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Leading cybersecurity firm identifies vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers in 8 out of 10 Small and Medium Organizations
SAN DIEGO and VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberCatch today announced the quarterly publication of the Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Vulnerabilities Report (SMBVR) for Q2 2022.
The SMBVR is a quarterly research study focused on SMBs in North America to detect vulnerabilities that a cyber attacker can identify and exploit to break into a business, steal data and or infect its systems with ransomware.
The Q2 2022 SMBVR was comprised of scans of a random sample of 19,375 SMBs (16,175 in U.S. and 3,200 in Canada) in sixteen high-value target segments (download infographic). Key findings of the Q2 2022 study include:
- Spoofing, clickjacking and session riding vulnerabilities were detected at significantly high levels
- The Q2 SMBVR's scope was expanded to include organizations in critical segments, such as Hospitals, Utilities, Banks and Credit Unions, and all of these organizations also had high levels of vulnerabilities. For example, in all three of these segments, 8 out of 10 had spoofing vulnerabilities that attackers could easily exploit.
"The Q2 2022 SMBVR findings of high levels of vulnerabilities across all sixteen segments both in the U.S. and Canada – is very concerning. It indicates that large numbers of SMBs, including in critical segments such as healthcare, utilities and financial services, have security holes that can be easily exploited remotely to steal data, install ransomware or inflict damage. This is a threat to economies of the U.S. and Canada," said Sai Huda, founder, chairman and CEO, CyberCatch. Mr. Huda is a globally recognized risk and cybersecurity expert and author of the best-selling book, "Next Level Cybersecurity."
"Attacking an SMB provides a double bounty for attackers. They can not only steal the SMBs data and sell it in the dark web while also demanding a ransomware bounty, but also use the data to next break into a larger organization that the SMB is a supplier to. SMBs have limited knowledge about cybersecurity and resources, so they are the most vulnerable. Foreign adversaries and criminal gangs view SMBs as the weakest link in the chain and are increasingly targeting SMBs," continued Mr. Huda.
To download a copy of the SMBVR, please visit: https://cybercatch.com/smbvr-download/
CyberCatch is a unique cybersecurity Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that protects small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from cyberattacks by focusing on the root cause why SMBs fall victim: security holes. It provides an innovative cloud-based SaaS platform coupled with deep subject matter expertise to help SMBs implement just the right type and amount of cybersecurity controls. The platform then performs automated testing of controls from three dimensions: outside-in, inside-out and social engineering. It generates the Cyber Breach Score to continuously measure cyber risk, and finds security holes and guides the SMB to fix them promptly, so attackers can't exploit any missing or broken controls to break in and steal data or infect ransomware. CyberCatch's continuous value proposition: Test. Fix. Secure. Learn more at: https://www.cybercatch.com
Media Contact: PRMediaNow: CyberCatch@prmedianow.com
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2022-09-14T12:52:29+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/09/14/new-cybercatch-research-discovers-vulnerabilities-small-medium-organizations-critical-segments-such-hospitals-utilities-banks-credit-unions/
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In a rather unexpected announcement, CNN says it plans to welcome former President Donald Trump on the network next week for a live town hall forum from New Hampshire.
The decision comes after years of tense relations between the media outlet and Trump, who has frequently called CNN "fake news" and the "enemy of the people."
While Trump has taken audience questions at rallies and appeared for interviews on conservative-leaning networks, this will be his first town hall-style event since he announced his 2024 run for the White House. This will also be the first time Trump is appearing on CNN since his 2016 presidential campaign.
It would appear that he's giving the cold shoulder to Fox News, which is often a much less critical — some would say amiable — outlet for Trump. Fox has previously defended Trump's unfounded claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election and also played down his alleged influence behind the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
While a handful of Republicans have entered the 2024 race so far, only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has emerged as a potential competitor for Trump, and he has yet to officially launch a campaign.
SEE MORE: Tucker Carlson's scorn for Trump revealed in court papers
DeSantis, like Trump and many other Republicans, has regularly appeared on Fox News and refused interviews with other more left-leaning outlets like CNN. As a result, Fox has emerged as a hub for politicians to bolster their support among more conservative viewers. Meanwhile, ratings at CNN have slumped.
Chris Licht took over the struggling network last year after a scandal involving former CNN president Jeff Zucker forced him to resign. Licht made it a clear mission to expand the network's horizons, ease tensions with the Republican Party and become a platform for politicians from both sides of the aisle.
As part of a major shakeup at the network, CNN parted ways with long-time anchor Don Lemon last month following backlash over his comments about Republican presidential candidates.
Most recently, Lemon claimed presidential candidate Nikki Haley was past her prime. When his co-host Poppy Harlow asked for clarification as to whether "prime" meant childbearing age or something else, Lemon told her to look it up on Google.
He also went viral last month for a contentious interview with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, after he appeared to cut off Harlow as she tried to invite Ramaswamy back to discuss other topics.
While it's unclear that Lemon's firing is directly related to these interactions, it's clear that Licht is okay with moving on from major talent in order to pursue his mission for the network.
With the Trump town hall, Licht may also be trying to win over some Fox News viewers who are distraught after the network agreed to "part ways" with prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose nightly program dominated the cable news landscape. In his final week with Fox, Carlson averaged more than 3 million viewers per night. The week following his departure, the network averaged just 1.6 million per night.
If all goes well, CNN booking Trump could be a step in the right direction for a network that, in February, had its lowest-rated month of the past decade.
The event will be aired live on May 10 at 9 p.m. ET from St. Anselm's College in Goffstown, New Hampshire. CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins will be the moderator. Trump will take questions from registered Republicans and undeclared voters.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-05-02T21:06:43+00:00
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kivitv.com
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https://www.kivitv.com/in-apparent-dig-at-fox-news-trump-agrees-to-appear-in-cnn-town-hall
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world's first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact its target asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth—at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 26.
Among other activities, NASA will host a televised briefing beginning at 6 p.m. on Sept. 26 from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. APL is the builder and manager of the DART spacecraft for NASA.
This test will show a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it to change the asteroid's motion in a way that can be measured using ground-based telescopes. DART will provide important data to help better prepare for an asteroid that might pose an impact hazard to Earth, should one ever be discovered.
The following is a list of activities for DART's impact with the asteroid Dimorphos (all times Eastern):
Monday, Sept. 12
- 9 a.m. – NASA will host a hybrid media day at APL focused on the technology enabling the DART spacecraft to autonomously navigate to and impact its target asteroid. Participants include leaders from NASA and the DART mission team. In-person attendees will have an opportunity to tour the DART mission operations center at APL, located at 11100 Johns Hopkins Road in Laurel, Maryland.
Media interested in participating must RSVP by completing this form no later than 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30. NASA's media accreditation policy for on-site and virtual activities is available online.
Thursday, Sept. 22
- 3 p.m. – Media briefing at NASA Headquarters to preview DART's final activities before its impact with Dimorphos. The media briefing will take place in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in the Mary W. Jackson building, 300 E. Street, SW in Washington and include senior leaders from NASA and APL.
Media interested in participating must RSVP by completing this form no later than 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15.
Monday, Sept. 26 (DART Impact Day)
Media interested in covering the DART impact from APL must complete this form by 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2.
- 6 p.m. – Live coverage of DART's impact with the asteroid Dimorphos will air on NASA TV and the agency's website. The public also can watch live on agency social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
- 7:14 p.m. – DART's kinetic impact with asteroid Dimorphos.
Interview Opportunities
Remote live and taped interviews via Zoom will be offered from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26. To book a live shot window, media should fill out this form by 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22.
A series of panels featuring NASA and APL mission experts will take place at APL on Monday, Sept. 26. Opportunities for interviews before and after DART's asteroid impact will be available by filling out this form.
NASA Social
Stay connected with the DART mission and share your experience watching DART's impact with an asteroid on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with #DARTMission and #PlanetaryDefender. Follow and tag these accounts:
- Twitter: @NASA, @NASASolarSystem, @AsteroidWatch, @JHUAPL
- Facebook: NASA, NASA Solar System Exploration, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
- Instagram: @NASA, @NASASolarSystem, @JohnsHopkinsAPL
Become a Planetary Defender
Support the DART mission by becoming a "Planetary Defender!" Participants who take a short quiz will earn a certificate and badge they can download, print, and share on social media.
For more information about the DART mission, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/dartmission
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2022-08-23T18:38:14+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/nasa-invites-media-witness-worlds-first-planetary-defense-test/
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CEO surprises every Customer aboard milestone flight with a free roundtrip ticket
One lucky traveler will receive free flights for a year
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 16 months after making history as America's first new airline to take flight in more than a decade, Avelo Airlines announced it is flying its one millionth Customer today. To celebrate the milestone, Avelo Founder, Chairman and CEO Andrew Levy will be aboard the milestone flight – surprising every Customer with a free future roundtrip ticket anywhere Avelo flies.
The one millionth Customer will be aboard Avelo Flight 165 from Los Angeles' popular Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) to Boise Airport (BOI). However, Levy will thank all of the nearly 160 Customers aboard the Boise-bound Boeing 737-800 milestone flight with a free roundtrip ticket.
At the BUR departure gate surrounded by Avelo Customers and Crewmembers Levy said, "From the start, Avelo has been on a mission to Inspire Travel by making flying affordable and easy so you can travel more. Since our first flight 16 months ago, one million Avelo Customers have enjoyed the everyday low fares and convenience of flying with us. On this momentous occasion, all of us at Avelo are grateful to you and every Avelo Customer who has chosen Avelo. I'm also very appreciative of our Avelo Crewmembers who deliver the smooth, reliable and caring travel experience that keeps our Customers coming back. Thanks a million!"
Avelo will also be awarding one lucky traveler with a year of free tickets to any Avelo destination. The winner will receive 12 pairs of roundtrip Avelo tickets that are valid for one year. Inspired travelers can enter the Avelo One Million Sweepstakes*at Avelo's Instagram page (@AveloAir) or by visiting AveloAir.com/OneMillion through September 12, 2022.
Avelo was founded with a vision to help its Customers save money and time. In addition to offering Customers everyday low fares on every route, Avelo Customers can always change or cancel their itineraries with no extra fees. Avelo also offers several unbundled travel-enhancing options that give Customers the flexibility to pay for what they value, including priority boarding, checked bags, carry-on overhead bags, and bringing a pet in the cabin.
Levy added, "Our Customers tell us – more than anything else – they value Avelo's very low fares, our use of convenient hometown airports and our all-nonstop routes. The affordability, flexibility and simplicity that attracted our first one million Customers will attract our second million Customers even faster. We know our Customers love to travel and we will continue to focus on finding ways to save them time and money so they can travel even more."
Additionally, the American-made Boeing 737 jets Avelo flies offer a more spacious and comfortable experience than the small regional aircraft historically operating at many of the small hometown airports Avelo serves. Customers who value an advance seat assignment can choose from several modestly priced seating options, including seats with extra leg room, as well as pre-reserved window and aisle seating. One third of seats on Avelo aircraft are available for Customers who appreciate the comfort of extra legroom.
Avelo now serves 30 destinations across the U.S. The airline has unlocked a new era of convenience, choice and competition in air travel by flying unserved routes to primarily underserved communities across the country. At least one airport on every Avelo flight is a small hometown airport – making every Avelo journey easier and more enjoyable.
At Avelo, every flight is also nonstop. This connection-free travel experience not only provides Avelo Customers with a faster and simpler travel experience, but also minimizes delays, cancellations and lost bags. In fact, Avelo has established itself as one of America's most reliable airlines with a year-to-date flight cancellation rate of 1% and a year-to-date checked bag handling performance rate of .09 mishandled bags per 100 bags.
Avelo is distinguished by its Soul of Service culture. The culture is grounded in Avelo's "One Crew" value which promotes a welcoming and caring experience. By caring for one another and owning their commitments, Avelo Crewmembers focus on anticipating and understanding Customer needs on the ground and in the air.
Avelo Airlines was founded with a simple purpose — to Inspire Travel. The airline offers Customers time and money-saving convenience, low everyday fares, and a refreshingly smooth and caring experience through its Soul of Service culture. Operating a fleet of Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft, Avelo serves 30 popular destinations across the U.S., including its three bases at Los Angeles' Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR), Southern Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) and Orlando International Airport (MCO). Avelo Airlines is also home to "Free Ticket Tuesdays" – to learn more, follow Avelo on Instagram at @AveloAir. For more information visit AveloAir.com or the Avelo Newsroom at AveloAir.com/Newsroom.
Media Contacts:
Avelo Airlines
Courtney Goff
501-258-2931
cgoff@aveloair.com
*NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. PURCHASE OR PAYMENT DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. The One Million Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia 18 and older .Void elsewhere and where prohibited. Promotion ends September 12, 2022. Subject to complete Official Rules. This Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. You understand that you are providing your information to Sponsor and not to Instagram. Your personal information will only be used in accordance with Sponsor's Privacy Policy and as permitted by law.
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2022-08-12T09:31:44+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/12/thanks-million-avelo-airlines-flies-one-millionth-customer/
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Filmmaker Julia Reichert died Thursday at age 76. She chronicled the fortunes of working-class people, especially women, with powerful movies such as "American Factory" and "Union Maids."
Copyright 2022 88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont
Filmmaker Julia Reichert died Thursday at age 76. She chronicled the fortunes of working-class people, especially women, with powerful movies such as "American Factory" and "Union Maids."
Copyright 2022 88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont
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2022-12-05T22:59:08+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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https://www.delawarepublic.org/2022-12-05/encore-filmmaker-julia-reichert-died-thursday-at-age-76
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Browns’ Phillips ‘likely’ done for year with pectoral injury
By TOM WITHERS
AP Sports Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns starting linebacker Jacob Phillips will likely miss the remainder of the season after sustaining a pectoral injury during Sunday’s 23-20 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Also, tight end David Njoku could miss significant time with an ankle injury. The loss of Phillips is another blow to Cleveland’s defense, which had one of its better performances against dynamic Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Phillips had taken over signal-calling duties after captain Anthony Walker Jr. suffered a season-ending quadriceps injury in Week 3. This is the second serious injury in two seasons for Phillips. Njoku had seven catches for 71 yards before getting hurt. Coach Kevin Stefanski called Njoku’s injury “week to week.” The Browns host the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night.
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2022-10-24T19:08:25+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/24/browns-phillips-likely-done-for-year-with-pectoral-injury/
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HAMPSTEAD, N.C. (AP) — Three men who were found dead over the weekend at a North Carolina gas station have been identified as Marine lance corporals stationed at nearby Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday.
Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office found the three men unresponsive Sunday morning in a privately owned car at a Speedway gas station in Hampstead — 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the base — while responding to a missing-person call, the department said in a statement. Medical authorities pronounced all three dead the same day.
Their cause of death has not been released, and the Pender County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. A spokesperson did not immediately return a phone call Tuesday.
The U.S. Marine Corps identified the men as Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, of Madison, Wisconsin; Merax C. Dockery, 23, of Pottawatomie, Oklahoma; and Ivan R. Garcia, 23, of Naples, Florida. The men were motor vehicle operators with the Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2 and 2nd Marine Logistics Group at Camp Lejeune, said First Lt. Raymond Fullbright, of the 2nd Marine Logistics Group.
“My deepest sympathy and condolences are extended to the family, friends, and colleagues of Lance Cpl. Kaltenberg, Lance Cpl. Dockery and Lance Cpl. Garcia,” said Brig. Gen. Michael McWilliams, commanding general of the 2nd Marine Logistics Group. “Our focus is providing the necessary resources and support to those impacted by their tragic loss as they navigate this extremely difficult time.”
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2023-07-25T20:36:37+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/3-found-dead-in-car-at-north-carolina-gas-station-are-identified-as-marines-stationed-nearby/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday denied an emergency bid by a group of Wisconsin taxpayers to block the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program.
Barrett, who handles emergency matters arising from Wisconsin, acted alone in denying the request, rather than refer the matter to the full court.
The brief, one-line order comes after the Brown County Taxpayers Association on Wednesday urged the court to rule that the president’s nationwide debt cancellation plan illegally encroaches on Congress’s exclusive spending power.
The move leaves intact a judge’s finding that the group lacked standing to sue, a ruling that is being appealed in a lower court.
President Biden announced in August that his administration planned to forgive $10,000 in federal student loan debt for those making under $125,000 annually and $20,000 for recipients of Pell grants, which assist students from lower-income families.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month, the Wisconsin taxpayers argued that the White House lacks the constitutional power or clear authorization from Congress to enact Biden’s debt cancellation policy, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost about $400 billion over 30 years.
A U.S. District judge in Wisconsin dismissed the suit for lack of standing. An intermediate appeals court declined to halt that ruling while a formal appeal plays out, prompting the group’s unsuccessful request to the Supreme Court.
The Biden administration says its policy is authorized by the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, which the Trump administration also drew upon to provide relief to student borrowers during the pandemic.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.
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2022-10-21T02:15:12+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/barrett-denies-emergency-bid-to-block-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan/
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Raytheon Technologies Corporation (RTX) on Tuesday reported first-quarter earnings of $1.43 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Arlington, Virginia-based company said it had profit of 97 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.22 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.11 per share.
The an aerospace and defense company posted revenue of $17.21 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $16.86 billion.
Raytheon Technologies expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.90 to $5.05 per share, with revenue in the range of $72 billion to $73 billion.
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2023-04-25T11:32:39+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/raytheon-technologies-q1-earnings-snapshot-17916820.php
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KALAMAZOO, MI – Kalamazoo has had a pair of major house fires in the past week. One was caused by smoking, while the cause of the other is still undetermined.
A vacant house on North Burdick Street, between Paterson and Clay streets, caught fire around 4:50 p.m. on Thursday, June 8. The cause of the fire is undetermined, Kalamazoo Public Safety spokesperson Jay Shatara said.
Related: Fire engulfs house in Kalamazoo’s Northside neighborhood
A gas line to the house caught fire and it took more than 30 minutes for crews to put it out, an MLive reporter at the scene witnessed. The house was destroyed by the fire and demolished.
A second house fire happened Sunday morning, June 11, in Egleston Avenue between Portage and Fair streets. A woman was trapped on the second floor and was rescued by firefighters using a ladder.
Related: Woman rescued from Kalamazoo house fire
That fire was started by smoking, Shatara said.
The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life threatening.
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2023-06-12T20:29:41+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2023/06/smoking-caused-house-fire-sunday-in-kalamazoo.html
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Coffee lowers risk of heart problems and early death, study says
Drinking two to three cups a day of most types of coffee may protect you from cardiovascular disease and an early death, a new study found.
"The results suggest that mild to moderate intake of ground, instant and decaffeinated coffee should be considered part of a healthy lifestyle," said study author Peter Kistler, head of clinical electrophysiology research at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and head of electrophysiology at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
Researchers found "significant reductions" in the risk for coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure and stroke for all three types of coffee. However, only ground and instant coffee with caffeine reduced the risk for an irregular heartbeat called arrhythmia. Decaffeinated coffee did not lower that risk, according to the study published Wednesday in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Prior studies have also found moderate amounts of black coffee — between three and five cups daily — has been shown to lower the risk of heart disease, as well as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes, liver disease and prostate cancer.
"This manuscript adds to the body of evidence from observational trials associating moderate coffee consumption with cardioprotection, which looks promising," said Charlotte Mills, a lecturer in nutritional sciences at the University of Reading in the U.K., in a statement.
However, this study, like many in the past, was only observational in nature and therefore cannot prove a direct cause and effect, added Mills, who was not involved in the study.
"Does coffee make you healthy or do inherently healthier people consume coffee?" she asked. "Randomized controlled trials are needed to prove the relationship between coffee and cardiovascular health."
Ground, caffeinated coffee lowered risk the most
The study used data from the UK Biobank, a research database which contained coffee consumption preferences on nearly 450,000 adults who were free of arrhythmia or other cardiovascular disease at the start of the study. They were divided into four groups: those who enjoyed caffeinated ground coffee, those who chose decaffeinated coffee, those who preferred caffeinated instant coffee, and those who did not drink coffee at all.
After an average of 12.5 years, researchers looked at medical and death records for reports of arrhythmia, cardiovascular disease, stroke and death. After adjusting for age, diabetes, ethnicity, high blood pressure, obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, sex, smoking status, and tea and alcohol consumption, researchers found all types of coffee were linked with a reduction in death from any cause.
The fact that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee was beneficial "might suggest that it is not simply the caffeine which could potentially explain any associated reduction in risk," said Duane Mellor, a registered dietitian and senior teaching fellow at Aston University Medical School in Birmingham in the UK, in a statement. He was not involved in the study.
"Caffeine is the most well-known constituent in coffee, but the beverage contains more than 100 biologically active components," said Kistler, who holds joint appointments as professor of medicine at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
"It is likely that the non-caffeinated compounds were responsible for the positive relationships observed between coffee drinking, cardiovascular disease and survival," Kistler said.
Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day was linked to the largest reduction in early death, compared to people who drank no coffee, according to the statement. Ground coffee consumption lowered the risk of death by 27%, followed by 14% for decaffeinated, and 11% for instant caffeinated coffee.
The link between coffee and a lowered risk for heart disease and stroke was not as robust: Drinking two to three cups a day of ground coffee lowered risk by 20%, while the same amount of decaf coffee reduced risk by 6% and instant by 9%.
The data changed when it came to coffee's impact on irregular heartbeat: Four to five cups a day of caffeinated ground coffee lowered risk by 17% while two to three cups a day of instant coffee reduced the likelihood of arrhythmia by 12%, the statement said.
More study needed
A limitation of the study was that coffee consumption was self-reported at a single point in time, said Annette Creedon, a nutritional scientist and manager at the British Nutrition Foundation, which is partially funded by food producers, retailers and food service companies.
"This study had a median follow-up period of 12.5 years during which many aspects of the participants diet and lifestyle may have changed," said Creedon in a statement. She was not part of the research.
In addition, coffee can produce negative side effects in some people, she added. People with sleep issues or uncontrolled diabetes, for example, should check with a doctor before adding caffeine to their diets.
These negative side effects "can be particularly relevant to individuals who are sensitive to the effects of caffeine," Creedon said. "Hence, the findings of this study do not indicate that people should start drinking coffee if they do not already drink it or that they should increase their consumption."
Most studies are focused on the health benefits of black coffee, and do not take into account the extra sugars, creams, milks and processed additives that many people use in coffee.
"A simple cup of coffee perhaps with a little milk is very different to a large latte flavored with a syrup and added cream," Mellor said.
In addition, how coffee is brewed can also affect its benefits for health. Filtered coffee catches a compound called cafestol that exists in the oily part of coffee. Cafestol can increase bad cholesterol or LDL (low-density lipoproteins).
However, using a French press, Turkish coffee maker or boiling coffee (as is often done in Scandinavian countries), does not remove cafestol.
And, finally, coffee's benefits do not apply to children -- even adolescents should not drink colas, coffees, energy drinks or other beverages with any amount of caffeine, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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2022-09-30T02:13:58+00:00
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wisn.com
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https://www.wisn.com/article/coffee-lowers-risk-of-heart-problems-and-early-death-study-says/41438553
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WINDSOR, Va., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers Bankshares, Inc. (OTC-PINK: FBVA) today announced results of its annual meeting of shareholders held on May 12, 2022. Approximately 76.6% of outstanding shares were represented in-person or by proxy at the meeting. Each of the nine Directors nominated in the Farmers Bankshares' proxy statement were reelected for the relevant terms.
"We will continue to have open dialogue with our shareholders as we work to drive value and strong results," said William A. Gwaltney, Chairman of Farmers Bankshares' Board of Directors. "Our Board is proud of Farmers Bankshares' operating results, and we are confident that the management team has the right strategy going forward. We are well-positioned to drive shareholder value as we serve customers and our community."
"We appreciate hearing directly from shareholders at our annual meeting," said Vernon Towler, President and CEO of Farmers Bank. "Our Board, management team and employees will continue to serve customers and drive strong performance."
The election of each of Farmers Bankshares' director nominees requires the affirmative vote of a plurality of shares voted at the meeting. Directors nominated for reelection received a range of 37.56% to 40.08% of votes for reelection, and 59.92% to 62.44% of votes were withheld. Approximately 38.15% of shares voted were in favor of the advisory vote to ratify Farmers Bankshares' independent auditor, and 61.85% were against.
About Farmers Bankshares, Inc.
Headquartered in Windsor, Virginia, Farmers Bankshares, Inc. is the holding company for Farmers Bank, Windsor, Virginia. Farmers Bank was founded in 1919, and is a community bank which operates eight branches and services areas throughout Tidewater Virginia. Additional information is available at the company's website, www.farmersbankva.com.
The common stock of Farmers Bankshares, Inc. trades on the OTC Pink Marketplace under the symbol FBVA. Any stockbroker can assist with purchase of the company's stock, as well as with sales of holdings.
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2022-05-24T14:32:30+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/05/24/farmers-bankshares-inc-announces-results-annual-meeting/
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-2-9
(six, two, nine)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-2-9
(six, two, nine)
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2022-12-09T04:38:13+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17641947.php
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The future is now! Hot new tech trends for 2022
ORLANDO, Fla. (IVANHOE NEWSWIRE) – Each new year, technology seems to amaze us more than the last. So, what are the newest and biggest tech trends that will impact Americans in 2022?
We use it to communicate… work… even shop! Technology is a part of life, and it’s improving every day.
Innovative tech inventions in 2022 could change the way you live. Experts say be prepared for more artificial intelligence devices. Smart cars are being designed to use facial recognition algorithms to alert drivers if they’re getting tired. And smart toilets may help diagnose gastrointestinal issues by using computer vision to analyze stool samples!
And what about smart grocery carts? Some food chains are experimenting with carts that have a built-in scale and camera so you can scan, bag, and pay as you shop. We could also see more nanosatellites. Over the next few years, Space-x plans to deploy up to 42,000 satellites to create an internet connection anywhere on the planet.
And don’t be shocked if your pizza next year is delivered by this! One dominoes store in Houston is using driver-less delivery cars. GPS monitoring allows customers to track their pizza from store to home. Kroger, Amazon, and FedEx are also testing out autonomous vehicles.
Another innovation you’re likely to see in 2022 is new pricing technology. Electronic shelf labels can help stores stay up to date as prices change quickly. Algorithms are also being designed to provide personalized shopping experiences. For example, only certain customers would receive promotions for specific items.
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2022-06-02T20:55:06+00:00
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
After seven weeks of testimony, the seditious conspiracy trial for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other defendants is in the hands of the jury. They're charged with plotting to use force to try to block the transfer of power to President Joe Biden in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol. NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas is covering the trial. Hey, Ryan.
RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Hey, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Well, after almost two months, what did the defendants say in their closing to the jury?
LUCAS: Well, closing arguments actually began on Friday and finally wrapped up this afternoon. And attorneys for each of the five defendants did have a chance to make their final argument to the jury. And the first one to go was Rhodes' attorney, James Bright. And he began by acknowledging right off the bat that Rhodes and the other defendants said a lot of incendiary and offensive things in text messages and audio recordings, which are a key part of the government's case. But Bright said, look, venting about the election does not amount to a meeting of the minds. Spewing hatred and anger doesn't amount to a conspiracy. And he also told the jury that there have been around 50 witnesses in this trial that they've heard from. And not a single one testified that there was a plan to storm the Capitol or block the certification of the election. And so he said if there's no plan to storm the Capitol, no plan to block Congress on January 6, where's the conspiracy?
SHAPIRO: And what about the other defendants?
LUCAS: Their attorneys also zeroed in on that same idea, the testimony that there was no concrete plan to storm the Capitol. Some of the attorneys accused prosecutors of manipulating evidence to try to fit the government's sedition narrative. Now, all of the defendants are charged with seditious conspiracy, as well as a couple of other conspiracy counts. They also face, though, a variety of other charges, including destruction of evidence, civil disorder. And so the attorneys spent some time trying to poke holes in the government's case on those counts relevant to the specific defendants.
SHAPIRO: OK. That was the defense. Let's talk about the prosecution. What did the government say in its closing to the jury?
LUCAS: So the government goes first and last in closing arguments since prosecutors bear the burden of proof. And Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Rakoczy started for the government, and she took the jury back through the huge amount of evidence that they've seen - the inflammatory text messages and audio recordings and witness testimony. And she reminded the jury about an armed quick reaction force that the Oath Keepers had on standby on January 6 at a Virginia hotel to rush weapons into D.C. if necessary. She reminded jurors how Oath Keepers, including some of the defendants in this case, forced their way into the Capitol on January 6. And she showed some of the incendiary statements from Rhodes and the others discussing violence and bloodshed and fighting to keep Trump in office.
And then today, prosecutor Jeff Nestler came back to that when he closed things out. He told the jury the evidence of the defendant's intent is overwhelming. It's plain as day, he said, in all of the messages that the jury has seen. He said the defendants said out loud what they wanted to accomplish. They agreed to it, and then they came to D.C. and followed up with action. And he concluded his remarks by asking the jury to uphold the Constitution that he said the defendants tried to subvert. And he said that - he asked the jurors basically to find them all guilty.
SHAPIRO: Do you think we're going to get a verdict before Thanksgiving?
LUCAS: Very unlikely, very unlikely. This is a complex case. There's a lot of evidence, multiple defendants, multiple counts. And the jury is only going to begin deliberating tomorrow, tomorrow morning through tomorrow. And then they're going to break for Thanksgiving until next week. But the important thing, as the judge told the jury at the end of the day today, is the case is now finally yours after all of these weeks.
SHAPIRO: And this is just one small piece of the sprawling January 6 investigation, right?
LUCAS: Absolutely. There are actually a couple of more seditious conspiracy trials that are on tap for it later this year that, you know, we will all be keeping an eye on as well.
SHAPIRO: NPR's Ryan Lucas, thanks a lot.
LUCAS: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2022-11-22T10:49:39+00:00
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kvpr.org
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https://www.kvpr.org/2022-11-21/closing-arguments-made-in-the-oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-trial
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General Motors is the latest automaker looking to patent a robotic EV charger.
