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Trump’s bond with GOP deepens after primary wins, FBI search
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s pick for governor in the swing state of Wisconsin easily defeated a favorite of the Republican establishment.
In Connecticut, the state that launched the Bush family and its brand of compassionate conservatism, a fiery Senate contender who promoted Trump’s election lies upset the state GOP’s endorsed candidate. Meanwhile in Washington, Republicans ranging from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended Trump against an unprecedented FBI search.
And that was just this week.
The rapid developments crystalized the former president’s singular status atop a party he has spent the past seven years breaking down and rebuilding in his image. Facing mounting legal vulnerabilities and considering another presidential run, he needs support from the party to maintain his political career. But, whether they like it or not, many in the party also need Trump, whose endorsement has proven crucial for those seeking to advance to the November ballot.
“For a pretty good stretch, it felt like the Trump movement was losing more ground than it was gaining,” said Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who is urging his party to move past Trump. But now, he said, Trump is benefiting from “an incredibly swift tail wind.”
The Republican response to the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida estate this week was an especially stark example of how the party is keeping Trump nearby. Some of the Republicans considering challenges to Trump in a 2024 presidential primary, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, were among those defending him. Even long-established Trump critics like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan questioned the search, pressing for details about its circumstances.
But even before the FBI showed up at Mar-a-Lago, Trump was gaining momentum in his post-presidential effort to shape the GOP. In all, nearly 180 Trump-endorsed candidates up and down the ballot have won their primaries since May while fewer than 20 have lost.
Only two of the 10 House Republicans who supported Trump’s impeachment after the Jan. 6 insurrection are expected back in Congress next year. Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler, R-Wash., who conceded defeat after her Tuesday primary, was the latest to fall. Leading Trump antagonist Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is at risk of joining her next week.
The Trump victories include a clean sweep of statewide primary elections in Arizona last week — including an election denier in the race for the state’s chief elections official. Trump’s allies also prevailed Tuesday across Wisconsin and Connecticut, a state long known for its moderate Republican leanings.
In Wisconsin’s Republican primary for governor, wealthy Trump-backed businessman Tim Michels defeated former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, an establishment favorite. And in Connecticut, Leora Levy, who promoted Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen, surged to an unexpected victory over a more moderate rival after earning Trump’s official endorsement.
On Monday, just hours after the FBI search, Trump hosted a tele-town hall rally on her behalf. Levy thanked Trump in her acceptance speech, while railing against the FBI’s search.
“All of us can tell him how upset and offended and disgusted we were at what happened to him,” she said. “That is un-American. That is what they do in Cuba, in China, in dictatorships. And that will stop.”
Despite his recent dominance, Trump — and the Republicans close to him — face political and legal threats that could undermine their momentum as the GOP fights for control of Congress and statehouses across the nation this fall.
While Trump’s picks have notched notable victories in primaries this summer, they may struggle in the fall. That’s especially true in several governor’s races in Democratic-leaning states such as Connecticut and Maryland, where GOP candidates must track to the center to win a general election.
Meanwhile, several Republicans with White House ambitions are moving forward with a busy travel schedule that will take them to politically important states where they can back candidates on the ballot this year and build relationships heading into 2024.
DeSantis plans to boost high-profile Republican contenders across Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Former Vice President Mike Pence, another potential 2024 presidential contender, is scheduled to appear next week in New Hampshire.
On the legal front, the FBI search was part of an investigation into whether the former president took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence. While Republicans have rallied behind Trump, very few facts about the case have been released publicly. Trump’s attorneys have so far declined to release details from the search warrant.
Prosecutors in Washington and Georgia are also investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election he falsely claimed was stolen. The Jan. 6 congressional commission has exposed damning details about Trump’s behavior from Republican witnesses in recent hearings, which have prompted new concerns, at least privately, among the GOP establishment and donor class.
And on Wednesday, Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he testified under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings.
Trump’s legal entanglements represent a distraction at best for Republican candidates who’d rather focus on President Joe Biden’s leadership, sky-high inflation and immigration troubles to help court moderate voters and independents in the general election.
“Today, every Republican in every state in this country should be talking about how bad Joe Biden is, how bad inflation is, how difficult it is to run a business and run a household,” said Duncan, the Georgia lieutenant governor. “But instead, we’re talking about some investigation, we’re talking about Donald Trump pleading the Fifth, we’re talking about Donald Trump endorsing some conspiracy theorist.”
Trump critics in both parties are ready and willing to highlight Trump’s shortcomings — and his relationship with midterm candidates — as more voters begin to pay attention to politics this fall.
“This is, and always has been, Donald Trump’s Republican Party,” Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said in an interview, condemning “MAGA Republicans” and their “extreme agenda” on abortion and other issues.
At the same time, the Republican Accountability Project and Protect Democracy launched a $3 million television and digital advertising campaign this week across seven swing states focused on Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The ads, which will run in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, feature testimonials from Republican voters who condemn Trump’s lies about nonexistent election fraud that fueled the Capitol attack.
One ad features congressional testimony from Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who has publicly declared that Trump should never hold public office again.
Still, Cheney faces her own primary election against a Trump-backed challenger next week in Wyoming. One of Trump’s top political targets this year, she is expected to lose. Anticipating a loss, Cheney’s allies suggest she may be better positioned to run for president in 2024, either as a Republican or independent.
Trump’s allies are supremely confident about his ability to win the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2024. In fact, aides who had initially pushed him to launch his campaign after the November midterms are now encouraging him to announce sooner to help freeze out would-be Republican challengers.
“It’s going to be very difficult for anyone to take the nomination away from him in 2024,” said Stephen Moore, a former Trump economic adviser who has spoken with Trump about his 2024 intentions. “He is running. That is a certainty.”
Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., predicted that Trump would “lose in a landslide” if he sought the presidency again, adding that the former president’s overall grasp on the party is “eroding on the edges.”
“In a normal election, you’ve got to win not just the base. You’ve got to win the middle, too, right, and maybe crossover on the other side,” said Rice, who lost his recent primary after voting in favor of Trump’s second impeachment.
Rice warned that Trump far-right candidates could lead to unnecessary losses for the party in November. “Donald Trump is pushing things so far to the right,” he said in an interview.
Meanwhile, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, eyeing a 2024 bid himself, warned against making bold political predictions two years before the Republican Party selects its next presidential nominee.
“We’re sitting here in August of 2022,” Christie said in an interview. “My sense is there’s a lot of water over the dam still to come before anybody can determine anybody’s individual position in the primaries of ‘24 — except to say that if Donald Trump runs, he will certainly be a factor.”
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Associated Press writers Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
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2 women arrested with 500,000 fentanyl pills, police say
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AZFamily/Gray News) – Arizona police say they’ve arrested two people from Phoenix after a traffic stop uncovered hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills, a gun and a large amount of cash.
Police in Casa Grande say that Martha Lopez, the driver of the car, and Tania Luna Solis, a passenger, face multiple drug charges from the drug bust, according to AZFamily.
In a news release, police said they stopped Lopez for speeding just after 5:30 p.m. on Monday. During the traffic stop, officers said they discovered half a million fentanyl pills disguised inside bottles that made them look like collagen supplements. Police also seized a gun and cash and noted that two children were inside the car.
“The transport and sale of drugs in our community affects us all,” Casa Grande Police Chief Mark McCrory said. “It is hard to quantify the number of lives this investigation has saved, but I am sure we are making a difference.”
Lopez and Solis face drug possession and transportation charges, among weapons and child endangerment charges. Both children have been placed in the Department of Child Safety custody while the Pinal County Attorney’s Office reviews the charges.
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Private label, fleece-lined hoodies were flying out of Boscov’s, and CEO Jim Boscov wanted to know why.
It turned out that the October 2020 surge in demand had little to do with the personal service and unpretentious vibe that have helped make Boscov’s the largest family-owned department store company in America.
It came from young people posting TikTok videos of themselves dancing and modeling inexpensive plaid outerwear from Boscov’s.
“Our hoodies were going viral,” said Boscov, 73, the CEO and public face of the privately held company, which had $1.2 billion in sales last year.
“In one week we had an eightfold increase in sales of the hoodies. We sold $200,000 worth at $24.99 each,” he said. “We had been doing digital marketing for years, but it opened our eyes to the power of influencers.”
One of those influencers vowed in her video to “never be dissing Boscov’s again” — suggesting not only the opportunities, but also the challenges facing the more than century-old company in today’s economy.
Image vs. reality
While Boscov’s has continued to open stores while other traditional retailers are closing, its image remains a throwback to the days when department stores were dominant, and malls were all the rage.
The decor in some of its older stores is heavy on mirrors, bright lights, and neon signage evocative of a disco or a casino. Some people likely perceive Boscov’s shoppers as the mothers or grandmothers of those fleece-lined hoodie enthusiasts.
“The trick is to evolve but not give up the core of what works and makes us successful,” said Boscov, adding that new stores feature sleeker designs. The company also renovates two stores each year.
“We have to keep learning and changing,” he said. “But we won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
Boscov’s traces its start to Solomon Boscov peddling housewares from farm to farm near Reading in Berks County in 1914. He was 23 and had recently emigrated from Russia with his brother’s passport, hardly any money, and even less English.
Nevertheless, “my grandfather earned a reputation as honest and kind, and for providing good merchandise at a great price,” Boscov said during an interview at company headquarters just outside Reading.
“These continue to be our core values.”
From its first store — Economy Shoe & Dry Goods — in Reading in 1918, Boscov’s has grown to 49 stores in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Ohio.
The company’s bustling headquarters occupies a mostly windowless warren of offices in the basement of its Reading Mall store.
Boscov’s charismatic uncle, Albert, who led and grew the company for nearly 50 years and ultimately saved it, established the tradition of an in-store headquarters.
“Success doesn’t happen because of what goes on in the office,” said Boscov, who generally visits a different store weekly. “It’s what happens on the sales floor that matters.”
Boscov’s is a full-service department store, he said. “And we have something you don’t find everywhere: We have salespeople on the sales floor.”
Boscov’s is often an anchor in shopping malls — another retail institution that once seemed invincible. The busy Voorhees, N.J., Boscov’s is pretty much all that remains of the Echelon Mall, which was built in 1970. The 50th Boscov’s is scheduled to open this fall in a Bridgeport, W.Va., mall.
But the company also has downtown stores in Binghamton, N.Y.; Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; and Providence, R.I.
Department stores aren’t what they were when Wanamakers, Gimbels, and Strawbridge’s ruled Philadelphia regional retail.
But Boscov’s comes closer than most. It still has candy and toy departments and sells draperies, beds, recliners, and small appliances. It carries clothing for petite as well as big and tall customers, and many of its stores have hair salons and optical shops, along with hearing aid and travel services.
Survival of the savviest
“Boscov’s has figured out how to thrive in the anti-brick-and-mortar retailing world,” said Michael Lisicky, a Cherry Hill native, historian and author of books about department stores, including Bamberger’s.
“Boscov’s isn’t run by a private equity firm. They’re a family of merchants, who know who they are and know their customers,” he said. “Boscov’s isn’t reimagining the department store because maybe it doesn’t need to be reimagined. Not everything is broken.”
Lisicky pointed to the chain’s signature breadth and depth of inventory as a selling point. “Customers know they will probably find whatever they’re looking for at Boscov’s,” he said.
Boscov’s fan Cathy Nevins, an educator and social worker who lives in Cherry Hill, agrees. “When I take my grandchildren there, they usually see something they like.”
Nevins also likes that Boscov’s cultivates relationships with local nonprofits. “I like their ethics of people helping people,” she said.
Until the pandemic, a half-dozen Boscov’s stores still had restaurants called The Greenery, where the “Bos-cobb salad” was once a staple. Tailors are no longer on site, either — although tailoring services are still offered.
“We hate to give up things that make us distinctive,” said Boscov, who paused at one point during the interview to take a call from his mother, Shirley, who’s 97 and lives in a Reading retirement community.
“She’s very active and tries to go swimming every day,” he said.
Boscov’s existential crisis
A widower and the father of a grown daughter, Jim Boscov grew up working in the stores and learning the family business firsthand from his grandfather and uncle. He had part-time jobs in a number of departments as a teenager and joined the company full time at age 26.
But he left in 1990, moved to Boston, and launched a series of retail or retail-related businesses, including a successful outlet store chain. He came back to Boscov’s in 2008 as an assistant to Albert, who had retired only two years earlier but returned to lead an effort to save the company.
As mergers and closures roiled the department store industry in 2006, Boscov’s — under the leadership of then-CEO Kenneth Lakin — bought 10 store locations that had become available in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The expansion brought the total number of Boscov’s to 49 and introduced the brand to new markets.
“It might have worked, but the economy hit the skids, the credit market crashed, and Boscov’s did not have the liquidity at the time that it needed to survive,” Jim Boscov said.
“Because of the goodwill Boscov’s had earned, Albert was able to cobble together the necessary funds to buy the company back, with the entire family participating,” he said.
The 10 recently acquired store locations were closed. In the following decade, Albert started the company on a new path of expansion. He was 87 when he died of pancreatic cancer in 2017.
Albert had named Jim Boscov CEO in 2015. Under his leadership, Boscov’s took over the former Nordstrom space in Providence, opened two Connecticut stores, one near Youngstown, Ohio, and soon, in Bridgeport, W.Va.
Looking to the future
“Boscov’s came knocking on our door,” said Andy Lang, mayor of the city of 9,000 in north-central West Virginia.
“People are very excited,” he said. “I really like what Mr. Boscov says about tailoring the store to fit the community. It’s going to be great.”
Boscov’s is serving a market that remains robust, said Sheri Lambert, an associate professor of marketing at Temple University who studies consumer behavior.
“Bricks-and-mortar isn’t dead,” she said. “And malls aren’t dead either.”
While the pandemic elevated e-commerce, it also underscored how much people missed communal experiences, such as shopping, Lambert said.
Stores like Boscov’s “are where people can go to be among other people and have a sense of community,” she said. “People like to touch and feel merchandise, and they like to be among other [shoppers], which is hard to do online.”
Boscov said he intends to keep working but noted that the store has recruited new management talent from within and outside the family.
The company is always looking for new opportunities. He said the success of the standalone Boscov’s Outlet, near the Reading Mall store, is an additional format that could work in other locations. He didn’t name any in particular but wouldn’t rule out Philadelphia — or Center City — either.
“The worst thing we could do is pretend to be something we’re not,” he said. “We’re going to continue to be Boscov’s.” | 2023-04-01T00:47:38+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/04/boscovs-plans-to-open-50th-store-even-as-its-rivals-are-disappearing.html |
Michelle Rogers, a longtime bartender at Dry Dock, says the Longboat Key seafood restaurant has become home.
Michelle Rogers started working at Dry Dock Waterfront Grill when she was 21 years old. She’s 35 now, has no plans to leave — and is not alone.
“This restaurant is special,” she said. “It’s great having a place where you can come (to work), and it feels like it's home.”
The bayfront restaurant, tucked behind the Mobil gas station off Gulf of Mexico Drive, opened in 1989. It changed hands in 2015 when Gecko’s Hospitality Group bought it from the original owners, Eric and Cindy Hammersand.
It was a smooth transition because the same staff has been running the kitchen for more than 20 years, and some of the front of the house employees are going on 30 years.
Rogers’ older sister, Heidi Frederick, works at Dry Dock, too. She started waiting tables a year before Rogers started as a bartender. Whether it’s the management, customers or serene bayfront scenery, Dry Dock doesn’t see the kind of staff turnover many restaurants do.
Patricia Finnan said she and her husband, Patrick, have been walking, biking and boating to the restaurant from their home in Country Club Shores since it opened. They’ve never had a bad meal at Dry Dock, but that’s not what makes them regulars.
“It’s the staff. They’re just great people,” said Patrick. “They became, not like friends, a little more so.”
Patricia attended Rogers’ bridal shower, and both attended the wedding.
“I really feel like they are like my grandparents. I’ve known them since Day One here.” Rogers said of the Finnans, “They’re just the kindest being you could be around. They warm the room when they walk in.”
The Finnans are known around the restaurants as “The Pats.” Rogers and another bartender, Kim Adams, bought them matching mugs that read, “Happy wife. Happy life,” one of Patrick’s favorite sayings. According to Rogers, the Pats set the bar when it comes to happy couples.
Rogers is off to a good start with husband, Timothy, and the Pats approve. He’s been a paramedic and firefighter for 14 years in Sarasota and is studying to be a registered nurse at University of South Florida.
The day Timothy proposed, a tropical storm was approaching and Rogers woke up feeling sick. But there’s no going back after planning a fake volleyball tournament for friends and family to watch as you ask, "Will you marry me?" He told Rogers to pack the cooler for a long tournament day.
Before the rain hit, Timothy let a volleyball pass over his head and dropped to one knee. Rogers happily accepted, and the big day was planned for January 2020.
When the original venue Orchid Garden in Orlando was torn down for condominiums unexpectedly, finding another venue could have been stressful. But not for Rogers, who had an immediate back-up plan when customers stepped up to offer the Longboat Key Club as an alternative.
The couple decided on the Kapok Tree Gardens in Clearwater, but Rogers points to that example with gratitude.
“They truly are family here,” she said. “We have something wrong, they will do their best to help us.”
Now, the couple is ready to expand their family. Rogers is undergoing in vitro fertilization. She took a five-week leave from Dry Dock over the summer to get her first treatment in New York.
On her last shift before leaving, Chef Hector Elizarras made his “to die for” homemade pizza. Once the restaurant is set-up, the staff has a half hour to eat a meal together. That day, the pizza was topped with pineapple for Rogers.
“The pineapple is the symbol for IVF,” she said. “It’s saying that your inner core will be OK because you’re strong on the outside.
While she was in New York, Rogers received messages of encouragement from family, of course, but also from coworkers and customers. The first treatment didn’t take, but that’s often the case. She returns in two weeks for round two.
Coworkers and customers alike look forward to a new addition to their untraditional, but equally loving, Dry Dock family.
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Matthew Beniers Player Prop Bets: Kraken vs. Stars - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 6
Matthew Beniers will be in action Saturday when his Seattle Kraken face the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round at Climate Pledge Arena. Prop bets for Beniers in that upcoming Kraken-Stars game are available, so check out our stats to help you.
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- When: Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, SportsNet, and TVAS
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- Points Prop: 0.5 points (Over odds: +105)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 assists (Over odds: +205)
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Beniers Season Stats Insights
- Beniers has averaged 17:05 of ice time this season (with a plus-minus rating of +14).
- Beniers has scored a goal in 23 of 80 games this season, netting multiple goals in one of them.
- Beniers has a point in 37 of 80 games this year, with multiple points in 18 of them.
- Beniers has an assist in 27 of 80 games played this season, including multiple assists six times.
- The implied probability that Beniers hits the over on his points prop total is 48.8%, based on the odds.
- The implied probability of Beniers going over his assist prop bet, based on the odds, is 32.8%.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed control Sunday over the last Ukrainian stronghold in an eastern province that is key to achieving a major goal of Moscow’s grinding war.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s military reported that its forces had withdrawn from Lysychansk in Luhansk province. President Volodymr Zelenskyy acknowledged the withdrawal but said the fight for the city was still raging on its outskirts.
If confirmed, Russia’s complete seizure of Luhansk would provide its troops with a stronger base from which to press their advance in the Donbas, a region of mines and factories that President Vladimir Putin is bent on capturing in a campaign that could determine the course of the entire war.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin that Russia’s troops, with a local separatist militia, “have established full control over the city of Lysychansk” and now hold all of Luhansk, according to a ministry statement published Sunday.
As is typical with such descriptions, the Russian statement characterized the victories as “the liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic.” Separatists in Luhansk and neighboring Donetsk, which make up the Donbas and are home to significant Russian-speaking populations, declared independence from Kyiv in 2014 and their forces have battled Ukrainian troops there ever since. Russia formally recognized the self-proclaimed republics days before its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian and Russian forces fought fiercely for Lysychansk in recent days after the neighboring city fell last week. On Sunday evening, the General Staff of Ukraine’s military confirmed on social media that its forces had withdrawn from Lysychansk “to preserve the lives of Ukrainian defenders.”
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy noted the withdrawal. But he added that “Ukraine does not give anything back” and vowed to return with more modern weapons. Citing his forces’ success in recapturing other territory, he promised, “There will be a day when we will say the same about Donbas.”
Earlier, Zelenskyy said Kyiv’s forces were still battling Russian soldiers on Lysychansk’s outskirts “in a very difficult and dangerous situation.”
“We cannot give you the final judgment. Lysychansk is still being fought for,” Zelenskyy told a news conference in Kyiv given alongside Australia’s visiting prime minister. He noted that territory can move quickly from one side to the other.
Russian forces maintain an advantage in the area, he acknowledged, calling it a Ukrainian military “weak spot.”
The capture of Lysychansk would give the Russians more territory from which to intensify attacks on Donetsk. In recent weeks, Russian forces were thought to hold about half of Donetsk, but it’s not clear where things stand now.
If Russia prevails in the Donbas, Ukraine would lose not only land but perhaps the bulk of its most capable military forces, opening the way for Moscow to grab more territory and strengthen its ability to dictate terms to Kyiv.
Since failing to take Kyiv and other areas in northern and central Ukraine early in the war, Russia has focused on the Donbas, unleashing fierce shelling and engaging in house-to-house combat that devastated Lysychansk, neighboring Sievierodonetsk and nearby villages. Few details emerged from either city during the battles, which decimated their populations as people were killed or fled.
Already Russian forces appeared to be pushing their advance in Donetsk, concentrating rocket attacks on the sizable Ukrainian-held city of Slovyansk, where at least six people were killed, regional government spokeswoman Tatyana Ignatchenko told Ukrainian TV.
Kramatorsk, another major city in the Donetsk region, also came under fire, the regional administration said.
Far from the fighting in the east, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday visited a town near the capital that was severely damaged early in the war. Albanese called the destruction in Irpin “devastating.”
“These are homes and these are livelihoods and indeed lives that have been lost here in this town,” he said.
Meanwhile, the exiled mayor of the Russia-occupied city of Melitopol said Sunday that Ukrainian rockets destroyed one of four Russian military bases in the city.
Attacks were also reported inside Russia, in a revival of sporadic apparent Ukrainian strikes across the border. The governor of the Belgorod region in Western Russia said fragments of an intercepted Ukrainian missile killed four people Sunday. In the Russian city of Kursk, two Ukrainian drones were shot down, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Kursk regional governor Roman Starovoit said the town of Tetkino, on the Ukraine border, came under mortar fire.
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Ebel reported from Prokovsk, Ukraine. Associated Press journalist Maria Grazia Murru contributed from Kyiv.
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‘Only Murders in the Building’ cast dishes on season two
Posted/updated on: June 28, 2022 at 6:04 amThey’re back, to solve another murder! Only Murders in the Building returns Tuesday on Hulu for season 2, with stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez on the case again.
Last season ended with the Arconia Board president being murdered, and Martin tells ABC Audio that's exactly where things pick up.
"We're set on solving the crime that ended last season," he shares. "But one of the biggest changes is, you know, in terms of story is now that our podcast has hit big, we're all three getting a little bit of notoriety that we didn't have before."
"So we will walk down the street and maybe get noticed by people. And we have to set about solving a crime while being kind of famous. Not really famous. Just kind of famous. Like we are now," Martin laughs.
More specifically, the season begins with the trio's characters being interrogated by police. So, who would be the first to flip on the others in real life?
"Me!" Gomez quickly admits, before Martin calls out Short.
"I think Marty would sell us out at a second," he says -- and Short doesn't deny it.
"I think definitely I would in one second, to survive in one second," he says. "But I think before I could get the words out, Selena would have sold us out."
Despite the first season being a huge hit, Short reveals he didn’t feel a lot of pressure going into season two because "a sequel is actually easier because you now know the characters."
"Well, you have to understand one thing, Marty has never done a second season," Martin teases, to which Short rebuttals with their movie Father of the Bride 2.
"Oh, that's true," Martin acknowledges, "But I'm talking about television."
"Oh, touché," Short responds.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge says “gender identity is real” in narrow ruling against Florida ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
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- Trial met both primary and most secondary endpoints, showing iptacopan provided transfusion-free hemoglobin-level increases in vast majority of adult paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) patients with residual anemia despite prior anti-C5 therapy1
- Iptacopan demonstrated an 80% difference to anti-C5 in the estimated proportion of patients* achieving 2 g/dL or more hemoglobin-level increases from baseline without the need for red blood cell transfusions1
- Iptacopan demonstrated a 67% difference to anti-C5 in the estimated proportion of patients* achieving 12 g/dL or more hemoglobin levels without the need for red blood cell transfusions1
- Iptacopan also provided blood-transfusion independence for almost all patients with no serious cases of breakthrough hemolysis (BTH) and clinically meaningful patient-reported-fatigue improvements1
- Recently announced positive APPOINT-PNH Phase III study in complement-inhibitor-naïve patients adds to growing body of evidence for iptacopan in PNH2
EAST HANOVER, N.J., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis today announced detailed results from the pivotal Phase III APPLY-PNH trial1. The results showed a vast majority of patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) who received the investigational oral monotherapy iptacopan achieved clinically meaningful increases in hemoglobin levels compared to anti-C5 therapy1. The study met both primary endpoints and most secondary endpoints, with iptacopan demonstrating superiority over anti-C5 therapy in adult patients with PNH experiencing residual anemia despite prior treatment with anti-C5 therapy1.
In the study, the safety profile of iptacopan monotherapy was consistent with previously reported data, with no serious infections caused by encapsulated bacteria1,3,4. The results, from the APPLY-PNH 24-week randomized treatment period, were featured as an oral presentation during the late-breaking abstract session and in a press briefing at the 64th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting & Exposition (ASH).
"More than half of patients with PNH experience residual anemia despite treatment with anti-C5 therapy and many remain dependent on blood transfusions during treatment, largely due to unaddressed destruction of red blood cells in the spleen and the liver – called extravascular hemolysis," said study principal co-investigator Prof Régis Peffault de Latour, MD, PhD of Saint-Louis Hospital, Greater Paris University Hospital. "The Phase III APPLY-PNH results show oral iptacopan was superior in resolving extravascular hemolysis and maintaining intravascular hemolysis control compared to intravenous anti-C5 therapies – a potentially groundbreaking benefit for those living with this chronic blood disorder."
The study met both primary endpoints, showing superiority for iptacopan vs. anti-C51. For the first, an estimated 82.3%* (95% CI: 73.4, 90.2) of iptacopan-treated patients achieved hemoglobin-level increases of 2 g/dL or more from baseline without the need for red blood cell transfusions, compared to an estimated 2.0%* (95% CI: 1.1, 4.1) of anti-C5-treated patients: an estimated 80.3%* (95% CI: 71.3, 87.6; P<0.0001) difference in favor of iptacopan1. The observed number of patients achieving this primary endpoint was 51/60# for iptacopan vs. 0/35 for anti-C51.
For the second primary endpoint, an estimated 68.8%* (95% CI: 58.3, 78.9) of iptacopan-treated patients achieved hemoglobin levels of 12 g/dL or more without the need for blood transfusions, compared to an estimated 1.8%* (95% CI: 0.9, 4.0) of anti-C5-treated patients: an estimated 67.0%* (95% CI: 56.3, 76.9; P<0.0001) difference in favor of iptacopan1. The observed number of patients achieving this primary endpoint was 42/60# for iptacopan vs. 0/35 for anti-C51.
"Nearly every patient treated with iptacopan – 60 out of 62 – remained blood-transfusion free after six months of treatment, compared to only 14 out of 35 anti-C5-treated patients – a potentially practice-changing outcome for people with PNH," stated study principal co-investigator Antonio Risitano, M.D., Ph.D., President of the International PNH Interest Group and Head of the Hematology and Hematopoietic Transplant Unit, Reference Center for Aplastic Anemia and Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria at the AORN San Giuseppe Moscati, Avellino, Italy. "This outcome, along with the exceptional hemoglobin-level increases of at least 2 g/dL in 51 out of 60 patients, suggests that, if approved, iptacopan could transform treatment and outcomes for patients with PNH."
"With combined Phase III APPLY-PNH and recently announced positive Phase III APPOINT-PNH results, Novartis has a comprehensive data package to support a 2023 regulatory submission, with the possibility of iptacopan becoming the first oral monotherapy for patients with PNH," said David Soergel, M.D., Global Head, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism Development Unit, Novartis.
Iptacopan also showed superiority over anti-C5 therapy across most secondary endpoints, including change from baseline in hemoglobin levels, blood-transfusion independence, patient-reported fatigue (as measured by Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy – Fatigue [FACIT-F] scores), absolute reticulocyte (immature red blood cells) counts (ARC), and rate of clinical BTH1.
Iptacopan-treated patients achieved a 3.59 (95% CI: 3.32, 3.86) g/dL adjusted average increase in hemoglobin levels from baseline, compared to a 0.04 (95% CI: -0.42, 0.35) g/dL decrease for anti-C5-treated patients: a 3.63 (95% CI: 3.18, 4.08; P<0.0001) g/dL difference in favor of iptacopan1. Average hemoglobin levels irrespective of blood transfusions for iptacopan-treated patients were 12.6 (standard deviation [SD]: 1.4) g/dL, compared to 9.2 (SD: 1.4) g/dL for anti-C5-treated patients1.
In the six months prior to randomization, 57.7% of patients had received blood transfusions1. After 24 weeks of treatment, an estimated 96.4%* (95% CI: 90.7, 100.0) of iptacopan-treated patients remained blood-transfusion free, compared to an estimated 26.1%* (95% CI: 12.4, 42.7) of anti-C5-treated patients: an estimated 70.3%* (95% CI: 52.6, 76.9; P<0.0001) difference in favor of iptacopan1. The observed number of patients achieving this endpoint was 60/62 for iptacopan vs. 14/35 for anti-C51. Iptacopan-treated patients achieved an 8.59 (95% CI: 6.72, 10.47) point adjusted average increase in FACIT-F score from baseline, compared to a 0.31 (95% CI: -2.20, 2.81) point increase for anti-C5-treated patients: an 8.29 (95% CI: 5.28, 11.29; P<0.0001) point difference in favor of iptacopan1.
There was no significant difference between iptacopan monotherapy and anti-C5 for rate of major adverse vascular events or change from baseline in lactate dehydrogenase levels – with the latter showing maintenance of intravascular hemolysis control1.
The most commonly reported adverse events (AEs) with iptacopan were headache (iptacopan: 16.1%; anti-C5: 2.9%) and diarrhea (iptacopan: 14.5%; anti-C5: 5.7%), while the most commonly reported AEs with anti-C5s were COVID-19 (anti-C5: 25.7%; iptacopan: 8.1%) and clinical BTH events (anti-C5: 17.1%; iptacopan: 3.2%)1. Two anti-C5-treated patients had serious AEs of hemolysis, compared with no iptacopan-treated patients1. No patients discontinued iptacopan or anti-C5s because of AEs1.
Separately, Novartis recently announced the Phase III APPOINT-PNH trial was positive, with iptacopan providing clinically meaningful increases in hemoglobin levels in complement-inhibitor-naïve patients with PNH2,5. Data from APPLY-PNH and APPOINT-PNH will be included as part of global regulatory submissions in 2023.
Following presentation of the APPLY-PNH data at ASH, Novartis will host an investor conference call on December 13, 2022 at 18:30 CET / 12:30 ET. A simultaneous webcast may be accessed by visiting the Novartis website at https://www.novartis.com/investors/event-calendar, and a replay will be available after the call.
*These estimated proportions of patients are marginal proportions, calculated using a pre-specified logistic regression model (this also applies for the differences in marginal proportions and 95% CIs)1. Marginal proportions reflect the population average probability of a patient meeting the endpoint criteria1. The values are adjusted for baseline covariates and missing data have been imputed1.
#Evaluable/non-missing data was available for 60 iptacopan-treated patients (out of the total 62 iptacopan-treated patients in the trial)1.
About the study
APPLY-PNH (NCT04558918) is a Phase III, randomized, multinational, multicenter, active-comparator controlled, open-label trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of twice-daily, oral iptacopan monotherapy (200 mg) for the treatment of PNH by demonstrating the superiority of iptacopan compared to anti-C5 therapies (eculizumab or ravulizumab) in adult patients presenting with residual anemia (Hb <10 g/dl) despite a stable regimen of anti-C5 treatment in the last six months prior to randomization1,6.
About paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
PNH is a rare, chronic, and serious complement-mediated blood disorder7. People with PNH have an acquired mutation in some of their hematopoietic stem cells (which are located in the bone marrow and can grow and develop into red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells and platelets) that causes them to produce RBCs that are susceptible to premature destruction by the complement system7,8. This leads to intravascular hemolysis (destruction of RBCs within blood vessels) and extravascular hemolysis (destruction of RBCs mostly in the spleen and liver), which cause anemia (low levels of circulating RBCs), thrombosis (formation of blood clots), fatigue, and other debilitating symptoms that can impact people's quality of life7,8.
