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Techno witch Catalyst is the latest Legend joining the Apex Games, and the first trans character to join the cast of battle royale “Apex Legends.” Her story is intimately tied with Broken Moon, the upcoming map for Season 15, titled “Eclipse.”
Every Legend in “Apex Legends” is crafted around having a certain vibe. If Catalyst was in a high school cafeteria, she’d be the socially awkward but confident goth girl giving crystal readings and talking about the phases of the moon. She looks like a neopagan industrial worker, combining safety gear with a New Age aesthetic.
“Catalyst is what I’d call a big sister type,” said Ashley Reed, narrative lead on “Apex Legends.” “She’s no nonsense and she doesn’t take crap from anybody. She does occasionally try to crack jokes with the other Legends but it tends to fall flat in unintentionally amusing ways.”
When developing Catalyst’s character, Reed said that the team took numerous steps to ensure that her portrayal as a trans woman was done “genuinely and properly.”
“We’ve said for a long time how important representation is in ‘Apex’ and we have a pretty diverse cast and we want specifically to have a pretty diverse cast,” said Reed.
Respawn worked with trans consultants from GLAAD, a media organization that monitors portrayals of LGBTQ people. Respawn also worked with Catalyst’s voice actor Meli Grant and the company’s internal LGBT groups to shape the Legend’s backstory. “Techno witch,” which is the phrase that became the team’s guiding design principle for Catalyst, was suggested by a trans consultant. Reed said that this type of input is vital for designing new characters.
Catalyst was born on Boreas, the same home planet as her fellow Legend, the outcast Seer. Seer’s birth coincided with a calamitous asteroid that obliterated Boreas’s moon Cleo, which has wrought havoc on the planet’s atmosphere. After Catalyst witnessed her best friend Margot sacrificing herself to destroy a facility suspected of stripping Cleo of resources, she decided to make the moon her home and joined the local terraforming crew working to restore the damage.
Working in Cleo’s Foundry (which will be a playable location in Broken Moon) is how Catalyst developed her combat abilities. She wields ferrofluid, a magnetic liquid metal that actually exists in real life and is commonly used as a seal or dampener for electronics. Catalyst’s applications for ferrofluid take on the look of dark magic flowing through her hands.
With her passive ability Barricade, Catalyst can fortify doors with ferrofluid to make them twice as resistant to melee damage. Doors reinforced by Catalyst can only be opened or closed by her teammates. Catalyst can also rebuild doors that have been destroyed.
Her tactical ability Piercing Spikes hurls a patch of ferrofluid on the ground that bursts into a row of spikes when enemies get near, damaging and slowing foes. Piercing Spikes can only be removed by enemies who get up close, so it can be used to initiate fights or cover a chokepoint.
The final ability rounding out Catalyst’s kit is her ultimate, Dark Veil. Dark Veil forms a wall of ferrofluid that obstructs vision but won’t block players from walking, driving or shooting through it. Enemies who attempt to travel through the wall will be slowed and partially blinded. The wall also jams most scanning abilities such as Bloodhound’s Eye of the Allfather.
“It’s a great tool for splitting up the battlefield and getting that extra bit of safety for pulling off a clutch heal or revive,” said OT Harrison, character designer and senior software engineer at Respawn.
For ideal squad compositions, Respawn suggested teaming Catalyst up with Legends who also specialize in area denial such as Caustic and Watson. High mobility Legends such as Octane and Pathfinder can leverage Dark Veil for surprise attacks. If you’re up against an enemy Catalyst, you can use those same mobile Legends to counter Dark Veil. Any doors that Catalyst buffs with Barricade can still be mowed down with gunfire and explosives.
Catalyst will be playable when “Apex Legends: Eclipse” launches Nov. 1. In the game’s ongoing story, the Apex Games arrive at Cleo after the local government agrees to host the tournament in exchange for financial assistance. Catalyst, angered that corporate interests are now threatening the terraforming work she and her fellow colonists have done, enters the games with the intent of using the prize money to help her people. This puts her on a direct collision course with Seer, the Legend who brought the Apex Games to Cleo. | 2022-10-27T16:03:21+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/10/27/catalyst-apex-legends-abilities-new/ |
ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Cameron Steele's 15 points helped Abilene Christian defeat McMurry 104-46 on Tuesday night.
Steele was 5 of 6 shooting and 3 of 3 from the free throw line for the Wildcats (2-1). Ali Abdou Dibba shot 5 of 6 from the field and 3 for 4 from the line to add 13 points. Tobias Cameron was 4 of 5 shooting and 3 of 3 from the free throw line to finish with 11 points.
The War Hawks (0-1) were led by Rob Charles, who recorded 11 points and three steals. CJ LeBlanc added 10 points and two steals for McMurry. In addition, Matt Pena had six points.
NEXT UP
Abilene Christian hosts Wright State in its next matchup on Monday.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-11-16T05:48:44+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Abilene-Christian-secures-104-46-win-over-McMurry-17588202.php |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Tribal colleges and universities around the U.S. will be able to tap nearly $15 million in grant funding to boost clean energy development as part of the federal government's latest investment in creating more reliable and sustainable electricity generation for Native American communities.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the new funding opportunity last week. It comes on the heels of another $50 million round of grants for deploying clean energy technology across Indian Country, where many communities have long been without basic services such as running water, electricity and broadband internet.
“We know that there is a huge need for energy reliability but also for energy access in Indian Country,” said Wahleah Johns, director of the agency's Office of Indian Energy.
Johns, who is from the Navajo Nation, described it as an energy crisis in which families — and tribal governments — often have to be creative when finding ways to operate on the fringes of major grids that supply Phoenix, Las Vegas and other cities with power.
That means developing micro-grids or installing solar panels so residents can power refrigerators or charge up cellphones and laptops, she said.
With the latest grants, officials at the Office of Indian Energy said the idea is to use tribal colleges and universities as a conduit to build systems that can cut down on campus electricity costs while training Native American students who can support a renewable energy economy in tribal communities.
The Blackfeet Community College in Montana already has found success with construction of a smart building that houses math and science classes and the installation of solar panels on campus buildings.
“The way I tend to see it is that we have a living lab here,” said Melissa Little Plume Weatherwax, director of institutional development at the college. “Tribes are looking to deploy commercially, and that workforce is going to grow. So we need to be ready as the ones who need to train them. I think we’re on the right track.”
Thelma Wall was a student when she helped to install solar panels on campus. Now she works as a tribal design associate with a large nonprofit, having worked on projects in New Mexico, Colorado and South Dakota.
Weatherwax said the training program also is translating to other parts of Montana's rural economy as more farmers use solar to operate systems that provide water for livestock.
Johns said tribes have been leading the way when it comes to renewable energy development, and it's been out of necessity given the lack of infrastructure in rural areas. Many small projects have led to commercial-scale projects, with the next step being tribal ownership of the power that is produced, she said.
Between 2010 and 2022, the Office of Indian Energy has invested more $120 million in over 210 tribal energy projects across the U.S.
This year's funding marks a significant boost, Johns said, adding that her office serves as a hub for tribes to access new money or connect with other agencies as they navigate the challenges of development and deployment.
Tommy Jones, a deployment specialist with the office, pointed to the Moapa Band of Paiutes in Nevada, who have already developed several hundred megawatts of solar power and are looking to develop more.
The glimmer of the panels in the desert outside of Las Vegas looked like a mirage to officials with the Office of Indian Energy during a recent visit. Along the dirt roads crossing the facility were speed limit signs warning about the possible presence of desert tortoises.
“There’s a lot of important factors related to sacred sites and cultural resources that folks, rightly so, are concerned about protecting, particularly when you’re talking about a really large-scale solar project,” Jones said. “And so having the community buy-in is critical to land use planning, making sure that what’s important, the vision of energy fits with the community.”
Johns said that has been a consideration for the Moapa Band of Paiutes as well as for the Navajo Nation, which signed an agreement with the federal government in December that calls for charting out that tribe's transition to renewable energy as more coal-fired power plants and coal mines in the Southwest are shuttered.
The infrastructure needed to address the energy crisis for Native American communities stretches into the billions of dollars, with access being just one part of the equation, Johns said. She also pointed to mounting pressures from climate change and the need to be culturally sensitive to developing projects in Indian Country.
“On our end. we are all about trying to come up with a long-term strategy that will support the energy resilience of tribes and their planning process, and that’s going to take a huge investment,” she said. | 2023-04-18T04:48:11+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2023/04/17/tribal-colleges-tap-us-energy-funds-to-build-living-labs/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Gabriel Boric shook up his cabinet Tuesday in an effort to relaunch his government less than 48 hours after he was dealt a resounding blow when citizens overwhelmingly rejected a new progressive constitution he had championed.
Boric, 36, changed the leadership of five ministries in what marked the first cabinet shake-up since he became Chile’s youngest president in March and has since suffered a precipitous plunge in his approval ratings.
“I’m changing this cabinet, thinking about our country,” Boric said, qualifying the shake-up as “painful but necessary.”
“This is, maybe, I don’t think I have to hide it, one of the most politically difficult moments that I’ve had to face,” he aded.
The shake-up does not come as a surprise. Boric, who had been a big proponent of adopting the proposed constitution, had previewed there would be changes coming to his administration during a televised address Sunday night, shortly after results showed Chileans had voted overwhelmingly against the proposed constitution.
The opposition had also said they were expecting changes to Boric’s team with some conservative leaders refusing to meet with the president to begin talking about a new constitutional process until there was a change in his government.
While the press waited for Boric to unveil his new ministers, sirens could be heard and the smell of tear gas was evident from a nearby protest as hundreds of students marched through the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago.
There were isolated clashes between demonstrators downtown with law enforcement that tried to disperse protesters in what marked the first important street demonstration since the constitution lost in Sunday’s plebiscite.
Izkia Siches, the former interior minister, was the biggest name to leave the cabinet but probably the most expected as her tenure had been marked by controversy. Carolina Tohá is taking her place.
Another strong Boric ally, Giorgio Jackson, was ousted from the post of secretary general of the presidency and will take on the role of social development minister. Ana Lya Uriarte is taking his place.
Boric also swore in new health, energy and science ministers.
Although polls had predicted Chileans would vote against the proposed constitution, the 24-point margin of victory for the rejection camp was a shocking repudiation of a document that was three years in the making and crafted by a constitutional convention that had been engulfed in controversy.
“We must listen to the voice of the people and walk alongside the people,” Boric said.
The process to write the constitution that Chileans rejected on Sunday began in 2019, when the country exploded in student-led street protests sparked by a hike in public transportation prices that quickly morphed into broader demands for greater equality and more social protections.
The following year, just under 80% of Chileans voted in favor of changing the constitution. Then in 2021, they elected delegates to a constitutional convention to write a new charter that would replace the one imposed by a military dictatorship led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago.
Boric had been a big proponent of the document that would have enshrined a string of new rights and at least some voters saw the plebiscite on the constitutional proposal as a referendum on his administration.
Despite the rejection, political leaders on all sides, as well as Chileans as a whole, largely agree that the constitution needs to change but it remains unclear how a new proposal will be written.
Whatever document the new convention comes up with is also likely to be far less ambitious than the 388-article proposed charter. The charter draft characterized Chile as a plurinational state, would have established autonomous Indigenous territories, prioritized the environment and gender parity and introduced rights to free education, health care and housing, among other issues. | 2022-09-07T10:36:18+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-chiles-boric-shakes-up-cabinet-after-constitution-loss/ |
CALGARY, AB, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL) ("Sundial" or the "Company") reported its financial and operational results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. All financial information in this press release is reported in millions of Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated.
The Company will hold a conference call and webcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. MDT) on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Please see the dial-in details within the release and additional details on Sundial's website at www.sndlgroup.com.
This press release is intended to be read in conjunction with the Company's Financial Statements and Notes for the period and the accompanying Management's Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A"). These reports are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Sundial has also posted a supplemental investor presentation on its website which can be found at https://sndlgroup.com/investors.
FIRST QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Acquired Alcanna Inc. ("Alcanna") on March 31, 2022, creating the largest private sector cannabis and liquor retail network in Canada.
- Net revenue for the first quarter of 2022 of $17.6 million, including one day of revenue on the acquisition of Alcanna, an increase of 78% over the first quarter of 2021.
- Alcanna's revenues for the period from January 1, 2022 to March 30, 2022 (prior to the date it was acquired by Sundial were $162.5 million, with gross margin of approximately $36.3 million, which, subject to certain acquisition-related and other adjustments, would have been consolidated with Sundial's results for this period had the acquisition occurred on January 1, 2022.
- Gross margin increased to $3.4 million for the first quarter of 2022 compared to a loss of $3.5 million in the first quarter of 2021, a 199% increase.
- Net loss was improved to $38.0 million for the first quarter of 2022 compared to a $134.4 million net loss in the first quarter of 2021, an improvement of 72%.
- Adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.7 million for the first quarter of 2022, compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $3.3 million in the first quarter of 2021, largely driven by central bank interest rate changes and fair value adjustments related to the SunStream joint venture.
- $1.0 billion of cash, marketable securities, and long-term investments and no outstanding debt at March 31, 2022; $361 million of unrestricted cash at May 13, 2022.
"The first quarter of 2022 was both transformational and transitional for Sundial," said Zach George, Chief Executive Officer. "We are now Canada's largest private sector distributor of both liquor and cannabis with 354 retail locations and have quickly benefitted from collaboration with our new legacy Alcanna colleagues. Sundial's regulated products platform provides unique insights into evolving consumer preferences and value propositions. We continue to strengthen and transform our business while benefitting from vertical integration across our segments under a shared services model. In less than two months, we have been able to increase branded product distribution by shipping products to Value Buds stores and have started to realize synergies against an integration plan that will be a focus for the balance of the year. Through cost structure improvements in our cannabis operations, we have created a more balanced and diverse product mix that focuses on higher-margin, higher-quality cannabis. In addition, the current rising interest rate environment has led us to make non-cash accounting adjustments to our largely fixed-rate SunStream portfolio, resulting in muted adjusted EBITDA contribution for the quarter."
Commenting on the current market environment, Mr. George added "While our shares have outperformed global and Canadian cannabis indices on a year-to-date and a one-year basis through May 13, we are focused on sustainable absolute returns and committed to the relentless pursuit of shareholder value creation. Sundial's debt-free balance sheet and ample cash reserves place us in an enviable position as we witness a reckoning taking hold in the Canadian cannabis market. Continued aggressive cash consumption by our peers, reduced access to capital, and waning investor risk appetite is likely to accelerate sector rationalization as the industry slowly moves towards the formation of an oligopoly."
FIRST QUARTER 2022 KEY FINANCIAL METRICS
FIRST QUARTER 2022 RESULTS
Sundial is comprised of four segments: Cannabis Cultivation and Production, Cannabis Retail, Liquor Retail, and Investments.
CANNABIS CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION
Sundial remains focused and committed to its cultivation and processing activities, including continuous improvement of its product offerings for customers while focusing on cost optimization and the most competitive and profitable strains and brands.
- Cost of sales per gram sold for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $2.69 compared to $2.87 for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The decrease of $0.18 per gram sold reflects reductions in per gram costs across all branded product formats due to operational efficiencies, despite increases in cost of power and wages.
- Gross margin for the first quarter of 2022 was negative $0.2 million compared to negative $3.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The gross margin improvement demonstrates Sundial's progress in implementing supply chain excellence to drive discipline around cost optimization, despite intense price compression and lower revenue.
- Cultivation consistency continues to improve in 2022 with Sundial's highest ever average weighted potency results achieved in the first quarter of 2022 at 23.9% THC representing a 1.5% increase from the previous quarter. Further, Sundial's average weighted yield per square foot broke a new Company record in March 2022, with an average weighted yield of 64 grams per square foot.
- Through its enhanced portfolio initiative, Sundial remains focused on the premium inhalables segment. The Company has made material improvements in its cultivation and innovation pipeline, which is contributing to an enhanced product portfolio nationally. In the first quarter of 2022, Sundial's priority SKU distribution increased nationally by 1,389 points as measured by internal Customer Relationship Management reporting. Further, the company continues to partner effectively with provincial boards and secured 159 new inhalable product listings nationally year to date. This innovation success rate represents a 92% strike rate against the Company's plan despite provinces and retailers scrutinizing and rationalizing SKUs.
- Sundial has terminated the Service and Sale Agreement between Sundial and Sun 8 Holdings Inc. for a total consideration of approximately $3.1 million in cash and $2.9 million in Sundial shares. As part of this transaction, Sundial has acquired the royalty rights to own the intellectual property of Top Leaf, which eliminates the royalty fee Sundial was paying to Sun 8.
REVENUE FROM CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION
Gross revenue from branded cannabis products was $9.7 million for the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 8% compared to the first quarter of 2021. The increase in branded sales as part of the company's product mix reflects the progress and commitment to executing its retail vertical integration strategy across Western Canada and Ontario. Total gross revenue from the cultivation and product of cannabis was $11.3 million for the first quarter of 2022, a decrease of 3% compared to the first quarter of 2021. The decline in gross revenue was driven by a 42% decrease in wholesale sales to other Licensed Producers in the first quarter of 2022 versus the first quarter of 2021.
NET SELLING PRICE
Average net selling price per gram was $2.60 in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 5%, compared to $2.48 per gram in the first quarter of 2021. The increase was due to higher prices for provincial board sales. Provincial board prices have increased due to the shift of the mix of Sundial offerings from value products to core products as well as lower price discounts and concessions compared to the prior period.
REVENUE BY FORMATS
In the first quarter of 2022 gross revenue from Sundial's formats was:
CANNABIS RETAIL
The Company's expanded retail network creates an opportunity to own the relationship with cannabis consumers and showcase both Sundial's branded products and the best offerings from other Canadian licensed producers.
- Effective March 31, 2022, Sundial appointed Marcie Kiziak as its President, Cannabis Retail.
- Gross margin for retail operations for the first quarter of 2022, was $3.3 million dollars.
- As of May 13, 2022, the Spiritleaf store count is 103 (20 corporate stores and 83 franchised stores) and the Nova store count is 80 stores.
- Sundial continued to see brand share increase for its house brands sold in Spiritleaf locations through the first quarter and we continue to see product penetration momentum in the second quarter of 2022. Value Buds stores began carrying Sundial brand products immediately following the Alcanna acquisition.
REVENUE FROM CANNABIS RETAIL
Gross revenue from the cannabis retail segment for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $7.5 million, including $0.7 million representing one day of sales for Nova.
SYSTEM-WIDE RETAIL SALES
System-wide retail sales1 at were $34.6 million for the first quarter of 2022 compared to $41.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. System-wide retail sales represent the aggregate revenue earned by franchised Spiritleaf retail cannabis stores and corporate-owned Spiritleaf retail cannabis stores and do not represent revenues that accrue to the Company. The Company receives all revenues from corporate-owned Spiritleaf retail cannabis stores, and royalties and advertising fees in respect of the franchised Spiritleaf retail cannabis store revenue.
The Nova retail stores results are comprised of one day of operations following the acquisition on March 31, 2022, and were as follows:
- Gross revenue was $0.7 million.
- Gross margin was $0.2 million.
While Sundial does not account for the results of the Nova retail stores prior to the acquisition date, the results for the period from January 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022 were as follows:
- Gross revenue of $49.8 million.
- Gross margin of $9.4 million, or 18.8% of sales.
- In the first quarter of 2022, Nova opened six new Value Buds locations with 12 further store openings planned for the remainder of 2022.
LIQUOR RETAIL (ALCANNA)
With the Alcanna acquisition on March 31, 2022, Sundial is now Canada's leading regulated products platform. Sundial has commenced and will continue the post-acquisition integration work throughout the remainder of 2022.
The retail liquor segment results are comprised of one day of operations following the acquisition on March 31, 2022 and are as follows:
- Gross revenue was $1.3 million.
- Gross margin was $0.3 million.
While Sundial does not account for the results of the liquor retail segment prior to the acquisition date, the results of Alcanna's retail locations for the period from January 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022 were as follows:
- Gross revenue for liquor retail sales for the Ace Liquor, Wine and Beyond, and Liquor Depot banners was $114.7 million.
- Gross margin was $27.3 million, or 24.1% of sales.
- In the first quarter of 2022, one Ace Liquor and four Wine & Beyond locations were opened in Alberta.
INVESTMENTS
- As of the end of the first quarter of 2022, the Company had deployed capital on several cannabis-related investments totaling $650 million, including $453 million to the SunStream Bancorp Inc. joint venture ("SunStream"). For the first quarter of 2022, the investment portfolio generated interest and fee revenue of $3.9 million ($2.8 million in the first quarter of 2021), share of the profit of equity-accounted investees generated from investments by SunStream of $4.1 million (nil in the first quarter of 2021), and an investment loss of $17.7 million (gain of $12.9 million in the first quarter of 2021) on marketable securities, which includes unrealized losses on publicly disclosed strategic investments in Village Farms International, Inc. and The Valens Company Inc.
- The investments in SunStream are accounted for at an estimate of their fair value prepared by independent valuators, reflecting current credit market conditions and underlying uncertainty. The impact of changes to interest rates during the quarter on the portfolio was approximately $6.6 million. Actual returns from investments may differ materially from the impact of accounting fair value adjustments. To date no credit losses have been realized in the SunStream portfolio.
REVENUE FROM INVESTMENTS
Revenue from investments in the first quarter of 2022 was negative $17.7 million, including unrealized losses on marketable securities of $17.8 million, due to fluctuations in share prices from our strategic equity portfolio of Canadian cannabis-related investments.
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL RESULTS
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2022 were $10.7 million compared to $7.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increase of $3.6 million was mainly due to increases in salaries and wages, office and general and professional fees. The increases in salaries and wages and office and general expenses were due to the acquisition of Inner Spirit Holdings in July 2021. The increase in professional fees was largely due to an increase in accounting services fees relating to the completion of the Company's 2021 year-end audit.
NET LOSS
The $96.4 million improvement in net loss is primarily due to the higher net revenue of $7.7 million, share of profit from SunStream of $4.1 million and change in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities of $121.6 million, partially offset by investment losses of $30.6 million and higher general and administrative expenses of $3.6 million.
ADJUSTED EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $0.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to positive Adjusted EBITDA of $3.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The decrease was due to the following:
- An increase in cost of sales, due to the inclusion of cannabis retail cost of sales; and
- A decrease in realized gains on marketable securities.
The decrease was partially offset by:
- An increase in net revenue, primarily as a result of the inclusion of cannabis retail revenue; and
- Share of profit from the SunStream joint venture.
LIQUIDITY POSITION
- Book value of net assets at March 31, 2022, was USD$1.3 billion or USD$0.53 per share
- As at March 31, 2022, and May 13, 2022, the Company had an unrestricted cash balance of $423 million and $361 million, respectively, and total common shares outstanding of 2.4 billion at March 31, 2022 and May 13, 2022.
SHARE REPURCHASE PROGRAM
- Sundial's insider trading blackout period expires on May 18, 2022. Management views the repurchase of shares as an accretive use of capital given the current trading price of Sundial's shares and management's view of the Company's liquidity, assets, and operations. In addition to the previously announced Share Repurchase Program, the Company recently sought approval from the Alberta and Ontario Securities Commissions to sell Sundial put options to enhance this program. No shares have been repurchased or put options sold by Sundial under the Share Repurchase Program to date due to the previously disclosed blackout.
STRATEGIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
Sundial remains focused on building long-term shareholder value through vertical integration, accretive deployment of cash resources, expansion of its retail distribution network, further streamlining of the Company's operating structure, and enhanced offerings of high-quality brands.
ACCESS TO UNIQUE INSIGHTS
- Across a broader retail value chain, Sundial's retail footprint is expected to help facilitate customer relationships and help capture additional economies of scale.
- By gaining insight into thousands of daily shopper transactions at over 354 retail stores, Sundial intends to optimize offerings, pricing, and promotions in both liquor and cannabis locations to better serve customers.
IMPROVED SUPPLY AND DEMAND PLANNING
- The vertical integration of Sundial is also designed to provide economies of scale and greater synergies with a shared services model, providing the company with the ability to better align its demand and supply plans and operate more cohesively.
- In addition to implementing more rigorous supply and demand planning processes, the company's extensive industry footprint may positively impact relations with regulators, suppliers, and distributors.
- The Company's access to a large customer base provides it with a strong foundation for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer strategies that are expected to increase revenue.
- Additionally, Sundial expects to continue to assess profitable opportunities such as private label offerings and to develop targeted merchandising strategies for its entire retail portfolio.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
With the acquisition of Alcanna, Sundial has gained significant retail experience and expertise. The Company's Board of Directors has appointed the following management team:
- Zach George – Chief Executive Officer
- Jim Keough – Chief Financial Officer
- David Gordey – Chief Administrative Officer
- Andrew Stordeur – President and Chief Operating Officer
- Marcie Kiziak – President, Cannabis Retail
- Tank Vander – President, Liquor Division
- Matthew Hewson – General Counsel and SVP, Legal and Regulatory Affairs
- Robbie Madan – Chief Information and Digital Officer
SPECIFIED FINANCIAL MEASURES
Certain specified financial measures in this news release, including adjusted EBITDA and system-wide retail sales, are non-IFRS measures. These terms are not defined by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures provided by other companies. These non-IFRS financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative for or superior to measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. These measures are presented and described in order to provide shareholders and potential investors with additional measures in understanding the Company's operating results in the same manner as the management team.
ADJUSTED EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure which the Company uses to evaluate its operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA provides information to investors, analysts, and others to aid in understanding and evaluating the Company's operating results in a similar manner to its management team. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) from continuing operations before finance costs, depreciation and amortization, accretion expense, income tax recovery and excluding change in fair value of biological assets, change in fair value realized through inventory, unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses, unrealized gains or losses on marketable securities, change in fair value of derivative warrants, share-based compensation expense, asset impairment, gain or loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment and certain one-time non-operating expenses, as determined by management.
SYSTEM-WIDE RETAIL SALES
System-wide retail sales is a non-IFRS measure which the Company uses to evaluate the performance of its retail operations. System-wide retail sales represent the aggregate revenue earned by both franchised and corporate-owned retail cannabis stores and do not represent solely the retail segment's revenue. The Company only receives royalties, advertising and franchise fees in respect of franchised Spiritleaf retail cannabis store revenue. The system-wide retail sales measure is useful to management in evaluating brand scale and market penetration and is used by management to assess the financial and operating performance of the Company and the strength of the Company's market position relative to its competitors.
CONFERENCE CALL
Sundial will host a conference call and webcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. MDT) on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
WEBCAST ACCESS
To access the live webcast of the call, please visit the following link:
https://services.choruscall.ca/links/sundialgrowers2022q1.html
REPLAY
The webcast archive will be available for three months via the link provided above.
A telephone replay will be available for one month. To access the replay dial:
Canada/USA Toll Free: 1-800-319-6413 or International Toll: +1-604-638-9010
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ABOUT SUNDIAL GROWERS INC.
Sundial is a public company whose shares are traded on Nasdaq under the symbol "SNDL." Its business is reported and analyzed under four segments: Cannabis Production and Cultivation, Cannabis Retail, Liquor Retail, and Investments.
As a licensed producer that crafts small-batch cannabis using state-of-the-art indoor facilities, Sundial's 'craft-at-scale' modular growing approach, award-winning genetics, and experienced growers set us apart. Sundial's brand portfolio includes Top Leaf, Sundial Cannabis, Palmetto, Spiritleaf Selects and Grasslands. Sundial has acquired Alcanna and is now the largest private sector cannabis and liquor retailer in Canada as the Company retail banners now include Spiritleaf, Value Buds, Ace Liquor, Liquor Depot, and Wine & Beyond.
Sundial's investment portfolio seeks to deploy strategic capital through direct and indirect investments and partnerships throughout the global cannabis industry.
For more information on Sundial, please go to www.sndlgroup.com.
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This news release includes statements containing certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law ("forward-looking statements"), including, but not limited to, statements regarding the Company's operational goals, demand for the Company's products, the Company's ability to achieve profitability or its goal of sustainable, positive gross margin and positive free cash flow, the development of the legal cannabis industry, performance of the Company's investments, including through the SunStream joint venture, any potential forms of shareholder value creation, the maintenance of production levels and maintenance or improvement in harvest THC levels (including during the COVID-19 pandemic), the expansion of product offerings, brand and market share and retail networks, and the integration and realization of expected benefits of the acquisition of Alcanna. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "likely", "outlook", "forecast", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements are only predictions. Various assumptions were used in drawing the conclusions or making the projections contained in the forward-looking statements throughout this news release. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Please see "Item 3.D.—Risk Factors" in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on April 28, 2022, and the risk factors included in our other SEC filings for a discussion of the material risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking information. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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SOURCE Sundial Growers Inc. | 2022-05-16T22:36:13+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/05/16/sundial-reports-first-quarter-2022-financial-operational-results/ |
The operator of a natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania says workers have successfully plugged a leak that had been spewing massive amounts of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere for two weeks.
Equitrans Midstream said the well at its Rager Mountain storage facility, located in a rural area about 1.5 hours east of Pittsburgh, was sealed shut with concrete on Sunday. The well had been venting about 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day since Nov. 6, according to initial estimates.
If accurate, that would total more than 1.4 billion cubic feet in methane, equal to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning more than 7,200 tanker trucks of gasoline.
Pennsylvania environmental regulators have issued the company notice of five potential violations of state law.
A written statement provided Sunday by Equitrans says the company had verified a 0% gas reading at and around the well. More than 250 feet of cement was pumped into the wellbore above two plugs to ensure venting does not recur, the company said.
The Rager facility is in Jackson Township, at the heart of the Marcellus Shale formation that has seen a boom in gas production since the introduction of hydraulic fracturing more than a decade ago. Residents living as four miles away from the leak told The Associated Press on Friday they could hear the roar of pressurized gas escaping from the well and smell the fumes.
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is colorless and odorless. But when the gas is processed for transport and sale, producers add a chemical called mercaptan to give it a distinctive “rotten egg” smell that helps make people aware of leaks.
Methane’s Earth-warming power is some 83 times stronger over 20 years than the carbon dioxide that comes from car tailpipes and power plant smokestacks. Oil and gas companies are the top industrial emitters of methane, which, once released into the atmosphere, will be disrupting the climate for decades, contributing to more heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires and floods.
The leak came as the Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 11 updated proposed new rules intended to cut methane and other harmful emissions from oil and gas operations.