A patent application titled “Robotic Charging Device” was filed by GM with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Nov. 30, 2021, but was only published this Thursday.
The application describes an automated charging process in which the charger plugs itself into an EV and then unplugs when charging is completed. Hardware for this would consist of a base and vertical pillar, with an attached arm that could rotate or extend to position the charge cable.
It’s worth noting that the applicant listed for this idea is not just GM, but GM Cruise Holdings, the autonomous-driving tech firm owned by the automaker. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, who also co-founded Cruise before selling to GM, is listed as one of the inventors on the application.
This provides a clue as to the possible use of this robotic charger design. Robotic charging will likely be necessary for self-driving cars, which won’t always have a driver onboard to plug them in. The application even discusses utilizing an autonomous vehicle’s sensors to help position the charge cable.
Cruise launched a robotaxi service in early 2022 in San Francisco using a fleet of modified Chevrolet Bolt EV hatchbacks. It plans to stick with EVs, eventually adding a dedicated vehicle known as the Origin. So Cruise will definitely need to consider large-scale EV charging.
Automated charging has other potential benefits, including making EVs more practical for those with mobility issues. That promise has led other automakers to experiment with robotic chargers.
Hyundai recently showed a prototype EV charging robot installed at the automaker’s main R&D center in South Korea, and Stellantis showed a mobile inductive charging robot alongside the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV concept at CES this year. Tesla showed a snake-like robotic charger prototype in 2015, but has made no further moves toward its application.
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2023-06-19T21:59:55+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/automotive/internet-brands/gm-patents-robotic-ev-charger/
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Media outlets led by CNN seek access to court filings that House January 6 committee made under seal
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice
Eighteen national media outlets led by CNN are asking a court to make public secret court filings in former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ lawsuit against the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.
The House’s ongoing standoff with Meadows has been one of the most public and central disputes of the investigation. But twice in Meadows’ lawsuit, the House has submitted filings to the court under seal with no public explanation.
“The January 6 assault on the Capitol was a public event. The House Select Committee is making an effort to establish a public reckoning of that event. This Court should likewise conduct its work on this historic matter in full public view,” lawyers for the media coalition wrote in a new request to the federal court in Washington, DC, on Monday.
Media outlets have previously succeeded in obtaining hours of video clips from criminal court proceedings that show, up close, the violence of Donald Trump supporters during the January 6 riot.
The House, in doing its own investigation separate from the hundreds of criminal cases, has faced more than two dozen lawsuits from witnesses trying to block the January 6 panel from obtaining information or from calling them to testify. Until now, those cases have largely been argued in public.
Witness cases against the House are slow-moving, and Meadows’ case is a critical one.
In the Meadows case so far, the House has dropped hundreds of pages of witness testimony transcripts and other evidence it’s collected in an attempt to show that the panel needs to question the close Trump adviser.
Lawyers for the House have told DC District Court Judge Carl Nichols, who oversees the lawsuit, they now have a “laser-like focus” about what they’d like to ask Meadows.
“The Select Committee has told the American public that transparency will be key to its work,” the media coalition told the court. “The Press Coalition advances precisely that same public interest in transparency and accountability.”
The case could come to a head in court around the same time the House select committee’s public hearings begin in June.
Meadows did not turn over some documents the House subpoenaed from him, nor has he sat for an interview. Citing the possibility that information around the ex-President may be privileged, Meadows has told the court he cannot testify and also has sought to block a House subpoena for his phone records.
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2022-05-10T00:14:39+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2022/05/09/media-outlets-led-by-cnn-seek-access-to-court-filings-that-house-january-6-committee-made-under-seal/
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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.
"The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority," the court's conservatives wrote in their majority opinion. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives."
The three liberals dissented.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion of the case, in which Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined.
Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh filed concurring opinions. Chief Justice John Roberts filed an concurring opinion.
Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.
"With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent," they wrote.
This story will be updated.
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2022-06-24T14:31:03+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-06-24/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade
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All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On July 12, 2023, at approximately 9:34 PM, officers of the West Monroe Police Department were dispatched to Wood Street in reference to a disturbance. Upon arrival, the victim advised police that 26-year-old Brooklyn Cierra Bailey allegedly forced herself into the victim’s home and assaulted him.
According to the affidavit, officers learned that Bailey is the mother of one of the victim’s children. Police went on to locate Bailey leaving the scene.
Once authorities made contact with Bailey, they noticed a 7-month-old child lying unrestrained and sitting next to a bag of marijuana in the vehicle. According to authorities, Bailey admitted to drinking too much alcohol and driving to confront her former partner.
Police also noticed cuts and swelling on the right side of the 7-month-old child’s head. During the investigation, police learned that Bailey allegedly came to the victim’s residence and assaulted the victim while the victim’s three small children were present.
During the incident, the victim followed Bailey to her vehicle and saw his 7-month-old son lying in the front seat. The victim removed the child from the vehicle due to the safety of the child and returned inside the home.
Police went on to learn that Bailey allegedly entered the home the second time through a busted kitchen window. The victim and his four small children fled to a bedroom and locked the door. Bailey was able to force her way into the bedroom and removed the infant.
According to officials, the infant was transported to a nearby hospital for his injuries and Bailey was arrested for the following offenses:
- Child Desertion
- Cruelty to Juveniles
- Domestic Abuse Battery, Child Endangerment
- Home Invasion
- Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
- Controlled Dangerous Substance in the Presence of Persons under the age of 17
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2023-07-13T22:48:01+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/lincoln-parish-woman-accused-of-entering-home-and-assaulting-the-father-of-her-child-7-month-old-child-injured-during-incident/
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A $50,000 feasibility study funded by the City of Buffalo will be the next step forward with the long-talked-about Buffalo Riverwalk.
The proposed trail, between the Michigan and Ohio street lift bridges, would make it easier for bicyclists and walkers to get from Canalside to the Outer Harbor.
"It will bring people from all across the City of Buffalo through downtown, to the Inner Harbor to the Outer Harbor," Buffalo Common Council member Chris Scanlon said. "And also, people with all abilities, whether they want to run walk bike, people with physical or even economic hardships, they'll be able to get out to our Outer Harbor and visit our greatest asset."
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper says it's working with private landowners in the study since the proposed trail would include some of its property.
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2022-04-09T01:39:25+00:00
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wgrz.com
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https://www.wgrz.com/article/tech/science/environment/city-buffalo-riverwalk-feasibility-study-canalside-outer-harbor/71-6aa59329-f97e-492e-978f-923a09d85f1f
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(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory panel on vaccines is set to consider an annual schedule for the coronavirus vaccine, akin to how flu vaccines are administered, when it meets this week.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will meet Thursday to discuss how to simplify and streamline the COVID-19 vaccination process, including the composition of coronavirus vaccines and the recommended scheduling for these shots.
The rapid evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, resulting in variants with an improved ability to escape immune protection, means that “periodically updating the composition of COVID-19 vaccines as needed,” as was done with the updated bivalent booster, requires consideration, according to panel documents posted Monday.
The panel said it anticipates evaluating the composition of the COVID-19 vaccine annually in June and making a recommendation for the following year — though it acknowledged the difficulties of mounting a globally coordinated vaccine recommendation.
“FDA anticipates conducting an assessment of SARS-CoV-2 strains at least annually and to engage VRBPAC in about early June of each year regarding strain selection for the fall season,” the VRBPAC documents said.
While acknowledging that COVID-19 and the flu are not identical, VRBPAC said the deployment of the bivalent COVID-19 boosters, created to target both the ancestral strain of the virus as well as the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, was “analogous” to annual flu vaccinations.
The committee will also consider transitioning to a simplified immunization schedule in which a two dose series of vaccines is given to young children, older adults and immunocompromised individuals while everyone else is given a single dose.
And it will look at whether to move to using the same vaccine composition for all vaccine shots in a series. Under current FDA guidance, the updated bivalent boosters are authorized for individuals who have completed their primary COVID-19 vaccinations, which are geared towards the ancestral strain of the virus.
“This simplification of vaccine composition should reduce complexity, decrease vaccine administration errors due to the complexity of the number of different vial presentations, and potentially increase vaccine compliance by allowing clearer communication,” the panel said.
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2023-01-23T20:13:11+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/health/coronavirus/fda-panel-to-consider-annual-covid-19-vaccine-shots/
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is the moment. The one shot. The only time to make the best gift even better. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams annual deal — the ONE deal they offer per year — is here. Meaning now's your chance to make the most out of that gift of ice cream you were planning to send anyway.
(Yes, shipping ice cream is totally a thing. More on how it works in a moment.)
Black Friday through Cyber Monday, buy five pints of Jeni's and get one pint free at jenis.com for nationwide shipping, in-store at Jeni's scoop shops across the country, and for pickup or delivery via the Jeni's app.
Here's the scoop on the best deal of the year:
- Offer begins at 12:01 a.m. EST on Nov. 25 and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Nov. 28.
- Valid online at jenis.com with the code FREEPINT at checkout.
- The Black Friday/Cyber Monday Special Collection is valid in scoop shops and via the Jeni's app for delivery or pickup — no code required.
- This promotion cannot be applied to previous orders.
- Jeni's Splendid Rewards members will get a headstart on the deal this year. Early access begins Nov. 24 only at jenis.com. Sign up for rewards for details.
So, how do you even ship ice cream?
Jeni's has been shipping ice cream for over 16 years—they're the OGs in the space and have it down to a science. They pack their ice cream in an insulated (bright orange, Instagram-worthy) shipping box with enough dry ice to keep pints perfectly frozen (at -109.3°F to be exact) well into the evening of the delivery date. And if, somehow, there's a freak occurrence or confluence of disastrous events beyond their control that results in the ice cream arriving anything less than perfectly frozen, they'll reship the order—they have a frozen delivery guarantee.
Bonus: you can add a personalized gift message for the recipient in the shipping box. Double bonus: this time of year, Jeni's lets you schedule the week of holiday delivery at checkout. So you can buy now for delivery later.
Send the gift of a Jeni's experience—they'll always remember you for it.
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is a modern American ice cream company devoted to making the finest ice creams the world has ever known. Founded in Columbus, OH in 2002 by James Beard Award-winning ice cream maker Jeni Britton, Jeni's has emerged over the past 19 years as the new standard by which all other ice creams (and ice cream companies) are judged. With Jeni in charge of all creative output—from the ice cream itself to all of the supporting details that enhance the experience of eating it—Jeni's continues to make one-of-a-kind flavors with Direct and Fair Trade ingredients and super fresh milk from family dairy farms. Today, Jeni's is a Certified B Corporation known for its social, environmental and business leadership with more than 60 scoop shops, an online shop at jenis.com and distribution in top grocery stores across the country.
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2022-11-22T14:41:57+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hosted a massive concert on the South Lawn of the White House to commemorate Juneteenth, the country’s newest federal holiday which the president said will “breathe a new life in the very essence of America.”
“To me, making Juneteenth a federal holiday wasn’t just a symbolic gesture. It was a statement of fact for this country to acknowledge the origin of the original sin of slavery, to understand the war was never fought over it, it wasn’t just about a union, but it was most fundamentally about the country and freedom.”
Vice President Kamala Harris said Juneteenth is an occasion to “honor Black excellence, culture and community.”
“America is a promise — a promise of freedom, liberty and justice,” Harris said. “The story of Juneteenth as we celebrate it is a story of our ongoing fight to realize that promise. Not for some, but all.”
The concert also commemorated Black Music Month, and featured artists such as Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and singer and talk show host Jennifer Hudson.
In 2021, Biden signed bipartisan legislation establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The holiday marks the date when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free — which occurred June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers told enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, news of their freedom.
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2023-06-14T19:48:13+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-celebrates-juneteenth-the-newest-federal-holiday-at-the-white-house/
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It’s Christmas, and it’s cold. But Nick Sidorakis is thinking down the fairway a bit, to the warm and sunny days of spring.
That’s when he and his fellow members of the city’s Citizens Golf Advisory Committee hope to resume making improvements to the golf courses at Page Belcher and Mohawk Park.
But they need help. The committee is about $250,000 shy of its $1 million fundraising goal, which, if met, would trigger $1 million in matching funds from the city of Tulsa.
“We have got a whole list (of planned improvements) for both golf courses,” said Sidorakis, general manager of Southern Hills Country Club. “All we need to do is raise the money, and hopefully within the next couple of months we can raise this money and start to work on it this early spring. That is my goal.”
Work began in April at Page Belcher’s two 18-hole courses with the removal of 172 trees and the trimming of 30 others. The idea was that with more sunshine reaching the fairways, and with proper soil preparation and sodding, lush grass would grow where it had not been seen in years.
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“A lot of people have memories of having played growing up on Page Belcher and Mohawk Park, and with all of the work done this year, (we) want to appeal to Tulsans to think about how good it can be if we can get this match (in funding),” Sidorakis said.
The Citizens Golf Advisory Committee has received several significant donations, Sidorakis said, and his hope is that more Tulsans will pitch in whatever they can.
“I just want to make a plea to ask people that play or played. I don’t care what it is — a dollar, $10, $20, $100, thousands, whatever,” he said.
Individuals or organizations wishing to contribute to the Tulsa Public Golf Course Alliance Fund can do so online at tulsacf.org/golf.
Sidorakis said that, come spring, the Citizens Golf Advisory Committee would like to extend its work to the two 18-hole courses at Mohawk Park.
That would mean more trees removed, more sod laid, bunkers rebuilt and other general course enhancements.
A top priority for the committee, Sidorakis added, is to improve the irrigation system at Mohawk Park. The golf courses there are home to the First Tee of Tulsa youth program, one of the most successful First Tee initiatives in the country.
This year, more than 8,000 young people made their way to Mohawk Park to participate, an increase of nearly 25% from 2021.
The program is a reminder, Sidorakis said, of all that Tulsa’s golf community contributes to the city.
And with more money to invest in the golf courses, who knows?
“Two million dollars can go a long way to improving the golf course conditions at both 36-hole facilities,” Sidorakis said.
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2022-12-23T14:34:12+00:00
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tulsaworld.com
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https://tulsaworld.com/sports/golf/citizens-golf-committee-needs-tulsans-help-to-fund-course-improvements/article_53d0fc12-7fd6-11ed-927c-1fc2f7a837ea.html
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Dennis Rodman, the ex-NBA star who says he knows Vladimir Putin well, revealed his plan to travel to Russia in support of incarcerated WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Griner was sentenced this month to nine years at a Russian prison. She was detained at a Moscow airport in February after custom officials said vape canisters with cannabis oil were found inside her luggage.
The report doesn’t specify whom the New Jersey-born Rodman, 61, received permission from, though he only needs a visa to travel to Russia.
Rodman described Russian President Putin as “cool” in 2014 after traveling to the country, according to NBC News.
He claimed to “know Putin too well” in NBC News’ report this weekend. Rodman also has a relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and reportedly believes he played a role in the country’s release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae in 2014.
The U.S. State Department urges Americans against traveling to Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February.
Rodman won two NBA titles with the Detroit Pistons and three more with the Chicago Bulls during his career, which spanned 1986 to 2000. He was voted the NBA’s defensive player of the year two times.
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2022-08-22T11:58:40+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/dennis-rodman-plans-russia-trip-in-support-of-britney-griner/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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BEIJING, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akso Health Group. (NASDAQ: AHG) ("Akso Health" the "Company" or "we"), today announced that the Company received a written notification (the "Notification") from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") on August 16, 2022, indicating the Company is not in compliance with the timely filing requirement for continued listing under Nasdaq Listing Rules 5250(c)(1) since the Company has not yet filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 (the "Filing") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), the Company has up to 60 calendar days to either cure the deficiency or to submit a plan to Nasdaq showing how it intends to regain compliance. If the plan is accepted, Nasdaq can grant the Company an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the Filing's due date, or until February 13, 2023, to regain compliance.
The Company's business operations are not affected by the Notification and the Company intends to either cure the deficiency or submit the plan as soon as practicable but no later than October 17, 2022. This announcement is made in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(b), which requires prompt disclosure of receipt of a notification of deficiency.
About Akso Health Group
Akso Health Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AHG), formerly known as Xiaobai Maimai Inc., operates a social e-commerce platform in China that collaborates with other domestic e-commerce platforms and offers users a wide selection of high-quality and affordable products. In addition, the Company plans to develop a new business as a cancer therapy and radiotherapy oncology service provider with operations in the U.S. The Company plans to open 2 vaccine research centers and 100 radiation oncology centers to be located on the east coast serving cancer patients in need of varying stages of treatment, including specialized radiation therapy centers for radiotherapy (RT), personalized consultation, conventional treatment planning, and other cancer related treatment services.
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For investor inquiries, please contact:
The Company
Investor Relations
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Mr. Eric Yuan
Phone: +86-10- 5900-1548
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2022-08-17T11:05:14+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/17/akso-health-group-receives-notice-filing-delinquency-nasdaq/
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Monday, October 10th 2022, 7:02 pm
While people around the U.S. honor the history of Indigenous people, one tribal government is calling for Congress to follow through on a promise that has not been fulfilled in nearly 200 years.
Monday is Indigenous Peoples Day, which was formally recognized by President Joe Biden in 2021.
To commemorate the contributions and sacrifices of Indigenous people, the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City held a day of events featuring musical and dance performances.
In addition, Mayor David Holt visited the museum, where he read a proclamation marking the special occasion.
"Our tribal nations are vibrant. We're thriving and we contribute so much to everybody, tribal citizen and not," said Adrienne Lalli Hills, director of learning community engagement at First Americans Museum.
In addition to remembering their past, Indigenous people also want to be heard in the future. With that in mind, the Cherokee Nation is pushing to have its first ever delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Kim Teehee, director of government relations for Cherokee Nation, is the nominee for that position.
"Our delegate is not a voting delegate, meaning it will not vote in final passage during final deliberations on the House floor. What the delegate can do is serve in committees, introduce legislations," said Teehee.
Teehee said in 1835, the U.S. government and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota, which forced the Cherokee people to give up their land. But that treaty also said the Cherokee Nation has the right to have a delegate in the legislature.
According to Article 7 of the treaty, the Cherokee Nation "shall be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States whenever Congress shall make the provision for the same."
"It would give us a seat at the table where laws are being formulated that affect not only us at the Cherokee Nation, but also other tribes across the country," said Teehee. "We do have needs that are similar to other tribes when it comes to addressing funding, when it comes to health care connectivity, education, infrastructure need."
Teehee said the Cherokee Nation has asked for a hearing this fall with the House Rules Committee and is optimistic it will happen.
Teehee said they are also asking for a House vote this year to make the delegate position a reality.
Anyone wishing to support Teehee as the Cherokee Nation delegate in the House of Representatives can fill out this online form.
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2022-10-11T17:47:07+00:00
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news9.com
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https://www.news9.com/story/6344b2e116c62b0729da368f/indigenous-peoples-day:-cherokee-nation-hopes-for-seat-in-congress
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 21-year-old man from Las Cruces is facing several charges after he allegedly got into a law enforcement vehicle and crashed into a New Mexico State Police officer’s vehicle on Sunday April 30, near I-25 south of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
New Mexico State Police say Abraham Quezada, 21, and another person were traveling on I-25 South of Truth or Consequences at around 10:30 p.m. when Quezada began to act “erratically and attempted to jump out of a moving vehicle in which he was a passenger.”
Police say the driver of the vehicle pulled over and Quezada reportedly exited the vehicle and ran away. A driver in a pickup truck stopped by to help, which is when Quezada allegedly “jumped into the bed of the pickup truck,” according to New Mexico State Police.
Police add the driver of the pickup truck panicked and drove away with Quezada in the bed of the vehicle. While the truck was still in motion, Quezada reportedly jumped out of the vehicle and fled, according to New Mexico State Police.
Sierra County Deputies then approached Quezada on NM Highway 187 near mile marker 23 and a New Mexico State Police officer also arrived soon after in the area. A foot pursuit then occurred, and Quezada allegedly got into the Sierra County Sheriff’s deputy vehicle and fled, according to NMSP.
Police say this is when the Sierra County deputy and New Mexico State Police officer fired at least one round towards the “stolen vehicle”. Quezada then continued to drive the deputy’s vehicle until he allegedly, “crashed head-on into the NMSP officer’s unoccupied vehicle,” according to New Mexico State Police.
Quezada was transported to a local area hospital before being flown to a hospital in El Paso where he was treated for his injuries. His condition is currently unknown, and no officers were injured during the incident.
Quezada is charged with two counts of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, one count of an unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and one count of resisting evading an officer.
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2023-05-04T12:14:09+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/las-cruces-man-allegedly-steals-deputys-vehicle-crashes-into-officers-vehicle/
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An erupting volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands sent a towering cloud of ash into the air Friday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue an inflight warning to pilots.
The Shishaldin Volcano began erupting July 11, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. A U.S. Coast Guard overflight confirmed lava erupted the same day within the summit crater.
A significant explosion at 1:09 a.m. Friday produced an ash cloud that reached up to 40,000 feet (12,192 meters) and drifted south over the Pacific Ocean. A second smaller explosion at 7:10 a.m. Friday reached about 15,000 feet (4,572 meters).
The National Weather Service issued a inflight weather advisory due to the drifting ash cloud.
Volcanic ash is angular and sharp and has been used as an industrial abrasive. The powdered rock can cause a jet engine to shut down.
The volcano is 679 miles (1,093 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage near the center of Unimak Island, the largest island in the Aleutians. False Pass, a village of 40 people, is on the island’s east side.
The volcano is a symmetrical cone that is 10 miles (16 kilometers) in diameter at its base. It rises to 9,373 feet (2,857 meters) and is the highest peak in the Aleutians.
Shishaldin is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian volcanic arc. Most eruptions are small. An event in 1999 spewed an ash column that reached 45,000 feet (13,716 meters).
The volcano is monitored with seismic and infrasound sensors, satellite data, a web camera and distant infrasound and lightning networks.
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2023-07-16T13:17:16+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-alaska-volcano-spews-ash-cloud-high-enough-to-draw-weather-service-warning-for-pilots/
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Leading CPG and cannabis packaging company earns certification for management, supply, warehousing, distribution, and related logistics services for standard and custom packaging solutions
MIAMI, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AE Global (AEG), a custom packaging design company and supply chain solutions provider, announced it has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system.
ISO 9001:2015 is a globally recognized quality management standard developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The certification is built on various quality management principles, including a strong focus on customers, involvement of high-level organization management, a process approach, and an ongoing improvement of processes.
QMS Global issued AE Global's ISO 9001:2015 certificate. AE Global's certification scope includes management, supply, warehousing, distribution, and related logistics services for standard and custom packaging solutions.
"Earning the ISO 9001:2015 certification is a testament to AE Global's unwavering commitment to our process of developing innovative CPG packaging solutions and maintaining consistent quality for our customers," said AE Global Managing Partner Mike Forenza. "While we cater to several industries, we are one of a select few packaging solutions providers supporting the cannabis space to earn an ISO 9001 certification."
About AE Global:
AE Global is a custom packaging design company and supply chain solution provider focused on servicing the Cannabis & Hemp, Natural Products, Health & Beauty, Pharmaceutical and Wine & Spirits industries. The cannabis-focused division provides SSOs, MSOs, and wholesale brands with proactive solutions to bring products to market from concept to execution. AEG has helped launch brands and innovative packaging solutions, including Curaleaf's Select Squeeze Bottle and patented and patent-pending products EZ-Lock™ and Amplify™. AEG develops custom packaging solutions via its in-house innovation lab. AEG invests in vertically integrated manufacturing locations to promote supply chain efficiencies and bolster sustainability initiatives. AEG has partnered with 4G Recycling to form the Ocean Recovery Group (ORG), a social-business enterprise leveraging over 100 years of recycling-industry experience to better collect, clean, and recycle ocean-bound plastics.
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2022-06-14T13:13:56+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/14/ae-global-receives-iso-90012015-certification-packaging-quality-management-system/
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Jon Mooneyham, host of Everything All At Once Forever, shares some of his favorite albums of 2022 (in alphabetical order).
Eric Chenaux: Say Laura
Canadian artist Chenaux has been exploring and refining his lavender-and-horseradish pairing of pleasantly warm. honeyed crooning and wiggly, pitch-unencumbered guitar for a couple of decades. Often performing solo or abetted by minimal keyboards from Ryan Driver, this year’s big wrinkle is his addition of programmed rhythms, albeit filtered through effect pedals into anchoring electronic pulses. And while priorly the twinned aspects of his carefully crafted folkish songs and lurching, careening guitar improv frequently occupied opposite corners of the room, now they wrap around each other like alcoholic lovers getting horny at a dive bar. Nowhere is this better found here than on “There They Were,” his multi-tracked and harmonized vocals in repeated out-choruses underpinning extended guitar spazzapalooza. Say Laura (even more so than Chenaux’s other recordings) is rare territory where laid-back mellow pop enthusiasts and bristing edgelord noiseniks can find common ground.
Lucrecia Dalt: ¡Ay!
While Lucretia Dalt’s earlier recordings leaned heavily into an electroacoustic sound world and abstracted structures, here she goes off on a 90° tangent with an album of overt pop songs, driven by rhythms inspired by her Colombian origins. Propelled by hand-played percussion, the arrangements incorporate clarinet, flute, trumpet, and upright bass, while the synths are mostly relegated to organ-ish roles or various percussive punctuations and texture. The album’s lush, sumptuous sound space makes hay with Dalt’s strong, clear (and frequently close-miked) vocals, sometimes layered with backing vocals or multiple leads. The album slides in with a languidly woozy lounge vibe that sustains for most of the record (though tempos pick up a bit in the latter half). Apparently the lyrics comprise a pop opera of sorts, concerning an alien coming to grips with humanity’s feelings and emotions, but the fact they’re in Spanish means a lame monolingualist like myself is missing out on most of the story (like usual). RIYL: Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits.
Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork
This album cover (short ’n’ curlies spelling the title on a bar of soap) is a great metaphor for Dry Cleaning’s musical approach: funny, off-centered, and maybe a smidgen disturbing. I love hearing bands evolve and refine their ideas, and here they move well past the post-punk shorthand of their debut with more ambitious styles and arrangements. Still commandeered by Florence Shaw’s coolly detached voice, there’s now a certain optimism embedded in her absurdist quotidian narratives (and she evens sings a bit!).
Flock: Flock
Five young lions from London’s jazz and experimental circles — including Danalogue from The Comet Is Coming, Tamar Osbourn of Collocutor, and Vula Viel’s Bex Burch — create an album of collective improvisation, guided by texts written by Burch. The results, unfolded from tiny modules of rhythm and melody, surprisingly hew closer to smooth, calm emotions (there’s only a couple of spots that get a terse little boil rolling), and some passages even evoke Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece “In C”.
Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance
A sturdy long-player debut from a trio of Chicago women, recorded while they were barely out of high school. Influences of ‘80s and ‘90s indie sounds are overt: streaks of Sonic Youth, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, and others pepper the songs (it doesn’t hurt that SY’s Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley contribute to a couple). The lyrics, meanwhile, tend to be fragmentary, solipsistic glimpses into Horsegirl’s private world. If not breaking new ground, it’s a consolidation of those elements into genuinely exciting guitar-driven rock.
Jockstrap: I Love You Jennifer B
Inside this stunningly terrible cover is a fascinating album of contrasts: Georgia Ellery’s mainstream pop-conscious, emotive songs are underpinned and deconstructed (sometimes both at once!) by Taylor Skye’s detailed digital manipulations. Themes of urban disillusionment and loneliness thread these disparate pieces together like ipecac-flavored candy necklace beads.
Marlowe: Marlowe 3
The dynamic duo of Solemn Brigham and L’Orange go three for three with this latest stellar installment. Brigham’s clever lyrics, sheer stylistic variety, and unstoppable flow (sometimes right to the brink of asphyxia) sync with L’Orange’s eclectic retro music instrumentals to make dusty heaven for the ears. And the minimal deployment of “bad words” (you know the ones) are a boon. RIYL: the eccentricities of Madlib and J Dilla.
The Soundcarriers: Wilds
After a drought of eight years (interrupted only by their soundtrack work for the short-lived series Lodge 49), The Soundcarriers return with more of their meticulous, widescreen pop-psych. There’s a rougher edge here than before (no doubt the result of recording mostly live in makeshift spaces), enhancing the muscular rhythm section. RIYL: Stereolab, Broadcast, &c.
Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful
Despite its titular Vonnegut referencing connection to the previous album (…And Nothing Hurt), the more pertinent link is to an even earlier Spiritualized album, 1997’s triumphant Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space—right down to the pharmaceutical packaging concept. That’s no bad thing: Jason Spaceman’s penchant for blues and gospel inflated to Spectoriffic proportions has ebbed and flowed in quality over the past thirty-odd years, but here he nails it perfectly. Newer additions to the formula like the country-itinged “Crazy” slide right into place, and tit seems Spaceman has devoted a bit more attention to lyrics than he has in some time. As with the best Spiritualized, complete over-the-top bombast seems warmly intimate and desirable.
Spoon VS On-U Sound: Lucifer on the Moon
Though Spoon have been remarkably consistent in their carefully crafted and nuanced sound for years now, here’s a curveball I certainly didn’t see coming: a full-length dub deconstruction of this year’s excellent Lucifer on the Sofa. Reworked by legendary producer Adrian Sherwood, Lucifer on the Moon more than stands on its own—to the extent that I actually like it better than the album from which it’s derived (sorry, Spoon dudes).
Wet Leg: Wet Leg
Add my voice to the choruses of praise for these two young women from the Isle of Wight (on several of The Spy crew’s year-end lists, too). Fun, snarky, and—given fears that “Chaise Longue” was a giddy one-shot fluke—eminently replayable. I’m eager to hear what they do next.
Yard Act: The Overload
Yes, one more band operating with a “talk-sing” approach (the estate of Mark E. Smith will be delivering cease-and-desist notices any day now), Yard Act spice up the recipe by dint of an overt social observation / commentary angle. Gentrification, small town lives, the human species’ imminent demise, and other fun topics are some of the themes explored here by frontman James Smith (who occasionally sings, too, though chiefly on hooky choruses). The music isn’t the default post-post-punk variations, either, hearkening back to a ’70s art rock flexibility, with tempo changes and varied arrangements. (Note: the video below is NSFW.)
