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TX Amarillo TX Zone Forecast for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for The Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
TXZ012-017-220000-
Potter-Randall-
Including the cities of Amarillo, Bushland, Buffalo Lake, Canyon,
and Umbarger
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then a slight chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
mid 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ317-220000-
Palo Duro Canyon-
Including the city of Palo Duro Canyon State Park
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Highs in the upper 60s.
East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the morning, then a slight chance of showers
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
mid 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ002-220000-
Sherman-
Including the city of Stratford
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms early, then showers likely in the morning. A chance
of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph, becoming 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows
around 60. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ007-220000-
Moore-
Including the cities of Dumas, Four Way, and Masterson
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely. Highs
in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ003-220000-
Hansford-
Including the cities of Spearman and Gruver
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms early, then showers likely in the morning. A chance
of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph, becoming 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ008-220000-
Hutchinson-
Including the city of Borger
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph, becoming 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming north
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ004-220000-
Ochiltree-
Including the cities of Farnsworth, Perryton, Wolf Creek Park,
and Waka
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 70s. East winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to
15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ009-220000-
Roberts-
Including the cities of Codman, Lora, and Miami
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph, becoming 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming north
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ005-220000-
Lipscomb-
Including the cities of Booker, Higgins, and Follett
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to
15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ010-220000-
Hemphill-
Including the cities of Canadian, Glazier, and Lake Marvin
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming east 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in
the evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows
around 60. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest around
5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 90. Lows in
the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ011-220000-
Oldham-
Including the cities of Vega, Wildorado, and Boys Ranch
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers early in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming north around 5 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest around 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
$$
TXZ016-220000-
Deaf Smith-
Including the cities of Dawn, Hereford, and Bootleg
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers early in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then a slight chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming south around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ013-220000-
Carson-
Including the cities of Panhandle, Pantex, White Deer,
and Skellytown
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ018-220000-
Armstrong-
Including the cities of Claude, Washburn, Wayside, and Goodnight
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the morning, then a slight chance of showers
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
mid 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ014-220000-
Gray-
Including the cities of Kingsmill and Pampa
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ019-220000-
Donley-
Including the city of Clarendon
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the morning, then a slight chance of showers
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ015-220000-
Wheeler-
Including the cities of Briscoe, Wheeler, Lela, Shamrock,
and Twitty
305 AM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
.TODAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming east 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then a slight chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s probably not something they teach at the nation’s elite business schools: open a cafe, let people pay what they can, and give away tens of thousands of meals each year. But it’s working for Maggie Kane.
“We’ve been here for 5-and-a-half years, which is wild,” says Kane about her cafe, A Place at the Table, on Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh. “Am I surprised? I’m surprised, every single day, by just how beautiful this place is. I’m surprised that it’s worked, that it’s continued to work and I’m grateful.”
A large percentage of restaurants close, each year, even in relatively good times so, when the pandemic came and closed everything in North Carolina under government order, Maggie didn’t know what they’d do, at first.
“We actually became a serving line out here, so we just passed out meals, everything was free, we had a line upwards of 450 people, every single day,” she says. And when asked how they could afford that, she replies, “Whew! A lot of amazing people in this community.”
That’s referring to people who donate, generally, but you can also donate each time you eat there.
“We run like any normal restaurant would,” says Maggie. “You walk in and, you’ll see in a minute, it looks and feels like a normal restaurant. You wouldn’t know until you walk up to the register and you see suggested pricing, you see some folks with volunteer name tags.”
Nexstar’s WGHP visited Maggie’s project soon after it opened on Jan. 28, 2018.
“When y’all first came, we were a small café. We had maybe 100 people coming in here, every single day, right?” she says. “So, pandemic happens, we go to 400, 450 people every single day. We actually hired a security guard to come in here and really just do crowd control. With that many people, you need someone to manage it.”
They then hired a de-escalation expert to handle the crowds because so many of the people who find their only sustenance here can make it, in Maggie’s words, “A beautifully chaotic place,” at times. But to Nate Blackmon, it’s home. Nate was homeless for 5 years but found affirmation here and is doing well, now, and A Place at the Table has been key to that.
“One reason is, everyone here loves you and you can feel the love,” says Nate. “I feel good whenever I leave here. I come here just about every day – like, I woke up late this morning, had a lot of stuff to do, said well, I’m going to go by Place at the Table and still go by because I feel good the rest of the day.” | 2023-06-11T17:13:07+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/a-pay-what-you-can-cafe-in-north-carolina-is-thriving/ |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, professor of Russian politics at King's College London, about President Putin's current hold on power.
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A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Air Force drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to the US military.
The Reaper drone and two Russian Su-27 aircraft were flying over international waters over the Black Sea on Tuesday when one of the Russian jets intentionally flew in front of and dumped fuel on the unmanned drone several times, a statement from US European Command said.
The aircraft then hit the propeller of the drone, prompting US forces to bring the MQ-9 drone down in international waters. Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder added Tuesday that the Russian aircraft flew "in the vicinity" of the drone for 30 to 40 minutes before colliding just after 7 a.m. Central European Time.
"Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9," Air Force Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of US Air Forces Europe and Air Forces Africa, said in the statement. "In fact, this unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash."
The incident marks the first time Russian and US military aircraft have come into direct physical contact since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine just over a year ago and is likely to increase tensions between the two nations, with US calling Russia's actions "reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional."
Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said that Russia does not want "confrontation" between his country and the US after he was summoned to the State Department following the downing of the drone.
"We prefer not to create a situation where we can face unintended clashes or unintended incidents between the Russian Federation and the United States," Antonov said.
National Security Council communications coordinator John Kirby said the US has not recovered the downed drone from the Black Sea, warning, "I'm not sure we are going to be able to recover it."
"It has not been recovered and I'm not sure we're going to be able to recover it. I mean, where it fell into the Black Sea -- it's very, very deep water so we're still assessing whether there can be any kind of recovery effort mounted. There may not be," Kirby said Wednesday on "CNN This Morning."
'Unsafe, unprofessional, and reckless'
Antonov, who was inside the State Department for a little over half an hour, said Assistant Secretary Karen Donfried conveyed the US' concerns about the incident and that they "exchanged our remarks on this issue because we have some differences."
"It seems to me that it was a constructive conversation on this issue. I have heard her remarks, I hope that she has understood what I have mentioned," Antonov said in response to a question from CNN.
He also claimed that Russia "had informed about this space that was identified as a zone for special military operation."
"We have warned not to enter, not to penetrate," he said, asking how the US would react if a Russian drone came close to New York or San Francisco.
Antonov reiterated a denial issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the incident. They denied the Russian jet had come into contact with the drone in a statement earlier on Tuesday, saying the fighter jets "scrambled to identify the intruder" after detecting it over the Black Sea, adding that the drone "went into an unguided flight with a loss of altitude."
"The drone flew with its transponders off, violating the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace, and published in accordance with international standards," the ministry said.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov Wednesday said relations between Russia and the US are at their "lowest point" and in a "deplorable state."
According to Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin was briefed on the incident, but there was no contact at the highest level between Moscow and Washington.
Peskov added that "Russia did not refuse constructive dialogue, and is not refusing it now."
President Joe Biden was briefed on the incident by national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday morning, Kirby said on Tuesday afternoon. Defense Department officials "have not spoken specifically to Russian authorities" on the incident, Ryder said.
Price said separately that the US has "engaged at high levels with our allies and partners" to brief them on the incident. He added that the US was "not in a position to speak to what the Russians intended to do" with the maneuvers, but that ultimately the intent mattered less than "what actually transpired."
Kirby said it was "not uncommon" for Russian aircraft to intercept US aircraft over the Black Sea, and said there had been other intercepts in recent weeks.
But he said the episode Tuesday was unique in how "unsafe, unprofessional and reckless" the Russian actions were.
The US Defense Department is currently working to declassify imagery from the incident, Ryder said Tuesday. He also said that Russia has not recovered the downed drone.
Speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" on Tuesday, Kirby said the US has "taken steps to protect our equities with respect to that particular drone."
"We obviously don't want to see anybody getting their hands on it beyond us," Kirby said. He added that the US rejects Russia's denial of responsibility, saying that people "should take everything that the Russians say about what they're doing in and around Ukraine with a huge grain of salt."
Russian and US aircraft have operated over the Black Sea during the course of the Ukraine war, but this is the first known such interaction, a potentially dangerous escalation at a critical time in the fighting.
The US has been operating Reaper drones over the Black Sea since before the beginning of the war, using the spy drones to monitor the area. Reaper drones can fly as high as 50,000 feet, according to the Air Force, and they have sensors and capabilities to gather intelligence and perform reconnaissance for extended periods of time, making it an ideal platform to track movements on the battlefield and in the Black Sea.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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Bed Bath & Beyond was unable to overcome supply issues during the final quarter of the year that have tripped up the home goods chain for months and it warned Wednesday that those problems are carrying over into the new year.
It also reported a surprise loss in a quarter when many other retailers booked surging profits.
The retailer has been unable to secure popular merchandise and it’s dragging down sales. For the three months ended Feb. 26, sales fell 22% to $2.05 billion.
Shortages led to an estimated negative impact of about $175 million in sales during the quarter, CEO Mark Tritton said.
Comparable store sales, which includes online sales, slumped 12%.
“The lack of available inventory to sell proved to be a continuing impediment to sales through the remainder of the fourth quarter and into the early part of fiscal 2022,” Tritton said in prepared statement. “Specifically, despite our overall inventory levels, product in transit, not available for sale or held at port remained abnormally high, particularly in key items.”
Some industry analysts were skeptical. Global supply disruptions have been well documented as nations emerge from the worst economic shocks of the pandemic. But Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, said supply issues at Bed Bath & Beyond, “have been occurring for a long time and are deep seated.”
“Perhaps the most worrying thing is that if Bed Bath & Beyond is delivering such rotten numbers during a period of extremely elevated demand when consumer confidence was riding high, how will it fare now that the retail economy is turning sour?” Saunders asked. “In a more constrained economic environment, we are concerned that the company’s fortunes may well deteriorate further.”
Economists have grown concerned over the resiliency of consumer demand as inflation soars. On Tuesday, the U.S. reported that inflation in the past year rose at its fastest pace in more than four decades.
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond, down 40% over the past year, slipped another 2% Wednesday.
Tritton said the Union, New Jersey, company is investing in supply chain and technological infrastructure to rectify its supply issues.
During the fourth quarter, Bed Bath & Beyond lost $159 million, or $1.79 per share. Stripping out nonrecurring benefits, it lost 92 cents per share. That caught industry analysts, who had been expecting a 2 cent per-share profit according to a poll by Zacks Investment Research, by surprise.
During the same quarter last year, the company earned $9 million, or 8 cents per share. | 2022-04-14T00:14:11+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/bed-bath-beyond-snared-by-ongoing-supply-issues/ |
Klaus Teuber, the German board game designer widely known as the creator of the popular game Settlers of Catan, has died at the age of 70. News of his death was confirmed in a statement from his family Tuesday.
"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that the Teuber family announces that their beloved husband and father Klaus Teuber passed away at the age of 70 on April 1, 2023 after a short and serious illness," the statement said.
Teuber's contribution to the world of board games cannot be overstated. Settlers of Catan, which was first released in 1995, became a classic and has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. The game's combination of strategy, luck and negotiation has made it a favorite among gamers of all ages and has been released in more than 40 languages. It's also spawned a number of expansion packs, spinoffs, digital versions and other products related to the game.
Teuber's legacy extends beyond Catan, as he was also the designer of several other successful board games, including Barbarossa and Adel Verpflichtet (Hoity Toity). He was a four-time winner of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award, Germany's top board game prize, and was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame in 2003.
In a statement posted on Twitter, the Catan Studio team said "While Klaus’ contributions to the board gaming industry are immeasurable, we will remember him most as a kind and selfless human being, an inspirational leader, and most importantly, as a friend."
Teuber was born in the German town of Rai-Breitenbach on June 25, 1952. He worked in the dental field for many years, but spent his free time designing board games. It wasn't until Settlers of Catan gained widespread popularity that he was able to fully devote himself to game design.
Teuber was known for his creativity, ingenuity and attention to detail, which are all evident in the many games he created throughout his lifetime. His contributions to the world of board games will continue to be enjoyed for years to come. | 2023-04-05T19:14:56+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/national/settlers-of-catan-creator-klaus-teuber-dies-at-70 |
Rebyota Approved for the Prevention of Recurrence of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults
SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Rebyota, the first fecal microbiota product approved by the agency. Rebyota is approved for the prevention of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in individuals 18 years of age and older. It is for use after an individual has completed antibiotic treatment for recurrent CDI.
"Today's approval of Rebyota is an advance in caring for patients who have recurrent C. difficile infection," said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. "Recurrent CDI impacts an individual's quality of life and can also potentially be life-threatening. As the first FDA-approved fecal microbiota product, today's action represents an important milestone, as it provides an additional approved option to prevent recurrent CDI."
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that can cause CDI, a potentially life-threatening disease resulting in diarrhea and significant inflammation of the colon. In the United States, CDI is associated with 15,000-30,000 deaths annually.
The intestinal tract contains millions of microorganisms, often referred to as the "gut flora," or "gut microbiome." Certain situations, such as taking antibiotics to treat an infection, may change the balance of microorganisms in the gut, allowing C. difficile to multiply and release toxins causing diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever, and in some cases, organ failure and death. Other factors that can increase the risk for CDI include age older than 65 years, hospitalization, a weakened immune system and a previous history of CDI. After recovering from CDI, individuals may get the infection again—often multiple times—a condition known as recurrent CDI. The risk of additional recurrences increases with each infection and treatment options for recurrent CDI are limited. The administration of fecal microbiota is thought to facilitate restoration of the gut flora to prevent further episodes of CDI.
Rebyota is administered rectally as a single dose. Rebyota is prepared from stool donated by qualified individuals. The donors and the donated stool are tested for a panel of transmissible pathogens, however, as Rebyota is manufactured from human fecal matter, it may carry a risk of transmitting infectious agents. In addition, Rebyota may contain food allergens; the potential for the product to cause adverse reactions due to food allergens is unknown.
The safety of Rebyota was assessed from two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical studies and from open-label clinical studies conducted in the United States and in Canada. The participants had a history of one or more recurrences of CDI. They received one or more doses of Rebyota or placebo 24 to 72 hours after completion of antibiotic treatment for their CDI; participants' CDI was under control at the time of receipt of Rebyota or placebo. Across these studies, 978 individuals aged 18 years and older received at least one dose of Rebyota. In one study, among 180 Rebyota recipients, when compared to 87 placebo recipients, the most common side effects after receiving one dose of Rebyota were abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal bloating, gas and nausea.
The effectiveness of Rebyota was evaluated in an analysis of data from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study. The analysis included 177 adults who received one dose of Rebyota and 85 who received one dose of placebo in this study. It also incorporated success rates from a different placebo-controlled study in which 39 adults received one dose of Rebyota and one dose of placebo and 43 adults received two doses of placebo. Success in preventing recurrent CDI was defined as the absence of CDI diarrhea within 8 weeks of administration of Rebyota or placebo. In a statistical analysis that took into account both studies, the overall estimated rate of success in preventing recurrent CDI through 8 weeks was significantly higher in the Rebyota group (70.6%) than in the placebo group (57.5%).
The application was granted Fast Track, Breakthrough Therapy and Orphan designations.
The FDA granted approval of Rebyota to Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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A drought is pounding the Horn of Africa. How can the region recover from this one, and are some small-scale solutions to the challenges of drought and famine staring governments in the face?
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A drought is pounding the Horn of Africa. How can the region recover from this one, and are some small-scale solutions to the challenges of drought and famine staring governments in the face?
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- No explanation still for Laredo concert's recent cancellation
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San Luis Obispo County emergency officials are lifting the evacuation warning for residents in Oceano near the Arroyo Grande Creek Levee.
The warning was issued on Monday over concerns of potential flooding due to another storm system plus anticipated spillover from Lopez Lake.
The reservoir began to spill at approximately 6 a.m. on Thursday, March 23, and County Public Works crews have been monitoring the spillway and creek levels.
Emergency officials say that based on the current volume of water spilling from the reservoir, and with a minimal chance of rain through next Tuesday, the county has determined that the risk to residents near the Arroyo Grande Creek has subsided.
“We remind residents near Arroyo Grande Creek to remain vigilant as another storm is expected to move in early next week,” said Emergency Services Manager Scott Jalbert. “The risk for flooding will continue through spring.”
People living near the Oceano Lagoon are also no longer under an evacuation warning. | 2023-03-23T19:02:54+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/county-lifts-evacuation-warning-for-oceano-residents-near-arroyo-grande-creek |
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is watching the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s classified documents as a “casual observer.”
Trump is expected in federal court on Tuesday.
Vos was asked about the case during an appearance on The WTMJ Steve Scaffidi Show.
“We need people who are running for office (or currently in office) who can turn the temperature down,” Vos said. “Someone trying to find consensus and who can finish the job that people pay us to do.”
“We don’t need to focus on throwing more gas on the fire.” | 2023-06-12T22:42:54+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/homepage-showcase/2023/06/12/vos-no-need-to-throw-more-gas-on-the-fire/ |
A man was arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend and threatening her with a knife, according to Laredo police.
Luis Ramon Morales Jr., 30, was arrested on Dec. 10 and served with warrants charging him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault, family violence.
Laredo police officers responded to an assault report on June 6 in the 2400 block of Santa Cleotilde Avenue. There, a woman stated that her ex-boyfriend, who was identified as Morales, had assaulted her, states the arrest affidavit.
She stated that Morales punched her in the face, the back of her head and her shoulders, according to court documents.
Morales then pulled out a knife and wanted to hurt her. He then tried to strangle her using a phone charger. He then forced her inside a vehicle. Morales then stated “that he was going to stab her grandfather and shoot her place,” states the affidavit. | 2023-01-03T20:40:15+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Affidavit-Man-assaulted-ex-threatened-her-with-17691517.php |
DENVER (KDVR) — “What would you do if you won the lottery?”
An age-old question where many might dream of spending their theoretical earnings on a luxury vacation, buying a new house or splurging on a nice car. However, one Colorado man would be happy to spend part of his $3.8 million winnings on a new vacuum.
Sixty-nine-year-old Bill S., of Carbondale, is Colorado’s latest millionaire. The Colorado Lottery said Bill won $3,896,039 million on the June 10 drawing of Colorado Lotto+. His winning ticket matched all six numbers: 5-13-14-16-30-33.
The lucky $2 Colorado Lotto+ ticket was sold at the City Market at 905 Highway 133 in Carbondale.
Bill said he has been playing the lottery weekly for 10 years, but this is of course his biggest prize by far. He told the Colorado Lottery that when he saw he hit the jackpot, he was “beyond belief” and has been trembling ever since.
He went home with the cash option of $1,948,019.
Bill enjoys a simple life, and when he was asked about how he would spend his newfound fortune, he said he would maybe take a train trip and buy a new vacuum.
He is retired and on a fixed budget, so he hasn’t been able to go horseback riding or paragliding, two of his favorite Colorado outdoor activities. With his earnings, Bill also plans to get back to the things he loves.
He also wants to give back to his local community. He plans to get 100 gift cards and give them to the people at his local City Market because “they are nice” to him.
The Colorado Lottery said Bill is a retired trauma nurse who worked in New York City for 30 years before moving to Colorado and working at Aspen Valley Hospital until he retired in 2022. | 2023-06-21T14:06:46+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/3-8-million-lottery-winner-wants-a-new-vacuum/ |
TIANJIN, China (AP) — As technicians in a distant control room watch on display screens, an automated crane at one of China’s busiest ports moves cargo containers from a Korean freighter to self-driving trucks in a scene tech giant Huawei sees as its future after American sanctions crushed its smartphone brand.
The backbone of the “smart terminal” at the Tianjin Port, east of Beijing, is a data network built by Huawei, which is reinventing itself as a supplier for self-driving cars, factories and other industries it hopes will be less vulnerable to Washington’s worsening feud with Beijing over technology and security.
The ruling Communist Party is promoting automation in industries from manufacturing to taxis to keep China’s economy growing as the workforce ages and starts to shrink. Its managers say the “smart terminal,” part of Tianjin’s 200-square-kilometer (77-square-mile) port, allows 200 employees to move as much cargo as 800 used to.
“We believe this solution in Tianjin is the world’s most advanced,” said Yue Kun, chief technology officer of Huawei’s business unit for ports. “We believe it can be applied to other ports.”
Huawei Technologies Ltd., which makes smartphones and is the biggest global supplier of network gear for phone carriers, struggled after then-President Donald Trump cut off access to American processor chips and other technology in 2019 in a feud with Beijing about security.
Washington says Huawei is a security risk that might use its access to foreign phone networks to facilitate Chinese spying, an accusation the company denies. The United States and allies including Japan and Australia have banned or restricted use of Huawei equipment by their phone carriers.
Smartphone sales outside China collapsed after Huawei lost music, maps and other services from Alphabet Inc.’s Google that handset buyers expect to see pre-loaded. Its low-end Honor brand was sold off in 2020 in hopes of reviving sales by separating it from the sanctions on its corporate parent.
Huawei, with a workforce of almost 200,000, has held onto its status as the leading maker of network gear based on sales in China and other markets where Washington has had less success at encouraging governments to shun the company.
“Huawei is already a key player” in data networks with a “wealth of knowledge,” said Paul Budde, an industry analyst.
The company has created 20 teams to focus on factories, mines, hospitals, ports, power plants and other industrial customers. It says the auto unit has 3,000 people working on autonomous driving and invested $2 billion in the technology in 2020-21. Huawei was an early developer of “smart city” networks for traffic control and police surveillance.
“The big, black cloud here, however, is geopolitics,” said Budde. “This will hamper its participation in overseas markets,” he said. “The issues are not technology but are purely political.”
American pressure on Huawei spiraled into an international standoff in 2018 after its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, daughter of its founder, was arrested in Canada on U.S. charges related to accusations of violating trade sanctions on Iran.
China arrested two Canadians on spying charges, trying to win Meng’s release. They were freed in September 2021 after Meng was allowed to return to China under an agreement with American prosecutors in which she took responsibility for misrepresenting Huawei’s dealings with Iran.
Huawei says its new focus already is helping to revive the company’s fortunes.
“In 2020, we successfully pulled ourselves out of crisis mode,” said Eric Xu, one of three Huawei executives who take turns as chairman, in a December letter to employees. “U.S. restrictions are now our new normal, and we’re back to business as usual.”
Last year’s revenue was forecast to be little-changed from 2021 at 636.9 billion yuan ($91.6 billion), Xu said. That was below Huawei’s double-digit growth of a decade earlier but an improvement over the 5.9% slide in the first half.
He gave no breakdown by business line, but Huawei reported 2021 sales to industrial customers of 102.4 billion yuan ($16.1 billion). Sales of smartphones and other devices fell 25.3% from a year earlier in the first half of 2022 to 101.3 billion yuan ($15 billion).
The auto unit, which supplies components and software for navigation, dashboard displays and managing vehicle systems, has played a role in five models released by three Chinese automakers.
The ruling party’s urgency about rolling out automation has risen as the size of China’s working age population 16 to 59 declined after hitting a peak in 2011. That group has shrunk by about 5%. Its share of the population slid from 70% to 62%.
The Tianjin port managers told Huawei they already were having trouble finding and keeping truck drivers, according to Yue.
“This can help to address the aging population issue,” said Yue.
Yue said Huawei has talked with “people outside China” who might use its port technology, but he gave no details.
The annual market for port-related network technology is modest at $2 billion, but global sales of gear to link factory and medical equipment, cars and other devices total $600 billion a year, according to Budde. He said that has the potential to replace Huawei’s lost smartphone and other telecom sales, so long as foreign buyers aren’t put off by security concerns.
The Tianjin port’s fleet of 88 battery-powered autonomous trucks are charged by wind turbines, according to a port spokesman, Peng Pai.
“It’s much safer, and it uses clean energy,” said Peng.
In a third-floor control room with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out over the port, a dozen operators sit in front of displays with as many as six screens showing video feeds of computer-controlled cranes lifting cargo boxes onto or off ships. Each can monitor as many as six cranes at once, unlike a traditional operator who serves only one ship.
“People had to work high up in cranes,” said Yang Jiemin, a vice president of Tianjin Port Group. “Now, our operators can sit in an office and monitor equipment remotely.”
Operators take control of a crane or truck if sensors indicate a problem, according to Huawei’s Yue. He said the port’s goal is to cut that “takeover rate” to 0.1%, or one container in 1,000, while computers manage the handling of the others from start to finish.
The high-speed network allows a crane or truck to react to a command in 1/100th of a second, even though the ships are 500 meters (one-third of a mile) away from the control room, according to Liu Xiwang, manager of the port’s information department.
“You can’t feel the delay,” Liu said.
Yue, the Huawei executive, was reluctant to say whether it needs processor chips or other foreign inputs that might be disrupted by U.S. sanctions.
“I really don’t know the answer to your question,” Yue said after being asked twice about the sources of critical components. He compared it to buying a cup of coffee: “I don’t know who supplies the cup, the coffee beans and the water.” | 2023-01-24T20:32:08+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-chinas-huawei-looks-to-ports-factories-to-rebuild-sales/ |
Partnership brings world's finest, organically sourced and ethically made textiles to retailer's assortment
SUMMIT, N.J., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boll & Branch and Bloomingdale's have formed a strategic alliance that will bring the bedding loved by millions of Americans and, very famously, by 3 U.S. Presidents, to shoppers in Bloomingdale's stores and online at bloomingdales.com. The partnership comes on the heels of Bloomingdale's 'b the change' initiative that coincides with the venerable retailer's 150th anniversary.
"Since our launch in 2014, Boll & Branch has become both the largest and fastest-growing direct-to-consumer brand of home goods, proving that luxury and sustainability can go hand-in-hand," says Scott Tannen, CEO & Founder of Boll & Branch. "As the world's largest consumer of Fair Trade Organic Cotton, we are delighted that our company will play a key role in Bloomingdale's efforts to make a greater social impact. And, of course, we are excited to introduce our extraordinary bedding to millions of loyal Bloomingdale's customers. It is a perfect fit."
The Boll & Branch collection at Bloomingdale's features sheet sets, duvet sets, bed blankets, quilt sets, alpaca throws, and decorative pillows. Importantly, Bloomingdale's is the first retail partner to carry the ultra-premium Boll & Branch Reserve Collection – made from the world's rarest organic cotton.
"I'm excited to welcome Boll and Branch to our assortment. With our continued focus on sustainability, it is great to have bedding that's 100% organic. Not only is the bedding beautiful, the layering pieces are deliciously textured," says Kelley Carter, Fashion Director of Home at Bloomingdale's.
The first Boll & Branch experience debuted on November 4 at Bloomingdale's in New York City at the 59th Street Flagship. On November 10, the brand arrives at Palm Beach Gardens at The Gardens Mall, with further expansion planned for early 2023. Boll & Branch also launches at bloomingdales.com this month.
Boll & Branch is a leading designer and retailer of luxury home textiles, and the only bedding company managed from the source. All products such as sheet sets, towels, and blankets are expertly crafted from the finest sustainable materials, 100% traceable, and made free from toxins – guaranteeing a softer, more luxurious product. This steadfast commitment to bring sustainable business practices to the luxury home sector disrupted the industry for good. Boll & Branch has improved the livelihoods of thousands of textile workers around the world by investing in premiums paid directly to workers, and mandating fair wages and business practices. The company has become one of the largest e-commerce-first luxury home brands ever, and counts millions of Americans, including U.S. Presidents and countless celebrities, as its customers. www.bollandbranch.com
Bloomingdale's is America's only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store. A division of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M), it currently operates 34 Bloomingdale's stores and 20 Bloomingdale's The Outlet stores in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. In addition, Bloomingdale's has an international presence with a location in Dubai and Kuwait. Founded in 1872, the iconic retailer is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Be sure to follow @bloomingdales on social media, become a Loyallist, and for more information, or to shop any time, visit www.bloomingdales.com.
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College basketball quadruple-header returns for a second edition Dec. 18
DALLAS, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US LBM, a leading distributor of specialty building materials in the United States, will once again be the title sponsor of the Pac-12 US LBM Coast-to-Coast Challenge, as the college basketball quadruple-header shifts to Dallas for its second annual edition.
The Pac-12 US LBM Coast-to-Coast Challenge offers a one-of-a-kind scheduling model in which both men's and women's teams from Power 5 Conferences will compete in back-to-back games on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Five nationally ranked teams will participate in this year's event. The quadruple-header will feature three AP top 25 ranked women's teams, including No. 3 Texas and No. 18 Baylor taking on No. 19 Arizona. The men's games include No. 5 Baylor and No. 11 Texas.
Session 1
Game 1 - STANFORD vs. Texas (men) - ESPN, 12:00 p.m. CT
Game 2 - USC vs. Texas (women) - ESPN2, approx. 2:30 p.m. CT
Session 2
Game 3 - ARIZONA vs. Baylor (women) - ESPN2, 6:30 p.m. CT
Game 4 - WASHINGTON STATE vs. Baylor (men) - ESPN/ESPN2, approx. 9 p.m. CT
"US LBM is thrilled to again support the talented student-athletes taking part in the Pac-12 US LBM Coast-to-Coast Challenge," said US LBM President and CEO L.T. Gibson. "We're looking forward to a great weekend of college basketball in December, and we are proud to give back to the local Dallas community by providing tickets to the games to military families and various youth organizations."
Tickets for the second annual Pac-12 US LBM Coast-to-Coast Challenge are now available on Ticketmaster.com. All games will be televised on the ESPN family of networks.
US LBM is the largest privately owned, full-line distributor of specialty building materials in the United States. Offering a comprehensive portfolio of specialty products, including windows, doors, millwork, wallboard, roofing, siding, engineered components and cabinetry, US LBM combines the scale and operational advantages of a national platform with a local go-to-market strategy through its national network of locations across the country. For more information, please visit uslbm.com or follow US LBM on LinkedIn.
The Conference has a tradition as the "Conference of Champions," leading the nation in NCAA Championships in 55 of the last 61 years, with 537 NCAA team titles overall. The Conference comprises 12 leading U.S. universities - the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Colorado, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah, the University of Washington and Washington State University. For more information on the Conference's programs, member institutions, and Commissioner George Kliavkoff, go to Pac-12.com/conference.
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LONDON (AP) — British health officials reported 77 more monkeypox cases on Monday, raising the total to more than 300 across the country. To date, the U.K. has the biggest identified outbreak of the disease beyond Africa, with the vast majority of infections in gay and bisexual men.
Health officials warn that anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, is potentially at risk of catching monkeypox if they are in close contact with a patient, their clothing or their bed sheets.
On Sunday, the World Health Organization said more than two dozen countries that haven’t previously identified monkeypox cases reported 780 cases, a more than 200% jump in cases since late May. No monkeypox deaths outside of Africa have yet been identified.
The U.N. health agency said most cases in Europe and elsewhere have been spotted in sexual health clinics and “have involved mainly, but not exclusively, men who have sex with men.”
So far this year, there have been more than 1,400 monkeypox cases and 63 deaths in four countries where the disease is endemic — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo and Nigeria — according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Genetic sequencing of the virus hasn’t yet shown any direct link to the outbreak outside Africa.
WHO said the sudden and unexpected detection of monkeypox in numerous countries “suggests that there might have been undetected transmission for some unknown duration of time followed by recent amplifier events.” Last month, a leading adviser to WHO said the outbreak in Europe and beyond was likely spread by sex at two recent raves in Spain and Belgium.
WHO estimated the risk posed by monkeypox to global health was “moderate,” saying this was the first time that so many cases and clusters were reported across the world. Until last month, the disease had not been known to cause large epidemics beyond central and west Africa, where it has mostly affected people in rural areas who come into close contact with infected wild animals.
The ongoing outbreak of monkeypox in Europe and elsewhere, including Canada, Australia, Israel and the U.S., marks the first time the disease has been known to spread among people who have no previous travel links to Africa.
U.S. health officials said genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the country, raising the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time. Many of the U.S. cases were caused by the same strain as recent cases in Europe, but a few samples show a different strain, federal health officials said.
Britain’s Health Security Agency said last week most cases have been in gay or bisexual men ranging in age from 20 to 49 and that “investigations to date have identified links to gay bars, saunas, and the use of dating apps in the U.K. and abroad.”
Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body.
Last week, WHO’s top expert on monkeypox, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said she doubted the disease would trigger a pandemic, but said actions should be taken quickly to curb its spread so it doesn’t become entrenched in new areas.
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This story has been corrected to show that the number of new cases is 77, not 73. | 2022-06-07T19:19:13+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/uk-77-new-monkeypox-cases-biggest-outbreak-outside-africa/ |
Citizen Sleeper is a sleek, cyberpunk-style video game, where you play an android with the mind of a human, who has sold their flesh-and-blood body to the corporation Essen-Arp. When you start the game, you've just escaped Essen-Arp in a stolen robot frame, transported to a spaceship colony, where you don't know anyone and have only a vague memory of who you once were.
The game takes place in "cycles" in which the player rolls virtual dice to perform tasks, with each roll of the dice determining the outcome of actions like working, asking for directions, stealing, fighting, or making friends. The higher you roll, the better the odds you have at completing those tasks successfully. As you work, you earn money, which can buy you food and resources, as well as a "stabilizer" that you need to repair your robot frame, and thereby survive.
The rules of the game can be seen as a critique of the cruelties of the modern economy. For example, the lower you run on food and energy, the fewer rolls of the dice you get each cycle. The reason you need to constantly repair that robot frame? Because of the planned obsolescence built into it. And the work you do to earn money? It's all gig work. Jobs come and go, and some are better than others. Every day is a challenge to find the best jobs, the cheapest goods, and maintain longer goals while barely making enough to survive.
"Citizen Sleeper was very much inspired by my experience as a gig worker in London," says Gareth Damian Martin, the game's designer. "There was a mix of things that I did, but most of it revolved around this concept that we have in the UK called a zero-hours contract. You are not guaranteed any work, but you are contracted to a company, and basically they can give you any number of hours. It allows companies to essentially not have to offer anything to an employee, no rights of any kind, but are able to call on them at any point and ask them for work."
