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Expect the Dolphins to make a strong selection at No. 51 in the NFL draft later this month. That’s what I’m expecting.
I’ll even take it a step further and say I’d almost be shocked if this pick doesn’t produce as a rookie, and keep producing three years into his career.
Why?
He’ll be a second-round pick, and recent history says that’s almost can’t-miss territory for the Dolphins.
During the last 10 years the Dolphins’ second-round draft pick has pretty much been money. They’re talented players that have been developed well by the organization, and, for the most part, they’ve stayed healthy. It’s a winning combination.
A few years ago I learned I should buy into this trend.
So, here I am again; I’m all in.
I’m thinking the Dolphins’ second-round pick will be productive. Now, and in the future.
The Dolphins could go many directions with this year’s second-rounder. Tight end (Iowa’s Sam LaPorta?). Offensive tackle (Syracuse’s Matthew Bergeron?). Interior offensive line (TCU’s Steve Avila?). Linebacker (Iowa’s Jack Campbell?). Running back (Texas’ Roschon Johnson?). You could make an argument for numerous possibilities.
But the player chosen will likely work well.
Consider the Dolphins’ second-round picks from the previous 10 years (all are still in the league except Taylor):
2022: None
2021: Jevon Holland, S, Oregon; Liam Eichenberg, G-T, Notre Dame
2020: Robert Hunt, G-T, Louisiana; Raekwon Davis, DT, Alabama
2019: None
2018: Mike Gesicki, TE, Penn State (now with New England)
2017: Raekwon McMillan, LB, Ohio State (now with New England)
2016: Xavien Howard, CB, Baylor
2015: Jordan Phillips, DT, Oklahoma (now with Buffalo)
2014: Jarvis Landry, WR, LSU (free agent after playing with New Orleans last season)
2013: Jamar Taylor, CB, Boise State
By the way, it might surprise you to know the first-round picks from that same era are pretty darn good.
The best first-rounders are offensive tackle Ja’Wuan James (2014), offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil (2016), safety Minkah Fitzpatrick (2018), defensive tackle Christian Wilkins (2019), quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (2020), wide receiver Jaylen Waddle (2021) and edge rusher Jaelan Phillips (2021).
But for the second consecutive year the Dolphins don’t have a first-round pick (they had two, and lost one for tampering with quarterback Tom Brady and coach Sean Payton, and traded the other to Denver in November in the deal for edge rusher Bradley Chubb).
So let’s get back to the second-round picks.
Howard and Landry are the stars. They’re both Pro Bowl veterans. Howard has four Pro Bowl berths while Landry had three with the Dolphins.
Gesicki, Holland and Hunt have Pro Bowl potential.
That’s a lot of high-level production.
No, it hasn’t been a steady string of second-round successes. Taylor was only with the Dolphins for two years. His last year in the league was 2020.
But having nine of the 10 still in the league is quite an accomplishment.
Beyond that, most played fairly significant roles for their teams last season. Yeah, Eichenberg had injury problems and his performance was uneven, but he was a starter. And Gesicki, although he only made one start, was third on the team with five touchdowns.
If this year’s second-round pick follows the trend he’ll be good enough at tight end, left guard, right tackle, running back or any other position.
You always want a Pro Bowl-caliber guy, but that’s not necessarily what the Dolphins need, if that makes sense.
The offense and defense already have enough star-caliber players among guys such as Tagovailoa, wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, left tackle Terron Armstead, cornerbacks Xavien Howard and Jalen Ramsey, and edge rushers Bradley Chubb and Jaelan Phillips.
And, again, young second-round picks such as Hunt and Holland, along with Wilkins, a young first-rounder, have Pro Bowl potential.
So, this second-round pick just has to be himself. He won’t have tremendous pressure on him such as a first-round pick or someone drafted to immediately start at one of the team’s key positions (quarterback, cornerback, edge rusher, left tackle, etc…).
Of course, there are no guarantees. Good things aren’t going to happen simply because this guy is a Dolphins second-round pick.
But if he works hard, listens to his coaches and veteran teammates, and stays healthy, he’ll be successful this season and for many seasons to follow.
The recent trend says that’ll happen, and I’m all in.
() | 2023-04-15T15:14:38+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/04/15/chris-perkins-the-dolphins-second-round-pick-will-be-successful-its-almost-a-guarantee/ |
Detectives seek motive in fatal California school stabbing
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives on Thursday were investigating what prompted a fight between three students at a Northern California high school that ended in one fatally stabbing another as more than two dozen classmates watched.
A 15-year-old freshman was booked on suspicion of homicide and other charges in connection with Wednesday’s fatal stabbing in an art classroom at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California. One 16-year-old junior was killed and another injured, police said.
The attack shocked Santa Rosa — a community best known for its wineries about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) north of San Francisco — and prompted lockdowns of several nearby schools as officers searched for the teenage suspect.
The school will be closed for the rest of the week. Principal Adam Paulson, in a message to parents, students and the school community, called the stabbing “the darkest day anyone can remember at Montgomery High,” according to the Press-Democrat.
The deceased victim was identified as Jayden Jess Pienta, 16, according to Santa Rosa police. He was a junior. The victim who survived the stabbing is also a 16-year-old junior.
Jayden’s stepfather, Tom Lenwell, told KTVU he was reeling from the violence.
“I’m hurt. I’m sad. I’m never going to see Jayden again,” Lenwell told reporters. “I’m not going to be able to joke and laugh with him. Those days are gone.”
Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Christopher Mahurin on Thursday said investigators are working to interview the 27 students who were inside the classroom at the time, as well as the teacher and teacher’s aides.
Members of the New Vintage Church gathered Thursday morning to pray for the school community.
Officers will be on the school’s campus Monday when it reopens, Mahurin said.
But some parents said they wanted to hear more about the school’s plans and also would press the school board about children’s safety at next week’s meeting.
“I don’t feel like the school district’s had any response,” said Libby Dalton, whose 16-year-old son is a sophomore. “They canceled school for two days but what’s next? How are they going to keep our kids safe after that?”
Parents were feeling “fear, anger and a lot of frustration,” Dalton said, adding that there were already safety concerns after a student brought a gun to school last year.
The violence started when the two juniors came into the classroom and started a fight with the freshman, police said. Teachers initially broke up the brawl but the freshman then pulled out a knife and allegedly stabbed the juniors.
Mahurin said detectives have not yet discovered why the upperclassmen began the brawl, though the three students appear to have known each other and had fought previously.
Dalton said her son knew the students involved but they weren’t in his grade and she didn’t know what sparked the dispute.
“There’s a lot of fights at Montgomery,” she added. “They just have that culture there that they fight. The kids fight there. They pick on each other and they try and stand up for themselves and then they all end up suspended.”
Her son was suspended for a day after he fought back after being picked on in the boy’s locker room, she said.
“There’s no discipline for the bullies,” she said. “I don’t know what went on between those three boys but they definitely don’t support the kids that do get picked on.”
Santa Rosa police have not released the name of the 15-year-old student, a freshman, because he is a juvenile. He was booked on felony charges of homicide, attempted homicide and having a weapon on a school campus. He was additionally booked on a misdemeanor charge of battery on a school campus.
The teenager was taken into custody Wednesday hiding in a creek bed after he fled the classroom. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately have a comment Thursday about the potential filing of charges.
“This is truly a sad day. The tragedy that happened here today is heartbreaking,” Anna Trunnell, the Santa Rosa City Schools superintendent, said at a news conference.
Several students raised questions at the news conference about their safety and asked why school officials did not do more to stop the students’ behavior despite knowing there were problems between the three teens. The officials walked out instead of answering.
Officials had earlier said none of the campuses in the Santa Rosa City Schools District have metal detectors or police officers inside.
There were no mentions of the violence on the district’s website or social media accounts on Thursday morning. A Facebook page for Montgomery High School appeared to have been taken down.
Paulson, the high school’s principal, and Santa Rosa City School District spokeswoman Vanessa Wedderburn didn’t answer voice and email messages seeking comment Thursday.
With more than 1,600 students, Montgomery High School is the second largest school in Santa Rosa and in need of major repairs, according to a report published by The Press-Democrat last week.
The school, built in 1958, has exposed wires hanging from the rafters in hallways, wooden skirting around the foundation of old portable classrooms is rotting and students often must wait to get home to go to the bathroom because the ones at the school are foul smelling and there aren’t enough available, according to students who spoke to the newspaper.
Lisa Cavin, associate superintendent of business services for the Santa Rosa City Schools district, told the newspaper the district hasn’t had the funds for some projects over the years and that constant vandalism diverts money.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-03T04:31:12+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/03/03/detectives-seek-motive-fatal-california-school-stabbing/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon must undergo up to two days of questioning by lawyers handling lawsuits over whether the bank can be held liable in financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls and women, a federal judge said Tuesday.
During a telephone conference with lawyers, Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ordered Dimon to set aside two days for deposition testimony, though he didn’t specify when. He said one day of testimony might be sufficient and lawyers would have to get his approval to continue to a second day.
The New York bank, the nation’s largest, has been sued by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and two women, both identified as Jane Doe, who say they were abused by Epstein.
The lawsuits contend JPMorgan should have seen evidence of Epstein’s sex trafficking and avoided profiting from it.
The bank, besides denying the allegations, has sued one of its former executives, saying the man hid Epstein’s decades of sex abuse and trafficking to keep Epstein as a client.
Darin Oduyoye, a JPMorgan spokesperson, said lawyers for the lawsuits against JPMorgan “know our CEO has no relevant knowledge, but persists with this media stunt designed for headlines and clicks.”
He said a review of more than two decades of emails and other documents made it clear that Dimon had no involvement with Epstein or his accounts.
“He does not recall ever meeting, speaking or communicating with him,” Oduyoye said.
Epstein was 66 when he killed himself in a federal jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. Federal prosecutors had accused him of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars for massages at his homes in Florida and New York, where he then molested them.
Lawyers for JPMorgan did not immediately return messages seeking comment. | 2023-04-19T11:54:54+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/jpmorgan-chase-ceo-jamie-dimon-to-be-deposed-in-epstein-suit/ |
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron embarked on a three-nation tour of Africa Monday.
The four-day visit to Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau is the French leader’s first diplomatic trip outside of Europe since winning re-election, showing how Africa is high on the list of priorities for the former colonial power.
On the agenda will be common challenges such as the fight against terrorism and combating climate change.
But Macron will also discuss the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, such as ballooning inflation and the cost of living and a likely food crisis due to halts on Ukraine’s key exports of wheat, barley and sunflower oil. Russia and Ukraine provide over 40% of Africa’s wheat supply.
The visit is seen as shoring up bilateral cooperation for France at a time when Russian officials have also been visiting African nations in moves to rally support. Of particular concern are links in the wider African region — including in the Central African Republic and Mali — to the Russian paramilitary organization the Wagner Group that is seen by the EU as a destabilizing force.
In his first stop in Cameroon — central Africa’s biggest economy and an agricultural hub — Macron will discuss food production and how the country will try to fill the Ukraine-linked supply vacuum in the region.
In Benin, where he will arrive Wednesday, Macron will discuss ways to combat an increase in terrorist threats and to prevent it from spilling into countries in the Gulf of Guinea.
While in Guinea-Bissau, Macron’s final stop Thursday, he will explore plans to build a French school on local government designated land.
Macron hopes to build on the roadmap set out at February’s EU-Africa Summit for increased European Union investment in African infrastructure and agriculture. | 2022-07-26T00:44:54+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/frances-macron-heads-to-africa-for-three-nation-trip/ |
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Converse Fire Department gets donation for bulletproof vests
Upstate firefighters are becoming better equipped for active shooter situations.
The Converse Fire Department received a donation from BASF Converse to buy six bulletproof vests and several emergency kits that include tools like tourniquets.
"It was equipment that they needed," BASF Converse Site Manager Jerome Kirkland said. "They're also emergency first responders, so when different things happen in the community, they need to make sure that they have the proper equipment to be able to help those in the community."
Firefighters are often on the front lines of emergency situations alongside law enforcement officers.
"The old saying is, 'If you need something, call the fire department,'" Converse Fire's Assistant Chief Chris Weathersbee said. "We do just about anything that we're called upon to do."
Weathersbee says they serve four schools in Spartanburg County School District 3, and will be able to use these vests to respond to a potential active shooter situation.
"We had done some training at beginning of the year and it let us know we were really not equipped for our duties as a rescue task force," he said.
Weathersbee says in an emergency, their job is to get in, treat victims and get out as soon as possible.
He says these bulletproof vests will help protect their own firefighters and allow them to get into a scene faster.
"If they know they have the suspect in an area or they have the suspect down, someone needs to get in and if we've got victims, get in fast, treat them and get them out," Weathersbee said.
He says this could make the difference in saving lives as they work in conjunction with law enforcement.
“We would go on scene as long as the sheriff’s office, we would have police there, they’ve cleared us to go in or they know it’s a safe environment to go in as well," he said. "Then that’s when we would don the equipment and we would already be prepared to go in and treat.”
Weathersbee says the bulletproof vests will go in their main engine and several other trucks. He says they have enough vests to outfit close to half of their department. | 2022-10-05T00:29:14+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/converse-firefighters-donation-bulletproof-vests/41521738 |
Newly created role expands firm's existing leadership pipeline
HOUSTON, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greg Baker, CEO/President, of JD Martin is pleased to announce Matt Garavaglia has been promoted to Executive Vice President. In this newly created role, Garavaglia will lead JD Martin's strategic business initiatives throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Previously, he served as Regional Vice President of the firm's Houston territory.
In his new role, Matt will continue to provide strategic sales management for several key accounts in addition to being responsible for leading talent development initiatives and deepening customer engagement efforts across the South-Central region.
An electrical industry veteran, with more than 23 years of sales management experience, Garavaglia's professional background includes previous experience in multiple roles at Anixter, before joining JD Martin in 2020.
"Matt has made significant contributions since joining our team," said Greg Baker. "He has both the passion and commitment to grow our people and operational efficiency. His valuable industry knowledge and successful track record of growing business within his territory helped make this an easy decision."
"For over 68 years, JD Martin's strength has been rooted in three core elements: our people, a strong line card and our entrepreneurial culture," says Matt Garavaglia. "I'm excited and honored to have the opportunity to lead efforts to continue to drive market share gains for our manufacturer partners and further enhance the customer experience for our electrical distribution partners."
Garavaglia earned a BS in Business Management from the University of Northern Colorado.
JD Martin Company is an electrical manufacturers' representative agency that sells and markets premier lines of electrical products to OEM and MRO contractors, and end-user markets through wholesale distribution. For more than 68 years, we have supported industries such as oil & gas, mining, steel, waste water treatment, wind power generation and commercial construction. We offer impactful solutions and sell electrical products, through qualified electrical distributor channels, in over 15 states in territories that include Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, The Carolinas and Florida. To learn more about JD Martin click here.
Contact:
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Public investment expected to outpace private
CLEVELAND, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US engineering service revenues are forecast to advance 4.5% per year in nominal terms through 2026, according to Engineering Services: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Advances will be driven by:
- expected gains in manufacturer investment in facilities, supported by growth in manufacturing output
- increased government investment in transportation infrastructure, particularly at the federal level following the 2021 passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- recovery in nonresidential building activity
- the development and construction of new power generating units, as well as the modification and upgrade of existing plants
Public investment saw more rapid growth over the historical period (8.7%) than private investment and is expected to see 9.6% growth through 2026.
In 2022, revenues are expected to expand 5.1% as government and business investment returns to normal following the COVID-19 pandemic.