The citations issued against the company by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection include failures to properly maintain and operate the gas facility, creating a public nuisance and producing a “hazard to public health a safety.” The company was also cited for failing to provide state inspectors “free and unrestricted access.”
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Biesecker reported from Washington. | 2022-11-21T00:53:19+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ap-company-leak-at-pennsylvania-gas-storage-well-plugged/ |
SIOUX CITY, IOWA (KCAU) – The American Association announced an official roster update for the Sioux City Explorers, detailing the club has released outfielder Jake Sanford.
The Nova Scotia native played in 47 games for the club this season, batting .213 while swatting 30 hits, 2 home runs, and 22 RBIs through 141 at-bats. Earlier this summer, the Western Kentucky University product joined Explorer third baseman Matt Lloyd on the Baseball Canada roster for the Pan American Games Qualifier.
Sioux City now has three outfielders on roster. | 2023-07-31T06:52:44+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/xs-release-outfielder-jake-sanford/ |
SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Two people and their dog were rescued from Sanibel Island Thursday after their neighborhood was ravaged by Hurricane Ian.
Video released by the U.S. Coast Guard showed an MH-65 Dolphin Crew fly over a neighborhood on the Florida island before hoisting Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Kilbane to the ground.
The guardsman is then seen speaking to a man and his grandmother standing outside their home alongside their dog.
“You did good!” Kilbane told the residents, commending them for being able to get the crew’s attention with a reflector.
The guardsman asked the residents if there was anyone left in the neighborhood, to which the residents said they didn’t know of anyone else around.
The woman was the first to be taken into a basket and airlifted into the chopper above. After she was safely aboard, Kilbane walked back, petted the dog, and got the man and his pup in the basket.
Kilbane and his crew have rescued several people from the aftermath in Sanibel, including a family and their cat.
Sanibel Island, meanwhile, was hit especially hard by Hurricane Ian. Parts of the Sanibel Causeway, the only road to and from the island, were wiped out amid the storm, making the roadway impassable. | 2022-10-01T21:21:31+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/video-shows-florida-helicopter-crew-rescuing-man-grandmother-from-sanibel-island/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An overnight raid by Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province killed six members of the extremist Islamic State group, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday.
The regional affiliate of the IS group — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — has been the key rival of the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. The militant group has increased its attacks, targeting both Taliban patrols and members of Afghanistan’s Shiite minority.
According to Mohammad Asif Waziri, a spokesman for the police chief in Balkh, the operation late Monday night targeted an IS hideout in Nahri Shahi district and six members of the militant group were killed.
The Taliban swept across Afghanistan in August 2021, seizing power as U.S. and NATO forces were withdrew after 20 years of war.
The international community has not recognized the Taliban government, wary of the harsh measures they have imposed since their takeover — including restricting rights and freedoms, especially for of women and minorities.
In March, a member of the Islamic State group carried out a suicide bombing that killed three people, including Daud Muzmal, the Taliban’s appointed governor for Balkh. Muzmal is one of the most senior Taliban officials to have been killed since they took power in mid-August 2021. | 2023-04-05T02:44:10+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/afghan-taliban-raid-kills-6-members-of-islamic-state-group/ |
As monkeypox cases continue to mount – topping 31,000 cases globally – governments of wealthy nations have been scrambling to buy vaccines. But what's available for the rest of the world?
NPR spoke with two people in a position to know: Matt Linley is with Airfinity, an independent, London-based analytics company that has been tracking production and deliveries of monkeypox vaccine. Dr. Phiona Atuhebwe coordinates the introduction of new vaccines in Africa for the World Health Organization. Here are eight takeaways.
1) Vaccine options are limited
In theory there are at least three existing vaccines that could be used to protect people from monkeypox. But one is not recommended for widespread use. It's a vaccine against smallpox called ACAM2000 that the United States' Food and Drug Administration has now made available for use against monkeypox under what's called an "investigational" protocol; in rare cases it may cause dangerous side effects such as swelling of the heart.
Another option, developed in Japan, "has had significant production issues," says Airfinity's Linley. "So they've been unable to scale up any significant amount of production to use it outside of Japan."
As a result, in practice, notes Linley, countries are currently turning to only one vaccine: the Imvanex vaccine often referred to as JYNNEOS and approved by the U.S. FDA specifically for monkeypox in addition to smallpox. The catch is that only one company makes it – Denmark-based Bavarian Nordic.
2) Supply is also limited
In an email, a spokesperson for Bavarian Nordic told NPR that the company has the capacity to produce 30 to 40 million doses of JYNNEOS annually. With the recommended two-dose regimen, this would be enough to cover 15 to 20 million people. (The number of individuals covered could presumably be expanded even further to 100 million people if other countries follow the lead of U.S. officials – who, in an effort to stretch the current U.S. supply, this month approved a plan to cut each dose by a fifth by using a different method for injecting the vaccine.)
But Linley is skeptical that Bavarian Nordic's production capacity is as high as the company claims. "At least from what's known about Bavarian Nordic's deliveries [to date], they are significantly lower than we would expect" if the company really were able to produce 40 million annually, he says. As to what Bavarian Nordic's true capacity is, Linley thinks it might be more like 20 million annually. But he adds "with the initial complications that they've had and the lack of data that we have [from them], it's hard to come up with a proper estimate."
3) There is a best case scenario where supply meets need
How does this admittedly fuzzy picture of the likely JYNNEOS supply match up against the likely worldwide need?
To get a sense, Linley first considered the population among whom monkeypox is currently spreading in the current outbreak. Right now that is overwhelmingly men who have sex with men, most particularly with multiple partners. There is no known figure of how many people in the world are in this category, says Linley. So to come up with an estimate, Linley turned to statistics that can serve as proxies for it – and that match up with the eligibility criteria that several countries are using to ensure their vaccine is given to those most at risk: Specifically men who are HIV positive and men who are taking PrEP, a medication that can reduce a person's chances of contracting HIV. Linley cautions, however, that this is a very imperfect proxy, because many men who are taking PrEP or who are HIV positive are not men who have sex with men or who have sex with multiple partners.
That said, Linley estimates that this target population encompasses 18 million people worldwide. It's possible that just a fraction of them would need to be vaccinated in order to halt the outbreak, says Linley. And in that case, at least within a few months, Bavarian Nordic should be able to produce sufficient quantities of JYNNEOS to accomplish that.
4) But many other scenarios are worrisome
The trouble is that this best case scenario falls apart quickly if other potential developments are factored in. For instance, what if all 18 million people in the initial target population need to be vaccinated rather than just a fraction? Linley estimates that even at Bavarian Nordic's stated capacity it would take until November to produce enough vaccine for just the first dose. And what if the outbreak becomes sufficiently large that it becomes necessary to vaccinate all health-care workers? That would bring the total who need the vaccine to more than 62 million, says Linley.
Less likely – but even more dire – is what Linley has dubbed the "extreme" scenario in which monkeypox starts spreading among children, who are at higher risk of developing severe complications from the disease. That would bring the number of people requiring vaccination to 1.5 billion.
5) Even the U.S. is struggling to get doses
Although Bavarian Nordic has ramped up production, at the moment the available supply is so limited even wealthy countries are struggling to obtain doses.
Take the U.S., which with nearly 10,000 cases has world's highest count and which appears to have the largest contract with Bavarian Nordic. The U.S. had virtually no doses at the start of the outbreak in May. Since then, only about 1.1 million doses have actually been delivered. U.S. officials say another 150,000 doses should arrive in September and another roughly 150,000 before the end of the year, bringing the expected U.S. supply to just 1.4 million doses.
The U.S. also has an additional contract with Bavarian Nordic to get 5.5 million more doses this year and next using material that the U.S. had purchased from the company years ago. But it's unclear how soon those doses will reach the U.S., because first the material needs to be put into vials — or "filled."
Asked about the timeline, a spokesman for Bavarian Nordic told NPR that the company is "partnering with a U.S.-based contract manufacturer to expedite filling."
In the meantime, to stretch the current supply, U.S. officials are supplementing the one-fifth dose strategy with yet another plan: They've instructed Bavarian Nordic to test about 1 million expired JYNNEOS doses in the U.S. reserve to see if they are still usable.
6) Other wealthy countries are worse off than the U.S.
It's difficult to know precisely how many JYNNEOS doses each country in the world has contracted with Bavarian Nordic to obtain because both pharmaceutical companies and nations tend to keep much of this information confidential. But based on available reports, Linley says that almost all the contracts to date appear to be with wealthy countries. (Bavarian Nordic declined NPR's request to comment on Linley's statistics.) For instance Canada has contracted to get 750,000 doses; Australia as many as 450,000 doses; France 250,000; Germany 240,000; the United Kingdom 154,000; Israel 10,000 doses. There's also an undisclosed European Union country that has a contract for 1.5 million doses, and the European Union as a whole has a contract for an additional 164,000 doses.
But so far, like the U.S., most of these countries have seen only a fraction of these doses delivered – if at all. Germany and the EU have received 50,000 each, the U.K. 54,000 and Israel 5,600. That's a total number of deliveries of under 160,000 doses.
7) The rest of the world is being left out
Last week Brazil – which currently ranks sixth in confirmed monkeypox cases with more 2,000 infections – announced that through the auspices of the Pan American Health Organization it too had reached a deal with Bavarian Nordic: More than 20,000 doses will be shipped to Brazil in September and another 30,000 in October.
Beyond that it appears that the vast majority of the dozens of middle-income and low-income countries with current outbreaks have not secured any JYNNEOS vaccine.
8) Per usual Africa is coming in last
The inequity is particularly stark in Africa, where monkeypox had been endemic in several countries for years before the current outbreak. For now, at least, official case numbers remain relatively low in African countries. Still that could always change – or the official counts could be missing cases – notes WHO Africa's Dr. Phiona Atuhebwe. So the lack of availability of monkeypox vaccine is galling.
"It's just the same as how we were with COVID," she says. "It is just history repeating itself. Africa always gets [vaccines] last."
Indeed, largely for this reason, adds Atuhebwe, WHO is not stressing vaccination as the main strategy for combating the monkeypox outbreak, focusing instead on surveillance and contact tracing.
"We've learned to deal with reality, " says Atuhebwe with a sigh. "We push for more access to better tools to ensure that the African population is protected. But we've learned to work within reality."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-16T14:47:22+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-16/is-there-enough-monkeypox-vaccine-to-go-around-maybe-yes-more-likely-no |
TX Corpus Christi TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
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Coastal Nueces-
Including the cities of Corpus Christi and Flour Bluff
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Windy, warmer with highs around 80. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
increasing to 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and windy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and windy. Highs in the mid 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Nueces Islands-
Including the city of Port Aransas
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Patchy fog this morning. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph
this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Inland Nueces-
Including the cities of Robstown, Tuloso, and Bishop
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Windy, warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming south 15 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 90.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Victoria-
Including the cities of Victoria and Bloomington
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Becoming windy, warmer with highs in the lower
80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Webb-
Including the cities of Laredo, Bruni, and Orvil
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning. Patchy
fog this morning. Much warmer with highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy,
warmer with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
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Inland Kleberg-
Including the cities of Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Ricardo,
and Riviera
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Windy, warmer with highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20
mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 20
percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 90.
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Coastal Kleberg-
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Windy with highs around 80. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
increasing to 20 to 25 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 20
percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Kleberg Islands-
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Patchy fog this morning. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 25 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature around 70.
Southeast winds around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to
15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
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TXZ344-302145-
Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Not
as cool with highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ244-302145-
Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of showers. Windy, warmer with highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows around 70. Southeast
winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming south 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ245-302145-
Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to
15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ345-302145-
Aransas Islands-
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to
20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ346-302145-
Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ246-302145-
Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ247-302145-
Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent
chance of showers. Becoming breezy and not as cool with highs in
the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to
25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ347-302145-
Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Not
as cool with highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ447-302145-
Calhoun Islands-
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ233-302145-
Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Becoming windy, warmer with highs in the lower
80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds around
10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ232-302145-
Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent
chance of showers. Breezy and warmer with highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs around 90. South winds 20 to 25 mph,
diminishing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds around
10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 90.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ241-302145-
Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Patchy fog this morning. Breezy and much warmer with highs in the
mid 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 25 mph
this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ231-302145-
Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of showers. Much warmer with highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 20 to
25 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ240-302145-
Duval-
Including the cities of Freer, Benavides, and San Diego
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning. Patchy
fog this morning. Much warmer with highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming 15 to 25 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy
with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming
15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ229-302145-
La Salle-
Including the cities of Cotulla and Encinal
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of showers. Much warmer with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to south 15 to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Warmer
with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming
southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the mid 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as warm with highs around 90.
$$
TXZ230-302145-
McMullen-
Including the cities of Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, and Tilden
342 AM CDT Thu Mar 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of showers. Much warmer with highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy,
warmer with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 20 to 25 mph,
diminishing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Hot with highs around 99.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as warm with highs around 90.
$$
TMT/HA
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More than 1 million T-shirts sold to date, over $2.4 million donated to UNHCR, Save the Children, and Plan International
NEW YORK, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today launches five new T-shirts for the ongoing PEACE FOR ALL charity project. The latest collection features new graphics designed especially for this project by collaborators including tennis legend Roger Federer, as well as artwork from Miffy creator, the late Dick Bruna.
Since the launch of the project in June 2022, a total of more than 1 million PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts have been sold worldwide. 100% of profits from the sale of these T-shirts are donated to international aid organizations that assist people impacted by poverty, discrimination, violence, and conflict around the world, including UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), Save the Children, and Plan International. So far, over $2.4 million* has been donated as part of the project. (*when calculated using the April 3, 2023 exchange rate of $1 = 132.96 yen)
Activities supported by PEACE FOR ALL donations include the self-reliance projects for Rohingya women refugees in Bangladesh, educational support for displaced Syrian children and vulnerable Lebanese children in North Lebanon, and a campaign to eliminate child marriage in Vietnam.
The PEACE FOR ALL charity project was founded on the concept that a T-shirt can help make the world a better place. In addition to the donations generated by the project, UNIQLO believes that T-shirts have the power to express the ideas of the wearer, as well as elicit empathy and spread messages broadly.
Overview of the New PEACE FOR ALL Designs
- Product name: PEACE FOR ALL
- Launch date: Thursday, April 20th, 2023
- Price: $24.90
- Sizes: XXS-3XL (Sizes available in stores are XS-XL)
- Availability: UNIQLO stores and online
- Special website: https://www.uniqlo.com/peace-for-all/
- Collaborators: Roger Federer (Professional Tennis Player), Dick Bruna (Picture Book Author, Graphic Designer), Cristina de Middel (Magnum Photos' President), Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist) + Christopher Makos (Photographer), Akamai Technologies (Cloud Company)
For media queries, please contact: uniqlo@nikecomm.com.
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Braves vs. Brewers Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 28
The Atlanta Braves (64-36) and Milwaukee Brewers (57-46) clash in the first of a three-game series on Friday at Truist Park, at 7:20 PM ET. The Braves are coming off a series defeat to the Red Sox, and the Brewers a series win over the Reds.
The Braves will give the ball to Yonny Chirinos (4-4, 4.02 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 5 on the season, and the Brewers will turn to Adrian Houser (3-2, 3.86 ERA).
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Braves vs. Brewers Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Friday, July 28, 2023
- Time: 7:20 PM ET
- TV: BSSE
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Chirinos - ATL (4-4, 4.02 ERA) vs Houser - MIL (3-2, 3.86 ERA)
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Braves Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Yonny Chirinos
- The Braves' Chirinos (4-4) will make his fifth start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Sunday, July 16 against the Kansas City Royals, throwing 4 2/3 innings of relief while giving up three earned runs and allowing four hits.
- The 29-year-old has pitched in 15 games this season with a 4.02 ERA and 4.5 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .247.
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Brewers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Adrian Houser
- Houser makes the start for the Brewers, his 12th of the season. He is 3-2 with a 3.86 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 63 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Saturday, the right-hander threw six innings against the Atlanta Braves, giving up three earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- The 30-year-old has put up an ERA of 3.86, with 7 strikeouts per nine innings in 13 games this season. Opposing hitters have a .291 batting average against him.
- Houser is trying to record his fifth quality start of the season in this outing.
- Houser is looking for his fifth straight appearance lasting five or more innings. He averages 4.8 innings per start.
- In three of his 13 total appearances this season he has not given up an earned run.
Adrian Houser vs. Braves
- The opposing Braves offense has a collective .267 batting average, and is seventh in the league with 910 total hits and third in MLB action with 554 runs scored. They have the first-ranked slugging percentage (.488) and are first in all of MLB with 188 home runs.
- Houser has pitched six innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits while striking out 10 against the Braves this season.
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NEW YORK, July 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Luminar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAZR) between February 28, 2023 and March 17, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important July 25, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Luminar 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 Luminar class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=14243 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 July 25, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) Luminar had misappropriated an image of a competitor's photonic integrated circuit to market the Company's own products and capabilities; (2) the foregoing conduct subjected the Company to a heightened risk of, among other things, litigation and/or regulatory enforcement action; (3) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Luminar's business and reputation; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Medical Monday Hospice care for patients and families
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - When a loved one is facing end of life, it’s a difficult time for everyone involved. To help make it a little easier, Gail Phair-Kirk, Hospice Manager for Aroostook with Northern Light Homecare and Hospice recommends looking into hospice care. “Hospice is a program for individuals and families that provides support for people entering their final stages of their lives. It also affirms life and neither hastens or post pones death. And we try to enhance the quality of a persons remaining life by making their dying process as comfortable as possible for the patient as well as the family.” She says.
Hospice provides several services for both the patient and family.
Phair-Kirk adds, “Hospice provides services into their home or home like setting. It focuses on managing a patients pain and symptoms. We assist the patient with emotional and psycho-social and spiritual aspects of dying. We provide medication, medical supplies, the DME. And we also provide the education to the family on how to actually care for the patient.”
Hospice provides support to the family members and care givers as well, even after losing a loved one.
Phair-Kirk says, “Hospice also has a bereavement proponent to it. We follow the care givers after 13 months after the death of the patient. So that way we can kinda keep an eye on them, provide them support during those most difficult times, those trigger points. And the dates, the anniversaries or what not. So we are able to provide extra support at that time as well.”
For more information on hospice care, contact your primary care physician.
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President Biden is aggressively pursuing younger voters, leaning into the issues of reproductive rights and student loan forgiveness in an effort to drive to the polls a bloc that traditionally sees lower turnout.
“Historically we’ve had a problem with younger voters falling off during the midterms,” said Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau, who served as an aide to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
“Yes, it may be about his legacy and his standing and positioning for 2024, but the main beneficiary right now are candidates in close races that are going to need every single vote, and that means turning out young people.”
Biden took a victory lap Friday on his student loan forgiveness plan after applications officially opened on Monday with 22 million Americans applying so far. He told a group at Delaware State University, “I will never apologize for helping working- and middle-class Americans.”
The president earlier this week focused on reproductive rights issues, pledging at the Howard Theater in Washington that he would make a bill to codify abortion access his top legislative priority if Democrats retain their majorities in Congress.
In focusing on these issues, “he’s appealing to a significant portion of the voting population,” said Nayerra Haq, who served as an official in the Obama administration. “Any politician who wants to win or serve the public needs to realize this is the demographic they should be addressing.”
Haq said millennials are the first generation “that will not be able to advance beyond their parents because of the flaws in our economic system.”
“That requires systemic solutions, and that’s what Biden is doing,” she added.
Young people typically don’t show up in large numbers for midterm elections. In 2018, only 36 percent of 18 to 29 year olds voted, which was still a huge improvement from the 20 percent turnout in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
With three weeks before the midterm elections, the administration opened applications for its student loan proposal, which is set to forgive up to $10,000 in federal debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 and as much as $20,000 for borrowers who received Pell Grants.
The plan has been hit with multiple lawsuits, and on Friday a federal appeals court ruled that it should be temporarily put on hold as a GOP challenge plays out.
Steve Schale, the prominent political strategist who ran former President Obama’s campaign operation in Florida in 2008, called Biden’s efforts “a big deal.”
“Student loan debt is a significant issue among young people,” Schale said. “He’s talking to a segment of the electorate.”
Biden has also been bringing up his marijuana policies more often, telling the audiences at both Delaware State University and the Howard Theater this week that he is keeping his promise that no one should be in jail for using or possessing marijuana.
Democrats applaud Biden’s focus on issues centering around marijuana and child care, both of which are important to young voters.
“Now he can be delivering on those bigger ticket items that are necessary for generational change,” Haq said, referring to both issues.
Biden has focused much of his attention on the economy, which has consistently polled as the most top-of-mind issue among voters this cycle. Amid high inflation and gas prices, the president for months has been tasked with trying to prove to Americans that he cares about costs and is working to get them down.
But new polling this week showed that 63 percent of Americans still wish Biden would give more attention to their top issues, with inflation topping that list. Other top issues included immigration and crime, two areas where Republicans have bashed Democrats.
The focus on young people also comes as support for Democratic candidates among independent voters appears to be waning.
Independent women, who are a pivotal voting bloc this cycle following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, are leaning more towards Republicans recently. Polling released on Monday showed the bloc favored Republicans by 18 points, which is a sizable increase since September.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the White House did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment about the timing of the president’s recent focus on issues that attract young people.
“Biden’s strategy seems to be two-fold, to highlight initiatives popular with younger voters for the midterms, and to solidify younger voter support going forward. He is drawing a clear distinction between Democratic and GOP principles that he hopes will enhance Dem turnout in 2022, and in the years moving forward,” said former Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa.), a Biden ally.
“Both reproductive rights and student loan forgiveness poll well among young voters, and Biden sees those issues as bringing fresh, traditionally less-involved midterm voters to the polls in November,” Carney added.
While young voters helped catapult Biden to the White House in 2020, his numbers with the demographic have fallen during his presidency. An NPR-PBS Newshour poll out in July showed that just 5 percent of voters under the age of 45 strongly approve of Biden’s performance.
Strategists attribute the problem partly to a generational gap between Biden and the demographic. But at the same time, as one progressive strategist pointed out, “Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren haven’t had that problem ever.”
“They were both very much in touch with the needs of these younger voters,” the strategist said. “In fact, I think Bernie was boosted by this demographic.”
Xochitl Hinojosa, former communications director at the DNC, argued that issues like student loans and abortion go beyond young people and appeals to voters of all ages.
“The President has been laser focused on the issues important to voters, and yes, those do include gas prices and student loans, as well as reproductive rights. Many of these issues not only target young voters, but the broader electorate,” Hinojosa said. “Americans want to hear directly from their president about how he is going to tackle the issues confronting our nation, and that’s exactly what he’s doing.”
While the president is reaching out to young voters, so are other Democrats.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a millennial herself, is rallying students at the University of California, Irvine on Sunday. Meanwhile, Sanders is using his star power with young people to help Democrats in Nevada, Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, heading to those Senate battleground states before election day.
“You’re building a coalition,” Schale said, adding that “our coalition requires younger voters to get a win.”
The president leaned further into his support for abortion access this week when he said in an interview that he would support a federal fund to help patients pay for the procedure, reaffirming his stance against the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for abortions.
His support for federal funding follows months of backlash over whether the White House has done enough in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision. When Roe was first overturned in June, the president faced fierce criticism for moving too slowly on actions to help protect access.
But the White House has seen some success since then, particularly when it comes to legislation that passed over the summer.
Schale said Biden has much to tout in the final weeks on the campaign trail.
“… If I’ve had any criticism of the administration, it’s that we haven’t done a good job telling the success stories, and yes, they should lean into it,” he said. “Our coalition requires younger voters to get a win. … We should go tell the story. We have a good story and I’m glad they are.” | 2022-10-23T20:24:43+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/the-old-problem-with-the-young-biden-courts-elusive-voting-bloc/ |
FDA hopes nuclear medicine can cure cancer, treat Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Today, Josh Mailman travels to Washington D.C. twice a year to advocate for cancer patients.
But his world seemed much more limited when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 16 years ago.
“When I was diagnosed, I had a ten-month old, and I didn’t think I’d actually see him graduate first grade.”
Despite living with stage four cancer for 16 years, Mailman now travels the country,competes in races and coaches his son’s high school sports teams.
“I’m pleased to say that I actually watched him get his drivers license last month,” Mailman said.
Mailman points out he also has kept his hair.
Mt. Sinai Chief of Nuclear medicine Munir Ghesani said what allows patients like Josh to suffer less side effects than many receiving other treatments, is the fact that nuclear procedures can target cancer cells specifically, without harming healthy cells.
“Deliver your treatment at the highest level of concentration, to where it matters, and avoid going to the non-target areas,” Mt. Sinai Chief of Nuclear Medicine Dr. Munir Ghesani said.
Mailman was forced to receive his procedure in Germany more than a decade ago, but since then, the Food and Drug Administration approved more types of nuclear treatments have been approved for U.S. use.
FDA Director of Radiation Medicine Dr. Louis Marzella said radioactive treatments are safer than many assume.
“They are given in very low doses,” Marzella said. “We don’t expect, or really tolerate any reactions for radio-pharmaceuticals.”
Marzella believes nuclear treatments will continue making significant progress and sees potential to eventually treat Alzheimer’s and dementia.
“It’s an expanding area that offers great hope,” Marzella said.
Mailman says there needs to be more awareness about the nuclear treatments already available.
“The quality of life that one has using nuclear medicine is really very high.”
Copyright 2023 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-16T15:50:51+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/06/16/fda-hopes-nuclear-medicine-can-cure-cancer-treat-alzheimers/ |
Aardvark cub born at San Diego Zoo doing well
SAN DIEGO (AP) – There’s an update on an aardvark born at the San Diego Zoo last month.
Officials say the female cub is doing well – and developing quickly. The cub was born May 10 and will be nursing from her mom for about six months.
Wildlife specialists describe the baby aardvark as “very active” and say it has tripled its birth weight in the five weeks since it was born.
It’s the first aardvark birth at the San Diego Zoo in nearly four decades.
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Silan, "date syrup" in Persian, is a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant that pays homage to Chef Shaya's Israeli heritage with a nod to Bahamian flavors
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantis Paradise Island announces Silan, a new restaurant from Pomegranate Hospitality, led by restaurateur Emily Shaya and James Beard Foundation Award-winning Chef-Partner Alon Shaya. Chef Shaya will debut a menu preview of the coming Silan restaurant this summer, followed by an official Silan opening in 2024.
Silan, which translates to "date syrup" in Persian, is a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant that pays homage to Chef Shaya's Israeli heritage, while incorporating ingredients local to the Bahamas. Dishes will include Creamy Whipped Hummus with tahini; Borekas with everything bagel spice and local honey; Spiny Lobster Shakshuka; and Za'Atar Fried Chicken with spicy mayonnaise, among others.
Chef Shaya joins the resort's growing portfolio of award-winning chefs, including Michael White (Paranza), Nobu Matsuhisa (Nobu), and José Andrés (Fish) – further establishing Atlantis Paradise Island as the ultimate culinary destination in the region.
Born in Israel, raised in Philadelphia, and a proud New Orleanian, Chef Shaya reflects his heritage and culinary perspective in each of Pomegranate Hospitality's restaurants, including the acclaimed Saba, Miss River, and Chandelier Bar in New Orleans, and Safta in Denver. Driven by his love for food and the way restaurants anchor their communities, Chef Shaya is a multiple James Beard Foundation award winner, earning top honors in the categories of "Best Chef: South" and "Best New Restaurant." Furthermore, Southern Living named him one of the "50 People Who Are Changing the South," The Forward as one of the "50 Most Influential Jews in America," and Eater New Orleans as "Chef of the Year."
"We are impressed by Atlantis Paradise Island's commitment to cultivating exceptional culinary experiences," says Chef-Partner Shaya. "New Orleans is often called the northernmost Caribbean port. Now, with Silan, we'll delve into the local bounty of the Caribbean even further to showcase bright and vibrant Bahamian ingredients and flavors that intertwine so well with the cooking of my Israeli heritage."
"Chef Shaya brings a remarkable perspective and opportunity to showcase the unique elements of the Bahamas through a new lens," says Audrey Oswell, President and Managing Director of Atlantis Paradise Island. "We are excited to have his incredible talent and contemporary Mediterranean cuisine at Atlantis, which I know will be embraced by our guests and the local community."
Silan is part of the significant developments within the resort's dining collection, timed with Atlantis commemorating the 25th anniversary of its iconic Royal Towers. The restaurant, located at the heart of the resort, will undergo a complete renovation by Alexander Waterworth Interiors, the same design firm behind the award-winning Miss River in New Orleans, which Pomegranate Hospitality operates in partnership with Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans.
For more information about Atlantis Paradise Island and Silan, please visit www.silanbahamas.com and on Instagram @silanbahamas.
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About Atlantis Paradise Island
Throughout 2023 Atlantis is rolling out bold multimillion-dollar renovations and exciting new partnerships throughout the resort – from a complete renovation of The Royal Towers to a reimagined Atlantis Casino and much more. The resort's 25th anniversary launches a new chapter for the first-of-its-kind celebrated entertainment resort and destination, ensuring that travelers will continue to experience the best at Atlantis Paradise Island, with stunning accommodations, innovative cuisine, and extraordinary experiences ranging from live entertainment and concerts to internationally acclaimed food and wine festivals.
Bahamian culture and the spirit of its beloved team members are the heart and soul of this iconic legendary resort. The immersive programming connects guests to the rich history, art, people, food, and festivities of the Bahamas while remaining dedicated to sustainability and environmental conservation for more than 25 years.
Guests of Atlantis Paradise Island have exclusive access to unforgettable eco-tourism excursions led by resort team members and local partners, including Pieces of 8 boat tours, Tropic Ocean Airways, Coco Bahama Air Seaplanes, and Aquazeal yacht charters. Day trips to The Bahamas' out islands of Exuma and Eleuthera to swim with pigs and nurse sharks or feed iguanas in their natural habitats are a few of many #BahamasAtHeart itineraries travelers can discover.
The resort is centered around Aquaventure, an innovative 141-acre waterscape of thrilling slides and river rides, fourteen pools, and five miles of white sand beaches. Home to the largest open-air marine habitat in the world, over 50,000 marine animals from 250 species make their home in natural ocean-fed environments.
Atlantis has committed to a meaningful connection with the ocean, marine life, sustainability, and environmental stewardship through its purpose-led efforts with Dolphin Cay and the Atlantis Blue Project Foundation (ABPF), the resort's nonprofit 501©3 organization dedicated to saving sea species and their extraordinary habitats throughout The Bahamas and surrounding Caribbean seas.
