew the Clippers within one before the Jazz closed on a 13-7 run to go into halftime leading 63-56. Markkanen scored 11 of Utah’s points in the spurt when he made all five of his free-throw attempts.
TIP-INS
Jazz: Markkanen didn’t miss a shot in the first half. He hit all four of his field goal attempts and made his only 3-point try in addition to all five free-throw attempts for 14 points. … Jarrod Vanderbilt sat out with right adductor soreness.
Clippers: Robert Covington returned after missing four games while in the league’s health and safety protocols. … Luke Kennard sat out with chest discomfort. He will undergo further testing Monday.
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Jazz: Host the Lakers on Monday to conclude a back-to-back. Utah is 4-0 at home.
Clippers: Host Cleveland on Monday in the second game of a back-to-back.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Scholars and historical institutions from around the world are coming to the defense of a Polish researcher who is under fire from her country’s authorities after saying that Poles could have done more to help Jews during the Holocaust.
Barbara Engelking said in a television interview last week that Polish Jews felt disappointed in Poles during World War II, referring to what she described as “widespread blackmailing” of Jews by Poles during the Nazi German occupation.
The historian and the independent television broadcaster have been threatened since then with consequences by government institutions — turning the matter into a campaign issue before an election scheduled for this fall.
Poland’s conservative government and pro-government media have described the remarks by Engelking, who is Polish, as an attack on the nation. They accuse her of distorting the historical record and not giving due credit to the Poles who risked — and sometimes lost — their lives to help Jews.
It is the latest eruption of an emotional debate that has been going on for years in Poland over Polish-Jewish relations, particularly the behavior of Poles toward their Jewish neighbors during the war — when Germans committed brutal crimes against Poles, whom they considered subhuman, and against the Jews, a population they sought to exterminate in its entirety.
Poles reacted in various ways to the German treatment of the Jews. Some helped the Jews, an act punishable with execution by the occupation forces. Others denounced or blackmailed them, motivated by antisemitic hatred or for personal gain. Many Poles lived in fear and sought to survive the war without getting involved either way.
Polish nationalists don’t deny that some Poles preyed on their Jewish compatriots, but say they these cases shouldn’t lead to generalizations about society at large. They fear scholarship on Poles who betrayed Jews is distorting a history of heroism by Poles who resisted the Germans. And they argue it risks unfairly shifting the responsibility of the German crimes onto Poles.
Engelking spoke on the 80th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. She was being interviewed by private broadcaster TVN about an exhibition she helped create on the fate of civilians in the ghetto, “ Around Us A Sea of Fire,” which opened last week.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reacted to the interview with a long social media post describing Engelking’s comments as “scandalous opinions” and part of an “anti-Polish narrative.”
Morawiecki referred to the more than 7,000 Poles recognized by Israel’s Holocaust institute Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. A Polish institute is trying to document cases that have so far not been recorded.
“We know that there could be tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of such cases,” Morawiecki said.
This week, Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek threatened the funding of the institution where Engelking works, the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, which is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
“I will not finance an institute that maintains the kind of people who simply insult Poles,” Czarnek said.
He said that Poles “were the greatest allies of the Jews, and if it had not been for the Poles, many Jews would have died, many more than were killed in the Holocaust.”
According to Yad Vashem, around 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland on the eve of the Sept. 1, 1939 German invasion, and only 380,000 survived the war.
About 3 million other Polish citizens who weren’t Jewish were also killed during the war.
Poland’s state broadcasting authority has also opened an investigation into TVN, which is owned by the U.S. company Warner Bros. Discovery. The broadcaster also faced government criticism recently for a report claiming that St. John Paul II had covered up cases of clerical abuse in his native Poland before becoming pope.
Government critics see an attempt to exploit the issue to win votes before the election — as the ruling party risks losing votes to a far-right party, Confederation, which has been surging in popularity.
Liberal media and commentators warn that media and academic freedoms are being threatened.
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan said that he called Engelking to show support for “freedom of expression and of academic research, in the face of blatant and menacing attacks.”
By Friday, more than 600 scholars of the Holocaust and related subjects in Poland and abroad had signed a statement expressing opposition to the “political attack” on Engelking.
They said they regard “such censorious tendencies … as extremely dangerous and unacceptable,” adding: “We object to the idea of making a subject that calls for meticulous and nuanced research — as carried out by Professor Engelking — part of an election campaign.”
The POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, where the exhibition about civilians in the Warsaw ghetto is being shown, also defended Engelking in a statement Wednesday.
The museum argued that the feelings of disappointment expressed by Jews during the war are a “fact,” and that “they appear in almost every account of those who survived the Holocaust, as well as those who managed to leave a record of their fate, but did not survive.”
Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, and other Jewish leaders said in a statement that they considered attempts by the state to “censor the opinions of independent historians” as unacceptable.
Engelking more than a decade ago also angered some Poles by saying death for Poles then “was simply a biological, natural matter … and for Jews it was a tragedy, it was a dramatic experience, it was metaphysics.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/scholars-defend-polish-holocaust-researcher-targeted-by-govt/ | 2023-04-29 05:23:53 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/scholars-defend-polish-holocaust-researcher-targeted-by-govt/ |
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Dozens of people protested in front of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad and bank owners called for official action to stem a sharp increase in the dollar exchange rate Wednesday, after the United States blacklisted 14 Iraqi banks.
Over the past two days, the market rate of the dollar jumped from 1,470 dinar per dollar to 1,570 dinar per dollar. The jump came after the U.S. listed 14 private Iraqi banks among banks that are banned from dealing with U.S. dollars due to suspicions of money laundering and funneling funds to Iran.
The ban was imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on July 19.
“The listing of almost one third of the private banks as banned from dealing with the U.S. dollar will have negative consequences from many perspectives,” Haidar al Shamaa, owner of a private bank in Baghdad said at a news conference Wednesday.
He called on “the brothers at the Iraqi government to work … to undo the damage which occurred to us specifically, and to the Iraqi banking section in general.”
The 14 banks facing the ban issued a joint statement urging the Iraqi government to address the issue and warning that banning a third of Iraq’s private banks from dollar trading would not only impact the dollar price but hinder foreign investment.
Protesters organized by a group calling itself Thuwar Tishreen (October Revolutionaries), which is connected to a movement that started mass protests in Iraq in 2021, also demanded that the government take action to halt inflation.
Also on Wednesday, central bank chief Ali al-Allaq told the state-run Iraqi News Agency that his institution continues to provide dollars at the official rate of 1,320 dinar to the dollar for “all legitimate transactions” including “remittances and credits for various imports.”
He blamed the current rise in the street price of the dollar on the “reluctance of certain merchants” who “do not practice legitimate activities and operations” to use the official electronic platform used for currency requests.
On Sunday, the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani met with al-Allaq and discussed measures to stabilize the dinar price against the dollar.
A similar dive in the value of the dinar took place earlier this year after measures taken by the United States late last year to stamp out money laundering and the channeling of dollars to Iran and Syria from Iraq severely restricted Iraq’s access to hard currency.
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Associated Press writer Abdulrahman Zeyad in Baghdad contributed to this report. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-bank-owners-and-citizens-protest-deterioration-of-the-iraqi-dinar-following-us-ban-on-iraqi-banks/ | 2023-07-27 20:21:09 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-bank-owners-and-citizens-protest-deterioration-of-the-iraqi-dinar-following-us-ban-on-iraqi-banks/ |
US National Labor Relations Board rules NCAA violated athletes' labor rights; court meetings likely: reports
National College Players Association filed unfair labor practice charge against NCAA in February
The National College Players Association will likely face the NCAA, Pac-12 and the University of Southern California in court after the National Labor Relations Board reportedly ruled that the parties are legally employers of college football and basketball players.
The decision comes 10 months after the NLRB filed an unfair labor practice charge against the NCAA, the conference and the school. The suit accuses the parties of misclassifying college players as "student-athletes" as well as other violations.
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"We are working to make sure college athletes are treated fairly in both the education and business aspects of college sports," players association executive director Ramogi Huma said in a statement Thursday. "Gaining employee status and the right to organize is an important part in ending NCAA sports’ business practices that illegally exploit college athletes’ labor."
"This kind of misclassification deprives these players of their statutory right to organize and to join together to improve their working/playing conditions if they wish to do so," the NLRB’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg. "Our aim is to ensure that these players can fully and freely exercise their rights."
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Huma is confident that the court will rule in favor of the players "if it goes to the highest court in the land."
The Labor Board will issue a complaint against the organizations, Bloomberg notes.
"College athletes meet the definition of employee under labor law," said Huma, a former linebacker for UCLA, said in February. "They are highly skilled in their sport, paid scholarships and stipends to perform athletic services, and they perform their work under extensive control of their employer. These athletes deserve every right afforded to them under labor laws — just like other hard-working Americans."
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed an amendment to a law granting the city's leader the power to bar overseas lawyers from handling national security cases, following a high-profile row sparked by a pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher's hiring of a British lawyer.
The changes will require overseas lawyers who do not generally practice in Hong Kong to obtain permission from the chief executive before submitting applications to represent clients in national security cases in court.
The city's leader will only give approval if there are sufficient grounds to believe the lawyers' involvement will not contradict the interests of national security, and the decision cannot be challenged.
The bill was passed by a majority in the city’s legislature, filled by mostly Beijing loyalists, with little opposition through a show-of-hands vote. Critics said the changes will leave defendants with even fewer choices when they look for legal representation in some of the city’s most controversial cases.
The legal changes were proposed this year after the city's top court approved jailed pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai's appointment of London-based lawyer Timothy Owen to represent him as he faces collusion charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to China in 1997, uses the same common law jurisdiction as the U.K., and lawyers from other common law jurisdictions can generally work within the city's legal system when their expertise is needed.
Hours after Hong Kong's top court in November approved Lai's choice of lawyer, city leader John Lee asked Beijing to decide whether foreign lawyers should be allowed to work on national security cases. While China’s top legislative body didn’t directly rule on whether these lawyers could handle such cases, it said the city's leader and committee for safeguarding national security had the power to decide the matter.
In proposing the amendment, the government said the changes would “effectively implement the spirit of the interpretation” of the law and address potential national security risks associated with overseas lawyers handling such cases. The mechanism will apply to both criminal and civil cases related to national security, it said.
On Wednesday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam defended the changes by arguing defendants can choose representation from more than 1,600 barristers in Hong Kong. But, in practice, defendants in national security cases are left with a small pool of lawyers who can handle such cases, said Kevin Yam, senior fellow at Georgetown Center for Asian Law.
“Pretty much almost all the barristers who are willing and able” to take up such cases are already handling an ongoing trial involving 47 activists who were charged under a national security law over an unofficial primary election, Yam said. That trial is expected to last for 90 days.
“We’re left with a situation where a type of case that very few lawyers are willing to take up are now going to lose yet another source from which you can get legal representation,” he said.
He also noted the definition of national security is vague, so it will be hard to determine when foreign lawyers will be turned away under the new mechanism.
"If you are a foreign lawyer ... would you take the risks in going through the whole uncertainty about whether the case you’re going to take is going to involve national security elements?” he said.
The legal changes passed Wednesday are not retrospective.
Lai’s lawyers earlier learned that the committee for safeguarding national security had decided Owen's representation of Lai would likely pose national security risks and advised the director of immigration to refuse any new work visa applications from Owen related to the case. The director of immigration said his department would act in accordance with that advice.
The lawyers last month filed an application for judicial review, asking the court to quash the committee and director’s decisions. The court is expected to hand down a decision later. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/hong-kong-amends-law-to-limit-foreign-lawyers-in-18090512.php | 2023-05-10 12:39:55 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/hong-kong-amends-law-to-limit-foreign-lawyers-in-18090512.php |
AP source: Biden to float windfall tax on energy producers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday will raise the possibility of imposing a ‘windfall tax’ on energy companies, as his administration aims to combat high gas prices just days before the midterm elections.
The White House said Biden will deliver remarks to respond “to reports over recent days of major oil companies making record-setting profits even as they refuse to help lower prices at the pump for the American people.” A person familiar with the matter said Biden will float imposing a tax on the profits of energy companies, as he seeks to pressure them to lower prices for consumers. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview Biden’s remarks.
“Oil companies made billions in profits this quarter,” Biden tweeted on Saturday. “They’re using these record profits to pay out their wealthy shareholders instead of investing in production and lowering costs for Americans. It’s unacceptable. It’s time for these companies to bring down prices at the pump.”
High prices at the pump have exacerbated inflation and have taken a toll on Biden and Democrats’ standing among voters.