These and other key insights are featured in Engineering Services: United States. This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US engineering services revenues in nominal US dollars. Total revenues are segmented by market in terms of:
- industrial and manufacturing
- commercial, public, and institutional
- transportation infrastructure
- power generation and distribution
- other engineering projects such as municipal utilities, hazardous and industrial waste systems, and telecommunications and broadcasting systems
- other revenue sources, such as construction services, engineering advisory and drafting services, and surveying and mapping services
Total revenues are also segmented by sector as follows:
- private
- public
To illustrate historical trends, total revenue and the various segments are provided in annual series from 2011 to 2021.
US engineering services providers' revenues include income from all domestic locations primarily engaged in providing engineering services. Thus, receipts from other activities performed by these locations are included in total revenues. Receipts from establishments that may provide such services but are primarily engaged in a different activity are excluded from this report. Domestic locations that perform services for foreign customers are also included in industry revenues.
More information about the report is available at:
https://www.freedoniafocusreports.com/Engineering-Services-United-States-FF95035/?progid=91541
Each month, The Freedonia Group – a division of MarketResearch.com – publishes over 20 new or updated Freedonia Focus Reports, providing fresh, unbiased analysis on a wide variety of markets and industries. Published in 20-30 pages, Focus Report coverage ranges from raw materials to finished manufactured goods and related services such as freight and construction. Additional Services & Industries reports can be purchased at Freedonia Focus Reports or MarketResearch.com.
Analysis is intended to guide the busy reader through pertinent topics in rapid succession, including:
- total historical market size and industry output
- segmentation by products and markets
- identification of market drivers, constraints, and key indicators
- segment-by-segment outlook in five-year forecasts
- a survey of the supply base
- suggested resources for further study
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SOURCE The Freedonia Group | 2022-08-31T16:48:09+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/08/31/rising-construction-activity-boost-us-engineering-service-revenues/ |
Fox News host Laura Ingraham expressed outrage at the Republican Party after Herschel Walker’s loss in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff election, which cemented firm control of the Senate for Democrats and served as a final rebuke of former President Trump during this year’s midterm elections.
“We felt this coming. To me, it never felt like the Senate Republicans wanted this guy in office. He was a Trump pick, they didn’t like that … but there wasn’t the intensity on the part of the Republicans as there was on the part of Democrats,” Ingraham said on her show shortly after Tuesday’s runoff had been called for incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D). “We have the same people in place in leadership. The same people in place, apparently, at the RNC [Republican National Committee], perhaps that’s not changing. We just keep doing the same thing over and over again. I’m pissed tonight, frankly. I’m mad.”
Walker’s loss was the final one by a number of candidates who had Trump’s midterm election backing but either underperformed — winning by less than expected — or lost outright to Democrats.
Leading Senate Republicans, most notably Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), did not embrace Walker as a candidate and spoke openly about “candidate quality” problems facing the GOP in this year’s cycle.
Trump’s endorsement also hung over House races this year, with the GOP netting only a slim majority in the lower chamber despite prognostications from many that a “red wave” was forthcoming.
Ingraham’s comments come as a number of conservative media pundits, including some on Fox News, have either blamed Trump for this year’s GOP midterm performance or suggested the party seek new leadership. Trump has announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024.
Last month, during an interview with The Hill, Ingraham did not answer a question about whether Trump should be the leader of the Republican Party, but said the conservative movement moving forward should be focused on populism more generally. | 2022-12-07T17:52:52+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/foxs-laura-ingraham-after-herschel-walkers-georgia-loss-im-pissed-at-gop/ |
Some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 count didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and in some cases even received bonuses, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s watchdog group.
The findings released Friday by the Office of Inspector General raise concerns about possible damage to the quality of the once-a-decade head count that determines political power and federal funding,
Off-campus students at colleges and universities were likely undercounted since the census started around the same time students were sent home to stop the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, the review found.
During the 2020 census, The Associated Press documented cases of census takers who were pressured by their supervisors to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning days of the census.
Supervisors were able to track their census takers’ work in real time through mobile devices that the census takers used to record information about households’ numbers, demographic characteristics and members’ relationships to one another. As a result, supervisors would get alerts when actions raised red flags about accuracy, such as a census taker recording data on a home while far away from the address or a census taker conducting an interview in just a few minutes. As a quality control check, others census takers were sent back to homes to re-interview residents.
The Inspector General’s probe concluded that some alerts weren’t being properly resolved, some re-interviews weren’t properly conducted and that the work of some census takers whose work had been flagged for falsifying data had not been reworked to fix its accuracy. In fact, some census takers whose work was flagged for falsifications were given more cases, weren’t fired and were reassigned to other operations, the report said.
Of the 1,400 census takers who were designated “hard fails” because questions about the accuracy of their work, only 300 were fired for misconduct or unsatisfactory performance. Of the 1,400 “hard fail” census takers, 1,300 of them received bonuses ranging from $50 to $1,600 each, the report said.
The census is the largest nonmilitary mobilization in the U.S. Data gathered during the census determines how many congressional seats each state gets. The numbers also are used for redrawing political districts and distributing $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. Because of that, undercounts can cost communities funding.
The 2020 census faced unprecedented challenges including the pandemic, natural disasters and political interference from the Trump administration.
In response to the Inspector General’s report, the Census Bureau said it appreciated the concerns that were raised but disagreed with the conclusions that data quality may have been damaged since the report cited only a small number of cases out of the overall workload.
“As a result, we asserted that the findings could not and should not be presented as a conclusive assessment of overall census quality,” Census Bureau Director Robert Santos said in the written response.
Under Census Bureau rules, college and university students should have been counted where they spent the most time, either at on-campus housing or off-campus apartments, even if they were sent home because of the pandemic. Most schools didn’t provide the Census Bureau with off-campus student data, and the bureau had to use a last-resort, less-accurate statistical tool to fill in the information gaps on more than 10% of the off-campus student population when they were given the information, the Inspector General’s report said.
Schools often didn’t provide the data because they didn’t have information on off-campus students or because of privacy concerns. The Inspector General recommends passage of legislation that would require schools to provide needed information in future head counts.
“Although difficult to quantify, the fiscal implication of specifically undercounting off-campus students at the correct location for states and localities is potentially far-reaching,” the report said.
The city of Boston, which is home to Northeastern University, Boston University and several other schools, said in a challenge to its census figures that the count missed 6,000 students.
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Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP | 2022-09-18T21:06:07+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-report-some-census-takers-who-fudged-data-didnt-get-fired/ |
The foremost conference for the global open source community features 300 sessions across 15 micro conferences, covering the most important and cutting edge topics in open source today.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit North America, the premier event for open source code and community contributors. The conference is taking place May 10-12 in Vancouver, Canada, with pre-event programming and co-located events on May 8-9 as well. The schedule can be viewed here.
Open Source Summit North America 2023 comprises 15 micro conferences that gather together the projects and communities working to further open source innovation and ensure a sustainable open source ecosystem. This year's schedule of 300 conference sessions, tutorials, lightning talks, and BoFs is dedicated to sharing knowledge and best practices, in a collaborative environment, around a variety of topical areas including Linux Systems, AI, Security, OSPOs, Community Leadership, Cloud, Containers, Diversity, Metaverse, Sustainability, and more.
2023 Conference Session Highlights Include:
- Advanced Tracing Features to See What Your Application Is Waiting On - Steven Rostedt, Google (LinuxCon)
- Tutorial: Take the Power Back on Your Containers with Flatcar - Mathieu Tortuyaux, Microsoft (CloudOpen)
- A Guide to Dapr: Open Source APIs & SDKs for Developers - Alice Gibbons & Samantha Coyle, Diagrid (ContainerCon)
- Panel Discussion: Open Source Supply Chain Security - Are Containers the Biggest Blind Spot? - Lisa-Marie Namphy, CockroachDB; Liz Rice, Isovalent; Josh Bressers, Anchore; Ayse Kaya, Slim.AI (SupplyChainSecurityCon)
- Linux Kernel Tracing Using eBPF - Vandana Salve, Prasme Systems (Open Source On-Ramp)
- Is ChatGPT (and Other AI) the Enemy of Diversity? - Quiana Berry, Red Hat (Diversity Empowerment Summit)
- Alignment of Community Contributions and Business Goals - How Can Your OSPO Help? - Masae Shida, VMware (OSPOCon)
- PyTorch 2.0: Unlocking the Power of Deep Learning with the Torch Compile API - Justin Jeffress, Meta (Open AI + Data Forum)
- How Do You Know You're Done – After a Security Fix? - Peter Brink, UL Solutions & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation (Critical Software Summit)
- OpenWallet Holds the Key to Unlock A New Wave of Trustworthy Digital Services - Wenjing Chu, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Emerging OS Forum)
- Decarbonizing Our Global Supply Chain Infrastructure: The Role (and Need) for Open Source & Distributed Ledger Technology - Sherwood Moore, Hyperledger Foundation & Bertrand Rioux, Two Ravens Consulting (SustainabilityCon)
- Synthetic Reality: How Artificial Intelligence Will Shape the Metaverse and Everything in It - Matt White, Berkeley Synthetic (Open Metaverse Summit)
- What is Open Source Without Collaboration? - Ildiko Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation (Open Source Leadership Summit)
- Real-time Multi-User State Management for the Collaborative Web - Matt Hayes, Wizards of the Coast (OpenJS World)
- Hardening Next Generation Military Software Containers for Use By DoD Software Factories - Russ Andersson, RapidFort Inc. (OpenGovCon)
Keynote speakers will be announced on March 29.
Registration (in-person) is offered at the early price of $799 through March 19. Registration to attend virtually is complimentary. Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code.
Applications for diversity and need-based scholarships are currently being accepted. For information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here. The Linux Foundation's Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to attend events that they would otherwise be unable to attend due to a lack of funding. To learn more and apply, please click here.
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Open Source Summit North America 2023 is made possible thanks to our 32 sponsors (and counting), including Platinum Sponsors: OpenSearch and Red Hat, and Gold Sponsors: Delta Lake, GitLab, Google, and Intel. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email us.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress who are relying on Donald Trump to excite voters in the fall elections are not only defending the former president against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home but politically capitalizing on it with grave and potentially dangerous rhetoric against the nation's justice system.
The party that once stood staunchly for law-and-order has dramatically reversed course, stirring up opposition to the FBI and tapping into political grievances and far-right conspiracies that fed the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
It's all part of the GOP’s election year strategy to harness voter outrage over the unprecedented search, quickly and unequivocally set in motion as Trump hosted a dozen Republicans for dinner of steak and scallops at his private Bedminster club the day after the FBI action.
One Republican at the table, Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas, a former sheriff, said he told the former president “loud and clear” that it's time to protect himself politically by declaring his 2024 campaign for the presidency.
"Mr. President, I said, the American people, your supporters, are concerned with this corrupt DOJ and the FBI."
“If I were you, sir, announce you’re running for president," Nehls recalled telling Trump. "Take that doubt, take that anxiety away from the people that want you to be our 47th president.”
The escalating rhetoric comes amid stark warnings of violence against law enforcement, including the Ohio police shooting Thursday of an armed man clad in body armor who tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office and engaged in an hours-long standoff. The day before, FBI Director Christopher Wray had called the threats to agents and DOJ "deplorable." The FBI has warned its agents to take precautions, citing an increase in social media threats to bureau personnel and facilities. In some extreme cases, GOP lawmakers and others are demanding the FBI be dismantled and defunded.
It's all coming at a time of blistering attacks on the nation's civic institutions that experts say is worrisome, if not dangerous, for the future of U.S. democracy. With no branch of government unscathed, the discord risks sowing distrust in the White House, the Congress and the Supreme Court. It has kept security tight in Washington, limiting public access to the government.
“All of this rhetoric is being thrown around without any consideration for possible consequences,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI special agent who led the bureau’s field offices in Seattle and Honolulu.
“All that does is stir up that minority within the base that aren’t satisfied with just words, they actually want to act it out.”
Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said, "The vitriol coming from extremists, white supremacists and others, has been overwhelming,” pointing to rhetoric from Trump's former campaign manager Steve Bannon and others warning of assassinations or calling for civil war.
"We usually expect that from these quarters, but the same kind of rhetoric is coming from prominent Republicans and Trump allies," she said by email. “These comments coming from Republicans are really worrying as they are mainstreaming violent rhetoric.”
Asked Friday at the Capitol about the responsibility leaders have to tone down the rhetoric and keep the nation calm during times of uncertainty and distress, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy demurred — and blamed Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“I think the attorney general has a real problem here,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy, who is in line to become speaker if his party wins House control, revived Republican concerns that Trump is being treated unfairly, as the first former president to have his home searched by the FBI, and he criticized the attorney general for delivering only a few minutes' explanation during a press conference.
In McCarthy's view, it was Garland, not his own party's rhetoric, that was dividing the nation.
“Why would you pause and not talk to the American public, knowing where the American public is at, that he is just inflaming the public, and why would you only speak for a few moments?” McCarthy said. “So I think the attorney general has a lot of explaining to do.”
Republicans believe the Justice Department has been overly tough on Trump going back to the Russia investigation into allegations the president was colluding with a foreign entity, including when he called on Russia to release emails it had stolen from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election.
The Republicans contrast the FBI search of Trump's private club and residence with its treatment of Hillary Clinton, who was investigated for using a private email server in violation of government rules during her time as secretary of state — an offense the led to long chants of "Lock her up!" during Trump rallies.
The No. 3 House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik, claimed without evidence the Biden administration was “weaponizing” the Justice Department against Trump, a top potential 2024 rival for the White House.
She joined fellow House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee on Friday in demanding information, and vowed if their party wins control in the November election they will find out what happened.
“The House Republican majority will leave no stone unturned when it comes to transparency and accountability into the brazen politicization of Joe Biden's Department of Justice and FBI targeting their political opponents,” Stefanik said.
Congressional Republicans have said their office phone lines are ringing from constituents outraged over the raid and they said they've never seen their colleagues more fired up to fight back — all the way to the November midterm elections.
Rep. Jim Banks, the Indiana Republican who organized the dinner with Trump, said they encouraged the former president to “kick off the campaign now” to seize the moment.
Banks said Trump will be a “big part” of the House Republicans' campaign to win back the House majority.
House lawmakers returned to session Friday to vote, walking through metal detectors to screen against firearms, a legacy of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Lawmakers had a security briefing earlier this week to address ongoing threats against lawmakers.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Trump’s role inciting the insurrection at the Capitol was sufficient cause to have concerns about inflammatory political rhetoric.
"You would think there's an adult in the Republican room who would say, 'Just calm down and see what the facts are and let's go for that,'" Pelosi said, “instead of again instigating assaults on law enforcement.”
One republican, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, a former FBI agent, called on lawmakers to cool it.
“I don’t think any of this is okay,” Fitzpatrick told reporters.
“We’re the world’s oldest democracy, and that can go away very quickly,” he said. “As our adversaries have said so many times: The only way you defeat America, you’re never going to beat America from the outside, ever. The only way you beat the world’s greatest democracy is from within — turning American on American."
He said, “So it’s incumbent upon everybody to act in a way that’s becoming of the office they hold — and that’s not casting judgment on anything until you know all the facts.”
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Associated Press writers Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston, Michelle Price in New York and videojournalist Nathan Ellgren contributed to this report.
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VALENCIA, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- P3 Global Services, the industry leader in design, production and distribution of physical merchandise announces today the acquisition of the Film Bureau digital screener platform. This move will expand P3's leadership and service offering into the digital streaming space. The acquisition also expands the breadth of services currently offered to long-time clients such as Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Disney, Sony, Lionsgate, CBS, Paramount, Nintendo and more.
