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Aims At Becoming No.1 Multi-Family Office And Investment Platform In The Asia-Pacific Region
HONG KONG, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Focused on the needs of its core family office clients, DL Holdings Group (DL Holdings, DL), with US$3 billion in assets under management and advisory, is transforming itself into a "multi-family office and investment platform" with its own capital and assets, which will differentiate itself from industry peers such as single-family offices, multi-family offices on an advisory basis, multi-family offices on a discretionary basis, and traditional funds and asset management companies. DL Holdings aims to provide comprehensive services such as private banking, investment banking, funds, trusts, immigration, education, philanthropy, and impact investing. It has expanded its footprint to the Chinese Mainland, Singapore, the United States, and Japan, with an eye on becoming the leading multi-family office and investment platform in the Asia-Pacific region.
DL Holdings Group (1709. HK), a Main Board listed company, announced its annual results on June 23rd. For the year that ended on 31 March 2022, the company posted total revenue of HK$309 million, gross profit of HK$170 million, gross profit margin of 55.9%, net profit of HK$110 million, and a net profit margin of 35.5%. The company also declared dividends amounting to HKD$99 million to its shareholders. Despite a highly volatile market in 2021-2022, DL Holdings managed to post a trend-setting net profit of over HK$100 million, reflecting its strong competitive advantages in the industry.
Maintains Profitable and Optimized Structure
From March 2021 to March 2022, the Hang Seng Index plummeted from 28,378 points to 21,996 points, recording a drop of more than 22%, mainly due to the shifting policies in Mainland China, the Federal Reserve's decision of tapering and raising interest rates, the Russia-Ukraine war, and Hong Kong capital markets. Meanwhile, dollar bonds issued by Chinese real estate developers declined sharply and created huge losses for investors as well as the overall economy. The number of initial public offerings declined sharply, while new IPOs saw steep falls on debut. The market saw sharp fluctuations, making it a difficult year for brokerages and investment banks.
Despite the harsh environment, DL Holdings still maintained strong profitability. According to its annual report, the company's provisions for financial services from licensed businesses generated HK$140 million in revenue and HK$72 million in profit. There was also a significant optimization of the revenue structure, indicating that the company's ability to resist risks and fluctuations have been greatly enhanced, while the foundation of its business became more solid. The company's overall earnings in the future are expected to increase further as the market gradually recovers.
Acquisitions of Family Office to Accelerate its Growth in Asset Management
DL Holdings initiated a number of acquisitions and investments in the past year, among which the most important was the acquisition of 45% equity stake in affiliate DL Family Office (HK) Ltd. The listed company initiated the acquisition in September 2021 and signed the agreement in May 2022. Together with the acquisition of Emerald Wealth Management Ltd which provides insurance brokerage services, the acquisition of DL Family Office is expected to significantly expand the group's future asset management scale and enhance profitability as well as shareholder returns. DL Family Office was established in 2012 and is one of the earliest and most successful multi-family offices in Hong Kong. Currently, the total assets under management of DL Family Office are about US$1.27billion (HK$10 billion). DL Family Office provides asset management, family heritage, investment management, citizenship and residency planning, education, and healthcare services to ultra-high net worth families both in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland.
In October 2021, the listed company acquired 100% equity stake in One Advisory, a company that provides one-stop services to high-net-worth clients with residency planning services, global immigration consulting services, and global education consultation. With an experienced team from world-renowned immigration and residency planning companies, DL Group has expanded its high-net-worth client base by providing more private and considerate consulting services as well as implementation without the need to seek outsourced services from third parties.
Strengthening business in Singapore and North America
DL Holdings entered Singapore three years ago and received approval from MAS in early 2021, thereby accelerating the diversification of family office services. In North America, ONE Carmel, a major property investment project with DL's own funds, made promising progress. Since the listed company's investment in 2021, the valuation of the property has doubled to US$66 million. ONE Carmel is a premier real estate project located in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, which has received attention and strong interest from elite families around the world for its concept of a family legacy. The first phase of the project will start construction in July this year with infrastructure construction set to be completed by 2023. ONE Carmel is considered to be the last premier residential site in Northern California, with a thirty-year time frame from application to approval. The superstar project in Northern California aims to build an exclusive gated community with a limited number of 73 tech-enabled and eco-friendly luxury homes.
Expanding channels to enrich partners
During the past year, DL Holdings formed a strategic partnership with YF Life Insurance, seeking to expand its high-net-worth client base and enhance its insurance product service capabilities through insurance channels. The company also entered into a distribution and business cooperation agreement with Harvest Global, the overseas subsidiary of China's largest public fund Harvest Fund for cooperation in a wide range of sectors including but not limited to product categories, distribution channels, fund investment, resource sharing, and cross-border financial services.
DL Holdings is also one of the first vice-presidents of the Hong Kong Limited Partnership Fund Association (HKLPFA) and has established 18 limited partnership funds (LPFs). It has been endorsed by the HK Financial Services Development Council and InvestHK, and is a founding member and working group member of the Hong Kong-Israel Cooperation Programme. DL will further assist the Hong Kong government and professional institutions to strengthen cooperation within the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Europe in areas of financial investment and wealth management.
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SOURCE DL Holdings | 2022-06-27T09:15:06+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/06/27/dl-holdings-group-1709hk-reports-net-profit-over-hk100-million/ |
This week’s new streaming options include rapper Jack Harlow’s acting debut, the return of Kesha and new projects for an heart-warming HGTV show.
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM
— Three decades after Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson mixed it up on the black top, a new “White Men Can’t Jump” has next. A remake of that 1992 film teams Sinqua Walls and rapper Jack Harlow as a pair of basketball players who hustle hoops for money and compete in a lucrative three-on-three tournament. The film, which debuts Friday on Hulu, is directed by Calmatic and co-written by Kenya Barris (“black-ish”). In it, Harlow makes his acting debut.
— Anna Nicole Smith gets the Netflix documentary treatment in “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.” The film, debuting Tuesday, chronicles Smith’s life as a model, Playboy playmate and reality star. Smith died in 2007 at the age of 39 from an accidental overdose. “You Don’t Know Me” includes home video of Smith, whose birth name was Vickie Lynn Hogan.
— Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.” is one of the cinematic highlights of the first half of 2023. The latest from the acclaimed Romanian filmmaker (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”) is a powerful microcosm of a migrant drama that has played out all around the world. A mountainous Transylvania village is increasingly torn apart by violent nationalist impulses that course through the town’s civic life in response to a handful of foreign workers. Mungiu, the pioneering filmmaker of the Romanian New Wave, crafts an unflinching societal portrait both gripping and grim. Currently playing in theaters, “R.M.N.” is available on-demand beginning Friday.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
NEW MUSIC TO STREAM
— Check out Kesha’s new album for what “post-pop” sounds like. That’s what the ever-changing pop star is calling her Rick Rubin-produced record “Gag Order.” Single “Fine Line” is an introspective, beatless ballad with the lyric “Am I bigger than Jesus/Or better off dead?/There’s a fine line between genius and crazy.” There’s also “Eat the Acid,” an experimental, mournful number. Her team says the album excavates “the deepest recesses of her soul to date.”
— Def Leppard are following in the footsteps of Metallica, the Scorpions and Bring Me the Horizon with an orchestral reworking of their catalogue. “Drastic Symphonies,” features their greatest tracks reimagined by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Fifteen of the hard rockers’ hits like “Animal,” “Love Bites,” “Hysteria” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me” have a new sound. Some songs — “Rock of Ages,” “Photograph” and “Let’s Get Rocked” — didn’t work and were left off.
— May turns out to be a great month for 11-time Grammy-nominated singer- songwriter Brandy Clark. Her Broadway musical “Shucked” was nominated for best original score and she’s got a new self-titled album out Friday. Produced by Brandi Carlile, the album showcases Clark’s tenderness, with the 11 songs including the heartbreaking “Buried,” a celebration of her home in “Northwest” and a loving tribute to her grandma with “She Smoked in the House.”
— Ahead of their first post-pandemic album, Dave Matthews Band has released two strong singles, including the nostalgia-drenched “Monsters,” with the lyrics “Chutes and ladders/Pick up sticks/Counting cards and counting bricks/Driving past that old five and dime/Can’t get nothing for a nickel since a long long time.” The first single, “Madman’s Eyes,” leans into Middle Eastern rhythms for a darker song about the madness of violence. Both songs will be on the album “Walk Around the Moon,” out Friday and the band says it “is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
NEW SERIES TO STREAM
— Stock up on tissues because home renovation twins Drew and Jonathan Scott’s series “Celebrity IOU” is back with new episodes on HGTV. Each episode features a Hollywood star who dreams up a home renovation project for someone they want to give back to. Enter the Scott brothers who use their knowledge of construction to make it happen. The episodes follow each project from start to finish with a heart-warming, emotional presentation at the end. This batch of eight episodes features Heidi Klum, Kristin Chenoweth, Glenn Close, Taraji P. Henson, Emma Roberts, Jay Leno, Derek Hough, Kristin Davis and Emma Roberts. “Celebrity IOU” returns Monday.
— If you watched the “To All the Boys” movies, you probably remember scene-stealer Anna Cathcart as the confident, chatty kid sister, Kitty, to Lana Condor’s Lara Jean. Cathcart has landed her own spinoff series called “XO, Kitty.” Created by “To All the Boys” author Jenny Han, Kitty travels to Korea to attend an elite boarding school that her long-distance boyfriend is a student at. It’s also the same school where her late mother went as a teen. Kitty imagines a seamless transition to a new school in a new country and a romantic reunion with her boyfriend but quickly realizes life doesn’t always go as planned. All 10 episodes drop Thursday on Netflix.
— Wilderness expert and adventure-seeker Bear Grylls has never encountered a mountain he won’t climb or a random creature he won’t eat for fuel. We’ve seen him on TV venture into the great outdoors with celebrities but now he’s taking everyday people out of their comfort zone in a new show, “I Survived Bear Grylls.” With the help of comedian co-host Jordan Conley, Grylls uses simulated challenges to test contestants on their survival skills, physicality, and gross-out tolerance. Get ready for the hardest, the dirtiest, the most disgusting day of your life,” Grylls says in the trailer. “I Survived Bear Grylls” debuts Thursday on TBS.
— Alicia Rancilio
NEW VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY
— The Lego brand encompasses all sorts of pop culture icons, from “Star Wars” to “Seinfeld.” But sometimes you just want to build a Lego car and take it for a spin. In 2K Games’ Lego 2K Drive, you can assemble a high-speed racer brick-by-brick, then compete against your friends to find out who’s got the zippiest monster on the track. If you want to go off-road, you can turn your car into an all-terrain vehicle, a boat or even an aircraft. Visual Concepts, the studio behind the NBA 2K franchise, is promising a huge open world in which you can you take your driver from rookie to world champion — or just tool around smashing into things. Your Lego garage opens for business Friday on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
— “I awoke one morning to find I was a dog” is a heck of a way to open a video game. Humanity gets weirder from there. The dog is a glowing Shiba Inu, and his mission is to guide the human masses toward salvation at the end of the world. Sounds heavy, but the result is the sort of hypnotic puzzle game you’d expect from Enhance, the developers responsible for Tetris Effect and Rez Infinite. It’s reminiscent of the 1990s classic Lemmings in that you’re trying to steer crowds of mindless creatures away from a gruesome demise, but once the hordes start fighting each other, this pup’s got a whole new set of problems. With 90-plus levels and the tools for users to build their own, Humanity could last for an eternity. The herding begins Tuesday on PlayStation 5/4 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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Catch up on AP’s entertainment coverage here: https://apnews.com/apf-entertainment. | 2023-05-16T11:51:19+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/technology-tuesday/ap-technology/dont-miss-this-week-jack-harlow-on-screen-kesha-anna-nicole-smith-doc-and-scott-brothers-on-hgtv/ |
Angels fifth. Brandon Marsh called out on strikes. Luis Rengifo homers to left field. Chad Wallach doubles to shallow left field. Tyler Wade called out on strikes. Andrew Velazquez grounds out to third base, Sheldon Neuse to Seth Brown.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Angels 1, Athletics 0.
Angels sixth. Shohei Ohtani singles to deep left field. Mike Trout walks. Shohei Ohtani to second. Anthony Rendon singles to left field. Mike Trout to second. Shohei Ohtani to third. Jared Walsh strikes out swinging. Brandon Marsh walks. Anthony Rendon to second. Mike Trout to third. Shohei Ohtani scores. Luis Rengifo singles to shallow infield. Brandon Marsh to second. Anthony Rendon to third. Mike Trout scores. Chad Wallach grounds out to shortstop. Luis Rengifo out at second.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Angels 3, Athletics 0.
Angels seventh. Tyler Wade singles to right center field. Andrew Velazquez homers to center field. Tyler Wade scores. Shohei Ohtani grounds out to second base, Nick Allen to Seth Brown. Mike Trout flies out to left field to Luis Barrera. Anthony Rendon walks. Jared Walsh called out on strikes.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Angels 5, Athletics 0.
Athletics eighth. Nick Allen grounds out to first base to Jared Walsh. Kevin Smith pinch-hitting for Tony Kemp. Kevin Smith doubles to deep right center field. Sheldon Neuse singles to shallow right field. Kevin Smith scores. Jed Lowrie doubles to deep left field. Sheldon Neuse scores. Christian Bethancourt pinch-hitting for Seth Brown. Christian Bethancourt grounds out to shortstop, Anthony Rendon to Jared Walsh. Chad Pinder walks. Sean Murphy singles to left field. Chad Pinder to second. Jed Lowrie to third. Sean Murphy to second. Chad Pinder to third. Jed Lowrie scores. Luis Barrera strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Angels 5, Athletics 3. | 2022-05-22T05:29:00+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Oakland-L-A-Angels-Runs-17190051.php |
WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Regina 4 Swift Current 3
Red Deer 3 Calgary 2 (OT)
Portland 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT)
Moose Jaw 4 Winnipeg 1
Lethbridge 3 Prince Albert 1
Everett 6 Prince George 4
Tri-City 7 Edmonton 1
Kamloops 3 Victoria 1
Seattle 3 Vancouver 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Saskatoon 4 Moose Jaw 1
Portland 5 Spokane 2
Monday's results
Brandon 3 Calgary 2
Tuesday's results
Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Brandon at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Red Deer at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Calgary at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Calgary at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Lethbridge at Regina, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 4:05 p.m. | 2022-10-12T04:35:09+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17503133.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling that upended President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt changed his budget math, modestly lowering the projected deficit for this year, his budget office reported Friday.
The White House expects to pare back $259 billion in spending that otherwise would have gone to erasing student loans. This contributed to lowering expected red ink this year under Biden’s budget plans from $1.569 trillion to $1.543 trillion.
The Office of Management and Budget’s Mid-Session Review represents the administration’s first recalculations of the loan program since the court’s June decision, which will affect millions of borrowers.
The court decision initially was expected to reduce the deficit by $400 billion. But a portion of that money will instead be used to pay for a smaller income-driven loan repayment program that goes into effect this summer, according to the report.
Millions of Americans with student loans will be able to enroll in the new SAVE repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms the government has ever offered borrowers.
Looking ahead to 2024, the report projects that inflation will continue to decline and the unemployment rate will average 3.8% for the rest of the year. Unemployment is expected to hit 4.4 % in 2024, then decline over the rest of the 10-year budget window to an annual average of 3.8%.
The new forecast comes as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell earlier this week said staff economists no longer foresee a recession.
“There is clear evidence that the President’s economic plan — Bidenomics — is growing our economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down,” said Biden’s budget director Shalanda Young in a statement accompanying the report.
The administration has been pushing “Bidenomics” as an approach that spurs economic growth through promoting domestic supply chains and favoring firms that use those supply chains through tax credits and other measures. | 2023-07-29T10:08:50+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-supreme-courts-student-loan-decision-will-lower-us-deficit-according-to-new-white-house-projection/ |
DENVER (AP) — The father of JonBenet Ramsey is supporting an online petition asking Colorado’s governor to intervene in the investigation into her death more than 25 years ago by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case.
The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever prosecuted.
John Ramsey said wants DNA evidence that was never tested before to be transferred away from Boulder police to a different agency,KUSA-TV reported Sunday.
“Somehow we’ve got to force the police, or take it away from them, the ability to go ahead and test some of the crime scene evidence that was never tested for DNA,” he said. “Why that’s never been done and will never be done by the police baffles me.”
Thepetition notes that advancements in DNA and the use of genetic genealogy is leading to the solving of more cold case around the country. It criticizes the Boulder Police Department for not doing enough to use DNA to solve the case, noting that the department said at the time of the 25th anniversary of JonBenet’s death that it was “actively reviewing genetic DNA testing processes” to see if those could be applied to the case.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Polis said “The State will review the petition and look into how the state can assist in using new technology to further investigate this cold case and to identify JonBenet Ramsey’s killer.” The statement did not address the involvement of Boulder police.
Meanwhile, the Boulder Police Department said it has been working with state law enforcement agencies and the FBI, on the investigation and that DNA from the case is regularly checked for any new matches. As of December, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation has updated over 750 DNA samples from the investigation with the latest DNA technology, thedepartment said in a statement.
“We have a shared goal to bring justice—and hopefully some peace—to JonBenet’s family and everyone who was impacted by her loss,” Police Chief Maris Herold said in the statement.
The police department was criticized for its initial handling of the investigation into the death of JonBenet, who had competed in beauty pageants.
The details of the crime and video footage of JonBenet from the pageants propelled the case into one of the highest-profile mysteries in the United States, unleashing a series of true-crime books and TV specials.
While the district attorney at the time of JonBenet’s death said her parents were under “an umbrella of suspicion” early on, tests in 2008 on newly discovered DNA on her clothing pointed to the involvement of an “unexplained third party” in her slaying, and not her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, or their son, Burke. That led former district attorney Mary Lacy to clear the Ramseys of any involvement, two years after Patsy Ramsey died of cancer, calling the couple “victims of this crime.” | 2022-05-02T21:39:13+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/jonbenet-ramseys-father-wants-outside-agency-to-test-dna/ |
The U.S. military has captured six Islamic State operatives over the course of three helicopter raids in Syria this week, U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday.
The raids, which took place over the past 48 hours in eastern Syria, included the capture of al-Zubaydi, a senior ISIS official who U.S. officials claim was involved in planning and enabling terrorist attacks in the country.
It is the second such operation in just over a week, with a helicopter raid in the early hours of Dec. 11 killing a lead ISIS province official and his associate in eastern Syria.
This week’s raids included U.S. Special Operations forces as well as personnel from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who helped American troops defeat and push ISIS from Syrian territory in 2019.
“These partnered operations reaffirm CENTCOM’s steadfast commitment to the region and the enduring defeat of ISIS,” CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, said in the release. “The capture of these ISIS operatives will disrupt the terrorist organization’s ability to further plot and carry out destabilizing attacks.”
Initial assessment indicated that no civilians were killed or injured, according to the statement.
This month’s raids mark the first major American counterterrorism operation in northeastern Syria since the U.S. military in October conducted two strikes against the terrorist group, killing an ISIS weapons smuggler.
Also late last month, ISIS announced that its leader, later identified by U.S. officials as Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, had been killed in battle in mid-October.
The U.S. military, which has several hundred American forces in northeastern Syria near the Turkish border, continues to work with SDF to keep Islamic State fighters at bay in the region.
NATO ally Turkey, however, in recent weeks has hit the Kurdish-led forces with airstrikes and last month threatened a ground invasion as the country views the SDF as part of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a group considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Turkey.
The Turkish aggression led Washington to warn Ankara against any new military operation in Syria. | 2022-12-20T22:25:33+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/six-isis-officials-captured-in-commando-raids/ |
Arisa Trew, a 13-year-old Australian girl, made history on Tuesday when she became the first female skater to land a 720 — two full rotations in the air.
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Arisa Trew, a 13-year-old Australian girl, made history on Tuesday when she became the first female skater to land a 720 — two full rotations in the air.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-30T21:34:20+00:00 | kclu.org | https://www.kclu.org/2023-06-30/13-year-old-pro-skateboarder-becomes-first-female-to-land-720-trick |
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The strong commitment of PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. (IDX: BBRI) to implementing sustainable financial practices is recognized globally. Most recently, BRI has received two prestigious awards as 'The Best Issuer for Sustainable Finance' and 'Best Sustainability Linked Loan' from The Asset Triple A, an Asia-based research and business news publisher in the financial industry.
Ahmad Solichin Lufiyanto, BRI's Director of Compliance, has dedicated the awards to all Insan BRILiaN (BRI employees) who have always given their best in empowering SMEs. "BRI recognizes the significance of sustainable finance, especially as one of the banks with a core focus on supporting SMEs that holds a significant influence on the Indonesian economy. We take pride in this recognition as it serves as a global validation of our sustainable financial practices."
BRI's strong portfolio in sustainable finance was reflected in BRI's ESG financing portfolio in December 2022 of IDR 695 trillion, or 67.5% of the total credit disbursed by BRI, growing by 13.1% Year-on-Year (YoY).
Of the total amount, IDR 616.1 trillion is allocated to the MSME sector, followed by IDR 51.8 trillion for sustainable management of biological resources and lands, and IDR 7.1 trillion for renewable energy sector.
BRI's success in securing a syndicated loan in the form of a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) worth USD 1 billion, played a significant role in earning the recognition from The Asset. Notably, BRI became the first financial institution in Southeast Asia to achieve this.
The SLL is one of the financial benefits that BRI has gained through the implementation of ESG as it provides ease for borrowers who implement sustainability in their business practices. In this loan scheme, companies are given incentives for their performance in achieving a set of Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs) in the form of preferential interest rates. Conversely, a penalty margin will be imposed if the companies fail to achieve the SPTs.
"The SLL helps BRI to measure the overall performance of ESG implementations. This also becomes a platform for BRI to promote our ESG implementations to the public, especially stakeholders, thus indirectly increasing the company's brand value," concluded Achmad Royadi, BRI's SEVP Treasury & Global Services.
To learn more about BRI, visit www.bri.co.id .
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The 2022 NBA Draft is just a day away and the chatter around this year's event is reaching a fever pitch.
That includes the discussion on the Locked On Podcast Network, which has daily podcasts for all 30 NBA teams, hosted by local experts. This year, the hosts projected the first-round with a 2022 Ultimate Mock Draft.
This one-of-a-kind mock draft features all 30 selections made by local team experts, with analysis from Audacy Sports insiders.
All six episodes of the Ultimate NBA Mock Draft 2022 are out now and can be found wherever you get your podcasts, with all the picks and all of the analysis around them.
SUBSCRIBE to the Locked On podcast for your favorite NBA team on YouTube for live reaction from our local hosts and draft experts on Thursday night!
1. Orlando Magic - Jabari Smith, F, Auburn
Locked On Magic Host Phillip Rossman-Reich: "This is not your typical NBA Draft, there is no clear cut number one guy, there is a strong debate for the top pick between three players. Jabari Smith feels like he's the pick for the Magic. He fits all the skills the Magic need immediately and in the long term. He's already a top level three point shooter and defender. He can make an immediate impact."
2. Oklahoma City Thunder - Chet Holmgren, F/C, Gonzaga
Locked On Thunder Host Rylan Stiles: "Chet Holmgren is a 7-foot big man who is an elite shot blocker but can also handle the ball and make plays for his teammates...He still needs to grow into his frame, however, the Thunder's developmental program can get him right at the NBA level. He has some red flags but his ceiling is just too high to pass on."
3. Houston Rockets - Paolo Banchero, F, Duke
Locked On Rockets Host Jackson Gatlin: "Banchero is easily the most polished offensive prospect in this draft. For the Houston Rockets, the decision is simple. It's a three-man draft, who ever is left the Rockets will take. Banchero is an absolute win for the Houston Rockets."
4. (TRADE) Indiana Pacers - Jaden Ivey, G, Purdue
- Pacers receive: Pick No. 4, Richaun Holmes, Justin Holiday
- Kings receive: Pick No. 6, 2023 1st Round pick from IND (top 5 protected), Malcolm Brogdon, 2022 Pick No. 58
Locked On Pacers Host Tony East: "It's up to the Pacers to be aggressive with this opportunity. Jaden Ivey is the prize here, very talented guard from Purdue on and off the ball. He's fast, dynamic and can make things happen on the floor. The Pacers would love to fit Ivey into their ecosystem...He has the best chance at stardom after the top three picks."
5. Detroit Pistons - Shaedon Sharpe, G, Kentucky
Locked On Pistons Host Ku Khalil: "He did not play at all this past season for Kentucky and there's been a lot of questions about is he really a top prospect in this draft...He was the No. 1 ranked prospect coming out of high school and has a chance to be the best prospect out of this draft in a few years. It's a big swing you'll be taking with Sharpe...The Pistons did not tank all this time for a role player. They should be going after the guy with the potential to be the best player in this draft class."
6. (TRADE) Sacramento Kings - Keegan Murray, F, Iowa
- Pacers receive: Pick No. 4, Richaun Holmes, Justin Holiday
- Kings receive: Pick No. 6, 2023 1st Round pick from IND (Top 5 protected), Malcolm Brogdon, 2022 Pick No. 58
Locked On Kings Host Matt George: "I am thrilled with this pick for the Kings. I planned on selecting him at four but was able to move down and collect assets. I think he can be an immediate impact player for the Kings, maybe a day one starter. He fits in well with what the Kings are trying to do. They've been looking for someone who can fit next to Domantas Sabonis in the front court who can space the floor and help on the defensive end. Keegan Murray does both those things."
7. Portland Trail Blazers - Bennedict Mathurin, F, Arizona
Locked On Blazers Host Mike Richman: "He's 6-6, a 40% three point shooter in college, a wonderful transition scorer, I think he can be a really good complement...Mathurin projects as a guy who can contribute early on and grow into a really valuable thing that every team in the league needs, a 6-6 dude who can defend and make three pointers."
8. New Orleans Pelicans - Jeremy Sochan, F, Baylor
Locked On Pelicans Host Jake Madison: "While I was torn between Dyson Daniels and Jeremy Sochan, I ultimately went with Sochan because he's the best defender in the draft. Incredible size at 6-foot-9 and a 7-foot wingspan and he has great lateral quickness, which allows him to defend all five positions. Offensively he's a good secondary playmaker who makes accurate and decisive passes."
9. San Antonio Spurs - Jalen Duren, F/C, Memphis
Locked On Spurs Host Jeff Garcia: "This was a pretty easy decision for me to make. The Spurs need size in the frontcourt. Duren is a big, NBA-ready body, rim protector, can run, he's athletic. He's only 19 years old and fits in well with the Spurs rebuilding timeline."
10. Washington Wizards - AJ Griffin, F, Duke
Locked On Wizards host Ed Oliver: "He can shoot lights out and get hot. He has a wide base but can really catch and shoot and shoot off the dribble. ACC All-Freshman. The Wizards need shooting. AJ Griffin is not supposed to be there at pick 10. If he is, the Wizards need to run to the podium."
11. New York Knicks - Dyson Daniels, G/F, G-League Ignite
12. Oklahoma City Thunder - Johnny Davis, G, Wisconsin
13. Charlotte Hornets - Mark Williams, F/C, Duke
14. Cleveland Cavaliers - Malaki Branham, G, Ohio State
15. (TRADE) San Antonio Spurs - Nikola Jovic, F/C, Serbia
- Hornets receive: Pick No. 20 and Jakob Poeltl
- Spurs receive: Pick No. 15 and Kelly Oubre
16. Atlanta Hawks - Tari Eason, F, LSU
17. Houston Rockets - Marjon Beauchamp, G, G-League Ignite
18. Chicago Bulls - EJ Liddell, F, Ohio State
19. Minnesota Timberwolves - Ochai Agbaji, G, Kansas
20. (TRADE) Charlotte Hornets - Jalen Williams, G, Santa Clara
- Hornets receive: Pick No. 20 and Jakob Poeltl
- Spurs receive: Pick No. 15 and Kelly Oubre
21. (TRADE) Dallas Mavericks - Ousmane Dieng, F, New Zealand
- Mavericks receive: Pick No. 21, Will Barton, Jeff Green
- Nuggets receive: Pick No. 26, Future 2nd Round pick, Tim Hardaway Jr.
22. Memphis Grizzlies - Wendell Moore, G/F, Duke
23. Philadelphia 76ers - Blake Wesley, G/F, Notre Dame
24. Milwaukee Bucks - TyTy Washington Jr., G, Kentucky
25. San Antonio Spurs - Jaden Hardy, G, G-League Ignite
26. (TRADE) Denver Nuggets - Christian Braun, G/F, Kansas
- Mavericks receive: Pick No. 21, Will Barton, Jeff Green
- Nuggets receive: Pick No. 26, Future 2nd Round pick, Tim Hardaway Jr.
27. Miami Heat - Dalen Terry, G, Arizona
28. Golden State Warriors - Walker Kessler, C, Auburn
29. Memphis Grizzlies - Kennedy Chandler, G, Tennessee
30. Denver Nuggets - Kendall Brown, F, Baylor | 2022-06-22T19:29:29+00:00 | 9news.com | https://www.9news.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-nba/the-ultimate-nba-mock-draft-for-2022-who-will-your-team-pick-paolo-banchero-chet-holmgren-jabari-smith-orlando-magic-thunder-rockets-nba-draft-2022/535-b075ba6f-d7ef-4846-9ee6-73423116a70a |
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — With the recent mass shooting tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the issue of school security is top of mind for any parent.
School architects told sister station WPTV that security is also number one on their minds every step of the way when designing a new school, and that includes multiple new campuses currently under construction in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Andy Thomson is a dad first and a Boca Raton city councilman second. So his interest in school safety is two-fold.
"We as a city take education, it’s very important," Thomson said. "It’s one of the assets we offer to people that makes Boca so attractive is our quality. Quality public and private schools here."
Thomson is excited his children will be attending the brand new Blue Lake Elementary School, set to open this August.
"Top-flight security measures are going to be in place, and that gives me complete assurance as a father that my kids are gonna be safe," Thomson said.
Up the road in Lake Worth, work continues on the School District of Palm Beach County's first new high school in more than a decade, which is due to open in August of 2023.
Joseph Sanches, the school district's chief operating officer, gave WPTV an exclusive tour of the construction and talked about what's different in school design with safety at the forefront.
"One of the changes in the last 10 to 15 years is that single point of entry," Sanches said. "But besides that, additional security cameras, better lighting, card access for all the locations. We have motion detection for all of the classrooms throughout the campus."
When the school day begins at the new high school and the start bell rings, a gate will come down so students can’t get in the main entrance anymore. The only way in will be with a card reader and intercom system to enter through the main office.
"In the old schools, we’ve gone back and retrofitted," Sanches said. "So we’ve added fencing, gates. We’ve added more security cameras and card readers and things of that nature."
Sam Ferreri is the architect behind the new high school, which does not yet have an official name and is temporarily referred to as Western Lake Worth Area High School.
"I would say 15 to 20 years ago we were really spending most of our time trying to get a better educational environment. Now we gotta balance that with security," said Ferrari, who's been designing schools for 40 years.
That includes focusing on single buildings or as few as possible, centered in the middle of the property.
"It starts with the perimeter and understanding the site," Ferreri said. "The students are moving from class to class inside a building's central hallways, so they’re not at the exterior of the building."
There are several layers of protection involved, from the district level of campus security to the actual site perimeter and fencing, parking lot perimeter, building access, and down to the locked classroom doors.
"These buildings will have numbers on the roof, so if there’s a need for the sheriff to come in a helicopter, they can identify where there’s a problem," Ferreri said.
Ferreri added the process is a collaborative effort with the school district, involving not only physically hardening schools but new technology and training.