The toll of work
The coldly capitalist, effectively dehumanizing nature of this kind of work made a deep impression on Martin as they developed the game. It was particularly influential in the development of the central character, a human mind emulated by Essen-Arp and placed in a corporate-owned artificial body.
"I think a lot of my ideas around that are related to my own experiences as a non-binary person, thinking about how bodies are legislated, how citizenship is given and taken away from certain bodies. And how capitalism and gig work impacts on bodies, as well as minds," Martin says.
As a zero-hours contract worker, Martin picked up gigs flyering at Piccadilly Circus and standing watch at bars and museums. They also did gig work for the computer games company SEGA, where they worked as a game tester. It sounded cool, but the work can take a toll on the tester, as it did on Martin when they had to test a 3D SEGA game.
"The strain of testing loads of different kinds of 3D, hour after hour, basically turned out to be very bad for you," Martin says. "And I ended up damaging my eyes."
Martin's eyes recovered, but the memory lingered. The notion that work can strain the human body in more ways than one formed a crucial part of Citizen Sleeper.
"I wanted to have various ways to kind of twist the knife on the player, I guess, or to put pressure on the player," Martin says. They say it was important for players to be able to track their energy levels and the condition of their physical self. "With the condition there's that feeling of slow decline – that each day, no matter what you do, basically, you're losing that condition, it's going down over time. And then the energy is more like that kind of daily need to achieve a certain thing in order to keep yourself from declining."
Built to fail
The concept of planned obsolescence was particularly resonant for Martin as they developed the game. In the real economy, planned obsolescence is the policy of producing goods that are designed to become out of date and so require replacement — such as when a phone's performance dips after an update. It's become a feature of manufacturing, like fast fashion, that has led to a deterioration in the quality of goods.
The life of these goods is often prolonged, however — or at least insured — by use of the manufacturer's maintenance products. In Citizen Sleeper, that planned obsolescence is a key feature of the robot frame worn by the protagonist.
"This idea of having a body that would be decaying because it's being used incorrectly, being used outside of the kind of corporate reach, felt like the kind of predatory behavior that I'd observed in various ways," Martin says. "For example, the idea of an Uber driver who has bought their car from Uber and is paying their rental payments out of their wages. That kind of strong linkage between the person who's paying you money and the person who's taking your money."
All of this might make Citizen Sleeper sound like a dystopian commentary on our economy. But Martin says that, although working in the gig economy inspired the dark side of Citizen Sleeper, it also inspired a lot of the more gratifying elements of the game too.
"One of the most amazing things about working terrible gig jobs is you do end up working jobs that finish at 2:00 in the afternoon and you work jobs that finish at 2:00 AM. And because of that, you go to different bars at different times and you meet people and you see different sides of the city and ways in which the city is alive."
Martin found solidarity and friendship with the people they'd meet across their various jobs, and they turned those recollections into the diverse and interesting characters players can meet in Citizen Sleeper. At the same time that the player's humanity is being stripped away from them by labor, it can instead be felt in the community they become a part of.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington.
The announcement followed Biden’s acknowledgement Thursday morning that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his personal library, along with other documents found in his garage, It was disclosed on Monday that sensitive documents were found at the office of his former institute in Washington.
Robert Hur, the former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Maryland, will lead the investigation, taking over from the top Justice Department prosecutor in Chicago, John Lausch, who was earlier assigned by the department to investigate the matter. Hur is to begin his work soon.
The appointment of yet another special counsel to investigate the handling of classified documents is a remarkable turn of events, legally and politically, for a Justice Department that has spent months looking into the retention by Donald Trump of more than 300 documents with classification markings found at the former president’s Florida estate.
Though the situations are factually and legally different, the discovery of classified documents at two separate locations tied to Biden — as well as the appointment of a new special counsel — would almost certainly complicate any prosecution that the department might bring against Trump.
Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “cooperating fully and completely” with a Justice Department investigation into how classified information and government records were stored. He did not say when the latest series of documents were found, only that his lawyers’ review of potential storage locations was completed Wednesday night. Lawyers found the first in a locked closet in the offices of the Biden Penn Center in Washington on Nov. 2, just before the midterm elections, but publicly revealed that development only on Monday.
Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, said that after Biden’s personal lawyers found the initial documents, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017.
Sauber said a “small number” with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room. Biden later revealed that the other location was his personal library.
Biden said the Department of Justice was “immediately notified” after the documents were located and that department lawyers took custody of the records. The first batch of documents had been turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
Hur was a close ally of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and contacts between then-candidate Trump’s associates and Russian officials. He also worked as an adviser to FBI Director Christopher Wray in the Justice Department.
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said of the latest news: “I think Congress has to investigate this.”
“Here’s an individual that sat on ’60 Minutes’ that was so concerned about President Trump’s documents locked in behind, and now we find that this is a vice president keeping it for years out in the open in different locations.”
Contradicting several fellow Republicans, he said, “We don’t think there needs to be a special prosecutor.”
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that intelligence agencies conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents. Ohio Rep. Mike Turner on Thursday also requested briefings from Attorney General Merrick Garland and the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, on their reviews by Jan. 26.
“The presence of classified information at these separate locations could implicate the President in the mishandling, potential misuse, and exposure of classified information,” Turner wrote the officials.
The revelation that additional classified documents were uncovered by Biden’s team came hours after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged questions about Biden’s handling of classified information and the West Wing’s management of the discovery.
She had said Wednesday that the White House was committed to handling the matter in the “right way,” pointing to Biden’s personal attorneys’ immediate notification of the National Archives.
But she refused to say when Biden himself had been briefed, whether there were any more classified documents potentially located at other unauthorized locations, and why the White House waited more than two months to reveal the discovery of the initial batch of documents.
Biden has said he was “surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office” but his lawyers “did what they should have done” when they immediately called the National Archives.
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Associated Press writers Nomaan Merchant and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
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Iowa State vs. Toledo Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 16, 2023 at 2:38 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Saturday's game between the Iowa State Cyclones (22-9) and Toledo Rockets (28-4) going head to head at Thompson-Boling Arena has a projected final score of 74-63 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of heavily favored Iowa State, so it should be a lopsided matchup. The game will start at 3:30 PM ET on March 18.
The Cyclones head into this contest following a 61-51 win against Texas on Sunday.
Iowa State vs. Toledo Game Info
- When: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- Where: Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN2
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Iowa State vs. Toledo Score Prediction
- Prediction: Iowa State 74, Toledo 63
Iowa State Schedule Analysis
- In their signature win of the season, the Cyclones beat the No. 10 Villanova Wildcats, 74-62, on December 18.
- Against Quadrant 1 opponents, the Cyclones are 8-8 (.500%) -- tied for the 14th-most victories, but also tied for the 43rd-most defeats.
- When facing Quadrant 2 opponents, Iowa State is 8-1 (.889%) -- tied for the 10th-most victories.
Iowa State 2022-23 Best Wins
- 74-62 over Villanova (No. 10/AP Poll) on December 18
- 61-51 over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on March 12
- 66-61 at home over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on February 13
- 82-72 over Oklahoma (No. 16/AP Poll) on March 11
- 86-78 at home over Oklahoma (No. 16/AP Poll) on January 28
Toledo Schedule Analysis
- The Rockets' best win of the season came in a 71-68 victory versus the No. 18 Michigan Wolverines on December 8.
- Against Quadrant 2 opponents, Toledo is 4-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 43rd-most wins.
- When facing Quadrant 3 teams (based on the RPI), the Cyclones are 2-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 198th-most wins.
- Against Quadrant 4 opponents, Toledo is 15-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 21st-most wins.
Toledo 2022-23 Best Wins
- 71-68 on the road over Michigan (No. 18/AP Poll) on December 8
- 73-58 over Bowling Green (No. 68) on March 11
- 62-56 at home over Bowling Green (No. 68) on March 4
- 72-70 on the road over Ball State (No. 76) on February 25
- 83-76 at home over Ball State (No. 76) on January 11
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Iowa State Performance Insights
- The Cyclones average 75.5 points per game (30th in college basketball) while allowing 64.1 per outing (178th in college basketball). They have a +353 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 11.4 points per game.
- Iowa State is putting up 73.3 points per game this season in conference action, which is 2.2 fewer points per game than its overall average (75.5).
- Offensively, the Cyclones have performed better in home games this year, putting up 78.1 points per game, compared to 73.8 per game away from home.
- Iowa State surrenders 58.6 points per game when playing at home this year, compared to 72.5 on the road.
- On the offensive side of the ball, the Cyclones have had a hard time putting the ball in the basket over their last 10 games, scoring 74.5 points per contest over that stretch compared to the 75.5 they've racked up over the course of this season.
Toledo Performance Insights
- The Rockets put up 73.6 points per game (44th in college basketball) while giving up 62.4 per outing (120th in college basketball). They have a +357 scoring differential and outscore opponents by 11.2 points per game.
- In 2022-23, Toledo has put up 74.9 points per game in MAC play, and 73.6 overall.
- In 2022-23 the Rockets are averaging 1.8 more points per game at home (74.9) than on the road (73.1).
- Toledo allows 59.7 points per game at home, and 65.3 on the road.
- The Rockets have performed worse offensively over their previous 10 games, posting 72.4 points per contest, 1.2 fewer points their than season average of 73.6.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Kimbrough, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11 in Culver City, California. He was 86.
Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown” between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. He reprised the role for three episodes in the 2018 reboot.
The New York Times first reported his death and his son confirmed it Sunday to The Associated Press.
Kimbrough’s wife, actor Beth Howland who played diner server Vera on the 1970s and ’80s CBS sitcom “Alice,” died in 2016. They married in 2002, more than a decade after his 1991 divorce from his first wife, Mary Jane (Wilson) Kimbrough, who died in 2007.
The Times reports that Kimbrough is survived by a sister, Linda Kimbrough, a son, John Kimbrough, and a stepdaughter, Holly Howland.
Born May 23, 1936, Kimbrough spent years in the New York theater scene. He was nominated for a Tony in 1971 for his Broadway performance in the Steven Sondheim musical “Company.”
Kimbrough also lent his voice to a gargoyle named Victor in Disney’s animated film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
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Buttigieg: US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf
(AP) - The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York.
“That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.
Buttigieg said he is pushing the airlines to stress-test their summer schedules to ensure they can operate all their planned flights with the employees they have, and to add customer-service workers. That could put pressure on airlines to make additional cuts in their summer schedules.
Buttigieg said his department could take enforcement actions against airlines that fail to live up to consumer-protection standards. But first, he said, he wants to see whether there are major flight disruptions over the July Fourth holiday weekend and the rest of the summer.
Enforcement actions can results in fines, although they tend to be small. Air Canada agreed to pay a $2 million fine last year over slow refunds.
During Thursday’s virtual meeting, airline executives described steps they are taking to avoid a repeat of the Memorial Day weekend, when about 2,800 flights were canceled. “Now we’re going to see how those steps measure up,” Buttigieg said.
Travel is back. On Friday, more than 2.4 million people passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports, coming within about 12,500 of breaking the pandemic-era high recorded on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.
The record surely would have been broken had airlines not canceled 1,400 flights, many of them because thunderstorms hit parts of the East Coast. A day earlier, airlines scrubbed more than 1,700 flights, according to tracking service FlightAware.
Weather is always a wild card when it comes to flying in summer, but airlines have also acknowledged staffing shortages as travel roared back faster than expected from pandemic lows. Airlines are scrambling to hire pilots and other workers to replace employees whom they encouraged to quit after the pandemic hit.
It takes months to hire and train a pilot to meet federal safety standards, but the Transportation Department sees no reason the airlines cannot immediately add customer-service representatives to help passengers rebook if their flight is canceled.
The government has its own staffing challenges.
Shortages at the Federal Aviation Administration, part of Buttigieg’s department, have contributed to flight delays in Florida. The FAA promises to increase staffing there. The Transportation Security Administration, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, has created a roving force of 1,000 screeners who can be dispatched to airports where checkpoint lines get too long.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A West Springfield school was under a shelter in place Monday morning following a report of a student that brought a BB gun to school.
According to Superintendent Tarkan Topcuoglu of the Hampden Charter School of Science-West, the school received a tip that a 10th grade student brought a BB gun to school Monday morning. School security searched the student’s locker and found the BB gun.
Due to the incident, the school was placed in a shelter in place and West Springfield Police were notified and they will be further investigating the incident. The Superintendent says no one was harmed and there was no threat to students.
Topcuoglu says the Hampden Charter School of Science-West has strict policies on any type of firearms on campus and disciplinary action will be implemented.
You can read the Superintendents full statement sent to parents below:
Dear HCSS West Community:
This morning, a 10th-grade student at Hampden Charter School of Science-West brought a BB gun to school. Acting on a tip, school security searched the student’s locker and confiscated the gun. The school went into shelter in place and West Springfield Police were notified and are investigating the matter further. The student was removed from school. No one was harmed or threatened.
We are proud of our staff for their quick work in acting to confiscate the gun. We are thankful for the partnership we have with the West Springfield Police Department, which responded quickly when called. The safety of your children is always the driving purpose of our actions when confronted with any potential threat.
Our policy regarding any type of firearm on our school campus is clear, and disciplinary action is harsh. We will be implementing disciplinary protocols regarding this incident.
We are all horrified and saddened by the events in Uvalde, Texas, and have taken steps to be extra vigilant regarding student safety. We have also made additional counseling services available to students and their families. Our school safety team and mental health counselors have been meeting with students to respond to their emotions and address their concerns. The Hampden Charter School of Science Community is keeping the Uvalde community in its prayers as they deal with the unimaginable grief of losing so many young children.We ask our parents to take this weekend to remind students that everyone plays a part in keeping our campus safe and urge you to review the HCSS-West code of conduct with your child, which reads as follows:
Bringing any weapon to school (knowingly or unknowingly), using a weapon on school grounds or at a school activity, or having a weapon in a locker or on the bus are grave offenses, are against school rules and regulations, and are against the law. Suspension and/or expulsion and contact with legal authorities may be a result of this behavior.
CEO/Superintendent Tarkan Topcuoglu
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KYIV – Ukraine stepped up efforts Friday to lobby international sports leaders against Russian participation in next year's Paris Olympics as indications mount that the games could see the biggest boycott since the Cold War.
A meeting of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee did not commit to a boycott but approved plans to consult with and persuade sports officials around the world over the next two months.
The committee members voted for “consultations on preventing the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in all international competitions and a possible boycott.”
The International Olympic Committee is pushing to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at the 2024 Paris Games. They would take part without their national flags or anthems as “neutral athletes.”
The IOC, which previously recommended excluding Russians and Belarusians from world sports on safety grounds, argues that it cannot discriminate against them purely based on citizenship, citing comments from United Nations officials.
Ukraine wants Russia and Belarus to be banned from the Olympics entirely. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said any neutral flag would be “stained with blood.”
Also Friday, the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania urged the IOC to ban Russian athletes and said a boycott was a possibility.
Ukraine boycotted some sporting events last year rather than compete against Russians.
Speakers at the Ukrainian Olympic Committee's assembly meeting Friday raised concerns about Russia using the event in Paris for propaganda and noted the close ties between some competitors and the country's military.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that if athletes from the two countries compete, “it should be absolutely clear that they are not representing the Russian or Belarusian states.” The United States will host the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
If the IOC's proposal takes effect, Paris would be the fourth Olympics in a row where Russian athletes have competed without the national flag or anthem. The Russian teams at the Winter Olympics in 2018 and 2022 and the Summer Olympics in 2021 were all caught up in the fallout from a years-long series of doping cases.
The last time multiple countries boycotted an Olympics was in 1988, when North Korea and others refused to attend the Summer Games in South Korea. The North Korean team was a no-show at the Tokyo Games in 2021, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The IOC barred it from the following Winter Games in Beijing as a result, saying that teams had a duty to attend every Olympics.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Aliyah Boston showed once more her consistency is every bit as important as her enormous talent.
Boston had her program record-setting 73rd double double with 13 points and 14 rebounds as No. 1 South Carolina moved to 20-0 with a dominating 92-46 victory over Arkansas on Sunday.
Boston’s coach, Dawn Staley, has watched the 6-foot-5 All-American stay engaged and focused despite junk defenses with three or four players aiming to limit her production. Very little has worked the past four seasons.
“Mentally tough, mentally strong. Those are the separators for Aliyah,” Staley said.
Boston takes in the information and knows in the end she’ll get the better of things in nearly every game, Staley said.
“She’s at a place,” the coach said. “Where you really can’t stop her.”
Zia Cooke scored 24 points to lead the Gamecocks (8-0 Southeastern Conference), who won their 26th straight and seventh in a row over the Razorbacks (17-5, 4-3). And just like much of the past four seasons, the 6-foot-5 Boston was right in the center of things.
Boston, who tied the school mark set by Sheila Foster from 1979-82 at Vanderbilt this past Thursday, came out quickly with seven points and three boards in the first quarter. She was up to 11 points and six rebounds at the break.
Boston clinched the record with three rebounds on one offensive possession that she finished with a basket. She was taken out with 1:18 left in the third quarter to a loud ovation from the crowd — and South Carolina cruising 73-33.
“Hey, y’all got room for another statue?” asked Arkansas coach Mike Neighbors, referring to the statue of South Carolina great A’ja Wilson outside the arena.
It’s not that far fetched — except for the ultra humble Boston, who typically deflects attention to her teammates. She surprised herself with her steady play over the years.
“Coming in (to college), I didn’t really know this was a record,” Boston said. “To do it, is very exciting because, wow, who’d have thought.”
Foster, now second in South Carolina double doubles, was in attendance. She smiled and waved to the crowd after Boston surpassed her.
Boston is 13 away from catching LSU great Sylvia Fowles for the SEC mark of 86 double-doubles set from 2004-08.
The NCAA mark is way out of reach. Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris had 128 from 2006-09 and Boston is widely expected to be the WNBA’s No. 1 overall pick after this season.
Cooke, the team’s top scorer this season, had 19 points by halftime as South Carolina blew things open in the second quarter by outscoring Arkansas 28-7 to lead 53-24.
Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina’s 6-7 backup, ended with 12 points and tied her career best with 16 rebounds.
Samara Spencer had 15 points to lead Arkansas, which was outrebounded 74-17 overall and 32-2 on the offensive boards.
BIG PICTURE
Arkansas: The Razorbacks took No. 3 LSU down to the wire before falling 79-76 this past Thursday. Facing the SEC’s two undefeated teams on the road in consecutive games proved too much for Arkansas. Neighbors said he expects his team to flush this performance and continue a solid season as it competes for a top-four seed to the SEC Tournament.
South Carolina: The Gamecocks are the first in Division I to 20 victories — 19-0 Ohio State and LSU play on Monday — and have started 20-0 for just the third time in coach Dawn Staley’s 15 seasons. Both previous perfect runs in 2015 and 2016 got to 22-0 and were ended by UConn. South Carolina has two games to play before heading to UConn on Feb. 5
REBOUNDING MARK
South Carolina put on a rebounding show against Arkansas, grabbing 74 boards to its opponents 17. ESPN posted that the 57 rebound edge was the highest in women’s basketball against a Division I opponent in 20 years. The Gamecocks did even better on the offensive glass, winning that battle 32-2.
UP NEXT
Arkansas returns home to play Alabama on Thursday night.
South Carolina plays at Alabama on Jan. 29.
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— Second Quarter Revenues of $276.2 Million Reflect Strong Growth in Proprietary Net Sales —
— GAAP Loss per Share of $0.18 and Non-GAAP Earnings per Share of $0.06 —
— Raises Financial Expectations for Full-Year 2022—
DUBLIN, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2022 and provided updated financial expectations for full-year 2022.
"In the second quarter, Alkermes continued to execute successfully across the business. VIVITROL® and ARISTADA® both grew year-over-year and sequentially, and LYBALVI® continued on a strong launch trajectory," commented Iain Brown, Chief Financial Officer of Alkermes. "Today, we are pleased to be raising our financial expectations for full-year 2022, primarily due to LYBALVI's launch performance and updated assumptions related to continued royalty revenues on sales of long-acting INVEGA® products outside of the U.S. We believe that we are well positioned to continue to make meaningful progress against our strategic priorities and to drive shareholder value."
Quarter Ended June 30, 2022 Financial Results
Revenues
- Total revenues for the quarter were $276.2 million, compared to $303.7 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Net sales of proprietary products for the quarter were $190.8 million, compared to $160.8 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Net sales of VIVITROL were $96.1 million, compared to $88.4 million for the same period in the prior year, representing an increase of approximately 9%.
- Net sales of ARISTADAi were $74.6 million, compared to $72.4 million for the same period in the prior year, representing an increase of approximately 3%.
- Net sales of LYBALVI were $20.1 million, following its commercial launch in October 2021.
- Manufacturing and royalty revenues for the quarter were $85.3 million, compared to $142.3 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Royalty revenues from INVEGA SUSTENNA®/XEPLION®, INVEGA TRINZA®/TREVICTA® and INVEGA HAFYERA®/BYANNLI® (the long-acting INVEGA products) were $26.6 million, compared to $81.1 million for the same period in the prior year. This decrease was driven primarily by Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.'s (Janssen) partial termination of the license agreement related to sales of the long-acting INVEGA products in the United States (U.S.).
- Manufacturing and royalty revenues from VUMERITY® were $26.2 million, compared to $20.3 million for the same period in the prior year.
Costs and Expenses
- Total operating expenses for the quarter were $310.7 million, compared to $299.3 million for the same period in the prior year, primarily reflecting increased investment to support the commercial launch of LYBALVI.
- Cost of Goods Manufactured and Sold were $58.4 million, compared to $53.1 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Research and Development (R&D) expenses were $92.9 million, compared to $97.5 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expenses were $150.4 million, compared to $139.2 million for the same period in the prior year.
Profitability
- Net loss according to generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (GAAP) was $30.1 million for the quarter, or a basic and diluted GAAP loss per share of $0.18. This compared to GAAP net income of $2.4 million, or a basic and diluted GAAP earnings per share of $0.01, for the same period in the prior year.
- Non-GAAP net income was $10.5 million for the quarter, or a non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.06. This compared to non-GAAP net income of $49.2 million for the quarter, or a non-GAAP basic earnings per share of $0.31 and a diluted earnings per share of $0.30, for the same period in the prior year.
Balance Sheet
- At June 30, 2022, the company recorded cash, cash equivalents and total investments of $760.0 million, compared to $758.7 million at March 31, 2022. The company's total debt outstanding as of June 30, 2022 was $294.5 million.
"Our second quarter results reflect revenue growth from our proprietary commercial portfolio, highlighted by our continued progress in the launch of LYBALVI, a new oral treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder," said Richard Pops, Chief Executive Officer of Alkermes. "At the same time, we continued to make progress in our development pipeline, highlighted by the presentation of nemvaleukin ARTISTRY-1 data at the 2022 ASCO annual meeting. As we strive to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and families, we will continue to focus on execution against our strategic priorities and our commitment to deliver value for our shareholders."
Financial Expectations for 2022
The following updated financial expectations for 2022 primarily reflect LYBALVI's launch performance to date and the company's current assumption that it will continue to receive royalty payments related to sales of the long-acting INVEGA products outside the U.S. through at least October 2022. All line items are according to GAAP, except as otherwise noted.
Recent Events:
Oncology
- In June 2022, the company presented data from its phase 1/2 ARTISTRY-1 clinical trial for nemvaleukin alfa (nemvaleukin), the company's novel, investigational, engineered interleukin-2 (IL-2) variant immunotherapy, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Trial-in-progress posters from the ongoing ARTISTRY-3 trial and the potential registration-enabling ARTISTRY-6 and ARTISTRY-7 trials were also presented at the ASCO meeting.
Psychiatry
- In May 2022, the company presented research related to its psychiatry portfolio at four scientific conferences. The meetings included: American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Conference, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, and American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) Annual Conference.
Other
- In May 2022, the company announced a series of actions as part of its ongoing commitment to strong corporate governance and regular board refreshment, including the appointment to the company's Board of Directors (the Board) of Christopher I. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., a new, independent director with neuroscience and drug development expertise and the seventh independent director to join the Board in the last three years; the appointment of Nancy J. Wysenski as Lead Independent Director of the Board; and the retirement from the Board of two longer-serving directors, David W. Anstice AO and Wendy L. Dixon, Ph.D.
Conference Call
Alkermes will host a conference call and webcast presentation with accompanying slides at 8:00 a.m. ET (1:00 p.m. BST) on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, to discuss these financial results and provide an update on the company. The webcast may be accessed on the Investors section of Alkermes' website at www.alkermes.com. The conference call may be accessed by dialing +1 877 407 2988 for U.S. callers and +1 201 389 0923 for international callers. In addition, a replay of the conference call will be available from 11:00 a.m. ET (4:00 p.m. BST) on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, through Wednesday, August 3, 2022, and may be accessed by visiting Alkermes' website or by dialing +1 877 660 6853 for U.S. callers and +1 201 612 7415 for international callers. The replay conference ID is 13731319.
About Alkermes plc
Alkermes plc is a fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines in the fields of neuroscience and oncology. The company has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products focused on alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of product candidates in development for neurodegenerative disorders and cancer. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Alkermes has an R&D center in Waltham, Massachusetts; a research and manufacturing facility in Athlone, Ireland; and a manufacturing facility in Wilmington, Ohio. For more information, please visit Alkermes' website at www.alkermes.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes information about certain financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, including non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share. These non-GAAP measures are not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to similar measures presented by other companies.
Non-GAAP net income (loss) adjusts for certain one-time and non-cash charges by excluding from GAAP results: share-based compensation expense; amortization; depreciation; non-cash net interest expense; change in the fair value of contingent consideration; certain other one-time or non-cash items; and the income tax effect of these reconciling items.
The company's management and board of directors utilize these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate the company's performance. The company provides these non-GAAP financial measures of the company's performance to investors because management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures, when viewed with the company's results under GAAP and the accompanying reconciliations, are useful in identifying underlying trends in ongoing operations. However, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share are not measures of financial performance under GAAP and, accordingly, should not be considered as alternatives to GAAP measures as indicators of operating performance. Further, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share should not be considered measures of the company's liquidity.
A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures has been provided in the tables included in this press release.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements set forth in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, but not limited to, statements concerning: the company's expectations concerning its future financial and operating performance, business plans or prospects, including its assumptions regarding royalty payments on sales of the long-acting INVEGA products outside the U.S., its commitment and plans to drive shareholder value, and its ability to execute on its strategic priorities; and the potential therapeutic and commercial value of the company's products. The company cautions that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. The forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and they are necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk. Actual performance and results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements due to various risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the company's efforts to manage its cost structure may not yield the intended results; the company may not be able to achieve long-term profitability or its profitability targets in a timely manner or at all; the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the company's business, results of operations or financial condition, including impacts on healthcare systems and on patient and healthcare provider access to the company's marketed products; the unfavorable outcome of arbitration or litigation, including so-called "Paragraph IV" litigation and other patent litigation, or other disputes related to the company's products or products using the company's proprietary technologies, including the arbitration proceedings with Janssen; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of the company's development activities may not be positive, or predictive of final results from such activities, results of future development activities or real-world results; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may not agree with the company's regulatory approval strategies or components of the company's marketing applications; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to government payers; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2021 and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, the company disclaims any intention or responsibility for updating or revising any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
VIVITROL® is a registered trademark of Alkermes, Inc.; ARISTADA®, ARISTADA INITIO® and LYBALVI® are registered trademarks of Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited, used by Alkermes, Inc. under license; BYANNLI®, INVEGA®, INVEGA HAFYERA®, INVEGA SUSTENNA®, INVEGA TRINZA®, TREVICTA® and XEPLION® are registered trademarks of Johnson & Johnson Corporation; and VUMERITY® is a registered trademark of Biogen Inc., used by Alkermes under license.
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Alkermes Contacts:
For Investors: Sandy Coombs +1 781 609 6377
For Media: Katie Joyce +1 781 249 8927
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What you need to know about McDonald’s Halloween Pails
McDonald’s has been serving burgers for over 65 years. In that time, many things have come and gone … and come back again. Earlier this week, a classic collectible made a triumphant return just in time for Halloween. On Tuesday, Oct. 18, the company brought back McDonald’s Halloween Pails.
What are McDonald’s Halloween Pails?
McDonald’s Halloween Pails are also known as Boo Buckets. When you purchase a Happy Meal, from now until Oct. 31, instead of a toy, your food will come in a Halloween Pail.
These aren’t just any pails. McDonald’s has decided to go old school and offer the same iconic trio that it introduced back in 1986. You can get a white McBoo, an orange McPunk’n or a green McGoblin.
The only catch is both adults and children are snatching up these pails and McDonald’s has not guaranteed there will be any left by Halloween. In fact, McDonald’s emphasizes that this is a limited-time appearance and these pails will only be available while supplies last.
What can you do with a McDonald’s Halloween Pail?
A McDonald’s Halloween Pail is great for trick-or-treating. It’s a solid little bucket with a handle that makes it easy to collect and carry candy. It can also be placed on the table and used as a treat dish. However, grown-ups love the pails too because they can be hung up as Halloween decorations or serve as festive planters. Some musicians even flip them over and use them as drums. What you do with your Halloween Pail is only limited by your imagination.
Alternatives to McDonald’s Halloween Pails
If you don’t make it to McDonald’s in time, or you aren’t the biggest fan of McDonald’s food, don’t worry. There are many suitable alternatives you can get. Here are a few:
Triumpeek Halloween Candy Baskets
These plastic candy pails come in three designs: a smiling orange jack-o’-lantern, a cute purple monster face and a green zombie. Sold by Amazon
FuturePlusx Halloween Pumpkin Buckets
If you prefer pumpkins, this set of buckets includes two happy jack-o’-lanterns. The buckets are made using eco-friendly plastic that is non-toxic and odorless. Sold by Amazon
Aberlls Felt Halloween Buckets for Kids
With six designs, you’re sure to please everyone. These felt candy buckets are lightweight, colorful, conveniently sized and feature a sturdy build. Sold by Amazon
Sumind Halloween Pumpkin Light-Up Bucket
This option is unique because it lights up, making it safer for use at night. It’s slightly deeper than other offerings, and it’s made with a soft felt material. Sold by Amazon
SCS Direct Reusable Halloween Teal Pumpkin Trick-or-Treat Totes
This 8-inch tote is large enough to hold all your candy. It’s made using attractive teal felt, so it stands out from other traditionally colored options. Sold by Amazon
If you prefer a sturdier option, these 12 decorative metal buckets will do the trick. Since these pails are smaller, they’re great for filling with treats to use as Halloween party favors. Sold by Amazon
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3 killed in Texas freeway shootings tied to biker gangs
HOUSTON (AP) — Three people were killed and another was injured Friday in two separate freeway shootings near and north of Houston involving motorcyclists believed to be connected to outlaw motorcycle gangs, authorities said.
The first shooting took place at around 11 a.m. on Interstate 45 in the Houston suburb of Spring, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. A 32-year-old man riding a motorcycle was shot and taken to a hospital, where he later died.
About an hour later, a second shooting involving motorcyclists took place along I-45 about 50 miles (80 km) north of the first shooting in Huntsville, Texas, authorities said.
Two men, ages 43 and 69, died at the scene while a third man, 61, was injured and flown to a hospital in Houston. His condition was not immediately known.
“”The three victims were … all wearing clothing and insignia that indicated they were part of an outlaw motorcycle gang,” Huntsville police said in a statement. “Investigators believe at this time that incident in Huntsville and the shooting that took place in (Spring) are related.”
Squier said while the shootings appear to be gang-related, “it is believed there is no threat to the general public at this time.”
The investigation of the shooting in Huntsville shut down for several hours a portion of I-45, causing long traffic delays.
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TULSA, Okla. — If you're in midtown Tulsa this week, there's a new spot to get yourself a sweet treat.
Onifade's Cookies is now open near 11th and Yale and its owner and operator is just 15-years-old.
Onifade Colbert is behind the magic.
"Favorite part about running this? I would say, just seeing my craft come to life,” Colbert said.
Colbert started making and selling cookies when he was six. He was raising money to travel to Nigeria.
"It started as a bake sale and we went to a couple events, events, vending, expos and as we kept going it snowballed into a business,” Colbert said.
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Since then his cookies have continued to be popular.
Colbert and his mother came up with the brand Onifade's Cookies Company and would sell them at events, finally, he decided it was time to open up a storefront.
"I feel excited that I have a whole entire bakery to operate out of and it’s just amazing seeing lots more customers come in with smiles,” Colbert said.
"We have such a huge community,” said Ifaseyi Amusan, Colbert’s mother.
Amusan said the Tulsa community is one of the reasons they've gotten so far.
"We are so grateful and appreciative, so many people gave us opportunities when they didn't have to,” she said.
Amusan says they plan to keep expanding.
"We can do it, I mean we got here, we can keep moving,” she said.
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian rocket strikes came early in the morning in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk on Wednesday, shaking buildings, jolting people out of bed and sending chunks of concrete and jagged pieces of metal flying through the air.
One of the two rockets left a crater at least three meters deep, remnants of the projectile still smoldering as nearby residents picked through the debris of their homes, trying to salvage whatever they could.
A row of low terraced houses nearby suffered significant damage, with roofing tiles blown off, door frames ripped from the walls and pieces of brick, concrete and asphalt scattered on the ground.
Four civilians were wounded, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk military administration. At least one of them suffered a head wound and was ferried to the local hospital by ambulance, blood seeping through the bandages and trickling down the side of his neck.
The strikes in Pokrovsk were among several over the past two days that have hit towns and villages as Russia pressed forward in its offensive in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.
“There’s no place left to live in, everything is smashed,” said Viktoria Kurbonova, a mother-of-two who lived in one of the terraced houses. The windows had been blown out by an earlier strike about a month ago, and they had replaced them with plastic sheeting. That, she said, probably saved their lives as at least there was no glass flying around.
She had been asleep when the strike hit, just meters from her house.
“There was a really big flash and a lot of dust,” Kurbonova said, standing outside her home still in her pajamas, her legs and arms blackened by soot. Her 4-year-old son wandered around, clutching a toy train, while her 2-year-old daughter smiled in a stroller nearby.