Congress would have to approve any additional taxes on the energy producers — which would be a tall order in the current Congress where Democrats have narrow control of the House and Senate, and even less likely should Republicans retake one or both chambers on Nov. 8.
Last week Exxon Mobil broke records with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.66 billion in net income, and Chevron had $11.23 billion in profits, almost reaching the record profits it attained in the prior quarter.
Americans have struggled with painfully high gasoline prices in recent months, paying more than $4.80 on average for a gallon of regular at the beginning of July, according to AAA. They’ve since fallen to $3.76 on average nationally, but the White House says they should be lower, given declines in global oil prices over the same period.
“Can’t believe I have to say this but giving profits to shareholders is not the same as bringing prices down for American families,” Biden tweeted on Friday.
Biden has been critical of energy companies profits since at least June, when he complained publicly that “Exxon made more money than God this year.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Starting Monday, you can teach your old iPhone a few new tricks.
Updating the phone’s software to the latest version, iOS 16, will unlock a load of new features, from the ability to edit text messages after they’re sent, to new filters meant to help you focus.
Here are a few of the highlights:
Text message editing
If you make a typo while texting, you’ll have 15 minutes to correct yourself, thanks to an update to Messages. You can make edits to a message up to five times, Apple says.
If you sent something to the wrong person, you can also “undo” a send for two minutes after the text is fired off.
Another update to Messages allows you to mark a text as unread so that if you don’t have time to respond in the moment, you’ll have a reminder to check back on it later.
Customize your Lock Screen
iOS16 includes a ton of new ways to customize your iPhone’s screen saver. You can pick new fonts and colors for the time, create a gallery of photos that cycle through, and customize which widgets you want to see on the screen. The software can also suggest which photos already saved on your phone would look good as a Lock Screen.
You can also add certain “Live Activities” to the Lock Screen, allowing you to check on sports scores or other live events without unlocking your phone.
You also have the option to make multiple custom lock screens that are easy to switch between – that way you don’t have to just pick one favorite to look at.
Focus better
The new software allows you to set up different states of “Focus” (like a “Personal Focus” or “Work Focus” setting). From there, you can really get into the nitty gritty of what shows up on your phone during focus time.
For example, you can set up “Work Focus” to show all your upcoming calendar events on the Lock Screen, but silence incoming calls and texts. You could set up a “Personal Focus” setting that allows all those texts and calls to come through, but blocks your work email. You could even have different photos on your Lock Screen depending on which mode is enabled.
Talk-to-text improvements
Your phone’s dictation ability should improve with this software update, Apple says. Punctuation should insert itself into the dictated text automatically, and you’ll also be able to insert emojis while dictating.
Email tweaks
A few changes to the Mail app are coming with iOS 16, including the option to undo send before your recipient gets the email. The app may also warn you if it thinks you’ve forgotten to add an attachment, and it’s supposed to include improvements that will making searching for a specific email easier.
Map your way around
A few updates to Apple’s Maps app allow you to add multiple stops to a journey. You can also check transit fares before you head out. Maps now syncs across your Apple devices, so the company says you can plan your route on your computer, for example, and then see it on your phone to help with navigation.
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You may be prompted it’s time for the update in the coming days, but you can also install iOS 16 sooner by going into your phone’s settings, tapping “General” and then “Software Update.” Apple says the update will be available on Monday, Sept. 12, though it’s not clear what time it will be pushed out to devices.
iOS 16 is compatible with the iPhone 8 models, and every model released after that, as well as the second generation iPhone SE and later.
Apple has a detailed description of all the new iOS16 features on its website. | https://www.wivb.com/technology/you-can-unlock-these-new-ios16-iphone-features-monday/ | 2022-09-12 17:22:43 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/technology/you-can-unlock-these-new-ios16-iphone-features-monday/ |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Fox News, CNN and other major news outlets didn’t defame former coal executive Don Blankenship when they referred to him as a “felon” after he served a year in prison on a misdemeanor charge in connection with the worst U.S. mine disaster in decades, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Fourth Circuit Court Chief Judge Roger Gregory affirmed a district court’s determination that 16 outlets sued by Blankenship did not act with “actual malice” amid coverage of his unsuccessful 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, even if they failed to meet journalistic standards.
“Failure to fact-check is not enough to manufacture a genuine issue of actual malice here,” Gregory wrote.
The chief judge said Blankenship’s arguments are “mostly speculative and do not come close to the quantum of evidence needed to create a jury question.”
Blankenship couldn’t be immediately reached for comment. His attorney didn’t return email and phone messages, and an email sent to an account listed for Blankenship could not be delivered. He did not respond to a direct message sent to him on Twitter.
The former CEO of Massey Energy, which owned West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine where a 2010 explosion killed 29 workers, was indicted on several federal charges in the wake of the disaster, including multiple felony counts.
A jury ultimately acquitted him of the felony charges, but Blankenship was sentenced to one year in federal prison — the statutory maximum — on a misdemeanor charge for conspiring to violate federal mine safety laws. He was also fined $250,000.
Blankenship was released from prison in 2017. While still on supervised release in January 2018, Blankenship announced his plans to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in West Virginia.
During Blankenship’s Senate campaign, numerous media organizations and journalists broadcast or published statements that referred to him as a “felon” or “convicted felon,” even though Blankenship’s conviction was classified as a misdemeanor.
The appeal before the Fourth Circuit court involved 16 of those organizations: Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, ABC, News & Guts, Eli Lehrer, Mediaite, Tamar Auber, Griffin Connolly, FiscalNote, HD Media, NBCUniversal, CNBC, 35th PAC and the Boston Globe.
The court determined that journalists were confused about the meaning of the term “felon,” which by definition refers to someone convicted of a felony. Although Blankenship was not a “felon,” he was sentenced to serve a one-year sentence in federal prison — a rarity for a misdemeanor offense.
“Blankenship’s prison sentence placed him as close to felony status as possible,” Gregory said, adding that for “non-lawyers” describing Blankenship as a felon was not “inherently improbable,” and there were not “obvious reasons to doubt the veracity” of such a statement.
“Some of the statements may have been the product of carelessness and substandard journalistic methods,” the chief judge wrote. “But at the end of the day, the record does not contain evidence that the commentators and journalists responsible for the statements were anything more than confused about how to describe a person who served a year in prison for a federal offense.”
The Richmond-based court also upheld the lower court’s decision to side with the news organizations against Blankenship’s false light invasion of privacy and civil conspiracy claims, again saying he lacked sufficient evidence. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-court-news-outlets-didnt-defame-ex-coal-ceo-blankenship/ | 2023-02-23 06:06:22 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-court-news-outlets-didnt-defame-ex-coal-ceo-blankenship/ |
(NEXSTAR) – As the U.S. continues to see high levels of three viral infections – COVID-19, influenza, and RSV – there’s growing concern over a bacteria that can cause serious illness, especially in children.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s tracking a “possible increase in invasive group A strep” among children.
At least 94 people in the United Kingdom, including 24 children, have died from complications caused by a strep A infection. “To my knowledge, we’ve never seen a peak like this at this time of year, at least not for decades,” microbiologist Shiranee Sriskandan at Imperial College London told Nature.
France, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden have also observed strep A increases over the past few months, the World Health Organization said.
When asked if the U.S. was destined to follow the trend we’re seeing in Europe, Dr. Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said it was too soon to say if we’d see a “large strep A outbreak.” He warned that it could be a problem if we do see a rise in the bacterial infection at the same time we’re contending with a viral “tripledemic.”
“Often times severe disease is caused when you have that combination of a virus infection and a bacterial infection,” Pekosz said. He added that viral infections can sometimes lead to bacterial infections, so the rise in strep A isn’t totally unrelated to the other types of sickness we’re seeing peak.
Secondary bacterial infections, like getting strep A while you’re fighting off the flu or COVID, can also cause more severe disease, Pekosz said.
Strep A infections are particularly dangerous for children, the CDC says. While strep commonly looks and feels like a sore throat, it can sometimes lead to more serious illness like scarlet fever. In rare instances, strep A can also cause necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, both of which are extremely dangerous and can lead to death.
Getting strep now is especially dangerous, as the country is experiencing a shortage of amoxicillin, a liquid antibiotic commonly prescribed to help kids fight strep A. The CDC expects the shortage to “last several months.”
The CDC says concerned parents should contact their pediatrician to get a strep test if they believe their child may have the bacterial infection. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/after-covid-flu-and-rsv-is-a-strep-outbreak-next/ | 2022-12-26 20:18:52 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/after-covid-flu-and-rsv-is-a-strep-outbreak-next/ |
A Navy investigation is revealing how shoddy management and human error caused fuel to leak into Pearl Harbor's tap water last year.
The leak poisoned thousands of people and forced military families to evacuate their homes for hotels. The investigation is the first detailed account of how jet fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, a massive World War II-era military-run tank farm in the hills above Pearl Harbor, leaked into a well that supplied water to housing and offices in and around Pearl Harbor.
The report listed a cascading series of mistakes from May through November 2021 when fuel got into a drinking water well.
“The lack of critical thinking, intellectual rigor, and self-assessment by key leaders at decisive moments exemplified a culture of complacency and demonstrated a lack of professionalism that is demanded by the high consequence nature of fuel operations,” the report said. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/navy-report-multiple-errors-poisoned-pearl-harbor-water | 2022-07-01 03:22:08 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/navy-report-multiple-errors-poisoned-pearl-harbor-water |
McWin enters into Master Franchise and Development Agreements to develop Burger King in Czech Republic, Poland & Romania, and Popeyes in Czech Republic & Poland, as part of a Europe expansion.
ZUG, Switzerland, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Restaurant Brands International (TSX: QSR) (NYSE: QSR) ("RBI") and McWin, one of the most reputable operators in Europe, are excited to announce that affiliates of McWin have acquired exclusive master franchise and development rights to develop the Burger King and Popeyes brands in several countries in Eastern Europe, with new restaurants to open in 2023.
McWin, through its newly established Rex Concepts CEE platform, is set to expand the flame-grilled Burger King brand in Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania, and to bring the iconic fried chicken restaurant brand Popeyes to Czech Republic and Poland, with plans to open 600 restaurants throughout these countries over the next 10 years.
"We're thrilled to have reached this milestone with McWin, and we are confident that their strong experience in developing businesses will translate to successful expansions of our iconic brands in Eastern Europe". said David Shear, President International of Restaurant Brands International Inc., parent company of Burger King and Popeyes. "This announcement highlights our commitment to serving more guests with our iconic flame-grilled Whopper® sandwich and our bold Louisiana style chicken, among other favorites. This is a big step in our ambitious expansion journey for these brands, and we're excited to keep growing our footprint across Eastern Europe."
"We are excited to continue to strengthen McWin's leadership position in Europe, where we see significant growth opportunities and incorporating strong premium brands in our 1,300 growing restaurant portfolio, such as Burger King and Popeyes", Henry McGovern, Co-Founder of McWin, commented. "Following the acquisition of BK SEE Poland S.A. in August, this is the second investment made through our €525m McWin Restaurant Fund and demonstrates our commitment to helping brands reach the next level with operational excellence as we unlock sustainable long-term value for customers, employees, communities, and the local economies where we operate."
Today's announcement reflects the global appeal for Burger King and Popeyes worldwide. Burger King operates in more than 19,000 locations in 100+ countries, including 33 countries across Europe.
Popeyes passion for its Louisiana heritage, signature 12-hour marinated chicken, bold flavorful and authentic food, has allowed it to become one of the world's largest chicken quick-service restaurants with over 3,800 restaurants in over 30 countries around the world, with recent successful European launches into the UK, Romania, Spain and Switzerland. The ambitious expansion journey is part of a broader strategy to increase presence in key markets across the world, serving more and more guests while offering an exceptional guest experience.
McWin is committed to offer the world-famous and craving menus guests know and love, and to provide diners with a best-in-class guest experience, both in-restaurant and online through personalized digital innovation. The new Burger King and Popeyes restaurants will feature Digital Ordering Screens, Mobile Ordering, Table Service, and Delivery, so that guests can conveniently order and enjoy delicious food the way they prefer.
Burger King and Popeyes guests can expect to bite into the unmatched Whopper and Popeyes crunchy signature chicken sandwich, and to grow closer love for their unique flavors in 2023.
Founded in 1954, the Burger King® brand is a global fast-food hamburger chain known for food quality and value as the only place guests can get the iconic flame-grilled Whopper® sandwich. The Burger King® system operates more than 18,800 locations in more than 100 countries. Almost 100 percent of Burger King® restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. To learn more about the Burger King® brand, visit www.bk.com.