"The other big change in Palm Beach schools is their school police and security are way more involved in the design than previous years," Ferreri said. "From day one we sit down with them and they review the plans and multiple aspects for camera placement, secure zones, door hardware, security access, and access to areas. They review all of that and then make sure it’s implemented."
All of these factors have to balance with a positive school environment where learning can flourish.
"We don’t want to imprison students in schools," Sanches said. "We want to make them feel at home and at ease and comfortable. But we also want to make sure they’re protected."
Leaders in the School District of Palm Beach County said they are constantly looking at new safety features for campuses and reevaluating them after school shootings happen around the country.
"There’s lessons that we’ve learned from every one of those incidents," Sanches said. "And we’ve beefed up security to make sure we learn lessons from those and take precautions to make sure our students are kept safe."
There are three new schools under construction in Palm Beach County and two rebuilds, all following these principles.
This story was first reported by Stephanie Susskind at WPTV in West Palm Beach, Fla. | 2022-06-08T17:44:09+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/security-is-main-focus-of-designing-building-new-schools-in-one-florida-county |
They say you can’t go home again, but you can.
Daddy asked me last week if I would like to go home to go to church on Sunday and I immediately knew he was talking about going to Shady Grove.
Since I lived in Shady Grove, I have lived in Hurricane, Starkville, Atlanta, Center Hill and Pontotoc, but Shady Grove will always be home.
Shortly after I moved back to Pontotoc County after being away for 18 years, I attended a funeral for an aunt and she was buried at Shady Grove.
When we turned off Hurricane Road onto Shady Grove Road, it felt like I got a hug.
A hug from all those family members that used to live on that road and so many that still do.
Without getting into a family tree, I am related to all the Wises, Dowdys and McDonalds up and down that road.
I am the granddaughter of Clarence and Lily McDonald and I grew up with so many sweet memories of that community.
Going to church at Shady Grove during my childhood was one of the greatest memories I have growing up.
Where the fellowship hall stands now was a grove of trees back in the day. We did not have a fellowship hall back then, but we did have plenty of fellowship and fellowship meals out on the grounds as granddaddy used to say.
There were wooden tables that would be spread with beautiful embroidered table clothes and good ole country food. Lots of fried chicken and all the vegetables you could think of from the garden.
There were no fancy dishes or casseroles, just the best country cooking imaginable spread out on those old wooden tables. No one went home hungry.
Ohhh and Vacation Bible School was the best.
We learned Bible verses, were taught stories of the Bible and learned songs that we got to perform in front of the entire church.
We would make crafts out of macaroni noodles. We would glue them on paper, on boxes to make all kinds of designs that we would take home to show our parents the master pieces we made in Vacation Bible School.
We attended Vacation Bible School during the day and classes would last all week.
Every day we would have cookies and Kool-Aid under those shade trees. That was the best cookies and Kool-Aid I have ever had. It was the same cookies and Kool-Aid that mother and grandmother made and had at home, after all they were some of the ones who brought them, but for some reason under those trees it tasted like a gourmet treat.
These were not cookies out of a package, they were homemade tea cakes. My grandmother made the best tea cakes in North Mississippi!
When we went to church Sunday, it brought back all those sweet memories. I was sitting in the sanctuary and looked on the left side of the church. The second door was my old Sunday School room.
It was just like going home again. I could close my eyes and see Granddaddy and Grandmother sitting in the third row on the left side of the church as they did each Sunday.
There were several of the people at church Sunday that were there when I was a young girl to greet us and many that I did not know that made us feel so welcome.
We have deep roots in Shady Grove going back at least four generations. I have been told that my great grandfather McDonald was one of the founding members of Shady Grove Church and is buried in the cemetery next to the church.
It feels like every stage in my life has taken place at Shady Grove. My parents met at Shady Grove, we have had weddings, anniversaries and burials all taking place at Shady Grove.
These days people use ancestory.com to find their roots. I only have to walk the grounds of the cemetery to find my family tree.
I am so grateful for all the memories I have and it seems that no matter how long between times of visiting Shady Grove Church, it will always be home.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG).
Class Period: November 19, 2020 – March 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 22, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Yatsen investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period and in the Offering Documents, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) cosmetic and skincare sales of Perfect Diary and Little Ondine products were substantially declining in the period leading up to (and including at the time of) the IPO, and continued to decline throughout 2021, and (2) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir plans to defend her title at the New York City Marathon, telling The Associated Press she hopes to break the course record this November after finishing 8 seconds off the mark last year.
Jepchirchir won the Olympic and NYC marathons four months apart in 2021, then won this spring’s Boston Marathon. She is the first athlete — male or female — to win all three events.
The Kenyan running star took the 50th NYC Marathon last November in a time of 2 hours, 22 minutes, 39 seconds, the third-fastest in event history. Her sights are fixed on Margaret Okayo’s women’s record of 2:22:31 set in 2003, and she believes she can get there with a full summer to train.
“Last year, I was coming from the Olympics,” the 28-year-old told the AP. “This time, I have enough time to prepare.”
A two-time world champion in the half marathon, Jepchirchir wasn’t even on Kenya’s original Tokyo 2020 roster. She was added after a strong showing late in 2020 and won the race in Sapporo by 16 seconds. In New York, she pulled away from countrywoman Viola Cheptoo and Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia in Central Park, catapulting herself to the top of the sport.
“I was not expecting to win,” she said of Tokyo. “Come back again, I was not expecting to win the New York Marathon. I get more motivation, and I believed in myself more, that I can do more better than that.”
She held off Yeshaneh again at the finish of the 50th Boston Marathon, winning by 4 seconds. The elite field for this year’s NYC Marathon hasn’t been announced.
Jepchirchir, in New York this weekend to run the New York Mini 10K, cites countrywoman Mary Keitany as a key source of running inspiration. Keitany is a four-time NYC Marathon champion, and Jepchirchir hopes to join her as a multi-time winner. Grete Waitz has the most NYC Marathon titles with nine.
“My hope is to run like Mary Keitany, to follow the steps of Mary Keitany,” Jepchirchir said.
The NYC Marathon will run Nov. 6 at a full capacity of 50,000 runners for the first time since 2019. The 2020 event was canceled and the 2021 race went off with a shrunken field of 25,010 runners due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RLMD) ("Relmada," the "Company," "we," "us, "our"), a late-stage biotechnology company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), today provided a corporate update and announced preliminary and unaudited financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022. The Company will host a conference call today, Thursday, August 11, at 4:30 PM Eastern Time/1:30 PM Pacific Time.
Recent Corporate Highlights
- FDA granted Fast Track designation to REL-1017 as a monotherapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD)
- Appointed John Hixon, a biopharmaceutical marketing and commercial planning veteran, to serve as the newly created position of Head of Commercial
- Published REL-1017 preclinical data on the lack of reinforcement behavior, physical dependence, and withdrawal signs in the peer-reviewed journal, Scientific Reports, and preclinical data suggesting that uncompetitive NMDAR blockers with a preference for the GluN1-2D subtype may be of particular therapeutic relevance in the peer-reviewed journal, Pharmaceuticals
"We are rapidly approaching multiple key catalysts from Reliance, the ongoing Phase 3 clinical development program for REL-1017 as a paradigm shifting novel treatment for individuals living with MDD," said Sergio Traversa, Relmada's Chief Executive Officer. "We anticipate completing the enrollment of Reliance III, the monotherapy trial, shortly, followed soon thereafter by a top-line readout of the study. We also continue to expect top-line results from Reliance I and Reliance II, the two ongoing sister, two-arm, placebo-controlled, pivotal studies evaluating REL-1017 as a potential adjunctive treatment, in this second half of the year.
"In addition to receiving Fast Track designation for REL-1017 as a monotherapy for the treatment of MDD, we achieved important progress with our commercial preparation activities for REL-1017," continued Sergio Traversa. "To this end, we recently appointed John Hixon, who has over 36 years of sales and marketing experience within the biopharmaceutical industry, including direct marketing expertise in the CNS and depression space, as Head of Commercial."
Upcoming Anticipated Milestones for REL-1017
- Results of RELIANCE III monotherapy MDD trials in the second half of 2022 with last patient enrolled before the end of August, 2022
- Results of RELIANCE I and RELIANCE II adjunctive MDD trials in the second half of 2022
- Results of RELIANCE – OLS (Long-term, Open-label) study in MDD in the first half of 2023
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- Research and development expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022, totaled $24.6 million, compared to $17.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily driven by increased costs associated with preparing and conducting Reliance, the Company's Phase 3 program for REL-1017.
- General and administrative expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022, totaled $14.6 million compared to $9.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, an increase of approximately $5.5 million. The increase was primarily driven by an increase in stock-based compensation.
- The net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2022, was $39.9 million, or $1.33 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $26.6 million, or $1.56 per diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 Financial Results
- Research and development expense for the six months ended June 30, 2022, totaled $49.6 million, compared to $31.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily driven by increased costs associated with preparing and conducting Reliance, the Company's Phase 3 program for REL-1017.
- General and administrative expense for the six months ended June 30, 2022, totaled $27.9 million, compared to $17.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily driven by an increase in stock-based compensation.
- Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was $79.7 million and $48.8 million, respectively. The Company had a net loss of $2.73 and $2.90 per share for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
- As of June 30, 2022, the Company had cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments of approximately $212.0 million, compared to cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments of approximately $211.9 million at December 31, 2021.
Conference Call and Webcast Details
About REL-1017
REL-1017, a new chemical entity (NCE) and novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker that preferentially targets hyperactive channels while maintaining physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission, is currently in late-stage development for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The ongoing Reliance Clinical Research Program is designed to evaluate the potential for REL-1017 as a rapid-acting, oral, once-daily antidepressant treatment. In a Phase 2 trial, REL-1017 demonstrated rapid, robust, and sustained antidepressant effects with statistically significant improvements compared to placebo. The Phase 2 study also showed a favorable pharmacokinetic, safety, and tolerability profile of REL-1017 consistent with results observed in previously completed Phase 1 studies.
About Relmada Therapeutics, Inc.
Relmada Therapeutics is a late-stage biotechnology company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), with focus on major depressive disorder (MDD). Relmada's experienced and dedicated team is committed to making a difference in the lives of patients and their families. Relmada's lead program, REL-1017, is a new chemical entity (NCE) and novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker that preferentially targets hyperactive channels while maintaining physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission. REL-1017 has entered late-stage development as a novel treatment for MDD in adults. In addition, Relmada is advancing a clinical-stage program in neurodegenerative diseases based on psilocybin and select derivative molecules. Learn more at www.relmada.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. This press release contains statements which constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including but not limited to statements regarding Relmada's plans to develop REL-1017, and expectations related to trials evaluating REL-1017 and potential regulatory approval of REL-1017. Any statement that is not historical in nature is a forward-looking statement and may be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "will," "will likely result," "will continue," "plans to," "potential," "promising," and similar expressions. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, including the risk factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" set forth in the Company's reports filed with the SEC from time to time. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. Relmada undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Readers are cautioned that it is not possible to predict or identify all the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may affect future results and that the risks described herein should not be a complete list.
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Mammogen — a Female-led Precision Diagnostics Company — has Launched an Industry-first Online Marketplace Designed to Create a Tangible Bridge Between Science and Community
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mammogen, a leading women's health company specializing in noninvasive precision diagnostics, has launched mammogen marketplace, an e-commerce platform designed to provide hope, comfort and support for those affected by women's health-related diseases. The company says this is the diagnostic industry's first online marketplace to support product and community development for patients and those who love them.
Mammogen was founded and is currently owned and operated by IV BioHoldings (IVBH), a bio-AI platform company at the forefront of the rapidly growing liquid biopsy industry. "Being a patient-first organization requires a willingness to integrate technologies across every axis of business, said IVBH Founder-CEO Marty Keiser, who also serves as chairman of Mammogen. "The marketplace is an important step towards proving that community can fuel market adoption and that market adoption can, in turn, fuel community."
Mammogen CEO and IVBH Chief Commercial Officer Elizabeth Cormier-May conceived of the marketplace after hundreds of conversations with patients and families affected by breast cancer. According to Cormier-May, the comfortable gear and accessories available through mammogen marketplace are designed to drive awareness of and provide solutions for major unmet needs in women's health, all through a centralized haven of resources.
"Innovation should not be confined to our science and product development," said Cormier-May. "We've tapped into the same level of creativity from which Mammogen was born to completely redefine traditional brand building, revenue generation and the development of non-clinical solutions that uplift and empower the patients and families that we serve. Using this marketplace to help build a bridge between science and community is central to ensuring Mammogen remains at the forefront of an ever-evolving healthcare landscape."
"Today, we are focused on important issues in breast health and driving awareness to the important role that noninvasive diagnostics play in improving patients' experiences and outcomes. Over time, our aim is to build mammogen marketplace into an expansive platform that closes the gap between science and community for all women, affected by all disease, all around the globe," said Cormier-May.
Mammogen partnered with Tee Commerce to create their marketplace. Tee Commerce, an e-commerce services provider that built a novel business initially focused on the golf industry, jumped at the opportunity to support a company with a patient-focused vision. Founded by Ben Vainer, a childhood cancer survivor, Tee Commerce understands the importance of early disease detection and partnered with Mammogen to bring the company's unique vision to life.
"We were honored to fuel Mammogen's entrance into e-commerce," said Tee Commerce Head of Operations Collin Lynch. "After understanding what mammogen marketplace will evolve into, we worked diligently on stocking their store with products focused on health and comfort. We look forward to watching Mammogen's new healthcare model unlock a new era of patient-focused care."
The marketplace's hallmark product, The Pink Robe Killer — described by Cormier-May as a "plush and cozy zip-up" — is meant to replace the impersonal, cold, pink paper robes that most women wear to their mammogram appointments. Cormier-May hopes the product will serve as a reminder for women to prioritize their own health, make self-care synonymous with comfort, and help the company continue to fuel innovation in women's health.
For more information, visit: mammogen.teecommerce.shop
Mammogen is a female-led specialty precision health company dedicated to radically improving the detection, diagnosis and treatment of women's health-related diseases, and creating a diverse and thriving global community that encourages, empowers and uplifts women throughout the journey of survivorship, from end-to-never-end. Mammogen's flagship genTRU diagnostic program is a clinical-stage, patent-pending technology that measures changes in RNA expression patterns, found in both blood and saliva, to provide a highly accurate diagnosis of breast cancer consistently across all stages of disease. The genTRU-breast suite of diagnostics is intentionally designed to rule more of the right women into imaging and intervention much earlier and to rule more of the wrong women out of unnecessary procedures. It's positioned to unlock regular and reliable screening for millions of women worldwide. Visit: mammogen.bio
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealanders this week were debating a thorny health care issue — whether ethnicity should be a factor in determining when patients get surgery.
It turns out that in some parts of Auckland, the country’s largest city at 1.4 million people, clinicians have been using an algorithm to adjust where patients sit on elective surgery waitlists. Clinical need remains the top factor, but the algorithm also takes into account how long patients have been on the waitlist, where they live, their financial circumstances, and their ethnicity.
Indigenous Māori and Pacific Island patients are given a higher priority on the list, pushing down white New Zealanders and other ethnicities. The idea is to balance out longstanding inequities in the publicly funded health system.
“At the moment, there is clear evidence Māori, Pacific, rural and low-income communities have been discriminated against by the health system,” Prime Minister Chris Hipkins told reporters.
The algorithm has been used in Auckland since February and similar policies have been in place there since 2020. But most people weren’t aware of the algorithm until Monday, when radio station Newstalk ZB reported on it, saying some surgeons were ethically opposed to using ethnicity as a factor.
In an election year, the issue has quickly become a hot political topic, with conservative opposition parties coming out strongly against it.
“It’s pretty simple,” Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon told reporters Monday. “Race shouldn’t play any part in determining surgical need.”
The libertarian ACT Party has started a petition against what it describes as “race-based waitlists.”
Following the backlash, Hipkins quickly put on ice plans to use the algorithm more broadly across New Zealand’s health care system.
Hipkins said he asked Health Minister Ayesha Verrall to take a closer look at the tool to ensure “we’re not replacing one form of discrimination with another.”
Verrall said Thursday she had been disappointed in some aspects of this week’s debate.
“I think it is important that we address the inequalities that we have in life expectancy and health services for Māori,” she said. “I think it’s disappointing the tone that it’s taken.”
She said one example of existing bias in the health care system was that Māori with the same heart conditions as white people get prescribed fewer medications.
Professional health care organizations have expressed mixed reactions to the tool. Groups representing nurses have backed it, while a group representing surgeons said it’s too simplistic.
About 10% of New Zealand’s 5 million people are among those currently covered by the algorithm. Patients affected include those attending two large hospitals: Auckland City Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre.
Jo Gibbs, who directs hospital system delivery at Health New Zealand, said those who are sickest or most in need of care are treated first. Beyond that, she said, the algorithm was helping reduce barriers and inequities in the health system.
“We will evaluate the tool to check it is achieving its purpose,” she wrote in a statement to The Associated Press. “It has not been rolled out nationally.”
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Find more of AP’s Asia-Pacific coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/asia-pacific | 2023-06-22T13:38:41+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/health/ap-health/new-zealand-debates-whether-ethnicity-should-be-a-factor-for-surgery-waitlists/ |
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Aviation Capital Group LLC (ACG) today at the Farnborough International Airshow announced the aircraft lessor is growing its 737 MAX portfolio with an order for 12 additional 737-8 jets. As the travel market recovers, ACG is increasing its 737-8 offering to meet airline demand for modern, fuel-efficient, and sustainable operations. The order was previously unidentified on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website.
"This latest incremental 737 MAX order allows ACG to offer highly fuel-efficient airplanes to our airline customers around the world," said Mahoko Hara, ACG Executive Chair. "These additional 737 MAX aircraft will help position ACG's order book for a recovery in air traffic coming out of the pandemic."
Today's announcement will see ACG expand its 737 MAX order book to 34 airplanes, building upon an order for nine 737-8s in May 2022. Boeing is seeing strong market demand for the 737 MAX family, with more than 1,000 gross orders across all models since late 2020.
"The 737 MAX family strengthens ACG's narrowbody portfolio, providing operators with excellent fuel efficiency and flexibility across different networks," said Ihssane Mounir, Boeing senior vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing. "Topping up with additional 737-8s positions ACG well to respond to growing airline demand. We look forward to more opportunities to expand our relationship to support ACG and their customers."
The 737-8 is a member of the 737 MAX family, which is designed to offer more fuel efficiency, reliability, and flexibility in the single-aisle market. The airplane can fly 3,550 nautical miles – about 600 miles farther than its predecessor – allowing airlines to offer new and more direct routes for passengers. Compared to the airplanes it replaces, the 737-8 also delivers superior efficiency, using 20% less fuel and significantly reducing CO2 emissions and operating costs.
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From Chief Meteorologist Matt Schaefer:
Winter has certainly arrived with both colder temperatures and widespread snow. Temperatures were cold enough that the snow that fell today made roads slippery, especially this evening.
Eau Claire picked up 1" snow for the first time this winter, which is five days before the average date of the first inch snow. While five days earlier than average, it's pretty close to that date so within the realm of normal.
While this system will end overnight, there are several more rounds of snow closely behind that will affect most of the week... READ MORE | 2022-11-15T00:57:34+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/weather/forecast/eau-claire-hit-1-snow-for-first-time-this-season-on-monday-with-more-in/article_706399f4-646d-11ed-b170-170ccc37a5a8.html |
Austin Community Scholarship Committee awards $68K for 2022-23
Published 6:07 pm Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The Austin Community Scholarship Committee recently announced that scholarships totaling $68,000 have been awarded to 35 local students for the academic year starting this fall 2022.
With these announced awards, over $1,330,296 has been given to 909 students since the first awards were made in 1962.
Sources of funds for the awards include former scholarship recipients, generous contributions from individuals, memorial gifts, and estate bequests. Contributions also have come from local businesses and organizations, The Hormel Foundation,
The scholarship program is carried on without significant expense, most administration and professional services being donated.
Scholarships are available to students entering their junior or senior year of college or postgraduate study, and who are candidates for a degree at an accredited college in the United States. Recipients may pursue any curriculum leading to a degree. Applications are available in May and must be made each year. Applicants or their parents must be residents of Mower County; London Township in Freeborn County; or Union or Otranto Townships in Mitchell County, Iowa.
To learn more about the scholarship program application and requirements, send an email to austincommunityscholarship@gmail.com or contact Alice Holst, at 507-438-6035.
Recipients
Siri Ansorge, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Igor Blinkow, Winona State
Abigail Bollingberg, Winona State
Jenna Braaten, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Mya Burkhart, University of Minnesota-Rochester
Connor Byram, University of Minnesota -Twin Cities
Rachel Christenson, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Steven Conradt, Luther College
Kory Englestad, South Dakota State School Mines/Technology
Signe Fadness, Viterbo University
Ryan Flanders, Winona State
Samuel Hagan, University of Minnesota-Morris
Erin Hanson, University of Wisconsin River Falls
Elyse Hebrink, Valley State City University
Tate Hebrink, Valley State City University
Daniela Hernandez, Winona State
Madison Herrick, South Dakota State
Maia Irvin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Joseph Knorr, Franciscan University
Abigail Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Kali Meiergard, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Kelsey Mensink, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Abigail Muller, South Dakota State
Quincy Muzik, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Trey Myers, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Hugh Olson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Ku Reh, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Lillian Reynen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Ruiz, Winona State
Faith Sayles, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Isaac Smith, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Gretchen Sunde, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Tori Watkins, Iowa State University
Briella Wempner, Bemidji State
Codie Wolfe, South Dakota State. | 2022-10-26T04:02:06+00:00 | austindailyherald.com | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2022/10/austin-community-scholarship-committee-awards-68k-for-2022-23/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
1-6-4
(one, six, four)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
1-6-4
(one, six, four) | 2022-10-22T04:30:02+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-game-17526569.php |
97-year-old skier retires after hitting the slopes for one last time: ‘It has been a great run’
Published: Feb. 23, 2023 at 4:51 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
HAVERHILL, Mass. (Gray News) - A man has decided to retire from skiing after 90 years on the slopes.
According to the Bradford Ski Area, 97-year-old Herb Oedel made his final run earlier this week.
Oedel has reportedly been skiing since he was 7 years old.
On Wednesday, he posed for a picture with his 100-year-old wife Ginny after completing his final run at the Bradford Ski Area.
The ski area congratulated Oedel saying, “Congratulations, Herb. It has been a great run.”
Oedel and his wife have been visiting the ski area yearly with Ginny being his biggest supporter.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-24T00:00:31+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/02/23/97-year-old-skier-retires-after-hitting-slopes-one-last-time-it-has-been-great-run/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces it has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of NewAge, Inc. (NASDAQ: NBEV) (OTC: NBEVQ) between January 18, 2018 and October 18, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 6, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased NewAge securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Gap class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10143 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 6, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) NewAge never entered into a "distribution agreement" or "initiative in partnership" with the military and never had plans to sell its products at all commissaries and exchanges around the world; (2) NewAge did not have adequate inventory of its products to fulfill this reported agreement; (3) NewAge did not actually expand its product lines or distribution agreements as represented; (4) the Company lacked adequate internal controls; (5) as a result the Company had a heightened risk of regularly scrutiny and ultimately subject to an SEC investigation and action; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the NewAge class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10143 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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The joint initiative between Boryung, Axiom, and Starburst will advance the next generation of pharmaceutical, bioscience and medtech development in space.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Starburst, the world's first and only global aerospace accelerator and advisory firm, today announced that applications have opened for the first annual CIS ("Care in Space") Challenge. The global challenge, led by Boryung in collaboration with Axiom Space and Starburst, will identify and provide commercialization support for emerging technologies and solutions that optimize human health for space travel and habitation and/or are manufactured in space to advance healthcare here on Earth.
The CIS Challenge will serve as an essential tool to leverage space as an innovative platform for developing new healthcare technologies as well as address the complexities of health monitoring, diagnosis and treatment for those traveling in Low Earth Orbit and beyond. As opportunities for space exploration and commerce expand, the CIS Challenge is set to support critical developments that will make space accessible and safe for all of humanity. And the unique challenges of space facilitate research and development of products that have immediate terrestrial application, from new medications to medical devices to nutritional supplements to stem-cell therapies.
"We are committed to pushing the boundaries of what is currently thought possible in both healthcare and aerospace," said Boryung Head of New Portfolio Investment, Jack Dongjoo Lim. "Boryung is incredibly excited to work with Axiom and Starburst to seek out the next generation of innovators and founders working on solutions that facilitate access to space for everyone."
Amir Blachman, Axiom Space Chief Business Officer said, "It is increasingly evident that space, and in particular microgravity, has profound impacts on the speed of drug discovery, improvements in medical devices and advancements related to regenerative medicine and life sciences. We are pleased to support Boryung and Starburst Aerospace in opening space to a broad community of innovators in these fields."
Through the challenge, the companies and technologies with the most promising technical solutions and potential for commercial viability will have the opportunity to receive a $1 million dollar prize pot that will be divided by no more than 10 winners. The selected companies and technologies will also go through Starburst's 13-week accelerator program. In the accelerator, the entrepreneurs will receive mentorship from Starburst's global network of industry leaders and support with technology development, customer discovery, business development and fundraising, as well as preparation for/facilitation of on-orbit research. Each winner will gain access to Axiom's integration team which has successfully flown dozens of payloads to the International Space Station.
"The extreme conditions of space have always driven the development of novel technologies, and we are excited for this unique opportunity–through this partnership with Boryung and Axiom–to expand the understanding of physiological responses to extreme environments and support entrepreneurs doing cutting edge research in precision medicine, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, pharmaceutical development, and more," said Elizabeth Reynolds, Accelerator Program Director at Starburst. "The commercial space age is here, and we are on the cusp of the biological revolution; this cross-disciplinary effort is the future."
The CIS Challenge application period runs from 04/18/22 - 06/17/22. A Pitch Day event on 07/28/22 will afford selected applicants the opportunity to showcase their capabilities to aerospace and bioscience and bio/medtech industry experts who will assess entrepreneurial acumen and the scientific merit, business model viability, and overall feasibility of their solutions.
To learn more about the CIS Challenge and to apply, please visit: www.starburst.aero/care-in- space/
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Boryung is contributing to the progress and development of the pharmaceutical industry by using the spirit of interdependence via commitment to human health. Accordingly, we are striving to realize the company's vision of Lifetime Care Company. Boryung pursues an 'achievement of interdependence based on humanism' and participates in various corporate philanthropic activities. Furthermore, we aim to become a global company, not by becoming content, but by continuously innovating and transforming. More information about Boryung can be found at www.boryung.co.kr
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Opening Day is here, and another New York Mets pitcher joins the injured list.
Elieser Hernandez will start the season on the injured list with a right shoulder strain, general manager Billy Eppler told reporters Wednesday, per SNY.
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The right-hander experienced soreness after a game last week and is taking anti-inflammatory medicine.
Hernandez appeared in five games and got one start in spring training this year, giving up 12 hits and eight runs over 9 2/3 innings pitched.
The 27-year-old was traded to the Mets from the Miami Marlins in November.
Tuesday, it was reported that reliever Bryce Montes de Oca will undergo surgery to have bone chips removed from his elbow. With the new diagnosis, he’s expected to miss around four months. The 26-year-old has pitched 2 1/3 innings in spring training, giving up three runs on no hits, five walks and four strikeouts.
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The Mets will also be without star closer Edwin Diaz, who suffered a full-thickness tear of the patellar tendon in his right knee.
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Bridget Hyland may be reached at bhyland@njadvancemedia.com | 2023-03-30T14:15:09+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/03/another-mets-pitcher-lands-on-injured-list.html |
Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who spent 10 months in Russian detention, said her days of playing in international leagues are over.
"I'm never going overseas to play again unless I'm representing my country at the Olympics," she said on Thursday, as part of her first press conference since she was released in December. "You know, if I make that team, that would be the only time I would leave the U.S. soil."
The meeting with national and local press was held to discuss Griner's return to court ahead of the upcoming WNBA season with the Phoenix Mercury.
But it was also the first chance for many reporters to ask the star center about being arrested by Russian airport security on charges of drug smuggling last February. Griner was held in detention for 10 months before the U.S. negotiated her release in exchange for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.
She took to the stage in Phoenix wearing a black T-shirt from the Bring our Families Home campaign.
"Ooh, a little different than a basketball press conference. A lot of media in here," she said with a laugh.
And while Griner kept up the light air throughout the half-hour session, she couldn't fight back tears when the first reporter asked about how she stayed resilient during her imprisonment.
"Just digging deep, honestly," Griner said. "I know this sounds so small, but, you know, dying in practice and hard workouts. You find a way to just grind it out. Just put your head down and just keep moving forward. You know, you can never stand still."
She didn't share many details about her detention, with Mercury staff warning reporters of security concerns. But she did say that, even in the isolation of a foreign prison, she was aware of the support from fans and the push from U.S. officials to bring her home.
"It made me a little bit more comfortable," she said. "It made me a little bit ... have hope, which is a really hard thing to have. It's a dangerous thing to have. Because, you know, when it doesn't work, it's so crushing."
She and the Mercury will be part of a campaign this season in support of other Americans detained overseas, including former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, whom negotiators tried to include in the swap that brought Griner home, and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in late March.
But Griner said she's also just relishing the feeling of having a basketball back in her hand.
When she takes the court as the new season kicks off next month, she hopes that more people watch than ever before to facilitate the end of basketball's gender pay gap.
"I think that's a big reason why a lot of people go overseas. That's why I was there," she said. "As much as I'd love to pay my light bill for a love of the game, I can't."
NPR's Tom Goldman contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-28T17:06:20+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-04-28/brittney-griner-says-shes-never-going-overseas-again-after-her-detention |
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Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of pouches of Capri Sun in the U.S. after some cleaning solution accidentally mixed with the juice on a production line.
The company said it’s recalling about 5,760 cases of Capri Sun Wild Cherry flavored juice blend. The “Best When Used By” date on the packages is June 25, 2023.
Kraft Heinz said the diluted cleaning solution is used on its food processing equipment. The company said it discovered that the solution had accidentally mixed with the juice after getting consumer complaints about the juice’s taste.
The recall does not apply to products sold outside of the U.S.
Kraft Heinz, which is co-headquartered in Pittsburgh and Chicago, said in a statement Friday it is working with retailers to remove the product from circulation. Consumers who bought the affected Capri Sun should not consume it and should return it to the story where it was purchased to receive a refund.
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AMSTERDAM (AP) _ ING Groep NV (ING) on Thursday reported net income of $1.11 billion in its fourth quarter.
The bank, based in Amsterdam, said it had earnings of 31 cents per share.
The financial services provider posted revenue of $4.97 billion in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $4.97 billion, which beat Street forecasts.
For the year, the company reported profit of $3.87 billion, or $1.03 per share. Revenue was reported as $19.56 billion.
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NuggMD's video telehealth platform connects state-licensed medical marijuana doctors to their patients for affordable, safe online evaluations.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuggMD, the nation's leading medical marijuana telemedicine platform, is launching its service in West Virginia for just $139. Since its founding in 2015, NuggMD has connected over 1,000,000 patients to their medical marijuana physicians in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. West Virginia now marks the 19th state NuggMD services, providing coverage to 58% of Americans.
While the market is still in its infancy in West Virginia, the Tax Foundation estimates that once mature, it will generate over $38 million in excise taxes. To date, the Office of Medical Cannabis shows 26 active dispensary locations in the state owned by 12 companies. All of these dispensaries are listed as fully operational with product available to sell, although patients are advised to call ahead to confirm availability.