It is estimated that approx. 10-20 people per million worldwide live with PNH7. Although PNH can develop at any age, it is often diagnosed in people between 30-40 years old9,10.
PNH has a significant unmet need not addressed by anti-C5 therapies (eculizumab or ravulizumab): despite treatment with anti-C5s, a large proportion of people with PNH remain anemic, fatigued, and dependent on blood transfusions7,8,11,12.
About iptacopan
Iptacopan is an investigational first-in-class, orally administered targeted factor B inhibitor of the alternative complement pathway1,3,4,13. It acts upstream of the C5 terminal pathway, preventing not only intravascular but also extravascular hemolysis in PNH1,3,4,13. In doing so, iptacopan targets a key part of the biology responsible for PNH while offering an oral monotherapy option1,3,4,13.
Discovered at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, iptacopan is currently in development for a number of other complement-mediated diseases (CMDs) where significant unmet needs exist, including kidney diseases C3 glomerulopathy (C3G), IgA nephropathy (IgAN), atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), membranous nephropathy (MN), lupus nephritis (LN), and blood disorders immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and cold agglutinin disease (CAD). First results for Phase III trials in C3G (APPEAR-C3G) and IgAN (APPLAUSE-IgAN) are expected in 202314,15.
Based on disease prevalence, unmet needs and data from Phase II studies, iptacopan has received FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation in PNH, orphan drug designations from the FDA and EMA in PNH and C3G, EMA PRIME designation for C3G, and EMA orphan drug designation in IgAN16-19.
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- Novartis investigational iptacopan provides clinically meaningful increases in hemoglobin levels in complement-inhibitor-naïve patients with PNH. Novartis. Accessed December 08, 2022. https://www.novartis.com/news/media-releases/novartis-investigational-iptacopan-provides-clinically-meaningful-increases-hemoglobin-levels-complement-inhibitor-naive-patients-pnh
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- Novartis data on file.
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- Novartis received European Medicines Agency (EMA) PRIME designation for iptacopan (LNP) in C3 glomerulopathy (C3G). Novartis. Accessed September 22, 2022. https://www.novartis.com/news/media-releases/novartis-received-european-medicines-agency-ema-prime-designation-iptacopan-lnp-c3-glomerulopathy-c3g
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DDN Demonstrates Exceptional Performance, Scalability, Reliability, and Efficiency for Accelerated Computing Environments with Commercially Available Storage System Running Production AI Applications
CHATSWORTH, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced that it achieved the highest bandwidth score for a production system on the IO500 benchmark in conjunction with customer CINECA on its Leonardo supercomputing system. The Leonardo system, delivering AI and HPC computing power to tackle urgent societal challenges, won first place for highest bandwidth for systems running production workloads in the most recently announced IO500 at ISC High Performance (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, with a score of 807.12 GB/s.
This achievement underscores DDN's track record of delivering scalable and reliable storage solutions for the world's most significant production AI and HPC systems. DDN's parallel filesystem uniquely addresses the ever-increasing demand for performance-hungry computing environments that use GPUs to process enormous amounts of data from diverse sources like numerical models and high-resolution sensors.
"The Leonardo supercomputer delivers game-changing AI and HPC performance for the betterment of European research. This kind of power needs an extremely well-optimized storage environment to gain maximum efficiency," said Mirko Cestari, HPC and Cloud technology coordinator at CINECA. "We chose DDN because of its ability to accelerate all stages of the AI and HPC workloads lifecycle."
The Leonardo system is equipped with DDN's EXAScaler® storage solution and a hybrid infrastructure consisting of a flash tier able to deliver over 1.4 TB/s throughput and a capacity tier with 106 PB of disk storage that provides an impressive aggregate bandwidth of over 600 GB/s. Ranked as the fourth largest supercomputer in the world by the TOP500, the system supports data-intensive AI and HPC applications like artificial intelligence, weather forecasting, bio-engineering, and material design.
"We are proud of our support for the goals of the Leonardo system and know that solutions for scalable production AI and HPC environments require more than just amazing performance," says Tommaso Cecchi, senior director of sales for EMEA, DDN. "When systems this size run around-the-clock workloads with meaningful research and commercial outcomes, the supporting storage systems must also be efficient and reliable."
The IO500 list is an essential benchmark for the efficiency of storage systems in AI and HPC supercomputing environments. The list is refreshed twice yearly during the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis (SC) in the U.S. and ISC in Europe. Of particular importance, the IO500 measures storage performance data bandwidth (GB/s) and read/write speed (IOPS) under a variety of tests to produce a result that is representative of typical workloads observed on systems used for production AI and HPC applications.
The Production List narrows the number of eligible systems to those that meet a stricter definition of production system. To qualify, these systems must be in daily use by end users with production applications over a long period, rather than systems deployed just for testing purposes, and must have additional reliability characteristics.
These results confirm the importance of reliability and efficiency in the architecture of scalable storage systems and empower DDN customer CINECA and its end users with great flexibility to address the most demanding I/O use cases and total system performance.
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DDN is the world's largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for enterprise at scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government, and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions, the company delivers AI, data management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations. DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale. Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world's leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 23, 2022
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COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Eureka CA
120 PM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 2 PM PST
SATURDAY...
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY FOR TODAY HAS EXPIRED...
* WHAT...High astronomical tides will cause minor flooding in low
lying areas around Humboldt Bay. Up to one half foot of
saltwater inundation above ground level is possible in low lying
areas near shorelines and tidal waterways.
* WHERE...Areas around Humboldt Bay...including the community of
King Salmon and other low lying areas.
* WHEN...From 10 AM to 2 PM PST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only
isolated road closures expected.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Coastal Flood Advisory indicates that onshore winds and tides
will combine to generate flooding of low areas along the shore.
Feet Above Ground is locally defined as feet above the Highest
Astronomical Tide or HAT.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Beach flooding associated with King Tides near 7 feet
Saturday morning.
* WHERE...Impacted beaches include Mission Beach, Pacific Beach,
Seaside and Cardiff State Beaches, Oceanside Strand, Balboa
Peninsula in Newport Beach, and Sunset Beach.
* WHEN...Through Saturday.
* IMPACTS...The King Tides combined with surf of 2 to 4 feet
could produce minor flooding of low lying beach parking lots
and beach boardwalks. Extreme low tides of negative 1.8 feet
each afternoon may also impact boats in harbors and affect
navigation.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...King Tide times in Southern California this
week:
Saturday 12/24:
High tide 7.0 ft at 8:54 AM. Low tide -1.8 ft at 4:20 PM.
Sunday 12/25:
High tide 6.7 ft at 9:42 AM. Low tide -1.5 ft at 5:08 PM.
Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions.
...ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN RETURNS NEXT WEEK WITH STRONGER WINDS,
HEAVY MOUNTAIN SNOW AND VALLEY RAIN...
For the Christmas weekend, dry and mild conditions will prevail
with valley inversions producing areas of haze especially in urban
areas, and patchy nighttime and morning freezing fog in fog-prone
Sierra valleys.
A series of storms next week will bring periods of gusty winds,
heavy mountain snow and valley rain with potential for widespread
travel and recreation impacts. The strongest storm is currently
expected to affect eastern California and western Nevada Monday
night through Tuesday night.
* WINDS: The strongest winds are most likely from Monday night
through Tuesday morning. For lower elevations of northeast
California, the Tahoe basin and western Nevada, wind gusts of
45-55 mph are anticipated, with gusts possibly exceeding 65 mph
especially in wind prone areas. Gusts well over 100 mph will
occur over Sierra ridges.
* SIERRA RAIN AND SNOW: The heaviest rain and snowfall rates are
expected late Monday night through Tuesday. Snow could begin to
accumulate over the main Sierra passes starting late Tuesday
morning, and into the Lake Tahoe basin and higher elevation
roads of northeast California by Tuesday afternoon, continuing
through Tuesday night. Storm snowfall totals of 2 or more feet
are possible above 8000 feet, with several inches to over 1 foot
possible between 5500 and 8000 feet.
* LOWER ELEVATION RAIN: The heaviest rain is most likely in
western Nevada valleys and foothills Tuesday morning and
afternoon. Rainfall totals could reach 1 inch in the main urban
areas of Reno-Sparks, Carson City and Minden, with up to 2
inches in foothill locations and lighter amounts farther east
into west central Nevada. The rain may end as a short period of
snow or a rain-snow mix by late Tuesday night in foothill
locations, with light snow accumulations possible near and above
5500 feet including areas near Virginia City.
Later next week through the New Year's holiday weekend,
additional storm systems remain possible. The best chances for
more snow continue to favor the Sierra, but light accumulations
may occur in some western Nevada and eastern California valleys.
The New Year's Eve period could see an elevated risk for winter
travel impacts and increased winds.
The quiet weather through this weekend brings an opportunity to
plan for winter driving conditions and alternate options if
traveling next week, and to secure or remove outdoor decorations
if they are at risk of damage from strong winds.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A central Illinois man was charged Wednesday with setting fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this month, federal law enforcement said.
Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of Chillicothe, is accused of “malicious use of fire and an explosive to damage, and attempt to damage” the clinic in Peoria, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Massengill was arrested by Peoria police Tuesday. Online court records did not indicate whether he had appeared in court or been assigned an attorney yet.
The U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement that security camera video showed a man approaching the building with a bottle, lighting a rag on one end of it, smashing a window and putting the incendiary device inside, before quickly fleeing on foot.
Investigators said Massengill initially denied responsibility but later acknowledged setting the fire. According to a U.S. District Court criminal complaint, he told them his then-girlfriend had an abortion three years ago and it upset him, and he thought that if his actions caused “a little delay” in a person receiving services at the health center, it may have been “all worth it.”
The attack on the clinic took place the night of Jan. 15, two days after the state enacted sweeping reproductive health care legislation aimed at protecting abortion patients and providers.
No patients or staff were inside, but the blaze caused “extensive” damage that will cost more than $1 million and force the clinic to close for months for repairs, said Jennifer Welch, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
“This senseless act of vandalism has robbed the community of access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment and gender-affirming care, as well as medication abortion services,” Welch said, describing the range of services the clinic provides. She added, “We are pleased an arrest has been made.”
If convicted, Massengill faces up to 40 years in prison with a minimum sentence of five years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office statement. The charge could also carry up to three years of supervised release and $250,000 in fines.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 16, 2022
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National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
147 PM PST Thu Dec 15 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 2 PM PST FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Los Angeles County Mountains, Santa Clarita Valley,
Central Ventura County Valleys, Southeastern Ventura County
Valleys, Santa Monica Mountains and Los Angeles County San
Fernando Valley.
* WHEN...From 2 AM to 2 PM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and
make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 2 PM PST FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph
* WHERE...Ventura County Inland Coast.
* WHEN...From 7 AM to 2 PM PST Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — George Gedda, a workhorse veteran of The Associated Press whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades and played a major role in explaining U.S. foreign policy to the American public from Vietnam to Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq, has died. He was 82.
Gedda was also the author of three books, including one on his time as an AP diplomatic correspondent, one on Cuba’s communist revolution, and one on his first love, baseball. He died Sunday while in hospice care in Altamonte Springs, Florida, said Ellen James Martin, his former partner of 14 years. The cause was bladder cancer, she said.
Gedda had retired to central Florida in 2007 after a 41-year career at the AP, most of which was in Washington, beginning during Lyndon Johnson’s administration and not ending until George W. Bush was president.
During his time in Washington, Gedda covered every secretary of state from Dean Rusk to Condoleezza Rice, carving out a niche for himself as an expert on Latin America and Cuba.
“You are a first-class professional and a role model for many who will follow you,” Rice said in a handwritten note to Gedda on the occasion of his retirement. Rice said he had had an “exceptional career of service to our nation’s founding principle — a free press.”
The late Colin Powell, Rice’s predecessor as secretary of state, also had fond memories of Gedda. “You played an invaluable role in helping the American people understand the issues of the day,” Powell wrote. “Play Ball!”
From his perch at the State Department, the soft-spoken and unfailingly polite and patient Gedda made himself an invaluable partner for both fellow AP reporters and competitors, including his often irascible colleague and officemate, the late and legendary AP diplomatic correspondent Barry Schweid.
“For more than 30 years, George Gedda and I worked harmoniously and effectively together at the State Department covering the world for the AP,” Schweid said when Gedda retired. “He simply knew more than anyone else about the issues. And a lot of what he knew was stored in his mind, a bank of knowledge I found myself calling on regularly, especially in pressure situations.”
“No member of the State Department press corps was more respected,” said Schweid, who passed away in 2015. “No AP colleague was more selfless in sharing information and the workload. He was simply the best.”
Others had similar memories.
“As a colleague, George was a true gentleman and a superb correspondent,” said longtime NBC News correspondent and anchor Andrea Mitchell. “As a young correspondent he was a patient mentor to me and very welcoming when I was a newcomer to the beat.”
“George was the consummate AP professional,” said Jamie Rubin, who served as State Department spokesman during the Clinton administration, when Madeleine Albright was the country’s top diplomat. “I vividly remember whether I said something brilliant or not so brilliant he always got it exactly right. He always reported the facts without fear or favor. He was also a great travel buddy.”
Shaun Tandon, the current president of the State Department Correspondents Association, said Sunday: “For many of us who grew up aspiring to cover the State Department, George set the model — always diplomatic, but also unflappable and with an unmatched depth of knowledge. Today’s State Department press corps owes a debt of gratitude to George for making us what we are today — professionals dedicated to thorough and rigorous coverage of US foreign policy. His legacy lives on.”
A native of Valley Spring, New York, and 1962 graduate of Southern Methodist University, Gedda started with the AP in New York in 1965 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Venezuela. He then moved to the AP statehouse bureau in Richmond, Virginia, where he spent two years wanting to cover sports before being promoted and returning briefly to AP headquarters on the international desk.
In September 1968, as the nation was still convulsed with the aftermath of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Gedda was transferred to the AP’s Washington bureau, where he spent the rest of his career often focusing on Western Hemisphere affairs.
Gedda made 31 trips to Cuba, most of which were reporting visits for the AP beginning in 1974. He was instrumental in the agency’s creation of its first bureau in Havana since the 1960s in 1999, and used those experiences as the basis for his 2011 book “Cuba: The Audacious Revolution.”
Cuba, he recalled in the preface to his book, made the biggest impression of the 87 countries he visited while covering various secretaries of state.
“At some point during my travels as a diplomatic correspondent, I concluded that perhaps no country was more interesting than Cuba,” he wrote. “All countries have their peculiarities and charms and rough edges but, to me, Cuba was in a class by itself.”
In 2014, Gedda published a memoir of his time as a diplomatic correspondent in a book titled “The State Department — More Than Just Diplomacy: The Personalities, Turf Battles, Danger Zones for Diplomats, Exotic Datelines, Miscast Appointees, the Laughs — And, Sadly, the Occasional Homicide,” which mixed humor with sharp insights into the conduct of American foreign policy and its often strange cast of characters.
But, his first book, published in 2009, was devoted to his primary non-professional passion — baseball — a love that began as a six-year-old in Long Island rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Dominican Connection: Talent from the Tropics Changes Face of National Pastime” explored the unusual success that athletes from the Dominican Republic have had in Major League Baseball.
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On-Track to Meet Full Year Guidance
(in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted)
TORONTO, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - "Our diversified portfolio performed well in the quarter with declines in precious metal prices partially offset by strong oil and gas prices", stated Paul Brink, CEO. "Cobre Panama's record production for the quarter is not fully reflected in our Q3 GEO sales due to timing of shipments. Franco-Nevada has record GEOs, revenue, net income, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA for the three quarters through September 30, 2022 and is on-track to meet full year guidance. The weaker gold price environment has led to an increase in demand for royalty and stream financing. We are pleased to have acquired a royalty on Argonaut's Magino project in Ontario that is currently under construction and our business development group remains very active."
Strong Financial Position
- Earned record GEOs, revenue, net income, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA YTD in 2022
- No debt and $2.0 billion in available capital as at September 30, 2022
- Generated $232.3 million in operating cash flow for the quarter
- Quarterly dividend of $0.32/share
Sector-Leading ESG
- Ranked #1 gold company by Sustainalytics, AA by MSCI and Prime by ISS ESG
- Named on the Corporate Knights' 2022 list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada
- Committed to the World Gold Council's "Responsible Gold Mining Principles"
- Partnering with our operators on community and ESG initiatives
- Goal of 40% diverse representation at the Board and top leadership levels as a group by 2025
Diverse, Long-Life Portfolio
- Most diverse royalty and streaming portfolio by asset, operator and country
- Core assets outperforming since time of acquisition
- Long-life reserves and resources
Growth and Optionality
- Acquisitions, mine expansions and new mines driving future growth
- Long-term optionality in gold, copper and nickel and to some of the world's great mineral endowments
- Strong pipeline of precious metal opportunities
In Q3 2022, we earned $304.2 million in revenue, down 3.8% from Q3 2021. The decrease was driven by lower revenue from our Precious Metal and Iron Ore assets reflecting lower metal prices, largely offset by higher revenue from our Energy assets due to realized oil and gas prices. Precious Metal revenue accounted for 67.9% of our revenue (54.7% gold, 10.0% silver, 3.2% PGM). Revenue was sourced 90.1% from the Americas (27.7% South America, 20.2% Central America & Mexico, 26.1% U.S. and 16.1% Canada).
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Updates
During the quarter, we expanded the Franco-Nevada Diversity Scholarship program by awarding four new tuition scholarships to diverse mining engineering students attending McGill, UofT and Queens. As part of the Magino transaction, we committed to $225,000 of environmental and community-support programs over three years. We continue to rank highly with leading ESG rating agencies.
Portfolio Additions
- Financing Package with Argonaut Gold on the Magino Gold Project: On October 27, 2022, we acquired a 2% NSR on Argonaut Gold Inc.'s ("Argonaut") construction-stage Magino gold project located in Ontario, Canada, for a purchase price of $52.5 million. We also completed a private placement with Argonaut of $10.0 million (C$13.6 million). Argonaut reported that the construction of the project is approximately 70% complete as at September 30, 2022, with first gold pour expected in April 2023.
- Financing Package with Westhaven Gold Corp. on Spences Bridge Gold Belt Claims: On October 6, 2022, we acquired a 2% NSR on all of Westhaven Gold Corp.'s ("Westhaven") claims across the Spences Bridge Gold Belt in Southern British Columbia, Canada, for $6.0 million and an existing 2.5% NSR from Westhaven on adjoining properties currently owned by Talisker Resources Ltd. for a purchase price of $0.75 million. In addition, we also subscribed for $0.73 million (C$1.0 million) of Westhaven's common shares.
- Financing Package with G Mining Ventures on the Tocantinzinho Gold Project: As previously announced on July 18, 2022, we acquired, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Franco-Nevada (Barbados) Corporation ("FNBC"), a gold stream with reference to production from the Tocantinzinho project, owned by G Mining Ventures Corp. ("G Mining Ventures") and located in Pará State, Brazil (the "Stream"). FNBC will provide a deposit of $250 million. Additionally, through one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, we agreed to provide G Mining Ventures with a $75.0 million secured term loan (the "Term Loan"). We also subscribed for $27.5 million (C$35.8 million) of G Mining Ventures' common shares.
Board Update
Franco-Nevada is pleased to announce that Jacques Perron has joined the board, effective today. Mr. Perron has over 35 years of experience in the mining industry and has extensive technical and operations experience. He currently serves as a director of Centerra Gold Inc. Previously, Mr. Perron was President and Chief Executive Officer at a number of mining companies including Pretium Resources, Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. and St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. and has held senior executive roles at a number of other mining companies prior thereto. Mr. Perron has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Engineering from l'École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Q3 2022 Portfolio Updates
Precious Metal assets: GEOs sold from our Precious Metal assets were 120,542, compared to 127,692 GEOs in Q3 2021. Higher contributions from Candelaria, Tasiast and Sudbury were more than offset by lower deliveries from Cobre Panama, Stillwater, Antamina and Guadalupe-Palmarejo.
South America:
- Candelaria (gold and silver stream) – GEOs delivered and sold in Q3 2022 were higher than in Q3 2021 due to higher head grades. Lundin Mining reported that following the detection of a sinkhole on July 30, 2022, operations at the Alcaparrosa mine, which is part of the Candelaria operations, remain suspended. Lundin expects the suspension of operations to reduce Candelaria's copper production by 2%.
- Antapaccay (gold and silver stream) – GEOs delivered and sold were consistent in Q3 2022 compared to Q3 2021 due to the timing of shipments. For the first nine months of 2022, copper production at Antapaccay was lower than in the same period in 2021 due to anticipated lower grades and a temporarily elevated strip ratio which is expected to improve during 2023.
- Antamina (22.5% silver stream) – GEOs delivered and sold were lower in Q3 2022 compared to Q3 2021. As expected, silver ounces sold decreased in the current quarter compared to the prior year period where silver production was particularly strong. In addition, the decrease in GEOs reflects a less favourable silver to gold GEO conversion ratio when compared to the 2021 period.
- Salares Norte (1-2% royalty) – Gold Fields reported total project completion for the construction of Salares Norte of 82% at the end of September 2022. First production, which has been expected at the end of March 2023, may be marginally delayed by a few months as construction has been impacted by COVID and severe weather.
- Tocantinzinho (gold stream) – In September 2022, G Mining Ventures announced that its board of directors made a formal decision to proceed with the construction of the Tocantinzinho gold project and that it had received extension for key installation licenses. First gold production is expected in H2 2024 with the first full year of production in 2025. Franco-Nevada currently anticipates that funding for its recently acquired stream of $250 million will commence in H1 2023.
- Cascabel (1% royalty) – In October 2022, SolGold and Cornerstone Capital Resources announced a friendly merger, consolidating the ownership of the Cascabel project under one combined entity. Prior to the agreement, the Cascabel project was owned by SolGold and Cornerstone on an 80%/20% basis, respectively.
- Cerro Moro (2% royalty) – Yamana advanced ore sorting testing and plans for a phased plant expansion to increase production up to 200,000 gold equivalent ounces from the current ten-year outlook of 150,000-160,000 gold equivalent ounces per year.
Central America & Mexico:
- Cobre Panama (gold and silver stream) – First Quantum reported record quarterly copper production of 92,000 tonnes and mill throughput of 22.4 million tonnes in Q3 2022. Copper production guidance for 2022 has been narrowed from 330,000 – 360,000 tonnes to 340,000 – 350,000 tonnes. Franco-Nevada received and sold fewer GEOs than in Q3 2021 due to the timing of shipments.
- Guadalupe-Palmarejo (50% gold stream) – GEOs sold from Guadalupe-Palmarejo decreased in Q3 2022 compared to the same quarter in 2021 due to a lower proportion of production being sourced from ground covered by our stream.
U.S.:
- Stillwater (5% royalty) – GEOs from Stillwater decreased compared to Q3 2021 due to lower realized palladium and platinum prices and PGM production. In August 2022, Sibanye-Stillwater announced a revised mine plan prompted by various operational constraints and changing market conditions, reducing production growth to 700,000 PGM ounces by 2027, down from 850,000 PGM ounces previously expected. Production in Q3 2022 at the East Boulder operation was also impacted by a Mine Health and Safety Administration stop order from September 18, 2022.
- Copper World/East Pit (Rosemont) (2.085% royalty) – Hudbay is prioritizing the completion of the pre-feasibility study, state level permits, bulk sampling program and a minority joint venture partner process in 2023, and deferred the definitive feasibility study to 2024. Hudbay also submitted remaining state permit applications for Phase I in September and October 2022.
- Stibnite Gold (1.7% royalty) – Perpetua Resources announced that the U.S. Forest Service released the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for public comment in October 2022, with comments due in January 2023.
Canada:
- Detour Lake (2% royalty) – In October 2022, Agnico Eagle reported that improvements to increase mill throughput to 28 million tonnes per year ("mtpa") continue to advance as planned, achieving daily average throughput equivalent to 28 mtpa for the month of September 2022. Agnico Eagle completed a technical evaluation which extended the expected mine life of Detour by 10 years to 2052 and is also evaluating the potential to expand operations to 32 mtpa, develop an underground mining operation and increase production to 1.0 million ounces or more per year.
- Hemlo (3% royalty & 50% NPI) – Revenue from our Hemlo royalties was higher than in Q3 2021 reflecting an increase in production on royalty lands. Barrick reported that it expects Hemlo to be below its 2022 guidance range of 160,000 to 180,000 ounces following lower production in Q3 2022 driven by lower ore grades mined and processed, as well as an impact to productivity from a temporary water inflow that occurred in late Q2 2022.
- Brucejack (1.2% royalty) – Newcrest Mining announced on October 24, 2022, that it had suspended operations at the Brucejack mine due to a fatality. An investigation into the incident is currently underway.
- Kirkland Lake (1.5-5.5% royalty & 20% NPI) – Agnico Eagle reported that the focus at Macassa remains on completing Shaft #4 infrastructure, with commissioning expected to commence in December 2022 and completion in the first quarter of 2023. The extension of the ramp from Macassa to the Amalgamated Kirkland ("AK") deposit is now completed, with two underground drills operating in the ramp. Agnico Eagle believes ore could be sourced from AK for the Macassa mill in early 2024. Franco-Nevada has multiple royalties at Macassa that include AK.
- Canadian Malartic (1.5% royalty) – Agnico Eagle reported that the Odyssey underground project, which is expected to extend the life of the complex to at least 2039, is progressing on schedule and on budget, with shaft sinking activities expected to commence in January 2023 and initial pre-commercial production in March 2023.
- Island Gold (0.62% royalty) – Alamos Gold reported construction activities on the Phase 3+ Expansion have increased, with pre-sinking of the shaft having started in August 2022. The Phase 3+ Expansion is expected to more than double gold production to an average of 287,000 ounces per year starting in 2026.
- Greenstone (Hardrock) (3% royalty) – Equinox Gold reported that construction of the project is on schedule and budget, with the Greenstone project 57% complete as of the end of October 2022 and first gold pour expected in H1 2024.
- Valentine Lake (2% royalty) – Marathon Gold reported that early works commenced in October 2022, following the project's release from environmental assessment in both the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and federally. Marathon Gold anticipates first ore to the mill at the end of 2024 and, first gold production early 2025 with production ramping-up during the first quarter of 2025.
- Ring of Fire (1-3% royalties) – Exploration activities resumed at the Eagle's Nest project, with drilling to finalize infrastructure planning for the mine's development, a diamond drilling program, geological surveys and collection of soil samples. Noront Resources was renamed Ring of Fire Metals following its acquisition by Wyloo Metals in May 2022.
- Eskay Creek (1% royalty) – Skeena Resources released a feasibility study for the Eskay Creek project, outlining average annual production of 431,000 gold equivalent ounces for years 1 to 5 and total life of mine production of 3.2 million gold equivalent ounces. Skeena also announced drilling results for the 23 Zone and 21A West Zone, along with additional results indicating a new discovery that extends the Eskay Creek Rift north and west of the current defined resources for the project.
Rest of World:
- Tasiast (2% royalty) – Kinross reported that the process plant averaged 21,000 tonnes per day during June and July 2022 and that the second phase of the Tasiast 24k project, which aims to reach throughput of 24,000 tonnes per day by mid-2023, is continuing to progress on schedule.
- Séguéla (1.2% royalty) – Fortuna Silver Mines reported that construction activities are progressing on time and on budget with the overall project 83% complete as of the end of October 2022, with the first gold pour expected in mid-2023.
Diversified assets: Our Diversified assets, primarily comprising our Iron Ore and Energy interests, generated $97.5 million in revenue, up from $88.8 million in Q3 2021. The increase is primarily due to higher realized oil and gas prices relating to our Energy assets.
Iron Ore:
- Vale Royalty (iron ore royalty) – Revenue from the Vale royalty decreased compared to Q3 2021 due to lower iron ore prices and attributable sales. In addition, royalty payments relating to the six-month period ended June 30, 2022 were lower than had been estimated by Franco-Nevada in its H1 2022 accruals with the adjustment reflected in the current quarter.
- LIORC – LIORC declared a cash dividend of C$1.00 per common share, reflecting lower iron ore prices, compared to C$2.10 per common share in Q3 2021. Iron Ore Company of Canada reported significant capital expenditures to upgrade existing infrastructure at the Carol Lake mine.
Energy:
- Marcellus (1% royalty) – Revenue from the Marcellus asset increased compared to Q3 2021. Revenues benefited from significantly higher NGL and natural gas prices, partly offsetting a slight decrease in production.
- Haynesville (various royalty rates) – Revenue from the Haynesville portfolio increased compared to Q3 2021, reflecting current high NGL and natural gas prices.
- SCOOP/STACK (various royalty rates) – Revenue from the SCOOP/STACK increased compared to Q3 2021 due to higher prices and increased production from our interests earned through the Royalty Acquisition Venture with Continental Resources. In October 2022, Continental Resources announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity owned by the family of Harold G. Hamm, Continental Resources' founder. The transaction is currently expected to close prior to December 31, 2022 and does not directly impact our Royalty Acquisition Venture with Continental.
- Permian Basin (various royalty rates) – Revenue from the Permian Basin increased compared to Q3 2021. The increase in revenue in the current period reflects higher realized prices.
- Weyburn (NRI, ORR, WI) – Revenue from the Weyburn Unit was significantly higher compared to Q3 2021, reflecting the increase in commodity prices which more than offset higher operating and capital expenditures.
Dividend Declaration
Franco-Nevada is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of US$0.32 per share. The dividend will be paid on December 22, 2022 to shareholders of record on December 8, 2022 (the "Record Date"). The Canadian dollar equivalent is to be determined based on the daily average rate posted by the Bank of Canada on the Record Date. Under Canadian tax legislation, Canadian resident individuals who receive "eligible dividends" are entitled to an enhanced gross-up and dividend tax credit on such dividends.
The Company has a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "DRIP"). Participation in the DRIP is optional. The Company will issue additional common shares through treasury at a 3% discount to the Average Market Price, as defined in the DRIP. However, the Company may, from time to time, in its discretion, change or eliminate the discount applicable to treasury acquisitions or direct that such common shares be purchased in market acquisitions at the prevailing market price, any of which would be publicly announced. The DRIP and enrollment forms are available on the Company's website at www.franco-nevada.com. Canadian and U.S. registered shareholders may also enroll in the DRIP online through the plan agent's self-service web portal at www.investorcentre.com/franco-nevada. Canadian and U.S. beneficial shareholders should contact their financial intermediary to arrange enrollment. Non-Canadian and non-U.S. shareholders may potentially participate in the DRIP, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions. Non-Canadian and non-U.S. shareholders should contact the Company to determine whether they satisfy the necessary conditions to participate in the DRIP.
This press release is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer for securities. A registration statement relating to the DRIP has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and may be obtained under the Company's profile on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.
Shareholder Information
The complete unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis can be found on our website at www.franco-nevada.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Management will host a conference call this morning, Monday, November 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to review Franco‑Nevada's Q3 2022 results.