“I was reaching for my child and I couldn’t find him in the dust,” she said. The boy had been sleeping in the same room as her, while her daughter had been in the next room with Kurbonova’s mother. They were all shaken, but none were hurt.
Kyrylenko said Russian strikes killed 12 civilians the previous day in the Donetsk region, and wounded another 10. Another strike on the city of Kramatorsk, northeast of Pokrovsk, hit a multi-story building under construction, damaging it and blowing out windows in nearby buildings but causing no casualties.
“Russians continue hitting the cities that are away from the front line,”Kyrylenko said on his Telegram channel. “They would like to kill as many civilians as possible and cause panic. That is why the only good choice is evacuation. Evacuation saves lives.”
The governor of the neighboring Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said at least six civilians had been killed and eight wounded over the past 24 hours in shelling in the town of Sieverodonetsk, at the heart of the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces have been attempting to encircle Sieverodonetsk and cut off Ukrainian forces there. Haidai accused the Russians of deliberately targeting shelters where civilians were hiding.
Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in the Donbas for eight years and hold large swaths of territory. Sievierodonetsk and neighboring cities are the only part of the Donbas’ Luhansk region still under Ukrainian government control.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday called on former President Trump to support the Biden administration in reversing Trump-era deregulations in the wake of the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in Ohio.
“One thing he can do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch. I heard him say he had nothing to do with it, even though it was in his administration. So, if he had nothing to do with it and they did it in his administration against his will, maybe he can come out and say that he supports us moving in a different direction,” Buttigieg said during a visit to East Palestine.
The White House has blamed Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration for lax railway and environmental regulations in the aftermath of the derailment. The White House has pointed to a 2021 letter from Republican senators to the Federal Railroad Administration, urging the agency to expand the use of automated track inspection, and pointed to a Republican Study Committee proposal to cut to government funding to address chemical spills.
Additionally, Politico reported that the Trump administration rolled back several safety measures for railways, including regular safety audits and an Obama-era rule that required faster brakes on trains carrying flammable materials.
“We’re not afraid to own our policies when it comes to raising the bar on regulation,” Buttigieg said on Thursday.
He further targeted Trump, saying the former president should back the Biden administration’s policies around the situation if he thinks the events in Ohio are something all Americans should care about.
“I’ve got to think that him indicating that this is something that everybody, no matter how much you disagree on politics and presidential campaigns, can get behind — higher fines, tougher regulations on safety, Congress untying our hands on breaking rules, all the other things that go with that — that would be a nice thing for him to do,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg went to East Palestine a day after former President Trump visited the town and as the Biden administration has faced criticism for not heading to eastern Ohio sooner. Trump, ahead of his visit, suggested that the town had been abandoned by the Biden administration.
The White House has not yet said if President Biden, who just returned from a trip to Ukraine and Poland, will visit.
The Transportation Department has defended the timing of the trip, saying it aligns with when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its initial findings from their investigators on the ground.
The preliminary report tentatively corroborated reports that a wheel bearing severely overheated ahead of the accident. NTSB said investigators have examined the first car to derail, the 23rd overall, as well as local surveillance footage, which seemingly shows a wheel bearing in late-stage overheat failure immediately ahead of the accident. | 2023-02-23T20:44:07+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/buttigieg-calls-on-trump-to-back-reversing-deregulation-in-wake-of-train-derailment/ |
When a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Food and Drug administration shouldn't have approved the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000, he agreed with arguments by plaintiffs who oppose abortion rights in ruling that the agency improperly used a process of accelerated approval that didn't fully assess the drug's risks and benefits..
An appeals court stayed the part of the lower court's decision that would have invalidated the FDA approval, but the matter could ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
Outside the courts, there are concerns that the litigation could undermine the agency's authority. And there's skepticism about the claim FDA acted improperly on mifepristone.
"It's just not credible," says Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner for the FDA who is now a vice dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "This had the full support of advisory committees. It had the full support of major professional associations, and it retained that support after millions of women have received the treatment."
NPR reviewed approval documents, transcripts and other reports about mifepristone compiled over the years. Here's what we found out.
The FDA wasn't first to approve the abortion pill
Although the FDA's 2000 approval of mifepristone was groundbreaking in the United States, it wasn't such a big deal to other countries. That's because they already had access to mifepristone.
Mifepristone was invented by a French drug company, Roussel Uclaf, in 1980, and won approval in France in 1988.
But the French company suspended distribution that year after threats from groups that oppose abortion rights. It lasted two days before the French health minister – noting that France owned part of the company – ordered it back on the market. He said, "from the moment governmental approval for the drug was granted, [mifepristone] became the moral property of women, not just the property of the drug company." according to a 2001 report by the Congressional Research Service.
The drug was then approved in China, the United Kingdom and Sweden in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then in 1999, nearly a dozen more countries approved mifepristone.
The U.S. took its time on the approval
Once the Population Council – mifepristone's original sponsor in the U.S. – submitted its FDA application in 1996, some speculated that the approval could happen as soon as 1997. But it didn't.
The FDA convened an advisory committee of outside experts to assess the drug for approval in July 1996. The advisers voted that the drug was safe and effective, but wanted to see more data from an ongoing U.S. study at the time and recommended additional safety restrictions because so much of the data was collected from the French health system, which is very different from the U.S. health system. .
The FDA went through three rounds of reviews over four years, each time issuing an "approvable" letter, meaning the safety and efficacy data was solid. But the agency asked for details about manufacturing and the instructions for the drug before ultimately approving it in September 2000.
The agency's medical review mentions dozens of studies done mostly in France, including one that had 16,000 participants.
The approval relied on two pivotal French studies and one U.S. study with similar safety and efficacy findings.
The FDA regulation has multiple parts
The anti-abortion rights groups that sued the FDA have stated incorrectly that mifepristone got what is known as an "accelerated approval."
While it's true that some details of the mifepristone approval were handled under a section of FDA regulation called Subpart H that also covers accelerated approvals, that part was not invoked.
The part the agency used in the approval allowed it to add safety restrictions, such as requiring that physicians providing the pill be able to diagnose ectopic pregnancies.
When the agency grants an accelerated approval, it uses preliminary data, and the drugmaker has to do follow-up studies to confirm the medicine really works. The FDA didn't do that with mifepristone.
The lawsuit incorrectly argues that the FDA used accelerated approval. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk also cites accelerated approval in his ruling. The FDA did not use that part of the law in its process, however.
Mifepristone's approval has been questioned before
This isn't the first time there have been allegations that the FDA bungled the approval of mifepristone, which was known as RU-486 early on.
For example, there was a House hearing about mifepristone in 2006.
"There are people who have wanted RU-486 to be pulled off the market since the day it was approved," then-Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, said at the time. "In fact, they didn't want it to be approved. I respect their judgment because they are very strongly against an abortion, whether it be by RU-486 or by a medical procedure. But that is not the issue of safety and it is not an issue of science and it is not an issue of data."
Republican senators requested a Government Accountability Office review of the approval that was published in 2008. Researchers found that mifepristone's approval and oversight were in line with the other eight drugs approved with similar subpart H safety requirements.
"If there is a problem with this medicine then there's a problem with many, many other medicines," Sharfstein says. "Because this is very much in line with what FDA does and has the full support of the medical community."
Edited by Scott Hensley and Diane Webber.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since COVID-19 has reduced to endemic levels, many are looking forward to travel going back to normal. Good news is that the trends are already showing high promise of a comeback. Yonder Travel Insurance shares findings of hope for the travel industry and how to navigate travel plan changes.
Traveling feels a bit more normal since levels of COVID-19 restrictions are easing on several fronts. These include the CDC ending testing requirements for U.S. residents returning to the States and other destinations abolishing travel restrictions for foreign travelers.
According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the average volume of travelers nowadays is 2.0 to 2.5 million. These numbers are only 5-10% of what they were in 2019, which was a record-breaking year of travel, but the fact that they remain stable is encouraging. When it comes to who feels more comfortable traveling, 78% of Millennials and 76% of Gen Xers feel most comfortable traveling with Baby Boomers (73%) and Gen Zers (72%) falling shortly behind.
COVID-19 brought an increased awareness to trip cancellations and the importance of travel insurance. For example, in 2021, 48% of Allianz customers bought travel insurance for the first time! Although there are signs of travel improving, the unexpected still happens.
Contracting COVID-19 might cause you to cancel your trip and lose your nonrefundable costs. Flight delays or lost luggage may require you to dig into your travel budget for unplanned expenses like extra toiletries, clothes, extra hotel stays, or meals. Plus, medical emergencies and medical evacuations overseas can be costly and difficult to coordinate on your own. All these events are examples of what travel insurance would protect or cover!
"Travel insurance is becoming essential to travelers for the first time," says Terry Boynton, President, and Co-Founder of Yonder. "Most of the calls we receive daily are first-time travel insurance buyers. Our team of friendly humans maintains a 5-star rating on Google for a reason as they help address questions and concerns regarding travel." The experts at Yonder Travel Insurance have poured over hundreds of policies from the best travel insurance providers in the US to provide the best travel insurance recommendation for how YOU travel.
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American Fashion Designer Christian Siriano's Latest Collaboration Was Motivated by His Recent Home Renovation with Products from DXV's Luxurious Belshire Collection
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury kitchen and bathroom brand, DXV, today announced its partnership with iconic American fashion designer, Christian Siriano. Inspired by DXV's Belshire Collection, Siriano designed a limited-edition luxury bathrobe and hand towel set that honors the opulence and glamour of the nostalgic 1920s Golden Era. In celebration of this partnership, Siriano's models will be wearing the bathrobes backstage at his hotly anticipated New York Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2023 (NYFW) show.
Siriano was first introduced to DXV when renovating the primary bathroom of his 279-year-old Easton Connecticut home. When incorporating the Belshire Collection, the iconic fashion designer was struck by the thoughtfully crafted and beautifully detailed products that matched the meticulous workmanship found around his historic home. When DXV approached Siriano to collaborate on a limited-edition luxury bathrobe and hand towel set, the designer drew inspiration from his newly installed Belshire Collection to capture the richness and timelessness of the 1920s Golden Era.
"It has been such a pleasure partnering with DXV, which I believe emphasizes the many parallels that can be drawn between fashion and home design as vehicles for self-expression," said Christian Siriano. "Personalizing clothing and accessories empowers people to reveal their authentic selves, which we also see play out when people curate their living spaces. As I was designing my own space in Easton, DXV's timeless Belshire bathroom collection inspired me to explore the boundaries of home and fashion to create luxurious, wearable art."
Originally built in the 18th century, Siriano's Easton Connecticut home underwent a luxurious refresh in 2022. When designing a spa-like retreat in the primary bathroom, Siriano sought sophisticated products to fill the space, including DXV's Belshire Shower System and Low-Spout Faucet with Cross Handles. These lean, elegant pieces are rich in character and boast faceted edges that pay homage to the Art Deco movement from which they were modeled. In addition, these pieces feature precision engineering that not only promotes excellent longevity but helps ensure superior performance. Drawing inspiration from this collection, Siriano's bathrobe and hand towels boast a beautiful golden trim and one-of-a-kind geometric debossed fabric detailing. These design elements capture the spirit of 1920s Art Deco design and act not only as super luxe bathroom staples, but as pieces of art.
"Our partnership with Christian demonstrates the many similarities between our seemingly disparate worlds of bathroom and kitchen design, and luxury fashion," said Jean-Jacques L'Henaff, Leader, LIXIL Global Design, Americas. "We're incredibly impressed by Christian's innate ability to capture and translate interior design concepts into such gorgeous bathroom accessories. We can't wait to showcase this exclusive collection at New York Fashion Week and celebrate the beauty of bridging two design worlds."
The exclusive DXV x Christian Siriano bathrobe and hand towel set will perfectly accessorize Belshire Suite displays in select DXV showrooms nationwide, and will be gifted and worn by each model at Christian Siriano's NYFW Fall/Winter 2023 show. Additionally, DXV will be hosting in-person events in top markets where the exclusive towels and robes will be gifted to customers while supplies last.
ABOUT DXV
DXV is a portfolio of luxury bath and kitchen products that reimagines the most influential design movements of the past 150 years: Classic (1890-1920), Golden Era (1920-1950), Modern (1950-1990), and Contemporary (1990-Present). The brand has been recognized with more than 15 product innovation and design awards in the past four years. DXV is part of LIXIL, a global leader in housing and building materials, products and services. Learn more at www.dxv.com, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest.
ABOUT LIXIL
LIXIL (TSE Code 5938) makes pioneering water and housing products that solve everyday, real-life challenges, making better homes a reality for everyone, everywhere. Drawing on our Japanese heritage, we create world-leading technology and innovate to make high-quality products that transform homes. But the LIXIL difference is how we do this; through meaningful design, an entrepreneurial spirit, a dedication to improving accessibility for all, and responsible business growth. Our approach comes to life through industry-leading brands, including INAX, GROHE, American Standard, and TOSTEM, [as well as specialty brands such as DXV]. Approximately 55,000 colleagues operating in more than 150 countries are proud to make products that touch the lives of more than a billion people every day. Learn more at www.lixil.com and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of The Gap, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of GPS during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: November 24, 2021 to July 11, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there were execution missteps in size and assortment at Old Navy related to BODEQUALITY, the Company's size-inclusivity campaign, which were adversely impacting Old Navy's margins and financial results; (2) contrary to the Company's statements, there were inventory risks relating to BODEQUALITY that were adversely affecting the Company's operations; and as a result (3) the Company's statements during the class period about the historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of the Company, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis.
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Detroit Pistons coach search: Jarron Collins' defensive mind could make him perfect for job
The Detroit Pistons are still in the early stages of finding their next head coach. But two weeks into the process, strong candidates have emerged.
Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Charles Lee, New Orleans Pelicans assistant Jarron Collins and former UConn head coach Kevin Ollie have stood out and are expected to make the team’s second round of interviews, league sources confirmed to the Free Press. The team held Zoom interviews last week, and will meet with more candidates this week. Lee, Collins and Ollie will likely meet with the team again for an in-person interview round.
The Pistons are angling toward hiring a younger, more unproven coach compared to their previous two — Dwane Casey, who was 61 at the time of his hire, and then 54-year-old Stan Van Gundy. Both had held multiple NBA head coaching jobs prior. Lee, Collins and Ollie would all be first-time head coaches in the NBA. Ollie is the oldest of the bunch at 50, while Collins and Lee are 44 and 38, respectively.
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Let’s break down the backgrounds of each known candidate. We took a look at Lee on Wednesday. Next up: Jarron Collins.
He and his twin brother were longtime NBA players
Collins and his identical twin brother, Jason, were both drafted in 2001 after standout careers at Stanford. Jason was drafted 18th by the Houston Rockets before being traded to the New Jersey Nets, and Jarron went 52nd to the Utah Jazz. They both enjoyed long playing careers — Jason played 13 seasons for six franchises, and Jarron played 10 seasons for four teams.
In 2013, Jason became the first active male athlete in from one of the United States' four major professional leagues to come out as gay. He played his first game after coming out in February 2014, signing a 10-day contract with the Nets.
“Believe it or not, my family has had bigger shocks,” Jason wrote in his first-person Sports Illustrated cover story. "Strange as it seems today, my parents expected only one child in 1978. Me. When I came out (for the first time) the doctors congratulated my mother on her healthy, 7-pound, 1-ounce baby boy.
" 'Wait!' said a nurse. 'Here comes another one!' The other one, who arrived eight minutes later and three ounces heavier, was Jarron. He's followed me ever since, to Stanford and to the NBA, and as the ever-so-slightly older brother I've looked out for him.
“I didn't come out to my brother until last summer,” Jason later continued. “His reaction to my breakfast revelation was radically different from Aunt Teri's. He was downright astounded. He never suspected. So much for twin telepathy. But by dinner that night, he was full of brotherly love. For the first time in our lives, he wanted to step in and protect me.”
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He won three championships as a coach with the Warriors
After retiring as a player in 2011, Jarron Collins’ next job was as a scout for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2013. A year later, Steve Kerr hired him as a player development coach with the Golden State Warriors, who went on to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals that season.
Collins was promoted to an assistant coach in 2015 and was present for Golden State’s following two championships in 2017 and 2018. He left the Warriors in 2021, after two seasons coordinating their defense, to prioritize becoming a head coach or lead assistant elsewhere.
“This is about myself and my own personal growth," Collins told ESPN at the time. “I had a conversation with (head coach) Steve (Kerr) and the Warriors. I've been there seven years and coached Hall of Fame players. We've won championships. I learned so much. For me, this is about taking the next journey and next step in my career.
“Obviously, Steve Kerr is the head coach and Mike Brown is the lead assistant. It's time for me to step out and see whatever opportunities are out there for me.”
Collins was an integral part of Golden State’s success, but he was transparent about his desire to get to the next level. He has interviewed for multiple head coaching jobs over the last five years, including with the Memphis Grizzlies and Chicago Bulls. Pelicans head coach (and Detroit native and former Detroit Mercy standout) Willie Green, himself a former assistant under Kerr, hired Collins as an assistant in 2021.
"I'm going to really miss Jarron, both personally and professionally," Kerr told ESPN. "He's an excellent coach and a wonderful human being. It's going to be different without him around, but he deserves the chance to continue his growth with the goal of ultimately becoming a head coach in the NBA. Jarron has all the skills necessary. He's a great teacher and communicator, he's smart and funny, and he knows the game."
A defensive mind
In December 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle profiled Collins as he brought life to Golden State’s languishing defense. The Warriors, who finished with 15 wins that season, were without three of their most proven defenders — Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston and Klay Thompson — and Draymond Green and Kevon Looney had both missed significant time.
They were also without Stephen Curry, who suffered a hand injury after five games and missed the rest of the season. Collins leaned on the lessons learned during his 10-year playing career, where he wasn’t the most skilled player on the floor but was an impactful defender.
“For a player like myself, I had no choice: I had to think the game out there,” Collins said. “I didn’t have the level of athleticism that other guys had, but I could execute a game plan and do what my coaches asked me to do.”
The Warriors were ascending up the defensive rankings and upset the Houston Rockets on Christmas, 116-104, largely thanks to an aggressive defensive scheme that kept James Harden off of the free throw line by double-teaming him at the top of the key.
Their starting five? Green, D’Angelo Russell, Damion Lee, Glenn Robinson III and Willie Cauley-Stein. Green applauded Collins’ “(expletive) phenomenal game plan” afterward.
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Currently Marketed JUUL Products Must Be Removed from the US Market
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) to JUUL Labs Inc. for all of their products currently marketed in the United States. As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products. In addition, those currently on the U.S. market must be removed, or risk enforcement action. The products include the JUUL device and four types of JUULpods: Virginia tobacco flavored pods at nicotine concentrations of 5.0% and 3.0% and menthol flavored pods at nicotine concentrations of 5.0% and 3.0%. Retailers should contact JUUL with any questions about products in their inventory.
"Today's action is further progress on the FDA's commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "The agency has dedicated significant resources to review products from the companies that account for most of the U.S. market. We recognize these make up a significant part of the available products and many have played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping."
These MDOs only pertain to the commercial distribution, importation and retail sales of these products, and do not restrict individual consumer possession or use—the FDA cannot and will not enforce against individual consumer possession or use of JUUL products or any other tobacco products.
After reviewing the company's premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs), the FDA determined that the applications lacked sufficient evidence regarding the toxicological profile of the products to demonstrate that marketing of the products would be appropriate for the protection of the public health. In particular, some of the company's study findings raised concerns due to insufficient and conflicting data – including regarding genotoxicity and potentially harmful chemicals leaching from the company's proprietary e-liquid pods – that have not been adequately addressed and precluded the FDA from completing a full toxicological risk assessment of the products named in the company's applications.
To date, the FDA has not received clinical information to suggest an immediate hazard associated with the use of the JUUL device or JUULpods. However, the MDOs issued today reflect FDA's determination that there is insufficient evidence to assess the potential toxicological risks of using the JUUL products. There is also no way to know the potential harms from using other authorized or unauthorized third-party e-liquid pods with the JUUL device or using JUULpods with a non-JUUL device. The FDA recommends against modifying or adding substances to tobacco products. JUUL users are encouraged to report any unexpected health problems or product problems to the FDA through the Safety Reporting Portal and to seek medical attention as necessary.
"The FDA is tasked with ensuring that tobacco products sold in this country meet the standard set by the law, but the responsibility to demonstrate that a product meets those standards ultimately falls on the shoulders of the company," said Michele Mital, acting director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products. "As with all manufacturers, JUUL had the opportunity to provide evidence demonstrating that the marketing of their products meets these standards. However, the company did not provide that evidence and instead left us with significant questions. Without the data needed to determine relevant health risks, the FDA is issuing these marketing denial orders."
Any products subject to an MDO may not be offered for sale or distributed in the United States, or the FDA may take enforcement action.
In addition to ensuring that JUUL complies with this order, as with unauthorized products generally, the FDA intends to ensure compliance by distributors and retailers. Specifically, the FDA notes that all new tobacco products on the market without the statutorily required premarket authorization are marketed unlawfully and are subject to enforcement action.
As the FDA has stated in the past, unauthorized electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products for which no application is pending, including for example, those with an MDO, are among our highest enforcement priorities. Therefore, the FDA encourages retailers to discuss products in their inventory with their suppliers including the current status of any particular tobacco product's marketing application or marketing authorization. Manufacturers will be the best source of that information and retailers should rely on manufacturers directly to inform decisions about which products to continue selling.
There are many resources to help smokers who want to quit. Quitting all tobacco products is the best possible path to good health. Some current JUUL users who will not have access to JUUL products following this action or current smokers who want to transition away from cigarettes and cigars may decide to switch to other ENDS products that have been reviewed and authorized by the FDA based on their potential to benefit adult smokers.
To date, the FDA has authorized 23 ENDS products. Under the PMTA pathway, applicants must demonstrate to the agency, among other things, that permitting the marketing of the new tobacco product would be appropriate for the protection of the public health.
The FDA continues to work to complete its review of the remaining pending applications for deemed products submitted by the Sept. 9, 2020, deadline.
Additional Resources:
- Tobacco Products Marketing Orders
- Premarket Tobacco Product Applications
- Quitting Smoking and Other Tobacco Public Health Resources
- Safety Reporting Portal for Tobacco Products
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: Email or 888-INFO-FDA (888-463-0332)
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CHELMSFORD, Mass. — CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Harte-Hanks Inc. (HHS) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $21.8 million.
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- Sales Growth and Margin Expansion in Aerospace, Honeywell Building Technologies, and Performance Materials and Technologies
- Reported Sales up 2%, Organic Sales up 4%, Exceeding High End of Guidance Range
- Earnings Per Share of $1.84, Adjusted Earnings Per Share1 of $2.10, Exceeding High End of Guidance Range
- Orders up 12%; Backlog2 up 12% to $29.5 Billion, Led by Our Long-Cycle Businesses
- Deployed $2.3 Billion in Capital, including $1.4 Billion to Share Repurchases
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced results for the second quarter, which met or exceeded the company's guidance. The company also raised the low end of its full-year organic growth and adjusted EPS guidance ranges and raised its full-year segment margin guidance range.
The company reported second quarter organic sales growth of 4%, or 7% excluding the impact of lower COVID-mask volumes and the wind down of operations in Russia,3 exceeding the high end of the company's guidance range. Operating margin contracted by 20 basis points to 17.9% primarily due to an additional charge related to Russia. Segment margin expanded by 50 basis points to 20.9%, or 80 basis points excluding the year-over-year impact of Quantinuum. Adjusted earnings per share1 was $2.10, up 4% year over year and 2 cents above the high end of the company's guidance range. Operating cash flow was $0.8 billion, down 38% year over year, and free cash flow was $0.8 billion, down 43% year over year, due to higher working capital as expected ahead of anticipated volume growth in the back half.
"Honeywell met or exceeded guidance for all metrics in the second quarter despite a challenging macroeconomic backdrop," said Darius Adamczyk, chairman and chief executive officer of Honeywell. "Organic sales grew 4% led by strong double-digit growth in our commercial aerospace, building products, advanced sensing technologies, and advanced materials businesses. Aerospace, Honeywell Building Technologies, and Performance Materials and Technologies all grew organically and expanded margins in the quarter. While we recognize macro crosscurrents are clouding the global economic growth outlook, we remain confident in our demand outlook for the back half of the year with orders up 12% year over year and closing backlog2 of $29.5 billion, up 12% year over year, led by our long-cycle businesses, which will help drive growth for quarters to come. We once again demonstrated our operational agility by staying ahead of the inflation curve, enabling us to expand margins and beat the high end of our adjusted EPS guidance. We also continued to execute on our capital deployment strategy, deploying $2.3 billion in the quarter, including $1.4 billion of share repurchases."
Adamczyk continued, "As we have shown, our rigorous operating principles enable us to mitigate external challenges and deliver results that maximize shareholder value. The continued recovery of our key commercial aviation, defense, energy, and non-residential end markets, our commercial excellence, and our technologically differentiated portfolio of solutions will allow us to capitalize on near-term growth opportunities and remain highly resilient amid ongoing uncertainties."
As a result of the company's second-quarter performance and management's outlook for the remainder of the year, full-year sales are now expected to be in the range of $35.5 billion to $36.1 billion, up 5% to 7% organically, or up 7% to 9% excluding the one-point impact of COVID-driven mask sales declines and one-point impact of lost Russian sales. Segment margin expansion4 is now expected to be in the range of 30 to 70 basis points, including an approximate (30) basis point impact from investments in the Quantinuum business. Adjusted earnings per share4,5 is now expected to be in the range of $8.55 to $8.80. Operating cash flow is expected to be in the range of $5.5 billion to $5.9 billion, and free cash flow is expected to be $4.7 billion to $5.1 billion. A summary of the company's full year guidance changes can be found in Table 1.
Honeywell sales for the second quarter were up 2% year over year on a reported basis and 4% year over year on an organic basis. The second-quarter financial results can be found in Tables 2 and 3.
Aerospace sales for the second quarter were up 5% year over year on an organic basis. Commercial aftermarket demand improved in the second quarter as flight hours continued to increase, resulting in approximately 20% growth in both air transport aftermarket and business and general aviation aftermarket. Business and general aviation original equipment grew double digits, while air transport original equipment grew over 25% year over year as we continue to see strong build rates. Growth in commercial aerospace was partially offset by lower defense volumes. Segment margin expanded 80 basis points to 26.5% in the second quarter, led by commercial excellence partially offset by cost inflation.
Honeywell Building Technologies sales for the second quarter were up 14% on an organic basis year over year driven by strength in both building products and building solutions. Orders were up double digits for the second consecutive quarter, led by building projects, building management systems, and security products. Segment margin expanded 110 basis points to 23.5% due to pricing actions partially offset by cost inflation.
Performance Materials and Technologies sales for the second quarter were up 10% on an organic basis year over year despite an approximately 3% headwind from Russia. Sales growth was led by solid pricing and greater volumes in advanced materials, as well as strength in petrochemical catalyst shipments and thermal solutions, which both grew over 20% in the quarter. This growth was partially offset by lower equipment volumes and lost Russian sales in UOP. Segment margin expanded 150 basis points to 22.3%, primarily driven by price actions partially offset by cost inflation.
Safety and Productivity Solutions sales for the second quarter decreased 10% on an organic basis year over year as strength in advanced sensing technologies and productivity solutions and services was offset by lower personal protective equipment and warehouse automation volumes. Excluding the impact of lower COVID-mask volumes, organic sales decreased by 5% in the quarter. Advanced sensing technologies grew 25% and productivity solutions and services grew 19%, demonstrating excellent execution in a difficult supply constrained environment. Segment margin contracted 140 basis points to 12.6%, primarily driven by lower volume leverage, cost inflation, and a one-time write-down of excess COVID-related mask inventory, partially offset by pricing and a favorable licensing agreement with a competitor.
Honeywell will discuss its second-quarter results and updated full-year guidance during an investor conference call starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time today. A live webcast of the investor call as well as related presentation materials will be available through the Investor Relations section of the company's website (www.honeywell.com/investor). A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the presentation.
TABLE 1: FULL-YEAR 2022 GUIDANCE4
TABLE 2: SUMMARY OF HONEYWELL FINANCIAL RESULTS
TABLE 3: SUMMARY OF SEGMENT FINANCIAL RESULTS
1Adjusted EPS and adjusted EPS V% exclude charges and the accrual of reserves related to foreign exchange revaluation, inventory reserves, the write-down of other assets, impairment of property, plant and equipment, employee severance, and a tax valuation allowance, related to the initial suspension and wind down of our businesses and operations in Russia, expenses related to UOP matters, changes in fair value for Garrett equity securities, and a non-cash charge associated with the reduction in value of reimbursement receivables following Garrett's emergence from bankruptcy on April 30, 2021.
2Effective March 31, 2022, performance obligations exclude contracts with customers related to Russia as collectability is not reasonably assured. Backlog V% includes prior year revisions to reflect a prior period correction, which had no impact on our results of operations.
3Lost Russian sales is defined as the year-over-year decline in sales due to the decision to wind down our businesses and operations in Russia. This does not reflect management's estimate of 2022 Russian sales absent the decision to wind down our businesses and operations in Russia.
4As discussed in the notes to the attached reconciliations, we do not provide guidance for margin or EPS on a GAAP basis.
5Adjusted EPS guidance excludes charges and the accrual of reserves related to outstanding accounts receivable and contract assets, impairment of intangible assets, foreign exchange revaluation, inventory reserves, the write-down of other assets, impairment of property, plant and equipment, employee severance, and a tax valuation allowance, related to the initial suspension and wind down of our businesses and operations in Russia, expenses related to UOP matters, and any potential future one-time items that we cannot reliably predict or estimate such as pension mark-to-market.
6Adjusted EPS V% guidance excludes charges and the accrual of reserves related to outstanding accounts receivable and contract assets, impairment of intangible assets, foreign exchange revaluation, inventory reserves, the write-down of other assets, impairment of property, plant and equipment, employee severance, and a tax valuation allowance, related to the initial suspension and wind down of our businesses and operations in Russia, expenses related to UOP matters, pension mark-to-market, changes in fair value for Garrett equity securities, a non-cash charge associated with the reduction in value of reimbursement receivables following Garrett's emergence from bankruptcy on April 30, 2021, gain on the sale of the retail footwear business, and any potential future one-time items that we cannot reliably predict or estimate.
7Adjusted free cash flow conversion is free cash flow (cash flow from operations less capital expenditures plus cash receipts from Garrett) divided by adjusted net income attributable to Honeywell. Adjusted net income attributable to Honeywell excludes charges and the accrual of reserves related to foreign exchange revaluation, inventory reserves, the write-down of other assets, impairment of property, plant and equipment, employee severance, and a tax valuation allowance, related to the initial suspension and wind down of our businesses and operations in Russia, expenses related to UOP matters, changes in fair value for Garrett equity securities, and a non-cash charge associated with a reduction in value of reimbursement receivables following Garrett's emergence from bankruptcy on April 30, 2021.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help everything from aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
Honeywell uses our Investor Relations website, www.honeywell.com/investor, as a means of disclosing information which may be of interest or material to our investors and for complying with disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, investors should monitor our Investor Relations website, in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, webcasts, and social media.
This release contains certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are those that address activities, events or developments that management intends, expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. They are based on management's assumptions and assessments in light of past experience and trends, current economic and industry conditions, expected future developments and other relevant factors. They are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results, developments and business decisions may differ significantly from those envisaged by our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update or revise any of our forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities law. Our forward-looking statements are also subject to risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, that can affect our performance in both the near- and long-term. In addition, no assurance can be given that any plan, initiative, projection, goal commitment, expectation, or prospect set forth in this release can or will be achieved. Any forward-looking plans described herein are not final and may be modified or abandoned at any time. We identify the principal risks and uncertainties that affect our performance in our Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
This release contains financial measures presented on a non-GAAP basis. Honeywell's non-GAAP financial measures used in this release are as follows:
- Segment profit, on an overall Honeywell basis, a measure by which we assess operating performance, which we define as operating income adjusted for certain items as presented in the Appendix;
- Segment profit excluding Quantinuum, which we define as segment profit excluding segment profit attributable to Quantinuum;
- Segment margin, on an overall Honeywell basis, which we define as segment profit divided by net sales;
- Segment margin excluding Quantinuum, which we define as segment profit excluding Quantinuum divided by net sales excluding Quantinuum;
- Expansion in segment profit margin percentage, which we define as the year-over-year increase in segment profit margin percentage;
- Expansion in segment profit margin percentage excluding Quantinuum, which we define as the year-over-year increase in segment profit margin percentage excluding Quantinuum;
- Organic sales growth, which we define as net sales growth less the impacts from foreign currency translation, and acquisitions and divestitures for the first 12 months following transaction date;
- Organic sales growth excluding COVID-driven masks, which we define as organic sales excluding any sales attributable to COVID-driven masks;
- Organic sales growth excluding COVID-driven mask sales and lost Russian sales, which we define as organic sales growth excluding any sales attributable to COVID-driven mask sales and substantial suspension and wind down of operations in Russia;
- Free cash flow, which we define as cash flow from operations less capital expenditures plus cash receipts from Garrett, if and as noted in the release;
- Free cash flow excluding Quantinuum which we define as free cash flow less free cash flow attributable to Quantinuum;
- Adjusted net income attributable to Honeywell, which we define as net income attributable to Honeywell which we adjust to exclude: charges and the accrual of reserves related to foreign exchange revaluation, inventory reserves, the write-down of other assets, impairment of property, plant and equipment, employee severance, and a tax valuation allowance related to the initial suspension and wind down of our businesses and operations in Russia, expenses related to UOP matters, changes in fair value for Garrett equity securities, and a non-cash charge associated with a reduction in value of reimbursement receivables following Garrett's emergence from bankruptcy on April 30, 2021, if and as noted in the release;
- Adjusted free cash flow conversion, which we define as free cash flow divided by adjusted net income attributable to Honeywell; and
- Adjusted earnings per share, which we adjust to exclude: charges and the accrual of reserves related to outstanding accounts receivable and contract assets, impairment of intangible assets, foreign exchange revaluation, inventory reserves, the write-down of other assets, impairment of property, plant and equipment, employee severance, and a tax valuation allowance, related to the initial suspension and wind down of our businesses and operations in Russia, expenses related to UOP matters, pension mark-to-market, changes in fair value for Garrett equity securities, a non-cash charge associated with the reduction in value of reimbursement receivables following Garrett's emergence from bankruptcy on April 30, 2021, and a gain on the sale of the retail footwear business, if and as noted in the release.