In addition to the state's 26 operational dispensaries, there are
- nine operational growers,
- five operational processors, and
- just over 100 registered physicians.
As of August 4, 2022, the state has received 12,708 patient applications and approved 11,164. This averages to roughly 430 patients per dispensary and 1,240 patients per grower.
Since sales began, dispensaries report $9,018,768 in total sales and 1,134 pounds of medical cannabis sold.
"Medical marijuana has been legal in West Virginia for five years," says Kam Babazade, COO and Co-founder of NuggMD. "Still, the market is completely new. The first dispensary in the state, Trulieve, only opened last November and hasn't even experienced a full year of sales yet. This market has nowhere to go but up."
"It's so exciting to see cannabis take off in states that strongly opposed medical cannabis just a decade ago," said Collin Mann, CEO and NuggMD Co-founder. "This is life-changing for patients here. Before medical cannabis was legalized, patients still faced mandatory minimum sentences for tiny marijuana possession convictions."
"That's a good point," says Alex Milligan, CMO and NuggMD Co-founder. "If a person possesses less than 15 grams of cannabis without a state-issued medical marijuana card, prosecutors are required to dispose of the first offense, but after that, it's mandatory jail time if convicted. That's barbaric. We still have a long way to go with marijuana reform, and we're excited to continue helping more patients access a safer alternative to pharmaceuticals.."
Meanwhile, activists aren't waiting for statewide decriminalization. A pair of local decriminalization initiatives may reach the ballot in November, depending on whether the proponents can gather enough signatures by the deadline.
West Virginia's qualifying conditions for medical cannabis include severe chronic or intractable pain, cancer, MS, PTSD, and seizures. Prospective patients are encouraged to visit NuggMD.com/West-Virginia to see if they qualify today.
NuggMD's platform is available from 8 am till 10 pm seven days a week. No appointment is needed, and patients who don't qualify for West Virginia's medical cannabis program won't be charged for their evaluation.
About NuggMD:
NuggMD is the nation's leading medical marijuana technology platform, serving patients in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. They've connected over 1,000,000 patients face-to-face with their new medical marijuana doctors via their state-of-the-art telemedicine platform. They believe every human being has the right to explore the benefits of medical cannabis and are fully committed to helping each patient explore every option in their journey to wellness. For further information, visit NuggMD.com/West-Virginia.
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Kokomo’s girls tennis team blanked visiting Frankfort 5-0 Wednesday to continue its unbeaten start.
The Kats (5-0) made quick work of the Hot Dogs as they dropped just 11 games combined across the five points.
In singles play, Raigan Heflin was a 6-2, 6-1 winner at No. 1, Ellen Callane pitched a 6-0, 6-0 shutout at No. 2 and Claire Callane was a 6-1, 6-0 winner at No. 3.
In doubles action, Ava Cothern and Mia Federspill took a 6-3, 6-3 win at No. 1 and Avi Pollard and Allie Cothern breezed to a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 2.
Kokomo coach Sarah Hemmerich likes how her squad is improving through the undefeated start.
“Raigan, Ellen and Claire have been solid every night and our 2 doubles team is playing really well,” she said.
WESTERN 4, McCUTCHEON 1
The Panthers beat the visiting Mavericks to improve to 7-1.
The Panthers picked up singles points from Macie Lockwood and Lili Hess and swept the doubles with Chioma Ozoigbo and Natalie Nutt winning at No. 1 and Langley Good and Elizabeth Mercer winning at No. 2.
EASTERN 3, MAC 2
The Comets beat the visiting Braves to push their record to 4-3.
Eastern swept the doubles points with Madi Guinn and Claire Wavra winning 7-6 (3), 6-4 at No. 1 and Julia Salkie and Emma Budde winning 6-3, 7-5 at No. 2. Also for Eastern, Morgan Kaiser was a 6-2, 7-5 winner at No. 3 singles.
“We were lucky to pull this one out, I don’t think we handled the wind very well at all,” Eastern coach Pat Rice said. “I was really pleased with our 1 doubles team, and the way they played.”
For Maconaquah, Molly Tenny rallied for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 1 singles and Kiera Rosenow took a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 2 singles.
NW 4, TAYLOR 0
The Tigers (3-0) won the four matches played in straight sets. Avery Rooze won the No. 1 singles point 6-0, 6-0, Megan Shank won at No. 2 singles 6-2, 6-0, the team of Emily Goltz and Anna Grube won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles, and Berkley Wray and Lauren Lesko won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 doubles.
PERU 4, S’WOOD 1
With double bagels at the top of its lineup, the Bengal Tigers dispatched Southwood to move to 3-0 on the season.
Peru swept the doubles action. The No. 1 team of Lauren Boyer and Mackey Hyde won 6-0, 6-0. The No. 2 team of Kara Baker and Esme Flores won 6-3, 6-0. In singles, No. 1 player Emma Eldridge won 6-0, 6-0, and No. 2 player Cameryn Raber won 6-0, 6-1.
BOYS GOLF
KOKOMO 179, LOGAN 180
Karson Parrott fired a 5-over 39 to lead the Kats past the Berries at Dykeman Park.
The Kats backed Parrott with balance as Camden Horner and Canaan Horner shot 46s and William Nelson shot 48.
“These were season bests for the three in the 40s,” Kokomo coach Matt York said.
CASS 167, EASTERN 214
The Comets counted Sam Torivo’s 48, Bryce Barker’s 51, Allen Stalhood’s 57 and Layke Hall’s 58.
BASEBALL
WESTERN 17, NW 3, 6 INNINGS
Class 3A No. 2-ranked Western beat Northwestern on the Tigers’ turf to complete a home-and-home sweep of their Hoosier Conference East Division series.
Mitchell Dean, Cayden McClure and Bret Echelbarger fueled the Panthers’ 17-run explosion. Dean went 3 for 4 with a home run and three RBI, McClure was 3 for 5 with four RBI and Echelbarger was 3 for 3 with a triple and two RBI.
Also for Western (9-1, 6-0 HC East), Christian Pownall was 2 for 4 with an RBI, Cade Epp and Zach Gilbert had an RBI double apiece and Deaglan Pleak had a bases-loaded walk.
Pownall pitched all six innings for Western. He allowed two hits and one earned run, struck out six and walked six. Five of the walks came in the third inning when the Tigers scored twice to draw within 4-3, but they also left the bases loaded.
“Both teams had chances to swing the game on their favor in the middle innings,” Western coach Ryan Berryman said. “Pownall lost his control in the third, but worked out of a jam with the lead. We didn’t score with runners on second and third and no outs after going up 5-3 in the fourth, then left bases loaded with one out after going up 6-3 in the fifth, but Pownall settled in and put up zeroes.”
The Panthers broke loose for 11 runs in the top of the sixth inning to end the game an inning early. They led 6-3 going into the inning.
“Obviously, the 11-run outburst was big and reminiscent of [Tuesday] night’s nine-run first. We were locked in and didn’t let up,” Berryman said.
For Northwestern (7-3, 2-2 HC East), Teegan Helmle had a double and Cole Van Natter had an RBI single. A.J. Burkhalter took the loss.
“It was a much better game than the score indicates, just obviously the wheels fell off there in the sixth,” NW coach Ryan Ward said. “But it’s time to put it past us, move forward and we have two games Saturday to focus on.”
LOGAN 11, KOKOMO 8
The Kats jumped to a 4-0 lead, but the Berries responded with seven runs in the bottom of the second inning to take control of the North Central Conference game.
J.J. Gillespie led the Kats, going 1 for 2 with a solo home run and two RBI. He also drew two walks. John Curl was 2 for 4 with a double, a triple, two RBI and two runs and Musashi Otsubo was 2 for 4 with a double, a triple, an RBI and a run. Dalton Dixon drove in two runs and Jacob Walker scored two runs.
Patrick Hardimon took the loss. He started and allowed seven runs in 1.2 innings. Isaac Flamino pitched the final 4.1 innings. He had seven strikeouts.
ROSSVILLE 7, TAYLOR 4
The Titans dropped their Hoosier Heartland Conference opener at Rossville.
Taylor pitcher Hunter Williams went the distance. He threw six innings, allowed 12 hits and seven runs (six earned), struck out five and walked none.
Taylor (1-8 overall) had nine hits. Catch Sullivan went 3 for 4 with a double and Williams went 3 for 4 with two RBI.
“In the fourth inning, we gave up a four spot,” Taylor coach Kris Dill said, noting the Hornets took advantage of two Titan errors in the inning. “But Hunter Williams pitched a great game, had us in striking distance. We did play better [Wednesday]. We’ve been playing some really bad defense and [Wednesday] we were a little more consistent, we just gave up that one crooked number and it came back to bite us.”
PERU 7, N. MIAMI 6
The Bengal Tigers edged the Warriors in a Three Rivers Conference game.
Reis Bellar led Peru’s offense, going 3 for 3 with two doubles, two RBI and two runs. Ian Potts was 2 for 3 with a double and two runs and Matthew Roettger was 1 for 3 with an RBI.
Roettger earned the win and Potts recorded the save. Roettger started and pitched five innings, allowing seven hits and six runs. He struck out nine and walked three. Potts pitched two innings with four strikeouts and two walks.
MAC 4, NORTHFIELD 2
Kaleb Shelton pitched five sharp innings to lead Maconaquah to the win in TRC play at Northfield. He allowed four hits and two runs and struck out nine. M.J. Ellis pitched the final two innings for the save.
The Braves backed their pitchers with an error-free defense. At the plate, the Braves totaled seven hits. Ellis and Bennett Isenburg had two hits apiece.
SOFTBALL
WESTERN 19, NW 0, 5 INNINGS
The Panthers took a lead in the top of the first on a two-run tater from Brynley Erb, then blew the game open with eight runs in the second. Western crunched five homers in the game.
Erb was 3 for 3 with two homers and three RBI. Kyndal Mellady was 2 for 3 with a homer and three RBI. Jocelyn Jeffers and Maisy Harlow each homered. Chloe Linn was 2 for 3 with two doubles and a team-high four RBI. And Kylie Miller was 3 for 4.
Linn threw all five for the Panthers, giving up just one hit and a walk while striking out seven. Linn had a no-hitter going until a two-strike, two-out single in the bottom of the fifth.
“I was just really proud of the kids coming out and being focused from the very beginning,” Western coach Jim Clouse said. “We got off to a quick start again [Wednesday] night and we sustained it better than I thought we did [Tuesday night]. And we played errorless on defense. We had a really good night.”
Western completed an HC East Division sweep of Northwestern, after a 12-0 win on Tuesday. The Panthers are 11-0 overall and 6-0 in the league with just one division series left, against Cass next week.
McCUTCHEON 5, KOKOMO 4
The Mavericks scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth to overturn a 4-2 Wildkat lead and take the game.
Taylor Reed was 2 for 3 for Kokomo and Dani Tate was 2 for 4. Gwen Hand threw all six innings and took the loss.
“We have got to figure out a way to win a close game,” Kokomo coach Mike Susong said. “We left the bases loaded in the top of the seventh with one out, and stranded eight runners on base, and against a good team, you’re not going to win that game. We’ve got to figure out a way to get those runs in.”
McCutcheon is 2-0 in the North Central Conference’s West Division. Kokomo fell to 5-4 overall and 0-2 in the NCC West ahead of the Kokomo Tournament this weekend.
“We’d like everyone to come out Friday and Saturday and enjoy a great day of softball,” Susong said.
ROSSVILLE 7, TAYLOR 0
Taylor dropped its season and Hoosier Heartland Conference opener while playing on the road.
“Rossville is a very good team with one of the best pitchers in the state,” Taylor coach Robert McGuire said. “We need to sure up our defense and come out swinging the bat and start hitting the ball.”
GIRLS TRACK
LOGAN 79, KOKOMO 48
Quadruple winner Reanna Jones led the Kats. Individually, she won the 100 dash (:13.04), 200 dash (:27.78) and long jump (16-5). She teamed with Mia Castillo, Janae Young and Tia Williams to win the 4×100 relay (:52.35).
Also for the Kars, Abby Hansen won the 400 dash (1:06) with Marta Manso taking second, Cami Caldwell won the 3,200 run (14:10) and Castillo had second-place finishes to Jones in the 100 and 200.
“The ladies ran a lot of personal bests as we continue to improve as we approach the month of May. It’s all about May and that’s when we want to be our best,” Kokomo coach John Malone said.
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BOYS TRACK
EASTERN 66, DELPHI 55, TRI-CENTRAL 35
Triple winners Jayden Eagle and Obadiah Greene led the Comets to the victory in the three-team meet. Eagle won the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the long jump and Greene won the 1,600 and 3,200 runs and contributed to the winning 4x400 relay.
Also for Eastern, Noah Wright won the 300 hurdles, Andrew Cavazos won the shot put and Wright, Jansen Richmond and Levi Ramer joined Greene on the winning 4x400 team.
BASEBALL
NORTHFIELD 11, TAYLOR 2
The visiting Norsemen scored eight runs over the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to win going away.
Zeke Lamberson went 2 for 3 for the Titans and Kien Sullivan was 1 for 3 with an RBI. Micah Irwin took the loss. He pitched four innings and allowed three hits and three runs.
Taylor’s defense committed five errors. | 2023-04-20T07:56:12+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/prep-roundup-for-thursday-april-20/article_292ec83a-df0e-11ed-8fe5-3706065a9633.html |
Christian Jonathan's mother was holding the 9-month-old boy in her arms when she was shot dead during an attack on their village in northwestern Nigeria. The assailants cut off one of Christian's finger and abandoned him by the side of the road with a bullet wound in his tiny leg.
“They left him on the ground beside his mother’s body,” said Joshua Jonathan, Christian’s father. “They thought the boy was dead.”
The late-night attack in April in Runji in Kaduna State left 33 people dead, most of them burned alive or shot dead. Many more have been killed since in the continuing clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farming communities in northwest and central regions of the West African nation, including more than 100 this month in Plateau state.
The decadeslong violence is becoming more deadly, killing at least 2,600 people in 2021, according to the most recent data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. Once armed with sticks, the groups now fight with guns that have been smuggled into the country.
Both sides accuse the government of injustice and marginalization, but the clashes have also taken on a religious dimension, giving rise to militias that side with the herders, who are primarily Muslim, or the farmers from Christian communities.
The growing security crisis presents a huge challenge for Nigeria’s incoming president, Bola Tinubu, who rose to power in Nigeria — Africa's largest economy and among its top oil producers — promising to improve the lives of affected communities and address the root causes of the crisis by providing jobs and ensuring justice. Tinubu's inauguration is scheduled for Monday.
If the violence isn't reined in, analysts say, it could further destabilize the country and drive more of its 216 million people into poverty. U.N. agencies say the violence affects mostly children, who are already threatened by malnutrition, and women, who are often abducted and forced into marriage.
The response of security forces can be slow and arrests are rare, prompting a growing number of communities to defend themselves when they come under siege.
“There is a substantial loss of confidence in the government as a protector of citizens," said Nnamdi Obasi, the senior adviser for Nigeria at the International Crisis Group. Obasi warned that the failure of the incoming administration to speedily resolve the conflict would lead to “more people seeking their own self-defense, more proliferation of weapons, more criminal groups and a rise in organized armed groups.”
In Runji, an agrarian village, The Associated Press spoke to some survivors in hospital beds and others touring a mass grave and their razed houses. They said they were under attack for hours and that the gunmen fled long before security forces arrived.
Every household bears a scar.
Christopher Dauda’s family was trying to escape when the gunmen caught up with his wife and four children, killing all five. Danjuma Joshua’s two daughters were shot in the back while they tried to flee. In the home of Asabe Philip, who survived but has burns all over her body, the assailants burned five children alive as they cowered in one room.
Christian's aunt has tried to fill the void left by the killing of his mother. His father said Christian cries a lot and barely sleeps, although his physical wounds are gradually healing.
“We try to manage with what we have left,” Joshua Jonathan said.
On the other side of the conflict, the herders say they are also under attack. They complain of cattle rustling and extrajudicial killings by local security groups working as community vigilantes.
Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, the president of the national herders’ association, denied that anyone in the group was responsible for the violence. Most of the herders belong to the Fulanis, an ethnic group.
“Fulanis are not the killers. Any person carrying out killings is not our member. Sometimes, when communities accuse us of killings, 75% is not true; they have their own crisis but always blame Fulanis,” said Bodejo.
Nigerian security forces say they have arrested dozens of gunmen and recovered their weapons. But the assailants are estimated to number in the thousands and can easily recruit new members, according to Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, a conflict researcher.
“There is a limit to the kinetic (military) operations, as it doesn’t address the socioeconomic issue that gave rise to banditry in the region in the first place,” said Oluwole Ojewale of the Africa-focused Institute of Security Studies. He said the incoming Tinubu administration must work with state governments to address unemployment, poverty and social injustice.
The recent violence has led to the formation of community, state and regional security outfits that experts say could create bigger problems for Nigeria’s security architecture if not properly monitored.
And their recruits are young.
Felix Sunday, a college student in Kaduna, said that he was 16 when he joined a local vigilante group in 2021, and that he struggles to combine the night watch with his studies.
Across much of West and Central Africa, porous national borders facilitate the smuggling of weapons. A survey-based report published in 2021 by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey in collaboration with the Nigerian government found that at least 6 million firearms may have been in the hands of civilians in the country at the time.
The military and police have recovered hundreds of firearms in Nigeria in the last year, but weapons dealers elsewhere are exacerbating the problem.
“Things have gotten considerably worse. Some are large military weapons imported from other countries,” said Confidence MacHarry with the Lagos-based SBM Intelligence security firm.
With sophisticated weapons, the gunmen have launched daring attacks in areas with a heavy security presence, including a military base and an airport in Kaduna, indicating that the problem may be the motivation of the security forces themselves.
Survivors of the attack in Plateau told the AP that the police didn't arrive until the next day, echoing comments from people living in Runji, which has a security checkpoint nearby.
“When we call the soldiers, it is after the attackers have left that the soldiers come. Even if we hear they (the attackers) are coming and we report to the government, they don’t take proactive action,” said Simon Njam, a vigilante leader near Runji who uses bows, arrows and locally-made guns to secure the area.
Part of the problem is that the security forces are disorganized and unprepared to respond to the attacks, according to Kabir Adamu, the founder of Beacon Consulting, a security firm based in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
“We don’t have a coordinated security sector that identifies and counters threats," he said. "They need to work together to protect lives and currently, we are not seeing enough of that.”
The Nigerian military and police didn't respond to written and phone inquiries seeking a response to the claims.
As more families mourn the loss of their loved ones, forced to replace farmland with graveyards, their priority is demanding justice.
“How can people just come and kill and nothing will happen?” asked Dauda in Runji, remembering his life with his wife and four children. “They cannot bring back my lost family, but the government can at least rebuild my home and ensure justice.” | 2023-05-28T06:56:46+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/business/2023/05/28/in-nigerias-hard-hit-north-families-seek-justice-as-armed-groups-seek-control/ |
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is pitching changes to the federal food stamp program that would increase the number of people who have to show they're working to be eligible to receive help with their groceries.
The proposal is a part of a larger legislative framework to raise the nation's debt limit for one year, while scaling back federal spending.
Right now, many people ages 18-50 who rely on food stamps are subject to work reporting requirements. McCarthy is looking to raise that age range to 56. Advocates worry that shift, if passed, could mean people get shut out of the program.
"It's pretty foreseeable that this is going to lead to more food hardship," said Ellen Vollinger, SNAP director for the Food Research and Action Center. "It doesn't do anything to improve people's employability. ... It's just going to take food away from people that are unable to meet the documented requirements."
More than 9.5 million adults ages 50 and older rely on food stamps, according to the 2022 AARP Research Survey.
The proposed change expands the group of people subject to requirements
In order to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, there are work requirements for people ages 18 to 49 who do not have dependents and are considered "capable."
The program limits these adults to three months of SNAP benefits during any 36-month period when they cannot show they are employed or in a work or training program for at least 20 hours a week.
McCarthy's proposal would expand the number of people subject to this rule.
"It hits both those unemployed people and underemployed people. Because often for people to be able to document the sufficient hours of work, it means that they have to have a job of several hours," Vollinger said. "And for some of the lower wage jobs, or a second job that people get, their work schedules can be pretty unpredictable. And sometimes they lack work hours as businesses cut back."
Democrats are not on board
While the House Committee on Agriculture Chair GT Thompson, R-Pa., called the McCarthy proposal "sensible," the panel's ranking member David Scott, D-Ga., called it " a non-starter" and "ungodly."
If Republicans in the House pass McCarthy's plan, it faces an uphill battle in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Democrats have said they are not willing to pass any bill that links the debt limit to spending cuts. And they are particularly critical of efforts to require work requirements for those on assistance programs.
"Unfortunately, some Republicans want to take food out of the mouths of vulnerable children and families to pay for irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthiest among us," said Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "That should be an affront to all Americans. Our economy and the full faith and credit of the United States is not some bargaining chip."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-21T16:19:23+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-04-20/speaker-mccarthy-proposes-changing-access-to-food-stamps-as-part-of-debt-limit-debate |
Vice President Harris expressed concern over threats to voting rights and democracy in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” aired on Sunday, during which she emphasized the importance of getting out the vote for the midterm elections.
“Everything is on the line in these elections in just less than two months,” she said while discussing voting rights.
Harris stressed that the issue is high on the Biden administration’s agenda and that the president will “not let the filibuster get in the way” of signing bills into law that make it easier to vote.
“Because what is happening in our country … they are passing laws making it more difficult for people to vote,” said Harris.
Harris specified President Biden’s support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. Both bills have been approved by the House but blocked in the Senate by Republican filibusters.
The vice president said that after Biden was elected in 2020 “you almost saw, almost immediately, so-called extremist leaders around the country starting to pass laws making it more difficult for people to vote.”
“I think that scared some people that the American people were voting in such large numbers,” she said, referencing the record voter turnout that year.
Harris also addressed election deniers running for secretary of state around the country and some lawmakers’ refusal to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, voicing concern over how the country is handling “attacks from within.”
Asked by anchor Chuck Todd whether current internal threats to American democracy are “equal or greater than what we faced after 9/11,” Harris said that the two are “different.”
“Each are dangerous and extremely harmful, but they’re different,” said Harris.
She continued: “When I think about what we have been seeing in terms of the attacks from within, I wish that we would approach it … as Americans, instead of through some partisan lens.”
Harris claimed that threats to democracy from within the U.S. affect relations with other nations by indicating that America is not “valuing what they talk about.”
“I’m very concerned about it. Because there are so many issues going on in the world that I think require, at least how we as Americans have traditionally thought about what is right, what is good, what should be fought for, what should be human ideals, and certainly the ideals of democracies,” said Harris.
“And I think that through the process of what we’ve been through, we’re starting to allow people to call into question our commitment to those principles.”
Todd also asked the vice president how she might deal with disputes about the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, saying, “Have you thought about how you might handle a certification that did not reflect the outcome of the popular vote in the state?”
“I haven’t gotten to that point yet,” Harris told him.
“I have to believe that the United States Congress and all the people who have taken an oath to defend our democracy will ensure and will stand up against anyone who tries to destroy or circumvent the rules and the practices and procedures that we’ve had in place that have allowed a peaceful transfer of power since the inception of our nation and the founding of our nation,” she said.
Todd also broached the topic of a potential prosecution of former President Trump, who is currently facing multiple investigations, to which Harris responded that she “wouldn’t dare tell the Department of Justice what to do.”
Harris appeared to push back against the argument, raised by Todd, that it would be “too divisive for the country to prosecute a former president,” however.
She said that “the unthinkable has happened” before in U.S. history in situations “where there has been a call for justice, and justice has been served.”
“And I think that’s potentially going to always be the case in our country that people are going to demand justice and they rightly do,” she said. | 2022-09-12T23:54:23+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/harris-on-voting-rights-everything-is-on-the-line-in-these-elections-in-just-less-than-two-months/ |
Board increases quarterly common dividend by 5.7 percent to $0.92
SAN ANTONIO, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE:CFR) today reported second quarter 2023 results. Net income available to common shareholders for the second quarter of 2023 was $160.4 million compared to $117.4 million in the second quarter of 2022. On a per-share basis, net income available to common shareholders for the second quarter of 2023 was $2.47 per diluted common share, compared to $1.81 per diluted common share reported a year earlier, representing a 36.5 percent increase. Returns on average assets and average common equity were 1.30 percent and 19.36 percent, respectively, for the second quarter of 2023 compared to 0.92 percent and 13.88 percent, respectively, for the same period a year earlier.
For the second quarter of 2023, net interest income on a taxable-equivalent basis was $408.6 million, up 31.2 percent compared to the same quarter in 2022. Average loans for the second quarter of 2023 increased $1.0 billion, or 5.9 percent, to $17.7 billion, from the $16.7 billion reported for the second quarter a year earlier. Excluding PPP loans, second quarter average loans of $17.6 billion represented a 6.7 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2022 and a 2.0 percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2023. Average deposits for the second quarter were $41.0 billion, down $3.7 billion, or 8.3 percent, compared to the $44.7 billion reported for last year's second quarter, and down $1.8 billion, or 4.1 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2023. Average deposits during the second quarter continued to be impacted by the higher interest rate environment, as we saw a continuation of the declining trend in non-interest bearing deposit balances that began in the fourth quarter of 2022. Average non-interest bearing deposits were down $1.4 billion, or 8.4 percent, from the first quarter. Average interest-bearing deposits were down $345 million, or 1.3 percent, from the first quarter.
"We were pleased with the earnings growth we experienced during the quarter, and I'm proud of our great staff living our culture of going above and beyond for our customers," said Cullen/Frost Chairman and CEO Phil Green. "We also were excited to announce our decision to double our presence in the Austin region, the third largest deposit market in Texas. We expect to complete this move by 2026. This effort aligns with our successful expansions in the dynamic Houston and Dallas markets and complements our organic growth strategy which has resulted in record levels of customer acquisition."
Noted financial data for the second quarter of 2023 follows:
- The Common Equity Tier 1, Tier 1 and Total Risk-Based Capital Ratios at the end of the second quarter of 2023 were 13.42 percent, 13.92 percent and 15.39 percent, respectively, and continue to be in excess of well-capitalized levels and exceed Basel III minimum requirements.
- Net interest income on a taxable-equivalent basis was $408.6 million for the second quarter of 2023, an increase of 31.2 percent, compared to the prior year period. Net interest margin was 3.45 percent for the second quarter compared to 3.47 percent for the first quarter of 2023 and compared to 2.56 percent for the second quarter of 2022.
- Non-interest income for the second quarter of 2023 totaled $103.5 million, an increase of $5.6 million, or 5.7 percent, from the $97.9 million reported for the second quarter of 2022. Other charges, commissions and fees increased $2.2 million, or 22.3 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase was mainly driven by an increase in capital markets advisory fees (up $648,000), other service charges (up $641,000), and income from the placement of money market accounts (up $472,000), among other things. Trust and investment management fees increased $1.6 million, or 4.3 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase was primarily due to increases in real estate fees (up $1.0 million), estate fees (up $821,000) and investment management fees (up $580,000) partly offset by a decrease in oil and gas fees (down $1.0 million). Insurance commissions and fees increased $1.2 million, or 9.9 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase during the second quarter of 2023 was mainly driven by an increase in commission income (up $1.3 million) partly offset by a decrease in contingent income (down $133,000).
- Non-interest expense was $285.0 million for the second quarter of 2023, up $38.7 million, or 15.7 percent, compared to the $246.3 million reported for the second quarter a year earlier. Salaries and wages expense increased $16.3 million, or 14.0 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase in salaries and wages was primarily related to an increase in salaries, due to annual merit and market increases, and an increase in the number of employees. The increase in the number of employees was partly related to our investments in organic expansion in the Houston and Dallas markets, and also to the gradual rollout of our mortgage loan product offering. Employee benefits expense increased by $6.1 million, or 29.2 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase in employee benefits expense was related to increases in 401(k) plan expense, payroll taxes and medical benefits expense, among other things. Other non-interest expense increased $7.4 million, or 16.0 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase during the second quarter of 2023 included increases in advertising/promotions expense (up $2.9 million); professional services expense (up $2.8 million), which was primarily related to information technology services; and travel, meals and entertainment expense (up $956,000), among other things.
- For the second quarter of 2023, the company reported a credit loss expense of $9.9 million, and reported net charge-offs of $9.8 million. This compares to a credit loss expense of $9.1 million and net charge-offs of $8.8 million for the first quarter of 2023 and no credit loss expense and net charge-offs of $2.8 million for the second quarter of 2022. The allowance for credit losses on loans as a percentage of total loans was 1.32 percent at June 30, 2023, compared to 1.32 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2023 and 1.43 percent at the end of the second quarter of 2022. Non-accrual loans were $67.8 million at the end of the second quarter of 2023, compared to $38.4 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023 and $35.1 million at the end of the second quarter of 2022.
The Cullen/Frost board declared a third-quarter cash dividend of $0.92 per common share. The dividend on common stock is payable September 15, 2023 to shareholders of record on August 31 of this year. The board of directors also declared a cash dividend of $11.125 per share of Series B Preferred Stock (or $0.278125 per depositary share). The depositary shares representing the Series B Preferred Stock are traded on the NYSE under the symbol "CFR PrB." The Series B Preferred Stock dividend is payable September 15, 2023 to shareholders of record on August 31 of this year.
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. will host a conference call on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 1 p.m. Central Time (CT) to discuss the results for the quarter. The media and other interested parties are invited to access the call in a "listen only" mode at 1-877-709-8150 or via webcast on our investor relations website linked below. Playback of the conference call will be available after 5 p.m. CT on the day of the call until midnight Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 1-877-660-6853 with Conference ID # of 13739639. A replay of the call will also be available by webcast at the URL listed below after 5 p.m. CT on the day of the call.
Cullen/Frost investor relations website: https://investor.frostbank.com/
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR) is a financial holding company, headquartered in San Antonio, with $48.6 billion in assets at June 30, 2023. Frost provides a wide range of banking, investments and insurance services to businesses and individuals across Texas in the Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Permian Basin, Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio regions. Founded in 1868, Frost has helped clients with their financial needs during three centuries. Additional information is available at www.frostbank.com.
Forward-Looking Statements and Factors that Could Affect Future Results
Certain statements contained in this Earnings Release that are not statements of historical fact constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act"), notwithstanding that such statements are not specifically identified as such. In addition, certain statements may be contained in our future filings with the SEC, in press releases, and in oral and written statements made by us or with our approval that are not statements of historical fact and constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Act. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) projections of revenues, expenses, income or loss, earnings or loss per share, the payment or nonpayment of dividends, capital structure and other financial items; (ii) statements of plans, objectives and expectations of Cullen/Frost or its management or Board of Directors, including those relating to products, services or operations; (iii) statements of future economic performance; and (iv) statements of assumptions underlying such statements. Words such as "believes", "anticipates", "expects", "intends", "targeted", "continue", "remain", "will", "should", "may" and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:
- The effects of and changes in trade and monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including the interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve Board.
- Inflation, interest rate, securities market and monetary fluctuations.
- Local, regional, national and international economic conditions and the impact they may have on us and our customers and our assessment of that impact.
- Changes in the financial performance and/or condition of our borrowers.
- Changes in the mix of loan geographies, sectors and types or the level of non-performing assets and charge-offs.
- Changes in estimates of future credit loss reserve requirements based upon the periodic review thereof under relevant regulatory and accounting requirements.
- Changes in our liquidity position.
- Impairment of our goodwill or other intangible assets.
- The timely development and acceptance of new products and services and perceived overall value of these products and services by users.
- Changes in consumer spending, borrowing and saving habits.
- Greater than expected costs or difficulties related to the integration of new products and lines of business.