Founded in New Orleans in 1972, Popeyes® has more than 50 years of history and culinary tradition. Popeyes® distinguishes itself with a unique New Orleans style menu featuring spicy chicken, chicken tenders, fried shrimp, and other regional items. The chain's passion for its Louisiana heritage and flavorful authentic food has allowed Popeyes® to become one of the world's largest chicken quick service restaurants with over 3,800 restaurants in the U.S. and around the world. To learn more about the brand, please visit the Popeyes® brand website at www.popeyes.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.
McWin is a private investment firm founded by Henry McGovern and Steven K. Winegar partnering with exceptional founders and CEOs daring sustainable disruption, principally in the food service and food technology sectors.
Henry McGovern is the founder of AmRest Holdings SE, one of Europe's leading foodservice companies, which under Henry's leadership grew to more than 2,300 restaurants in 25 countries, with 55,000+ employees. Steven K. Winegar was shareholder and senior executive of Grupo Zena and the founder of Restauravia Grupo Empresarial, Megafood SL and former board member of Telepizza. Between them, they have built or operated 4,200+ restaurants across Europe, the United States and China and have extensive experience investing in food technology and broader disruptive technologies. McWin and funds advised by McWin are currently investors in Gail's, Vapiano, CookUnity and Dean&David as well as alternative protein companies including BlueNalu, Perfect Day, The Every Company (formerly Clara Foods), Impossible Foods and UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) and leading food technology companies such as Footprint, Oishii and Menu.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and information, which reflect management's current beliefs and expectations regarding future events, initiatives and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements about our expectations regarding the ability to open 600 Burger King and Popeyes restaurants (on a combined basis) in Poland, Czech Republic and Romania in the next ten (10) years, the ability to provide diners with a best-in-class experience, both in restaurant and online, through personalized digital innovation, the ability to create sustainable long-term value for customers, employees, communities, and the Polish, Romanian and Czech Republic economies, and the ability to deliver on the ambitious expansion journey of Burger King and Popeyes as part of a broader strategy to increase presence in key markets across the world. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from RBI's expectations are detailed in filings of RBI with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada, such as its annual and quarterly reports and current reports on Form 8-K and include the following risks: risk related to our ability to successfully implement its domestic and international growth strategy and risks related to its international operations; risks related to our ability to compete domestically and internationally in an intensely competitive industry; global economic or other business conditions that may affect the desire or ability of our customers to purchase our products; our relationship with, and the success of, our franchisees and risks related to our fully franchised business model; and the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising programs and franchisee support of these programs. Other than as required under applicable laws, we do not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, change in expectations or otherwise.
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Tar Heels WR Downs opts out of Holiday Bowl for NFL leap
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina receiver Josh Downs is opting out of the Holiday Bowl against No. 15 Oregon to prepare for a jump to the NFL draft.
Downs announced his decision in a social media post Friday, less than a week after he had 11 catches for 100 yards in the Tar Heels’ loss to No. 10 Clemson in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game. He led the team with 94 catches for 1,029 yards and 11 touchdowns despite missing two games.
Downs ranks third in the Bowl Subdivision ranks with 8.5 catches per game, while his 11 TD catches is tied for seventh.
His top stretch came when he had a run of four straight 100-yard games with at least nine catches each time. That included 15 catches for 166 yards and a touchdown at Virginia and 11 catches for 154 yards and three scores in a win at Wake Forest that clinched the ACC’s Coastal Division title.
Downs had ranked 10th in FBS in 2021 with 1,335 yards receiving to go with eight scores.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AVAIO Digital today announced the appointment of Laurance Lewis as its Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Mr. Lewis will lead the commercialization efforts for AVAIO Digital's data centers, which includes managing the integrated sales and marketing function and providing site selection, strategy and development expertise. Mr. Lewis is a veteran in the data center industry and has a broad array of knowledge and real-world experience in the technical, legal, operational and commercial aspects of the data center industry at scale.
"AVAIO Digital is an impressive company that has strong ties to the financial and renewable energy industries and has secured a compelling portfolio of strategic, sustainable sites", said Mr. Lewis. "I look forward to working with the talented AVAIO Digital team, leading the company's commercialization efforts, and returning to my entrepreneurial roots at a pivotal time in AVAIO Digital's growth."
"Mr. Lewis's appointment will strengthen our ability to serve our clients and their needs. Mr. Lewis brings an impressive array of skills and a depth of knowledge that will ensure our data centers are successfully delivered to customers", said AVAIO partner Mark McComiskey.
Mr. Lewis has more than 20 years of executive experience in commercial real estate, data centers, fiber and wireless network acquisition, and leasing and development. Most recently, Mr. Lewis was a Regional Lead & Principal/Director of Site Selection & Acquisition for Microsoft Corporation. During his tenure at Microsoft, he led over $6 billion of data center leasing projects in the Americas and Europe. Mr. Lewis's remit included hyperscale data centers, Government and Sovereign data centers, and Edge data center leasing. He also played an integral role in Microsoft's community development initiatives, helping to launch the Chicago Area Broadband Initiative, a program focused on bridging the digital divide in underserved, urban areas. The program focused on environmental sustainability, workforce development and affordable broadband.
AVAIO Digital is a data center business managed by AVAIO Capital. AVAIO Capital is a build-to-core infrastructure investment firm led by professionals from investment, development, engineering, construction, and operating backgrounds. AVAIO Digital is pursuing build-to-suit development and construction of sustainable hyperscale data centers in North America and Europe. Funded by a $375 million equity commitment from a large investment manager with more than $25 billion of assets under management, AVAIO Digital has a pipeline of hyperscale projects already under development in the US, Canada and Western Europe representing over 400 MWs of capacity. More information can be found at www.avaiodigital.com.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In the space of some four minutes, Cristiana Girelli made history.
Girelli became the first Italian to score in two Women’s World Cups with her goal in the 87th minute that gave Italy a 1-0 win in its tournament opener against Argentina on Monday night.
“There’s nothing special, it’s just that I did my duty,” Girelli said. “I did my best. I was really willing to help my teammates.”
Italy put the ball in the back of the net twice in the opening half but both times were offside, before Girelli’s breakthrough header. Girelli came into the match as a substitute in the 83rd minute.
The Italians have never dropped an opening match at the World Cup. But this time they faced tenacious Argentina, eager for its first-ever win in the tournament. Going into the World Cup, La Albiceleste were inspired by their men’s side and star Lionel Messi, who brought home the World Cup trophy from Qatar late last year.
“We will try to leave this game behind us, learn from what happened, and continue reinforcing the positive. Now we need to clear our minds, look at what comes next and take on the group,” Argentina forward Estefania Banini said.
Italy has had more success on the big stage, advancing to the World Cup quarterfinals in 2019 after a 2-0 round of 16 victory over China. The Italians were stopped by the Netherlands, which went on to lose to the United States in the final.
Argentina had a boisterous section of fans — including a drum corps — at the match at Eden Park. The crowd at the match was announced at 30,889.
Argentina’s women returned to the World Cup four years ago in France after a 12-year absence and had a tough time: after a draw with Japan and a loss to England, the team played to a tie with Scotland — but couldn’t collect enough points to advance out of the group.
“We couldn’t really manage to get a positive result, but my players gave it their all. Yes, they gave it their all and they know this. I told them this,” Argentina coach German Portanova. “We took the field with a certain mindset, but we couldn’t do it for the 90 minutes.”
Arianna Caruso, who plays professionally for Juventus, appeared to score from distance in the 15th minute but Italy was quickly ruled offside. The 23-year old was the youngest woman to reach 100 appearances with Juventus.
A midfielder, she was one of Italy’s most dangerous players early in the match. But she was handed a yellow card in the 25th minute and was subbed off in the 58th minute.
Italy was offside again on Valentina Giacinti’s attempted goal late in the half.
Italy goalkeeper Lara Esponda held Argentina at bay on a dangerous free kick in the 73rd.
Italy started 16-year-old Giulia Dragoni at midfield and the Barcelona player nicknamed “Little Messi” is the second-youngest European to play at the tournament. Dragoni wears No. 16 to correspond with her age.
She was replaced by Girelli, at 33 the oldest player in the Azzurre squad, in the 83rd minute. Girelli’s goal was the 54th of her international career.
Girelli, who also play for Juventus, changed the tone of the match almost immediately when she subbed in.
“It was amazing, because, yes, we were looking for the goal for all the second half. We were trying. I think we played a good match in the second half and fortunately Cristiana put her head on the ball and scored,” said Italy’s captain Barbara Bonansea.
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Sweden defeated South Africa 2-1 on Sunday to kick off Group G play at the tournament, co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia. Sweden now sits atop the group with a pair of goals compared to Italy’s one.
Group G plays all of its matches in New Zealand. Argentina next faces South Africa on Friday in Dunedin, while Italy plays Sweden in Wellington on Saturday.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Hope Builders, a new 501c3 charitable enterprise founded by Pastor Paul Bains and Cheryl Bains, formally announced its partnership with indieDwell as the two parties broke ground on indieDwell's second California factory on July 19th. The new factory will be located in East Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Guests at the ground breaking included leading philanthropists and charitable foundations who have made financing for the joint venture possible along with local, city, and state leaders.
"This is an important milestone in our efforts to bring more affordable housing to the Bay Area," Pastor Bains said. "We have spent 20 years helping the unhoused find shelter and dignity in our communities through WeHOPE; but we realized that without more housing, we were always going to be fighting uphill. This joint venture factory with indieDwell – which is mission and values-aligned with our organization – will put faster-to-build, less expensive housing products into the hands of affordable housing developers. Coupled with UHB's political network and growing project development team, we plan to move the needle for affordable housing in the Bay Area."
Pete Gombert, the Chairman of indieDwell, joined the ground breaking event. "We are looking forward to opening our doors in East Palo Alto to 100 great new jobs, job training and ownership opportunities for workers in the first quarter of 2023. We should have products in developers' hands by Q2 of next year. indieDwell's innovative steel modules give developers ultimate flexibility and quality, while assuring units will be ready when our partners need them."
United Hope Builders' mission has been supported by some of the peninsula's leading philanthropic organizations, including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, the Packard Foundation, The Palo Alto Community Foundation, Philanthropic Venture Fund, the Grove Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and a number of private individuals. UHB was granted a $500,000 workforce development grant by the County of San Mateo to support its hiring of marginalized workers. UHB's new factory is also being generously supported by the Uhrig/Vournas Charitable Fund and Anastasia Vournas and Bill Uhrig have arranged for UHB to use the Bay Road site at a nominal cost.
UHB's vision to create the first indieDwell affordable housing factory in Northern California has also been strongly supported by local and state elected officials, by leaders in the faith community, and by local activists who have fought for years to bring more respect and housing to East Palo Alto. UHB was particularly gratified to obtain the full support of Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), which was the group that stood up to the powerful Romic Corporation, the former occupants of the site, ultimately causing Romic to shut down their enterprise in 2007.
"It is a great transformation," commented East Palo Alto Mayor Ruben Abrica. "Seeing something good happen here, something that will benefit the workers and residents of East Palo Alto and also our neighboring cities, fills us with joy. The Bay Area and our unhoused residents need solutions like United Hope Builders and indieDwell."
When completed in the fourth quarter of 2022, the UHB/indieDwell factory will occupy three buildings totaling 57,500 ft2 and have capacity to produce 400 indieDwell modular units a year. The two partners are committed to creating 100 well-paying jobs with great health benefits, job training, profit sharing and ownership for the employees. The project site sits on a little less than 5 acres. It is located at the end of Bay Road near Cooley Landing overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
About United Hope Builders: UHB is a new social enterprise aimed at addressing all three barriers to affordable housing in Northern California – the cost of construction, the availability of land, and political will. UHB is founded by Pastor Paul and Cheryl Bains and is a majority BIPOC managed entity. The Bains also co-founded and manage WeHOPE, a leading provider of shelter and services to the unhoused in the SF Bay Area, headquartered in East Palo Alto serving over 6,000 people annually throughout the Bay Area.
About indieDwell: Founded in 2018, indieDwell is a Public Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corporation with a mission to manufacture healthy, durable, energy efficient, sustainable modular housing to help solve the affordable housing crisis. The company currently has a manufacturing facility in Pueblo, Colorado, and one under construction in Newport News Virginia and another in Brawley, California.
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1854 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, California, 94303
epaul@unitedhopebuilders.org, (925) 984 4110.