For 36 years, the P3 team has supplied the entertainment industry with branded merchandise and custom apparel, they have created marketing campaigns to help studios increase brand awareness, provided on-site support at many industry shows and have helped their clients deliver extraordinary results to their end users. The leadership team includes industry veterans Fred Lewis and Michael Alvarez.
Film Bureau, a film tech company, develops solutions to streamline sales, marketing, and theatrical distribution for studios and filmmakers, while their digital screener platform offers clients the ability to stream secured VOD content and live events, through a simple-to-use interface available across a range of devices.
"We are very excited about this acquisition," said Michael Alvarez and Fred Lewis, both serving as CEO / Co-Founders of P3 Global Services in a joint statement. "The Film Bureau digital screener platform allows us to grow, not only within the entertainment space, but with our current and prospective clients across other verticals we continue to serve."
"We are thrilled to be back in the awards space" said Kevin Gold, EVP Sales, Operations & Client Services at P3 Global Services. "We were a part of the first VHS screeners which then transitioned to DVD and now onto digital platforms. The acquisition of the Film Bureau platform puts us in a great position to re-enter the digital screener world in a secure way that has a proven track record of success. This is a very exciting time for P3 Global Services and we look forward to the upcoming awards season."
"One of the things that attracted us to P3 Global Services is that our companies share a similar philosophy toward innovation," said Doug Woodard and Art Williams, Partners at Film Bureau in a joint statement. "This alignment made the acquisition all the more exciting for us, knowing that the platform would continue to evolve through their ownership."
While the platform puts P3 Global Services back in the digital screener world, it also opens vast possibilities for other industries to utilize the services that will make content sharing a safe and expeditious experience. For more information about P3 Global Services, please visit: https://www.p3globalservices.com
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Art meets craft in Vicki Rawlins’ innovative creations.
Rawlins’ creations are largely from foliage she has foraged and assembled.
She’s aided only with scissors and tweezers.
No paint brush. No paint. No glue.
In the “Silent Night,” an idyllic forest scene, Rawlins made the snow from gathered baby’s breath and carnation petals. A casita in the woods of the image comes from cedar foliage, branches and fall leaves from her yard.
And for “Suprema Frida,” the blouse of famous 20th century Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, is from dried ranunculus. Frida’s earrings, in the shape of a hand that Pablo Picasso gave her, are made from eucalyptus bark.
These are featured in Rawlins’ recent book “The Power of Flowers: Turning Pieces of Mother Nature Into Transformative Works of Art.”
Transformative indeed.
Rawlins writes that “Suprema Frida” began with a neighbor’s rubber tree, about seven years ago or so. “The plant was hanging over the neighbor’s driveway fence – fair game, and I only needed two leaves. What caught my eye was that the leaves were turning a beautiful pink color. I thought they’d make a perfect satin jacket for Frida. These leaves and two absolutely gorgeous peonies were a beautiful start,” Rawlins writes.
Frida is the most prominent portrait subject in the book. She has her own section – “Foraging for Frida” – with 12 images. They show Frida winking, Frida blowing a big bubble of bubble gum, Frida wearing a Day of the Dead mask and Frida smoking a cigarette. The cigarette is a dusty miller stem with a German statice at the tip to look like the cigarette is lit.
“She was an inspiration for me, but at the same time there is so much life in her look. With the jewelry, the hair, the outfits. She was always reinventing herself. I couldn’t stop creating her,” Rawlins said in a phone interview from Door County, Wisconsin.
Other portraits in the book include those of Vincent van Gogh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lennon and Diana Ross. Rawlins has also made art inspired by the holidays (Christmas, Halloween) and contemplative art (love, inner strength) .
Rawlins spends the warm months of the year in Wisconsin and the balance of the year in La Jolla, California. She forages and creates art in both locations.
In the book’s introduction, she writes that she usually starts a piece with a walk down the street or around her yard, really any place that inspires her. Her amblings are therapeutic.
“I’m just attracted to anything that looks interesting, especially dried seeds or pods, colorful foliage and unusual leaf shapes,” Rawlins writes.
She recalls having found attractive brown leaves in a CVS parking lot “of all places.” The leaves now form the windblown hair of a young woman in the piece “Wild Heart.”
Rawlins’ interest in art began long before she began creating foliage art about eight years ago. She studied fine art in school, finding a love of drawing and painting. She later worked in graphic design and freelance illustration.
As a young adult, she lived in downtown Chicago, where she combined painting and sewing into making usable art – such as handmade pillows and clothing she sold at boutiques. That led to her working with polymer clay; she molded and sculpted flowers, insects, little faces and pieces of tiny furniture. Some years later, she returned to painting, but this time doing murals for walls and ceilings for interior designers.
After about a decade, her health began to decline. She experienced neuropathy, muscle and joint pain, difficulty walking, burning skin and vision impairment. She was eventually diagnosed with antibiotic poisoning.
Having fresh flowers at home helped in her recovery. One time she let them wilt and pushed the dead arrangement around. Soon she began to form a face with rose petal lips. “Suddenly, there was a spark, a light, that just filled me up as I was arranging those petals and stems,” Rawlins writes.
Her foliage art grew out of what she termed self-prescribed therapy.
Rawlins uses scissors to cut the foliage to size and tweezers to set the foliage in place without disturbing other elements of the work.
After photographing and documenting each finished piece, she takes its foliage outside, recycling it “back into the earth for a new life.”
If succulents appear in a work, Rawlins often repropagates them.
Rawlins makes prints of the photographed art pieces. The prints are sold online at sistergolden.com. | 2022-11-11T23:03:24+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2548851/the-power-of-flowers-looks-at-vegetation-turned-into-works-of-art-exc.html |
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — More than $100 million will be awarded to LPGA players for the first time in 2023, an increase of about 18% over what was planned for this season and more than doubling what was paid out on the tour just a decade ago.
A total of 33 official events next year will have a combined $101.3 million in purses, the tour announced Friday while unveiling the schedule — one that includes, if they happen, two events in China. The LPGA has not played there since October 2019, canceling each of its last five planned events in China after the coronavirus pandemic.
“The LPGA Tour has never had better or more committed partners who see the commercial value in investing in women’s sports and who understand how their partnerships elevate women and girls on and off the golf course,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said.
The five women’s golf majors account for $37.9 million of the planned purses, led by $10 million set to be paid out at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach next July. That tournament is immediately preceded on the schedule by the Women’s PGA Championship at Baltrusol, a $9 million event.
That’s $19 million to be paid out in a span of just two events, something that was unfathomable in women’s golf just a few years ago.
“In the LPGA we wake up, and when the year begins we have to put on a schedule,” Marcoux Samaan said this month. “A lot of professional leagues, the schedule is already designed. Our most important thing that we do is have great partners like this and that we can put on tournaments and have those opportunities for our women.
“That’s challenging as an organization to make sure that again, you find the right partners that are willing to invest, fully invest in the women and have purses that are commensurate with the talent of our players, so that’s always very challenging.”
Official purses for this season wound up reaching about $93.5 million, mainly through increases to what was offered at the majors. The plan entering 2022 was for purses to be $85.7 million.
Every tournament on the 2023 slate carries a purse of at least $1.5 million, and there are only four with purses that small. There are 16 tournaments, excluding the majors, with purses of at least $2 million, including seven of the final eight on the schedule.
After the Solheim Cup in Spain in late September, the LPGA will play eight consecutive weeks to finish its season in a bit of a frenzy. The first two stops are in Arkansas and Texas, then a four-tournament Asian swing through China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, followed by the last two weeks in Florida — and capped again by the $7 million CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, with $2 million to the winner.
The $2 million first-place prize matches what will be awarded to the winner this weekend in Naples, and is the biggest single check in women’s golf.
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The Will's Country Christmas celebration near Oologah is back for another year of crafts and Christmas fun. Will Rogers' birthplace will transform into a celebration of the Christmas holiday with lots of fun for the whole family to enjoy.
There will be vendors for shopping, crafts, food trucks, a hayride, and Santa Claus himself is making an appearance to take pictures with everyone. Tad Jones, the director of the Will Rogers Memorial museum said that they are expecting even more vendors this year than last year.
This celebration has been a tradition for quite some time now, and it gives people the opportunity to come out and have a good time at Will Rogers' birthplace, and the event seems to grow each year.
"It has become a tradition, and we don’t even have to market it quite as much anymore because people just know about it. They circle it on the calendar, but I think it’s just a different experience for people. There’s a lot of great Christmas events all over the state, and we just have one that takes it out into the western frontier," Jones said.
However, as the event has grown, even more effort has been put in to make this event as good as it possibly can be for everyone to enjoy.
"Our education director, Stephanie Hunter, has been working for months and months putting all this together and getting all the activities that we’re going to have and putting the crafts together. I mean all the kids get crafts when they come in and get to do their own crafts at the Amish barn, and this is the most vendors that we’ve had to sign up for it," Jones said.
The event runs from December 2-3 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. both nights at the Will Rogers ranch. Admission is free for everyone, but hayrides will cost $5 for anyone ages 15 and older.
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December 2nd, 2022 | 2022-12-02T18:38:32+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/638a03e1d19e670726aa93d1/organizers-prepare-to-kick-off-wills-country-christmas-celebration-near-oologah |
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the charges leveled against City Councilors Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara have hurt the Council’s credibility, but stopped short of calling for their resignation.
Wu said she plans to leave their fate to the voters, who will go to the polls Sept. 12 for the city’s preliminary election.
“All of us are on the ballot,” Wu said Tuesday on GBH’s Boston Public Radio. “That is the highest form of accountability for all elected officials.”
Arroyo, who represents District 5, is facing three challengers. Lara, who represents District 6, has two opponents. The preliminary will determine which two candidates from each race will move onto the general election in November.
Wu was responding to questions about whether offenses committed by Arroyo and Lara would taint the credibility of any vote taken by the City Council on a new police contract, which is currently in arbitration after the city and its largest police union reached an impasse in negotiations.
“To be honest, I think it hurts credibility on every issue,” Wu said. “I would never want to say that there needs to be a standard of perfection for behavior. At the same time, I hear from a lot of residents that there’s great concern right now. It’s just the density of, the frequency of different headlines that have been out there.”
Last month, Arroyo agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for committing a state ethics violation, for representing his brother in a civil lawsuit involving the city while serving on the City Council.
He was also accused in two federal reports of colluding with former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins to tip the outcome of last year’s preliminary election for Suffolk district attorney, which Arroyo lost to Kevin Hayden. Arroyo has denied any wrongdoing, but Rollins resigned when the reports were made public.
“I am proud of, and stand by, the work I’ve done on the City Council,” Arroyo said, in response to the mayor’s statements. “My office is behind over 40% of the legislation introduced on the Council this term, to date, and will continue to lead on policies that center economic, environmental, racial and social justice.”
Lara is facing multiple charges after crashing an unregistered car into a Jamaica Plain home last month, while driving with a revoked license and no insurance, according to a Boston Police Department report. She is scheduled to appear in the West Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court for a hearing on July 19.
Authorities filed a 51A child abuse or neglect form with the Department of Children and Families due to Lara’s 7-year-old son, Zaire, not being in a car seat as required. The boy was injured in the crash and was treated at Children’s Hospital in Boston, the police report stated.
Lara did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. Last Saturday she issued a statement apologizing for the crash, saying she was driving a friend’s car, but did not address the charges.
“We are all accountable for our actions, and I am no different, which is why I offer my sincerest apologies to everyone, especially the people of District 6,” Lara said. “As an elected official, I’ve worked hard to center the dignity and humanity of my constituents. Today, I ask you to see mine as I work to correct my mistake.”
Questions also remain over whether, or how often, Lara was driving to City Hall and parking in a garage with a revoked license.
City Council President Ed Flynn has called for a review of city employee parking procedures at the executive and Donnelly garages, which would be aimed at ensuring each driver is “required to provide verification of a valid driver’s license, copy of vehicle registration, and insurance,” he wrote in a letter to the head of the Boston Property Management Division.
As for a vote on the police contract, which would come before the Council in the form of an arbitration award, Wu said it’s her hope that the body’s members will leave the drama behind, and focus on assessing the “affordability of a package” for the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association.
“That is the job before them, and that is a vote they will have to take,” Wu said. | 2023-07-11T23:36:30+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/11/mayor-wu-boston-city-council-tainted-by-arroyo-lara-indiscretions/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials suggested at their most recent meeting that a continuing streak of robust hiring could keep inflation elevated and was a key reason why they expected to raise interest rates this year more than they had previously forecast.
In the minutes of their mid-December meeting released Wednesday, the officials also underscored that a slowdown in their rate hikes — from four three-quarter point hikes in a row to a half-point increase — “was not an indication of any weakening” in their resolve to bring inflation back down to their 2% target.
Nor did the smaller increase signal “a judgment that inflation was already on a persistent downward path,” the minutes said. Instead, the risks remained that inflation could stay higher than expected, officials said.
That message reflected concern that Wall Street traders were too optimistic that the Fed would soon suspend its rate hikes and even cut them later this year. Such a “misperception,” the minutes indicated, would complicate the Fed’s drive to lower inflation. This would occur if bullish traders sent stocks up and bond yields down, which would counter the Fed’s efforts to cool the economy.
Overall, the minutes showed that Fed officials remained determined to keep rates high to quell inflation and have taken little comfort from inflation’s decline from a peak of 9.1% in June to 7.1% in November. The hard-line message caused the stock market to tumble after the Fed announced its latest rate hike and projected that there would be more hikes this year than had been expected.
“The minutes stress that the Fed is going to reduce inflation at the risk of hurting the labor market and the broader economy,” said Ryan Sweet, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics.
At a news conference after last month’s meeting, Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged that inflation had been subdued in October and November. But he stressed that “substantially more evidence” of declining inflation would be needed for the Fed to pause its rate hikes.
“We have a long way to go,” Powell said, “to get to price stability.”
The Fed’s higher rates have increased the costs of mortgages, auto loans and other consumer and business borrowing.
In a set of quarterly economic projections they issued after the Dec. 14 meeting, the officials said they expected to raise their benchmark rate to a range of 5% to 5.25% and to keep it there until the end of the year. That was a quarter-point higher than financial markets had expected.
The policymakers also forecast that inflation would end this year at a higher level than it had projected in September, despite signs that price increases have slowed in recent months. Officials predicted that inflation, according to its preferred measure, would be 3.1% by the end of this year, up from 2.8% in its September estimates.
The Fed’s 19 policymakers were unified in projecting a higher rate this year, with 17 of them forecasting a rate of at least 5% to 5.25% and just two coming in slightly below.
Many economists have warned that the central bank’s aggressive rate hikes will plunge the economy into recession this year. The Fed officials predicted last month that the unemployment rate would rise to 4.6% this year from 3.7% now — a pace that typically has coincided with a recession.
Yet so far, the job market has remained resilient. On Wednesday, the government reported that the number of available jobs in November stayed near the elevated level of the previous month, a sign that businesses were still determined to hire despite 18 months of high inflation and rising interest rates.
Also on Wednesday, Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said he supported lifting the Fed’s rate to about 5.25% to 5.5%. That is higher than most of his colleagues favor and a full point above its current level.
“While I believe it is too soon to definitively declare that inflation has peaked, we are seeing increasing evidence that it may have,” Kashkari wrote on the Minneapolis Fed’s website. “In my view, however, it will be appropriate to continue to raise rates at least at the next few meetings until we are confident inflation has peaked.”
Kashkari also said he favors leaving the Fed rate at the 5.4% level to assess what impact higher rates have had on the economy. But he added that if progress in reducing inflation fades, leaving price gains higher for longer, he would support raising the Fed’s rate “potentially much higher.” | 2023-01-05T14:24:02+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-fed-minutes-officials-cited-strong-hiring-to-justify-hikes/ |
TANZANIA – The United Nations chief warned on the eve of World Press Freedom Day that the media is under attack in every corner of the world and urged all nations to stop the targeting of truth and those who report it.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the 50% increase in the killing of media workers in 2022 “unbelievable,” stressing that freedom of the press “is the foundation of democracy and justice” and it is under threat.