Interested investors are invited to participate as follows:
- Via Conference Call: Toll-Free: (888) 390-0546; International: (416) 764-8688
- Conference Call Replay until November 14, 2022: Toll-Free (888) 390-0541; International (416) 764-8677; Code 962590 #
- Webcast: A live audio webcast will be accessible at www.franco-nevada.com
Corporate Summary
Franco-Nevada Corporation is the leading gold-focused royalty and streaming company with the largest and most diversified portfolio of cash-flow producing assets. Its business model provides investors with gold price and exploration optionality while limiting exposure to cost inflation. Franco-Nevada is debt-free and uses its free cash flow to expand its portfolio and pay dividends. It trades under the symbol FNV on both the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Franco-Nevada is the gold investment that works.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, respectively, which may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to future events or future performance, management's expectations regarding Franco-Nevada's growth, results of operations, estimated future revenues, performance guidance, carrying value of assets, future dividends and requirements for additional capital, mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates, production estimates, production costs and revenue, future demand for and prices of commodities, expected mining sequences, business prospects and opportunities, the performance and plans of third party operators, audits being conducted by the CRA, the expected exposure for current and future assessments and available remedies, and the remedies relating to and consequences of the ruling of the Supreme Court of Panama in relation to the Cobre Panama project. In addition, statements relating to reserves and resources, gold equivalent ounces ("GEOs") and mine life are forward-looking statements, as they involve implied assessment, based on certain estimates and assumptions, and no assurance can be given that the estimates and assumptions are accurate and that such reserves and resources, GEOs or mine life will be realized. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budgets", "potential for", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "predicts", "projects", "intends", "targets", "aims", "anticipates" or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases or may be identified by statements to the effect that certain actions "may", "could", "should", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Franco-Nevada to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. A number of factors could cause actual events or results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement, including, without limitation: fluctuations in the prices of the primary commodities that drive royalty and stream revenue (gold, platinum group metals, copper, nickel, uranium, silver, iron ore and oil and gas); fluctuations in the value of the Canadian and Australian dollar, Mexican peso, and any other currency in which revenue is generated, relative to the U.S. dollar; changes in national and local government legislation, including permitting and licensing regimes and taxation policies and the enforcement thereof; the adoption of a global minimum tax on corporations; regulatory, political or economic developments in any of the countries where properties in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest are located or through which they are held; risks related to the operators of the properties in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest, including changes in the ownership and control of such operators; relinquishment or sale of mineral properties; influence of macroeconomic developments; business opportunities that become available to, or are pursued by Franco-Nevada; reduced access to debt and equity capital; litigation; title, permit or license disputes related to interests on any of the properties in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest; whether or not the Company is determined to have "passive foreign investment company" ("PFIC") status as defined in Section 1297 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; potential changes in Canadian tax treatment of offshore streams; excessive cost escalation as well as development, permitting, infrastructure, operating or technical difficulties on any of the properties in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest; access to sufficient pipeline capacity; actual mineral content may differ from the reserves and resources contained in technical reports; rate and timing of production differences from resource estimates, other technical reports and mine plans; risks and hazards associated with the business of development and mining on any of the properties in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest, including, but not limited to unusual or unexpected geological and metallurgical conditions, slope failures or cave-ins, flooding and other natural disasters, terrorism, civil unrest or an outbreak of contagious disease; the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic; and the integration of acquired assets. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon assumptions management believes to be reasonable, including, without limitation: the ongoing operation of the properties in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest by the owners or operators of such properties in a manner consistent with past practice; the accuracy of public statements and disclosures made by the owners or operators of such underlying properties; no material adverse change in the market price of the commodities that underlie the asset portfolio; the Company's ongoing income and assets relating to determination of its PFIC status; no material changes to existing tax treatment; the expected application of tax laws and regulations by taxation authorities; the expected assessment and outcome of any audit by any taxation authority; no adverse development in respect of any significant property in which Franco-Nevada holds a royalty, stream or other interest; the accuracy of publicly disclosed expectations for the development of underlying properties that are not yet in production; integration of acquired assets; and the absence of any other factors that could cause actions, events or results to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. However, there can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. In addition, there can be no assurance as to the outcome of the ongoing audit by the CRA or the Company's exposure as a result thereof. Franco-Nevada cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein.
For additional information with respect to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, please refer to Franco-Nevada's most recent Annual Information Form filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on www.sedar.com and Franco-Nevada's most recent Annual Report filed on Form 40-F filed with the SEC on www.sec.gov. The forward-looking statements herein are made as of the date of this press release only and Franco-Nevada does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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- GEOs: Starting in Q4 2021, revenue from Franco-Nevada's Energy assets is included in the calculation of GEOs. GEOs for comparative periods have been recalculated to conform with the current presentation. GEOs include Franco-Nevada's attributable share of production from our Mining and Energy assets after applicable recovery and payability factors. GEOs are estimated on a gross basis for NSRs and, in the case of stream ounces, before the payment of the per ounce contractual price paid by the Company. For NPI royalties, GEOs are calculated taking into account the NPI economics. Silver, platinum, palladium, iron ore, oil, gas and other commodities are converted to GEOs by dividing associated revenue, which includes settlement adjustments, by the relevant gold price. The price used in the computation of GEOs earned from a particular asset varies depending on the royalty or stream agreement, which may make reference to the market price realized by the operator, or the average price for the month, quarter, or year in which the commodity was produced or sold. For Q3 2022, the average commodity prices were as follows: $1,728/oz gold (Q3 2021 - $1,789), $19.22/oz silver (Q3 2021 - $24.36), $886/oz platinum (Q3 2021 - $1,024) and $2,074/oz palladium (Q3 2021 - $2,459), $105/t Fe 62% CFR China (Q3 2021 - $191), $91.56/bbl WTI oil (Q3 2021 - $70.52) and $7.91/mcf Henry Hub natural gas (Q3 2021 - $4.32). For YTD 2022 prices, the average commodity prices were as follows: $1,825/oz gold (YTD 2021 - $1,801), $21.94/oz silver (YTD 2021 - $25.78), $958/oz platinum (YTD 2021 - $1,122) and $2,163/oz palladium (YTD 2021 - $2,551), $129/t Fe 62% CFR China (YTD 2021 - $205), $98.09/bbl WTI oil (YTD 2021 - $64.82) and $6.65/mcf Henry Hub natural gas (YTD 2021 - $3.34).
- NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES: Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Net Income per share, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBIDA per share, and Margin are non-GAAP financial measures with no standardized meaning under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") and might not be comparable to similar financial measures disclosed by other issuers. For a quantitative reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable IFRS financial measure, refer to the following tables. Further information relating to these Non-GAAP financial measures is incorporated by reference from the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section of Franco-Nevada's MD&A for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 dated November 7, 2022 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR available at www.sedar.com and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Fourth of July festivities are back in Johnson City following a two-year hiatus during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join the News Channel 11 team as we host our Tri-Cities Celebrates America coverage at the 35th Annual Pepsi Independence Day Fireworks Celebration brought to you by Food City.
The celebration will kick off at the Freedom Hall Civic Center on Sunday, July, with live coverage beginning at 6 p.m.
Live coverage of Tri-Cities Celebrates America will continue from 7-8 p.m., with News Channel 11’s Sara Diamond and Josh Smith live at Food City’s Pepsi Independence Day Fireworks Celebration.
News Channel 11 will start airing the fireworks at 9:30 p.m., with the display beginning at 9:55 p.m.
The festivities for the public launch at 5 p.m. that evening, and families can enjoy food, craft booths, games and live music.
The full schedule of activities and performances is available below:
- 5 p.m. — Gates open with food and craft vendors and children’s games
- 5:30-6 p.m. — WXBQ DJs
- 5-7 p.m. — On-site registration for prizes
Grand prize — Year supply of groceries ($10,000 value from Pepsi) presented by Food City
First prize — Year supply of gas ($2,000 value)
Second prize — Year supply of Pepsi ($1,000 value) - 6-6:40 p.m. — Music by Restless Road
- 6:45-6:50 p.m. — Tribute to Gold Star Families and Disabled Veterans
- 7-7:45 p.m. — Music by Adam Doleac
- 8-8:10 p.m. — Color Guard with National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance led by Miss Johnson City and Miss Food City
- 8:15-9:15 p.m. — Music by Tim Dugger
- 9:20-9:35 p.m. — Prize drawings
- 9:50 p.m. — Mayor Joe Wise and introduction to fireworks
- 9:55-10:15 p.m. —Fireworks presented by Pyro Shows of Lafollette, Tennessee (Live coverage by WJHL-TV News Channel 11)
- 10:20-11 p.m. — Music by Tim Dugger
Attendees are subject to a bag search, and charcoal grills and other similar devices are prohibited, according to a release from city leaders.
While alcohol is also prohibited on the grounds, there will be a Beer Garden available in the Auxilliary Gym from 5-9:55 p.m. Pets and personal fireworks are prohibited.
Those with physical disabilities can request parking passes by calling Freedom Hall at 423-461-4884 no later than Tuesday, June 28. There will also be portable restrooms available on-site.
No vehicle traffic will be allowed at the Science Hill Vocational School during the event; though pedestrians will be allowed access from the school’s parking lot to the entertainment areas. Sections of Morningside Drive will be for UBER/Lyft traffic only.
No traffic will be allowed on the following roads:
- Guaranda Drive
- Longview Drive
- North Gilmer Park
- Lacy Street
- Sells Street
- Mullins Street
- Belmeade Drive
- Baron Drive
Only those with proof of home addresses will be allowed through. | 2022-06-27T18:33:40+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/join-news-channel-11-live-during-35th-annual-pepsi-independence-day-celebration-fireworks/ |
Michael Harris II Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Diamondbacks - July 19
Published: Jul. 19, 2023 at 4:24 AM EDT|Updated: 52 minutes ago
On Wednesday, Michael Harris II (on the back of going 1-for-4 with an RBI) and the Atlanta Braves play the Arizona Diamondbacks, whose starting pitcher will be Ryne Nelson. First pitch is at 7:20 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-4) against the Diamondbacks.
Michael Harris II Game Info & Props vs. the Diamondbacks
- Game Day: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Diamondbacks Starter: Ryne Nelson
- TV Channel: BSSO
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +210)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -110)
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Michael Harris II At The Plate
- Harris II is batting .262 with 11 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 16 walks.
- Harris II has reached base via a hit in 43 games this season (of 71 played), and had multiple hits in 13 of those games.
- In 11.3% of his games this season, he has gone deep, and 3.4% of his trips to the plate.
- Harris II has picked up an RBI in 18 games this year (25.4%), with more than one RBI in six of those games (8.5%).
- He has scored in 25 games this year (35.2%), including multiple runs in seven games.
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Diamondbacks Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Diamondbacks has a collective 8.4 K/9, which ranks 20th in MLB.
- The Diamondbacks' 4.53 team ERA ranks 23rd across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Diamondbacks pitchers combine to rank 15th in baseball in home runs surrendered (109 total, 1.1 per game).
- Nelson (5-5) takes the mound for the Diamondbacks in his 20th start of the season. He has a 4.98 ERA in 99 1/3 innings pitched, with 68 strikeouts.
- In his most recent outing on Friday against the Toronto Blue Jays, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering nine hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 25-year-old's 4.98 ERA ranks 63rd, 1.440 WHIP ranks 58th, and 6.2 K/9 ranks 62nd.
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(The Hill) — President Joe Biden on Monday, when asked about his low approval ratings and for a response to the notion that his polls were “terrible” said he foresees a change coming.
“It’s a long way home, the fact is that we’ve been divided for so long, and it’s only recently that we have any kind of movement, and I think you’re going to see a lot change,” Biden told reporters in Lexington after he toured damage from deadly floods in eastern Kentucky.
With the midterm elections exactly three months away, recent polling shows Biden’s approval ratings just shy of 40 percent, where it’s stubbornly stayed for the last several months.
A Gallup poll released late last month reported a 38 percent approval rating, a new low for Biden. His approval rating began at 57 percent and was at 41 percent in June, according to the same survey.
Facing historical and political headwinds, Democrats are hoping a recent string of legislative victories can boost the party’s standing by the time voters head to the polls in November.
Senate Democrats on Sunday passed a sweeping package on taxes, climate change and health care, which included some long-time liberal priorities.
That party-line package now heads to the House, but Biden this week will sign two major bills into law that recently passed with bipartisan support.
Biden on Tuesday will sign into law a $280 billion bill on Thursday to strengthen the domestic chip manufacturing industry and finance scientific research, and on Wednesday he will sign another bill to expand health care to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
Democrats also saw glimmers of hope in Kansans’ rejection of a ballot question that would have removed abortion rights from the state constitution, with the measure passing with nearly 60 percent support in the traditionally red state.
Prominent analysts indicate Republicans are still heavy favorites to take the House in November, but recent polling shows Democrats making gains on the generic ballot question.
Poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight as of Monday evening gave Republicans a 4 in 5 chance of winning the House while indicating Democrats had a 59 percent chance of maintaining Senate control, a significant shift since suggesting Republicans were the favorites as of just two weeks ago. | 2022-08-09T12:37:49+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/biden-on-his-own-low-approval-ratings-i-think-youre-going-to-see-a-lot-change/ |
MUSC hosts event to honor survivors, prevent gun violence
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Medical University of South Carolina hosted an event Friday to celebrate National Wear Orange Day.
MUSC’s Turning The Tide violence intervention program invited gun violence prevention advocates and organizations, and violence survivors to bring attention to violence prevention.
Gun-related injuries are the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the United States, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. MUSC said they feel they have a responsibility to improve gun violence in the community, and hosting these events is an opportunity to spark change in the community.
Positive Vibes Ronjanae Smith was one of the organizations at the event fighting for change. Ronald Smith and Katrina Sinclair created the organization in memory of their daughter, Ronjanae. Ronjanae lost her life in a mass shooting in North Charleston May 23, 2021.
Ronald said they built the organization from their daughter’s death, and they built it from their hearts. Now, they use Ronjanae as an inspiration to help kids turn their lives around.
“My daughter inspired me, when she got killed in the 14 young kids that got shot, that inspired me to make a change in our community, that had me pushing for the last year hard in these communities,” Ronald said.
Katrina said they want to create a nurturing community to help children onto the right path. Although the pain of their daughter’s death makes every day difficult, they persevere.
“We are still going through it, everyday is a struggle but we find our wings to get through it by serving the community, it’s our passion,” Katrina said.
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FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 42Gears, a Zebra PartnerConnect Independent Software Vendor, announced that SureMDM, its Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solution, now supports Zebra Link-OS printers and RFID devices. 42Gears had successfully completed Zebra Technologies' Validated Program for its flagship product SureMDM in 2020, during which the product's interoperability with select Zebra mobile computers was validated.
"It's not just smart or rugged devices that businesses use. They need a host of other devices for business operations, and it's equally important for organizations to be able to manage and secure them. That was the idea behind creating a technology that could help manage devices that do not run a traditional operating system, such as printers. We are a longstanding Zebra-partner, and are excited to be able to help customers manage Zebra printers and RFID devices in the easiest way possible," said Prakash Gupta, co-founder and COO of 42Gears.
SureMDM is a cost-effective device management solution that helps front-line workers and IT administrators using Zebra Link-OS printers and Zebra FX7500 and FX9600 fixed RFID readers with firmware version 3.10 and above to stay productive at their workplaces.
With the latest updates, SureMDM users (IT Admins) can:
- Manage the complete device lifecycle management for Zebra printers and RFID devices, starting from provisioning and deploying to supporting firmware updates and remotely monitoring the devices in real-time.
- Get device insights such as network information, memory details, and also create compliance rules for the devices.
- Remotely send Zebra Programming Language (ZPL) commands, transfer files to printers, and get device information such as battery status, print speed, and firmware version, etc.
- Get insights on Zebra's RFID device information such as temperature, antenna status, and RFID connection status with just a few clicks.
Both Zebra printers and RFID devices can integrate seamlessly with existing business infrastructure.
About 42Gears
42Gears is a prominent name in the enterprise mobility management domain, with advanced solutions that are designed to transform the digital workplace. Its product portfolio includes SaaS and on-premise solutions that support devices based on all major operating systems and help increase frontline worker efficiency. 42Gears products are used in various industries, such as healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, education, retail, and mobile app development. 42Gears products are trusted by over 18,000 customers in more than 115 countries and are available for purchase through a global partner network. For more information, please visit https://www.42gears.com.
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DETROIT — Zach Collins’ no-look pass to a backdoor-cutting Doug McDermott resulted in an easy basket for the Spurs in the first half of their 112-98 loss to Toronto on Wednesday night.
Not to be outdone, Jakob Poeltl looked like Bill Walton later in the half when he lofted the ball over a defender to a cutting Keita Bates-Diop in the lane for another easy score.
“We have two really good passers for seven-footers,” McDermott said.
Make that just one now.
With the Spurs trading Poeltl to Toronto in a deal that surfaced after the game, Collins should have plenty of chances to continue to show off his playmaking skills with a hike in minutes as the team’s No. 1 big man, a role that starts Friday night against the Pistons.
It’s quite a turn of fortune for a player who had had more than his share of bad luck with injuries in his five-year career. Having survived three surgeries on his left ankle in the span of 10 months and having missed the entire 2020-2021 season, Collins is grateful for every minute he’s logged this season.
And now there’s more to come.
“I’ve been getting more and more reps all year, and it’s great to have a full year — to experience a full year,” Collins said recently. “It’s been a very long time since I have had a season where I can start the season and finish the season. Yeah, it’s been great. I feel good.”
In 44 games, Collins, 25, is averaging 20.3 minutes, a career-best 9.5 points on a career-high 53.8 percent shooting (35.3 from 3-point range on 1.5 attempts), 5.7 rebounds and a career-high 2.5 assists.
“He’s feeling more and more like himself after all those injuries that kept him out,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said last month. “He has had a lot of off time to take care of himself and get his rhythm back, and he’s done that pretty damn well. He is more patient, he’s more balanced, he is more confident.”
In his last interview as a Spur, Poeltl said Collins has been playing “great” off the bench.
“We’ve been giving him the ball in the post a little bit more and he’s been really good there,” Poeltl said Wednesday night before news of the deal broke. “He can knock down some shots as well. He kind of knows where to be on the court, when to stretch out the defense, when to attack them in the pick and roll.
“And he is throwing his body around on defense. That’s a big part of his game as well, being a big body down there and going for verticals and blocks.”
It’s uncertain how newly acquired centers Dewayne Dedmon, the 33-year-old journeyman who arrived in a trade Tuesday with Miami, and 30-year-old Khem Birch, who the Raptors shipped to the Spurs as part of the Poeltl deal, will figure into the equation — if at all.
Given the Spurs’ emphasis on development this season, it seems likely that second-year big man and St. Anthony-ex Charles Bassey, 22, and undrafted rookie Dominick Barlow, 19, will get more minutes.
One thing is certain: McDermott and others will be looking for more sharp passing from Collins.
“When you have that (big men who can pass), it’s a luxury, and we rely on them to start a lot of our offense because they have the ball at the top of the key kind of like a point guard,” McDermott said. “As a shooter, I rely on my bigs, and Zach…(does) a really good job of getting us shots.”
Collins also figured into another possession that showcased what the Spurs can do when they share the ball. Stationed on the perimeter, he sank a 3-pointer after taking a quick swing pass on the outside from rookie Blake Wesley, who received the ball on a drive and kick by McDermott.
On a night the Spurs bench outscored Toronto’s 36-24, McDermott finished with 13 points off the bench. He’s led the reserves in scoring a team-high 23 times this season.
“We have been preaching it all year that that kind of ball movement needs to be a standard because we don’t have a lot of iso one-on-one guys,” McDermott said. “We need to hang our hat on ball movement, player movement, that Pop preaches every day.”
Jones, Sochan miss third straight game
Top ball handlers Tre Jones (foot) and Jeremy Sochan (back) missed their third game in a row with injuries as the Spurs lost for the 10th consecutive game.
If the Pistons beat them, the Spurs will have matched their longest skid of the season.
Although neither injury is considered serious, the Spurs held Jones and Sochan out for fear that if they come back too soon, they would be vulnerable to suffering more physical problems.
Sochan’s participation in the Rising Stars Challenge on Feb. 17 at All-Star Weekend in Salt Lake City is not considered to be in jeopardy.
The Spurs were also without backup Romeo Langford, who missed his eighth game in a row with an adductor injury, and second-leading scorer Devin Vassell, who has been sidelined for more than a month while recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his left knee.
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Twitter: Tom_Orsborn | 2023-02-09T22:09:00+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs/article/with-jakob-poeltl-gone-zach-collins-in-line-for-17774832.php |
IT'S WEIRDLY INSTRUCTIVE to watch how baseball scouts watch baseball players. Everything they do is intended to hide what they're actually doing, which has the unintended effect of making even their most subtle movements glaringly obvious. They also have another endearing quirk: They all know one another but don't want anyone to know why they're here, which is a particularly difficult feat when it's an independent Frontier League game on a 95-degree Friday night, the air wet enough to drink, and Kumar Rocker is pitching in Troy, New York, for the Tri-City ValleyCats. The scouts, more than a dozen of them, are here for just one reason.
Rocker is accustomed to the attention. For a second consecutive year, the former Vanderbilt star has earned an honor nobody seeks more than once: the most famous player in the MLB first-year player draft. Standing 6-foot-5 at 245 pounds, he is a right-hander with a big-league-ready arsenal: a 98 mph fastball, a wipeout slider and a hard curveball that buckles the knees of anyone looking for either of the other two. His motion is smooth and easy, almost nonchalant, and the ball leaves his hand from a three-quarter arm slot with a fluidity that gives the velocity an element of surprise, not an easy feat when it's emanating from the body of a defensive end.
The scout's job, then, would seem to be easy. Sturdy guy with great stuff, a repeatable delivery and a history of competing at the highest amateur level. So, what's the catch? "He's a big leaguer pitching in indy ball right now," says Pete Incaviglia, the ValleyCats manager who played 12 years in the majors. "If he's not a top-five pick in the draft, I don't know who is."
But among the many peculiar distinctions Rocker has earned over the past few years, this might be the most important: He has managed to be both overexposed and mysterious.
Varying amounts of fame have attached to Rocker since he was a 10-year-old roaming the world of travel baseball, where parents who were convinced that their youngsters were budding big leaguers still managed to loudly complain about their little preciouses having to face such a precociously large human. Says Rob Friedman, a pitching analyst who has watched Rocker -- the son of former NFL defensive end Tracy Rocker, an Outland Trophy-winning legend at Auburn and now the Eagles' defensive line coach -- in the Atlanta-area youth circuit for more than a decade, "He was a gigantic 10-year old, and he dominated, and people hated it. They acted like he was a grown man, and he was not. The stuff they yelled at him was just awful. They called him a monster and worse. They treated him like he was an adult, and it was easy to forget he was 10 -- he was 10. I asked him years later if it bothered him, and he said, 'It did at first, but I learned not to let it.'"
By the end of his freshman year at Vanderbilt, when he threw a 19-strikeout no-hitter in the 2019 NCAA super regional against Duke and then became the Most Outstanding Player of the College World Series, Rocker -- charismatic and dominant -- was as close as college baseball gets to a household name. Every third strike of those 19 strikeouts came by way of the slider, most of them in the dirt, and that pitch is on the short list of the most devastating in the history of college baseball. Had he been able to enter the draft that summer, there is little doubt he would have been picked No. 1 overall. But after the pandemic cut his sophomore season just as it started, his junior year began with a noticeable velocity decrease. Scouts detected a wandering arm slot. Judging strictly by the stat line, though, he remained a formidable force: 179 strikeouts in 122 innings and a WHIP of .934.
It was about this time last summer that the majesty ran headlong into the mystery. Rocker was drafted with the 10th pick of the first round and thrown into baseball purgatory when the Mets -- citing what they called troubling post-draft reports on the condition of his pitching arm -- chose not to offer him a contract. This chain of events triggered a uniquely unilluminating back and forth. Rocker, represented by agent Scott Boras, did not participate in a pre-draft program that would have released his health information, including an MRI, to MLB teams. Boras, dismissing concerns, says Rocker was cleared by "the foremost surgeons in the world." Mets owner Steve Cohen, facing criticism of him and his team, tweeted a response that seemed to suggest Rocker was just another line on a ledger: "Education time -- Baseball draft picks are worth up to 5x their slot value to clubs. I never shy away from investments that can make me that type of return." With his future a swirling, cloudy mess, Rocker could have returned to Vanderbilt but didn't, opting to work out through the offseason and join the ValleyCats to reestablish his status for this weekend's draft.
And now it's the first day of July, the draft a little more than two weeks away, and a couple of the scouts in attendance tell me their teams are approaching this like it's the last time they'll see Rocker before decisions are due. Rocker will face the Empire State Greys -- the 2-38 Empire State Greys -- a group that shambled out of a barnstorming-era bus parked in one of the few shade spots in the lot. Rocker's opponent, though, doesn't matter, because every pitch, once again, will be a referendum on his health and his attitude and the vagaries of his mysterious right arm. The scouts are ready. What can we learn by watching them watch him?
THE SCOUTS BOUNCE around like flies in a jar, angling to get a good look at Rocker as he prepares for his start. The prep work begins more than an hour before the game. As some of his teammates straggle out of the clubhouse eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white bread, he stretches in center field, and against the fence in left center, and then close to the left-field line. He is by himself for the first 25 minutes, and then catcher Jonah Girand shows up, and the two begin to play catch, first with a weighted ball and then with a baseball. When Rocker moves to the bullpen, the scouting swarm moves with him. Some sit on the berm above him, others stand lower to watch from eye level. Rocker begins by walking from the bullpen mound to the plate with something called a Tidal Tank -- a plastic contraption half-filled with water -- across his shoulders. He lunges and squats and jerks left and right. Through it all, one lucky scout, a longtime friend of ValleyCats pitching coach Scott Budner, posts up against the bullpen's cyclone fence and talks to Budner the whole time. Just as the scouts pretend not to see one another, Rocker pretends not to see them.
About 30 minutes before first pitch, Budner hands Rocker that night's Los Puentes de Tri-City game jersey, part of the team's cultural awareness and diversity initiative, and Rocker holds it away from his chest with his thumb and forefinger. It is, despite the worthiness of the cause, a vertigo-inducing turquoise, orange, gold and lime green. They share a laugh, the 22-year-old Rocker and 65-year-old Budner, a man whose sartorial sensibilities would seem to run the spectrum from home whites to road grays.
Budner, a former pitching coach in the Mariners' system, came out of retirement after three years of, as he puts it, "playing golf and drinking wine" to work with the ValleyCats' pitchers. He is a jovial sort with a raspy laugh who looks as though he's spent the majority of his six-plus decades on the planet in direct sunlight. When it comes to Rocker, he says he takes his orders from Boras and the pitching experts employed by the Boras Corporation. In practical terms, this means Budner has done nothing but feed Rocker encouragement and recommend he use his changeup, the power pitcher's paradox: a pitch that gives bad hitters a chance but good hitters fits. Budner is here, at the very least, to impart that knowledge. "Kumar's a sooner-than-later guy for me," he says, "and he'll need that changeup at the highest level." Beyond that, Budner puts his hands in front of his chest and says, "I'm not here to change anything," as if warding off the mere suggestion that the thought had entered his mind.
Budner and I are talking in the stands behind third base, in the Sam Adams porch of Joseph L. Bruno Stadium on the campus of Hudson Valley Community College. ("The Joe," in the local vernacular.) Before I can get there, a scout gets wind of the plan and asks me if I can ask Budner a couple of questions. First, does Rocker travel with the team even though he doesn't pitch on the road? (Sometimes but not always, and when he does he sometimes volunteers to coach first base.) And second, how many pitches will Rocker throw that night? (A maximum of 75, which Budner hopes gets him through five innings.)
When Rocker takes the mound, it's immediately apparent that his delivery is compact and pared down, as if he hired an editor during his year off. He no longer has the exaggerated torque and fall toward first base -- the Bob Gibson kinetic spin -- he showed at Vanderbilt. It's a more composed, controlled vibe, almost casual. "You just don't see big, lumbering people who are so smooth and athletic," Incaviglia says. "Lots of times when guys throw hard, it's max effort. It's not max effort with him."
Not to be mean, but the Empire State Greys are basically nine pairs of shoes rotating through the batter's box. Many of them, in repeated acts of self-awareness, drop their bats in helpless surrender before the third strike even crosses the plate. The scouts, trying to see something nobody else sees, watch Rocker from the first-base side and the third-base side. They take photos and video. A couple of them -- fewer than I would expect -- train radar guns at each of his pitches. They know what they're seeing -- on this night: 5 innings, 7 strikeouts, 12 pitches of 98 mph -- but they watch as if they're human dowsing rods, hoping to pinpoint an underground aquifer churning and roiling below the surface. One guy gets up like he's going to stretch his legs and ends up on the berm behind center field, watching through binoculars.
The scout's job, in this instance anyway, is to find something wrong, whether it's mechanical, physical or psychological. In the bottom of the second inning, Tri-City's Denis Phipps smokes a massive homer halfway up the light pole in left center. As he rounds the bases -- slowly, in the manner of any self-respecting 36-year-old ballplayer who had 10 at bats in the big leagues 10 years ago -- the scouts train their eyes toward the ValleyCats' dugout. (Again, their attempts at subtlety fail.) They watch as the ValleyCats line up to congratulate Phipps, waiting to see if Rocker is one of them. Once he takes his spot in line and greets Phipps -- emphatically, big smile -- they turn and enter it into their notes. For one night, anyway, Rocker checks one box: good teammate.
"It's one of those curses," Friedman says. "When you've been that good for that long, people look for flaws in your game."
One scout for an American League team shrugs when I asked him what he thought. "Doing my due diligence," he says. "The stuff is definitely there. What we can see is great. There's a lot to like, and a lot of unknowns."
THE NEXT DAY, an unknown becomes known. Rocker, it turns out, underwent shoulder surgery in September. The surgery, described by Boras as a minor cleanup of bursitis and "inflamed tissue" resulting from a high school football injury -- "This is not a pitching-necessary idea," he says -- leaked out after teams were provided the surgeon's notes but no MRIs, which means they found out the mechanics of the operation but not the extent of the underlying damage.
"Rotator cuff, labrum -- all in great order," Boras says. "We just said to Kumar, 'Let's go to a doctor and look under the hood.' We know there's nothing wrong in regards to pitching, but peace of mind -- that's the most important issue. I told him, 'This is not for the teams; it's for you.' I'm so glad we did that because it liberated his psychology, and now we're seeing a free athlete. We did not want this to be an 'aha' moment -- oh, see, he really did need surgery. No, this was done for his personal state of mind. I've had 20 first-round pitchers with worse MRIs than his."
It strains credulity to think a pitcher at a career crossroads would willingly -- voluntarily, unnecessarily -- undergo shoulder surgery simply to improve his state of mind, but Boras says he told Rocker, "Now you can tell every team you're free and clear. All the concerns were dismissed by our process." Spin aside, the surgery, and its revelation nine months after the fact, highlights the ever-growing mystery. Peering into the future is a tough job under the best circumstances, and scouts dispatched to watch a game can't see under Rocker's skin to detect future problems or inhabit his mind to feel whatever he's feeling.
"We can only go by what happens in front of us," the AL scout told me. "And it looks pretty good."
There is always the question of workload, especially with college pitchers, but the extraordinary lengths the Mets took to pass on Rocker would seem to go beyond fears of looming Tommy John surgery, which many organizations view as a fait accompli for young pitchers. In his most famous game, the 19-strikeout no-hitter, Rocker threw 131 pitches, a wildly irresponsible number, but he was working on a once-in-a-lifetime performance and was still throwing 97 mph in the ninth inning. "It seems unfair to penalize a kid for being the ultimate competitor and going to the post every time," Friedman says. "I'm biased, I know, but is that what you want? Would you rather a guy not throw?"
Every assessment of every pitcher is at best an educated guess, at worst a coin flip. But what the scouts know is what they're seeing. The only clarity is on the mound: a mostly straight fastball that sits 96 to 98, two above-average breaking balls that look the same coming out of the hand but vastly different once they reach the plate. There's the work-in-progress changeup that has been unnecessary for most of his career but will grow in importance as he rises through a team's system. Over his five indy league starts, Rocker competed every time out. He got stronger every time out. His velocity stayed steadily in the high 90s, and he struck out 32 in 20 innings. And according to Budner, Rocker cleared a bar set by one of his former pupils, Felix Hernandez, by bearing down and throwing better pitches with runners in scoring position.
Do the eyes deceive?
A LOT OF unknowns. I'm thinking of those words from my scout friend as I await Rocker's media appearance after his first professional win. That scout, along with every other scout and executive in the game, is at the mercy of the information provided, and it's clear Rocker's indy league tenure is vigorously and comprehensively stage managed. He was not made available for any individual interviews. And after four of his five starts, the ValleyCats' public relations man stands in the hallway outside the team's clubhouse before a small group of reporters and issues a disclaimer: Kumar will speak only about his performance that night and will not address any questions pertaining to anything that happened over the past year. (After one start, a game Boras attended, Rocker did not answer any questions.)
The postgame exchange, nearly in its entirety.
Q: Do you feel you've proven what you need to prove?
Rocker: Not for me to decide. I just go day by day.
Q: You have an opinion, though -- right?
Rocker (unsmiling): Nah, never.
Q: Is there an excitement building as you lead up to the draft?
Rocker: That's exciting, for sure.
Q: How can you sum up your time as a member of this team if this is your last start?
Rocker: That it's the players who make a difference. These are the guys who stay in the game for a long time. There's a lot of baseball lifers here.
Q: How do you feel you've gotten better?
Rocker: I think I have a better understanding of pro hitters and guys with more ABs. And just grown up a little bit on the mound.
Q: How do you keep yourself motivated when it's obvious there's a huge difference in ability between you and the guys you are facing?
Rocker: It's a job. I look at it as a job. Looking at it as a job going out there every day. That's what I get paid to do.
And that was it. Intentionally vague, intentionally clipped. In other words, just the way they drew it up. If it feels nakedly calculated, that's because it absolutely is. Rocker's five-start stay in upstate New York was a feat of rhetorical engineering, designed expressly to make sure nobody left their assigned lane or said the wrong thing.
"Very weird," Friedman says. "Kumar is so smart and engaging. This is not the guy who needs that kind of protection."
Boras, who has played this song so often he can hum it in his sleep, says, "In fairness to the journalism world, I have to do my job as a lawyer. This is his career we're talking about, and you never know how people are going to receive information."