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Virtual R&D Day featuring key opinion leaders and Poseida's leadership and scientific team members to be held today at 10:00am ET / 7:00am PT
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage cell and gene therapy company advancing a new class of treatments for patients with cancer and rare diseases, today announced that the Company plans to highlight its clinical and preclinical pipeline progress during a virtual R&D Day to be held today at 10:00am ET / 7:00am PT.
"R&D Day is our annual showcase for the innovative and exciting science we are advancing at Poseida that continues to drive our leadership in the field of cell and gene therapies," said Mark Gergen, Chief Executive Officer of Poseida Therapeutics. "Today, we will announce our second liver-directed preclinical gene therapy program partnered with Takeda: P-PAH-101 for the in vivo treatment of Phenylketonuria, or PKU. We are excited to share the progress we have made with our site-specific Super piggyBac platform to enable highly targeted site-specific editing and insertion, one of the most sought-after characteristics of genetic engineering. Finally, in our cell therapy portfolio, we continue to differentiate ourselves, expanding our capabilities for our allogeneic T cell platform to deploy TCRs in combination with CARs in solid tumors. We are thankful for the continued dedication of our scientists, partners and collaborators as we work together to unlock the potential of our technologies to treat patients with cancer and rare genetic diseases."
The Company's third-annual R&D Day will feature its executive leadership and scientists for a morning of presentations and fireside chats with special guest speakers exploring the future of cell and gene therapy. The program will highlight the Company's proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies, differentiated allogeneic CAR-T programs, and novel approaches to gene therapy as well as ongoing collaborations with Roche and Takeda.
External speakers will include:
- George M. Church, Ph.D., a pioneer in the fields of genetics and synthetic biology and Chair of the Company's Gene Therapy Scientific Advisory Board;
- Madhu Natarajan, Ph.D., Head of the Rare Diseases Drug Discovery Unit at Takeda;
- Christine Brown, Ph.D., Professor, City of Hope, a CAR-T cell expert and member of the Company's Immuno-Oncology Scientific Advisory Board.
Key R&D Day Topics and Highlights
In Vivo Gene Therapy Programs
The Company will present advancements in hybrid technology highlighting the potential for single treatment cures across multiple diseases.
- P-OTC-101 is the Company's liver-directed gene therapy program for the in vivo treatment of urea cycle disease caused by a deficiency in the ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) enzyme, a defect that impairs the body's ability to detoxify ammonia, a byproduct of protein metabolism. The Company will show data highlighting disease correction and evaluation in non-human primates, with the Company's lead lipid nanoparticle formulation that has demonstrated favorable tolerability.
- The Company will announce P-PAH-101, its second Takeda-partnered gene therapy program. P-PAH-101 is a liver-directed gene therapy to treat PKU, an inherited genetic disorder caused by mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene resulting in buildup of phenylalanine in the body. If left untreated, PKU can affect a person's cognitive development. P-PAH-101 utilizes Super piggyBac technology combined with a hybrid adeno-associated virus (AAV) and nanoparticle delivery system. Preclinical data has demonstrated the potential to resolve phenylalanine to normal levels following a single treatment in juvenile and adult mice.
Emerging Technologies in Gene Therapy
The Company will highlight its continuing focus on innovation in its emerging platform technologies at today's event.
- Site-specific Super piggyBac DNA Delivery, first unveiled at the Company's R&D Day in February 2022, has continued to advance. The Company has made significant enhancements to efficiency and site-specific transposition, with up to 60% of haploid genomes modified.
- The Company has made key enhancements to its non-viral gene delivery system resulting in nearly 10-fold improvements in DNA expression in the past 12 months on a pathway towards realizing the full potential of non-viral gene delivery.
Allogeneic Cell Therapy Programs
- The Company will recap early clinical data presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Immuno-Oncology Annual Congress in December 2022 (ESMO I-O) on both of its Phase 1 allogeneic cell therapy programs: P-MUC1C-ALLO1, a wholly-owned CAR-T product candidate targeting solid tumors derived from epithelial cells, including breast and ovarian cancers, and P-BCMA-ALLO1, a CAR-T product candidate partnered with Roche targeting relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. The Company plans to present additional updates on both trials at a medical conference in 2023.
- The Company will present preclinical data on additional emerging allogeneic CAR-T programs including P-CD19CD20-ALLO1, P-CD70-ALLO1 and P-ckit-ALLO1.
Emerging Technologies in Cell Therapy
- The Company will share early preclinical data highlighting progress made towards developing dual-targeting CAR-TCR-T therapies capable of recognizing extracellular and intracellular solid tumor antigens for potential improved clinical outcomes.
R&D Day Webcast Information
Registration for this virtual event and access to the live webcast will be available on the Investors & Media section of the Company's website, www.poseida.com. A replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days following the presentation.
About Poseida Therapeutics, Inc.
Poseida Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing differentiated cell and gene therapies with the capacity to cure certain cancers and rare diseases. The Company's pipeline includes allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy product candidates for both solid and liquid tumors as well as in vivo gene therapy product candidates that address patient populations with high unmet medical need. The Company's approach to cell and gene therapies is based on its proprietary genetic editing platforms, including its non-viral Super piggyBac® DNA Delivery System, Cas-CLOVER™ Site-Specific Gene Editing System and nanoparticle and hybrid gene delivery technologies. The Company has formed global strategic collaborations with Roche and Takeda to unlock the promise of cell and gene therapies for patients. Learn more at www.poseida.com and connect with Poseida on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding, among other things, expected plans with respect to clinical trials, including timing of clinical data updates; anticipated timelines and milestones with respect to the Company's development programs; the potential capabilities and benefits of the Company's technology platforms and product candidates; the Company's plans and strategy with respect to developing its technologies and product candidates; and future contributions of the Company's scientists, partners and collaborators. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon the Company's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, the Company's reliance on third parties for various aspects of its business; risks and uncertainties associated with development and regulatory approval of novel product candidates in the biopharmaceutical industry; the Company's ability to retain key scientific or management personnel; the fact that the Company will have limited control over the efforts and resources that its strategic partners devote to advancing development programs under their respective collaboration agreements and the ability of its strategic partners to early terminate the collaborations, such that the Company may not receive the potential fees and payments under the collaboration agreements or fully realize the benefits of such collaborations; and the other risks described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law.
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NAIROBI – African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war there.
Putin in a press conference late Saturday following the Russia-Africa summit said Russia’s termination of the grain deal earlier this month caused a rise in grain prices that benefits Russian companies. He added that Moscow would share some of those revenues with the “poorest nations.”
That commitment, with no details, follows Putin’s promise to start shipping 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain for free to each of six African nations in the next three to four months — an amount dwarfed by the 725,000 tons shipped by the U.N. World Food Program to several hungry countries, African and otherwise, under the grain deal. Russia plans to send the free grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea and Central African Republic.
Fewer than 20 of Africa’s 54 heads of state or government attended the Russia summit, while 43 attended the previous gathering in 2019, reflecting concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even as Moscow seeks more allies on the African continent of 1.3 billion people. Putin praised Africa as a rising center of power in the world, while the Kremlin blamed “outrageous” Western pressure for discouraging some African countries from showing up.
The presidents of Egypt and South Africa were among the most outspoken on the need to resume the grain deal.
“We would like the Black Sea initiative to be implemented and that the Black Sea should be open,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said. “We are not here to plead for donations for the African continent.”
Putin also said Russia would analyze African leaders’ peace proposal for Ukraine, whose details have not been publicly shared. But the Russian leader asked: “Why do you ask us to pause fire? We can’t pause fire while we’re being attacked.”
The next significant step in peace efforts instead appears to be a Ukrainian-organized peace summit hosted by Saudi Arabia in August. Russia is not invited.
Africa’s nations make up the largest voting bloc at the United Nations and have been more divided than any other region on General Assembly resolutions criticizing Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Delegations at the summit in St. Petersburg roamed exhibits of weapons, a reminder of Russia's role as the top arms supplier to the African continent.
Putin in his remarks on Saturday also downplayed his absence from the BRICS economic summit in South Africa next month amid a controversy over an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court. His presence there, Putin said, is not “more important than my presence here, in Russia.” | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/30/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ | 2023-07-30 06:56:35 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/30/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ |
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — After the body of a 36-year-old man was found in a “clandestine grave” in the crawl space of an Aurora, Colorado condo Wednesday, police have released an affidavit explaining the man was reportedly killed by his “best friend” after he assumed he was a police informant.
On Tuesday, Casie Bock, 29, was arrested after a Crime Stoppers tip was submitted about a man who had been murdered 6-8 months ago and buried in her crawl space. Haskel Leroy Crawford, 38, was arrested Thursday on one charge of first-degree murder.
FOX31 obtained the arrest affidavit from the Aurora Police Department outlining the circumstances surrounding the homicide investigation. Police identified the victim as Karl Beaman Jr.
Victim’s relative had concerns about his whereabouts
On April 1, an officer with APD received a call from a woman in Phoenix who identified herself as a relative of Beaman. They told the officer they were worried about him and had not talked to him since May, which was unusual.
The relative said they believed his disappearance could be connected to Crawford, the father of Bock’s children, because Crawford and Beaman had almost been caught stealing catalytic converters.
The relative told police that they had hired a private investigator to look into Beaman’s whereabouts. According to the affidavit, Beaman had been caught stealing catalytic converters with Crawford and a warrant was out for his arrest.
According to the affidavit, Crawford was already booked into the Jefferson County Jail for charges of attempted first-degree murder related to another case when this call was made.
The relative also started a Facebook page to look for Beaman, and that is when they received direct messages about Crawford and Bock.
Crime Stoppers tipster
Beaman’s relative told APD that they received a message on the Facebook page from an anonymous account.
“He’s buried under Casie Bock’s apartment in the crawlspace, under cement. Her and Leroy [Crawford] did it. I’m sorry,” said the tipster in a message.
The user also told the relative that Bock had gotten high and told the tipster that Crawford thought Beaman was a police informant and an altercation ensued. That is when Beaman was killed, according to the message.
Per the arrest affidavit, APD received a tip to Crime Stoppers on April 3 with almost the same exact details as relayed to Beaman’s relative confirming the anonymous user on Facebook was the same as the Crime Stoppers tipster.
APD said they went to speak with the Crime Stoppers tipster in person. According to the affidavit, the tipster told police they did not know Bock well but that both their children went to school together. Three months ago, Bock had asked the tipster if they could watch her children and take them to school, and that is when the tipster said they noticed Bock was likely high on methamphetamine.
The tipster told police that Bock began to spiral within the last three weeks when Bock allegedly told the tipster about the situation between Crawford and Beaman. Bock allegedly told the tipster that Crawford killed Beaman inside their apartment and that he was buried in a shallow grave under the building. The duo placed cement over the victim to help mask the smell, according to the tipster.
The tipster said Bock told them that she didn’t help with the murder, but instead helped with the cleanup and moving the body.
According to the affidavit, when the tipster became suspicious of Bock’s story, they located the missing person’s Facebook page made by Beaman’s relative and sent private messages.
The tipster also told police they believed they were being threatened by Bock after receiving phone calls and explaining how her car had been damaged.
Beaman’s criminal history
After speaking with the tipster, officers looked into Beaman’s records.
According to the arrest affidavit, Beaman had an outstanding warrant as well as an “attempt to locate” report. An APD officer spoke with an investigator with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office who looked into Beaman in February 2023.
According to the affidavit, Beaman was listed as a possible accomplice in relation to an April 2022 case involving Crawford. The investigator told police that Beaman was driving a car when Leroy shot at someone.
The records confirmed Beaman and Crawford were accused of selling a stolen catalytic converter to someone else.
APD also said that Beaman, Crawford and Bock were all listed in a motor vehicle theft out of Castle Rock.
Crawford and Beaman were ‘best friends’
On Tuesday, Bock was taken into custody and interviewed.
According to the arrest affidavit, Bock told officers that Beaman and Crawford “were best friends.” The officer then asked Bock about the past tense nature of her statement, and she corrected it to “they are best friends.”
Bock reportedly admits to the murder
According to the arrest affidavit, late Tuesday night Bock was re-interviewed by police. Bock allegedly told police her account of what transpired.
Bock allegedly told police that she had recently allowed Crawford back into her life. One day when she returned back to her apartment after work, she found Crawford inside with Beaman lying on the ground. Bock said he had a white plastic bag over his head.
According to the affidavit, Bock said that Crawford told her he killed Beaman to protect his family. Bock said Crawford threatened her if she did not help him move the body.