At least 67 media worked were killed in 2022. In addition, digital platforms and social media have made it easier for extremists to push false narratives and harass journalists.
“Truth is threatened by disinformation and hate speech seeking to blur the lines between fact and fiction, between science and conspiracy,” Guterres said.
Guterres said the collapse of the media industry, which has led to closures of local news outlets and consolidation of media “into the hands of the few” is threatening freedom of expression.
So are threatening new laws passed by governments worldwide, such as Russia's 2022 law that anyone publishing information about its military that Moscow deems to be false could face up to 15 years in prison.
Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in late March under accusations of spying, which the Journal denies. The Biden administration has said Gershkovish is being wrongfully detained and has been working to secure his release.
Guterres strongly criticized the targeting of media workers both on and offline, saying they are routinely harassed, intimidated and detained. He added that nearly three-quarters of women journalists have experienced violence online and one-quarter have been threatened physically.
Guterres made the remarks in a video message for the U.N. commemoration of 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, which the U.N. General Assembly first proclaimed in December 1993 and authorized to be held every May 3.
The secretary-general said the world must unite to stop threats, attacks and imprisonment of journalists for doing their jobs, and stop the lies and disinformation.
“As journalists stand up for truth, the world stands up with them,” he said.
Audrey Azoulay, director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which organized the commemoration, said the advent of the digital era has changed the entire information landscape.
While digital platforms have provided new ways for expression and information, she said, “they are also proving fertile ground for those who sow disinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories.”
“We find ourselves at a new crossroads,” Azoulay said. “Our current path is leading us away from informed public debate … towards even more polarization,” she warned. “The other path is one we must imagine together, to ensure information can remain a public good, accessible to all.”
Azoulay said UNESCO in 2021 launched a model curriculum for teachers on media and information literacy “to develop critical mindsets to navigate these new flows.”
Given that the business models of digital platforms are based on the number of clicks, she said, they “all too often favor sensationalism over truth.”
Azoulay said that’s why UNESCO in February organized a global conference to address the issue, which was attended by over 4,000 interested parties. UNESCO is also working to publish a set of guidelines on the moderation and selection of online content later this year. | 2023-05-02T20:36:58+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/05/02/un-chief-urges-all-nations-to-stop-targeting-media-and-truth/ |
Meet the Minnesota DNR that tracks fawns for survival study
(FOX 9) - At 4:32 a.m. at the Minnesota DNR’s Farmland Wildlife Research Headquarters; wildlife biologist Tyler Obermoller is leading his DNR team for the third year of a fawn survival study. For fourteen days in row, the group is gathering before dawn.
"We are dealing with some weather issues, so we are kind of delayed right now," says Obermoller. "If the sun is shining, we’ll be done by 8:30-9 o’clock.
Once the skies clear barely an hour later, the drone heads up. Using thermal imaging technology the team can spot and zoom in on animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them.
‘This is what the camera looks like from 200 feet. You would never see anything," says Steve Fines of Fines Aerial Imaging. "Without the thermal imaging to pick it up, you wouldn’t have a chance."
Once a fawn is spotted, coordinates are shared with the capture crew, and we’re off on the first quiet quest to go find it.
"You can see where the drone is at, so the fawn is just right over there," says Obermoller.
Trying to reduce the trauma to the fawn, the team works as quickly as possible. Drawing blood, measuring hoof growth, length, weight, and most importantly placing a GPS collar on the fawn which can record tracking information and grow with the young fawn’s size for up to 18 months. A study such as this hasn’t been done by the DNR in the southern farmland region of the state in more than 20 years.
Since then the landscape has changed quite a bit," says Obermoller. "Coyote density has increased quite a bit, so really we’re just trying to get an idea of what survival is on the landscape, and that can help us manage, whether it’s manager for habitat or manage the number of tags we are allocating to deer each season."
Within five minutes, he’s on his own again. With adrenaline still pumping the next fawn is just 100 feet away.
"Right there got it!"
Obermoller and team have been repeating this early morning adventure of finding fawns every day since May 22 with a goal of finding 100 fawns to complete the study. It’s critical to find the fawns as soon after they are born as possible because even at 7 days old, these four-legged friends would outrun everyone here.
"We put a flag down there, and we’ll go back one to three days later to do some habitat measurements and that’s an indication. did they pick a good site? especially if later on they happen to be preyed upon by coyotes, then it’s ok maybe they didn’t pick a great location.
After meeting the fawn, the team will get a text and email if the collar goes silent for eight hours indicating the fawn has died or been killed. Either way, the Minnesota DNR will learn from all of it and better gauge the deer population's current mortality rates.
"We want these collars to stay on at least 12 months," says Obermoller. "So we can get that migration information in the winter and dispersal information in the springtime."
Before our day was done the capture crew added collars to a set of twins and look forward to the information their new necklace will help provide, potentially for years to come.
"It’s amazing, it doesn’t lose its luster every time," says Obermoller. "I’ve been doing this for three years and every time we go in on a fawn it’s amazing and a lot of fun." | 2023-06-05T03:26:41+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/umn-researchers-track-down-fawn |
Mike McDaniel is a big believer in team chemistry, camaraderie, relationship-building, all that kind of intangible, abstract stuff. McDaniel, the 39-year-old Miami Dolphins rookie head coach, strongly believes those things help win games. That belief is the reason the Dolphins had a team outing Thursday night, and it’s the reason Miami’s locker room has a nontraditional setup this season.
All-Pro cornerback Xavien Howard likes the idea of the new position-less locker room.
“This is my seventh year,” he said. “I’ve never seen the team camaraderie tight like how it’s supposed to be because we’re all separated. DBs [defensive backs] go out and do their thing, D-line [defensive line] will go out, quarterbacks do their thing, and it’s different stuff like that.”
I’ve never been a big believer in team chemistry winning games. I think it’s overrated, overstated, and overhyped. Talent and coaching win games, in that order, followed by health and luck, and that’s about the extent of it. Everything else is voodoo. It’s fake.
At this time of year every team is close, a lot closer than they were the previous year when they had cliques. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. You’ll hear the same thing at this time next year.
You live in fantasyland if you think the team chemistry helped the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl last year, or helped Tampa Bay the year before, or helped Green Bay in the first Super Bowl.
But McDaniel and the Miami players believe strongly in team chemistry helping on the field.
“It’s very important that you get in a locker room where you get to sit next to a brother you’re going to be battling with out there,” veteran running back Raheem Mostert said.
McDaniel believes in team chemistry so strongly that one of the first things he did after being named the Dolphins’ head coach was change up the locker room.
“It was kind of the first action that I could take to facilitate a better team camaraderie…because you spend a lot of time there,” he said.
Now, for example, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is flanked on his right by safety Brandon Jones and on his left by wide receiver Jaylen Waddle.
Wide receiver Tyreek Hill has tight end Mike Gesicki as a neighbor on his right and an empty locker to his left, a privilege sometimes afforded star players. Asked whether he’d talked much to Gesicki previously, Hill replied, “I talk to everybody.”
Howard is on a four-person row with a wall to his left and then rookie quarterback Skylar Thompson to his right, then right tackle Austin Jackson, and…
“Then I got [expletive] Christian’s crazy ass down there on the end,” Howard said with a hearty laugh, referring to lively defensive tackle Christian Wilkins.
It’s all part of how McDaniel thinks a team should operate on and off the field. The locker room is Exhibit A.
“You should be sitting next to someone you’re not sitting by all day,” he said.
This isn’t the first time the Dolphins have shaken up the locker-room seating.
Old-time Dolphins fans might recall the 2010 season, the year someone thought it was a good bonding idea to have wide receiver Brandon Marshall seated next to quarterback Chad Henne in the locker room. You can imagine how that went.
But McDaniel said the locker-room setup has “paid dividends,” and players agree.
“Also with the event we’re having tonight [Thursday], with the team coming together, that’s a great thing,” Howard said. “It’s like a little meet-and-greet, and we talk and hang out.”
Linebacker Sam Eguavoen recalls the team going to Top Golf, the golfing and gaming facility, as a surprise outing in 2019 and 2020. Coaches canceled a scheduled walkthrough practice and the team went to Top Golf instead, a pleasant surprise to the players.
Thursday’s outing is different, Eguavoen said. It’s scheduled, and it’s outdoors.
“This time we’re actually going somewhere outside, with our own transportation,” he said. “Everybody’s Ubering up. It’s not like we’re all going out to like a club or anything, but it’s like we’re all meeting up outside of work.
“I’m going to look at Mike [McDaniel] like he’s a guy at a bar. It’s just a time for all of us to just let loose, we’re out of the building, be yourself, get to know one another better.”
We’ll likely never know whether the camaraderie and team-building McDaniel is implementing makes a difference. In general, if a team makes the playoffs, it’ll say camaraderie and bonding were factors, and if they don’t make the playoffs the failed team-building exercises are never mentioned.
The key at this point, however, is players like what McDaniel is doing for them with Thursday’s team outing and the rearranged locker room. And they think it’ll help on the field.
“You pull for that guy hard,” Mostert said of your locker-room neighbor. “You want the best for him, you want the best for his family, and everything he stands by. I’m just trying to do my duty making sure that happens as best as I can.”
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Greensboro bank robbery with an implied weapon is under investigation
Greensboro bank robbery with an implied weapon is under investigation
NOTIFICATIONS. NEW AT NOON, A MAN POLICE SAY WAS STABBED AT A HOME IN THOMASVILLE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. POLICE RESPONDED TO MAPLE AVENUE LAST NIGHT. OFFICERS FOUND THE VICTIM WITH A STAB WOUND. -- WOUND AND TWO OTHER PEOPLE INSIDE THE HOME. EMS RUSHED THE VICTIM TO THE HOSPITAL. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY BELIEVE THIS IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. AND THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR ANY SUSPECTS. ALSO NEW, THE FORSYTH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE NEEDS YOUR HELP IDENTIFYING A SUSPECT WHO ROBBED A BANK IN CLEMMONS. TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR SCREEN. INVESTIGATORS SAY THIS MAN HELD UP THE PIEDMONT FEDERAL BRANCH ON CLEMMONS ROAD BACK ON JUNE 13. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE TELLS US THE SUSPECT POINTED A HANDGUN AT BANK TELLERS AND DEMANDED CASH. THE SUSPECT GOT AWAY WITH AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF MONEY. NO ONE WAS HURT. IF YOU RECOGNIZE THE SUSPECT, GIVE THE FORSYTH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE A CALL. HERE’S THE NUMBER, 336-727-2112. TWO JUVENILES ARE ACCUSED OF BREAKING INTO A WINSTON-SALEM CHURCH. THIS HAPPENED OVERNIGHT AT THE REVO CHURCH ON WAYNE AVENUE. POLICE SAY WHEN THEY GOT THE CALL MULTIPLE OFFICER AND K-9 UNITS RESPONDED. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, OFFICERS SAW TWO PEOPLE WEARING SKI MASKS INSIDE THE CHURCH. MOMENTS LATER, TWO JUVENILES CAME OUT AND THEY WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. THEY WERE LATER RELEASED TO THEIR PARENTS. BOTH WILL BE CHARGED ON JUVENILE PETITIONS WITH BREAKING AND ENTERING. THIS AFTERNOON, WE ARE HEARING FROM THE MOTHER OF A NORTH CAROLINA MAN WHO WAS KILLED IN UKRAINE. LUKE LUCYSZYN WAS FROM CALABASH. THAT’S IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY RIGHT NEAR SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE. LUKE WAS PART UKRAINIAN AND WENT TO THE COUNTRY BACK IN APRIL TO WORK AS A MEDIC. HIS FAMILY SAID HE FELT PERSONALLY IMPACTED BY THE WAR. HE WANTED TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE. HIS MOTHER SPOKE ABOUT HIS PASSING SAYING SHE WORRIED WHEN SHE DID NOT HEAR FROM HIM, BUT LATER FOUND OUT HE HAD DIED AND WHAT HAPPENED VIA FACEBOOK. NOW SHE RECALLS THEIR LAST CONVERSATION WHERE HE WAS DESPERATELY ASKING FOR HELP. >> THE LAST CONVERSATION WAS, OH MY GOODNESS, HE KEPT SAYING WE REALLY NEED EQUIPMENT. WE NEED HELMETS, TACTICAL VESTS AND SCOPES AND CAN YOU SEND ME SOME. I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING FOR HIM TO BE ABLE TO SEND HIM SOMETHING. I CALLED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO FIND OUT WHAT THE BEST VEST WOULD BE TO SEND HIM. BUT HE NEVER GOT BACK TO MEET WITH AN ADDRESS SO I COULDN’T DO ANYTHING. AUDREY: HER SON WAS 31 YEARS OLD AND A FATHER OF TWO. A FOUR-YEAR-OLD AND EIGHT-YEAR-OLD. IN COMMITMENT 2022, IT’S ELECTION DAY IN THE CITY OF GREENSBORO. ONLY GATE CITY RESIDENTS, WHO ARE REGISTERED VOTERS, CAN CAST A BALLOT. WE STOPPED BY ONE POLLING LOCATION THIS MORNING AT KISER MIDDLE SCHOOL. REPRESENTATIVES FOR CANDIDATES WERE OUTSIDE GREETING VOTERS AS THEY WALKED IN TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS. VOTERS WILL SELECT A MAYOR AS WELL AS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. A NUMBER OF BOND REFERENDUMS WILL ALSO BE UP FOR A VOTE. THOSE BONDS INCLUDE HOUSING, PARKS AND RECREATION, FIRE, POLICE AND TRANSPORTATION. POLLS CLOSE TONIGHT AT 7:30. YOU MUST VOTE AT YOUR ASSIGNED PRECINCT, AND THERE IS NO SAME-DAY REGISTRATION AND VOTING. MAIL-IN BALLOTS MUST BE RETURNED TO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OR POSTMARKED BY 5:00 P.M. IN ORDER TO COUNT. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HAVE OFFERED A PLEA DEAL FOR A TRINITY MAN CHARGED IN THE JANUARY 6 CAPITOL ATTACK. OUR NEWSGATHERING PARTNERS AT THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE, REPORTING AT THIS TIME, BRADLEY BENNETT HAS NOT ACCEPTED IT, AND COULD BE LOOKING AT A FEBRUARY 2023 TRIAL DATE. BENNETT IS CHARGED WITH SIX CRIMES, INCLUDING ONE FELONY. BACK IN DECEMBER, HE FIRED H
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Greensboro bank robbery with an implied weapon is under investigation
A Thursday afternoon bank robbery is under investigation, police said.Officers responded to a reported bank robbery at a Wells Fargo on Battleground Avenue.The suspect was described as a Black or Hispanic man, approximately 5 feet, six inches tall with a slender build.The suspect was driving a maroon-colored Nissan. A weapon was implied during the robbery and the suspect left with an undisclosed amount of cash.No one was injured during the robbery.Police have an individual in custody that matches the suspect and vehicle description.Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000.
GREENSBORO, N.C. —
A Thursday afternoon bank robbery is under investigation, police said.
Officers responded to a reported bank robbery at a Wells Fargo on Battleground Avenue.
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The suspect was described as a Black or Hispanic man, approximately 5 feet, six inches tall with a slender build.
The suspect was driving a maroon-colored Nissan.
A weapon was implied during the robbery and the suspect left with an undisclosed amount of cash.
No one was injured during the robbery.