- Technological changes.
- The cost and effects of cyber incidents or other failures, interruptions or security breaches of our systems or those of our customers or third-party providers.
- Acquisitions and integration of acquired businesses.
- Changes in the reliability of our vendors, internal control systems or information systems.
- Our ability to increase market share and control expenses.
- Our ability to attract and retain qualified employees.
- Changes in our organization, compensation and benefit plans.
- The soundness of other financial institutions.
- Volatility and disruption in national and international financial and commodity markets.
- Changes in the competitive environment in our markets and among banking organizations and other financial service providers.
- Government intervention in the U.S. financial system.
- Political or economic instability.
- Acts of God or of war or terrorism.
- The potential impact of climate change.
- The impact of pandemics, epidemics or any other health-related crisis.
- The costs and effects of legal and regulatory developments, the resolution of legal proceedings or regulatory or other governmental inquiries, the results of regulatory examinations or reviews and the ability to obtain required regulatory approvals.
- The effect of changes in laws and regulations (including laws and regulations concerning taxes, banking, securities and insurance) and their application with which we and our subsidiaries must comply.
- The effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted by the regulatory agencies, as well as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and other accounting standard setters.
- Our success at managing the risks involved in the foregoing items.
In addition, financial markets and global supply chains may continue to be adversely affected by the current or anticipated impact of military conflict, including the current Russian invasion of Ukraine or other geopolitical events.
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The first major abortion-related ballot initiative since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade has failed in Kansas. The amendment would have greatly tightened abortion laws in the state.
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The first major abortion-related ballot initiative since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade has failed in Kansas. The amendment would have greatly tightened abortion laws in the state.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-03T10:47:51+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2022-08-03/kansans-vote-to-keep-abortion-legal-in-the-state-reject-constitutional-amendment |
BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting the risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence.
A meeting headed by party leader and President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged “dedicated efforts to safeguard political security and improve the security governance of internet data and artificial intelligence,” the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Xi, who is China’s head of state, commander of the military and chair of the party’s National Security Commission, called at the meeting for “staying keenly aware of the complicated and challenging circumstances facing national security.”
China needs a “new pattern of development with a new security architecture,” Xinhua reported Xi as saying.
China already dedicates vast resources to suppressing any perceived political threats to the party’s dominance, with spending on the police and security personnel exceeding that devoted to the military.
While it relentlessly censors in-person protests and online criticism, citizens have continued to express dissatisfaction with policies, most recently the draconian lockdown measures enacted to combat the spread of COVID-19.
China has been cracking down on its tech sector in an effort to reassert party control, but like other countries it is scrambling to find ways to regulate the developing technology.
Worries about artificial intelligence systems outsmarting humans and slipping out of control have intensified with the rise of a new generation of highly capable AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.
Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement said.
More than 1,000 researchers and technologists, including Elon Musk, who is currently on a visit to China, had signed a much longer letter earlier this year calling for a six-month pause on AI development.
The missive said AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity,” and some involved in the topic have proposed a United Nations treaty to regulate the technology. | 2023-05-31T06:40:21+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/china-warns-of-artificial-intelligence-risks-calls-for-beefed-up-national-security-measures/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
Why is the air quality in Phoenix bad? Your questions about air quality answered.
Phoenix air quality may be as bad as you think.
Have you ever looked outside and wondered why the air appears gray or hazy? Or wondered how fresh the air is on a sunny day with clear skies? By measuring air quality, we can determine how clean or polluted the sky is.
Here is everything you need to know about navigating Phoenix's air quality.
How do I check the air quality in Phoenix?
There are a few ways to check Phoenix's air quality that are simple and easy. You don't have to look at a full index if you don't want to.
- Use the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality's hourly air forecast for Phoenix (ADEQ).
- Use the weather app on your iPhone. Go to your city and scroll down on the weather page. There will be an air quality section that tells you the air quality number and describes the quality of the air to you. If you have an android you can go to the clock app, click on Phoenix, click Phoenix on the map and it will take you to a website that shows you the AQI.
- Check AccuWeather for a report on the daily air quality in Phoenix.
What is an air quality index?
The air quality index (AQI) reports air quality on a daily basis. It is a tool that helps measures how clean or polluted the air around you is and if there are any associated health effects in your area that might be a concern for you.
Is there a Phoenix air quality map?
There are multiple maps that will show you a visual representation of the air quality in Phoenix.
Here is a map that shows the air quality for multiple places around the Phoenix area. A real-time map is also embedded below:
Air Quality Index - Today's Forecast
Where does Phoenix rank in terms of air quality?
According to the American Lung Association's 2023 State of the Air study, Phoenix ranks fifth worst in the country for ozone, seventh worst for year-round particle pollution and 13th worst for short term particle pollution.
Despite this, Phoenix is seeing fewer unhealthy days with room for improvement according to an article written by the Arizona Republic.
In depth:Phoenix ranks 5th in ozone pollution, but a new report finds fewer bad air days overall
You can find the air quality index for the country, your state and your city in these different maps and sites.
How do I read the air quality index?
AQI's are color coded. They're based off of six main pollutants: sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ground-level ozone and particulate pollution (dust and smoke).
Depending on the amount of pollutant in the air, an area will be assigned a number from 0-500 along with a specific color corresponding to a level of health concern.
- Good air quality is symbolized by the color green (0-50).
- Moderate air quality is symbolized by the color yellow (51-100).
- Unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups is symbolized by the color orange (101-150).
- Unhealthy air quality is symbolized by the color red (151-200).
- Very unhealthy air quality is symbolized by the color purple (201-300).
- Hazardous air quality is symbolized by the color dark red (301-500).
Why does Phoenix have air quality issues?
Phoenix ranked as one of the worst cities for air pollution in 2020 according to the American Lung Association's State of the Air report. Phoenix city ranked seventh for year-round particle pollution and 10th for short-term particle pollution.
Phoenix did not manage to have cleaner air during COVID-19. Phoenix sustained poor ozone despite a reduction in emissions.
Your questions, answered:Tell us how The Republic can help you
What is a high pollution advisory?
A High Pollution Advisory (HPA) in Arizona is an order issued by the ADEQ when there is a high probability that pollution for ozone or particle matter levels will exceed the federal health standard.
The advisories encourage people to limit activities that cause air pollution. Some activities may be illegal, such as: burning outdoor fires, residential wood burning, the use of an off-highway vehicle and the use of a leaf blower, according to ADEQ.
An ongoing report from the ADEQ shows that ozone this year is significantly above the average ozone threshold. There have been 86 good days, 83 moderate days and 37 days exceeding the threshold.
Can air pollution affect my health?
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), air pollution affects everyone’s health, but certain groups like children and older adults, may be affected more.
The NIEHS said the following are public health concerns based on air pollution:
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease
- Respiratory diseases
- Diabetes mellitus
- Obesity
- Reproductive, neurological and immune system disorders.
Is there anything being done about Phoenix air pollution?
The city of Phoenix said they are implementing air quality programs to help reduce ozone and particulate pollution. These programs include transit, light rail, bikeways and pedestrian friendly developments that reduce vehicle emissions. They also intend to promote land use planning and more sustainable urban designs.
"By 2050, Phoenix will achieve a level of air quality that is healthy for humans and the natural environment," the city of Phoenix wrote in an article. "This includes outperforming all federal standards and achieving a visibility index of good or excellent on 90% of days or more.
Is there anything I can do about Phoenix air pollution?
According to the World Health Organization there are ten things you can do in order to fight against air pollution.
- Don't drive during rush hour.
- Drive an electric vehicle.
- Walk when you can.
- Compost.
- Recycle.
- Don't burn waste.
- Use renewable energy in your home.
- Use clean energy to cook.
- Turn off lights and electronics not in use.
- Check daily air pollution levels. | 2023-07-27T00:19:59+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2023/07/26/what-to-know-phoenix-air-quality-health/70470739007/ |
(The Hill) – Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered his troops to stop their advance to Moscow on Saturday, a day after he committed to overthrowing the Russian military leadership.
“We [are] turning our columns around and going back in the other direction toward our field camps, in accordance with the plan,” Prigozhin said in a message on Telegram.
The government of Belarus assisted in negotiating a settlement between Prigozhin and the Russian government, a statement from Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed.
Prigozhin said his troops will now return to their bases in order to “avoid shedding Russian blood.”
Moscow was prepared for the arrival of Wagner’s army, however, setting up checkpoints with armored vehicles and troops, according to the Associated Press. The Red Square was also closed down and the mayor issued a declaration to stay off certain roads, AP reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Prigozhin of starting an “armed mutiny” by turning against Russian military leadership. On Friday, Prigozhin was charged with treason for his actions.
Late Friday, Wagner forces captured a regional military command center in Rostov, in southern Russia. They began a column march north towards Moscow and reached at least as far as Lipetsk, 120 miles from the capital, according to CNN reports.
Putin also called the rebellion a “betrayal” and “treason,” AP reported.
“All those who prepared the rebellion will suffer inevitable punishment,” the Russian president said. “The armed forces and other government agencies have received the necessary orders.” | 2023-06-24T21:33:27+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/wagner-chief-says-hes-ordered-forces-to-cease-advance-toward-moscow-to-avoid-bloodshed/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-6-7, FIREBALL: 8
(six, six, seven; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-6-7, FIREBALL: 8
(six, six, seven; FIREBALL: eight) | 2022-08-24T18:19:14+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17395380.php |
Rob Gronkowski will be back on a football field for the Super Bowl.
The four-time All-Pro tight end will attempt to make a field goal in Arizona on Feb. 12 during a live Super Bowl television commercial for FanDuel.
It will be a high-stakes kick for Gronkowski, a four-time Super Bowl champion with New England and Tampa Bay who is used to performing under pressure.
Anyone who places a Super Bowl bet of $5 or more on FanDuel will win a share of $10 million in free bets if Gronkowski makes the field goal.
”Everyone knows that I love throwing myself into fun, love trying out new ideas,” Gronkowski told The Associated Press. ”Obviously, I can catch a football. … Why not try to kick a field goal? And on top of it, I was punt, pass and kick champion in the western New York region when I was growing up, as well. So I love kicking field goals. I used to practice all the time. This is an opportunity to help my fans out there to win $10 million in free bets, which is mind-blowing.”
Gronkowski said he made one field goal in his career, a 33-yarder in high school. FanDuel is introducing the ad campaign titled ”Kick of Destiny” with a 30-second spot on Monday.
”Our first-ever Super Bowl commercial will be more than just a television spot – it will create a moment that will bring fans together, and give them something to collectively cheer for,” said Andrew Sneyd, FanDuel’s executive vice president of marketing. ”It’s an unprecedented field-goal attempt on live TV. … so anything can happen.”
Gronkowski already is practicing his kicking with three-time All-Pro Adam Vinatieri, whose 599 career field goals are most in NFL history.
”I’m not at the top of my game right now, but I actually have two training sessions coming up this week,” Gronkowski said. ”I believe if you put your mind to anything, you can do anything. And I don’t want to disappoint America. … I’m going to have to train, but I feel like I’m going to be able to pull it off. It’s like fourth-and-1, game on the line. I like that pressure. I like the ball coming to me. And this is the same situation with the field goal.”
Gronkowski had 621 catches for 9,286 yards and 92 touchdowns in the regular season in nine seasons with New England and two with Tampa Bay. He had 98 receptions for 1,389 yards and 15 TDs in the postseason.
The 33-year-old Gronkowski first retired after the 2018 season, but he returned to play with Tom Brady in Tampa Bay in 2020. The close friends led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title that season. Gronkowski said he thought about returning a couple times this season but couldn’t make the commitment to play again. The Buccaneers (8-9) won the NFC South for the second straight year, but Brady and the offense sorely miss Gronkowski.
”Obviously, football is in my heart. I love playing the game. I thought about it a few times, actually,” Gronkowski said. ”I wasn’t really close. In order for me to go back to football, my whole mindset, everything would have to be flipped knowing like that is what I’m going to do.”
Gronkowski, who is working as an analyst with Fox, didn’t rule out returning next season.
”Anything’s possible but right now, not really thinking about that, but just doing some other things, enjoying doing other things and having a good time with everything,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The first surprise, for the Finnish conscripts and officers taking part in a NATO-hosted military exercise in the Arctic this spring: the sudden roar of a U.S. Marine helicopter assault force, touching down in a field right next to the Finns’ well-hidden command post.
The second surprise: Spilling out of their field headquarters, the Finnish Signal Corps communications workers and others inside routed the U.S. Marines — the Finns’ designated adversary in the NATO exercise and members of America’s professional and premier expeditionary force — in the mock firefight that followed.
Finnish camouflage for the Arctic snow, scrub and scree likely had kept the Americans from even realizing the command post was there when they landed, Finnish commander Lt. Col. Mikko Kuoka suspected. “For those who years from now will doubt it,” Kuoka, modestly stunned by the outcome of the random skirmish, wrote in an infantry-focused blog recording the outcome, of an episode he later confirmed for The Associated Press. “That actually happened.”
As the exercise made clear, NATO’s addition of Finland and Sweden — what President Joe Biden calls “our allies of the high north” — would bring military and territorial advantages to the Western defense alliance. That’s especially so as the rapid melting of the Arctic from climate change awakens strategic rivalries at the top of the world.
In contrast to the NATO expansion of former Soviet states that needed big boosts in the decades after the Cold War, the alliance would be bringing in two sophisticated militaries and, in Finland’s case, a country with a remarkable tradition of national defense. Both Finland and Sweden are in a region on one of Europe’s front lines and meeting places with Russia.
Finland, defending against Soviet Russia’s invasion on the eve of World War II, relied on fighters on snowshoes and skis, expert snow and forest camouflage, and reindeers transporting weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, along with his pointed reminder about the Kremlin’s nuclear arsenal and his repeated invocation of broad territorial claims stemming from the days of the Russian Empire, have galvanized current NATO nations into strengthening their collective defenses and bringing on board new members.
Finland — until 1917 a grand duchy in that empire — and Sweden abandoned longtime national policies of military nonalignment. They applied to come under NATO’s nuclear and conventional umbrella and join what is now 30 other member states in a powerful mutual defense pact, stipulating that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
Putin justified his invasion of West-looking Ukraine as pushing back against NATO and the West as, he said, they encroached ever closer on Russia. A NATO that includes Finland and Sweden would come as an ultimate rebuke for Putin’s war, empowering the defensive alliance in a strategically important region, surrounding Russia in the Baltic Sea and Arctic Ocean, and crowding NATO up against Russia’s western border for more than 800 additional miles (1,300 kilometers).
“I spent four years, my term, trying to persuade Sweden and Finland to join NATO,” former NATO secretary-general Lord George Robertson said this summer. “Vladimir Putin managed it in four weeks.”
Biden has been part of bipartisan U.S. and international cheerleading for the two countries’ candidacies. Reservations expressed by Turkey and Hungary keep NATO approval from being a lock.
Russia in recent years has been “rearming up in the north, with advanced nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles and multiple bases,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this month. “Russia’s threats, and Russia’s military build-up, mean that NATO is strengthening its presence in the north.’
Finland and Sweden would bring a lot to that mix. But they’re not without flaws.
Both countries downsized their militaries, cut defense funding and closed bases after the collapse of the Soviet Union lulled Cold War-era fears. As of just five years ago, Sweden’s entire tiny national defense force could fit into one of of Stockholm’s soccer stadiums, a critic noted.
But as Putin grew more confrontational, Sweden reinstated conscription and otherwise moved to rebuild its military. Sweden has a capable navy and a high-tech air force. Like Finland, Sweden has a valued homegrown defense industry; Sweden is one of the smallest countries in the world to build its own fighter jets.
Finland’s defense force, meanwhile, is the stuff of legend.
In 1939 and 1940, Finland’s tiny, miserably equipped forces, fighting alone in what became known as the Winter War, made the nation one of few to survive a full-on assault by the Soviet Union with independence intact. Over the course of an exceptionally, deathly cold winter, Finnish fighters, sometimes cloaked in white bedsheets for camouflage and typically moving unseen on foot, snowshoes and skis, lost some territory to Russia but forced out the invaders.
Finns were responsible for up to 200,000 fatalities among invading forces versus an estimated 25,000 Finns lost, recounted Iskander Rehman, a fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs..
It helped fuel a Finnish national credo of “sisu,” or grit. Finnish Winter War veterans were recruited for the U.S. Army’s winter warfare training, Rehman noted.
Finland’s constitution makes rallying to the national defense an obligation of every citizen. Finland says it can muster a 280,000-strong fighting force, built on near-universal male conscription and a large, well-trained reserve, equipped with modern artillery, warplanes and tanks, much of it U.S.
The U.S. and NATO are likely to increase their presence around the Baltic and Arctic with the accession of the two Scandinavian countries.
“Just looking at the map, if you add in Finland and Sweden, you essentially turn the entire Baltic Sea into a NATO lake,” with just two smaller bits of Russia lining it, said Zachary Selden, a former director of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s defense and security committee who is now a national security expert at the University of Florida.
Likewise, Russia will become the only non-NATO member among countries with claims to Arctic territory, and the only non-NATO member of the Atlantic Council, an eight-member international forum created for Arctic issues.
Selden predicts a greater NATO presence in the Baltics as a result, perhaps with a new NATO regional command, along with U.S. military rotations, although likely not any permanent base.
Russia sees its military presence in the Arctic as vital to its European strategy, including ballistic missile submarines that give it second-strike capability in any conflict with NATO, analysts say.
The Arctic is warming much faster under climate change than the Earth as a whole, opening up competition for Arctic resources and access as Arctic ice vanishes.
Russia has been building its fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers, aiming to escort expected future commercial shipping traffic through the melting Arctic, “as a way to create this toll road for transit,’ said Sherri Goodman, a former U.S. first deputy undersecretary of defense, now at the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and at the Center for Climate & Security.
Goodman points to future threats NATO will need to be able to deal with as the melting Arctic opens up, such as the kind of shadowy, unofficial forces Russia has used in Crimea and in Africa and elsewhere, and the increased risk of a hard-to-handle Russian nuclear maritime accident.
NATO strategy increasingly will incorporate the strategic advantage Finland and Sweden would bring to such scenarios, analysts said.
Kuoka’s U.S. counterpart in NATO’s Arctic exercise this spring, Marine Lt. Col. Ryan Gordinier wrote in an email provided through Marine spokespeople that he and his Marines were “impressed” by the Finnish infantry’s ability to reach otherwise unreachable positions by foot, snowshoe and ski, and to move undetected over snow.
It “made us pause” — and likely would any real adversary as well, Gordinier wrote.
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Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Lorne Cook in Brussels, Karl Ritter in Stockholm and Jari Tanner in Helsinki contributed to this report | 2022-08-20T19:34:37+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/finland-sweden-offer-nato-an-edge-as-rivalry-warms-up-north/ |
With a dog on one side and a drone on the other, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. handed Harvard Fire Department firefighter and drone operator Robert Curran the District Attorney’s Team Excellence and Merit, or TEAM, Award on Monday for helping a Devens family reunite with their beloved pup Toro.
Curran met with the Hsu family once again, with Toro alongside, to receive the award from Early outside the Harvard fire station.
“It is just one of those things that as a firefighter and as a dog owner, I can relate to people desperately looking for their dog,” Curran said.
Early praised first responders for showing “their care and commitment” to finding different ways in which they can help the neighborhoods and communities they serve.
“He used his knowledge of drones, a skill he uses for the town, and decided to act with his personal drone for one reason, to help someone in need,” Early said. “It is the hallmark of first responders.”
On Dec. 17, 2022, Karen Hsu took the family’s Shiba Inu on a walk around her neighborhood with the dog ran off. For the next 24 hours, they searched and searched with no luck in finding Toro. When Curran heard what happened, messaged Karen’s daughter Vicky and said he would use his personal drone to search for Toro.
Vicky and Karen gave Curren the location where they last saw Toro, near the Fort Devens Museum. Curran’s drone used thermal imaging before he focused on a white spot with fur and a red collar.
“There he was,” Curran said Monday.
With his leash stuck in some brush, Curran called the family and they picked up Toro together. Vicky said she was shocked and so grateful for Curran reaching out to help find their beloved dog.
“I honestly don’t think we would have found Toro without Robert,” she said. “Toro is part of the family. It could have easily been a worst-case scenario of never finding him. Without Robert, we wouldn’t be here today.”
Family member Matt Detora praised Curran and the drone, and added that the family was making posters the day after Toro went missing before the firefighter called the family with good news. Finding Toro put what looked like an “endless, unsuccessful search to rest,” Detora said.
“I want to thank my wife, who puts up with me running out the door when a fire calls or looking for lost dogs at a moment’s notice, interrupting many a dinners and many family activities,” Curran quipped.
Curran also thanked the Harvard community for supporting everything the department does with finding new ways to help people in an emergency.
“It’s a new technology, it’s a new tool for us and it’s great to be in a community that allows us to expand our ability to serve and protect our community,” Curran said. “I should probably point out – I want to thank the neighbors right around me that are probably used to drones going up at all hours while I practice my skills. They put up with a lot of buzzing in their ears.”
Finally, Early provided Toro with a stuffed bone with the Worcester County District Attorney’s seal on one side. Ever excited, Toro left a bit of white stuffing sticking out by the conclusion of Monday’s ceremony. | 2023-03-27T22:36:41+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/03/finding-toro-how-a-firefighter-with-a-drone-reunited-a-family-with-its-dog.html |
It's not just Cardi B. Chief executives of some of the country's top companies are also getting really worried about the economy.
The warnings that a recession is coming – including from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon – reflect the deep uncertainty being felt in the country's executive offices as inflation hits its highest annual rate in over 40 years.
The Federal Reserve kicks off its two-day meeting on Tuesday. Most analysts had expected the central bank to raise interest rates by half a percentage point for a second consecutive month, but a stronger-than-expected inflation report last week has markets believing an even bigger move could be coming.
And the central bank is almost certain to continue raising interest rates pretty aggressively in coming months as inflation continues to soar.
The Fed is in the middle of a delicate dance that could end in big economic pain.
The central bank hopes to slow down the U.S. economy just enough to curb inflation without sparking a major economic slowdown.
But that's often easier said than done. As the cost of borrowing rises across the board for anything from mortgages to bank loans, companies could respond by cutting costs or staff, while people could start paring their spending.
Dimon, who heads one of the world's largest banks, said he sees an economic "hurricane" on the horizon.
"Everyone thinks the Fed can handle this," he said, during a recent investment conference.
"That hurricane is right out there, down the road, coming our way. We just don't know if it is a minor one, or Superstorm Sandy, or Andrew, or something like that. And you better brace yourself."
Musk is also concerned.
He announced plans to cut the number of salaried workers at Tesla by 10% after reportedly saying in an internal email this month that he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy.
Even Cardi B is worried
Musk and Dimon are not the only CEOs to get worried.
Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf says there is "no question" the U.S. economy is headed for a downturn.
"I think it's going to be hard to avoid, you know, some kind of recession, just given the magnitude of the slowing that has to take place," he told a conference last month.
And it's not just CEOs.
Rapper Cardi B made waves this month by seeming to express her own concerns with the economy in a tweet.
"When y'all think they going to announce that we going into a recession?" the artist tweeted.
When y’all think they going to announce that we going into a recession?
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) June 5, 2022
Not all CEOs are worried, however
Not all chief executives are so pessimistic.
Though inflation remains a big concern, Americans are still spending money on vacations and meals out, and the labor market is strong.
The unemployment rate has dropped to 3.6%, according to the latest available government data, near where it was before the start of the pandemic.
A survey of business economists last month showed only about one in four economists anticipates a recession within next year, although that was before the latest inflation report showing stronger-than-expected price gains.
Airline executives say demand for travel has been strong they are having a difficult time keeping up, and they are optimistic about their futures, even with fuel costs surging as a result of higher energy prices.
"You know, we were in this long, dark tunnel, going through COVID," United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said in a TV interview last month. "We are out of the tunnel. You know, even with fuel prices up $10 billion year over year, we are going to be almost to 2019 profitability levels."
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is also in the glass half-full camp.
"You know, we get a pretty live pulse of what's happening on the streets every day, in the cities in which we live," Khosrowshahi told a conference this month. "At this point, we don't see any signal of a recession coming."
But views could change if investors and consumers get spooked.
On Monday, the S&P 500 entered a bear market, when an index slumps more than 20% from its recent high, because of fears about inflation. United shares dropped 10%, while Uber shares lost 9%.
All this recession talk
All the recession talk is worrying some top executives.
Chuck Robbins, the CEO of Cisco, said he is worried the talk about a recession itself could be self-fulfilling.
"You know, I have this idea that we talk so much about about a recession we may actually create one on our own," Robbins told CNBC in late May.
After all, fears about a recession could cause CEOs to preemptively hire less or even reduce staff, while people could respond by cutting spending.
President Biden and his administration are trying hard to signal more confidence in the economy, as they seek to address the growing worries.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen herself had heard about Cardi B's recent tweet.
"I don't have that much time for her, but I am alive," Yellen said when asked at a conference if she knew who Cardi B was.
Then, on a more serious note, Yellen played down the concerns about the economy, touting the strong consumer spending among some of the positive trends.
"We have a very strong economy," Yellen said. "I know people are very upset and rightly so about inflation, but there's nothing to suggest that a recession is in the works."
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGIA AFFINITY received recognition in numerous marketing categories including Lead Generation, Guaranteed Issue Solicitation, Conservation and Retention, Customer Cross-Sell and Upgrade Marketing and Self Promotion/Branding/Awareness. The Professional Insurance Marketing Association (PIMA) Insight Awards recognize outstanding achievement in marketing and are distributed on an annual basis.
AGIA entered submissions in five out of six categories and ran the table by receiving recognition in all categories entered. The success in garnering these awards across a diverse set of categories is reflective of AGIA's expertise and discipline in multiple marketing channels. All of the winning submissions represent digital, direct mail and/or omni-channel campaigns, and the results reinforce a broadening of the mix of marketing approaches that generate successful outcomes.
AGIA, which serves as the insurance and member benefits marketing and administration partner to over 100 affinity organizations nationwide, was recognized with two Gold awards in the categories of Conservation and Retention, and Self Promotion, Branding and Awareness.
In addition, AGIA won three Silver awards in the categories of Lead Generation, Solicitation for Guaranteed-Issue Product and Customer Cross-sell and Upgrade Marketing.
"The recognition received at the PIMA Marketing Methods competition was impressive and contributes so impactfully to our client and member programs," says J. Christopher Burke, President and CEO of AGIA Affinity.
For more than 60 years, AGIA Affinity has served as the insurance and member benefits marketing and administration partner to some of the larges and most iconic associations and organizations in the country. Working closely with discipline, science, and creativity, we craft affinity benefits programs that help members protect what they value most. For more information, please visit www.agia.com.
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NAIROBI – Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region alleged Wednesday that Ethiopia’s military launched a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year, which would be a significant setback to mediation efforts and humanitarian work to feed millions of people starved of food and other necessities.
The claim by Tigray’s military command after months of military regrouping and a warning this week by Ethiopia’s military against any reporting of troop movements in media and on social media.
The Tigray conflict erupted in November 2020, killing thousands of people, and calmed in recent months amid slow-moving mediation efforts. But last week, the spokeswoman for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asserted to journalists that Tigray authorities were “refusing to accept peace talks.”
The Tigray military command's statement Wednesday said: “Ethiopian forces, along with Amhara special forces and Amhara militias, have started a large-scale attack around 5:00 a.m. in the direction of Alamata, southern Tigray.”
Tigray forces spokesman Getachew Reda tweeted that the offensive followed a “week-long provocation” by forces in the neighboring Amhara region.
Ethiopian military spokesman Getnet Adane did not respond to questions. In a tweet, Ethiopia's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates alleged it was the Tigray forces that launched an offensive.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, Ethiopia's army rejected allegations of a military buildup or attacks and claimed the Tigray forces were “engaged in pre-conflict noise.” The post warned against spreading “secrets of the army.”
Ethiopia’s government has said it’s ready for talks but insists the African Union must lead mediation efforts. Tigray authorities have criticized the continental body's efforts and urgently sought the resumption of basic services that have been largely cut off since the war began.
Humanitarian aid began flowing to Tigray in recent months, but a new report by the World Food Program last week said that with little fuel allowed into the region, “this is yet to translate into increased humanitarian assistance.” The U.N. agency's report said the region's “rates of malnutrition have skyrocketed,” with 29% of children malnourished and 2.4 million people severely food insecure. | 2022-08-24T10:11:01+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/24/tigray-forces-allege-large-scale-ethiopia-offensive/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Major League Baseball is heading south of the border again to play a regular season series. After previous stops in Monterrey, Mexico City will be the host this time, and the timing seems perfect.
The San Diego Padres will play against the San Francisco Giants next weekend at the Alfredo Harp Helu (AHH) Stadium in the country’s capital, where fans are eager to watch more baseball after Mexico’s deep run at the World Baseball Classic.
Bolstered by Cuban defector Randy Arozarena and Mexican-born big leaguers like Julio Urías and Jose Urquidy, Mexico made it to the semifinals before losing to eventual champion Japan. The journey included a stunning victory over the United States in Phoenix with tens of thousands of Team Mexico fans on hand.
“Those two weeks of the World Baseball Classic are probably the ones where everybody was talking about baseball across the country more than ever before,” said Horacio De la Vega, the president of the Mexican Baseball League.
“Clearly that outcome of the tournament is giving us a boost, we have packed stadiums in preseason games, while in the past we used to have them at 10-20% capacity,” added De la Vega in an interview with The Associated Press. “We have an unprecedented appetite for baseball.”
That interest in baseball was evident in the preseason but also last weekend when Liga Mexicana de Beisbol played the first series of the regular season.
In the capital, fans flooded the gates of AHH Stadium for a three-day series featuring the local Diablos Rojos del México playing against the Tigres de Quintana Roo.
“I’ve been a Diablos Rojos fan my whole life, so this is not a new passion for me, but I´ve known a lot of people that have been asking me recently about the sport and that they want to come and see if for themselves,” said Ramiro Aguirre, a 35-year-old accountant who was at the stadium for the opening series.
The $150 million AHH stadium opened in March of 2019 and has a 20,000 seat capacity with six outdoor terraces and food courts alongside a trident spear-shaped roof made of steel.
The stadium was built on public land next to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez by Alfredo Harp Helu, a Mexican millionaire who is also a minority owner with the Padres.
Harp Helu, who also owns the Diablos Rojos, has a long-time desire to have a major league team in Mexico, but that idea might not happen anytime soon.
“I’ve never been close to the idea of Mexico as an expansion opportunity,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said earlier this week at an availability with sports editors in the U.S. “If you’re going to expand, you think about it. I think the challenges are facility based. Even the stadium that we’re playing in this weekend is probably not big enough for a permanent home for a major league club. And then our season is so long, I have a union issue there that would have to be bargained to get players to live for that long in Mexico.”
MLB still has big goals for Mexico, though. Manfred hopes it can become a sort of North American equivalent to Japan, with “vibrant, domestic professional play, with star players getting the opportunity to come and play Major League Baseball.”
Notably, Japan has strong MLB viewership, and Manfred would love for the league to generate revenue from Mexico in a similar fashion.
Local games are being broadcast this season by the three major networks in Mexico: Televisa, Tv Azteca and Imagen TV. Games are also available on ESPN, Fox Sports and Amazon Prime, among others. MLB games can be seen on Televisa, Imagen, ESPN and Fox Sports.
“We have three contracts for national networks that we did not have in 2022 and we are reaching 30 countries, something that never happened before,” said De la Vega, who added that Liga Mexicana de Beisbol has a streaming service to provide all the games and highlights for free.