And a ringer in at lucky number thirteen…
Professor Shorthair: NOLA Breaks - The Funkilation
This is actually a compilation of work from Professor Shorthair (New Orleans aficionados will get the reference), who gently re-edits classic records by The Meters, Ernie K-Doe, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey and others with a distinct hiphop vibe. An absolute party record—not that I’ve been attending too many parties of late…
Listen to Everything All At Once Forever, every Saturday at 7 p.m.
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2023-01-04T23:09:06+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/music/2023-01-03/a-bakers-dozen-of-2022-favorites-from-mooneyham
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Which beach lounge chair is best?
When you’re planning a trip to the beach, a lounge chair is one of those essential items you need to make the day more relaxing. It prevents you from becoming overly sandy and provides comfort while you nap, read a book or take in the view.
If you’re in need of a beach lounge chair, an excellent option is the Ostrich Deluxe 3-in-1 Beach Lounge Chair. It’s made of lightweight aluminum so it’s easy to carry and features a padded footrest and lumbar pillow for extra support.
What to know before you buy a beach lounge chair
Consider your height and weight
All beach chairs might look the same, but pay attention to their limitations. Depending on their materials, there might be a weight limit. Chairs with a heavy-duty steel frame are usually safe to carry up to 260 pounds.
Most also have a recommendation as to height, but that isn’t too much of a concern. At worst, your feet will hang off the edge, since most can accommodate people up to 6 feet tall.
Added functions
The primary purpose of a beach lounge chair is to have a comfortable seat, but it’s much better if you have all your gadgets, books and drinks close by. Basic chairs don’t have such luxuries but consider if you need a side pocket for your Kindle e-reader, sunglasses or mobile phone. Hydration is crucial when tanning, so you might also want a built-in drink holder in an armrest.
Technology hasn’t entirely caught up with beach loungers, so you might want to pack a power bank, since they don’t have built-in wireless chargers (yet).
Storage can be a challenge
Having a lounger at the beach is great, but when you’re done your enjoying the waves, it’s time to go home and pack everything away. That’s usually when people realize that these chairs need lots of storage space — especially if you have one for each family member. To spare yourself from playing beach-chair Tetris, plan your storage location beforehand. And don’t forget to give them a quick dusting to get rid of unwanted beach sand.
What to look for in a quality beach lounge chair
Comfort
You’ll spend most of your time in the beach chair, so it must be comfortable. This is achieved through several means, but the most important aspects are their materials and padding. A beach chair made of nylon or canvas will dry quickly but can be uncomfortable after some time. For maximum comfort, look for a good-quality beach chair with a softer fabric lining and some padding, an additional head pillow and a padded footrest.
Some even have a hole in the headrest with a face cushion, so you’ll be comfortable lying on your stomach.
Easy to carry
Next to the cooler, a beach chair is one of the most cumbersome objects to transport. There doesn’t seem to be a way to carry them that won’t make you look awkward, especially if you need to carry other things. A good-quality chair, though, is easy to move around. Some fold up tightly to take up less space in your vehicle and have a special carry handle. Others have straps so that when folded, you can carry them like a backpack.
Multiple positions
A beach chair is an effective way to sit on the sand without it getting everywhere. But sometimes, you want to catch a snooze or read a book. An upright position isn’t the best, so a good-quality beach lounger has multiple positions. Through strategic locking hinges, the chair’s backrest and feet section can clip into different positions for when you want to lie down flat, extend your legs with a slight tilt or sit upright with your feet off the ground.
How much you can expect to spend on a beach lounge chair
The price depends on its material, size and features. A basic chair with minimal padding costs $40-$60, while a larger, more robust lounger with padding and a drink holder runs $110-$160.
Beach lounge chair FAQ
How big are the cup holders?
A. They’re usually big enough to accommodate anything slightly larger in diameter than a regular soda can.
Are beach chairs waterproof?
A. That depends on their material and padding. Most beach chairs are made from nylon, which is waterproof and easily cleanable. However, if the chair has foam padding, it might need to sit in the sun to dry before packing it away.
What’s the best beach lounge chair to buy?
Top beach lounge chair
Ostrich Deluxe 3-in-1 Beach Lounge Chair
What you need to know: This striped lounger has five adjustable chair positions and three adjustable footrest positions.
What you’ll love: The quick-dry fabric is held together tightly by the lightweight steel frame, making it easy to fold up and store away. It has a face cavity you can close when not needed and wooden armrests with a mesh cup holder.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the components in the hinges are relatively sharp.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top beach lounge chair for the money
Rio Beach Portable Backpack Beach Lounge Chair
What you need to know: Made from quick-drying polyester, this affordable lounger is perfect for a sunny day.
What you’ll love: Weighing only 9 pounds, it has two straps that, when folded up, let you carry it like a backpack. It has three reclining positions, and a storage pocket is on the back of the headrest.
What you should consider: It can’t be configured into a position where you sit upright.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
KingCamp 4-Fold Beach Lounge Chair
What you need to know: This lounger is made from durable oxford fabric, suspended on a steel frame with a double bungee cord.
What you’ll love: It lets you enjoy the beach in four seating options and has a comfortable head pillow and a side pocket for your valuables or electronics. The triangular footpads prevent the chair from sinking into the sand.
What you should consider: It can only hold up to 264 pounds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-08-02T14:33:59+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/reviews/br/camping-outdoors-br/beach-br/best-beach-lounge-chair/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he will visit sub-Saharan Africa next year, the first U.S. president to travel there in a decade. He announced the trip — still unscheduled — as he wrapped up a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit by stressing he’s serious about increasing U.S. attention to the growing continent.
His promise of a personal visit came as Biden declared to the 49 leaders gathered for the summit that “Africa belongs at the table” in every conversation of global consequence.
“I’m looking forward to seeing you in your home countries,” Biden said near the end of the three-day summit that the administration billed as primarily a listening session with the continent’s leaders.
The Biden administration used the summit — a follow-up to one held in 2014 by Barack Obama — as the latest part of a charm offensive with leaders of African nations. The administration is looking to strengthen relations with those nations as China has surpassed the U.S. in trade with Africa and is aiming to grow its military presence.
The continent is crucial to global powers because of its rapidly growing population, significant natural resources and sizable voting bloc in the United Nations. Some leaders who took part in summit made clear they want the Biden administration to steer away from forcing them to choose between the U.S. and its global competitors when it comes to trade matters.
“These are economic opportunities,” Niger President Mohamed Bazoum told The Associated Press. “Companies from Turkey and China come and invest in Niger in a win-win type of relationship. It is something that American investors can do as well.”
Biden on Thursday formally announced that he supports the African Union becoming a permanent member of the Group of 20 nations. He also announced plans to spend $2 billion to help bolster food security on the continent and $165 million to help African nations carry out peaceful and transparent elections next year.
Those announcements came after Biden this week detailed his administration’s commitment to spend $55 billion on government programming in Africa over the next three years, over and above the billions that American private companies would invest.
“Our eyes are fixed squarely on the future,” Biden said.
The elections-funding announcement came after Biden met on Wednesday with a small group of leaders whose countries have big votes in the new year.
Those leaders: Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba, Liberia President George Manneh Weah, Madagascar President Andry Nirina Rajoelina, Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari and Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio.
The White House said in a statement that Biden, in his meeting with the leaders, reflected on the state of democracy in his own country after last year’s Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. That’s when supporters of then-President Donald Trump violently sought to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Biden.
Biden also spoke about the recent U.S. midterm elections, when voters rejected a number of 2020-results-denying candidates, with the president making his case that “the strength and resilience of American democracy was reaffirmed in the process.”
Thousands of Trump supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a violent insurrection, breaking through police barricades and smashing windows in the building, crying out to hang the vice president.
Trump and his allies also launched roughly 50 lawsuits aimed at overturning vote counts in battleground states. They lost almost every legal battle they waged and Biden was declared the winner.
The upcoming elections in African nations are seen as important indicators of the strength of democracy across the continent.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with more than 210 million people, is already confronted with violent attacks relating to its election, to be held in February.
Congo is battling an upsurge of rebel violence in its east, which will complicate efforts to hold elections. Tshisekedi won power in tumultuous elections in that country in 2019, and the upcoming elections, scheduled for next December, will be crucial to solidify his rule.
West Africa has had several coups in recent year, and Burkina Faso and Mali are currently ruled by military juntas. With this in mind, the elections in Gabon and Sierra Leone will be key markers. Sierra Leone had anti-government demonstrations this year over high inflation and displeasure with President Bio, who was elected in 2018.
In Madagascar, with a history marked by coups and disputed elections. President Rajoelina was elected in 2019, replacing rule by a military-backed junta. Rajoelina will be striving to consolidate his rule and the country’s democracy in the elections.
The United States has already provided nearly $50 million in support of civil society and the electoral commissions in Nigeria and Congo.
Senegalese President Macky Sall, the African Union chairman, in remarks at Thursday’s session thanked Biden for his commitment to Africa. But he also said Africa’s countries face steep challenges – -from rising food insecurity to badly needed infrastructure improvements to fend off the scourge of climate change.
Sall criticized pending U.S. legislation that he said unfairly “targeted” Africa, an apparent reference to a measure titled “Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa.” Lawmakers sponsoring the bill say the legislation is intended to prevent Moscow from using Africa to bypass U.S. sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine.
Sall also raised concerns about years-long U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe for corruption and human rights violations, saying that it was time to lift the penalties so the nation could “fight against poverty and underdevelopment.”
Earlier this week, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it was hitting four Zimbabwean people, including the adult son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and two companies with new s anctions, accusing them of roles in undermining democracy and facilitating high-level graft.
Africa has been disproportionately harmed by the rise of global food prices sparked by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Sall said it was critical to take heed of the “lessons” of the crises of the pandemic and war.
“The time is right to take vigorous action in the field of agriculture and food security,” Sall said.
Biden concurred at a closing summit session focused on food security. He said, “If a parent can’t feed their child, nothing else really matters.”
Sall also said the African Union expects a “strong commitment and support” from the United States on countering terrorism.
“We wish for the fight against terrorism to be an integral part of the world struggle against thus blight,” he said.
Biden’s visit to Africa will include stops in multiple countries, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The White House has not released any details about where or when Biden will be travelling.
He made a brief stop in November in Egypt, which spans across the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, for an international climate summit.
In the first two years of his presidency, Biden’s international travel has focused on Asia and Europe, as he has sought to recalibrate his foreign policy to put greater focus on the Indo-Pacific. He has also had to deal with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biden’s Republican predecessor, Trump, did not make it to Africa during his COVID-19 shadowed presidency in which he made no foreign visits during his final 11 months. Trump was the first president since Ronald Reagan not to visit the continent during his presidency
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Associated Press reporters Cara Anna in Nairobi, Kenya, Andrew Meldrum in Johannesburg and Tracy Brown in Washington contributed reporting.
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2022-12-16T12:39:03+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-biden-says-he-plans-to-visit-sub-saharan-africa-soon/
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — Three telemarketing companies accused of using robocalls to ignore the Pennsylvania “Do-Not-Call” Law have agreed to a settlement with the Commonwealth, Attorney General Michelle Henry announced
The settlements will total more than $90,000 after the telemarketers contacted people on the do-not-call list.
According to the Office of Attorney General’s investigation, American Automotive Alliance, LLC, of Florida, and Delaware-based AM Protection, Inc., along with its owner Mariam Nasrati, marketed auto warranties in the pre-recorded calls. Ohio-based Mammoth Marketing Group, LLC, made calls marketing Medicare benefits to senior citizens.
“My office is committed to fighting back against telemarketers that call Pennsylvanians who make it clear they do not want unsolicited calls,” Attorney General Henry said. “These settlements send a stern message that telemarketers who break the law are not welcomed here.”
Pennsylvania law requires telemarketers to register with the Office of the Attorney General and provide a surety bond of $50,000. The bond ensures the telemarketing company is bound by state laws — which include being prohibited from making solicitation calls to residents registered on the “Do-Not-Call” list.
The investigation revealed that none of the three companies had registered as telemarketers with the Office of Attorney General, Henry said.
In some cases, it was reported that these calls appeared on call IDs as being from a local number, even though they came from out of state. This practice is called “spoofing” and it’s been on the rise nationwide, especially from scammers.
As part of the terms of the settlement agreements, or Assurances of Voluntary Compliance, all three companies are required to comply with the Pennsylvania Telemarketer Registration Act, including not calling residents with phone numbers on the “Do-Not-Call” List.
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2023-06-07T22:38:57+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/pennsylvania-news/telemarketers-to-pay-nearly-100k-in-pennsylvania-do-not-call-settlement/
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After Mississippi spent millions of dollars in welfare money on Brett Favre’s pet project, a university volleyball arena, the retired NFL quarterback tried two years later to get additional cash from the state’s welfare agency for another sports facility, new court documents show.
The governor at the time, Republican Phil Bryant, texted in 2019 with Favre, who wanted to build an indoor practice facility for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football team. Bryant told him federal money for children and low-income adults is “tightly controlled” and “improper use could result in violation of Federal Law.”
Text messages between Bryant and Favre are in court documents filed Friday by Bryant’s lawyers, which seek to show the governor was willing to help Favre raise private money for the volleyball facility starting in 2017 and was unaware for more than two years that welfare money was going to the project.
Mississippi’s largest-ever public corruption case has ensnared several people, including a pro wrestler whose drug rehab was funded with welfare money.
The state has filed a civil lawsuit against Favre and others to recover more than $20 million in misspent welfare money intended to help needy people in one of the country’s poorest states. Bryant and Favre are not facing criminal charges, and Bryant is not among those named in the state’s civil lawsuit.
A former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, John Davis, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal and state felony charges in a conspiracy to misspend welfare money. Davis was appointed by Bryant in February 2016 and fired by him in July 2019. Davis has agreed to testify against others.
Attorneys for a nonprofit organization being sued, Mississippi Community Education Center, sent a subpoena to Bryant in late July, seeking communication between the former governor and any other person about the volleyball arena.
The nonprofit was run by Nancy New and her son, Zachary New, who in April pleaded guilty to state charges of misusing welfare money. They also agreed to testify against others.
In the court filing Friday, Bryant objected to producing documents unless it was under a protective order to prevent public release of the contents.
“This motion was brought in bad faith and solely to annoy, embarrass, and oppress Governor Bryant because he refused to turn a blind eye to the crimes perpetrated by New and Davis,” Bryant’s attorneys wrote.
Favre’s request for money from the Mississippi Department of Humans Services to fund the football facility went nowhere. Favre made the request July 28, 2019, as he was unsuccessfully trying to recruit the son of another retired NFL player, Deion Sanders, to the university in Hattiesburg.
Favre played football at the University of Southern Mississippi before going to the NFL in 1991. Bryant and New are also alumni, and Favre wrote to Bryant that having an indoor practice facility would give the football program “instant credibility.”
Favre’s daughter started playing volleyball at the university in 2017. The new court papers said Bryant first learned Favre was trying to raise money for a volleyball arena on April 20, 2017, when Favre texted the governor to say he and his wife, Deanna, were building the facility.
“I need your influence somehow to get donations and or sponsorships,” Favre texted Bryant. “Obviously Southern has no money so I’m hustling to get it raised.”
The documents said Bryant replied a few hours later, “Of course I am all in on the Volleyball facility. … One thing I know how to do is raise money.'”
In July 2017, Favre texted Bryant about the volleyball facility again, asking “if we can find a contractor that would say hey rather than give you money I’ll build for free!! Maybe you know of someone.”
Bryant replied he was “all over it.”
“It is important to note that, in these early text messages, Favre never mentioned the use of public funds, much less the use of TANF funds for the construction of the facility,” Bryant’s attorneys wrote Friday. “At this time, the discussions between Favre and Governor Bryant were focused on private donations and corporate sponsorships.”
In July 2017, court records show Davis and Nancy New met about using welfare money to fund the volleyball arena, with Davis committing $4 million. New’s nonprofit later paid Favre $1.1 million for speaking engagements to help him pay for the arena. Favre never made the speeches and later repaid the money, although he has not repaid $228,000 in interest.
Bryant’s attorneys wrote that the governor first learned Human Services was involved with funding the volleyball arena in a text message he received from Favre on July 16, 2019. “I want you to know how much I love Nancy New and John Davis,” Favre wrote. “What they have done for me and Southern Miss is amazing.”
Favre wrote there were plans to do workshops and youth clinics in the volleyball facility with a program run by Nancy New.
“And also I paid for 3/4 of Vball facility and the rest was a joint project with her and John which was saving me 1.8 million,” Favre texted Bryant. “I was informed today that she may not be able to fund her part. I and we need your help very badly Governor and sorry to even bring this up.”
Bryant’s attorneys wrote that “Favre began a campaign to aggressively lobby the governor to help him cover the debt on the USM Volleyball Center.” They also wrote Favre had not paid for three-quarters of the construction costs, and Human Services committed more than $1.8 million to the project.
According to Friday’s court documents, Bryant and Favre met Sept. 4, 2019, with the new Department of Human Services director, retired FBI agent Christopher Freeze. Favre texted Bryant after the meeting: “We obviously need your help big time and time is working against us.” Favre also mentioned the volleyball facility could be named for Bryant, who was in his final months as governor.
Bryant responded: “We are going to get there. This was a great meeting. But we have to follow the law. I am to old for Federal Prison.” He added a smiling emoji with sunglasses.
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2022-09-25T22:52:36+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/ap-texts-favre-also-sought-welfare-money-for-football-facility/
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DENVER (KDVR) – Early Tuesday morning, three thieves used a truck and rope to pull a bolted-down ATM out of Spot Bar and Grill in Denver.
“It’s just violating,” Meagan Maly, the bar’s general manager, said.
Security video shows one of the suspects breaking the glass door to get into the bar. The thief never hit the lock on the door, which Maly said is why the alarm wasn’t originally triggered.
The suspect inside went straight to the ATM and attempted to pick it up before appearing to realize the ATM was bolted to the ground. While that was happening, a red truck backed up onto the curb just outside the front door and another suspect brought a rope inside.
“He put a little lasso on our ATM and hooked up to the truck and pulled it right out through our door, breaking the door,” Maly said.
From there the video shows the suspects dragging out the ATM and lifting it into the back of the red truck.
“It was a different-looking truck with a lot of flood lights on it. It’ll have a lot of dings on it after hitting that stop sign several times,” Maly said. “So hopefully that narrows it down.”
Right now, they don’t know the exact amount of money that was in the ATM during the theft.
“I’m hoping nothing. That would be the silver lining, but we don’t know yet,” Maly said.
She said the bar has had small break-ins in the past, but nothing this elaborate or what appeared to be planned. She said she believes the thieves had been in the bar before.
“They knew exactly where it was. Police lifted prints off the handle, so we are waiting to see if it’s someone we recognize,” Maly said.
Spot Bar and Grill has been open for 27 years.
“Things like this shouldn’t happen, especially at a neighborhood bar in a nice area. Washington Park is a nice area. It just sucks something like this would happen,” she said.
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2023-05-03T18:56:39+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/watch-thieves-use-a-little-lasso-to-pull-atm-out-of-bar/
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said Wednesday that he does not support Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) blanket hold on more than 180 non-political military promotions, which Democrats say is keeping qualified people out of key roles.
“I don’t support putting a hold on military nominations, I don’t support that,” McConnell told reporters.
Tuberville has held up the promotions of 184 general and flag officers for weeks to protest the Defense Department’s abortion policy of providing paid leave and travel reimbursements to service members who have to cross state lines to obtain abortions and fertility treatments.
Asked whether there is a way to resolve the impasse, McConnell said: “You’ll have to ask Sen. Tuberville about that.”
McConnell said he doesn’t support the blockade of military promotions but added “as to why” they’re not moving, “you need to ask Sen. Tuberville.”
The GOP leader’s comments came after seven former secretaries of Defense sent a letter to the Senate last week warning the hold on promotions is “harming military readiness and risks damaging U.S. national security.”
The letter addressed to McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned “the current hold that has been in place now for several weeks is preventing key leaders from assuming important, senior command and staff positions around the world.”
The former Pentagon chiefs who signed the letter included William Perry, William Cohen, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also blasted the broad hold as “irresponsible” and “unprecedented” in a separate letter.
“This indefinite hold harms America’s national security and hinders the Pentagon’s normal operations,” Austin warned. “The longer that this hold persists, the greater the risk the U.S. military runs in every theater, every domain, and every Service.”
Schumer cited the letters in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning.
“I hope Senate Republicans read Secretary Austin’s letter and from the seven former secretaries of Defense and prevail on the senator from Alabama to get our military operating to its full capacity,” he said.
The Hill reported last month that some Senate Republican were growing weary of the standoff.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the ranking member of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said Tuberville should have focused on political appointees instead of career military officials.
“I would prefer that Sen. Tuberville focus his holds on political appointees. They’re the ones who make the policy. I think that would be an equally effective and better approach, but obviously, the approach he chooses is up to him,” she said in April.
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2023-05-10T21:28:35+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-breaks-with-tuberville-over-blanket-hold-on-military-nominees/
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YORK, Pa., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 21, 2022, the Board of Directors of Traditions Bancorp (OTC Pink: TRBK), parent company of Traditions Bank, declared a quarterly cash dividend of eight cents per common share. The dividend will be paid on August 15, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 5, 2022.
Formed in 2002 with administrative headquarters in York, Pennsylvania, Traditions Bank operates seven full-service branch offices located in York, Hanover, and Lancaster, as well as a loan production office in Lemoyne, Cumberland County. With assets of $748 million as of March 31, 2022 and 170 associates, Traditions Bank provides depository and borrowing services to businesses and individuals located in south-central Pennsylvania. The Bank is a leading provider of residential mortgages and has been a Bauer Financial recommended financial institution for more than a decade.
To learn more about Traditions Bancorp, visit www.traditionsbancorp.com.
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2022-07-21T22:25:18+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/07/21/traditions-bancorp-announces-second-quarter-cash-dividend/
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CORAL GABLES, Fla., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ) (the "Company") today announced its amendment of the terms of its private exchange offer to certain Eligible Holders (as defined herein) (the "Exchange Offer") for any and all outstanding 6.625% Senior Notes due August 15, 2029 (the "IEA Existing Notes") issued by IEA Energy Services LLC (the "IEA Issuer"), a subsidiary of Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. ("IEA"), for up to an aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 of new 6.625% MasTec Senior Notes due August 15, 2029 issued by the Company (the "MTZ Exchange Notes"). As described in more detail below, the Company has amended the Exchange Offer to (i) extend the deadline for the delivery of consents in the Consent Solicitation (as defined herein), (ii) extend the Early Tender Date (as defined herein) and (iii) modify the Consent Payment and the Total Consideration (each as defined herein). In addition, notwithstanding the extension of the deadline for delivery of consents in the Consent Solicitation, consents delivered (and not validly withdrawn) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 19, 2022 may not be revoked, and any consent delivered after such time may not be revoked. Except as otherwise described in this press release, the terms and conditions of the Exchange Offer set forth in the Offering Memorandum (as defined herein) remain unchanged.
The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are being conducted in connection with, and are conditioned upon the completion of, the previously announced merger in which IEA would become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the "Merger"), which is currently expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions, regulatory approvals and approval by the stockholders of IEA.
The following table sets forth the Consent Payment, the Exchange Consideration (as defined herein), the Early Tender Premium and the Total Consideration for the MTZ Exchange Notes:
As part of the Exchange Offer, the Company is soliciting consents (the "Consent Solicitation") with respect to the IEA Existing Notes, to eliminate or modify certain of the covenants, restrictive provisions and events of default (the "Proposed Amendments") in the indenture, dated as of August 17, 2021, governing the IEA Existing Notes (the "IEA Existing Indenture"). The Proposed Amendments require the valid consent of the holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of IEA Existing Notes, excluding IEA Existing Notes held by certain affiliated holders of IEA (the "Requisite Consents"). The Company has amended the Consent Payment as follows:
- For each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Consent Deadline, Eligible Holders of IEA Existing Notes will be eligible to receive a consent payment of either (i) $2.50 in cash or (ii) if the Requisite Consents are obtained, the Success Fee in cash (the "Consent Payment"); provided that the Consent Payment will not be paid with respect to any IEA Existing Notes validly withdrawn prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 19, 2022.
- If the Requisite Consents are obtained at or prior to the Consent Deadline, the Company will pay a fee in an aggregate amount of $750,000 (the "Total Amount") to all Eligible Holders that validly delivered their consents at or prior to the Consent Deadline (including all Eligible Holders that validly delivered (and did not validly revoke) their consents prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on August 19, 2022), and for each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes with respect to which an Eligible Holder validly delivered their consent at or prior to the Consent Deadline, such Eligible Holder will be entitled to receive their pro rata portion of the Total Amount (the "Success Fee"). Therefore, the Success Fee will be an amount, per $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes for which Eligible Holders have validly delivered consents prior to the Consent Deadline, equal to the product of $2.50 multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of IEA Existing Notes outstanding as of the Consent Deadline and the denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of IEA Existing Notes for which Eligible Holders have validly delivered consents prior to the Consent Deadline. As a result, the Success Fee for the IEA Existing Notes will range from $2.50 per $1,000 (if all holders consent) to approximately $5.00 per $1,000 (if holders of a simple majority of the aggregate principal amount of the IEA Existing Notes consent).
- For the avoidance of doubt, if the Requisite Consents are obtained, the Success Fee to be received by each Eligible Holder that validly delivers their consent at or prior to the Consent Deadline includes, and is not in addition to, the $2.50 in cash for each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes that an Eligible Holder that validly delivers their consent at or prior to the Consent Deadline would have received if the Requisite Consents were not obtained at or prior to the Consent Deadline. In addition, notwithstanding the extension of the deadline for the delivery of consents to the Consent Deadline, consents delivered (and not validly revoked) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 19, 2022 may not be revoked, and any consent delivered after that date may not be revoked.
- For the avoidance of doubt, the Success Fee will not be paid if the Requisite Consents are not obtained at or prior to the Consent Deadline (in which case, the Consent Payment will be $2.50 in cash for each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes for which Eligible Holders have validly delivered consents prior to the Consent Deadline, as described above).
In addition, the Company has amended the Early Tender Date to be 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 24, 2022 (such date and time, as the same may be further extended, the "Early Tender Date"). Subject to applicable law, the Company expressly reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation in any respect, including to (i) extend the Early Tender Date without extending the Consent Deadline, (ii) extend the Consent Deadline or (iii) provide that the Early Tender Premium will be payable only to Eligible Holders who validly tender and do not validly withdraw IEA Existing Notes at or prior to the Consent Deadline.
At any time before the Expiration Date, if the Company receives the Requisite Consents, the IEA Issuer has agreed that the IEA Issuer, IEA and the trustee of the IEA Existing Notes will execute and deliver a supplemental indenture relating to the Proposed Amendments (the "IEA Supplemental Indenture"), which will be effective upon execution but will only become operative upon the settlement date of the Exchange Offer (the "Settlement Date"). An Eligible Holder that validly tenders (and does not validly withdraw) its IEA Existing Notes and validly delivers a consent prior to the Consent Deadline (including all Eligible Holders that validly delivered (and did not validly revoke) their consents prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on August 19, 2022), but validly withdraws such IEA Existing Notes after the Consent Deadline but prior to the Expiration Date, will receive the Consent Payment, even if such Eligible Holder is no longer the beneficial owner of such IEA Existing Notes at the Expiration Date, but will not receive the Early Tender Premium or the Exchange Consideration.
The Company, at its option, may complete the Exchange Offer even if the Requisite Consents are not received. Any amendment or waiver of the terms of or conditions with respect to the Exchange Offer by the Company will automatically amend or waive such terms or conditions with respect to the Consent Solicitation unless expressly stated otherwise.
The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are being made pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offering memorandum, dated August 8, 2022, as amended by the Offering Memorandum Supplement, dated August 22, 2022 (as so amended, the "Offering Memorandum"), and are conditioned upon the closing of the Merger, which condition may not be waived by the Company, and certain other conditions that may be waived by the Company. The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on September 30, 2022, unless extended or terminated (such date and time with respect to the Exchange Offer, as may be extended for such Exchange Offer, the "Expiration Date").
For each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Consent Deadline and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Date, Eligible Holders of IEA Existing Notes will be eligible to receive the total consideration set out in the table above (the "Total Consideration"), which consists of the Exchange Consideration, the Consent Payment and an early tender premium, payable in MTZ Exchange Notes, equal to $50.00 (the "Early Tender Premium"). To be eligible to receive the Total Consideration, Eligible Holders must (i) validly tender (and not validly withdraw) their IEA Existing Notes at or prior to the Early Tender Date, (ii) validly deliver their consent in the Consent Solicitation at or prior to the Consent Deadline (including all Eligible Holders that validly delivered (and did not validly revoke) their consents prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on August 19, 2022) and (iii) beneficially own such IEA Existing Notes at the Expiration Date.
The principal amount of MTZ Exchange Notes to be received by an Eligible Holder in the Exchange Offer for each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes will in no event exceed $1,000, unless the Exchange Offer is amended.
For each $1,000 principal amount of IEA Existing Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the Expiration Date, Eligible Holders of IEA Existing Notes will be eligible to receive $950 principal amount of MTZ Exchange Notes (the "Exchange Consideration").
Tenders of IEA Existing Notes may be validly withdrawn by Eligible Holders at any time prior to the Expiration Date; however, a valid withdrawal of tendered IEA Existing Notes before the Expiration Date (including any valid withdrawal after 5:00 p.m., New York City time on August 19, 2022) will not be deemed a valid revocation of the related consent delivered by such Eligible Holder (including any consent delivered (and not validly revoked) prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on August 19, 2022), and such consent will continue to be deemed delivered.