Management believes that, when considered together with reported amounts, these measures are useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in the analysis of ongoing operating trends. These metrics should be considered in addition to, and not as replacements for, the most comparable GAAP measure. Certain metrics presented on a non-GAAP basis represent the impact of adjusting items net of tax. The tax-effect for adjusting items is determined individually and on a case-by-case basis. Refer to the Appendix attached to this release for reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.
We define organic sales percent as the year-over-year change in reported sales relative to the comparable period, excluding the impact on sales from foreign currency translation and acquisitions, net of divestitures, for the first 12 months following the transaction date. We believe this measure is useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in analysis of ongoing operating trends.
We define organic sales growth excluding COVID-driven mask sales as organic sales growth excluding any sales attributable to COVID-driven mask sales. We define organic sales growth excluding COVID-driven mask sales and lost Russian sales as organic sales growth excluding any sales attributable to COVID-driven mask sales and substantial suspension and wind down of operations in Russia. We believe organic sales growth excluding COVID-driven mask sales, and organic sales growth excluding COVID-driven mask sales and lost Russian sales are useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in analysis of ongoing operating trends.
A quantitative reconciliation of reported sales percent change to organic sales percent change has not been provided for forward-looking measures of organic sales percent change, organic sales percent change excluding COVID-driven masks or organic sales percent change excluding COVID-driven masks and lost Russian sales because management cannot reliably predict or estimate, without unreasonable effort, the fluctuations in global currency markets that impact foreign currency translation, nor is it reasonable for management to predict the timing, occurrence and impact of acquisition and divestiture transactions, all of which could significantly impact our reported sales percent change.
We define segment profit as operating income, excluding stock compensation expense, pension and other postretirement service costs, and repositioning and other charges. We define segment profit excluding Quantinuum as segment profit excluding segment profit attributable to Quantinuum. We believe these measures are useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in analysis of ongoing operating trends.
We define expansion in segment profit margin percentage as the year-over-year increase in segment profit margin percentage. We define expansion in segment profit margin percentage excluding Quantinuum as the year-over-year increase in segment profit margin percentage excluding Quantinuum. We believe these measures are useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in analysis of ongoing operating trends.
A quantitative reconciliation of segment profit and segment profit excluding the impact of Quantinuum, on an overall Honeywell basis, to operating income has not been provided for all forward-looking measures of segment profit and segment margin included herewithin. Management cannot reliably predict or estimate, without unreasonable effort, the impact and timing on future operating results arising from items excluded from segment profit. The information that is unavailable to provide a quantitative reconciliation could have a significant impact on our reported financial results. To the extent quantitative information becomes available without unreasonable effort in the future, and closer to the period to which the forward-looking measures pertain, a reconciliation of segment profit to operating income will be included within future filings.
We believe adjusted earnings per share is a measure that is useful to investors and management in understanding our ongoing operations and in analysis of ongoing operating trends. For forward looking information, management cannot reliably predict or estimate, without unreasonable effort, the pension mark-to-market expense as it is dependent on macroeconomic factors, such as interest rates and the return generated on invested pension plan assets. We therefore do not include an estimate for the pension mark-to-market expense. Based on economic and industry conditions, future developments and other relevant factors, these assumptions are subject to change.
We define free cash flow as cash provided by operating activities less cash expenditures for property, plant and equipment plus cash receipts from Garrett. We define adjusted free cash flow conversion as free cash flow divided by adjusted net income attributable to Honeywell.
We believe that free cash flow is a non-GAAP metric that is useful to investors and management as a measure of cash generated by operations that will be used to repay scheduled debt maturities and can be used to invest in future growth through new business development activities or acquisitions, pay dividends, repurchase stock or repay debt obligations prior to their maturities. This metric can also be used to evaluate our ability to generate cash flow from operations and the impact that this cash flow has on our liquidity.
We define free cash flow as cash provided by operating activities less cash expenditures for property, plant and equipment plus anticipated cash receipts from Garrett. We define free cash flow excluding Quantinuum as free cash flow less free cash flow attributable to Quantinuum.
We believe that free cash flow and free cash flow excluding Quantinuum are non-GAAP metrics that are useful to investors and management as a measure of cash generated by operations that will be used to repay scheduled debt maturities and can be used to invest in future growth through new business development activities or acquisitions, pay dividends, repurchase stock or repay debt obligations prior to their maturities. This metric can also be used to evaluate our ability to generate cash flow from operations and the impact that this cash flow has on our liquidity.
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How to Watch the Knicks vs. Heat: Streaming & TV Channel Info for Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 2
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 12:40 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
In Game 2 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs, the New York Knicks will face the Miami Heat.
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Knicks vs. Heat Game Info
- When: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- Where: Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York
- TV: TNT
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Knicks vs Heat Additional Info
Knicks Stats Insights
- The Knicks make 47% of their shots from the field this season, which is 1.2 percentage points lower than the Heat have allowed to their opponents (48.2%).
- In games New York shoots higher than 48.2% from the field, it is 21-12 overall.
- The Knicks are the second-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Heat sit at 27th.
- The Knicks average 6.2 more points per game (116) than the Heat allow (109.8).
- New York is 35-19 when scoring more than 109.8 points.
Heat Stats Insights
- The Heat's 46% shooting percentage from the field this season is the same as the Knicks have given up to their opponents.
- Miami has put together a 25-12 straight-up record in games it shoots above 46.2% from the field.
- The Heat are the 27th-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Knicks sit at third.
- The Heat score an average of 109.5 points per game, only 3.6 fewer points than the 113.1 the Knicks give up to opponents.
- Miami is 19-6 when it scores more than 113.1 points.
Knicks Home & Away Comparison
- The Knicks are putting up 117.3 points per game in home games. When playing on the road, they are averaging 114.8 points per contest.
- New York cedes 113 points per game in home games this season, compared to 113.2 away from home.
- In terms of total three-pointers made, the Knicks have performed worse at home this season, sinking 12.3 treys per game, compared to 13 in road games. Meanwhile, they've produced a 35.7% three-point percentage when playing at home and a 35.1% clip away from home.
Heat Home & Away Comparison
- At home the Heat are better offensively, averaging 111.4 points per game, compared to 107.5 away. But they're not as good defensively, conceding 110.2 points per game at home, and 109.3 on the road.
- Miami is giving up more points at home (110.2 per game) than away (109.3).
- The Heat average 0.1 more assists per game at home (23.9) than on the road (23.8).
Knicks Injuries
Heat Injuries
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A year after issuing the first BRAG Index, BRAG Index 3 shows how brands like Tubi, Audiomack, TikTok, Temu, and Hopper succeeded in Q1 2023 despite a tumultuous year for mobile apps
AUSTIN, Texas , June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Turbine and Apptopia today announced that one year after revealing the inaugural edition of the BRAG Index at Mobile Apps Unlocked (MAU), the newly released BRAG Index 3 continues to uncover the relationship between brand building and user growth for mobile apps. Like the previous two reports, the third installment combines analytics of both UA growth and full-funnel brand performance - resulting in the first and only report that informs "Brand Relative App Growth" for Q1 2023.
Beyond just the results, the report also identifies common winning strategies that leading apps use to break their brand barrier. The initial BRAG Index gave us three strategies: Product-Led Growth, Device Integration, and Offline Partnerships. One year later, the first two of these strategies continue to drive success for mobile apps, while the third, Offline Partnerships, has evolved into Community Marketing.
The BRAG Index 3 also brings to light a 4th winning strategy around Ad Execution. Following Apple's restriction of IDFA, UA marketers have had to define new ways to reach and engage their target markets effectively. That has involved significant investment in changing how they advertise, raising their levels of creativity, and exploring new ways to spread their messages.
"Digital Turbine and Apptopia have created an index that exposes the winning strategies that allow apps to punch above their weight," says mobile analyst and influencer Peggy Anne Salz (who also contributed to the report foreword). "The index is also more pertinent than ever because it provides marketers with an understanding of how brand and growth are interlocked and a roadmap to learn, adapt and apply these approaches for themselves."
One app that exploded early in 2023 was Temu, the top BRAG-er for Shopping, which is an example of how effective Ad Execution can elevate an app brand and grow users. While the brand wasn't known to mass audiences until it revealed its Super Bowl ad in February, it was quietly setting the groundwork with months of UA acquisition before the spot. When people looked at the app after seeing the ad, they saw an app that already had a lot of great reviews.
One of the two strategies that continue to drive success over the past year is Product-Led Growth. Tubi, the top BRAG-er in Streaming Video, lets its product lead user growth and brand-building in two ways: 1) Being "free" of charge, attracting those not willing to pay subscription fees, and 2) Letting users talk about their positive experiences. Tubi's positive app review sentiment of 92% encourages new users to see the app, where they will find no cost barrier to trying it.
The other prevailing strategy from a year ago is Device Integration. TikTok, the top BRAG-er for social media, has found ways to make its app easy to discover, like pre-installing it on new devices. Since the app uses "frictionless" discovery for people to find new videos, extending that ease of discovery to the app itself has led to transcendent brand-building and UA growth.
Finally, Community Marketing is the fourth common strategy leading brands use to create winning apps in 2023. One year ago, the initial BRAG Index found that brands used partnerships with sports teams and social media influencers to drive growth, primarily offline. Over the last year, we've seen this extend to a more nuanced strategy of targeting specific market segments through digital channels. For example, Beat Maker Pro was one of our Top BRAG-ers for Streaming Music thanks to creating viral marketing campaigns with DJs, their primary target audience.
Get your copy of the BRAG Index 3 here: https://digitalturbine.apptopia.com/brag-index-report
How to Learn More About the BRAG Index
Digital Turbine is launching a video podcast series called "Mobile Explorers" with Peggy Anne Salz in July. The series will focus on how CMOs and performance marketers are approaching building their brands and users in a competitive mobile landscape.
Peggy Anne Salz will also speak at the App Promotion Summit in NYC tomorrow, June 22, 2023, along with several top-scoring BRAG-ers from the BRAG Index 3: Audiomack, Hopper, Life360, and Spotify.
About Digital Turbine
Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world's leading telcos, advertisers, and publishers. Our end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies our partners' ability to supercharge their awareness, acquisition, and monetization — connecting them with more consumers, in more ways, across more devices. Digital Turbine is headquartered in North America, with offices around the world. For more about Digital Turbine: www.digitalturbine.com
About Apptopia
Apptopia is a leader in real-time competitive intelligence. Brands and financial firms use our platform to generate insights across mobile apps and connected devices. Powered by machine learning technology, we collect and analyze billions of complex data points to surface critical business signals. Leading brands including Visa, Target, and Microsoft rely on Apptopia to better understand consumer behavior and intent across app-based devices to gain a competitive advantage. Financial analysts access our data analytics to generate revenue estimates, monitor consumer engagement across devices, and gain insight into competitive positioning. Visit apptopia.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter to see our insights.
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SOUTHWICK — In an effort to avoid unwanted litigation, Select Board member Jason Perron has been working for several months on language to create a policy that would guide the town on flags that could be flown in front of Town Hall.
“It’s a work in progress,” Perron said about the proposed policy.
He said the motivation for drafting a policy outlining what flags can be flown on the single pole at Town Hall came from a lawsuit filed against the city of Boston in 2017. A Christian group sued after Boston officials refused to fly its flag on one of three poles at Boston City Hall. | 2023-03-25T09:16:01+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/westfieldnews/2023/03/flag-flying-policy-a-work-in-progress-says-southwick-select-board-member.html |
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — For the 33rd year, NewsChannel 9 presents “A Movie with a Mission” to fight hunger and homelessness in support of the Rescue Mission Alliance of Syracuse.
>>Donate here to the Rescue Mission
“A Movie with a Mission” can be seen on NewsChannel 9 from Noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. The show will also be streamed live in the player above.
This year’s holiday classic is “A Christmas Wish,” starring Jimmy Durante.
While you are enjoying the movie, there will be pledge breaks showcasing Rescue Mission services in the community.
Those watching will be able to lend support to the Rescue Mission.
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Former President Donald Trump’s rivals are upping the pressure on him to take part in next month’s GOP primary debate, seeking to draw the front-runner onto a crowded stage as they look to put a dent in his polling lead.
Trump has repeatedly signaled he is leaning against attending the first debate, scheduled for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, arguing there’s no reason for him to stand on stage and absorb attacks given his comfortable lead in national polls.
But several other candidates, some of them in need of a signature moment or a way to contrast themselves directly with Trump, have publicly chided the former president for suggesting he may duck the debate.
Their arguments have included accusing Trump of cowardice if he does not show up, contending the former president has to earn the nomination in part through the debates, and, in the case of the Republican National Committee (RNC), maintaining that voters deserve to hear from all candidates at party-sponsored events.
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“The other candidates want him to be there because, for one thing, it juices interest and ratings in the debate itself if Trump is participating, and they are hoping to attract some attention to themselves, and they won’t be able to attract as much if fewer people are watching,” said David Hopkins, an associate professor of political science at Boston College.
“Without Trump on the stage then it underscores the extent to which the rest of the candidates are in some sense in competition with each other to become the main alternative to Trump,” Hopkins added.
While Republicans running against Trump have at times been reluctant to criticize the former president, fearful of upsetting his loyal base of supporters, they have shown no such qualms about swiping at Trump for his threat to duck the event.
“Nobody’s entitled to be nominated. You gotta earn it. And I think he should show up and make his case and answer questions like the rest of us,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who has typically polled in second behind Trump, said in a Wednesday night interview with Newsmax.
Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who has gained momentum in recent polling, has embraced Trump at nearly every turn of the campaign. But when asked in recent weeks about the potential for Trump to sit out the debate, Ramaswamy told NBC News, “I’m not going to let him get away with that.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who has positioned himself as Trump’s chief antagonist, has repeatedly gone after the former president for the suggestion that he may sit out the first debate.
Christie has asked if Trump is a “coward” in response to his suggestion that he will skip the debate, while at other times suggesting Trump’s own ego will not allow the former president to miss the chance to be at the center of attention.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has said he would “relish” the opportunity to debate Trump, while Nikki Haley, who previously served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, said this week that Trump owes it to voters to get on stage and address his mounting legal problems.
“In every campaign ever, the trailing candidates want to debate the front-runner,” said Alex Conant, who worked on Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) 2016 presidential bid. “The status quo is not great for any candidate not named Trump. Their hope is he shows up at the debate, does poorly and creates an opening for his challengers.”
Trump has for months threatened to skip at least the first two GOP debates. As recently as last weekend, he indicated he was still inclined not to attend.
“When you have a big lead, you don’t do it,” Trump told Fox News. “Why would you let somebody that’s at zero or at one or two or three be popping you with questions?”
But there are risks for Trump in sitting out the debate. It would allow his competitors a chance at the spotlight without the former president dominating the proceedings, and candidates would be able to take free swings at Trump without fear of an immediate counterpunch.
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the RNC, said Wednesday she’s made the case directly to Trump that he should participate in the first debate, which is sponsored by the party and will air on Fox News.
While it’s in the party’s interest to have Trump on stage, both because he’s the front-runner and because it would boost ratings, McDaniel argued there are also short- and long-term benefits for the former president himself.
“One, short-term, you want to win the nomination. You’ve got to get in front of those primary voters,” McDaniel said on Fox News. “But for me, it’s another part of it, which is if you end up getting the nomination for any of these candidates, this is an audience of 20 million people plus.” | 2023-07-21T15:09:11+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/trumps-gop-primary-rivals-ramp-up-pressure-on-him-to-debate/ |
The Chicago White Sox face the Cincinnati Reds in a regular season game on Friday, May 5, 2023 (5/5/23) at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fans can watch the game on Apple TV+, which offers a free trial. The game will not air on a cable or network TV station.
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Here’s what you need to know:
What: MLB regular season
Who: Chicago White Sox vs. Cincinnati Reds
When: Friday, May 5, 2023
Where: Great American Ballpark
Time: 6:30 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
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Live stream: Apple TV+ (free trial)
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Here’s a recent MLB story from the AP:
Apple TV+ will begin its second season of “Friday Night Baseball” on April 7. The Chicago Cubs will host the Texas Rangers in a day game, followed by the San Diego Padres facing the Atlanta Braves.
Apple will carry twin bills over 25 weeks with no local blackout restrictions. In a change from last year, when there were doubleheaders on the East and West coasts, both games will be going on simultaneously most weeks.
Fans in 60 countries will be able to access the games, which were available in only 12 last season. An Apple TV+ subscription is required, unlike last season.
The biggest broadcast change fans will notice is a two-person booth instead of three. Wayne Randazzo will team with Dontrelle Willis for one of the crews with Alex Faust and Ryan Spilborghs pairing for the other. Heidi Watney and Tricia Whitaker will be field reporters.
Apple heard criticism last year that the three-person booth was not focusing enough on the games.
With plenty of rules changes this season, including the banning of shifts and a pitch clock, former umpires Brian Gorman and Dale Scott have been hired to be rules analysts during games.
Pregame and postgame coverage will be hosted by Lauren Gardner, along with Siera Santos. Xavier Scruggs, Matt Joyce and Russell Dorsey will be analysts.
Apple and MLB have announced the game schedule through late June. The Milwaukee Brewers have the most appearances with four while the Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners and Pittsburgh Pirates will each be on three times.
The defending World Series champion Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees have two appearances.
Baseball was the first live sport that Apple carried last year. It since has added Major League Soccer.
Restaurants, bars, hotels and other commercial establishments that have DirecTV for Business will be able to carry the Apple TV+ games on their satellite equipment. DirecTV for Business also has the same arrangement with MLS for its Season Pass package as well as Amazon Prime Video for NFL “Thursday Night Football.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gilbert Mata woke up excited Tuesday for the first day of school since a gunman’s bullet tore through his leg three months ago in a fourth grade classroom in Uvalde.
The 10-year-old has healed from his physical wounds, but burning smells still remind him of gunfire and the sight of many police officers recalls the day in May that an assailant killed 19 of his classmates and two teachers.
On a morning that many Uvalde families had dreaded, a new school year began in the small South Texas town with big hugs on sidewalks, patrol cars parked at every corner and mothers wiping away tears while pulling away from the curb in the drop-off line.
Mata was ready to return, this time with his own cellphone. His mother, Corina Comacho, had a tougher time letting her child go back to class.
“There’s a certain time he can get his phone out and text us he’s OK,” she said after walking him into a new school, Flores Elementary, and dropping him off behind doors with new locks. “That’s like, ‘OK, that’s good. Now I feel better.'”
Outside Uvalde Elementary, teachers in matching turquoise shirts emblazoned with “Together We Rise & Together We Are Better” gently led students through a newly installed 8-foot (2.4-meter) fence and past a state trooper standing outside the front entrance.
“Good morning, sunshine!” greeted one teacher. “You ready to have a good school year?”
Robb Elementary, where the attack unfolded on May 24, is permanently closed and will eventually be demolished.
A large memorial of stuffed animals, victims’ photographs and crosses remains outside the scene of one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
Outside the other schools in Uvalde — which are only a short drive away — some added safety measures that the district rushed to implement after the attack were incomplete.
Security cameras are still in the works. New metal fencing surrounds some campuses, partially encloses others and isn’t up at all at Flores Elementary, where many Robb students are enrolled this year.
The attack lasted more than 70 minutes before police finally confronted the gunman and killed him. The delay infuriated parents and led to a damning report by state lawmakers. Now more police are on patrol, but distrust is rampant.
“There’s a big ol’ gap right here. Anyone can walk through,” said Celeste Ibarra, 30, pointing to the new barrier around Uvalde Elementary while standing in her front yard across the street.
Ibarra’s older daughter, 9-year-old Aubriella Melchor, was in Robb Elementary during the shooting and seemed to drag out Tuesday morning as long as possible, taking longer than usual to get dressed and poking at her breakfast. When back-to-school shopping rolled around, she didn’t want to go to Walmart, and the glittery pencils Ibarra bought to get her daughter excited didn’t work.
“She kind of just played with her cereal,” Ibarra said after dropping her off. “She was thinking. I know she was scared.”
Uvalde is off to a late start for school: Classes resumed weeks ago in many parts of Texas, where other districts encouraged students and teachers Tuesday to show support by wearing Uvalde’s maroon colors. “We are all standing with you,” first lady Jill Biden tweeted.
Uvalde pushed back the first day of class after a summer of heartache, anger and revelations that nearly 400 officers who rushed to the scene waited so long to go inside the classroom.
Steve McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, called the response an “abject failure,” and the district fired school Police Chief Pete Arredondo last month after he was blamed for the slow law enforcement response.
As the new school year got underway, the DPS said Tuesday that five of its officers had been referred to the agency’s inspector general over their action during the shooting. The referrals are the result of an internal review, spokesman Travis Considine said. Two of the five have been suspended with pay pending the outcome of the inspector general’s investigation.
The department had more than 90 troopers and officers at the scene of Robb Elementary, more than any other agency.
The agency also made public a letter McCraw sent in July, saying that DPS officers should treat anyone who opens fire at a school as an active shooter, not a “barricaded subject.”
“We will provide proper training and guidelines for recognizing and overcoming poor command decisions at an active shooter scene,” the letter said.
Over the summer, more than 100 students in Uvalde signed up for virtual learning. Others transferred to private schools. Elsa Avila, a fourth grade teacher who was shot in the abdomen and survived, missed the first day of school Tuesday for the first time in 30 years.
For Mata’s family, virtual school wasn’t really in the conversation: Gilbert didn’t do well with online classes during the pandemic. And besides, he wanted to go to Flores Elementary with his friends, said his mother and Michael Martinez, his stepfather.
Mata is one of 11 survivors of the classroom whose families stay in touch, Comacho said. A ricocheted bullet went through his ankle and calf in Room 112.
The extra security measures have brought little comfort to Martinez, who tried to put off everything when it came to the first day. “I wasn’t ready for him to go back to school, but he says he was,” Martinez said.
During an open house at Flores Elementary, Martinez said when he pressed a teacher about how the staff would protect students this time, the response was an unsatisfactory rundown about new locks.
“He didn’t answer me what I really asked him. Like, how are you going to help? How are you going to save my kid if something happens?” Martinez said. “He didn’t give me what I wanted to hear.”
Admittedly, Martinez said, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to hear. He just knows he wasn’t reassured.
“I just wanted to hear something to make my mind change,” he said.
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For more AP coverage of the Uvalde school shooting: https://apnews.com/hub/uvalde-school-shooting. | 2022-09-21T11:15:13+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-uvalde-school-year-starts-amid-fear-and-unfinished-security/ |
STILLWATER, Okla. – No. 6 Texas took a key step toward moving past the Chris Beard era on Saturday.
Beard, who faces a felony domestic family violence charge stemming from a Dec. 12 incident involving his fiancée, was fired Thursday. Texas said in a letter to his attorney that Beard was “unfit” for the position.
With interim coach Rodney Terry at the helm, the Longhorns focused on basketball. Marcus Carr scored 12 points in Texas' 56-46 win over Oklahoma State, and Texas (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) improved to 6-1 under Terry.
“I’m proud of our guys," Terry said. “And I said to them the other day, probably more than any team in the country, this group has really stuck together and persevered through some adversity and some challenges. ... They’ve really focused on what they can control and I think just kind of locked in and enjoyed playing with each other and being around each other every day.”
Texas bounced back from Tuesday's 116-103 loss to Kansas State, despite shooting just 31.5% from the field against Oklahoma State. The Longhorns held the Cowboys to 30.4% shooting.
“We said that we needed to have a gritty team today," Terry said. "You know, the team that was going to come in and play their hardest today and really try to max out defensively was going to have a chance to win this game today.”
Kalib Boone had 16 points, 10 rebounds and six blocks for Oklahoma State (9-6, 1-2), which narrowly lost to now-No. 3 Kansas on Dec. 31 and had a solid win over West Virginia before Saturday's loss.
Oklahoma State's Moussa Cisse, the 7-foot-1 forward who leads the Big 12 with 9.9 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game, missed the game with an ankle injury.
“We missed him throughout the overall game, both offense and defense," guard John-Michael Wright said. “He’s a big presence.”
Texas led 32-24 at halftime despite shooting 32.1% before the break. Eight Longhorns scored in the first half, but none posted more than five points. Texas held Oklahoma State to 33.3% shooting and outscored the Cowboys 12-7 from the free-throw line in the first 20 minutes.
An alley-oop dunk by Boone cut Texas' lead to 43-41, and Caleb Asberry followed with a 3-pointer that finally gave the Cowboys a 44-43 lead with 8:20 remaining.
Oklahoma State didn't make another field goal. A 3-pojnter by Texas' Brock Cunningham with about two minutes remaining put the Longhorns up 53-46, the highlight of their 12-1 run over the final six minutes to end the game.
BIG PICTURE
Texas: It was a good defensive effort for the Longhorns coming off a game in which they gave up the most points they had ever allowed in a Big 12 game.
“We won this game on Thursday, not today on Saturday," Terry said. "We won it back in Austin. You know, we came off a tough loss at home and we didn’t play very good defense in that ballgame and kind of got away from our identity.”
Oklahoma State: Even without one of their top players, the Cowboys hung tough against a top-10 team that had been averaging 84.1 points per game.
BLOCK PARTY
Even without Cisse, Oklahoma State blocked 12 shots. Boone's six swats matched a career high and forward Tyreek Smith matched his career best with three.
UP NEXT
Texas: Hosts TCU on Wednesday.
Oklahoma State: Visits Kansas State on Tuesday.
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Relentless rain floods roads in Northeast, leads to evacuations, rescues
NEW YORK (AP) - Heavy rain washed out roads and forced evacuations in the Northeast on Monday as more downpours were forecast throughout the day. One person in New York drowned as she was trying to leave her home.
The slow-moving storm reached New England in the morning after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut. Heavy downpours with possible flash flooding were forecast in parts of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.
One of the worst hit places was New York's Hudson Valley, where rescuers found the body of a woman in her 30s whose home was surrounded by water. The force of the flash flooding dislodged boulders, which rammed the woman’s house and damaged part of its wall, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus told The Associated Press. Two other people escaped.
"She was trying to get through (the flooding) with her dog," Neuhaus said, "and she was overwhelmed by tidal-wave type waves."
He said many roads and bridges were washed out. Officials believed everyone was accounted for, but they were trying to reach people to make sure they were OK.
Officials say the storm has already wrought tens of millions of dollars in damage. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said at a news conference Monday that the storm sent "cars swirling in our streets" and dumped a "historic" amount of rain.
"Nine inches of rain in this community," Hochul said during a briefing on a muddy street in Highland Falls.
Hochul announced a state of emergency Sunday for Orange County. That included the town of Cornwall, near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, where many roads were flooded and closed off.
The storm also interrupted air and rail travel. As of early Monday, there were hundreds of flight cancellations at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports and more than 200 canceled at Boston's Logan Airport in the last 24 hours, according to the Flightaware website. Amtrak temporarily suspended service between Albany and New York. In Vermont, some 25 state roads were closed.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said swift-water rescue teams from North Carolina were in the state, and one from Massachusetts was on its way.
"This is an all-hands-on-deck response," he said at a Monday press conference.
Scott was referring to Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, when the state got 11 inches (28 centimeters) of rain in 24 hours. Irene killed six in the state, washed homes off their foundations and damaged or destroyed more than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway.
Scott declared a state of emergency on Sunday. Some campers and people caught in their homes were rescued in central and southern Vermont, said Mark Bosma, spokesperson for the state emergency management office.
By the morning, some towns reported 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.35 centimeters to 10.16 centimeters) of rain since midnight, and similar totals were expected during the day, said Robert Haynes, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Burlington, Vermont.
"We still look like we’re on track for that potentially significant, locally catastrophic flooding," Haynes said.
"This is one of those unique events that we don’t see very often around here," meteorologist Marlon Verasamy in Burlington said of Monday's storm.
He said the ground was already saturated and rivers were relatively high from recent heavy rains. Parts of southern Vermont had mudslides and road flooding from a storm Friday night into Saturday morning.
Several communities in western Massachusetts have reported flooded and washed out roads, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said Monday.
The fire departments in Adams, North Adams and Clarksburg in the northwestern part of the state close to the New York and Vermont borders are also assisting homeowners with in pumping out basements, spokesperson Sara Porter said.
A portion of Route 57 in Tolland was also flooded, she said. In Williamsburg, firefighters were trying to rescue someone who had become trapped in their home by floodwaters, emergency manager Denise Banister said.
BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and HALLIE GOLDEN, with the Associated Press, helped contribute to this report. | 2023-07-10T19:03:32+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/relentless-rain-floods-roads-in-northeast-leads-to-evacuations-rescues |
With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 182%, Flex Payment Solutions Receives Ranking #2970 Among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. revealed that Flex Payment Solutions, which offers credit card and payment processing solutions to online and retail businesses, is #2970 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored to be included on this list, and thrilled to receive this recognition for a second year in a row," says Rob Zeitler President & Co-Founder. "Our growth has been fueled by continued investment into our people and technology, along with listening to the needs of our customers and delivering solutions that help them succeed every day."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
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Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum, who came within a whisker of defeating Republican Ron DeSantis in 2018, was acquitted Thursday of lying to the FBI in a corruption case that also involved illegal use of campaign contributions.
But the federal jury hung on charges that Gillum funneled tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money to personal accounts. Prosecutors said they will retry him on those counts. They had claimed Gillum was struggling financially after quitting his $120,000-a-year job with the People for the American Way group to run for governor.
Gillum was acquitted of lying to undercover FBI agents posing as developers who paid for a 2016 trip he took with his brother to New York, including hotel rooms, meals, a boat tour and a ticket to the hit Broadway show “Hamilton.”
Outside the courthouse, Gillum thanked his family, wife, legal team and pastor for their support, but took a dig at prosecutors.
“They have quite literally tried to take everything from us. And the beauty is in our system the powers that be don’t always get to decide. Everyday people like you and me sometimes get our swing at the ball,” he said.
Asked about what comes next, Gillum said “sleep” as he walked away from a gaggle of news reporters.
Gillum had faced a potentially lengthy prison sentence if convicted, although, under federal sentencing guidelines, he would have likely gotten far less than the maximum.
The jury came back hung for public relations executive and Gillum adviser, co-defendant Sharon Lettman-Hicks, in the case. Prosecutors said they will also retry her.
Gillum, 43, a former Tallahassee mayor, sought to become the first Black governor in Florida history when he took on DeSantis in 2018. Gillum lost by less than 34,000 votes to DeSantis, triggering an automatic recount. | 2023-05-04T21:13:46+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/political-news/ap-politics/ex-democrat-florida-gov-nominee-not-guilty-of-lying-to-fbi/ |
Minutes after returning to the floor after an unprecedented sit-in protest from Black Democratic lawmakers, the Florida House voted in quick succession to approve Gov. Ron DeSantis’ congressional maps, dissolve Walt Disney World’s Reedy Creek special district and remove a carveout created last year for Disney in the “Big Tech” law.
The Black lawmakers had staged a sit-in on the floor of the Florida House chamber Thursday, disrupting debate on a congressional redistricting plan by DeSantis that would reduce Black representation in half.
But a little over an hour after the protests began and the House chamber was cleared, Speaker Chris Sprowls and the rest of the membership returned to the floor, where they voted out the three bills they were charged by DeSantis to vote on.
The House voted 68-38 to approve the congressional redistricting maps, and 70-38 to dissolve Reedy Creek and five other pre-1968 special districts and remove the Disney tech carveout.
The protest took place immediately after Rep. Yvonne Hayes Hinson’s mic was cut off after she continued talking after she was told her allotted debate time had expired.
Led by Rep. Travaris McCurdy of Orlando and Angie Nixon of Jacksonville, who both wore “Stop the Black Attack” T-shirts under their street clothes, members of the Black delegation joined by several other Democratic members marched to the front of the house chanting “This is good trouble. This is necessary trouble.”
Nixon said later that she and other members had discussed the sit-in ahead of time, “because something needed to be done” to stop the vote from taking place on a bill that would strip Blacks of two out of four seats in Congress.
The group joined in a chorus of “We Shall Overcome” and gave speeches as as other members looked on from the sidelines.
Meanwhile, Republican leaders called a recess and cleared the House of other members.
Rep. Spencer Roach, a Republican from Fort Myers who first suggested abolishing Reedy Creek, tweeted that House Democrats staged an insurrection “to obstruct the Democratic process. Shameful.”
Rep. Carlos Gulliermo Smith of Orlando said in return that the Republicans were violating the constitution by approving the governor’s map.
Protest leaders said Democratic leaders were backstage in “the bubble” discussing the situation with Republican leaders.
“We want the old maps back,” Rep. Michele K. Rayner of St. Petersburg said when asked by reporters what they wanted to see happen to end the occupation of the House. They were referring to the congressional maps originally approved by the Legislature during regular session.
Asked how long they planned to occupy the House, Smith said, “As long as it takes.”
But in the end, Republican Florida lawmakers backed all of DeSantis’ agenda for this week’s special session. The bills will be sent to DeSantis’ desk for his signature.
While they didn’t achieve their first goal to get new maps, Nixon said, they did raise awareness among their constituents.
Lawmakers originally came to Tallahassee on Tuesday to take up a congressional map drawn by DeSantis’ office after he vetoed two maps approved by the Legislature during the regular session.
But less than an hour before the special session began, he expanded it to include a bill dissolving Reedy Creek, which independently governs the Orlando resort, and another bill retracting a special carveout that protected Disney from liability in the so-called Big Tech law from 2021.
Wednesday, the Senate voted 23-16 to dissolve Reedy Creek, with Sen. Jeff Brandes of Pinellas Park the only Republican to vote against Fleming Island Republican Sen. Jennifer Bradley’s bill. The Senate voted 24-15 along party lines to approve Bradley’s bill retracting the Disney carveout, which was found unconstitutional by a federal judge.