The no-heat, no-light philosophy appeared to extend concentrically away from Rocker. The mysteries of Rocker's past year, Budner says, are "inner dealings. I don't worry about none of that. That's the business side of things." Girand, who caught each of Rocker's starts and has played as high as Double-A ball in his career, told me he spent a lot of time around Rocker but never asked him about last year's draft, or the Mets, or the subsequent feeling of having the pillars of his world explode beneath him.
"I don't like to ask questions like that," Girand says. "I don't know if he is or isn't comfortable talking about it, so I just don't ask."
The day after what turns out to be his final appearance in a Tri-City ValleyCats uniform -- and what a uniform it was -- Rocker takes his Tidal Tank back out to the bullpen and goes through his day-after routine. When he's finished twisting and lunging, he trudges to the dugout with the Tidal Tank in tow, drops it off and jogs out to left field to shag balls during batting practice. At one point he takes his shirt off and stands bare-chested in front of God and the entire Albany-Troy-Schenectady tri-city region.
By now word has filtered through the ValleyCats that Rocker is moving on. He has proven what he needs to prove; he's on to better things. "He probably proved all he needed to prove after the first game, and definitely after the second," says Girand, who played college baseball for SEC rival Florida. "I have to admit, I had this preconceived notion: big name, Vandy guy, top-round pick, he should probably be in a system right now, so playing indy ball, he might be a little jaded. None of that turned out to be true."
So what now?
There are theories, of course. Instead of trading for a high-priced middle- or late-inning reliever, a contending team might draft Rocker mid-to-late first round, give him a bonus in the $2 million range, put him in the big leagues by September and pay him the big league minimum for however many healthy innings he can pitch. Or there's always the chance the shoulder surgery might, as Boras hopes, ease concerns, allowing a team near the top of the draft to rely solely on the eye test and pick Rocker early enough to wipe away last year's frustration. Or maybe his arm can't hold up to the rigors of professional baseball. Or maybe he pitches 15 years and never has a problem. Or. Or. Or. The shrug emoji has never been more appropriate.
"Kumar is listening to teams telling him he's pitching in the big leagues in September," Boras says. "Not scouts, either -- GMs. Kumar is instant coffee for the big leagues."
Scouts and executives have to be content with seeing what they can -- and are allowed -- to see. Five starts in indy ball checked off a few boxes, leaving just enough unchecked to prolong the mystery. | 2022-07-13T12:43:15+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34232865/watching-scouts-watch-kumar-rocker-2022-mlb-draft-man-mystery |
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — As part of a campaign dubbed “Your State Sucks,” popular party game Cards Against Humanity says it is donating 100% of its profits from orders placed in 22 states to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
The game designers announced the campaign early last month following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June.
On its website, Cards Against Humanity said all of its profits from these 22 “nightmare-states” will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds, which distributes money to local groups focused on helping those who can’t afford an abortion to obtain one.
People in the same 22 states who place an order will be greeted with a message like the one seen below, which reads “****! You live in South Carolina, a theocratic hellscape where human beings are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies by threat of imprisonment.”
Under the message, buyers can either acknowledge the message or chip in an extra $5, which the company will match. There’s also a third option that states “What!? I’m pro-life! I didn’t agree to this.”
Buyers who click that button are greeted with a second message that reads “So you don’t want us using your money to pay for abortions? You know, sometimes people have values imposed upon them by bigger, more powerful entities, and they are forced to do things they don’t want to do, like carry an unwanted pregnancy. For example, we just added an extra $5 donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds to your cart.”
The 22 states Cards Against Humanity is donating the profits from have restricted access to abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming will also be donated.
If you don’t live in one of these states, you still have the option to make a $5 donation while making a purchase on Cards Against Humanity’s website, which the company says it will match.
Cards Against Humanity is a popular party game in which players play cards in order to make jokes, often crude and vulgar. | 2022-09-08T02:00:02+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/cards-against-humanity-donating-profits-from-orders-in-22-states-to-abortion-fund/ |
DENVER (KDVR) – National Blood Donor Month coincides with a recent drop in blood donations for several service providers across the Denver metro.
Back on the final day of 1969, then-sitting President Richard Nixon designated January as National Blood Donor Month to encourage more Americans to join the giving masses during a time when the life-saving resource was in short supply.
Now, more than half a century later, a shortage is impacting several nonprofit service providers, including Vitalant, representatives of which recently revealed the organization’s overall blood supply had dipped to its lowest level in a year.
The challenges that arose from pandemic-imposed restrictions have mostly receded when it comes to impact, however, the annual drop in donations that comes with the holiday and flu season is being felt by blood banks.
In a statement released by Vitalant, it was revealed that since 2019, the blood drives it oversees have experienced a 50% drop in donations, which equates to roughly 90,000 donations in total.
“Starting the new year by scheduling a blood donation can make an incredible impact in your community,” Vitalant Senior Vice President Cliff Numark said in a release.
So, in response to this growing concern that’s been amplified by the holiday season, here are some providers you can make a donation appointment with today.
Blood donation centers in the Denver metro
If you have not donated before, or haven’t contributed to a service provider in a while, then consider reaching out to one of the following businesses taking donations now:
- Vitalant Blood Donation
- 717 Yosemite Street
- Children’s Hospital Colorado
- 13121 East 17th Avenue, Aurora
- Blood Donor Center at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s
- 1601 East 19th Avenue 6th floor, suite #6350
- Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies
- Can help you locate blood drives and AABB-sanctioned donation centers
Vitalant is currently running a promotion between now and Jan. 20, during which all blood, Power Red, platelets and plasma donors are entered to win a trip to the “Big Game,” alternatively known as the Super Bowl. The winner will receive a package estimated to be $27,400 in value.
Once the nationally recognized month has come and gone, you can continue to schedule donation appointments throughout the year. After all, the need for life-saving blood does not take a season off. | 2023-01-12T21:05:44+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/national-blood-donor-month-heres-where-you-can-donate-in-the-denver-metro/ |
Germany’s Merkel receives UNESCO peace prize in Ivory Coast
By DIOMANDE BLE BLONDE and KRISTA LARSON
Associated Press
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been honored for her efforts to allow more than 1.2 million migrants between 2015-2016. Merkel was awarded a UNESCO peace prize on Wednesday in Ivory Coast that is named for the country’s first president after independence. Merkel was praised by the prize jury’s president for having opened the gates of Germany ”at the same time many other countries were overcome with fear.” Merkel, who led Germany for 16 years, has kept a relatively low profile since handing over to successor Olaf Scholz in December 2021. | 2023-02-08T16:16:13+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/08/germanys-merkel-receives-unesco-peace-prize-in-ivory-coast/ |
Notorious French serial killer freed from Nepal prison
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for the murders of American and Canadian backpackers.
Sobhraj was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu in a heavily guarded police convoy to the Department of Immigration, where he will wait for his travel documents to be prepared.
The country’s Supreme Court had ordered that Sobhraj, who was sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, be released because of poor health, good behavior and having already served most of his sentence. Life sentences in Nepal are 20 years.
The order also said he had to leave the country within 15 days.
Sobhraj’s attorney Gopal Siwakoti Chitan told reporters that the request for the travel documents must be made by the immigration department to the French embassy in Nepal, which could take some time. Offices are closed over the weekend for the Christmas holiday.
The court document said he had already served more than 75% of his sentence, making him eligible for release, and he has heart disease.
The Frenchman has in the past admitted to killing several Western tourists and he is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s. However, his 2004 conviction in Nepal was the first time he was found guilty in court.
Sobhraj was held for two decades in New Delhi’s maximum-security Tihar prison on suspicion of theft but was deported without charge to France in 1997. He resurfaced in September 2003 in Kathmandu.
His nickname, The Serpent, stems from his reputation as a disguise and escape artist.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-23T11:26:18+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/12/23/notorious-french-serial-killer-freed-nepal-prison/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — Police located the suspect in the random killing of three people at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington, after he borrowed a stranger’s cell phone to call his mother and confess to what he had done, authorities said Tuesday.
The suspect shot and killed himself behind some warehouses as officers approached, said Yakima Police Chief Matt Murray. No officers used force and none was injured, he added.
Police had surrounded Jarid Haddock’s family home after Tuesday’s pre-dawn killings, but he wasn’t there, Murray said at a news conference. Instead, the 21-year-old had gone to the area of a Target store in the city, where he borrowed a woman’s phone and called his mother.
The woman overheard the conversation, which included incriminating statements such as “I killed those people,” as well as the man’s threats to kill himself, according to Murray. The woman then managed to get her phone back, separated herself from Haddock and called 911 to report his whereabouts, Murray said.
“I listened to that call — it’s pretty harrowing,” Murray said. “I have to really thank her again because she was very courageous in getting us there.”
Murray said investigators still had no idea what prompted the shootings. Haddock entered the Circle K convenience store a little before 3:30 a.m. Tuesday and shot and killed two people who were there getting food, then stepped outside and shot someone else in a car.
“There was no apparent conflict between the parties,” Murray said, citing witness statements as well as surveillance footage. “The male just walked in and started shooting.”
He then walked across the street to another gas station and began shooting into his own car to get inside, because he had locked himself out, Murray said.
Police did not immediately release any information about the victims.
The attack is yet another outbreak of violence in the early weeks of 2023 as the U.S. suffers a wave of mass killings that has claimed dozens of lives.
After the killings, police released a surveillance image of the man and warned the community to be on the lookout. Law enforcement converged on his parent’s home, across a road from a storage facility on the outskirts of the city of nearly 100,000 residents, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southeast of Seattle. Court records listed the home as a previously known address for Haddock.
Haddock appeared to have little criminal history. He was arrested in March 2020 after police saw him in a car that had been stolen from a woman who had left it running; he ran from officers who pulled him over, according to charging documents filed in Yakima County Superior Court, and he reported being homeless.
He successfully completed a diversion program, despite twice violating its terms by using methamphetamine or heroin, and the charges were dismissed in December 2021.
At Yakima Riverside Storage, across the street from the home surrounded by police, receptionist Tabitha Johnson said she was taking the unusual precaution of locking the doors, which she can monitor through windows and security cameras.
“It’s quite scary, but Yakima isn’t new to shootings,” the 39-year-old said. | 2023-01-25T06:57:08+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/woman-called-911-after-letting-killer-borrow-phone-police/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian tennis player and Olympic bronze medalist Elina Svitolina pushed for a total ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Games in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Svitolina, who won her bronze medal in singles at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is visiting Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded the country last year. She is the latest to call for a complete ban on athletes from Russia and Belarus because of the war.
“It’s going to be very sad, and the wrong message would be sent to the world if Olympics going to stay with the decision to put them (Russia and Belarus) under a neutral flag,” Svitolina said in the interview. “I don’t think this is the right decision.”
Svitolina, who had a baby with husband Gael Monfils in October, said sports and politics in Russia are inseparable.
“You can see that in Russia, sports are connected to the government,” Svitolina said.
On Friday, Ukraine’s sports minister renewed a threat to boycott the Paris Olympics if Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete and said Kyiv would lobby other nations to join.
A Ukrainian Olympic Committee meeting did not commit to a boycott but approved plans to try to persuade international sports officials in the next two months — including a discussion of a possible boycott. The leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also urged the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia and said a boycott was a possibility.
Speakers at the Ukrainian Olympic Committee’s meeting raised concerns about Russia using the Paris Games for propaganda and noted the close ties between some athletes and the Russian military.
“Boycott would be one of the options because obviously what Russian army is doing to Ukrainian people, to Ukraine, it’s a horrible thing for us,” Svitolina said. “I cannot imagine going to the Olympics like nothing is happening to Ukraine.”
Svitolina said the decision to boycott should be discussed with the country’s Olympic committee with input from every Ukrainian athlete involved. She, however, didn’t hesitate to say what she thought was the right thing to do.
“Our men and women are at the front line right now fighting Russian soldiers and dying for our country and for our freedom as well,” Svitolina said. “And I’m very firm with my decision that boycotting is the right way to do it.”
After a month-long break, Svitolina said she is “actively preparing” to return to tennis in April. Her first visit to Ukraine marks the longest time she has been separated from her daughter.
“Of course, I want to be with her, but I have a bigger mission to do for free Ukrainian people,” said Svitolina, who came to the country as an ambassador of United 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s platform for collecting charitable donations.
During her brief stay, she also met Zelenskyy.
On Tuesday, Svitolina visited one of Kyiv’s maternity centers to donate a generator, needed to support the operation of the hospital. Hospitals in the country have often been disrupted by massive Russian missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
She said this week’s visit triggered the feelings she felt on the first days of the invasion.
“It was extremely stressful for me. I was still playing on the tour then, competing at some tournaments. I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t live my life normally. It was a horrible time for me,” she recalled. “Visiting the maternity center really reminded me what I was going through and how strong these women are.”
Originally from Odesa, which now suffers frequent power outages because of damaged electricity infrastructure, Svitolina said Feb. 24 — the date that will mark one year since the invasion started — will forever be a tragic day for every Ukrainian.
“This is something that you would never wish your enemy to face,” Svitolina said. “It’s a very sad day.”
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Russia-Ukraine War: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-02-09T13:25:38+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-svitolina-calls-for-russians-to-be-banned-from-olympics/ |
Some lucky night sky watchers caught a glimpse of a brand new meteor shower on Monday night, as Earth passed through the debris trail of a crumbling comet.
The meteor shower peaked around 1 a.m. ET, with 10 to 25 meteors an hour spotted falling through the night sky, according to EarthSky.com, which described the meteor shower as "decent."
New meteor showers like this one are relatively rare. NASA had described the meteor shower as "an all or nothing event."
The comet, officially known as 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, or SW3, was discovered in 1930 by German observers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachman. It wasn't spotted again until the late 1970s, and in the 1990s the comet shattered into several pieces, NASA said.
By the time SW3 passed Earth again in 2006, it was in nearly 70 pieces, and has continued to fragment further since then, the statement said. It was unclear whether the debris would strike Earth's atmosphere at a high enough velocity to cause a meteor shower.
Each year, there are around 30 meteor showers, which occur when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet or asteroid, that are visible with the naked eye.
Some meteor showers have been around for centuries. For example, the Perseid meteor shower, which occurs each year in August, was first observed about 2,000 years ago and recorded by Chinese astronomers, NASA said.
Meteor showers are typically named after the constellation from where they appear to radiate in the night sky, although Robert Lunsford, secretary general of the International Meteor Organization, said that the tau Herculids had been incorrectly named.
In a blog written before Monday's meteor shower, he said that they will appear to radiate from a constellation known as Bootes, northwest of the brilliant orange star known as Arcturus (alpha Bootis).
More meteor showers
There are several other opportunities to witness meteor showers this year.
The Delta Aquariids are best seen from the southern tropics and will peak between July 28 and 29, when the moon is 74% full.
Interestingly, another meteor shower peaks on the same night -- the Alpha Capricornids. Although this is a much weaker shower, it has been known to produce some bright fireballs during its peak. It will be visible for everyone, regardless of which side of the equator they are on.
The Perseid meteor shower, the most popular of the year, will peak between August 11 and 12 in the Northern Hemisphere.
Here is the meteor shower schedule for the rest of the year, according to EarthSky's meteor shower outlook.
- October 8: Draconids
- October 21: Orionids
- November 4 to 5: South Taurids
- November 11 to 12: North Taurids
- November 17: Leonids
- December 13 to 14: Geminids
- December 22: Ursids
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JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion and create the nation's fifth-largest airline if the deal can win approval from antitrust regulators.
The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit's attempt to merge with fellow budget carrier Frontier Airlines fell apart.
Spirit CEO Ted Christie is being thrust into the awkward position of defending a sale to JetBlue after arguing vehemently against it, saying that antitrust regulators would never let it happen.
"A lot has been said over the last few months obviously, always with our stakeholders in mind," Christie said on CNBC. "We have been listening to the folks at JetBlue, and they have a lot of good thoughts on their plans for that."
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes has argued all along that a larger JetBlue would create more competition for the four airlines that control about 80% of the U.S. market — American, United, Delta and Southwest.
Shares of Spirit, based in Miramar, Florida, rose 3.5% at the opening bell Thursday, to $25.15, still below the price that JetBlue is offering. JetBlue shares were essentially flat.
Fares will likely go up after the deal
Spirit Airlines regularly ends up as the worst, or close to the worst, when airlines are ranked by the rate of consumer complaints. Still, some consumer advocates worry that fares will rise if it disappears.
Spirit and similar rivals Frontier and Allegiant charge rock-bottom fares that appeal to the most budget-conscious leisure travelers, although they tack on more fees that can raise the cost of flying.
"Spirit is going to disappear, and with it, its low cost structure," said William McGee of the anti-merger American Economic Liberties Project. "Once Spirit is absorbed (into JetBlue), there is no question that fares are going to go up."
Others, however, say that Frontier will grow — it has a large number of planes on order — and fill any gap left by Spirit in the cheapest segment of the air-travel market.
If approved, the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2024
JetBlue and Spirit will continue to operate independently until the agreement is approved by regulators and Spirit shareholders, with their separate loyalty programs and customer accounts.
The companies said they expect to conclude the regulatory process and close the transaction no later than the first half of 2024. If that happens, the combined airline would be based in JetBlue's hometown of New York and led by Hayes. It would have a fleet of 458 planes.
JetBlue said Thursday that it would pay $33.50 per share in cash for Spirit, including a prepayment of $2.50 per share in cash payable once Spirit stockholders approve the transaction. There is also a ticking fee of 10 cents per share each month starting in January 2023 through closing to compensate Spirit shareholders for any delay in winning regulatory approval.
If the deal doesn't close due to antitrust reasons, JetBlue will pay Spirit a reverse break-up fee of $70 million and pay Spirit shareholders $400 million, minus any amounts paid to the shareholders prior to termination.
Spirit and Frontier announced their plan to merge in February, and Spirit's board stood by that deal even after JetBlue made a higher-priced offer in April. However, Spirit's board could never convince the airline's shareholders to go along. A vote on the merger was postponed four times, then cut short Wednesday when Spirit and Frontier announced they were terminating their agreement, which made a Spirit-JetBlue coupling inevitable.
JetBlue anticipates $600 million to $700 million in annual savings once the transaction is complete. Annual revenue for the combined company is anticipated to be about $11.9 billion, based on 2019 revenues.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratolaunch LLC and Purdue University are pleased to announce they have established a partnership dedicated to accelerating the time required to design, build, test, and fly hypersonic vehicles.
Stratolaunch will establish the Stratolaunch Advanced Programs Office at the Convergence Center in Purdue's Discovery Park District in West Lafayette, Indiana to ensure the goals of their collaboration will be rapidly achieved. The office will be led by an experienced advanced design director with support staff that will offer opportunities for student internships.
Through their collaboration Stratolaunch and Purdue will leverage the university's world class multi-disciplinary hypersonic design methods, ground test facilities, faculty, staff, and students to anchor ground simulations. By combining this capability with Stratolaunch's rapid prototyping fabrication, flight test service, as well as hypersonic flight test data from the Talon-A, the integrated team will develop methodologies to accelerate the design to fly time of hypersonic systems.
Stratolaunch recently funded a one-year collaborative research project with four Purdue faculty experts and their graduate students to explore and establish a foundation of best-in-class computational and experimental capabilities, which can be used to create the most comprehensive suite of flight-validated air vehicle design optimization tools.
"I'm excited for our partnership with Purdue because of the positive implications it has for streamlining our nation's hypersonic design capabilities," said Dr. Zachary Krevor, CEO and president at Stratolaunch. "Reducing development and test timelines of hypersonic vehicles is paramount to achieving critical leap-ahead technologies."
"Stratolaunch's unique capacities to provide access to flight data in long-duration hypersonic conditions complements Purdue's advanced hypersonics laboratories and the cutting-edge research by our faculty to advance these technologies while providing our students with real-world learning experiences," Purdue President Mung Chiang said. "Stratolaunch' s office at Discovery Park District further strengthens Purdue as an epicenter of hypersonic research and testing in the country."
"Any effort to increase the speed of 'continuous learning' in hypersonic systems design and deployment is a major win for our nation's defense," said Dan DeLaurentis, vice president for Discovery Park District institutes. "The world-class Purdue computational and ground test research capabilities, combined with a the premier hypersonics flight test capability of Stratolaunch, is exactly such an effort, and yet another new avenue for developing and retaining the best talent so desperately needed in this domain."
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has signed a 10-year agreement with DAZN Group to deliver the Game Pass International service to fans outside the United States beginning with the 2023 season, it was announced Tuesday.
Game Pass International will be offered in more than 200 countries and regions, including Canada and Mexico. It will not be available in China.
The service will allow fans outside the U.S. to watch every regular-season and playoff NFL game, including the Super Bowl.
“Growing the NFL globally is a key strategic priority for the League and our 32 Clubs. We are excited to partner with DAZN to help us accelerate this effort,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “Our goal has always been to make our games available to as many fans as possible, and we are confident that DAZN’s innovative viewing experience technology will best serve millions of viewers around the world while also engaging a new generation of international NFL fans.”
DAZN has distributed NFL Game Pass in Canada since 2017 and has been the league's broadcast partner in Germany and Japan since 2016 as well as Italy since 2018.
Game Pass International also will deliver NFL Network and NFL RedZone programming as well as access to a library of NFL Films and NFL Media programming. Everything will be available on-demand.
DAZN is available on most connected devices, including smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and game consoles. Game Pass International will be available through the DAZN app either as a standalone subscription or an add-on to an existing package.
The NFL reached an agreement with Google's YouTube TV to distribute Sunday Ticket package of out-of-market, regular-season games in the U.S. beginning in 2023.
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BOSTON (AP) — There is a silver lining to the drought affecting the northeastern U.S. that has frustrated farmers, dried up rivers and reservoirs, and brought water use restrictions and brush fires to the region.
The arid conditions have benefited amusement parks, minor league baseball teams, construction contractors and other businesses that need warm, dry weather to attract paying customers and get jobs completed on time.
While several factors have affected the bottom line this summer, including inflation, staffing shortages, and supply chain issues, some businesses say, yes, things are generally going well, in part because of the weather.
“Sunny days at the ballpark are the best days,” said Geoff Iacuessa, president and general manager of the Portland Sea Dogs minor league baseball team, which is seeing fewer rainouts and higher attendance.
Large tracts of the Northeast from Pennsylvania to Maine are experiencing drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. A swath of the region from southern New Hampshire, across much of eastern Massachusetts and including nearly all of Rhode Island and into eastern Connecticut is suffering from extreme drought conditions, the fourth worst out of five drought stages.
In some areas, rainfall amounts in the last 90 days are about 6 inches (15 centimeters) lower than normal, according to the Drought Monitor.
The Sea Dogs, the Maine-based Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, have averaged more than 5,700 fans per game, and while season-to-season attendance comparisons are imprecise, that’s about 100 more per game than in the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019, Iacuessa said. The 2020 season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and home field capacity was limited at the start of last season.
Another advantage of hot weather: beer, water and ice cream sales soar.
At Groundskeeper Inc., an Ashland, Massachusetts, commercial landscape design company, the dry weather has allowed the crew to get a lot more work done, especially when it comes to so-called hardscaping — the installation of patios, walkways, retaining walls and the like — company president Brian Churchill said.
Working with concrete, mortar, and brick adhesives is nearly impossible during a steady rain, he said.
“I would say it has been a very productive year,” said Churchill, who is also the past president of the Massachusetts Association of Landscape Professionals. “No rain days, no delays in the schedule. We’re able to work five days a week and get a lot of work done.”
And that benefits everyone.
“When you meet schedule and the developers can meet closing dates, they’ve got happy clients, they get the money in the bank, we get money in the bank, and that means everyone’s happy,” he said.
There is a downside for landscapers during the drought, however, said Miriam Hellweg, director of maintenance at a Blade of Grass LLC, a Sudbury, Massachusetts, landscape design company.
“The drought is stressful for plants, so first we have more plants dying,” she said. “The other piece is with a drought the plants aren’t growing as much, so we’re not doing as much mowing.”
The weather, along with an increase in the self-imposed capacity restrictions put in place to prevent overcrowding, has helped pull more people to Santa’s Village, a Christmas-themed amusement park in Jefferson, New Hampshire, said Jim Miller, a spokesperson for the 15-acre family-owned facility.
“Everybody likes the perfect weather, and we’ve been at capacity on most days,” he said.
The park founded in 1953 only sells advance tickets online, so when families are checking the weather forecast several days out before booking their visit, all they have seen this summer is blue skies, he said.
The drought has been a mixed bag for Tom Bukowski, owner of Safari Golf, a miniature golf course in Berlin, Connecticut. Yes, dry weather is good for business, but brutal heat can be a detriment. Connecticut had a six-day stretch in July when temperatures were 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher and another eight-day stretch in early August with 90-degree plus temperatures.
“If it gets too hot, not many people play, but it’s still better than rain, because when it rains, no one comes out,” he said.
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Linebacker Elandon Roberts’ time with the Miami Dolphins is up.
The seven-year pro who spent the past three seasons in Miami is headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers on a two-year deal, according to NFL Network.
Change was likely coming to the Dolphins’ inside linebacker corps when the team reached a deal with David Long, formerly of the Tennessee Titans. Miami is also re-signing linebacker Duke Riley as the defense transitions to being led by Vic Fangio following Josh Boyer’s tenure as defensive coordinator.
The sure-tackling Roberts is coming off his first triple-digit tackle season, collecting 107 with a career-high 4 ½ sacks in 2022. Over three years with the Dolphins, he had 251 tackles. Roberts also played his first four seasons with the New England Patriots, where he won two Super Bowls and had former Dolphins coaches Boyer and Brian Flores on the defensive staff.
Miami has Long, Jerome Baker, whose contract for 2023 becomes guaranteed on March 19, Riley and 2022 third-round pick Channing Tindall as linebackers on the roster as of Thursday afternoon. Sam Eguavoen is a free agent that was with the team last season.
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Game to be Televised by ESPN as Part of Conference Championship Weekend
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C., Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, Hercules Tires will be the title sponsor of the Sun Belt Football Championship game to be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 3, on ESPN.
The 2022 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Football Championship Game will be held in Troy, Ala., as the East Division Champions in Coastal Carolina (9-2, 6-2 Sun Belt) will take on the West Division Champions in Troy (10-2, 7-1 Sun Belt) at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Negotiated by Sun Belt multimedia rights partner Van Wagner in 2021, the multi-year agreement marks one of the largest sponsorship agreements in Sun Belt history and provides Hercules Tires not only Title Sponsorship of the Football Championship, but also designation as the Official Tire of the Sun Belt Conference as well as Title Sponsor of the men's and women's basketball championships.
As part of its sponsorship, Hercules Tires has an integrated marketing presence throughout the year, allowing the brand to connect with alumni, fans, students, and employees of Sun Belt schools.
"As a proud partner of the Sun Belt Conference, we're looking forward to seeing two great schools battle it out in their first matchup this season," said Joshua Simpson, president of Hercules Tires. "Our sponsorship provides Hercules with the opportunity to have our brand reach millions of college football fans nationwide through ESPN and in key U.S. markets where the Hercules brand is looking to grow."
Hercules Tires, which celebrated its 70th anniversary this year, has invested in a wide range of sports marketing sponsorships in the U.S. and Canada to increase awareness of its brand with consumers. In addition to its collegiate sports sponsorship of the Sun Belt Conference, the brand also has partnerships with the Big South, Big West, MAC, WAC, CIAA and Southland Conferences. Additionally, partnerships that round out the Hercules portfolio include: Hamilton Tiger Cats CFL team, major league fisherman Josh Douglas and Josh Bertrand as well as sprint car driver Greg Wilson.
To follow Hercules Tires activations, as well as Sun Belt football, be sure to visit @SunBelt and @HerculesTires on Twitter and Instagram. For more information about Hercules Tires, visit https://www.herculestire.com.
About Hercules Tires
Since 1952, independent tire dealers and distributors have trusted Hercules to deliver outstanding quality, exceptional support, and unsurpassed value. Widely recognized as the industry's premier value leader with a comprehensive selection of passenger, UHP, light truck, medium truck and specialty tires.
Hercules is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Tire Distributors, Inc. American Tire Distributors is one of the largest independent suppliers of tires in the North American replacement tire market. The company offers an unsurpassed breadth and depth of inventory, frequent delivery and value-added services to approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada.
About the Sun Belt Conference
The Sun Belt Conference is made up of 14 members: App State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisiana, ULM, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State and Troy.
About Van Wagner
Van Wagner is a leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, sponsorship sales, multimedia rights, and out of home advertising. Van Wagner, creates, advises, and sells on behalf of world-class teams, leagues, brands, properties, and colleges. An innovator in the sports and media business, Van Wagner is a global leader in high-impact broadcast visible signage throughout the MLB, NBA, NCAA, and international soccer, sponsorships sales, college multi-media rights, and in-venue content production at the world's biggest sporting events. For more information, visit www.vanwagner.com.
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In 9 days, 4 detention officers leave Forsyth County jail; 2 resignations pending
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WE HEAD TO ALABAMA WHERE STRONG STORMS ALSO LEFT A PATH OF DAMAGE. THIS IS ALSO NEW VIDEO FROM A TOWN NORTHWEST OF BIRMINGHAM WHERE HEAVY WINDS TORE THE ROOF. A MINI STORAGE FACILITY AND RIPPED INSULATION OUT OF THE WALLS. MULTIPLE POWER LINES ALSO DOWN IN THAT AREA AND HIGH OF CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY. NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED AUTHORITIES. HAPPENING NOW AT SIX SO FOR TWO TEENS INJURED IN A DRIVE BY SHOOTING IN WINSTON-SALEM ARE WAKING UP THIS MORNING IN THE HOSPITAL. POLICE SAY THIS HAPPENED ON ALDER STREET NEAR HAPPY HILL PARK. 16 AND 17 YEAR OLD TOLD POLICE THEY WERE WALKING ALONG THE ROAD WHEN SOMEONE IN A DARK COLORED CAR DROVE UP AND STARTED AT THEM. THE TEENS THEN RAN TO A NEARBY HOME FOR HELP. WE’RE TOLD THE TEENS SO RECOVER FROM THEIR INJURIES. INVESTIGATORS IN THE MEANTIME SAY THEY BELIEVE THIS IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. INVESTIGATORS NEED. YOUR HELP THIS MORNING. 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WINSTON-SALEM RESIDENT VINCE WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE POLICE CHIEF’S SEARCH. THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER AS. WELL AS ASK ANY QUESTIONS THEY MAY HAVE. THE FORUM IS SET FOR 3:00 TODAY. IT WILL BE HELD AT THE SMALL CENTER ON VINE STREET. IT IS FREE, BUT YOU’LL NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND ON THE HOPE DEALERS OUTREACH WEBSITE. ALSO LOOKING AHEAD, ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST WILL HOLD ITS ANNUAL LIGHTING OF THE MORAVIAN STAR SINCE 1992. THE HOSPITAL CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS WITH THIS 31 FOOT STAR ATOP THE MEDICAL CENTER’S TOWER. THE STAR HAS 27 POINTS. THAT RANGE IN LENGTH FROM SEVEN FEET TO 11 FEET. AND EVERY POINT IS ILLUMINATED BY A 100 WATT BOB. THE STAR WILL BE LIT TONIGHT AT 545, BUT IF IT IS PRETTY RAINY IN OUR FORECAST, THAT CEREMONY WILL BE PUSHED TO TOMORROW. SO OF COURSE, WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THAT. I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE, I GOT CAUGHT MY EYE WHEN I WAS DRIVING PAST THE HOSPITAL AND IT JUST TOOK MY BREATH AWAY. IT’S SO PRETTY. 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In 9 days, 4 detention officers leave Forsyth County jail; 2 resignations pending
Detention center officer vacancies at the Forsyth County Detention Center are increasing.As of Nov. 21, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) reported a total of 249 detention officer positions and 79 vacancies.As of Nov. 30, the vacancy count increased to 83. To date, the sheriff's office reported two pending resignations from the jail.Click the video player above to view other headlines from WXII 12 NewsAccording to the FCSO, the above vacancy counts do not include the contracted P&G Security Services employees who are helping fill the void. The FCSO says they are contracted workers and are not employees of the FCSO.The increase in vacancies is happening as FCSO staff announce the implementation of "rotating shifts" for the detention center staff beginning Saturday, Jan. 7.A memo was sent to staff on Nov. 18. It states that leaders understand this schedule change may result in hardships "for many" of the staff, "but operations and service levels are no longer sustainable with the shifts currently in place."Current detention center employees tell '12 Investigates' that "rotating shifts" will consist of employees working 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. for two weeks, before switching back to a 7 p.m. - 7 a.m. shift for two weeks. Former detention center employees say they've experienced this same schedule in the past. '12 Investigates' learned of the rotating shifts after an initial report looking into claims of poor leadership and low morale at the detention center.Earlier this month, '12 Investigates' reached out to the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office for an explanation of the rotating shifts and what this means for detention center employees. A spokesperson says those details are not public information.Trending Stories
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Detention center officer vacancies at the Forsyth County Detention Center are increasing.