Police have an individual in custody that matches the suspect and vehicle description.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. | 2022-07-26T20:48:08+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/greensboro-bank-robbery-implied-weapon-investigate/40722199 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Rescue divers’ first attempts to reach 10 miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine since last week were stopped by debris-filled shafts and poor visibility, Mexican authorities said Thursday.
They made four attempts Wednesday and managed to remove more than a dozen pieces of wood and some 15 yards of hose, but were not able to go far.
“They found they didn’t have space to advance,” said Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval. “With the lights they carry they don’t have the visibility they need to identify what they find.”
On Aug. 3, 15 miners were inside the coal mine in Sabinas, Coahuila about 70 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas. Authorities believe the miners breached a wall containing another flooded area. Five miners managed to escape with injuries, but there has been no contact with the remaining 10.
For much of the past week authorities have used dozens of pumps to try to lower the water level inside the flooded mine shafts. Wednesday’s dives were the first attempt to enter the mine.
Coahuila Gov. Miguel Riquelme said via Twitter Wednesday that pumping would resume before more attempts were made to enter.
In June and July of 2021, cave-ins at two Coahuila mines claimed the lives of nine miners.
Mexico’s worst mining accident also occurred in Coahuila on Feb. 19, 2006, when an explosion ripped through the Pasta de Conchos mine while 73 miners were inside. Eight were rescued with injuries including serious burns. The rest died and only two of their bodies were recovered.
López Obrador’s administration promised two years ago to recover the remaining 63 bodies, a highly technical endeavor that has still not begun. | 2022-08-12T10:02:51+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/initial-dives-in-collapsed-mexican-mine-unsuccessful/ |
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medivir AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: MVIR), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative treatments for cancer in areas of high unmet medical need, announced today that Pia Baumann has been recruited as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Her role includes overall responsibility for the continued clinical development of the candidate drug fostroxacitabine bralpamide (fostrox). She will be part of the company's management team and will take up her position on February 20, 2023.
Pia Baumann, who is an MD specialized in oncology and earned her Ph.D. at Karolinska Institute, has substantial experience in drug development in the cancer field. Her experience comes from many years of clinical work at Karolinska Hospital and larger pharmaceutical companies as well as smaller biotech companies where she has developed global product strategies as well as designed and conducted clinical studies in close collaboration with leading clinics. Pia most recently held a position at AstraZeneca as Vice President Medical with global responsibility for the company's Tagrisso and Lung Cancer franchise. Before that, she held leading, global positions in cancer drug development at Takeda, Incyte and ARIAD Pharmaceuticals.
- I am very pleased that we managed to attract Pia to assume the position as Chief Medical Officer. Her experience in global drug development as well as interaction and cooperation with regulatory authorities, especially in the USA and Japan, will be very important for the continued clinical development of fostrox. In addition, her broad leadership experience from both large and small organizations as well as experience in interacting with the financial market will be of great value to the company," says Jens Lindberg, CEO at Medivir AB.
- I would also like to thank our interim CMO Tom Morris for his commendable work as a consultant to Medivir in the development of fostrox, which has the potential to become the first orally administered and liver-targeted drug for patients with HCC and other forms of liver cancer. We will work together to ensure a smooth transition in connection with Pia's accession," Jens Lindberg continues.
For additional information, please contact
Magnus Christensen, CFO, Medivir AB
Telephone: +46 8 5468 3100
E-mail: magnus.christensen@medivir.com
Medivir in brief
Medivir develops innovative drugs with a focus on cancer where the unmet medical needs are high. The drug candidates are directed toward indication areas where available therapies are limited or missing and there are great opportunities to offer significant improvements to patients. Medivir is focusing on the development of fostroxacitabine bralpamide (fostrox), a pro-drug designed to selectively treat liver cancer cells and to minimize side effects. Collaborations and partnerships are important parts of Medivir's business model, and the drug development is conducted either by Medivir or in partnership. Birinapant, a SMAC mimetic, is exclusively outlicensed to IGM Biosciences (Nasdaq: IGMS) to be developed in combination with IGM-antibodies for the treatment of solid tumors. Medivir's share (ticker: MVIR) is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's Small Cap list. www.medivir.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has all but announced he’s running for reelection, but key questions about the 2024 campaign are unresolved: Who will manage it? Where will it be based? When will he finally make it official?
Advisers have long said he planned to wait until after March, when the year’s first fundraising period wraps up. That was an effort to help manage expectations because many donors who gave generously to Democratic causes during last fall’s elections were looking for a break.
But an announcement isn’t imminent even now, aides insist, and probably won’t come until at least after Biden returns from an expected trip to Ireland in mid-April.
Working on his own timeline could counter Biden’s low approval ratings and questions about his age — the 80-year-old would turn 86 before the end of a second term. It also means Biden won’t be hurried by pressure from former President Donald Trump, who’s already announced his 2024 campaign, or other top Republicans who may enter the race, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former Vice President Mike Pence.
“He’s earned the luxury of making the timetable,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist in Washington. “The longer he can keep this thing focused on his duties in the White House, and less about the campaign back-and-forth, the better off he’s going to be.”
That said, Biden aides are mindful that Trump has been indicted for his role in the payment of hush money to a porn actor, and they say Biden will look to time his announcement to a point when he won’t share the political spotlight with the man he beat in the 2020 election.
Biden’s inner political circle is ready to begin executing on the campaign’s strategy from Day One and sees no drawbacks to the president taking his time. Biden faces no significant Democratic challenger for the nomination. The self-help guru Marianne Williamson is the sole contender at this point in the primary race.
It will also be up to Biden to decide where next year’s Democratic National Convention is held among the three finalist cities of Atlanta, Chicago and New York. But with the logistical groundwork mostly laid, there is little pressure for that decision until the president is ready to make it, organizers say.
Much of the reelection effort will be run from the White House, where Biden’s most senior advisers are expected to remain. Still, the campaign manager and top staff will be responsible for raising vast sums of money, reaching millions of voters and making the case for Biden at Americans’ doors and online while he is still occupied with governing.
One top Biden adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a reelection campaign that hasn’t yet been announced, noted that Biden’s 2020 bid was a $1.7 billion operation and that the effort this time would be larger. The adviser said a key will be finding “validators,” or non-Washington voices who can spread the campaign’s message at a time when many people have lost faith in everything political.
Aides and allies are discussing how to build the appropriate 2024 race infrastructure. The circumstances are different from 2020 for Biden, whose race then was conducted while the country was largely shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The political environment is different, too, as technological and cultural shifts have continued to change how people communicate. Biden’s advisers are preparing a new model of campaigning fit for the moment to activate his base and identify and woo the persuadable center — essentially a customized communication strategy for each target voter.
Aba Blankson, chief marketing and communications officer for the NAACP, said her organization is nonpartisan but found success mobilizing Black voters — an important part of Biden’s base — before last November’s elections using similarly targeted political messaging. That included text messages, radio ads and knocking on doors to promote “peer-to-peer” organizing in areas capable of swinging pivotal races.
“I think his timing is what his timing is,” Bankson said. “But, for us, it is an every-year reality.”
The choice of Biden’s campaign headquarters has been narrowed to Philadelphia, the 2020 location, and Wilmington, Delaware, where his home is and where the president spends many weekends away from the White House. While Biden tends to prefer Delaware on all matters, some top Democrats worry that recruiting top campaign talent to Wilmington will be difficult.
Biden waited until weeks after the start of his 2020 campaign to announce he had settled on Philadelphia, making a commitment to an important battleground state.
More challenging has been filling the job of campaign manager. Some potential candidates view it as a thankless task, with so much of the decision-making confined to the White House. Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s 2020 campaign manager, is now a deputy White House chief of staff and plans to remain in her job.
Among those on the short list are Julie Chavez Rodriguez, director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and a deputy campaign manager of Biden’s 2020 campaign, and Sam Cornale, executive director of the Democratic National Committee. Quentin Fulks, campaign manager for Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection victory last fall, has been mentioned.
Biden led Democrats to a stronger than expected midterm performance in 2022 by urging voters to reject “extreme” adherents to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement. So bringing in an outsider who ran successful Democratic campaigns last fall is a possibility. But party leaders acknowledge that breaking into Biden’s famously tight inner circle has at times been challenging.
An exception is O’Malley Dillon, who was a late 2020 entrant to Biden’s orbit after leading former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s failed presidential bid.
Trump hasn’t named a campaign manager despite announcing his candidacy months ago. But others aren’t waiting to staff up.
Republican Nikki Haley, Trump’s U.N. ambassador and a former South Carolina governor, picked Betsy Ankney, executive director of Haley’s Stand for America political action committee, to manager her presidential campaign . The super PAC linked to DeSantis brought on former Trump aide Matt Wolking and strategist Jeff Roe, the architect of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign and Republican Glenn Youngkin winning campaign for Virginia governor in 2021.
Even with the unanswered questions about his campaign structure, the outlines of Biden’s pitch to voters are forming.
From the State of the Union address in February to speeches to donors, the president has begun making the case that Americans should let him “finish the job” he started. He’s also tried framing the race as a choice between himself and “MAGA Republicans” who, he argues, will undermine the nation’s core values.
Biden has spent recent months traveling to promote what he sees as his administration’s key policy accomplishments, including a bipartisan public works package, and plans more of the same going forward. That would let him use this year to test political messaging that can best resonate in 2024, aides said.
“He’s not going to win reelection or lose reelection based on what happens in his campaign,” Bannon predicted. “He’s going to win it based on his performance as president and the performance of his opponent, whoever it is.” | 2023-04-01T18:15:49+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/biden-and-his-2024-campaign-waiting-for-some-big-decisions/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimism Digital, the in-house professional services firm of Pardon, Inc. has named Shane Bohan as its new Senior Director, Ad Sales & Partnerships. Shane will focus on expanding Optimism Digital's direct sales efforts across Pardon's portfolio of digital media brands, both in email and on web.
Shane previously led advertising efforts for SignUpGenius, building custom solutions for top brands & agencies. Prior to that, he worked in sales roles in the mobile and ad tech spaces, including with Yahoo!, Criteo, and Thinknear.
Shane is based out of the Boston, MA, area and will report to Peter Chang, Chief Operating Officer of Optimism Digital. "I am excited that Shane has joined the team, and he has already hit the ground running," said Chang. "His deep industry experience and established relationships will help take Optimism Digital and Pardon's digital media brands to the next level and beyond."
"I'm excited to join the Pardon family," said Bohan. "I'm looking forward to working with such a talented team at Optimism Digital, and partnering with brands seeking to reach our engaged audiences."
Optimism Digital is Pardon Inc.'s in-house professional services firm. Optimism Digital equips the organization's growing collection of digital media brands with the tools, partnerships, and insights needed to become profitable and thriving ventures.
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Help Give Some Magic to Those Who Need It
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Are you in a position to give a child or family some extra magic this season? If so, you can now adopt a letter written to Santa at USPSOperationSanta.com.
USPS Operation Santa relies solely on random acts of kindness and the generosity of strangers. The program is 110 years old this year. It allows people to help children and families have a magical holiday when they otherwise may not.
Since Sep. 15, the Postal Service has been receiving letters from all across the country and delivering them to Santa's workshop at 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888. Letters sent with accurate postage and complete return addresses have been posted on USPSOperationSanta.com, and today is the day customers can begin reading and adopting them.
Instructions for letter adopters
- Visit USPSOperationSanta.com, click on the registration link and follow the prompts to register and have your identity verified.
- If potential adopters are unable to get their ID verified online, they will be provided a code and given instructions on how to get verified in person at a local Post Office location. Once verified, the adopter will receive a welcome email with detailed information on how to participate in the program.
- Registered adopters can read letters at USPSOperationSanta.com and choose one to fulfill. Once a letter is chosen, adopters must follow the directions they received in their welcome email to ship gifts.
- Packages must be shipped via Priority Mail service, but gifts do not need to be in Priority Mail- branded boxes.
- The last day to adopt letters is Dec. 19, which coincides with the Priority Mail suggested deadline.
- Letter adopters are responsible for postage fees to ship the gift packages.
Tips for reducing shipping costs
Postage to ship gifts is based on size, weight and distance. Smaller, lighter packages shipped in-state or to an adjacent state will be the less expensive shipping option. Here are some tips:
- Use Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes, free at your local Post Office. Take a box when shopping and only purchase items that can fit in the box.
- Adopt a letter from your state, or a nearby state.
- Look at the dimensions of the gift very carefully, paying special attention to size and weight
- Consider a gift card instead of purchasing larger, heavier items. Gift cards need to be sent in a Priority Mail envelope, 4-by-6 or larger, to accommodate the shipping label.
Information for letter writers:
- Letters must include a first and last name and a clear, legible, complete return address, including apartment number, if applicable.
- Envelopes must contain a First-Class Mail Forever stamp — or other First-Class Mail stamps that equal 60-cents in postage. See the online graphic for more information.
- Letters can only be sent via First-Class Mail service in small, business-size or greeting card-size envelopes. They cannot be sent using Priority Mail service.
- Letters must be postmarked by Dec. 12.
- There is no guarantee that letters submitted to the program will be adopted.
Accept no imitations
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until December 5, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGS: PYPL), if they purchased the Company's shares between February 3, 2021 and February 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
If you purchased shares of PayPal and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-pypl/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by December 5, 2022.
PayPal and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On February 1, 2022, the Company disclosed that its net new active accounts figure ("NNAs") was only 49 million for 2021, less than the guidance of 50 million it initially provided in February 2021 and lower than the raised guidance it reiterated just months prior, that it had identified 4.5 million accounts believed to have been illegitimately created, and that, as a result, it would change focus to increasing active user engagement rather than cash account opening incentives, which would reduce its ability to maintain growth in its NNAs.
On this news, shares of PayPal plummeted $43.23 per share, or approximately 25%, from a close of $175.80 per share on February 1, 2022 to close at $132.57 per share on February 2, 2022.
The case is Defined Benefit Plan of the Mid-Jersey Trucking Industry and Teamsters Local 701 Pension and Annuity Fund v. PayPal Holdings, Inc., et al., Case No. 22-cv-05864.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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The Big Ten Conference slate begins a day earlier this week when Nebraska visits Rutgers on Friday night in Piscataway, N.J.
The visiting Cornhuskers (2-3, 1-1) have won all five meetings in the series, most recently a Dec. 18, 2020, victory on the road. That was the last time Nebraska won a game outside of Lincoln, dropping six straight away from home since then.
Nebraska is coming off a 35-21 home win over Indiana, snapping a nine-game skid against FBS opponents. It marked the first victory for interim coach Mickey Joseph, who took over after Scott Frost was fired three games into the season.
“Indiana was one game,” Joseph said. “The sign of a good team is who can move forward and get to the next one.”
Rutgers (3-2, 0-2) has had a rough start to conference play after going unbeaten before Big Ten competition. On Saturday, the Scarlet Knights fell 49-10 at Ohio State after losing 27-10 at home to Iowa the week before.
The Knights have scored only 58 points in four games against FBS competition and are second-worst in the Big Ten in total offense (1,656 yards).
“Some of it’s coaching, some of it’s playing, some of it’s execution,” Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said. “We’re working on it, though. We’re going to be OK.”
Nebraska, which is last in the Big Ten in scoring defense (32.6 points per game) and total defense (2,346 yards), held Indiana to 290 yards last week in the first game since Bill Busch took over as defensive coordinator. Rutgers had only 187 yards of offense at Ohio State and is averaging just 267.8 against FBS competition.
Rutgers quarterback Evan Simon is last in the Big Ten in passing yardage at 640 yards, while Nebraska’s Casey Thompson is a respectable sixth place with 1,265 yards, just behind Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, a Heisman Trophy favorite.