Probable cause
Ultimately, Bock admitted that the father of her children, Crawford, had killed Beaman and she admitted to assisting in moving his body. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/colorado-man-killed-put-in-crawl-space-after-catalytic-converter-fight-police/ | 2023-04-07 02:55:49 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/colorado-man-killed-put-in-crawl-space-after-catalytic-converter-fight-police/ |
Airbnb to crack down on parties following deaths of 2 teens
(CNN) - Airbnb is cracking down on parties.
The company announced Wednesday that it is putting strict new rules in place to limit unauthorized parties at rental properties over summer holidays, including Fourth of July and Memorial Day weekends.
Airbnb said users without a history of positive reviews will not be allowed to book a property for one night only.
Users will also have to confirm they understand Airbnb can take legal action against them if they break the rules.
The new rules come after two teenagers were killed in a shooting at a large party held last month at an Airbnb property in Pittsburgh. Eight others were injured. Police said more than 200 people were at the party – many of them minors – which violated Airbnb’s policy of limiting gatherings to 16 people.
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Recently, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) called on the U.S. Department of State with U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Cliff Bentz (OR-02), and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) to continue working to address the passport backlog for Oregonians by driving down wait times, increasing communication with Oregon applicants, and informing Congress of any additional resources the Department needs.
Over the last year, passport requests have increased by 30 to 40 percent, with routine processing times increasing to 10 to 13 weeks and expedited processing times increasing to 7 to 9 weeks. The bipartisan coalition sent a joint letter to Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Consular Affairs Rena Bitter, urging immediate action to alleviate the delays.
“I appreciate the steps the State Department has taken to help address the backlog. However, without an Oregon-based passport agency, many of my constituents must travel hours across state lines in order to help expedite their applications. We need increased communication and transparency for Oregonians,” Hoyle said. “That’s why my office organized an event today at the University of Oregon to help answer questions, ensure people know how to avoid the most common application mistakes that can lead to additional delays in processing, and to let people know that we are here to help people navigate this system.”
“I’ve been hearing from Oregonians from all walks of life that they are waiting months for a routine passport renewal, and even then, they are often faced with application corrections that could have been easily prevented with a more transparent process,” Wyden said. “In the midst of summer travel, more needs to be done to increase transparency, clear the backlog and drive down wait times in Oregon and nationwide.”
“A major concern I’ve heard during my town halls this year is the complications caused by lengthy, unprecedented passport delays,” Merkley said. “With a drastic uptick in international travel, it’s urgent that Congress, the State Department, and other agencies work together to do all they can to help ease the logjams related to passports for Oregonians and all Americans needing to travel internationally.”
“Passport processing delays deter travel and cause real frustration for our constituents. The State Department has taken steps to remedy this situation, but the ongoing delays clearly necessitate more action,” Blumenauer said. “The State Department and Congress must be partners as we work to restore this basic service for Oregonians and Americans across the country.”
“My dedicated staff are working hard to assist as many people seeking passports as possible, but unusually long delays make it difficult to help Oregonians get where they need to go in time,” Bonamici said. “I’m grateful for the work State Department employees are doing to process application requests, but we need more information about the current backlog and transparency about what Oregonians can expect. We stand ready to work with the State Department to reduce wait times.”
“Today’s extensive, unprecedented backlog of U.S. passport requests threatens to upend travel plans for hundreds of thousands of Oregonians,” Salinas said. “My staff has been working diligently to help constituents in need of support, but the State Department can and must do more to address this growing challenge. Restoring efficiency and transparency must be a top priority.”
“Oregonians are ready and excited to contribute to our travel economy following a long pause due to the COVID 19 pandemic, but long passport renewal wait times have kept them from taking off,” Chavez-DeRemer said. “I appreciate our federal employees diligently working to help Oregonians reach their destinations, but more accountability is needed to ensure all systems are being run efficiently. Oregonians must be able to navigate their passport renewal process on a reasonable timeline.”
Oregonians who are applying or renewing a passport prior to international travel should keep the following in mind:
Demand for post-pandemic travel has resulted in a surge of passport applications, leading to a passport application backlog.
Passport applications should be submitted BEFORE an international trip is booked.
Applicants should ensure their application is accurate and make sure paperwork and forms are complete.
Routine processing time for passport applications right now is 10-13 weeks.
Expedited processing time for passport applications is currently 7-9 weeks. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oregon-delegation-calls-for-the-passport-application-backlog-for-oregonians-to-be-addressed/article_57c5efb4-20fb-11ee-bc0a-f381f7d61916.html | 2023-07-15 02:54:00 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oregon-delegation-calls-for-the-passport-application-backlog-for-oregonians-to-be-addressed/article_57c5efb4-20fb-11ee-bc0a-f381f7d61916.html |
CARIBOU, Maine (AP) — A man accused of entering a high school and spraying a fire extinguisher was arrested on Monday, police said.
The man entered Caribou High School on Thursday morning through a lobby entrance, WAGM-TV reported. From there, he made his way to the school's science wing, where he was confronted by staff members, grabbed the fire extinguisher and sprayed it before fleeing, WAGM reported.
Police said the man was in custody but his name was not immediately disclosed Thursday morning.
Students were blocked off from part of the building while emergency workers and school staff cleaned and ventilated the building. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Man-arrested-after-entering-school-spraying-17230416.php | 2022-06-09 16:47:28 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Man-arrested-after-entering-school-spraying-17230416.php |
(KTLA) — A new study from Stanford University found that blue whales, the biggest creatures on Earth, ingest about 10 million pieces of microplastics per day.
Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic debris found in lakes, rivers and oceans that come from the breakdown of larger plastics.
Researchers discovered that blue whales ingest so much of the microplastics because they exclusively eat krill, a shrimplike animal.
“The krill eat the plastic, and then the whale eats the krill,” Matthew Savoca, the study co-author said in a statement.
Blue whales were found to consume the most microplastics because they are “50 to 250 meters below the surface, a depth that coincides with the highest concentrations of microplastic in the open ocean,” the study found.
The research also focused on humpback and fin whales and found that those whales intake a slightly smaller amount of microplastics than blue whales because of the different foods in their diet.
Humpback whales, which eat primarily fish, ingest about 200,000 pieces of microplastics each day, and fin whales, which eat krill and fish, ingest about 3 million to 10 million pieces of microplastics per day.
The study also found that all the microplastics that the whales ingest come from their prey, not the enormous amounts of seawater they intake when trying to catch their food.
Even so, these findings make scientists question if whales are getting the proper nutrients they need to survive.
“We need more research to understand whether krill that consume microplastics grow less oil-rich and whether fish may be less meaty, less fatty, all due to having eaten microplastics that gives them the idea that they’re full,” Shirel Kahane-Rapport, the lead study author and a Ph.D. student at Stanford said.
Researchers for this study measured the microplastic concentration along the California coast and combined that with tracking data from 2010 to 2019, detailing where whales look for food worldwide to find the estimated amount of how much microplastics each whale intakes.
In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging for products such as shampoo and laundry detergent in California to lower the number of microplastics in the ocean.
Under the bill, the state plans to reduce the use of single-use products by 10% and then by 25% in 2032.
Amy Wolfrum, California ocean policy senior manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, told the Associated Press that the bill was a “fantastic start” to addressing a significant problem. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/blue-whales-ingest-10-million-pieces-of-microplastics-per-day-study-says/ | 2022-11-02 17:15:09 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/blue-whales-ingest-10-million-pieces-of-microplastics-per-day-study-says/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his U.S. Capitol office, Rep. Jason Crow keeps several war mementos. Sitting on a shelf are his military identification tags, the tailfins of a spent mortar and a piece of shrapnel stopped by his body armor.
Two decades ago, Crow was a 24-year-old platoon leader in the American invasion of Iraq. Platoon members carried gas masks and gear to wear over their uniforms to protect them from the chemical weapons the U.S. believed — wrongly — that Iraqi forces might use against them.
Today, Crow sits on committees that oversee the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The mistakes of Iraq are still fresh in his mind.
“It’s not hyperbole to say that it was a life-changing experience and a life frame through which I view a lot of my work,” the Colorado Democrat said.
The failures of the Iraq War deeply shaped American spy agencies and a generation of intelligence officers and lawmakers. They helped drive a major reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, with the CIA losing its oversight role over other spy agencies, and reforms intended to allow analysts to better evaluate sources and challenge conclusions for possible bias.
But the ultimately incorrect assertions about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, repeatedly cited to build support for the war in America and abroad, did lasting damage to the credibility of U.S. intelligence.
As many as 300,000 civilians died in two decades of conflict in Iraq, according to Brown University estimates. The U.S. lost 4,500 troops and spent an estimated $2 trillion on the Iraq War and the ensuing campaign in both Iraq and Syria against the extremist Islamic State group, which took hold in both countries after the U.S. initially withdrew in 2011.
Those assertions also made “weapons of mass destruction” a catchphrase that’s still used by rivals and allies alike, including before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which U.S. intelligence correctly forecast.
Avril Haines, the current U.S. director of national intelligence, noted in a statement that the intelligence community had adopted new standards for analysis and oversight.
“We learned critical lessons in the wake of our flawed assessment of an active WMD program in Iraq in 2002,” Haines said. “Since then, for example, we have expanded the use of structured analytic techniques, established community-wide analytic standards, and enhanced tradecraft oversight. As in every part of our work, we strive to learn the lessons that allow us to preserve and advance our thinking to greater effect in service of our national security.”
Only 18% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal of confidence in the government’s intelligence agencies, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Forty-nine percent say they have “some” confidence and 31% have hardly any confidence.
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush ordered an invasion of Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban sheltered al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and allowed the group to run training camps.
Bush’s administration soon began to warn about Iraq, which was long seen as threatening American interests in the Middle East.
Iraq was known to have sought a nuclear weapon in the 1980s and had chemical and biological weapons programs by the end of the Gulf War in 1991. It had been accused of concealing details about those programs from international inspectors, before they were kicked out in 1998.
The Bush administration argued Saddam Hussein’s government was still hiding programs from inspectors after they reentered the country in 2002 and found no signs of resumed production.
A U.S. intelligence estimate published in October 2002 alleges that Iraq had considered buying uranium from Niger and aluminum tubes for centrifuges, that it was building mobile weapons labs, that it was considering using drones to spread deadly toxins, and that it had chemical weapons stockpiles of up to 500 tons.
Some U.S. officials also suggested Iraqi officials had ties to al-Qaida leaders despite evidence of deep antipathy between the two sides.
Those claims would largely be debunked within months of the invasion. No stockpiles were found. Subsequent reviews have blamed those claims on outdated information, mistaken assumptions, and a mix of uninformed sources and outright fabricators.
Bush repeated wrong U.S. intelligence findings before the war, as did Secretary of State Colin Powell in a landmark February 2002 speech before the United Nations.
“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col. Larry Wilkerson, who was then Powell’s chief of staff and later became a high-profile critic of the Bush administration. Powell died in 2021.
It’s still sharply debated whether the Bush administration would have ordered the invasion without the WMD intelligence.
A White House spokesperson told The Washington Post in 2006 — as Iraq had fallen into a violent insurgency — that Bush “made his decision to go to war in Iraq based on the intelligence given to him by the intelligence community.”
Some former intelligence officials argue the Bush administration stretched available information to make the case for war, particularly on allegations of ties between Iraq and al-Qaida.
Congress was already debating wholesale change to the U.S. intelligence community after the Sept. 11 attacks, an intelligence failure blamed in part on a lack of information sharing between the CIA and FBI.
Lawmakers in 2004 created the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence to oversee the other agencies, taking that leadership function away from the CIA. ODNI took control of the daily intelligence briefing given to the president and of the National Intelligence Council, comprised of the spy community’s top analysts.
Supporters say ODNI can arbitrate among the other agencies, which often have sharply different skillsets and cultures. Others criticize ODNI as an unnecessary bureaucratic layer.
The CIA revamped its training program for analysts to emphasize the study of alternatives and use of “red teams” that challenge conclusions. It also forced more information sharing so analysts could better evaluate the sources of specific reports.
Michael Allen, who served in the Bush White House and wrote the book “Blinking Red” about the 2004 intelligence overhaul, said U.S. officials in the wake of Iraq are more likely to accept differences of opinion within intelligence.
Allen noted as an example the Energy Department’s recent assessment that the COVID-19 virus likely leaked from a Chinese lab. The FBI also supports the lab leak hypothesis, but other agencies say the virus likely was transmitted from animals to humans or have declined to take a position.