As of Nov. 21, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) reported a total of 249 detention officer positions and 79 vacancies.
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As of Nov. 30, the vacancy count increased to 83. To date, the sheriff's office reported two pending resignations from the jail.
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According to the FCSO, the above vacancy counts do not include the contracted P&G Security Services employees who are helping fill the void. The FCSO says they are contracted workers and are not employees of the FCSO.
A memo was sent to staff on Nov. 18. It states that leaders understand this schedule change may result in hardships "for many" of the staff, "but operations and service levels are no longer sustainable with the shifts currently in place."
Current detention center employees tell '12 Investigates' that "rotating shifts" will consist of employees working 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. for two weeks, before switching back to a 7 p.m. - 7 a.m. shift for two weeks. Former detention center employees say they've experienced this same schedule in the past.
Earlier this month, '12 Investigates' reached out to the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office for an explanation of the rotating shifts and what this means for detention center employees. A spokesperson says those details are not public information. | 2022-11-30T22:09:18+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/in-9-days-4-detention-officers-leave-forsyth-county-jail-resignations-pending/42112811 |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Sixteen-year-old Mirra Andreeva, playing at Wimbledon for the first time, earned the final spot in the fourth round of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament on Sunday.
The Russian qualifier is the latest teen sensation in tennis, and she isn't disappointing at the All England Club. Andreeva is the youngest player since Coco Gauff in 2019 to reach the women's fourth round at Wimbledon. She reached the third round at this year's French Open in her first major tournament.
Despite trailing 4-1 in the second set, Andreeva beat 22nd-seeded Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 7-5 on No. 3 Court.
“I came back from 1-4, so of course I feel great," Andreeva said on court before explaining how she keeps her cool. “Today, honestly, even if I wanted to show some emotions, I honestly, I couldn’t because I was out of breath almost every point. I really couldn’t show any emotions.”
They came out after, though, when Andreeva sat in her chair and pulled her purple Wimbledon towel up over her face for a few seconds to regain her composure.
Andreeva will next face No. 25 Madison Keys for a spot in the quarterfinals.
The third-round victory came 21 minutes after Marketa Vondrousova became the first player to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Vondrousova defeated 32nd-seeded Marie Bouzkova 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula also reached the quarterfinals. The 29-year-old American beat Lesia Tsurenko 6-1, 6-3 and will next face Vondrousova.
This year is only the second time play is officially scheduled for the middle Sunday at Wimbledon. Four times in the past, in 1991, 1997, 2004 and 2016, organizers used the day to deal with a backlog of matches.
The last man to reach the fourth round was 21st-seeded Grigor Dimitrov. He beat Frances Tiafoe 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in a match that started on Saturday. He will next face sixth-seeded Holger Rune.
Later Sunday, top-seeded Iga Swiatek was scheduled to face Belinda Bencic on Centre Court. Seven-time champion Novak Djokovic will follow that match against Hubert Hurkacz.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Discussions about the NFL’s final playoff push have been put on hold as the league turns its attention to the health of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after making a tackle and had to be resuscitated on the field in Cincinnati on Monday night.
Players and coaches reflected on the scary situation in this week’s edition of “Big Game Bound.”
The Bills-Bengals game remains suspended, but the Week 18 slate stays on schedule for this weekend.
Two postseason berths are up for grabs in the AFC, while only one spot is left in the NFC. Host Chris Hagan breaks down the playoff scenarios.
“Big Game Bound” streams every Thursday at 12 p.m. ET leading up to Super Bowl LVII in Arizona. | 2023-01-05T17:59:38+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/the-big-game/big-game-bound-damar-hamlin-in-focus-as-nfl-enters-final-week-of-regular-season/ |
SINGAPORE, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Letter to our shareholders
Dear fellow shareholders of BONZ;
With this first of what we hope to be many future shareholder letters, we want to start a direct communication with you as our shareholders and partners to give you insight into our strategic objectives and values, as well as sharing with you our vision for the future of the metaverse and digital assets, and Marvion's place within it. On behalf of the management and all our team members, we welcome you and look forward to our journey together.
Business Overview
We are a Nevada holding company that through our subsidiaries are engaged in the media and entertainment distribution business. We believe that we are one of the most advanced blockchain and NFT technologies implementation companies in the media and entertainment world. By applying the best blockchain and NFT technologies available today, we have reinvented the NFT and created our proprietary DOT (digital ownership token) for media and entertainment assets.
Each of our DOTs represents a legally binding ownership in a media and entertainment asset (whether tangible or intangible) that exists in the real world (and not the virtual world). Tangible assets include physical records, discs and memorabilia, and intangible assets include intellectual property, licenses and contractual rights. Accordingly, our DOT is not a virtual asset and we are not in the business of distributing virtual assets.
Our mission is to disrupt the media and entertainment industry by introducing our proprietary DOTs. These DOTs will provide a trustworthy and transparent decentralised record of each asset and its transaction history and enhance the ownership experience. They are expected to reduce or even remove intermediaries and thereby increase efficiency and productivity in their distribution and transfer. And, finally, DOTs will be designed to greatly improve the audience's experience when consuming media and entertainment and, hopefully, improve people's lives in the process.
Our vision is to "DOT" every single tangible or intangible asset in the media and entertainment industry around the world. We believe this will bring the media and entertainment world closer together, which will lead to more creativity and diversity and better partnerships and productions.
Our commitment is to work tirelessly to improve the DOT through never ending iterations as we deploy resources to technology research and development and improving the technologies adopted in its implementation.
The Company accepts payment for services in the form of select and liquid digital assets (in addition to fiat currencies), but does not hold digital assets as an investment. Such digital assets are diligently converted into fiat currency after receipt, to minimise our risk against the fluctuations of the digital cryptocurrencies.
In providing our service solutions, we rely on third party blockchain platforms to complete our services. Our solutions, however, are blockchain independent in that we do not rely specific on a single blockchain provider to complete our service solutions but may switch our media to different blockchain services on an as needed basis. We currently have no plans to develop or maintain our own blockchain and intend to fully focus on providing business solutions.
On October 18, 2021, we acquired Marvion Holdings Limited, that is engaged in the business of management advisory services and DOT solution services. Our DOT solution services include:
(i) creating DOT's for third party movie and music producers, including media authentication and access information; and
(ii) providing a website platform to host, access and consume (view or listen) their media.
Marvion charges a fee to create DOTs for the third party movie and music works, as well as charging a platform fee for each DOT sold. While their media is hosted on our media marketplace platform, user access to the media with the proper DOT will not incur additional charges.
With the acquisition of Marvion, we plan to build a more profitable entertainment ecosystem that provides more cost effective and autonomous solutions, with less middlemen and more direct access to the media distribution. We aim to integrate the two businesses to help prospective songwriters, producers, independent labels and performers navigate the potential issues in engaging their works with a wider audience through DOTs.
Engagement, engagement, engagement…
With the advent of blockchain technology and virtual environment in which individuals can engage freely and directly, many new possibilities and challenges exist for businesses. With our "picks and shovels" approach, we have created a back-to-back ecosystem for businesses to create digital assets and experiences, as well as creating a highly engaging metaverse environment where those assets and experiences can be marketed, sold and shared.
With this in mind, we focus on three specific areas in order to deliver value and achieve our mission.
Movie and TV Production
The global film and video service market has an estimated value of USD $252 billion (in 2021) and growing with a CAGR of approximately 6% over the next 5 years, with the APAC region representing the fastest growing segment in the global motion picture industry[1]. Put simply, the demand for motion picture content will continue to grow with consumers finding new and personalized ways to enjoy content.
In this regard, we believe that we will be able to assist production companies and rights holders in increasing revenue generating opportunities through the sale and purchase of DOTs with unique features and access towards events, features, and content, such as (i) Pre-Production (Cameo appearances, posters, and concepts), (ii) Production (Action photos and access to the scene), and (iii) Post- Production –(Scripts, premiere tickets, and meeting the actor(s).
A case in point is our collaboration with Phoenix Water Productions. In October 2021, we launched Asia's first feature film DOT for the movie Lockdown. Holders of those DOTs were given VIP access to the movie's gala premiere in London. This was followed by the world's first cameo DOT for the television series Forensic Psychologist – whereby DOT holders could play a cameo role in the TV production. As it was for an exclusive movie premiere, only 5 such VIP tickets were minted and the total revenue generated was US$340.
In December 2021, Marvion minted and launched 2,000 DOTs at a price of 0.188BNB each. These DOTs gave holders the right of perpetual non-commercial private enjoyment to view, print on any memorabilia and use on any social media the still image(s) relating to the DOT. All the 2,000 DOTs were sold by Apr 2022 and generated more than US$169,200 for the Group. A portion of the revenue was shared with Phoenix Waters Productions – which was a new stream of income for the production company. We believe we can do the same for other companies in the same space.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, our Media and entertainment segment generated $95,955 in revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021, which was primarily driven by the sales of 2,006 Tokens on our h-DOT ecommerce website, while our consulting business segment generated $201,137, for total revenue of $297,092. Our cost of revenue for the same year was $87,823, resulting in a gross profit of $209,269. We incurred a net loss of $2,121,074 for the year ended December 31, 2021, with general and administrative expenses accounting for $1,334,066, corporate development costs of $680,000, sales and marketing costs of $4,185,363 and technology and development costs of $124, 148.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2022, our Media and entertainment segment generated $82,945 in revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022, which was primarily driven by the sales of Forensic Psychologist Hybrid Digital Ownership Tokens on our h-DOT ecommerce website, while our consulting business segment generated $24,825, for total revenue of $107,770. Our cost of revenue for the same quarter was $37,780, resulting in a gross profit of $69,990. We incurred a net loss of $1,029,967 for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, with technology and development expenses accounting for $505,930 and general and administrative expenses accounting for $444,004.
Additional information regarding our annual and quarterly performances can be obtained through our annual and quarterly reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on www.sec.gov.
Based on these experiences, we see a significant opportunity for production companies and rights holders to create deeper engagement and revenue opportunities (offset production costs) from their value chain starting at pre-production to the point of distribution. We believe that we have just scratched the surface of a potentially massive opportunity and we seek to work with more production companies to bring content-rich DOTs to market.
IP Remakes & Royalties
The Global Intellectual Property Rights and Royalty Management Market has an estimated value of USD $9 billion (in 2021) and growing with a CAGR of approximately 12% over the next 5 years, with the Media and Entertainment Segment expected to make up approximately 30% of the total value by 2026[2]. With this in mind, we believe that there is a significant opportunity to aid production companies and rights holders to monetize their legacy IP by creating DOTs to remake and re-sell the rights of these assets, such as comics, books, and movies. With quality and provenance being critical, we have decided to build out this functionality inhouse without any third-party dependencies (other than distributing via third-party platforms).
Marvion Metaverse
Perhaps most exciting is the global growth of the Metaverse Market, which is expected to grow with an approximated CAGR of 40% over the next 5 years (USD $67 billion value in 2021) with the all-time value of items sold, such as land, goods, and services topping USD $200 million in 2021[3]. We believe that the metaverse economy is in its infancy, still struggling with some fundamental technological and engineering-based challenges to reach its full potential.
However, at its current stage of technological development we believe that there are areas where companies and individuals can derive value from exchanges of products and experiences. With this in mind, we are focused on the metaverse as a means of personal expression, and for companies to distribute products and share experiences to form a low-friction, deeper engagement with its customers.
Specifically, the Marvion Metaverse will allow the sale and purchase of virtual land by way of DOTs. Architecturally, owners will be offered the ability to choose from a number of pre-designed options, or alternatively, work with an architect to design their own custom build. Beyond the acquisition and development of real estate, each DOT owner can create their own bespoke identity, as well as the development and interaction in communities.
In conclusion…
Following the successful collaborations we have experienced, we believe that Web3, which includes blockchain, NFT, metaverse, AI, autostereoscopic 3D, and more, and its adoption and responsible implementation will become essential to the media and entertainment industry in the future. We anticipate that a key future source of revenue growth will include providing Web3 as a Service (3aaS in short). While we work hard to develop such capabilities, let us not forget the "heartware" that drives it all – our values.
Our values are the foundational pillars we rely on in the operating of the business and in the establishing of its protocols, and they are:
- Experience comes first – All things we do must not only be functional or provide some form of utility, but it must also be intuitive, prove an unparallel user experience, and as much as possible leave the end user with something that's fun and worth sharing.
- Directness – With a decentralized team model, we have the ability to build a highly skilled and globally diverse workforce. However, this depends on efficient and direct communication. Be direct but be respectful.
- Measure and Monitor – The speed at which we are able to innovate, improve and make relevant our offering is directly related to measuring its effectiveness and the rate and quality in which we collect feedback.
- Build Long Term Value (Sustainable Projects) – While a project may not be relevant in its current iteration forever, we focus on projects which have a long-term meta driver, as well as developing a solution which is simple, sustainable and is likely to stand in the face of technological innovation.
- Fail, but do it Quickly – Learning and making mistakes go hand in hand, however, making the same mistakes or not learning from them is costly. Make mistakes, but learn and adapt from them.
We firmly believe that we are in the very early days of an exciting digital ownership revolution. With the continued support of shareholders and with our team's hard work, we enthusiastically look to the future working hard to successfully navigate the rapid and encouraging industry developments under way, and contribute in a meaningful way to the new world economy bringing about new forms of ownership, new valuable experiences, and in doing so empowering people and companies across the globe. Towards that end, we on the Marvion team would like to thank you, our shareholders, for your continuous support.
Dr Chan Man Chung
CEO
Bonanza Goldfields Corp.
For more information on Marvion™️ and its DOT offerings, please visit www.marvion.media.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, which are often indicated by terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "intend," "look forward to," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future business activities including the expansion into the decentralized financing space. These forward-looking statements are not promises or guarantees and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described or projected herein include uncertainties associated with operating a business in Singapore and Hong Kong, risk of interference by the PRC government, ability to compete, that financial resources do not last for as long as anticipated, and that BONZ is a holding company that may not realize the expected benefits of NFT's offered by Marvion™️. A further list and description of these risks, uncertainties and other risks can be found in BONZ's regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including in its current report on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2022. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. BONZ undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.
About BONZ
Bonanza Goldfields Corporation is a Las Vegas based mining and mineral exploration company, exploring gold and silver properties located in Goldfield, Tonopah and Comstock Mining Districts of Nevada, and the Chloride Mining District of Arizona.
The group is building an ecosystem and a metaverse for the media and entertainment industry that implements and adopts blockchain and NFT technologies, through mergers and acquisitions.
About Marvion™️
Marvion is a metaverse technology company in the media and entertainment industry, focusing on movies, drama, animation, comics, music and games that provide content and entertainment to adults and children alike. Although most media and entertainment content are digital in nature today, they exists in the real world as intangible assets, such as intellectual property, licenses and contractual rights, with intrinsic value.
Marvion applies blockchain and NFT technologies as tools to disrupt and improve the existing media and entertainment industry and its current practices. The technology underpinning NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has multiple functional use cases, some of which have the power to transform our societies, and some of which may be subject to regulations. Marvion uses NFT technology solely to create a legally-binding digital ownership token (DOT) to both tangible and intangible media and entertainment assets, which our analysis suggests would functionally fall outside any regulatory perimeter.
More Information about Marvion™️:
Website: marvion.media
Facebook: facebook.com/marvionmetaverse
Instagram: instagram.com/marvion.media
Twitter: twitter.com/marvion_media
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/marvion
Telegram: t.me/marvion_media
About Hybrid DOT (h-DOT)
A h-DOT is an integrated, best in class, digital ownership token (DOT) that contains a smart contract that can execute transactions and also contains the specific legal terms of the intellectual property ownership, license and/or rights. Each Hybrid DOT (h-DOT) contains the following:
- A copy of the SPA for the purchase of the master license.
- Evidence or warranty of ownership of the relevant intellectual property.
- Ownership of the sub-license detailing the rights of the h-DOT holder.
- Image/video/music or other file depending on what the asset is.
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Parkson Yip Media@Marvion.Media
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SOURCE Bonanza Goldfields Corp. | 2022-06-07T12:44:15+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/06/07/bonanza-goldfields-corp-issued-letter-shareholders-covering-new-business-initiatives-with-blockchain-metaverse-technologies-media-entertainment-distribution/ |
‘We’re devastated’: Car crashes through hair salon
CHALMETTE, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - A hair salon in Chalmette, Louisiana, is one of several businesses turning away customers after a car sped through the building early Wednesday morning.
Building owners are working on patching the gaping hole left by an Infiniti sedan after the car crashed through the Angel & Co. Hair Salon around 2 a.m.
First responders rushed to the scene to remove the car, but the damage had been done.
The crash broke a water line, which flooded the hair salon, and it broke a cooler in the neighboring convenience store.
Now business owners are trying to stay hopeful as they plan on rebuilding.
“We’re devastated,” said Angel & Co. business owner Angel Everhardt. “I had appointments on the book today, and for the whole week. So, we’re trying to figure out what to do because the building’s condemned, at least this part of it is.”
The condition of the driver was not readily available.
Copyright 2023 WVUE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-24T20:03:24+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2023/05/24/were-devastated-car-crashes-through-hair-salon/ |
‘Merry Christmas, Y’all’: Thomas Rhett drops a four-pack of holiday classics
It’s (almost) the most wonderful time of the year, and as he gears up for the holiday season, Thomas Rhett is releasing a four-track collection of beloved Christmas songs.
The singer surprised fans with the new music on Friday, bringing his own signature style to some of the best-loved tunes of the season for his holiday release, Merry Christmas, Y’all. “Winter Wonderland,” “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” all get the TR treatment on this four-pack.
“I love everything about Christmas — there’s nothing like the holiday season,” Thomas says in a statement. “I wanted to record some of the Christmas songs that my family and I enjoy every year. I hope this music gets everyone in the holiday spirit!”
Although the country star dropped his holiday release without announcing it first, there was at least one clue on his social media. The day before, he shared a video of himself listening to a classic recording of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
You know what that sounds like?” he asks the camera amid the opening piano bars of the song. “A warm fire. Christmastime, baby.”
Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-22T01:37:56+00:00 | klll.com | https://www.klll.com/merry-christmas-yall-thomas-rhett-drops-a-four-pack-of-holiday-classics/ |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A senior Ethiopian official says his country is interested in resuming talks with Egypt and Sudan on a huge and controversial Blue Nile dam that will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric power plant.
The comment by Sileshi Bekele, Ethiopia’s former negotiator on the dam and now the country’s ambassador to the United States, came during a meeting with the new U.S. special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Mike Hammer.
A statement by Ethiopia’s foreign ministry on Friday cited the ambassador as highlighting “Ethiopia’s interest to resume the African Union-led trilateral negotiation over the GERD,” or Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The multi-billion-dollar project is expected to bring electricity to millions of off-grid Ethiopians, but Sudan and Egypt fear it will reduce the amount of water they receive from the Nile River.
Several past rounds of negotiations among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have failed. Egypt fears a quick filling of the dam will reduce its share of Nile waters and seeks a binding legal agreement in case of a dispute.
In February, Ethiopia said it had begun producing power from one unit of the dam.
Earlier on Friday, the foreign ministry spokesman Dina Mufti told reporters the third filling of the dam is on schedule this year.
“We have been saying since the start of the dam’s construction that tripartite talks will continue,” he added. | 2022-06-11T10:42:43+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ethiopia-says-willing-to-resume-dam-talks-with-egypt-sudan/ |
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Late in the match and with the ball resting motionless on the penalty spot, Harry Kane stood ready, concentrated, eyeing the goal and his teammate from Tottenham in front of it.
He started his run, he kicked the ball, and he missed — badly.
The shot sailed well over the crossbar and flew into the stands. France forward Kylian Mbappe celebrated emphatically, but Kane was far less animated. He pulled the front of his white England shirt up over his mouth, doing his best to ignore the wild scene going on around him as an immediate return to the World Cup semifinals slipped away.
That penalty chance came in the 84th minute and with England trailing 2-1 against the defending champions from France. It was the chance to get back on even terms, exactly 30 minutes after Kane had scored from that same penalty spot to make it 1-1.
The match ended 2-1, with France back in the semifinals and England gone — the team's earliest elimination from a major soccer tournament since the 2016 European Championship.
“We know how many penalties Harry’s scored for us — he scored the first one — how many goals he’s contributed for us to even get here,” England midfielder Jordan Henderson said. “He’ll be stronger for it in the long run, I’m sure. He’s a world class striker, our captain and like I say, we wouldn’t be here without him.”
Kane won the Golden Boot as the leading scorer at the 2018 World Cup, when England reached the semifinals for its best showing at soccer's biggest tournament since 1990. He scored four goals last year at Euro 2020, when England reached the final but lost to Italy in a penalty shootout.
In Qatar, Kane started all five matches and scored two goals. The first came against Senegal in the round of 16. The second on Saturday was Kane’s 53rd goal for England, moving him into a tie with Wayne Rooney for the most goals scored for the national team.
“He’s been incredible for us and is so reliable in those sorts of situations," England coach Gareth Southgate. "We wouldn’t be here but for the number of goals he’s scored for us.”
The penalties against France pitted Kane, a Tottenham striker, against Hugo Lloris, a Tottenham goalkeeper.
On the first attempt, Lloris guessed the wrong way, diving to his left as the ball went into the opposite corner.
Unfortunately for Kane, it didn’t matter which way Lloris dived on the second attempt.
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Credit: Natacha Pisarenko | 2022-12-11T00:14:50+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/kane-sends-penalty-englands-world-cup-hopes-over-the-bar/L44T3K6E6ZCSPCTLZUCENERHJM/ |
We saw a nice weekend dominated by high pressure across our area. Our Memorial Day certainly was not an exception to this rule, as we saw sunshine filled skies and very warm to hot temperatures as the rule.
We will continue to see the dominance of high pressure in our weather forecast for the next few days. This will mean more skies filled with plenty of sunshine and more of the very warm to hot high temperatures as the rule.
We will see a weak cold front move into our area on later portions of our Wednesday and into our Thursday. This will give our area some chances for some rain and thunderstorms at times. A brief few areas of rain and some thunderstorms will be on the heavy and hefty side at times.
One thing to mention, we will see most of Agatha stay to the south of our area over the next several days. Most of the leftovers will move toward Florida for this weekend.
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Lebanese security forces fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of protesters, mainly retired soldiers, who tried to break through the fence leading to the government headquarters in downtown Beirut.
The violence came amid widespread anger over the harsh economic conditions in the country, where mismanagement by the ruling class has been rampant for years, preceding the economic meltdown that started in late 2019.
The retired soldiers and policemen demanding better pay clashed with riot police and troops. Several people suffered breathing problems from the tear gas. The protesters hurled stones at the officers protecting the government headquarters and repeatedly tried to break through the fence.
IN LEBANON, PROTESTORS RALLY AS CURRENCY VALUE HITS NEW LOW
There was no immediate information about any injuries during the violence. The protest was called for by retired soldiers and depositors who have had limited access to their savings after local banks imposed informal capital controls amid the crisis.
The controls restrict cash withdrawals from accounts to avoid folding amid currency shortages. People with dollar accounts can only withdraw small sums in Lebanese pounds, at an exchange rate far lower than that of the black market.
Since early Wednesday, riot police and army special forces were deployed around the government headquarters, an Ottoman-era three-story building known as the Grand Serail of Beirut.
The Lebanese pound hit a new low on Tuesday, selling for more than 143,000 pounds to the dollar before making some gains. The pound has lost more than 95% of its value over the past three years. The official rate is 15,000 pounds to the dollar.
"My monthly salary is $40. How can I survive," screamed a retired army officer.
Most people in Lebanon get paid in Lebanese pounds and have seen the value of their salaries drop over the past years as the pound crashed.
LEBANON'S CURRENCY HITS RECORD LOW AS COUNTRY'S BANKS GO BACK ON STRIKE
With trust in the pound declining, most grocery stores, restaurants and other businesses have opted to start pricing their goods and services in dollars. While this "dollarization" aims to ease inflation and stabilize the economy, it also threatens to push more people into poverty and deepen the crisis.
Lebanon, a small Mediterranean nation of 6 million people, including 1 million Syrian refugees, is in the grips of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class that has ruled the country since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.
The political class has also resisted the implementation of reforms demanded by the international community. Since the economic meltdown began, three-quarters of the population, which includes 1 million Syrian refugees, now lives in poverty and inflation is soaring.
Lebanon has also stalled on reforms agreed to with the International Monetary Fund to enable access to $3 billion in a bailout package and unlock funds in development aid to make the economy viable again. | 2023-03-22T18:38:42+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/tear-gas-violent-clashes-unravel-as-lebanese-protesters-try-to-storm-government-headquarters-in-beirut/article_28242be9-cdd0-5b53-93ae-9ae040611cc8.html |
By JAY COHEN
AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Mason Gillis had 20 points on 7-for-8 shooting, and No. 5 Purdue held off Rutgers for a rugged 70-65 victory in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals on Friday.
With Zach Edey drawing his usual attention inside, the top-seeded Boilermakers (27-5) got a big lift from Gillis and reserve guard David Jenkins Jr. Gillis grabbed nine rebounds and Porter had a season-high 12 points.
The 7-foot-4 Edey finished with 16 points and 11 boards. The Big Ten Player of the Year averaged 21.9 points and 12.8 rebounds during the regular season.
Next up for Purdue is the winner of the second quarterfinal between Ohio State and Michigan State. The Boilermakers are looking for the school’s second Big Ten Tournament title and a No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA tourney.
Derek Simpson scored 18 points for Rutgers (19-14), which advanced with a 62-50 win against Michigan on Thursday. Cam Spencer had 13 points, and Clifford Omoruyi finished with 10 points and eight rebounds.
The Scarlet Knights had won five of their last six meetings with the Boilermakers, including a 65-64 victory at Purdue on Jan. 2. But they struggled to score down the stretch, shooting 40% (14 for 35) from the field in the second half.
After Simpson’s 3-pointer trimmed Purdue’s lead to 50-49 with 8:29 left, Ethan Morton responded with two foul shots for the Boilermakers. Edey then dunked off a pass from Morton and Braden Smith made a jumper to make it 56-49 with 5:40 to go.
Edey added two more free throws and a jumper that lifted Purdue to a 60-52 lead with 3:21 to go.
Bothered by Rutgers’ swarming defense, Purdue got off to a shaky start. The Boilermakers trailed by as many as 12 in the first half before rallying behind Edey and Gillis.
Edey converted two three-point plays — including a vicious jam inside — and Gillis made a 3-pointer in the final seconds, lifting Purdue to a 29-28 halftime lead. Gillis had 10 points at the break on 4-for-4 shooting.
The Scarlet Knights made just four field goals in the last 9:40 of the first half. Paul Mulcahy had a team-high eight points at halftime.
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Rutgers fought hard all the way to the very end, but couldn’t catch the experienced Boilermakers.
Purdue struggled down the stretch, splitting its last eight games of the regular season. It’s looking to become the first No. 1 seed to win the Big Ten tourney since 2019.
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Rutgers is on the bubble when it comes to an at-large bid for the NCAA Tournament, but it should have the opportunity to play in the postseason.
Purdue swept each of its two games against Michigan State and Ohio State this season.
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ARLINGTON, Va., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinetica, the database for time & space, today announced that it has expanded its partner ecosystem in the United States, Europe and Asia to help meet the growing demand for its real-time, vectorized, analytic database for time-series and spatial workloads. The company added strategic global systems integrators to its partner roster, including Expero, Riskfuel and Semantic AI. This partner program expansion comes after the company announced record business momentum of 90% Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth, Net Dollar Retention Rate (NDRR) of 163%, and doubling of its customer base.
"Kinetica is experiencing booming demand for its real-time, vectorized, analytic database as businesses fuse and analyze their massive geospatial and time-series data in real-time to support new application areas. One of the ways we're addressing this interest is by expanding our network of top-tier channel partners," said Nima Negahban, Cofounder and CEO, Kinetica. "The combination of our partners' deep domain expertise and Kinetica's advanced analytic database is helping organizations across industries from financial services and telecommunications to health and safety and automotive obtain key insights to preempt fraud, provide better cell service, boost the customer experience, provide new data driven services, and much more."
Kinetica's partner program connects resellers, systems integrators and service providers with complementary technology solutions and services with new prospects to deliver unparalleled domain knowledge to one of the most exciting and impactful areas of enterprise technology. New partnerships have recently been formed with the following service providers to help businesses realize the full potential of location intelligence:
Expero - Expero is a software innovation company that partners with organizations to solve their complex business challenges quickly, raising the bar high on end-to-end solutions and intuitive user experience for highly complex or regulated industries, such as Financial Services, SLED, Energy, Telco and Healthcare. The Expero CoNNected software suite includes pre-built workflows, visualizations, and analytics tools accelerating our customer's time to market.
"By combining our worldwide reach and market leading expertise with Kinetica's database supporting multiple genres of analytics across graph, time-series, and spatial, we are able to simplify the data stack and increase analytic agility for our clients," said Sebastian Good, CEO, Expero.
Riskfuel - Riskfuel is transforming market risk management for banks and insurance companies. Calculations that normally take hours or days can now be completed in seconds with Riskfuel technology, giving its clients full insight into their risk at all times.
Ryan Ferguson, founder and CEO of Riskfuel, said, "We're excited to join forces with Kinetica. Kinetica has a track record of enabling our capital markets customers to build highly performant custom time series analytics. Their focus on performance pairs well with the pricing models accelerated by Riskfuel."
Semantic AI – Semantic AI fuses, analyzes, and visualizes data—from any source—to empower government and commercial organizations to harness the value of their ever-changing data ecosystem and create context from chaos. Whether it is eliminating fraud, protecting from cyber security threats, preventing regulatory fines, or personalizing information for customers, Semantic AI's Cortex Enterprise Intelligence Platform (Cortex EIP) is purpose-built to augment human cognition by gathering disparate data into a single platform. Cortex EIP stitches together all data sources to show the who, what, when, where, how, and why they are connected. For over two decades, Semantic AI's mission continues to make humans, not machines, smarter so they can form extraordinary business decisions.
According to Jim Ford, President & Chief Strategy Officer of Semantic AI, "With Kinetica, as a component in our embedded analytics platform, we can stitch together all relevant data sources to show customers who, what, when, where and how they are connected, and perform real-time analysis on large, streaming spatial data sets to uncover previously hidden connections and discover insights that produce deeply informed business decisions at speed and scale on dynamic map data."
About Kinetica
Kinetica is the creator of the only distributed, fully vectorized, analytical database for complex real-time workloads. Many of the world's largest companies across the public sector, financial services, telecommunications, energy, healthcare, retail, automotive and beyond rely on Kinetica, including the US Air Force, Ford, Citibank, T-Mobile, and others. Kinetica is a privately-held company, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including AWS, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel, Dell, Tableau, and Oracle. For more information and to try Kinetica, visit kinetica.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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UEFA have issued an apology to the fans who were affected by the events surrounding the Champions League final after ticket fraud and crowd trouble marred the showpiece event at the Stade de France in Paris.
The match was delayed by more than 30 minutes after officers forcefully held back people trying to enter the Stade de France while riot police had also sprayed tear gas on fans, including women and children.
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"UEFA wishes to sincerely apologise to all spectators who had to experience or witness frightening and distressing events in the build-up to the UEFA Champions League final... on a night which should have been a celebration of European club football," it said in a statement on Friday.
"No football fan should be put in that situation and it must not happen again."
Much of the blame was placed on Liverpool fans by France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin but he acknowledged police were caught off-guard by several hundred local "delinquents" who turned up to cause trouble.
Europe's soccer governing body had commissioned an independent report earlier this week.
On Friday they outlined its scope as they look to establish a timeline of events, examine operational plans, assess roles and responsibilities and the response to events inside and outside the stadium.
"The Review will engage with UEFA and all relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, fan groups... the finalist clubs themselves, general spectators, the French Football Federation, the police and other public national and local authorities, and the stadium operator," it added.
Also on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron told local media that ticket holders who were blocked from entering the Stade de France by security personnel must be reimbursed "as fast as possible."
"I have a thought for the families who have been pushed around, who have not been able to access the seats they had paid for. This is why I hope that we can compensate them as soon as possible," Macron said in the interview.
"I have asked the government to clarify what happened, to determine the responsibilities and to explain them in detail to our compatriots, the British and the Spanish."
Real Madrid had demanded answers from organisers over measures taken to protect supporters while Liverpool CEO Billy Hogan had reiterated a call for an investigation, saying they had written to UEFA and raised specific questions.