When Democratic lawmakers asked where the language for those bills originated, the sponsor dodged the question, and leaders told them the questions went beyond the scope of the bills.
Senators, who passed the congressional redistricting district map by a 24-15 vote, conceded the issue was going to wind up in court.
The map DeSantis introduced achieves his stated goal to eliminate the minority-majority District 5 that sprawls across North Florida from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and replaces it with a district that is only 12% Black. It also diminishes the Black voting population in District 10 in Orlando, moving a large number into the Republican-friendly District 11. The map reduces predominantly Black districts from four to two.
His map also achieves a goal to increase Republican-friendly congressional seats from 16 to 20, and reducing the number of Democratic-leaning seats to eight. The maps approved by the Legislature created an 18-10 split.
The senate bill includes $1 million for legal fees, as well as language that requires that state court actions challenging the state’s congressional districts shall be brought only in Leon County. All actions challenging the state’s congressional districts on state constitutional or state law grounds will also be brought exclusively in state court.
The bill dissolving Reedy Creek targets five other independent special improvement districts, all of which were created before a 1968 constitutional amendment. When DeSantis signs the bill as expected, all six will be dissolved on June 1, 2023, but given a chance to be reestablished.
Farmer estimated that Reedy Creek had about a $1.5 billion to $2 billion combined debt load and other obligations, which would translate to about a $2,400 tax bill for every family of four in Orange and Osceola counties.
Orange County Tax Collector Scott Randolph tweeted that he couldn’t confirm those numbers, but raised several issues about the tax burden that would be placed on Orange County residents.
“I haven’t been able to confirm the $2 billion in bonds referenced, BUT if it is accurate, the county can only raise revenue through property taxes and there are about 438,000 parcels, so about $4,500 per parcel,” he tweeted.
He also said if Reedy Creek goes away, Orange County will inherit all debt and obligations with no extra funds -- $53 million in debt obligations and $105 million in general revenue for a total $163 million a year.
Pam Marsh, Executive Director of the First Amendment Foundation, noted that Randolph’s tweets were the only fiscal analysis provided, since legislative staff offered none.
She also said the “lack of transparency was stunning,” and denounced the legislature’s “last-minute consideration of bills during a special session with minimal public participation or notice.”
Lawmakers also had little time to understand the effects of the bills and learn constituents’ positions, she said.
“The special districts affected by this bill are located across Florida, ranging from 70 miles to 450 miles away from Tallahassee,” Marsh said. “With such lack of notice, there is no way for Floridians’ voices to be heard. This is an obvious abuse of process to allow politicians to get revenge on Disney for standing up for LGBTQ rights, while trampling upon our rights to participate and be heard.” | 2022-04-21T18:22:25+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/os-ne-florida-special-session-disney-world-thursday-20220421-vm7aud233jedzdhgnlg5wqi4wq-story.html |
DENVER, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRM) (TSX: SSRM) (ASX: SSR) ("SSR Mining" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has filed with and received acceptance from the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") for a Notice of Intention to make a Normal Course Issuer Bid ("NCIB") under the requirements of the TSX permitting SSR Mining to purchase for cancellation up to 10,600,000 common shares of the Company ("Common Shares"), representing approximately 5.0% of SSR Mining's total issued and outstanding Common Shares. As of June 6, 2022 SSR Mining had 212,638,432 issued and outstanding Common Shares.
Rod Antal, President and CEO said, "Building on last year's peer leading capital returns which exceeded US$190 million, our strong free cash flow outlook for 2022 and balance sheet will enable us to continue our robust capital returns program this year. We kicked-off 2022 with a 40% increase to our quarterly dividend to US$0.07/share, or approximately US$60 million annually. As per our capital allocation framework for returning excess capital to shareholders, we plan on supplementing this quarterly dividend with the recently approved NCIB program."
SSR Mining believes that the market price of its Common Shares does not always reflect its underlying fundamental value and future growth prospects. SSR Mining's purchase of its Common Shares under the NCIB will supplement the existing base dividend and is part of its capital allocation framework for returning excess cash to shareholders. Under SSR Mining's previous Normal Course Issuer Bid, which commenced on April 21, 2021 and terminated on April 20, 2022, the Company was authorized the purchase of up to 10,000,000 Common Shares. SSR Mining purchased and cancelled 8,800,700 Common Shares via open market purchases through the facilities of the TSX and the Nasdaq at a weighted average price paid per Common Share of US$16.82 for US$148.1 million.
SSR Mining may purchase Common Shares under the NCIB over the next twelve-month period beginning June 20, 2022 and ending June 19, 2023. The exact timing and amount of any purchases will depend on market conditions and other factors. SSR Mining is not obligated to acquire any Common Shares and may suspend or discontinue purchases under the NCIB at any time. Any purchases made under the NCIB will be effected through the facilities of the TSX, Nasdaq and/or alternative Canadian and United States trading systems. Any purchases made pursuant to the NCIB will be made in accordance with the rules of the TSX, applicable U.S. securities laws and will be made at market price at the time of purchase. Under the NCIB, other than purchases made under block purchase exemptions, the Company may purchase up to 116,057 Common Shares on the TSX during any trading day, such number being 25% of 464,230 Common Shares, which is the average daily trading volume on the TSX for the most recently completed six calendar months prior to the TSX's acceptance of the notice of the NCIB.
In connection with the NCIB, the Company has entered into an automatic share purchase plan with a designated broker (the "ASPP") which sets certain price thresholds for purchases of Common Shares. The ASPP is intended to allow for the purchase of Common Shares under the NCIB at times when it would ordinarily not be permitted to purchase shares due to regulatory restrictions and customary self-imposed blackout periods. The ASPP is also intended to meet the requirements of a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and transactions under the ASPP, and under the NCIB generally, will be conducted in accordance with Rule 10b-18 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
About SSR Mining
SSR Mining Inc. is a leading, free cash flow focused gold company with four producing assets located in the USA, Turkey, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets. In 2021, the four operating assets produced approximately 794,000 gold-equivalent ounces. SSR Mining is listed under the ticker symbol SSRM on the NASDAQ and the TSX, and SSR on the ASX.
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SSR Mining Inc.
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Phone: +1 (416) 306-5789
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Forward-looking information and statements in this news release are based on certain key expectations and assumptions made by us. Although we believe that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward-looking information and statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking information and statements because we can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Forward-looking information and statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results and experience to differ materially from the anticipated results or expectations expressed in this news release. The key risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: local and global political and economic conditions; governmental and regulatory requirements and actions by governmental authorities, including changes in government policy, government ownership requirements, changes in environmental, tax and other laws or regulations and the interpretation thereof; the unpredictability and fluctuation in the trading price of the Company's common shares; developments with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the duration, severity and scope of the pandemic and potential impacts on mining operations; and other risk factors detailed from time to time in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR and the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR.
Forward-looking information and statements in this news release include any statements concerning, among other things: future purchases of the Company's Common Shares; and any and all other timing, exploration, development, operational, financial, budgetary, economic, legal, social, environmental, regulatory, and political matters that may influence or be influenced by future events or conditions.
Such forward-looking information and statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions, including, but not limited in any manner to, those disclosed in any other of our filings on EDGAR and SEDAR. While we consider these factors and assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to us, they may prove to be incorrect.
The above list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company's forward-looking information. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information and statements. Forward-looking information and statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and our projections about future events. Actual results may vary from such forward-looking information for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties disclosed in our filings on our website at www.ssrmining.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov and on the ASX at www.asx.com.au and other unforeseen events or circumstances. Other than as required by law, we do not intend, and undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking information to reflect, among other things, new information or future events. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this document.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Nelly Korda
Nelly Korda is in the field at Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France for the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship, taking place from July 27-30.
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Nelly Korda Insights
- Over her last 16 rounds, Korda has shot under par seven times, while also carding 11 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded a top-five score twice and a top-10 score three times in her last 16 rounds.
- Korda has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in three of her last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day nine times.
- In her past five tournaments, Korda has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes.
- She has made three cuts in her past five tournaments.
- In her past five appearances, Korda has finished within three shots of the leader twice and posted a score better than average twice.
Over the last year
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- Courses on the Tour have been an average length of 7,017 yards in the past year. This tournament will take place on a par 71 that's 6,527 yards.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Evian Resort Golf Club has a recent scoring average of -6.
- The average course Korda has played in the past year (6,548 yards) is 21 yards longer than the course she'll be playing this week (6,527).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -6.
Korda's Last Time Out
- Korda finished in the 44th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of 3.19 strokes.
- Her 4.30-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open ranked in the 30th percentile of the field (the tournament average was 4.22).
- On the 16 par-5 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, Korda shot better than 74% of the golfers (averaging 4.88 strokes).
- Korda fared better on par 3s than most players her last time out, carding a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the field averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Korda had five bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 3.0).
- Korda recorded the same number of birdies or better (three) as the field average on par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open.
- At that most recent outing, Korda's par-4 performance (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse 13 times (worse than the field average, 8.4).
- Korda ended the U.S. Women’s Open outperforming the field average of birdies or better on par-5s (2.8) with five on the 16 par-5 holes.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Korda carded two bogeys or worse, fewer than the field average of 2.6.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Korda Odds to Win: +1600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Local businesses that dealt with the closures all summer long, and continue to be closed for the winter season, are optimistic but scared of what's to come this summer.
“I’ve ran restaurants for 14 years with nothing happening and then all of a sudden, it's one thing after another,” said Sharon Gilbert, owner of Cinnabear Bakery.
Gilbert had just finished her renovations at Cinnabear Bakery in Gardiner last year when things took a turn in June.
“We had just gotten into a good routine and the flood happened," said Gilbert.
Like many of the businesses in Gardiner that rely on summer tourism, the season came to an abrupt end.
“We didn't even have a chance to even make any money,” said Gilbert.
As Gilbert overlooks the same river that caused her business to shut down, she says she considers herself lucky to be staying afloat while her business remains closed.
“My husband still has his job but it's like I haven't gotten paid this year,” said Gilbert.
On the other side of the river, Rebecca Stoneberger quickly fills coffee cups with espresso shots. The owner of Bears Brew is one of the few businesses open during the winter season.
“Stressful. So I've had to be really creative on what I'm doing,” said Stoneberger.
She brews one cup at a time for the locals who she greets on a first-name basis.
“To really cater to everybody that is in our community. That's from locals to high school students to tourists,” said Stoneberger.
The countdown is on for summer but following Covid, a fire, and a flood in the last three years, they are optimistic but holding their breath.
“I am kind of a little scared about as long as we open up we get our employees and we don't have a natural disaster, or something happening to us again. I really feel that we're going to have an amazing summer,” said Gilbert.
In the meantime, Rebecca is looking forward to people walking and driving into the park
“I also am ready for the tourists that are going to come. I feel like the tourist activity is more at the end of the week. But nothing's guaranteed. So we're kind of all just taking it a day at a time,” said Stoneberger. | 2023-01-23T17:14:03+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/gardiner-business-owners-ready-for-summer-tourism |
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ATLANTA (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Josh Giddey had 12 of his 17 points in the final period, and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 14-point deficit in the third quarter to beat the Atlanta Hawks 121-114 on Monday night.
Dejounte Murray finished with 24 points and Trae Young had 23 points and 10 assists for the Hawks (13-11), who have squandered six double-digit leads this season. They began the night tied for second-most in the NBA in that category.
In winning its third straight, Oklahoma City (11-13) has outscored its last three opponents 106-68 in the fourth. The Thunder trailed 88-84 entering the final period.
“It was an up and down game for us for sure, but when it really mattered it was a good gut check for us tonight," Gilgeous-Alexander said. “Kind of midway through the third to end the third and to start the fourth we were really good again. That won us the game."
Giddey’s three-point play early in the fourth made it 91-90 for the Thunder’s first lead since late in the first. They never trailed again as Gilgeous-Alexander, the league’s third-leading scorer, kept hitting free throws down the stretch. He scored 12 points in the fourth and finished 15 for 15 from the foul line, all in the second half.
“Try to be aggressive, I try not to seek them too much, just play aggressive basketball and then when the opportunity presents itself I like to get there," Gilgeous-Alexander said. “Unfortunately I didn’t get there in the first half and I knew that going into halftime that I was going to try to get there in the second half for sure."
Oklahoma City went on a 23-8 run over an eight-minute span until the 2:53 mark of the fourth, putting too much distance for the Hawks to overcome. Gilgeous-Alexander hit a pair of free throws to make it 111-103 with 1:04 remaining to all but finish off Atlanta.
“I thought they were able to break down our defense early in the game and forced the defense to collapse and they had their kick-outs," Hawks coach Nate McMillan said. “They established the tempo that they wanted to play and with that and our help in the turnovers and outworking us on the glass, it’s going to be tough to beat them."
Young threw a backward pass over his right shoulder to feed Murray for a dunk that made it 63-54 early in the third, and Oklahoma City called timeout. A.J. Griffin later followed with a 3 that put the Hawks up 66-56, and Atlanta pushed the lead to 14 before the Thunder went on a 17-6 run to close within two on a pair of free throws by Gilgeous-Alexander.
Young was 0 for 5 from the field before his baseline runner gave Atlanta a 56-52 lead in the final minute before halftime. The Hawks were ahead 59-54 at intermission.
“The good thing about our team is we don’t give in," Giddey said. “We play through it. When things get tough, we come together."
TIP-INS
Thunder: Coach Mark Daigneault said swingman Kenrich Williams, who missed the game with a right knee sprain, isn’t expected to be sidelined for long. ... Jalen Williams started instead F Aleksej Pokusevski and had 12 points in 31 minutes. ... The Thunder won in Atlanta for the first time since March 2018.
Hawks: Prior to the game, longtime TV announcer Bob Rathbun briefly lost consciousness on the court and was treated for dehydration. He was listed as stable, responsive and heading to a nearby hospital for further evaluation. ... Griffin has connected on at least one 3 in nine straight games, the longest such active streak among NBA rookies.
UP NEXT
Thunder: At Memphis on Wednesday.
Hawks: At New York Knicks on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades.
In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.
Last June, the court ended nationwide protections for abortion rights. This past week, the court’s conservative majority decided that race-conscious admissions programs at the oldest private and public colleges in the country, Harvard and the University of North Carolina, were unlawful.
Precedents that had stood since the 1970s were overturned, explicitly in the case of abortion and effectively in the affirmative action context.
“That is what is notable about this court. It’s making huge changes in highly salient areas in a very short period of time,” said Tara Leigh Grove, a law professor at the University of Texas.
As ethical questions swirled around the court and public trust in the institution had already dipped to a 50-year low, there were other consequential decisions in which the six conservatives prevailed.
They rejected the Biden administration’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness program and held that a Christian graphic artist can refuse on free speech grounds to design websites for same-sex couples, despite a Colorado law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and other characteristics.
The court, by a 5-4 vote, also sharply limited the federal government’s authority to police water pollution into certain wetlands, although all nine justices rejected the administration’s position.
Affirmative action was arguably the biggest constitutional decision of the year, and it showcased fiercely opposing opinions from the court’s two Black justices, Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
They offered sharply contrasting takes on affirmative action. Thomas was in the majority to end it. Jackson, in her first year on the court, was in dissent.
The past year also had a number of notable surprises.
Differing coalitions of conservative and liberal justices ruled in favor of Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case and refused to embrace broad arguments in a North Carolina redistricting case that could have left state legislatures unchecked and dramatically altered elections for Congress and president.
The court also ruled for the Biden administration in a fight over deportation priorities and left in place the Indian Child Welfare Act, the federal law aimed at keeping Native American children with Native families.
Those cases reflected the control that Chief Justice John Roberts asserted, or perhaps reasserted, over the court following a year in which the other five conservatives moved more quickly than he wanted in some areas, including abortion.
Roberts wrote a disproportionate share of the term’s biggest cases: conservative outcomes on affirmative action and the student loan plan, and liberal victories in Alabama and North Carolina.
The Alabama case may have been the most surprising because Roberts had consistently sought to narrow the landmark Voting Rights Act since his days as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration. As chief justice, he wrote the decision 10 years ago that gutted a key provision of the law.
But in the Alabama case and elsewhere, Roberts was part of majorities that rejected the most aggressive legal arguments put forth by Republican elected officials and conservative legal advocates.
The mixed bag of decisions almost seemed designed to counter arguments about the court’s legitimacy, raised by Democratic and liberal critics — and some justices — in response to last year’s abortion ruling, among others. The narrative was amplified by published reports of undisclosed, paid jet travel and fancy trips for Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito from billionaire Republican donors.
“I don’t think the court consciously takes opinion into account,” Grove said. “But I think if there’s anyone who might consciously think about these issues, it’s the institutionalist, the chief justice. He’s been extremely concerned about the attacks on the Supreme Court.”
On the term’s final day, Roberts urged the public to not mistake disagreement among the justices for disparagement of the court. “Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country,” he wrote in the student loans case in response to a stinging dissent by Justice Elena Kagan.
Roberts has resisted instituting a code of ethics for the court and has questioned whether Congress has the authority to impose one. Still, he has said, without providing specifics, that the justices would do more to show they adhere to high ethical standards.
Some conservative law professors rejected the idea that the court bowed to outside pressures, consciously or otherwise.
“There were a lot of external atmospherics that really could have affected court business, but didn’t,” said Jennifer Mascott, a George Mason University law professor.
Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, pointed to roughly equal numbers of major decisions that could be characterized as politically liberal or conservative.
Levey said conservatives “were not disappointed by this term.” Democrats and their allies “warned the nation about an ideologically extreme Supreme Court but wound up cheering as many major decisions as they decried,” Levey wrote in an email.
But some liberal critics were not mollified.
Brian Fallon, director of the court reform group Demand Justice, called the past year “another disastrous Supreme Court term” and mocked experts who “squint to find so-called silver linings in the Court’s decisions to suggest all is not lost, or they will emphasize one or two so-called moderate decisions from the term to suggest the Court is not as extreme as we think and can still be persuaded from time to time.”
Biden himself said on MSNBC on Thursday that the current court has “done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history.” He cited as examples the overturning of abortion protections and other decisions that had been precedent for decades.
Still, Biden said, he thought some on the high court “are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways it hasn’t been questioned in the past.”
The justices are now embarking on a long summer break. They return to the bench on the first Monday in October for a term that so far appears to lack the blockbuster cases that made the past two terms so momentous.
The court will examine the legal fallout from last year’s major expansion of gun rights, in a case over a domestic violence gun ban that was struck down by a lower court.
A new legal battle over abortion also could make its way to the court in coming months. In April, the court preserved access to mifepristone, a drug used in the most common method of abortion, while a lawsuit over it makes its way through federal court.
The conservative majority also will have opportunities to further constrain federal regulatory agencies, including a case that asks them to overturn the so-called Chevron decision that defers to regulators when they seek to give effect to big-picture, sometimes vague, laws written by Congress. The 1984 decision has been cited by judges more than 15,000 times.
Just seven years ago, months before Trump’s surprising presidential victory, then-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflected on the term that had just ended and made two predictions. One was way off base and the other was strikingly accurate.
In July 2016, the court had just ended a term in which the justices upheld a University of Texas affirmative action plan and struck down state restrictions on abortion clinics.
Her first prediction was that those issues would not soon return to the high court. Her second was that if Trump became president, “everything is up for grabs.”
Ginsburg’s death in 2020 allowed Trump to put Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the court and cement conservative control.
Commenting on the student loan decision, liberal legal scholar Melissa Murray wrote on Twitter that Biden’s plan “was absolutely undone by the Court that his predecessor built.”
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Jay Ellis is flying high on the success of his new role in Top Gun: Maverick, but even he'll admit that getting to meet Prince William and Kate Middleton at the recent royal premiere of the film in London left him feeling a little insecure!
"It was absolutely insane," Ellis raved to ET's Rachel Smith as the pair met up in Times Square to check out the new Maverick billboards and surprise some lucky fans with tickets to the film.
"They tell you all these [rules of etiquette] like, all these things that you have to do," he shared of meeting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. "They speak to you first, you reach out your hand... 'Your royal highness, nice to meet you."
"And then the first question you ask is like, 'So, um, how are you?'" he continued with a laugh. "No one knew what to say. It was crazy -- what do you ask them?"
Thinking fast, Ellis recalled that he asked Prince William about the types of aircraft he'd flown in his time with the Royal Air Force. And while he didn't have much in common with the royal there, he fared a bit better than some of his co-stars.
"Miles Teller, at one point goes, 'Your eyes are so blue,'" he joked. "We were all just completely thrown off... You're a prince! I'm just, I've seen you on TV forever, I don't know, this is crazy."
Before his starstruck premiere moment, Ellis, who stars as Lieutenant Reuben "Payback" Fitch in Maverick, first got to make the movie with Hollywood royalty, in "Maverick" himself, Tom Cruise.
The film tasks Cruise's character with training a group of elite young fighter pilots to take on a near-impossible mission behind enemy lines, and Ellis said that the A-list action star was a charismatic and thoughtful leader on set as well.
"He was so hyper-focused on each one of us in every single thing we did, whether it was our flights, whether it was, you know, while we were on the ground shooting stuff in the hanger," he shared. "The amount of detail and dedication -- and he gets up with a smile every single day. That was also really cool to see, someone at his level, just happy to do it. It was a lot of fun and inspiring. Super inspiring."
"We would be there hours after we wrapped, and he would still be sitting there telling us stories and people just throwing out questions," he recalled of his time on set. "It was amazing... I was very fortunate for the experience."
Ellis has a special connection to the military -- his father was an Air Force pilot -- and he said it was a "dream" to be able to represent the men and women in the military through the film. Maverick went as realistic as possible, with Cruise putting his young co-stars through a grueling training regimen to prepare for the film's high-flying scenes.
"This whole thing was about discipline and detail," Ellis shared. "Not only did we have to be so specific in portraying pilots, but we also then got up in the air. We obviously had to film in jets, so we're talking about a very serious situation. We had to go through safety protocols three or four times a day."
"You really start to see how Tom builds his movies, and also why they are so good and there's rarely any incidents," the actor marveled. "It's all about everyone, every single day, giving their all -- dedicated, focused into making the film. That, to me, was the biggest thing I walked away with."
Top Gun: Maverick is in theaters on May 27. See more on the cast in the video below.
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DALLAS (AP) — The NCAA has an entirely female crew working the national semifinals and championship game at the women's Final Four this weekend.
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It's the first time that's ever happened, according to the organization. The NCAA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX this year, which makes it fitting that there’s all-female crews.
“We celebrate this accomplishment with all of those who paved a way and broken barriers as we play our role in growing this great game," NCAA coordinator of officials Penny Davis said.
Dee Kantner will be officiating her 26th Final Four while Lisa Jones will be doing her 11th. It’s the first Final Four for Katie Lukanich and Tiara Cruse.
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The officiating crew has a combined 293 seasons of Division I experience that includes 48 Final Four and national championship assignments. Nine of the 11 women have played college basketball, including seven former Division I players.
“I hope that the student-athletes and fans see these women as an inspiration and the opportunity to contribute to the game through officiating," Davis said.
JOINING A SMALL CLUB
Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks is only the third Black male to lead his team to the women's Final Four. He joined good friend Quentin Hillsman, who took Syracuse to the title game in 2016. Winthrop McGriff helped Cheyney make the Final Four in 1984.
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Brooks understands how important it is what he's doing.
“Everything that I am doing, yes, I’m doing it for myself, for my program, for our university, but I’m also doing it for people who look like me because there are a lot of great male Black coaches,” Brooks said. “(They) deserve an opportunity and if people can look at me and see what I’ve done and that inspires them to give another Black male an opportunity, then my job is well done.”
Hillsman was proud of his friend and told The Associated Press in a phone interview that his advice to Brooks was to step back and take it all in. Hillsman said he didn't do that enough when he guided Syracuse to the championship game against UConn.
“He and I have been texting back and forth a little bit,” Hillsman said. “I said, hey, make sure you enjoy it.’ Really enjoy it. Freeze the moment. You’re going to regret it later if you don't.'”
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(The Hill) – A federal magistrate judge on Thursday said he would release a redacted version of the affidavit that convinced him to approve a warrant to search former President Trump’s Florida home.
The decision from Judge Bruce Reinhart comes after he ordered the Justice Department to propose redactions to a document whose full release they argued would compromise their ongoing investigation.
In his order Reinhart found the redactions from DOJ to be sufficiently narrow.
“I find that the Government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason/good cause to seal portions of the Affidavit,” Reinhardt wrote, noting that it could reveal both the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties as well as the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope.
The Justice Department is ordered to file a public version of its redacted document by noon Friday.
In an earlier ruling, Reinhart cautioned that redactions could be so broad as to make the release “meaningless,” warning if they were too extensive it could make him less inclined to force its disclosure.
“I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the government,” he wrote.
Reinhart’s Thursday ruling offers little insight into what the public may ultimately glean from the release, but he ultimately decided it was “the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire affidavit.”
The Justice Department previously unsealed portions of the warrant related to the search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, indicated that the government seized 11 different sets of classified materials, along with other information about Trump’s decision to pardon ally Roger Stone.
The warrant also indicated that Trump was under investigation for a possible violation of the Espionage Act, as well as two other statutes, one that bars concealing, removing and mutilating government documents, and another that prohibits similar actions when done “with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence [an] investigation.”
It’s unusual for an affidavit to be unsealed far ahead of going to trial, let alone before charges have even been filed.
Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, said any FBI informants are often assured their identity will be protected.
“I don’t know exactly what the sensitive information is that’s in the affidavit. But just protecting that information alone at this stage is really important, because they haven’t made a decision as to whether to charge this case or not. And so you need to protect that person in case they’re going to be a witness in a grand jury, and then maybe ultimately at a trial,” McQuade said in an interview ahead of the decision from Reinhart.
“But the other reason is search warrant affidavits are not disclosed at this stage. And if it happens in this case, then in the future, other targets are going to point to this and say, ‘I want my search warrant affidavit unsealed too.’ And it is in the long run going to have an adverse impact on the way the Justice Department and the FBI conduct investigations. If you think that your affidavit is going to get turned over, witnesses are not going to cooperate.”
Trump did not oppose the release of the warrant and has called for the release of the affidavit, all the while slamming the probe as a political witch hunt.
He’s separately filed a suit seeking to block the FBI probe while asking the court to appoint a third party that would review all evidence collected during the search. | 2022-08-25T21:55:27+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/judge-to-release-redacted-affidavit-on-fbis-trump-home-search/ |
Tinuiti redefines its social offering with new acquisition, the firm's third since 2021
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, today announced its acquisition of Ampush, a leading growth marketing agency with a core focus across social platforms that provides end-to-end performance creative and customer acquisition capabilities. The acquisition expands and complements Tinuiti's already industry award-winning paid social capabilities, in addition to now providing clients access to distinctive end-to-end social, creative and measurement capabilities that leverages data through industry-differentiated technology.
Founded in 2010, Ampush is based in New York City with nearly 90 employees, with an additional presence in San Francisco and remotely. Ampush partners with fast-growing e-commerce and subscription commerce brands including Instacart, Blenders Eyewear, and STARZ. Ampush quickly made a name for itself by catapulting digitally-native brands to new levels of profitable customer growth. The Ampush tech stack and social capabilities has proven the ability to use novel technologies and tactics to connect the right consumers with the right brands.
The acquisition brings Tinuiti clients:
- Performance Creative for Social: Agile creative production including access to graphic designers, videographers, UGC-content production, proprietary content sites, and influencer relationships to optimize messaging for growth.
- Customization throughout the funnel: Rigorous testing and optimization of the connection between "pre-click" ad creative and audiences, with "post-click" curated landing pages, checkout flows and personalized experiences.
- Analytics that unlock strategy: Proprietary tech that integrates across any data source and empowers teams to use client-specific insights and find otherwise invisible strategies to win. Unique and advantageous solutions to build an edge in marketing.
Zach Morrison, CEO at Tinuiti, said: "With Tinuiti's acquisition of Ampush, we're unlocking a new level of social capabilities for clients designed not only for today's landscape, but for long term success - an end-to-end offering with expertise that combines creative with differentiated landing page technology and data. Not only are they the right business fit, they are also the right cultural fit who shares similar values and core philosophies for creating employee happiness and establishing an environment that empowers its employees with a culture of ownership."
This deal was facilitated for Tinuiti by New Mountain Capital, while PALAZZO served as exclusive financial advisor to Ampush. This deal marks the third acquisition since 2021 for Tinuiti, following the purchase of The Ortega Group, an Amazon-specialist agency in March 2021, followed by Bliss Point Media in August 2021, formally launching Tinuiti's Streaming+ division. Ampush CEO Jon Oberlander, will lead the Tinuiti Social Division as EVP, Social and report to Tinuiti's Chief Solutions Officer, Obele Brown-West.
Jon Oberlander, EVP, Social at Tinuiti said: "Since our founding in 2010, Ampush has built a reputation as a best-in-class social agency driven by a performance-oriented culture of ownership and innovation. We believe in the effectiveness of our unique approach — leveraging both technology and creativity to solve for the entire customer acquisition journey, impression all the way through conversion, to drive unprecedented growth for our clients. Today, we're incredibly excited to bring this approach to Tinuiti, combining our talented teams and offering our clients even stronger technology-enabled solutions across the full breadth of their portfolios."
In addition to their shared business approach, Tinuiti and Ampush align deeply on company culture. Both firms believe in revolutionizing work by prioritizing a culture of ownership and in nurturing an inclusive environment that is ultimately driven by employee happiness. This shared sentiment and an overarching commitment to retaining and attracting talent is evident in Ampush's impressive roster of industry veterans and exceptional leaders.
In 2022, Tinuiti celebrated a year of healthy growth – from new client wins to first-ever strategic partnerships, to top industry awards. Growth highlights included becoming PacSun's Paid Media Agency of Record and Digital Agency of Record for The Honest Company. Tinuiti clients also saw record-breaking business growth: Poppi took the #1 spot in the soda category on Amazon and e.l.f. Cosmetics was named the #1 makeup brand for Gen Z. Tinuiti also secured two first-ever agency partnerships with Snap Inc. and Reddit, was named Microsoft's Global Agency of the Year and Partner of the Year — a first for any independent agency — and was included in Inc. Magazine's Annual Best Workplaces list for the fifth time.
About Tinuiti
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, with more than $3 billion in digital media under management and over 1,200 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV, mobile apps, Influencer, Lifecycle, and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Each solution is delivered through Tinuiti's performance planning framework, GAMMA, and is enabled by a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – Mobius. For more information visit http://www.tinuiti.com.
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Public Notice: Not Good, Not Getting Better
Austin police learn the limits of their propaganda
By Nick Barbaro, Fri., Feb. 24, 2023
Anytime anyone so much as runs a red light within the Austin city limits, social media goes all atwitter about how it's all because of police defunding (never mind that there never was such a thing), so it wasn't hard to predict the twit-storm that followed Saturday night's "street racing" idiocy – nor the attempts to tie the slow police response to the ongoing police contract negotiations. Mayor Kirk Watson, it seemed to me, struck exactly the right tone in his statement released Monday morning:
"As the Austin Police Department has stated, the street takeovers over the weekend were illegal and outrageous; they will result in arrest. I'm relieved that the injured police officer is doing OK and the vehicle damage was limited." But also, "The Austin Police Association posted some false comments on Sunday that appeared to wrongly conflate this illegal incident with important community conversations about safety and oversight. Twitter is not an appropriate forum for contract negotiations, and no Austinite should ever accept the false choice between public safety and responsible policing – Austin can, and will, have both."
And that's the tightrope the City Council will try to walk today as it considers an ordinance that would codify – without the police union's consent or consultation – the terms of officers' employment, and of the civilian oversight that they would work under, once the current police contract expires on March 31, assuming no new contract is agreed on before then. On the one hand, Council wants to provide the pay and benefit scales, and especially the retirement benefits, that are in the current contract, to avert a mass retirement in the coming weeks; on the other hand, they want to revive a police oversight system that has been largely neutered by a grievance resolved in arbitration in the APA's favor. Ryan Alter, in proposing the ordinance, wrote on the Council message board that it's "important that we remember that oversight and supporting our police are not mutually exclusive. … Falling out of contract is not something any of us want, but we have tools at our disposal to reduce the harms it produces. We should not retreat to our corners and try to exact as much pain as possible from the 'other side' to prove a point. We are all part of the same community and should do everything we can to strengthen it."
Indeed, the relationship between APD and the community is not good, and is not getting better. And as retirements far outnumber cadet graduates, I struggle to imagine how to make policing seem like an attractive career choice in the current climate. Clearly, air must be cleared, bridges must be built, and perhaps paradigms must shift. It's not at all clear how to get from here to there, but I suspect it begins with small steps. In the post-Cronk era, Council clearly intends to be more in charge of police matters, and Alter and Watson seem to have taken a reasonable first step with this fairly simple ordinance (about 600 words; shorter than this column), which could be a starting point for negotiating an actual contract before they turn into pumpkins on April Fools' Day.
The city's Creative Space Assistance Program will distribute $1.5 million in grants to creative organizations or artists facing displacement or higher rent. They're taking applications through the end of February; see details at austintexas.gov/creative-space-assistance-program.
Lifeguards needed! That's a perennial headline in recent years, and here's the pitch: Pay starts at $20 per hour; ages 15 and up; there's free training, and if you want to train during spring break, as many do, you can sign up online, or at a hiring event this Sunday, Feb. 26, 5-8pm at Fiesta Gardens, 2101 Jesse E. Segovia St. More info at lifeguardaustin.com.
Got something to say? The Chronicle welcomes opinion pieces on any topic from the community. Submit yours now at austinchronicle.com/opinion. | 2023-02-24T12:06:01+00:00 | austinchronicle.com | https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-02-24/public-notice-not-good-not-getting-better/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
8 p.m.
Eleven Tony Awards were handed out Sunday before the main telecast, spreading trophies across seven shows.
“Six: The Musical” picked up awards for best score and costumes for a musical. The revival of “Company” nabbed best scenic design for a musical. Best orchestrations went to “Girl From the North Country.” And “The Lehman Trilogy” won for best scenic design of a play and lighting design of a play.