The U.S. learned to “not take intelligence at face value, but to really examine the basis upon which the conclusions were made and to listen to differing views among different agencies in the intelligence community,” said Allen, now managing director of Washington-based Beacon Global Strategies.
Ukraine has been a bright spot for U.S. intelligence. The Biden administration has supplied information to Kyiv for Ukraine to bolster its defenses and declassified intelligence findings on Russian intentions to try to influence Moscow and build allied support.
And while they correctly predicted Russia’s intention to invade, the spy agencies wrongly believed Ukraine’s forces would fall within weeks.
While in Congress, Crow has pressed the agencies to review how they assess a foreign government’s ability to fight. U.S. intelligence two years ago wrongly projected the Washington-backed government in Kabul would survive months after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“We’ve lived with the ghosts of Iraq for two decades and it’s impacted our credibility,” Crow said. “Now we’re starting to find it again. It’s a great opportunity for us to learn lessons of the past and do it better going forward.”
But those ghosts remain. Sitting in his office for a recent interview, Crow said he understands the limits of what a military can do and the importance of using armed forces properly. He said he thinks about his enrolling in the Wisconsin National Guard after high school as a private and moving to active duty after Sept. 11.
He pointed to a photo on a wall opposite the shelf with his Iraq War mementos, a picture of his company at Fort Bragg, an Army base in North Carolina, before they went to the Middle East.
“There’s men in that picture who died, who aren’t here anymore,” he said. “I think about those guys, too.”
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BOISE, Idaho — Families with children in public schools will now have to apply for free and reduced meals, following the end of a pandemic-era program.
Some parents are feeling the loss like Shauntel Clark, who is the mother of a second grader. She said packing lunches in the morning only adds stress to her day.
“It's more just of a morning struggle with three little kids,” Clark said. “Now you have to worry about either packing a lunch or making sure she has money on the account.”
Parent Lori Amos agrees. She said the federal program saved her about $140 a year and paying for lunch is a necessity only some can afford.
“Jobs have been a struggle for a lot of people and finances are a struggle now still, for a lot of people,” Amos said. “So, it's gonna be kind of difficult.”
School districts around the Treasure Valley are spreading the word about the free and reduced meal application. Eligibility depends on a family’s income and the number of children they have, said Shannon Beasley, West Ada School District Nutrition Director.
Beasley said getting applications submitted before the start of the school year is a priority.
Before the pandemic, she said 24% of families in the district received free and reduced meals. That’s about 18,000 lunches per day. Since 2020, that number has jumped to 24,000.
To ensure families apply, Beasley said the district is putting up QR codes in front of schools, sending out emails and eventually will notify all families via a mass text.
“We have amazing salad bars, we have fabulous home-cooked meals, we have fabulous quick and easy grab lunches for those kids that are the busy lunchroom kids,” Beasley said. “We want our families to continue to eat with us.”
The Twin Falls School District has similar promotion tactics. One of their concerns with the transition is meal debt. Public Relations Director Eva Craner said if your child does not qualify for free and reduced lunches, being proactive about putting money in your student’s account makes everyone’s life easier.
“We're going to feed the kids that get in line for lunch every single day, whether they have money in their account or not,” Craner said. “But then we have to foot the bill for it, which essentially takes away resources from other things like teacher salaries, and, you know, things like textbooks and supplies.”
Even though widespread federal funding for meals is over, some schools are still able to offer free breakfast and lunch through the Community Eligibility Provision Program. However, Craner said it is still a good idea for families to fill out the free and reduced form regardless.
She said the free and reduced forms help decide how much federal funding schools receive. If the need is there, the government may provide additional assistance.
In the West Ada School District, Beasley said those who qualify for free and reduced meals may also have access to other things, like free internet at home and college application discounts.
Families that participate in federal assistance programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Program or Temporary Assistance for Families in Idaho automatically qualify for free and reduced meals.
Those on Food Distribution Programs on Indian Reservations also automatically qualify for the program, but an application may still be required to participate. Everyone else who does not fall under that umbrella can apply throughout the school year.
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FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teenager accused of killing his high school Spanish teacher learned Thursday that he will be tried as an adult, a day after a judge rejected his accused accomplice's request to move the case to juvenile court.
District Judge Shawn Showers ruled that Willard Miller, 16, of Fairfield, will be tried in November on a first-degree murder charge in the beating death of 66-year-old Nohema Graber, who taught at Fairfield High School. Miller and 17-year-old Jeremy Goodale are charged in Graber's death.
The judge said the juvenile court system would not have enough time to rehabilitate Miller “for a crime of such magnitude.” If found guilty, the juvenile system would not have been able to detain Miller more than six months past his 19th birthday.
Miller and Goodale were both 16 when they were arrested in Graber’s killing. Graber’s body was found Nov. 3 hidden under a tarp, a wheelbarrow and railroad ties at a Fairfield city park. Police said she had been beaten to death with a baseball bat.
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Airlines can leverage new self-service options that expedite lodging, meals, transportation, and passenger reimbursement for disruption-related expenses
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, today announced a new agreement with HRS, a leading software as a service (SaaS) provider, to support airlines on their digitalization journey. By integrating HRS Crew & Passenger Solutions technologies with existing Sabre solutions, the two companies can provide airlines with innovative automation that delivers lodging and financial reimbursement services when disruptions impact passengers.
Sabre's intelligent service recovery solutions are used by airlines around the world to support passenger re-booking challenges, including providing self-service options to allow passengers to choose their own flights, designed to help improve the overall traveler experience.
HRS' Crew & Passenger Solutions compliments Sabre's existing expertise by enabling airlines globally to provide passengers with instantly bookable hotel accommodations, local transportation, meals, and monetary compensation directly when disruption strikes. When a passenger's flight is disrupted, options are communicated via SMS, email, or voice call directly to a passenger's mobile device. Additionally, HRS' reimbursement technology allows passengers to simply take photos of their receipts, upload digital images, and be instantly reimbursed for appropriate expenses such as meals and refreshments. This capability eliminates the need for paper vouchers that typically entail lengthy administrative processes.
"When disruption strikes, an airline is tasked not just with getting its network running optimally again, but with passengers who may face hours in an airport, may need overnight accommodation, or may have missed connecting flights. Traditionally, airlines have had to dedicate an array of people and hard-to-secure resources to handle hotel rooms, taxis, shuttles and meal vouchers for stranded passengers," said Yvo van der Tol, CCO of HRS Crew & Passenger Solutions. "It is vital that carriers have the advanced automation needed to make time-process savings and efficiency gains for airline operations, while quickly turning what is usually a negative experience for passengers into a positive one. That's why this collaboration with Sabre, reaching a broader universe of airlines, represents the right solution for modern air travel."
"Today's travelers have higher expectations than ever before," said Corrie DeCamp, Senior Vice President, Product Management for Sabre Travel Solutions. "So, when disruptions happen, it is important that airlines have the technology they need to swiftly deal with the immediate situation, while converting those service recovery moments into opportunities to enhance passenger loyalty in the future. That's why we're thrilled to announce this new partnership with HRS, to help our airline partners protect their reputations, comply with dynamic regulatory compensation requirements, and provide passengers with what they need, all with a solution they can easily integrate into their existing recovery strategy."
"This collaboration helps close one of the biggest operational gaps airlines have today. While some regulations are already in place globally to protect passenger rights when disruption happens, the issue has risen in prominence in recent years," added HRS' van der Tol. "The need for speed of change is clear. Passengers who reflexively use mobile devices in times of disruption also expect digital answers to their travel challenges. Beyond time and resource savings, airlines will thrive on data transparency that helps steer service levels. We look forward to integrating our solutions."
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveller experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
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HRS is reinventing how businesses and governments work, stay and pay in today's evolving global marketplace. Our technology brings together hotel procurement, booking, payment and reconciliation data to drive newfound transparency and savings for program management while making everyday business travel better for employees. HRS' unique platform approach to corporate lodging elevates hotel automation to new heights, while the company's award-winning Green Stay Initiative technology helps companies achieve their climate targets. HRS' groundbreaking Crew & Passenger Solutions leverages automation to enhance experiences for air and rail operations. Find out more about why one-third of the Fortune 500 work with us today at www.hrs.com/enterprise and follow HRS on LinkedIn.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) — Another dietary supplement is being recalled because it is tainted with the active ingredient in the prescription drug Cialis.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the recall involves two lots of Proper Trade LLC/My Stellar Lifestyle’s Wonder Pill. The recall was initiated after Amazon notified the company that laboratory analysis has found the product to be tainted with tadalafil.
The recall comes as the FDA is warning companies that selling products that contain undisclosed or hidden prescription medication violates federal law. In early July, the FDA sent warning letters to four companies that sold honey products that contained undeclared active ingredients, including sildenafil and tadalafil.
Sildenafil and tadalafil are the active drug ingredients found in Viagra and Cialis, respectively. They are restricted to use under the supervision of licensed health care professionals. The FDA said these undeclared ingredients may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.
The product is marketed as a dietary supplement for male sexual enhancement and is packaged in 10-count blisters co-packaged in a carton, ASIN B0B6CWC9NK, and packaged in a 60-count bottle. The affected lots include lot numbers 20210912 & 31853-501, and expiration date 09/24.
Because the products are listed as dietary supplements, they are regulated by the FDA as food, not drugs. Under the law, the FDA does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness or approve their labeling. It is the responsibility of the company to make sure its products meet safety standards and are not violating the law.
However, tadalafil and sildenafil products are excluded from the dietary supplement definition. Their presence makes the products unapproved drugs for which safety and efficacy have not been established.
Anyone with the recalled capsules should stop using them and return them. Anyone with questions can contact Proper Trade LLC by phone number (732)-242-4711 or e-mail at propertradingllc@gmail.com Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
Anyone who experiences an adverse event, also known as a side effect or bad reaction, should report it to their health care professional and FDA. The FDA says even a single adverse event report can help them identify a potentially dangerous product and possibly remove it from the market.
Adverse reactions or quality problems may be reported to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
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WILMINGTON, N.C., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyport Digital, the digital marketing arm of media franchisor The N2 Company, has transformed how it serves display advertisements on behalf of the company's 25,000 small business advertising partners. Agency leaders cite this singular shift – away from all in-app display ad placements – for the doubling of view-through conversions (VTC) and clickthrough rates (CTR) that actually reflect consumer intent.
"At Hyport Digital, we're always looking for ways to improve digital marketing for small businesses. So when we realized the shortcomings of CTR – by experiencing accidental clickthroughs ourselves – we made it our mission to improve the accuracy and transparency of Hyport's display ad metrics," said Jess Nelson, Display Product Manager at Hyport.
Breaking from the display advertising mold, Hyport removed mobile in-app placement completely. With the same budgets, the agency has seen a major increase in VTC simply by changing where ads are served.
View-through conversion is a superior measurement to CTR for one main reason, says Nelson: Intentionality. Unlike the rate at which consumers click on an ad (often by accident when trying to dismiss it), VTR describes when someone is served an ad and later, of their own accord, chooses to visit the advertiser's website. Web visitors gained via VTC are there because they choose to be, not because they mistakenly clicked an ad when trying to dismiss it.
"When measuring CTR, accidental clickthroughs count. We flipped the script on display advertising because we're in the business of providing quality clicks and likely conversions – not vanity metrics that may look impressive but don't tell the true story," Nelson said.
Though Hyport no longer serves ads that interrupt app use, the team does still serve ads in mobile browsers on whatever device targeted consumers are using.
Hyport Digital was formed in 2018 to help small businesses reach their ideal clients digitally. The full-service agency, backed by an eight-time Inc. 5000-ranked company, offers the following digital marketing solutions in addition to mobile and display advertising: Web design, SEO, SEM, email marketing, OTT advertising, Live Chat, paid social advertising, and reputation management.
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Hyport Digital is a digital marketing agency based in Wilmington, NC. It's part of national media franchisor The N2 Company (www.n2co.com). Learn more about Hyport's mission to help small business owners grow online: www.hyportdigital.com.
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South Korea’s capital plans to install more than 200,000 EV chargers over the next four years in order to support a shift away from internal-combustion vehicles.
Most of the city of Seoul’s nine million-plus residents use the subway or buses, and the city was a pioneer in highway removal, but there are still around four million registered cars and motorcycles in the city, according to Fast Company. By 2026, officials want 400,000 of these vehicles to be electric.
Those officials estimate that 140,000 chargers are needed to meet that goal, but they plan to install 220,000 to ensure that residents will never be more than a five-minute walk from one, according to the report.