No accrued and unpaid interest is payable upon acceptance of the IEA Existing Notes in the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation, including, for the avoidance of doubt, if the Settlement Date falls between a regular record date and interest payment date under the IEA Existing Indenture. The first interest payment on the MTZ Exchange Notes will include the accrued and unpaid interest on the IEA Existing Notes tendered in exchange therefor, such that a tendering Eligible Holder will receive the same interest payment it would have received had its IEA Existing Notes not been tendered in the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation; provided that for any portion of an interest period after the Settlement Date, interest will only accrue with respect to the aggregate principal amount of MTZ Exchange Notes an Eligible Holder receives, which will be less than the principal amount of the IEA Existing Notes tendered for exchange if such Eligible Holder validly tenders (and does not validly withdraw) its IEA Existing Notes after the Early Tender Date. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent an interest payment date occurs prior to the Settlement Date, Eligible Holders who validly tendered and did not validly withdraw IEA Existing Notes in the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation will receive accrued and unpaid interest on such interest payment date as required by the terms of the IEA Existing Indenture.
The MTZ Exchange Notes will be the general senior unsecured obligations of the Company and rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company's existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness.
Documents relating to the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation will only be distributed to persons who certify that they are (a) a "Qualified Institutional Buyer," as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or (b) a person that is not a U.S. person (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) (such persons, "Eligible Holders"). The complete terms and conditions of the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are described in the Offering Memorandum, copies of which may be obtained by contacting D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and information agent in connection with the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation, by telephone at (800) 549-6864 (U.S. toll-free) or (212) 269-5550 (banks and brokers), or by email at mastec@dfking.com. The eligibility certification may be completed at www.dfking.com/mastec or is also available by contacting D.F. King & Co., Inc. using the information above.
The MTZ Exchange Notes have not been, and will not be, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act, or any state or foreign securities laws. The MTZ Exchange Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States or to any U.S. person except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
This press release is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or purchase, or the solicitation of tenders or consents with respect to, any security. No offer, solicitation, purchase or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation are being made solely pursuant to the Offering Memorandum and only to such persons and in such jurisdictions as are permitted under applicable law.
About MasTec, Inc.
MasTec is a leading infrastructure construction company operating mainly throughout North America across a range of industries. MasTec's primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy, utility and other infrastructure, such as: power delivery services, including transmission and distribution, wireless, wireline/fiber and customer fulfillment activities; power generation, primarily from clean energy and renewable sources; pipeline infrastructure, including natural gas pipeline and distribution infrastructure; heavy civil; and industrial infrastructure. MasTec's customers are primarily in these industries. The information contained on the Company's website is not incorporated into this press release.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the anticipated results and execution of the Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation and the actions that the Company may take with respect thereto; statements relating to expectations regarding the future financial and operational performance of the Company or IEA; the projected impact and benefits of IEA on the Company's operating or financial results; expectations regarding the Company's or IEA's business or financial outlook; expectations regarding the Company's plans, strategies and opportunities; expectations regarding opportunities, technological developments, competitive positioning, future economic conditions and other trends in particular markets or industries; the potential strategic benefits and synergies expected from the acquisition of IEA; the development of and opportunities with respect to future projects, including renewable and other projects designed to support transition to a carbon-neutral economy; the Company's ability to successfully integrate the operations of IEA; the expected closing of, and financing sources for, the acquisition of IEA; the impact of inflation on the Company's costs and the ability to recover increased costs, as well as other statements reflecting expectations, intentions, assumptions or beliefs about future events and other statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements are based on currently available operating, financial, economic and other information, and are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors in addition to those mentioned above, many of which are beyond our control, could cause actual future results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Other factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: risks related to completed or potential acquisitions, including the acquisition of Henkels & McCoy Group, Inc., as well as the ability to identify suitable acquisition or strategic investment opportunities, to integrate acquired businesses within expected timeframes and to achieve the revenue, cost savings and earnings levels from such acquisitions at or above the levels projected, including the risk of potential asset impairment charges and write-downs of goodwill; risks related to timely completion, or completion at all, of the Exchange Offer; risks related to the Company's ability to obtain consents under the Consent Solicitation; risks that conditions to the closing of the proposed transaction are not satisfied or waived at all or on the anticipated timeline; risks related to the impact of inflation on costs as well as economic activity, customer demand and interest rates, risks related to adverse effects of health epidemics and pandemics or other outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, including its effect on supply chain or inflationary issues, as well as, the potential effects of related health mandates and recommendations; market conditions, technological developments, regulatory or policy changes, including permitting processes and tax incentives that affect us or our customers' industries; the effect of federal, local, state, foreign or tax legislation and other regulations affecting the industries we serve and related projects and expenditures; the effect on demand for our services of changes in the amount of capital expenditures by our customers due to, among other things, economic conditions, including potential adverse effects of public health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic on economic activity generally, the availability and cost of financing, and customer consolidation in the industries we serve; activity in the industries we serve and the impact on our customers' expenditure levels caused by fluctuations in commodity prices, including for oil, natural gas, electricity and other energy sources; our ability to manage projects effectively and in accordance with our estimates, as well as our ability to accurately estimate the costs associated with our fixed price and other contracts, including any material changes in estimates for completion of projects and estimates of the recoverability of change orders; the timing and extent of fluctuations in operational, geographic and weather factors affecting our customers, projects and the industries in which we operate; the highly competitive nature of our industry and the ability of our customers, including our largest customers, to terminate or reduce the amount of work, or in some cases, the prices paid for services, on short or no notice under our contracts, and/or customer disputes related to our performance of services and the resolution of unapproved change orders; our dependence on a limited number of customers and our ability to replace non-recurring projects with new projects; the effect of state and federal regulatory initiatives, including costs of compliance with existing and potential future safety and environmental requirements, including with respect to climate change; risks associated with potential environmental issues and other hazards from our operations; disputes with, or failures of, our subcontractors to deliver agreed-upon supplies or services in a timely fashion, and the risk of being required to pay our subcontractors even if our customers do not pay us; risks related to our strategic arrangements, including our equity investments; any exposure resulting from system or information technology interruptions or data security breaches; any material changes in estimates for legal costs or case settlements or adverse determinations on any claim, lawsuit or proceeding; the adequacy of our insurance, legal and other reserves; the outcome of our plans for future operations, growth and services, including business development efforts, backlog, acquisitions and dispositions; our ability to maintain a workforce based upon current and anticipated workloads; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, key management and skilled employees, including from acquired businesses, and our ability to enforce any noncompetition agreements; fluctuations in fuel, maintenance, materials, labor and other costs; risks associated with volatility of our stock price or any dilution or stock price volatility that shareholders may experience in connection with shares we may issue as consideration for earn-out obligations or as purchase consideration in connection with past or future acquisitions, or as a result of other stock issuances; restrictions imposed by our credit facility, senior notes and any future loans or securities; our ability to obtain performance and surety bonds; risks related to our operations that employ a unionized workforce, including labor availability, productivity and relations, as well as risks associated with multiemployer union pension plans, including underfunding and withdrawal liabilities; risks associated with operating in or expanding into additional international markets, including risks from fluctuations in foreign currencies, foreign labor and general business conditions and risks from failure to comply with laws applicable to our foreign activities and/or governmental policy uncertainty; as well as a small number of our existing shareholders have the ability to influence major corporate decisions. We believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable; however, you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if any of our underlying assumptions are incorrect, our actual results may differ significantly from the results that we express in, or imply by, any of our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to reflect future events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law. We qualify any and all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary factors.
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In connection with the Merger, the Company intends to file relevant materials with the SEC, including a Registration Statement on Form S-4 to be filed by the Company that will include a preliminary proxy statement of the Company and also constitute a prospectus with respect to the shares of common stock of the Company to be issued in the Merger.
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These materials (when they are available) and other documents filed with the SEC may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by the Company (when they become available) may be obtained free of charge at MasTec's website at MasTec.com or (305) 406-1815. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by IEA (when they become available) may be obtained free of charge on IEA's website at iea.net or (765) 828-2653.
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2022-08-22T11:47:56+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/22/mastec-inc-announces-amendment-exchange-offer-consent-solicitation/
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A movement to ban books nationwide appears to be gaining traction. A new report from the American Library Association says attempts to ban or restrict books set a record in 2022. There were 2,500 different books objected to, compared to 1,858 in 2021 and 566 in 2019. That's an increase of nearly 350%.
Here in Buffalo, schools are taking notice. 2 On Your Side had the chance to talk with Westminster Charter Principal Teresa Gerchman during 'Read Across America Day.' She says, "I don't believe in censoring books at all."
Educators like Gerchman not only oppose outright bans but also attempts by some groups to get rid of language that they feel is offensive or racist from classics, most notably in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Roald Dahls' classic "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," which was made into two popular feature films. Dahl used words like "fat" to describe the spoiled and over-indulgent chocolate-loving Augustus Goop. Gerchman noted, "I don't think that we need to change those words. I think it's important that we talk about those words and how things change over time. and how fat and calling people fat is mean."
It's a sentiment shared by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr, who told 2 On Your Side's Mary-Alice Dembler, "I think it's dangerous if we forget the historic moment in which things were written. I think we need to try to forgive and have empathy for the historic moment in which artists were making work."
For now, the debate remains in the spotlight. There is no consensus among literary experts on whether re-writing children's books benefits or harms the kids who read them.
In the literary world, Puffin Books, the publisher of Dahl's works, continues to get criticism worldwide for printing new versions of the Author's books.
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2023-04-03T01:15:12+00:00
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wgrz.com
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https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/book-ban-movement/71-05592160-e36c-42bc-b2ed-d30c3afc5335
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.
He is also a hero of multicultural Australia, describing himself as the only candidate with a “non-Anglo Celtic name” to run for prime minister in the 121 years that the office has existed.
His friends pronounce his name “Alban-ez,” like bolognese. But having been repeatedly corrected over the years by Italians, the nationality of his absent father, he introduces himself and is widely known as “Alban-easy.”
He shared the stage during his victory speech with Senator Penny Wong, who will become foreign minister. Her father was Malaysian-Chinese and her mother European Australian.
“I think it’s good. Someone with a non-Anglo Celtic surname is the leader in the House of Representatives and … someone with a surname like Wong is the leader of the government in the Senate,” Albanese said.
Australia has been criticized for its overrepresentation in Parliament of offspring of British colonizers. Britain is no longer the major source of Australia’s immigrants since racist policies were dismantled in the 1970s. Around half of Australia’s multicultural population was born overseas or has an overseas-born parent. Chinese and Indians are now immigrating in large numbers.
Albanese has promised to rehabilitate Australia’s international reputation as a climate change laggard with steeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. The previous administration had stuck with the same commitment it made at the Paris Agreement in 2015: 26% to 28% below 2005 levels by 2030. Albanese’s Labor Party has promised a 43% reduction.
His financially precarious upbringing in government-owned housing in suburban Camperdown fundamentally formed the politician who has led the center-left Australian Labor Party into government for the first time since 2007. He is still widely known by his childhood nickname, Albo.
“It says a lot about our great country that a son of a single mom who was a disability pensioner, who grew up in public housing down the road in Camperdown can stand before you tonight as Australia’s prime minister,” Albanese said in his election victory speech on Saturday.
“Every parent wants more for the next generation than they had. My mother dreamt of a better life for me. And I hope that my journey in life inspires Australians to reach for the stars,” he added.
Albanese repeatedly referred during the six-week election campaign to the life lessons he learned from his disadvantaged childhood. Labor’s campaign focused on policies including financial assistance for first home buyers grappling with soaring real estate prices and sluggish wage growth.
Labor also promised cheaper child care for working parents and better nursing home care for the elderly.
Albanese this week promised to begin rebuilding trust in Australia when he attends a Tokyo summit on Tuesday with U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Albanese said he will be “completely consistent” with Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s current administration on Chinese strategic competition in the region.
But he said Australia had been placed in the “naughty corner” in United Nations’ climate change negotiations by refusing to adopt more ambitious emissions reduction targets at a November conference.
“One of the ways that we increase our standing in the region, and in particular in the Pacific, is by taking climate change seriously,” Albanese told the National Press Club.
Biden’s administration and Australia “will have a strengthened relationship in our common view about climate change and the opportunity that it represents,” Albanese said.
Albanese blamed Morrison for a “whole series of Australia’s international relations being damaged.”
He said Morrison misled the United States that a secret plan to provide Australia with a fleet of submarines powered with U.S. nuclear technology had the support of Albanese’s Labor Party. In fact, Labor wasn’t told of the plan until the day before it was announced in September.
Albanese also accused Morrison of leaking to the media personal text messages from Emmanuel Macron to discredit the French president’s complaint that Australia had given no warning that a French submarine contract would be canceled.
In November, French Ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault described the leak as a “new low” and a warning to other world leaders that their private communications with the Australian government could be weaponized and used against them.
Labor also has described a new security pact been China and the Solomon Islands as Australia’s worst foreign policy failure in the Pacific since World War II.
As a young child, to spare Albanese the scandal of being “illegitimate” in a working-class Roman Catholic family in socially conservative 1960s Australia, he was told that his Italian father, Carlo Albanese, had died in a car accident shortly after marrying his Irish-Australian mother, Maryanne Ellery, in Europe.
His mother, who became an invalid pensioner because of chronic rheumatoid arthritis, told him the truth when he was 14 years old: His father was not dead and his parents had never married.
Carlo Albanese had been a steward on a cruise ship when the couple met in 1962 during the only overseas trip of her life. She returned to Sydney from her seven-month journey through Asia to Britain and continental Europe almost four months pregnant, according to Anthony Albanese’s 2016 biography, “Albanese: Telling it Straight.”
She was living with her parents in their local government-owned house in inner-suburban Camperdown when her only child was born on March 2, 1963.
Out of loyalty to his mother and a fear of hurting her feelings, Albanese waited until after her death in 2002 before searching for his father.
Father and son were happily united in 2009 in the father’s hometown of Barletta in southern Italy. The son was in Italy for business meetings as Australia‘s minister for transport and infrastructure.
Anthony Albanese was a minister throughout Labor’s most recent six years in power and reached his highest office — deputy prime minister — in his government’s final three months, which ended with the 2013 election.
But Albanese’s critics argue that it’s not his humble background but his left-wing politics that make him unsuitable to be prime minister.
The conservative government argued he would be the most left-wing Australian leader in almost 50 years since the crash-or-crash-through reformer Gough Whitlam, a flawed hero of the Labor Party.
In 1975, Whitlam became the only Australian prime minister to be ousted from office by a British monarch’s representative in what is described as a constitutional crisis.
Whitlam had introduced during his brief but tumultuous three years in power free university education, which enabled Albanese to graduate from Sydney University with an economics degree despite his meager financial resources.
Albanese’s supporters say that while he was from Labor’s so-called Socialist Left faction, he was a pragmatist with a proven ability to deal with more conservative elements of the party.
Albanese had undergone what has been described as a makeover in the past year, opting for more fashionable suits and glasses. He has also shed 18 kilograms (40 pounds) in what many assume was an effort to make himself more attractive to voters.
Albanese says he believed he was about to die in a two-car collision in Sydney in January last year and that was the catalyst for his healthier life choices. He had briefly resigned himself to a fate he once believed had been his father’s.
After the accident, Albanese spent a night in a hospital and suffered what he described as external and internal injuries that he has not detailed. The 17-year-old boy behind the wheel of the Range Rover SUV that collided with Albanese’s much smaller Toyota Camry sedan was charged with negligent driving.
Albanese said he was 12 when he became involved in his first political campaign. His fellow public housing tenants successfully defeated a local council proposal to sell their homes — a move that would have increased their rent — in a campaign that involved refusing to pay the council in a so-called rent strike.
The unpaid rent debt was forgiven, which Albanese described as a “lesson for those people who weren’t part of the rent strike: Solidarity works.”
“As I grew up, I understood the impact that government had, can have, on making a difference to people’s lives,” Albanese said. “And in particular, to opportunity.”
On election day, before the vote counting started, he spoke of an advantage from his upbringing.
“When you come from where I’ve come from, one of the advantages that you have is that you don’t get ahead of yourself. Everything in life’s a bonus,” Albanese said.
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2022-05-22T15:04:45+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/australias-next-prime-minister-came-from-humble-beginnings/
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- Stellantis' Emergency Vehicle Alert System (EVAS) uses Uconnect connected-vehicle platform system to alert drivers when emergency vehicles and other roadway hazards are nearby
- Breakthrough technology that enhances vehicle safety globally is a key element of the Stellantis Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan with the aim to become No. 1 in customer satisfaction for products and service
- EVAS is a standard feature of Uconnect and already active on 1.8 million Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep® brand vehicles from the 2018 model year and newer in the United States and Canada
- EVAS works via an integration with Safety Cloud, the nation's largest vehicle-to-everything (V2X) platform for digital alerting from HAAS Alert
- Potential next step: Hazard Enhanced Location Protocol (HELP) alerts drivers to disabled passenger and commercial vehicles nearby
More than 1.8 million Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep® brand vehicles on the road in the United States and Canada give drivers an in-vehicle notification of an active fire truck, ambulance or other nearby roadway hazards with the Emergency Vehicle Alert System (EVAS) feature of the Uconnect connected-vehicle platform.
A standard feature of Uconnect that keeps drivers of 2018 model-year and newer vehicles safely aware of the environment around them, EVAS is an innovation that emerged from the Stellantis Star*Up program that nurtures and rewards employee innovation.
"The widespread deployment of EVAS in North America demonstrates how Stellantis is harnessing the power of V2X connectivity and in-vehicle technology to make mobility safer for our customers," said Yves Bonnefont, Stellantis chief software officer. "Care for our customers that is second to none in every market where we sell is the foundation of our transformation to a mobility tech company. We're proud to be the first global automaker to make V2X digital alerting a standard safety feature for our connected customers, and we are continuously looking to expand its capabilities."
EVAS alerts come from HAAS Alert's Safety Cloud platform, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and digital alerting solution used by thousands of public and private roadway fleets in North America. In addition to emergency vehicles, Safety Cloud receives and delivers notifications from tow trucks, disabled vehicles, work zones and arrow boards, highway gates and other connected assets and equipment on the road.
Building on the EVAS foundation, Stellantis is now evaluating a next step in V2X active driver safety notifications with Hazard Enhanced Location Protocol (HELP), working with Emergency Safety Solutions Inc.
HELP delivers warnings to drivers approaching a disabled vehicle. Disabled vehicles stopped on the shoulder or roadway pose a significant danger to other drivers, particularly at night or when weather conditions reduce visibility – a situation that in the United States contributes to a crash an average of every seven minutes and kills or injures more than 40 people per day, according to research published in Accident Analysis and Prevention, a peer-reviewed public health journal.
How HELP Works
When activated in a disabled vehicle, HELP sends a notice of the vehicle and its exact location to HAAS Alert's Safety Cloud, which transmits a notification to approaching vehicles with Uconnect (or drivers using other mobile and in-dash systems connected to Safety Cloud.) This gives drivers 15-20 seconds of advance warning, which is roughly a quarter mile/0.5 kilometers at highway speeds.
With HELP, disabled vehicles will be able to share critical safety messages with all vehicles that connect to the Safety Cloud platform, unlocking a critical new capability in vehicle-to-vehicle technology and helping to improve road safety for all drivers.
HELP can be activated manually by the driver when the vehicle is stationary or automatically in safety-critical situations, such as collisions or tire blowouts.
A potential enhancement for HELP-equipped vehicles with LED lighting is the addition of HELP Lighting Alerts, which flash the hazard warning lights and other exterior lamps at a scientifically tuned rate and pattern to better grab the visual attention of oncoming drivers.
Foundation For Future Features
EVAS alerts, SOS calls and vehicle health reports via the Uconnect app form the foundation employing data from the vehicle to help Stellantis customers. Owners get enhanced value with activated SiriusXM Guardian subscription features that include stolen vehicle tracking, virtual driver assistance and cellular-based remote start.
"Technology we offer today helps set the stage for future vehicle innovations," said Mamatha Chamarthi, Stellantis head of global software business management. "It begins with the foundation that safety should come standard. It grows from there to offer owners convenience features on demand when they connect, enroll and subscribe. These software capabilities result in an enhanced and highly valued customer experience with our iconic brands."
Developing advanced technology that enhances vehicle safety and keeps drivers informed, including using V2X solutions and connected vehicle systems, is a key element of Stellantis' commitment in the Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan to offer cutting-edge mobility in an aim to become No. 1 in customer satisfaction for products and services in every market with Stellantis operations.
Stellantis is developing STLA Brain, STLA SmartCockpit and STLA AutoDrive, three all-new technology platforms that will be deployed at scale across the four BEV-centric STLA vehicle platforms starting in 2024. The Stellantis software strategy targets generating about €20 billion in incremental annual revenues by the end of the decade, backed by a more than €30 billion planned investment in electrification and software through 2025.
HAAS Alert
HAAS Alert's mission is to build lifesaving mobility solutions to make vehicles and roads safer and smarter. Our vision is a connected, collision-free world where everyone gets home safely. HAAS Alert makes roads and communities safer by delivering digital alerts from emergency response, municipal and private fleets, work zones, and connected infrastructure to nearby drivers through its vehicle communication platform Safety Cloud. For more information, visit www.haasalert.com.
Emergency Safety Solutions Inc.
Emergency Safety Solutions is a certified minority owned enterprise whose mission is to save lives by eliminating preventable crashes involving vulnerable vehicles that are disabled and stopped on or near active roadways. This growing safety issue affects more than 72,000 people yearly in the U.S., with 15,000 injured or killed. ESS' suite of H.E.L.P. solutions provide advanced lighting alerts and digital location-based alerts to greatly improve advance warning communications to drivers. For more information, visit www.ess-help.com.
Stellantis
Stellantis N.V. (NYSE / MTA / Euronext Paris: STLA) is one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider. Its storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today's customers in their innovative products and services, including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2Move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which it operates. For more information, visit www.stellantis.com.
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2023-05-23T20:43:07+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/05/23/safely-aware-industry-leading-v2x-activation-equips-18-million-stellantis-vehicles-with-emergency-vehicle-alert-system/
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Marisnick unfazed by roster crunch, ignites Tigers' blowout win with double, homer
Detroit — Jake Marisnick has played for eight different teams. He's been traded four times and released four times. At age 32 and in his 11th season, he found himself toiling in Triple-A for the White Sox earlier this season before the Tigers' purchased his contract on May 30.
He's been through some stuff. Which is why he's not stressing about his seemingly precarious roster spot.
"When it's something that's out of your control, you just go out and play and help the team win on that day," he said after bashing a double and a home run in the Tigers' 9-0 win in the series finale against the Oakland Athletics Thursday afternoon. "That's all you can do.
"You can't look around or look over your shoulder or anything like that. You just go out and take care of business on the field."
The Tigers purchased Marisnick after center fielder Riley Greene went down with a stress reaction in his left fibula. Manager AJ Hinch, who managed him earlier in his career, said at the time that he'd be a perfect fit. And he has been, playing flawlessly in center field and chipping in when he can offensively, like he did Thursday.
But Greene is expected to be back as early as Saturday. Outfielder Akil Baddoo, who has been out with a quad strain, is expected to be back in the lineup Friday. Utility player Tyler Nevin was optioned back to Triple-A Toledo after the game to accommodate that move.
The writing on the wall would suggest Marisnick would be the odd-man out when Greene gets back. But nobody has written that in permanent marker.
"I have a long history with him," Hinch said. "His general approach to the game, the way he is as a teammate, the contribution he makes on both sides -- and the defense is obviously a plus. And just the overall vibe he brings. I've seen him grow up from a young player to a dad and father.
"Yes, it's going to get crowded but he's handling all of that as I would expect him to -- with a smile on his face. And they way he's contributed in the games makes you think."
The win Thursday helped the Tigers flush away a couple of frustrating losses to the woebegone Athletics. The offense vented after it was held scoreless through the first 17 innings of the series.
"From the first pitch to the last out, guys were grinding out at-bats," Marisnick said. "When you do that, one through nine, that's a recipe for success. Everybody stays on the same page and keeps competing. It was good."
Oakland's lefty starter Hogan Harris bore the brunt of it. He gave up seven runs and eight hits, with three of his four walks coming across to score, in 4.2 innings.
"We all settled down a little bit after Javy's two-out base hit in the first inning," Hinch said. "There is something about a two-out hit at the beginning of the game, it just sort of lets everybody exhale. Especially after how the last couple of nights had gone offensively."
BOX SCORE: Tigers 9, Athletics 0
Javier Baez dropped a two-out, two-strike single into left field to get the Tigers off and running. He'd been 2 for 42 in 0-2 counts this season and he ended up getting three hits in the game, plus a walk, all on 0-2 counts. He also scored twice and knocked in a pair.
Like Marisnick said, the contributions came from every spot in the order.
He’s certainly built a case to stay. The 32-year-old has played nearly flawless defense in center field and on Thursday he doubled, homered, scored twice and knocked in a pair of runs.
Zack Short and Marisnick ripped back-to-back doubles in the fourth, with Marisnick scoring on a single by Matt Vierling. Marisnick’s double was a 407-foot missile that hit off the wall in center field.
"That one felt good," he said.
He wasn’t done. Against right-handed reliever Rico Garcia, Marisnick got on top of a 91-mph elevated fastball and drove it into the Tigers’ bullpen in left. It was his second home run this season.
"Since I've been here, we've lost some tough games, some extra-inning games and little things like that, but the energy in this locker room doesn't go away," he said. "That's the recipe for a good team. We just have to keep it going."
Andy Ibanez doubled, walk and scored a run. Kerry Carpenter, making his first start of the series, had two hits including an RBI single.
Last but not least, catcher Eric Haase, who had six hits in his previous 40 at-bats and had struck out twice and hit into a double play Thursday, punched a two-strike RBI single in the seventh.
All of that made the day a relative breeze for starter Michael Lorenzen. In his final start before he represents the Tigers in the All-Star Game in Seattle on Sunday, Lorenzen pitched five scoreless innings with four strikeouts and no walks.
"It feels great," said Lorenzen, who allowed three singles and deleted all three with subsequent double-play balls. "I feel like I'm going into the break with more confidence than I've ever had, to be honest."
He was spotting his 94-mph four-seam fastball and bedazzling the Oakland hitters with a clever mix of sliders, changeups and sweepers. With those three secondary pitches he got nine swinging strikes on 24 swings. The swing-and-miss and the punch-outs were something he been striving to get back.
"It's gotten a lot better," he said. "Just the two-strike pitches are getting better. In Colorado (his last start), I made some good two-strike pitches but with the altitude, they weren't as sharp or as late and tight. Today I was getting swing-and-misses with my slider and we made a really good adjustment with the changeup, too.
"My best pitch is my changeup and I've had that pitch for two, maybe three starts. If you don't have your best pitch, you can't really be yourself out there. We're in a really good spot where I feel I can create that pitch each and every day and lean on it."
Because of the lopsided score, because of the dense 83-degree heat and because the bullpen, for a change, was fully rested, Hinch pulled Lorenzen after five innings and let him get about prepping for his first All-Star appearance.
"To me, this is bigger than getting called up to the big leagues," Lorenzen said of the All-Star nod. "I felt like I always knew I was going to be a Major League baseball player. But to be a good Major League baseball player is a different story. So to be recognized as like, you didn't just make it but you're good, you've been successful -- that hit me hard right when AJ told me."
chris.mccosky@detroitnews.com
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2023-07-06T21:29:25+00:00
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detroitnews.com
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/07/06/detroit-tigers-bounce-back-rough-up-oakland-as-in-shutout-fashion/70387088007/
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TOKYO (AP) — Nissan reported a 55% jump in its October-December profit Thursday, as the Japanese automaker gears up for a less bumpy journey with its French alliance partner Renault.
Profit for the quarter at Yokohama-based Nissan Motor Co. totaled 50.6 billion yen ($386 million), up from 32.7 billion yen in the previous year.
Quarterly sales surged 29% to 2.8 trillion yen ($21 billion), as a shortage of computer chips that has bedeviled the world’s automakers gradually eased, according to Nissan.
The crunch was caused by pandemic-related disruptions that also hindered Nissan’s ability to deliver its vehicles to customers.
Some buyers were waiting for a year for their Z sportscars or Ariya sport utility vehicles, said Nissan’s chief operating officer, Ashwani Gupta.
“We really don’t want our customers to wait this long,” he told reporters.
The rising cost of raw materials, inflation pressures and volatile exchange rates have added to the risks for the auto industry, including Nissan.
Nissan, maker of the Leaf electric car and Infiniti luxury models, now expects to sell 8% fewer vehicles for the full fiscal year through March than previously projected, at 3.4 million vehicles, because of the semiconductor supply shortages and the impact from the spread of coronavirus infections in China.
Chief Executive Makoto Uchida acknowledged the quarter was extremely challenging, while expressing optimism for the future.
“The new models we introduced in each market have been very well received by customers,” he said.
Earlier this week, Nissan, with Renault and smaller Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors, announced how they were redefining their mutual relationship.
The boards of both companies approved equalizing the stake each automaker holds in the other to 15%, bringing a better balance to the alliance, according to an announcement in London.
Before, Renault Group, whose top shareholder is the French government, was holding 43.4% of Nissan while Nissan owned just 15% of Renault.
The automakers also vowed to cooperate in markets worldwide, including India and Latin America, while Nissan said it will invest up to 15% in Ampere, Renault’s electric vehicle and software entity in Europe.
Nissan has been eager to put behind it the 2018 arrest of Carlos Ghosn, a once-superstar executive who was sent in by Renault to save Nissan from bankruptcy in 1999, and successfully turned it around.
Ghosn jumped bail and is now in Lebanon. He says he is innocent of financial misconduct charges. The scandal highlighted disgruntlement at Nissan over Ghosn’s perks and his power over the company.
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Yuri Kageyama is on Twitter https://twitter.com/yurikageyama
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2023-02-09T17:08:12+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-japans-nissan-reports-better-profit-as-chip-crunch-eases/
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, was ordered Wednesday to be released because of poor health, good behavior and having already served most of his sentence.
The Supreme Court ruling also said he had to leave the country within the next 15 days but did not specify to where.