Additional resort amenities include five unique lodging options: the grand iconic towers of The Royal, family-friendly accommodations at The Coral, water-side villas at Harborside Resort, all-suite luxury accommodations at The Cove, and residential-style accommodations with full kitchens at The Reef. The well-appointed Atlantis Marina offers 63 slips and hosts vessels up to 250 feet/76 meters. The Atlantis Marina overlooks Marina Village, a charming pedestrian village dotted with a series of family-friendly and fine dining outlets, bars, lounges, coffee, pizza, and ice cream stores, plus a gathering spot for visitors to explore a variety of shopping, local artisans, live entertainment, seasonal events and more.
For more information and reservations, please visit: atlantisbahamas.com
About Pomegranate Hospitality
Pomegranate Hospitality was founded by restaurateur Emily Shaya and her husband, chef, and restaurateur Alon Shaya, in 2017. The group owns and operates renowned Israeli restaurants and bars Saba and Saba's Lounge in New Orleans and Safta in Denver. In 2021, Pomegranate Hospitality partnered with Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans to introduce Chandelier Bar and Miss River. Miss River was named one of Esquire's Best Restaurants in America the same year.
Alon Shaya is a two-time James Beard Foundation Award winner, including Best Chef: South and Best New Restaurant. He was featured in Southern Living as one of "50 People Who Are Changing the South." In 2018, he published his debut cookbook, Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel (Knopf). To learn more about Pomegranate Hospitality, visit pomhospitality.com and follow @pomhospitality and @alonshaya on Instagram.
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GLENDALE, AZ — The big game is bringing big crowds of commuters to the West Valley. Glendale officials tell ABC15 there is a lot of preparation well before kick-off for the Super Bowl on February 12.
Operation Safe Roads got some insight into the new technology recently added at a handful of intersections that are meant to keep things moving.
Tony Abbo is a traffic engineer with Glendale. He tells ABC15 Traffic Anchor Megan Thompson that drivers are already experiencing a smoother ride.
"Now, the adaptive signals systems will work really well in advance of the game," Abbo explained.
He said these 15 intersections have been upgraded with this new technology that is always calculating the signal timing based on the traffic that is coming its way:
- W. Glendale Ave. & N. 95th Ave.
- N. Zanjero Blvd. & W. Glendale Ave.
- W. Glendale Ave. & N. 91st Ave.
- W. Entertainment Blvd. & N. 91st Ave.
- W. Maryland Ave. & N. 91st Ave.
- W. Maryland Ave. & N. 95th Ave.
- 101 On-Ramp & W. Maryland Ave.
- Ball Park Blvd. & N. 99th Ave.
- W. Bethany Home & N. 99th Ave.
- 101 On-Ramp & Cardinals Way
- Cardinals Way & N. 95th Ave.
- Cardinals Way & N. 91st Ave.
- W. Montebello Ave. & N. 91st Ave.
- W. Camelback Ave. & N. 95th Ave.
- W. Camelback Ave. & N. 91st Ave.
"If there's a... direction... that has more volume than the opposite direction, it gives more signal timing or more green time to the... that main approach," Abbo described.
This way, more drivers can be moved more efficiently.
Abbo said this will be something the growing city will benefit from long after the Super Bowl chaos clears out of the Valley.
"...Part of what we're doing is we're looking at expanding that system to other areas along Glendale avenue," Abbo said. "We're looking for regional funding to do that."
He went on to say, at a certain point, the technology still will not be able to completely handle the crowds on Super Bowl Sunday and they will be ready to manually take over to direct traffic with the help of police.
But right now, leading up to the big event, drivers should notice more green lights on their morning and evening commutes.
Have a road issue or a question for Operation Safe Roads? Call 833-AZ-ROADS or email roads@abc15.com. | 2023-01-18T12:47:38+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/operation-safe-roads/new-technology-added-to-west-valley-intersections-ahead-of-super-bowl-to-ease-congestion |
By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s education TV series “Sesame Street,” which uses empathy and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie Monster to charm and teach generations around the world, has died. He was 93.
Morrisett’s death was announced Monday by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Sesame Workshop hailed Morrisett as a “wise, thoughtful, and above all kind leader” who was “constantly thinking about new ways” to educate.
Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney worked with Harvard University developmental psychologist Gerald Lesser to build the show’s unique approach to teaching that now reaches 120 million children. Legendary puppeteer Jim Henson supplied the critters.
“Without Lloyd Morrisett, there would be no ‘Sesame Street.’ It was he who first came up with the notion of using television to teach preschoolers basic skills, such as letters and numbers,” Cooney said in a statement. “He was a trusted partner and loyal friend to me for over 50 years, and he will be sorely missed.”
“Sesame Street” is shown in more than 150 countries, has won 216 Emmys, 11 Grammys and in 2019 received the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime artistic achievement, the first time a television program got the award (Big Bird strolled down the aisle and basically sat in Tom Hanks’ lap).
Born in 1929 in Oklahoma City, Morrisett initially trained to be a teacher with a background in psychology. He became an experimental educator, looking for new ways to educate children from less advantaged backgrounds. Morrisett received his bachelor’s at Oberlin College, did graduate work in psychology at UCLA, and earned his doctorate in experimental psychology at Yale University. He was an Oberlin trustee for many years and was chair of the board from 1975 to 1981.
The germ of “Sesame Street” was sown over a dinner party in 1966, where he met Cooney.
“I said, ‘Joan, do you think television could be used to teach young children?’ Her answer was, ‘I don’t know, but I’d like to talk about it,’” he recalled to The Guardian in 2004.
The first episode of “Sesame Street” — sponsored by the letters W, S and E and the numbers 2 and 3 — aired in the fall of 1969. It was a turbulent time in America, rocked by the Vietnam War and raw from the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the year before.
Children’s programming at the time was made up of shows like “Captain Kangaroo,” “Romper Room” and the often violent cartoon skirmishes between “Tom & Jerry.” “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” was mostly teaching social skills.
“Sesame Street” was designed by education professionals and child psychologists with one goal: to help low-income and minority students aged 2-5 overcome some of the deficiencies they had when entering school. Social scientists had long noted kids who were white and from higher-income families were often better prepared.
The show was set on an urban street with a multicultural cast. Diversity and inclusion were baked into the show. Monsters, humans and animals all lived together peacefully.
It became the first children’s program to feature someone with Down syndrome. It’s had puppets with HIV and in foster care, invited children in wheelchairs, dealt with topics like jailed parents, homelessness, women’s rights, military families and even girls singing about loving their hair.
It introduced the bilingual Rosita — the first Latina Muppet — in 1991. Julia, a 4-year-old Muppet with autism, came in 2017 and the show has since offered help for kids whose parents are dealing with addiction and recovery, and children suffering as a result of the Syrian civil war. To help kids after 9/11, Elmo was left traumatized by a fire at Hooper’s store but was soothingly told that firefighters were there to help.
The company said upon the news of his death that Lloyd left “an outsized and indelible legacy among generations of children the world over, with ‘Sesame Street’ only the most visible tribute to a lifetime of good work and lasting impact.”
He is survived by his wife, Mary; daughters Julie and Sarah; and granddaughters Frances and Clara.
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KINSTON, N.C. — The Down East Wood Ducks got a run in each of the first two innings and made the lead stick thanks to good pitching and defense in a 2-0 win over the Carolina Mudcats on Thursday.
Jose Corniell started and got out of a jam for the Wood Ducks as the Mudcats threatened in the first with a runner on second and a single up the middle by Eduardo Garcia sends the ball out to center fielder, Daniel Mateo, who threw a pretty one-hopper to nail Hedbert Perez at the plate.
The Woodies quack back, stealing four bases in the first. Osuna led off with a single and came around to score on a Maximo Acosta RBI single. The Woodies leave the bases loaded to end the inning, up 1-0.
To start the second off, the Mudcats leadoff with two singles, as the Woodies turn a double play and get a ground ball to end the inning, keeping the Mudcats off the board.
Alejandro Osuna gets aboard for the second time tonight with a walk, advancing to second on a balk. Jose Rodriguez drives Osuna in with another RBI single making it 2-0.
The Wood Ducks (8-9) and Carolina Mudcats (8-9) continue their series Friday tied 1-1, with the first pitch of the doubleheader set at 5 p.m. at Grainger Stadium. Fans can purchase tickets on woodducksbaseball.com, by calling the Wood Ducks Team Offices at (252) 686-5164 or in the Wood Ducks Team Offices located at Grainger Stadium (Mon-Fri – 9am – 4pm). | 2022-04-29T11:37:31+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/down-east-wood-ducks/wood-ducks-score-early-make-lead-stick-in-win/ |
(WJHL) Rhonda Humbert tells us about the 10th anniversary season of Lyrics on the Lawn happening each Thursday evening in downtown Greeneville.
(WJHL) Rhonda Humbert tells us about the 10th anniversary season of Lyrics on the Lawn happening each Thursday evening in downtown Greeneville. | 2023-07-10T16:34:08+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/lyrics-on-the-lawn-6/ |
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Do you need an excuse not to cut your lawn? Here's one - scientists say leaving your grass a little longer in the spring can actually help bees and other pollinators. A few dozen U.S. cities have joined a program called No Mow May. Here's Chuck Quirmbach of member station WUWM in Milwaukee.
CHUCK QUIRMBACH, BYLINE: Matthew Normansell is standing in the small side yard of his house in Appleton, Wis., and he likes what he's starting to see poke through the ground.
MATTHEW NORMANSELL: You can already see the dandelions starting to pop up. You get a little bit of the creeping charlie, a few small violets, a lot of daisies as well. But they'll all be flowering kind of at some point during May and providing, you know, pollen to these pollinating insects.
QUIRMBACH: Those plants will flower in May because, Normansell says, he'll be leaving his lawn mower in the garage and joining about 500 other Appleton residents taking part in a city-backed program to not mow at all for a month. This community of 75,000 has become a U.S. leader in the No Mow May movement, which began in England and has spread to more than 30 cities, mostly in the Midwest. That's where May is considered a key time for pollinators to come out of hibernation or their winter habitat.
Israel Del Toro teaches biology at Lawrence University in Appleton. He says an initial study of unmowed yards in the city shows a fivefold increase in the number of bees, and they're very hungry in the spring.
ISRAEL DEL TORO: So when we leave our weeds - or things we would normally call weeds - to grow, those are like little cheeseburgers for our pollinators, and they're able to get some cheap calories really, really fast and put on some weight that'll give them a leg up for the season.
QUIRMBACH: In many U.S. cities, not cutting your grass in May could get you a citation, but communities taking part in this initiative have agreed to waive that. Appleton Mayor Jake Woodford is taking part in the No Mow program, too.
JAKE WOODFORD: And it's, you know, not been without its hiccups or its frustrations from some community members. But by and large, there's just been incredible support for the effort, a lot of buy-in, a lot of participation.
QUIRMBACH: But hearing about increasing pollinator populations has not convinced everyone of the value of letting the lawn grow.
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QUIRMBACH: At the service area of the Northside Power Center in Appleton, Steve Schick says during a rainy springtime, the grass can grow really tall by June.
STEVE SCHICK: Now you've got to struggle getting it back under control. And a lot of people will have a problem with their mowers when they try to get it back under control. And they - a lot of times it will damage them.
QUIRMBACH: Backers of No Mow May advise raising the lawn mower blade height in June or using a string trimmer first.
Appleton is one of about 150 communities with a Bee City designation under a program coordinated by the Oregon-based Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. The group's Matthew Shepherd says, while valuable, not mowing is just a first step.
MATTHEW SHEPHERD: It's not like the endpoint. You know, we can't say, gosh, we've let our lawn grow; we've saved the bees, yay.
QUIRMBACH: Shepherd and others say they hope keeping lawn mowers in storage for a month will further habitat awareness and the central role pollinators play.
For NPR News, I'm Chuck Quirmbach in Milwaukee.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Hawaii, Manoa, marine biologist Bob Richmond about Japan's plan to dump waste water into the ocean from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima.
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MIAMI — (AP) — The NBA and the Miami Heat are investigating an allegation that former UFC champion Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman inside an arena bathroom after Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
The woman's attorney, Ariel Mitchell, said her client has provided Miami police with the clothing she was wearing that night and that a report was filed.
McGregor’s attorney said the fighter denied any wrongdoing. “Mr. McGregor will not be intimidated,” said the attorney, Barbara Llanes.
In letters sent to the NBA, the Heat and McGregor's representatives, Mitchell detailed her client's allegations and said the client would discuss "reasonable settlement offers" before June 12 or else proceed with litigation.
“We are aware of the allegations and are conducting a full investigation," read a statement from the Heat. "Pending the outcome of the investigation, we will withhold further comment.”
The NBA had a similar statement, saying it was working with the Heat to gather information.
The alleged incident happened on the same night McGregor knocked out the Heat mascot in a midgame bit that went wrong.
Burnie — more specifically, the man who occupies Burnie's costume — briefly sought medical attention Friday night after taking two punches from McGregor during a third-quarter stoppage of Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and the Denver Nuggets.
The employee, who was not identified, received pain medication and was recovering, the team said.
McGregor was there as a promotional gimmick for a pain-relief spray — and was booed by many in the Miami crowd even before the bit started. The flame mascot was wearing oversized boxing gloves and a robe akin to what a fighter would wear entering the ring for a bout. McGregor hit Burnie with a left hook, knocking him down, then punched the mascot again after he hit the floor.
McGregor then tried to “spray” the mascot with the pain-relief product, while several members of the Heat’s in-game promotional team dragged Burnie off the court.
McGregor hasn’t fought since injuring his left leg in a loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. His last win came in January 2020.
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The walls evidently aren't closing in on President Joe Biden.
Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in emails found on Hunter Biden's laptop, the media's lack of interest in the president's knowledge or involvement in this lucrative part of the family business is palpable.
If President Donald Trump were caught up in similar circumstances, he'd be hounded at every press conference and during every walk to Marine One with the question of what he knew and when he knew it. It'd dominate cable news and the Sunday shows, newspaper editorials and op-ed pages.
While it's nice that the laptop, once dismissed as Russian disinformation, is now finally considered a legitimate source of news by what are supposed to be news outlets, the reporting comes a year and half late and doesn't add new information commensurate with the delay.
At this rate, the press will develop a keen interest in the Joe Biden angle to the story — the most newsworthy and consequential angle — sometime in late 2023.
The president's son, Hunter, and his brother, Jim, have made a living from trafficking on their family name and political connections. The laptop is a guide to a particularly ripe example, a deal with CEFC China Energy, a cat's paw of the Communist Party of China, that funneled nearly $5 million to Hunter and his uncle.
The president has said that he's "never spoken" to Hunter about "his overseas business dealings." Let's stipulate that's true. It still wouldn't have taken much conversation for the then-vice president to understand why his son was hitching a ride on Air Force Two with him on a trip to China in 2013. It wasn't for sightseeing.
Hunter met with banker Jonathan Li, whose private equity fund got approved by Chinese authorities shortly afterward. Hunter sat on the board.
Until they had a falling out over Hunter joining the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, Biden's son was in business with John Kerry's stepson, Chris Heinz. So, that's two relations of Democrats who had run for president and occupied high government office coincidentally doing buckraking together.
How could Joe Biden and John Kerry, these sophisticated statesmen, not notice what was going on? Had they never encountered the phenomenon of relatives of government officials cashing in on proximity to power before?
Even if Joe Biden wanted to avert his gaze from Hunter, in the grip of a terrible addiction, what about his brother, Jim? Did Joe never talk to him about business either?
Even though we knew about it back in 2020, the CEFC deal remains jaw dropping. The company sought to extend Chinese influence as part of Beijing's "Belt and Road" initiative. The founder of CEFC, Ye Jianming, roped in Hunter Biden, infamously giving him a 2.8 carat diamond after their first meeting. Everyone knew the score.
Hunter referred to another CEFC official as "the f***ing spy chief" and was under no illusions about his own value to the firm. He told Tony Bobulinski, recruited to structure the deal, that CEFC was "coming to be MY partner to be partners with the Bidens."
The only one who didn't understand the nature of this relationship was Joe Biden, who must have believed well-heeled Chinese companies sought out his son for his business acumen and sound judgment.
A notorious e-mail says that "the big guy," identified by Bobulinksi as Joe Biden, was going to get a 10% cut of the deal. In a text, Hunter's associate James Gilliar reminded Bobulinksi, "Don't mention Joe being involved, it's only when u are face to face."
If Republicans take the House, they should make all of this a major focus of investigation. In the meantime, the press ought — out of shame, if nothing else — to bring more skepticism to assurances that Joe Biden knew nothing. Even the president's fiercest critics don't believe that he's that clueless.
(Rich Lowry is editor-in-chief of National Review.) | 2022-04-05T17:14:09+00:00 | oleantimesherald.com | https://www.oleantimesherald.com/opinion/what-did-joe-biden-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/article_e13a76a7-628b-59a2-bc50-ab78515afc2e.html |
NEW YORK — The Washington Wizards hobbled into Madison Square Garden for a 105-89 loss Friday missing three key rotation players for the second straight game. This time, to change things up, it was Kristaps Porzingis (left ankle sprain) who joined Deni Avdija (left groin strain) and Corey Kispert (left ankle sprain) on the inactive list.
Bradley Beal returned to play his second game of the preseason after he missed Monday’s bout in Charlotte with what he said was strep throat and sitting out the second of the Japan games for rest.
With the dearth of significant players, Coach Wes Unseld Jr. said one main focus of the team’s final tuneup was starting to work Beal back into peak conditioning and basketball rhythm without pushing him too much. He played 30 minutes and had 16 points on 6-for-13 shooting, five rebounds and five assists.
“I was okay,” Beal said. “Wind-wise, I was able to overcome it.”
Rui Hachimura was the Wizards’ standout player with 20 points and eight rebounds off the bench in yet another aggressive showing.
Unseld coyly declined to answer whether he will continue to bring Hachimura off the bench when the Wizards begin the regular season Wednesday in Indianapolis. Hachimura said his aggression is in part a result of his being more comfortable as he enters his fourth year.
“Sometimes I just think too much and stop being aggressive. I always had [this side of my game]; now I’m just showing it. I’m more comfortable with this team, playing with Brad, [Kyle Kuzma], KP and the other guys. . . . My level’s getting higher, that’s all it is,” Hachimura said. “I’ve been doing this since I got drafted. It’s nothing crazy. I’ve just been trying to show what I can do and how I can fit on this team.”
Here’s what else to know from the Wizards’ loss:
Injury updates
Avdija provided some details this week on the injury that has sidelined him for nearly all of training camp. The 21-year-old suffered a groin injury early this summer, then exacerbated the strain while playing EuroBasket for the Israeli national team.
“I played on pills with the national team to kill the pain, and at the end of the championship, I was barely walking,” Avdija said.
He played five-on-five for the first time Thursday and was a full participant in the team’s shoot-around ahead of the Knicks game Friday. Although Avdija did not play in New York, Unseld expects him to be available for Wednesday’s season opener.
Porzingis, who sprained his left ankle in Charlotte on Monday, may also be available Wednesday. Unseld said the decision not to play the Latvian on his old home court was precautionary as he continues to recover.
“He’s progressed. He’s pretty much able to do everything,” Unseld said. “There’s still a little discomfort but nothing that would prohibit him from playing in a regular season game.”
Three guard lineup
Washington will be able to deploy plenty of small lineups with the number of complementary guards it will have around Beal. He and new additions Delon Wright and Will Barton played alongside Hachimura and either Taj Gibson or Daniel Gafford for a good stretch of the third quarter.
The group moved the ball quite well as expected and created more opportunities than it seemed on paper because of the Wizards’ subpar shooting — they shot 37.9 percent from the field and 22.2 percent from three. Wright was solid, hitting 3 of 6 attempts from beyond the arc and playing standout individual defense. The 30-year-old could prove to be an excellent pickup for Washington with his ability to slow some of the league’s more accomplished point guards.
Poor start in the post
Rebounding machine Mitchell Robinson still has the Wizards’ number. He had three big offensive boards in the first six minutes and prompted Unseld to sub Gafford for third-string veteran Gibson halfway through the first quarter.
The Knicks had 19 offensive rebounds as Washington’s transition defense and rim protection — especially without Porzingis lurking down low — continued to underwhelm. Robinson scored an easy 20 points. Nine of his 12 rebounds were on the offensive glass.
Gibson returns
If Gibson isn’t the biggest deterrent at the rim, he should at least be a competent veteran big to fill in spot minutes at center this season (in addition to the off-court wisdom Unseld said the 37-year-old provides). Perhaps he was spurred by the warm welcome he received from the crowd at the Garden in his first return since he left the Knicks this past summer, but Gibson skillfully facilitated ball movement around the lane and had nice streaks of productivity on offense.
The New York native had a particularly fun moment early in which he whipped the ball around to create an open three for himself. It didn’t fall, but he stripped Derrick Rose in transition, then hit a layup. | 2022-10-15T03:59:45+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/14/wizards-knicks-preseason-finale/ |
- Core and brand-new products introduced under the theme of "Green Digital Solution"
- Introduction of eSSD with ultrahigh-performance to solidify SK hynix's leadership in server memory market
- Solution to solve customers' pain point proposed
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) announced today that it will showcase a number of its core and brand-new products at the CES 2023, the most influential tech event in the world taking place in Las Vegas from Jan. 5th through Jan. 8th.
The products, introduced under the theme of the "Green Digital Solution," as part of the SK Group's "Carbon-Free Future" campaign, are expected to attract Big Tech customers and experts given the significant improvement in performance and energy efficiency compared with the previous generation as well as the effect of lessening the impact on the environment.
Attention on energy-efficient memory chips has been on the rise as global tech companies pursue products that process data faster, while consuming less energy. SK hynix is confident that its products to be displayed at the CES 2023 will meet customers' such needs with outstanding performance per watt* and performance.
*Performance per watt: an indicator of how much computation is performed per watt of power consumed.
The core product put forward at the show is PS1010 E3.S, an eSSD product composed of multiple 176-layer 4D NAND that supports the fifth generation of the PCIe* interface.
*PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express): a high-speed input/output series interface used in the mainboard of digital devices. PCIe's data-tranfer speed doubles in accordance with a generation shift.
SK hynix said that the introduction of the PS1010, a combination of the company's industry-leading technologies, was made timely as the server chip market continues to grow despite the current industry downturn.
The PS1010 product shows improvement both in reading and writing speed by 130% and 49%, respectively, compared with the previous generation. Its performance-per-watt is also improved by more than 75%, helping customers reduce costs to run servers and carbon emission.
"We're proud to launch PS1010, an ultrahigh-performance product with self-developed controller and firmware, at the CES 2023, the world's largest technology show," Yun Jae Yeun, Head of NAND Product Planning, said. "This product will solve pain point of our server-chip customers, while paving the way for a stronger competitiveness in NAND business for us."
Other products to be introduced at the show are HBM3*, a memory product with the world's best specification for high performance computing, GDDR6-AiM that adopts the PIM* technology and CXL* memory capable of flexible expansion of memory capacity and performance.
*HBM (High Bandwidth Memory): High-value, high-performance memory that vertically interconnects multiple DRAM chips and dramatically increases data processing speed in comparison to traditional DRAM products.
*PIM (Processing In Memory): A next-generation technology that provides a solution for data congestion issues for AI and big data by adding computational functions to semiconductor memory
*CXL (Compute Express Link): A PCIe-based next-generation interconnect protocol on which high-performance computing systems are based
SK hynix will also present the immersion cooling* technology of SK enmove, which specializes in energy efficiency. The technology, designed to help cool down the heat of the servers generated during the operation, marks a successful case where SK hynix cooperated with other SK companies or external business partners to create new values in the semiconductor business.
*Immersion Cooling: A next-generation thermal-management technology that cools down temperature by submerging data servers into cooling oil. This way, the total electricity consumption can be reduced by 30% compared with the existing technology that uses air to cool down temperature.
About SK hynix Inc.
SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM"), flash memory chips ("NAND flash") and CMOS Image Sensors ("CIS") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.
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RADNOR, Pa. , May 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc. ("PLAYSTUDIOS") (NASDAQ: MYPS; MYPSW) f/k/a Acies Acquisition Corp. ("Acies") (NASDAQ: ACAC; ACACW). The action charges PLAYSTUDIOS with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. The lawsuit also includes claims relating to a merger transaction with Acies and asserts claims on behalf of investors who held Acies common stock as of May 25, 2021, were eligible to vote at Acies' June 17, 2021 special meeting, and who exchanged their shares of Acies stock for PLAYSTUDIOS stock in connection with the merger. As a result of PLAYSTUDIOS' materially misleading statements to the public, PLAYSTUDIOS' investors have suffered significant losses.
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CLASS PERIOD: JUNE 22, 2021 THROUGH MARCH 1, 2022
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THE CLASS INCLUDES: Investors who (1) purchased or acquired PLAYSTUDIOS securities between June 22, 2021 and March 1, 2022, including, but not limited to, those who purchased or acquired PLAYSTUDIOS securities pursuant to the offering of the private investment in public equity; (2) held Acies common stock as of May 25, 2021, and were eligible to vote at Acies' June 17, 2021 special meeting who exchanged their Acies stock for PLAYSTUDIOS stock; or (3) purchased or acquired PLAYSTUDIOS common stock pursuant or traceable to the Acies' Registration Statement and Proxy Statement issued in connection with the June 2021 merger.
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PLAYSTUDIOS' ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
On February 1, 2021, Acies, a special purpose acquisition company, announced that it had reached a merger agreement with "Old Playstudios," a privately-held gaming company (the "Merger"). PLAYSTUDIOS' flagship game was Kingdom Boss. PLAYSTUDIOS told investors that "Kingdom Boss, which began development in 2020, will launch as expected in the second half of 2021."
On June 17, 2021, Acies held a General Meeting where Acies shareholders were asked to approve
the Merger. The Merger closed on June 21, 2021, and on June 22, 2021, PLAYSTUDIOS stock and warrants began publicly trading on NASDAQ.
The truth began to be revealed on August 11, 2021, when PLAYSTUDIOS released its financial results for the second quarter of 2021 wherein PLAYSTUDIOS revealed for the first time that the Kingdom Boss launch was being delayed until later in the year and that investors should expect decreased revenues and profits during the year as a result. These quarterly financial results were finalized on June 30, 2021, just nine days after the Merger closed. Thus, defendants knew or recklessly disregarded prior to the merger close (June 21, 2021) and prior to the merger vote by the Acies shareholders (June 17, 2021), that Kingdom Boss would not be ready to launch within just a matter of weeks. Following this news, PLAYSTUDIOS stock price fell $.66 to close at $5.09 per share on August 12, 2021, a decline of 13%.
Then, on February 24, 2022, during an earnings call for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021, PLAYSTUDIOS' CEO, much to investors' surprise, disclosed that Kingdom Boss would not be launched at all. Following this news, PLAYSTUDIOS stock price fell $.24 to close at $4.86 per share on February 25, 2022, a decline of 5%. Two days later, on February 26, 2022, PLAYSTUDIOS' CEO attributed the failure to meet the projections made for revenue and earnings to the failure to launch Kingdom Boss, and revealed that Kingdom Boss was not only delayed, but indefinitely "suspended."
WHAT CAN I DO?
Current PLAYSTUDIOS investors and/or former Acies shareholders may, no later than June 6, 2022 seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages PLAYSTUDIOS investors and/or former Acies shareholders who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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Developed over five years in collaboration with TRATON GROUP, the International® S13 Integrated Powertrain is unveiled to the North American market
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Navistar continues its commitment to accelerate the impact of sustainable mobility with the introduction of the International® S13 Integrated Powertrain. Navistar unveiled the S13 Integrated Powertrain during an exclusive live event held for dealers, customers and industry press at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Developed over five years through global collaboration with the TRATON GROUP, the S13 Integrated Powertrain will provide superior operating economy, stellar performance, and simplicity and serviceability to the North American commercial vehicle market.
"The International S13 Integrated Powertrain sets an industry standard for efficiency, profitability and sustainability," said Mathias Carlbaum, chief executive officer. "Not only is it the most efficient powertrain we have ever produced, but it is also a major milestone in our journey to zero-emissions transportation."
The S13 Integrated Powertrain features a clean sheet design with the engine, transmission and aftertreatment developed and integrated concurrently, ensuring maximum efficiency without compromising performance. In comparison to the first-generation International® A26 engine specified with the 12-speed overdrive Eaton Endurant HD automated transmission, the S13 Integrated Powertrain is the lightest weight powertrain on the market. With the same comparison when specified with the updated International LT® Series aerodynamics package, the S13 Integrated offers up to a 15% gain in fuel efficiency. It also provides improved reliability and sustainability, marking a leap in the progress toward carbon neutral transport.
The S13 Integrated Powertrain was designed using a modular system approach. Modular systems allow for mass customization of broad variant offerings and ensure a long-term competitive advantage. This equates to faster time to market and lower production costs. The TRATON GROUP modular system enables efficient cross-brand development and production, while still allowing for regional adaptation and validation of the S13 Integrated Powertrain for the North American market. This is the first Group-wide demonstration of a modular solution.
"The S13 Integrated Powertrain is the catalyst for us to provide a simple, comprehensive ownership solution," said Göran Nyberg, executive vice president, Commercial Operations. "Our new optimized powertrain paired with a comprehensive ownership solution has a long-expected product life with excellent residual value, truly resetting the standard for total operating economy in our industry."
This comprehensive ownership solution includes dealer integrated software, built-in service products, repair maintenance contracts and other solutions available for International® vehicles equipped with the new S13 Integrated Powertrain, ultimately allowing fleets to concentrate on their core businesses.
The S13 Integrated Powertrain will be manufactured at Navistar's Huntsville Powertrain Manufacturing Plant in Huntsville, Ala. For more information and to access a live recording of the event to introduce the S13 Integrated Powertrain, visit www.internationaltrucks.com/shift.
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Oil and gas stocks have been on a two-year tear, ripping ahead as natural gas prices surged due to supply chain kinks, a strong economy, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Fears of a recession are now slamming on the brakes.
What's happening: Brutally high oil and gas prices were the talk of the town last year and one of the largest contributing factors to sky-high inflation. That's bad news for automobile drivers, but ended up being great for the energy industry as oil prices and energy stocks are closely interlinked.
The energy sector returned more than 60% last year, significantly outperforming every other S&P 500 sector. No other sector gained even 5% in 2022.
Earnings ahead: Lately, those surges have been ebbing. The S&P 500 energy sector is down about 1.4% so far this year and was among the weakest on Thursday. It finished the day 0.9% lower. Oil prices, meanwhile, fell by $2 per barrel as fears of a recession rise.