“The Skin of Our Teeth” won best costumes for a play, “MJ” won for choreography, best lighting of a musical and sound design of a musical and “Dana H.” won for sound design of a play.
The main event with host Ariana DeBose will start live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.
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MORE ON THE TONYS
— Tony Awards begin with non-acting honors handed out
— List of Tony winners so far
— On Broadway, more visibility, yes, but also an unseen threat
— Pioneering Camille A. Brown creates a Broadway rainbow
— Tracy Letts on writing his play and then having to act in it
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7:15 p.m.
Darren Criss and Julianne Hough have kicked off a one-hour Tony Award celebration at Radio City Music Hall, handing out mostly technical awards like best scenic and lighting design on Paramount+.
Hough and Criss opened their portion of the telecast with his original song, “Set the Stage,” celebrating the artists who keep theater alive.
The first award of the night — for best score — went to “Six: The Musical,” with music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Marlow is the first out nonbinary composer-lyricist to win a Tony.
A total of eight design awards will be handed out along with best score, as well as the award for orchestrations and ending with choreography. The main event with host Ariana DeBose will start live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.
“A Strange Loop,” a theater meta-journey about a playwright writing a musical, goes into the telecast with a leading 11 Tony nominations. Right behind with 10 nominations each is “MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop, and “Paradise Square,” a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War.
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6:30 p.m.
It has taken playwright Michael R. Jackson almost two decades to take his musical “A Strange Loop” to Broadway and he says the recognition is a sort of validation.
“It feels wonderful. It feels like a real validation of all the time, the blood, the sweat, the tears we put into this piece. I’ve worked on this musical for almost 20 years, and so to be here after having stuck to my guns feels like such a validation,” Jackson said on the Tony red carpet.
In the musical, we meet the character Usher, an unhappy playwright slumming as an usher at “The Lion King.” Usher is haunted by a Greek chorus of voices — his thoughts as well as homophobic family members — who pummel, undercut and berate him. Jackson said there’s a little Usher in him.
“Usher is a character that I’ve certainly created to sort of deal with some things that I was thinking about. But he’s grown so far beyond that and I’ve grown so far beyond that,” he said. “Watching every night feels really exciting because I’m watching a piece of art that I started from like a really formative time, sort of really become something bigger than any sort of personal experience that I was having.”
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9 a.m.
Darren Criss’ favorite night of the year has arrived. It’s the Tony Awards. “I’ll never shut up about the Tonys. I love the Tonys,” he says.
Criss will not only be watching the Tonys on Sunday, he’ll also be working. He’s co-host with Julianne Hough of a one-hour pre-Tony celebration at Radio City Music Hall, and he’s even written an original song about the show that he’ll perform, revealing “a bit of my nerdy proclivities.”
Criss and Hough will be handing out creative arts Tonys on Paramount+ and then pass hosting duties to Ariana DeBose for the main three-hour telecast on CBS from the same stage, live coast to coast for the first time. | 2022-06-13T00:14:38+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/tonys-latest-michael-r-jackson-reflects-on-his-loop/ |
Mercury has developed an online quiz to help drivers determine if they are ready for the summer travel season
LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) announces the release of its new interactive online quiz that helps drivers prepare their vehicles for a safe summer road trip season. This quiz is designed to test drivers' knowledge of vehicle safety and maintenance, along with tips that will help them ensure their vehicle is in good working condition before heading out on the open road.
"Road trips are a popular summer tradition for many, but it's important to make sure your vehicle is ready for a safe and enjoyable journey," said Kevin Quinn, Vice President of Auto Claims at Mercury Insurance. "We encourage all drivers to take preventive maintenance measures during the planning stage of their vacation so that their vehicle is prepared for the journey."
The online quiz covers a range of topics, including how to prepare your home and vehicle as well as tips on how to handle common road emergencies.
Quinn also offers the following recommendations to consumers preparing for an upcoming road trip:
- Secure your home. Before driving off, make sure to lock all doors and windows and activate your alarm system.
- Prep your vehicle. Check your brakes for damage or wear. Monitor your oil level and keep track of how many miles you've driven since your last oil change. Keep in mind that older vehicles may need more frequent oil changes.
- Plan ahead if traveling in an EV. Make sure your vehicle is fully charged before departing and map out charging stations along your desired route.
- Stock an auto emergency kit. Your kit should include:
Test your knowledge and see if your vehicle is prepared for the summer. Visit http://mcy.news/quiz-announcement.
About Mercury Insurance
Mercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) is a multiple-line insurance carrier predominantly offering personal auto, homeowners, renters and commercial insurance through a network of independent agents in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, as well as auto insurance in Florida. Mercury writes other lines of insurance in various states, including commercial, business owners and business auto, landlord, home-sharing, ride-hailing and mechanical protection insurance.
Since 1962, Mercury has provided customers with tremendous value for their insurance dollar by pairing ultracompetitive rates with excellent customer service. Mercury has earned "A" ratings from A.M. Best and Fitch, as well as "Best Auto Insurance Company" designations from Forbes and Insure.com. For more information visit www.MercuryInsurance.com or follow the company on Twitter or Facebook.
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STURGIS, S.D. (KELO) — Bikes line the streets in western KELOLAND as the 82nd Sturgis Motorcycle Rally kicks off. During the 10-day rally, hundreds of thousands of people will filter through the city.
From parades and live music to thousands of motorcycles riding downtown, today is officially opening day of the 82nd annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
You’ll find first-time rally-goers like Jon Granberg.
“This is my first rally at Sturgis. I came down here from the Seattle area. Me and my brother-in-law rode about 1,400 miles to get here, spent a couple days on the road. And it is absolutely amazing to be here,” Grandberg said.
And you’ll find veteran rally-goers like Tom Foreid, who has been attending the big event on and off for the last 15 years.
“I just really enjoy the people. I mean I love the motorcycles obviously it’s a lot of fun and the concerts are good. But I like the Midwestern people and I really enjoy that about this town and really the whole area,” Foreid said.
One difference Foreid is noticing this year is the heat.
“This is the warmest I have ever experienced at the rally, the days that I have been here. I haven’t been to the entire rally every year but at least five days and this is warm, yesterday was a hundred degrees,” Foreid said.
By drinking water and staying hydrated, these motorcyclists are managing to enjoy the opening day regardless of the weather.
“I got water, I got sunscreen and shirts on and stuff like that. Riding down was a little bit of an issue but we made it through. You just got to be careful with it,” Granberg said.
Monument Health urges everyone to stay cool during the Sturgis Rally in the hot temperatures. By staying hydrated and sitting in the shade, you can avoid overheating or an even worse situation. | 2022-08-05T23:32:29+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/82nd-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-day-one/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wants more municipalities to use electric vehicles. The issue, in any community or context, is the cost associated with converting to zero-emissions transportation. September marks a window for communities to apply for a financial boost to plug in.
Funding has been made available to help towns and cities purchase or lease vehicles that create zero emissions. Until Friday, Sept. 30, communities can apply for ZEV Rebate and Infrastructure Grant programs, out of a fund totaling $5.75 million for the current grant round. Communities can apply online.
There are differences between the two types of grants. Communities looking to use electric vehicles for public use should get acquainted with what type of grant is right for them before they apply.
ZEV Rebates
The program is offering funds from a total bank of $750,000. That money is available for any municipality eyeing the purchase of an all-electric, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicle intended for municipal use. Vehicles must be either purchased or leased for a 36-month minimum, from a dealership within New York State.
Rebate amounts vary based on car weight. Vehicles categorized with a gross vehicle weight rating up to 8,000 pounds are qualified for rebates on a tiered basis, ranging based on electric mile range. For vehicles between 8,001 and 14,000 pounds (usually indicating vans, large trucks and minibuses), rebates of up to $7,500 are available regardless of mileage.
ZEV Infrastructure Grants
A total of $5 million has been set aside for communities that are interested in installing hydrogen filling station components or electric vehicle charging equipment of a certain caliber. Qualifying equipment must rank at Level 2 by qualifying standards or direct current fast charge. Stations must be mainly for public use in order to be applicable.
Money can be used for the purchase of equipment, supplies, materials, installation costs, electricity, and site preparation costs. Grant matching varies based on the median household income of the applicant community, as well as whether the ZEV proposal is located within a disadvantaged community.
Disadvantaged communities are a subject of emphasis for the program. 40 percent of all funds involved in the round of grants will be earmarked for disadvantaged communities. Those communities are being identified by draft criteria from the Climate Justice Working Group. | 2022-09-01T19:42:49+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/applications-open-for-electric-car-rebates/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge will let House Republicans question a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump, ruling Wednesday that there is no legal basis to block the Judiciary Committee’s subpoena.
U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil rejected Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s request for a temporary restraining order, finding that committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, had a valid legislative purpose in issuing the subpoena to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.
“It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection,” Vyskocil wrote in a 25-page opinion. “Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law.”
Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, ruled two hours after a hearing in which she peppered lawyers on both sides with questions, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from the historic indictment.
Acknowledging the “political dogfights” surrounding the case, the judge said in her ruling that she “does not endorse either side’s agenda.” She encouraged both sides to speak and “reach a mutually agreeable compromise” on how Pomerantz’s deposition will proceed. Jordan is seeking to question him Thursday morning in Washington.
“Today’s decision shows that Congress has the ability to conduct oversight and issue subpoenas to people like Mark Pomerantz, and we look forward to his deposition before the Judiciary Committee,” Jordan’s spokesperson, Russell Dye, said in a statement.
Bragg’s office appealed the decision to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan and was seeking a stay to halt enforcement of the subpoena.
Pomerantz once oversaw the yearslong Trump investigation but left the job after clashing with Bragg over the direction of the case. He recently wrote a book about his work pursuing Trump and discussed the investigation in interviews on “60 Minutes” and other shows.
Bragg, a Democrat, sued Jordan and the Judiciary Committee last week seeking to block the subpoena. His lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, argued that seeking Pomerantz’s testimony was part of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” Bragg and that Congress was “invading a state” to investigate a local prosecutor when it had no authority to do so.
Boutrous said House Republicans’ interest in Bragg amounted to Congress “jumping in and haranguing the D.A. while the prosecution is ongoing.”
The Judiciary Committee started scrutinizing Bragg’s investigation of the former president in the weeks that preceded his indictment. Jordan sent letters seeking interviews with Bragg and documents before subpoenaing Pomerantz. In her ruling, Vyskocil said she would handle any legal fights that may arise from other subpoenas in the committee’s investigation of Bragg.
A committee lawyer, Matthew Berry, countered that Congress has legitimate legislative reasons for wanting to question Pomerantz and examine Bragg’s prosecution of Trump, citing the office’s use of $5,000 in federal funds to pay for Trump-related investigations.
Congress is also considering legislation, offered by Republicans in the wake of Trump’s indictment, to change how criminal cases against former presidents unfold, Berry said. One bill would prohibit prosecutors from using federal funds to investigate presidents, and another would require any criminal cases involving a former president be resolved in federal court instead of at the state level.
House Republicans, Berry said, want to protect the sovereignty and autonomy of the presidency, envisioning a scenario where the commander in chief could feel obligated to make certain decisions to avoid having local prosecutors in politically unfavorable jurisdictions charge them with crimes after they leave office.
For those reasons, Berry argued, Congress is immune from judicial intervention, citing the speech and debate clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Vyskocil presided over the hearing in a Manhattan courtroom that offered sweeping, high-level views that of the New York City skyline that Trump helped shape as a real estate developer, the courthouse where he was arraigned April 3, and the federal building where Jordan continued his war on Bragg by convening a hearing Monday on the prosecutor’s handing of violent crime.
Pomerantz declined comment as he walked out of the hearing holding a stack of papers with his book, “People vs. Donald Trump,” on top. His lawyer, Ted Wells, said he would accompany Pomerantz if he is made to testify. Neither Pomerantz nor his lawyers spoke during the hearing. But in a court filing, he aligned himself with Bragg’s position and maintained he should not be questioned by the committee.
Berry, the committee lawyer, argued that Pomerantz has already shared lots of information with the public about his work on the Trump investigation and the Judiciary Committee has the right to question him about it, too.
“I don’t think this is either rational or reasonable behavior that somehow the House Judiciary Committee committee ranks below ’60 Minutes,'” Berry argued.
Pomerantz can refuse to answer certain questions, citing legal privilege and ethical obligations, and Jordan would rule on those assertions on a case-by-case basis, Berry said, but he shouldn’t be exempt from showing up. If Jordan overrules Pomerantz and he still refuses to answer, he could then face a criminal referral to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress, but that wouldn’t happen immediately, Berry said.
Trump was indicted last month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty at an arraignment last week.
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Greenidge Signs Hosting Agreement with Core Scientific for 6,914 Greenidge-Owned Miners to Be Operated at Core Scientific's Facilities in Dalton, Georgia and Calvert City, Kentucky
Greenidge Announces the Installation of 1,500 Additional Miners in its Existing Facilities Across the Country
Initiatives Represent Incremental Annual Profit of ~ $7.5 Million to Greenidge
FAIRFIELD, Conn., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GREE) ("Greenidge" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated cryptocurrency data center and power generation company, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Core Scientific, Inc. (OTC: CORZQ) ("Core Scientific" or "Core") in which Core will host and operate Greenidge-owned bitcoin miners at its facilities in Dalton, GA and Calvert City, KY. Greenidge also announced the installation of an additional 1,500 company-owned miners at the Company's existing facilities across the country. Together, this successfully completes the deployment of 9,150 Greenidge miners.
"The agreement with Core Scientific completes this phase in our strategy to deploy 9,150 miners Greenidge owns, and we believe this agreement will significantly improve our profitability as we move forward," said Dave Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of Greenidge. "We are very pleased to deploy these miners at Core's facilities, which have favorable power costs and a track record of excellent operational performance."
"In addition, our team has shown tremendous creativity in constructing new miner slots at our facilities across the country, allowing us to capitalize on low natural gas prices in the U.S. and a beneficial cost structure. At current bitcoin economics, the combination of these two initiatives and our previously announced agreement with Conifex Timber Inc. represents approximately $7.5 million of incremental annual profit and significantly improves our ability to generate cash."
"Greenidge is a proven operator in this industry, and we're excited to partner with them and host their miners," said Matt Minnis, Co-Founder of Core Scientific. "We believe this is a win-win for Core and Greenidge."
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Hosting Agreement
- One-year agreement between Greenidge and Core Scientific to host miners owned by Greenidge.
- Includes a proceed-sharing component to recognize the contribution of miners by Greenidge and the infrastructure and operating expertise provided by Core Scientific.
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Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GREE) is a vertically integrated cryptocurrency data center and power generation company.
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Despite a slowing economy, the e-commerce company is still finding ways to grow
MELVILLE, N.Y., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- While some of the world's largest brands are off to a slow start in 2023, one Long Island company is still finding ways to overcome obstacles and reasons to celebrate success.
SupplyHouse.com, a national leader in distributing plumbing, heating, and HVAC supplies, recently kicked off a week-long celebration after hiring their 1000th employee. Festivities for the 4-digit milestone included a company-wide spirit week featuring giveaways, trivia, and even a live magic show.
Their continued expansion is part of a decades-long trend for SupplyHouse. The number of employees at the company has more than doubled since 2020, and they're projecting strong revenue growth for the twentieth consecutive year.
What's SupplyHouse.com's secret to not only staying on track, but continuing to grow in the face of adversity? "The passion for innovation and high levels of teamwork and collaboration is unmatched," said SupplyHouse.com Director of Customer Experience, Kristine DiGeronimo. "We create a safe work environment where ideas are encouraged, and questions are embraced to challenge each other to grow and innovate. I'm grateful to be part of this incredible team and can't wait to see what the future holds for SupplyHouse!"
SupplyHouse.com is still actively hiring and doesn't currently have any plans of slowing down in the future. Although for this week, they're taking a moment to pause and celebrate their 1000-employee milestone.
About SupplyHouse.com:
Headquartered in Melville, NY SupplyHouse.com is a rapidly growing e-commerce company with 4 fulfillment center locations across the United States to facilitate fast shipping. Relying on their core values of generosity, respect, innovation, and teamwork (or GRIT) SupplyHouse.com aims to foster a dynamic and tightly knit culture where new ideas are listened to and appreciated. If you'd like to join their team of over 1000 diverse and self-motivated individuals, visit their careers page at www.supplyhouse.com/careers.
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Wayside Waifs animal rescue wants students to read to their cats
By Alan Shope
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Wayside Waifs is always looking to find cats a forever home.
But sometimes, it can take a shelter cat a while to warm up to humans. That’s why the animal rescue is trying something to relax them a bit.
“I try to put on a soft voice,” Wyandotte High School sophomore Juan Mota said.
Frisky feline Tabatha certainly didn’t seem to mind the extra effort.
“At first, her cat was pretty jumpy, but now she’s just lying there,” Mota said.
The sophomore is taking part in Wayside Waifs Read To Cats program.
Yes, you read that correctly.
It’s a simple idea that matches a Cat hoping to get adopted with a student looking to become a stronger reader.
“This just shows them that people are kind people are good,” Wayside Waifs Humane Educator, Wayside Waifs Amy Putman said.
Wayside says it also helps build reading and interest in reading for students.
“A lot of times, students will be in a class, and they’ll say a word wrong, and they get left out. It’s a freedom here that they don’t get judged by the cats,” Casey Waugh with Wayside Waifs said.
The organization says it’s a program they do several times a week, having school kids come out and read to the cats.
They have Girl Scout troops come to read and even several adult groups.
Putman says that volunteers, especially teenagers, are surprised when the cats actually curl up and listen to them as they read.
“If they get used to humans a lot more, then they’re going to want to play with people more,” Wyandotte Student Martin Mora said.
Mota said there’s much less pressure reading to a cat than in a classroom full of kids.
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Columbus Blue Jackets center Kent Johnson scored at 3:20 of three-on-three overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over Finland on Saturday night for its record-extending 19th world junior hockey title.
Johnson tucked home his own rebound after Canada blew a two-goal lead in third period. The Canadians were 7-0 in the postponed event.
After being credited with just 13 shots over the first two periods, the Finns launched 17 shots on net in the third, with Aleksi Heimosalmi and Joakim Kemell scoring to send it to overtime.
The Canadians had plenty of chances to bury the Finns, but went 0 for 7 on the power play in regulation.
Joshua Roy and William Dufour scored for Canada, and Dylan Garand made 29 saves. With two assists in the game, Mason McTavish was the tournament’s top scorer, with eight goals and nine assists. He was the tournament MVP.
But McTavish’s finest moment was clearing what looked to be a tournament-winning effort from Topi Niemela off the goal line just seconds before Johnson notched the deciding goal.
In the third-place game, Sweden beat the Czech Republic 3-1.
Isak Rosen, Fabian Lysell and Linus Sojodin scored for Sweden and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves.
“You strive to win the last game,” said Rosen, a Buffalo Sabres prospect. “Of course we wanted the gold, but better bronze than nothing.”
Michael Gut scored for the Czech Republic and Tomas Suchanek stopped 20 shots.
The tournament originally opened Dec. 26 in Edmonton and Red Deer. Rising COVID-19 cases among players and officials caused the forfeiture of games and the event was halted after just four days. | 2022-08-22T00:38:19+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/sports/ap-sports/canada-beats-finland-3-2-in-ot-for-19th-world-junior-title/ |
CHEDEMA, India (AP) — In a small mountain village in India’s northeast, blue flags fluttered high in the clear sky. While Indians across the country prepared to celebrate 75 years of independence from British rule on Monday, the Naga community in Chedema marked the occasion by hoisting their very own blue flag.
The Nagas — an Indigenous people inhabiting several northeastern Indian states and areas across the border in Myanmar — marked the 75th anniversary of their declaration of independence Sunday. Seeking self-rule, Nagas had announced independence a day ahead of India in 1947 and commemorate this moment every year.
The Naga insurgency is the longest running in South Asia. But the largest Naga armed faction, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), has been in a cease-fire with the Indian government for 25 years as peace talks have come to a deadlock over the issue of using the Naga flag and constitution.
Thousands gathered Sunday at the event organized by the Naga National Council, the community’s parent political organization. Infants slept on the backs of their mothers while young boys and girls helped prepare the feast that followed the hoisting of the blue Naga flag. About a hundred veteran fighters, who laid down their arms after the first cease-fire in 1964, attended the event in their uniforms.
Riivosielie Chakriinuo, the oldest surviving general in the Naga Army, wore a medal for his service and smiled as he recalled the 1964 cease-fire, saying it brought peace to the land.
“I used to serve the gun. Now I serve God,” he said.
Vilazoü Suokhrie, 87, said she was overjoyed to see so many people gathered to mark the Naga community’s declaration of independence.
While the declaration has never been contested by India, Nagaland and other northeastern states remain part of the country despite years of insurgency efforts seeking self-rule. The Nagas preserve their identity and history through the annual event.
“When the British were leaving, we expressed our desire to be a free people,” said Adinno Phizo, 90, who is president of the NNC.
Over 90% of Nagaland state’s more than 1.9 million people are Christian — a striking contrast in a Hindu-majority country. For decades, Nagas have fought a battle for independence from India, and there are few families that have not suffered from the violence.
In recent years, the violence has ebbed but the demands for political rights have grown even as the federal government has pushed for talks with separatists. | 2022-08-14T15:11:42+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ap-photos-nagas-mark-75-years-since-declaring-independence/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Which hiking sandals are best?
Hiking is an incredible pastime for your health and overall happiness. In fact, according to the Mayo Clinic, hiking is ideal for relieving stress.
Hiking sandals let you enjoy an outdoor adventure on a warm day no matter the elements or obstacles. Mud, puddles and shallow rivers become manageable challenges instead of barriers. The exercising element combined with exposure to nature lets your body reduce stress mentally and physically in a natural way.
The top hiking sandals keep your feet dry and comfortable. They’re durable, secure, water-resistant and anti-slip for the best results on a hike.
What should I look for in a hiking sandal?
- Durability: Hiking sandals should be able to handle long treks without breaking or deteriorating.
- Customized fit: Look for a pair that can be adjusted to firmly attach to your foot, giving you optimal stability.
- All-terrain: Your hiking sandal needs to provide your foot and ankle with protection on rocks, sand, grass and more.
- All-weather: Choose sandals that can withstand the elements by ensuring they are water-resistant.
What are the benefits of hiking sandals?
- Improved foot health: Allowing your feet to breathe prevents your feet (and the sweat in your shoes) from collecting moisture and creating bacteria. Sandals also cover less surface area for blisters to develop on the foot and ankle.
- Keep you cooler: Even if there isn’t pain, when your feet get hot or moist it can be uncomfortable. Hiking sandals let the air cool your feet and keep your entire body temperature from rising too high.
- Be lighter on your feet: Hiking sandals are much lighter than hiking boots. This lets you move easier through brush and creeks without being weighed down.
Best women’s hiking sandals
Although women’s sandals can be worn by anyone, they are generally made for thinner, smaller feet. This style of hiking sandal is well equipped for outside terrain of any kind while being stylish enough to match any outdoor outfit. They often have more vibrant colors such as yellow and pink.
These are made from recycled polyester. They are an eco-friendly option with a curved design to hug your foot and a Velcro strap to secure it.
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You can use these for hiking on a trail or through a shallow stream. They have a thick anti-skid sole that dries quickly after getting wet.
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If you’re more focused on comfort and style, this is the pair of sandals for you. These have a hook-and-loop Velcro strap at the heel for quick removal.
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Atika Women’s Athena Outdoor Sandals
If you’re going through thicker brush or unknown terrain, these are a great option. They hug your foot using an elastic hook-and-lace system.
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These are curved to the foot arch and have adjustable straps for a custom fit. This pair comes in regular and wide styles.
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Merrell Women’s Terran Lattice II
These are made of mesh and leather with a hook-and-loop clasp. They are comfortable, breathable and come in 11 colors.
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Men’s top hiking sandals
Like women’s sandals, men’s hiking sandals can be worn by any gender. The style is identified by its formation to larger feet and usually has thicker soles and straps to ensure proper protection. Due to this thicker, denser design, men’s hiking sandals are also typically heavier than women’s.
Dream Pairs Men’s Outdoor Sandals
These sandals are nearly full coverage and close snugly around the foot using an elastic hook-and-lace system. They’re excellent for new trails, rocky trails or ones with thicker brushes.
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This pair is thick and built for hiking, but lightweight. They have three-point holes to adjust the fit and a microfiber cover for cushioning.
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These are lightweight, but fit around the whole foot with maximum coverage for a sandal. You can hike in them in any terrain, whether it’s wet or dry.
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This pair has mesh and microfiber for a breathable, soft feel. They keep feet dry, cool and comfortable while protecting you from scrapes caused by trail debris.
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These are perfect for minimal impact on the environment. The soles are designed to leave little trace, and they are water-resistant with high traction.
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This pair of sandals are minimal coverage and made for all terrain on the hottest days. The cushioning is designed for maximum comfort in hiking, fishing, kayaking or any other outdoor trek.
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Wild hog startles golfers on Florida course
OVIEDO, Fla. (WESH) - You don’t expect a big wild hog when you’re golfing, but that’s precisely what a group of golfers saw on a central Florida golf course.
“At least four feet and probably at least 100 pounds,” golfer Kyle Jeffers said.
The pig on a mission got the attention of Jeffers and fellow golfers.
“Just pulling up to one of the holes, just saw a pig, I don’t even know, come from behind one of the trees and it was huge. ... It just caught my eye,” he said.
Jeffers was out at a course in the Oviedo area on Monday when the hog appeared all of a sudden.
“Just surprised, I don’t think anybody expected to see a pig, let alone on a golf course, just walking and minding its own business,” Jeffers said.
Wildlife like deer is common to see around the golf course, along with evidence of the more elusive animals like hogs.
“You can see their dig marks where they’ve been rooting around all over the place,” said Harry Smith, another golfer.
Smith said he’s seen the damage the hogs cause, and he’s seen them up close.
“Just as I was teeing off, this boar, well, I say a boar, but pig came running up out of the woods right up behind me and just scared whatever out of me,” Smith said.
State wildlife officials said wild hogs can be found in all 67 of Florida’s counties. Officials report they can get big, weighing anywhere up to 150 pounds and stretching five to six feet long.
Jeffers thinks his encounter was less than the maximum size but still large.
“You couldn’t miss it. It was in plain sight. It was huge,” he said.
Jeffers said he was happy to see it moving on.
“If it was coming at me, I’d be a little startled for sure,” he said.
Hogs are notorious in central Florida for tearing up lawns.
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A number of recent unsolved shootings on Interstate 95 in South Florida have family members asking that surveillance cameras along the highway be recorded.
The road rage shooting over the weekend on I-95 in Broward is the latest to go unsolved.
Ana "Ani" Estevez, a preschool teacher and student at Florida Atlantic University, died days after the Sunday night shooting. Her family said she was shot seven times while driving home from Thanksgiving. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said her boyfriend also hit by gunfire along with a child in a separate car.
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The shooting is one of many recent cases, and despite hundreds of cameras lining the highway, family members say they're not much good if they're not recording.
Sheilla Nunez's daughter, Mellisa Gonzalez, was 22-years-old when a stray bullet hit her in the head on I-95. Nunez said her daughter and her boyfriend were on their way to visit her sick grandfather in the hospital in Miami Beach.
Investigators said she was talking with her boyfriend when all of a sudden she stopped mid sentence and died. She had plans to become a family lawyer.
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"Very very bad, I'm very unhappy," Nunez said. "The camera is there but it's only live, it's not recorded and we need the camera recording."
A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Transportation said there is not enough staff and storage to keep all the video and retrieve it from the more than 570 cameras along I-95.
Nunez said until the state starts looking out for innocent drivers the shootings will continue.
"I'm waiting for some people who can help me with resolving these problems," she said. | 2022-12-03T04:55:04+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/families-question-use-of-cameras-on-i-95-in-south-florida-after-recent-shootings/2921991/ |
(The Hill) – An uptick in threats to the FBI after it executed a search warrant at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is unsettling the political right, with some calling on allies of the former president to tone down their rhetoric.
Barriers have been erected outside the perimeter of the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., while the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly issued a joint bulletin Friday warning about spikes in threats that included a bomb threat at FBI headquarters and calls for “civil war” and “armed rebellion.”
Fox News host Steve Doocy on Monday urged the former president and others to “tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI” in light of the threats, while Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Trump’s language was “inflammatory.”
“I don’t want to put any law enforcement in the bull’s-eye of a potential threat,” McCaul said.
The bulletin issued by DHS and the FBI cited an incident in which a man armed with an AR-15-style rifle allegedly fired a nail gun into an FBI office in Cincinnati last week, according to NBC News. He was fatally shot by police after a chase and standoff, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Trump on Monday in an interview with Fox News did say the temperature on the issue needed to come down, adding that he’d told aides to reach out to the Department of Justice to help.
But in the same interview, Trump directed his wrath at the Justice Department and suggested that his supporters’ anger was justified. Trump said that Americans are “not going to stand for another scam,” said that the FBI can “break into a president’s house” in a “sneak attack” and suggested that the FBI “could have planted anything they wanted” during the search.
In another post on Truth Social, his social media platform, he claimed that his passports had been taken during the search. Passports were not included on a list of items mentioned as part of a warrant released on Friday, though some of the descriptions of what was seized were broad in nature.
The president’s account on the platform his own business launched is one of his most direct ways to reach supporters online now, since he lost access to his Twitter and Facebook accounts after his posts the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a former FBI agent, told Margaret Brennan of “Face the Nation” on Sunday that he was concerned about the safety of FBI agents.
“Violence is never the answer to anything,” Fitzpatrick said. “We live in a democracy that’s 246 years old, Margaret. That’s not long, that’s just a few generations, and yet we’re the world’s only democracy. And the only way that can come unraveled is if we have disrespect for our institutions that lead to Americans turning on Americans and the whole system becomes unraveled. And a lot of that starts with the words we’re using.”
“I’m also urging all my colleagues to understand the weight of your words and support law enforcement no matter what,” he added.
Republicans have sought to differentiate between Biden appointees and rank-and-file FBI agents when raising concerns about potential politicization of the department.
“I won’t smear the FBI, like the career FBI agents,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said Friday. “But the political appointees running this stuff are very worrisome.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump in 2017.
Some Republicans have continued to use incendiary rhetoric to speak to their massive online bases.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), using her official congressional account since her personal Twitter was suspended in January over COVID-19 misinformation, told her 1 million followers Monday that “Republicans must force” the “political persecution” to stop. Greene filed articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland last week.
Katherine Keneally, a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), said she is most concerned about the potential for extremist groups to capitalize on this moment to mobilize for future membership.
“Specifically, any accelerationist groups that are seeing an uptick in people being upset at the FBI, a government agency, works very well for recruitment for an organization that wants to collapse the US government. So I think that’s where my concern is, that these even more nefarious groups are going to use this as a catalyst moment for recruitment,” she said.
According to a report compiled by ISD analysts, social media accounts believed to belong to the alleged Cincinnati gunman, Ricky Shiffer, suggest he was “motivated by a combination of conspiratorial beliefs related to former President Trump and the 2020 election (among others), interest in killing federal law enforcement, and the recent search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago earlier this week.”
ISD researchers found that Shiffer was likely prepping for the attack for at least two days, based on posts from a since-removed Truth Social account believed to belong to him.
The researchers also found posts and photographs placing Shiffer at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, although it is not confirmed if he was present during the insurrection, and posts on the right-wing video site Rumble that show Shiffer encouraging users to “get in touch with the Proud Boys,” a far-right group.
Keneally said the Ohio incident hasn’t been mentioned widely by other far-right users of online platforms, likely because it wasn’t successful. But researchers are still seeing general calls for violence targeting the FBI.
Those monitoring the online vitriol, across mainstream platforms and fringe sites that cater to conservative users, warned that the posts from lawmakers and influencers online could incite their followers to take real-world action.
“It certainly plays a role in the radicalization process,” Keneally said.
“While they might not be directly calling for violence, the conspiratorial allegations certainly play a role in how these people are radicalized, and how they go down that path, regardless of whether it’s an official stating, ‘kill the FBI,’ that’s not what needs to be said to help radicalize. You just accused the FBI of ‘overstepping their boundaries,’ or like ‘taking away your constitutional rights,’ and that’s what that’s what people are mobilizing around,” Keneally said. | 2022-08-16T00:19:14+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/tamp-down-the-rhetoric-spike-in-fbi-threats-unsettles-the-political-right/ |
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Polymet Mining Corp. (PLM) on Thursday reported a loss of $9.7 million in its second quarter.
The St. Paul, Minnesota-based company said it had a loss of 10 cents per share.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scotty Moore wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Florida's 9th Congressional District.
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National survey shows most Americans don't know how much sunscreen they need to avoid sunburns
COLUMBIA, Md., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MedStar Health is launching its third annual National Safe Sun Week to shine a light on the important and potentially life-saving topic of spring and summer skin protection. National Safe Sun Week 2023 runs from Monday, May 22, through Sunday, May 28, on Memorial Day Weekend.
For the third year in a row, MedStar Health conducted a national survey to learn more about current safe sun habits. The results from 1,000 U.S. adults reveal several opportunities to continue educating the public about safely enjoying time outdoors during the brightest part of the year:
- Only 40% of respondents correctly identify that sunscreen should be reapplied every two hours.
- 65% do not know that potentially damaging sun rays are strongest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 38% agree that getting a "base tan" is a good way to prevent sunburn, which departs from the advice of medical experts.
- Only 19% say they always wear sunscreen during spring and summer months.
- Before a day at the beach, respondents say they are more likely to pack snacks than sunscreen.
- Of those who don't use sunscreen, 20% believe a darker skin complexion justifies their decision; an idea with which doctors strongly disagree.
During National Safe Sun Week, MedStar Health providers will share tips to help prevent sunburns and skin cancer, raising awareness of the dangers that sun damage brings to people of all races and ethnicities.
"No tan is a safe tan unless you're born with it. Any time you're exposed to sunlight, you're accumulating some form of skin damage," says Allison Larson, MD, executive director of Dermatology for MedStar Health. "National Safe Sun Week and the unofficial start of summer are the perfect times to remind everyone — regardless of your background or current safe sun habits — to prioritize protecting your skin from the sun and ultimately help yourself avoid skin cancer."