Real Madrid won Saturday's final 1-0 to win a record-extending 14th European Cup. | 2022-06-03T17:56:31+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/uefa-champions-league/story/4680335/uefa-apologises-to-fans-for-frightening-and-distressing-events-at-champions-league-final |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a convenient way to create comforting steam in the shower," said an inventor, from Shawnigan Lake, BC, Canada, "so I invented the MASTERS SPA. My design could elevate any shower into a spa-like atmosphere."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to create steam while showering. In doing so, it offers a spa-like experience for the user. As a result, it could enhance comfort and relaxation, alleviate congestion and sore muscles, and help cleanse body of toxins. The invention features a compact design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TRO-668, 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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NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the environmental, social and governance (ESG) landscape rapidly evolves, financial professional involvement will likely play a key role in the next phase of the ESG reporting process, according to How finance professionals are helping to advance ESG reporting. This new report was completed jointly by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) and the Financial Education & Research Foundation (FERF) — the independent nonprofit research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI).
The findings are based on a survey distributed to finance professionals from US-headquartered publicly traded companies. In total, 72 chief accounting officers and controllers from some of the largest US companies responded to the survey.
The report reflects how finance professionals are being relied upon to support and reinforce ESG reporting efforts as demand from regulatory bodies, investors and other stakeholders increases. In fact, finance professionals report strong levels of involvement, and while just 7% of chief accounting officers (CAOs) and 3% of chief financial officers (CFOs) "own" the ESG reporting process, more than 60% of respondents indicated that the CAO, CFO, head of Securities and Exchange Commission reporting, head of internal audit and audit committees are either highly or moderately involved with ESG reporting efforts.
In addition to survey data, the report includes perspectives drawn from interviews with financial executives from eight public companies. Both the survey data and the responses reflect the need for alignment in three key areas related to finance support for world-class ESG reporting:
- Governance
- Processes and controls
- Data and technology
The application of these three fundamental components of financial reporting represents a progression of ESG reporting from what could be described as the first and less mature generation to the next, while increasing the level of process rigor, use of automation, consistent policies and procedures, and finance-team involvement.
Building the foundation of ESG reporting will likely involve appropriate new technological tools to complement existing ones, according to the report.
Other key findings of the report show that:
- Controls and processes are a work in progress: Just 8% of respondents indicated that they had a relatively complete set of procedures in place to drive a consistent application of ESG data across the organization.
- ESG data resides all over the place: 60% of respondents indicated that ESG information resides in a patchwork of software applications, and 55% of respondents are housing their ESG data in a spreadsheet.
"Finance professionals are critical to the ESG reporting process," said Jackie Klos, a partner with Financial Accounting Advisory Services at Ernst & Young LLP and a contributor to the report. "By applying the same rigor used in financial reporting to ESG reporting, finance functions are enhancing governance and controls over the underlying data and calculations, allowing executives to rely on both financial and ESG information to inform strategy, achieve their goals and support the veracity of external disclosures."
"The research also shines a spotlight on the fact that the role of financial leaders in business today continues to diversify, reminding us that the skills and experience of such professionals should evolve to stay effective," said to Andrej Suskavcevic, CAE, President and CEO of FEI and FERF.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A local elected official is due to face a judge on a murder charge Tuesday in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct.
Robert Richard Telles, the Clark County public administrator, has remained jailed without bail since his Sept. 7 arrest in the Sept. 2 slaying of veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal staff writer Jeff German.
A criminal complaint accuses Telles of “lying in wait” for German, 69, who prosecutors say was stabbed seven times. German lived alone, and his body was found the following day. The Clark County coroner ruled his death was a homicide.
Telles, 45, was arrested after police asked for help during the Labor Day weekend to identify a person seen wearing an orange work shirt and a wide-brim straw hat toting a shoulder bag and walking toward German’s home the morning of Sept. 2. Police also released images of a distinctive SUV seen near German’s home, driven by a person wearing an orange shirt.
A Review-Journal photographer snapped photos Sept. 6 of Telles washing the same type of vehicle in his driveway.
Police said Telles shut off his cellphone and waited in a vehicle outside German’s home until the attack. It was characterized as a planned response to articles that German wrote about “turmoil and internal dissension” in the county office that handles assets of people who die without a will or family contacts.
Telles lost his primary bid for reelection in June after articles in May aired claims of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer. County lawmakers appointed a consultant to address complaints about leadership in his office.
German was widely respected for his tenacity, and his colleagues said he was working on follow-up reports about Telles and the public administrator’s office when he died.
“The published articles … ruined (Telles’) political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow told a judge on Sept. 8.
That judge, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham, called the police report detailing the attack “chilling” and said it described German “fighting for his life.” She spoke of apparent defense wounds on German’s arms and said DNA believed to be from Telles was found under German’s fingernails.
Police said a search warrant turned up items at Telles’ home including blood-stained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut into pieces. Authorities said they did not immediately find the weapon used to kill German.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, a Republican running for governor in November, said investigators also obtained security video that might show the attack.
The Nevada Press Association has announced that German will be inducted this Saturday into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the rival Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter covering courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
Telles grew up in El Paso, Texas, and lived in Colorado before moving to Las Vegas. He worked as a heating and air conditioning technician and graduated in 2014 from law school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He practiced probate and estate law before he was elected public administrator in 2018, replacing a three-term predecessor.
The Review-Journal reported that in El Paso, Telles’ late grandfather, Richard Telles, served as city clerk, school board trustee and county commissioner. A grand-uncle, Raymond L. Telles Jr., was the city’s first Mexican-American mayor and was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as ambassador to Costa Rica and by President Lyndon B. Johnson as chairman of the U.S.-Mexican Border Commission.
Telles’ father, Raymond R. Telles, was elected to two terms on the El Paso City Council but lost a bid for mayor. He later gave up his law license and avoided prison after pleading guilty in a federal conspiracy and wire fraud case.
Court and police records show that Robert Telles was arrested in Las Vegas in February 2020 after his wife called 911. He was accused of grabbing her in a “‘bear-hug’ position” and of resisting efforts by two police officers to handcuff him. During his arrest, Telles was recorded on police body-worn cameras acknowledging that he had been drinking alcohol and repeatedly identifying himself as a public official.
The case was dismissed and closed in March 2021 after Telles paid a $418 fine, attended counseling and stayed out of trouble.
His term in office expires Dec. 31, but Clark County officials said he is suspended and has been banned from county offices or property pending a review of his position as an elected official. | 2022-09-20T12:29:19+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/green-living/top-story/ap-top-headlines/ap-official-jailed-in-las-vegas-journalist-killing-due-in-court/ |
TUSCON, Ariz., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nurse RaDonda Vaught received a sentence of three years' probation after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult in an incident that occurred on Dec 26, 2017. For the nurse, this ends years of wondering whether she would spend 8 years in prison, but not the questions about the event.
Nurse Vaught erroneously gave vercuronium, a paralyzing agent, to a 75-year-old patient instead of Versed, a sedating agent, prior to a procedure. She had overridden several warnings as she accessed the medication from the pharmacy cabinet. The software system issues so many warnings, often trivial or inappropriate, that it had become routine to override them so that patient care could proceed. After administering the dose, she was called away to assist in the emergency room. Tragically, the patient died.
Hundreds of workers rallied outside the courthouse during the sentencing hearing, warning that criminalizing errors would lead to more hospital deaths because of reluctance to report errors.
Nurse Vaught immediately acknowledged her error. The hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, did not, however, notify the county medical examiner of an unexpected death, but attributed it to a brain bleed. The hospital also failed to notify state or federal officials of the error or the death, though they were obligated by law to do so. The incident did not become public until an anonymous tip prompted an unannounced federal inspection almost a year later, when many serious deficiencies were found.
"The nurse was criminally charged and has a felony conviction, but what happened to hospital officials responsible for reporting and correcting hazardous conditions?" asks AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D. "Why can paralyzing agents even be obtained by nurses for patients getting a routine scan?"
"Threatening a nurse with a decade in prison for a terrible but unintentional error does not fix the system problems or make patients safer, but it does cause capable, dedicated people to re-think their career plans."
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Its motto is omnia pro aegroto (everything for the patient).
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Orlando’s Mo Bamba for four games and Minnesota’s Austin Rivers for three games for their roles in an on-court altercation on Friday night.
Jalen Suggs of the Magic will miss one game, the league said, for escalating the incident.
The league announced the suspensions Saturday. Bamba will forfeit $284,138 in salary, while Rivers will lose about $60,121 and Suggs will lose $47,740.
Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels was fined $20,000 for getting involved in the altercation. Bamba, Rivers, Suggs and McDaniels were all ejected, as was Minnesota’s Taurean Prince. The NBA did not give Prince any additional sanction on Saturday.
Bamba and Rivers threw punches during the incident, and the NBA said Suggs and McDaniels “then entered the altercation as non-peacemakers.” The league also said Bamba “attempted to continue to engage with Rivers in a hostile manner in the corridor outside the locker rooms where he also aggressively shoved a security representative.”
Both Rivers and Bamba had social media posts about the incident, which the league said continued the escalation.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is continuing to investigate a recent outbreak of norovirus linked to raw oysters harvested in Texas.
As of Thursday, 211 total norovirus cases linked to the raw oysters have been reported in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, according to an updated CDC outbreak advisory. The agency also acknowledged that there are likely more than 211 cases, as some of those sickened may not report or seek treatment for their illnesses.
Officials said the outbreak appears to stem from oysters from harvest area TX 1 in Galveston Bay, Texas.
The affected oysters were harvested between Nov. 17 and Dec. 7, and were sold at retail and restaurant locations across the aforementioned eight states, though it’s possible they may have been distributed to other states as well, the CDC said.
On Dec. 9, Publix issued a recall after Texas health officials reported over 40 illnesses. The chain said the oysters, which had a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) of 29697000000, were sold at both Publix locations and Publix GreenWise markets.
The FDA later confirmed that the oysters were potentially contaminated with norovirus.
“Norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States,” the CDC said. “However, state, local, and territorial health departments are not required to report individual cases of norovirus illness to a national surveillance system. That’s why we may not know about many cases, especially if people do not go to a doctor’s office or hospital.”
According to the CDC, there are about 2,500 norovirus outbreaks each year in the United States, mostly concentrated between November and April. Norovirus symptoms can include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, and stomach pain. These symptoms can start within 12 to 48 hours of exposure to the virus.
Those who are older or pregnant, and those with compromised immune systems, are at greater risk of illness. Anyone who is suffering from illness symptoms such as fever, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, chills and headache should seek medical attention.
Infected individuals are also at risk of dehydration, health officials warn.
Anyone who believes they may have purchased a package of contaminated oysters from Galveston Bay is being instructed to discard them. Those who purchased unpackaged oysters are encouraged to contact the seller to learn where they were harvested.
Additional guidance for retailers, restaurants and consumers is available at the CDC’s website. | 2022-12-17T20:21:54+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/cdc-norovirus-outbreak-linked-to-oysters-sickens-hundreds-across-8-states/ |
Giuliani avoids jail in dispute over payments to ex-wife
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani beat a contempt order and avoided jail Monday in an ongoing dispute over money he owes to his third wife, Judith Giuliani, as part of a divorce settlement reached three years ago.
At a brief court hearing, Giuliani said he’s making progress in paying the debt, though he and Judith remain far apart on how much he still owes for things like her country club memberships, condominium fees and health care.
Judge Michael Katz lifted the contempt order he issued after Giuliani missed a September court date. At the time, Judith Giuliani said the ex-mayor owed her more than $260,000. Katz had given Giuliani a final warning at a hearing a few weeks later, telling him the sheriff was “on notice to come at a moment’s notice” to jail him if he didn’t pay up.
Giuliani, also known for his work as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has since provided copies of $150,000 worth of checks he’s written to Judith and said he paid another $45,000 on Sept. 9, Katz said.
“It seems to me that he’s shown proof of payment,” Katz said Monday. “I am going to direct that he makes those payments and to remain current with any other obligations under the stipulation.”
Katz, exasperated with both sides, added: “I am hoping this is the last time I have to sit through this kind of exercise.”
Giuliani, who represented himself, praised Katz as “very fair” and quipped that the judge had finally “seen the reason why I’m not married to her.”
Outside the courthouse, Giuliani celebrated his freedom by quizzing reporters with “The Godfather” trivia, ranting about Hunter Biden’s laptop and plugging his radio show.
Judith Giuliani, in a telephone interview, said she found Katz’s decision “quite baffling” and that the matter is far from over.
Judith Giuliani said her ex-husband, once hailed as America’s Mayor for his leadership after 9/11, is still in arrears to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and that her lawyers will be taking him to court again if he doesn’t pay up. Giuliani disputes that, saying he owes about $14,000.
“The bottom line is that Rudy is what Rudy always is,” Judith Giuliani said. “He learned how to avoid the system, as we see in every other case that he’s done.”
Judith Giuliani said she agreed to the settlement in 2019 — rather than taking $40,000 in monthly support payments a judge awarded — as a favor to Giuliani, who was facing mounting costs at the time stemming from an investigation into his work in Ukraine.
Giuliani has since been under scrutiny for his efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss, as well as his actions prior to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. He alluded in court Monday to still more financial trouble, saying one check he wrote to Judith, for $30,000, bounced.
Katz quickly tired of the bickering couple, snapping at Judith Giuliani as she tried interrupting him and chiding Rudy Giuliani for talking in “apples and oranges” and attempting to submit evidence after a deadline.
“I don’t know why everyone thinks this is a free-for-all,” Katz said.
Lamenting that the case had turned him into an accountant, poring over checks, the judge said: “It seems everyone’s record-keeping in this case is very poor.”
Rudy Giuliani, 78, insisted in court that he could write a $5,000 check immediately to cover various costs, but said as he was leaving court that he needed to know what name to write on it.
“Judith,” someone from his ex-wife’s legal team responded. “Giuliani. It’s your name.”
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A major competition is underway for the ultimate prize. It's not the Major League Baseball playoffs, but the USA Mullet Championships. Voting ends Tuesday night at 11:59 p.m. ET to determine the nation's best mullet.
The winner of the best business-in-the-front, party-in-the-back hairstyle will be announced on Oct. 20.
Scott Salvadore of Stillwater, N.Y., has taken the lead in the "Mane Event." He refers to his mullet as "The Lord's Drapes" and has been growing and maintaining it for the past four and a half years. Salvadore is one of 25 finalists who are vying for the glorious "America's Best Mullet" title and a $2,500 prize.
The kids and teens divisions have already awarded their championships.
The USA Mullet Championships calls itself the nation's official mullet-ranking authority. It started in 2020 as the Michigan Mudflap Contest, before expanding to be a national event with multiple divisions.
Last year's winner Clint Duncan won with over 17,000 votes.
The organization also says half of entry fees are donated to the group Stop Soldier Suicide, which provides care for veterans in need.
Here are some of the finalists for this year's grand prize.
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Debra Burns was “flabbergasted” when police told her that her ex-husband, David V. Sinopoli, was charged with the 1975 fatal stabbing of Lindy Sue Biechler.
Burns spoke briefly with reporters Wednesday morning as she watered her new asphalt driveway.
“I can’t say anything because I don’t know anything,” said Burns, whom police contacted Sunday after arresting Sinopoli. “I mean, I was interrogated by the cops for over an hour, so believe me.”
The death of Lindy Sue Biechler is the oldest cold case in Lancaster County, and if the case goes to trial, Burns said, she would have to testify.
According to Burns, nothing about their life together indicated Sinopoli had the capacity to commit the act police have charged him with. (Biechler was stabbed 19 times, and the knife was left in her neck.) She and Sinopoli had met at McCaskey High School, where they graduated in 1972. The two were married for 13 years.
As a young couple, they lived for more than a year in the apartment complex where Biechler also lived and was killed, but they had moved out sometime prior to August 1975. Burns said her ex-husband never mentioned anything about Biechler.
Burns knew the 19-year-old Biechler “just to say hi, in passing” in the four-unit apartment complex that’s about a half-mile away from Burns’ current home.
Their marriage produced two sons before they divorced. As for the divorce, she said, they simply grew apart.
“We got married too young. When you’re 19 and 20 …” she said. They were wed in February 1974.
Burns asked that her children not be contacted. LNP reporters had stopped by the home of one of her sons before visiting her. A woman who answered the door told reporters, “Nope.”
Reporters also visited the East Hempfield Township home of Sinopoli and his current wife, but no one answered, nor did anyone respond to a note left in the front storm door.
Co-worker: ‘It’s like a nightmare’
When one of Sinopoli’s co-workers, whom LNP | LancasterOnline granted anonymity, first heard the news Monday that he had been arrested, she didn’t believe it. She told herself, “It’s gotta be another Dave Sinopoli,” until more details came out and she couldn’t deny it any longer.
Since then, she’s been speaking nonstop with others who knew Sinopoli, and they all agreed the news was shocking. Many thought of him as a really nice guy, she said.
“Nobody ever feared him. There was nothing to fear,” she said. “It’s like a nightmare. We can’t get it out of our minds.”
She described Sinopoli as friendly and sociable, though he wasn’t a very outgoing person. However, he liked to help people whenever he could — usually offering up rides when it was needed. She said he didn’t drink or do drugs, either, and she had never seen him get angry before.
Before his mother died in December, Sinopoli spent a lot of time taking care of her while she was sick, the source said. She saw him as a “happy person” with a good marriage — he remarried in 1987 to Marina Suraci — and a loving relationship with his kids and grandchildren.
She said Sinopoli and his wife were traveling to Aruba from the Philadelphia International Airport when detectives were able to obtain a surreptitious DNA sample from a coffee cup he’d thrown away. The sample was the last bit of evidence investigators needed to arrest him.
Many people who knew Sinopoli are trying to tell themselves that the investigators are wrong and they’ve arrested the wrong person, she said, but she’s starting to believe it might be true. She wonders if he was “too nice” in order to hide a dark side of himself.
“I don’t understand how that Dave (from 1975) and this Dave could be the same person,” she said. | 2022-07-20T22:45:44+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/like-a-nightmare-ex-wife-former-co-worker-detail-shock-after-arrest-of-david-v/article_49e41172-0870-11ed-b5cd-0371710cdfed.html |
Jacksonville Routt Catholic fans held their breath in an uneasy 47-43 victory over Virden North Mac on December 21 in Illinois boys high school basketball action.
Jacksonville Routt Catholic opened with a 12-6 advantage over Virden North Mac through the first quarter.
The Panthers drew within 19-18 at halftime.
Virden North Mac came from behind to grab the advantage heading to the final quarter over Jacksonville Routt Catholic 35-30.
The final quarter was decisive for the Rockets, as they climbed out of a hole with a 47-43 scoring margin.
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Dow Finsterwald became a footnote in history as the first player to win the PGA Championship in stroke play and the last U.S. captain of a Ryder Cup before continental Europe was invited to join.
More than a major champion and Ryder Cup player, he devoted his life to golf as the longtime professional at The Broadmoor in Colorado.
Finsterwald, a 12-time winner on the PGA Tour, died Friday night at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 93. His son, Dow Finsterwald Jr., said he died peacefully in his sleep.
“He did all he could for the game,” said his son, the head professional at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. “He enjoyed his friends and they always remembered. He loved the rules and he cared about the game. He had a wonderful life and he felt like for sure it was complete.”
Finsterwald was born in Athens, Ohio, and played college golf at Ohio University. One of his earliest matches was against Arnold Palmer at Wake Forest, and they became best friends until Palmer's death in 2016. Finsterwald spent his winters at Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
“He (shot) 29 the first round we played together, so I didn't have much luck there,” Finsterwald once said.
Palmer came along as golf was being shown on television. That was a big reason why the PGA Championship decided to switch from match play to stroke play in 1958.
Finsterwald lost in the championship match in 1957 to Lionel Hebert. The following year at Llanerch Country Club in Pennsylvania, Finsterwald was two shots behind Sam Snead going into the final round when he closed with a 67 and won by two over Billy Casper.
“It certainly made a big impact on my life and certain things were made available because of winning that championship,” Finsterwald said at Oakland Hills in 2008 on the 50-year anniversary of his win. “But as important as it was to me — and believe me, it has been very important — it was a major step for the PGA of America to go from match play to stroke play.”
“It certainly was a little extra there in that I had been the runner-up in the finals of the last match play. So I guess I’m a little prejudiced about stroke play,” he said. “But it was the logical thing to do and the time to do it.”
Finsterwald was the PGA player of the year in 1958 and he won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average in 1957. He also played on four Ryder Cup teams, going 9-3-1. He was the captain of the 1977 U.S. team that featured Ryder Cup rookies like Tom Watson and Lanny Wadkins.
The U.S. won easily, and it was at that Ryder Cup at Royal Lytham & St. Annes that Jack Nicklaus suggested stronger competition because the Americans were winning with regularity. The Britain & Ireland team was then expanded to include continental Europe.
Finsterwald's last win was the 500 Festival Open Invitation in Indianapolis. He also made 72 consecutive cuts, a remarkable feat from his era because it was not measured on a 36-hole cut but being among the top 25 or so finishers who were paid from the prize fund.
Finsterwald became the head pro at The Broadmoor in 1963 and kept the position for 28 years.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Patriots quarterback Brian Hoyer left New England’s game with the Green Bay Packers because of a head injury.
Bailey Zappe, a rookie fourth-round pick from Western Kentucky, took over for Hoyer and made his NFL debut Sunday.
Hoyer was making his first start since 2020 and stepping in for Mac Jones, who injured his left ankle last week in the Patriots’ 37-26 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Hoyer departed after getting sacked by Rashan Gary on a third-down play in the Patriots’ second series of the game. He had engineered a 10-play, 56-yard drive on the game’s opening series to set up a Nick Folk 37-yard field goal that gave New England a 3-0 lead.
The team said Hoyer was being evaluated for a head injury and announced he was out for the rest of the game after the Patriots went three-and-out on Zappe’s first drive.
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A trio of Texas GOP congressmen played a key role in preventing Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from becoming speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Republicans Chip Roy, R-Austin, Michael Cloud, R-Victoria, and Keith Self, R-McKinney, were among 20 hard-line GOP rebels who held the line and voted against McCarthy despite negotiations over rule changes and committee appointments.
The opposition left the lower chamber without a top leader at least until Wednesday, when lawmakers will reconvene to vote again.
Before Tuesday, it was clear McCarthy didn’t have the 218 votes needed to become speaker after the first round of voting. But Self’s vote came as a surprise since he hadn’t made public his position.
“I’m looking for the man or the woman who will be strong and enforce rules from the top, from the leadership,” the congressman-elect told The Texas Newsroom on Tuesday evening.
Self voted instead for Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. Jordan himself supports McCarthy.
Self recognized McCarthy’s concession, including reinstating the Cut-As-You-Go rule, or CUTGO. That rule requires that any mandatory spending increase is matched by a spending cut.
But Self said even that concession seems to have been made to appease conservatives like him and not to actually improve the legislative process.
“Mandatory spending is all of the most important spending in the constituents’ minds, and it is very difficult to see how anyone would be able to enforce that,” Self said. “So I’m not sure that’s even a reasonable rule.”
Most of the Congress members who voted against McCarthy are part of the House Freedom Caucus, an ultra-conservative group of lawmakers. McCarthy made other concessions in order to get enough votes from them to become speaker. He conceded to allow any five Republican lawmakers to initiate a vote of no confidence against the speaker, Fox News reported Monday. He also vowed to end remote voting.
Speaking from the House floor on Tuesday afternoon, Roy said the vote was “about the future of the country.”
He surprised his colleagues when he voted for Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., for speaker once and for Rep. Jordan twice.
Roy said he wanted members to have the ability to offer amendments to legislation from the floor of the House.
“The fact is this place has to change,” Roy said. “It has to change and the change comes by either adopting rules and procedures that would make us actually do our jobs, or it comes from leadership.”
Tuesday’s vote showed one of the biggest divisions so far within the Republican Party, and within the Texas GOP delegation.
Speaking to reporters, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, slammed the GOP members who voted against McCarthy.
“We will not vote for anyone else but McCarthy — those people think they are stubborn, we are more stubborn,” Crenshaw said. “They are enemies now.” | 2023-01-04T01:07:23+00:00 | kut.org | https://www.kut.org/politics/2023-01-03/texas-congressmen-among-republican-rebels-voting-against-kevin-mccarthys-speaker-bid |
NEW YORK (AP) — It took less than a day for the Jan. 6 report to go from public unveiling to the bestseller list on Amazon.com.
By late Friday, three editions of the Congressional probe of the 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump were in the top 30 on Amazon. The editions include one with a foreword by MSNBC anchor Ari Melber, published by Harper Paperbacks; A Celadon Books release with a foreword by New Yorker editor David Remnick and an epilogue by Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and member of the House Select Committee; and a volume by the Hachette Book Group imprint Twelve, published in coordination with The New York Times.
The 814-page document, released late Thursday, is not copyrighted, can be published by anyone and is otherwise available for free on various government and media web sites. Previous government publications, from the Sept. 11 commission report to Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump’s ties to Russian officials when he ran for president in 2016, have been bestsellers. The Sept. 11 report was even a finalist in 2004 for the National Book Award.
As with other government releases, publishers have rushed to get their books out quickly to capitalize on public interest. All three bestselling editions will be out within the next two weeks, along with books from Random House and Melville House Books.
The Jan. 6 report culminates an 18-month investigation, which included more than 1,000 witness interviews and more than a million pages of source material. The committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans blamed the insurrection on Trump, finding a “multi-part conspiracy” orchestrated by the president and his closest allies in an effort to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump, a Republican, has already announced his candidacy for 2024. | 2022-12-24T17:22:16+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-legislature/ap-politics/ap-editions-of-jan-6-report-already-on-amazon-best-seller-list/ |
Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on track to resume
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — The Sandy Hook families’ lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax appear poised to resume soon, based on agreements revealed Friday in the bankruptcy cases of some of Jones’ companies.
The bankruptcy filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health last month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already lost the defamation lawsuits, and the filings came a week before a jury in Texas was set to begin considering how much money Jones should pay the families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
On Friday, lawyers in the bankruptcy case said the families will be removed as creditors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV will be removed as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation cases.
The state cases would then continue against Jones and his largest money-making company, Free Speech Systems, neither of which filed for bankruptcy. It was not immediately clear when those cases will resume.
The lawyers’ comments came during a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones’ companies, said the bankruptcy case will continue because they have other creditors.
A hearing, however, remains scheduled for May 27 on whether the bankruptcy case should be dismissed. The Sandy Hook families have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they were meant only to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones’ lawyers deny.
The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 children and six educators.
The families of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to the school sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since said he believes the shooting did occur.
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Law enforcement situation blocks I-65 SB near Alabama River Bridge
Published: Apr. 4, 2023 at 10:54 AM CDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Multiple law enforcement officers are on the scene of a situation that has prompted the temporary blockage of Interstate 65.
Law enforcement are blocked I-65 southbound near the Alabama River Bridge.
Details are limited, but ALDOT cameras captured the scene Tuesday morning around 10:40 when law enforcement forced to a stop a silver SUV. The vehicle is now facing northbound and surrounded by multiple patrol cars.
It’s unclear why law enforcement was pursuing the vehicle or the identity of the suspect.
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Man and stepson, 14, die after hiking in extreme heat in Texas national park
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) - A Florida man and his 14-year-old stepson died after hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in West Texas, according to officials.
The 31-year-old man had been hiking the Marufo Vega Trail on Friday with his two stepsons, ages 14 and 21.
Temperatures at the time were 119 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius), according to the National Park Service. The park, like other parts of Texas, is experiencing extreme heat with daily high temperatures ranging from 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) to 119 degrees Fahrenheit.
The 14-year-old became sick during the hike and lost consciousness.
His stepfather hiked back to his vehicle while the boy’s older brother tried to carry him back to the trailhead, according to the park service.
Authorities were first alerted about the emergency at 6 p.m. CDT on Friday. A team of park rangers and U.S. Border Patrol agents reached the scene at 7:30 p.m. and found the 14-year-old had died.
Authorities began looking for the father and at 8 p.m. they found that his vehicle had crashed over an embankment at Boquillas Overlook. The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, the park service said.
The names of the two victims were not immediately released by authorities, and the causes of their deaths was not immediately known.
“The Marufo Vega Trail winds through extremely rugged desert and rocky cliffs within the hottest part of Big Bend National Park. No shade or water makes this strenuous trail dangerous to attempt in the heat of summer,” the park service said in a news release.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-26T04:01:41+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2023/06/26/man-stepson-14-die-after-hiking-extreme-heat-texas-national-park/ |
TSX-V: MKO; OTCQX: MAKOF
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mako Mining Corp. (TSXV: MKO) (OTCQX: MAKOF) ("Mako" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an interim Q4 2022 production update from its San Albino gold mine ("San Albino") in northern Nicaragua, the announcement of a plant expansion to 600 tonnes per day ("tpd") with no additional capex, and a general corporate update. Financial results for Q3 2022, including detailed reporting of our operating costs, are expected to be released on November 21, 2022. All dollar amounts herein are expressed in US dollars.
In the Company's Q3 2022 production results update (see October 21st, 2022 press release), Mako announced that it had rectified the issues which led to reduced recovery rates from March through August 2022 (77% Q3 2022 recoveries vs. 86% expected), and lower throughputs for the quarter which were implemented in order to observe the effects of increased plant residence time on recovery rates (481tpd, including availability, vs. 500tpd expected). The Company is pleased to announce that the plant is now operating significantly above nameplate capacity, with recoveries at expected levels. During October, the mill operated at 539 tpd at 97% availability (4.6% above nameplate capacity), with 85.6% recoveries, and 3,518 ounces of recovered gold (see Table 1).
The Company sold a total of 5,455 ounces of gold in the first half of Q4 2022 (from October 1st through November 15th), putting the Company on track for record gold sales in Q4 2022.
In November, the Company commissioned a pre-leach thickener circuit that will allow for higher material density, allowing increased throughput rates without sacrificing any residence time. The pre-leach thickener will also result in optimized cyclone performance due to a reduced cyclone feed density which will improve leach circuit performance. By the end of the quarter, Mako expects to be operating at 600 tpd with no additional capex and minimal recovery losses.
Akiba Leisman, Chief Executive Officer of Mako states that, "Q4 is starting out very strong, and we now expect record gold sales at San Albino. Now that the recovery issues from March through August have been fully resolved, it is clear that the plant can operate at substantially higher throughputs than what it was originally designed for without the need for any additional capital. After the relatively weak Q2 and Q3 quarters, this will have a significantly positive impact on costs, cash flow and earnings beginning this quarter."
The Company's Q3 2022 financial statements and management discussion and analysis are expected to be filed on Monday November 21, 2022. As mentioned above, the 9% reduction in recoveries vs. expectations, the 4% reduction of plant throughput in order to increase plant residence time, and the last shipment of gold being sold after quarter end, meant Q3 gold sales were approximately 1,700 ounces less than what they would have otherwise been, lowering mine operating cash flow by 15-20%, and increasing AISC1 to approximately $1330/oz, including corporate overhead.
Given the performance of the plant in the current quarter, which we expect to continue for the foreseeable future, AISC will be reduced by approximately $200 per ounce beginning in Q4 2022.
In October 2020, Mako published its National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report and Estimate of Mineral Resources for the San Albino Project. A portion of that published mineral resource formed the basis of our non-cash depletion and depreciation calculation through Q3 2022.
Subsequently, the Company has added certain previously delineated mineral resources into a mine plan and identified additional mineral resources within the San Albino mine area, which are expected to increase the base of the estimated tonnes to be depleted going forward. In addition, we expect that a maiden mineral resource at Las Conchitas (which currently has no carrying value) will be incorporated into a separate mine plan beginning early next year. In this context, we expect to see a materially lower depletion and depreciation expense, and a significant increase in net income starting in Q4 2022.
John Rust, a metallurgical engineer and qualified person (as defined under NI 43-101) has read and approved the technical information contained in this press release. Mr. Rust is a senior metallurgist and a consultant to the Company.
On behalf of the Board,
Akiba Leisman
Chief Executive Officer
Mako Mining Corp. is a publicly listed gold mining, development and exploration company. The Company operates the high-grade San Albino gold mine in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, which ranks as one of the highest-grade open pit gold mines globally. Mako's primary objective is to operate San Albino profitably and fund exploration of prospective targets on its district-scale land package.