A recession would weaken demand for fuel as consumers watch their spending at the pump.
The five largest oil companies — ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and TotalEnergies — made record profits in 2022, pulling in about $200 billion. That's on par with Greece's entire gross domestic product for the year.
Now, as those companies prepare to report first quarter earnings for 2023, analysts are expecting a bit of a profit pullback.
"At a high level, we expect a mixed quarter with headline earnings that disappoint against the consensus estimates," wrote Bank of America analyst Doug Leggate in a note this week.
Analysts at Moody's agree. They expect growth in demand for oil and natural gas will ease as the largest economies cool off over the next two years. "Our macroeconomic base case points toward a global slowdown in economic activity on account of tight monetary and financial conditions," they wrote in a note.
That will be reflected in the earnings of the top five companies which Moody's analysts say will likely decline over the next two years — though not by too much.
Beyond earnings: At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Q1 earnings reports aren't really about last quarter. Oil analysts are already thinking about the future — and they're predicting hard times for Americans at the pump. That typically translates to lower payouts for Big Oil.
But a surprise move by OPEC+, an alliance between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and a group of non-OPEC oil-producing countries, including Russia, Mexico, and Kazakhstan, to cut oil production by more than 1.6 million barrels a day, could limit the downside for prices, and oil company earnings.
"Oil fundamentals are expected to tighten as we move through the year," wrote Warren Patterson, head of commodities strategy at ING in a note earlier this month. "Prior to these cuts, we were already expecting the oil market to see a fairly sizable deficit over the second half or 2023. Clearly, this will be even larger now."
Though demand for gas and oil will likely slow in step with the global economy, constrained supply means that Big Oil should do just fine, even if last year's record profits won't be repeated.
Coming up: Exxon and Chevron report first quarter earnings next Friday. Exxon is expected to report earnings-per-share of $2.60, according to Refinitiv. Chevron is expected to report earnings of $3.38 per share.
Blackstone is feeling the commercial real estate slump
The ongoing commercial real estate slowdown has a new victim: Blackstone.
The investment firm is the largest owner of commercial real estate globally. Its distributable earnings — the profit handed to shareholders after expenses — plunged 36% since last year. That's raising eyebrows on Wall Street as investors assess the fallout from last month's regional banking crisis.
Blackrock's decline was driven by an easing of value in its real estate investments. The company's real estate segment's distributable earnings fell 58% since last year. Profits from the sale of commercial real estate assets fell 54% to $4.4 billion, down from $9.5 billion last year. But that number is a reflection of fewer assets sold, not necessarily of lower prices, a spokesperson for Blackstone told CNN.
After decades of thriving growth bolstered by low interest rates and easy credit, the $20 trillion commercial real estate industry has seemingly hit a wall. Office and retail property valuations have been falling since the pandemic brought about lower occupancy rates and changes in where people work and how they shop. Rising interest rates have also hurt the credit-dependent industry.
Still, on an earnings call Thursday, CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that Blackstone was prepared to weather "adverse market conditions."
Blackstone president Jonathan Gray emphasized on the call that the company has diversified its investments, and more-troubled office real estate only makes up 2% of their holdings. That's down from 61% in 2007.
Gray told Bloomberg on Thursday that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and the turmoil in the sector has created opportunity for Blackstone. The company, he said, has been talking to smaller banks to help lend to their clients as they look to tighten their credit.
The banking crisis, he said, and banks' subsequent retreat from loose lending policies, could create a "golden moment" for credit and provide more opportunity for Blackstone to provide financing, he said.
Markets are starting to worry about the debt ceiling
Investors are finally starting to take the debt ceiling seriously, reports my CNN colleague Elisabeth Buchwald.
If lawmakers don't raise the nation's borrowing limit by June, the federal government runs the risk of defaulting on its debt obligations, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in January. That would be catastrophic for the economy and put millions of jobs in jeopardy, Moody's chief economist has said.
Investors are now demanding historically high yields for US Treasury notes that mature in July, which by some estimates is when the United States will default on its debt, absent any legislative action. That would mean bondholders aren't repaid the money they're owed on time.
Yields for three-month Treasury notes closed at 5.1% Thursday. That exceeded yields for longer-term Treasury notes.
Bonds with longer maturity dates tend to pay higher interest rates to compensate investors for locking down their money for a greater period of time. There's also more uncertainty around the path that interest rates will take during that time.
When yields on shorter-term bonds exceed those of longer-term bonds it's often a sign that bad economic times are ahead.
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The McKinley Mall, once the main shopping destination for Southtowns shoppers but now struggling to remake itself, is up for auction.
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The listing describes the mall, which has a 43% vacancy rate, as a “rare opportunity to acquire a super-regional mall with substantial value-add opportunity."
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Part of Kohan's vision for the mall also called for seeking nontraditional tenants, in a bid to get spaces filled, vacancies down and traffic up. The mall has about 50 tenants, including J.C. Penney, Best Buy and Old Navy; as well as nontraditional mall uses such as a cat rescue site, a mixed martial arts studio and a music school.
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More recently, a car wash. Splash Car Wash has proposed demolishing the TGI Friday's restaurant at the mall's entrance and building a 5,200-square-foot facility. An indoor skate park called Food Court Skatepark, said last month that it would open in the mall in April.
But the mall has continued to lose traditional retail tenants, including Claire’s boutique, once a mall staple, which moved to Quaker Crossing.
Kohan’s purchase of the mall was not without controversy. Kohan has a history of unpaid bills at its properties, resulting in utility shutoffs, and the mall's main phone line has been shut off at least once since Kohan took over.
Before the sale of the mall for $8.5 million to Kohan was finalized in August 2021, Benderson Development Co. claimed it had made a $10 million offer to acquire it, but had its bid ignored. A state justice ruled against the Benderson bid when the Town of Hamburg, with Benderson's support, contested the sale in court.
Benderson owns the former Macy's and its home store, a six-acre ring of property near the Dipson movie theater and the Hobby Lobby on one of the mall's outparcels.
As a result, it has the right to reject certain types of projects on the mall property, and Benderson refused to allow Kohan to lease space in the former Sears store for a self-storage facility and it denied efforts to bring a used car dealership to another of the mall’s outer parcels once occupied by a Pier 1 store.
The town in 2021 passed an incentive zoning law for the mall and its ring properties, allowing incoming tenants to have flexibility in usage in exchange for certain guarantees to the town, such as aesthetic improvements, creation of jobs or money to go toward town initiatives. | 2023-03-16T14:10:30+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/business/local/mckinley-mall-in-hamburg-is-up-for-sale-through-online-auction/article_ecca611c-c3f9-11ed-8d64-33a11d068863.html |
NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Rent the Runway, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of RENT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Rent the Runway Class A common stock in or traceable to the Company's October 2021 initial public offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Rent the Runway was continuing to face extraordinary business headwinds, such as transportation headwinds and labor wage rate increases, from the COVID-19 pandemic; (ii) Rent the Runway's active subscriber enrollments had sharply decelerated from the growth trajectory represented in the offering documents and, as a result, Rent the Runway was several months away from approaching its pre-pandemic levels of active subscriptions; (iii) Rent the Runway needed to substantially increase marketing and advertising costs from historical figures in order to attempt to grow its active subscriber network; (iv) Rent the Runway was suffering from ballooning fulfillment and transportation costs; and (v) as a result, Rent the Runway was suffering accelerating operational losses at the time of the initial public offering and was far less likely to achieve profitability in the near term, if ever, than represented.
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SOURCE The Gross Law Firm | 2023-01-11T11:32:32+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/01/11/shareholder-alert-gross-law-firm-notifies-shareholders-rent-runway-inc-class-action-lawsuit-lead-plaintiff-deadline-january-13-2023-nasdaq-rent/ |
NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. – Four people were injured Sunday after a boat exploded in North Bay Village, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed.
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Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-07-27T09:19:55+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-07-27/a-bill-to-protect-same-sex-marriage-moves-to-the-senate-after-house-approval |
Wetumpka mayor looks ahead to the new year
WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - The City of Wetumpka is kicking off a new year with a look ahead at what’s in store for 2023.
It’s coming into this year with a lot of momentum, especially with the announcement last week that a Publix Grocery store is coming to town! That project has been about two and a half years in the making. Publix will go on Highway 231, right across from the police department.
That’s bringing a lot of excitement for the future as Wetumpka still works to build on its history - with Fort Toulouse, Fort Jackson, and Jasmine Hill Gardens all within city limits. So, now the city will look at how it can promote its history and attract new tourists.
The downtown area is also a big focus for the City of Wetumpka as it kicks off this new year. tI’s already seen a lot of revitalization with new restaurants, shops and lodging, and plans to continue that growth.
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Pressure Mounts on Oil Giant After CBIS Proposal Garners Majority of Votes
CHICAGO, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc. (CBIS), a leading Catholic, socially responsible investment management firm and Registered Investment Advisor to Catholic investors around the world, has reported that a shareholder proposal urging ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) to quantify the potential effect on its business of global action to address climate change garnered a majority shareholder vote at Exxon's annual meeting.
The proposal, filed by a coalition of two dozen faith-based and socially responsible investors led by CBIS, urged ExxonMobil to issue an audited report assessing the impact of the International Energy Agency's Net Zero 2050 Scenario (IEA NZE) on the assumptions, costs, estimates, and valuations underlying its financial statements.
According to John Geissinger, CBIS' Chief Investment Officer, the scenario described in the proposal addresses the shifts in public policy and consumer demand that would accompany the limiting of global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees -- the level scientists indicate cannot be breached if the most catastrophic effects of climate change are to be avoided.
"The company must face the reality that nations worldwide are committing to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, and it needs to quantify for investors the potential effects in its financial statements," says Geissinger. "The generalities that ExxonMobil has been providing regarding how the company might manage its assets or shift investments in a Net-Zero analysis are no longer sufficient. We're pleased with the results of the proposal as it demonstrates to Exxon that the shareholders want additional transparency into this critical issue."
"The CBIS Resolution Committee, comprised of members of CBIS' leadership, views this proposal as strategically in line with the Pope's call for progressive transformation to a low-carbon economy. We tactically built on the momentum after the near majority vote on a similar resolution in 2021," says Jeff McCroy, President & Chief Executive Officer of CBIS. "In keeping with Catholic teaching, we see shareholder advocacy around the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change as our duty."
McCroy continued, "CBIS' continued investment in Exxon has enabled CBIS to pursue the work of the De La Salle Christian Brothers and the CBIS mission, including Laudato Sí: On Care for our Common Home. Divestment, although a simpler path, removes the ability to make impactful changes as an engaged shareholder."
Independent analysis by the Carbon Tracker Initiative has detailed the lack of quantification in the company's disclosures regarding the effect of the scenario's assumptions on Exxon's current business model or financial results.
CBIS' Proxy Exempt Solicitation highlights the gap between the company's disclosures and the shareholder request. Reflecting the importance of the issue, this resolution was among the few proposals flagged for consideration by influential investor network Climate Action 100+, and was supported by proxy advisors ISS and Glass Lewis for the second straight year.
"The IEA NZE anticipates that as governments around the world make and implement Net-Zero commitments, demand for oil and gas may radically fall," says Geissinger. "Many of Exxon's peers are already providing quantitative disclosure of the potential impacts of Net-Zero on their revenues, assets, and liabilities. It's clear that most of Exxon's shareholders believe their company must take the same step."
For more information on the ExxonMobil resolution and CBIS' other corporate engagements, please visit cbisonline.com. To hear CIO John Geissinger's remarks at the Exxon Shareholder Meeting, click here.
CBIS is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm amplifying the power of Catholic investors to transform the world. Responsible for more than $10 billion in assets under management, Chicago-based CBIS works with Catholic investors to develop socially responsible investment strategies and solutions that uphold Catholic beliefs and values without sacrificing returns for investors, often taking an engaged ownership role to command change in its investments. Founded in 1981 by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, CBIS engages third-party institutional investment firms to actively sub-advise its portfolios. For more information, visit cbisonline.com, or call 877-550-2247.
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SOURCE CBIS | 2022-05-27T19:46:13+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/05/27/majority-exxonmobil-shareholders-reaffirm-need-company-account-climate-risk/ |
Poké chain founded by ex-Rebel opens 1st Las Vegas location
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Koibito Poké, the small chain known for its build-your-own poké bowls, has opened its first Las Vegas location, at 4870 Blue Diamond Road in the southwest valley. Former UNLV and MLB pitcher Todd Stottlemyre is co-founder and CEO of Koibito Poké.
On Oct. 8, the restaurant is celebrating its grand opening from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a livestream, a meet-and-greet with members of the Clark County Fire Department, promotions from Eos Fitness, and face painting and balloon art for kids. Folks also can enter to win gift cards, Koibito merchandise, tickets to professional hockey games and free poké for a year.
At Koibito Poké, diners assemble their bowls from a choice of base (white, brown or cauliflower rice; greens); nearly a dozen proteins (tofu, ahi and chicken among them); nine sauces (including shoyu, citrus ponzu and sweet chili lime); and 10 toppings (like ginger, edamame and jalapeño). The restaurant also serves four signature bowls if you don’t want to DIY.
Koibito Poké hours are 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Contact Johnathan L. Wright at jwright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @ItsJLW on Twitter. | 2022-09-29T17:28:18+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/food/poke-chain-founded-by-ex-rebel-opens-1st-las-vegas-location-2648318/ |
(KTLA) — Jay Leno remains in a Los Angeles hospital as he recovers from burns he suffered from a gasoline fire in his Burbank, California, garage over the weekend.
NBC news reports that Leno suffered third-degree burns to his hands and the left side of his face. A “source close to the comedian” told the network that the former “Tonight Show” host may need skin grafts.
He is reportedly receiving hyperbaric treatment with oxygen therapy at the Grossman Burn Center.
“Studies show that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can accelerate burn wound healing by increasing oxygen supply to injured areas and reducing swelling, which is helpful in maintaining healthy blood flow,” according to the burn center’s website.
The treatment is “something he has to do all the time,” the source continued to say.
According to TMZ, Leno was in his garage on Sunday when one of his cars burst into flames, seemingly out of nowhere.
A longtime employee of Leno’s told KTLA that it was a steam car that caused the problem. The steam was made by gas, and the comedian was sprayed with some gas that ignited.
“I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire. I am ok. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet,” the comedian said in a statement to Variety on Monday morning.
Leno’s accident caused him to pull out of appearances in Las Vegas, St. Louis and Denver.
The source says Leno is hopeful to be out of the burn center by Thanksgiving.
“Jay is the kind of guy that likes to get up and go but they need to treat him,” the source said. “In other words, some people that have burns in the body, they can’t move. But Jay physically, below his chin or below his shoulders, he’s fine. I don’t think he’ll want to be laying there for that long.” | 2022-11-16T19:43:16+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/jay-leno-may-need-skin-grafts-after-reportedly-suffering-3rd-degree-burns-from-gas-fire/ |
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The parties making up a coalition to unseat Turkey's powerful president in next month's elections have little in common, But they're trying to rally around a common goal.
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The parties making up a coalition to unseat Turkey's powerful president in next month's elections have little in common, But they're trying to rally around a common goal.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-04-24T09:24:05+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-04-24/opposition-parties-in-turkey-band-together-to-try-to-defeat-president-erdogan |
Barry Stern is the former senior vice president of finance at Mandiant, and brings more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueVoyant, a rock-solid cyber defense platform company converging internal and external security, today announced that Barry Stern has joined the company as chief financial officer.
Stern brings more than 20 years of finance experience including transforming businesses from start-up to Initial Public Offering (IPO), as well as managing large enterprises' financials. Most recently, Stern was the senior vice president of finance at Mandiant and FireEye, where he managed the company's financial planning and reporting. In addition, he was deeply involved in numerous acquisitions, the divestiture of the FireEye business, and Mandiant's pending acquisition by Google.
Before joining Mandiant, Stern helped two companies, Opower, and Shopping.com (subsequently acquired by eBay), with their IPOs. Additionally, Stern worked at Google, Intel, and Andersen Consulting.
"BlueVoyant has a proven track record of sustained high growth," said Jim Rosenthal, CEO, BlueVoyant. "Barry has the experience of growing and scaling tech-enabled companies. I am excited to welcome him to the team to maximize financial opportunities."
In his role as CFO, Stern will focus on setting and managing BlueVoyant's financial and strategic plans, establishing and managing financial and operational processes and goals, ensuring regulatory reporting requirements are met, managing investor relations, and building a world-class global finance organization to help scale the company's business.
BlueVoyant has more than 700 customers, 650 employees across five continents, and recently announced a $250 million series raise with a more than unicorn valuation. The company has a proven track record of sustained high growth.
"I understand what companies like BlueVoyant need as the team continues to transform cyber defense," Stern said. "I am excited to help take BlueVoyant to the next level with rapid growth and expansion."
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BlueVoyant converges internal and external cyber defense capabilities into an outcomes-based, cloud-native platform called BlueVoyant Elements™. Elements continuously monitors your network, endpoints, attack surface, and supply chain as well as the open, deep, and dark web for vulnerabilities, risks, and threats; and takes action to protect your business, leveraging both machine learning-driven automation and human-led expertise. Elements can be deployed as independent solutions or together as a full-spectrum cyber defense platform. BlueVoyant's approach to cyber defense revolves around three key pillars — technology, telemetry, and talent — that deliver rock-solid cyber defense capabilities to more than 700 customers across the globe.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government on Monday identified four new military camps, including some across the sea from Taiwan, where rotating batches of American forces will be allowed to be stationed indefinitely despite strong objections from China.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration announced in February his approval of an expansion of the U.S. military presence to four additional Philippine military bases from the five existing sites under the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement between the longtime treaty allies.
Marcos said the move would boost the Philippines' coastal defense. It dovetails with the Biden administration's efforts to strengthen an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific to better counter China, including in any future confrontation over Taiwan.
The new sites identified by Marcos' office include a Philippine navy base in Santa Ana and an international airport in Lal-lo, both in northern Cagayan province. Those locations have infuriated Chinese officials because they would provide U.S. forces with a staging ground close to southern China and Taiwan, the self-governed island Beijing claims as its own.
The two other military areas are in northern Isabela province and a navy camp on Balabac island in the western province of Palawan.
Palawan faces the South China Sea, a key passage for global trade that Beijing claims virtually in its entirety and has taken increasingly aggressive actions that have threatened smaller claimant states, including the Philippines.
China and the Philippines, along with Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, have been locked in increasingly tense territorial disputes over the busy and resource-rich South China Sea. Washington lays no claims to the strategic waters but has deployed warships and fighter and surveillance aircraft for patrols that it says promote freedom of navigation and the rule of law, angering Beijing.
“That's a trade route, that's where more or less $3 trillion worth of trade passes. Our responsibility in collectively securing that is huge,” said Carlito Galvez, who heads the Philippine Defense Department.
The four new military sites for American forces are “suitable and mutually beneficial” and will “boost the disaster response of the country” as a springboard for humanitarian and relief work during emergencies, Marcos's office said.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Defense said the new locations “will strengthen the interoperability of the U.S. and Philippine Armed Forces and allow us to respond more seamlessly together to address a range of shared challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.”
In a meeting last month with Philippine officials in Manila, however, a Chinese Foreign Ministry delegation expressed its strong opposition to an expanded U.S. military presence in the Philippines and warned of repercussions for regional peace and stability, a Philippine official involved in the talks said at the time.
Philippine diplomats replied that the decision to allow an expanded American military presence was in the Philippines' national interest and would boost its ability to respond to natural disasters, the official said, suggesting the move was not aimed at China.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authority to publicly discuss the sensitive issue.
The Chinese Embassy also warned in a recent statement that the Philippine government’s security cooperation with Washington “will drag the Philippines into the abyss of geopolitical strife and damage its economic development at the end of the day.”
The long-seething territorial conflicts continue to be a major irritant in Philippine-China relations. Marcos's administration has filed at least 77 of more than 200 diplomatic protests against China’s increasingly assertive actions in the disputed waters since he took office last year.
The Philippines used to host two of the largest U.S. Navy and Air Force bases outside the American mainland. The bases were shut down in the early 1990s after the Philippine Senate rejected an extension, but American forces later returned for large-scale combat exercises with Filipino troops under a Visiting Forces Agreement.
The Philippine Constitution prohibits the permanent basing of foreign troops and their involvement in local combat. The 2014 agreement allows visiting American forces to stay indefinitely in rotating batches in barracks and other buildings they construct within designated Philippine camps with their defense equipment, except nuclear weapons.
The Department of National Defense in Manila said the American military presence was not a re-establishment of U.S. military bases in the Philippines, as opponents have asserted.
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Manny Machado continues to be a very rich man. He also is still a very good hitter.
Machado ripped an RBI double on Sunday, the same day he agreed to a new $350 million, 11-year contract that will keep him with the San Diego Padres through 2033, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Machado must pass a physical before the deal is finalized.
Machado got a big cheer from Padres fans on a chilly afternoon in Arizona before a spring training game against the Diamondbacks. The third baseman struck out in his first at-bat before lacing a line-drive double off the base of the left-field wall in San Diego's nine-run second inning.
Machado finished 2 for 3 at the plate, adding a single in the third.
The 30-year-old had said that after this season, he planned to opt out of the $300 million, 10-year free agent deal he signed in 2019. With the $120 million he already has received, the new deal increases the free-spending Padres’ commitment to Machado to $470 million over 15 years.
Machado finished second in the NL MVP race last year. He’ll anchor a superstar-laden lineup that includes Xander Bogaerts, Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr., who can return on April 20 from an 80-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.
Machado batted .298 with 32 home runs and 102 RBIs last season.
BACK IN BLACK (AND ORANGE)
Michael Conforto saw his first game action in more than a year, and went 1 for 3 as the San Francisco Giants’ designated hitter against the Cincinnati Reds. He singled his final time up.
“Felt good to be back. I definitely had some nerves. After the first at-bat most of them went away,” he said.
Conforto, who turns 30 on Wednesday, hadn’t played since Oct. 3, 2021, when he was with the New York Mets. He missed all of 2022 after having right shoulder surgery but signed a two-year, $36 million contract with the Giants in the offseason.
He said the plan is to DH for a couple weeks, then play some outfield.
“Really what matters is getting to Opening Day healthy," Conforto said. "But today was good.”
CAPTAIN JUDGE
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge received several ovations from the crowd at Steinbrenner Field before his first game in pinstripes as the new team captain.
“I felt it with the intro, I felt it on defense, I felt it stepping up to the plate,” the reigning AL MVP said.
Judge was a free agent after last season but ended up signing a $360 million, nine-year contract with the Yankees. He also was named the team's first captain since Hall of Famer Derek Jeter in 2014.
“He loves the game, and obviously being back here, to be able to put the uni on and go out, I think it was something he was looking forward to,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
TROPHY DO-OVER
Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara received his NL Cy Young Award trophy on Sunday for the second time – and this time he has no reason to give it back.
“I want to keep it for the rest of my life,” Alcantara said. “I think that is for my mom.”
When the Baseball Writers' Association of America originally presented Alcantara with the trophy at its January awards dinner, the plaque language dubbed both Alcantara and AL winner Justin Verlander the “most valuble” pitchers in their leagues, leaving out the second “a” in “valuable."
Afterward, the group told him it would provide a new one.
The new plaque contains the more up-to-date “most outstanding” phrasing — and it’s spelled correctly.
Marlins owner Bruce Sherman presented the award to Alcantara at home plate before Miami’s spring training home opener against St. Louis.
“I didn’t expect that I was going to get my award today,” Alcantara said. “I thought I’d go outside and have fun with my teammates. But when I saw the surprise, it made my day today.”
Alcantara went 14-9 with a 2.28 ERA in 2022, pitching a league-high 228 2/3 innings.
FOLLOW UP
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said Major League Baseball is providing updates — nearly in real time — on the rules changes package that is making this spring training unique.
The two major changes are a pitch clock and a limit on extreme infield shifts.
“They did a really nice job of sending out a memo this morning with all the things that took place yesterday and questions that players and managers that just had to be addressed in order that you can cover it with your staff and club as you feel appropriate," Marmol said. "So we did that with our staff and brought two different points with our players because they’ve done a really good job of communication.”
The new rules already had an effect during the first full day of games: Cal Conley of the Atlanta Braves thought he had just won the game with a two-out, bases-loaded walk-off walk on Saturday. But umpire John Libka ruled that Conley, facing reliever Robert Kwiatkowski of the Boston Red Sox, wasn’t set in the box as the clock wound under eight seconds.
He was ruled out. The game ended in a tie.
Braves manager Brian Snitker said Sunday that Conley's situation was part of learning process.
“It’s baseball. You’re going to see something you’ve never seen before,” Snitker said. "All to the point where I said I’m glad we’re starting these things when we did. I’m glad we didn’t wait until March 15 or something where we can have a whole month of this, and hopefully in a few weeks that this thing is just normal.”
SCHERZER FINE WITH CLOCK
New York Mets right-hander Max Scherzer described pitching under the new major league rules as a “cat-and-mouse” game.
Contrary to previous years, Scherzer feels the pitcher finally has gained control.
In his first start of the Grapefruit League schedule, Scherzer was touched for a run in the second inning but struck out five while working the first two innings of the Mets’ 6-3 win over Washington.
“Really, the power the pitcher has now — I can totally dictate pace,” the three-time Cy Young Award winner said. “The rule change of the hitter having only one time out changes the complete dynamic of the hitter-and-pitcher dynamic. Yeah, I love it.”
Washington’s Michael Chavis, the second hitter in the second inning, stepped out of the box when he felt Scherzer was taking too long. That was fine with Scherzer.
He held the ball for more than 10 seconds before delivering the next pitch as Chavis had to remain in the batter’s box, no matter the level of his impatience. The fact that Chavis ultimately singled to right was immaterial. Scherzer had imposed his will.
“It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” the three-time Cy Young Award winner said. “There’s rules and I’ll operate within whatever the rules are.
“But I want to work quick. It’s always the hitter that can slow me down. The hitter doesn’t have that ability anymore.”
TWINS ADD SANTANA
The Twins claimed right-handed pitcher Dennis Santana off waivers from the Atlanta Braves.
The 26-year-old threw in 63 games, including one start, for the Texas Rangers last season, going 3-8 with a 5.22 ERA. To make room for Santana on the 40-man roster, the Twins put infielder Royce Lewis on the 60-day injured list.
Lewis is recovering from right knee surgery.
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum, AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson and freelancers Chuck King, Mark Didtler, Jack Thompson and Rick Hummel contributed to this report.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-26T22:23:10+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/machado-rips-rbi-double-after-agreeing-to-350m-17807077.php |
A tornado tore through Montebello, Calif., in Los Angeles County on Wednesday, damaging buildings and cars in a part of the country that doesn't frequently see tornadoes.
The strongest tornado to impact the Los Angeles Metro area since March 1983 touched down at 11:14 a.m. for two to three minutes, according to the National Weather Service. Its peak winds topped 100 miles per hour and injured at least one person. Nearby Santa Barbara county saw a smaller tornado the same day, with peak winds of about 75 miles per hour, according to NWS.
Why are tornadoes rare in southern California?
California averages 11 tornadoes per year, which typically occur in the spring and fall in the northern half of the Central Valley between Redding and Modesto, according to NWS. The last time NWS in Oxnard rated a tornado was in 2016, according to member station LAist.
There were 44 tornadoes in Los Angeles County from 1950 to 2021, which comes out to less than one per year. Most were classified as weak and resulted in few or no injuries.
There are two key components to tornadoes, according to NWS. The first is instability, with warm, moist air near the ground and cooler dry air higher up. The second is a change in wind speed or direction higher up in the atmosphere. Taken together, these conditions create a rotating updraft, which creates a supercell thunderstorm and eventually a tornado.
Thunderstorms are relatively scarce on the west coast because the Pacific Ocean's cool water more closely mirrors the temperatures higher in the atmosphere. When there isn't a dramatic change in temperature with height, thunderstorms — and, in turn, tornadoes — are less likely.
Weak funnel clouds are more common there, and they occur a couple of times a year without causing notable damage, according to member station LAist. On Tuesday, forecasters in southern California warned of landspouts, which are smaller, short-lived tornadoes that have no rotating updraft.
NWS classifies tornadoes using the Enhanced Fujita scale, which is based on estimated wind speeds and tornado-related damage. The Montebello tornado was classified as EF1, or weak.
But even with that weak rating, it damaged 17 structures, uprooted a tree, snapped a power pole and destroyed car windows, and LAist reports that one person suffered minor injuries. Taking shelter indoors and away from windows is the best way to stay safe in a tornado.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-23T15:42:01+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-03-23/a-rare-tornado-tears-through-part-of-los-angeles-county-heres-why-thats-so-unusual |
- First open exhibition at CES … More than 20,000 visitors
- LG Innotek's innovative technology synergy for optics solution, electric components highlighted in autonomous driving
- Recording client meetings doubled compared to the previous year
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Innotek (CEO Jeong Cheol-dong) had a successful open exhibition debut at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2023, held in Las Vegas, USA. LG Innotek expects that this CES will be an opportunity to increase its global brand awareness significantly.
LG Innotek's open booth in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) was crowded with visitors from the opening hours on the first day of the CES event on January 5.
LG Innotek has participated in CES with a closed exhibition to introduce products only to specific clients until this year. This is the first time LG Innotek displayed various innovative products related to optics solution, substrate & material, and electric components for general visitors.
More than 20,000 visitors visited LG Innotek's booth during the CES exhibition.
The autonomous driving vehicle mock-up installed in the booth's center caught the attention of not only those in the related industry but also general visitors passing by. In particular, the mock-up displaying 16 electric component types for autonomous driving vehicles according to the positions where they are actually mounted confirmed LG Innotek's competitiveness as a total solution provider for electric components for future vehicles.
Visitors paid attention to the synergistic effect of LG Innotek's core technologies, such as optics solution, substrate & material and electric components, converging for autonomous driving.
The Sensor Fusion solution, exhibited for the first time this year, is a typical example. The solution that converges the camera module developed with LG Innotek's global leading optical technology and know-how and the radar module applying the state-of-the-art electric part technology detects objects accurately even in bad weather. As it is expected to play a decisive role in securing safety, which is crucial for fully autonomous driving, it was an opportunity for LG Innotek to prove its technological competitiveness as a leading company for the future autonomous driving.