As with other major cities, public charging infrastructure is especially important to EV adoption in Seoul because most residents live in apartment buildings without designated spaces to install a private home charger. But space in any major city is always at a premium.
Seoul’s solution is mix of conventional chargers installed at gas stations and parking spaces, as well as chargers embedded in building walls or streetlights. The city has already been pretty successful in adding charging infrastructure. The number of public chargers increased from 8,000 in 2020 to 20,000 in 2021.
Seoul also has a “green transport zone” that restricts access for the most polluting older vehicles; those same vehicles will be banned from the city beginning in 2025. By 2035, Seoul plans to end registrations for new internal-combustion cars, and wants to ban them from driving on city streets by 2050.
While other cities haven’t announced such ambitious plans for EV shifts, many are looking at creative ways to improve charging infrastructure.
Seattle is helping residents by installing streetside charging on request. Streetlight charging has also been proposed for United States cities, while British firm Urban Electric has shown sidewalk chargers that tuck away for pedestrian access.
And while the future of highway fast-charging might involve some cohesive design resembling a new kind of rest area, in-the-city charging may require all sorts of different approaches together.
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(The Hill) – Hurricane Ian would pose particular risks to the city of Tampa and the Tampa Bay area if it lands there due to the Gulf Coast’s geography, rising sea levels and lagging resilience planning.
The storm made landfall on the west coast of Cuba in the early hours of Tuesday morning shortly after becoming a major hurricane, then entered the Gulf of Mexico.
The bulk of Florida’s west coast, including the Tampa Bay area, is currently under a storm surge warning, and several counties have issued mandatory or voluntary evacuations.
Pinellas County, home to nearly one million people, ordered everyone living in particularly vulnerable low-lying areas to evacuate Monday evening.
The region has not seen a major hurricane in a century. That 1921 storm, a category 3, killed at least eight people.
Since then, a 2013 World Bank study named Tampa the seventh most vulnerable coastal city to damages from flooding and the fourth most vulnerable U.S. city.
Two years later, a report from catastrophe modelers Karen Clark and Co. deemed Tampa the single most vulnerable city to storm surge flooding in the country, projecting damages to residential, commercial and industrial properties from a hypothetical 100-year hurricane to be about $175 billion.
Over the next 100 years, the city’s population grew nearly 400 percent, from 51,000 to just under 396,000 people. The 2015 report notes that about 50 percent of the city’s population lives in low-lying areas, with ground elevations of under 10 feet.
The wider Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area has a population of about 3 million, and much of the region is linked by causeways and bridges that are particularly susceptible to flooding, said Jeff Masters, a meteorologist with Yale Climate Connections.
“These people don’t have much hurricane experience, so they’ve been very lucky over the past 100 years,” Masters said. “So you combine the vulnerability with the high population that’s inexperienced, and you have a situation that’s among the worst for any major city in the U.S.”
Experts say the Tampa area’s geography makes it particularly vulnerable to even a weaker storm. The city is located along the Gulf of Mexico, and has an unusually far-reaching continental shelf.
“The waters are kind of shallow for hundreds of miles going into the Gulf, which really worsens the storm surge possibilities and impacts as this wall of wind and water [is] moving toward land,” said Aris Papadopoulos, the founder and chair of the Resilience Action Fund and distinguished expert of resilience at Florida International University.
The shallow waters and the “U” shape of the Gulf coast can create an effect that intensifies the storm as it nears the shore.
“Near the shore and the Gulf of Mexico, it just piles up,” Masters said. “And then when you get to Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay is pretty much funnel-shaped. So that acts to concentrate the water that’s been piled up even further.”
“We’re looking at a case where we don’t only have a large storm surge that’s most likely to hit a broad swath of the region, but also a prolonged and protracted rainfall,” said Chris Uejio, an associate professor of geography at Florida State University. The combination of the two, he said, could lead to “flooding that we haven’t seen in the modern era.”
A slight variation in the path of the hurricane could lessen much of the danger, according to Masters.
“If the hurricane hits just to the south of Tampa Bay, they are not going to get a massive, destructive storm surge, because the winds are going to be blowing offshore, blowing the water out of Tampa Bay,” Masters said. “But if the hurricane hits just north of town, then that’s when you get this five-to-10-foot storm surge that the [National] Hurricane Center was forecasting.”
Recent revisions, he noted, are projecting five to eight feet storm surge and a landfall south of Tampa, he added, but “just a small variation in the track could change things because the hurricane’s coming in at kind of an angle to the coast, so it’s a difficult forecast situation, and it makes all the difference where the storm hits.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) specifically noted the “sensitivity… and fragility of this area” in a news conference Monday. Uejio told The Hill much of the population at greatest risk will be older residents and people with medical conditions, particularly those who rely on electricity for their medical needs.
Moreover, spiraling rents have increased the area’s homeless population, another group that will struggle to find shelter from extreme weather, he noted.
The Tampa Bay region has seen major sea level rises over the decade due to climate change, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, compounding the vulnerability to major storms.
NOAA measurements of St. Petersburg sea levels found they have risen about 2.97 millimeters a year since 1947, equivalent to just under a foot per 100 years.
The pace appears to have quickened since around 1990. A 2019 analysis by the Tampa Bay Climate Science Advisory Panel projected that based on these trends, the level is set to rise 1 to 2.5 feet by 2050 and between 2 to 8.5 feet by the end of the century.
Papadopolous added that much of the northern parts of the state have structures that predate the more stringent hurricane codes the south adopted after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Metropolitan areas like Miami-Dade, he said, “can face a Category Five hurricane impact, but in the Tampa area, and other parts of Florida, they’re still at levels for Category Two, maybe Category Three in some locations.”
“We’re gambling, essentially, with nature by saying well, the probability is lower and so we’ll take a chance and lower the standards,” he added. “I think that’s an unwise gamble. Today and definitely much more as we go into the future.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/why-hurricane-ian-poses-a-unique-threat-to-tampa-bay/ | 2022-09-27 21:40:36 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/why-hurricane-ian-poses-a-unique-threat-to-tampa-bay/ |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran appeared to be readying for a space launch Tuesday as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran’s nuclear program.
The images from Maxar Technologies showed a launch pad at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran’s rural Semnan province, the site of frequent recent failed attempts to put a satellite into orbit.
One set of images showed a rocket on a transporter, preparing to be lifted and put on a launch tower. A later image showed the rocket apparently on the tower.
Iran did not acknowledge a forthcoming launch at the space port and its mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, its state-run IRNA news agency in May said that Iran likely would have seven homemade satellites ready for launch by the end of the Persian calendar year in March 2023.
Over the past decade, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013 launched a monkey into space. The program has seen recent troubles, however. There have been five failed launches in a row for the Simorgh program, a type of satellite-carrying rocket. A fire at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in February 2019 also killed three researchers, authorities said at the time.
The launch pad used in Tuesday’s preparations remains scarred from an explosion in August 2019 that even drew the attention of then-President Donald Trump. He later tweeted what appeared to be a classified surveillance image of the launch failure. Satellite images from February suggested another failed launch earlier this year, though Iran did not acknowledge it.
The successive failures raised suspicion of outside interference in Iran’s program, something Trump himself hinted at by tweeting at the time that the U.S. “was not involved in the catastrophic accident.” There’s been no evidence offered, however, to show foul play in any of the failures, and space launches remain challenging even for the world’s most successful programs.
Meanwhile, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in April 2020 revealed its own secret space program by successfully launching a satellite into orbit. The Guard launched another satellite this March at another site in Semnan province, just east of the Iranian capital of Tehran.
The launch preparations also come as the Guard reportedly saw one of its soldiers “martyred” in Semnan province under unclear circumstances over the weekend. Iran’s Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Ministry, however, later claimed the man worked for it.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Angels star Mike Trout homered in his seventh consecutive game, one shy of the major league record, but the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians beat Los Angeles 5-4 on Monday night.
Trout’s 35th homer of the season came in the fifth inning. The three-time AL MVP connected off Konnor Pilkington for a two-run, 422-foot drive to dead center at Progressive Field.
Pittsburgh’s Dale Long established the MLB record of eight straight games with a home run in 1956. Don Mattingly of the Yankees matched it in 1987, as did Seattle’s Ken Griffey Jr. in 1993.
“That’s good company to be in,” Trout said. “I’m just putting a good swing on the ball and they’re going out.”
Trout can match the mark on Tuesday night when the Angels continue their series with the Guardians. He said he isn’t worried about Cleveland pitching around him.
“I’m going up there ready to hit and whatever happens, happens,” Trout said. “I’ll come in tomorrow and do the same thing because it’s working for me.”
Trout is the first AL player with a seven-game home run streak since Kendrys Morales of Toronto in 2018. Cincinnati’s Joey Votto homered in seven straight last season from July 24-30.
Amed Rosario doubled home Steven Kwan with the go-ahead run in the seventh for Cleveland, which increased its advantage to three games over the Chicago White Sox and five games over third-place Minnesota.
“We’ve got some work to do to clinch the thing, but I think we’ve been working the right way all season,” said Guardians catcher Austin Hedges, who hit a two-run double. “We’re a team that does get the big hit.”
The game featured a strange sequence in the seventh when Cleveland manager Terry Francona and Angels interim manager Phil Nevin were both ejected without a pitch being thrown in-between.
Things got heated in the seventh when Francona argued that Andrés Giménez was hit by a pitch from Ryan Tepera. Francona got ejected by umpire crew chief Ron Kulpa, and when Tepera was denied warmup throws following the delay, Nevin got tossed.
“Truth be told, I don’t know what was going through my mind, and I don’t like that,” Francona said.
Nevin agreed that Francona signaled for a replay challenge in time, but Kulpa didn’t see the gesture. Tepera said both he and Kulpa apologized for their disagreement between innings.
“To me, that was a player safety issue, not allowing Ryan any warmup pitches,” Nevin said. “And I didn’t understand it.”
Kulpa also exited with two outs and two strikes in the ninth after being struck on the mask by a foul ball hit by Matt Thaiss. Second base umpire Carlos Torres replaced him behind the plate.
We weren’t aware that (Francona) was holding for us to look at a hit by pitch,” first base umpire John Tumpane said in a pool report. “By our protocol, if the pitcher is on the rubber and the batter is in the box, we’re moving onto the next pitch.”
“Obviously, player safety is paramount, and looking back at it, yes, we would have given (Tepera) some warmup pitches so his safety was not at risk,” he said.
Enyel De Los Santos (4-0) worked a scoreless seventh for the win and Emmanuel Clase pitched a perfect ninth for his MLB-best 34th save. Aaron Loup (0-5) surrendered Rosario’s RBI double.
The Guardians took a 4-0 lead in the second off Reid Detmers, highlighted by Hedges’ two-run double. Tyler Freeman and his fellow rookie, Kwan, had RBI singles.
Pilkington allowed four runs over five innings on his 25th birthday. The left-hander also was touched for a two-run homer by Matt Duffy in the fourth.
Reigning AL MVP Shohei Ohtani went 1 for 3 for the Angels, who are 1-19 on the road against Cleveland since 2015.
ARMS RACE
The Guardians are in the midst of playing 18 games in a 17-day span, forcing them to adjust their rotation on the fly. Pilkington made his first start since July 23, while they haven’t decided who will work the series finale Wednesday.
Right-hander Cal Quantrill, who has a team-best 12 victories, would remain on regular rest if he pitches against the Angels. Cleveland has a makeup game Thursday at home against the White Sox.
“If Cal had his druthers, he’d stay on his fifth day,” Francona said.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: 2B David Fletcher (right hand bruise), who was hurt Saturday at Houston, was held out of the lineup for the second day in a row. Fletcher did fielding drills before the game and was available to pinch-hit.
Guardians: RHP Aaron Civale (right forearm inflammation) threw a bullpen session for pitching coach Carl Willis earlier in the day. Francona is unsure if Civale will require a rehab assignment before being activated.
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Angels: LHP José Suarez (6-6, 3.77 ERA) has won back-to-back starts and is 5-2 with a 1.76 ERA over his last seven outings. Suarez is 0-2 with an 11.57 ERA in two career appearances against Cleveland.
Guardians: RHP Cody Morris (0-1, 3.00 ERA) makes his third appearance in the majors. Morris has totaled six innings in two starts, striking out five with three walks, since debuting Sept. 2 against Seattle.
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The 2023 John Deere Classic Odds & Preview: Taylor Moore
The 2023 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run will have Taylor Moore in the field in Silvis, Illinois from July 6- 9, up against the par-71, 7,289-yard course, with a purse of $7,400,000.00 at stake.