“What we’ve done with the TV is nothing minor, we understood that the way to consume baseball has changed, everybody is on a cellphone now, and this help us to have a larger audience,” he added.
MLB established an office in Mexico in 2016 that, among other things, has been working to promote the sport with kids.
“Our goal is to keep having major league regular season games until 2026, and we want to keep widening the fan base, we want more young people as well as women,” Rodrigo Fernandez, director of the MLB office in Mexico, told The Associated Press.
Recently, Fernandez and MLB in Mexico organized an MLB Cup for boys 11-12 years old and for girls under 15.
Although Fernandez agrees that the World Baseball Classic helped increase the sport´s popularity in Mexico, he says the number of fans has been growing steadily over the past few years.
“A lot of Mexicans watched the team play in the World Baseball Classic and said ‘Wow, we are the third best team in the world’ and now they are looking and paying more attention to the sport, but that does not mean that we are just a trend or that all the things we’ve done in seven years did not have an effect,” Fernandez said.
Mexico first hosted MLB games in August 1996, when the Padres and Mexican ace Fernando Valenzuela faced the New York Mets in Monterrey. The Padres faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018, and in 2019, the Cincinnati Reds played the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros faced the Los Angeles Angels.
Mexico City was due to host a series between the Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2020, but it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Now MLB is finally coming back, and it may be the most anticipated series yet.
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Feb. 28, 1949—Sept. 17, 2022
Here are some facts about me. First the reason you are reading this, I passed away due to lung cancer having never smoked anything in my life.
Other things about me I am a Utah Jazz Fan from head to toe. (Win a lot of games for me this season.) I love Great Apes (especially baby Orangutans) and monkeys. I enjoy the squirrels and birds our yard attracts. I am also a great fan of Calvin & Hobbes.
I was born Feb. 28, 1949 in Kimberley, Nevada to Eugene and Florence (Gardner) Besswanger. You will never find the town on the map because it was buried under mine waste.
My first few months I was living in Sunnyside Ranches in Nevada. Shortly thereafter we moved to Current Creek, Nevada with my two older sisters Susan and Dana. We explored and made mud pies.
When I was five my parents divorced and our mom and us three moved to Lund, Nevada. The town my mom was born and raised in. In 1959 another move to Heyburn, Idaho. My mom needed work to raise up three girls. There I attended Heyburn Elementary and Heyburn Jr. High. Entered Minidoka County High (Minico) fall of 1963. Graduated in 1967.
My sister Dana was living in California at the time so in 1968 I moved to Oxnard, California. Worked for Semtech Corp until 1978. That year we found out my mom had colon cancer so we quit our jobs and moved to Utah and Idaho. My mom passed away July 25, 1979. Then we lived permanently in Utah. Marriage was not to be in either of our lives so we have remained old maids all our lives.
I was employed at Evans & Sutherland Electronics for 20 years and Lite Touch for awhile.
I am survived by my sister, Susan Draper of Heyburn, Idaho, sister, Dana of Millcreek, Utah, niece, Staci Marie Hoyt of Burley, Idaho, nephew, James Draper of Heyburn, Idaho, niece, Nicole Luna (Julio Luna) of Caldwell, Idaho special nephew-in-law their daughters, Ashley Luna of Vancouver British Columbia, Kirsten Luna of Boise, Idaho and Halle Luna of Boise, Idaho.
Funeral services for Jackie will be on Friday, September 23, 2022 at 11:00 am at Starks Funeral Parlor, 3651 South 900 East, Salt Lake City. A viewing will be one hour prior to the service. Guests are encouraged to park on the north side of the building. Please share your memories with her family at www.starksfuneral.com. | 2022-09-21T05:15:34+00:00 | magicvalley.com | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/jacquelyn-besswanger/article_4e3d9810-bb5d-5712-abcc-fc559721f211.html |
SHENZHEN, China, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CIMC Group (00039.SZ/2039.HK)'s 2022 annual general meeting, the first A-share class meeting in 2023 and the first H-share class meeting in 2023 were held in Shenzhen headquarters. Chairman and CEO Mai Boliang presided over the AGM, while other directors, supervisors, and senior executives of the Group participated and attended the meeting respectively.
During the meeting, it was revealed that container demand is gradually recovering in the second quarter of 2023, with freight rates and volumes stabilizing. Notably, the North American market has witnessed high profitability in road transport vehicles, while the gross profit margin of the domestic lighthouse factory business has increased. Additionally, the energy sector has experienced a surge in new orders, particularly for clean energy equipment, with the offshore engineering business boasting a full order book and rapid capacity expansion.
The management of CIMC Group engaged in face-to-face communication with shareholder representatives and media journalists, addressing various topics of market concern, including container business operations, energy industry layout, cross-ocean vehicle operations, and the development prospects of the cold chain business.
Stabilizing and Rebounding Container Demand
Revamping the Fresh Supply Chain Ecology through Cold Chain Restructuring
In the second quarter of the year, the shipping industry's market demand is gradually recovering as freight rates and volumes exhibit signs of stabilization. CIMC's container demand has stabilized and rebounded, with some orders already scheduled for production in the third quarter, marking a positive shift from the previous quarter.
Addressing the global trade landscape changes, Chairman Mai Boliang said during the meeting, "As the basic unit of global logistics, containers are closely related to global trade activities and are not limited to any particular shipping route. Although the current global trade landscape is facing certain challenges, the proportion of global industrial output accounted for by long-term global trade remains high and still developing. Although the growth rate may not be significant, the prospects are still promising. We believe that changes in the trade landscape will not have a disruptive impact on container demand."
Furthermore, regarding media's concerns about the relocation of container factories due to the global industrial chain transfer, Mai Boliang stated, "There is indeed a trend of the transfer of some light manufacturing industries to Southeast Asia, and even in the future to Africa and South America, for the joint global development. As a leading enterprise in the container industry, CIMC always keeps a close eye on this trend and is constantly conducting research. No matter how the situation changes, CIMC's global position in the container industry will not change."
According to BIMCO, a highly influential international shipping organization, under the basic scenario, global container shipping volume is expected to increase by 0.5%-1.5% in 2023 and by 5.5%-6.5% in 2024. Volume and growth rate recovery are anticipated in the second half of 2023m, with the total volume of major outbound and regional routes projected to be approximately 7% higher by the end of 2024 compared to 2022.
Despite the pressure the shipping market faces in the first half of 2023, CIMC Group has demonstrated a market share increase against the trend, highlighting its competitive advantages. Leveraging its strong foothold in the container manufacturing market, the Company actively explores new opportunities through its "container+" business, achieving growth in multiple areas.
For example, CIMC is actively developing new products suitable for modern agriculture and new energy vehicle scenarios, such as planting containers, integrated refrigeration and insulation equipment boxes, new energy refrigerated containers, and V-RACK frame containers, among others.
Benefiting from the growth of the electrochemical energy storage market, CIMC's container energy storage business continued to develop rapidly in 2022, reaching new revenue highs. By focusing on integrating energy storage systems, the business has transitioned from offering 20-foot and 40-foot containers to providing fully integrated energy storage solutions to downstream customers. Notably, records of batches of multiple deliveries have already been made to satisfied customers, showcasing the business' strong performance.
CIMC Fishery has made significant strides in promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional aquaculture industries through innovative "container+" scenarios. The modular construction business has made significant progress in both domestic and international markets, achieving significant milestones in several major projects.
Mai Boliang emphasized the rapid growth and stability of CIMC Group's "container+" business. This sector has contributed significantly to the container industry, effectively mitigating the cyclical fluctuations associated with traditional containers.
Mai Boliang also reiterated CIMC Group's active promotion of the fresh supply chain ecosystem reconstruction. China's fresh supply chain currently faces several challenges, including (1) lengthy intermediate circulation processes, where fresh products typically go through multiple layers of transportation and circulation before reaching consumers, and (2) a lack of accurate full-process cold chain transportation, resulting in a loss rate of nearly 30%, not including the degradation of product quality, which can turn a first-grade product into a fifth-grade product.
"CIMC aims to address these two pain points by reducing the intermediate circulation process and ensuring accurate full-process cold chain transportation, eliminating fresh product loss rates and extending shelf life. This is where CIMC's advantages are at," added Mai Boliang, optimistic about the development prospects of CIMC's cold chain business.
North American Vehicle Business Exceeded Expectations, Highlighting the Resilience of Its Cross-border Operations.
CIMC's vehicle business has achieved impressive results driven by domestic recovery and overseas growth. In the first quarter of 2023, the business recorded a net profit that doubled year-on-year, while the gross profit margin increased significantly by 8.2 percentage points, setting a new historical record.
Notably, the strong profitability of its North American operations played a crucial role, benefitting from favorable economic policies and the rapid growth of intermodal transportation in the region. According to market research company, ACT Research, in the first quarter of 2023, the North American market's semi-trailer production volume has reached 101,500 units, a year-on-year increase of 14.04%, maintaining its leading position in the industry.
Entering the second quarter of this year, the North American market continues to demonstrate high demand trends, with ongoing order deliveries. In 2023, as the impact of the pandemic gradually diminishes in North America and consumer demand grows, the freight volume of the overall vehicle transportation market is expected to rise, sustaining the robust demand for semi-trailer equipment.
Besides the favorable conditions in the North American market, strong demand is also emerging from other markets. Developing countries represent the most pressing demand for global development, offering ample opportunities for high-growth industries. CIMC's vehicle business is actively seeking market prospects in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, facilitating the establishment of LoM manufacturing plants and constructing a sustainable and competitive overseas emerging market operation system. In the first quarter of this year, the Vanguard business seized overseas market opportunities, vigorously developed emerging markets, and achieved remarkable revenue growth of a notable 5 percentage points increase in gross profit margin.
In the domestic market, the continuous recovery of infrastructure investment, steady progress in imports and exports, favorable government policies, and smoothness of the road transportation network have set the stage for a moderate recovery in China's heavy truck market this year. Industry forecast reports predict China's heavy truck sales in 2023 will reach approximately 800,000 units, marking a year-on-year increase of about 20%.
Industry insiders have analyzed that this year, the recovery of China's commercial vehicle market is highly probable, and both North America and Europe are expected to witness growth. Furthermore, exploring emerging markets, such as Southeast Asia, will contribute to CIMC's positive vehicle sales growth.
Surging new orders for energy equipment, and the order book is full.
In the energy sector, CIMC Group focuses on major areas such as energy, chemicals, liquid food equipment, and offshore engineering while continuously increasing its investment in new energy. The Company has made comprehensive layouts in key equipment areas, such as hydrogen, offshore photovoltaic power, offshore wind power, and energy storage.
As the Chinese economy steadily recovers and international natural gas prices decline, domestic natural gas consumption is gradually improving. According to data from the National Development and Reform Commission, China's apparent natural gas consumption from January to April this year reached 129.26 billion cubic meters, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 4.1%. Furthermore, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that China's natural gas imports from January to May amounted to 46.291 million tons, representing a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. The sales of LNG heavy trucks have also increased significantly, with 10,804 natural gas heavy trucks sold domestically in May, showcasing a staggering year-on-year increase of 547.3% and a month-on-month increase of 35%. Cumulative sales from January to May reached 35,000 units, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 255.8%.
The recovery of demand in the natural gas industry has propelled the clean energy equipment business to new heights. CIMC Enric, as a leading player in the domestic clean energy industry, has experienced substantial growth in revenue and orders since 2023. Strong demand has been observed for low-temperature and high-pressure equipment sales, and the overseas markets continue to demonstrate robust demand for onshore clean energy equipment and engineering.
CIMC Group President Gao Xiang has mentioned that CIMC Enric has strategically positioned its business around the "manufacture, storage, transportation, and usage" of clean energy equipment, enabling a comprehensive industry chain layout. The Company focuses on researching high-pressure equipment for hydrogen storage and transportation. With the government currently promoting the use of Type IV hydrogen storage tanks, CIMC Enric has partnered with Hexagon to develop these tanks, which are expected to be launched this year, further enhancing CIMC's core competitiveness. Last year, CIMC's hydrogen energy business achieved sales of 440 million RMB, and high-speed growth is expected to continue this year.
In addition, the shipbuilding industry is experiencing a long-term high boom cycle due to ship replacement cycles and stricter environmental requirements. CIMC Enric's water-based clean energy business has recently and consecutively secured multiple orders, including LNG fuel tanks worth over 1 billion RMB, 2+2 1450 TEU LNG dual-fuel container ships worth over 1 billion RMB, 2+2 LPG/ammonia transport ships worth nearly 900 million RMB, and 4 clean energy river-sea intermodal bulk cargo ships worth over 250 million RMB, benefiting from the strong industry demand.
Meanwhile, CIMC's offshore engineering business is developing substantially, propelled by the increasing demand for traditional oil and gas FPSO equipment and the dual drive of new energy-related industries. In the first quarter of 2023, the business achieved remarkable year-on-year increases in newly signed orders and cumulative order backlog. Newly signed orders reached $1.1 billion, showcasing a year-on-year increase of 119%, while the order backlog reached $4.76 billion, a year-on-year increase of 116%. Concurrently, the offshore asset management platform business secured a new contract for a self-elevating drilling unit at the end of March, leading to a 53% year-on-year increase in the order backlog, amounting to 349 months.
Addressing concerns about the impact of recent crude oil price fluctuations on CIMC's offshore engineering business, Mai Boliang responded that "minor oil price fluctuations are considered normal. Furthermore, in recent years, CIMC's offshore engineering business has proactively capitalized on the historical opportunities presented by the rapid development of new energy and special-purpose ships. Investment in new production capacity and timely product delivery in emerging areas has been pivotal. Approximately 50% of the order backlog value of CIMC's offshore engineering business originates from non-oil and gas projects. The recovery trend is relatively certain when considering the offshore engineering industry as a whole. Based on the construction nodes of the order backlog, we expect the offshore engineering industry to experience a substantial period of robust recovery over the next 3-5 years."
Moreover, CIMC Group has actively entered overseas markets in the energy storage sector and established a strategic joint venture with POWIN Energy, a leading international energy storage integrator and manufacturer. The two entities are actively expanding the global market for fully integrated energy storage equipment through technological research and development and product innovation.
Shenzhen has proactively embraced energy storage as a "windfall" area, with the city's policy support and planning in the field of energy storage at the forefront. In June 2022, Shenzhen issued the "Action Plan for Cultivating and Developing New Energy Industry Clusters in Shenzhen (2022-2025)", which identifies the development of new energy storage as a critical project, emphasizing the need to strengthen the electrochemical energy storage system. Based on unwavering policy support and certain industry trends, CIMC's energy storage business is poised to maintain sustained growth momentum.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no such thing as a purely personal opinion from the Oval Office on policies that matter. Armchair quarterbacking when you’re the president is fraught when you’re the one with the ball.
Armies can move on your words; markets can convulse; diplomacy can unravel.
That has not stopped President Joe Biden from viscerally weighing in onthe Ukraine war— labeling Russia’s Vladimir Putin a war criminal, appearing to advocate an overthrow in Moscow, branding Russian war actions as genocide — then saying it’s all his personal, not presidential, opinion.
It’s sowing confusion in dangerous times.
America is no mere bystander in this conflict. The U.S. is Ukraine’s chief supplier of arms from the West, a key source of military intelligence for Kyiv and a driving force behind global sanctions against Russia. It has generations of experience in how to talk to and about its historic nuclear rival.
But on consequential superpower subjects, Biden these days is “speaking from his heart,” his aides have said repeatedly. Not unlike his predecessor, he is reacting at times to what he sees on TV. He’s not always to be taken literally, it is argued.
A declaration of genocide is history’s harshest judgment against a country, one that can bind the signers of a United Nations treaty to intervene. Concern about that obligation dissuaded the U.S. from recognizing the Rwandan Hutus’ killing of 800,000 ethnic Tutsis in 1994 as genocide. It took more than a century for a U.S. president, Biden last year, to recognize the Armenian genocide.
But in remarks in Iowa on Tuesday, Biden equated Russia’s mass killings of Ukrainian civilians to genocide and stuck with that position on his way back to Washington: “Yes, I called it genocide,” he affirmed. Lawyers will decide if Russia’s conduct met the international standard, the president added, but “it sure seems that way to me.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Biden’s remarks. “True words of a true leader,” he tweeted. “Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil.”
But as the war unfolds in Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron warned, “I’m not sure if the escalation of words serves our cause.”
“I am prudent with terms today,” Macron said. “Genocide has a meaning. … It’s madness what’s happening today. It’s unbelievable brutality and a return to war in Europe. But at the same time I look at the facts, and I want to continue to try the utmost to be able to stop the war and restore peace.”
At the White House last month, Biden said of Putin, “I think he is a war criminal,” in response to a shouted question as he walked out of an unrelated bill-signing reception. He said the same again when visiting U.S. troops in Poland.
The White House hastened to say that did not necessarily signal U.S. policy.
“He was speaking from his heart and speaking from what he’s seen on television, which is barbaric actions by a brutal dictator, through his invasion of a foreign country,” said press secretary Jen Psaki.
Psaki on Wednesday dismissed the notion that anyone was confused by the idea of Biden’s personal comments not reflecting federal policy. She said Biden ran for office promising “he would shoot from the shoulder, is his phrase that he often uses, and tell it to them straight. And his comments yesterday, not once but twice, and on war crimes are an exact reflection of that.”
As well, after meeting Ukrainian children torn from their families in the war, Biden sent his staff scrambling to explain his apparent endorsement of Moscow regime change when he said of Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
Again, not U.S. policy.
“I was expressing the moral outrage that I felt toward this man,” Biden said days later. “I wasn’t articulating a policy change.”
It was Donald Trump who jettisoned the idea of a scripted presidency every way he could, with his multitude of tweets leading the way. Some reflected policy. Some just mirrored what was in his head at the moment.
“We made a dramatic transition during the Trump presidency” in coming to realize that a president may not be speaking for the government or the country at times, but only for himself, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She credits the Biden White House with being quick to set the record straight when that happens.
In Jamieson’s academic world of political rhetoric, some public figures like Barack Obama are considered self-monitors — they hear what they are saying as they say it and catch themselves in progress when they go adrift. Biden, she says, lacks this filter.
“Obama was a high self monitor,” she said. “Biden is not. The distance between thought and expression for Biden is not very wide.”
Along with longtime foreign-policy credentials and a deep knowledge of how government works, Biden has a history of loose lips and letting his emoting get the better of him.
That caused occasional friction when he was Obama’s vice president, as when Biden endorsed same-sex marriage rights in a 2012 TV interview before his boss was quite ready to do so. Biden “probably got out a little bit over his skis, but out of generosity of spirit,” Obama said at the time, adding that he would have “preferred to have done this in my own way, on my own terms.”
White House aides say Biden’s pronouncements reflect that he’s never been one to hold his tongue through his five decades in Washington, even when it gets him into trouble.
They see Biden’s declarations, separate from his government’s policies, as reactions not just to the horrifying scenes in Ukraine, but also to political pressure at home to say and do more in response to Russia’s invasion.
To David Axelrod, former adviser to the ever-cautious Obama, Biden’s remark that Putin “cannot remain in power” illustrated the Washington adage that “everyone’s strength is their weakness.”
Biden’s strength is his empathy and authenticity, Axelrod said on his recent podcast, and that can also be a weakness when a president says the wrong thing in a time of crisis.
The risk from off-the-cuff remarks is hardly new with Biden. In 2016, Axelrod foresaw a similar concern from Trump’s capacity for highly contentious comments.
“You can’t, when you’re president of the United States, just shoot first and think about it later in terms of what you say,” he said then, “because people can actually start shooting based on what you say.” | 2022-04-14T18:24:40+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-political/when-biden-speaking-from-his-heart-doesnt-speak-for-us/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond man was sentenced in federal court to over 7 years in prison after he was found with a Glock semi-automatic pistol, as well as a “switch,” which converts the pistol into a fully automatic weapon.
According to court documents, 23-year-old Marquis Bonhomme was arrested by Richmond Police officers during a traffic stop on July 14, 2022 after it was determined that he had active warrants. During the arrest, the officers saw a firearm magazine in Bonhomme’s vehicle and obtained a search warrant.
Officers searched Bonhomme’s vehicle and found a loaded Glock 26 9mm semi-automatic pistol, as well as a “switch,” which is a conversion device that turns a semi-automatic pistol fully automatic. They also found a loaded Century Arms VSKA 7.62 caliber semi-automatic pistol with a 35-round magazine and a 50-round drum magazine, as well as assorted 9mm and 7.63 Caliber ammunition.
Federal agents later obtained a search warrant for Bonhomme’s Instagram accounts, where they found posts showing him with other firearms, as well as posts related to “switch” conversion devices and his involvement in illegal marijuana trafficking.
On Wednesday, Jan. 18, Bonhomme was found guilty of possession of firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon sentenced to 92 months in prison. | 2023-01-22T21:02:24+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/richmond-man-sentenced-to-7-years-for-possession-of-firearms-conversion-device/ |
GUNNISON, Colo. (AP) — At a tiny airport surrounded by mountains, a three-person crew takes off for the inaugural flight above the headwaters of the Colorado River to measure the region’s snow by air.
Under the plane is a device that uses lasers, cameras and sensors to map snow and help drought-prone communities improve forecasts of how much water will later fill reservoirs.
The method, developed nearly a decade ago at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “is the gold standard of snow measurement,” said Emily Carbone of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, one of Colorado’s largest water providers and the primary funder for the flight.
For decades, Western U.S. states have been measuring snow through hundreds of remote sensing sites known as SNOTEL stations, which are operated by the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service. But as climate change causes rising temperatures, snow at those sites — at around 9,000 feet above sea level — is melting earlier than normal and pushing water managers to look for other ways to finetune forecasting methods.
Among the options is a method of aerial snow mapping, which gives precise snow measurements across an entire basin.
The flight by Airborne Snow Observatories in mid-April measured the area around the headwaters of the Colorado River. But the hope is to expand the work along the stressed river, which 40 million people rely on, said Jeffrey Deems, co-founder of the company.
Paul Miller, a hydrologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, said “removing uncertainty in one of the data points” can be critical in a water-stressed region.
But Miller noted the limitations of even aerial snow mapping, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more per flight and only provide measurements for the day flown. The technology also doesn’t account for variables such as air temperature and late-season storms that can affect water supplies.
Others are working on ways to improve snow measurements too.
On the same day the plane scans the river’s headwaters, the U.S. Geological Survey is on the ground researching an option that could be more affordable, even if it’s not as precise. The agency installed its own remote sensing stations above and below the typical elevation of SNOTEL sites and its laser-equipped drones measured the surrounding area.
Those results could take a couple of months to process since they’re still in the testing phase, said Suzanne Paschke, who is managing the project for USGS. The agency also paid for a segment of the headwaters snow mapping flight so it could cross-check its measurements.
Meanwhile, SNOTEL sites are also undergoing upgrades that could result in more accurate modeling, said Karl Wetlaufer, who helps run the program. In coming years, the federal agency plans to expand the number of sites that include sensors for solar radiation, wind and soil moisture. But the stations still can’t be moved to higher elevations, where wind can whip snow around exposed mountaintops and make it hard to measure, Wetlaufer said.
The newer methods help fill in those data gaps at high elevations.
In June 2019, four SNOTEL stations showed snow had largely melted out in the Blue River basin, which feeds into the Dillon Reservoir that provides water to the Denver area. But mapping by Airborne Snow Observatories showed significant snow remained at higher elevations — giving water managers enough time to make room in the reservoir for the incoming runoff.
“That information allowed us to prepare for a second peak of runoff and accurately lower our reservoirs to capture that water and avoid any flooding impacts downstream,” said Taylor Winchell, climate adaptation strategist at Denver Water.
The event and other success stories from California water managers who had been using the technology for several years prompted the formation of a coalition of Colorado water agencies, nonprofits and local governments to pursue more snow mapping flights.
“We think it’s worth it to get more valuable and detailed information, but we can’t afford to fly as often as we’d like,” said Northern Water’s Emily Carbone, who is heading up the group.
The group developed a plan to seek outside funding for flights and in March won a grant to help cover some of the costs from the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
After her agency’s first snow mapping flight last month over the headwaters of the Colorado River, Carbone was eager to get her hands on the results.
The data indicated that as of mid-April, there was 369,000 acre-feet of water stored in snow above the reservoirs at the head of the Colorado River. Since it was the first time that region’s snow was mapped by air, there are no historical trends for comparison. Carbone is still working to calculate how much of it could make it into the reservoir.
Northern Water has commissioned another flight in May over the same area, which will reveal how much snow has melted since the April flight and how efficient it is at running off into reservoirs.
“We have a lot to learn but it’s cool to get this data and really get a better picture of what’s going on in our basin snowpack,” she said.
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It may not work for everyone, but there are some interesting alternatives to decorating a Christmas tree during the holidays.
One trend taking off for some is the Christmas ladder. Done right, it can be just as pretty as a tree.
You can decorate them however you want, with some people deciding to add shelves, and plants.
Ladders of all varieties can be used.
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Some versions can offer a rustic look and can use items you already have in your home.
Other more minimal ideas are to just decorate with greenery. You'll get the cozy look of a tree, with much less effort, and less clean up after the season is over.
Other ideas for those in small homes include table top Christmas trees, or even terracotta pot tree ideas where the pots are stacked upside down and decorated or painted.
Modern art ideas can become great Christmas tree alternatives.
Crafty table top Christmas decoration ideas can be made from a variety of materials including paper, old books and other items. It will also allow the entire family to get involved. | 2022-12-22T04:47:27+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/the-christmas-ladder-and-alternatives-tree-ideas-for-those-who-want-something-different |
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CHAMPAIGN — Sharon Frazier, 83, of Champaign died at 6:34 a.m. Thursday (Sept. 15, 2022) at home. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Renner-Wikoff Chapel and Crematory, 1900 S. Philo Road, U. | 2022-09-17T06:30:45+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/sharon-frazier/article_c295c15c-3614-11ed-8554-b7f8234ecc9f.html |
The former treasury chief was runner-up to Liz Truss in the contest to replace scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister. Truss quit after a turbulent 45-day term.
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The former treasury chief was runner-up to Liz Truss in the contest to replace scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister. Truss quit after a turbulent 45-day term.
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noah Holdings Limited (the "Company" or "Noah") (NYSE: NOAH and HKEX: 6686), a leading and pioneer wealth management service provider in China offering comprehensive one-stop advisory services on global investment and asset allocation primarily for high net worth investors, announced that the Company's voluntary conversion of its secondary listing status to a primary listing status on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange") became effective today. The Company is now a dual-primary listed company on both the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong and the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") in the United States.
Ms. Jingbo Wang, the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, "We are excited to have completed the conversion to dual primary listing status on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today. The successful conversion brings us a step closer towards eligibility for the Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, which will optimize our investor base and improve liquidity for our shares. Noah is committed to creating value for shareholders and we will endeavor to continue providing quality financial services to our clients."
The Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADS(s)") listed on the NYSE and the ordinary shares listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (the "ordinary share(s)") are fungible (subject to the provisions of the ADS deposit agreement), and investors can continue to choose to hold their shares in the form of ADSs traded on the NYSE or ordinary shares traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. ADSs and ordinary shares are convertible in both directions (that is, into and out of ADS form), subject to certain limitations. The conversion between ADSs and ordinary shares, in either direction, can generally be completed electronically within two Hong Kong/U.S. business days under normal circumstances. If you are an investor, please reach out to your broker for further information on procedures and costs for conversion between ADSs and ordinary shares. If you are a broker, please reach out to Citibank, N.A., acting as the depositary for the Company's ADSs in the U.S. or its custodian in Hong Kong, to effect a conversion between ADSs and ordinary shares. All costs attributable to effect a withdrawal of ordinary shares upon cancellation of the corresponding ADSs or a deposit of ordinary shares for issuance of the corresponding ADSs will be borne by the requesting investor.
ABOUT NOAH HOLDINGS LIMITED
Noah Holdings Limited (NYSE: NOAH and HKEX:6686) is a leading and pioneer wealth management service provider in China offering comprehensive one-stop advisory services on global investment and asset allocation primarily for high net worth investors. Noah is a Cayman Islands holding company and carries on business in Hong Kong as Noah Holdings Private Wealth and Asset Management Limited. In the first nine months of 2022, Noah distributed RMB52.3 billion (US$7.3 billion) of investment products. Through Gopher Asset Management, Noah had assets under management of RMB156.2 billion (US$22.0 billion) as of September 30, 2022.
Noah's wealth management business primarily distributes private equity, private secondary, mutual fund and other products denominated in RMB and other currencies. Noah's network covers 76 cities in mainland China, as well as offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, Silicon Valley and Singapore. A total of 1,257 relationship managers provide customized financial solutions for clients through this network, and meet their international investment needs. The Company's wealth management business had 433,250 registered clients as of September 30, 2022. Through Gopher Asset Management, Noah manages private equity, public securities, real estate, multi-strategy and other investments denominated in RMB and other currencies. The Company also provides other services.
For more information, please visit Noah at ir.noahgroup.com.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Noah may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in announcements, circulars or other publications made on the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange"), in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Noah's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause Noah's actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: its goals and strategies; its future business development, financial condition and results of operations; the expected growth of the wealth management and asset management market in China and internationally; its expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of the products it distributes; investment risks associated with investment products distributed to Noah's investors, including the risk of default by counterparties or loss of value due to market or business conditions or misconduct by counterparties; its expectations regarding keeping and strengthening its relationships with key clients; relevant government policies and regulations relating to its industries; its ability to attract and retain qualified employees; its ability to stay abreast of market trends and technological advances; its plans to invest in research and development to enhance its product choices and service offerings; competition in its industries in China and internationally; general economic and business conditions globally and in China; and its ability to effectively protect its intellectual property rights and not to infringe on the intellectual property rights of others. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Noah's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and Noah does not undertake any obligation to update any such information, including forward-looking statements, as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under the applicable law.
Contacts: Noah Holdings Limited
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Twitter employees are expected to testify next week before the House Oversight Committee about the social media platform’s handling of reporting on President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
The scheduled testimony, confirmed by the committee Monday, will be the first time the three former executives will appear before Congress to discuss the company’s decision to initially block from Twitter a New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop in the weeks before the 2020 election.
Republicans have said the story was suppressed for political reasons, though no evidence has been released to support that claim. The witnesses for the Feb. 8 hearing are expected to be Vijaya Gadde, former chief legal officer; James Baker, former deputy general counsel; and Yoel Roth, former head of safety and integrity.
The hearing is among the first of many in a GOP-controlled House to be focused on Biden and his family, as Republicans wield the power of their new, albeit slim, majority.
The New York Post first reported in October 2020 that it had received from former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a copy of a hard drive of a laptop that Hunter Biden had dropped off 18 months earlier at a Delaware computer repair shop and never retrieved. Twitter initially blocked people from sharing links to the story for several days.
Months later, Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey called the company’s communications around the Post article “not great.” He added that blocking the article’s URL with “zero context” around why it was blocked was “unacceptable.”
The Post article at the time was greeted with skepticism due to questions about the laptop’s origins, including Giuliani’s involvement, and because top officials in the Trump administration had already warned that Russia was working to denigrate Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election. The Kremlin had interfered in the 2016 race by hacking Democratic emails that were subsequently leaked, and fears that Russia would meddle again in the 2020 race were widespread across Washington.
“This is why we’re investigating the Biden family for influence peddling,” Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight committee, said at a press event Monday morning. “We want to make sure that our national security is not compromised.”
The White House has sought to discredit the Republican probes into Hunter Biden, calling them “divorced-from-reality political stunts.”