Forward-Looking Information: Statements contained herein, other than historical fact, may be considered "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The forward-looking information contained herein is based on the Company's plans and certain expectations and assumptions, including that the Company's financial results for Q3 2022, including detailed reporting of operating costs, are expected to be released on November 21, 2022; that the Company is on track for record gold sales in Q4 2022; that by the end of the quarter, Mako expects to be operating at 600 tpd with no additional capex and minimal recovery losses; that the additional mineral resources identified within the San Albino mine area are expected to increase the base of the estimated tonnes to be depleted going forward; the expectation that a maiden mineral resource at Las Conchitas (which currently has no carrying value) will be incorporated into a separate mine plan beginning early next year, and depletion and depreciation expenses will be dramatically lower beginning in Q4, thus causing a significant increase in net income starting in Q4 2022;and that the Company can operate San Albino profitably in order to fund exploration of prospective targets on its district-scale land package. Such forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, the risk that the filing of the Company's financial results are delayed beyond November 21, 2022; that the Company does not achieve record gold sales in Q4 2022 as a result of operations not meeting the expectations set out in this news release; that financial results will not be as expected for Q4 2022; that the October 24, 2022 Measures ultimate have a significant impact on the Company's Nicaraguan operations; that the Company is not successful in operating San Albino profitably and/or funding its exploration of prospective targets on its district-scale land package; political risks and uncertainties involving the Company's exploration properties; the inherent uncertainty of cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expense; commodity price fluctuations and other risks and uncertainties as disclosed in the Company's public disclosure filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Such information contained herein represents management's best judgment as of the date hereof, based on information currently available and is included for the purposes of providing investors with the Company's expectations regarding its interim Q4 2022production results at San Albino gold project, and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Mako does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Akil Baddoo hit one of Detroit's four homers and drove in four runs, Matthew Boyd pitched effectively into the sixth inning, and the Tigers held on to beat the Washington Nationals 8-6 on Friday night.
Zack McKinstry's solo shot and Baddoo's three-run homer helped the Tigers to a 6-0 lead after three innings against rookie Jake Irvin. Detroit has won 10 of its last 15.
“We did what we usually do, stay aggressive, and stayed aggressive in the zone today and we did well,” McKinstry said. “We made some solid contact. Got a curveball up and away and just kind of re-gathered myself and hit it the other way. Super excited to see it go over the fence.”
Washington rallied for six runs late, thanks to a pair of two-run shots from Lane Thomas and Keibert Ruiz. The Nationals have lost four in a row and five of six.
Matt Vierling and Riley Greene also went deep for Detroit, which has 35 homers this season. Only Cleveland (24) had fewer homers in the American League at the start of play Friday. This was the Tigers' first game with more than two homers.
Backed by a pair of double plays, the 32-year-old Boyd (3-3) did not allow a hit through five innings.
“Let the fastball play good, play up," Boyd said. “I was able to throw the off-speed for strikes where I wanted to, the right way. It turned out real well.”
That changed in the sixth, when Ruiz led off with a scorching double to right-center. CJ Abrams doubled him home, and Thomas' sixth homer of the season made it 8-3. Boyd was pulled with two outs in the inning.
“I think he was little more east-west as that inning went on," Tigers manager AJ Hinch said. “He tried to create some shapes. Got a little bit tentative with his pitches. Trying to make perfect pitches and falling into some bad counts and making some mistakes. He will be disappointed because of the way it ended and he’s a perfectionist. But he gave us a chance to win.”
Ruiz's homer off Mason Englert made it 8-6 in the seventh. Alex Call doubled, and reliever Chasen Shreve came on to strike out Luis García, ending the threat. Alex Lange recorded the final four outs for his eighth save.
“Lange is awesome," Tigers catcher Eric Haase said. "Any situation that we put him in you have to beat him, he’s going to have his best stuff. Keeping him in the zone has been the whole difference this year. His stuff is disgusting and he’s attacking the zone and making guys beat him.”
Irvin (1-2) allowed six runs, four earned, in 2 2/3 innings. He also committed a fielding error, walking four in the Tigers' three-run first. The 26-year-old right-hander has allowed 12 runs in his last two outings after surrendering only one run in his first two major league starts.
“It’s up to me to make good pitches, and I didn’t,” Irvin said. “Simple as that.”
MOVES
The Nationals reinstated Joey Meneses from the paternity list and optioned infielder Jake Alu to Triple-A Rochester.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: LHP Tarik Skubal (left elbow strain) is traveling so he can work out with the team, but there is no timetable for his return.
Nationals: RHP Victor Arano (right shoulder strain, 60-day injured list) will get an MRI after he felt soreness following his most recent bullpen. ... C Israel Pineda (right finger fracture) injured his shoulder when he got hit with a foul tip. ... LHP Sean Doolittle (partial UCL tear in left elbow) will throw an inning Saturday. ... CF Victor Robles (back spasms) is progressing slowly.
UP NEXT
Tigers RHP Alex Faedo (0-1, 4.22 ERA) faces Nationals LHP Patrick Corbin (2-5, 4.65) as the series continues on Saturday. With this start, Corbin will have faced every MLB club.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-20T03:41:06+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/baddoo-homers-drives-in-4-tigers-outlast-18109760.php |
There’s a lot of pressure for young adults to prosper.
This makes me wonder: Are we pushing young adults too hard, fearing they’ll be financial failures if they don’t hit certain money milestones soon enough?
A recent Pew Research Center report generated headlines about how today’s young adults are behind in five frequently cited benchmarks of adulthood.
Pew, after analyzing Census Bureau data, found that 21-year-olds are less likely than their predecessors four decades ago to have a full-time job, be married, be financially independent, live on their own or have a child. Being financially independent was defined as having income or at least 150 percent of the poverty line.
In 2021, about 68 percent of 25-year-olds were living away from their parents’ homes, compared with 84 percent in 1980, according to Pew.
This brings me to a recent column I wrote on financial tips for graduates. Readers had a lot to say, often disagreeing with my advice, which included paying off student loans before investing for retirement and not rushing to buy a home.
Here are my responses to those who took issue with my guidance.
‘The math is totally in favor of buying a home’
I said: Don’t listen to the collective “they.” They will tell you renting is a waste of money. It’s not.
Comment: “Buy as soon as you can and rent rooms to friends,” one reader wrote.
Like so much about personal finance, it’s about the individual’s financial standing. The math does not always work in favor of purchasing a home, especially for young adults who haven’t had time to build a sufficient cash cushion to weather economic downturns.
What happens when the friends suddenly move out? Or they get laid off — last hired, first fired. Where’s the money going to come from if there is a major home repair needed?
I’ve been at this for a long time. I work directly with a lot of people, which gives me an up-close and personal view of how folks at all income levels and ages handle their money. Advice for one does not always apply to the many. I know better what actually works in practice. Just because it works on paper doesn’t mean it works in real life.
Another person wrote siding with me: “There are so many unknowns early in a career — relocating for a job or graduate school, meeting a significant other [who] works in the other direction. Our financial adviser advised my 20-something son to wait until he knows he’ll be in one place for more like 5-7 years or until he gets married.”
‘Totally disagree’ with tackling college debt first
I said: Yes, young adults should invest so that they have a chance of their money beating inflation. But if they are leaving college with debt, tackle that first. They still have time to invest.
Comment: “Putting some money in a retirement account (yes, ‘investing’) as a young person — especially if there is a healthy employer match — is likely to be a very wise financial decision.”
I agree that, in some cases, it makes sense to put in enough money to get an employer’s match. However, for those coming out with significant debt that could take them decades to pay if they stretch the payments out, it’s better to get rid of that liability early before other obligations end up a priority over their student loans.
Here’s what I witness — regularly.
Many graduates starting out don’t focus on their student loans and put the debt on pause through forbearance. Even after they begin making good money, they keep putting off paying the debt. Then they have kids, buy homes and live like the debt isn’t there, taking vacations and living above their means. Because the interest is being capitalized, the debt keeps growing. Now in their 40s and 50s, they are panicking about paying the debt off before they retire.
By the way, thanks to the Securing a Strong Retirement Act (or Secure 2.0, enacted last year), employers can choose to make contributions to workers’ retirement accounts based on their student loan payments. If this benefit is offered, workers can concentrate on paying off the debt without missing out on matching contributions.
‘There is “good” debt and “bad” debt’
I said: Referring to debt with an adjective is unhelpful. It’s just debt, and it all can be destructive if overused and too oppressive.
Comments: “Bad debt means your net result is negative, like buying a fancy pair of shoes on a credit card and not paying it off. Good debt means your net result is positive, like a degree that gets you a better job that way more than covers the cost of the debt, or a house that appreciates, provides a place to live, and is a better lifestyle.”
There are many students who have debt and no degree. Or others paid a lot for a master’s degree that didn’t increase their income but stuck them with debt they won’t pay off for decades. Remember the Great Recession and the housing crisis?
When giving advice, you have to factor in behavior. I speak against characterizing loans as good or bad in the hope that people who need to pause before taking on any debt will.
I write for the masses. If I said a mortgage is “good” debt, some folks who shouldn’t buy a home will see homeownership only in the positive. They won’t do the math to see that their mortgage won’t leave room to save for retirement or build an emergency fund. Many households don’t have enough saved to cover a $400 financial emergency, according to the Federal Reserve.
And have you been following the angst over the Biden administration’s debt forgiveness plan and whether the Supreme Court will allow it to move forward? Millions of student loan borrowers aren’t so happy with their so-called “good” education debt.
I agree with this comment: “I prefer the term ‘necessary debt’ rather than good or bad. What is necessary deserves careful consideration.”
If nothing else, the debate about my advice helped one young adult.
“From my perspective, it’s helpful to hear the wide-ranging perspectives folks have about these hot-button topics,” a 28-year-old D.C. reader said in an email. “I have always thought of personal finance as very cut-and-dry as if there was only one right way to do things. But there is a laundry list of learnings of what’s not the best idea. Finance isn’t always so cut-and-dry.” | 2023-06-09T12:39:57+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/09/singletary-financial-advice-readers/ |
NEW YORK, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGC) ("BGC"), a leading global brokerage and financial technology company, today announced the addition of a Weather Derivatives Team with the hire of Nicholas and Eric Ernst. Nicholas joins the firm as Managing Director, BGC Weather Derivatives while Eric joins as Weather Broker.
John Abularrage, Co-Global Head of Financial Services Brokerage, commented on today's announcement, "We are excited to welcome Nicholas and Eric to BGC. They bring with them almost three decades of invaluable experience in the weather derivatives and climate risk transfer space. With these new hires, BGC now operates the premier weather and climate derivatives desk in the industry."
Nicholas Ernst brings with him over 20 years of experience in the weather derivatives and risk transfer space. Prior to joining BGC, he served as Managing Director, Weather Markets at ICAP. Additionally, Nicholas spent time in similar roles at OTC Global and Evolutions Markets.
Before joining BGC, Eric Ernst served as a Weather Broker at ICAP. Prior to that, Eric held various roles at Choice Energy and spent three years in the renewable energy sector.
About BGC Group, Inc.
BGC Group, Inc. ("BGC") began trading on Nasdaq at the market opening on July 3, 2023, under the new ticker symbol "BGC", following the corporate conversion of its predecessor BGC Partners, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: BGCP). BGC is a leading global brokerage and financial technology company. BGC, through its various affiliates, specializes in the brokerage of a broad range of products, including Fixed Income (Rates and Credit), Foreign Exchange, Equities, Energy and Commodities, Shipping, and Futures. BGC, through its various affiliates, also provides a wide variety of services, including trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information, and other back-office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. Through its brands, including Fenics®, FMX™, FMX Futures Exchange™, Fenics Markets Xchange™, Fenics Digital™, Fenics UST™, Fenics FX™, Fenics Repo™, Fenics Direct™, Fenics MID™, Fenics Market Data™, Fenics GO™, Fenics PortfolioMatch™, BGC®, BGC Trader™, kACE2™, and Lucera®, BGC offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to numerous financial instruments and markets. BGC, BGC Group, BGC Partners, BGC Trader, GFI, GFI Ginga, CreditMatch, Fenics, Fenics.com, FMX, Sunrise Brokers, Poten & Partners, RP Martin, kACE2, Capitalab, Swaptioniser, CBID, Caventor, LumeMarkets and Lucera are trademarks/service marks and/or registered trademarks/service marks of BGC and/or its affiliates.
BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, corporations, and investment firms. BGC's Class A common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "BGC". BGC is led by Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Howard W. Lutnick. For more information, please visit http://www.bgcg.com. You can also follow BGC at https://twitter.com/bgcgroupinc, https://www.linkedin.com/company/bgc_group and/or http://ir.bgcg.com.
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HONG KONG , Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- People always welcome the new year full of anticipation. On entering a brand new year, we have good news of wishes coming true in the last two months of 2022, when Futu and Make-A-Wish successfully helped four "wish children" in Australia, the United States, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore.
Hannah is a bright, cheerful, and outgoing seven-year-old girl who enjoys sharing her stories, talking about her friends at school, and playing with her siblings. But she has end-stage renal failure. As the oldest of three siblings, she adores her younger brother (4 years old) and younger sister (3 years old) and wishes to have a bunk bed with a slide so they can play on the bed together.
A day prior to her wish day, the carpenters worked hard to build Hannah's dream bunk bed with a slide, while Hannah and her siblings were at their grandmother's place. Hannah started the next day with shopping and a delicious lunch. After that, Hannah headed back home, not knowing of the surprise waiting for her. When she reached home, she was overwhelmed with joy and was grinning from ear to ear! She climbed up the bunk bed and went down the slide many times, exclaiming, "I am very happy!"
In the United States, an 11-year-old boy, Amarri, wished to have a puppy. Amarri's gastrointestinal disorder causes him to undergo frequent infusions and treatments that take a lot of his time. This means the 11-year-old misses out on fun-filled days with his friends and family.
Amarri got a new puppy named Loki. After Loki joined the family, Amarri took on responsibility for the dog—taking Loki for daily walks, feeding him, and training him to "sit" and "touch" on command. The most important thing is Loki is a welcomed distraction for Amarri as he undergoes infusion treatments.
Another wish was granted in Australia where Henry, nine years old, is living with a life-threatening illness. He initially wished for a holiday on a cruise ship in 2020, but Covid put the brakes on that wish. So Henry and the wish team worked together to come up an alternative wish—a two-story tree house!
Henry got to help design and build the treehouse himself, and plans to take good care of. It will be used as a sleepout for him and his friends, a magic hideout and a apace that can grow with him into the future.
And 5-year-old Jayden in Hong Kong SAR, who is living with leukemia had his wish to have a Buzz Lightyear-themed room granted too. As a big fan of Buzz Lightyear, he can now enjoy playtime with his beloved brother and his favorite toy character.
At the end of October 2022, Futu Holdings (Nasdaq: FUTU), the world's leading digital financial technology company, donated US$200,000 to the charity Make-A-Wish International, in order to help grant the wishes of children living with critical illnesses.
"Make investing easier and not alone" has been the mission of Futu for a long time. In working with Make-A-Wish, Futu has gone further to address loneliness caused by serious diseases.
Those seriously troubled by diseases are likely to face different kinds of loneliness. And this is where Futu wants to offer a helping hand. Because as a global business company, Futu is also committed to giving back to the community and caring for children in different corners of the world, hoping to bring company, relieve loneliness, fulfill aspirations and heal hearts.
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FAFSA season starts: What you need to know for financial aid
NEW YORK (AP) — The Free Application for Federal Student Aid filing season starts Oct. 1 for the 2023-2024 school year. If you plan to attend college next year, experts say you might want to fill out the FAFSA application as close to the opening date as possible.
Many institutions award financial aid on a first-come, first-serve basis. Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, recommends students get started.
“It is a good idea to do it on the earlier side,” said McCarthy. “Whenever (colleges) run out of money, then that’s all the funding they have for the year.”
Whether this is your first or fifth time filling out the application, here are some recommendations and background for completing this process and getting financial aid for your college career.
—HOW DOES FAFSA WORK?
The FAFSA is a free government application that uses financial information from you and your family to determine whether you can get financial aid from the federal government to pay for college.
The FAFSA will send your financial information to the schools listed in the application that you are interested in attending — up to 10 schools. Each school that admits you will send you a financial aid package. The amount of financial aid you get depends on each institution.
This application is also used to determine eligibility for other federal student aid programs, like work-study and loans, as well as state and school aid. Sometimes, private, merit-based scholarships also require FAFSA information to determine if you qualify for their specific aid.
“Completing the FAFSA is probably the single most important thing you can do to get in line for scholarships, grants and other federal financial aid for college,” said Rick Castellanos, vice president of corporate communications at Sallie Mae.
Nitro College, a website that offers advice for college students, has a step-by-step guide listing all the questions in the FAFSA.
—WHO SHOULD FILL OUT THE FAFSA?
Anyone planning to attend college next year. Many decide not to apply thinking their family’s income is too high to be considered, but McCarthy recommends all students fill out the application.
“There’s no commitment, there’s no charge,” said McCarthy. “See what happens, you may be surprised. And if not, you have it on file in case you change your mind.”
Students and parents can use the federal student aid estimator to get an early approximation of their financial package.
—HOW DO I FILL OUT FAFSA?
The first step is to create an FSA ID to help you log into your account electronically. If you are a dependent student, your parents will also need to create an account.
Before starting your application, McCarthy recommends using your permanent personal email, one that is “available to you and that you check regularly.”
Here are the documents you will need to fill out your FAFSA application:
—Your Social Security Number
—Your driver’s license number, if you have one
—Your Alien Registration Number, if you are not a U.S. citizen
—Your federal income tax returns, W-2s, and other records of money earned.
—Your bank statements and records of investments.
—Your records of untaxed income.
The application offers the option to get your federal tax return information from the IRS Data Retrieval Tool.
McCarthy also recommends students use their physical Social Security card when they fill out the application, not only to make sure they use the right number. but to double check their name.
“It’s much easier to avoid an issue in the first place,” said McCarthy. Some students who use their middle name in their daily lives make the mistake to list it as their first name on the application, she said. This causes issues with the application that will need to be resolved.
—WHEN SHOULD I FILL OUT FAFSA FOR FALL 2023-2024?
Meeting deadlines is important to avoid missing out on any possible financial aid you might receive. Aside from the federal deadline, students need to know if their state also has a deadline to be considered for financial aid.
The FAFSA application for the 2023-2024 year opens on Oct. 1 and must be submitted by June 30, 2024.
Each state has different deadlines for financial aid. For example, California has a March 2, 2023 deadline and Florida has a May 15, 2023 deadline for state financial aid programs.
You can check your state’s deadline here.
—DO I HAVE TO RENEW MY FAFSA?
The FAFSA needs to be filled out every year you plan to attend college. However, it usually becomes easier to navigate the process after you’ve done it once.
“I feel a lot faster every year,” said Haley Campbell Garcia, 28, who filled out the FAFSA for the first time in 2013 and has filled it out every year since, for her undergraduate and graduate degrees.
When you renew your application, some information is already pre-filled, but tax information and other items need to be updated.
—WHAT INFORMATION DO I NEED FROM MY PARENTS FOR FAFSA?
If you are filing as a dependent student, you’ll need to provide the financial information of at least one parent. If you list both parents, you need to know how they filed their tax return — jointly or separately — and their official marital status, said McCarthy.
“It seems like it should be obvious, but sometimes people don’t necessarily know whether their parents are separated or actually divorced,” said McCarthy. You can find the official marital status of your parents by checking their tax return.
Parents need to create their own FSA IDs. When your parents fill out the application, they can manually input their tax return information or use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool.
Parents will need this information to fill out the FAFSA:
—Social Security number or Alien Registration number (if they are not U.S. citizens).
—Federal income tax returns, W-2s and other records of money earned.
If a student is applying for the 2023-2024 school year, parents need to use their 2021 federal tax return information.
If you have questions about income information, you can call the federal student aid office at 1-800-433-3243.
—WHAT IF MY PARENTS ARE NON CITIZENS WHEN I FILL OUT FAFSA?
Your parents’ citizenship status does not affect your eligibility for student aid. The application doesn’t ask for your parents’ legal status in the country.
If your parent does not have a Social Security number, students should enter all zeros on the application. Also, parents without a Social Security number won’t need to create a FSA ID, but will need to sign the application by printing and mailing it to the financial aid office so the student’s application gets processed.
For more details on non-citizen parents you can visit studentaid.gov.
—HOW CAN I SPEAK WITH MY PARENTS ABOUT FAFSA WHEN THEY’VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE?
Whether you are a first generation college student or your parents are immigrants, having to explain FAFSA to them can be challenging.
The way Jessica Sansarran, a 25-year-old resident of Orlando, approached this issue was by reading FAFSA guides to her parents and communicating her frustrations with the process.
“I told them ‘you know, this is complicated for me too’,” said Sansarran, whose parents are from Guyana.
Anastasia Acerno, 21, approached this process similarly.
“I would just ask my parents for all their tax documentation, wait for them to find it, and then just ask them the questions myself, instead of having them go through the application,” said Acerno, who graduated from the University of Albany.
—WHAT IF MY FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED SINCE 2021?
If your (or your family’s) financial situation has drastically changed, you need to contact the specific institution that you are planning to attend. Each college handles special circumstances differently, said McCarthy.
—WHEN WILL I RECEIVE MY FAFSA FINANCIAL AID PACKAGE?
FAFSA applications take three to five days to process, according to the student aid website. However, when you receive your financial aid package will depend on your institution. Usually, students get their financial aid package shortly after their admission offers.
—WHAT IF I MADE A MISTAKE IN MY FAFSA?
If you made a mistake filling out your application, you need to correct your FAFSA form. You can do this by logging in with your FSA ID, go to the “My FAFSA” page and select “make corrections.”
In some instances, if the changes cannot be done through the FAFSA portal, students will need to reach out to their institution’s financial aid office to make corrections.
—WHAT IF MY FINANCIAL AID IS NOT ENOUGH TO PAY FOR MY COLLEGE?
If the financial aid package from the college you plan to attend will not cover your college expenses, there are alternatives.
You can look into scholarships that might help lower the cost of attending college or student loans. There are two types of student loans: federal and private. Federal student loans usually offer lower interest rates than private loans.
—WHERE CAN I FIND MORE HELP TO FILL OUT FAFSA?
A lot of information about FAFSA can be found on the studentaid.gov website, but if you have more specific questions, you can speak with the financial aid office of your desired institution.
From filling out basic questions to a more in-depth understanding of your financial aid package, your college or community college’s financial aid office can help.
In Yvette Solano’s case, she requested help from someone in the financial aid office that spoke Spanish.
“For me, it was about feeling comfortable asking questions and understanding the information,” said Solano, 25, who attended San Diego City College and graduated from Cal State, Los Angeles this summer. “You shouldn’t be ashamed of asking for help.”
McCarthy also recommends looking for college access organizations that provide free help completing the FAFSA.
Students or parents can also call, email or live chat with the Federal Student Aid Information Center.
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Tornado destruction highlights low-income disaster preparedness challenges
Posted/updated on: March 28, 2023 at 2:52 pm(ROLLING FORK, Miss.) -- The South was devastated by tornadoes last weekend – destroying homes, shattering families and leaving thousands to pick up the pieces of what they’ve lost. More than 20 people have died in connection with the storms, according to authorities.
Residents in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, one of the towns most devastated by the tornadoes, were first put under a tornado watch more than 2.5 hours before the first tornado touched down.
However, being prepared for a disaster at any moment's notice can be difficult for low-income residents.
Sharkey County, home to Rolling Fork, has a 35% poverty rate, which is higher than Mississippi’s 19% poverty rate and the less than 12% U.S. poverty rate, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
More than half of Mississippi residents have fewer than $1,000 in savings and about 38% have no savings at all, the State Treasury of Mississippi reports.
Poverty can impact someone’s access to cellphones and other technology to receive weather alerts, access and financial support to transport oneself to a shelter or to evacuate, and more.
You have to “create a culture” of ongoing preparedness, particularly in a place where “but at the same time, the economics don't let you do that,” said Tanya Gulliver-Garcia, the director of learning and partnerships at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy,
Research from the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University found that nearly two-thirds of American households don't have adequate plans and supplies for a disaster.
Studies have also shown that people in poverty, with low incomes and with less education, are less prepared for disasters.
According to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, cellphones have been a great tool for warning residents with emergency alerts.
However, ensuring that people of all economic backgrounds have the technology to be reached “is something that we have to – to continually look at what we can do to better inform people,” Criswell told ABC News in an interview.
“We need to really talk to these families and find out how they would have better gotten this message because we have to always work on giving people early warnings,” she told ABC News.
Especially in places like Mississippi, which experiences 30 to 100 tornadoes each year, ensuring that tornado watches and warnings are being heeded is a struggle within itself, according to ABC News’ meteorologist Ginger Zee.
Gulliver-Garcia also found that access to transportation plays a big role before and after a disaster.
The closest rated tornado shelter from Rolling Fork is 17 miles west in Mayersville.
“A number of people didn't have cars or cars that were properly working and then they got destroyed,” said Gulliver-Garcia. “Because they're small towns, they also don't have a public transit system. Even the ability to access any kind of support – to go to a disaster recovery center, get to a shelter, to a feeding program – those are all challenges.”
Living paycheck-to-paycheck makes it harder to save and be prepared for a tragedy -- and it also hinders recovery, .
“Your home is destroyed and the place where you lived is no longer accessible to you … And then if you are working paycheck-to-paycheck or you're working a job that was destroyed – If you're not allowed back in the community right away, you're not even getting that paycheck-to-paycheck anymore. That's gone as well," Gulliver-Garcia said.
With thousands in likely home repair and recovery costs, rebuilding can snowball into compounding debt.
“In some of these communities, they are certainly some of the poorest communities in the state,” Criswell said. “And we know that we’re going to have to bring the full force of the federal family in there to come help them.”
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of CareDx, Inc. (NasdaqGM: CDNA), if they purchased the Company's shares between shares between February 24, 2021 and May 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until July 22, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 58th and 59th home runs of the season to move within two of Roger Maris’ American League record with 16 games remaining and lead the New York Yankees over the Milwaukee Brewers 12-8 on Sunday.
Judge added a two-run double in the ninth as part of a four-hit day for New York (88-58), which hit five homers and avoided a three-game sweep. The Yankees opened a 5 1/2-game lead over second-place Toronto in the AL East and headed to the Bronx for a homestand against Pittsburgh and Boston that starts Tuesday.
“They’re going to be like over the edge, slapping at things, and beer is going to be flying everywhere,” pitcher Gerrit Cole predicted. “It’s probably not going to be a child-friendly environment in the bleachers. It’s going to be nuts.”
Judge’s 11th multihomer game tied the season record set by Detroit’s Hank Greenberg 1938 and matched by the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa in 1998.
Seeking a Triple Crown, Judge leads the major leagues in homers and with 127 RBIs. His .3162 batting average is just behind AL leader Luis Arraez of Minnesota at .317 and Boston’s Xander Bogaerts at .3164.
“We have some big games coming up,” Judge said. “That’s really the only thing on my mind right now. My focus is to go out there and win a game.”
Milwaukee (78-68) dropped two games behind San Diego, which played later Sunday, for the third and last NL wild card.
Judge’s homers totaled 857 feet. His first came on a sinker from Jason Alexander with a 2-0 count in the third inning, a 414-foot, opposite-field drive into the right field second deck.
Judge became the first player with five batted balls of 110 mph or more in a game since Statcast started tracking in 2015, the hardest at 115.4 mph.
“You have to come with your best stuff against him,” Alexander said. “I felt like I made some good pitches, and it’s tough when you can paint one on the outside and he still puts it 110 (mph) into the stands. It’s a really thin margin of error.”
Then in the seventh against Luis Perdomo, Judge pulled a slider with a 1-2 count for a 443-foot shot to left.
“This is his moment right now. When you make a mistake against him, he’s going to take advantage of it,” Perdomo said.
Judge also walked against Hoby Milner (3-3) leading off a four-run fifth as the Yankees went ahead to stay at 7-4.
Judge had not homered in his previous three games since going deep twice at Boston’s Fenway Park.
Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber is a distant second in the major leagues with 39 homers. Judge became the first player since Mookie Betts in 2018 to top 10 WAR by FanGraphs. Since 2012, only Betts, Mike Trout (twice) and Buster Posey had reached that mark
Maris hit 61 homers for the Yankees in 1961, one more than Babe Ruth in 1927.
Anthony Rizzo homered in his return from the injured list, his 31st of the season, and had three hits. Aaron Hicks and rookie Oswaldo Cabrera also went deep as the Yankees overcame 3-0 and 4-1 deficits.
New York had 16 hits and twice hit back-to-home homers: Judge and Rizzo in the third, then Hicks and Judge in the seventh.
Cole (12-7) gave up Kolten Wong’s three-run homer in the first and Tyrone Taylor’s solo shot in the second, Cole has allowed second-most in the majors and trailing only Washington’s Josiah Gray at 37.
“I don’t really have a good answer,” Cole said. “In some cases, it’s kind of remarkable. But I need to be better.”
Rowdy Tellez hit a two-run homer in the eighth off Clarke Schmidt. Milwaukee scored twice in the ninth and brought up the potential tying run with one out before Clay Holmes struck out Luis Urías and retired Keston Hiura on a groundout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Boone said the team was waiting for doctors to review an MRI taken on RHP Frankie Montas’ throwing shoulder. … RHP Scott Effross (strained right shoulder) gave up a leadoff homer to Bobby Dalbec and a pair of doubles as he pitched the fifth inning for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre against Worcester. … RHP Albert Abreu (elbow inflammation) pitched a scoreless inning for Double-A Somerset, striking out two and allowing one hit. … Boone said INF/OF Marwin Gonzalez was feeling better after being removed from Saturday’s game when struck on the helmet by a throw from Brewers catcher Victor Caratini while standing in the batter’s box. …C Jose Trevino was out of the starting lineup for a second consecutive day after leaving Friday’s game with a bruised right knee.
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Yankees: LHP Nestor Cortes (10-4, 2.70 ERA) will make his 26th start of the season.
Brewers: RHP Corbin Burnes (10-7, 2.97) gets the start as Milwaukee opens a three-game home series with the New York Mets. Burnes is 2-0 with a 1.71 ERA against the Mets.
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HAMMOND, La. (AP) — Following a two-game absence, Eric Rodriguez threw for 374 yards and four touchdowns and Texas A&M Commerce beat Southeastern Louisiana 31-28 on Saturday in the Lion's first-ever Southland Conference contest.
With a 31-28 lead with 4:44 left, the Lions (3-2, 1-0) put together a 15-play drive, marched to the Southeastern 12 and time expired for their first win over a Division I opponent this season. It was Southeastern Louisiana's (3-3, 1-1) first loss against an FCS opponent this year.
On the first play from from scrimmage after halftime, Rodriguez connected with Andrew Armstrong for a 77-yard touchdown pass that put the Lions ahead 17-14 and they never trailed again.
Rodriguez connected again with Armstrong from 4 yards out with 8:22 remaining for a 31-21 advantage. Southeastern Louisiana responded with a 13-play, 64-yard drive to reduce the deficit to three when Carlos Washington Jr. ran it in from the 1 with 4:44 left.
Armstrong finished with 153 receiving yards on eight receptions and Kennedy Snell caught six passes for 113 yards and a score.
Washington had three rushing touchdowns for Southeastern Louisiana.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
519 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Oneida
County through 600 PM EDT...
At 519 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
New London, or near Rome, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Rome, Lee, Verona, Vienna, Sylvan Beach, Blossvale, New London, Delta
Lake, Taberg and Verona Beach.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4330 7528 4313 7559 4321 7577 4345 7564
TIME...MOT...LOC 2119Z 214DEG 17KT 4322 7558
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Want to make more money when you record music in the Shoals?
THE SHOALS, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - The Shoals area isn’t new to the music scene. In fact, you could say the folks there are veterans. The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and The Allman Brothers Band are just a few names who have recorded in some of the iconic music studios in the corner of north Alabama.
To keep the tradition alive, and maybe add some upgrades, the Shoals Economic Development Authority (Shoals EDA) is launching the Shoals Music Makers Recording Incentive. It’s a new program to encourage artists to record in those same iconic studios. If they do, they could see money in their pockets sooner rather than later.
So, how does it work? If you’re a musician, you can apply to the program to record an album or new single in one of Colbert or Lauderdale County’s many studios. If you’re accepted, head to the studio, lay down a track and get part of your payment reimbursed.
The first Tier allows artists to receive up to a 10% reimbursement while Tier 4 offers up to a 30% reimbursement.
Learn more and apply at ShoalsMusicMakers.com.
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Johnson & Johnson topped third-quarter expectations thanks to growth in pharmaceutical sales, but the health care giant continued to tread cautiously with its outlook due to the strong dollar.
J&J on Tuesday stuck to the midpoint of its 2022 forecast after lowering expectations the previous two quarters due to the impact of currency exchanges. The company now expects adjusted earnings to range between $10.02 and $10.07 per share.
That’s a narrower forecast than the $10-to-$10.10 range the company predicted in July.
For the full year, analysts expect, on average, earnings of $10.07 per share, according to FactSet.
J&J brings in nearly half of its sales from outside the United States. A strong U.S. dollar, which is now worth more than a euro for the first time in 20 years, can affect sales for companies that do a lot of international business.