He was serving two life sentences in Nepal for the murders of an American and Canadian backpackers. Life sentences in Nepal are 20 years.
The court document said he had already served more than 75% of his sentence making his eligible for release and was suffering from heart disease.
It was not clear when he would actually walk out of the prison as a free man but likely within the next few days.
The Frenchman has in the past admitted 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 Katmandu.
His nickname, The Serpent, stems from his reputation for being a talented disguise and escape artist.
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2022-12-21T18:37:14+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/French-serial-killer-to-be-released-from-Nepal-17669520.php
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TALLMADGE, Ohio (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has learned that Tallmadge police are investigating the death of a two-year-old.
Police say they were called to an apartment in the 300 block of South Avenue at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. When police arrived they learned the child’s father had taken the 2-year-old to a local urgent care facility. The child was then transported to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead.
The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the child’s death accidental.
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2023-03-20T21:56:58+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/death-of-2-year-old-investigated-in-summit-county/
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Alex Murdaugh is standing trial for the killings of his wife and son at their hunting estate in June 2021 — charges that have led to the unraveling of a prominent South Carolina attorney known for multimillion-dollar judgments and whose family dominated the legal scene in a small county for decades.
If found guilty of murdering his wife, Maggie, 52, and their son, Paul, 22, Murdaugh faces 30 years to life in prison without parole. Prosecutors did not choose to seek the death penalty. Murdaugh is also charged with two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, which could carry an additional five years in prison.
Murdaugh has adamantly denied killing his wife and son, saying he’d been gone for an hour to visit his ailing mother on the night of the murders. During opening statements at the trial that began this week, Murdaugh's lawyers said that investigators have wrongly forced evidence to fit their theory that he killed his wife and son and that they ignored any other information. They described him as a loving husband and father.
Over the 13 months that authorities probed the murders, investigators pouring through the details of Murdaugh's life announced dozens of other charges against him, including money laundering, stealing from his clients, and trying to get a man to kill him so that his surviving son could claim a life-insurance policy.
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE NIGHT OF THE KILLINGS?
Alex Murdaugh called 911 on the evening of June 7, 2021 and said he found his son and wife dead when he returned home from a one-hour visit with his mother, who has dementia.
Authorities said Paul Murdaugh was shot twice with a shotgun, each round loaded with different size shot, while Maggie Murdaugh was struck with four to five bullets from a rifle. A crime scene report suggested both victims were shot in the head after initially being wounded.
In his opening statement, prosecutor Creighton Waters conceded it is not an open and shut case. He made almost no mention of DNA evidence, fingerprints, confessions or eyewitness statements.
Instead, Waters held up his cellphone in front of the jury and said such devices would be key to linking Murdaugh to the killings. Their frequent exchange of information and data have given investigators a second-by-second account of where all three people were the night of the killings, Waters said.
Waters said there was plenty of circumstantial evidence, including a missing rifle, ammunition used in the killings similar to what was found in the home, and gunshot residue — all of which will fit together like puzzle pieces, he said, to eventually create a clear picture of what happened.
HOW DOES A BOATING ACCIDENT FIT INTO THE MURDAUGH TRIAL?
About two years before the killings, Paul Murdaugh was charged with a felony, for boating under the influence. Investigators said his blood-alcohol level was 0.24 % after he crashed a boat, leading to the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who was onboard.
Alex Murdaugh came to the emergency room the night of the February 2019 crash and talked to others on the boat who survived. The Beach family said he was trying to use his influence to stymy the investigation and deflect blame from his son.
More than two years later, Alex Murdaugh mentioned the boat crash to the first deputy to arrive on the scene of the killings of his wife and son.
"This is a long story. My son was in a boat wreck a while back. We’ve been getting threats, I know that's what it is," Murdaugh said to Colleton County Sgt. Daniel Greene, according to body camera video admitted at the trial.
Beach's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Alex Murdaugh and his family. Prosecutors said Murdaugh worried that financial information he had to give to lawyers in that case would reveal all the money he had stolen from clients.
WHAT IS THE MURDAUGH FAMILY'S LEGAL LEGACY?
The Murdaugh name is well-known in judicial circles in the rural, southern South Carolina. Alex Murdaugh worked for the family law firm that had been in business in tiny neighboring Hampton County for a century, winning a number of multimillion-dollar settlements for fatal accidents and workplace injuries in the county of 18,000 people.
Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were the elected prosecutors for 87 years straight in Colleton, Hampton and three other counties.
Typically, a portrait of Murdaugh’s father hangs in the Colleton County Courthouse. Judge Clifton Newman ruled that it be removed during his son’s trial.
WHAT OTHER CRIMES IS MURDAUGH CHARGED WITH?
The murder charges, which took authorities 13 months to file, are only two of about 100 criminal counts Murdaugh faces. Most of the other charges were brought first.
They include stealing millions of dollars from clients, diverting a wrongful death settlement from the family of his longtime maid to himself, running a drug and money-laundering ring, evading taxes and committing fraud from what police said was an attempt to have someone kill him so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life-insurance policy.
Indictments on the tax-fraud charges indicate Murdaugh made nearly $14 million as a lawyer over nine years, but also stole nearly $7 million from his law firm at the same time.
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2023-01-26T21:07:45+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/01/26/how-alex-murdaugh-came-to-face-trial-for-murder-of-wife-son/
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Isaac Paredes Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. White Sox - April 23
Published: Apr. 23, 2023 at 12:27 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
After going 0-for-1 in his most recent game, Isaac Paredes and the Tampa Bay Rays take on the Chicago White Sox (who will hand the ball to Lucas Giolito) at 1:40 PM ET on Sunday.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-1) against the White Sox.
Isaac Paredes Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Sunday, April 23, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Tropicana Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Lucas Giolito
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -167)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +160)
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Isaac Paredes At The Plate
- Paredes is hitting .215 with a double, three home runs and three walks.
- In 52.6% of his games this year (10 of 19), Paredes has picked up at least one hit, and in three of those games (15.8%) he recorded multiple hits.
- In three games this season, he has homered (15.8%, and 4.2% of his trips to the dish).
- In six games this season (31.6%), Paredes has picked up an RBI, including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- In seven games this season (36.8%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Isaac Paredes Home/Away Batting Splits
White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The White Sox pitching staff ranks first in the league with a collective 10.5 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The White Sox's 5.48 team ERA ranks 28th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- White Sox pitchers combine to give up 29 total home runs at a rate of 1.4 per game (to rank 22nd in the league).
- Giolito makes the start for the White Sox, his fifth of the season. He is 1-1 with a 4.29 ERA and 23 strikeouts in 21 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent outing on Tuesday against the Philadelphia Phillies, the righty threw six scoreless innings without surrendering a hit.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 28-year-old ranks 52nd in ERA (4.29), 49th in WHIP (1.238), and 23rd in K/9 (9.9).
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2023-04-23T18:34:23+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/sports/betting/2023/04/23/isaac-paredes-mlb-player-prop-bets/
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A Starbucks location in St. Paul, Minnesota, has become the first among the retail giant's outlets to unionize in the state, organizing officials said, after employees voted in favor of its formation 14-to-1.
"We're so proud to have won this victory and hope it sets the tone for more organizing In Minnesota," the Workers United union said on Twitter Wednesday.
Midwest is racking in the Ws this week!! St Paul store wins with a vote count of 14-1! The organizing committee said, "We’re so proud to have won this victory and hope it sets the tone for more organizing In Minnesota." WE HOPE SO TOO!
— Workers United - CMRJB (@CMRJB) April 27, 2022
Starbucks Workers United is working with Workers United Upstate, "a union with experience building barista power," according to its website.
The Workers United Labor Union is a subsidiary of the Service Employees International Union, which represents employees in the textiles and manufacturing industries, as well as restaurants and coffee shops.
Twenty Starbucks stores across the country have now unionized. Around 220 Starbucks stores have sought elections, with more added every day.
Since his return to Starbucks last week as interim CEO, Howard Schultz has appealed to employees, known as partners at Starbucks, to trust him — not a union — to make things right for them.
"My job in coming back to Starbucks is to ensure the fact that we... reimagine a new Starbucks with our partners at the center of it all, as a pro-partner company, as a company that does not need someone in between us and our people," Schultz told employees at a town-hall style meeting on his first day back.
He has said that some — not all — of the worker organizers have intentionally and aggressively sown divisions within the company while "attempting to sell a very different view of what Starbucks should be."
The National Labor Relations Board has sued Starbucks for allegedly retaliating against three employees who were involved in organizing a union.
One worker was disciplined, suspended and discharged; another was "constructively discharged" and a third was put on unpaid leave after the company revoked "recently granted accommodations," the NLRB said in a press release.
Former U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has gotten involved in the unionization efforts. He visited Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday to speak with Starbucks employees.
"I want you to understand this, because this is the b***s*** that corporations often do," said the Vermont senator. "What they say to the public — McDonald's does this as well, Walmart does it — they say, 'We're really generous. We offer health care. We have this. We have that.' And you look at the figures — nobody takes it 'cause they can't afford it."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-04-29T00:05:09+00:00
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knkx.org
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https://www.knkx.org/2022-04-28/employees-at-a-starbucks-store-in-minnesota-become-the-first-in-the-state-to-unionize
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HOUSTON (AP) — HOUSTON (AP) — Group 1 Automotive Inc. (GPI) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $154.4 million.
The Houston-based company said it had profit of $11.10 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were $10.93 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $9.70 per share.
The auto dealer posted revenue of $4.13 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.92 billion.
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This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on GPI at https://www.zacks.com/ap/GPI
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2023-04-26T11:52:22+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/group-1-automotive-q1-earnings-snapshot-17919304.php
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Jeremy Renner attends premiere, months after snowplow crush
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeremy Renner attended the premiere for his new series Tuesday, capping a remarkable recovery less than four months after the “Avengers” star was nearly killed in a snowplow accident.
Renner was surrounded by family and supporters at the “Rennervations” premiere in Los Angeles, where he posed for photos and did interviews, at times making use of a cane and a knee scooter. At one point he flashed photographers a thumbs up sign while moving down the carpet.
Renner was crushed by his 7-ton snowplow on New Year’s Day while trying to help free a relative’s car at his Nevada home. The actor has said he broke numerous bones and suffered a collapsed lung and pierced liver in the accident.
“Rennervations,” which premieres on Disney+ on Wednesday, follows Renner as he transforms large vehicles into community spaces for young people in India, Mexico, Chicago and Nevada. The purposes range from serving as a mobile music studio to a water filtration truck for a community in India.
Renner said his aim was to give young people access to things they might not already have and present opportunities they might not know existed.
Renner wrote the theme song for the show, something he did while working on another show.
“I use music and piano to write songs and use it like therapy for me,” he said.
Construction and music have been creative outlets for Renner, who is best known for playing the superhero Hawkeye in the Marvel “Avengers” films and his own spin-off TV series.
Marvel co-star Anthony Mackie appears in the show, and Renner said the secret to their friendship is they “laugh a lot.”
Renner, a two-time Oscar nominee, told Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired that while he thought he might die from his injuries, he refused to be “haunted” by the accident.
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Associated Press writer Leslie Ambriz contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-04-12T13:03:56+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/04/12/jeremy-renner-attends-premiere-months-after-snowplow-crush/
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BANGKOK (AP) — The political party led by Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was ordered dissolved by the military-appointed election commission on Tuesday because it failed to register for a planned general election, state television MRTV reported. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, which has denounced the promised polls as a sham, was one of 40 parties that failed to meet the Tuesday deadline for registration, MRTV said.
Critics say the still-unscheduled polls will be neither free nor fair in a country ruled by the military that has shut free media and arrested most of the leaders of Suu Kyi’s party. The NLD won a landslide victory in the November 2020 election, only to have the army block all elected lawmakers from taking their seats in Parliament and seize power for itself, detaining top members of Suu Kyi’s government and party.
“We absolutely do not accept that an election will be held at a time when many political leaders and political activists have been arrested and the people are being tortured by the military,” Bo Bo Oo, one of the elected lawmakers from Suu Kyi’s party, said Tuesday.
Suu Kyi, 77, is serving prison sentences totaling 33 years after being convicted in a series of politically tainted prosecutions brought by the military. Her supporters say the charges were contrived to prevent her from participating in politics.
The army said it staged its 2021 takeover because of massive poll fraud, though independent election observers did not find any major irregularities. Some critics of Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who led the takeover and is now Myanmar’s top leader, believe he acted because the vote thwarted his own political ambitions.
The new polls had been expected by the end of July, according to the army’s own plans. But in February, the military announced a six-month extension of its state of emergency, delaying the possible legal date for holding an election. It said security could not be assured. The military does not control large swaths of the country, where it faces widespread armed resistance to its rule.
“Amid the state oppression following the 2021 coup, no election can be credible, especially when much of the population sees a vote as a cynical attempt to supplant the landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in 2020,” said a report issued Tuesday by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group think tank.
“The polls will almost certainly intensify the post-coup conflict, as the regime seeks to force them through and resistance groups seek to disrupt them.”
The military government enacted a new political party registration law in January that makes it difficult for opposition groups to mount a serious challenge to the army’s favored candidates. It sets conditions such as minimum levels of membership and candidates and offices that any party without the backing of the army and its cronies would find hard to meet, especially in the repressive political atmosphere.
The new law declared that existing political parties had to re-apply for registration with the election commission within 60 days — March 28 — and those that fail will be “automatically invalidated” and considered dissolved. It also says parties have to entrust their properties to the government if they are dissolved by their own choice or if their registrations are canceled under the law.
The National League for Democracy rejected the law after it was announced, saying that the military-planned polls are illegal and amount to a “sham election.” It declared that any individuals and entities cooperating in the polls with the military will be deemed accomplices in committing high treason.
Bo Bo Oo said a March 21 meeting of the party’s Central Working Committee reaffirmed the decision not to register.
There were more than 90 registered parties in the 2020 general election.
MRTV said 63 political parties applied to the election commission for registration this year. Twelve applied to contest at the national level and 51 at regional or state levels. The commission must still approve their applications.
The National League for Democracy was founded in 1988 in the wake of a failed uprising against military rule. It won a 1990 general election that was invalidated by the country’s military rulers. It was technically banned after it boycotted a 2010 election held under military auspices because it felt it was not free or fair, but was allowed to register when it agreed to run in 2011. It took power after a landslide victory in the 2015 general election.
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2023-03-29T01:49:35+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/world/suu-kyis-party-ordered-dissolved-in-military-ruled-myanmar/
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BURLINGTON – Andover field hockey senior Rose MacLean admits she has a new favorite field and it’s not her home turf.
Back-to-back state championships at the same place will do that.
The second-seeded Golden Warriors (22-1) won the rematch against top-seeded Walpole (21-2), 1-0, for a second straight Div. 1 state title. Both teams combined for just five shots on goal Saturday morning at Burlington High School, as each defense and midfield starred the whole way, making Mia Batchelder’s tally in the second quarter enough to secure the win.
“There is nothing better than this program, I love Andover field hockey,” MacLean said. “Winning two state championships in a row is just something unbelievable. I can’t even believe we just did this. Burlington High School is my new favorite place. Two years in a row, I love it here. I don’t know, it’s just crazy. I’m so happy.”
Andover is repeat champion for the first time since 2011, the fifth state title for head coach Maureen Noone.
“I marvel at how they can kind of pull things together and somebody always steps up at the right time,” Noone added. “That’s just a good, quality team. … Just a great group.”
Noone expected the game to be decided by the rare opportunities either team would get past the middle of the field. That’s exactly what the packed house saw develop.
Andover forced a ton of pressure right at the start, generating three of its seven total corners in the first frame. Walpole’s corner defense held true without allowing a shot on net, while goalie Maddy Clark came out of the cage a few times to kick loose balls out of the circle.
The Porkers looked more comfortable transitioning the ball to the attack more as the game went on, battling through the limited space up the gut and down the sideline on big hits. That couldn’t stop Andover from getting its own activity in transition come the second quarter, though.
Defense scrambled to clear the ball following a diving save by Clark, but Batchelder ran to the right spot to finish off a 1-0 lead with 11:39 left in the half.
“Today we were focused on trying to get a goal early and then we were really trying to focus on killing the clock,” Noone said. “We knew it was going to be a 1-0 game because we know that they’re such a good team and they’re quick, and they’re aggressive. … I would’ve liked another goal early one, but one did it and it’s all good.”
Walpole would only allow one more shot on goal the rest of the way, and even got a good bid at the net later in the frame to try and tie it. But midfields and defenses took care of everything on both ends.
That included a few Walpole bursts in transition to get activity in the Andover circle in the second half, one of which developed a nice opportunity in front of goalie Adelaide Weeden before she kicked it away in the fourth quarter.
“We knew today was a day we had to take it early and just play more on defense, and know our own game and just keep balls out of the circle,” MacLean said. “(Walpole) is a very good team and in the circle, you never know what would have happened. … It’s a great feeling when you’re in the circle and you just clear it out. There’s nothing better than not letting someone get a shot off.”
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2022-11-19T21:10:51+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Northern Mexico has developed such a habit of exotic animals and violence, that people not only keep tigers as pets, they steal them.
Prosecutors in the violent northern state of Sonora said Tuesday they are searching for a full-grown Bengal tiger named Baluma. They said the 5-year-old male tiger was stolen Monday from a home in the state capital, Hermosillo.
They said the owners had the proper paperwork needed to keep the animal.
Prosecutors distributed photos of the big cat resting in its cage alongside a dog, hoping residents will phone police if they see the tiger.
Mexico has long had a problem with people keeping — and occasionally losing control of — large cats, which are sometimes found at drug traffickers’ residences and are occasionally seen wandering loose.
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2023-03-29T14:38:35+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/police-search-for-tiger-stolen-from-home-in-northern-mexico/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After a very busy stretch in the Atlantic, tropical activity appears to be slowing down for now.
The exception is Karl, a tropical storm that’s moving toward the coast of Mexico. The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center said Karl is about 200 miles northeast of Veracruz, Mexico and is moving north slowly. The storm is expected to approach the coast of Mexico by Friday.
Karl is still at tropical storm strength with 45 mph maximum sustained winds. The NHC said little change is expected before landfall.
Aside from Karl, the NHC is not monitoring any other disturbances and said tropical cyclone formation is not expected within the next five days.
This is typically the time of year we see a drop in tropical activity. However, the Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t end until Nov. 30, and a quiet basin right now doesn’t mean we couldn’t see another storm spin up off one of the cold fronts that make it down into the Gulf of Mexico or off the mid-Atlantic coastline.
Areas of deep moisture or clusters of showers and thunderstorms in the Caribbean always need to be watched closely for any organization.
Tracking the Tropics streams at 2 p.m. ET every Wednesday during hurricane season. For the latest updates, check out our Tracking the Tropics website.
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2022-10-12T20:21:46+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/tracking-the-tropics/tracking-the-tropics-atlantic-empty-aside-from-karl/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Midterm elections have historically been good for stock investors.
With mail-in voting already underway in some states for the Nov. 8 midterms, that’s a welcome signal for shareholders, who’ve seen major indexes drop into bear market territory this year — more than 20% below recent highs.
“On average, markets do tend to rally after midterm elections,” said Liz Young, chief investment strategist at SoFi. “There’s this sort of collective sigh of relief.”
In the 15 midterm elections since 1962, the benchmark S&P 500 climbed an average of 14.4% over a six-month period starting Nov. 1, according to data from FactSet. The average gain over a 12-month period was 15.6%.
The trend holds even for years like this, when the market is falling sharply prior to the vote.
But even as corporate profits hit record highs this year, investors remain worried about the prospect of a recession in the U.S. and abroad as central banks grapple with the highest inflation in decades.
Whether the market can emerge from its deep slump after the election is likely to hinge more on the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool inflation by aggressively raising interest rates.
“Today, it is inflation, the Fed’s response to elevated inflation, and resulting risk of recession, that will be what determines the market’s direction over the coming quarters,” Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, wrote in a recent research note.
The Fed has been hiking interest rates in a bid to slow the economy enough to crush inflation, but with every rate hike Wall Street grows more jittery that the central bank will go too far.
The Fed has already raised its benchmark interest rate five times this year, with the last three increases by three-quarters of a percentage point, and inflation is still accelerating. Wall Street expects another raise of three-quarters of a percentage point in November.
The last time the Fed raised interest rates so aggressively to bring down inflation was in the early 1980s, when inflation had soared to nearly 15%. That led to a cycle of alternating rate increases and cuts and volatility in the stock market. During one of the longest rate-hike cycles, which began in September 1980 and ran through May 1981, the S&P 500 gained 8.3%, although the gains evaporated by late September.
Uncertainty over how far the Fed will go in its rate-hiking campaign, how effective it will be to cool inflation and how much the economy slows will not be resolved by the outcome of next month’s elections. Until there’s more clarity on these questions, the market is likely to see more volatility in the months ahead.
“So, instead of the market being up by June or September of 2023, it’s down because the rate hikes are starting to bite and a recession ensues,” said Tom Martin, senior portfolio manager with Globalt Investments. “There are so many other things going on that this is just not something that I think you want to put a lot of stock in.”
Greg Bassuk, CEO at AXS Investments, says the historical trends pointing to a market gains following the midterm elections are just not as relevant today.
“We think the market driver over the next few weeks is related to shocks around the Fed and interest rates and recession, all wrapped together, much more so than trends relating to where we are in the overall election cycle,” he said.
Still, for investors desperate for some relief after a punishing year on Wall Street, the market’s performance in the months following past midterm elections may offer some reason for optimism.
A recent report by Verdence Capital Advisors notes that midterm election years tend to be volatile, with an average drawdown of 19% since 1934. However, “history has also suggested this should be used as a buying opportunity as the year after midterm elections is a favorable time for equity markets, regardless of the economic environment,” according to the report.
Regardless of how the market fares after a midterm election, it doesn’t make much difference which party controls Congress.
“The make-up of the government — be it divided or unified, Democrat or Republican controlled, a shift in power or reinforcement of the status quo — does not have a statistically significant impact on market returns,” Shah wrote.
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2022-10-21T10:09:22+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/ap-post-election-rally-unlikely-amid-fed-rate-outlook/
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NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinians wanted in connection with a deadly attack against Israelis, the Israeli military said, the latest bloodshed in a relentless wave of violence.
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Forces entered the heart of the flashpoint city of Nablus in the early morning hours and raided an apartment where the men were located, according to a statement from the military. Troops and the suspects exchanged fire and the three men were killed.
The military accuses the men of being behind an attack last month on a car near a Jewish West Bank settlement that killed a British-Israeli mother and two of her daughters. It said two of the men, identified as Hassan Katnani, Maed Mitsri, were members of the Hamas militant group. It described the third man killed, Ibrahim Hura, as a senior operative who had assisted the other suspects.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said three people were killed in the fighting but did not immediately identify them.
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The violence in Nablus comes at a particularly sensitive time in the region, days after a prominent Palestinian prisoner who was staging a lengthy hunger strike over his detention died in Israeli custody. His death set off a volley of rockets from militants in Gaza and airstrikes in the coastal enclave that killed one man.
The deadly attack last month on the Israeli car shocked Israelis because in an instant it reduced the Dee family from seven members to four. Hundreds of people packed the funerals and the family's father, Leo, has been a recurring figure in Israeli media, saying he bears no hatred toward the killers of his family and calling for national unity amid a deep societal rift.
Israel has been staging near-nightly arrest raids into West Bank villages, towns and cities for more than a year in an operation prompted by a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis last year. Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. The Palestinians see the attacks as further entrenchment of Israel's 56-year, open-ended occupation of lands they seek for a future independent state.
The raids have been met by a surge in Palestinian attacks.
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Some 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the raids were launched. Israel says most have been militants, but stone-throwing youth and people not involved in the confrontations have also been killed.
During that same time, nearly 50 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
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Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera is this year’s winner of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, with judges praising him for a “a poetic voice that is both deeply embedded and wholly original.”
Herrera, 74, is known for such collections as “Half the World in Light” and “187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border.” He was poet laureate from 2015-17.
“His poems move as he moves — through nature, through working-class communities of color, through political protests — though it would be more accurate to say he moves with them, for while Herrera is a keen observer he is never just looking on,” reads his citation Wednesday from the Poetry Society of America’s Board of Governors.
“His poems are acts of solidarity, a kind of extended family gathering, especially for Latinx, Indigenous, and other communities of color,” the citation also read.
Previous recipients of the medal, named for the late Robert Frost, include Wallace Stevens, Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds.
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NANJING, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Limited (2096.HK) announced its financial results for the first half of 2022. As of June 30, Simcere recorded operating revenue of RMB 2.7 billion for the first half of the year, with a year-over-year growth of 27.3%. The estimated net profit for the first half of 2022 after deducting non-recurring profits and losses would be RMB 390 million. Innovative drug revenue grew 44.8% year-over-year to RMB 1.767 billion, accounting for a record-high 65.4% of total revenue. Simcere has transformed into an innovative pharmaceutical company that relies on innovation and R&D for performance growth.
According to the report, Simcere Pharmaceutical currently has 6 branded innovative drug products on the market. In the two years since its launch, Sanbexin® (Edaravone and Dexborneol concentrated solution for injection), Simcere's innovative drug for stroke, has benefited 860,000 patients nation-wide, driving a 74.7% year-over-year revenue growth of the CNS portfolio and further improving Simcere's leading market position in this field. Moreover, revenue contribution from products such as Enweida® (Envafolimab injection), the world's first subcutaneous PD-(L) 1 antibody, further validated Simcere's business capabilities.
Under the R&D strategy of "focusing on more effective therapies and emphasizing differentiation", the company is currently fast-tracking nearly 60 innovative drug pipeline projects and conducting 20 registered clinical studies on 16 potential innovative drugs. 7 projects have entered Phase 3 clinical trials, including 2 highlighted candidates, Sanbexin sublingual tablets, and SIM0417, an investigational anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug.
The Sanbexin sublingual tablets (oral formulation of Edaravone and Dexborneol), an innovative drug currently being developed at phase 3 clinical study, offers anti-inflammatory and anti-free radical effects together with blood-brain barrier protection to minimize brain cell damage caused by stroke. The administration of sublingual tablet is not restricted by medical institution capabilities or patient compliance, making it suitable for various conditions of acute or chronic CNS diseases. It is expected to form a sequential regimen with Sanbexin® injection. At present, patient enrollment of 914 subjects have been completed for the product's pivotal Phase 3 trial within just 10 months ahead of schedule. Simcere is going to expedite its NDA in China in the near term. Market analysis revealed that the drug would quickly achieve peak sales after reaching the market owing to Simcere Pharmaceutical's long-standing CNS market share. The scarcity of innovative CNS drugs in China also increases Simcere's investment value.
SIM0417, another important product being developed by Simcere, is an anti-SARS-CoV-2 candidate that targets 3CL, a key protease essential for virus replication, and has shown good antiviral activity against a variety of strains. Preclinical studies have shown that some of the SIM0417 efficacy and safety metrics are better than those of molecules having similar biological targets currently on the market. As of the announcement date, Simcere Pharmaceutical has been conducting two Phase2/3 clinical trials of SIM0417 combined with Ritonavir versus placebo for antiviral treatment in COVID-19 patients, and for post-exposure prophylaxis for close contacts of individuals who test positive for COVID-19 throughout several provinces and cities in accordance with the clinical trial protocol approved by CDE(Center for Drug Evaluation). During the persistent epidemic and recurrent outbreaks, there is a significant unmet need for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 close contacts. As a small molecule drug and oral tablet, SIM0417 has inherent advantages in responding to the pandemic due to its convenience in storage, transportation, and administration.
As a result of Simcere's efforts combining in-house R&D with extensive R&D collaborations, the business development has contributed tremendously to the company's pipeline. On July 12, 2022, Simcere received conditioned approval for its first-in-class innovative drug Cosela® (Trilaciclib hydrochloride for injection), developed through licensing–in collaboration. Cosela® is the world's first myelo-protection drug that prevents damage of bone marrow stem cells from cytotoxic chemotherapy. The successful development of this drug took only 708 days from the date of license-in agreement signing till market approval in China. According to published industrial data, among the top 100 license-in products in China between 2019 and 2021 in terms of transaction amount, only 4 products are approved with new indications on the Chinese market. In this list, Trilaciclib takes the first place for fast development in China, nearly shortens the time frame by a year compared to the product ranked second.
As one of the first pharmaceutical companies in the industry to complete innovation transformation, the advantages of Simcere's differentiated R&D capabilities, manufacturing capacities benchmarked against international metrics, and leading business capabilities, are gradually emerging. The innovative drug R&D pipelines have started to pay off, allowing Simcere to launch more differentiated innovative drugs more efficiently and successfully while expanding its business capabilities.
Since the successful IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2020, Simcere Pharmaceutical's innovative drug business has become a major driver for the company's continued growth. According to the outlook section in the announcement, Simcere will fast-track its Sanbexin sublingual tablet R&D process to complete its pivotal phase 3 clinical trials, actively explore possible new indications of Cosela, and expedite the R&D of anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug SIM0417.
As the national bulk-buy program bringing heavy impact to the pharmaceutical industry, Chinse companies are turning their focused on differentiated innovation. Simcere chooses a unique approach to innovation based on its continuous R&D investment, diversified and differentiated pipelines, and proven business capabilities. These efforts will provide driven force for future growth and development.
About Simcere
Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Limited (2096.HK) is a pharmaceutical company driven by innovative R&D and committed to synergistic innovation. It has established the State Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine and Innovative Drug Development and currently boasts four R&D centers in Nanjing, Shanghai, Boston and Beijing. With the commitment to "providing today's patients with medicines of the future" the Company focuses on three therapeutic areas: oncology central nervous system diseases and autoimmune diseases while actively expanding its strategic presence in prospective disease areas with significant clinical needs in the future.