Nonetheless, Republicans now hold subpoena power in the House, giving them the authority to compel testimony and conduct an aggressive investigation. GOP staff has spent the past year analyzing messages and financial transactions found on the laptop that belonged to the president’s younger son. Comer has previously said the evidence they have compiled is “overwhelming,” but did not offer specifics.
Comer has pledged there won’t be hearings regarding the Biden family until the committee has the evidence to back up any claims of alleged wrongdoing. He also acknowledged that the stakes are high whenever an investigation centers on the leader of a political party.
On Monday, the Kentucky Republican, speaking at a National Press Club event, said that he could not guarantee a subpoena of Hunter Biden during his term. “We’re going to go where the investigation leads us. Maybe there’s nothing there.”
He added, “We’ll see.” | 2023-01-31T11:00:19+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-ex-twitter-execs-to-testify-on-block-of-hunter-biden-story/ |
2023 Travelers Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 3
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RICHMOND, Va., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy is encouraging customers to be on alert against utility scams.
"As technology advances, utility scams are becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect," said Utibe Bassey, Dominion Energy's Vice President of Customer Experience. "We encourage our customers to be on alert, recognize the signs of scams and take action to protect yourself."
Here are the telltale warning signs to help you avoid becoming a scam victim:
- Dominion Energy does not call and threaten service disconnection if a customer does not make a payment immediately.
- Dominion Energy never demands payment with a credit or debit card by phone, or asks a customer to wire a transfer, send money orders or buy a gift card to pay a utility bill.
- Not all scammers are aggressive and threatening. Some scammers try to earn a customer's trust by being personable and sympathetic.
Here are four important steps you can take to protect yourself:
- Hang up. Do not provide account, payment or any other personal information.
- Fact check. Scammers don't typically know a customer's account balance. You can verify your account balance and payment due date online or on the Dominion Energy app.
- Set up alerts. You can set alerts with your bank and your credit cards so if suspicious purchases are made, you are immediately notified. You can enable notifications with your mobile device for added convenience.
- Use complex passwords or phrases online. At least 7 characters in length, both upper and lowercase letters, include numbers and special characters. Don't use personal information like names of family etc. Use passwords that are NOT a word in any language, slang, dialect, jargon etc. Don't use the same passwords for different sites.
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ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG) announced that its Board of Directors declared a fifty five cents ($0.55) per share quarterly cash dividend on the company's common stock, a $0.04 increase over the prior quarter's dividend. The dividend will be payable on March 17, 2023 to Stockholders of Record as of March 3, 2023.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE:AJG), a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Gallagher provides these services in approximately 130 countries around the world through its owned operations and a network of correspondent brokers and consultants.
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- Major new research from The Josh Bersin Company spotlights where U.S. healthcare must refocus organizational redesign efforts to reverse the effects of the Great Resignation, impending retirement boom, and attrition to plug a nursing gap due to exceed 2.1 million positions within 2-3 years
- High-performing healthcare organizations revealed to have more technical skills, transformation skills and systemic people management skills than their slower-adapting counterparts
- Thanks to automation and technology augmentation that absorb tasks not specific to nursing (i.e. admin and medication delivery), healthcare providers need 20% fewer nurses today and offer more fulfilling work
- New Global Workforce Intelligence Project uses the world's largest database of information on job roles, skills, career pathways, and HR program maturity, reflecting the real workforce and HR practices in 10s of thousands of companies globally, and features interviews with top healthcare leaders
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Josh Bersin Company, a research and advisory firm focused on HR and workforce strategies, has published groundbreaking research, revealing the real extent to which U.S. healthcare organizations must radically adapt to reverse the effects of mass resignations, impending retirements, a shortage of new nurses entering the field, and an aging population in need of more care.
While the study, The Global Workforce Intelligence (GWI) Project, shows the gap in nursing may only register as a net new demand of 200,000 nurses, market factors will create an actual gap of more than 2.1 million care providers by 2025. In response, analyst Josh Bersin and team recommend a combined approach of systemic people solutions and extensive organizational redesign to address the problem.
Troublingly, the standard approach of recruiting, retaining and reskilling employees is revealed by the research to be woefully insufficient to resolve the projected talent shortage—and will leave approximately 800,000 critical roles open. The study concludes that technological automation, human augmentation, and the reengineering of clinical delivery to reduce the demand for nursing will be among the solutions needed.
The study also shows that high-performing healthcare organizations have four to five times more transformation/organizational redesign and technology roles than their less advanced counterparts, and have invested in software development rather than individual tech solutions. The GWI Project found that advanced healthcare systems need 20 percent fewer nurses and administrative roles to deliver patient care.
The findings from the GWI research are qualitative as well as quantitative, deep-diving into emerging best practice through AI-enabled database analysis and interviews with CHROs of top U.S. healthcare companies, including Providence Health, Bon Secours Mercy Health, and Stanford. This is the first time that this methodology, which uses Eightfold's talent intelligence, has been applied on such a vast scale in the healthcare sector.
Key findings suggest that:
- Up to 48 per cent of the work required to successfully close gaps in clinical capability today could be achieved through redesign of work, jobs, and employment models, rather than traditional approaches to recruiting and training people
- Healthcare organizations that have invested in more strategic, transformative, organizational change skills—including IT-enabled business process redesign skills—already have a 20 percent lower need for nurses compared to the industry average
- Most organizations do not have the internal structure or expertise to redesign work. That's a problem because according to this research, up to 1 million nursing jobs can be streamlined through automation, technology enablement, or offloading work to non-clinical workers.
"The findings are groundbreaking in their scale and in their unequivocal implications. If healthcare organizations continue doing what they've always done, they simply won't be able to close the current resource gap. They need to change the work itself, redesign employment models, and rethink how people are deployed to opportunities. And, rather than implement point technology systems to help process existing workloads, there needs to be more ground-level reinvention of healthcare process and tasks and smarter use of digital alternatives to automate or augment more of the everyday work of key people."
"The labor shortage is a real crisis for healthcare. We can't address it if we don't think and act fundamentally differently. Beyond attracting, developing, and retaining talent in new ways, we need to fundamentally transform the work. This means deconstructing every role and operational process to its lowest level to determine how we might improve our caregivers' experience while optimizing capacity, cost, quality, and our patients' experience. It requires the digitization of simple, automatable tasks and the use of AI to better predict demand and manage talent deployment. And, it compels us to think about diversifying sources of talent to expand the available healthcare workforce. These aren't solutions one healthcare company can solve by itself. But, together, our industry can continue to thrive, creating health for a better world."
"Most healthcare organizations are very advanced in recruiting new people because turnover of nurses and other clinicians has been incredibly high, and healthcare used to be considered a decade behind other industries in its ability to manage people and talent. Now, driven by necessity, we see more innovation and strategic practices than in any other industry. Building career pathways within and outside of the organization, fostering health and wellbeing of nurses to retain them in the industry, and holistically redesigning work, jobs, and organizational models are all part of the solution. Without a doubt, healthcare is at a crossroads, and the c-suite needs to collaborate to address the clinical capacity issue together."
The Josh Bersin Company, through workforce strategies and approaches and maturity by industry, coupled with C-level conversations with hundreds of executives, provides detailed insights into how companies in a given market sector are advanced or behind in addressing a whole series of business challenges. In the current analysis, The Josh Bersin Company's analysts took this data set and "rolled it backwards" to see how various nursing roles are growing or shrinking in the workforce. The team determined that this workforce segment will be dramatically short in the next three years and identified what potential groups could be recruited, retained, reskilled, and which roles redesigned to fill this gap.
A final perspective compares and contrasts trends and outcomes between subdomains of an industry, or between vertical sectors, distilling what the most advanced employers look like vs. the rest of the industry.
Where most other HR research draws on limited payroll data, job postings and/or small survey samples, the Global Workforce Intelligence (GWI) Project uses Eightfold's extensive talent intelligence database combined with The Josh Bersin Company's comprehensive global HR leadership insights to understand jobs, job roles, skills, and career pathways, as well as organizational data. Combined, the dataset reflects the real workforce and HR practices actively in use today in healthcare (and other sectors) and what will potentially be essential in the future, across tens of thousands of companies around the world.
"Industry leaders understand how difficult it is to make accurate talent decisions without fully understanding the skills, capabilities, and trends in which every organization needs to evolve to be successful," said Kamal Ahluwalia, President at Eightfold AI. "Using Eightfold AI data to contribute to the research of The Josh Bersin Company team is both a privilege and a route to immediate impact on today's workforce."
The in-depth GWI Project industry analysis will be unveiled in full at September 13-16's HR Technology Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, where Josh Bersin will present a keynote address.
To learn more about the Global Workforce Intelligence Project, visit joshbersin.com.
The Global Workforce Intelligence Project uses the world's largest AI-driven database of workforce job role, skills, career pathways, and HR program maturity. In addition to reviewing over 1.4 million people profiles of healthcare workers in more than 300 different companies, the GWI Project also features qualitative interviews from over 20 top healthcare organizations.
The Eightfold Talent Intelligence platform is a vast set of 2.1 billion employee profiles, enriched by public social data and company public data, arranged in a time series format. Using Eightfold AI's proprietary AI algorithms, all the publicly available employees in a given set of companies can be looked at over time, and deep learning applied to infer the job skills, job clusters/families, levels, and career pathways across that period. The data can be further interrogated by company, location, organization size, and a wide variety of other factors to find relationships. In healthcare, for example, it is possible to statistically compute the supply/demand for nurses and other clinical workers for the coming years. Salary data is being added for future analysis.
The Josh Bersin Company provides a wide range of research and advisory services, including a corporate membership program, to help HR leaders and professionals tackle the ever-evolving challenges and needs of today's workforce. The firm's research team covers all topics in HR, talent, and L&D, including diversity, equity, and inclusion; employee experience; remote and hybrid work; wellbeing; HR strategy and capabilities; learning and career mobility; HR technology; organization design and development; and talent acquisition and mobility. With the Global Workforce Intelligence (GWI) Project, The Josh Bersin Company also serves to expand its support of market-leading businesses by helping them navigate the challenges of industry convergence while remaining future-focused.
Under the company's umbrella is the Josh Bersin Academy, the world's first global development academy for HR and talent professionals and a transformation agent for HR organizations. The Academy, which has seen more than 50,000 program enrollments since its 2019 launch, offers content-rich online courses, a carefully curated library of tools and resources, and a global community that helps HR and talent professionals stay current on the trends and practices needed to drive organizational success in the modern world of work. Visit www.joshbersin.com or email info@bersinpartners.com.
Eightfold AI's market-leading Talent Intelligence Platform™ helps organizations retain top performers, upskill and reskill their workforce, recruit talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold's patented deep learning artificial intelligence platform is available in more than 155 countries and 24 languages, enabling cutting-edge enterprises to transform their talent into a competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.eightfold.ai
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece filed an official complaint with Serbia on Monday after a cargo plane carrying mortar ammunition crashed while attempting an emergency landing in northern Greece.
“The Greek ambassador in Belgrade has been instructed to make a complaint to the Serbian (government) to stress the need for Greek authorities to be notified in advance about the nature of the cargo,” said a Greek government official who requested anonymity pending an official announcement.
Eight crew members on the An-12 cargo plane, operated by a Ukrainian company, were killed in the crash Saturday outside the northern Greek city of Kavala. The crash was followed by at least two hours of explosions.
Serbian officials said the plane had been carrying 11.5 tons of Serbian-made mortar ammunition to Bangladesh, and had been due to make a stopover in Amman, Jordan.
Mine clearance crews were working at the crash site for a second day, in a cordoned-off field around 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Kavala International Airport. The ammunition was scattered over a 500-meter radius and was expected to take several days to clear.
Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said no hazardous substances were detected following a crash site inspection by army specialists from a nuclear, chemical and biological defense division.
All the dead crew members were believed to be Ukrainian nationals, Artopios said. Their recovered remains were taken to the nearby city of Komotini to start the identification process.
The crash caused power outages in several villages near the crash site, with repair work held up by the ordnance removal, officials from the electricity regulator said.
Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Sunday that the ammunition had been made by a private Serbian manufacturer, adding that the plane had also been due to make stops in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Ahmedabad, India, before reaching the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. ___
Derek Gatopoulos reported from Athens. | 2022-07-19T05:33:18+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/international/ap-international/greece-complains-to-serbia-over-mortar-cargo-plane-crash/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Rhonda Briggins spent much of Election Day in 2020 at an Atlanta polling place handing out water and snacks to encourage voters to stay in an hourslong line to cast their ballots, something her historic Black sorority has done for decades in Georgia.
This election, Briggins and some of her thousands of sorority sisters are trading that role for a potentially more contentious one: ensuring voters aren’t disenfranchised by a slew of new voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led Legislature. They include a ban on giving food and drinks to waiting voters.
The law, which a federal judge allowed to go forward this election cycle, was too confusing for the sorority to take a chance doing its traditional ”line relief,” said Briggins, chair of the Delta Sigma Theta Strategic Partnerships Task Force and a member of the sorority’s Decatur alumnae chapter.
“The line between criminalization and being helpful is too close,” she said. “We don’t want to get to that point.”
Georgia is one of several states where voters will face new hurdles to casting a ballot during the November election under laws passed by Republican-led legislatures following former President Donald Trump’s false claims that voter fraud cost him reelection in 2020. The restrictions have prompted groups that assist voters to reorient themselves so they can avoid running afoul of new barriers.
They anticipate confusion and conflict at the polls, and are redoubling efforts to register and educate voters.
Since 2021, lawmakers in 21 states have passed at least 42 restrictive laws, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice. At least 33 of those are in effect for this year’s midterms. Some include multiple changes, such as legislative packages in Georgia and Texas. Others, as in Arizona, are less expansive or in some cases not yet applicable.
The 98-page bill in Georgia contained dozens of changes to state voting law. They include shortening the time to request a mail ballot, rolling back the pandemic-driven expansion of ballot drop boxes and reducing early voting before runoff elections.
The state had argued that the water and refreshment ban was necessary to protect against the potential for illegal campaigning or vote-buying. State lawyers also argued that it was too close to the upcoming election to make changes.
“Again, we’re not telling anybody who to vote for,” Briggins said of the assistance the sorority offered in previous years. “We’re offering water because you have been in line eight hours.”
Faith Works, a group organized by Black church leaders in response to the Georgia law, is providing grants to help more than more than 1,000 churches mobilize voters. It also aims to deploy 200 chaplains around the state to defuse any tension at polling sites.
Bishop Reginald Jackson, who presides over more than 500 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia and helped create the group, blasted the new law as an attempt to suppress Black voters after they helped Democrats win the presidential contest in Georgia two years ago for the first time since 1992.
“It’s designed and intended to be a punishment to Blacks for turning out to vote in such large numbers in 2020,” he said.
Republicans have pushed back on the criticism that their new law limits voting, noting that it also expands weekend early voting.
Voting rights groups in Georgia and elsewhere are adapting to the altered landscape. In Arizona, Mi Familia Vota is focused on voter education, including letting people know that a law passed this year requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections is not in effect this cycle.
That provision is expected to affect Latino voters heavily, in part because one element of the law requires local election officials to notify prosecutors if a would-be voter doesn’t provide proof of citizenship and the state election officials can’t find proof in various government databases.
“It is part of a continuation to make it harder for people to vote,” said Hector Sanchez Barba, executive director of Mi Familia Vota. His group joined the U.S. Department of Justice in filing a court challenge to the law.
A sweeping law pushed through the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature in 2021 led to thousands of ballot rejections during the state’s March primary, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
Texas Secretary of State John Scott said one county largely avoided rejections by including an insert with instructions on how to fill out the mailed ballot and its return envelope. He said the practice has since been suggested to every county.
The Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonpartisan group that challenged the new law, spent much of a recent training session for lawyers on the law’s mail ballot identification requirement and the greater difficulty the law creates for removing problematic poll watchers.
Claude Cummings Jr., first vice president of the NAACP chapter in Houston, said the law’s identification requirement is especially hard on older Black voters.
“There’s only one way to fix this — educate, educate, educate,” Cummings said. It’s a theme picked up by other groups such as MOVE Texas, which held over 60 events in the state on voter registration day, all targeting younger, would-be voters.
Georgia’s Senate Bill 202 — signed into law last year by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp — was one of the first voting measures passed after Trump’s defeat. In addition to making it a misdemeanor to hand out food or drinks to any voter standing in line, the law limits voters’ ability to cast a provisional ballot if they go to the wrong precinct. It also allows any Georgia voter to challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of other voters within the same county.
Elections offices already have fielded challenges to the eligibility of thousands of voters in metro Atlanta.
The New Georgia Project, a group founded by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, has trained legal professionals to fight any baseless attempts to disqualify voters, accost them for handing out water or wrongly deny them the right to cast a provisional ballot, said Aklima Khondoker, the group’s chief legal officer.
Khondoker said the group will be “hypervigilant about election administration issues, disenfranchisement, criminalization of both voters and everyday good volunteerism activities.”
The Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, another group that aims to increase access to the polls, helped organize information sessions about the new law in Savannah, Macon, Augusta and other cities over the summer. The group bought scanners so people could copy bank statements or other forms to request an absentee ballot if they didn’t have a driver’s license or state-issued identification card, said Helen Butler, the group’s executive director. SB202 replaced signature verification for absentee ballots with an identification requirement.
The community organizing group Georgia STAND-UP will host block parties near some voting precincts so people can get water and food before they get in line to vote, CEO Deborah Scott said. The group plans to use tape measures to make sure the events are more than 150 feet (46 meters) from the precinct to comply with the new law.
Rev. Timothy McDonald, III, senior pastor of Atlanta’s First Iconium Baptist Church and another leader of Faith Works, recently led a brainstorming session that included a discussion about how to counter voter challenges. McDonald urged the groups in the room to publicize a voter protection hotline and said voters should bring a utility bill with them, in addition to their identification, to verify their address.
“There’s going to be some shenanigans on that day,” he warned.
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Fields reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Acacia Coronado in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is in Weslaco today where he is holding a news conference with state officials and law enforcement on the state’s ongoing strategies to secure the border.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is in Weslaco today where he is holding a news conference with state officials and law enforcement on the state’s ongoing strategies to secure the border. | 2023-02-21T21:41:46+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/watch-abbott-discusses-border-security-in-weslaco/ |
(AP) – Warner Bros. Discovery is sticking with safe bet franchises that will likely lure viewers, including a “Harry Potter” series and a “Game of Thrones” prequel for its rebranded Max streaming service.
Executives touted Max and made original Warner Bros. Discovery programming announcements on Wednesday during a presentation for journalists and investors. The $16-per-month service will be released May 23 in the U.S. and automatically replace the company’s existing HBO Max.
The “Harry Potter” series is described as a “faithful retelling” of the books about the boy wizard by J. K Rowling, featuring a new cast.
Each season is intended to focus on one of the seven books, though Max anticipates stretching the series to a decade-long run.
Max also announced it has also ordered a “Game of Thrones” prequel called “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight,” set in Westeros 100 years prior to the events of “Game of Thrones.” It’s based on fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, which follow the adventures of a knight named Ser Duncan the Tall (known as Dunk) and Aegon V Targaryen (called Egg). Martin will serve as an executive producer and writer on the series alongside Ira Parker.
“House of Dragons,” also a “Game of Thrones” prequel, has begun production on its second season for HBO.
Other announcements included a series based on the Penguin character in “The Batman”, which is now in production with Colin Farrell resuming his role and another comedy set in the “Big Bang Theory” universe from Chuck Lorrie, both for Max. | 2023-04-13T00:29:27+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/harry-potter-tv-series-and-game-of-thrones-prequel-are-a-go/ |
The Celtics will continue to be without their starting point guard in Marcus Smart as he deals with a right ankle sprain he suffered in last Saturday’s win over the Raptors. Smart was listed as out on the injury report for the Celtics’ game against the Lakers at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at TD Garden.
Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said pregame Thursday that Smart has worn a special sock to deal with compression around his right ankle. The Celtics are looking to snap a three-game losing streak after their overtime loss to the Knicks, but they’ll do so without Smart on the court.
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“He’s done such a good job of finding guys in crossmatches in transition, creating crossmatches in transition with and without the ball, and then recognizing where the matchup is and being able to attack,” Mazzulla said of Smart. “Our offense is really, really organized in the first six seconds because of him, so we’re definitely missing that. And then obviously what he brings defensively.”
Smart said he hopes to return in one-to-two weeks prior to the Celtics’ loss to the Heat last Tuesday, so he likely won’t be back for at least a few more games. Smart detailed how he reaggravated an old injury to his ankle, which he suffered in last season’s playoffs against the Heat. Back then, the Celtics and Smart rushed his return in the middle of the playoffs. But Smart said he didn’t want to come back prematurely with the Celtics still holding the top spot in the East.
With Smart out, expect Payton Pritchard to continue to get more minutes. The guard has carved out a spot in the rotation as the Celtics missed multiple bodies on their recent road trip. Derrick White and Malcolm Brogdon will also continue to be important as Boston’s two starting-caliber guards. Smart’s usually part of the closing lineup, so either White or Brogdon could also see those end-game minutes in crunch time. | 2023-01-27T23:35:01+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2023/01/celtics-injury-report-marcus-smart-out-for-lakers-game-with-ankle-sprain.html |
HIGH SCHOOL
Needlepoint: Marquette Catholic sews up Argos Comm in slim triumph
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Marquette Catholic walked the high-wire before edging Argos Comm 51-44 during this Indiana boys high school basketball game.
In recent action on Feb. 21, Marquette Catholic faced off against West Side . Click here for a recap. Argos Comm took on Elkhart Christian on Feb. 24 at Argos Comm High School. For results, click here.
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Q&A with the First United Bank president and CEO regarding leadership and more
Greg Massey is the president and CEO of First United Bank, and is the winner of one of this year's Top Workplaces leadership awards.
The Oklahoman asked Massey about his views on leadership and successfully navigating challenging times. His answers have been lightly edited for style, and come as part of this year's Top Workplaces coverage, an annual ranking of some of the state's best places to work, as ranked by their employees.
Q: As the nation’s economy emerges from the pandemic, how has your company fared? How has your company changed as a result?
A: Navigating through the pandemic was a unique challenge for everyone. As a purpose-based organization, we are dedicated to the success of our stakeholders — employees, customers, shareholders, communities and partners. This deep commitment enabled us to focus on their needs and to balance how we served them during the pandemic. As an organization, we leaned in to supporting each other through flexibility, collaboration and teamwork, and I believe we are stronger for it.
Q: Companies have faced challenges in hiring and retaining staff members during the last two years. How has your company responded to these challenges? What does your company do to keep staff members motivated and happy with their work?
A: We are incredibly proud of our First United Bank Family. They are talented, hard-working and loyal individuals committed to living our purpose daily. No matter the instability of our world, we understand that it is a blessing to be a part of a stable and growing organization full of people dedicated to extending love and making an impact, so this year, to help our employees fight financial burdens caused by the current economy and inflation, we gave a 7% companywide pay increase across all locations in Oklahoma and Texas. This increase reinforces our commitment to them and our stakeholder model and highlights the importance we place on doing what’s right.
Q: What are some key pieces of leadership advice you’d share with young and aspiring leaders? Please explain.
A: To young and aspiring leaders: Truly know yourself. Understand your God-given gifts, your purpose and what you are passionate about. Once you truly know yourself and find your purpose in life, magic will happen, and you will find joy in every day.
Q: What are some of your company’s near and long-term goals?
A: Currently, we are working on our Vision 2030 goal of elevating 10 million lives through love and impact. We have several exciting initiatives in place that will enhance both the employee and customer experience, provide greater levels of mentorship around our Spend Life Wisely Pillars (Faith, Financial Well-Being, Health, and Personal Growth) and support our communities in a bigger way. | 2022-12-06T22:41:25+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/2022/12/06/greg-massey-wins-leadership-award-for-top-workplaces/69614956007/ |
HOUSTON (AP) — Kyle Kuzma scored 20 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter to help the Washington Wizards rally for a 108-103 victory over the Houston Rockets Wednesday night.
The Wizards trailed by as many 19 points and were down by 10 to open the fourth quarter before Kuzma took over.
The Wizards scored the first eight points of the fourth to start a 15-2 run that gave them an 86-83 lead with about eight minutes left. The Wizards made five free throws in that span and Kuzma had 10 points with two 3-pointers.
Tari Eason made a layup for Houston after that before Kuzma made two more 3-pointers in less than a minute to power an 8-0 run that pushed Washington’s lead to 94-85.
“We’ve seen it from him,” Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. said. “Once he gets going he’s shooting into a big bucket. We needed it. We trust to put the ball in his hands in these moments and he’s come up big for us.”
Houston’s Alperen Sengun had 21 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for his second career triple-double. Jalen Green had 19 points on 6-of-19 shooting after scoring a career-high 42 points Tuesday night against Minnesota in a win that snapped a 13-game skid.
“Late third quarter we got away from the things that are about winning, about building winning habits, about taking the right shot, about making the right path, and we’ve got to be better,” coach Stephen Silas said. “Young and inexperienced and all that, we’ve got to do better.”
Four points by the Rockets got them within four with less than 30 seconds to go before Bradley Beal made two free throws to make it 107-101. A dunk by Kenyon Martin Jr. cut the lead to four again with seven seconds to go but Kuzma made 1 of 2 free throws to seal the victory.
After the poor start to the fourth quarter, Houston got going, using an 7-2 run, with two dunks from Martin, to cut the lead to 96-92 with 4 1/2 minutes left.
But the Wizards scored the next five points to make it 100-92 with three minutes to go.
Eric Gordon made a basket for Houston after that but another 3 by Kuzma extended Washington’s lead to 105-97 with less than a minute to go.
Unseld was disappointed in how his team started the game but impressed with the way his guys bounced back.
“Not the prettiest game,” he said. “Didn’t have the energy in that first half… but to their credit they responded after halftime. In that fourth quarter we really ramped it up.”
The Rockets were up by 15 at halftime and had a 13-point lead with about eight minutes left in the third. The Wizards then used a 10-2 spurt to cut the lead to 66-61 with about 6 1/2 minutes left in the quarter. Corey Kispert had five points during that stretch and Kuzma capped it with a 3-point play.
Houston scored the next six points, with four from Jae’Sean Tate, to extend the lead to 72-61 with less than four minutes to go in the quarter.
Newcomer Kendrick Nunn made a 3-pointer for Washington after that, and Green added four points for the Rockets before another 3 by Nunn cut Houston’s lead to 76-67.
The Rockets added a basket before a 4-0 run by the Wizards, highlighted by a dunk from Kuzma cut the deficit to 78-71.
But Houston scored the last three points of the quarter to take an 81-71 lead into the fourth.
TIP-INS
Wizards: Kristaps Porzingis missed a second straight game with an ankle injury. … Monte Morris sat out with a sore right hamstring. …
Rockets: Kevin Porter Jr. missed a seventh consecutive game with a bruised left foot. … Garrison Mathews received a flagrant foul early in the third quarter for a hit on Daniel Gafford, that sent him tumbling to the court. … Beal had 17 points.
NUNN’S DEBUT
Nunn made his Washington debut after being part of the trade from the Lakers for Rui Hachimura Tuesday. He had 12 points.
Unseld liked what he saw from his new player.
“I thought he was good,” Unseld said. “It’s tough because we haven’t had a full practice. But he just played to his strengths. He’s a good player. He’s got the ability to fill it up.”
UP NEXT
Wizards: At New Orleans on Saturday night.
Rockets: Host Cleveland on Thursday night.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says the site of the devastating train derailment in Ohio is a “potential crime scene,” blasting House Republicans for not holding a hearing on the incident.
“This committee needs to hold a hearing on the derailment in East Palestine,” the New York Democrat said during a House Oversight and Accountability hearing on Thursday as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee grilled the CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway. “This is not just a disaster site. It is a potential crime scene.”
The federal government continues to deal with the fallout of the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, which sparked an environmental and public health disaster.
Ocasio-Cortez said Norfolk Southern should not be allowed to directly participate in the cleanup efforts.
“We don’t let folks return to the scene of a crime,” she said. “And we’ve been letting that — potentially, potentially — for almost a month now.”
While federal investigators have opened a probe into the company’s safety measures and culture, Pennsylvania has said it is investigating whether criminal charges could be filed in the crash in Ohio.
Ocasio-Cortez’s plea for a hearing on the derailment came during an Oversight panel investigation into the Office of Personnel Management, part of the GOP promise to hold rigorous oversight of the Biden administration in the party’s new House majority.
While federal and state officials have said that the air quality in the village of East Palestine is safe, residents have continued to report medical issues including headaches and respiratory difficulties.
Ocasio-Cortez implored Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to organize a hearing on the incident quickly.
“This cannot be a political food fight,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Evidence is evaporating, and people are getting sick … it’s not even partisan, because in my view… both parties are failing in this moment to address the needs of people.” | 2023-03-09T20:02:58+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/hill-politics/ocasio-cortez-east-palestine-a-potential-crime-scene/ |
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More than 40 athletes from Iowa and Iowa State could be facing discipline from both law enforcement and the NCAA for impermissible online wagering.
The NCAA consequences could be far worse than the legal ones.
While the penalty for betting on sporting events in the state of Iowa for individuals under the age of 21 is a fine of $645, a college athlete could be sidelined for most of a season because of NCAA rules.
Five years since a Supreme Court decision paved the way for states to legalize betting on sporting events, more than half have done so. As legal gambling on games has become pervasive, NCAA rules prohibiting it remain strict and college sports leaders are cautious about dialing them back.
Tulane athletic director Troy Dannen said decision-makers should always be open to modernizing NCAA bylaws to reflect changing societal norms. He cited how marijuana-usage rules were relaxed to reflect more permissive laws in recent years.
“But the fact that it’s legal doesn’t mean it should be acceptable if you are a student-athlete," he said.
Earlier this week, Iowa and Iowa State acknowledged they are cooperating with both local gaming regulators, law enforcement and the NCAA after in an investigation of gambling activities revealed potential involvement by athletes in multiple sports.
That came on the heels of Alabama firing its baseball coach amid an investigation by gaming authorities of suspicious bets placed in Ohio on one of its team's games.
In the Alabama case, no athletes are suspected to be involved. In the Iowa case, some Hawkeyes baseball players have already been sidelined from competition, which is routine when a school believes the eligibility of an athlete may have been compromised.
The Iowa director of gaming told The Associated Press earlier this week that no evidence indicates match fixing or suspicious wagering activity in games involving the Hawkeyes or Cyclones.
NCAA rules prohibit athletes, coaches and staff from betting on sports in which the NCAA conducts a championship. For example, athletes aren’t allowed to legally place bets on NFL or games or pro golf. Even participation in a March Madness bracket pool with stakes is prohibited.
College athletes can bet on horse racing where it is legal and gamble in casinos if they are of legal age, but NCAA rules against legal wagering are stricter than most professional leagues. The appetite to ease them might be low.
“It would be a major mistake to change NCAA rules regarding gambling if it negatively impacts the integrity of games,” Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips told AP via text message.
Dannen said he had not seen anything introduced in the governance process that would loosen the NCAA rules, while Ohio athletic director Julie Cromer had a simple summation.
“It’s different to be a competitor than to be a consumer of sports,” said Cromer, who co-chaired the NCAA’s Division I transformation committee last year.
The most high-profile recent case involving an athlete being punished for otherwise legal gambling came last year at Virginia Tech. Football player Alan Tisdale was suspended six games — half a season — for betting on NBA games. Tisdale self-reported the bets to Virginia Tech officials, and initially received a nine-game suspension from the NCAA before it was reduced after a Virginia Tech appeal.
Iowa State said football players, wrestlers and track and field athletes were among the 15 identified in the state's probe. Iowa said it had received information about 26 athletes from baseball, football, wrestling, men’s basketball and men’s track and field teams.