To help beachgoers remember to use their sunscreen properly this Memorial Day Weekend, MedStar Health will again fly planes carrying banners from Ocean City, Maryland to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Weather permitting, the planes will pass by every two hours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday carrying helpful reminders to reapply as often as dermatologists recommend.
MedStar Health is also using National Safe Sun Week to educate about safely exercising outdoors to prevent heat illness. Some heat-related illnesses, like heat stroke, are medical emergencies. Anyone with altered mental status (such as confusion, collapse, seizure) should receive immediate medical care:
- Call 911.
- Remove the overheated person from hot environment if possible.
- Use ice packs or cold damp towels and fans to cool.
- Some athletic events and races are equipped to manage exertional heat stroke with cold water immersion tubs and will cool the patient before transporting them to the hospital-- this has been proven to improve survival.
For more information about National Safe Sun Week, please visit https://nationaltoday.com/national-safe-sun-week/
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature, rather than voters, choose Wisconsin’s presidential electors, according to newly released documents from closed-door testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.
Johnson, in a statement Tuesday, said he had no recollection of the conversation with Andrew Hitt and accused the committee investigating the 2021 Capitol insurrection of attempting to “smear” him by selectively releasing text messages.
“I have no recollection of the phone call referenced in the texts, and therefore do not know the context of any comment I might have made,” Johnson said in a statement. “My goal since the November 2020 elections has consistently been to restore confidence in our election system.”
Hitt, who resigned as state party chairman in July 2021, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Feb. 22. The transcript of his interview was released on Monday. Hitt did not respond to messages from The Associated Press left Tuesday seeking comment.
Hitt provided the committee with a text message he sent to Mark Jefferson, the Wisconsin Republican Party executive director, on Dec. 7, 2020. That was just a week before Wisconsin’s electors met to cast their ballots for Biden, who defeated then-President Donald Trump by nearly 21,000 votes in the state. At the same time, Republicans were discussing ways around having the state’s electors awarded to Biden.
“Ron called me right after and now is arguing for us to have the legislature choose the electors. OMG,” Hitt’s text message to Jefferson said.
“What is he doing?” Jefferson replied.
“There is a huge amount of pressure building on them to find a way around the electoral college,” Hitt told Jefferson.
“How can he feel good about promoting that though?” Jefferson said. “Does he believe we won here?”
Jefferson declined to comment Tuesday.
Hitt told the Jan. 6 committee that he opposed having the Legislature award electoral votes, that he didn’t think Republican legislators would do it, and that he told Johnson that attorneys for the Legislature had weighed in and said lawmakers didn’t have the power to do that.
Hitt testified that he didn’t recall Johnson giving any reasons for why he wanted the Legislature to award the electors or that Johnson wanted him to do anything about it. Hitt described Johnson’s comments as a “general complaint.”
“He didn’t ask me to call anybody,” Hitt testified.
Hitt was among 10 Republicans who met secretly in the Wisconsin Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, the same day as Democrats met to cast the state’s electoral votes for Biden. Trump supporters wanted the fake electors in battleground states to be accepted in order to hand the election to Trump.
The texts between Hitt and Jefferson showed their concerns about the plan.
“Now how are we gonna get this silly electors meeting canceled? I fear that we won’t,” Jefferson texted Hitt, in reference to the Republicans.
Hitt also testified that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani wanted to keep the Republicans’ meeting secret. Giuliani said in one conference call that there should be “no press, no heads up” about the meeting.
On Jan. 4, 2021, according to a question asked by a Jan. 6 committee member, Jefferson texted Hitt that “freaking Trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the Senate President.”
Johnson’s staff attempted to get the slate of fake electors delivered to then-Vice President Mike Pence, but Pence’s staff rejected them.
Johnson did meet privately with Republican Wisconsin legislative leaders on Nov. 10, 2021, and told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel then that state lawmakers should take over the running of federal elections, rather than Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who was in that meeting, said Tuesday that Johnson did not bring up the possibility of having the Legislature cast electoral votes.
Johnson, in his statement Tuesday, said it was “indisputable that there were a number of irregularities with that election.” He said the elections commission issued guidance that was against the law, in reference to successful lawsuits brought by Republicans. Johnson also referenced six election bills passed by Republicans that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed.
“I want to fix the problems, Democrats only seem interested in playing politics and making it easier to cheat,” Johnson said.
The Jan. 6 committee last month released an 814-page report after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained more than a million pages of documents. It has been releasing transcripts of its interviews since then. The committee urged the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against Trump.
Johnson has repeatedly downplayed the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, while also raising concerns about widespread voter fraud despite there being no evidence to back it up. | 2023-01-04T12:39:24+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-new-documents-detail-sen-ron-johnson-asking-about-electors/ |
MENOMINEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJMN) – A Michigan Department of Natural Resources boating access site along the Menominee River at Faithorn will remain closed for several days for storm cleanup after numerous trees were felled during a severe thunderstorm earlier this week.
“Dozens of trees will need to be removed from the road and parking lot to reopen the site,” said Joe Frieberg, unit supervisor at the Menominee River Recreation Area. “I believe it will take our construction crew 2-3 days to accomplish that.”
Heavy equipment is needed to complete the cleanup. Those crews are not expected to begin their work until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Crews hope to reopen the boating access site by June 24.
However, a vault toilet building destroyed during the storm will eventually be replaced, but no time frame is currently available for that project.
For more information on DNR facility closures visit Michigan.gov/DNRClosures | 2022-06-17T21:24:35+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/local-news/south-central-up/boating-access-site-in-menominee-county-temporarily-closed-due-to-storm-damage/ |
Which conditioner for color-treated hair is best?
The first week after you color your hair is the best. Your hair is bright, shiny and luxurious. The color can fade fast, but using the right products can help you keep colored hair gorgeous long-term. Nexxus Hair Color Assure Conditioner For Color Treated Hair is top-rated because it keeps your hair soft and maintains color with protein-enriched ingredients that are sulfate- and paraben-free.
What to know before you buy conditioner for color-treated hair
Conditioner for color-treated hair 101
Conditioner is the second step in the hair cleansing routine after shampooing. If you have dyed your hair with permanent hair color, conditioning is a vital step, since hair dye can strip hair of its natural oils and break down hair follicles. Conditioner helps replace the moisture that’s lost and prevents further damage.
Conditioner for color-treated hair is designed to protect the hair from exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, which can cause hair color to fade. The conditioner lets you retain the color as much as possible.
Your hair type
Knowing your hair type will help determine what conditioner for color-treated hair is best for you. Those with dry, thick hair should opt for deep conditioners that penetrate hair follicles, delivering hydration throughout your hair and scalp. Curly hair can be tricky but it needs the same hydration and moisture, though thick conditioners can weigh down curly hair. Fine hair can get oily quickly, so consider a lightweight conditioner.
Condition when you shampoo
Conditioning should be part of your hair care routine if you have color-treated hair. After leaving the salon with a fresh new color or doing it at home with a kit, it is recommended to condition every time you wash your hair. Conditioners help color-treated hair stay moisturized and vibrant.
What to look for in a quality conditioner for color-treated hair
Sulfate-free
Sulfates are chemicals used to create a sudsy lather in cleaning products such as shampoo, detergent and body wash. The most commonly used sulfates are sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate. Products with sulfates wash out hair color more over time than those formulated without sulfates. Sulfates can also dry hair out and remove oils from the hair and scalp.
Sulfate-free products have less lather and let you use less product. Conditioners for color-treated hair made without sulfates are less harsh on your hair color overall.
Non-residue feel
Some conditioners can leave your hair feeling greasy or weighed down. There is no clear reason why this happens, especially since it varies from user to user, but it can be caused by the fragrances or types of moisturizers used. Search for a conditioner that provides moisture without weighing your hair down
Multiple benefits
Aside from adding moisture to your hair, conditioners for color-treated hair should also provide protection from heat and the sun’s ultraviolet rays, as well as being anti-frizz and offering extra shine.
How much you can expect to spend on conditioner for color-treated hair
This type of conditioner ranges in price from $10–$80.
Conditioner for color-treated hair FAQ
How long should I leave the conditioner in my hair?
A. Instructions vary from product to product, but usually it is three to five minutes. It is important to also take your hair type into consideration. For example, if you have dry, coarse or thicker hair, you may want to leave the conditioner in for longer than the suggested time.
Can conditioner fix damaged hair?
A. Damage cannot be reversed. However, hair can be protected from further damage by using proper hair maintenance techniques such as brushing and detangling your hair and being careful with heated styling tools. Conditioners made without harsh chemicals and sulfates can help protect your hair from future damage when used regularly.
What are the best conditioners for color-treated hair to buy?
Top conditioner for color-treated hair
Nexxus Hair Color Assure Conditioner
What you need to know: This deep conditioner keeps color-treated hair looking vibrant and protects it from fading.
What you’ll love: It is enriched with quinoa protein and is sulfate-free to keep hair strong, shiny and healthy, delivering salon-worthy results.
What you should consider: It can make hair feel greasy or weighed down after using.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Top conditioner for color-treated hair for the money
Derma E Restoring Vitamin E Conditioner
What you need to know: It encourages volume and shine while helping to prevent color from fading.
What you’ll love: Formulated with an array of naturally derived vitamins, proteins and oils, this conditioner strengthens hair while leaving it feeling soft. It’s gentle and safe for color-treated hair. It has a vegan and cruelty-free formula.
What you should consider: Some people find that using too much of this conditioner leaves their hair feeling overly greasy.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Worth checking out
It’s a 10 Miracle Daily Conditioner
What you need to know: This is a moisture- and antioxidant-packed lightweight conditioner made for daily use.
What you’ll love: In addition to the many benefits it provides, it’s made to help prevent hair from damage and fading.
What you should consider: This conditioner is pretty pricey compared to other brands.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
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Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-14T12:02:11+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/reviews/br/beauty-personal-care-br/hair-products-br/best-conditioner-for-color-treated-hair/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Relatives confronted the man who fatally shot a former star of the St. Louis-based reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” when he was sentenced to 32 years in prison.
“How can you sleep?” Kalyn Griggs asked Travell Anthony Hill as the 31-year-old was sentenced Thursday on two murder-for-hire charges in the the March 2016 death of Griggs’ brother, Andre Montgomery. “Was the $5,000 worth it?”
Hill admitted in June, through his plea, to conspiring with Montgomery’s uncle, James “Tim” Norman, who was the sole beneficiary of an insurance policy worth up to $450,000 against his 21-year-old nephew’s life. He instructed a friend to pay Hill the $5,000 in cash after the killing, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Montgomery and Norman starred on “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s,” a long-running OWN reality show about a family soul food business in the St. Louis area.
“We are not whole, and we never will be again,” Montgomery’s brother, Darren Griggs, told the court. “Andre had so much life left to live.”
Hill apologized to Montgomery’s family during the hearing and asked U.S. District Judge John Ross for leniency. He said two of his own brothers were killed in shootings the same year he shot Montgomery.
He argued he never killed for the money, but to “protect myself.” He said he has a son he has not been able to meet in person because of his incarceration.
“I’ve been dead inside since the day of the murder,” Hill said. “I apologize to everyone in court.”
The sentencing recommendation for the charges was life in prison, but the prosecution and defense had requested a 30-year sentence because Hill cooperated with authorities.
He testified against Norman, who is set to be sentenced in March after he was convicted last month of two counts of murder-for-hire and wire and mail fraud.
Another conspirator, Terica Ellis, is scheduled to be sentenced in January after pleading guilty in July to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. She admitted she lured Montgomery out on the street the night of the killing and told Hill his location. | 2022-10-21T22:43:14+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/ap-sister-of-slain-reality-star-asks-how-can-you-sleep/ |
Georgia wide receiver Kearis Jackson declared for the NFL draft on Jan. 14, following Georgia’s national championship celebration. He announced his decision via social media.
Thank You Georgia. 🤞🏾❤️ pic.twitter.com/okejYf8Luz
— Kearis Jackson (@king_kearis) January 14, 2023
Jackson, a fifth-year senior, has 78 catches for 1107 receiving yards in his collegiate career. When Adonai “AD” Mitchell missed time due to injury in the 2022 season, Jackson and a number of other receivers were crucial in making up for Mitchell’s absence.
Jackson also served as a return specialist for the Bulldogs. That experience should serve him well in the eyes of NFL decision-makers. In 2022, he returned 18 kickoffs for a total of 391 yards.
Jackson joined the team following the national championship loss to Alabama in 2018, persevering through role changes, coaching turnover and even a global pandemic.
“It’s year five and I’m enjoying it,” Jackson said after the 2022 SEC championship. “I’m still here. I have no regrets. The fact that I’m able to still be here and make history in all types of ways possible. No workout has killed me yet. I’m just excited to keep working and keep building.”
Jackson and the Bulldogs kept building, and their efforts earned them the third national title in program history. With him gone, the team will look to other options to replicate his consistency in the wide receivers room.
Dominic Lovett and Rara Thomas are two possibilities on that front. Both led their respective teams in receiving yards for the 2022 season, each transferring to Georgia after the regular season concluded. Georgia also brought in a number of receivers in the 2023 signing class, including four-stars Tyler Williams, Anthony Evans and Yazeed Haynes. Of course, in-house candidates such as Mitchell and Ladd McConkey will also be heavily relied upon, should they choose to return to Georgia.
In the meantime, Jackson will look to join the ranks of other former Georgia receivers — like the recently departed George Pickens — thriving in the NFL. | 2023-01-15T18:32:11+00:00 | redandblack.com | https://www.redandblack.com/sports/georgia-wide-receiver-kearis-jackson-declares-for-nfl-draft/article_24d3b8b0-94b6-11ed-88f5-af404f7572a4.html |
PORTLAND, Maine — Stark political divides among the states on abortion, gun rights and other issues are overshadowing a meeting this week of the nation's governors, who still hope to find common ground in a polarized climate.
The National Governors Association kicks off its summer meeting Thursday, the first time the group has met in-person since 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The session in Maine follows recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have deepened the rift between red and blue states, by overturning Roe v. Wade and striking down gun restrictions in New York.
The association's leaders say there's still room for bipartisanship — at least on other issues.
“The National Governors Association is the last standing, true bipartisan group that gets things done," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican who is wrapping up his yearlong term as the association's chair, said in an interview.
Hutchinson is handing the reins of the group to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who will serve as its next chair. The two governors last month announced the association was forming a bipartisan task force to make recommendations on preventing mass shootings, following the massacre at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The task force was announced before Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed a sweeping, bipartisan gun violence measure that includes billions in new funding for mental health and school safety. The task force is comprised of eight governors, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats.
Hutchinson said he sees the group helping shepherd that law's implementation at the state level.
“What I see this task force doing is being able to help shape the rules for the grant programs for the states to make sure we have the flexibility, that the mental health resources and others have the fewest amount of strings attached," he said.
He said he also sees the group providing information on best practices for school safety and red flag laws that some states have enacted that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people determined to be dangerous.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who serves on the task force, said that while she's grateful for the action from Washington, she thinks more can be done in the states on a bipartisan basis.
“It is not about protecting one political ideology or another," Whitmer said. “It’s about making our communities safer, making our cities safer, making our classrooms safer."
Another task force member, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, also sought common ground on the gun control debate. He acknowledged that any change to gun policy would invite controversy in his state, yet encourages politicians to listen to proposals from across the political spectrum, including funding for school security, counselors, gun buybacks and red flag laws.
“I’ve asked everyone to be open to every conversation,” Cox, the association's incoming vice chairman, said in a press conference last month.
Hutchinson said he doesn't see the governors association addressing abortion following the reversal of Roe. That ruling has pit states against each other, with “trigger" bans taking effect almost immediately in a number of states after the ruling.
Republicans in some states are looking at ways to prevent women from going out of state for abortions, steps that could include going after abortion providers. In response, some Democratic governors have signed measures banning their state's law enforcement agencies from enforcing other states' abortion bans. That includes Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, whose state is hosting the meeting.
When she signed an executive order last week, Mills said she “will stand in the way of any effort to undermine, roll back or outright eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine.”
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has even run a campaign ad in Florida criticizing that state's Republican leaders.
Partisanship was underscored on the eve of the gathering as New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu campaigned alongside fellow Republican Paul LePage, a former Maine governor who hopes to unseat Mills.
Nonetheless, Hutchinson said the group has been able to work together on other issues, being a voice for the states during the COVID-19 pandemic and during negotiations over the bipartisan infrastructure package. The group's meeting this week will include discussions about economic recovery and mental health for youth. It also will highlight computer science education in schools, which has been a priority of Hutchinson's.
“We have to find solutions. We don't have any other option. We have to lead," Hutchinson said.
Hutchinson's chairmanship of the group has elevated his national profile as he considers running for president in 2024. The two-term governor, who leaves office in January, has criticized former President Donald Trump and has urged fellow Republicans to move on from the 2020 election.
Murphy is coming into the chairmanship after narrowly winning reelection as governor last year. An unapologetic progressive, he recently signed legislation enshrining abortion rights into law and a new package of gun control bills.
Murphy, who also will become chairman of the Democratic Governors Association next year, has warned his party to learn the lesson of his close reelection victory last year, an off-year election cycle when Democrats lost the governor's race in Virginia.
“I think we have to talk about affordability, opportunity, that the American dream is still alive and well," Murphy said after signing his state's record $50.6 billion budget last month.
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DeMillo reported from Little Rock, Arkansas. Associated Press writers Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan; Mike Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey; Sam Metz in Salt Lake City; and Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report. | 2022-07-14T18:51:53+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/stark-political-divides-overshadow-us-governors-gathering/507-35aa98a9-cfb1-476a-aec5-f0a5057bcad9 |
- Focuses on Preparing for Previously Announced Uplist
- Significant Long-Term Opportunities in Global Energy Transition
- Company Focuses on Commercial Energy Services, Solar Installation and Energy Storage Solutions for Residential and Small Commercial Customers
PHOENIX, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB: SING or "the Company") announces strategic transactions to simplify and focus operations to increase revenue and achieve subsidiary level cash flow. The strategy will promote building upon the recently reported FY2022 increase in revenue to $21.8 Million versus $808,000 in FY2021. The Company will be selective, focusing on accretive opportunities to further expand its Solar Renewable Energy, Energy Storage for residential and small commercial customers and its Commercial Energy Services as it streamlines and consolidates energy- centric business units to prepare for operations after uplisting.
Residential Rooftop Solar will continue to benefit from the passage of the landmark US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) which provides $369 Billion in spending for climate and energy measures. The residential solar market size in the US will grow by $6.67 Billion between 2021 and 2026. Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, has dubbed the next 10 years as the "Solar + decade," as solar and energy storage buildout is expected to continue to build momentum over the next 10+ years. Solar+ Battery Storage market in the US is set for multi-year growth due to the provisions in the IRA.
"The April 2022 acquisition of Boston Solar was a key fundamental piece of the SinglePoint strategy focused on rolling up high quality residential and small commercial solar installation companies within the fragmented solar industry. We have a growing pipeline of acquisitions that are aligned and meet our long-term strategic criteria," said Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint "We are rebalancing operations throughout the company and are simplifying our capital stack providing greater transparency to our market value in order to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity and to best position the company for an uplist to a national exchange."
Recent Highlights and Announcements
- SinglePoint Inc. FY 2022 Annual Recorded Revenue increased to $21.8 Million compared to $0.808 Million (Revenue increase of approximately $20.9 million)
- Board of Director and Shareholder approval of the proposed spinoff to SinglePoint shareholders of ShieldSaver, as a new separate public company. SinglePoint originally acquired ShieldSaver in 2018 as a disruptive auto repair and service technology platform that was positioned to leverage blockchain initiatives for data collection. SinglePoint has agreed to acquire the remaining minority interest in ShieldSaver and will announce an experienced emerging public company executive to facilitate the transition and transaction.
- Shareholder approval and Board of Director approval of the proposed sale, joint venture, Business Combination or Tax-Free Spin-off to Shareholders of non-core entities EnergyWyze and DIGS.
- Shareholder and Board of Director approval to explore options to sell or pursue a Tax-Free Spin off to Shareholders of BOX Pure Air/BPA Solutions, providers of commercial and industrial grade certified-HEPA portable air purification units manufactured in the USA within the next twelve months.
- Clean indoor air is an essential right and a public health concern. The federal government has made $121Billion available for schools to address unhealthy indoor air in schools and an additional $350 Billion through the Clean Air in Buildings Challenge announced in 2022. Addressing Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is an ongoing health concerns that must be addressed and an additional funding pitch took place on National Healthy Schools Day (NHSD) on April 4, when environmental and public health groups called on President Biden to include an additional $100 million in his 2024 budget requests for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation/Indoor Environments Division.
- SinglePoint Board of Directors approved conversion into Common Stock of Preferred A shareholders to simplify the capital table in the ongoing preparation for a previously announced uplisting. Simplifying the capital structure by consolidation and conversion into common stock highlights the actual market capitalization, while eliminating future common stock dilution, preferred distribution rights, and enhanced voting. All holders of the Preferred A shares have unanimously agreed to reduce the conversion ratio by 20%.
- Barney Monte will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer of SinglePoint leveraging his historical experience within investment banking. Barney has been providing executive management and capital markets advisory services to small and mid-market private and publicly listed companies. He has over 20 years of M&A and capital markets experience including from company inception to initial public offerings; investment grade and leveraged finance; and domestic and cross border mergers and acquisition activity.
- FY2022 Boston Solar (Acquired April 2022) Annual Proforma Revenue of $24.8 Million versus $17.6 Million in FY2022 representing YoY Annual Growth of approximately 40%. Boston Solar contributed approximately $19.1 Million in FY2022 Recorded Revenue.
- The landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has changed the trajectory of the U.S. energy market, sparking a projected five-fold increase in the size of America's $33 Billion solar and storage industry over the next decade increasing the near-term opportunity for the SinglePoint Strategic Solar EPC and Energy Storage Acquisition Strategy.
The multiple corporate actions are part of a planned fundamental strategy of focusing on building its renewable energy, energy storage and to prepare for additional opportunities in EV charging for our residential and small commercial customers. These corporate actions will allow SinglePoint to reduce the size of its non-core subsidiary portfolio while providing the opportunity to unlock additional value through stock dividends via separation and segmentation for our existing 30,000+ SinglePoint shareholders and the shareholders of record on the respective spin off dates. SinglePoint expects the first spin off to its shareholders of ShieldSaver prior to the end of FY2023 Q3. That spin-off will involve the formation of a new standalone, experienced public company management transition team at ShieldSaver that will be focused on expanding previous industry partnerships and targeting a seamless transition with the goal of ensuring trading on the effective date of the spin off. SinglePoint expects that its ownership interests in Shield Saver will be distributed tax-free on a pro rata basis to all shareholders.
In addition to spinning off ShieldSaver, SinglePoint has received Board of Director approval and shareholder approval to pursue similar transactions for its other non-core business assets, EnergyWyze and Discount Indoor Garden Supply(DIGS). These transactions are targeted to be completed prior to the end of the calendar year. Creating additional value through a distributed spinoff will allow the Company and management to focus on and put all effort towards the opportunities that show the highest rate of return. These spin offs will also give value back to shareholders through the equity distributed in the new public companies.
There is an emerging long-term opportunity to address healthy clean air and safety improvements in our nation's schools and workplace environments. Billions of dollars of Government Funding have been appropriated and allocated to address the need for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and additional safety hardening in the places we attend school or go to work. BOX Pure Air/BPA solutions is uniquely positioned to take advantage of these opportunities and would be a significant beneficiary of being a stand-alone private or public company allowing its true market value to be unlocked and realized. Operating as a stand-alone entity will provide further flexibility to pursue value maximization, and allow SinglePoint to focus on increasing our size, scale and footprint in the Renewable Energy, Energy Storage and Energy Services markets. We expect continued revenue growth and to achieve positive operational cash flow at BOX Pure Air/BPA solutions and within our energy-focused subsidiaries in FY2023.
In addition, and under prescriptive advice from our outside professional service providers, in order to best prepare for a successful up listing, the SinglePoint Board of Directors and the current group of Series A Convertible Preferred shareholders have agreed to simplify its corporate capital table structure by converting the issued and outstanding class of Preferred A, at a reduced conversion rate, into Common shares. This conversion will, among other things, eliminate the preferred distribution, eliminate a significant portion of the potentially dilutive securities and eliminate the preferred voting held by the Series A Convertible Preferred Shareholders. It bears noting that the Company's market cap will increase and will reflect a more transparent market value because of the recommended conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred into Common.
In connection with the planned corporate actions preparing for the planned uplist, Barney Monte, who has been co-leading and conducting due diligence on our strategic M&A transactions, will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Monte has over 20 years of progressive capital markets experience that includes: structure and advisory from inception to initial public offerings; raising capital; merger and acquisition activity. In addition, we are also promoting Chad Miles from EVP Operations to our Chief Operating Officer at SinglePoint.
Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint, noted, "Our senior management team comprised of Daniel Mello Guimaraes – EVP EPC Services, Chad Miles – EVP Operations, Corey Lambrecht – President and Jason Lally – EVP Revenue have delivered demonstrated results and formally adding Barney Monte as the Chief Financial Officer and Chad Miles as the Chief Operating Officer makes SinglePoint, its stakeholders and shareholders well positioned to continue to deliver results and to take advantage of the increasing pipeline of opportunities in the energy sector."
Ralston added, "Today's announcements are representative of yet another milestone in our long-term plan to focus SinglePoint on its strategic core businesses – energy services, energy storage and energy creation via renewable energy. Over the last few years, prior to my taking on the CEO role, SinglePoint has accumulated several emerging potential businesses that no longer align with our energy-focused strategy for the next decade. Although we have made substantial and successful progress in the past few years, it is imperative we continue to focus our resources on the accretive opportunities within the energy and energy storage sector. As we have made plain to our various stakeholders, our goal is to recognize value from the non-core assets in our portfolio while we continue to prioritize, build, and add to our energy centric businesses. By continuing to focus on this energy-centric strategy the Company has delivered record gross revenue for FY2022 of $21.8 Million while attracting interest from several companies that closely align with and will deliver continuing positive results for years to come."
Ralston continued, "Our recent efforts to monetize our legacy portfolio businesses have led to the initial spinoff of 1606 Corp. to our shareholders and today's announced intended transactions will create multiple opportunities for our shareholders on the record date of each spin off to be able to realize a benefit from having ownership in multiple stand-alone entities. I am truly thankful that the shareholders and the board of directors are in agreement with an energy-centric strategy and that these actions will create additional incremental ownership in the planned spinoffs, enabling the on-going SinglePoint team, once the entities are spun-off or sold, to continue to execute our strategy without legacy distractions.
Most importantly, we recently reported the FY2022 annual revenue increases. Confirming the early stage traction and we are in the midst of transforming from the niche nano cap OTC fully reporting company with minimal annual revenues to a company that has a growing revenue base in the renewable energy, energy storage and energy services sector that just posted year of year revenue gain of over $20.0M to $21.8 Million in FY2022 and is positioning itself for an eventual uplist to a listed exchange."
Ralston concluded, "I am incredibly proud of our entire team at SinglePoint and, while the current market climate certainly presents short-term challenges, we are extremely optimistic about SinglePoint's ability to continue to grow revenue, achieve positive cash flow at the operating subsidiary levels, while looking to increase our market share and footprint over the next decade. The long-term outlook in the markets we serve is incredibly bullish. Today's announcements will allow us to continue to focus on our core priorities. We believe in our energy-centric business, and we believe that spinning off or selling non-core, non-aligned assets to return value to SinglePoint shareholders will ultimately unlock the fundamental value of these business units. We look forward to presenting our shareholders with the opportunity to benefit from being direct shareholders of the intended spin-offs."
Continuing Strategic Core Energy Assets - Solar EPC's, Energy Services, Energy Storage
- Boston Solar (EPC)
- Frontline (Energy Services)
- Planned Acquisitions - Additional EPC's, Energy Storage Solutions
Strategic Spin Off - K-12 and Commercial Indoor Air Quality, Safety and Security
- BOX Pure Air (Certified HEPA Indoor Air Purification (IAQ)) & BPA Solutions (Building Security, IAQ Improvement, Consulting)
Non-Core Spin Offs, Sale or other
- EnergyWyze (lead generation)
- ShieldSaver (Automotive Service Platform, Data, Blockchain)
- DIGS - Discount Indoor Garden Supply (agriculture supply, product manufacturing)
About SinglePoint Inc (OTCQB:SING)
SinglePoint Inc. is a renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle company that provides environmentally friendly energy efficiencies and healthy living solutions. SinglePoint is initially focused on building the largest network of renewable energy solutions and modernizing the traditional solar and energy storage model. The Company is also actively exploring future growth opportunities in air purification, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and healthier life. For more information, visit the Company's website (www.singlepoint.com) and connect on social media for the latest updates.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this news release may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. All statements, other than statements of fact, included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding potential plans and objectives of the Company, the use of proceeds, anticipated growth, and future expansion, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Technical complications, which may arise, could prevent the prompt implementation of any strategically significant plan(s) outlined above. The Company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
Investor Contact:
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Investors@SinglePoint.com
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and a small group of leaders from alliance countries are meeting in the Netherlands to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine and to prepare for a summit in Spain later this month.
The informal gathering is being held Tuesday evening at Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's official residence at The Hague and co-hosted by Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen. The other leaders attending were Romania's president, and the prime ministers of Belgium, Poland, Portugal and Latvia.
Against a backdrop of war on the alliance’s eastern edge, the talks will likely also address applications by Sweden and Finland to join the alliance. Both countries applied in May to join NATO after decades of military non-alignment. That changed after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vetoed their entry until the two countries change their policies on supporting Kurdish militants deemed by Ankara to be terrorists.
Stoltenberg said Monday he was “glad” that the Swedish government has confirmed its “readiness to address Turkey’s concerns as part of assuming the obligations of future NATO membership.”
The meeting is the latest round of international diplomacy before a June 29-30 NATO summit in Madrid.
Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins told a local radio program on Tuesday that he hopes — and expects — that the strengthening of the eastern flank, particularly in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that all border Russia, will be discussed over dinner in The Hague.
The issue is relevant to the governments in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, which have long sought a permanent presence of NATO troops on their territories following Russia’s military maneuvers in the region in the past several years and substantially increased the appeals since Moscow's invasion.
In the interview with Latvian Radio, cited by the Baltic News Service, Karins stressed that it was important his NATO colleagues have a similar understanding of the need to strengthen security in the Baltic region.
The meeting in The Hague follows a gathering Friday in Bucharest of nine NATO nations on the alliance’s eastern flank where some leaders urged NATO to step up protection in light of Russia’s protracted war against Ukraine.
“We need to make sure that NATO is able and prepared to respond effectively and calibrated to the threats it faces,” Romanian President Klaus Iohannis told reporters after Friday’s meeting. “The alliance needs to be able to defend every inch of its territory.”
Three NATO members — Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey — border the Black Sea, which has turned into a key battleground in the war in Ukraine.
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Jari Tanner in Helsinki, and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-06-14T14:21:23+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Group-of-NATO-leaders-meet-in-The-Hague-to-17240311.php |
Company spotlights and supports Hispanic- and Latinx-owned brands, founders and communities with range of National Hispanic Heritage Month initiatives
WEST CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qurate Retail GroupSM, a leader in building brands through livestream video commerce and personalized digital experiences, today launched a range of National Hispanic Heritage Month initiatives across QVC®, HSN® and Zulily® to elevate Hispanic- and Latinx-owned businesses and celebrate the histories, cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Americans. Special initiatives include:
- Offering 2022 National Hispanic Heritage Month Collections on QVC and HSN that feature a curated selection of Hispanic- and Latinx-owned brands and products that celebrate Hispanic and Latinx culture;
- Highlighting Hispanic- and Latinx-owned brands and entrepreneurs through Qurate Retail Group's Small Business Spotlight program;
- Making a $100,000 donation to Hispanic Federation (HF) in support of their efforts to empower and advance the Hispanic community, support Hispanic families and strengthen Latino institutions.
"Qurate Retail Group is a community of team members, vendor partners and customers who span all different backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities," said Virginia Nguyen, Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer at Qurate Retail Group. "There is incredible power in diversity of this kind, and as a company with a global reach, we're committed to leveraging that power to uplift communities, support entrepreneurs, and purposefully deliver experiences that help our customers and associates see themselves reflected and represented in our brands. This month's initiatives build on this commitment and serve as opportunities to listen to, learn from and celebrate the Hispanic and Latinx community."
As the largest player in video commerce ("vCommerce"), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms, Qurate Retail Group offers small businesses a robust platform for growth. In the U.S. alone, the company's vCommerce brands, QVC and HSN, reach a combined total of more than 90 million homes via five television networks and reach more than 100 million homes through the QVC+ and HSN+ streaming experience and other digital platforms. QVC and HSN achieve unparalleled customer engagement, with nearly 66 billion minutes viewed on the U.S. TV channels in 2021 and more than 160 million units shipped. In addition, online retailer Zulily serves millions of moms everywhere by offering a fun, personalized shopping experience featuring everyday deals, fresh styles and unique finds for herself, her family and her home.
Here's a closer look at each National Hispanic Heritage Month initiative:
- QVC and HSN National Hispanic Heritage Month Collections: From September 15 through October 15, customers can shop the National Hispanic Heritage Month Collections across QVC and HSN. These capsule collections highlight a range of Hispanic- and Latinx-owned and founded brands – from food, books, home goods and more – as well as products created especially for National Hispanic Heritage Month. To learn more and shop, customers can visit QVC.com or HSN.com.
- Small Business Spotlight: 15 Hispanic- and Latinx-owned businesses outside of Qurate Retail Group's current vendor base will share their brand stories live on-air on QVC and HSN or on QVC2 and will be featured on Zulily's website through Qurate Retail Group's Small Business Spotlight. This initiative, now in its third year, supports entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups with national on-air and digital exposure, along with various other pro-bono, in-kind services. QVC2 will run a special live program with participating businesses on September 15 at 3 p.m. ET. Learn more about this month's participating businesses on QVC.com, HSN.com and Zulily.com. More than 200 small businesses have participated in the Small Business Spotlight since the program launched, with many reporting double-digit or even higher increases in sales, new customers and/or customer contacts as a result.