Looking to place a wager on Moore at the John Deere Classic this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you can use before you make your picks.
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Taylor Moore Insights
- Moore has finished below par on six occasions, completed his day bogey-free once and finished seven rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 14 rounds played.
- He has registered the best score of the day once while finishing with a top-10 score twice in his last 14 rounds.
- Moore has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 14 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day four times.
- Moore has finished in the top five in one of his past five appearances.
- The past five times he has played a tournament, he's made the cut twice.
- Moore has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his past five events. During that same span, he's posted a better-than-average score once.
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John Deere Classic Insights and Stats
- TPC Deere Run will play at 7,289 yards for this event. In the past year on the Tour, the average tournament has been hosted on a shorter course, with an average distance of 7,026.
- TPC Deere Run has seen an average tournament score of -10 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- TPC Deere Run is 7,289 yards, 25 yards shorter than the average course Moore has played in the past year (7,314).
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -5. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -10.
Moore's Last Time Out
- Moore was in the 87th percentile on par 3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with an average of 2.81 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- He averaged 3.80 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 40) at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, which was good enough to place him in the 94th percentile among all competitors on par 4s (the tournament average was 3.93).
- Moore shot better than 74% of the field at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.38 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.51.
- Moore fared better on par 3s than most players his last time out, carding a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic (the tournament average was 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Moore did not record a bogey or worse (the tournament average was 1.9).
- Moore's 11 birdies or better on par-4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic were more than the tournament average of 5.9.
- At that most recent competition, Moore's performance on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse three times (the field's average was worse, at 4.4).
- Moore ended the Rocket Mortgage Classic outperforming the field average of birdies or better on par-5s (6.2) with 11 on the 16 par-5 holes.
- On the 16 par-5s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Moore underperformed compared to the tournament average of 0.8 bogeys or worse on those holes by carding one.
John Deere Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 6- 9, 2023
- Course: TPC Deere Run
- Location: Silvis, Illinois
- Par: 71 / 7,289 yards
- Moore Odds to Win: +2800 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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ORLANDO, Fla., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Andor Health, the company that harnesses open AI and healthcare-trained ChatGPT models to orchestrate the way care teams collaborate, was rated Highest in Client Satisfaction for Virtual Care Solutions by Black Book Market Research LLC.
Black Book Research surveyed almost 1,000 clinicians and leaders across over 750 facilities using 18 evaluation criteria through an annual market research survey. After diving into the findings, Black Book awarded Andor Health as a leader in client satisfaction for any virtual care solution and designated Andor Health the top vendor for open AI & GPT, patient rounding, and provider collaboration.
Andor Health's innovative platform, ThinkAndor®, leverages open AI and healthcare-trained ChatGPT models to enable care teams and patients to connect anywhere across the care continuum. By unifying virtual health into one cohesive platform, ThinkAndor® enables the entire health system to virtually provide care at scale.
ThinkAndor® allows care teams to efficiently deliver care by leveraging media devices already in place, with no additional apps or setup. Existing video/audio endpoints can be multi-purposed to enable virtual nursing, virtual sitting, & virtual remote consultations – all at scale. Existing clinical workflows are untouched, empowering clinicians to join virtual sessions directly from the EHR.
"We focus on delivering first-of-its-kind technology to reduce the burden felt by our customers. So, the fact that this honor comes directly from our customers makes this recognition more meaningful," explained Raj Toleti, chairman and CEO, of Andor Health. "Our successful, at-scale deployments on an AI-based platform have been the key to our clients' extreme satisfaction."
To see the full report and learn how you can achieve more with AI-powered virtual care experiences, visit Andor Health.
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SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — Advanced Micro Devices has revealed a new artificial intelligence chip in its race to compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia in supplying the foundation for a boom in AI-fueled business tools.
The semiconductor company, based in Santa Clara, California, described its new MI300X chip as “the world’s most advanced accelerator for generative AI.” It's expected to attract interest from big cloud providers such as Amazon or Microsoft, but AMD hasn't specified which cloud provider might use it.
CFRA senior equity analyst Angelo Zino predicted this month that that AMD’s MI300 processor “will see significant interest from cloud providers and vie with NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper Superchip.”
“AMD’s stronger partnership with Microsoft should also drive upside, as it is reportedly cited to be developing a custom processor chip that Microsoft will use for AI workloads,” Zino wrote.
AMD CEO Lisa Su demonstrated the new technology at a showcase event in San Francisco on Tuesday.
AMD joins a growing list of technology companies trying to take advantage of a broader interest from businesses looking for new AI tools that can analyze data, help make decisions and potentially replace some tasks currently performed by human workers. Much of the interest is on "generative AI" tools such as ChatGPT that can produce works of writing on command, as well as images, computer code and other media.
Nvidia, also based in Santa Clara, has carved itself a position as the lead provider of AI chips, a term that encompasses computing hardware that’s specialized to handle workloads such as the “training” of AI systems on vast troves of data.
Nvidia, already one of the most valuable companies on the planet, joined the exclusive club of companies worth more than a trillion dollars shortly after forecasting a massive revenue boost thanks in part to chips made for use with artificial intelligence technology.
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Support Wisconsin farmers and cheesemakers with this award-winning cheese
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Land O Lakes® Cheese can now be found in the dairy case section of the grocery store with seven new products in select retailers.
Wisconsin farmers supply the milk that is shipped to the Land O'Lakes Kiel, Wisconsin plant, where it is made into award-winning cheese.
After decades of hand selecting the award-winning cheese being produced in Kiel, senior cheese grader Steve Schnell can now buy the cheese he selects for the Land O'Lakes brand in the dairy case section of his local grocery store near Kiel, Wisconsin.
"It means a lot to all of us at the Kiel facility to have the cheese we make available to purchase in the grocery store with the Land O Lakes brand on it," Steve said.
This launch marks the first time Land O Lakes® Shredded Cheese can be found in the dairy case cheese aisle in Wisconsin, and the farmstyle shredded cheese is just one of the varieties available in over 100 Metro Market and Pick 'n Save stores across the state.
The seven products available are:
- Extra Sharp White Cheddar Chunk Cheese
- Sharp Yellow Cheddar Chunk Cheese
- Colby Jack Shredded Cheese
- Sharp White Cheddar Shredded Cheese
- Mexican Blend Shredded Cheese
- Sharp Yellow Cheddar Shredded Cheese
- Colby Jack Snack Cheese
Land O'Lakes Wisconsin farmer-member Amber Horn Leiterman, who farms with her family near Brillion, Wisconsin, has heard the same question in her community that Steve heard in his.
"We're proud to have cheese with the Land O Lakes brand in the dairy case section of the grocery store," said Amber. "We are very active in our community and are always get the question of where to buy the products that come from milk on our farm – and now we can point to the cheese in the dairy case section at our local store. We love being a part of the Land O'Lakes co-op because of the sense of community – and now we feel like we are showing up in our community that much more."
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Late-night TV shows go dark as writers strike for better pay
NEW YORK (AP) — The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that is leading most late-night shows to air reruns. The labor dispute could have a cascading effect on TV and film productions depending on how long the strike lasts, and it comes as streaming services are under growing pressure from Wall Street to show profits. Some 11,500 film and television writers represented by the Writers Guild of America walked out after failing to reach a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
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Bank stocks continue to fall following First Republic demise
NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators have barely written the epitaph for First Repbulic Bank, but investors on Wall Street have already moved onto speculating which bank might be the next to fail. Bank stocks fell sharply Tuesday, led downward by smaller banks with heavy exposure to uninsured deposits and commercial banks like Western Alliance Bank, PacWest Bancorp, Comerica and Zions Bank. Shares of Western Alliance were down 17% in afternoon trading and PacWest dropped 25%, with trading of both stocks halted briefly due to high volatility. The ongoing concern among investors and regulators is that banks such as PacWest have large amounts of uninsured deposits — those above $250,000.
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Chegg’s stock plunges on fears of competition from ChatGPT
Shares of the education technology company Chegg have lost nearly half their value in a single day. The sell-off came Tuesday after Chegg’s CEO warned that OpenAI’s free ChatGPT service was cutting into its growth. CEO Dan Rosensweig told investors on a conference call Monday that early in the year, the company was meeting expectations for new sign-ups for its educational services. But that changed in recent months. The company’s stock traded above $100 in early 2021 as most students were still stuck at home attending class online during the pandemic. On Tuesday it ended down 48% at $9.08.
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Lyft’s new CEO tackles a job requiring some heavy lifting
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Even before he joined Lyft’s board in 2021, David Risher had taken hundreds of trips as a passenger so he felt like he knew a lot about the ride-hailing service. But he never expected to be thrust into the driver’s service at a time when Lyft was running like a jalopy. After shaking off his initial shock at being asked to replace Lyft’s co-founder s CEO, Risher quickly began to shake up a company sinking into a morass of mounting losses. Shortly taking the job, Risher laid out a plan to lay off nearly 1,100 employees and plow the savings into lower fares to better compete against Uber.
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Europe’s inflation inches up ahead of interest rate decision
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s painful inflation inched higher last month, extending the squeeze on households and keeping pressure on the European Central Bank to unleash another large interest rate increase. The European Union statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday that consumer prices jumped 7% in April from a year earlier. That’s just up from the annual rate of 6.9% in March. Food price inflation eased a little, falling to an annual 13.6% from March’s 15.5%. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel, slowed slightly but was still high at 5.6%. That underlines the expectation that the ECB will press ahead with its campaign to beat inflation into submission with rate hikes.
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‘Godfather of AI’ leaves Google, warns of tech’s dangers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely considered as the “godfather” of artificial intelligence, has left Google — with a message sharing his concerns about potential dangers stemming from the same technology he helped build. Hinton has said he left Google so that he could focus on raising public awareness and speak freely about potential risks. At the heart of the debate on the state of AI is whether the primary dangers are in the future or present.
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Ford posts $1.76B 1Q profit largely on gas-powered vehicles
DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. made $1.76 billion last quarter, swinging into the black from a $3.1 billion net loss for the same period a year ago. Excluding one-time items, Ford made 44 cents per share. That beat Wall Street estimates of 42 cents. Revenue rose 20% to $41.74 billion, soundly beating the $39.25 billion that analysts expected. Ford reaffirmed its earlier pretax profit guidance for the full year of $9 billion to $11 billion. Ford lost $722 million before taxes on its electric vehicles, but it made $2.62 billion on internal combustion vehicles. The company’s commercial vehicle unit added $1.37 billion to the pretax profits.
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HBCUs get donations 178 times lower than Ivy League: study
The average historically Black college and university received 178 times less funding from foundations than the average Ivy League school in 2019, according to a new report on the underfunding of HBCUs released Tuesday. The study -- conducted by the philanthropic research group Candid and ABFE, a nonprofit that advocates for investments in Black communities – found that the eight Ivy League schools received $5.5 billion from foundations compared to $45 million for the 99 HBCUs in 2019. Between 2002 and 2019, foundation support of HBCUs declined 30%. Some study participants blamed systemic racism. Others said connections between philanthropists and HBCU leaders are limited.
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Chinese electric vehicle brands expand to global markets
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Chinese electric car exporters are starting to compete with global brands in their home markets. They bring fast-developing technology and low prices that Tesla’s chief financial officer says “are scary.” BYD Auto is the biggest-selling Chinese electric brand. It opened a dealership in Japan in February. NIO, a maker of premium-priced SUVs, exports to Europe. The ruling Communist Party has made China the biggest EV market with the help of multibillion-dollar subsidies. The ruling party wants to make China a creator of renewable energy and other profitable technologies. Other Chinese EV exporters include Geely Group’s Zeekr and Ora, a unit of SUV maker Great Wall Motors.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — People got a head start on their New Year’s resolutions Saturday in Bristol, all for a good cause.
The first annual Endura Bike Challenge benefitting Speedway Children’s Charities out of the Bristol Motor Speedway took place at Crossfit 423 in downtown Bristol. For 12 straight hours, teams of four rode stationary bikes.
Although there was no prize, there was plenty of competition as scores were kept by the number of calories burned throughout the day.
As of Saturday morning, the event raised over $6,500 dollars, which goes to Speedway Children’s Charities to help kids across a variety of areas.
“Basic need of a child, so food, shelter, clothing, therapeutic treatment, medical needs. After-school care programs because we know that’s such a need right now is quality after-school care, but there are lots of things that we give to,” said Betsy Holleman with Speedway Children’s Charities
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