Moreover, substrate & material products, such as the flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) and Power solution for sustainable energy, another focus of the exhibition booth, were introduced for general visitors to recognize LG Innotek's strategy of advancing its business portfolio to secure future growth engines.
The visitors also remarked that they learned the principles and importance of hidden components in products, such as smartphones, that global consumers use in everyday life.
"We wanted to convey the message that components determine future innovative products by taking out and displaying parts in smartphones and automobiles that were not normally exposed," said Min John, Vice President of Product Strategy Division, who planned this exhibition.
LG Innotek positioned experiential exhibitions in various places to help visitors better understand the displayed components.
In the case of FC-BGA, which was the hot topic of the booth along with the autonomous driving mock-up, visitors could complete the FC-BGA substrate by stacking blocks themselves. It was an opportunity for the visitor to intuitively understand LG Innotek's high multi-layer and highly-integrated substrate technology. "I was impressed that even non-experts could easily understand the principles of semiconductor substrate technology, which the general public find difficult, by playing a game," Mr. Laurent Canal, who came from France to visit the CES exhibition, said.
Securing potential clients is another positive outcome of the first open exhibition. "The number of meetings with customers that have already been confirmed even before the exhibition started has more than doubled compared to previous years. Moreover, we had more than 100 ad hoc meetings arranged in the booth, confirming that CES would play a positive role in securing potential clients and expanding orders," an LG Innotek official said.
"This CES served as an important opportunity to reveal LG Innotek's high-tech competitiveness to the world. We intend to continue to focus on creating differentiated customer values as the leading global material & component company," said CEO Jeong Cheol-dong.
About LG Innotek Co.,Ltd.
LG Innotek is a cutting-edge materials and components manufacturer and an affiliate of the LG group. The company's business units include core components for mobile, automotive, display, semiconductor, and IoT products. Furthermore, the company has cooperated closely with the mobile devices, home appliances, and automotive companies, producing camera modules, automotive electronic components, wireless communication modules, and substrate materials.
LG Innotek is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and its sales subsidiaries are located in Germany, USA, Mainland China, Japan, and Taiwan with production subsidiaries in Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mexico, and Poland. For more information, please refer to the website: www.lginnotek.com
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Permian asset ownership shifts as public E&Ps look to shore up inventory
CALGARY, AB, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Enverus Intelligence Research (EIR), a subsidiary of Enverus, the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS platform, is releasing its summary of 2Q23 upstream merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. In Q2, U.S. upstream M&A boomed with $24 billion transacted in 20 deals with the Permian returning to its usual position as the center of M&A activity.
"The second quarter saw a thunderous return to Permian M&A after a relatively quiet start to the year," said Andrew Dittmar, director at Enverus. "The need for public buyers to secure quality drilling inventory has been brewing, and the pressure to make a deal has been mounting as the remaining opportunities are narrowed."
As private opportunities further dwindle more companies are likely to consider corporate mergers with other public companies. Potential combinations include both mergers of equals between the smaller companies or sales to a larger peer. Gas deals, which were notably absent in the first half of 2023, could also potentially find traction as the commodity hits a bottom and buyers look to play a rebound driven by growing U.S. LNG exports in coming years.
View Enverus' full announcement including extended commentary and Top Five Deals of Q2.
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New York City agrees to pay $13 million to 2020 racial injustice protesters in historic class action
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
If approved by a judge, the settlement, which was filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, would be among the most expensive payouts ever awarded in a lawsuit over mass arrests, experts said.
The lawsuit focused on 18 of the many protests that erupted in New York City in the week following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught.
It comes as many other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements with protesters who spilled into the streets to decry racist police brutality after Floyd’s death, a period of unrest that saw 10,000 people arrested in the span of a few days.
Attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild, which represented the plaintiffs in New York, accused NYPD leaders of depriving protesters of their 1st Amendment rights through a “coordinated” campaign of indiscriminate brutality and unlawful arrests.
Through more than two years of litigation, attorneys for the city maintained that police were responding to a chaotic and unprecedented situation, pointing to some unruly protests in which police vehicles were set on fire and officers pelted with rocks and plastic bottles.
A spokesperson for the NYPD deferred questions to the city’s Law Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
During some of the 2020 protest marches, officers deployed a crowd control tactic known as kettling against peaceful protesters, corralling them in tight spaces and attacking them with batons and pepper spray before making mass arrests.
Adama Sow, one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said their group of marchers were trapped by police without warning. Sow and the other arrestees were placed in zip ties until their hands turned purple, then held in a sweltering correctional bus for several hours.
“It was so disorganized, but so intentional,” Sow said. “They seemed set on traumatizing everyone.”
The city invoked qualified immunity, which protects police officers from lawsuits stemming from lawful work performed in the line of duty, and defended the decision to arrest medics and legal observers as within the rights of the department.
While attorneys for the plaintiffs cited past crackdowns on large demonstrations, including during the 2004 Republican National Convention, as evidence of longstanding “systemic violations” by the NYPD, attorneys for the city said there was no systematic effort to deprive people of their right to protest.
“There is no history — or present or future — of unconstitutional policing,” Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city, wrote in a memo. “There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights.”
The lawsuit named former Mayor Bill de Blasio and retired NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea as well as other police leaders as defendants. Under the settlement agreement, neither the city nor the NYPD is required to admit any wrongdoing.
Protesters who were arrested on certain charges — including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, arson or weapons possession — will be excluded from the settlement. Those who were seen on video blocking police from making arrests may also be ineligible.
Unlike some other lawsuits related to the 2020 protests, the class action was not meant to force the NYPD to change its practices. There are several other lawsuits aimed at injunctive relief that are ongoing, including one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James that calls for a federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s policing of protests.
Another class action settlement announced earlier this year would award $21,500 to those arrested by police during one demonstration in the Bronx, a payout that could total around $10 million including legal fees.
Separately, more than 600 people have brought individual claims against New York City related to police action during the 2020 protests, according to the city’s comptroller, Brad Lander. Roughly half of them have resulted in settlements and resolutions, costing the city nearly $12 million to date.
Wylie Stecklow, an attorney for the protesters in the class action lawsuit, said the growing cost to taxpayers should serve as a “red flag” for city leaders about the NYPD’s inability to correct its “decades old problem with constitutionally compliant protest policing.”
“While the arc of the moral universe is indeed long, sometimes it needs reform to bend towards justice,” he said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-20T12:08:19+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/07/20/new-york-city-agrees-pay-13-million-2020-racial-injustice-protesters-historic-class-action/ |
Since the dawn of social media, Big Sur, if it wasn’t already, has become a bucket-list destination for tourists the world over.
And among the destinations within Big Sur, there is none more iconic than the Bixby Creek Bridge. If you don’t have a picture of yourself next to Bixby Bridge, were you really even there?
With that popularity has come a perpetual cluster around the bridge’s northern end, where cars park chaotically, often double parking and sometimes even parking on the highway so drivers and passengers can get out of their car and get a photo.
For years it has been maddening to locals, and just how to prevent the backup has remained a vexing question. Caltrans launched a pilot project at the Bixby turnout, and on Feb. 22 installed 25 “delineators” – which are soft posts, and which can be driven over – at the turnout. They mean, per state highway code, those who stop must park parallel.
Bixby is the first location along the coast where this approach has been attempted, and Caltrans spokesperson Kevin Drabinski writes by email that Caltrans crews – aside from monitoring the state of delineators themselves (10 have been replaced as of March 6) – will be assessing its overall effectiveness in improving traffic flow.
As of now, it’s the only plan Caltrans has got, as Drabinski writes, “The space is limited which makes it challenging to find a permanent solution.” Though he adds that observations by Caltrans crews “indicated the partial success of the installation almost immediately,” and that vehicles were “largely adhering to the parameters of the delineators.”
Butch Kronlund, executive director of the Community Association of Big Sur, isn’t sure if it will help solve the problem, but says, “I’m a fan of doing something.” He adds, “[Caltrans is] recognizing there’s a problem and taking some kind of step to address it. Is it the right answer? I don’t know, but it is some kind of answer.”
County Planning Commissioner Martha Diehl, who lives near the Bixby turnout, is likewise happy Caltrans is taking “substantive” action. “I applaud their experiment,” she says, adding that she hopes going forward there is a more holistic, collaborative approach that involves county public works, which manages the Coast Road entrance just across the street that regularly fills up with cars parked illegally.
“I don’t think it’s a long-term solution, but for the interim, it’s fabulous,” Diehl says. | 2023-03-09T12:53:15+00:00 | montereycountyweekly.com | https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/after-years-of-complaints-caltrans-is-finally-addressing-congestion-at-bixby-bridge/article_fc025be6-bdee-11ed-8a50-6b2553de2799.html |
Last week, Yellowstone National Park officials were saying the northern loop of the park may not open this summer. But Yellowstone National Park spokeswoman Cynthia Hernandez said $50 million in special funding from the National Park Service will help quicken the park's opening timeline.
"So, with this funding, and the plans in place, we're hoping to open the northern part of the park within two weeks or less," she said.
This will allow visitors to access Dunraven Pass, Tower, Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris. That will open visitor access to approximately 80 percent of the park.
The funding will also be used to make sure Gardiner and Cook City in Montana can be accessed. Then officials will look into potentially opening the northern gates in Montana.
Road construction crews and materials that were already in the park for a scheduled road project to repair the Grand Loop Road between Old Faithful and West Thumb Geyser Basin will be used instead for that road to access the North gate. This will make sure that essential services can be provided along that road during the winter months.
Park officials say they will look for any opportunity to restore limited visitor access at the North Entrance. They will also look at a range of temporary and permanent options to return visitor access to the northeast entrance at Cooke City. But currently the road is not drivable between Lamar Valley and Silver Gate.
The southern loop will be open at 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 22. That loop is accessed by the two Wyoming gates and West Yellowstone, Montana.
Hernandez said the park has implemented a visitor access plan to limit the amount of people visiting the park for the next three weeks or so.
"So based on your license plate, an odd numbered last digit can enter on odd days of the month, same with even on even days, and license plates that are only letters will fall into the odd category," said Hernandez.
Zero will be considered an even number. Personalized plates with numbers in them as well will refer to the last number on the plate. Motorcycles will be allowed in the park on even days.
Hernandez said anyone with a hotel or campground reservation can enter the park the day of that booking. She said the park is working hard to repair infrastructure so people can visit safely.
For more information, visit the Yellowstone National Park website. | 2022-06-20T23:20:11+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/wyoming-economy/2022-06-20/yellowstone-announces-northern-loop-will-open-in-two-weeks-or-so-after-receiving-funding |
MIAMI (AP) — Two former South Florida police officers turned themselves in Thursday morning to face felony charges over the beating of a homeless man who had been drinking outside a shopping center last month, officials said.
Lorenzo Orfila, 27, and Rafael Otano, 22, were booked into jail on Thursday morning in Miami. They were each charged with kidnapping and battery, and Orfila was also charged with official misconduct, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said during a news conference.
She said the officers were dispatched to the shopping center on the afternoon of Dec. 17 regarding a homeless man who was known to frequent the area. They handcuffed the man, put him in a patrol car and drove to a remote location several miles away.
“There he was taken out of the marked car and while handcuffed, he was allegedly beaten and thrown to the ground by the officers,” Fernandez Rundle said.
The man later told investigators that he was left there, unconscious and unhandcuffed. He began walking and was spotted by an off-duty Hialeah police officer who was walking his dog, Fernandez Rundle said. That officer called 911.
She said that through surveillance video taken from the shopping center investigators were not able to identify “any violations that would have prompted or justified taking him into custody.”
Some 12 days into the investigation, detectives learned that a civilian had approached the victim and offered him $1,200 to recant his original statement. The victim later told detectives that he took the money “because he’s homeless and he’s unemployed” and said that his original statement was correct, Fernandez Rundle said.
The civilian was charged with witness tampering.
Hialeah police Chief George Funete said the behavior “will not be tolerated,” adding that both officers were removed from their patrol duties after the incident was reported, and then fired once the investigation was completed.
It was not immediately known whether Orfila and Otano have retained lawyers who can speak on their behalf.
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WATSONVILLE — A 30-year-old San Jose motorcyclist was killed Monday afternoon when her bike went down on an agricultural road outside Watsonville and slid into the path of an oncoming semi-truck.
The motorcyclist, whose identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin, was traveling southbound on Carlton Road near Thompson Road around 3:30 p.m. Monday, according to the California Highway Patrol. The woman appeared to have lost control of her 2023 Honda CBR600RR, which is advertised by the maker as a sport/racing bike, as she approached a curve in the road, according to CHP.
The woman and the Honda went down on the road before sliding into the oncoming path of a 2024 Freightliner Semi-Truck headed northbound on Carlton Road, the CHP said. The motorcyclist, suffering from major injuries, died at the scene. Two passengers in the Freightliner were unharmed.
As of Tuesday, CHP investigators had not determined whether drugs and/or alcohol were factors in the crash. | 2023-05-09T19:35:19+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/05/09/san-jose-motorcylist-killed-in-watsonville-crash/ |
The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) announces the 29th edition of the Conference of Montreal (June 12–14th 2023), with high-level speakers from government, business and civil society
MONTREAL, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - The Conference of Montreal, one of the largest and most established economic conferences in North America, today unveiled its program for the 2023 edition. This year's event, held under the theme "Thriving in a World in Transition", will feature more than 180 high-level speakers including international delegations and the heads of Ericsson, Moderna, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Franklin Templeton and Rio Tinto.
The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade for Canada, will take part in a fireside chat to discuss trade, sustainability and resiliency. From his side, Pierre Fitzgibbon, Québec's Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Minister Responsible for Regional Economic Development and Minister Responsible for the Metropolis and region of Montreal, will speak on Québec's economic opportunities and initiatives surrounding a greener and more sustainable economy.
The 29th edition of the conference is organized by the IEFA in association with Integra Capital, and will take place at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal. Sessions will cover the role of green finance, the decarbonization of the energy industry, the electrification of mobility, critical minerals, to cyber defence, aerospace innovation and AI.
"2023 will go down in history as a critical turning point for the global economy", explained Nicholas Rémillard, CEO of the IEFA. "We are witnessing the onset of recession, the extent of which we do not know, and the public and private sectors must work together to minimize its impact. In addition, we have to ensure that this resiliency to future global events encompasses climate change. I am honoured to welcome everyone to the Conference of Montreal as we seek to address these issues together", he added.
"At the Conference of Montreal, I look forward to discussing the ways in which Canada can work across the globe with partners to increase the competitiveness and resilience of our economies, and to secure good, sustainable jobs for our people", expressed The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade for Canada.
"Québec stands out internationally thanks to its green economy. Our hydroelectricity, our efforts to decarbonize our industries and our major investments in strategic sectors are all winning conditions for a successful energy transition and to become the first carbon-neutral state in North America", said Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Minister Responsible for Regional Economic Development and Minister Responsible for the Metropolis and the Montreal Region.
"Major international gatherings are key opportunities for building bridges between economies. I'm delighted to see that the Conference of Montreal is calling on world leaders to reflect on ways to prosper while taking into account the climate emergency, as well as promoting innovation and economic development. These issues are becoming inseparable and require concerted action from all quarters," declared Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante.
The preliminary list of speakers includes:
- Boon Chye Loh, CEO, Singapore Exchange (SGX Group)
- Matthew Chamberlain, CEO, London Metal Exchange
- Jenny Johnson, President and CEO, Franklin Templeton
- Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson
- Jean Paul Chauvet, CEO, Lightspeed
- Rich Lesser, Global Chairman, BCG
- Geoffrey Roux de Bézieux, President, Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF)
- Arvind Raman, Chief Information Security Officer, BlackBerry
- Thierry Dassault, Deputy CEO, Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault
- Laurent Germain, CEO, Egis
- Ivan Vella, Chief Executive, Aluminium, Rio Tinto
- Jesse Vincent-Herscovici, CEO, Axelys
- Rafaèle Tordjman, CEO, Jeito Capital
- Noubar Afeyan, Co-Founder and Chairman, Moderna; Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering
- Dino Bianco, CEO, Kruger Products
- Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Minister Responsible for Regional Economic Development and Minister Responsible for the Metropolis and the Montreal Region, Québec
- Pierre Moscovici, First President, Cour des comptes (France)
- Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montreal
- Ion Sterian, CEO, Transgaz
Additional speakers will be announced in the coming days.
The complete program, as well as the list of confirmed speakers, is updated regularly. For further information, please visit the Conference of Montreal's website.
Launched in 1994, the Conference of Montreal (CDM) brings together decision makers from all spheres of society to address the most pressing issues of our time. In the past three decades, Conference of Montreal has evolved to become an internationally recognized multi-day event attended by world leaders and decision makers from the worlds of government, business, and academia, who convene to discuss topics ranging from the economy and global leadership to sustainability, energy and innovation. The event's geographic location in the heart of French Canada offers audiences a rare sociopolitical economic insight which spans both a North American and European perspective, while also examining best practice worldwide.
The conference is organized by the IEFA (International Economic Forum of the Americas), which also hosts the Toronto Global Forum, World Strategic Forum (held in Miami), Conference of Paris and IEFA LatAm Forum (held in Buenos Aires).
Media accreditation requests can be submitted via this form. Requests for speaker interviews can be sent to Simon Leblanc (sleblanc@national.ca).
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SOURCE International Economic Forum of the Americas | 2023-06-08T14:46:59+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/06/08/leaders-convene-qubec-conference-montreal/ |
In just a few short days, the Colorado women’s lacrosse team turned a frustrating start to the season overall into an encouraging start in Pac-12 Conference play.
Less than 48 hours after knocking off No. 21 Stanford, the Buffaloes completed a Pac-12-opening home sweep by crushing California on Sunday, defeating the Golden Bears 20-3 at Kittredge Field.
After losing the first four contests of the season for the first time in program history, Sunday’s victory was the third in a row for the resurgent Buffs, who also improved to 2-0 in the Pac-12. CU lost its first two matches against Cal in 2014 and 2015, but Sunday’s victory was CU’s 11th in a row against the Golden Bears.
“We made a couple changes in terms of the lineup, but overall, our players are just buying into doing the little things that are making the bigger plays come a little bit easier for us on both ends of the field,” said CU head coach Ann Elliott Whidden, who earned the 100th win of her career with Friday’s victory against Stanford.
“We’ve been talking a lot about being disciplined, which is doing those little things, committing to them throughout and being aggressive at the same time. I think we’re starting to understand the balance there, which is helping us.”
CU jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first two and half minutes of the match and never looked back, surging ahead 12-2 at halftime and 13-3 at the end of the third quarter.
Cal (3-6, 1-2 Pac-12) won 13-12 at Oregon on Friday but ran out of gas in Boulder, managing just nine shots on goal against the Buffs’ defense. Ashley Stokes paced CU’s attack with four goals and two assists, while Charlie Rudy and Sam McGee recorded three goals apiece. Rudy also posted a pair of assists, while Liz Phillips (three goals), Madeline Pisani (two goals, one assist) and Zoe McElhaney (two goals) all tallied multiple points for the Buffs.
Goalie Grace Donnelly needed to make just four saves before giving way to Danielle Heintz for the bulk of the second half. Playing their third match in eight days, Elliott Whidden was able to substitute liberally after halftime.
The Buffs will attempt to take their sudden hot streak on the road with their first conference road trip of the season, which begins on Friday at No. 18 USC (4 p.m. MT, Pac-12 Networks).
“Our team practices hard weekly. Our scout team does a really good job of preparing us and competing and I thought they were all ready to compete today,” Whidden said. “They showed up and again, continued that balance of discipline and aggressiveness and trying to take advantage of some of their opportunity. So I was proud of them today.
“(USC) is going to be a tough challenge for us, but I think if we can keep our confidence up from these last three games, continue to commit to those little things and find that balance I think it should be a good, hard fought game, and hopefully come down to the 60 minutes and see who’s on top then.”
Colorado 20, California 3
Cal 0 2 1 0 — 3
CU 5 7 3 5 — 20
Goals — Cal: Morse, Lawliss, Wong. Colorado: Stokes 4, Rudy 3, McGee 3, Phillips 3, Pisani 2, McElhaney 2, Assini, Kennedy, Carson.
Assists — Cal: Mason, Morse. Colorado: Pence 3, Rudy 2, Stokes 2, Halus, Pisani.
Goalies (Min.-goals allowed-saves) — Cal: Souliotis (46-15-9); Drullinger (14-5-2). Colorado: Donnelly (32-2-4); Heintz (28-1-2). | 2023-03-20T07:57:30+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/03/19/womens-lacrosse-sudden-surge-keeps-rolling-for-cu-buffs-in-rout-of-california/ |
There’s a buzz in the circles of women around the upcoming movie version of the groundbreaking 1970 Judy Blume book “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” It’s a celebration, reflection and memory of a forbidden book.
The coming-of-age novel seems quaint today as the 11-year-old protagonist, Margaret Simon, crushes on the neighbor boy, questions faith and obsesses over her changing body.
It’s funny looking back at how I sneaked a well-used copy to a couple of friends whose parents wouldn’t let them read it. We were such rebels.
Also, it’s hard to truly ban a book, especially with kids and now the internet.
Blume’s book came along when too many parents didn’t want to talk with the prepubescent girls in a real way about their bodies, first kisses, first crushes, religion and how to deal with a period.
People are also reading…
If you know a Gen X woman, there’s a 67% chance she did an arm-chest exercise to the mantra, “I must, I must, I must increase my bust.” It makes no sense, but in 1982, it was worth a try.
Some of the book is dated, considering how culture — and feminine hygiene products — have evolved.
The period product before the early ‘70s was a pad the size of a canoe held in place with a belt. It looks complicated and completely medieval. That description in the book went over my head at age 10.
The book obviously is free of the challenges social media ushered in with cyberbullying, predators and misinformation. A scene where girls swiped a Playboy to see what they might look like all grown up is tame compared to the graphic sex easily found online.
Despite some of the outdated references, the underlying insecurities and curiosities of girls haven’t changed. They are nervous asking for their first bra. They will stuff that first bra.
They worry about changing schools. They play it cool around a classmate they like. They want to be popular. They are concerned with how they look. They have girl drama.
They still need to know about inserting tampons or using a sanitary pad.
The young protagonist often talks to God, and that includes questioning faith — another universal human journey. The character struggles between choosing between her father’s Jewish faith and her mother’s Christian upbringing. That intensifies with peer pressure to decide. My favorite passage:
“I’ve been looking for you God. I looked in temple. I looked in church. And today, I looked for you when I wanted to confess. But you weren’t there. I didn’t feel you at all. Not the way I do when I talked to you at night. Why God? Why do I only feel you when I’m alone?”
Blume’s work normalized the chaotic feelings girls have growing up. She made it OK for those of us scared to ask questions. We found answers and no longer felt alone.
The New York Times named it an Outstanding Book its debut year, and Time Magazine placed the book on its list of Top 100 All-Time Novels written in English from 1923 to 2005. Scholastic named it among the 100 Greatest Books for Kids/100 Must-Read Books.
It is considered a classic in the canon of young adult fiction.
All this nostalgia ought to recall how it’s been targeted and banned by fringe conservatives. It remains one of the most challenged books of all time.
The book didn’t stir much controversy until the 1980s, coinciding with the rise of family values groups such as the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition. Objections that attempted to keep the book away from curious eyes haven’t gone away.
Today, some adults are horrified at the idea of a girl looking at a Playboy. They don’t like how Margaret doesn’t feel moved by church or temple services. Some object to allowing her to choose her own faith. Her interest in boys apparently is troublesome.
The frank discussion about periods and breasts doesn’t sit well, even though puberty now starts earlier, hitting anywhere between 10 and 15.
Their answer has been to ban the book or make it harder for all kids to read. Sound familiar?
Culture wars start with censorship and scare tactics. It’s invoking a fear that words and images will somehow alter the fabric of society.
That fire-and-brimstone rhetoric is back as the fringe seeks to rid libraries of what they deem offensive. This recent uptick in trying to ban books targets work that give solace to youth who have been marginalized, such as Black children and LGBTQ+ youth.
Adults who are uncomfortable talking about race and gender — or who have a single-minded view — will label such books indoctrination and pornography. It’s the same tiresome arguments that have been waged for centuries. Censorship never ages well and only makes the books more popular.
Margaret Simon hasn’t gone away in more than 50 years. Her jump from page to screen evokes the same warm feeling as hugging your old high school best friend; the years of separation haven’t dampened the bond.
To honor this heroine who made me feel better at my most awkward time, I’ll do what I did then — read a banned book and pass it on. | 2023-01-20T18:14:43+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/columnists/ginnie-graham-book-i-smuggled-to-my-friends-now-mainstream-movie/article_625176d6-9755-11ed-91a7-4b4debd16ff2.html |
CLEVELAND, Ohio – With so much having been written on Jackie Robinson, almost anything that comes out now must find a road-not-taken vantage. The History Channel’s “After Jackie” has done just that.
“Jackie Robinson opened the door, and so many other great ballplayers walked through and had to go through their own hard experiences, even when they made it to the Major Leagues,” we learn in the documentary that counts Lebron James and Maverick Carter as executive producers. | 2022-06-14T11:34:02+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/06/after-jackie-documentary-traces-importance-of-3-mlb-players-curt-flood-bob-gibson-bill-white.html |
BURLINGTON, N.C., June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, previously announced the following record and distribution dates for its spin-off of Fortrea Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Labcorp ("Fortrea"):
- The record date will be 5:00 p.m. Burlington, North Carolina time on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, and
- The distribution date will be 11:59 p.m. Burlington, North Carolina time on Friday, June 30, 2023.
Fortrea will hold Labcorp's Clinical Development and Commercialization Services business. The spin-off is expected to be effected through the distribution of 100 percent of the common stock of Fortrea to holders of Labcorp's common stock whereby Labcorp's stockholders will receive one share of Fortrea common stock for every share of Labcorp common stock they hold as of the record date.
As previously announced, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") declared Fortrea's Registration Statement on Form 10 effective on June 9, 2023, and, also on June 9, 2023, NASDAQ approved the listing of Fortrea's common stock on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol "FTRE." The Registration Statement on Form 10 includes information regarding Fortrea's business and the spin-off of Fortrea from Labcorp.
Labcorp expects that a "when-issued" public trading market for Fortrea's common stock will begin on or around June 16, 2023, under the symbol "FTREV," and will continue through the distribution date. Labcorp also anticipates that "regular-way" trading of Fortrea's common stock will begin on July 3, 2023, the first trading day following the distribution date.
Beginning on or around June 16, 2023, and through the distribution date, it is expected that there will be two ways to trade Labcorp common stock – either with or without the distribution of Fortrea common stock. Labcorp stockholders who sell their shares of Labcorp common stock in the "regular-way" market (that is, the normal trading market on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the symbol "LH") during this time period will be selling their right to receive shares of Fortrea common stock in connection with the spin-off. Alternatively, Labcorp stockholders who sell their shares of Labcorp common stock in the "ex-distribution" market during the same period on the NYSE under the symbol "LH WI" will not be selling their right to receive shares of Fortrea common stock in connection with the spin-off. Investors are encouraged to consult with their financial advisors regarding the specific implications of buying or selling shares of Labcorp common stock on or before the distribution date.
The completion of the spin-off remains subject to customary closing conditions.
About Labcorp
Labcorp is a leading global life sciences company that provides vital information to help doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and patients make clear and confident decisions. Through our unparalleled diagnostics and drug development capabilities, we provide insights and accelerate innovations to improve health and improve lives. With over 80,000 employees, we serve clients in more than 100 countries. Labcorp (NYSE: LH) reported revenue of $14.9 billion in 2022. Learn more about us at www.Labcorp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Labcorp.
About Fortrea
Fortrea is a leading provider of comprehensive Phase I through IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, patient access solutions and other enabling services. Fortrea partners with emerging and large biopharma, medical device, and diagnostic companies to drive healthcare innovation and improve the lives of patients worldwide.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release, particularly those relating to the ability to successfully complete the spin-off on a tax-free basis, within the expected time frame or at all, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements if one or more of the underlying assumptions or expectations prove to be inaccurate or are unrealized. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such expectations are and will be detailed in (i) with respect to Labcorp, Labcorp's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, including in each case under the heading Risk Factors, and in Labcorp's other filings with the SEC and (ii) with respect to Fortrea, Fortrea's registration statement on Form 10 filed with the SEC on May 15, 2023 (as amended and further supplemented). These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to certain risks, uncertainty and changes in circumstances including, without limitation, whether the spin-off will be consummated on the expected terms, or at all. Neither Labcorp nor Fortrea undertake responsibility for updating these statements, and these statement speak only as of the date of this press release.
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SOURCE Labcorp | 2023-06-12T22:28:10+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2023/06/12/labcorp-announces-additional-information-connection-with-its-spin-off-fortrea/ |
AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) _ Allied Motion Technologies Inc. (AMOT) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $6.6 million.
The Amherst, New York-based company said it had net income of 41 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and non-recurring costs, came to 60 cents per share.
The motion control product maker posted revenue of $134.4 million in the period.
Allied Motion shares have declined 11% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $32.62, a decline of almost 10% in the last 12 months.
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Manny Machado, Nelson Cruz and the San Diego Padres expect to be big bashers in the batter's box this season.
On Friday night, they were a big bunch of nothing.
Chicago Cubs starter Justin Steele and six relievers combined on baseball's first spring training no-hitter since 2017, blanking the Padres 4-0.
The Cubs said they believed it was the first spring training no-hitter in their history.
Machado, Cruz and Jake Cronenworth were among the Padres in the starting lineup. Juan Soto, Xander Bogaerts and Fernando Tatis Jr. got the night off.
“It’s a spring training game, but it never feels good to get no-hit,” Padres manager Bob Melvin told reporters. “We’re not going to go home with a smile on our face.”
Steele went two innings.
“Their lineup is going to be really good this year,” he told reporters.
Javier Assad followed with two innings. Brad Boxberger, Adbert Alzolay, Jeremiah Estrada, Cam Sanders and Nick Burdi followed with an inning apiece. The Cubs claimed Burdi off waivers from the Padres in December.
Cubs pitchers combined to strike out seven and walk five.
Working with the new pitch clock rules, Chicago completed the combined no-no in 2 hours, 14 minutes. There were handshakes all around by the Cubs after it ended.
It was the first spring training no-hitter since the Angels did it to Seattle on March 24, 2017, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-04T06:54:02+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/7-cubs-pitchers-combine-for-no-hitter-vs-machado-17819477.php |
(AP) — A grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday against Payton Gendron, the white 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket, according to the district attorney’s office.