- Donation to Hispanic Federation (HF): QVC and HSN are making a joint donation of $100,000 to HF, the nation's premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. Founded in 1990, HF seeks to empower and advance the Hispanic community, support Hispanic families and strengthen Latino institutions through work in the areas of education, health, immigration, civic engagement, economic empowerment, disaster relief and the environment.
In addition, viewers on the QVC+ and HSN+ streaming experience can check out "QVC en Español," a collection of Spanish-language shows available year-round. The collection includes "Ayudantes de Casa" with Host Paulo Quevedo and "De Compras con Lesley" with Host Lesley Ann Machado, both launching September 15, and "Para Ti con Rosina," with Host Rosina Grosso, dropping every other Wednesday.
For more information about Qurate Retail Group's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, visit https://www.qurateretailgroup.com/lp/diversity-equity-inclusion/.
All data as of FY 2021, unless otherwise noted.
Qurate Retail GroupSM comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road® – all dedicated to providing a more human way to shop. Qurate Retail Group is the largest player in video commerce ("vCommerce"), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms. The retailer reaches more than 200 million homes worldwide via 14 television channels, which are widely available on cable/satellite TV, free over-the-air TV, and digital livestreaming TV. The retailer also reaches millions of customers via its QVC+ and HSN+ streaming experience, websites, mobile apps, social pages, print catalogs, and in-store destinations. Qurate Retail Group combines shopping and entertainment to curate products, experiences, conversations and communities for millions of highly discerning shoppers. Headquartered in West Chester, Pa., Qurate Retail Group has team members in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Poland and China. For more information, visit www.qurateretailgroup.com, follow @QurateRetailGrp on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or follow Qurate Retail Group on YouTube or LinkedIn.
Qurate Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRTEA, QRTEB, QRTEP) is a Fortune 500 company that includes the Qurate Retail Group portfolio of brands as well as other minority interests and green energy investments.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police shot and killed a 61-year-old Sudanese refugee after he reportedly lunged at an officer after a long standoff, authorities said.
The confrontation on Wednesday began when officers were serving felony warrants for assault, resisting arrest and a weapons charge, Lt. John Green said.
After the man barricaded himself in an apartment, police used tasers, tear gas, robots and other nonlethal means to end the standoff, Green said, but they were unsuccessful.
Officers also tried to negotiate with him in English and Arabic, his native language, Green said.
When a SWAT team eventually entered the apartment, officers fired at least seven shots when the man charged an officer with a knife, Green said. No one else was in the apartment.
Friends said the man and his children immigrated to the U.S. about five years ago, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Veii Kauaria, who works with Organization for Black Struggle and speaks Arabic, said he was disappointed officers wouldn’t let him negotiate with the man.
“It just didn’t have to happen like this,” said Kauaria. “He was afraid. All he saw was this SWAT team with big guns, thinking they were going to kill him and they did.” | 2022-09-08T16:44:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/st-louis-police-shoot-and-kill-sudanese-man-after-standoff/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Aerosmith announces farewell tour
After more than five decades together, Aerosmith has announced a farewell tour. The band’s website now lists dates for their “Peace Out” tour, starting in Philadelphia in September.
“After 50 years, 10 world tours, and playing for over 100 million fans… It’s time for one last go!” the band wrote on Instagram.
They will be joined by The Black Crowes on the 39-stop tour. “Every night will celebrate the five decades of Aerosmith’s groundbreaking hits as they celebrate 50 years as America’s greatest rock band,” the Instagram post reads.
“It’s not goodbye it’s PEACE OUT! Get ready and walk this way, you’re going to get the best show of our lives,” Aerosmith said in a joint statement.
In 2012, the band talked with Lara Logan on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” about their tumultuous 40 years together. “I think my perfectionism and my busting everyone’s chops is what got this band to where it is today,” frontman Steven Tyler said.
“There’s no doubt about Steven’s greatness. When you ask what makes the band great, I think that it’s a combination of all of us. What that was right now, I can’t tell you,” drummer Joey Kramer said.
“I think a lot of it is [Tyler is] unbelievably competitive. You know he’s competitive with us. With each member of the band,” bassist Tom Hamilton said.
The five band members, which also includes guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, are all in their 70s now. They got their start in 1970 in Boston and went on to win four Grammys – winning best rock performance by a duo or group for 1991’s “Janie’s Got a Gun,” 1994’s “Livin’ on the Edge,” 1995’s “Crazy” and 1999’s “Pink.”
The band opened a Las Vegas residency in 2019, but had to cancel shows last year as Tyler entered a treatment program.
“As many of you know, our dear brother Steven has worked on his sobriety for years,” the band said in a statement. “After foot surgery to prepare for the stage and the necessity of pain management during the process, he has recently relapsed and voluntarily entered a treatment program to continue his health and recovery.”
They resumed the residency in September, but canceled their last two shows of the year, citing advice from Tyler’s doctors. | 2023-05-01T17:02:21+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/aerosmith-announces-farewell-tour/ |
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A Greensboro mother said her 8-year-old son saved his grandfather from drowning, and he barely even knows how to swim.
It happened Thursday afternoon at the Terrace at Olde Battleground Apartments.
Christian Matos and his grandfather do lots of things together, so it wasn’t unusual for the two to go to the pool at the apartment complex where they live. But this visit, it was Christian’s quick thinking that quite possibly saved his grandfather’s life.
It started like any other trip to the pool.
“We started playing,” Christian said. “We started laughing and stuff.”
But the fun quickly turned scary.
“I saw him just like floating with his head down,” Christian said.
Christian’s grandfather was having what doctors think was a stroke. With no help in sight, Christian jumped into action to get his grandfather out of the water as best as he could.
“I just picked him up and put him on the staircase so that way he could like breathe for a second,” said the 8-year-old. “I tried pumping his chest.”
It wasn’t easy for Christian. His mom told FOX8 he isn’t a strong swimmer.
“It was like really hard because he was kind of too heavy for me,” he said.
Christian was scared, knowing his grandfather wasn’t breathing.
“My legs started shaking,” he said.
But his adrenaline kicked in, and he was able to get his grandfather to the pool steps and call his mom.
“He said mom, ‘pawpaw is dead,’ and I ran, and he had his pawpaw. Half his body was still in the water, but the other half was out,” said Cerise Hammie, Christian’s mother.
Hammie alerted the apartment complex, and a worker called 911 for help.
It was a team effort to keep grandpa alive, but it wouldn’t have been possible without Christian.
The workers even gave him a trophy for his bravery. He’s still shaken up about everything but knew he had to save his pal and would do anything to make that happen.
“Because I love him,” Christian said.
He shared this message to his grandfather.
“I love you, pawpaw,” he said. “I hope you feel better.”
His grandfather is still in the hospital, but is expected to be OK.
The family isn’t sure when he’ll be released. Christian hopes it’ll be soon, so they can take another trip to the pool. | 2022-08-19T23:20:54+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/greensboro-8-year-old-saves-grandfathers-life/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – SandRidge Energy, Inc. (the "Company" or "SandRidge") (NYSE: SD) today announced financial and operational results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023.
Recent Highlights
- First quarter net income was $23.8 million, or $0.64 per basic share. Adjusted net income(1) was $25.7 million, or $0.70 per basic share
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $31.2 million in the first quarter
- Approximately $30.4 million of free cash flow(1) in the first quarter, which represents a conversion rate of approximately 98% relative to adjusted EBITDA(1)
- The Company drilled and completed two wells during the three months ended March 31, 2023. SandRidge plans to drill and complete two additional operated wells, which will conclude its program for the year
- As of March 31, 2023, the Company returned 182 wells to production since the beginning of 2021, helping to flatten expected annual PDP decline to an average of ~8% over the next ten years
- Approximately $2.5 million in interest income during the first quarter
- Realized commodity derivative settlement gains of approximately $5.9 million in the first quarter
- First quarter G&A was $2.9 million, or $1.94 per Boe and adjusted G&A(1) was approximately $2.5 million, or $1.68 per Boe
Financial Results & Update
Profitability & Realized Pricing
For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company reported net income of $23.8 million, or $0.64 per basic share, and net cash provided by operating activities of $39.8 million. After adjusting for certain items, the Company's adjusted net income(1) amounted to $25.7 million, or $0.70 per basic share, adjusted operating cash flow(1) totaled $33.7 million and adjusted EBITDA(1) was $31.2 million for the quarter. The Company defines and reconciles adjusted net income, adjusted operating cash flow, adjusted EBITDA, and other non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States ("GAAP") measure in supporting tables at the conclusion of this press release.
The Company generated approximately $30.4 million of free cash flow(1) in the first quarter, which represents a conversion rate of approximately 98% relative to adjusted EBITDA.
First quarter realized oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids prices, before the impact of derivatives,(2) were $74.26 per Bbl, $2.73 per Mcf and $24.62 per Bbl, respectively, compared to $79.10 per Bbl, $4.40 per Mcf and $25.73 per Bbl in the prior quarter. The table below compares the Company's first quarter oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids price realizations, before the impact of derivatives(2), to the daily average spot prices for NYMEX Henry Hub Natural Gas and West Texas Intermediate Oil ("WTI"):
Operating Costs
During the first quarter of 2023, lease operating expense ("LOE") was $11.7 million or $7.79 per Boe primarily driven by increased activity over the period in response to winter weather events, increased costs driven by inflation, and more producing wells driven by the Company's well reactivation program.
For the three months ended March 31, 2023, general and administrative expense ("G&A") was $2.9 million, or $1.94 per Boe. Adjusted G&A(1) was $2.5 million, or $1.68 per Boe.
Liquidity and Capital Structure
As of March 31, 2023, the Company had $287.6 million of cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash, diversified across multiple financial institutions. The Company has no outstanding term or revolving debt obligations.
Operational Results & Update
Production
Production totaled 1,500 MBoe (16.7 MBoed, 17% oil, 28% NGLs and 55% natural gas) for the three months ended March 31, 2023 compared to 1,606 MBoe (17.8 MBoed, 13% oil, 33% NGLs, and 54% natural gas) for the three months ended March 31, 2022. SandRidge's capital development program has helped increase oil content as a percentage of total production.
Development Program
SandRidge operated one drilling rig in the first quarter and successfully drilled and completed two wells targeting the Meramec formation in the core of the NW Stack play as part of its previously announced capital development program. The Company plans to drill and complete two additional operated wells, which will conclude its program for the year. SandRidge will continue to monitor opportunities for future development, with its primary focus being to generate high rates of return. The higher oil content of its new NW stack wells versus the Company's base production was the primary driver of SandRidge's oil production increasing by approximately 22% in the first quarter of 2023 versus the first quarter of 2022. This increases the Company's oil as a percentage of total production and enhances its commodity realizations.
Well Reactivation & Rod Pump Conversion Program
Since the beginning of 2021, the Company has returned 182 wells to production. During the first quarter, SandRidge also completed four artificial lift conversions, helping to lower forward-looking operating costs for this well set. These projects have helped lower SandRidge's expected annual PDP decline to an average of ~8% over the next ten years. The Company continues to ensure that all projects meet high rate of return thresholds and remains capital disciplined as the commodity price landscape has changed in recent months. As a result, reactivation activity has decreased in 2023 but could increase again as commodity prices recover.
Outlook
SandRidge will continue to focus on growing the cash value and generation capability of its asset base in a safe, responsible and efficient manner, while exercising prudent capital allocations to projects it believes provide high rates of returns in the current commodity price outlook. These projects could include well reactivations, artificial lift conversions to more efficient and cost effective systems, and remaining drilling in high-graded areas. The Company will continue to monitor forward-looking commodity prices, results, costs and other factors that could influence returns on investments, which will continue to shape its disciplined development decisions in 2023 and beyond. SandRidge will also continue to maintain the optionality to execute on value accretive merger and acquisition opportunities that could bring synergies, leverage the Company's core competencies, complement its portfolio of assets, further utilize its approximately $1.6 billion of net operating losses ("NOLs"), or otherwise yield attractive returns for its shareholders.
Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG")
SandRidge maintains its Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") commitment, to include no routine flaring of produced natural gas and transporting approximately 97% of its produced water via pipeline instead of truck. Additionally, SandRidge maintains an emphasis on the safety and training of our workforce. We have personnel dedicated to the close monitoring of our safety standards and daily operations.
Conference Call Information
The Company will host a conference call to discuss these results on Friday, May 5, 2023 at 10:00 am CT. The conference call can be accessed by registering online in advance at https://conferencingportals.com/event/mIkSnMey at which time registrants will receive dial-in information as well as a conference ID. At the time of the call, participants will dial in using the participant number and conference ID provided upon registration. The Company's latest presentation is available on the Company's website at investors.sandridgeenergy.com/Investor-Relations/events.
A live audio webcast of the conference call will also be available via SandRidge's website, investors.sandridgeenergy.com, under Presentation & Events. The webcast will be archived for replay on the Company's website for 30 days.
Contact Information
Investor Relations
SandRidge Energy, Inc.
1 E. Sheridan Ave. Suite 500
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
investors@sandridgeenergy.com
About SandRidge Energy, Inc.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SD) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development and acquisition of oil and gas properties. Its primary area of operations is the Mid-Continent region in Oklahoma and Kansas. Further information can be found at www.sandridgeenergy.com.
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Operational and Financial Statistics
Information regarding the Company's production, pricing, costs and earnings is presented below (unaudited):
Capital Expenditures
The table below presents actual results of the Company's capital expenditures for the three-months ended March 31, 2023 (unaudited):
Capitalization
The Company's capital structure as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 is presented below:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP measures are not alternatives to GAAP measures, and you should not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Below is additional disclosure regarding each of the non-GAAP measures used in this press release, including reconciliations to their most directly comparable GAAP measure.
Reconciliation of Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities to Adjusted Operating Cash Flow
The Company defines Adjusted operating cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities before changes in operating assets and liabilities as shown in the following table. Adjusted Operating cash flow is a supplemental financial measure used by the Company's management and by securities analysts, investors, lenders, rating agencies and others who follow the industry as an indicator of the Company's ability to internally fund exploration and development activities or incur new debt. The Company also uses this measure because operating cash flow relates to the timing of cash receipts and disbursements that the Company may not control and may not relate to the period in which the operating activities occurred. Further, Adjusted operating cash flow allows the Company to compare its operating performance and return on capital with those of other companies without regard to financing methods and capital structure. This measure should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net cash provided by operating activities prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliation of Free Cash Flow
The Company defines free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities plus net cash (used in) provided by investing activities less the cash flow impact of acquisitions and divestitures. Free cash flow is a supplemental financial measure used by the Company's management and by securities analysts, investors, lenders, rating agencies and others who follow the industry as an indicator of the Company's ability to internally fund exploration and development activities or incur new debt. This measure should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net cash provided by operating or investing activities prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
The Company defines EBITDA as net income before income tax (benefit) expense, interest expense, depreciation and amortization - other and depreciation and depletion - oil and natural gas. Adjusted EBITDA, as presented herein, is EBITDA excluding items that management believes affect the comparability of operating results such as items whose timing and/or amount cannot be reasonably estimated or are non-recurring, as shown in the following tables.
Adjusted EBITDA is presented because management believes it provides useful additional information used by the Company's management and by securities analysts, investors, lenders, ratings agencies and others who follow the industry for analysis of the Company's financial and operating performance on a recurring basis and the Company's ability to internally fund exploration and development activities or incur new debt. In addition, management believes that adjusted EBITDA is widely used by professional research analysts and others in the valuation, comparison and investment recommendations of companies in the oil and gas industry. The Company's adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
Reconciliation of Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities to Adjusted EBITDA
Reconciliation of Net Income Available to Common Stockholders to Adjusted Net Income Available to Common Stockholders
The Company defines adjusted net income as net income excluding items that management believes affect the comparability of operating results and are typically excluded from published estimates by the investment community, including items whose timing and/or amount cannot be reasonably estimated or are non-recurring, as shown in the following tables.
Management uses the supplemental measure of adjusted net income as an indicator of the Company's operational trends and performance relative to other oil and natural gas companies and believes it is more comparable to earnings estimates provided by securities analysts. Adjusted net income is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for net income available to common stockholders.
Reconciliation of General and Administrative to Adjusted G&A
The Company reports and provides guidance on Adjusted G&A per Boe because it believes this measure is commonly used by management, analysts and investors as an indicator of cost management and operating efficiency on a comparable basis from period to period and to compare and make investment recommendations of companies in the oil and gas industry. This non-GAAP measure allows for the analysis of general and administrative spend without regard to stock-based compensation programs and other non-recurring cash items, if any, which can vary significantly between companies. Adjusted G&A per Boe is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for general and administrative expense per Boe. Therefore, the Company's Adjusted G&A per Boe may not be comparable to other companies' similarly titled measures.
The Company defines adjusted G&A as general and administrative expense adjusted for certain non-cash stock-based compensation and other non-recurring items, if any, as shown in the following tables:
Cautionary Note to Investors - This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance and reflect SandRidge's current beliefs and expectations regarding future events and operating performance. The forward-looking statements include projections and estimates of the Company's corporate strategies, future operations, development plans and appraisal programs, drilling inventory and locations, estimated oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids production, price realizations and differentials, hedging program, projected operating, general and administrative and other costs, projected capital expenditures, tax rates, efficiency and cost reduction initiative outcomes, liquidity and capital structure and the Company's unaudited proved developed PV-10 reserve value of its Mid-Continent assets. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and assumptions and analyses made by us in light of our experience and our perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors we believe are appropriate under the circumstances. However, whether actual results and developments will conform with our expectations and predictions is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the volatility of oil and natural gas prices, our success in discovering, estimating, developing and replacing oil and natural gas reserves, actual decline curves and the actual effect of adding compression to natural gas wells, the availability and terms of capital, the ability of counterparties to transactions with us to meet their obligations, our timely execution of hedge transactions, credit conditions of global capital markets, changes in economic conditions, the amount and timing of future development costs, the availability and demand for alternative energy sources, regulatory changes, including those related to carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, and other factors, many of which are beyond our control. We refer you to the discussion of risk factors in Part I, Item 1A - "Risk Factors" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K and in comparable "Risk Factor" sections of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed after such form 10-K. All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements. The actual results or developments anticipated may not be realized or, even if substantially realized, they may not have the expected consequences to or effects on our Company or our business or operations. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SD) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, and acquisition of oil and gas properties. Its primary areas of operation are the Mid-Continent in Oklahoma and Kansas. Further information can be found at www.sandridgeenergy.com.
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SOUTH WALES, N.Y. — Beech Leaf Disease was first discovered in Ohio in 2012. It spread quickly throughout the Northeast, arriving in WNY in Chautauqua County in 2018, and Erie County in 2019.
It affects all species of Beech trees, which are common in New York State.
Tom Anderson, District Manager for Davey Tree Expert Company, explains.
"The first thing you're going to notice with Beech Leaf Disease is the striping or the banding on the actual foliage. So you might see an area of light green tissue, and then a leaf vein, and then dark green tissue. Oftentimes the leaf tissue will become leathery or thicker in texture."
The disease can kill mature trees in six to ten years and saplings in under two years. It's believed to be caused by an invasive species, and there is no known treatment. In addition to this threat, the trees are already suffering from Beech Bark Disease, which is also caused by invasive species. This combination punch is taking its toll, says Anderson, and the loss of these trees will have a wide-ranging effect.
"There's a lot of species that rely on it, including birds that use the trees for nesting sites. The Beech nut is a valuable food source for Black Bears, squirrels, and other wildlife, so it certainly is a cause for concern, and potentially significant impact on the wildlife."
While the effects of these two diseases are certainly going to have an impact on the Beech population, there's a wider problem afoot here too. Invasive species are having a cumulative negative effect on forests throughout the Northeast.
Some of the state's other most abundant tree species are facing serious decline. Our vast forest landscape could look very different in the near future. "Ash, Beech, Hemlock, they're all very important species in our forest ecosystems." Anderson says,"As you drive across Western New York, and you notice the large areas of dead forest from Ash Borer, and now we're looking at Beech Leaf Disease and Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, there's a great cause for concern for our forests."
Efforts are underway by a number of organizations to alleviate the problems. In the meantime, the public can be of great assistance. "The single most important thing is to follow NY State firewood regulations, and not transport any type of firewood more than fifty miles from its origin, and also the movement of any type of Beech material Also contacting the DEC or contacting a local arborist to notify them if you think you have the disease, or you know you have the disease."
To learn more about Beech Leaf Disease, click here.
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Second Consecutive Quarter of Record Net Income with Total Revenue Up 9% Sequentially
2022 Third-Quarter Highlights:
- Earnings per common share (EPS) for the quarter were $0.39, an increase of $0.04 from the prior quarter.
- Net interest income increased $143 million, or 11%, from the prior quarter, reflecting net interest margin expansion of 27 basis points to 3.42% and higher average total loans and leases.
- Noninterest income increased $13 million, or 3%, from the prior quarter, reflecting strength in capital markets supported by full quarter impact of Capstone.
- Pre-Provision Net Revenue (PPNR), excluding Notable Items, increased $109 million, or 14%, from the prior quarter to $867 million.
- Average total loans and leases increased $3.0 billion, or 3%, from the prior quarter to $117.0 billion. Excluding the decrease in PPP loans, average total loans and leases increased $3.3 billion, or 3%, from the prior quarter.
- Average total deposits increased $1.0 billion from the prior quarter.
- Net charge-offs of 0.15% of average total loans and leases for the quarter, and 0.08% year to date.
- Nonperforming assets have declined five consecutive quarters.
- Allowance for credit losses (ACL) $2.2 billion, or 1.89% of total loans and leases at quarter end.
- Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) risk-based capital ratio increased to 9.27%, within our 9% to 10% operating guideline.
- Ranked first nationally for SBA 7(a) loan origination by volume for the fifth year in a row for SBA fiscal year 2022 and the 14th year in a row that Huntington has been the largest originator, by volume, of SBA 7(a) loans within footprint.
- Huntington was named a Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance 2022, reflecting our commitment to colleagues.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (Nasdaq: HBAN) reported net income for the 2022 third quarter of $594 million, or $0.39 per common share, an increase of $217 million, or $0.17 per common share from the year-ago quarter.
Return on average assets was 1.31%, return on average common equity was 13.9%, return on average tangible common equity (ROTCE) was 21.9%, and adjusted ROTCE was 22.2%.
"We are very pleased with our performance this quarter, which included record net earnings for the second consecutive quarter," said Steve Steinour, chairman, president and CEO. "We successfully executed on our business strategies, delivering robust loan growth, higher deposit balances, and expanded fee income. These results, and the benefit from the higher interest rate environment, combined to produce sequential pre-provision net revenue growth of 14% for the quarter when excluding Notable Items.
"We continue to make strategic investments to drive sustainable revenue growth, which resulted in broad-based commercial loan growth across geographies and sectors. Our recent addition of Capstone Partners has expanded the expertise we bring to customers, benefiting our deepening efforts with commercial customers and bolstering our fee income opportunities. In the consumer bank this quarter, we implemented additional Fair Play enhancements that offer a compelling value proposition for customers.
"Credit continues to perform very well with five consecutive quarters of declining nonperforming assets, reflecting our aggregate moderate-to-low risk appetite through the cycle. Capital levels increased during the quarter and credit reserves are robust allowing us to continue supporting customers and economic growth in the communities we serve. Looking forward, we are well positioned with a high quality balance sheet, and earnings power to drive long-term performance and generate significant value for our shareholders in a variety of economic scenarios.
"Finally, Huntington is proud to have been ranked as the largest Small Business Administration 7(a) lender by volume nationally for the fifth consecutive year. This reinforces our commitment to support small businesses and reflects the successful efforts to expand into new geographies, such as Colorado and Minnesota where we are already rank first and third, respectively."
The third quarter 2022 earnings materials, including the detailed earnings press release, quarterly financial supplement, and conference call slide presentation, are available on the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website, http://huntington.com/ In addition, the financial results will be furnished on a Form 8-K that will be available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov.
Huntington's senior management will host an earnings conference call on October 21, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The call may be accessed via a live Internet webcast at the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website, www.huntington.com, or through a dial-in telephone number at (877) 407-8029; Conference ID #13732539. Slides will be available in the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website about an hour prior to the call. A replay of the webcast will be archived in the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website. A telephone replay will be available approximately two hours after the completion of the call through October 28, 2022 at (877) 660-6853 or (201) 612-7415; conference ID #13732539.
Please see the 2022 Third Quarter Quarterly Financial Supplement for additional detailed financial performance metrics. This document can be found on the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website, http://www.huntington.com.
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $179 billion asset regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1866, The Huntington National Bank and its affiliates provide consumers, small and middle‐market businesses, corporations, municipalities, and other organizations with a comprehensive suite of banking, payments, wealth management, and risk management products and services. Huntington operates more than 1,000 branches in 11 states, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Visit Huntington.com for more information.
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SOUTH HAVEN, MI – A frozen fish fling, ice carving, cardboard sled races and more will fill the streets of South Haven.
The Ice Breaker Festival is returning for its 29th year in South Haven from Feb. 3-5. Various free and paid events will fill three days of fun in downtown.
Ice carving starts at 7 a.m. Saturday with more than 40 blocks of ice, weighing 300 to 600 pounds, turned into works of art throughout the day. The sculptures are spread throughout downtown.
A professional chili cook-off will fill visitors’ stomachs with free samples from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. Three fire pits will “Heat the Streets” on Saturday and marshmallows are available for s’mores.
The frozen fish fling returns for its fourth year at the South Marina, from noon to 3 p.m. Entry fees are $5 for adults and $1 for children. The cardboard sled race registration starts at 1 p.m., with races stating at 3:30 p.m. on the Coast Guard hill.
Food, drink and entertainment specials will be offered at various bars and weekends all winter long.
A full list of events can be found on the city of South Haven’s website.
Free shuttles will run throughout Saturday to drop people off at City Hall, 539 Phoenix St., from the VFW Post, 1060 S. Bailey Ave., Moose Lodge, 1025 E. Wells St., and The Lodge, 10336 Blue Star Highway.
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Woman charged in alleged robbery leading to man’s death in Kalamazoo Township | 2023-01-30T12:18:42+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2023/01/frozen-fish-fling-cardboard-sled-race-headline-south-havens-ice-breaker-fest.html |
MIAMI, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) announced the appointment of Rebecca Yeung, corporate vice president, operations science and advanced technology at FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX), to its Board of Directors, effective March 15, 2023.
"Ms. Yeung brings a valuable combination of skills to our board, as she is well-versed in technology, digitization and business strategy," said Richard D. Fain, Chairman of the Board, Royal Caribbean Group.
"We're excited to welcome Rebecca Yeung to the Board of Directors as we continue to deliver the world's best vacations, responsibly," said Jason Liberty, president and CEO, Royal Caribbean Group. "We believe her experience in technology, automation and innovation will be a valuable addition to the board as we usher in the next phases of our growth."
Yeung has nearly 30 years of global experience in both strategy and operations technology. She joined FedEx Corporation – a global logistics company with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services – in 1998 and has served in various marketing, innovation, and technology roles.
In her current role, Yeung is responsible for advancing FedEx's innovation and transformation strategy, including scaling robotics and automation technology, autonomous vehicles, decision science, and electromobility. Prior to this role, she served as vice president, advanced technology & innovation at FedEx since 2015. Yeung also serves on the Board of Directors of Columbus McKinnon.
Yeung is a graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and has an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
About Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) is one of the leading cruise companies in the world with a global fleet of 64 ships traveling to approximately 1,000 destinations around the world. Royal Caribbean Group is the owner and operator of three award winning cruise brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises and it is also a 50% owner of a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Together, the brands have an additional 10 ships on order as of December 31, 2022. Learn more at www.royalcaribbeangroup.com or www.rclinvestor.com.
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TALLADEGA — When's the last time a Cup Series race at Talladega didn't have a huge wreck that took out at least one-third of the field?
Heck, we expect the Big One at Talladega Superspeedway. It's a hallmark of the track, ever since it opened in 1969. Pretty much every driver who's gotten behind the wheel at Talladega adopts a strategy that ends with "... and hope you don't get caught up in a wreck." Not having the Big one is like having a Home Run Derby without any home runs.
Usually, we can count on four certainties in life: death, taxes, the coyote will never catch the roadrunner, and any Talladega race will have a huge wreck.
In Sunday's Cup Series YellaWood 500, 37 cars started the race, and 33 finished. There were 27 cars still on the lead lap at the end.
The race featured only two wrecks that knocked drivers from the race. On lap 24, Harrison Burton went to the outside lane and got bumped from Ricky Stenhouse Jr., which started an accident involving eight cars, but it sidelined only Burton and Ty Gibbs. On lap 44, Corey LaJoie had a problem with his right front tire and went into the wall, which ended his day.
We kept waiting the whole race for somebody to get flipped upside down — or get knocked sideways as 15 cars ran into each other while other drivers took off across the infield grass in a Hail Mary attempt to avoid the carnage.
We did get the yellow caution flag with five laps left, but it was thrown in the truest sense of "caution." Daniel Hemric had an engine problem and was stuck in the last slot of pit row. He wasn't bothering anyone. He didn't run into anyone, and nobody had to dodge his car, but NASCAR officials chose to put up the yellow caution anyway. If it had been the last lap, I'm unsure we would've seen the flag.
When the Cup Series came to Talladega in the spring, 13 of the 39 cars entered didn't finish the race.
Only six couldn't finish the fall 2021 race, but weather forced that one to end after 117 laps.
Sunday's race winner, Chase Elliott, called the YellaWood 500 "kind of a mild race for Talladega."
"That was kind of cool actually," he added.
Is this the result of the Next Gen car that NASCAR teams? It looks a bit stiff. Elliott's crew chief, Alan Gustafson, suggested the Next Gen car isn't as capable of making the type of gambles that might cause big wrecks.
That doesn't mean the Next Gen car is safe as roses.
There's concern among drivers about the safety of Next Gen car. Elliott has told reporters that the car is a step back in safety.
Alex Bowman and Kurt Busch missed Sunday's race because of concussions. Both were hurt when the rear of their cars hit the wall. There's a concern that the back of the car is too strong, so that the impact is taken by the driver.
Does that make drivers more careful? Maybe, maybe not.
But we did get something different Sunday, and not having the Big One didn't make this race a big flop. You can still have a Talladega race that's just as intense and skillful, and it did my heart good not to see a car fly through the air upside down.
Sunday's final lap was fun as we watched Elliott outmaneuver Ryan Blaney on the last two laps. No last-lap wreck ruined the fun.
I can't help but think about nine years ago when Jamie McMurray led for the final 14 laps with Dale Earnhardt Jr. trailing him the whole way.
It seemed to be building to an exciting last lap … but there was a wreck in the back of the field, which took the air out of the whole race. The race was over, and McMurray had won without having to defend his lead.
The casual fans love the wrecks, just like casual hockey fans love the fights. I believe the real race fan loves races like Sunday's, even without a dozen cars running into each other. | 2022-10-03T00:42:34+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/free/mark-edwards-we-didnt-get-the-big-one-but-we-did-see-a-skillful-interesting/article_ced196cc-42ac-11ed-bead-d799c812e2cb.html |
(The Hill) — Outraged by the inaction of lawmakers on gun violence, students across the country held walkouts Thursday in the wake of a brutal massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down at an elementary school.
From Meridian High School in Virginia to El Camino Real Charter High School in California, students across the country took part in walkouts to demand gun control measures, according to social media reports and local news outlets.
Meanwhile in Rhode Island, students from several schools in Providence laid down for three minutes outside the Rhode Island State House, according to a tweet from state Sen. Tiara Mack (D).
At Oxford High School in Michigan, over 100 students walked out of class on Thursday, the Detroit Free Press reported. The school was the site of its own deadly shooting on Nov. 30, where four students were killed.
In Buffalo, Minn., students at Buffalo High School took part in another walkout on Thursday, WCCO, a local CBS affiliate, reported. Buffalo was also the site of shooting last year at Allina Health Buffalo Crossroads Clinic. That incident left one medical assistant dead and several others injured.
But that shooting is not to be confused with another mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., where 10 people were killed at a grocery store earlier this month.
The scale and widespread nature of the walkouts, many of which were conducted in partnership with Students Demand Action, indicate just how much gun violence has permeated communities across the country.
Since 2009, 274 mass shootings have taken place in the country, killing 1,536 people, according to research from Everytown for Gun Safety.
In the last 12 years, one in every four victims of a mass shooting was a child, the group’s data showed.
Lawmakers in Washington have stalled on passing any gun legislation through Congress despite mass shootings that have brought tragedy and devastation to the overwhelming majority of states in the U.S. | 2022-05-27T19:19:01+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/students-nationwide-walk-out-of-classes-to-protest-inaction-on-guns-by-government/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Amwins, a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, released its State of the Market report, providing up-to-date market intelligence on pricing, capacity and coverage trends across multiple business segments and industries.
Amwins' Q1 State of the Market report analyzes the resilience and strength of the industry – while some segments are seeing softening, and others face the hardest market conditions in decades. The report also serves as a valuable educational resource, equipping retail agents and brokers with the insights and guidance necessary to traverse current market conditions with confidence.
"Navigating the current insurance marketplace is like a constantly evolving chess game," said Scott Purviance, chief executive officer of Amwins. "Within this dynamic market, our specialists anticipate and plan for shifts and changes, and with the right strategy and foresight, we help our clients stay ahead of the game."
In this comprehensive report, Amwins offers worldwide expertise and unique market perspectives providing clients with exclusive thought leadership and valuable insights. Current developments and future outlook focus on the property, casualty, and professional lines in the U.S., London, and Bermuda marketplaces for industries spanning construction, energy, environmental, healthcare, public entity, real estate, transportation, and more.
To read the full report, please visit: amwins.com/state-of-the-market
About Amwins
Amwins is the largest independent wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products in the U.S. dedicated to serving retail insurance agents by providing property and casualty products, specialty group benefit products, and administrative services. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company operates through more than 155 offices globally and handles premium placements in excess of $29 billion annually.
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