Despite its early-season woes, Nebraska would take sole possession of the Big Ten’s West Division for one night with a victory. The Cornhuskers are currently in a six-way tie for the top spot with its 1-1 conference record. The seventh team, Wisconsin, is 0-2 in league action.
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LAS VEGAS and RENO, Nev., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) ("Caesars") today announced the closing of new $3 billion senior secured credit facilities consisting of a new $750 million senior secured term loan (the "Term A Loan") and a new $2.25 billion senior secured revolving credit facility (the "Revolving Credit Facility" and, together with the Term A Loan, the "Senior Credit Facilities") resulting from an increase and extension to Caesars' existing revolving credit facility. Concurrently with the closing of the Senior Credit Facilities, Caesars retired Caesars Resort Collection, LLC's ("CRC") existing revolving credit facility and used the proceeds of the Term A Loan to prepay $750 million of CRC's existing term B loans due December 2024.
The interest rate under the Senior Credit Facilities is the forward-looking term rate based on the secured overnight financing rate (Term SOFR) plus an adjustment of 10 basis points plus an applicable margin of 225 basis points, which applicable margin is subject to three 25 basis point step-downs based on the achievement of certain net total leverage ratios.
Bret Yunker, Chief Financial Officer of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. commented, "We are excited to complete this new financing and greatly appreciate the support of our 16 domestic and international banking partners. This refinancing transaction will reduce interest expense while also extending debt maturities."
Latham & Watkins, LLP served as legal counsel for Caesars and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. will continue to serve as administrative agent.
About Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) is the largest casino-entertainment company in the US and one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since its beginning in Reno, NV, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment, Inc. has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Caesars Entertainment, Inc.'s resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe®, and Eldorado® brand names. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. offers diversified gaming, entertainment and hospitality amenities, one-of-a-kind destinations, and a full suite of mobile and online gaming and sports betting experiences. All tied to its industry-leading Caesars Rewards loyalty program, the company focuses on building value with its guests through a unique combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars is committed to its employees, suppliers, communities and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700. For more information, please visit. www.caesars.com/corporate.
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Which microphone bag or case is best?
Whether you’re a touring musician, public speaker, sound engineer or studio technician, microphones are foundational pieces of equipment that require proper storage and protection. Even tough mics like the Shure SM58, legendary for its rugged build and reliability, benefit from being stored safely in a bag or case.
The CASEMATIX Wireless Microphone Case features a hard plastic shell and customizable foam padding, allowing it to fit and protect almost any microphone. It is the best choice for recordists in need of dependable microphone storage that won’t break their budget.
What to know before you buy a microphone bag or case
Microphone bags and cases come in many different materials and configurations. From basic zippered pouches to hard, compartmentalized travel units, selecting a case that will suit your needs requires careful consideration. For options not listed in this article, refer to BestReview’s microphone bags and cases buying guide.
Storage vs. travel
If you are an audio engineer or have a home studio, don’t worry about shoulder straps, handles and accessory pouches, because your mic cases should prioritize safekeeping over mobility. However, if you are a live sound technician or touring musician, select a bag that is lightweight, designed to hold multiple microphones and travels easily.
Hard cases vs. soft cases
For the touring musician or sound tech, hard microphone cases are ideal because they provide superior protection. Studio musicians or those who travel only lightly will find many soft case options that provide adequate padding and security for their gear.
Your microphone collection
Microphones are specialized tools, with many being purposefully built for specific instruments or frequency ranges. As a result, recordists and engineers often have a multitude of microphones in their collection, while vocalists may only have one or two. Consider how many microphones you own and choose a bag or case that allows you to store them all securely. Wireless models also require storage for batteries and transmitters.
What to look for in a quality microphone bag
Padding
Select a case that is well padded against external bumps and drops. If you are carrying multiple microphones, padding between each one will protect them from scraping or bumping into one another while being moved.
Compartments
Multiple compartments allow you to keep your microphones organized. They also provide free space for storing cables, audio interfaces, wind stoppers or other accessories associated with audio recording.
Durability
Select a microphone case that provides you with the ruggedness you need, but avoid overpaying for extreme protection you don’t necessarily require.
Shoulder straps and handles
A case for travel should include straps and handles for easy carrying. Cases for studio use and storage also benefit from being easily moved. However, since the cases likely will remain mostly stationary, the inclusion of straps and handles is not a requirement.
How much you can expect to spend on a microphone bag or case
You can purchase small, basic microphone bags for as little as $15. Hard cases that are fully padded and able to hold multiple microphones and accessories can cost up to $150.
Microphone storage tips
- Hard cases that include customizable foam give you the flexibility to snugly store multiple mics of various sizes.
- Mics used for vocals should be sanitized between uses and cleaned before storage.
- Avoid keeping your microphones in areas of high humidity such as basements or garages to avoid mold, oxidation or rust from harming your gear.
Microphone bag or case FAQ
Do you really need a special case for your microphone?
A. Not necessarily. Some musicians and vocalists are content keeping their microphone in a backpack or courier bag along with any other cables or accessories they use for their performances. However, even within the confines of a backpack, storing your microphone in its own case will help keep it protected and free of debris.
Can you get a case that fits your microphones as well as your stands?
A. Unless they’re custom built, most cases are either designed for stands or mics, not both. However, microphone stand bags are available that include pouches for accessory storage and ample interior space for gear. As mic stands aren’t particularly delicate, most of these bags will not be heavily padded.
Are waterproof microphone cases available?
A. Yes. Some manufacturers sell hard microphone cases that feature a watertight seal.
What’s the best microphone bag or case to buy?
Top microphone bag or case
CASEMATIX Wireless Microphone Case
What you need to know: This hard case provides protection and customizable padding at a great price.
What you’ll love: Molded plastic construction provides better protection than soft alternatives. This case’s foam interior padding can be customized to fit microphones and accessories of all shapes and sizes. This case can be fitted with a padlock.
What you should consider: This case’s molded plastic is a bit on the thin side, making it not as durable as competing hard cases.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top microphone bag or case for the money
Auray WMC-100 Wide Mouth Microphone Case
What you need to know: This inexpensive soft case is great for those with one or two mics they want to keep protected.
What you’ll love: This padded case opens wide and has enough room for multiple small microphones as well as a few accessories. It’s the ideal solution for those who keep their mics in a bag or backpack but want a bit more protection.
What you should consider: Some users have complained of a cheap zipper and cheap stitching.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Gator Cases Titan Series Waterproof Injection Molded Microphone Case
What you need to know: This hard microphone case is designed for audio engineers who demand superior protection and quality.
What you’ll love: This professional case from Gator is waterproof and has enough space for 16 mics and accessories, providing heavy-duty protection for your gear no matter where it ends up. Its special latching system is easy to open and close.
What you should consider: This case features pre-cut storage spaces in its interior foam, which may not fit all microphone types. It is very expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Company Honored With 'Overall Risk Management Solution of the Year'
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Living Security, the leader in Human Risk Management, today announced that it has been named the 'Overall Risk Management Solution of the Year' in the sixth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program conducted by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market today. This is the second consecutive year that Living Security has taken home one of these prestigious industry awards.
The company launched its innovative Human Risk Management platform, Unify Insights, earlier this year. The solution provides security leaders with the data and metrics to identify human behavior risks and trends inside their organizations, followed by targeted action plans to mitigate incidents. Living Security and its Unify Insights platform, were chosen from more than 4,100 nominations worldwide.
"We've pioneered this new category of Human Risk Management, shifting from a traditional security awareness and training approach which has proven ineffective. The more data-driven approach of HRM truly moves the needle on behavioral change by empowering security leaders with an understanding of where the riskiest segments are and how to remediate that risk," said Ashley Rose, CEO and co-founder of Living Security. "This award is a testament to the hard work put into the launch of Unify Insights, and the important work we're doing to reduce human risk within organizations."
The mission of the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of information security categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Email Security and many more.
"Traditional risk management solutions are missing the quantification of a whole category of risk that stems from human behaviors. Organizations can have an advantage if they are able to identify the riskiest five percent of people across their workforce, which could very well result in preventing both minor and major incidents," said James Johnson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. "Through Unify Insights, data is analyzed and correlated with actual human activities, allowing security leaders to understand and address risky or vigilant behaviors in a way they have never done before and truly improve their security posture. Congratulations on this incredible innovation in the space and being our choice for the competitive 'Overall Risk Management Solution of the Year' award."
For more information about the Living Security please visit livingsecurity.com. For information on the annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards , please visit cybersecuritybreakthrough.com.
Living Security's mission is to transform human risk to drive dramatic improvement in human behaviors, organizational security culture, and infosec program effectiveness. With our Human Risk Management platform, Living Security engages each employee with innovative and relevant context and content, while simultaneously providing the ability for leadership to identify, report on and directly mitigate the risk brought on by human behavior. Living Security is trusted by security-minded organizations like MasterCard, Verizon, MassMutual, Biogen, AmerisourceBergen, Hewlett Packard, and Target. Learn more at www.livingsecurity.com.
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DETROIT (AP) — California will require all new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 in an ambitious move away from gasoline-powered vehicles and the pollution they emit.
The requirements come in phases starting in 2026, and it will take 13 years for them become fully effective. But there are many challenges to meeting them.
EVs now cost substantially more than gas-powered vehicles. There are shortages of precious metals needed for their batteries. The U.S. has little battery manufacturing capacity.
But a lot can change in 13 years. Here’s what we know about the problem areas and what’s being done about them:
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WILL AUTOMAKERS BE ABLE TO MAKE ENOUGH ELECTRIC VEHICLES?
More than likely. During the first half of this year, electric vehicle sales accounted for about 15% of California’s new vehicle market. New vehicle sales in the state normally run around 2 million per year. That’s roughly a 1.5 million difference that has to be made up by 2035. But almost every day, automakers are announcing new EV models, battery factories and assembly plants. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
“New plants are coming in and old plants are being converted,” said Sam Fiorani, vice president of AutoForecast Solutions. “The plans are in place for a large amount of vehicles being ready for the U.S. and global markets.”
The big ifs, though, are whether there will be enough precious metals, such as lithium, to make the batteries, and whether EV prices will come down quickly enough. Laurie Holmes, senior manager of government affairs for Kia, told California officials Thursday that the industry could have difficulty meeting sales targets. She urged the state to support incentives for consumers to buy EVs and to help build out a charging system.
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CAN THE ELECTRIC GRID HANDLE THE LOAD?
The California Energy Commission expects electric vehicles to add only a small amount of power use in the next 10 years. The commission estimates that 3.7 million light-duty electric vehicles will be in use in the state in 2030, and they will account for only about 2.6% of electricity use during peak hours. David Reichmuth, a senior engineer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said EV charging can be timed to off-peak hours, especially during the day when wind and solar power are more available. Utilities will be able to send messages to cars to start or stop charging depending on electricity demand, he said.
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WON’T ELECTRIC VEHICLES BE TOO EXPENSIVE FOR MANY PEOPLE?
That’s possible, although prices are coming down, and they are expected to get lower as costs are spread out among more vehicles and new battery chemistries are developed that don’t use many expensive precious metals. Currently most U.S. EVs are targeted at higher-income luxury or pickup-truck buyers and start at $40,000 or more, beyond the reach of many. But prices are starting to come down. For instance, General Motors says it will offer a small Chevrolet SUV with a starting price tag of around $30,000 that’s expected to get close to 300 miles (500 kilometers) per charge. The federal government next year will offer $7,500 tax credits for EVs made in North America, bringing purchase prices down. And California is offering cash, rebates and special financing for low-income buyers. Also, EV buyers will save on fuel and maintenance costs.
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DO EVS REALLY POLLUTE LESS, GIVEN MANUFACTURING AND MINING OF METALS FOR BATTERIES?
Multiple studies, including some by the Massachussets Institute of Technology, say yes. While there is pollution from mining, EVs are so much cleaner than gas vehicles on the road that it only takes a short time for them to make up for the mining. A study released this summer by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at lifetime emissions, including the manufacturing process.
“Altogether, the lifetime emissions for an electric car or and electric pickup are less than half that of a gasoline vehicle,” Reichmuth said. The gap between gas and electric will grow as more electricity comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar, he said.
“There’s nothing that we’re going to do when it comes to aggressively promoting electrification that will be worse for the planet than burning fossil fuels,” said Margo Oge, chair of the International Council for Clean Transportation and a former top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official.
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WILL OTHER STATES FOLLOW CALIFORNIA?
Currently 17 other states have adopted California’s greenhouse gas emissions requirements, most on the coasts. In total they account for about 40% of all U.S. new vehicle sales. The state of Washington has already started the process to follow the EV sales requirements, and others are expected to. It will take the other states longer to go through the process, and many don’t have the electric vehicle demand or charging infrastructure that California does.
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Ronayne reported from Sacramento, California. | 2022-08-26T09:13:16+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-explainer-california-ev-requirements-face-some-obstacles/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — One person died after a house exploded in Wichita, Kansas, on Sunday. The explosion sent flaming debris flying into neighbors’ yards.
Sedgwick County dispatchers said calls reporting an explosion came in around 5:30 p.m. Once fire crews arrived at the home, they started trying to put out the flames. Fireworks started to go off as firefighters fought the initial blaze, said Wichita Fire Department Battalion Chief Jose Ocadiz.
Neighbor Craig Hubbard described hearing a series of explosions. He caught one of the blasts on video.
“I just heard a huge explosion, like a bomb going off, and it rattled like the windows,” he said. “The third explosion happened as I was standing there, and debris landed everywhere.”
Hubbard said pieces of debris that looked like roof shingles landed in nearby yards, catching some of the grass on fire. Video Hubbard took shows him stomping out the flames.
Zach Sherman, who also lives in the neighborhood, said it felt like an earthquake.
“I heard like a booming sound and like the house shook and everything,” he said. “I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then all of a sudden, we go outside and just see all the smoke coming up.”
Authorities have not released information about the victim or the cause of the explosion.
Sherman and Hubbard both said it was a shock for the neighborhood.
“Just crazy. It’s not something you expect, and I don’t know what went wrong. But It’s not something you expect in a neighborhood as quiet as this,” Sherman said.
“Pretty mellow neighborhood … everyone’s pretty mellow,” Hubbard said. “Nothing crazy ever happens, but yeah, that changed today for sure.” | 2023-04-10T17:12:25+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/like-a-bomb-going-off-explosion-at-kansas-home-caught-on-camera/ |
Value looms large in Innova Market Insights' Top Ten Trends for the food and beverage industry in 2023
ARNHEM, The Netherlands, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Redefining Value" heads Innova Market Insights' Top Ten Trends for 2023, as consumers adapt to a global cost-of-living crisis in the face of economic and political volatility. With budgets stretched and supplies under strain, brands need to be flexible in action and open in spirit to connect with consumers, while also taking full advantage of rapidly emerging technological opportunities.
The eagerly awaited annual trends from food innovation and insight specialist Innova are based on wide-ranging global consumer surveys. Coupled with comprehensive market and new product data, they reveal not only what is driving consumer decisions now, but also ways in which brands and innovators can successfully adapt to future realities.
Over the last year, cost and value for money have become more important to more than half of food and beverage consumers worldwide. Today's shoppers are increasingly exploring money-saving strategies, such as choosing lower cost items and cooking from scratch. But they remain determined to sample new experiences, ensure personal wellbeing and support planetary health. There is more pressure on brands and manufacturers to deliver value while still meeting these wider public expectations.
"Redefining value throughout the food and beverage industry will lead in 2023 as consumers seek brands that listen, understand and respond to their core values. They want brands that provide quality, trust and confidence via their product formulations, communications and wider sustainability actions," highlights Lu Ann Williams, Global Insights Director at Innova Market Insights.