Simcere now has six global first-in-class innovative drugs and is holding leading market shares for its key products in China with its excellent R&D and commercialization capabilities. Its vigorous in-house R&D efforts and extensive R&D collaborations have made it a strategic cooperation partner with international and domestic leading innovative pharmaceutical enterprises medical institutions and research institutes.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a dozen meetings and sessions over the summer and fall, South Carolina lawmakers are almost out of time to do something to change the state's abortion laws during a special session prompted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
A conference committee of state senators and House members will meet one last time Wednesday morning to try to sort out a compromise between the House, which wants a near total abortion ban, and the Senate, which wants to tweak the current law that amounts to a ban about six weeks after conception.
The full Senate is set to meet an hour after the committee to consider anything that passes with the House set to go into session Thursday if anything gets through the Senate.
By law, this year's General Assembly session ends Sunday. With the election of 124 House members earlier in the week, everything resets and all bills must start from the beginning of the legislative process in January.
South Carolina's current roughly six-week ban isn't being enforced as the state Supreme Court is considering a challenge that it violates the right to privacy in the state constitution.
That leaves an older, 20-week abortion ban in place but no clinics in the state perform the procedure more than 14 weeks after conception.
Both sides left the last conference committee meeting Nov. 1 in doubt they can get any bill to the governor's desk in 2022.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey told the committee there aren't enough votes in the Senate to pass an abortion ban earlier than the present law, which prevents the procedure after cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus except for pregnancies caused by rape or incest, or if the life of the mother is in danger.
House members had a chance to accept the Senate's version when they met in October, but rejected it. The Senate's bill isn't a total ban, but supporters said it solves the possible right to privacy argument, cuts the time that victims of rape and incest who become pregnant can seek an abortion from 20 weeks to about 12 weeks and requires that DNA from the aborted fetus be collected for police.
Supporters of the stricter ban i n the House said voters made it clear they wanted action when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer and left abortion laws up to the state. Republican senators who are against a total ban either want to take time to see the effects of stricter bans in other states or first want to expand adoption, social and education programs to take care of more babies.
Democrats have largely stayed quiet during the debate, letting the Republicans fight among themselves and pulling in more moderate senators. They said people who support women’s rights were going to lose no matter what happened because the state’s abortion rules are so restrictive.
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A new report by Human Rights Watch reveals the extent of killings and other abuses against largely non-Arab ethnic groups in Sudan's Darfur region since fighting between the Sudanese army and a powerful paramilitary group erupted in April. Many of the abuses amount the war crimes, the rights group says, and is calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate them.
The violence, including mass killings of men, women and children, echo the atrocities of the Darfur war 20 years ago, which saw widespread ethnic cleansing.
In one case in May, Human Rights Watch says the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militias "summarily executed" at least 28 ethnic Massalit people in the town of Misterei. RSF and allied fighters who are at war with Sudan's army attacked the town and the armed self-defense groups surrounding it. Then they pursued civilians who had fled and hid from the conflict, and gunned them down in the streets, going door-to-door, and targeting them as they hid in mosques and schools, the report says.
In a school, gunmen entered classrooms and executed the men they found there, witnesses said. They also shot at children and women. The men shot dead 26 people, while 11 people survived and spoke to Human Rights Watch. The survivors said there was no fighting in the school when the gunmen searched it and began killing.
Men and boys in the town were especially targeted by the RSF and allied militia, who burnt Misterei to the ground, according to refugees. Satellite imagery investigated by HRW confirmed the accounts, showing how the town had been razed.
The conflict in Sudan has led to levels of fighting and ethnic violence in Darfur not seen in decades, since the genocidal war in 2003, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed and millions displaced.
"Since the conflict in Sudan broke out in April, some of the worst atrocities have been in West Darfur," said Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The accounts of those who survived recent attacks in West Darfur echo the horror, devastation, and despair of Darfur 20 years ago," he said, adding that Sudan's international and regional partners should sanction RSF and Arab militia leaders responsible for these attacks.
In almost three months of conflict between Sudan's army and the RSF, 217,000 people have fled to neighboring Chad, arriving every day as atrocities mount in Darfur.
Human Rights Watch says it's urging international bodies like the United Nations Security Council and the African Union to immediately call for investigations and humanitarian access.
Aid operations have largely stopped in West Darfur, the most affected region, since late April following attacks on humanitarian aid and property, and escalating violence. An aid worker told HRW that Darfur has been "largely cut off from new assistance."
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In 2021, judge warned of gay bar attacker’s shootout plans
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter warned last year that the defendant had been stockpiling weapons and planning a shootout, and needed mental health treatment or “it’s going to be so bad.”
The comments made by Judge Robin Chittum in August last year are contained in court documents obtained by The Associated Press. They add to the warning signs authorities had about Anderson Aldrich’s increasingly violent behavior and raise more questions about whether enough was done to stop the recent mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.
Five people were killed and 17 wounded in the Nov. 19 attack. Aldrich was charged last week with 305 criminal counts, including hate crimes and murder. Aldrich’s public defender has declined to talk about the case under Colorado judiciary rules.
The judge’s comments came during a preliminary hearing on charges that Aldrich kidnapped their grandparents, and had previously been under a court seal that was lifted last week.
“You clearly have been planning for something else,” Chittum told Aldrich during the hearing, after the defendant testified about an affinity for shooting firearms and a history of mental health problems.
“It didn’t have to do with your grandma and grandpa. It was saving all these firearms and trying to make this bomb, and making statements about other people being involved in some sort of shootout and a huge thing. And then that’s kind of what it turned into,” the judge said.
Chittum’s assistant Chad Dees said Friday that the judge declined to comment.
The 2021 charges against Aldrich — who had stockpiled explosives and allegedly spoke of plans to become the “next mass killer” before engaging in an armed standoff with SWAT teams — were thrown out during a four-minute hearing this past July at which the prosecution didn’t even argue to keep the case active.
Chittum, who received a letter last year from relatives of the grandparents warning that Aldrich was “certain” to commit murder if freed, granted defense attorneys’ motion to dismiss the case because a deadline was looming to bring it to trial.
There was no discussion at that July hearing about Aldrich’s mental health treatment, violent past, or exploring options to compel Aldrich’s grandparents and mother to testify.
Details of the failed 2021 prosecution — laid out in 13 court hearing transcripts obtained by the AP — paint a picture of potential missteps in the case.
During the 2021 standoff, Aldrich allegedly told the frightened grandparents about firearms and bomb-making material in the basement of the home they all shared. Aldrich vowed not to let the grandparents interfere with plans to “go out in a blaze.”
Aldrich — who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, according to defense attorneys — livestreamed on Facebook a subsequent confrontation with SWAT teams at the house of their mother, Laura Voepel, where the defendant eventually surrendered, was arrested and had weapons seized. The FBI had received a tip on Aldrich a day before the threat but closed out the case just weeks later, and no federal charges were filed.
By August 2021, when Aldrich bonded out of jail, the grandparents were describing the suspect as a “sweet young” person, according to District Attorney Michael Allen. At two subsequent hearings that fall, defense attorneys described how Aldrich was attending therapy sessions for trauma, PTSD and mental health and was on lethargy-inducing medications, the transcripts show.
In an October 2021 courtroom exchange, Chittum told Aldrich to “hang in there with the meds.”
“It’s an adjustment period for sure,” Aldrich replied, to which the judge replied, “Yeah it will settle, don’t worry. Good luck.”
The case had been headed toward a plea agreement early this year but fell apart after family members stopped cooperating and prosecutors failed to successfully serve a subpoena to testify to Aldrich’s 69-year-old grandmother, who was bedridden in Florida.
There is scant discussion in the transcripts of efforts by prosecutors to subpoena other potential witnesses — including Aldrich’s mother, grandfather and a fourth person who is listed in court documents but not identified.
Howard Black, spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, has said he cannot share information about the kidnapping case because it’s part of the current investigation. Allen has said his office did everything it could to prosecute the case, including trying to subpoena Aldrich’s mother, but has repeatedly declined to elaborate.
Alan Dershowitz, an attorney and Harvard law professor, said that it’s extremely hard to predict violent crimes, but that Aldrich’s case is a rare example of when the evidence was so overwhelming for past and potential future crimes that the suspect “clearly should have been confined.”
“This does not seem like a hard case,” Dershowitz said Thursday. “This seems like a case of prosecutorial incompetence.”
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man accused of killing a veteran Las Vegas patrol officer fired 18 shots with a high-powered handgun that an official described as an “AK-47 pistol,” including one that penetrated the officer’s ballistic vest and one that wounded the man’s mother-in-law in the leg, a top police official said Monday.
“You know, this is a tough punch for our police department to take,” Assistant Clark County Sheriff Andrew Walsh told reporters, becoming emotional as he provided additional details of the Oct. 13 shooting that fatally wounded Officer Truong Thai. “He’s one of those guys that touched everybody.”
The alleged shooter, Tyson Shawn Jordan Hampton, 24, of Las Vegas, used a Century Arms RAS47 pistol, firing 7.62-caliber ammunition including the one that fatally struck Thai in the side and one that wounded Hampton’s wife’s mother in the leg, Walsh said.
Clips of body-worn camera video showed Thai fired five shots and Police Officer Ryan Gillihan fired seven times as Hampton reached out the driver’s window of a blue sedan back at the scene of a 1 a.m. street side domestic argument that had prompted Hampton’s wife and her mother to each call 911.
Hampton was arrested a short time later a few blocks away after police vehicles surrounded the blue sedan and a police dog jumped on him to bring him to the ground outside the car.
Walsh said police recovered the alleged murder weapon and a .40-caliber handgun in the car that was not used in the shooting. The AK-47 rifle is a war weapon developed in the former Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Hampton was treated for minor injuries and remains jailed pending a Tuesday court hearing at which he is expected have an attorney appointed to his defense on murder of a protected person, attempted murder and other charges and a misdemeanor domestic violence count.
Authorities had earlier described the women who summoned police to the dispute near a busy crossroads east of the Las Vegas Strip as Hampton’s girlfriend and her mother. A police SUV and the mother-in-law’s vehicle were also struck by bullets, and Walsh said Monday it was clear the bullet that wounded the woman was from Hampton’s weapon.
Gillihan, 32, a police officer since 2017, is on paid leave pending district attorney and departmental reviews of the shooting.
A funeral with full line-of-duty honors is scheduled Oct. 28 for Thai, 49, who served as a patrol and training officer, financial crimes investigator and firearms instructor during 23 years as a Las Vegas police officer. The divorced father of a 19-year-old woman also was an avid volleyball player and coach.
Records show that Hampton pleaded no contest in April 2021 in Las Vegas to a misdemeanor charge of displaying a weapon in a threatening manner during a domestic argument and complied with court orders including the surrender of a 9mm handgun.
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More than 80 businesses and enterprises are already using Authenticate.com to stop cyber crime worldwide.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Authenticate.com (https://authenticate.com/), a leading provider of information verification technology for governments, corporations, institutions and individuals to prove identity and prevent fraud worldwide has launched their Identity Verification Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Now through platforms such as Shopify, Hostaway, Guesty and more, customers of Authenticate.com can verify users to stop fraud without a single line of code.
Newly released data from the Federal Trade Commission shows that U.S. consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70 percent over the previous year. Because the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people shopped and transferred money, many criminals targeted digital wallets, apps, sites and services that rely on often irreversible or indisputable peer-to-peer payment methods such as Apple Pay and Zelle. About 18 million victims fell prey to scams through these means and methods last year, according to the 2021 Identify Fraud by Javelin Strategy & Research.
Authenticate.com offers worldwide photo ID and passport authentication, optional facial recognition and liveness detection, knowledge quizzes, background checks, continuous monitoring and more, all "out-of-the-box". Voluntarily audited and independently certified as SOC 2 Type II compliant Authenticate.com adheres to the highest cybersecurity standards. The company is now in the process of obtaining a formal opinion letter that it meets the rigorous framework published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in their Special Publication 800-53, an exhaustive list of security and privacy protocols necessary for any vendor to be eligible for use in a federal information system. "Identity fraud is by far and away the number one source of cybercrime worldwide," said Steve Ward, Founder & CEO of Authenticate.com. "By offering Identity Verification Infrastructure as a Service, we are doing the difficult work of collecting sensitive personal data, processing it with the utmost integrity, and ensuring it is protected with best-in-class security. While our customers focus on building their business, we provide the picks and shovels they need to dig their moats."
"Our company's mission is to eliminate the dependency of the fee gouging delivery apps," said Andy Kaminski, Founder & CEO of RunnerCity. "In order to launch our app, we needed to execute background checks for our roster of 3,000 runners (gig workers). Earlier this month we decided on a soft launch to test our integration with Authenticate.com to ensure it would be an easy and seamless process for our users. And it was! We invited hundreds of runners to sign up and submit to background checks and so far we've been very pleased with the results."
"We require a trusted and responsive vendor to handle secure and sensitive assets," said Terry L. Robinson, CEO of NotaryHub.com by Everything Legal. "Authenticate.com's hosted solution for UI helped us go to market quickly. As a cloud-based remote online notary solution that requires authenticating constituents, Authenticate.com hits the mark. We've appreciated our partnership with the team and look forward to continued success."
Authenticate.com has already scaled rapidly in 2022, growing its customer base from 12 beta customers in January 2021 to more than 80 credentialed customers today. The company continues to gain momentum with more than $1 million in revenue YTD, which is up 20x YoY.
Authenticating.com LLC d/b/a Authenticate.com provides developer tools for identity verification and fraud prevention through the use of several sources of truth and a proprietary data enrichment framework so their customers can create their own trust policies for peer-to-peer exchanges, two-sided marketplaces, online communities and more through the use of Authenticate.com APIs and SDKs.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: October 20, 2020 to May 19, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 1, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Kohl's Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Kohl's new strategic framework to "drive top-line growth," "expand operating margin," and become "the most trusted retailer of choice for the active and casual lifestyle" (the "Strategic Plan") was not well tailored to achieving the Company's stated goals; (ii) the defendants had likewise overstated the Company's success in executing its Strategic Plan; (iii) Kohl's had deficient disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting, and corporate governance mechanisms; (iv) as a result, the Company's board of directors was able to and did withhold material information from shareholders about the state of Kohl's in the lead-up to the Company's annual meeting; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Kohl's financial condition and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Kohl's you have until November 1, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Kohl's securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the KSS lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/kohls-class-action-loss-submission-form?id=31901&from=4.
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CHICAGO — Details of an apparent cyberattack on one of the largest health systems in the U.S. were slow to emerge as security experts on Friday warned that it often takes time to assess the full impact on patients and hospitals.
Earlier this week, CommonSpirit Health confirmed it experienced an “IT security issue” but it has yet to answer detailed questions about the incident, including how many of its 1,000 care sites that serve 20 million Americans may have been affected. The health system giant, which is the second largest nonprofit health system in America, has 140 hospitals in 21 states.
“It actually takes a while to fully know the scope because you’re in the middle of trying to restore all your systems,” said Allan Liska, an analyst with the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. “You’re trying to get patient care up and running. You’re trying to get your nurses and your doctors back to the systems they need.”
Healthcare organizations are an appealing target for cyber attackers — particularly those who use malware to lock up a victim organization's files and leverage the information for a payment. Ransomware has remained a persistent threat for the industry, which is among the 16 sectors the U.S. government classifies as critical infrastructure.
“Ransomware actors know that’s going to cause a lot of disruption,” Liska said.
Health care systems in 2021 saw an unusually high amount of attacks, with 285 publicly reported worldwide, Liska added. So far, Liska's firm has tracked 155 this year with an average of 20 attacks happening a month. However, he estimated that only about 10% of ransomware attacks are publicized.
Cybersecurity experts said years of work have built health care leaders' trust in the FBI and other federal agencies focused on cyber crime.
An FBI spokesperson declined to comment on whether they were investigating the CommonSpirit Health cyberattack.
John Riggi, the American Hospital Association's national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said he could not discuss CommonSpirit specifically. In general, though, he said it can take days, weeks or more to discover how an attacker gained access, determine what damage has been done and prevent further harm.
Riggi, who spent nearly 30 years with the FBI, called any significant cyber attack on a hospital “a potential risk to patient safety" and said the U.S. government takes that seriously. Their goal, he said, is to identify the attacker and make their identity and methodology public.
“They don't want to show their hand, what they know about the bad guys,” he said. “You're really processing a crime scene in real time.”
But there are risks to victims of cyber attacks who fail to communicate their response plan and strategies for recovery, said Mike Hamilton, the chief information security officer with Critical Insights Cybersecurity in Washington state.
The reaction of patients, staff and affiliated health care operations to the chain's handling of the incident all could affect the company's future survival, he said.
"Here’s how close we are to resolution, here’s where we’re diverting, here are the other hospitals we’re partnering with," Hamilton said. “They need to be sure they’re communicating ... because so many people are being impacted by this.”
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2022-10-08T17:49:21+00:00
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king5.com
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https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/commonspirit-health-ransomware-attack/507-cabf3fdc-09e0-4d4b-aa0a-a6a6572d4477
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Industry Veteran Tapped to Lead the Company's Resistor Portfolio
CULVER CITY, Calif., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantic™ Electronics ("Quantic"), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management ("Arcline"), today announced that Lisa Wilhelm has been promoted to General Manager of the company's resistor portfolio, composed of its Quantic Ohmega and Quantic Ticer businesses. Lisa will replace Bruce Mahler, who will retire after 39 years in the industry.
"For the past 18 months, Lisa has been serving as Quantic Ohmega's head of Business Development, and has successfully driven growth in the commercial and aerospace and defense markets," said Ross Sealfon, President and CEO of Quantic Electronics. "Her experience with and deep understanding of the business, and especially the customers, will provide a consistent, stable leadership structure, and help to drive the company's next phase of growth."
Prior to her time at Quantic, Lisa served as a Global Account Manager at both TTM Technologies and Viasystems. Before then, she worked as a Chemical Process Engineer at Zycon Corporation. Lisa holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University.
Quantic Ohmega and Quantic Ticer are leaders in the design and production of high-performance, thin-film embedded resistor foils for modern, mission-critical applications. The businesses' resistive material is the platform for performance in printed circuit board designs that require the highest levels of reliability, quality, integrity and creativity.
Quantic is an electronic component company focused on defining and delivering the future of mission-critical electronics. We have over a century of combined experience as reliable problem-solvers and trusted partners in military, aerospace, industrial and commercial markets. For more information, visit www.quanticnow.com.
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2022-11-09T15:06:00+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/11/09/quantic-electronics-names-lisa-wilhelm-general-manager-quantic-ohmega-quantic-ticer/
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Citing an “immediate threat to human life,” Cloudflare has dropped the notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms from its internet security services following an online campaign started by transgender Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti to pressure it to do so.
“This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and given Cloudflare’s role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with,” CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post Saturday in an about-face after earlier insisting that the company would not block the site. “However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike what we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.”
For years, members of the site created and operated by Joshua Conner Moon, 29, have congregated on what they call a “lighthearted discussion forum” to organize vicious harassment campaigns against transgender people, feminists and others they deem mockable. They gang up on victims and pool their personal details such as addresses and phone numbers in a practice called “doxxing,” spreading vile rumors and targeting workplaces, friends, families and homes. Another favorite tactic has been “swatting” — making false emergency calls to provoke an armed police response at a target’s home. Some people subjected to the group’s abuse have died by suicide.
Sorrenti, who goes by “Keffals” online, has been leading a campaign to pressure Cloudflare to drop Kiwi Farms. In August, she fled her home in Canada for Europe after she was doxxed and swatted. Her online stalkers, however, found her in Belfast, Ireland, as well and continued to intensify their harassment campaign against her just as her campaign against Kiwi Farms and its enablers was gaining momentum.
“When a multi-billion dollar corporation like Cloudflare has to drop Kiwi Farms because of an ‘imminent and emergency threat to human life’ it is no longer a matter of free speech. Removing Kiwi Farms from the internet is a matter of public safety for every single person online,” she tweeted on Saturday.
On Sunday, Kiwi Farms was inaccessible. But a version of the site with a .ru domain name was intermittently up and running, though it was not clear whether it would remain up.
The decision to drop Kiwi Farms Saturday was an about-face for Cloudflare and Prince, who earlier in the week put out a 2,600-word blog post — without mentioning the site by name — doubling down on the decision to protect it and comparing Cloudflare to a phone company that “doesn’t terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things.”
But Sorrenti and other targets of the site say it was far worse than that, as trolls on the site relentlessly pursued their victims offline — often for years on end.
“They are trying to get people to lose their jobs. They’re trying to get people to lose their housing, to be starving and homeless,” Liz Fong-Jones, a former Google engineer and cloud computing expert who is transgender, told the AP last week. “And then they go after people’s families and then they tell people that the only way out is to kill themselves.”
Moon started Kiwi Farms nearly a decade ago as a wiki site dedicated to harassing a transgender woman; Moon even used the woman’s initials in an early version of the site’s name. Over time its users began to target other people — mostly active online users who are transgender, have autism or other mental conditions. Kiwi Farms in its current form was born in 2015.
An overarching theme of the site’s discussions centers on users’ fierce opposition to transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. Members typically refer to those who support such treatment as “groomers” and “pedophiles,” rhetoric that is also used increasingly by conservatives in their opposition to LGBTQ rights.
“There has never been a violent incident in our history, which cannot be said for many other sites still on Cloudflare. This narrative feels like a lie spun up to save face,” Moon, who posts on Kiwi Farms under the pseudonym “Null,” posted Saturday in response to Cloudflare’s cutoff. Reached earlier by The Associated Press to comment on the campaign against his site, Moon replied only “the press are scum.”
KiwiFarms.ru is registered to and protected by the Russian company DDoS-Guard, whose customers have in the past included Russian government websites including the Defense Ministry and cybercriminal forums where stolen credit cards are bought and sold.
Last year, DDoS-Guard protected the pro-Trump social media website Parler.com for a time after Amazon withdrew hosting services. KiwiFarms.ru was registered on July 12, suggesting Moon, was aware Cloudflare could drop his site and thus created a backup plan.
DDoS-Guard did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Sunday. Kiwi Farms’ internet connection is provided by VegasNAP, a Las Vegas-based company that said in response to queries last week that it does not disclose information about its clients. Contacted again Sunday, the company did not immediately respond.
“In the past, DDoS-Guard has been known to discontinue support for some seriously problematic websites, apparently as a result of press inquiries. That very well may happen again, in this instance, but I wouldn’t bet on it,” said independent internet expert Ron Guilmette. “Obviously, a lot has changed in the world since February 24, 2022, and I do believe that, in general, Russians these days, and over the past 6 months in particular, have learned to care a whole lot less about what the rest of the world thinks of them and/or their actions.”
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2022-09-05T02:27:43+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-citing-imminent-danger-cloudflare-drops-hate-site-kiwi-farms/
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Wisconsin hospital cannot be forced to give ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient.
The 6-1 ruling overturned a lower court order that required Aurora Health Care to administer ivermectin to John Zingsheim, a patient who was placed on a ventilator due to COVID-19 complications.
Zingsheim’s nephew, Allen Gahl, was authorized to make his medical decisions and requested that the hospital treat his uncle with ivermectin.
However, Aurora determined that “the use of ivermectin in the treatment of John Zingsheim’s COVID-19 symptoms does not meet the standard of care for treatment.”
A Waukesha County Circuit Court initially ordered Aurora to administer the ivermectin, before altering its order to require Gahl to find an outside physician for Aurora to credential and provide the ivermectin.
The Wisconsin Supreme court found that the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion because it cited “no law in either its written order or its oral ruling.”
“The circuit court’s written order granting Gahl relief does not cite any statute, case, or other source of law as a foundation allowing for its issuance,” the court said in Tuesday’s filing, later adding, “Absent any citation to law establishing a legal basis for the order, we cannot determine that the circuit court employed the reasoning process our precedent demands.”
Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication typically used on livestock, grew in popularity among conservatives after it was hailed by some as a miracle cure for COVID-19.
However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19, and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel found that trials failed to show a clinical benefit from treating COVID-19 with ivermectin.
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2023-05-02T20:41:57+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/court-rules-wisconsin-hospital-cant-be-forced-to-give-ivermectin-to-covid-patient/
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When Nicola Peltz married Brooklyn Beckham in April, fans expected her to wear a wedding dress designed by her mother-in-law, Victoria Beckham. After it was revealed that she opted for a Valentino couture, speculation began to swirl that Nicola and Victoria were entangled in a fued. Now, the 27-year-old actress is sharing the real reason she didn't walk down the aisle in a Victoria Beckham-designed gown.
“Well, I was planning on wearing Victoria’s wedding dress, and I was truly so excited to be able to wear a design that my future mother-in-law created," ” Nicola tells GRAZIA USA in an interview for their Fall issue. "I thought that was so beautiful and such a beautiful story.”
“I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be so fun. One of my best friends and my mom,’" she says of collaborating with her pal stylist Leslie Fremar, and mother, Claudia. "We connected to start designing the dress, and then a few days went by and I didn’t hear anything. Victoria called my mom and said her atelier couldn’t make it. So, I spoke to my mom and Leslie, and I was like, ‘Well, unfortunately, this can’t happen, so what’s the next step?’ I’ve been a fan of Valentino and their couture for so long. I was really lucky to be able to travel to [the atelier] to try on the dress. That’s really what happened."
“When I read things that say [things like] I was never planning on wearing a [Victoria Beckham] dress or things like that, it does hurt my feelings," Nicola continues. "I try not to let it, but it’s just not the truth. It’s just a bit of a bummer when you’re like, ‘Oh, people think that,’ but it’s just not true."
As for what Brooklyn thinks of the rumors, he tells GRAZIA, "To be honest, my wife is obviously my first priority and I never want to see her upset ever. When people do say ridiculous things, we just talk about it and we just move on. We have each other’s back 100 percent and we just move on together."
The couple previously opened up during an August interview for Variety's 2022 Power of Young Hollywood issue about being at the center of internet rumors. "I’ve learned they’re always going to try to write stuff like that," Brooklyn said of tabloids. "They’re always going to try and put people down. But everyone gets along, which is good."
Nicola added of the dress debacle, "I was going to [wear her design] and I really wanted to, and then a few months down the line, she realized that her atelier couldn’t do it, so then I had to pick another dress. She didn’t say you can’t wear it; I didn’t say I didn’t want to wear it. That’s where it started, and then they ran with that."
Last month, Brooklyn spoke to ET about his hopes for a big family with Nicola. "I've always wanted to be a young dad," he gushed. "I would love to have a family soon, but whenever my wife is ready."
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2022-09-22T21:52:09+00:00
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9news.com
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https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/nicola-peltz-reveals-the-real-reason-she-didnt-wear-a-victoria-beckham-wedding-dress/603-7effb38a-5fdc-4e23-a4f9-acaf2020890a
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LONDON (AP) — Wireless carrier Vodafone said Tuesday that it’s laying off 11,000 workers as part of a major revamp aimed at cutting costs and boosting flagging financial performance.
Vodafone, one of the world’s biggest mobile phone companies by subscribers, made the announcement as it reported that its annual earnings dropped 1.3% and forecast little or no earnings growth over the financial year.
“The circumstances of our industry and the position of Vodafone within it require us to change,” CEO Margherita Della Valle said. “We need to take out complexity and simplify how we operate.”
Vodafone said the reductions would be carried out over the next three years, with cuts already announced in Italy, Germany and at its U.K. headquarters.
Della Valle, who took over the top job in January, aims to cut costs by 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) by 2026.
The job losses come amid sweeping cuts in the wider technology industry amid flagging economic growth and surging inflation.
Vodafone operates in markets across Europe and Africa and employed about 100,000 people globally at the end of last year.
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2023-05-16T23:52:28+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/vodafone-axing-11000-jobs-as-uk-wireless-carrier-aims-to-cut-costs-boost-growth/
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Healthcare company to unveil latest addition to Skin Health Solution Program at 2022 WOCNext conference
NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medline today announced a new version of its Optifoam® Gentle EX Foam Dressing. Updated to help reduce pressure injuries, the company will debut the product in-person at booth #511 during the 2022 WOCNext conference in Fort Worth, Texas, from June 5-8. Medline's Optifoam Gentle EX dressing is a key product in the company's Skin Health Solution Program, a holistic approach to skin and wound care focused on people, process and products.
Medline's Optifoam Gentle EX is designed to help displace pressure when used with pressure injury prevention protocol. The product features five unique layers to help absorb shear force and friction and manage moisture:
- Silicone layer minimizes trauma to the wound with gentle adhesion.
- Absorbent layer super-absorbs and retains exudate.
- Transfer layer helps move fluid and moisture away from the skin and helps prevent leakage.
- Foam layer absorbs exudate to minimize pooling at the wound's surface.
- Breathable film acts as a waterproof barrier to seal out germs and dirt.
While the legacy product has been broadly available to healthcare providers since 2018, Medline leveraged customer feedback to enhance the Optifoam Gentle EX design to improve its adhesive and flexibility to help keep the dressing in place on the body for longer.
"We want our products to be valuable tools that make it easier for staff to do the right thing and ultimately drive positive change and improved patient outcomes. We always encourage customer feedback so we can promptly make any changes that promote a more positive experience," said Bruce Shapiro, vice president of Medline's Advanced Wound Care division. "We look forward to gathering in-person again at this year's WOCNext conference and having meaningful conversations with WOC nurses about how care practices have been evolving at their organization and opportunities to help them enhance best practices."
Medline will be showcasing its comprehensive Skin Health Solution Program at WOCNext 2022. In addition to Optifoam Gentle EX, attendees can learn more about additional products, including Comfort Glide Turning & Repositioning System, HeelMedix heel offloading boot and Remedy Phytoplex. Collectively the system of products addresses the four contributing factors of pressure injuries: prolonged pressure, moisture management, friction and shear.
Medline will also host multiple education sessions, including a seminar presented by distinguished skin and wound care experts titled, "At-Risk Skin – Are We Doing What We Think We Are? 21 New Consensus Statements." In the WOCNext Poster Hall, the company is also sponsoring two case study presentations, each showcasing a health system's unique skin health clinical challenge and the solutions provided by Medline. These interactive presentations will allow attendees to learn more and engage directly with the representatives from those health systems.
Learn more about how Medline is helping healthcare providers enhance best practices in skin health at https://www.medline.com/skin-health/, and visit the company at booth #511 during the WOCNext 2022 conference.