The Hawkeyes and Cyclones play their annual football rivalry on Sept. 9 so any NCAA discipline handed down to players on those teams is likely to impact that game.
The twin gambling scandals come at a time when college sports and the NCAA are in a tumultuous period of transition, facing legal and political pressure over how athletes can be treated and compensated.
Modernization has been a buzzword among administrators as the NCAA looks to reform its outdated amateurism model and deregulate.
But making it more permissible for athletes to legally wager doesn't fall under the umbrella of athlete benefits, said Dannen, who was also a member of the D-I transformation committee.
“Because there is a scandal or two should we change the rules to permit what is currently scandalous?" he said. “That doesn't seem to be the right reason to change a rule.”
Even as college sports conferences and schools explore ways to tap into the potential new revenue sources tied to legal wagering, leaders don't see much benefit to less stringent rules.
“I would side on continuing to have very strict and punitive NCAA bylaws,” Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. "Because what is the upside to allowing sports wagering? Go bet the ponies. Go play blackjack."
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EL PASO COUNTY — A real estate developer wants to build a luxury hotel in Black Forest. The proposal was included in a revised sketch plan for Flying Horse North and approved during a land use review by El Paso County Commissioners in November.
Several neighbors in Black Forest believe the proposal violates the county master plan and are lobbying commissioners to reject it.
Terry Stokka is president of the 2,600-member Friends of Black Forest. He moved here roughly 30 years ago after retiring from the Air Force.
"We love it here and we want to preserve it," Stokka said.
Stokka also serves as Chair of the Black Forest Land Use Committee which oversees the Black Forest Preservation Plan. That plan governed real estate development in the forest for decades.
"The Black Forest Preservation Plan was the first small area plan they call it, the first small area plan for the State of Colorado," Stokka said.
Any house built in the forest must be located on a lot that measures at least 5 acres.
“The lots were set at a five-acre minimum in the forested area just for the purpose of both not taking down more unnecessary trees and more roads and more clearing, and also just to preserve water because we're all on private wells,” he explained.
Rick Stauch, a board member for the Cathedral Pines Metropolitan District, shares Stokka's love of the forest. He grew up in Colorado Springs and saw an opportunity to buy a dream home in Black Forest when the Cathedral Pines development was approved.
"Growing up, Black Forest was always this magical place."
Homes in Cathedral Pines are built on smaller 2.5 acres lots. However, Stauch explained that the county managed to honor the limits of the preservation plan by including a large open space as part of the development.
"Overall, when you looked at the plan for Cathedral Pines, including the open space, on average we had a density of one house per five acres," Stauch said.
The preservation plan was replaced in May of 2021by the new El Paso County Master Plan. That document recommends minimum lot sizes of 2.5 acres for Rural Residential zoned areas such as Black Forrest.
The master plan for Flying Horse North included 283 residential lots, a golf course, and open space when it was approved by commissioners in 2018.
In addition to the hotel, the revised sketch plan also calls for 846 residential lots.
Phil Stuepfert, a consultant with H.R. Green, gave the presentation for the sketch plan to the board on behalf of developer Elite Properties of America, Inc.
Stuepfert explained how the the proposal for residential lots in the forested area will maintain the 2.5 acre size.
"Now, in those areas, we are doing 2.5 acre lots that are just like all of the other developments that are in the Black Forest," he said. "We're matching that exactly."
The higher-density parts of the sketch plan will have lot sizes of less than an acre and are placed east of the forest. The sketch plan places the hotel in the forest.
Stokka, Stauch, and other Black Forest residents believe the hotel and smaller lots conflict with the new county master plan which considers Black Forest as rural residential zoning.
Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez, Jr. was the only board member to vote against it.
"El Paso County spent over 2 years and over $600,000 updating our land use master plan that looked into all areas of the county including the Black Forest area," he said. "And so, I thought if we're going to spend that many man hours and that much of our taxpayers funds that we should try to follow the master plan."
The vote was a 3-1 decision in favor of the developer with commissioner Holly Williams, who represents Black Forest, recusing herself. Land use meetings are quasi-judicial hearings, meaning board members should avoid any bias when making their decisions.
"There was a conversation that I had while this matter was under consideration. Because of that conversation, I have concerns about my ability to hear the matter fairly," Williams said before leaving the meeting.
Stokka said more than 700 members of the Friends of Black Forest provided public comments opposing the new sketch plan at both the planning commission meeting and land use meeting.
Stauch explained that residents are worried about the impact of higher-density housing and commercial developments on roads and water.
"We were trying to put together a very clear package as to why Flying Horse North is not the kind of development that ought to be put into Black Forest," he said.
Commissioner Stan VanderWerf said he strives to treat every developer the same.
"We have a whole set of requirements, and it's a large set of requirements. And if they meet those requirements, my inclination is to approve that and I would do that in the exact same way for any developer that comes before the Board of County Commissioners," he said.
The El Paso County Planning Commission gave county commissioners no recommendation on the sketch plan as their involvement ended with a 4-4 split vote.
VanderWerf said he appreciated all of the public input on the development and stressed that the sketch plan is a very early step in the process.
"It’s, in my opinion, a declaration of the intent of the developer. And there’s plenty that still has to be done with regard to sufficiency in zoning when we get to the specific design of the development," he said.
Still, the trend of the project thus far has left Stokka feeling as if their voices don't matter.
"We thought we had a strong case and we thought we had a lot of support from the county master plan, but it just became apparent to us that this was something that we were not going to win."
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A New Concept in Entertainment that Merges the Best of Digital Technology with Family-Friendly Competition Coming to American Dream
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its rapid growth across the United States, Activate–the indoor, interactive gaming experience–is excited to announce the opening of its first location on the East Coast, located within American Dream, expanding the entertainment and retail destination's lineup of world-class attractions. Activate - New Jersey (American Dream) will celebrate its official grand opening on August 3, 2023, but is now open with limited hours for its soft opening period from July 28 to August 2, with 10 percent of sales during such period being donated to Activate's national charity of choice, Best Buddies.
Activate offers a fun-filled experience for individuals, families, and groups seeking a new form of entertainment. A range of exciting high-tech activities tests physical and mental agility across a variety of real-life challenges, where gamers put their strategy and teamwork skills to use. Once inside, players have the option to choose from hundreds of combinations of games and difficulty levels, each lasting one to three minutes. Electronic wristbands track scores and progress, making Activate ideal for a casual night out with friends and family, or intense competition.
"Activate is known as a destination for fun and adventure, and we are thrilled to bring this to American Dream," notes Bryce Anderson, Co-Owner of Activate. "Our new American Dream location is the perfect place for us to open our East Coast flagship. Activate boasts state-of-the-art technology and equipment. Visitors can expect an immersive, thrilling experience that will leave them wanting to return."
Activate - New Jersey (American Dream) proudly unveils its sixth location in the USA, spanning 5,600 square feet and boasting 9 engaging game rooms. Among the most popular games is Grid, an interactive experience with 256 pressure-sensitive, color-changing tiles that challenge players to step on or avoid specific tiles to complete each round. Mega Grid, double the size of Grid, tests gamers' quick thinking as they race to the right spot and freeze into statues at the perfect moment. New at the New Jersey location, Activate is introducing the latest game room, Strike, an innovative evolution of the fan-favorite Arena room. During their 50 minutes of playing time, guests enjoy the flexibility to explore all game rooms available during their visit, and are not tied to just one play style.
"We're thrilled to add Activate to the growing list of unique experiences at American Dream," said Don Ghermezian, American Dream's CEO. "American Dream is constantly evolving its entertainment lineup to delight our multi-generational audience. This innovative concept that combines digital and sport-style games is truly the next evolution in attractions and will be an outstanding option for our guests."
Activate - New Jersey (American Dream) is located in Court A, Level 1 by the Main Stage and will be open Sunday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m, starting Friday, August 3. Ticket prices are $24.99 each and give access to the full facility for 50 minutes of playing time. Appointments can be booked in advance online at activate.games/newjersey or by calling (201) 636-7588.
Walk-ins are welcome upon availability. Activate requires a ticketed adult accompanying children 10 years old and under. For children between the ages of 11-13, an adult must be present at the facility throughout the gaming experience but does not need to be ticketed.
In addition to American Dream, Activate has five locations in the United States including Gatlinburg, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky; Plano, Texas; and Oakbrook, IL, with additional locations opening in Houston, Texas, Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia later this year.
Activate Games will be the latest addition to American Dream's world-class lineup of indoor attractions, which include DreamWorks Water Park, Nickelodeon Universe Theme Park, LEGOLAND Discovery Center, SEA LIFE Aquarium, Big SNOW Ski Hill, The Escape Game, Dream Wheel, and exciting attractions coming soon such as The Game Room Powered by Hasbro and Skip Barber Racing Go-Kart Academy.
For more information about Activate and to purchase tickets, please visit www.activate.games/newjersey.
ABOUT ACTIVATE
Founded in 2019, Activate is a state-of-the-art gaming facility with locations across the United States and Canada. Each Activate location offers a variety of unique gaming rooms for players to compete, earn stars and track achievements. Activate combines physical activity and gaming to create an immersive experience as part of a healthy lifestyle. To learn more about Activate, please visit www.activate.games.
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American Dream, developed by Triple Five Group, is an unparalleled mix of world-class entertainment, retail and dining, comprising more than 3 million square feet just minutes away from New York City in East Rutherford, New Jersey. American Dream is home to leading attractions, including DreamWorks Water Park, Nickelodeon Universe Theme Park, LEGOLAND Discovery Center, SEA LIFE Aquarium, Big SNOW Ski Hill, Dream Wheel – a 300-foot observation wheel overlooking the NYC skyline, as well as attractions debuting soon such as The Game Room Powered by Hasbro and Skip Barber Racing Go-Kart Academy. American Dream's immersive luxury shopping and dining experience – The Avenue – features Saks Fifth Avenue, Hermès, Saint Laurent, Dolce&Gabbana, Carpaccio, a fine-dining Italian restaurant, and much more. The retail collection is further expanded with flagship locations for Aritzia, H&M, PRIMARK, Uniqlo, Sephora and Zara; as well as the Toys"R"Us global flagship, the only standalone location in the U.S, and the world's first and only "candy department store," IT'SUGAR.
For more information on American Dream, visit www.americandream.com or find us on Instagram @americandream and TikTok @americandream_official.
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What’s so great about the new Surface models?
Yesterday, right in the middle of the Prime Early Access Sale, Microsoft had its October 2022 news event. This is when the company announces what consumers have to look forward to with the new models. Contrary to recent Apple and Google Pixel events where the companies focused mostly on flashy new features, Microsoft’s upgrades were primarily under the hood.
In this article: Microsoft Surface Laptop 4, Microsoft Surface Pro 8 and Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio
What are the new Surface products?
There were three new products announced at the Microsoft event yesterday: the Surface Laptop 5, the Surface Pro 9 and the Surface Studio 2+.
Surface Laptop 5 (13.5-inch and 15-inch)
The Surface Laptop 5 is Microsoft’s next generation of Surface laptops. The Surface Laptop is a laptop with a detachable keyboard so it can be used as a tablet or a laptop and the user gets the full benefits of both. Specifically, you can interact via touchscreen, keyboard or glass trackpad, whichever is best for your current needs. The Surface Laptop 5 starts at $999.99 and will be available on Oct. 25.
Surface Pro 9
The Surface Pro is similar to the Surface Laptop, but it’s much more designed as a tablet-first device. It’s still an extremely powerful tool, but it mimics a laptop the way an iPad functions as a laptop, rather than being a full laptop. The Surface Pro 9 starts at $999.99 and will be available on Oct. 25.
Surface Studio 2+
The Surface Studio 2+ is the company’s most powerful offering. It takes everything you love about the Surface Laptop and goes one step further. It adds a hinged stand that lets you adjust the 28-inch display however you’d like, serving as a desktop or a tablet. The Surface Studio 2+ starts at $4,499.99 and will be available on Oct. 25.
What to expect on Microsoft’s Surface products
The focus of the upgrades was on ease of use, accessibility and increased power. These are brought to life through Windows 11. Following are some of the key points made at the Microsoft event.
Surface Laptop 5
- The Surface Laptop 5 is 50% more powerful than the previous model, and it uses Thunderbolt 4 for faster data transfer.
- The Surface Laptop 5 is powerful enough to run two 4K monitors.
- The Surface Laptop 5 has a fast charge that can give you 9 hours in 30 minutes.
- The Surface Laptop 5 has more vertical space than typical laptops, and the display is enhanced with Dolby Vision.
- The Surface Laptop 5 employs Dolby Atmos for a truly immersive experience.
- The Surface Laptop 5 has true-life video that automatically adjusts to any lighting.
- The Surface Laptop 5 has front-facing microphones for more accurate voice detection.
Windows 11
- Windows 11 is redesigned to offer greater accessibility with less hassle.
- Windows 11 is packed with organizational tools, such as Snap, that can streamline your workflow.
- Windows 11 offers a seamless integration between Microsoft devices.
- Windows 11 offers integration with certain Apple product features, such as iCloud, and coming soon, Apple TV and Apple Music.
Surface Pro 9
- The Surface Pro 9 is available in a special edition Liberty floral print.
- The Surface Pro 9 has an intelligent screen display that adapts to how it’s being used.
- The Surface Pro 9 pen has built-in resistance to accurately mimic the feel of writing on real paper.
- The Surface Pro 9 has auto-frame, portrait blur and blur-free zooming to greatly enhance the interactive video experience.
- The Surface Pro 9 has intelligent noise cancellation features that can block out environmental sounds, so your voice is always crisp and clear, even if you’re using a hair dryer while talking.
Surface Studio 2+
- The Surface Studio 2+ is five times more powerful than the Surface Laptop Studio.
- The Surface Studio 2+ has a zero-gravity hinge for effortless adjustments.
- With Microsoft Designer, the Surface Studio 2+ can create layouts and designs via descriptions: the user can type in the elements they want to incorporate and the machine will create several layout options that can be used as a final product or a springboard.
- Soon, with Bing Image Creator, the Surface Studio 2+ will be able to draw anything you describe. If you need a baboon driving a race car, just type that in to create the image.
Other Surface models you can get right now
Since the new Surface products are not available yet, here are the latest models that you can get right now.
This model has a 70% speed upgrade from the Surface Laptop 3. You can get it in two sizes: 13.5 inches or 15 inches. With the Dolby Atmos 6, you can watch content and be immersed in audio.
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This current model comes with Windows 11 and offers the same natural paper feel as the newer model. It has a built-in kickstand and a detachable keyboard so you can use it however you’d like.
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio
This is the model for designers. It features cutting-edge AI to help with projects and displays uniform, true-to-life color. It works with the Surface Slim Pen 2 and has a 14.4-inch touchscreen.
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This is the more portable version of the Surface Pro. It weighs only 1.2 pounds and has a compact design with a 10.5-inch screen. The all-day battery life gives you up to 11 hours on a single charge.
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If you need an extremely compact design, the Surface Duo 2 has a revolutionary hinge and two screens so it can function as a tablet but be folded down to fit in your pocket for ease of transport.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s chief justice fired all the members of the Public Defense Services Commission on Monday, frustrated that hundreds of defendants charged with crimes and who cannot afford an attorney have been unable to obtain public defenders to represent them.
The unprecedented action comes as Oregon’s unique public defender system has come under such strain that it is at the breaking point. Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation due to a shortage of public defenders filed a lawsuit in May that alleges the state is violating their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.
In a letter to the commission members, Chief Justice Martha Walters pointed out that their duty is to “ensure that Oregon provides public defense services consistent with the Oregon Constitution, the United States Constitution, and Oregon and national standards of justice.”
“Unfortunately, it is now clear that it is time to reconstitute the current commission,” she said.
Oregon’s public defender system is the only one in the nation that relies entirely on contractors: Large nonprofit defense firms, smaller cooperating groups of private defense attorneys that contract for cases and independent attorneys who can take cases at will.
But some firms and private attorneys are periodically refusing to take new cases because of the workload. Poor pay rates and late payments from the state are also a disincentive. The American Bar Association found that Oregon has only 31% of the public defenders it needs.
Walters said “systemic change” is called for and that the commission must collaborate with Oregon’s executive and legislative branches and the public defense community “to create a better system for public defense providers.”
The Public Defense Services Commission currently has nine members, in addition to Walters who as chief justice serves as ex-officio permanent member. Walters made the dismissals effective on Tuesday and said that if any members want to serve on a reconstituted commission, they should apply by noon Tuesday.
The commission is an independent body that governs the Office of Public Defense Services and appoints its executive director. Walters told the commission last week that Executive Director Stephen Singer failed to lead the agency out of crisis, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported. The commission considered firing Singer but didn’t.
Commission member Thomas Christ told the newspaper that Walters wants Singer removed and that he believes she “decided to just fill the commission with people who’ll vote the way she wants on that issue.”
Commission member Steven Wax, who was the U.S. Public Defender for the Oregon district for 31 years and is currently legal director of the Oregon Innocence Project, said he is unhappy about the chief justice’s action.
“The commission has been working tirelessly on difficult issues and reforms,” Wax said. “Disagreement is inevitable. I was sorely disappointed to receive the chief justice’s letter.”
The chief justice appoints the commission members and can remove them, according to Oregon law.
“I never anticipated exercising this authority, but this issue is too important, and the need for change is too urgent, to delay,” Walters said.
Todd Sprague, spokesman for the Oregon Judicial Department, said that to his knowledge, the entire commission has never been dismissed before.
Oregon’s backlog has led to the dismissal of dozens of cases.
Jesse Merrithew, an attorney representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said being deprived of a lawyer right after an arrest causes problems that are almost impossible to overcome later on, for example in obtaining surveillance video before it is erased that could back up a defendant’s case.
Oregon’s system was underfunded and understaffed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the backlog grew amid a slowdown in court activity because of safety protocols. | 2022-08-16T11:05:41+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/oregon-justice-fires-panel-due-to-lack-of-public-defenders/ |
BEIJING, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambow Education Holding Ltd. ("Ambow" or the "Company") (NYSE American: AMBO), a leading cross-border career educational and technology service provider, today announced that its succeeded in winning two tenders. The first successful tender concerns a project to upgrade the intelligent classroom solutions at Hulunbuir College, and the second involves the procurement of a new recording system for the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou Medical College. Delivering its one-stop integrated intelligent education solutions, the Company will advance the institutions' intelligent education development.
Supported by an array of patented technologies and responding to dynamic market demand and new innovation, Ambow's one-stop intelligent education solution, combining teaching, learning and management, provides high-quality, cross-device and multi-situational live and recorded services. While meeting the diverse needs of different educational environments, the Company expanded its remote applications, facilitating users' effective response to crises, including the epidemic. In addition, it assisted colleges and universities in extending and developing their learning resources and space, promoted innovative lecture models, and optimized the teaching environment. Ambow solutions' continuous improvement will support its deeper integration within higher education and ensure its technology keeps driving important advances in the sector.
Dr. Jin Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ambow, commented, "Colleges and universities are key venues for applying and developing intelligent education products. With substantial recognition from progressively more colleges and universities, we are more determined than ever to follow the path of technological innovation. Leveraging our experience accumulated over the past 20 years in the vocational education sector as well as our proprietary technologies, we'll further expand our business capabilities and share educational outcomes, deepening our commitment to provide educators and students across the nation with world-class educational resources and services."
About Ambow Education Holding Ltd.
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. is a leading national provider of educational and career enhancement services in China, offering high-quality, individualized services and products. With its extensive network of regional service hubs complemented by a dynamic proprietary learning platform and distributors, Ambow provides its services and products to students in 15 out of the 34 provinces and autonomous regions within China.
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BERLIN (AP) — Four German regions plan to scrap rules requiring people infected with the coronavirus to isolate at home, arguing that the pandemic has evolved and it’s time for a different approach.
The health ministry in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said Friday that the region and two of its neighbors, Bavaria and Hesse, as well as Germany’s northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, were working on details of new rules.
The ministry pointed to declining infections, effective vaccinations, a high degree of population immunity, milder illnesses and the example of countries such as Austria that have loosened rules.
Bavaria said its blanket isolation mandate would end Nov. 16. The state’s health minister, Klaus Holetschek, said in a statement that the time was right to give people more individual responsibility.
“The decision doesn’t mean that we will give free rein to infections,” he said. “People who test positive will in the future have to put on a mask outside their own apartment. And of course, the principle still goes that people who are sick stay at home.”
In Germany, decisions on coronavirus rules are largely a matter for the governments of the country’s 16 states. Measures have generally been coordinated nationwide since the pandemic started in 2020, though to varying degrees, and the states enjoy a great deal of autonomy.
The national disease control center currently recommends that states order five days of isolation for infected people.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said the states’ decision was “an important mistake” that would lead to a patchwork of rules in Germany but federal authorities couldn’t prevent it.
“There is also no medical reason to dispense with an isolation mandate now,” he said. “We currently have about 1,000 COVID deaths per week; we probably face a heavy winter wave.”
In April, Lauterbach backed off a short-lived proposal to end mandatory isolation. He said at the time that the idea, which was intended to lighten the burden on local health offices, was a mistake and sent the wrong signal.
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The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said in a tweet Friday that he is willing to testify to Congress next week, but that he will be limited in what he can say and that he “won’t be as helpful” as he’d like to be.
The tweet came in response to several tweets earlier this month from House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, who had requested that Sam Bankman-Fried attend next week’s hearings over the collapse of FTX.
Waters, a California Democrat, said in a series of tweets to Bankman-Fried that based on multiple media interviews since FTX collapsed, it was “clear to us that the information you have thus far is sufficient for testimony.”
FTX failed last month in what was essentially a cryptocurrency version of a bank run, when customers tried to withdraw their assets all at once because of growing doubts about the financial strength of the company and its affiliated trading arm, Alameda Research. Since its collapse, FTX’s new management has called the cryptocurrency exchange’s management a “ complete failure of corporate controls.”
Bankman-Fried has admitted his own failures in preventing the collapse.
In a series of tweets to Waters, Bankman-Fried listed specific issues he would be able to discuss with the committee, including the solvency of FTX’s U.S. business, its American customers and possible solutions for returning assets to international clients. He also said he could talk about what he thinks led to the crash and “my own failings.”
Bankman-Fried has said that he takes responsibility for FTX’s collapse and that he failed to grasp the amount of risk Bermuda-based FTX and Alameda were taking on across both businesses. One of the accusations made against Bankman-Fried is that he arranged for Alameda to use customers’ assets in FTX to place bets in the market. Bankman-Fried has said in public interviews that he did not “knowingly” co-mingle customers’ assets with Alameda.
Exchanges like FTX are supposed to segregate customers’ deposits from any bets they place in the markets. Other financial companies have gotten into trouble for misusing customers deposits, one example being MF Global roughly 10 years ago.
In a TV interview just over a week ago, Bankman-Fried said he largely believed the U.S. affiliate of FTX was entirely solvent and could start processing withdrawals at once. As for the rest of FTX, which was significantly larger than the U.S. division, he said the fate of customers’ funds were largely out of his control.
Bankman-Fried, who was once one of the richest people in the world on paper, now says he is getting by on a single credit card and likely has less than $100,000 to his name after FTX’s failure.
Waters has said that FTX’s collapse had “harmed over one million people,” and tweeted on Tuesday that if Bankman-Fried was not willing to testify that a subpoena was “definitely on the table.” | 2022-12-09T21:12:53+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-former-ftx-ceo-bankman-fried-says-will-testify-to-congress/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque is ramping up efforts to get shopping carts off the streets. Shopping carts can be seen across the city, abandoned on sidewalks and accumulating near homeless encampments. The Solid Waste Department says its highway and litter crews have already rounded up more than 5,000 carts this year.
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The department is hoping to expand those efforts and possibly get retailers, whose carts are getting swiped, involved. “We want to either partner with a local business or want to enhance something that we’re already doing to address those shopping carts you’re seeing throughout the city,” said Matthew Whelan, Director of the Solid Waste Department.
The department is proposing a customer rate increase to pay for the expansion, along with more cleanup at homeless camps in general. That would cost each household an extra $1 per month. | 2022-05-07T02:32:08+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-looks-to-get-shopping-carts-off-the-streets/ |
There is no community center in St. Paul’s North End, and given the limited recreational options for kids, city officials have made a case to state, federal and nonprofit partners as to why that should change.
Funding streams are still coming together, but revenue from a somewhat unlikely source — a federal offshore drilling tax — is now a significant part of the budget mix.
The Sierra Club and the National Park Service recently announced a $2.4 million federal Department of the Interior grant for a North End Community Center, to be constructed at a near-vacant site at 1025 Rice St., which is currently home to an underused ballpark.
Jayni Rasmussen, senior campaign representative for the Sierra Club’s Outdoors Alliance for Kids, said the grant dollars stem from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, established in the 1960s and backed by offshore drilling tax revenue.
“They’re going to be meeting some of the unmet needs of the area,” Rasmussen said. “It’s one of the only federal programs that really helps to address this issue of developing better, quality outdoor recreation spaces, specifically for communities with these unmet needs.”
The $20 million project would include a new 25,000-square-foot building with state-of-the-art amenities, including a gym, study room, dance room, fitness room, teaching kitchen and outdoor plaza, as well as improvements to the existing six-acre park near the Rice Street Library and directly across from Wellstone Elementary School.
The project, which could be bid for construction this year, would include a multi-use athletic field, sepak takraw courts, a new play area, increased flexible green space, a storm water management system, lighting, furnishings, plantings, landscaping and onsite parking.
The project’s preliminary budget is $20 million, according to St. Paul Parks and Recreation, but given inflation and rising construction costs, it’s possible the final budget may need to be adjusted upward.
The city has requested $16 million in state funding, which is in the governor’s proposed capital budget. Another $9 million has been allocated from city bonding for design and construction.
“We still are needing the Legislature to do its part,” said St. Paul City Council President Amy Brendmoen on Wednesday. “That gets us closer. $2.4 million is great. (Right now) it’s a vacant baseball field.” | 2022-05-12T18:39:32+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/12/st-pauls-proposed-north-end-community-center-gets-2-4-million-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-offshore-drilling/ |
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to smell cannabis and cannabis related products before purchasing and without opening the packages," said an inventor, from Los Angeles, Calif., "so I invented THE CONTACT. My design enables you to quickly and easily differentiate between different cannabis scents."
The invention provides modified packaging for cannabis products. In doing so, it allows consumers to experience the scents before purchasing. As a result, it could enhance customer satisfaction and it could increase product marketability. The invention features a simple design that is easy to use so it is ideal for owners and operators of marijuana dispensaries. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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ROCHESTER, Minn.-- There are a number of birthing services available to future mothers, and having a 'doula' by your side is one of them.
Psalms Frye is a trained labor support person, or 'doula' in Rochester who offered insight on other ways mother's can advocate for themselves when it comes to the best care in the delivery room.
A doula, although vastly different from a mid-wife, nurse, and child-birth educator--falls among the three when it comes to labor and delivery-- providing physical, emotional, educational, and mental support for pregnant women and their families.
The term ‘doula' itself comes from ancient Greek, meaning " a woman who serves."
"It's empowering to me. It makes me feel like I'm living out my purpose," Frye says.
According to the American Pregnancy Association, women who used a doula during labor reported a more positive childbirth. While other studies have shown having a doula as a part of their labor team “decreases the overall cesarean section rate by 50 percent, the length of labor by 25 percent and requests for an epidural by nearly 60 percent.”
Frye, who is a mother of 5 says it wasn't until she was pregnant with her last child , that she began doing research into how the pregnancy statistics hit closer to home than she thought.
She says, "digging in, that's when I became aware of the Black Maternal Health Crisis in America right now."
Based on statistics from the CDC, black women are three times more likely to die during pregnancy or the following year. The CDC goes on to state that 80 percent of pregnancy related deaths are preventable if more concerns were addressed.
Frye says fear for her own pregnancy caused her to stay home until she was 10 centimeters, which she also says she does not recommend for other mothers. however this fear pushed Frye into wanting to make a change. she started her business, Peace and Compassion Birth Services.
"Peace and compassion because it can get chaotic. "Frye adds.
On the Peace and Compassion website, Frye assures future moms of 'a birth you'll want to remember'. She says she wants the pregnancy and birth experience to be fearless for other moms, and says during sacred moments everyone deserves to be comforted. she says this is why a birthing team should also stand together.
" A medical professional may feel like a doula is there to take over,” Frye said. “That is not me. What's important to me is that we work as a team. because bumping heads won't serve me, it wont serve the mother and it won't serve the medical staff. "
She says, "I always tell my clients to use their brain. ‘B’, What are the benefits? ‘R’, What are the risks? ‘A’, What are the alternatives to this method? ‘I’, Use your intuition and ‘N’, What if we do nothing?"
Frye says she is also happy to know that awareness on the work of a doula is becoming more widespread
According to the National Health Law, as of 2022 at least 17 states are in the stages of planning, considering or implementing Medicaid doula reimbursements. | 2023-05-03T07:50:51+00:00 | kimt.com | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/doulas-joining-labor-team/article_aab006e2-e96a-11ed-8aab-ff1cfac5cc0b.html |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Donna Kelce is going to have to pull out that now-familiar custom jersey — the one with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s front stitched to Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce’s back — one more time this season.
At least this time, she’ll get to see her boys in person.
For the first time in Super Bowl history, a pair of siblings will play each other on the NFL’s grandest stage. Kelce helped the Chiefs return to their third championship game in four seasons on Sunday night when they beat the Bengals for the AFC title, while Jason has the Eagles back for the second time in six years after their NFC title win over the 49ers.
“Cool scenario to be in, you know?” Travis Kelce said. “My mom can’t lose.”
Or maybe can’t win.
Indeed, there have been plenty of famous NFL siblings over the years, and many had some memorable matchups: Peyton vs. Eli Manning, Tiki vs. Ronde Barber. But they never reached the same Super Bowl, or had to put their dear old mom in such a predicament, where one will be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at the other one’s expense.
“It’s going to be an amazing feeling playing against him,” added Travis, whose team has gotten the better of big brother’s Eagles the last three matchups. “I respect everyone over there in the Eagles organization. You won’t see me talk too much trash because of how much I love my brother. But it’s going to be an emotional game, for sure.”
Jason Kelce was even ever-so-briefly a Chiefs fan Sunday night, pulling on a Kansas City sweatshirt for about the three hours between the end of the Eagles’ 31-7 rout of San Francisco and the finish of his little brother’s 23-20 win over Cincinnati.
“That’s it for the rest of the year,” Jason said with a smile. “I am done being a Chiefs fan.”
He’ll leave that to mom and dad.
While her husband, Ed, has mostly kept private over the years, Donna has been a fixture as she crisscrosses the country to watch her boys. During wild-card weekend last year, she started in Tampa Bay watching the Eagles against the Buccaneers, then hopped a plane to Kansas City in time to watch the Chiefs play the Steelers at night.
She already has seen both of her sons win Super Bowls, too: The Eagles beat the Patriots in 2018 in Minneapolis, and the Chiefs rallied to beat the 49ers in Miami two years later.
She hasn’t seen much of them lately, though. The way the playoff schedule worked out for the divisional round and the conference championship games, it was impossible for Donna to make it to see both of her boys in person.
In any case, they’ve come a long way from their solidly middle-class upbringing in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Jason blazed the trail as the star offensive lineman who earned a scholarship to Cincinnati, and Travis soon followed suit. Both caught the eyes of NFL scout during their college careers, and of one coach in particular: Andy Reid.
It was Big Red who, while coaching the Eagles, used a sixth-round pick on Jason during the 2011 draft. And two years later, after Reid had gotten a fresh start in Kansas City, the Chiefs used a third-rounder to bring Travis into the fold.