In addition to a heightened demand for competitive pricing, consumers have told Innova they still seek nutritional value and expect a continued shared responsibility for environmental security. Meanwhile, younger generations who have grown up in an inclusive digital age are gaining greater influence, changing markets and creating new opportunities. Against that complex backdrop, here's a taste of what Innova's Top Ten Trends show is in store for the food and beverage industry in 2023:
1. Redefining Value
Brands, innovators, producers and consumers are wrestling with rising costs and greater instability. Combating this requires a deep understanding of where consumers draw the line on compromise. Strategies such as simple price increases, or flexible ingredient lists to cope with supply chain fluctuations, can work in the short term. However, brands need to be open in their communication and clearly show the benefits they are bringing.
Despite political and economic volatility becoming the second biggest concern for consumers in 2022, the health of the planet remains the top global issue and financial pressures are leading to an increase in eco-friendly behaviors. Consumers tell Innova they have reduced food waste and upcycled or recycled more as part of their belt-tightening. As the cost-of-living crisis continues, brands can achieve success through actions that combine economic benefits with clear health and sustainability goals.
2. Affordable Nutrition
Over the past 12 months, 62% of consumers have reported a noticeable rise in the cost of their food and beverages. As a result, they are turning their attention to simple but nutritious goods that are affordable. Key behaviors include buying in bulk, opting for private labels, cooking from scratch, reducing spending on luxury items and purchasing fewer items. Consumers are actively looking for affordable ways to maintain a healthy diet, offering brands many opportunities to test their capabilities to new limits. To meet the nutritional, environmental and economic demands of consumers, manufacturers must innovate to extract maximum value from raw materials and the production process.
3. Generational Push
Younger consumers, raised in an interactive digital world, are creating trends and defining what markets should be providing. For Gen Z and Millennials, food and brand choices are important signifiers of lifestyle, beliefs and values. These demographics have a strong voice and are used to sharing their views openly and widely. While health is an increasingly important purchase driver – as it also is across older generations – novel and international flavors are winning the hearts of a young and experimental audience. These consumers embrace the new and different, while being extremely responsive to positive engagement from brands.
4. Plant-Based: Unlocking a New Narrative
The rapid rise of the plant-based sector has, almost inevitably, hit some roadblocks, necessitating a refocusing on consumer demands for high quality, flavorsome products. No longer merely a mimic, green gastronomy will blossom as a standalone sector in 2023, giving brands significant opportunities to diversify and expand. Consumers still want to see improvements in taste and texture, but there is a huge appetite for culinary creativity and worldwide flavor profiles. Two-thirds of respondents to Innova's global survey expressed a desire to try plant-based versions of traditional, local cuisines. The industry is responding with a large increase in ready-meal offerings, while there is great scope for expansion into meal kits and inventive recipe combinations. Interest in underused ingredients is also growing, creating opportunities to introduce variation in flavor and nutrition while simultaneously addressing supply concerns.
5. Farming the Future
Public curiosity for innovative technologies such as vertical and regenerative farming is increasing. As well as helping to maximize flavor, nutrition and yield, these advances can win consumer support where they are shown to improve the quality and sustainability of global food production. Today's consumer is increasingly invested in the source of food as it ties in with major global concerns of health, sustainability and waste. The welfare of agricultural workers is equally important, with 65% of respondents to Innova's surveys agreeing they would rather buy fruit and vegetables from farmer's markets than large stores. Brands need to demonstrate how novel production techniques are benefiting farmers, people and the planet.
Commenting on the food and beverage industry's future direction of travel, Lu Ann Williams reveals: "At Innova, we have seen a considerable consumer demand for value redefined throughout the supply chain, with creative and flexible approaches to the use of technology and reducing waste proving pivotal. With financial concerns a dominating factor, 2023 is a significant year for new developments that answer these growing demands. Based on our consumer and market research, our Top Trends deliver insights to support brands as they innovate and grow."
On Wednesday 9th November 2022, at 4pm CET, 10am EST and 10am SGT, Lu Ann Williams will present a webinar detailing the insights behind the full list of Top Ten Trends for 2023, including opportunities in the following areas:
6. Quick Quality
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10. Positively Imperfect
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By choosing all-electric construction for their affordable and sustainable West Side Homes project, PUSH is bringing about environmental justice in multiple critical ways (“PUSH makes seamless changing of the guard with new director,” Jan. 30).
Buildings are a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, causing disproportionate suffering in poor and working-class neighborhoods both from breathing noxious fumes and coping with the many stresses, expenses and dangers of climate change.
Indoor air in fossil fuel-using homes doesn’t meet EPA standards for outdoor air, causing asthma among many other ills. Carcinogenic compounds leak from gas stoves whether they’re on or off.
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Electric construction is cheaper than having to run gas lines, making it fundamentally more affordable for residents, who also no longer have to pay the gas bill. As for providing jobs, there is a massive shortage of electricians.
Gov. Kathy Hochul supports the All-Electric Building Act which would require all-electric construction by 2027. An earlier implementation date for the legislation was curtailed by the gas industry lobby.
Last year, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie unaccountably prevented the bill, which has considerable support, from reaching the floor for a vote. This year he’s still stalling, apparently listening to the development lobby that contends, erroneously, that construction costs will rise. Here’s their real concern: They think people want electric buildings, and will choose them over existing fossil fuel housing.
All-electric new buildings are to everyone’s advantage.
Deborah Cohen
Buffalo | 2023-02-12T21:45:26+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/opinion/letters/letter-electeds-should-support-all-electric-building-act/article_cceedfca-a88e-11ed-83b2-9336ee514115.html |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The most reliable count shows that homicides in Mexico declined significantly for the first time in several years in 2022, Mexico’s National Statistics Institute said Tuesday.
Mexico’s National Statistics Institute said there were 32,223 killings in 2022, 9.7% less than in 2021. The country’s homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants dropped from about 28 in 2021 to 25 in 2022.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has struggled persistently with high homicide rates since he took office in December 2018, said the decline represented the results of his “hugs not bullets” policy of avoiding open confrontation with drug cartels, while funding training and scholarship programs for youths.
“The strategy of addressing the root causes of violence is beginning to show results,” López Obrador said.
However, the number of killings nationwide appears to have essentially flatlined in the first half of 2023, when there were 15,122 killings, compared to 15,381 in the same period of 2022.
By comparison, the U.S. homicide rate in 2021 was about 7.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The six-month figures are preliminary reports by police and prosecutors. The Statistics Institute’s figures are released annually with a six-month delay, but are considered more reliable — and are generally higher — because they are based on death certificates.
Much of the violence in Mexico is attributed to disputes between drug cartels, which are also involved in kidnapping, extortion and other forms of contraband. | 2023-07-25T22:31:38+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-mexicos-homicide-rate-dropped-in-2022-but-appears-to-flatline-in-2023-official-figures-show/ |
Phillies’ Bohm hits 1,000th home run in World Series history
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm hit the 1,000th home run in World Series history, and the Philadelphia Phillies quickly went to work on launching the next thousand. Bryce Harper, Bohm and Brandon Marsh teed off early against Houston starter Lance McCullers as the Phillies powered their way to a 4-0 lead in Game 3 of the 118th World Series on Tuesday night. Harper began the barrage with a two-run drive in the first inning. Bohm led off with a liner over the left-field wall in the second and Marsh hit home run No. 1,001 two batters later at Citizens Bank Park. Cy Young himself gave up the first World Series homer, an inside-the-parker to Pittsburgh’s Jimmy Sebring against Boston in the first World Series game in 1903. | 2022-11-02T02:29:52+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/01/phillies-bohm-hits-1000th-home-run-in-world-series-history/ |
RIVERSIDE — Voters in Riverside can expect to decide this fall whether to approve a program aimed at helping them save money on utility costs.
The city’s council voted 4-0 Thursday night to ask voters to decide whether to create electric and natural gas service aggregation programs.
“I think council is looking at it as an option to give residents because the inflation on utility bills have been pretty significant this year,” Riverside City Manager Joshua Rauch said.
Asking voters to decide on utilities is one way local municipalities have sought to avoid rising utility rates in recent years.
The Ohio Revised Code grants jurisdictions the authority to pool the buying power of residents and small businesses to negotiate for favorable rates for electricity or natural gas, records show.
Under aggregation, a jurisdiction negotiates with utility suppliers as a bulk purchaser to try to negotiate lower rates.
Trotwood and Vandalia both approved similar measures in July. More recently, Dayton officials urged residents to look into whether they would save money by joining the city’s aggregation program.
If residents voted in favor of the programs, Rauch said that the process to create them would likely take about six months.
About the Author | 2022-08-05T01:07:19+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/riverside-to-ask-voters-to-decide-utility-issue-in-fall-election/C4KSTW2G7FGG3IHGFRPI6JTSDM/ |
Silvernail Scholars Program to foster leadership skills, prepare students for post-secondary education
BLUE HILL, Maine, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bucksport High School graduates, Shelby and Andy Silvernail, along with their grown children Koster, Spencer, and Alyssa, have established the Silvernail Scholars program with an initial commitment of $2 million from the Silvernail Foundation.
Every year, up to 10 Scholars will be selected from Hancock County public high schools. The graduating seniors will each receive up to $15,000 to support their post-secondary education. Each cohort will be invited to an annual summit, focused on values-based leadership and how to build communities of trust, respect, and prosperity.
In 2020, the percentage of students in rural Maine schools who completed federal financial aid forms dropped nearly 20 percent. While organizations like MaineSpark continue to do their part to ensure Maine students hold post-secondary credentials, there is still work to be done.
"Education changes lives," said Shelby Silvernail, BHS class of '91. "Our goal is to provide access to education for students from all backgrounds."
In addition to the Silvernail Scholars program, Shelby and Andy have established scholarships at BHS, the Silvernail Award for academic and athletic excellence for the Little Ten football conference, and continue to invest in the arts, athletics, STEM, and robotics in the RSU 25 school system.
Andy Silvernail, BHS class of '89, shared how fortunate he was to find mentors in teachers, coaches, and friends' parents while growing up in Bucksport.
"As a kid and teenager, I had very little direction," said Andy. "My mentors didn't hold my background or socioeconomic status against me. They saw potential, invested in me, and I am forever grateful."
Both Shelby and Andy shared their excitement to invest in Maine's youth, help them achieve their dreams, and continue to the pattern of mentorship.
Application materials and information on how to apply will be available in early 2023.
People. Passion. Perseverance. The Silvernail Foundation believes in helping young people achieve their dreams through equitable access to education and health.
Andy Silvernail is the founder, Chair, and CEO of 5 Nails, LLC Executive Advisor to KKR, and former CEO and Chair of IDEX Corporation and Madison Industries. He is a director for Stryker Corporation and an Aspen Institute Henry Crow Fellow. Shelby serves on the Board of Paws for Patrick, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting young people struggling with mental illness with emotional support animals and therapy dogs. They reside in Lake Forest, Illinois and live seasonally in Blue Hill, Maine.
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Dermatologist urges people of color to wear sunscreen as skin cancer deaths rise
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - As temperatures continue to soar, a local dermatologist is issuing a warning to individuals with darker skin to prioritize sunscreen usage. With an alarming increase in skin cancer-related fatalities among people of color, Dr. Marian Northington emphasizes the urgent need for protection against harmful sun exposure.
Despite constituting a small percentage of reported cases, people with darker skin have a significantly higher likelihood of succumbing to skin cancer, according to Dr. Northington, a dermatologist based in Birmingham. She highlights the importance of heightened awareness within this demographic.
“Even though darker-skinned patients only account for one to two percent of skin cancer cases, they face the highest risk of mortality due to skin cancer because they often do not anticipate it,” warns Dr. Northington of Dermatologists of Birmingham.
Dr. Marian Northington draws attention to the fact that skin cancer often goes undetected in people of color until it has reached an advanced stage. Regular skin check-ups are crucial for early detection and treatment, but unfortunately, this group tends to neglect such screenings.
“They are not proactive in seeking routine skin examinations, nor do they anticipate the possibility of developing skin cancer. As a result, melanomas are frequently discovered at later stages,” explains Dr. Northington.
To identify potential signs of skin cancer, Dr. Northington advises individuals to be vigilant about any changes in their skin’s appearance. Warning signs include the emergence of new moles or spots, irregular shapes, darkening or lightening of color, asymmetry, larger diameters, and peculiar borders. Dark pigmentation on the palms or soles should be of particular concern, as it poses the highest risk of melanoma in individuals with darker skin.
In order to prevent skin cancer, as well as other skin issues like wrinkles, dryness, and dark spots, Dr. Northington underscores the importance of sun protection measures, regardless of skin tone. Wearing sunscreen is crucial, and she recommends a minimum of SPF 30. Dr. Northington favors sunscreen with physical blockers, such as Zinc oxide, as they provide longer-lasting protection by reflecting sun rays instead of absorbing and breaking them down.
In addition to sunscreen, Dr. Northington advises wearing hats, seeking shaded areas, and minimizing sun exposure between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., if possible.
As temperatures soar and the threat of skin cancer looms, the guidance of experts like Dr. Marian Northington serves as a vital reminder for individuals with darker skin to prioritize sun protection and take proactive measures to safeguard their health.
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Copyright 2023 WBRC. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-29T14:41:44+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2023/06/29/dermatologist-urges-people-color-wear-sunscreen-skin-cancer-deaths-rise/ |
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — India’s Adani Group, run by Asia’s richest man, has hit back at a report from U.S.-based short-seller Hindenburg Research, calling it “malicious”, “baseless” and full of “selective misinformation.”
Shares in the conglomerate have suffered massive losses since Hindenburg issued its report alleging fraud and other malfeasance. On Monday, shares in some Adani companies recovered some lost ground. The flagship company, Adani Enterprises, gained 3.2% and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. added 3.3%. But shares in other Adani listed companies fell between 5% to 20%.
Adani’s 400-page rebuttal issued late Sunday accused Hindenburg of attacking India and its institutions and of breaking securities and foreign exchange laws. Adani has also accused Hindenburg, which said it was betting against the group’s companies, of trying to derail a share sale originally expected to bring in about $2.5 billion.
“This is not merely an unwarranted attack on any specific company but a calculated attack on India, the independence, integrity and quality of Indian institutions, and the growth story and ambition of India,” Adani's statement said.
In response, the Hindenburg firm denied the accusations and said Adani's response largely confirmed its findings and failed to address key questions. It said the group was trying to conflate its rise with the success of India itself.
“We believe India is a vibrant democracy and emerging superpower with an exciting future. We also believe India's future is being held back by the Adani Group," Hindenburg said in a statement. “We also believe that fraud is fraud, even when it's perpetrated by one of the wealthiest individuals in the world," it said.
Gautam Adani and his family have built a vast fortune mining coal to fuel energy-hungry India’s fast-growing economy. Businesses in the conglomerate span industries including infrastructure, ports, data transmission, media, renewable energy, defense manufacturing and agriculture. Adani's own net worth has skyrocketed nearly 2,000% in recent years.
With a net worth of nearly $125 billion late last year, Adani surpassed Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to briefly become the world's second-richest man, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. After last week's losses, Bloomberg's index ranked him seventh richest in the world with a fortune worth $92.7 billion.
The report from Hindenburg said it judged the seven key Adani listed companies to have an “85% downside, purely on a fundamental basis owing to sky-high valuations.”
Hindenburg said its report, “Adani Group: How the World’s 3rd Richest Man is Pulling the Largest Con in Corporate History,” followed a two-year investigation. It listed 88 questions it invited the company to answer. Most of the allegations involved concerns about the group’s debt levels, activities of its top executives, use of offshore shell companies and past investigations into fraud.