Medline is a healthcare company; a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Partnering with healthcare systems and facilities across the continuum of care, Medline provides the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high-quality care. With the scale of one of the country's largest companies and the agility of a family-led business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the future and rapidly respond to a dynamically changing market with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 30,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 125 countries and territories. Learn more about Medline at www.medline.com.
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2022-06-03T14:50:53+00:00
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FALLS CHURCH, Va., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has named Team IntelliDyne as a finalist in Mission Daybreak — a $20 million challenge designed to help VA develop new suicide prevention strategies for Veterans. As a finalist, Team IntelliDyne will receive $250,000 and advance to Phase 2 of the challenge.
"The importance of providing mental health assistance to our nation's Veterans cannot be understated. Our team is honored to be considered as a Mission Daybreak finalist and we look forward to Phase 2 where we will demonstrate how informed outreach, using predictive analytics can significantly narrow the aperture of Veteran outreach efforts, saving many lives," said IntelliDyne Chief Operating Officer, Phil Vincenzes.
Team IntelliDyne's solution, CALLS (Computationally Aggregated List to Limit Self-Harm), implements a data-driven behavioral model for anonymously assessing wellness risk to generate a risk-ranked call-list of Veterans who would specifically benefit from directed outreach efforts, thereby improving behavioral health outcomes, and vitally reducing the Veteran suicide rate.
During Phase 2 of the challenge, 30 finalists will join a virtual accelerator program designed to help the finalists develop ambitious, but achievable roadmaps for prototyping, iteration, testing, and evaluation. Technology partners supporting the accelerator include Amazon and Microsoft.
In November 2022, finalists will present their solutions to key stakeholders, investors, and partners at Demo Day, a live pitch event. Phase 2 will award $11.5 million in prizes:
- Two first-place winners will each receive $3 million,
- Three second-place winners will each receive $1 million,
- Five third-place winners will each receive $500,000.
Visit missiondaybreak.net for more information on the challenge. Subscribe to the Mission Daybreak newsletter to follow along with the finalists' progress and receive updates on Demo Day.
Reporters covering this issue can download VA's Safe Messaging Best Practices fact sheet or visit ReportingOnSuicide.org for important guidance on how to communicate about suicide.
Learn more about IntelliDyne's Analytics Practice and our full suite of solutions by visiting our website.
IntelliDyne is a leading Government Information Technology firm enabling better mission performance through innovative technology solutions. We manage public sector programs that deliver higher operational efficiency and measurable value to clients. We advise, develop, and execute effective solutions in IT Infrastructure Management, Digital Automation, Analytics, Cybersecurity & Information Assurance, Application Development, and Cloud Computing. Learn more at intellidyne-llc.com
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2022-09-19T20:01:31+00:00
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US investigates Tesla for steering wheels that can fall off
(AP) - U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s Model Y SUV after getting two complaints that the steering wheels can come off while being driven.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers an estimated 120,000 vehicles from the 2023 model year.
The agency says in both cases the Model Ys were delivered to customers with a missing bolt that holds the wheel to the steering column. A friction fit held the steering wheels on, but they separated when force was exerted while the SUVs were being driven.
The agency says in documents posted on its website Wednesday that both incidents happened while the SUVs had low mileage on them.
Investigators look at how often the problem happens, how many vehicles were affected and at Tesla’s manufacturing process. The Model Y is Tesla’s top-selling vehicle.
Messages were left seeking comment from Tesla, which has disbanded its media relations department.
In one complaint filed with NHTSA, an owner said he was driving with his family on Route 1 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, when the steering wheel suddenly came off on Jan. 29. The owner wrote that there were no cars behind him, and he was able to pull toward the road divider. There were no injuries in the Tesla, which was purchased on Jan. 24.
The complaint has a link to a Twitter posting from the owner that included a video of the detached steering wheel and pictures of the white Tesla being towed.
At first a Tesla service center gave the owner a cost estimate of $103.96 to repair the problem. The service center apologized in what appear to be text messages posted on Twitter.
When the owner wrote that he had lost faith in Tesla and asked for a refund, the service center removed the charge and wrote that Tesla doesn’t have a return policy, but he could reach out to the sales and delivery team.
The man was later given the option of keeping the car or getting it replaced with a new one, according to his post on Twitter.
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2023-03-08T12:46:05+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/2023/03/08/us-investigates-tesla-steering-wheels-that-can-fall-off/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — With stars like Margot Robbie and Lil Nas X sitting in the front row, Virginie Viard’s sporty clothing designs inspired by Hollywood glam shined just as bright during a Chanel fashion show in Los Angeles.
The fashion brand took hold of the Paramount Picture Studios lot to unveil its latest cruise collection on a chilly Tuesday night. It was such a splashy spectacle that even Snoop Dogg was dancing in his comfy bleacher seat while models strutted on a black-and-white Chanel basketball-like court with two large scoreboards.
A massive screen as long as the court showed various black-and-white videos of dancing Chanel models and aerial images of Los Angeles filled with palms trees.
The spacious court gave the models room to work in front of a star-studded crowd that included Kristen Stewart, Elle Fanning, Issa Rae, H.E.R., Nile Rodgers, Paris Hilton, Andra Day, Leslie Mann, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kris Jenner, Kimora Lee Simmons, Christina Milian and Lori Harvey.
Viard brought her vision for Californian sporty vibes to life with swimsuits, sports bras, sparkling dresses, skirts, blazers and platform shoes with glowing heels, in various shades of pink along with lavender and black.
The last time Chanel had a cruise collection event in the Los Angeles area was 2007 in a hangar at the Santa Monica airport. The previous cruise shows were held in Provence, France and Monte Carlo, Monaco.
After the nearly 30-minute show wrapped up, Viard took a bow and made a short strut of her own while attendees applauded her efforts. Audience members were entertained before and after the event by roller skaters who slithered through the crowd and collectively danced together at times.
As a special performer, Snoop Dogg kept the good times rolling as he performed a medley of his hits including “Gin and Juice,” ”Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Beautiful.” The rapper brought out Anderson .Paak who performed “Smokin Out the Window.”
Dogg, who also deejayed during his set, brought his family and said it was the first time he’s ever attended such an event.
“I’m gonna bring the hood to the fashion show,” he told the crowd.
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2023-05-10T13:07:48+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/chanel-lures-stars-with-cruise-fashion-show-in-los-angeles/
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Lipella awarded $1.35m grant in 2022 for development of intravesical contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (ICE-MRI) technology.
PITTSBURGH, April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lipella Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: LIPO) ("Lipella" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company addressing serious diseases with significant unmet need, today announces it has dosed the first patient in its human clinical study of a novel bladder MRI contrast agent.
Lipella's contrast agent is composed of two MRI contrast agents and is expected to be useful for the diagnosis of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and potentially other bladder diseases characterized by bladder wall defects. Lipella believes the agent may also have utility in detecting bladder tumor progression to muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
The study is being funded by a $1.35 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant awarded to Lipella by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 2022. The two-year grant will support the clinical development of intravesical contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (ICE-MRI) technology, and is expected to accelerate clinical development of ICE-MRI, which could lead to important clinical results.
Dr. Michael Chancellor, Chief Medical Officer of Lipella expressed excitement about the milestone in developing a novel MRI contrast agent that can evaluate and detect leaky bladder.
"As a urologist, I know my clinical colleagues would highly welcome a new objective diagnostic modality that can accurately measure impaired bladder permeability and function," said Dr. Chancellor.
Professor Pradeep Tyagi, a renowned scholar in the field of bladder pharmacology and imaging, emphasized that the agent can objectively phenotype IC/BPS that is bladder-centric, thereby identifying patients who would be most likely to benefit from clinical trials of newer therapies targeting bladder pathology and avoid the delay in getting appropriate medical care.
About ICE-MRI, a Duel-Component MRI Contrast Agent
ICE-MRI is a proprietary liquid solution/suspension composed of two MRI contrast agents with unique magnetic properties that can be used to determine if bladder permeability defects are present. Lipella has completed preclinical validation of the agent and has commenced human clinical trials. The novel contrast agent has a low cost of goods sold and a rapid diagnostic device development plan to meet urologic indications without current approved diagnostic imaging.
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Lipella is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing new drugs by reformulating the active agents in existing generic drugs and optimizing these reformulations for new applications. Additionally, Lipella maintains a therapeutic focus on diseases with significant, unaddressed morbidity and mortality where no approved drug therapy currently exists. Lipella completed its initial public offering in December 2022 trading on Nasdaq under the ticker LIPO. For more information, please visit www.lipella.com or LinkedIn.
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2023-04-05T13:55:36+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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Posted: Dec 27, 2022 / 07:47 AM CST Updated: Dec 27, 2022 / 07:47 AM CST SHARE RAUL ARREDONDO (75) TIFFANY WOLF CHRIS KECK
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2022-12-27T16:21:08+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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At least 1 dead in plane crash near resort in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) - At least one person was killed and another person was hospitalized after a small plane crashed near North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina.
In a statement provided to WMBF, the Federal Aviation Administration said the crash involved a single-engine Piper PA-32 with four people on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane crashed after taking off from a runway at 11:20 a.m.
Officer Pat Wilkinson with the North Myrtle Beach Police Department confirmed that at least one person died in the crash and another person was taken to a hospital.
He added that the plane was “engulfed in flames” when first responders first arrived at the scene. Crews with North Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue were able to extinguish the flames.
Wilkinson also said the area of Pete Dye Drive near where the crash happened will be shut down for up to a couple of days.
The FAA and the NTSB are continuing to investigate the crash.
Photos and videos sent to WMBF News from the scene showed smoke towering over the scene of the crash seen from the Intracoastal Waterway near Barefoot Landing and Barefoot Resort.
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2023-07-02T22:48:53+00:00
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https://www.wsfa.com/2023/07/02/least-1-dead-plane-crash-near-resort-north-myrtle-beach-south-carolina/
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Feeling more like November again this weekend & this week.
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - After what seemed like forever, the off and on summer like warmth is now long gone as we fall into November like conditions this weekend, and beyond for at least for the next 7-10 days or so (if not longer).
TODAY
Temperatures remain chilly across Mid-Michigan this morning, in the low-mid 30s. As we head into the afternoon I don’t expect our temperatures to warm much beyond the low 40s (40-42 degrees) across the Tri-Cities, our southern counties and the Thumb while the upper 30s hold on up north. Some snow showers will be possible this morning near the interchange of US-127 and I-75 but as we move towards the afternoon those showers should extend further south into Mid-Michigan and possibly also mixing to rain.
Lake effect rain / snow showers will also be possible up in the Thumb (especially Huron County) as well during the late morning and early afternoon.
No accumulations or issues due to these showers are expected.
TONIGHT
Temperatures will take a big fall down into the mid-upper 20s tonight across Mid-Michigan. Additional snow showers may be possible, again, especially for our northern counties and in the Thumb. Winds remain chill out of the northwest and breezy at times, generally 5-15 mph.
TOMORROW
Tomorrow will be several degrees cooler than Saturday, after starting in the 20s we will reach the mid 30s by the afternoon. Additional snow shower chances will exist, again, mostly for the Thumb and our northern counties.
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2022-11-12T15:28:28+00:00
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wnem.com
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https://www.wnem.com/2022/11/12/feeling-more-like-november-again-this-weekend-this-week/
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With spring here, it’s time to look for recipes that bring in lighter ingredients. Chef John Clements is getting ready for grand opening day at Mission Point Resort on Mackinac Island with this Whitefish Paupiette with vegetable and grains.
Ingredients:
Whitefish
Zucchini
Summer Squash
Carrots
Grains (such as rice)
Parchment Paper
Shallot
Lemon Juice
Directions:
Start by slicing vegetables into “match sticks” to make a colorful mix.
Trim belly fat off the fish fillet, and trim off a little bit of the tip. Make sure there are no bones. Slice the fillet in half after removing the tips. You can leave the skin on so that it holds together.
Place the pieces onto separate pieces of parchment paper. Add a slice of compound butter made of butter, dill and shallot to the top of each slice, along with some of the vegetables.
Wrap up and fully close the parchment paper around the items. Place in the oven at 350° and let cook for about 12 minutes.
While the fish cools, add the base of cooked multi-grain mix to a plate. Top with the fish and vegetables. Serve.
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2023-04-20T14:23:42+00:00
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9and10news.com
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https://www.9and10news.com/2023/04/20/meals-on-mission-whitefish-paupiette/
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Ohio bettors can ring in the New Year with PointsBet's LIGHTNING BETS™ for NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAAB, and Soccer
DENVER, Jan. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PointsBet Holdings Limited (ASX: PBH), the leader in live betting, today announced the company has officially unveiled its market-leading mobile app and digital sports betting product in the state of Ohio.
Ohio marks the 14th operational state for PointsBet's premium sports betting product, following successful launches in New Jersey, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, Michigan, West Virginia, Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Louisiana, and most recently Maryland.
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2023-01-01T13:54:00+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/01/01/pointsbet-online-mobile-sports-betting-now-live-ohio/
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(The Conversation) – Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the country are electing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day as an alternative to – or in addition to – the day intended to honor Columbus’ voyages.
Critics of the change see it as just another example of political correctness run amok – another flash point of the culture wars.
As a scholar of Native American history – and a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina – I know the story is more complex than that.
The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decades-long effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history.
Why Columbus?
Columbus Day is a relatively new federal holiday.
In 1892, a joint congressional resolution prompted President Benjamin Harrison to mark the “discovery of America by Columbus,” in part because of “the devout faith of the discoverer and for the divine care and guidance which has directed our history and so abundantly blessed our people.”
Europeans invoked God’s will to impose their will on indigenous people. So it seemed logical to call on God when establishing a holiday celebrating that conquest, too.
Of course, not all Americans considered themselves blessed in 1892. That same year, a lynching forced black journalist Ida B. Wells to flee her home town of Memphis. And while Ellis Island had opened in January of that year, welcoming European immigrants, Congress had already banned Chinese immigration a decade prior, subjecting Chinese people living in the U.S. to widespread persecution.
And then there was the government’s philosophy towards the country’s Native Americans, which Army Colonel Richard Henry Pratt so unforgettably articulated in 1892: “All the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
It took another 42 years for Columbus Day to formally become a federal holiday, thanks to a 1934 decree by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He was responding, in part, to a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic charity founded to provide services to Catholic immigrants. Over time, its agenda expanded to include advocacy for Catholic social values and education.
When Italians first arrived in the United States, they were targets of marginalization and discrimination. Officially celebrating Christopher Columbus – an Italian Catholic – became one way to affirm the new racial order that would emerge in the U.S. in the 20th century, one in which the descendants of diverse ethnic European immigrants became “white” Americans.
Indigenous people power
But some Americans started to question why Indigenous people – who’d been in the country all along – didn’t have their own holiday.
In the 1980s, Colorado’s American Indian Movement chapter began protesting the celebration of Columbus Day. In 1989, activists in South Dakota persuaded the state to replace Columbus Day with Native American Day. Both states have large Native populations that played active roles in the Red Power Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, which sought to make American Indian people more politically visible.
Then, in 1992, at the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage, American Indians in Berkeley, California, organized the first “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” a holiday the city council soon formally adopted. Berkeley has since replaced its commemoration of Columbus with a celebration of indigenous people.
The holiday can also trace its origins to the United Nations. In 1977, indigenous leaders from around the world organized a United Nations conference in Geneva to promote indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Their first recommendation was “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America, as an International Day of Solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.” It took another 30 years for their work to be formally recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was adopted in September 2007.
Unexpected allies
Today, cities with significant native populations, like Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, now celebrate either Native American Day or Indigenous Peoples Day. And states like Hawaii, Nevada, Minnesota, Alaska and Maine have also formally recognized their Native populations with similar holidays. Many Native governments, like the Cherokee and Osage in Oklahoma, either don’t observe Columbus Day or have replaced it with their own holiday.
But you’ll also find commemorations in less likely places. Alabama celebrates Native American Day alongside Columbus Day, as does North Carolina, which, with a population of over 120,000 Native Americans, has the largest number of Native Americans of any state east of the Mississippi River.
In 2018, the town of Carrboro, North Carolina, issued a resolution to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. The resolution noted the fact that the town of 21,000 had been built on indigenous land and that it was committed to “protect, respect and fulfill the full range of inherent human rights,” including those of indigenous people.
While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes Native histories and Native people – an important addition to the country’s ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be American.
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2022-10-10T16:00:21+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/holidays/why-more-places-are-abandoning-columbus-day-in-favor-of-indigenous-peoples-day/
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Agriculture Department announced Thursday it is making available $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet, part of the broader $65 billion push for high-speed connectivity from last year’s infrastructure law.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu unveiled the grants during a visit to North Carolina.
There are 49 recipients in 24 states. One is North Carolina’s AccessOn Networks, which will receive $17.5 million to provide broadband service to 100 businesses, 76 farms and 22 educational facilities in the state’s Halifax and Warren counties. Both counties are rural and have predominantly Black populations.
“Rural America needs this,” Vilsack said. “Rural America deserves this.” He made the announcement in front of John Deere equipment, noting that rural areas tend to be where the electricity for cities is generated and where city dwellers and suburbanites go for vacations.
The announcement and visit to North Carolina, a state with an open U.S. Senate seat, come as President Joe Biden and other top Democratic officials are trying to sell their achievements to voters before the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Landrieu, the infrastructure coordinator and former New Orleans mayor, told reporters on a Wednesday call that the Biden administration has already released $180 billion for various infrastructure projects.
The administration is specifically targeting support for small towns and farm communities, places that generally favor Republicans over Democrats.
“Rural communities are the backbone of our nation, but for too long they’ve been left behind and they have been underrecognized,” Landrieu said. “We all know how essential the internet is in order to access lifesaving telemedicine, to tap into economic opportunity, to connect with loved ones, to work on precision agriculture and so much more. That’s just beyond unacceptable that that’s not available to rural America.”
Vilsack said he and Landrieu would “learn firsthand” from people in North Carolina about the opportunities internet access can create. They met with state and local officials including North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper at Wake Technical Community College. They will also hold a town hall in Elm City.
Cooper attributed the broadband advances to the pandemic shutdowns that made people more reliant on the internet.
“It tossed us into the future by about a decade — we had to make something good out of something bad,” he said. He added that 1 million of the state’s residents have been on the wrong side of the digital divide, something the build-out will help to correct.
Neither candidate in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race — Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican Ted Budd — was slated to appear at the events.
Vilsack said that past trips show how broadband connectivity is starting to make a difference. While in Nevada this summer, he heard from people in the town of Lovelock who plan to use the improved internet to enhance their emergency responder services and tourism opportunities as well as help high school students who are earning college credit online.
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2022-10-27T21:53:22+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/tech-news/ap-usda-announces-759m-for-high-speed-internet-in-rural-areas/
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Zia Cooke had 14 points and No. 1 South Carolina opened Southeastern Conference play with a 76-34 victory over Texas A&M on Thursday night.
The Gamecocks improved to 13-0 for the third time in the past nine seasons. They beat the Aggies (5-6, 0-1) for the 10th time in the past 11 meetings.
South Carolina, which lost its SEC opener at Missouri a year ago, outscored Texas A&M 24-6 in the opening period. It steadily increased the lead to 46 points in final minutes.
Freshman reserve Talaysia Cooper had 15 points for the Gamecocks, and sophomore backup Sania Feagin scored 11 points.
All-American Aliyah Boston finished with six points and five rebounds, playing just 19 minutes in the runaway win.
The injury-riddled Aggies, who had only eight players available, struggled to establish an offensive rhythm. They finished with 22 turnovers.
Sydney Bowles and Jada Malone each scored eight points for Texas A&M. Both players fouled out.
South Carolina did what it wanted inside, finishing with 38 points in the paint and 29 free-throw attempts, making 16 of them.
Cooke made three 3-pointers. She went 5 for 10 from the field overall.
BIG PICTURE
Texas A&M: The Aggies are the only SEC team with a sub-.500 overall record. ... They remain winless on the road, now with a 0-4 record. ... The 34 points marked a season low.
South Carolina: The Gamecocks have won 34 straight at home. ... This was the eighth time this season the Gamecocks held a team to fewer than 40 points.
UP NEXT
Texas A&M returns home to play Florida on Sunday.
South Carolina goes to Georgia on Monday night.
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2022-12-30T03:27:23+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Cooke-No-1-South-Carolina-run-past-Texas-A-M-17684467.php
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DA: Mother, boyfriend could face death penalty for killing 2-year-old boy
HOUMA, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - Authorities in Louisiana say they might seek the death penalty in a case involving a boy’s mother and her boyfriend after police found the 2-year-old’s body in a trash can.
Police identified the 2-year-old as Ezekiel Harry. His mother, Maya Jones, 28, and her boyfriend, 37-year-old Jermaine Robinson, were arrested by the Houma Police Department. They are facing first-degree murder charges, as reported by WVUE.
On Tuesday, Louisiana State Police initially issued an endangered and missing child alert for Harry. Authorities said Jones told them that he was abducted while walking with his siblings.
About six hours after that initial alert, Houma police reported they found Ezekiel’s body stuffed in a trash can.
Detectives said they also found information that led them to suspect foul play in the incident before arresting Jones and Robinson.
On Wednesday, Houma Police Chief Dana Coleman showed images from surveillance video that authorities said showed Jones walking and driving around with a black duffel bag that contained the boy’s body before dumping it in a trash can.
“This is absolutely a death penalty case,” Terrebonne Parish District Attorney Joe Waitz said. “What happened to this little 2-year-old shocks the conscience.”
Investigators said they are looking into whether there was a documented history of abuse at the boy’s home as past physical abuse has been suspected.
Louisiana has carried out one execution in the past 20 years.
Copyright 2022 WVUE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-07-14T01:58:49+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/2022/07/14/da-mother-boyfriend-could-face-death-penalty-killing-2-year-old-boy/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Veru, Inc. ("Veru" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VERU). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Veru and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On November 10, 2022, Veru issued a press release announcing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (the "Advisory Committee") voted against granting emergency use authorization for the Company's product sabizabulin for treatment of hospitalized moderate to severe COVID-19 patients who are at high risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Specifically, the Advisory Committee voted 8-5 that the known and potential benefits of sabizabulin do not outweigh its known and potential risks.
On this news, Veru's stock price fell sharply during intraday trading on November 10, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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2023-01-04T03:45:14+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/01/04/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-behalf-investors-veru-inc-veru/
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Teton Pass to close Friday for avalanche control
JACKSON, Wyo. (KIFI) - The Wyoming Department of Transportation has scheduled a closure of Teton Pass for Friday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. for avalanche control.
Reduced visibility, winter driving conditions and increasing avalanche hazard may force an earlier closure.
No parking at the summit of Teton Pass and Coal Creek beginning at 12 p.m. Friday will be strictly enforced. Officials ask you please be back to your vehicles and out of the parking lots by noon. Highway travelers and backcountry users are advised to plan accordingly.
Dial 511 or go to www.wyoroad.info for updated weather and road conditions. Sign up for automated email and text alerts with 511 notify at www.wyoroad.info.
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2023-01-27T00:46:09+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/wyoming/2023/01/26/teton-pass-to-close-friday-for-avalanche-control/
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BALASORE, India (AP) — Gura Pallay was watching another train pass by the one he was sitting in when he heard sudden, loud screeching. Before he could make sense of what was happening, he was thrown out of the train.
Pallay, 24, landed next to the tracks along with metal wreckage of the train he’d been riding in, and instantly lost consciousness. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was the twisted remains of train on the tracks.
His train had derailed after colliding with a stopped freight train shortly after leaving Balasore, a coastal city about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the state capital. Another passenger train, the one he had seen pass by moments earlier, then hit the derailed carriages.
“I saw it with my own eyes, but I still can’t describe what I saw. I am haunted by it,” he said Sunday at a hospital, where he lay on a stretcher with a broken leg and dark wounds on his face and arms.
Pallay is a laborer, like most of the people onboard the two passenger trains that crashed Friday in the eastern state of Odisha, killing 275 people and injuring hundreds. He was traveling to Chennai city in southern India to take up a job in a paper mill factory when the Coromandel Express crashed with a goods freight train, knocking it off track, and was then hit by a second train coming from the opposite direction on a parallel track.
“I never imagined something like this could happen, but I guess it was our fate,” he said.
Investigators said Sunday that a signaling failure might have caused the three-train crash, one of the worst rail disasters in the country’s history. Authorities recommended that India’s Central Bureau of Investigations, which probes major criminal cases, open an investigation into the crash.
“We can’t bring back those we have lost, but the government is with the families in their grief. Whosoever is found guilty will be punished severely,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday while visiting the site of the accident.
The crash occurred as Modi’s government is focusing on the modernization of India’s colonial-era railroad network.
Several survivors of the crash said they were still struggling to comprehend the disaster.
“Everything happened so quickly,” said Subhashish Patra, a student who was traveling with his family from Balasore to the state capital, Bhubaneswar, on the Coromandel Express. He was planning to take his mother to a hospital in Bhubaneswar to seek treatment for a hand injury, and then to travel to Puri, home to one of Odisha’s most important temples.
The first thing Patra could make sense of after the crash was the sound of children crying. People were screaming for help in the dark, and around him lay corpses.
“There were dead bodies all around me,” he said.
Patra said the rail carriage he was in landed with the door facing up. He climbed onto a pile of wreckage inside the train and managed to pull himself out.
At the hospital on Sunday, Patra’s head was bandaged in gauze as he waited for an MRI scan. His head was throbbing with pain, he said, but he was grateful that he and his entire family had survived.
Others weren’t so lucky. On Monday, many people were still lined up outside a hospital in the state capitol waiting to identify and collect the bodies of relatives.
Alaudin, who goes by one name, travelled almost 200 kilometers (124.3 miles) Saturday from West Bengal state to the crash site in Balasore to look for his brother, who was on one of the trains.
He learned about the crash from television. When he tried to call his brother’s mobile phone to check on him, no one answered.
Worried, he and his sister-in-law rushed to the site of the crash afterwards and spent all of Saturday looking for him in various hospitals, hoping he would be alive. But his brother’s whereabouts remained unknown as the death toll continued to rise.
Distraught, they finally made their way to the mortuary, where Alaudin’s brother body was wrapped in a black plastic bag and placed on top of blocks of melting ice.
“I lost my brother, she lost her husband,” Alaudin said, pointing to his sister-in-law. “And his two boys have lost a father.”
His brother was 36 years old, Alaudin said.
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2023-06-05T18:50:22+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/i-am-haunted-by-it-survivors-of-deadly-train-crash-in-india-recount-trauma/
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LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Republican Party on Saturday selected a combative former state representative who promised to be a “wartime” leader as its new chairman, joining several other state GOPs this year that have elected far-right figures and election conspiracy theorists to their top posts.
The move in Colorado comes as the party totters on the brink of political irrelevance in a state moving swiftly to the left.
Former State Rep. Dave Williams, who unsuccessfully tried to insert the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” into his name on the party’s primary ballot last year and insists — incorrectly — that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, was selected by the party’s executive committee out of a seven-person field.
Williams crossed the required 50% threshold on the third ballot after being endorsed by one of his competitors, indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who had failed to surpass 10%. Peters faces seven felony charges for her alleged role in illegally accessing voting machines in her county. She has denied the allegations while becoming a prominent national figure in the election conspiracy movement.
A three-term state representative from a conservative district in the city of Colorado Springs, Williams unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Doug Lamborn in the Republican primary last year. The Colorado Secretary of State’s office rejected his effort to include a popular conservative phrase denigrating President Joe Biden in his name on the ballot. A judge agreed Williams could not be known as Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams.
In his speech to nearly 400 hardcore Republican activists and party leaders, Williams reprised the themes he hit during his campaign — that the party’s recent poor performance in Colorado is simply due to it not fighting hard enough, not any disconnect between its activists and the majority of the state’s voters.
“Our party doesn’t have a brand problem,” Williams told the group. “Our party has a problem with feckless leaders. … We need a wartime leader.”
Election deniers have won three other state party chair positions recently — in Idaho, Kansas and Michigan — and as his party is reeling from a brutal 2022 election year.
Republicans lost every statewide election last year by double digits and are down to their lowest share of the state Legislature in Colorado history. They have not won a major statewide race since 2014 and lag well behind Democrats and unaffiliated voters in registration.
Like six of the seven candidates who ran, Williams advocated trying to overturn a ballot measure that requires the party to allow unaffiliated voters to cast ballots in its primary. All of the candidates except Kevin McCarney, a former Mesa County party chairman, expressed skepticism that Biden legitimately won the 2020 election.
Williams’ main rival ended up being Erik Aadland, a combat veteran and political novice who ran an unsuccessful race for a congressional swing seat in the Denver suburbs last year. Although he’s also questioned the 2020 election results, he advocated for discussing elections in less aggressive language and based his speech Saturday around the theme of how “love trumps hate.”
Still, he also spoke in combative terms about how the party should move forward after Williams’ selection.
“We are besought by a radical left that wants to destroy this country, and we need to come together and win elections,” Aadland told the crowd.
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2023-03-12T16:52:37+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/colorado-gop-selects-combative-election-denying-new-leader/
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U-MARY HOSTING 5K RUN/WALK
The University of Mary’s “I Made The Hill” 5K Run/Walk will be held Saturday, Aug. 27.
Being held for the first time in two decades, the course starts at Prairie Rose Elementary School and finishes at the University of Mary.
Cost is $25 in advance or $35 the day of for adults and $15 and $25 for youth. Every participant receives a T-shirt. Medals awarded to the top three male and females in all four divisions – Masters, Adult, High School, Youth.
For more information or to register go to umary.edu/MAevents.
MINOT STATE UNVEILS HOF CLASS
Jen Dixon (softball, volleyball), Whitney (Stanley) Aberle (golf), Travis Hanson (track) and the 1986 gymnastics team will be inducted into the Minot State Athletics Hall of Fame.
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The ceremony will be held Friday, Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. at Clarion Hotel as part of homecoming weekend.