“Big brother probably protected Travis from doing some crazy things. He probably talked him from dropping off a ladder into raked-up leaves once or twice,” Reid said Monday. “Listen, they’re both at heart very competitive and compassionate, is the biggest thing. They care and they care about people and they care about they’re game.”
They also happen to be very good at it.
Jason has been to six Pro Bowls and was just voted an All-Pro for the fifth time, and he’s emerged as one of the best offensive linemen in Eagles history. Travis has been to eight Pro Bowls, just made a fourth All-Pro team and is second in NFL history to Jerry Rice in playoff catches, yards and touchdowns.
Football’s not the only thing they’re good at, either.
The brothers have new a podcast called “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce,” which takes listeners on a riotous, real-time ride through the NFL season. The weekly shows are recorded on Tuesdays and last between 60 and 90 minutes, the two NFL stars playing off each other as if they were hanging out in mom’s basement.
Special guests have included Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and Chiefs counterpart Patrick Mahomes.
“They have a good mesh there, and a good relationship,” Reid said. “I think Travis has grown up a lot. Jason probably came in a bit more mature — Travis was a little immature. But he’s really grown into a good person.
“I have invested time in both of those two,” Reid added, “so I feel like a part of the family.”
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The holidays are always a great time to give back to those less fortunate, and at Sleep in Heavenly Peace, they have been doing so since 2018.
Syracuse chapter Co-President Jon Wright has been delivering beds to those in need since 2018 and 3,000 beds later, he is still going.
“When you see a small child, six, seven, eight years old, and they’re hugging a pillow, and they ask, Can I keep this? And you realize that it’s the first pillow they’ve ever had,” he said, “It’s theirs. There’s no greater reward than that to me. If you want true joy in life, help other people somehow.”
Saturday morning he made a special delivery.
Vera Hryshkova and her son Prokhor are refugees who came to Syracuse from Ukraine, and when they moved into their new apartment, Vera couldn’t afford another bed for her son.
“There are times when you look and you just know, and you just know that this is something that really is meaningful,” Wright said about delivering them a bed, “And you’ve touched somebody in a way that they needed to be touched.”
“I think what we offer is a little bit of hope to people,” he said “And there are a lot of organizations and a lot of groups that offer hope. And we’re just one small part of that by offering a bed to a child who doesn’t have one.”
“And now,” said Hryshkova, “We are going to have a truly blessed and happy holiday.” | 2022-12-10T22:31:05+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/sleep-in-heavenly-peace-syracuse-chapter-delivering-comfort-this-holiday-season/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a lawyer for then-President Donald Trump pushed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election, met for hours with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a person familiar with the interview said Saturday.
The interview with Giuliani took place virtually and lasted for much of the day on Friday, according to the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment.
Giuliani had been scheduled to meet with the committee earlier this month, but a spokesperson for the panel said that meeting was rescheduled.
The former New York mayor is seen as a critical aide for the committee, which has interviewed nearly 1,000 witnesses, including family members of Trump and advisers in his inner circle. The panel plans a series of hearings in June.
In January, the committee subpoenaed Giuliani and other members of the Trump legal team who sought to overturn election results in battleground states through lawsuits that made unsupported claims of vast election fraud. Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, has said there were no widespread irregularities that could have affected the outcome of the race won by President Joe Biden, and judges across the country have dismissed the allegations.
At the time of the subpoena, the committee said it was seeking records and an interview with Giuliani, and that it wanted information about Giuliani’s reported encouragement of Trump to direct the seizure of voting machines and his efforts to persuade state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.
Giuliani also spoke at the rally in front of the White House that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection.
CNN first reported Friday’s interview with Giuliani.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report. | 2022-05-22T21:27:58+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-source-giuliani-interviewed-for-hours-by-1-6-committee/ |
NORMAN — On Saturday morning at Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium, Casey Thompson will stand under center and lead the Cornhuskers against sixth-ranked Oklahoma. The last quarterback to start for Nebraska in the Scott Frost era, he'll be the first of the Mickey Joseph era, however long it lasts.
But how about a world where Thompson was suiting up for the Sooners this fall, following in his father’s footsteps as a quarterback at OU? Sooners coach Brent Venables certainly considered it.
“We tried to get him here in the offseason and thought we might have an opportunity,” Venables said Tuesday. “I know he considered us. But I think he saw a great opportunity there, a unique opportunity. Happy for him.”
Instead, Dillon Gabriel will make his third start for OU at 11 a.m. Saturday in Lincoln. And Thompson, the former Texas quarterback and son of former Sooners passer Charles Thompson, will get his fourth crack running the show for the two-loss Cornhuskers, seven days after the defeat to Georgia Southern, which cost Frost his job.
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On Tuesday, Venables poured praise on Nebraska’s athletic quarterback — the one who has completed 63.9% of his passes for 866 and four touchdowns to three interceptions in three games — comparing Thompson’s skillset with former Big 8 and Big 12 stars Tommie Frazier, Vince Young and Brad Smith. He touched on his relationship with Charles, who quarterbacked OU from 1986-88, and the Thompson family, too.
“They're just sports junkies as a family, but most importantly just very supportive outwardly,” Venables said. “They were always there together. The family is just always together.
"I think I might have been going back to Clemson, on a weekend (this offseason). One of the first times, maybe it was the first time I was flying out of OKC, I saw Charles. Days later, maybe hours later, Casey got in the portal. We were back on the phone again immediately.”
Thompson ultimately opted for Lincoln and the Sooners swayed Gabriel from UCLA to Norman. But what a sliding doors moment it could have been for OU and Thompson, the one-time Longhorn.
Nonetheless, Venables is still rooting for him this fall.
“Casey’s an amazing young man,” Venables said. “Just a great family. So really pulling for him, except this week. But he’s done a great job. He’s played well.”
Joseph jumps into the fray
Nebraska interim head coach Mickey Joseph couldn’t have expected all this when he joined the Cornhuskers’ coaching staff last December. In fact, the role he now holds, as Frost's replacement, wouldn’t have even been on Joseph’s radar when he went to sleep Saturday night.
“I didn’t wake up Sunday morning knowing this was going to happen. But it did and we have to accept it,” Joseph told reporters during a news conference Tuesday. “My message to the team was, ‘I know you’re hurting, Frost is like a brother to me. He gave me the opportunity to come here and coach at my alma mater, so I will always love, appreciate and respect him.’”
Joseph, 54, comes into his interim role with experience from a series of stops in 27 years including Tulane, Nicholls State, Central Oklahoma, Langston, Grambling State and LSU before Nebraska.
And since stepping into the job Sunday afternoon, Joseph has kept busy. His early changes included a shift in the Cornhuskers’ weekly schedule and a reconfiguration of Nebraska’s coaching staff. He’s kept tabs on his current team and attempted to reassure the program’s upcoming recruiting class. Somewhere in the flurry, there was time for a meeting with Tom Osborne.
On Saturday, Joseph makes his Power 5 head coaching debut on national television in one of college football’s most historic rivalry games. After that, he and the Huskers (1-3) will embark on an eight-game Big 10 schedule with aspirations of reaching a first bowl game since 2016 while Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts conducts a national search.
“For right now, my No. 1 focus and the staff’s focus is the players — that we make sure that they’re OK," Joseph said. "This is about Nebraska football and it’s bigger than me or anyone else.”
Davis' case for a forced fumble
OU defensive backs Jaden Davis and Billy Bowman were both on the scene to the force a fumble in the third quarter of Saturday's 33-3 win over Kent State.
"For us, that was the defensive play of the game," Venables said.
Together, Davis and Bowman combined for the turnover that led to Zach Schmit's 25-yard field goal. But in the box score, the sole credit went Bowman, the sophomore safety.
Was Davis snubbed?
"I mean, I grabbed him," Davis said Monday. "I don’t know. They give it to Bill. I’m always happy for Bill. It’s a turnover. You seen how hype I was for him. It don’t matter who gets called on that Jumbotron, I know that’s a team effort. It’s a forced fumble, fumble recovery. I mean it goes into team stats. So that’s what it’s all about.
"You know I texted Billy like, 'You know I had a hand in that.' I think they should give a 0.5 or something like that. But they only give (fractional stats) for forced fumbles."
Corn: It has the juice
At least one enlightened soul out there will tell you that corn is the most beautiful thing. Venables, at least the one who traveled through Nebraska as a kid in the late 1970s, might have agreed.
"When I grew up, on a pit stop to grandma and grandpa’s we’d pull over and we’d jump in a corn field and load up on some corn," Venables recalled Tuesday. "I guess that’s stealing, but I thought it was free because there was no store and no signs. That’s what we did, we got us some sweet corn."
Nebraska sellout
Barring an event that somehow keeps 90,000 from once again flooding into Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Saturday morning, something that hasn't happened since 1962, OU's visit to Nebraska will mark the program's 385th sellout.
"Geez — that's amazing," Venables said of the figure. "That's awesome."
"To me, you're able to go compete, coach, whatever, in that environment, talk about a cool moment. If you love the game, that's what it's about." | 2022-09-14T02:04:40+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/sports/college/ou/ou-notebook-could-nebraska-qb-casey-thompson-have-been-a-sooner-in-2022/article_20b064c6-33af-11ed-8fab-bfef9a5e0819.html |
SEATTLE, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released its 2023 Retiree Health Cost Index which projects the total premiums and out of pocket expenses a healthy 65-year-old can expect to spend on medical and prescription drug costs in retirement.
In 2023, a healthy 65-year-old retiree with Medicare Advantage plus Part D (MAPD) needs to save slightly less for healthcare costs compared to 2022, largely due to premium decreases across Medicare Part B and MAPD plans. This is despite a 3.4% increase in savings needed as a result of recent high inflation driving up the expected short-term healthcare cost trend.
We project a healthy 65-year-old male retiree with an MAPD plan will spend $134,000 for healthcare in his remaining lifetime (equating to $90,000 of savings in today's dollars), down from $137,000 in 2022. A 65-year-old female retiree with the same coverage will spend approximately $155,000 on healthcare expenses over the course of her lifetime ($100,000 in savings today), down from $158,000 in 2022.
For retirees covered by Original Medicare with Medigap (Plan G) and Part D (standard benefit), projected savings needed for healthcare costs increased by about 4.5% between 2022 and 2023. Increases in Medigap and Part D premiums and out-of-pocket expenses were largely offset by the lower Medicare Part B costs. The main driver of the increased savings needed is due to the higher expected short-term healthcare cost trend.
The same healthy 65-year-old male retiree covered by Original Medicare with Medigap (Plan G) and Part D (standard benefit) is projected to spend $277,000 on healthcare expenses in his remaining lifetime (equating to $185,000 of savings today), up from $264,000 in 2022. A female retiree with the same coverage will spend approximately $315,000 on healthcare in retirement ($203,000 of savings today), up from $300,000 in 2022. Higher healthcare costs for women are largely the result of longer life expectancy when compared to men.
"Our study found that inflation is likely to drive up healthcare expenses for retirees over the next several years, more so than any other factor," said Robert Schmidt, a principal at Milliman and co-author of the Retiree Health Cost Index. "When retirement planning, it's important to understand the different plan options available and how they impact coverage and cost, so you can make the best decision for your health as well as your finances."
The Retiree Health Cost Index includes key differences in coverage between Medigap and Medicare Advantage, along with a look at how healthcare costs might vary based on the state a retiree lives in and when the person retires. To view the complete Retiree Health Cost Index, go to https://www.milliman.com/retireehealthcosts.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Chinese tennis player Zhang Shuai quit a match after her opponent rubbed out a ball mark with her foot following a disputed line call at the Budapest Grand Prix.
The second-seeded Zhang retired from the match while trailing 6-5 in the first set against Hungarian opponent Amarissa Toth at the clay-court tournament on Tuesday.
The dispute related to a forehand from Zhang that appeared to be in but was called out. Zhang argued the decision but it stood and the match continued briefly before the disagreement about the line call began again.
As Zhang repeated her protests, Toth walked over to the ball mark and rubbed it out with her foot.
“Wait, wait, wait! Keep the mark,” Zhang shouted in response. “What are you doing? Why would you do that?”
Zhang sat crying and shaking her head on her chair for a few moments at the side of the court before quitting.
She shook hands with the main umpire and Toth before appearing to point her fingers at the crowd, which had booed and jeered her for disputing the call.
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Agriscience educators Caitlin Foster and Jeanna Burgan make up the entire agriscience department for the Chippewa Falls School District, teaching agricultural classes at the high school as well as some classes at the middle school.
They’re also two of the very best in the state.
This past June, Foster and Burgan were awarded the Outstanding Agricultural Education Award from the Wisconsin Association of Agricultural Educators. The award is given to agriculture educators who excel in the classroom as well as in the community.
The agriscience department has four different options for students to focus on: animal systems, plant systems, natural resources and food processing. The program contains 13 different classes that align those pathways.
The most popular classes are the animal systems classes. Burgan said many students are taking multiple ag classes, something that was especially apparent to her during the past school year.
The recognition is particularly special, since the teachers were nominated by their peers. Foster and Burgan’s nomination was made in June of 2021 by fellow area agricultural educators.
“(The application) involves a couple of pages of narrative. There are some key things we have to talk about with our program and describe and give examples of (it),” Burgan said.
Burgan said they were not expecting to win the award. It was still early in their partnership and they were “a little too new.” The award was a “someday goal” she hoped to achieve before retirement.
“Then we got a letter in the mail in February saying that we won. We were both shocked and thrilled and happy, but we were like ‘how did this happen?’” Burgan said. “Personally I’ve had 14 years of teaching and it is one of those things that, when you get up there in teaching years and you’ve worked hard, it’s that affirmation and that follow through.”
Foster said she did not expect to see the award any time soon, especially in her five years of teaching, and just as she enters her second at Chippewa Falls High School. Burgan has been teaching in Chippewa Falls for seven years.
The partnership began with the district’s student-intern teacher program, which recruits teachers who are finishing their university requirements. There are some similarities to a student teaching role. Foster was an intern in 2017 and the pair got along well from the beginning.
Following the transition from one to two faculty members in the agriculture department, Burgan was thrilled to hear Foster was hired.
“We have enough similarities, but we also have our differences that make us diverse. I think we balance each other pretty well,” Burgan said. “To me, it’s a special thing.”
To maintain the high quality of education agriscience students receive, Burgan said she is always looking for ways to learn new things. She participates in summer workshops and professional development courses in the agriscience field.
“This summer I went to a solar energy workshop so we could teach a little more about renewable energy resources,” Burgan said. “It was awesome. I was way outside my comfort zone which is what we want our students to do all of the time so we can explain to our students this is what you do as an adult.”
Burgan and Foster also will instruct sections of Earth science this school year, on top of the agriscience course load, to help out in the science department.
“Just like many other teachers, ag educators are asked to put on a lot of hats. So our workload is huge,” Foster said.
With the shortage of agricultural educators prevalent in Wisconsin, it’s important to recognize those that go above and beyond to support their students.
“Obviously we feel like what we do matters, but then for it to be shown and known is a big thing,” Foster said
“I think it’s important for our community to see its investment into our school is paying off,” Burgan said.
Four years ago, the Chippewa Falls School district passed a $69 million referendum for education building improvements. The high school used those referendum dollars to include a science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics building addition. The brand new addition houses the agriculture facilities for the district.
The addition includes a large classroom that allows both instructors to teach students at the same time, an animal stall that allows students to gain hands-on experience, as well as a large greenhouse that demonstrates sustainable growing practices. Everything produced in the greenhouse goes into school lunches.
The focus doesn’t stop when Burgan and Foster leave the classroom, either. They remain closely connected to agriculture outside of teaching.
“I don’t know if we do anything that’s not agriculture,” Foster said. “Ag kind of takes over your whole life.”
Foster owns a hobby farm and is the Horse Superintendent at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair.
“I always say that I have the best job ever,” Burgan said. “I do believe that we teach more challenging content. … The ag industry is huge and we’re supposed to be experts.”
Both Burgan and Foster agree that the recognition is a significant accomplishment, but the work doesn’t end here.
“It’s definitely a win for our agriculture program here and we’re just going to keep going up from here,” Foster said. “We’ve got a lot of goals.” | 2022-07-24T15:37:53+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/country-today/chippewa-falls-ag-educators-earn-recognition/article_5b5fe9e3-c1cc-5212-8cee-11d20b5f88b1.html |
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for young people suing Montana over damages caused by climate change said officials repealed the state’s energy policy in a last-minute bid to avoid a trial sought by the plaintiffs to highlight the dangers of fossil fuels.
The two sides are due in court Friday for arguments before state District Judge Kathy Seeley. A two-week trial is scheduled to begin June 12.
The case was brought in 2020 by attorneys for the environmental group Our Children’s Trust, which since 2010 has filed climate lawsuits in every state on behalf of youth plaintiffs. Many of the cases — including a previous one in Montana — have been dismissed. None have yet reached trial.
The still-pending Montana lawsuit sought in part to repeal a state policy promoting coal, gas and oil development. Scientists say burning those fuels is largely driving climate change by releasing planet-warming carbon dioxide.
But after the disputed energy policy was repealed in March by the state Legislature, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a Republican, last month asked the judge to dismiss any part of the case touching on the cancelled policy.
The cancellation did not end the state’s support of fossil fuels.
An attorney for the plaintiffs, Philip Gregory, told The Associated Press the policy was repealed “not because the state has committed to changing its fossil fuel policy and actions, but because the state seeks to avoid standing trial.”
He explained in an email that the state’s continued support for fossil fuels violates environmental protections in the Montana Constitution, which says the state “shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and all future generations.”
The lawsuit documents how the consequences of climate change already are being felt by the young plaintiffs, with smoke from worsening wildfires choking the air they breathe and drought drying rivers that sustain agriculture, fish and wildlife.
Attorneys under Knudsen wrote that the plaintiffs were resorting to “emotional appeals” about the dangers of climate change, “regardless of whether their claims are moot or meritless.”
Judge Seeley already has narrowed the scope of the case, ruling in 2021 that it was outside her power to issue a requested order that would have forced the state to craft a greenhouse gas reduction plan. The judge also said she could not order the state to complete an inventory of emissions caused by fossil fuels.
In both instances, Seeley said such work should be left to experts in the executive and legislative branches of government.
But Seeley said the court could declare that the state was in violation of the Constitution, without ordering that anything be done in response.
The sponsor of the measure that repealed the energy policy, Republican Rep. Steve Gunderson, did not return a call seeking comment. He said when it was under consideration before the Legislature that the policy was meaningless and outdated. | 2023-05-12T16:32:07+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/youth-climate-lawsuit-attorneys-say-montana-tried-to-scuttle-trial-by-dropping-energy-policy/ |
Nuggets make Denver a hoops town with first trip to NBA Finals in 47 years
DENVER (AP) — It took 3,787 regular-season games and 29 trips to the playoffs, countless ripoffs of rainbow uniforms and even more ‘yeah, buts’ than any city should have to stomach. Finally, 47 seasons into an entertaining, often frustrating and almost always overlooked journey in the NBA, Denver is at the center of the basketball world.
The Nuggets — yes, those sometimes-lovable and often-forgettable Nuggets — are in the NBA Finals.
The way they made it says everything about their near half-century in the league, and just how different this team is from every Denver team, even the really good ones, that preceded it.
The Nuggets brushed aside their long-held irrelevance by completing their first sweep in 44 NBA playoff series. They did it against the Los Angeles Lakers, the team that has caused them so much of their pain. Before the Western Conference finals, Denver was 0-7 in playoff series against the Lakers. Now, Denver is 1-7.
“It’s almost like shock a little bit,” Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon said, echoing a sentiment certainly being felt across the franchise’s long-suffering fan base. “You’re just like unsure, like, are you sure we don’t have more time on the clock? Are you sure we don’t have another quarter to play or another game to play?”
With all due respect to Dan Issel, Alex English, Carmelo Anthony and everyone else who ever wore rainbows, Nikola Jokic is the best player to put on a Denver uniform. He recorded his eighth triple-double of the playoffs in Monday night’s 113-111 win over LA, surpassing a record for a single postseason held by none other than Lakers great Wilt Chamberlain.
Jokic, who was 0.2 assists short of averaging a triple-double this season, got beat out for his third straight MVP this season by Philly’s Joel Embiid. Fans see it all as par for the course in a city where the team that debuted in the ABA as the Denver Rockets — not the better-known, better-respected Denver Broncos — really put the town on the national sports map. That was in 1967. The Broncos were still a laughingstock but the local basketball team put out a good product right away.
It was good enough to make the Nuggets a no-brainer when the ABA folded in 1976 and the NBA went picking through the wreckage to invite a few teams to join.
Between then and now, the city has seen its share of the spotlight. John Elway brought two Super Bowl titles home and Peyton Manning another. The Colorado Avalanche, who share a home (Ball Arena) and an owner (Stan Kroenke) with the Nuggets, have won hockey’s Stanley Cup three times, including last year. Even the Colorado Rockies have been to the World Series. The Nuggets only trip this close to the title came in 1976 when they lost in the last ABA final to Julius Erving and the Nets.
David Thompson; Larry Brown; Doug Moe; English; Issel; Anthony; George Karl; Allen Iverson; Chauncey Billups. All those coaches and players spent time in Denver. None ever got too close to that NBA title trophy while here. Before this week, Denver made the NBA conference finals four times, and lost all four.
It conspired to make the place little more than flyover territory — a city with high altitude that the schedule makers often tuck into other teams’ itineraries as part of long road trips with more exciting final destinations — LA, New York, Miami.
But Denver? It was a great place to take a night off — or, put more diplomatically, for teams to exercise the 21st-century NBA practice of “load management” for their best players.
While NBA titles, and the fanfare that comes with them, have been built on the shoulders of megastars for decades, the Nuggets never were part of that scene.
In fact, Jokic was the exact opposite of that when he arrived in 2014. Rather, he was a doughy second-round draft pick known only to the insiders who followed the Serbian hoops scene.
“Everybody gets cracked up into his stats but I don’t think a lot of people talk about, like, this part of his game,” LeBron James of the Lakers said after the sweep, as he pointed toward his head, indicating Jokic’s mastery of the cerebral part of hoops. “Maybe it’s not talked about it, because a lot of people don’t understand it, but I do. He’s special.”
Great as Jokic has been, it’s the addition of another under-the-radar player, guard Jamal Murray, and his return to full health that helped get this team over the top.
Murray was a lottery pick out of Kentucky in 2016, the year Ben Simmons was the top pick and considered the NBA’s Next Big Thing. Murray blew up in the bubble during COVID, bringing Denver within a series of the finals, only to see the Lakers snuff out another season. He missed the next two playoffs due to a devastating knee injury. These playoffs, Murray is feeling great. He averaged 32.5 points in the four-game sweep of LA.
“I think our chemistry is at an all-time high, the way we play, the way we read the game without even speaking,” Murray said. “We talk that language on the court.
“It’s just beautiful basketball, honestly.”
With the Nuggets in their first NBA Finals after all these years, it will be hard to find anyone in Denver who would argue with that.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The drive for clean water and air for minority and low-income residents is inexorably linked to the march toward racial equality that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. championed, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan told North Carolina state employees Friday.
Regan, a Goldsboro native and Gov. Roy Cooper's former environment secretary, delivered the keynote address to hundreds attending the annual King Day state workers' observance at a downtown Raleigh church. The slain civil rights leader was born 94 years ago on Sunday.
Regan became President Joe Biden's head of EPA in early 2021. Regan mentioned his travels while administrator to communities to speak with people fearful about the threat of toxic waste, unclean water and lead poisoning to themselves or their children.
“It’s never been more clear that the fight for civil rights is inseparable from the fight for environmental, economic, health and racial justice,” Regan said. “We simply cannot be for one without the other.”
Cooper introduced Regan at the service, praising him for helping “position our state as a leader in environmental justice” while Department of Environmental Quality secretary.
The observance was held in person for the first time since 2020. Coronavirus concerns prompted virtual ceremonies in 2021 and 2022. | 2023-01-13T21:07:46+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/EPA-chief-Regan-speaks-at-North-Carolina-King-Day-17716608.php |
PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) announced today that they will attend the Jefferies Industrials Conference.
Details of the conference are as follows:
About Kennametal
With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,600 employees are helping customers in more than 60 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $1.8 billion in revenues in fiscal 2021. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube##
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BOSTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariadne Labs today announced John Maraganore, PhD, as a new member of its Advisory Board. In joining the Advisory Board, Dr. Maraganore will serve as a trusted advisor to Ariadne Labs' mission to save lives and reduce suffering.
"We are thrilled to welcome John to the Advisory Board. With an incredible track record of innovation throughout his esteemed career, John will bring critical perspective to our work as we innovate for safer, more integrated, and equitable care for every patient everywhere," said Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Ariadne Labs.
Dr. Maraganore served as the founding CEO and a Director of Alnylam from 2002 to 2021, where he built and led the company from early platform research on RNA interference through global approval and commercialization of the first four RNAi therapeutic medicines. He continues to serve on the Alnylam Scientific Advisory Board.
Prior to Alnylam, Dr. Maraganore served as an officer and a member of the management team for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and as Director of Molecular Biology and Director of Market and Business Development at Biogen, Inc. Previously, he was a scientist at ZymoGenetics, Inc. and the Upjohn Company.
Dr. Maraganore received his MS and PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Venture Partner at ARCH Venture Partners, a Venture Advisor at Atlas Ventures, and an Executive Partner at RTW Investments. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Hemab Therapeutics and a member of the Board of Directors of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Beam Therapeutics, Kymera Therapeutics, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization, where he was Chair from 2017-2019. In addition, he serves on the Board of the Termeer Foundation, as Chair of the n-Lorem Foundation Advisory Council, and as a strategic advisor to a number of innovative companies.
Dr. Maraganore joins the following current members of Ariadne Labs' Advisory Board:
Robert S. D. Higgins (co-chair)
Michelle Williams (co-chair)
Paul J. Anderson
Don Berwick
Elliot Cohen
Andrew Dreyfus
Peter Hecht
Katie Hope
Karin S. Leschly
Jason Yeung
Gwill York
About Ariadne Labs
Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. With a mission to save lives and reduce suffering, our vision is that health systems equitably deliver the best possible care for every patient, everywhere, every time. We use human centered design, health systems implementation science, public health expertise, and frontline clinical care experience to design, test, and spread scalable systems-level solutions to some of health care's biggest problems. From developing checklists and conversation guides to fostering international collaborations and establishing global standards of measurement, our work has been accessed in more than 165 countries, touching hundreds of millions of lives.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Valentine’s day is on Tuesday, and the national retail federation predicts people will spend nearly $26 billion on their valentines this year.
Americans are expected to shell out more than $192 on things like flowers, candy, and cards. Inflation is at its worst on February 14th, because a dozen roses, for example, can cost around $100 on Valentine’s Day.
Heart-shaped chocolates and jewelry are also marked up ahead of the holiday, and people already have smaller budgets due to the ongoing challenges of inflation. So some people are willing to rely on credit cards to cover those Valentine’s Day costs.
About 27 percent of couples said they will need to rely on credit cards to afford gifts for their loved ones, and, for most of them, it will take at least two months to pay it off, LendingTree also found.
According to a report by WalletHub, one in five Americans think a Valentine’s Day gift is worth the credit card debt. If numbers reach predictions, this will be one of the highest spending years on record for Valentine’s Day. | 2023-02-13T13:07:55+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/this-valentines-day-possibly-one-of-the-highest-spent-years/ |
A Cheyenne woman is helping to raise public awareness of sepsis after her 15-month-old grandson died from it in late 2016. Sepsis occurs when the body’s response to an infection damages its own tissues and can lead to organ failure.
Machelle Stotts has partnered with Sepsis Alliance, which allowed her to meet others who have lost loved ones to the condition. It was through them that their message made it to Gov. Mark Gordon, who will sign a proclamation on Sept. 15 declaring September sepsis awareness month in Wyoming. Their efforts are also focused nationwide, where lobbying efforts are aimed at getting all 50 states to declare September as Sepsis Awareness Month. World sepsis awareness day is Sept. 13.
Stotts’ advocacy efforts began shortly after her grandson died, though she said that the official findings really marked the beginning of her efforts. As he and her husband were looking for a way to share their story and connect with advocacy groups, they came across different sources of information and education like Sepsis Alliance and the Rory Staunton Foundation.
An official proclamation for her signifies a broader societal awareness of a condition which affects about 1.7 million people and is responsible for around 350,000 deaths each year in the U.S. and approximately 20 percent of the world’s total deaths.
“It means that the word sepsis is being said, [and] so many people don't know what sepsis is,” she said. “And when we see people dying of this infection or that infection, the complications, so many times that complication is sepsis, but because the word is never said, people don't know what it is. The fact that the governor is willing to bring a light, a spotlight on sepsis, it's very meaningful for us, because any infection can lead to sepsis--and people need to know what it is.”
Stotts and her husband were raising their 15-month-old grandson, Oliver, known as “Ollie,” after a traumatic brain injury sustained in a car wreck left his mother unable to care for him.
“We don't really know how he got sepsis,” she said. “But he was fine Thanksgiving Day 2016, [and] enjoyed everything that Thanksgiving is all about. The day after he woke up with a high fever and a horrible cough.”
Stotts said Oliver had a cold earlier in the month and had also received a scrape above one of his eyebrows, something she said could have been the source of the infection. They thought Oliver might have had croup.
“I called my daughter who's had a child with croup, and I asked her listen to this cough [asking] ‘Does this sound like croup to you?’” she said. “It doesn't sound like what I would think croup should sound like and she said, ‘No, that does not sound like croup.’ We got off the phone a few minutes after that we were getting him in his pajamas, ready for bed, and he started coughing, and then he started gasping for breath. And I'll never forget the look on his face--it was just pure terror.”
Stotts and her husband took Oliver to the emergency room as a last-ditch attempt to find out what was making their grandson so sick.
“He had a high heart rate, fever, [which are] signs of sepsis,” she explained. “But it was missed. And sadly, Oliver came home and passed away sometime during the night.”
Their family wouldn’t know until weeks later that Oliver had sepsis until they received the autopsy report. It was something she didn’t know anything about.
“And we thought if we could spare anyone from having to go through the anguish and be a life sentence of grief that has been imposed upon us, if we could just save one person, one parent, so they don't know what it feels like to lose a child,” she said. | 2022-09-13T23:25:54+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/education/2022-09-13/gov-gordon-makes-september-sepsis-awareness-month-after-advocacy-efforts-from-a-cheyenne-woman |
NPR's Eric Deggans talks with director Elegance Bratton about his feature film The Inspection, which is inspired by his life and centers a young, gay Black man who's rejected by his mother.
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NPR's Eric Deggans talks with director Elegance Bratton about his feature film The Inspection, which is inspired by his life and centers a young, gay Black man who's rejected by his mother.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (KDVR) — Colorado rain in May and June is helping the bottom line for fireworks stands across the Wyoming state line.
“Our numbers are definitely up,” said Pete Elliott, who runs Artillery World Fireworks for his daughter. It’s off Interstate 25 across the state line, on Exit 2.
“I think people are so confident with the moisture, that they’re gonna take it into their own hands and celebrate,” Elliot said.
Elliott said business is so good, he’s having a tough time keeping products on the shelves and hiring enough employees.
Elijah Sauvain drove up from Colorado Springs and admitted: Greener conditions have him feeling better and safer about buying fireworks.
“I think it’s the best, so I’m going big,” the 20-something said.
Elliott said he will keep his doors open as long as he can on July 3-4. | 2023-07-04T05:08:49+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/wyoming-fireworks-stands-see-business-boom/ |
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