Gendron, who has been in custody since the May 14 shooting, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Erie County Court.
The charge or charges will not be disclosed until his court appearance, the Erie County District Attorney’s office said.
Gendron had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting, which also injured three people. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors told a judge May 20 the grand jury had voted to indict Gendron but was continuing its investigation. It was unclear whether the finalized indictment contains any new allegations against Gendron.
Federal authorities also are investigating the possibility of hate crime charges against Gendron, who apparently detailed his plans and his racist motivation in hundreds of pages of writings he posted online shortly before the shooting. The attack was livestreamed from a helmet-mounted camera.
Gendron drove about three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, intending to kill as many Black people as possible, investigators have said.
His attorney, Brian Parker, said he had not seen the indictment and could not comment, adding that prosecution and defense attorneys have been barred by a judge from discussing the case publicly. | 2022-06-01T21:40:22+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/grand-jury-issues-indictment-in-buffalo-supermarket-attack/ |
WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 13, 2023
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1001 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
...FROST ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
Temperatures continue to rise this morning bringing an end to
freezing conditions. With the warming, no longer expecting frost.
There may be small areas of frost above 3000 ft or in shaded areas
that have yet to receive sunlight.
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Mercedes-Benz AMG has published the offical lap time for its One hypercar at the Nürburgring, and it’s a new record for production cars.
During an attempt on Oct. 28, the One was piloted by racing driver Maro Engel around the full 12.9 miles of the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a time of 6:35.183. The time smashes the previous record of 6:43.61, set by AMG’s own GT Black Series in 2020. This time, the run was made in damp conditions.
“I didn’t expect that we would be able to set such a lap time with these track conditions,” Engel, who is a successful Formula E and DTM driver and winner of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, said after the run. “In some crucial areas of the track, it hadn’t dried completely yet and was therefore tricky.”
Mercedes finally revealed the production version of the One in June, and the first examples will be delivered to patient customers soon—it’s been a five-year wait since the reveal of the concept at the 2017 Frankfurt auto show.
The car is powered by the same engine found in the current crop of cars raced by the Mercedes F1 team. It’s a turbocharged 1.6-liter V-6, specifically the unit from the championship-winning race car from the 2015 season. The One actually features a more sophisticated powertrain than the F1 car, though.
While in the race car there’s only the turbocharged V-6 and a motor-generator driving the rear wheels, plus a second motor-generator integrated with the turbocharger, the One has two additional motor-generators. These drive each of the front wheels and provide the One with all-wheel drive. Peak output is 1,049 hp, though the car is relatively heavy for a two-seater, weighing in at 3,737 pounds, or close to the weight of a Ford Mustang GT.
For the record run, the One was set in its Race Plus drive mode. This mode is designed for track use and in addition to lowering the car (37 mm at the front and 30 mm at the rear), it also dials the aerodynamic and chassis settings to the max. Engel also used the car’s drag reduction system during the run.
Production of both the One’s F1 powertrain and the car itself is handled in the U.K. The powertrain comes from MercedesâBenz AMG High Performance Powertrains, the division that develops and builds Mercedes’ F1 power units.
AMG will build a total 275 examples, each priced at 2.275 million euros (approximately $2.3 million), and all build slots are gone. Even though a lot of the build slots went to customers in the U.S., AMG wasn’t able to certify the car and its finicky F1 engine for sale here without a substantial loss in performance, and thus won’t sell it here. There is some hope for U.S. customers in the form of the Show or Display rule. Under the rule, non-U.S. certified cars with historical or technological significance can be granted permission for private import, albeit with restrictions, such as annual mileage limited to 2,500 miles.
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NPRL2 Gene Therapy Induces Effective Anti-Tumor Activity in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Pembrolizumab Resistant Tumors in a Humanized Mouse Model
Provides Preclinical Validation of the ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System with a Second Tumor Suppressor Gene
AUSTIN, Texas, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genprex, Inc. ("Genprex" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GNPX), a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes, today announced that its research collaborators presented positive preclinical data for the NPRL2 gene (also known as the TUSC4 gene). The studies used the Company's non-viral ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System in KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant metastatic human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) humanized mouse models and were presented at the 2023 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting, which took place from April 14-18, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
"We are pleased to have these positive data that support the therapeutic potential of our non-viral delivery system, which is being used in our current REQORSA® clinical oncology programs, presented before some of the world's leading cancer researchers," said Rodney Varner, President and Chief Executive Officer at Genprex. "The use of the ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System to deliver the NPRL2 tumor suppressor gene positions Genprex to expand our clinical pipeline with a new drug candidate."
"The preclinical data also provide further evidence that the ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System has the ability to be successful using genes other than the TUSC2 gene that we are already using in clinical trials with REQORSA®," stated Varner. "These compelling outcomes give us further confidence in the potentially broad-based application of our non-viral delivery system, which may provide a multitude of potential pipeline opportunities in the future."
Genprex's ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System, is a novel non-viral approach utilizing lipid nanoparticles to deliver tumor suppressor genes that have been deleted during the course of cancer development. The platform allows for the intravenous delivery of various tumor suppressor genes, and potentially other genes, to achieve a therapeutic affect without the risk of toxicity often associated with viral delivery systems.
Featured Genprex-supported posters presented at AACR 2023 include:
Event: Americal Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting
Session Category: Immunology
Session Title: Combination Immunotherapies 2
Location: Section 22
Session Date and Time: Tuesday, April 18 from 1:30-5:00 p.m. ET
Title: "NPRL2 gene therapy induces effective antitumor immunity in KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant metastatic human NSCLC in a humanizedmouse model"
Presenters: Jack A. Roth, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Poster Board Number: 23
Abstract Presentation Number: 5120
The abstract entitled, "NPRL2 gene therapy induces effective antitumor immunity in KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant metastatic human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a humanized mouse model," is available on the AACR website. The presentation reported results from this study, which investigated the antitumor immune responses to NPRL2 gene therapy on anti-PD1 resistant KRAS/STK11 mutant NSCLC in a humanized mouse model. In the study, humanized mice were treated with NPRL2 gene therapy, immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda®), or the combination. A dramatic antitumor effect was mediated by NPRL2 treatment, whereas pembrolizumab was ineffective. A significant antitumor effect was also found in non-humanized NSG mice, although the antitumor effect was greater in humanized mice, suggesting that the immune response played a role in inducing antitumor activity.
The study data suggest that NPRL2 gene therapy induces antitumor activity on KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant tumors through DC mediated antigen presentation and cytotoxic immune cell activation.
A KRAS mutation occurs in approximately 25% of patients with NSCLC, and one study found that KRAS/STK11 combination mutations were found in approximately 6.5% of NSCLC patients.
"These data are encouraging because they not only validate Genprex's non-viral oncology platform to deliver a variety of tumor suppressor genes, but they also provide further evidence of the important role that tumor suppressor genes play in cancer, particularly NSCLC," said Mark Berger, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Genprex. "KRAS is the most frequent oncogene mutated in NSCLC, and KRAS mutations are often associated with resistance to drug therapyi. Targeting KRAS/STK11 mutant NSCLC with the NPRL2 gene, and potentially with anti-PD1 as well, may provide therapeutic potential for this group of lung cancer patients."
Genprex currently has three clinical trials evaluating the Company's lead drug candidate, REQORSA® Immunogene Therapy (quaratusugene ozeplasmid) in lung cancer. The Acclaim-1 clinical trial, which received FDA Fast Track Designation, is an open-label, multi-center Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating REQORSA in combination with Tagrisso® (osimertinib) in patients with late-stage NSCLC with activating epidermal growth factor receptor ("EGFR") mutations whose disease progressed after treatment with Tagrisso. The Acclaim-2 clinical trial, which received FDA Fast Track Designation, is an open-label, multi-center Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating REQORSA in combination with Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) in patients with late-stage NSCLC whose disease progressed after treatment with Keytruda. The Acclaim-3 clinical trial, expected to open for enrollment by the end of the third quarter of 2023, is an open-label, multi-center Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating REQORSA in combination with Tecentriq® (atezolizumab) in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) who did not develop tumor progression after receiving Tecentriq and chemotherapy as an initial treatment.
The AACR abstract has been made available on Genprex's website here.
About Genprex, Inc.
Genprex, Inc. is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes. Genprex's technologies are designed to administer disease-fighting genes to provide new therapies for large patient populations with cancer and diabetes who currently have limited treatment options. Genprex works with world-class institutions and collaborators to develop drug candidates to further its pipeline of gene therapies in order to provide novel treatment approaches. Genprex's oncology program utilizes its proprietary, non-viral ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System which encapsulates the gene-expressing plasmids using lipid nanoparticles. The resultant product is administered intravenously, where it is then taken up by tumor cells that express tumor suppressor proteins that are deficient in the tumor. The Company's lead product candidate, REQORSA® (quaratusugene ozeplasmid), is being evaluated in three clinical trials as a treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Both NSCLC clinical programs received a Fast Track Designation from the Food and Drug Administration. Genprex's diabetes gene therapy approach is comprised of a novel infusion process that uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector to deliver Pdx1 and MafA genes directly to the pancreas. In models of Type 1 diabetes, GPX-002 transforms alpha cells in the pancreas into functional beta-like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct enough from beta cells to evade the body's immune system. In a similar approach, GPX-003 for Type 2 diabetes, where autoimmunity is not at play, is believed to rejuvenate and replenish exhausted beta cells.
For more information, please visit the Company's web site at www.genprex.com or follow Genprex on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made on the basis of the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of management, are not guarantees of performance and are subject to significant risks and uncertainty. These forward-looking statements should, therefore, be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in Genprex's reports that it files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and which you should review, including those statements under "Item 1A – Risk Factors" in Genprex's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Because forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: Genprex's ability to advance the clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization of its product candidates in accordance with projected timelines; the timing and success of Genprex's clinical trials and regulatory approvals; the effect of Genprex's product candidates, alone and in combination with other therapies, on cancer and diabetes; Genprex's future growth and financial status, including Genprex's ability to continue to obtain capital to meet its long-term liquidity needs on acceptable terms, or at all; Genprex's commercial and strategic partnerships, including those with its third party vendors, suppliers and manufacturers and their ability to successfully perform and scale up the manufacture of its product candidates; and Genprex's intellectual property and licenses.
These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as predictions of future events and Genprex cannot assure you that the events or circumstances discussed or reflected in these statements will be achieved or will occur. If such forward-looking statements prove to be inaccurate, the inaccuracy may be material. You should not regard these statements as a representation or warranty by Genprex or any other person that Genprex will achieve its objectives and plans in any specified timeframe, or at all. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Genprex disclaims any obligation to publicly update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
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BOISE, Idaho, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jasper Health, a leading hybrid solution of digital cancer care support, is thrilled to announce the availability of its platform for Wellnecity self-insured employer clients. The platform aims to revolutionize the way cancer patients and their caregivers receive support by offering one-on-one human-led psychosocial coaching, personalized guidance, and innovative digital planning tools.
Jasper Health understands the immense physical, emotional, and logistical challenges that individuals facing cancer and their loved ones encounter throughout their journey. By combining the power of technology with compassionate human support, Jasper Health empowers patients and caregivers to navigate their oncology experience with confidence and resilience. At Wellnecity, they are committed to helping self-insured employers gain control of their costs and eliminate the frustration associated with managing health plans, while improving clinical outcomes for employees.
The launch of the Jasper Health platform within the Wellnecity network marks a significant milestone in the company's mission to enhance the quality of life for those affected by cancer. Wellnecity's extensive network of self-insured employer clients will now have access to Jasper Health's ComPass offering, delivering its comprehensive solution, to employers of all sizes enabling them to provide unparalleled support to their employees and their families during challenging times. Jasper ComPass delivers Jasper Health's enterprise offering to employers that may have a smaller population of covered lives, as well as gig economy employees who may not have access to a cancer care benefit otherwise.
Key features of the Jasper Health ComPass offering for Wellnecity includes:
- Human-led Psychosocial Coaching: Dedicated and experienced Care Coaches are available 24/7 to provide personalized support, addressing the emotional and psychological aspects of the cancer journey from nutrition and meal planning, transportation, emotional wellness, financial resources, and more.
- Personalized Guidance: The platform offers tailored recommendations and resources based on the member's specific needs, ensuring that individuals receive relevant and timely support.
- Digital Planning Tools: Jasper Health's digital tools assist patients and caregivers in managing appointments, medication tracking and treatment plans, promoting organization and reducing stress.
"Jasper Health is excited to partner with Wellnecity to bring our digital patient-centered oncology platform via Jasper ComPass to their self-insured employer clients," said Adam Pellegrini, Co-Founder and CEO at Jasper Health. "By offering a holistic approach, we aim to alleviate the burdens faced by employees and support their entire journey from diagnosis to return to work, and beyond."
John Quinn, Co-Founder and CEO at Wellnecity says, "Our health plan management platform identified cancer treatment as a significant opportunity for improvement. We are pleased to convert this insight to action by collaborating with Jasper to offer their unique solution to our network of clients."
Jasper Health's collaboration with Wellnecity reflects a shared commitment to providing exceptional care and support to employees through specialized employer benefits. By integrating Jasper Health's digital platform into their marketplace, Wellnecity employer clients can foster a culture of compassion and understanding, resulting in increased employee well-being and productivity.
For more information about Jasper Health and its digital oncology platform, visit www.hellojasper.com. For more information about Wellnecity and its business intelligence for employer healthcare, visit https://wellnecity.com/.
About Jasper Health
Jasper Health is a leading digital healthcare company dedicated to transforming the cancer care experience for patients and their caregivers. By combining advanced technology with human-led support, Jasper Health provides personalized guidance, psychosocial coaching, and digital planning tools to empower individuals throughout their oncology journey. With a patient-centric approach, Jasper Health aims to enhance the overall quality of life for those affected by cancer.
About Wellnecity
Wellnecity® is on a mission to empower self-insured employers and benefits advisors to drive health plan performance to a higher level. Our health plan operating platform leverages technology to find, prioritize, and execute hundreds of improvement opportunities, delivering a simple way to achieve better outcomes more cost-effectively. For more information, visit wellnecity.com to schedule a demo.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vial's tech-enabled CRO has announced their newest addition, Wendy Pinson, to their oncology leadership team. Wendy will be the company's Director of Oncology. Pinson joins the team with over thirteen years of experience in clinical research. Most recently, she served as the Associate Director of Clinical Operations at Precision For Medicine. Pinson is a demonstrated leader in clinical research operations and the healthcare industry.
On her new position, Pinson said, "This is an exciting time in clinical research. With the rise of cutting-edge therapies and next-gen technology, we're on the precipice of changing the entire clinical trial landscape. Though we've come a long way in oncology research, we still have a long road ahead to discover and bring effective treatments to our patients quicker. We must look forward to the future to build a new foundation in clinical research — one that is crafted to be more efficient, imaginative, and collaborative. I'm excited to be a part of Vial's Oncology CRO and ready to take it to the next level for our patients and sponsors."
Pinson will work alongside Vial's scientific advisory board members, Dr. Arati Rao, Dr. Guru Sonpavde, and Dr. Antoni Ribas to refine the CRO to support oncology sponsors' greatest needs.
The Vial Oncology CRO distinguishes itself by leveraging digital technology such as its VialConnect software and proven enrollment playbook to streamline processes. Together, these best-in-class CRO services will accelerate the development of new therapies and devices for oncology sponsors.
"Our mission to cure all human disease took a step forward with Wendy joining to be a leader on our Oncology CRO. Her experience spans tumor types, modalities and working with hundreds of sites to run successful trials. Thrilled to work closely with Wendy and reimagine Oncology trials together." - Simon Burns, Co-Founder, and CEO, Vial.
See the full release here.
About Vial: Vial is a tech-enabled CRO that promises faster and higher-quality execution of trials. The Vial Contract Research Organization (CRO) delivers on the promise of faster trials through its innovative technology platform. The key to Vial's tech-enabled platform is Vial's modern, intuitive Electronic Source and powerful tooling for CRAs. Vial operates across multiple Therapeutic Areas (Dermatology CRO, Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, and Gastroenterology CRO). Vial is a San Francisco, California-based company with over 125 employees and has run over 750 trials.
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Tom Brady is going back to New England. However, he won't be playing this time. The former quarterback will be honored at the Patriots' first game of the 2023-2024 season.
Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of the Patriots, announced Thursday that he wanted to give the New England community a chance to thank Brady for all he's done.
"I'm happy to tell you and your audience that I invited him back to come here and be with us at the opening game and let the fans in New England thank him for the great service he gave us for over 20 years," Kraft said on the NFL Network.
SEE MORE: Tom Brady announces he's retiring (again)
Brady won six Super Bowls with the Patriots. He won an additional Super Bowl after signing with Tampa Bay in 2020.
This will be Brady's first time back in Foxborough since the Buccaneers beat the Patriots in 2021.
Kraft said the tribute to Brady during their home opener will be the first of many.
"It will be the beginning of many celebrations to honor Tom Brady and say, 'thank you,' for what he did for us in 20 years playing for the New England Patriots," Kraft said.
Brady retired at the end of the 2022-2023 season. It was the second time the future Hall of Famer announced his retirement. A year earlier Brady said he was retiring, but he had a change of heart and led the Buccaneers back to the playoffs last season.
SEE MORE: Tom Brady to join Fox Sports
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-11T17:44:08+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/brady-will-return-to-new-england-but-not-as-the-team-s-quarterback |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. , Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the nation's most credible employer recognition programs has awarded CATIC the Top Workplaces USA award for 2023 (150-499 employees category). This is CATIC's second consecutive year being named to this list and the company has been ranked 53rd amongst all other employers across the country in this category. Since 2018, CATIC has been the recipient of the regional Top Workplaces award and, most recently, was ranked in the top 5 among other local Connecticut businesses in 2022.
Top Workplaces USA celebrates organizations with 150 or more employees that have built great company cultures. Over 42,000 organizations were invited to participate in the survey, with the winners chosen based solely on employee feedback gathered through an employee engagement survey, issued by Energage. Results are calculated by comparing the survey's research-based statements, including 15 Culture Drivers that are proven to predict high performance against industry benchmarks.
CATIC is proud to be recognized nationally as a Top Workplace again this year. "During these challenging times in our industry, it is our people who set us apart as a company and drive our continued success. Our employees face new challenges every day with energy, creativity, and a willingness to help each other out," said James M. Czapiga, Esq., President and CEO of the CATIC Family of Companies. "Our goal or mission continues to be to serve the independent and attorney agent market, and we get up each day and work very hard to 'wow' our supportive agents. We celebrate and thank our employees for all they do to earn this incredible honor." Damon Carter, Senior Vice President and CHRO, added, "Our employees continuously demonstrate their unwavering commitment to cultivating a great workplace culture at CATIC in various ways. The senior leadership team truly appreciates their efforts to do so because it positively impacts the overall employee experience for all employees here."
About CATIC
CATIC, along with its sister company CATIC Title Insurance Company, is currently licensed in every state east of the Mississippi and in Texas and is currently doing business through an independent agent network in 16 states. The Company is an underwriting member of the American Land Title Association (ALTA) and the North American Bar-Related® Title Insurers. For more information about the Company, or to become a CATIC agent, please visit us at www.CATIC.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
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(Our Auto Expert) — If you own a motorcycle, now would be the time to start getting ready to ride. But What if you are a new beginning rider? What is an excellent bike to ride, and how would you stay safe? While you’re waiting for spring. Here are a few great motorcycle options and safety gear considerations for 2023.
The 2023 Honda Rebel could be the best option for the brand-new rider. It’s priced under $5,000. There are also plenty of mid-level options for bikes that blend style performance and affordable pricing.
A conversation about motorcycles can’t be had without Harley-Davidson, especially the Nightster. It’s a mid-level, beautiful, lightweight ride. It’s high-performance, comfortable, and under $14,000.
Stepping up in all categories, The 2023 Indian challenger Darkhorse has quite the stature and presence. Great for cruising the city and long road trips. This motorcycle is not a beginner bike, but a worthy goal to work up to. Priced at under $29,000.
Adventurous drivers should look at the BMW R1250, specifically the adventure rally edition. It starts at under $18,000, but if you upgrade, you can apply a considerable amount of features that allow you to go off-road.
Whether you’re looking to start with a beginner bike like the Honda rebel or jump right up to the Indian challenger Darkhorse, the one constant is safety. Alpinestars has one of the best products out for motorcycle riders, Tech-air. Think wearable airbags. It deploys eight times faster than the blink of an eye or 25 milliseconds. And can protect up to ninety-five percent of your body. | 2023-01-26T21:15:01+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/automotive/wearable-airbags-2023-motorcycle-safety-gear-options/ |
GOP states sue Biden administration over new border policy
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Twenty states with GOP attorneys general on Tuesday sued the Biden administration over a major change in immigration policy that would turn away more migrants but still allow 360,000 people to legally enter each year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Texas, accuses the Biden administration of “arbitrarily” creating recent changes and overstepping its authority. Among those leading the challenge is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has succeeded before in temporarily stopping new immigration rules under President Joe Biden.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment on the lawsuit late Tuesday.
The changes that Biden announced this month amounted to his boldest move yet to confront the arrival of migrants that have spiraled since he took office two years ago. The four nationalities that Biden addressed now make up the majority of those crossing the border illegally.
There were more than 2.38 million stops during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, which is the first time the count topped 2 million. The administration has struggled to clamp down on crossings, reluctant to take hardline measures that would resemble those of the Trump administration.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-25T14:13:04+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/01/25/gop-states-sue-biden-administration-over-new-border-policy/ |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) — The identities of three people killed in a shooting on the University of Virginia’s campus Sunday night have been confirmed.
Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were fatally shot, the University of Virginia confirmed at a press conference Monday morning. All three were members of UVA’s football team.
“They were all good kids,” head football coach Tony Elliott said early Monday afternoon. He said he would talk about the victims “when the time is right.”
Police arrested the suspected shooter, 22-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., in suburban Richmond, police said.
Two additional victims were taken to the hospital with injuries, with one in critical condition and the other in good condition, according to the school.
The death of Davis, a junior and wide receiver on the UVA football team, was acknowledged in a tweet confirmed by his cousin Sean Lampkin, a coach and recruiting coordinator for Newberry College in South Carolina.
Davis came to UVA from South Carolina, where he played wide receiver and safety at Woodland High School in Dorchester County. As a high school senior, Davis was an all-state wide receiver.
A native of south Florida, Perry was a junior linebacker and defensive end. He came to the school after a decorated high school career, winning the South Florida Conference 2018 Defensive Player of the Year as a senior at Gulliver Prep in Miami.
Chandler was a junior wide receiver and kick returner. He played football at Arlington High School in the Memphis area, as well as William Amos Hough High School near Charlotte, North Carolina.
Before coming to UVA, Chandler played wide receiver and kick returner for two years at the University of Wisconsin.
“Once a badger, always a badger,” University of Wisconsin interim head coach and Defensive Coordinator Jim Leonhard tweeted Monday in the wake of Chandler’s death.
“He had a lasting impact on his teammates, even after he left UW, which is a testament to the type of person he was,” Leonhard wrote. “His personality was infectious and he was a joy to be around. Our team is hurting for him and his family.”
Chandler had not yet taken the field for UVA, according to the team’s website.
The shooting happened just after 10:15 p.m. Sunday as a charter bus full of students returned from seeing a play in Washington.
University President Jim Ryan said authorities did not have a “full understanding” of the motive or circumstances surrounding the shooting.
“The entire university community is grieving this morning,” a visibly strained Ryan said. “My heart is broken for the victims and their families and for all those who knew and loved them.”
Authorities obtained arrest warrants for Jones charging him with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, Longo said.
Jones had once been on the football team, but had not been on the team for at least a year, Longo said. The UVA football website listed him as a team member during the 2018 season and said he did not play in any games.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-11-14T23:17:39+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/university-of-virginia-confirms-identities-of-3-football-players-killed-in-shooting/ |
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — A Texas couple with ties to Mississippi State gifted the university $100 million.
George and Kathy Bishop donated the historic sum for scholarship purposes.
It's the largest gift to a higher education institution in Mississippi's history, according to the university.
It’s also among the largest contributions designated solely for scholarship support made to any university in the world.
George Bishop graduated from MSU in 1958 with a degree in petroleum geology.
He had a successful career in the oil and gas industry before founding GeoSouthern Energy in 1981. | 2023-04-20T18:59:23+00:00 | wtva.com | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/msu-receives-100m-gift-from-texas-couple/article_b4d0c96e-df96-11ed-b53c-87760e94f790.html |
Eggs have gotten too expensive for Dollar Tree.
Dollar Tree, which sells most products for $1.25 and a small selection of items for $3 or $5, will stop selling eggs at stores because the company can't make money offering them at flat prices.
Eggs have gotten too expensive for Dollar Tree.
Dollar Tree, which sells most products for $1.25 and a small selection of items for $3 or $5, will stop selling eggs at stores because the company can't make money offering them at flat prices.
Egg prices have surged, fueled by short supply caused by the deadly avian flu, high production costs and egg producers increasing their own profits.
Egg costs jumped 38% for producers annually in February and 55% for shoppers, although eggs are beginning to get cheaper. The average price for a dozen Grade A large eggs was $4.21 in February, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Most retailers have raised egg prices on customers to adjust for higher costs, but Dollar Tree doesn't have as much flexibility to raise prices.
"Our primary price point at Dollar Tree is $1.25. The cost of eggs is currently very high," said company spokesperson Randy Guiler. Dollar Tree, which has around 9,000 US stores, will bring back eggs when "costs are more in line with historical levels."
But that probably won't be in time for a key egg-purchasing holiday, Easter, which is April 9 this year.
Reuters first reported that Dollar Tree would stop selling eggs. Family Dollar, owned by Dollar Tree, will continue selling eggs.
Shoppers on tight budgets have increasingly turned to dollar stores for food.
Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Dollar General, the largest of the three chains, have spread in recent years and added more food basics, although fresh and healthy options are limited. Dollar stores are the fastest-growing food retailers in America, according to a study by Tufts University released this year.
Dollar Tree used to sell cartons of eight or six eggs for $1. In 2021, Dollar Tree announced it would raise prices to $1.25 because selling everything for $1 was squeezing business.
Dollar Tree also made the decision to pull eggs because it has a lean staffing model in stores, said David D'Arezzo, a former executive at Dollar General and other retailers who now works as an industry consultant. Workers changing price tags every week on eggs to account for wild swings in the market would be an extra strain on store operations, he said.
The chain caters to low and middle-income customers and it doesn't want to offer eggs at sticker shock prices to hurt its price reputation with shoppers, D'Arezzo said.
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Aidan Hutchinson surprised his mother with a gift on draft day before the Detroit Lions made his wish come true.
The Lions grabbed the talented Michigan defensive endwith the No. 2 pick in the NFLdraft Thursday night, barely using its allotted five minutes to address a desperate need with a hometown star who was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy this past season.
“The whole draft process, I wanted them to pick me,” he said.
When Hutchinson’s name was called in Las Vegas, Hutchinson hugged his parents and two sisters before going on stage. His father, Chris, was a Michigan captain and Big Ten defensive lineman of the year in 1992.
A few hours earlier, Hutchinson picked the special day to carry out a sweet surprise for his mother, Melissa, giving her a Leo Frost-designed necklace with a dog tag to honor her grandfather and World War II veteran.
“That was cool to have that moment shared with her,” he said
Detroit went into the draft with the No. 32 pick along with six more selections. It used the extra assets to make an aggressive trade with an NFC North rival to move up and take Alabama wide receiver Jameson Williams with the No. 12 pick, which they acquired from Minnesota in a swap for No. 32 overall. Detroit also landed the No. 46 selection overall for No. 34 overall and a third-round pick.
Williams gives veteran quarterback Jared Goff a big-play threat, but the speedster may need time to get healthy after tearing a knee ligament in the national championship game.
The Lions seem to have more needs on defense than offense Goff surrounded by solid players on the line, at tight end and running back, but they definitely needed help at receiver.
Until recently, the Jaguars were expected to select Hutchinson at No. 1 but went with Georgia defensive end Travon Walker instead. That gave second-year general manager Brad Holmes a chance to draft Hutchinson, the best player on the team’s board.
The 6-foot-6, 265-pound pass rusher is relentless, fitting the mold of players coveted by second-year coach Dan Campbell. He has drawn comparisons to a pair of former Ohio State defensive ends, Nick and Joey Bosa.
The Lions certainly can use his help, slowing down offenses and firing up fans tiring of their losing ways.
Detroit’s defense averaged just 1.8 sacks last year, ranking ahead of only Atlanta. The lack of a pass rush led to the Lions giving up 5.9 yards per play and 27.5 points per game, two more categories in which they ranked No. 31 out of 32 NFL teams.
“He’s going to change the dynamic of this team just by his presence and how he plays,” Detroit defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn said. “He’s a true fit in every way.”
The Lions drafted former Oregon offensive tackle Penei Sewell No. 7 overall last year and he helped the line become one of their strengths. With the No. 3 pick overall in 2020, Detroit drafted former Ohio State cornerback Jeff Okudah and he has not panned out so far due to injuries.
The Lions lost their first eight games last season and went 0-2-1 over the next three before finally winning a game under Campbell and closing with three wins over the last six games.
Detroit’s rebuilding plan included trading quarterback Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams for Goff and those two first-round picks along with a first-rounder next year.
First up was Hutchinson, who set a single-season school record with 14 sacks for the Wolverines last season. He is the highest-drafted defensive player in Michigan history, and the highest pick Detroit has invested in an edge rusher.
“I don’t feel a whole lot of pressure,” he said. “It’s great to come back to home.”
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen tested his injured throwing elbow on Friday for the first time in practice this week and is listed as questionable to play against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
The Bills referred to Allen’s practice time as being limited, which is still considered a step in the right direction since he sat out the first two sessions after hurting his right elbow in the final minutes of a loss to the New York Jets last weekend.
Speaking before practice, coach Sean McDermott expected the decision on Allen’s playing status to come down to game time.
“We are literally in an hour-to-hour situation here,” McDermott said. “Just looking at how he’s going to progress through the day, and as he goes through these different tests, medically, making sure that he’s able to check the boxes in a progression to where we can see if we can proceed through the course of the day here.”
The coach then provided a vague response when asked what he needs to see from Allen in determining whether Allen can play: “That’s probably getting too far down the road at this point or into the weeds.”
McDermott added: “Respectfully, we’ve just got to continue to take it through the day here and we’ll see. Listen, I’m going to do a great job of being a listener also in terms of listening to our medical team.”