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2022-07-28T01:23:04+00:00
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bismarcktribune.com
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https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/area-sports-briefs-july-28/article_4105278a-0df7-11ed-9539-1bd2347e389e.html
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How to celebrate a century and a half of 501 jeans
The No Pants Subway Ride in New York was canceled again this year. In contrast, Levi’s is currently celebrating the choice to wear pants. The company’s “150 years of the 501” campaign is focusing on how these iconic jeans have positively impacted so many individuals over the past century and a half. If you’d like to join in the festivities and create your own 501 story, there are plenty of pants that can help you do just that.
In this article: Levi’s Men’s 501 Original Style Shrink-to-Fit Jeans, Levi’s Women’s Premium 501 Skinny Jeans and Levi’s Men’s 501 Hemmed Shorts.
A brief history of Levi’s 501 jeans
There’s a lot of history in 150 years. However, the key bullet points for Levi’s 501 jeans are:
- Levi Strauss began selling dry goods in 1853 in San Francisco.
- 20 years later, the company was granted the patent on the process of riveting pants.
- 1890 marks the first time the lot number 501 was used to designate the famous copper-riveted waist overalls.
- 32 years later, belt loops were added to the pants due to changing fashion trends.
- A special denim was developed exclusively for 501 overalls in 1927.
- In 1954, a zippered version of the jean overalls was introduced.
- Teenagers adopted the term “jeans” in 1960, which pushed the industry to stop calling the pants “overalls.”
- Levi’s 501 jeans became part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian in 1964.
- In 1981, 501 jeans became available for women for the first time.
The 150 years of the 501 campaign
To drive home how important these jeans are in people’s lives, the 150 years of the 501 campaign is presenting personal stories from a diverse spectrum of fans. You can learn about how individuals use these versatile pants to define and express themselves in everyday life. As Levi’s puts it, the 501 jeans are the “greatest story ever worn.”
Levi’s 501 jeans are just a starting point for expression
One thing you can quickly learn from reading through all the stories about 501 jeans is they’re a blank page. It’s not necessarily the pants that are special, it’s the people who wear them that make them unique. For instance, one artist literally uses her jeans as a canvas. She paints directly on them so she can wear her artwork. Another person gained the courage to explore gender roles by stepping into a pair of jeans that were previously worn by a guy. And a model expressed that 501 jeans give her the freedom to play a new character whenever she wears a pair of 501s that she customized herself.
Whatever your role is in life, Levi’s current campaign encourages and empowers you to make bold choices so you can write your own origin story.
Best Levi’s 501 jeans
Levi’s Men’s 501 Original Style Shrink-to-Fit Jeans
This is the iconic pair that sits at your waist and has a regular fit through the seat and thigh. These jeans are made with raw denim that conforms to your body to give you a uniquely individual experience.
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Levi’s Women’s Premium 501 Skinny Jeans
These high-rise skinny jeans feature a button closure and non-stretch fabric. For the best fit, the company advises you to size up.
Sold by Amazon
Sometimes, it can be difficult for big and tall men to find a pair of jeans that provides a comfortable fit. These 501s are specifically tailored to the big and tall man who wants a combination of comfort and style.
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Levi’s Boys’ Big 501 Skinny Fit Jeans
Boys who are looking for a slim and stylish look will love these jeans. They’re made with comfort-stretch denim, have an adjustable waistband and feature the traditional five-pocket design.
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Women’s Levi’s 501 High-Rise Straight Leg Jeans
These jeans are for women who love the original 501 jeans but want something a little more eye-catching. The modern, high-rise design of these pants lets them rest on the natural waist.
Levi’s Men’s 501 Hemmed Shorts
When the weather warms up, even the most comfortable 501s might be a little too restrictive. For hotter days, consider this hemmed version of the iconic jeans that hits just above the knee.
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Levi’s Women’s 501 Original Shorts
These flattering shorts have a high-rise, waist-defining fit and a vintage style. The inseam is just 3 inches and they feature a classic button closure.
Sold by Amazon
Other Levi’s jeans worth checking out
- If you prefer wearing boots, these Levi’s Men’s 527 Slim Bootcut Fit Jeans will be a better fit for you.
- These Levi’s Women’s 721 High-Rise Skinny Jeans feature a slim cut through hip and thigh.
- If you’re looking for a loose fit when you sit, Levi’s Men’s 550 Relaxed Fit Jeans are best for you.
- Levi’s Women’s 311 Shaping Skinny Jeans take the burden of looking great off of you and place it on the fabric, so you can feel your best even on cheat days.
- For times when an island vibe is what you crave, try these Levi’s Gold Label Mid-Rise Bermuda Shorts.
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2023-02-10T00:12:12+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/reviews/br/apparel-br/bottoms-br/celebrate-150-years-of-levis-501-jeans-by-purchasing-one-of-these-pairs/
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top military officer was put in charge of troops fighting in Ukraine on Wednesday, a move that appears to reflect the Kremlin’s dissatisfaction with the current leadership and flaws in the military’s performance.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was named the new commander of the unified group of forces in Ukraine.
The previous commander, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, was demoted to become Gerasimov’s deputy along with two other generals.
The reshuffle, which was formally ordered by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, clearly came on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval, signaling that he still has trust in his top military leaders who have faced broad criticism for the troops’ performance in the conflict.
It also suggests a recognition of flaws in carrying out what Putin called “the special military operation” in Ukraine.
While announcing Gerasimov’s appointment, the Defense Ministry said it was aimed at improving coordination between various forces fighting in Ukraine.
“Raising the level of leadership of the special military operation is linked to the expansion of the scale of the tasks being fulfilled as part of it and the need to organize closer interaction between branches of the military and to increase the quality of supplies and the efficiency of directing groups of forces,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Surovikin was credited with strengthening coordination and reinforcing control over Russian forces in Ukraine after his appointment in October. His demotion to the No. 2 role signaled that while Putin wasn’t quite happy with his performance, he still trusts the general’s expertise.
Soon after Surovikin was appointed in October, Russian troops pulled back from the southern city of Kherson under the brunt of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The retreat from the only regional center captured by Russia since it sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 came weeks after its annexation by Moscow and dealt a painful blow to the Kremlin.
In his turn, Gerasimov, who was seen as the top architect of the Russian action in Ukraine as the country’s top military officer in charge of strategic military planning, was also widely blamed for Moscow’s military setbacks.
His critics included Yevgeny Prigozhin, a millionaire businessman with close ties to Putin. Prigozhin, whose Wagner Group military contractor has played an increasingly prominent role in the fighting, has accused Gerasimov of incompetence and blamed him for a string of Russian military setbacks.
Such criticism was also shared by Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, who deployed troops from his region to fight in Ukraine and repeatedly urged the Kremlin to up the ante in the conflict.
The criticism of Gerasimov from Prigozhin and Kadyrov rose to a high pitch in September, when Russian troops were forced to pull back from Ukraine’s northeastern region of Kharkiv by a swift Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Kadyrov particularly accused Gerasimov of covering up for his protege, Col. Gen. Alexander Lapin, who was in charge of the troops that retreated from the Kharkiv region.
Despite such attacks, Lapin was promoted to become the chief of staff of ground forces earlier this week. His promotion along with Gerasimov’s new appointment appear to signal that Prigozhin and Kadyrov have little influence over the Kremlin’s decision-making despite their increasing public activity.
Putin on Wednesday also gave a televised dressing down to Denis Manturov, a deputy prime minister in charge of aviation and other high-tech industries.
Putin demanded that Manturov act more quickly in contracting new aircraft and cut him short during a televised video call with Cabinet members when he tried to defend his performance.
When Manturov said he would try to make sure it’s done during the first quarter, Putin angrily snapped that it should be done within a month. “You don’t try to do all you can, you do it within a month, no later than that,” Putin said.
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2023-01-11T21:40:51+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-top-russian-military-officer-put-in-charge-of-ukraine-action/
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WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
WAZ026-262300-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the 70s. Light wind, becoming south 5 to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the 60s. Breezy. West wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Southwest wind 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the mid 50s to
lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Highs in
the upper 50s to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ027-262300-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Light
wind, becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
25 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Breezy. Southwest wind 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Highs in
the upper 50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Highs in
the upper 50s to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ028-262300-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
Light wind, becoming north 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Windy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s to lower
50s. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
$$
WAZ029-262300-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s. South wind
5 to 10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening,
then rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms overnight.
Some storms may be severe with large hail and damaging wind with
damaging winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall, then some
thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy
rainfall overnight. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of an inch,
except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Breezy. Southwest wind
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of an inch,
except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Breezy. Rain showers likely. Lows in
the mid to upper 40s. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the lower
50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s to lower 70s. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 70s.
$$
WAZ030-262300-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce
gusty winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s.
.TONIGHT...A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening,
then rain showers and a chance of thunderstorms overnight. Some
storms may be severe with large hail and damaging wind with
damaging winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall, then some
thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy
rainfall overnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph overnight. Gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent. Rainfall amounts up to a half of an
inch possible, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the 50s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Rainfall amounts between a tenth and a quarter of an inch
possible, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid to upper 40s, except in the 50s
valleys.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain and high mountain snow showers. Light high
mountain snow accumulations. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Highs
in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Highs
in the upper 40s to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
to mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
WAZ520-262300-
East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s, except in the
upper 60s to mid 70s valleys.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s to upper 40s. West wind 5 to
15 mph in the evening, becoming light. Rainfall amounts less than
a tenth of an inch.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 40s to upper 50s, except in the upper 50s to
lower 60s valleys. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
25 mph. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and high mountain snow showers. Lows in the lower 30s to lower
40s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
high mountain snow showers. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s,
except in the 50s valleys.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and high mountain snow showers likely.
Light high mountain snow accumulations. Lows in the lower 30s to
lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and high
mountain snow showers. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s,
except in the upper 40s to mid 50s valleys.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the upper 40s to upper 50s, except in the mid
50s to lower 60s valleys.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
30s to mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
WAZ521-262300-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Breezy. West wind
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph.
Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in the upper 30s to
mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Highs in
the lower 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s
to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
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2022-05-26T12:42:09+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/WA-Pendleton-OR-Zone-Forecast-17200127.php
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Research shows breast cancer mortality rate has fallen 43% since the ‘80s
(CNN) - Fewer people are dying from breast cancer, according to a report from the American Cancer Society.
However, the latest numbers from the organization show disparities continue to significantly impact the health of Black women.
Improved research, better treatments and screenings have all led to fewer people dying of breast cancer.
“The peak year was 1989. And since then, the breast cancer mortality rate has actually fallen by 43%,” Dr. Bill Dahut, chief scientific officer with the American Cancer Society, said.
But the latest numbers from the American Cancer Society aren’t shifting fast enough in the right direction for Black women.
The organization says overall, a Black woman is about 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than a white woman.
”If you’re a Black woman between the ages of 20 and 29, you’re actually at double the risk of dying from breast cancer than a white woman of the same age,” Dahut said.
The American Cancer Society says it’s important to make sure health care is adequate for everyone.
”Women of color, particularly Black women, are not always having their mammograms, or their facilities are not always the best. They’re not always called back as appropriately, and not always given the same opportunities for some of our newer therapies,” Dahut said.
Screenings are key, but the organization says there was a dip in mammograms during the height of the pandemic and over a million fewer people went to their annual screening.
”It’s important if you do have cancer, that we find it really early because then we can do something about it,” Dahut said.
Over the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the American Cancer Society has started a campaign called “Grab Your Girls” to encourage women to get screened.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-10-06T21:09:06+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/10/06/research-shows-breast-cancer-mortality-rate-has-fallen-43-since-80s/
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Okta Inc. (OKTA) on Thursday reported a loss of $242.7 million in its fiscal first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the San Francisco-based company said it had a loss of $1.56. Losses, adjusted for stock option expense and amortization costs, came to 27 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 34 cents per share.
The cloud identity management company posted revenue of $414.9 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $389 million.
For the current quarter ending in August, Okta expects its results to range from a loss of 32 cents per share to a loss of 31 cents per share.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $428 million to $430 million for the fiscal second quarter.
Okta expects full-year results to range from a loss of $1.14 per share to a loss of $1.11 per share, with revenue ranging from $1.81 billion to $1.82 billion.
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This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on OKTA at https://www.zacks.com/ap/OKTA
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2022-06-02T21:13:42+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Okta-Fiscal-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17215861.php
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A plane full of passengers in Charlotte is breathing a sigh of relief today after a harrowing incident that could have ended much worse. Thanks to the training of the flight crew, their Boeing 717 landed safely despite a malfunction that caused the front landing gear to fail to deploy.
ABC News reports how the drama unfolded at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on the morning of Wednesday, June 28. On their approach into Charlotte from Atlanta, a visual from the control tower confirmed what a warning light had already told the pilots of Flight 1092: That the front landing wheels remained inside the plane despite the bay doors being open.
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The crew of the Boeing informed the passengers that they would need to make an emergency landing. They made their approach and did in fact manage to land the plane at 8:58 am EDT. Despite the lack of a wheel or two, passengers described the landing to ABC as “smooth,” and applause broke out in the cabin as the plane came to a stop. Chutes were deployed from the front of the plane to allow those within the cabin to slide off, and all 96 passengers exited without a single injury as did the pilots and crew.
Passenger Gary Gibbs captured his fellow passengers walking away from the plane and shared the moment on Twitter. “Kudos to the skilled pilots and crew for their quick response,” he wrote:
So Thankful for God’s protection today. I was seat 1B. @CLT Airport as @Delta flight 1092 safely lands without landing gear extended. Kudos to the skilled pilots and crew for their quick response and ensuring the safety of 96 passengers on board. #DL1092 #SafeLanding pic.twitter.com/YNnDjlROvE
— Gary Gibbs (@GaryLaneGibbs) June 28, 2023
Pilot Byron Macrae told Charlotte’s WBTV the smooth landing showed the pilot’s skill.
“This is textbook,” he said. “I mean it couldn’t have gone any better. Everyone got off. It shows that these pilots were very well qualified. They were very well trained and reverted back to their training.”
The event did cause some inevitable delays at Charlotte Douglas, but otherwise it’s hard to think of a happier ending. According to a statement from Delta, the FAA and NTSB will conduct an investigation to determine why the landing gear failed.
If you’re unlucky enough to be in a plane that experiences a landing gear mishap, follow the lead of these Flight 1092 passengers and don’t panic. While they don’t often happen to large commercial airliners, this type of glitch is more common than you may think: Aviation Safety magazine reports that when it comes to mechanical incidents in airplanes that have retractable landing gear, this is is a relatively common. The good news is that while they’re a headache for the airport and a scare for passengers, they rarely result in serious injury.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories.
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2023-06-29T15:17:40+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/delta-flight-lands-safely-without-front-landing-gear
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By CASEY HARPER
THE CENTER SQUARE
(The Center Square) – House Oversight Committee Republicans are kicking off an investigation into what they called a “taxpayer-funded censorship campaign” at the Department of Homeland Security.
Since 2020, the federal agency has been under fire for working with big tech companies to censor certain viewpoints mainly related to election integrity. The GOP launched its investigation after Monday’s report by The Intercept dove into how the Feds had begun pressuring tech companies on a range of issues, including COVID-19, the vaccine for it, and Ukraine.
The Center Square obtained a letter from the group, led by ranking member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. The letter, addressed to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, calls out an “extensive censorship campaign originating within DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.”
“CISA is framing any dissenting opinion disseminated online as a cyber threat to critical infrastructure,” the letter said. “CISA leverages partnerships with left-leaning private organizations – who have received millions of dollars in federal money – to identify and then take action against political speech unfavorable to the Administration, especially around its handling of COVID-19 policy.”
News of this effort from federal law enforcement sparked national controversy for details of the Biden administration’s persistent pressure on tech companies like Facebook to delete content it finds inappropriate. The Intercept reported that Facebook had an online portal where federal law enforcement could flag content that it wanted removed.
“This effort began after CISA partnered with left-leaning organizations and Big Tech companies to launch the Election Integrity Partnership,” the letter said. “The EIP provides an online complaint-processing platform that permits groups – including the Democratic National Committee on at least four occasions – to submit ‘tickets’ reporting narratives they flagged for concerns.
“‘Tickets’ were frequently resolved by taking one of several actions: 1) banning the user from posting his or her lawful speech or deplatforming the individual entirely, 2) algorithmically restricting the reach of the speech on the platform, or 3) adding other information, such as a warning label, to the post alerting users to the post’s disfavored status,” the letter added.
The White House has pushed back on criticism, saying it does not use the censorship portal.
“You know, we work to protect that – protect Americans from disinformation that threatens the homeland, including malicious efforts spread by foreign … adversaries … began before the Disinformation Governance Board was established,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing Wednesday. “In fact, some of that work began before this administration. I want to be very clear that cross-agency work continues to this day.”
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last year, though, that the White House was flagging certain Facebook posts to the company as misinformation.
“We are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff and also members of our COVID-19 team, given as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation specifically on the pandemic,” Ms. Psaki said at a press briefing in July of last year, referring to the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivk Murthy.
This investigation is spearheaded by the Republican minority on the House Oversight Committee. If Republicans take the majority in the House as current polling suggests, the probe could become a major feature of the second half of President Joe Biden’s first term in office.
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a responsibility to protect the American people, not deliberately target and discredit Americans opposed to the Biden administration’s radical agenda,” Rep. Comer said. “Any operation by the department to stifle Americans’ free speech is unacceptable, an abuse of taxpayer dollars, and warrants an immediate congressional investigation. Oversight Republicans expect Secretary Mayorkas to cooperate with congressional oversight into any online content monitoring program implemented by DHS to suppress Americans’ free speech.”
Republican lawmakers argued the Biden administration is actively violating the First Amendment and has already abused its influence of big tech companies to spread false information.
“Further, your agency is poorly positioned to moderate speech on social media. In fact, you deliberately spread disinformation in a White House press conference last year surrounding false allegations that your Border Patrol Agents were whipping Haitian migrants at the border in Del Rio, Texas,” the letter said. “At that press conference, you stated that ‘we – our entire nation – saw horrifying images’ that ‘painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.’ E-mails now reveal that you were made aware – hours before these comments – that the photographer who captured the images you were referring to told news outlets that he and his colleagues ‘never saw agents whipping anyone.’ Armed with the truth, you still perpetuated a false narrative that agents were whipping migrants at the border.”
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2022-11-04T15:49:17+00:00
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newspress.com
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https://newspress.com/probe-launched-into-taxpayer-funded-censorship-campaign/
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(AP) – The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more than 800 points and the S&P 500 had its best day in more than two years Tuesday as the market clawed back more of the ground it lost in a miserable several weeks on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 rose 3.1%, its best day since May 2020, as all but six of the stocks in the index notched gains. The benchmark index has been rallying since hitting its lowest point of the year on Friday to close out a September slump.
Twitter surged 22.2% after Elon Musk said he would go ahead with his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, abandoning months of efforts to get out of the deal.
The Dow rose 2.8% and the Nasdaq composite climbed 3.3%. Small company stocks also made solid gains, lifting the Russell 2000 3.9% higher. European and Asian markets also rose broadly.
The two-day rally hit markets as investors look for signs that central banks might ease up on their aggressive rate hikes aimed at taming the hottest inflation in four decades. Australia’s central bank made an interest rate hike that was smaller than previous ones and that helped Australia’s market jump 3.8%.
In the U.S., a government report on job openings showed the number of available jobs in the U.S. plummeted in August compared with July. It’s a sign that businesses may pull back further on hiring and potentially cool chronically high inflation, which could allow the Federal Reserve to slow the pace of rate increases.
Analysts sought to downplay the early October rally, which followed a decline of more than 9% last month. The major indexes remain in a bear market after falling 20% or more from their most recent record highs.
“Wild moves like these can be hard to digest, but they aren’t surprising,” said Lindsey Bell, chief markets and money strategist at Ally. “It is natural for some of the biggest up days in the market to cluster around the biggest down days.”
John Lynch, chief investment officer for Comerica Wealth Management, said the optimism could be misguided as inflation remains stubbornly hot.
“Investors should be worried about false positives,” he said. “Be wary of the history of bear market rallies, they can be very seductive.”
Major indexes could be in store for more declines ahead, Lynch said, as more economic data and the next round of earnings reports paints a clearer picture of how inflation continues to impact business operations and consumer spending.
The S&P 500 rose 112.50 points to 3,790.93, while the Dow gained 825.43 points to close at 30,316.32. The Nasdaq rose 360.97 points to 11,176.41 and the Russell 2000 added 66.90 points at 1,775.77.
Treasury yields continued to pull back from their multiyear highs, which has helped relieve some of the pressure on stocks. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and many other kinds of loans, slipped to 3.64% from 3.65% late Monday. It got as high as 4% last week after starting the year at just 1.51%.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely tracks expectations for Federal Reserve action, fell to 4.10% from 4.12% late Monday.
The market was mostly quiet with company news ahead of the next round of corporate earnings.
Cruise line operators were among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500. Norwegian Cruise Line jumped 16.8%, Royal Caribbean surged 16.7% and Carnival gained 13.3%.
Investors are watching closely as central banks raise interest rates to make borrowing more difficult and slow economic growth to try to tame inflation. Investors are hoping that they will eventually ease off their aggressive rate hikes and the move by Australia’s central bank is a hopeful sign for some.
Wall Street is worried that the rate hikes, especially the increases from the Fed, could go too far in slowing growth and send economies into a recession. The Fed has already pushed its key overnight interest rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, up from virtually zero as recently as March.
Economic growth is already slowing globally and the U.S. economy contracted during the first two quarters of the year, which is considered an informal signal of a recession. The economy still has several strong pockets, including employment.
Wall Street will get a more detailed look at the employment situation in the U.S. this week, with a report on hiring by private companies due out Wednesday, the latest tally of weekly applications for unemployment benefits on Thursday and the government’s monthly jobs report for September on Friday.
If those reports point to a still strong job market, that could trigger a bond market sell-off, which would weigh on stocks, said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors.
“All those could hit the stock market because right now the bond market is really driving the stock market,” he said.
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2022-10-05T01:23:10+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/stocks-rise-in-extended-rally-clawing-back-more-ground%EF%BF%BC/
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CT Boston/Norton MA Zone Forecast for Sunday, August 7, 2022
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National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
400 AM EDT Mon Aug 8 2022
CTZ002-082000-
Hartford CT-
Including the cities of Hartford and Windsor Locks
400 AM EDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers this morning,
then a chance of showers this afternoon. Hot with highs in the
lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to
103.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 100 early in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent. Heat index values up to 104.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Humid
with lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
north after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Not as warm.
Humid with highs around 80. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
around 70. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
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CTZ003-082000-
Tolland CT-
Including the cities of Union and Vernon
400 AM EDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers this morning,
then a chance of showers this afternoon. Hot with highs in the
lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 101.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent. Heat index values up to 102.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Humid with lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Cooler with
highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs around
80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
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CTZ004-082000-
Windham CT-
Including the cities of Putnam and Willimantic
400 AM EDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Hot
with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 102.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Humid with lows
in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers likely in the afternoon. Hot
with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent. Heat index values
up to 102.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Humid with lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Cooler with
highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
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2022-08-08T09:36:40+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CT-Boston-Norton-MA-Zone-Forecast-17358371.php
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YAVNE, Israel, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (NASDAQ: WILC) (the "Company" or "Willi-Food"), a global company that specializes in the development, marketing and international distribution of kosher foods, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter Fiscal Year 2022
- Sales increased by 1.2% to NIS 118.1 million (US$ 37.2 million) from NIS 116.7 milliom (US$ 36.7 million) in the first quarter of 2021.
- Gross profit decreased by 5.5% year-over-year to NIS 34.2 million (US$ 10.8 million).
- Operating income decreased by 37.1% year-over-year to NIS 9.5 million (US$ 3.0 million).
- Cash and securities balance of NIS 346.1 million (US$ 109.0 million) as of March 31, 2022.
- Basic earnings per share of NIS 0.98 (US$ 0.31).
Management Comment
Zwi Williger & Joseph Williger, Co-Chairmen of Willi-Food, commented: "We are pleased to present first quarter 2022 financial results to the Company shareholders. The world is experiencing a crisis which among other things is due to war in Ukraine and global uncertainty regarding the Corona virus. This crisis is reflecting among other things, in disruptions to international commercial shipping and disruptions in commodity pricing. The Company cannot predict how long this crisis will last. Despite this difficult environment, the Company managed to increase the level of sales and maintain a strong level of gross margin and other operational parameters. The Company will work hard to fulfill its strategy for the near future, to improve commercial conditions with its suppliers and customers, develop new products, enter into new categories with potentially high gross profit margins, improve the visibility of its products in the stores, strengthen its brand and supply chain and ensure sufficient inventory. We intend to work hard to achieve the goals we have set for the Company and maintain strong profit parameters."
First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Summary
Sales for the first quarter of 2022 increased by 1.2% to NIS 118.1 million (US$ 37.2 million) from NIS 116.7 million (US$ 36.7 million) recorded in the first quarter of 2021. Sales increased mainly due to (i) effective marketing activities carried out in the first quarter of 2022 that increased the range of the Company's products and (ii) proper inventory management.
Gross profit for the first quarter of 2022 decreased by 5.5% to NIS 34.2 million (US$ 10.8 million) compared to NIS 36.2 million (US$ 11.4 million) recorded in the first quarter of 2021. First quarter gross margin decreased by 5.5% to 29.0% compared to gross margin of 31.0% for the same period in 2021. The decrease in gross profit was mainly due to increased costs of the Company's imported products and increased shipping costs.
Selling expenses increased by 25.4% to NIS 19.2 million (US$ 6.1 million) compared to NIS 15.3 million (US$ 4.8 million) in the first quarter of 2021. The increase was primarily due to an increase in expenses for advertising and promotion.
General and administrative expenses decreased by 5.8% to NIS 5.5 million (US$ 1.7 million) compared to NIS 5.9 million (US$ 1.9 million) in the first quarter of 2021.
Operating profit for the first quarter of 2022 decreased by 37.1% to NIS 9.5 million (US$ 3.0 million) compared to NIS 15.0 million (US$ 4.7 million) in the first quarter of 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in gross profit and the increase in selling expenses.
Financial income, net was NIS 5.8 million (US$ 1.8 million) for the first quarter of 2022 compared to NIS 11.5 million (US$ 3.6 million) in the first quarter of 2021. Financial income, net for fiscal year 2022 comprised mainly income from changes in exchange rate change an amount of NIS 2.6 (USD 0.7 million), income from revaluation of the Company's portfolio of securities to fair value in an amount of NIS 1.9 million (USD 0.6 million) and interest and dividend income from the Company's portfolio of securities in an amount of NIS 1.3 million (USD 0.4 million).
Willi-Food's income before taxes for the first quarter of 2022 was NIS 15.3 million (US$ 4.8 million) compared to income before taxes of NIS 26.6 million (US$ 8.4 million) in the first quarter of 2021.
Willi-Food's net profit in the first quarter of 2022 was NIS 13.6 million (US$ 4.3 million), or NIS 0.98 (US$ 0.31) per share, compared to NIS 20.5 million (US$ 6.5 million), or NIS 1.48 (US$ 0.44) per share, recorded in the first quarter of 2021. Net profit for the first quarter of 2022 decreased by 33.4% year-over-year. The decrease in net profit was mainly due to an increase in advertising, promotion and in shipping costs of the Company's products.
Willi-Food ended the first quarter of 2022 with NIS 346.2 million (US$ 109.0 million) in cash and securities. Net cash from continuing activities for the first quarter of 2022 was NIS 2.3 million (US$ 0.7 million). Willi-Food's shareholders' equity at the end of March 2022 was NIS 564.9 million (US$ 177.9 million).
NOTE A: NIS to US$ exchange rate used for convenience only
The convenience translation of New Israeli Shekels (NIS) into U.S. dollars was made at the rate of exchange prevailing on March 31, 2022, with U.S. $1.00 equal to NIS 3.176 The translation was made solely for the convenience of the reader.
NOTE B: IFRS
The Company's consolidated financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 are presented in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS").
ABOUT G. WILLI-FOOD INTERNATIONAL LTD.
G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (http://www.willi-food.com) is an Israeli-based company specializing in high-quality, great-tasting kosher food products. Willi-Food is engaged directly and through its subsidiaries in the design, import, marketing and distribution of over 600 food products worldwide. As one of Israel's leading food importers, Willi-Food markets and sells its food products to over 1,500 customers and 3,000 selling points in Israel and around the world, including large retail and private supermarket chains, wholesalers and institutional consumers. The Company's operating divisions include Willi-Food in Israel and Euro European Dairies, a wholly owned subsidiary that designs, develops and distributes branded kosher, dairy-food products.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to future events or our future performance, such as statements regarding trends, demand for our products and expected sales, operating results, and earnings. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements. These risks and other factors include but are not limited to: war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions to international commercial shipping and disruptions in commodity pricing monetary risks including changes in marketable securities or changes in currency exchange rates- especially the NIS/U.S. Dollar exchange rate, payment default by any of our major clients, the loss of one of more of our key personnel, changes in laws and regulations, including those relating to the food distribution industry, and inability to meet and maintain regulatory qualifications and approvals for our products, termination of arrangements with our suppliers, loss of one or more of our principal clients, increase or decrease in global purchase prices of food products, increasing levels of competition in Israel and other markets in which we do business, changes in economic conditions in Israel, including in particular economic conditions in the Company's core markets, our inability to accurately predict consumption of our products and changes in consumer preferences, our inability to protect our intellectual property rights, our inability to successfully integrate our recent acquisitions, insurance coverage not sufficient enough to cover losses of product liability claims, and risks associated with product liability claims. We cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties summarized under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2022. These factors are updated from time to time through the filing of reports and registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
This information is intended to be reviewed in conjunction with the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Company Contact:
G. Willi - Food International Ltd.
Yitschak Barabi, Chief Financial Officer
(+972) 8-932-1000
itsik.b@willi-food.co.il
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2022-05-17T13:21:26+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/05/17/g-willi-food-international-reports-results-first-quarter-2022/
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