They have to convert those sales into dollars when they report earnings. The stronger dollar decreases the value of those sales. It also gives foreign products a price edge in the United States.
In the third quarter, J&J’s profit climbed 22% to $4.46 billion. Revenue rose 2% to $23.79 billion, and adjusted earnings totaled $2.55 per share.
Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.48 per share on $23.36 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
Revenue from the company’s biggest segment, pharmaceutical, climbed 2.6% — or 9% without the impact of foreign exchange — to $13.2 billion. That business was charged by sales of the blood cancer treatment Darzalex, which soared nearly 30% to $2.06 billion.
J&J also brought in $2.45 billion in worldwide sales from Stelara, which treats psoriasis and other inflammatory disorders.
The company recorded no U.S. sales in the quarter from its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine, which brought in $489 million in revenue from international markets.
J&J’s vaccine was one of three initially authorized by U.S. regulators to protect against COVID-19. But the government has since strictly limited who can receive the shot due to a small risk of rare but serious blood clots.
Sales also climbed 2% in the medical device segment, to $6.78 billion, while revenue slipped in consumer health. J&J is spinning off that segment, which sells Band Aids and beauty products, into a separate, publicly traded company named Kenvue.
Shares of New Brunswick, New Jersey, company rose more than 2% before the opening bell. Shares are down 2.6% this year. That compares to the roughly 17% drop recorded by the Dow Jones industrial average, of which J&J is a component.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is considering running for president, on Tuesday called a third Donald Trump White House bid the “worst scenario” for Republicans and said his call for terminating parts of the Constitution hurts the country.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Hutchinson said he planned to make a decision early next year on whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination. Hutchinson, 72, leaves office in January after serving eight years as Arkansas’ governor.
He’s part of a growing cohort of Republicans eyeing a White House run at a challenging moment for the party, which fell short of its hopes for sweeping victories in last month’s midterm elections. Trump, who has already announced another run for the presidency, has faced blame from some Republicans for contributing to the GOP’s lackluster performance by elevating candidates and issues that didn’t resonate with voters during the general election.
Hutchinson has previously said he wouldn’t support Trump’s candidacy in 2024, but on Tuesday, he didn’t rule out backing Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee.
“That’s really the worst scenario,” Hutchinson said of another matchup between Trump and Biden. “That’s almost the scenario that Biden wishes for. And that’s probably how he got elected the first time. It became, you know, a binary choice for the American people between the challenges that we saw in the Trump presidency, particularly the closing days, versus Biden, who he made it that choice.”
Hutchinson also derided Trump’s recent statement calling for terminating parts of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election as “so out of line and out of step with America that it almost does not deserve a response.”
“It hurts our country,” he said. “I mean, any leader, former president that says suspend the Constitution is tearing at the fabric of our democracy. And so we want to make sure that the people know that it’s Republicans that support the rule of law.”
Hutchinson said he’s measuring how much financial support he’d have for mounting a presidential bid, but said he’s also testing to see what kind of response his message is getting as he weighs a run. Hutchinson, who’s been a regular presence on Sunday news talk shows, said he’s been reaching out to other governors, members of Congress and evangelical leaders for advice on a possible run.
“The midterm elections made it clear to me that the GOP needs a bold agenda, but also new voices that’s articulating what our party stands for, the direction we want to take our country,” Hutchinson said.
Hutchinson said he didn’t view the midterms as a rejection of Republicans overall as much as of specific candidates.
“We’re very disappointed that because of poor candidates, poor messaging, looking back instead of looking forward, we didn’t do as well as we should have in the midterm election,” he said.
Hutchinson is among several Republican candidates who are weighing a presidential run. Others include former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Another Arkansan, Sen. Tom Cotton, announced he wasn’t seeking the Republican nomination.
Despite the potentially crowded field, Hutchinson said he doesn’t expect a repeat of 2016 when GOP rivals hoping to block Trump’s candidacy instead split the vote. Hutchinson said he thinks the early primary and caucus states will winnow the number of rivals to Trump very quickly.
“I think it will be much more methodical this cycle than what we’ve seen in previous years,” he said. “And I think that competition is good and it’s healthy.”
Though he’s offering himself up as a new voice, Hutchinson has been a fixture in Arkansas politics going back to the 1980s when the state was predominantly Democratic. Hutchinson is a former congressman who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration as the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration and an undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Hutchinson has ramped up his criticism of Trump in recent months, including a speech at the Reagan Library where he recounted his experience as a U.S. attorney who prosecuted white supremacists in Arkansas in the 1980s. Hutchinson contrasted that background with Trump having dinner with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies.
Hutchinson said that contrast is one of the reasons he thinks his voice may be needed in the presidential race. Republicans need figures who speak the truth and are not worried “whether you’re satisfying somebody down in Mar-a-Lago or not,” he said.
Hutchinson earned the ire of Trump last year when the governor vetoed legislation that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. GOP lawmakers overrode Hutchinson’s veto and enacted the ban, which has been blocked by a federal judge.
Trump called Hutchinson a RINO — Republican in Name Only — for vetoing the ban. The governor’s successor, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has said she would have signed the ban into law.
Hutchinson, who has said he would have signed the measure if it was limited to gender-affirming surgery, called Arkansas’ legislation “one of the most extreme in the country.”
A vocal opponent of abortion who has signed other restrictions on transgender youth into law, Hutchinson said Republicans need to tread carefully on culture wars issues.
“The key thing is for Republicans and conservatives is to think about let’s not instinctively say, well, let’s use the power of government to accomplish our social agenda or our cultural agenda,” he said. “You know, our first response is a strength in the home, the strength and the families and the communities and our churches and synagogues strengthen those because that’s the greatest impact on our culture.”
Nearing the end of his eight years as governor, Hutchinson is touting his work on tax cuts and on expanding computer science courses as his top accomplishments. Hutchinson, who wrapped up his one-year term as National Governors Association chairman in July, is term limited and could not seek reelection. He said he thinks it’s important to have a governor running for the office.
“I’m known for having a steady hand in leadership, but also a bold agenda,” he said. “And I think that’s a good combination for a leader of the country.” | 2022-12-14T09:36:16+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ap-the-ap-interview-hutchinson-says-trump-worst-choice-for-gop/ |
PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FinPay™, a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management, today announced the launch of the FinAdvisor® Platform, an advanced patient admissions enablement platform.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. (NewsNation) — Authorities say the person who shot and killed three people at a Greenwood mall before a civilian shot and killed him was a 20-year-old local man.
Jonathan Sapirman, of Greenwood, began firing after leaving a bathroom at the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before it closed Sunday evening, Greenwood police Chief James Ison said at a news conference.
Sapirman continued shooting people until he was shot and killed by 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, of nearby Seymour, who was shopping with his girlfriend, said Ison.
“Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible, armed citizen,” said Ison, noting that authorities were still trying to determine a motive for the attack.
The deceased have been identified as Pedro Pineda, 56, of Indianapolis and his wife Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37. Victor Gomez, 30, of Indianapolis, has also been confirmed as one of the victims.
Two other people were injured in the shooting, including a 12-year-old girl. Both of them are in stable condition.
Ison said after Sapirman entered the mall, he walked into a bathroom where he spent about an hour before he emerged and opened fire. Ison said investigators believe Sapirman spent that time preparing and possibly assembling a disassembled rifle that he had brought in his backpack. He ended up firing 24 rounds within two minutes.
Although authorities said Dicken was legally armed, the mall prohibits people from carrying weapons on its property.
As of July 1, Indiana law allows anyone age 18 or older to carry a handgun in public except for those prohibited for reasons such as having a felony conviction, facing a restraining order or having a dangerous mental illness as determined by a court. Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature retained provisions in the law that allow private property owners to prohibit firearms.
This mass shooting was just the latest to unnerve Americans in 2022. Schools, churches, grocery stores and a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, have all become killing grounds in recent months. Still, the reality of America’s steep murder rate can often be seen more clearly in individual deaths that rarely make the news.
The Associated Press and WXIN contributed to this report. | 2022-07-18T19:59:07+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/live-update-on-deadly-indiana-mall-shooting/ |
Proposed bill in Alabama legislature could allow for exceptions to abortion ban
Local women’s clinic says the bill needs to provide more details
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A new bill set to be presented when next week’s general legislative session starts could make it possible for victims of rape or incest to get an abortion in Alabama.
The procedure is currently illegal in the state, except to prevent a serious health risk to the mother.
The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa is now focusing on women’s care and pregnancy prevention. They used to provide legal abortions in the state, but organizers don’t support the new bill allowing exceptions to Alabama’s current abortion ban.
Director Robin Marty said the bill doesn’t have enough concrete information in it. She said it needs to clarify if a person has to have a police or medical report of the rape or incest to get the abortion. Marty said it also doesn’t outline doctor requirements, whether two doctors will have to sign off or one.
“It does not, for instance, explain what would be required if a person were to say they wanted an abortion because they had been sexually assaulted,” Marty said. “There’s really not a lot of explanation of what exactly they are going to ask of the patients, and also what are they going to ask of the doctors. Are they going to have to have two doctors sign off in the same way the health exceptions we have right now, say that two doctors need to agree with this.”
“It creates a bunch of complications for doctors that we have already seen don’t want to do abortions,” Marty said. “They are worried about their own medical career. Introducing exceptions is just going to make it more complicated for them and less likely to actually provide any of those exceptions.”
The bill would allow exceptions to the ban for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, but Marty said many patients in those cases often struggle to find doctors willing, even when abortions were legal in the state.
“We did often have people come in who had been sexually assaulted,” Marty said. “They usually did not report to the police, often it was by companions, or by people that they would not feel comfortable about prosecuting against.”
“They weren’t able to access abortion when it was legal under these circumstances, trying to access them through exceptions when it’s not legal, is going to be completely impossible,” Marty said. “That is not going to change because they are suddenly now able to do an abortion because someone has been sexually assaulted. This puts a doctor in the uncomfortable position of which patient can be trusted.”
Marty said the bill also needs to add clarification on where they can get the abortion and how much it will cost.
“Are they allowed to go to clinics that provide this care, if there are any left,” Marty said. “Do they have to go to hospitals where oftentimes the doctor may not know how to do a certain type of procedure.”
Marty said the clinic is still struggling to keep its doors open, but right now, can stay open until July.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s far-flung electricity transmission network, following shootings at two electric substations in North Carolina that damaged equipment and caused more than 45,000 customers to lose power.
The order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission directs officials to study the effectiveness of existing reliability standards for the physical security of the nation’s power grid and determine whether they need to be improved.
“The security and reliability of the nation’s electric grid is one of FERC’s top priorities,” FERC Chairman Richard Glick said at a commission meeting Thursday.
“In light of the increasing number of recent reports of physical attacks on our nation’s infrastructure, it is important that we fully and clearly review the effectiveness of our existing physical security standard to determine whether additional improvements are necessary to safeguard the bulk power system,” Glick said.
The order comes less than two weeks after one or more people drove up to two substations in central North Carolina, breached the gates and opened fire on them. Outages began shortly after the Dec. 3 nighttime attack and lasted several days before powers was restored to almost all households in Moore County four days later.
Even as power was restored, Duke Energy Corp., which owns the two North Carolina substations, reported gunfire Dec. 7 near another Duke facility in South Carolina. Law enforcement officials say they have found no evidence linking incidents in the two states, although multiple state and federal agencies continue to investigate.
At least four electrical substations have been targeted in separate attacks in Oregon and Washington state since November, Oregon Public Broadcasting and other outlets reported. Attackers used firearms in at least some of the incidents, and some power customers in Oregon temporarily lost service.
Grid security experts have said the attacks demonstrate anew the vulnerability of the nation’s electric grid, which includes more than 50,000 substations and more than 700,000 miles of transmission lines.
Power transformers are highly visible in thousands of sites across the country and “are really vulnerable — sometimes to a drunk with a gun and an attitude,” said FERC commissioner Mark Christie. ”We have a lot of incidents of that. That’s not unusual. The substations are a different ballgame.”
He called the North Carolina attack “sophisticated” and noted that it caused outages for more than 40,000 people.
While officials are likely to recommend changes such as high-definition cameras, 24-hour surveillance or opaque walls, “How are we going to pay for all the upgrades?” asked Christie, a Republican who has served on the panel since 2020.
The bipartisan infrastructure law includes as much as $15 billion for power grid upgrades and resilience, and Christie said he hopes some of the money is used for “deferring some of the cost of the hardening that we know is going to take place” as a result of the recent attacks.
“I hope this does not flow through to ratepayers,” he said.
Glick, a Democrat, told reporters after the meeting that while he is always concerned about costs: “How concerned are you about the cost when the power goes out? Would you rather pay now or later?”
Thursday’s meeting was likely Glick’s last as chairman, after his term expired earlier this year. President Joe Biden renominated Glick to another term as chairman, but Sen. Joe Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, has refused to schedule a confirmation hearing.
Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, has not given a reason for his refusal, but a spokeswoman said last month that “the chairman was not comfortable holding a hearing.”
Manchin, a strong supporter of fossil fuels, sharply criticized Biden’s remarks about shutting down coal plants and replacing them with renewable energy. Manchin also blasted a move by FERC’s Democratic majority to more closely scrutinize the impact of natural gas projects on climate change. The panel later retreated under opposition from Manchin and Senate Republicans.
Glick said Thursday he will leave the agency at the end of the year when Congress adjourns. “I think it’s pretty clear there’s not a path forward for me anymore,” he said.
His exit will leave the commission with a partisan 2-2 deadlock, leaving in limbo Biden’s ambitious agenda to address climate change and environmental justice in decisions on pipelines and other energy projects. Environmental groups have decried Glick’s impending departure and have said the panel needs three Democrats to move forward on Biden’s priorities.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
FERC approved a physical security reliability standard in 2014 following a still-unsolved attack on a major substation in California. The new order gives the North American Electric Reliability Corporation 120 days to submit a report on the current standard and recommend possible changes. | 2022-12-15T23:18:54+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/feds-order-review-of-power-grid-security-after-attacks/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
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Beer garden taps kegs for delayed start to season
Estabrook opened a day late due to rain but kicked off the beer garden season with plenty of suds flowing
Estabrook opened a day late due to rain but kicked off the beer garden season with plenty of suds flowing
Estabrook opened a day late due to rain but kicked off the beer garden season with plenty of suds flowing
Rainy weather may have delayed the start of beer garden season at Estabrook, but plenty of beer was flowing on Saturday.
Crowds toasted the sunny weather at Estabrook Park.
The beer garden is now open from noon until 9 p.m., seven days a week.
"We're serving beer, wine, soft drinks, Usinger's sausage, and fresh-baked Bavarian pretzels," said beer garden operator Hans Weissgerber III.
The Whitnall Park Beer Garden also opened on Saturday after a rain delay.
Money raised by the beer gardens will help support Milwaukee County parks. | 2022-04-23T23:16:41+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/beer-garden-taps-kegs-for-delayed-start-to-season/39804355 |
3 Lowcountry natives named AP D2 All-Americans
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Three former Lowcountry high school football players have been honored as Division 2 All-Americans by the Associated Press on Wednesday.
Stratford alum Mario Anderson, Ft. Dorchester alum Davion Gilmore and Berkeley alum Tre Morrison each were named 1st team All-Americans by the AP.
Anderson, who just finished his sophomore season at Newberry, rushed for 1,560 yards on the year to go along with 19 touchdowns. He announced on Tuesday that he is entering the transfer portal with 2 seasons of eligibility left.
Gilmore just completed his junior year at Wingate where he led the team with 95 tackles and also added 20.5 tackles for a loss and 6.5 sacks.
Morrison, who’s a sophomore at Wingate, had 21 pass breakups which was the most in the country and his 5 interceptions also had him in the top 10 nationally.
Copyright 2022 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-15T18:42:28+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/12/15/3-lowcountry-natives-named-ap-d2-all-americans/ |
The Sundance Film Festival will take place in person next week after streaming online for the past two years. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Kim Yutani, the festival's director of programming.
Copyright 2023 NPR
The Sundance Film Festival will take place in person next week after streaming online for the past two years. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Kim Yutani, the festival's director of programming.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-01-14T14:28:41+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-01-14/sundance-film-festival-returns-in-person-this-week-after-streaming-online-for-2-years |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan killed at least 31 people and left dozens missing over the past three days, while in neighboring Pakistan 13 people died due to heavy rains and landslides.
Shafiullah Rahimi, the ruling Taliban’s appointed spokesman for Afghanistan’s State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management, said Sunday that at least 31 people were killed, 74 were injured and 41 others were missing. Flash floods hit the capital, Kabul, the Maidan Wardak and Ghazni provinces. He added that the majority of the casualties were in west Kabul and Maidan Wardak.
Rahimi also said around 250 livestock perished in the floods.
The flooding brought further misery to the already suffering Afghanistan. In April, the U.N.’s humanitarian affairs agency said the south Asian country is facing its third consecutive year of drought, its second year of severe economic hardship and the consequences of decades of war and natural disasters.
The most recent flash flood happened in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province west of Kabul, killing 12 people, said Taliban government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid. At least 40 other people were missing and rescue teams were busy conducting search and rescue operations, he said.
The provincial governor’s office in a statement said that hundreds of homes were either damaged or destroyed and the missing are believed to be under the rubble of collapsed homes.
The statement also said that hundreds of square miles of agricultural land were washed out and destroyed and the highway between Kabul and the central Bamiyan province was closed due to the floods.
In Pakistan, 13 people died and seven were injured due to heavy rains and landslides as monsoon season continued to affect parts of the country Sunday.
In the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, nine people lost their lives over the last 48 hours in rain-related incidents.
In the Skardu area of the Gilgit Baltistan region, four family members died when a massive landslide hit their car, according to police officer Raja Mirza Hassan.
Taimur Khan, a spokesman of the provincial disaster management authority, said heavy rainfall and thunderstorms damaged at least 74 houses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The provincial authorities declared an emergency in the Chitral district as rainfall triggered flash floods in the mountainous area.
Since the start of monsoon from June 25, the country has witnessed 101 deaths including 16 women and 42 children, according to the national disaster management authority. | 2023-07-23T18:22:28+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/ap-heavy-rains-in-afghanistan-unleash-flash-floods-that-kill-12-people-and-leave-40-missing/ |
Tommye Jobe Gregory
GRAND SALINE — Funeral services for Tommye Jobe Gregory, 84, of Grand Saline, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, April 14, 2023, at Bartley Funeral Home, in Grand Saline. Visitation will be 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Thursday, April 13, 2023, at the funeral home. Mrs. Gregory was born February 7, 1939 in Abilene. She passed away April 10, 2023, in Tyler. | 2023-04-12T09:22:26+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/obituaries/death_notices/tommye-jobe-gregory/article_65529387-596a-556f-979c-4fc231cc18d7.html |
MANHATTAN (PIX11) — Police arrested a man accused in a violent spree that ended with two dead, including a doctor, and several others injured in Manhattan, NYPD officials announced Monday.
Roland Codrington’s alleged spree of attacks started on Dec. 19. He was allegedly involved in two deadly stabbings, two non-fatal stabbings and an assault with a bat, all in the Lower East Side and in Harlem, police said.
“Our hearts go out to the family and friends and loved ones of the victims who fell prey to this predator,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Monday.
On Dec. 19, Codrington allegedly fatally slashed a 51-year-old man in the neck in front of 214 Avenue A after the victim left a bar, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. The victim suffered a 10-inch slash wound across the neck.
A few days later on Dec. 22, Codrington entered Teddy’s Bar & Grill on Second Avenue with a pit bull and a baseball bat, Essig said. He allegedly assaulted the bartender with the bar. When two customers intervened, Codrington allegedly stabbed them both with a large knife. Police previously identified all of the victims as employees.
Essig said Codrington had a previous dispute involving the bar a week earlier. He apparently felt disrespected by the employees there.
Codrington went home after his alleged assault on workers at the bar, Essig said. He then said he was going for a walk in the park to cool off. While there, he had some kind of verbal exchange “where he becomes enraged.” Codrington allegedly fatally attacked a doctor at Marcus Garvey Park on Dec. 23.
The doctor, 60-year-old Bruce Maurice Henry, was stabbed in the back, torso, buttocks, eye and palms, police said.
By Saturday morning, police knew the attacks were all connected, Chief of Patrol Joh Shell said. They orchestrated heavy deployment plan to find him.
“It was a great plan on a Christmas Eve when everyone else was shopping, preparing, we were still working,” he said.
On Dec. 24, around 9:40 p.m., members of the 30 precinct stopped a stolen vehicle around 166th Street and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx and found Codrington, officials said. He was arrested and charged with two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder a count of a ssault in the second degree, and a count of criminal mischief.
Codrington has 12 prior arrests, police said. He was arrested for some auto-related crimes in 2022. In 2021, he was charged with assault with a weapon. Codrington was charged in connection with two assaults with a weapon in 2017.
A woman was with Codrington at the time of several of the assaults, police said. The NYPD has not publicly identified her or said if she’ll be charged. | 2022-12-26T17:55:33+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/police-arrest-man-accused-of-two-deadly-stabbings-bar-assault-in-manhattan-nypd/ |
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This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2022-12-29T16:20:55+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/large-room-humidifier-for-just-25-this-week |
911 dispatcher answers call that her own home is on fire
FORESTVILLE, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) – A 911 dispatcher in Wisconsin recently answered a call that changed her life.
“All I heard was kids yelling ‘Mom!’ and I thought maybe it was kids yelling for their mother,” Marisa Anderson said while describing the call she picked up.
The dispatch operator quickly realized the coordinates pointed directly to her neighborhood.
“I just remember looking at my partner and saying, ‘That’s my house,’” Anderson said. “They had me leave right away. It didn’t really hit me until I was halfway down County S and I saw the black smoke off in the sky. That’s when I broke down.”
Anderson’s son, Landon, jumped into action after waking to the sound of glass breaking early Friday. He grabbed his sister and her friend from the family camper before waiting for first responders at the mailbox.
“Had they been up in her room I don’t know that they would’ve been able to make it out because the hallway and everything was filled with smoke,” Anderson explained.
“That’s about 10 loads of relief right off the bat that we don’t have to find a victim,” Southern Door Fire Chief Richard Olson said.
Olson applauded the quick thinking of 12-year-old Landon, who broke his leg during the fire.
“We were very fortunate that Landon came out of the house, got himself out, got everybody else out and called 911 and stayed out of the house,” Olson said.
“When we go to schools in the fall for fire prevention week, this is exactly what we tell the kids. The message is learned that they have a meeting place outside and both he and his sister went to the mailbox just like it’s planned for them to do.”
While the Anderson family escaped the fire, their beloved pets didn’t make it. They lost three dogs, four cats and a bunny.
The Andersons are starting from scratch after losing nearly everything in the fire apart from the clothes on their backs. They started a GoFundMe to rebuild their lives.
The Door County Fire Chiefs Association donated $2,000 to show their appreciation for the dispatcher who often puts others before herself.
“That she actually received the call, and the call came from her son, and we just know how hard this experience has been for her. And we want to try to help the family as well,” Olson said.
Investigators said the fire likely started from an electrical appliance in the basement.
Copyright 2023 WBAY via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-12T17:29:19+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2023/06/12/911-dispatcher-answers-call-that-her-own-home-is-fire/ |
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A 4-month-old girl died after she was found unconscious at a New York City hotel Thursday, police said.
Police responded to the Stewart Hotel at 371 Seventh Ave. in Manhattan after receiving a 911 call around 7:30 a.m., according to the NYPD.
The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Part of the hotel is currently being used to house migrants, according to the NYPD. However, it’s unclear if the girl was part of a migrant family.
The girl’s cause of death is unknown at this time. There were no immediate signs of foul play, authorities said. | 2023-05-26T01:10:35+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/4-month-old-girl-dies-at-manhattan-hotel-police/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday dismissed his fourth minister in two months to patch a scandal-tainted Cabinet that has raised questions over his judgment of staff credentials.
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Kenya Akiba, minister in charge of reconstruction of Fukushima and other disaster-hit areas, has faced allegations of mishandling political and election funds and of having murky ties to the Unification Church, whose cozy political ties and practices surrounding followers' huge donations have raised controversy.
“I have made a heavy decision and submitted my resignation," Akiba told reporters after meeting with Kishida. He repeated that he has never violated any law in relation to the issues for which he has been criticized.
Kishida tapped former reconstruction minister Hiromichi Watanabe as a replacement. Watanabe's appointment was to be official after a palace ceremony.
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Akiba's dismissal was seen as Kishida's attempt to remove an administration's soft spot that could stall upcoming parliamentary work on a key budget bill, including hefty defense spending aimed at bolstering Japan's strike capability.
Jun Azumi, a senior lawmaker of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan who has criticized Kishida as making other slow decisions on his staff, said Monday that “four (dismissals) are too much and the prime minister should be held responsible over their appointment."
Kishida on Tuesday also replaced Internal Affairs Minister Mio Sugita, who has made past derogatory remarks against sexual and ethnic minorities. Sugita said in 2018 same-sex couples don’t produce children and are “unproductive” and in 2016 scoffed at those wearing traditional ethnic costumes at an United Nations’ committee meeting as “middle-aged women in costume play.”
Kishida said Sugita submitted her resignation saying that she cannot bend her personal beliefs while she retracted some of her earlier comments.
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Kishida had been seen as a stable choice as leader after his victory in the July vote, but his popularity has plummeted over the Liberal Democratic Party’s widespread church ties that surfaced after the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe.
The suspected shooter told investigators his mother's donations to the church bankrupted his family and ruined his life. He reportedly targeted Abe as a key figure behind the church's ties to Japan's LDP-led government.
Revelations have since surfaced about many LDP lawmakers having friendly ties to the church, which has been criticized as allegedly brainwashing followers into making huge donations. A new law passed by Parliament earlier this month aims to restrict such activities.
Economic Revitalization Minister Daishiro Yamagiwa quit on Oct. 24 after failing to explain his ties to the Unification Church. In early November, Justice Minister Yasuhiro Hanashi resigned after remarking that his job is low profile and only makes news when he signs the death penalty. | 2022-12-27T06:47:28+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Japan-PM-sacks-4th-minister-to-patch-up-17678719.php |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley, a singer, songwriter and the daughter of Elvis Presley, was remembered during a funeral service Sunday as a loving mother and an “old soul” who endured tragedy but persevered as a dedicated protector of her father’s legacy as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer and pop icon.
More than a thousand people gathered on the front lawn of Graceland on a gray, chilly Memphis morning to mourn the death and remember the life of Lisa Marie Presley, who died Jan, 12 after she was taken to a hospital in California.
Some mourners held flowers as they waited for the service to begin under the tall trees on the lawn of Graceland, the home in Memphis where Lisa Marie lived as a child with her father. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977 at age 42.
The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. The service began with the singing of “Amazing Grace” by Jason Clark & The Tennessee Mass Choir.
“We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for the love, compassion and support you have shown our family during this difficult time,” said a message from the Presley family written on the program for the service. “We will always be grateful.”
Among those who spoke during the service were Lisa Marie’s mother, actress Priscilla Presley; Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York; Jerry Schilling, a close friend of Elvis; and former Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, who called Lisa Marie’s parents Memphis’ royal couple and a “conduit to the throne, the keeper of the flame.”
In a soft voice, Priscilla Presley read a poem from one of Lisa Marie’s three daughters, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, entitled “The Old Soul,” in which she calls her mother “an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world.”
“In 1968, she entered our world, born tired, fragile, yet strong. She was delicate, but was filled with life,” Priscilla Presley read. “She always knew she wouldn’t be here too long. Childhood passes by, with a glimpse of her green eye. She then grew a family of her own.”
After reading the poem, Priscilla Presley said: “Our heart is broken. Lisa, we all love you.”
Music punctuated the service. Billy Corgan, lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins, played acoustic guitar and sang “To Sheila;” Alanis Morissette sang “Rest;” Axl Rose, of Guns N’ Roses, played piano and sang “November Rain;” and The Blackwood Brothers Quartet performed two songs.
After the service, mourners walked through Graceland’s Meditation Garden, where she was laid to rest in an above-ground grave next to her son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, and alongside her grandparents and great grandmother.
Weaths and bouquets of red, white, yellow and pink flowers lined the walk up to the gravesite and the tomb itself. Fans, some teary-eyed, walked slowly by the tomb, pausing to pay their respects.
Jordan Clark, 25, traveled from Mobile, Alabama, to attend the service. She called the ceremony special and heartwarming. Clark said Lisa Marie “went through a lot” in her life and equated the service to the time when Elvis died, when “people came from all over.”
“She was born into the public, born into fame. That’s hard for some people,” Clark said. “She handled it like a champ. I think.”
Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. She was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he died. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
After her father died, she became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust, which — along with Elvis Presley Enterprises — managed Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005. She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home.
A representative from Elvis Presley Enterprises has told The Associated Press that the mansion is in a trust that will go to the benefit of her children. Along with Harper, she is survived by two other daughters — Riley Keough and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood.
Riley Keough, an actress, did not speak at the service. Her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, read a statement in which she remembers Lisa Marie taking her for ice cream, bringing her tea sets from Cracker Barrel, and leaving notes in her lunchbox.
“Thank you for giving me strength, my heart, my empathy, my courage, my sense of humor, my manners, my temper, my wildness, my tenacity,” Riley Keough said in the statement. “I’m a product of your heart.” | 2023-01-22T23:57:43+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/ap-mourners-at-graceland-to-bid-farewell-to-lisa-marie-presley/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana state trooper faces allegations he provided false information during a criminal court proceeding.
According to an ISP spokesperson, Master Trooper Jeremy Basso was accused of perjury and official misconduct, both felonies.
(Note: The attached video is a June 2021 report on the crash involving Trooper Jeremy Bosso's squad car)
Basso, an 18-year veteran of the department, is alleged to have conveyed false information during a March 18 sentencing hearing in a Shelby County court, ISP said. The hearing was for a person who had been found guilty of driving while intoxicated and crashing into Basso's squad car as it was parked in an Interstate 74 construction zone on June 18, 2021.
Basso was taken into custody Wednesday and booked at the Shelby County Jail.
Ripley County Prosecutor Richard Hertel was selected as special prosecutor in the case.
Basso has been placed on administrative leave without pay, according to ISP. | 2023-07-27T02:31:19+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-state-trooper-accused-of-perjury-official-misconduct-jeremy-bosso-isp/531-5f897d14-c2bf-46e0-a184-8b7e2b0de0f2 |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of climate activists blocked one of the main roads into The Hague on Saturday, defying attempts to prevent their protest that have sparked concerns about restrictions on the right to demonstrate in the Netherlands.
The protesters, many waving colored flags with the symbol of environmental group Extinction Rebellion and one holding a sign saying, in Dutch, “This is a dead end road,” gathered on the A12 road near the temporary home of the Dutch parliament. Police and hundreds more demonstrators looked on.
Protesters who ignored police orders to leave the road were picked up and carried away one by one to waiting buses and driven away. Hours after the demonstration began it was unclear how many people had been detained. Police said in a tweet that many of the activists left voluntarily when told to by officers.
Earlier this week, six Extinction Rebellion activists were detained by authorities on suspicion of sedition linked to calls to stage the protest.
A judge on Friday upheld an order banning another activist from the area for 90 days. Extinction Rebellion said that he ignored the order and attended the protest. A lawyer for the group said the order was a way of “taking away the right of climate activists to demonstrate.”
The arrests and exclusion order sparked unrest among activists who argue it infringes their right to peaceful protest.
Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Anne Kervers said the large number of participants “shows what society thinks of fossil fuel subsidies and of the intimidation and criminalization of nonviolent climate activism.”
Prosecutors defended their action, saying the suspects were calling for supporters to take part in the “dangerous and disruptive blockade” of the road.
“Calling for a criminal offense — such as blocking a public road — amounts to sedition,” prosecutors said in a statement.
They said that the blockade of the busy road leading into The Hague was a danger to motorists and protesters.
“Demonstrating is a fundamental right and is facilitated by the municipality of The Hague,” prosecutors said. “There are hundreds of demonstrations in The Hague every year that go off without a hitch. But a demonstration is not a license to commit criminal offenses.”
Extinction Rebellion activists, however, vowed to continue with their protests, in which they demand an end to government tax breaks for companies linked to fossil fuels.
“It is essential that citizens can demonstrate against this in a place that matters. For Extinction Rebellion, this includes the A12, between the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate,” the group said in a statement. “Any nuisance for traffic, for example, will have to be tolerated.”
Other activists joined the protest out of solidarity.
“We are very concerned that the right to protest is being increasingly restricted in the Netherlands. We stand firmly behind peaceful activists who exercise their right to protest,” Andy Palmen of the Dutch arm of Greenpeace said in a statement ahead of the demonstration. | 2023-01-29T05:13:32+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-climate-activists-block-main-road-into-the-hague/ |
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