The Bills officially ruled out starting safety Jordan Poyer (elbow) and starting defensive end Greg Rousseau (ankle) from playing against the NFC North-leading Vikings (7-1). Rookie cornerback Kaiir Elam, who has split the starting duties with fellow rookie Christian Benford, is listed as doubtful with an ankle injury.
Starting middle linebacker Tremain Edmunds (groin/heel) is listed as questionable after he practiced for the first time this week on Friday, while McDermott said starting linebacker Matt Milano (oblique) “should be ready to go” after missing one game.
Allen hasn’t missed a start since sustaining a similar injury in 2018, which forced him to miss four games in his rookie season.
If he can’t go, the AFC-leading Bills (6-2) would turn over the NFL’s top-ranked offense in yards gained to journeyman backup Case Keenum. He’s a 10-year veteran who enjoyed his best season playing for the Vikings in 2017, when he went 11-3.
“Case is a true pro and we have all the confidence in Case and Matt Barkley for that matter,” McDermott said, referring to Buffalo’s two veteran backups. ”(Keenum) has earned all the respect in the world around here. And and I know he’ll be ready if called upon.”
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-11-12T10:50:58+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/ap-bills-say-decision-on-qb-allen-is-hour-to-hour-situation/ |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that could have penalized doctors accused of not providing enough care to infants delivered during certain kinds of abortion procedures.
In a statement on her website, Kelly, a Democrat, called the legislation “misleading and unnecessary.”
The legislation could have subjected doctors to lawsuits and criminal charges in certain kinds of abortions and in circumstances when doctors induce labor to deliver a fetus that is expected to die within minutes or even seconds outside the womb. Kelly vetoed a similar bill in 2019.
“Federal law already protects newborns, and the procedure being described in this bill does not exist in Kansas in the era of modern medicine,” Kelly said Friday. “The intent of this bill is to interfere in medical decisions that should remain between doctors and their patients.”
Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature gave final passage to the bill earlier this month. The bill’s fate was uncertain in a legal and political climate that’s made Kansas an outlier on abortion policy among states with GOP-led legislatures.
The bill applied not only to “botched” or “unsuccessful” abortions but also when doctors induce labor to deliver a fetus that is expected to die within minutes or even seconds outside the womb, which often occurs because of a severe medical issue. | 2023-04-15T00:24:39+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/gov-vetoes-kansas-bill-on-live-deliveries-during-abortion/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and two assists to extend his career-best point streak to 10 games, and Joel Eriksson Ek added a goal and assist, leading the Minnesota Wild to a 5-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.
Kaprizov has a goal in four straight games after scoring his 14th of the season. He also has nine straight games with an assist, and 10 goals and 11 assists in his last 16 games.
Frederick Gaudreau, Sam Steel and Mats Zuccarello also scored for Minnesota, which has won four of five. Marc-Andre Fleury made 18 saves.
Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl extended goal streaks for Edmonton, which had won three in a row.
Draisaitl opened the scoring in the first period with his 16th goal, scoring for the fourth straight game. McDavid scored a goal for the third straight game.
Klim Koston scored with four seconds remaining and Jack Campbell stopped 25 shots for the Oilers.
Minnesota took two early penalties, a difficult task against Edmonton’s sixth-ranked power-play unit.
The Wild killed off the first, but Draisaitl scored from a wide angle on the second power play, shooting before Fleury could get across the crease on the cross-ice pass.
The power play was important for both teams. Three of the first four goals in the game were with the man advantage.
Edmonton finished 1 of 3 on the power-play. Minnesota, which entered the game with the league’s 13th-ranked power play, was 2 of 3.
Eriksson Ek scored with the man advantage just 1:51 into the second period, tying the game at 1. Kaprizov’s initial shot was wide and bounced off the end boards right to Eriksson Ek.
McDavid had the first even-strength goal of the game for an Oilers’ lead, but the Wild scored twice before the end of the period. Gaudreau’s go-ahead goal was his fourth of the season with 6:01 left in the second.
After the early penalties, Minnesota clamped down on Edmonton’s explosive offense. The Oilers had just 10 shots through two periods and were outshot 30-21 in the game.
UP NEXT
Oilers: Return home against Montreal on Saturday.
Wild: Host Anaheim on Saturday.
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URQUIZA, Argentina (AP) — The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks across dry farmland that should be green and lush this time of year. He grabs a soy plant and easily disintegrates its leaves with his hands.
“This year’s drought was extreme,” the agricultural engineer said this week at the farm where he works in Urquiza, a town about 230 kilometers (143 miles) from Argentina’s capital.
Cuitino normally has a policy of not walking on cultivated land, but everything is so dry now that there is absolutely nothing to damage — even weeds aren’t growing.
That scene is repeated in farms across Argentina, where harvesting should be in full swing but months of dry weather has ruined. Farmers are scrambleing to make ends meet, and a sharp drop in expected revenue from exported farm products will deal a severe blow to Argentina’s shaky economy.
“This drought is unprecedented,” farmer Martín Sturla said, standing in the middle of his dustry fields in nearby San Antonio de Areco. “It’s Dantesque. No one has seen anything like it.”
The situation is particularly dire because Argentina had already been suffering two years of unusually dry weather.
“The last two years were bad, but we always had some rain events that allowed us to get by,” Cuitino said.
Even experts are having trouble coming to terms with the crisis.
“There are no words to describe the impact of a campaign marked by all-time historical records: a deficit of rainfall for the third consecutive year in the summer, persistent heat waves until well into March, and agricultural frosts as late as October 2022 and as early as February 2023,” said a recent report by the Rosario Board of Trade that has sharply cut estimates for this year’s harvest.
“Crops, animals and natural resources have seen their conditions deteriorate week by week, leaving us on the eve of winter with a storm of losses,” it said.
In its latest weekly report, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said this year’s soybean production would be around 25 million tons, down 44% from the average for the last five cycles. Total wheat production, meanwhile, is forecast at 36 million tons, a 31% drop from the previous year.
Osvaldo Bo has seen this first hand at his farm in Urquiza.
“We lost 90%,” Bo said while showing off a field of dry corn. “I’ve never seen a drought like this, because there have been droughts where there was no soybean, grain, but there was wheat and corn. But now, all harvests were lost.”
Taking into account the soybean, wheat and corn harvest, which make up 87% of Argentina’s grain production, losses will reach an estimated $14.14 billion, according to the Rosario Board of Trade. The Regional Consortium of Agricultural Experimentation said in a recent report that the current condition will lead to almost $20.5 billion in export losses.
Although many have been quick to attribute the drought to global warming, experts said it was not so simple.
“We have no evidence that it’s climate change for now,” said Anna Sörensson, a climate change researcher at the publicly funded CONICET research institute. “On the contrary, we see that precipitation has increased due to climate change.”
He added that there is “great certainty” the current drought was generated by the climate condition known as La Nina, which involves a cooling of the central Pacific that leads to changes in weather around the world. The phenomenon lasted much longer than normal this time.
Even if it isn’t directly responsible for the drought, climate change still plays a role, though, he said.
“What does happen due to climate change is that the heat waves become more frequent and more severe,” Sorensson said. That means “the soil dries more quickly,” he said.
Argentina has suffered the hottest summer since 1961, according to the country’s National Weather Service. In the capital, Buenos Aires, residents endured the hottest summer since records began in 1906.
Farmers are trying to figure out how to keep going.
“I’ve already done a couple of projections and I don’t have enough money to pay the bills of the year to plant again,” said Jorge Bianciotto, who manages the farm where Cuitino works.
“We’ve lost a lot of working capital and so what I’m doing know is trying to look for financing to cover the financial hole I have by asking for credit with the hope that next year will be better,” Bianciotto said. “One always believes that what’s coming is better than what happened.”
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Associated Press writer Daniel Politi in Buenos Aires contributed to this report. | 2023-03-23T22:59:48+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/farmers-struggle-in-argentina-as-drought-withers-their-crops/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor in the case against an Arizona rancher accused of killing a Mexican man on his land near the U.S.-Mexico border alleged during a court hearing Wednesday that the rancher fired that day on a group of about eight unarmed migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.
Kimberly Hunley, chief deputy attorney for Santa Cruz County in the border city of Nogales, Arizona, made the assertion the same day the court made public a filing she made Tuesday asserting that rancher George Alan Kelly began shooting at the group “out of nowhere” on Jan. 30 without issuing a warning or a request to leave.
Kelly, 73, faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of one of the people, identifed by the sheriff’s office as Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, who lived just south of the border in adjacent Nogales, Mexico. U.S. federal court records, which spell his last name slightly differently as Cuen-Buitimea, show he was convicted of illegal entry and deported back to Mexico several times, most recently in 2016.
Two more people from the group later came forward to law enforcement, prompting authorities this week to amend the complaint against Kelly to include two counts of aggravated assault “using a rifle, a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument” in a shooting at his ranch.
Those two were in the line of fire, but were not hit, according to court filings updated on Wednesday. One described watching the man they knew as Gabriel being hit and said they “felt like they were being hunted.”
Both fled back across the border into Mexico but are willing to testify in the case against Kelly, the documents say.
The court, the county attorney’s office and sheriff’s office “have all received disturbing communications, some threatening in nature, that seem to indicate an ongoing threat to the safety of the victims,” says Hunley’s updated filing.
She says Kelly’s comments conflicted with what witnesses from the group told law enforcement, and that his story significantly changed over time.
“Kelly shot an unarmed man in the back as he was fleeing, in addition to shooting at other individuals, without warning or provocation,” Hunley said in the filing, arguing against a reduction in Kelly’s $1 million cash bond.
She wrote that the group “posed no threat to him or family,” but nevertheless “shot at them repeatedly with an AK-47, striking and killing one of them.”
Kelly’s attorney, Brenna Larkin, has said Kelly did not shoot and kill the man, but Kelly acknowledges that earlier that day he fired warning shots above the heads of smugglers carrying AK-47 rifles and backpacks he encountered on his property.
Justice of the Peace Emilio G. Velasquez on Wednesday ordered that Kelly’s bond be changed from a cash to a surety bond, which would allow Kelly to put up his ranch and home rather than come up with cash and allow him to leave custody while the case plays out.
Velasquez set another hearing for 9 a.m. MT (11 a.m. ET) Friday in Santa Cruz County Justice Court.
“We are following this case very closely,” said Consul General Marcos Moreno Baez of the Mexican consulate in Nogales, Arizona. “We have been present at the court appearances and are in touch with the victim’s family, helping however we can.”
The shooting has sparked strong political feelings less than six months after a prison warden and his brother were arrested in a West Texas shooting that killed one migrant and wounded another. Michael and Mark Sheppard, both 60, were charged with manslaughter in the September shooting in El Paso County.
Authorities allege the twin brothers pulled over their truck near a town about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the border and opened fire on a group of migrants getting water along the road. A male migrant died, and a female suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach.
GoFundMe campaigns to pay for Kelly’s legal defense have been shut down and the money was returned to donors, the platform said last week in a statement.
“GoFundMe’s Terms of Service explicitly prohibit campaigns that raise money to cover the legal defense of anyone formally charged with an alleged violent crime,” it said. “Consistent with this long-standing policy, any fundraising campaigns for the legal defense of someone charged with murder are removed from our platform.”
GiveSendGo, which describes itself as a Christian fundraising platform, carries at least four campaigns collecting money for Kelly’s legal defense, including one that gathered more than $300,000 as of Wednesday.
Kelly apparently drew on his borderlands ranching life in a self-published novel, “Far Beyond the Border Fence,” which is described on Amazon.com as a “contemporary novel which brings the Mexican Border/Drug conflict into the 21st century.”
Authored by a man with the same name, the 57-page novel focuses on a man named George and his wife, Wanda, also the name of Kelly’s real-life wife.
“Several times each week illegal immigrants would cross the VMR ranch,” reads one part. “They were led by armed human smugglers called Coyotes. George and his foreman had to patrol the ranch daily, armed with AK-47′s.”
The fatal shooting of an Arizona rancher on his land in 2010 sparked a firestorm that helped spark passage of the state’s Senate Bill 1070, the “show me your papers” law then described as the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant legislation. It required law enforcement officers to inquire about suspects’ immigration status if they believed they were in the U.S. illegally.
No one was ever arrested in the killing of Robert Krentz on his cattle ranch in remote eastern Arizona, but law enforcement assumed the perpetrator was a migrant because footprints found at the murder scene led to the border. | 2023-02-23T01:29:30+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/ap-prosecutor-arizona-border-rancher-shot-at-unarmed-migrants/ |
(Motor Authority) — Ford has submitted a patent application for power outlets integrated into vehicle roof rails, which the automaker believes could come in handy while tailgating or camping.
Filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on January 12, 2021, and published on July 14, 2022, the application describes a pretty straightforward setup. Power outlets are added to roof rails, protected by removable covers, and connected to a power source in the vehicle.
Ford roof rail power outlet patent image
Ford seems to view this as a good feature for tailgating or camping, as both are mentioned multiple times throughout the application. The automaker suggests everything from smartphones and laptops to portable heaters and lights could be plugged into roof rails to make outdoor gatherings more hospitable.
Use of vehicles to power electronic devices will likely increase with the continued rise of hybrids and EVs. Ford already offers built-in outlets for the beds of the PowerBoost hybrid and all-electric Lightning versions of the F-150 pickup truck, with the Lightning even able to charge other EVs or provide emergency backup power for homes, the automaker claims.
Ford roof rail power outlet patent image
Other automakers also offer ways to power your devices. Mitsubishi has offered this capability on the Outlander Plug-In Hybrid for some time, and Hyundai included it as part of its E-GMP dedicated EV platform. But no automaker has put outlets in the roof rails of a production vehicle so far.
It’s worth emphasizing a patent application does not constitute firm plans for production; automakers often file applications to protect intellectual property before any production plans are fleshed out. But one recent Ford patent application—for remote engine revving—did translate into a product feature on the 2024 Mustang. | 2022-09-24T02:16:51+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/automotive/ford-patents-power-outlets-in-roof-rails/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, the Columbus City Council issued a resolution declaring December as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month in the City of Columbus and commended RADD Ohio for its efforts to educate young adults ages 18-25 about the risks of impaired driving.
This year, RADD Ohio reached more of its target audience through the use of music, video, event activations and positive messaging about the importance of making a plan to get home safely if using alcohol or marijuana.
RADD's mission has taken new urgency this holiday season. According to a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study "50% of seriously or fatally injured road users tested positive for alcohol or some type of impairing substance, with cannabis (25%) being the most prevalent."
RADD thanks and commends its funders from the Ohio Traffic Safety Office, along with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Columbus City Council and local law enforcement agencies for effecting a dramatic reduction in substance-related crash fatalities: Between January 1 and November 30, 2022, there have been 1,073 crashes due to a driver's impairment from alcohol or other drugs within Franklin County, down from nearly 1,300 during the same period last year.
"Preventing impaired driving is an important component of our Vision Zero Columbus Action Plan," states Councilmember Lourdes Barroso de Padilla who chairs Columbus City Council's Public Service & Transportation Committee. "RADD Ohio's efforts to encourage young adults to make a plan to get home safely complements Vision Zero's work to eliminate fatal and serious crashes on Columbus streets."
During the past year, RADD Ohio connected with its audience at the Classic for Columbus basketball game in April, concert activations at multiple venues in Columbus through a growing partnership with AEG/Promowest, and at WonderBus music festival in Columbus with more than 15,000 attendees, where RADD Ohio was a stage sponsor.
"2022 was a year of significant growth for RADD Ohio," said Erin Meluso, President of RADD. "I'm proud of the work we've accomplished this year and encouraged that the number of alcohol and drug-impaired crashes is trending downward in Franklin County, despite a rising trend nationally. We still have work to do, however, and I look forward to continued work with our partners to meet young adults where they live, work, and play in 2023."
In addition, RADD Ohio expanded its reach to Cleveland with concert activations at the House of Blues and as a stage sponsor at WonderStruck music festival in the Cleveland area.
RADD Ohio partners with Ohio universities and concert venues in the form of music event activations that provide RADD team members an opportunity to engage concertgoers with positive, proactive messages about the importance of making a plan to get home safely, using fun activities, games, ticket giveaways and other promotions. RADD Ohio also proudly partners with Ohio-based musicians such as TrigNO, Hello Luna, Bird & Byron and many others to help communicate its messages (see: https://raddohio.org/radd-tv/).
RADD Ohio is a collaborative effort between the Ohio Traffic Safety Office, RADD-Recording Artists Against Drunk Driving, and the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery at The Ohio State University, plus partnerships with entertainment venues through AEG/PromoWest and Ohio universities statewide to educate young adults on the importance of making a plan before they go out to get everyone home safely. To learn more, please visit www.raddohio.org.
California-based RADD has been honored with three prestigious national awards, two National Highway Traffic Safety Association Lifesavers Awards and one Governors Highway Safety Association Award in acknowledgement of its outstanding DUI prevention work with teens, younger adults ages 18-34, and communities, inclusive of regional and national coalition-building. As a proud member of the Governors Highway Safety Administration (GHSA) and the National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving (NASID), RADD's primary focus is creating lifestyle-oriented alcohol and drug driving prevention programming for college students. The RADD Ohio Project is the pilot for a national model that will be expanding to other states in 2023. To learn more, please visit www.radd.org and www.raddohio.org.
An academic center at The Ohio State University, the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery (HECAOD) is a collaboration between the College of Social Work, College of Pharmacy and the Office of Student Life. It provides tools, training and technical assistance to campus professionals working to address collegiate substance misuse across the continuum. For more information on HECAOD, please visit https://hecaod.osu.edu/
The Biden Administration has formally recognized December 2022 as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month.
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New IBM Storage Defender Solution will Manage Data Resiliency for Mission-Critical Enterprise Applications Across the Entire Data Lifecycle
NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cohesity today announced a new collaboration to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering. IBM Storage Defender is being designed to leverage AI and event monitoring across multiple storage platforms through a single pane of glass to help protect organizations' data layer from risks like ransomware, human error, and sabotage. Additionally, it will feature cyber vault and clean room features with automated recovery functions to help companies restore business-critical data in hours or minutes from what used to take days.
The most recent Cost of a Data Breach Report released by IBM Security revealed costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before, with the global average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.35 million for studied organizations and increasing nearly 13% over the last two years of the report.1 The report also showcased hybrid cloud environments as the most prevalent (45%) infrastructure amongst organizations studied. Averaging $3.8 million in breach costs, businesses that adopted a hybrid cloud model observed lower breach costs compared to businesses with a solely public or private cloud model, which experienced $5.02 million and $4.24 million on average respectively.
IBM Storage Defender is being architected to give clients the ability to rapidly find their most recent clean copy of data. It is IBM's first offering to bring together multiple IBM and third-party solutions unifying primary, secondary replication, and backup management. Leveraging advanced storage capabilities, such as IBM Storage FlashSystem Safeguarded Copy for logical air gap, can help companies recover their most mission critical data within hours in the event of an attack. The first of such ecosystem integrations, Cohesity brings world class virtual machine protection managed in the hybrid cloud. Cohesity on-premises cluster managed with a cloud-based control plane supports a multi-vendor strategy optimized for data recovery to improve business continuity.
IBM Storage Defender will include:
- IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect): comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications (including SaaS-based workloads), where organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server.
- IBM Storage FlashSystem: a cyber-resilient, all-flash and hybrid storage platform for performance and capacity-intensive workloads.
- IBM Storage Fusion: container-native storage and data orchestration for Red Hat OpenShift for modern and next generation applications.
- Cohesity DataProtect: comprehensive protection for both traditional and modern data sources on a multicloud platform. Cohesity DataProtect is engineered so that clients can instantly recover at scale, across environments. Cohesity DataProtect positions clients to copy and store data in multiple locations in onsite or offsite servers, or in multiple clouds. This helps to ensure that an up to date and accurate copy of data is available in case of cyber security breach or disaster - whether naturally occurring or through human error.
"Data protection solutions like IBM Storage Defender are designed to support the deployment diversity, virtualization, containerization, and self-service that are among the requirements of the modern data center," said Phil Goodwin, Research Vice President, IDC. "Together, IBM and Cohesity are combining their capabilities to build a foundation to reduce data fragmentation, maximize availability, and improve business resiliency for companies' hybrid cloud environments."
By integrating Cohesity with IBM Storage Defender, IBM clients gain new modern scale out architecture secured-by-design, as well as easy SaaS-based cyber vaulting capabilities. IBM Storage Defender will allow companies to take advantage of their existing IBM investments while significantly simplifying operations and reducing operating expenses.
"Protecting against ransomware and other forms of malware requires a layered approach to data resiliency that involves early detection, automated protection, and rapid recovery," said Denis Kennelly, General Manager, IBM Storage. "Fighting sophisticated threats to data is a team sport. When we looked at the overall market, we were impressed by the Cohesity platform and team's differentiated focus on scalability, simplicity, and security. By integrating our leading software-defined technologies, I am excited to bring essential cyber resiliency capabilities to IBM clients. Cyberattacks are on the rise, but data can be protected and restored when you are prepared."
A client's data is a uniquely valuable resource and can be a significant competitive advantage. But with more data, the more complex it is to manage. With rapidly increasing ransomware and other cyber threats, data is more valuable than ever. The combination of IBM and Cohesity brings a transformational, yet radically simple approach to cyber resilient data security and management. This includes the ability to manage everything in one place, leveraging a zero trust approach built to help detect, protect, and rapidly recover from ransomware attacks, and using built-in, AI-powered decision-making to facilitate action.
"We have deep respect for IBM's brand and reputation in the market. Cohesity's technology leadership position in data security and management, combined with IBM's impressive storage portfolio, forward-looking vision, global reach, and client intimacy will allow clients to benefit from the best of Cohesity and IBM brought together," said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity. "We're honored and pleased to work with IBM to help organizations strengthen their cyber resilience in the face of evolving sophisticated adversaries, and look forward to building the relationship to benefit many clients across the world."
IBM plans to make the new IBM Storage Defender solution available in the second calendar quarter of 2023 beginning with IBM Storage Protect and Cohesity DataProtect. IBM Storage Defender will be sold and supported by IBM as well as through authorized IBM Business Partners.
More Information
- Watch the Data Innovation Summit to learn more about IBM Storage and hear from Denis Kennelly, General Manager, IBM Storage and Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity.
- Learn more about how IBM Storage is aligning its strategy and products to client needs here.
- Hear Cohesity CEO and President Sanjay Poonen's vision for why clients and partners choose Cohesity in this video.
- Learn more about Cohesity Catalyst, the data management and security summit, May 22-24 in Las Vegas.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
About Cohesity
Cohesity is a leader in data security and management. We make it easy to secure, protect, manage, and derive value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. We offer a full suite of services consolidated on one multicloud data platform: backup and recovery, data security, disaster recovery, file and object services, dev/test, and analytics — reducing complexity and eliminating mass data fragmentation. Cohesity can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
1 Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, conducted by Ponemon Institute, sponsored, and analyzed by IBM
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‘World’s smallest office pool’ wins $1M Mega Millions prize
CLIVE, Iowa (Gray News) – The “world’s smallest office pool” took home a huge lottery prize.
Two men in central Iowa claimed a $1 million Mega Millions prize on Thursday, according to the Iowa Lottery.
Randy Ferriss and Colton Snyder, both 52, have worked together for 26 years at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Ames. They said they have pooled their money for years to play the lottery, and at times, there were more members in the group.
Ferriss bought the $1 million-winning ticket at a Casey’s store in the city of Nevada, Iowa.
Snyder said another coworker broke the news on Wednesday that a big lottery prize had been won in Iowa.
“One of the guys got a notification. It popped up on his phone,” Snyder said. “And he said, ‘Oh, my goodness! There was a $1 million winner, and the ticket was sold at Casey’s in Nevada.’ And I said, ‘Wow! That’s where Randy buys our tickets! I wonder if it could be us?’”
Snyder said he truly didn’t know yet that they’d won because Ferriss, who had the ticket in his wallet, hadn’t checked it yet. But by Wednesday evening, they knew they had won big.
Their ticket came within one number of having a share of Tuesday’s $20 million Mega Millions jackpot. They matched the first five numbers but missed the Mega Ball.
Their ticket was one of four in the country to win a $1 million prize in Tuesday’s drawing, with the others in California, Maryland and Ohio. Tuesday’s $20 million jackpot was won in New York.
Both planned to take time to decide what to do with their winnings.
Ferriss said that he and his wife will probably pay off their house and then “kind of figure out where to go from there.”
“We haven’t had much time to really formulate a plan, but I don’t want to do anything rash or quickly,” he said.
Snyder has some house projects in mind.
“My wife and I have been talking about some small home improvements,” he said. “We’ll probably do that for sure.”
The two said they plan to keep playing the lottery together in their office pool.
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MIAMI, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Steel Sports, a social impact organization inspiring youth to reach their potential on and off the field, is proud to bring their first Kids First Road Show summer camp to Miami's Tropical Park from July 18-22, 2022. The Road Show program will partner with local Steel Partners businesses to sponsor sports camps, scholarships, and events around the country this summer. Steel Sports is proud to partner with the Miami Marlins for this iteration, called the Marlins Youth Academy Summer Camp.
The Kids First Road Show aims to reimagine summer camp for kids with a focus on the Steel core values of Teamwork, Respect, Integrity, and Commitment. Open to children ages 7-13 of all ability levels, the summer camp will feature professionally-trained coaches teaching skills and fundamentals in a wide variety of sports including baseball, softball, soccer, flag football, volleyball and more.
Miami-based ModusLink, which focuses on global eCommerce and supply chain management, funded twenty scholarship spots at the camp for inner-city youth as part of their community-focused initiative. Company executives, including ModusLink president and CEO Fawaz Khalil, will visit the campers on June 20th.
"The Kids First Road Show allows us to carry on the great legacy of Baseball Hall-of-Famer and the inspiration behind Steel Sports, Tommy Lasorda," said Warren Lichtenstein, the Executive Chairman of Steel Partners. "Tommy knew that sports serve the great purpose of helping kids to thrive, build character, and learn valuable life lessons, while still having fun–and he would have been proud of this program's positive impact on the community."
Martin Brown, Steel Sports President and CEO, added, "By focusing on our core values, and emphasizing our coaching system, we aim to help kids build character and leadership skills that they will use both on and off the field. Community is one of the most essential aspects of our lives, and we want the kids at our summer camps to feel empowered to help their own communities."
Headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ, Steel Sports is a social impact business with the mission of inspiring youth to reach their potential, on and off the field, by developing them as athletes and people through the Steel Sports Coaching System, The Lasorda Way. Through its "kids first" approach, Steel Sports is establishing a new standard in youth sports and coaching, forging the next generation of leaders by instilling Steel Sports' core values: Teamwork, Respect, Integrity, and Commitment. Steel Sports creates a positive youth sports experience for over 100,000 athletes each year. For more information, visit www.steelsports.com.
Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (www.steelpartners.com) (NYSE: SPLP) is a diversified global holding company that owns and operates businesses, including diversified industrial products, energy, defense, supply chain management and logistics, direct marketing, banking, and youth sports.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After a two-year long hiatus, Charlotte Pride returns to the Queen City in celebratory fashion. The highly-anticipated weekend festivities commemorate the 20th anniversary of Pride in Charlotte, and organizers say its message of diversity and acceptance for the LGBTQ community has never resonated more.
The celebration is going on all weekend in the Queen City, with plenty of ways to honor Charlotte Pride.
LOL Pride Comedy Showcase @Tabbris
Start Pride weekend off with a laugh at Charlotte’s first all-female comedy showcase series. It will be complete with a cash bar, vendors, a live DJ and more. Tickets start at $10 and can be purchased here.
Charlotte Pride Festival
One of Charlotte's largest street festivals returns this weekend after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Make your way to Uptown for the Charlotte Pride Festival, celebrating the triumphs of the LGBTQ community. Happening from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday. Find more information here.
Girls Room Pride Fest @ The Music Yard
Come out to the Girls Room Pride Fest to celebrate Charlotte's LGBTQ community. It will feature incredible DJ sets, performers, a drag show, vendors and more. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased here.
The Vanity House Pride Fest Drag Brunch
What better to celebrate Pride than with brunch and a drag show featuring Charlotte's favorite drag queens? Tickets start at $130 and include the Vanity House's fabulous drag performance at Angeline's, a donation to The Trevor Project, as well as a 3 course brunch menu including one drink. Find more information here.
Charlotte Pride Parade
Come out for more celebration at Charlotte's Pride Festival and the highly-anticipated Pride Parade happening from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Find more information here.
LGBTQ Pride Comedy Show @ Comedy Zone
End your weekend on with laughs at the LGBTQ Pride Comedy Show. The show will feature some of the best LGBTQ comedians in the Southeast, including Charlotte's own Kevin Delgado and Mimi Benfield. Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased here.
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Company to Host Earnings Conference Call on May 9, 2023
LAS VEGAS, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SWX) ("Southwest Gas" or the "Company") today announced that it will report 2023 first quarter results prior to market opening on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The Company will host an earnings conference call on May 9, 2023, at 11:00 AM ET to discuss the results, and the discussion may include business, financial or other information not contained in the earnings release.
The conference call will be webcast live on the Company's website at www.swgasholdings.com.
If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will also be archived on the Company's website at www.swgasholdings.com. Alternatively, a digital replay of the call can be accessed by dialing (877) 344-7529 or internationally at (412) 317-0088, beginning one hour after the end of the earnings call. Replay code is 9458560. The digital replay of the call will be available until 4:30 PM ET on May 16, 2023.
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High blood pressure is a known risk factor for a bout of Covid-19 severe enough to raise the specter of hospitalization and death. In fact, research has shown having high blood pressure doubles the risk of having a severe case of Covid, even if you are fully vaccinated and boosted.
Blood pressure is measured in units of millimeters of mercury (abbreviated as mmHg), which consists of two numbers — an upper or systolic reading that represents the maximum amount of pressure in your arteries, and the lower or diastolic reading that shows the pressure in your arteries when your heart muscle is at rest between beats.
But what is considered a high enough blood pressure reading to trigger that risk? To date, scientists haven't been sure. Now, a new study out of England published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One has answered that question.
"We found that in those with diagnosed hypertension, the risk of Covid-19 significantly increased once the high number exceeded 150 mmHg or the low number exceeded 90 mmHg compared to a target blood pressure (120-129/80-89 mmHg)," said lead author Holly Pavey, a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom who is funded by the British Heart Foundation, via email.
The research found people with this level of uncontrolled high blood pressure are more likely to be admitted to the hospital and die from a Covid infection, regardless of other known risk factors such as age, ethnicity or obesity.
The new study was able to drill down and be more specific because of the inherent integration in the UK National Health Service. That level of data sharing allows access to "really granular data on long-term blood pressure control for their patients," said Dr. Joseph Ebinger, an assistant professor of cardiology and director of clinical analytics of the Smidt Heart Institute at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
"They found it's not just the diagnosis of high blood pressure — yes or no — but that the risk goes up as your systolic blood pressure goes up, which is really a measure of lack of control," said Ebinger, who was not involved in the study.
Unfortunately, many people fail to properly control their blood pressure, even after they have been diagnosed and are on medication, Ebinger added.
"It's estimated that less than half of individuals with a diagnosis of high blood pressure actually have control over their hypertension, so this is a big problem," he said. "That's due to a myriad of factors: underdiagnosis, lack of awareness, medication nonadherence and undertreatment."
On the positive side, successfully reducing blood pressure through medication was linked with a corresponding reduction in risk for severe Covid, the new study found.
"It is really important for individuals to have regular blood pressure checks and for doctors to try and get their patients' blood pressure controlled," Pavey said.
"Controlling the blood pressure to target levels is important, irrespective of the type of treatment used to achieve it," she said. "Ultimately blood pressure control will help to reduce the risk of suffering severely from new strains of Covid-19 or other viruses in the future."
A primer on blood pressure
Blood pressure readings can be confusing — there are a lot of numbers tossed around, and medical professionals haven't exactly made it easy for people to follow along.
"Normal" blood pressure readings are typically 120 mmHg systolic (upper reading) over 80 mmHg dystolic (lower reading), according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That's likely the number you'll hear mentioned most often. However, that may not be the number your doctor uses to treat you, Ebinger said.
Doctors used to target a blood pressure reading of less than 140/90 to control risk for cardiovascular disease and death, he explained. Then, in 2015, results of SPRINT, or the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, were published in The New England Journal of Medicine — findings that changed the thinking of many medical professionals.
The SPRINT research found targeting a blood pressure below 120 systolic (the top number) in people with hypertension — but no diabetes — prevented the most cases of heart disease and death. There were some side effects, however, including a "higher rate of acute kidney injury or acute renal failure in the intensive-treatment group," according to the trial.
That possibility was concerning when it came to the elderly, who often have multiple chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, kidney concerns and more, Ebinger said.
"So in 2017, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guidelines shot the gap and set the guideline of a systolic reading less than 130 and a diastolic of less than 80," Ebinger said. "And this is where some of the debate starts to come in between different types of doctors. I'm a cardiologist, and we believe lower is better. We want to push that number down as much as we can.
"Some primary care doctors and geriatricians might say, 'You know what, that may not be the best thing for some of my patients,' and they're going to treat to a higher number," he said. "So this is where clinical practice and some of the guidelines don't always add up."
Here are current medical guidelines, according to the US Food and Drug Administration:
- A typical normal blood pressure is 120/80 or lower.
- Readings between 120/80 and 129/89 are considered pre-hypertension, meaning it's not as low as it should be but is not yet considered high blood pressure medically.
- Blood pressure is a stage 1 red flag high if it reads 130/80.
- Blood pressure of 140/90 or higher is considered stage 2 hypertension.
If your blood pressure reads 180/110 or higher more than once, seek out medical treatment immediately. A reading at this high level is a "hypertensive crisis," the FDA said.
Bottom line? Take your blood pressure often (here's how to do it right) and check in with your doctor on a regular basis.
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TORONTO, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Manulife welcomed documentarian, author and journalist Soledad O'Brien for a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion event in Boston. The event provided an opportunity for 38,000 Manulife colleagues to participate in and listen to an important conversation about inclusion and the biases that can be prevalent in the workplace.
"Identifying and addressing biases and making inclusion a priority in the workplace, are integral to making a positive impact on the future of work. It's encouraging to witness the increasing commitment over the past decade in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion space, especially from business leaders and organizations like Manulife", said Soledad O'Brien. "There's depth to this interest and we're seeing companies committed to finding ways to solve issues, take affirmative action and accelerate progress on all fronts. The pillars and values that Manulife has outlined for their global team truly exemplify their dedication and commitment in this space."
"It's incredibly important to have open and candid dialogue about the progress we've made at Manulife on our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion journey. As we continue to drive the strategy forward, it's imperative that we remain active and intentional in our efforts to ensure a better and more inclusive future for all," said Michelle Taylor-Jones, Manulife's Chief Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer.
Manulife is focused on building a culture of inclusion, continuous learning and advancing on the journey that is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Through events like the one hosted today, Manulife remains focused on expanding their diversity of talent and building a stronger, more inclusive culture that will help foster meaningful connections for all, and enable greater innovation, growth, and makes their company a compelling place for talented people.
To learn more about Manulife's DEI journey, visit manulife.com/en/about/diversity-equity-inclusion
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we provide financial advice and insurance, operating as Manulife across Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. Through Manulife Investment Management, the global brand for our global wealth and asset management segment, we serve individuals, institutions and retirement plan members worldwide. Our principal operations are in Asia and Canada, and the United States, where we have served customers for more than 155 years. We trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong. In the previous 12 months we made CAD$31.8 billion in payments to our customers.
Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulife.com.
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The White House secret keepers
Published 9:33 am Saturday, June 25, 2022
“The glue that holds the house together.” This is how Jimmy Carter described the White House Staff. As of July, 2021, there were 560 staff members in Biden’s White House. Seventy-four of them earned a salary of $150,000 or more with the average salary being $95,649. But, hold onto your hats … forty-one folks earned no salary at all!
There are full time and part time workers which include ushers, chefs, florists, maids, butlers, doormen, painters, carpenters, electricians and calligraphers. (I’m going to let you guess who amongst these does not get paid, because I can’t.) In addition there are several dozen National Park Service staff who take care of the White House grounds.
The biggest honcho on the staff sits in the Usher’s Office where the center of activity buzzes around him. He’s the chief usher and is in charge of all the funds allocated by Congress to run the house, including the cost of heating, lighting, air-conditioning and the staff’s salaries. (Indeed, everyone except those hapless—though big hearted—unpaid folks.)
In 1941, there were sixty-two White House staff members. Then the annual budget was $152,000. The annual budget now hovers around $15,000,000+. You should know that this cost is separate from the amount needed to repair and restore the White House every year.
One could describe the Chief Usher’s job as being akin to the general manager of a five-star hotel … but, with only one tenant family to serve. He or she manages the whole kit and caboodle and works closely with the first lady.
The strict requirements for this job are beyond stringent. Take, for example, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Stephen Rochen who, in 2007, was appointed chief usher by George W. Bush. Admiral Rochen had to go through eight interviews for the job, requiring him to drive back and forth to the White House from his Coast Guard Station in Norfolk, Virginia. His final interview was with President Bush himself and was held in the Oval Office.
In the interview Bush asked Rochen if he would be happy with such a modest, misleading title. “Well,” was his reply, “what’s in a title?” Apparently a lot because after Rochen was hired, the job title was renamed: “White House Chief Usher and Director of the Executive Residence.” Clearly it had more swagger, thus carrying significant clout on the impressive scale.
Despite the august title, the goal of the mission is simple: to provide whatever the first family needs … and when they need it! For one usher this included feverishly searching the house for Caroline Kennedy’s lost hamsters, while for another it was calling in dozens of experts in a perpetual, though in vain, quest to satisfy Lyndon Johnson’s demand for better water pressure in his shower. Indeed, Jacqueline Kennedy called her usher, “the most powerful man in Washington, next to the president.”
From the highest to the lowest staff positions, getting hired is not as cinchy as answering a newspaper ad or applying online. That’s because none of the jobs are advertised. Nearly everyone who is hired is recommended by a family member who is already on staff. This is significant because it means they are vouching for the person they are bringing in. That’s called being really, really responsible. Most staffers stay on for decades, some even for generations. One family, the Ficklins, has had nine of their family members work in the White House.
Then there is the social secretary, a job usually held by a woman. The Obamas changed this by not only hiring a man, but also the first openly gay male social secretary. (Conveniently being black, made this tri-cornered break in tradition complete. Three cheers for Obama!)
The social secretary acts as a conduit between the first family and the residence staff, as well as between the West Wing and the East Wing. Things can easily get sticky for the secretary as he/she is often pulled in opposite directions by competing worlds. Letitia Baldrige served as Jackie Kennedy’s social secretary. During that time, Letitia received a number of letters disapproving of Vice President Johnson’s long, shoulder length hair. In an unexpected quirk of fashion, Jackie really liked his long hair. But, alas, when word trickled down from Letitia to the Oval Office, JFK insisted that Johnson cut off his locks. Jackie didn’t speak to tattle-tale Baldrige for three days. (The report failed to say how long she cold-shouldered JFK!)
The social secretary occasionally has to deliver cantankerous news to the residence staff. This news often comes from the first lady herself who is working her darndest to stay above the fray. Laura Bush’s social secretary had to deliver one such message to the Executive Chef. It contained a request to stop serving the first family “country club food.” The truth was that the food was hardly what one would call highbrow. Nonetheless, culinary peace was restored when the chef declared, “If the president wants a peanut butter and honey sandwich then, by god, we will make the best damn peanut butter and honey sandwich we can!”
Always keeping an eye out for each other, the residence staff shares warning messages. It isn’t unusual for a housekeeper to say to the floral team, “You might want to take a look at the Red Room. There are flower petals on the table. I picked them up, but they’re still dropping.” (Whoa! Send her to my house! I’ve got dropping petals.)
The White House employs a staff of permanent butlers who are frequently supplemented by additional workers when there are big events, such as state dinners.
Select valets tend exclusively to the president’s more personal needs and are always close at hand. Typically there are two on round-the-clock duty. The valet performs any task needed such as resolving the president’s shoes — do president’s do that? — to greet him in the morning with coffee, breakfast or even a cough drop. When the president travels, the valet accompanies him in a back-up car with a spare shirt and tie. This is in the event the president is like a lot of men I know who need a quick replacement for a soup-dripped necktie. (No naming names here.)
On the first day after his inauguration, George W. Bush was shocked when he met his valets for the first time. At a loss as to what to do, a highly distressed G.W.B. rushed to his father, “Two men just introduced themselves as my valets. I don’t need a valet. I don’t want a valet.” “You’ll soon get used to it,” his father replied. And he did.
Sometimes a staff member gets to witness the sheer joy that a newly inaugurated president feels at the moment he attains the highest peak in American politics. One such event happened after the Obama final inaugural ball ended and the exhausted couple was settling in for their first night in the White House.
One of the staffers had to go to the second floor to drop off some late-night reports. As he neared the family’s private quarters he heard something unusual. It was Obama proclaiming, ”I got this! I got this! Yes, I got the inside on this now.” With that there was a sudden blare of music as Mary J. Blige’s singing voice came over the speakers.
When Mr. Obama took the paperwork from the surprised staffer, his formal attire had been shed for shirt sleeves and his first lady was in a T-shirt and sweatpants. Clearly jubilant, Barrack grabbed Michelle and they joyously began dancing to Blige’s big hit, “Real Love.”
So unusual and unexpected was this scene, that the usher paused for a moment to take it all in. “It was the most beautiful, lovely thing you could ever imagine,” he sighed. He wasn’t sure how late the Obamas stayed up dancing, but it was clear the country’s first couple was in love and intended to savor this precious moment together. To be sure, it was a whole lot of political sweet. | 2022-06-25T16:16:58+00:00 | austindailyherald.com | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2022/06/the-white-house-secret-keepers/ |
GL300 Honored for Exceptional Innovation
CARLSBAD, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Queclink Wireless Solutions, a global manufacturer of Internet of Things (IoT) hardware, is pleased to announce that its GL300 Series has received a 2022 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award from IoT Evolution World, the leading Website covering IoT technologies.
The GL300 Series is a global tracking device with LTE Cat M1, Narrowband, and 2G fallback. The GL300 is equipped with robust features including rechargeable battery, accelerometer, and a programmable button.
The device enables tracking features such as bread crumb reports, movement detection, and emergency contacting. The GL300 is used for tracking high value assets, people, vehicles, equipment, and more. The small size enables the device to be installed securely and covertly.
There are many accessories for this GL300 including external power, external back-up battery, magnetic case, and waterproof case. It is one of the most versatile GPS Tracking devices in the market.
The GL320MG in the GL300 Series is certified for the US market by the Federal Communications Commission and PTCRB and is for use on all major carrier networks.
"We are honored to receive the Product of the Year Award for Exceptional Innovation from the IoT Evolution World," said Manny Hernandez, Vice President of North America at Queclink Wireless Solutions. "This award is a validation of Queclink's innovative spirit and a testament to our years of experience in delivering exceptional IoT products."
"The solutions selected for the IoT Evolution Product of Year Award reflect the diverse range of innovation driving the multi-billion dollar IoT market today. It is my honor to congratulate Queclink Wireless for their innovative work and superior contribution to the rapidly evolving IoT industry," said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC, a co-publisher of IoT Evolution.
"It is my pleasure to recognize GL300, an innovative solution that earned Queclink Wireless the 2022 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award," said Moe Nagle, Editorial Director for IoT Evolution World. "I look forward to seeing even more innovation from Queclink in the future."
About Queclink Wireless Solutions (Stock: 300590.SZ)
Queclink Wireless develops, manufactures, and delivers hardware that enables the world's most innovative IoT solutions. As a leading manufacturer, our footprint sprawls into over 140 countries, with more than 42 million devices in the market. Our mission is to provide our customers with an easy experience and reliable product backed by our team of over 500 employees worldwide. Queclink is a publicly traded company (Stock: 300590.SZ).
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Through education, industry news, live events and social influence, global buyers rely on TMC's content-driven marketplaces to make purchase decisions and navigate markets. As a result, leading technology vendors turn to TMC for unparalleled branding, thought leadership and lead generation opportunities. Our in-person and online events deliver unmatched visibility and sales prospects for all percipients. Through our custom lead generation programs, we provide clients with an ongoing stream of leads that turn into sales opportunities and build databases. Additionally, we bolster brand reputations with the millions of impressions from display advertising on our news sites and newsletters. Making TMC a 360 degree marketing solution, we offer comprehensive event and road show management services and custom content creation with expertly ghost-crafted blogs, press releases, articles and marketing collateral to help with SEO, branding, and overall marketing efforts. For more information about TMC and to learn how we can help you reach your marketing goals, please visit www.tmcnet.com and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, @tmcnet.
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Don’t let after-Christmas trash target you for crime
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s after Christmas, and you’ve got a lot of great stuff that was under the tree, and now you’re using them. Maybe you got a new TV or state-of-the-art gaming system.
However, when you leave those empty boxes out by the side of the road, it becomes an inviting target for would-be thieves who might want to pilfer those packages.
“It’s crimes of opportunity, and you want to diminish those opportunities for criminals. If you have your PlayStation 5 box or your big screen TV box, wait until trash day and put it out then,” said Sgt. Jason Ducre with the Gulfport Police Department.
Or you might have a terrific after-Christmas trip planned, and you leave town and post those pictures of where you are on Facebook.
“With vacations, if you’re going on vacation, wait until after you get back to post them on social media so criminals don’t know you’re out of town,” Ducre said. “It’s just little things like this that detour criminals. Everybody thinks it doesn’t happen to them, until it happens to them.”
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CORK, Ireland, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, today announced the pricing of its offering of $400 million senior notes due 2032. The net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including the repayment or redemption of near-term indebtedness. General corporate purposes may also include acquisitions, additions to working capital, repurchase of ordinary shares, dividends, capital expenditures and investments in JCI's subsidiaries.
Tyco Fire & Security Finance, S.C.A., a subsidiary of the Company, is a co-issuer of the notes. The closing for the transaction is expected to occur on September 14, 2022, subject to certain customary closing conditions.
J.P. Morgan, BofA Securities, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, ING and TD Securities are serving as joint book-running managers to facilitate the transaction. Barclays, Credit Agricole CIB, Danske Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, US Bancorp and Westpac Banking Corporation are serving as co-managers of the offering.
The offering of the notes is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement, prospectus and related prospectus supplement. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the base prospectus may be obtained by contacting J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at +1-212-834-4533; BofA Securities, Inc. collect at +1-800-294-1322; or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC collect at +1-866-718-1649. Investors may also obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
At Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
Building on a proud history of nearly 140 years of innovation, we deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive digital offering.
Today, with a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of building technology and software as well as service solutions from some of the most trusted names in the industry.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announced today the expansion of its Corporate Communications division with new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) team.
The Environmental, Social, and Governance team is increasingly being tapped to build dynamic PR campaigns for ESG companies who assess their clients' ESG risks and help them implement programs to strengthen their organizations and compete in the new corporate paradigm. The team is also relied upon by large companies to amplify their groundbreaking ESG initiatives and demonstrate their exemplary corporate stewardship.
"Companies are rightfully being held to higher standards and expectations, their consumers and investors are expecting the brands they love to more closely align with their personal values and be good corporate citizens," said 5WPR CEO, Matthew Caiola. "We're proud of our ESG clients and the work we do for them in sharing the value they bring to their clients and our society overall."
PR services offered to corporate clients include messaging and positioning, media relations, initial public offering media strategy, new market expansion campaigns, visibility programs, content creation, sponsorships/partnerships, digital media campaigns, event planning, thought leadership and speaking opportunities.
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 275 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). Founded by Ronn Torossian nearly 20 years ago, 5W was named to Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2022 list, awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year, and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
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Matthew Caiola
mcaiola@5wpr.com / 212.999.5585
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SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust (the "Trust") (NASDAQ: TBLD) today announced a monthly distribution of $0.10417 per share on the Trust's common shares, payable on October 20, 2022 to common shareholders of record as of October 11, 2022.
The Trust's monthly distributions are shown below:
Distribution rates are not performance and are calculated by summing the Trust's monthly distribution per share over four quarters and dividing by the net asset value or market price per share, as applicable, as of the distribution announcement date. Distributions on common shares are generally paid from net investment income (regular interest and dividends) and may also include capital gains and/or a return of capital. The Trust's distribution payable on October 20, 2022, does not include a return of capital but includes short-term capital gains in the amount of $0.09087. The specific tax characteristics of the distributions will be reported to the Trust's common shareholders on Form 1099 after the end of the 2022 calendar year. The final determination for all distributions paid in 2022 will be made in early 2023 and reported to you on Form 1099-DIV. You should not use this notice as a substitute for your 1099-DIV.
Shareholders should not assume that the source of a distribution from the Trust is net income or profit. A distribution comprised in whole or in part by a return of capital does not necessarily reflect the Trust's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income." Future distributions may consist of a return of capital. For further information regarding the Trust's distributions, please visit www.thornburg.com/tbld-distributions.
The Trust's investment objective is to provide current income and additional total return. The Trust seeks to achieve its objective by investing, directly or indirectly, at least 80% of its managed assets in a broad range of income-producing securities. The Trust invests in both equity and debt securities of companies located in the United States and around the globe. The Trust may invest in non-U.S. domiciled companies, including up to 20% of its managed assets at the time of investment in equity and debt securities of emerging market companies.
As a registered investment company, the Trust is subject to a 4% excise tax that is imposed if the Trust does not distribute to common shareholders by the end of any calendar year at least the sum of (i) 98% of its ordinary income (not taking into account any capital gain or loss) for the calendar year and (ii) 98.2% of its capital gain in excess of its capital loss (adjusted for certain ordinary losses) for a one-year period generally ending on October 31 of the calendar year (unless an election is made to use the Trust's fiscal year). In certain circumstances, the Trust may elect to retain income or capital gain to the extent that the Board of Trustees, in consultation with Trust management, determines it to be in the interest of shareholders to do so.
The common share distributions paid by the Trust for any particular period may be more than the amount of net investment income from that period. As a result, all or a portion of a distribution may be a return of capital, which is in effect a partial return of the amount a common shareholder invested in the Trust, up to the amount of the common shareholder's tax basis in their common shares, which would reduce such tax basis. Although a return of capital may not be taxable, it will generally increase the common shareholder's potential gain, or reduce the common shareholder's potential loss, on any subsequent sale or other disposition of common shares.
About Thornburg
Thornburg is a global investment firm delivering on strategy for institutions, financial professionals and investors worldwide. The privately held firm, founded in 1982, is an active, high-conviction manager of fixed income, equities, multi-asset solutions and sustainable investments. With $41 billion1 in client assets as of August 31, 2022, the firm offers mutual funds, closed-end funds, institutional accounts, separate accounts and UCITS funds for non-U.S. investors.
As an independent firm, Thornburg can take on a wide range of opportunities, explore ideas thoroughly and work across strategies to deliver consistent risk-adjusted outperformance over the long term. The firm attracts free-thinking professionals who are eager to pursue investment outcomes beyond the confines of popular wisdom. From nimble operational capabilities to principles and actions fitting of a global citizen, Thornburg's world-class investment platform and team are aligned on strategy to serve investors.
Thornburg's U.S. headquarters is in Santa Fe, New Mexico with offices in London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. For more information, visit www.thornburg.com or call 877 215 1330.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the laws of such state or jurisdiction. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with and declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the Trust, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. As a result, no assurance can be given as to future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements, and neither the Trust nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of such statements in the future.
Risk is inherent in all investing. There can be no assurance that the Trust will achieve its investment objective, and you could lose some or all of your investment.
NOT FDIC INSURED NO BANK GUARANTEE MAY LOSE VALUE
Thornburg Securities Corporation, Distributor
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Director of Global Communications
Thornburg Investment Management
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Email: mcorrao@thornburg.com
1 Includes $40 billion in assets under management and $1 billion in assets under advisement as of August 31, 2022.
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Modern Healthcare Ranks Trella Health on its 2023 Best Places to Work in Healthcare List
ATLANTA, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trella Health, a leading provider of market intelligence and integrated customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to the post-acute care industry, has been selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2023 Best Places to Work in Healthcare.
The complete list of this year's winners, in alphabetical order, is available at ModernHealthcare.com/bestplaceslist. Modern Healthcare will publish a special supplement featuring a ranked list of all the winners along with the October 2, 2023, issue of MH magazine.
"An uncertain economy, staffing shortages and increasing demands for flexibility and remote work opportunities are forcing every business in the industry to focus on attracting and retaining talent in unprecedented ways," said Dan Peres, president of Modern Healthcare. "The 2023 Best Places to Work winners proved the value of understanding what employees want — and need — today. The healthcare industry is going through a period of extraordinary change. Having the right people in place is more critical than ever, and the winning workplaces understand that taking care of employees is central to business success."
"We are honored to be recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the best places to work in 2023. At Trella Health, our greatest asset is our people," shared Scott Tapp, CEO at Trella Health. "We remain committed to fostering an environment where innovation thrives, where every voice is valued, and where our collective efforts drive transformation in the healthcare industry. This achievement not only affirms our unwavering commitment to our employees' well-being and professional growth, but also reinforces our mission to revolutionize healthcare through data-driven insights."
This award program identifies and recognizes outstanding employers in the healthcare industry nationwide. Modern Healthcare partners with Workforce Research Group on the assessment process, which includes an extensive employee survey.
Trella Health will find out about its ranking on the Best Places list and be celebrated at the 2023 Best Places to Work in Healthcare Awards Gala taking place Sept. 28 at the Renaissance Chicago. Information about the gala is available at ModernHealthcare.com/BestPlacesGala.
About Trella Health
Trella Health's unmatched market intelligence and purpose-built CRM allow post-acute providers and suppliers to drive more effective performance and growth. Trella's solutions allow post-acute, HME, and infusion organizations to identify the highest-potential referral targets, evaluate new market opportunities, and monitor performance metrics. Paired with CRM and EHR integrations, business development teams can better manage referral relationships to advance their organizations with certainty by improving their sales and marketing strategy.
For more information on Trella Health and its post-acute growth solutions, visit www.trellahealth.com, call 678-813-1590, or follow Trella on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
About Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare is the most trusted business news and information brand in the healthcare industry. Modern Healthcare empowers healthcare leaders and influencers to make timely and informed business decisions. To learn more or subscribe, go to www.modernhealthcare.com/subscriptions
Media Contact: Lauren Corcoran, press@trellahealth.com
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Former President Donald Trump is holding a rally in South Carolina this Saturday, but he may not find the same level of support as before.
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Former President Donald Trump is holding a rally in South Carolina this Saturday, but he may not find the same level of support as before.
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Shortly after an ordinary takeoff from an Ohio airport on Sunday, passengers aboard an American Airlines plane became alarmed when they heard loud noises and saw flames shooting out of an engine.
Moments later, when they learned a bird strike had caused an issue, many feared the worst. They took to their phones and social media to spread the word as the hobbled plane returned to the airport and landed without incident or injury.
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“Scariest 30 minutes of my life this morning. And scary for my family, fiance, best friend & coworker who all got a text from me that my plane was crashing and I love them and I hope they get this message,” Cassy Sleeper said in a Facebook post. “So very blessed for my guardian angels who landed us safely. I am happy to now be back in my house, praying thanks to God for keeping us all safe.”
American Airlines flight 1958 had 173 people on board when it departed from John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, headed to Phoenix around 7:45 a.m. Sunday. The fire was detected a short time later and the Boeing 737 returned to the airport, where firefighters quickly doused the flames.
John Fisher, another passenger aboard the flight, told WCMH-TV in Columbus that the pilot said a flock of geese flew into the engine.
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“The engine started making real loud ‘clonk, clonk, clonk’ noises (and) they eventually turned the engine off and turned around and went back to the airport,” Fisher said.
The airline said the plane was taken out of service for maintenance and that the passengers were booked on other flights. The facility remained operating as usual, and the fire only caused some minor flight delays, airport officials said.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the matter.
The strike has again put a spotlight on the problems pilots, carriers and airports are facing as expanding bird and wildlife populations are making such strikes more commonplace, along with increased air traffic by quieter, turbofan-powered aircraft.
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According to the Federal Aviation Administration, 15,556 strikes were reported in 2021, an increase of 33% from the 11,666 strikes reported in 2020. Globally, wildlife strikes killed more than 300 people and destroyed roughly 300 aircraft from 1988-2021.
The administration has been researching new technology that could significantly reduce the chances of aircraft striking birds. It would give birds the warnings they need to fly out of the paths of oncoming airplanes and helicopters.
Sarah McQuaide, communications and media relations manager for the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which runs the John Glenn airport, said the authority's airport operations team conducts airfield inspections multiple times a day to identify and mitigate any risks, and a full-time wildlife specialist adds to the efforts. She said bird strikes there vary seasonally with bird activity and bird migration, adding that the most strikes occur during bird migration periods. | 2023-04-24T20:38:53+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/ohio-plane-fire-puts-renewed-focus-on-recurring-17915699.php |
The new MIDI keyboard features Intelligent Dynamic Scale Mode and Real-Time Multi-Mode Control to make it easier than ever for users to arrange music
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Donner, leading manufacturer of innovative and feature-rich musical instruments, has launched the DMK-25 PRO, an innovative portable MIDI keyboard ideal for music creators of all genres. Supporting a large variety of popular DAWs in the market, the DMK-25 PRO provides users with a complete music production experience, while also streamlining their workflow.
Features such as Intelligent Dynamic Scale Mode and Real-Time Multi-Mode Control make it easier than ever for users to arrange their music, and the included 16 modal scales - let players transition seamlessly between different musical genres, generating an infinite amount of creative possibilities. Other convenient functions, such as arpeggio, note-repeat, and chord functions, are easily manageable for even a novice creator.
LET THE CREATIVITY FLOW
Featuring a portable and lightweight design, the DMK-25 PRO fits easily into a backpack, allowing users to carrying the MIDI keyboard to a café, studio, park or wherever inspiration may strike. A variety of DAW and USB bus-powered features add to the unit's versatility — making it plug and play ready.
The DMK-25 PRO MIDI keyboard features four innovative wheels, six transport controllers, two touch strips with light scale for pitch bend and modulation, as well as a high-definition OLED screen display, which provides great visual control. A straightforward panel design makes it easy to find and view functions in real-time, making arranging a breeze.
Velocity-sensitive keys and eight velocity-sensitive pads are ultra-responsive, creating four exquisite touch-sensitive curves.
CUBASE & MELODICS MUSIC EDUCATION APP BUNDLES
As part of Donner's commitment to providing entry-level musicians with enjoyable and
innovative musical instruments, the company has partnered with some of the leading DAWs in the music industry to offer musicians a complete starter pack.
The DMK-25 PRO is now available as a bundle with three Steinberg DAWs, including Cubase LE, which is derived from legendary Cubase software line, WaveLab LE, for mastering, and Cubasis LE, the iOS version of Cubase LE. Customers of the following Donner's devices are eligible for the full bundle of Steinberg software:
DMK-25 PRO MIDI Keyboard Controller
STARRYPAD Pad Controller
STARRYKEY25 MIDI Keyboard Controller
STARRYKEY37 MIDI Keyboard Controller
N-25 MIDI Keyboard Controller
N-32 MIDI Keyboard Controller
Explore a new way to learn and practice keys with Donner DMK-25 Pro and Melodics educational app.
Donner has also partnered with Melodics, who offers a new way to learn and practice MIDI keyboard every day. Melodics will provide Donner customers with 40 free lessons and one beginner course with the purchase of the DMK-25 PRO. This is also available for all Donner MIDI keyboard, pad controller and e-drum customers, which means customers will get totally 120 free lessons and 3 beginner courses for each instrument they buy from Donner.
Free DACs of Steinberg software and the Melodics course codes are now available via Donner's Customer Service.
Donner DMK 25-Pro Specifications:
Number of Keys: 25
Key Size: Mini
Controls: Pitch bend and modulation touch strips,
8 backlit pads, 4 assignable knobs,
4 assignable sliders, 8 function buttons, 6 transport buttons,
OLED display for visual feedback
Connectivity: USB Type-C, 3.5MM Jack MIDI out
Dimension: 337X183X26 MM
Weight:0.68kg
The DMK-25 Pro is now available at MSRP $109 US Amazon Storefront.
About Donner Music
Since 2012, Donner has been committed to creating innovative and enjoyable musical instruments for both entry-level and advanced musicians. This mission is what drove Donner to pioneer its mini pedals, which have brought the joy of musical performance to people across the world. Relying on a strong R&D team, Donner's musical instruments deliver the reflections, ideas and values of today's musician. Find more information on Donnermusic.com
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