Investors began dumping Adani-linked shares on Wednesday, wiping out some $48 billion in market value.
Over the weekend, Adani said it would carry on with its share sale in Adani Enterprises as scheduled, despite the value of its shares falling well below the price range of the offering. On Monday, Adani Enterprises was trading at 2,850 rupees ($35), up 3.2% but well below the band of 3,112 to 3,276 rupees initially set for the offering which closes Tuesday.
In its response to Hindenburg, the Adani Group said none of the 88 questions in its report was “based on independent or journalistic fact finding.” It rejected numerous questions as baseless, misleading or biased. In response to other questions, the group attached documents and tables of data and said it had followed local laws.
Adani also dismissed concerns over its debt-fueled growth, saying the “leverage ratios of Adani portfolio companies continue to be healthy and are in line with the industry benchmarks of the respective sectors.”
In an interview with CNBC TV-18 on Monday, Adani's chief financial officer Jugeshinder Singh said the group's gross debt was $30 billion, out of which $9 billion was from Indian banks.
Hindenburg said only 30 pages in Adani's response focused on issues it raised and the rest consisted of court records, general information, company financials and “irrelevant corporate initiatives.” Adani failed to specifically answer 62 of the 88 questions it had posed, it said.
Late Thursday, Jatin Jalundhwala, head of the Adani group’s legal department, said the group was considering legal action against Hindenburg. Hindenburg said it stood by its report and would welcome legal action by the Adani group. | 2023-01-30T07:41:45+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/adani-accuses-short-seller-hindenburg-of-attacking-india/6BO7GKIQ7ZD23CUZVSL7GNC2HI/ |
Zebra runs loose in Seoul before being taken back to zoo
Seoul, South Korea — A young zebra walked, trotted, and galloped for hours in the busy streets of South Korea’s capital before emergency workers tranquilized the animal and brought it back to a zoo.
The zebra — a male named Sero that was born in the zoo in 2021 — was in stable condition and being examined by veterinarians as of Thursday evening, said Choi Ye-ra, an official at the Children’s Grand Park in Seoul.
She said the zoo was investigating how the zebra managed to escape. She didn’t immediately confirm media reports that the animal partially destroyed the wooden fencing surrounding its pen before busting out around 2:50 p.m.
Social media was flowing with smartphone videos of the zebra trotting alongside lines of cars that were waiting for the greenlight at an intersection, and galloping through a street surrounded by commercial buildings as pedestrians stopped and gasped.
Police and emergency workers managed to corner the zebra after it entered a narrow alleyway between houses and shot it with tranquilizers, ending its three hours of freedom.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage caused by the zebra running loose. | 2023-03-23T14:07:24+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2023/03/23/zebra-runs-loose-in-seoul-before-being-taken-back-to-zoo/70040922007/ |
HONOLULU (KHON) – The fugitive CEO of a Hawaii-based shipbuilding company was captured while attempting to flee Oahu on a fully fueled boat stocked with cash and provisions for a long sea voyage, authorities said Friday.
Curtiss E. Jackson, of Honolulu, was arrested last year on suspicion that he and business partner Jamey Denise Jackson, defrauded investors of Semisub, Inc. of nearly $30 million.
He faced federal charges related to securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud.
Pretrial Services, a federal agency that supervises federal pretrial release defendants, was tipped on Jan. 4 that Jackson was going to attempt to flee before his trial. The agency informed U.S. Marshals and the U.S. Coast Guard.
A federal warrant was issued once U.S. Marshals arrived at Jackson’s boat’s slip, located at Kewalo Basin, in Honolulu, to find that it was gone along with Jackson.
“That really stood out to us, you know. We have never had to go get someone at sea. He was by himself with no direction,” said officials involved with the hunt.
This attempt classified Jackson as a fugitive, according to the Coast Guard and Marshals.
With Jackson in the wind, the Marshals enlisted the help of the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service and NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement. The Coast Guard deployed water and air resources to locate the boat.
At approximately 2 a.m. Friday, the Coast Guard notified the U.S. Marshals that Jackson had returned to Oahu to redock in order to gain assistance from a crew because he was having an issue with his boat. Jackson then sailed back out to sea after the boat problems had been resolved.
At 7:30 a.m., authorities located and arrested Jackson for violating the terms of his pretrial release. He and his boat were returned to Oahu without incident, and Jackson was placed into the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu pending his court appearance.
Jackson and Jamey Denise Jackson, his wife, had been accused of selling securities to investors with the promise of developing a fleet of tourism vessels.
“The defendants allegedly misused a substantial amount of the money raised from the sale of Semisub securities to pay for luxury residences in California and Hawaii, a Mercedes-Benz automobile, luxury vacations, psychics, marijuana, personal credit card bills, and cash withdrawals for their personal use, among other things,” the Department of Justice wrote upon the unsealing of an indictment last year. | 2023-01-08T12:31:43+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/crime-tracker/fugitive-ceo-accused-of-securities-fraud-attempts-to-flee-hawaii-by-boat/ |
Police: Student fatally shot by another student outside Pittsburgh school
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A student shot and killed another student early Wednesday outside a school in Pittsburgh, authorities said. The alleged shooter was soon captured after a foot chase.
The ages of the students involved were not immediately clear. According to the city school district’s website, Oliver Citywide Academy is a full-time special education center serving grades 3-12.
It wasn’t immediately clear what spurred the shooting, which The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said happened around 7:25 a.m. on the steps outside of the school. No other injuries were reported, and police said they found a gun at the scene.
The names of the victim and the shooter have not been released, but police said both attended the school and were younger than 18. Authorities said the wounded student was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
“We believe, based on the information that we have and the video we’ve been able to see, that we have the actor in custody and there’s no potential threat to the other schools,” Pittsburgh Major Crimes Commander Richard Ford said during a news conference at the school. He said the victim was killed as he was walking into the school.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many students and staff witnessed the shooting. Maria Montano, a city spokeswoman, said most students were still on their way to the school when the shooting happened, and buses were rerouted to another school building.
Students who were already in the school were kept in the building. Classes there were canceled for the day following the shooting.
The shooting came a little more than a year after another student was gunned down at the school. Fifteen-year-old Marquis Campbell was killed in January 2022 as he sat in a school van waiting to go home. The alleged shooters — two brothers who Campbell knew from another school — were charged earlier this year with murder and conspiracy.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-24T16:33:45+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/05/24/police-student-fatally-shot-by-another-student-outside-pittsburgh-school/ |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A 2-year-old boy found dead with his deceased father in their New York apartment earlier this year starved to death, authorities have concluded.
David Conde Sr., 59, and his toddler son, David Conde Jr., were found dead at their home in Geneva, New York, on Feb. 15.
The medical examiner’s office said Tuesday that it appears the child was unable to seek help or find food after his father died from cardiovascular disease, categorized as natural causes.
According to officials, deputies found the father and son dead during a welfare check at the apartment after family members had not heard from them in over a week.
Lt. David Cirencione, with the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office, said two deputies “forced entry” into the locked apartment after they got no answer at the door. They found the father and son dead in a bathroom.
“There were no signs of a struggle in the residence, and as I indicated, the door was locked on the inside. There’s also a sliding door with a deck that had a security bar that was engaged. We do not have any reason to believe anyone else was inside the apartment when these two passed away,” Cirencione said at the time.
The Sheriff’s Office said Conde Sr. had a number of medical issues. | 2022-11-17T16:31:19+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/2-year-old-dies-of-starvation-after-fathers-death-in-new-york-apartment/ |
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senior Team, Inc. (www.YourSeniorTeam.com) is proud to announce that it has begun initial beta testing in the Los Angeles marketplace, effective today.
A highly disruptive tech platform specifically aimed at the needs of the aging adult population and with a unique business model where all its services for its customers are free. Your Senior Team aims to empower seniors to find the products, services, benefits, and resources they require in navigating what can be at times a very confusing, fragmented, and frustrating world. Empowering seniors to connect directly with businesses, professionals and specialists who can optimize their lives in a very quick and timely manner. Your Senior Team offers the answers and solutions to your senior needs.
Founded by long time (with almost two decades of industry experience) senior industry expert Steve Fecske, Your Senior Team aims to be the global leader in navigating the gap between families and the necessary products/services they require as they enter the twilight years of their lives. "From 55 years old and onward, life is constantly changing, causing issues that require attention to make decisions and act," stated Mr. Fecske. "Our technology aims to efficiently aid all those families in those scenarios to problem solve and to plan. We say it takes a team to succeed in retirement, and in aging, and Your Senior Team offers direct access to forming a team to care for their health, wealth, and lifestyle."
After our short-term initial beta testing, Your Senior Team has strategically identified 42 of the largest senior markets across the United States that represents its US growth objectives in effectively serving the nation's older adult population and their families.
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For more information, please contact Steve Fecske at 661-713-3500 or steve@yourseniorteam.com.
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Elon Musk says Twitter deal could move ahead with 'bot' info
Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are ‘spam bots’ or real people.
The billionaire and Tesla CEO has been trying to back out of his April agreement to buy the social media company, leading Twitter to sue him last month to complete the acquisition. Musk countersued, accusing Twitter of misleading his team about the true size of its user base and other problems he said amounted to fraud and breach of contract.
Both sides are headed toward an October trial in a Delaware court.
“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms,” Musk tweeted early Saturday. “However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not.”
Twitter declined comment Saturday. The company has repeatedly disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission an estimate that fewer than 5% of user accounts are fake or spam, with a disclaimer that it could be higher. Musk waived his right to further due diligence when he signed the April merger agreement.
Twitter has argued in court that Musk is deliberately trying to tank the deal because market conditions have deteriorated and the acquisition no longer serves his interests. In a court filing Thursday, it describes his counterclaims as an imagined story “contradicted by the evidence and common sense.”
“Musk invents representations Twitter never made and then tries to wield, selectively, the extensive confidential data Twitter provided him to conjure a breach of those purported representations,” company attorneys wrote. | 2022-08-06T16:58:31+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-deal-bot-info/40824656 |
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Nashville artist Margo Price's fourth album, released earlier this month, began as a psychedelic trip with her husband and musical partner Jeremy Ivey in 2020.
Price and Ivey wrote a total of 20 songs, half of which made it on Strays. The eclectic album takes wild leaps from indie country to honky-tonk, psychedelia and expansive rock and roll. "I didn't want to get stuck in thinking like, is this country, is this Americana, is this rock and roll, is this psychedelic?" the alt-country singer told NPR's Leila Fadel. "Yet everybody wants to label things and put them in a box. I wanted this album to be feral and free."
It's packed with the raw joy and pain of a rags-to-riches story that saw her pawn her wedding ring, lose a newborn baby but also find love and win a battle over alcoholism.
It's raw and it's real.
"Used to be a waitress but now I'm a consumer / I've been on food stamps I've been out of my mind / I rolled in dirty dollars stood in the welfare line," she sings in the opener, "Been to the Mountain."
The defiant Price then retorts: "This ain't the end!"
Exploring what Price calls "new sonic territory" came from a place of great vulnerability, an "emptiness" she felt when the pandemic hit just as her career was finally getting off the ground.
"It's difficult to be vulnerable. I think this culture doesn't always see that as a strong characteristic. But I've learned that it is one of my best qualities," she said. "If you can find joy after going through something really tragic and if you can figure out how to how to channel that and transform it, I think that is the whole meaning of life."
The couple had traveled to South Carolina, where they brought guitars, notebooks and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
"I have had just absolute revelations that I do not think that I would have came to had I not taken psilocybin," Price said, referring to the hallucinogenic chemical. "I really wanted to take away a lot of the stigma with that and just be transparent about how I've used them and how they have helped me with addiction and depression."
Price also chronicled her struggles in a memoir published in October, Maybe We'll Make It. "I've struggled with self-image my whole life," Price said in the interview. "The success and the money and the fame, those things don't really make your problems go away. Sometimes they amplify them."
But not all the songs on Strays are deeply personal. Some veer into storytelling. For the single "Lydia," Price strums chords on an acoustic guitar as she describes a woman's visit to an abortion clinic. A string band accompanies her on the otherwise spare track.
"It was one of those really mystical songs that kind of came to me after weeks of really being kind of in a manic state," Price said. "That song just kind of poured out of me... None of it rhymed. There wasn't even really a melody. I've always wanted to write a song like that." She wrote the song before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It now doubles as an ode to women's rights.
"I wrote the soundtrack to probably what a lot of a lot of women in this country are thinking and are going through at this point," she added.
The flip side is "Light Me Up," which explores women's pleasure. "It starts in a very sweet, loving place. And then it it does escalate to basically this big orgasm," Price said. " I thought of all the songs that men have written about their orgasms, that we should explore that."
She describes creating "Hell in the Heartland" as a "cathartic experience." Written shortly after Price quit drinking, it's a reckoning of who she had been and who she wanted to be.
"I was thinking about how you just you get lost looking in the mirror. All you see is this reflection of yourself in the past. And it is talking about living in the present and just being able to shed those things," she said. "It's a very dark song, but it was incredibly cathartic to write and and to play."
While she has engaged in deep self-reflection, Price has not dwelled in it. She's experienced a new burst of creativity — songwriting, but also painting and poetry. "I can go back to those places, but it's just a lot more enjoyable to live my life in the present," she said.
This interview was conducted by Leila Fadel, produced by Chad Campbell and edited by Olivia Hampton. To hear the broadcast version of this story, use the audio player at the top of this page.
This interview was produced by Chad Campbell and edited by Olivia Hampton. contributed to this story
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May 3, 2023: Lawmakers will ask for OK from court to pass a foreign electioneering ban; Unemployment is down in two of Maine's metro areas Published May 3, 2023 at 5:51 PM EDT Listen • 7:48 | 2023-05-03T22:06:53+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/podcast/this-day-in-maine/2023-05-03/may-3-2023-lawmakers-will-ask-for-ok-from-court-to-pass-a-foreign-electioneering-ban-unemployment-is-down-in-two-of-maines-metro-areas |
HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas is recovering after undergoing cancer surgery in Houston, the congressman said in a statement on his House website.
The statement released Monday said Castro underwent successful surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center after being diagnosed with gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors.
“My prognosis is good. I expect to be home recovering in Texas for several weeks before returning to Washington to continue my work,” according to the statement.
“Last summer, doctors discovered these small, slow-growing, and mostly asymptomatic tumors following a series of tests,” Castro wrote.
A gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumor forms in the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, which is part of the digestive system, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Castro, 48, is a Democrat from San Antonio who was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012. He is currently a member of House committees on Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and the committee on Education and Labor. | 2023-03-01T03:35:40+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-rep-joaquin-castro-recovering-following-cancer-surgery/ |
For one Iowa mom, Damar Hamlin's scare hit close to home
Jennette Stull said the instant she saw Hamlin drop to the ground, she thought of her own son's life-and-death battle after a three-story fall on Court Avenue.
Jennette Stull said the instant she saw Hamlin drop to the ground, she thought of her own son's life-and-death battle after a three-story fall on Court Avenue.
Jennette Stull said the instant she saw Hamlin drop to the ground, she thought of her own son's life-and-death battle after a three-story fall on Court Avenue.
The shocking moment Damar Hamlin fell to the ground motionless, one Iowa mom relived her own son's near-death experience and the life-saving efforts of first responders.
Last August, Brenden Pfannebecker fell three stories from a building on Court Avenue onto the concrete below.
He was unresponsive when medical personnel arrived.
"The worst phone call a parent could ever imagine," said Jennette Stull.
Her son had suffered skull fractures, a collapsed lung and brain bleeding.
"I firmly believe that it's the first responders who started his path to recovery that he has now," she said. "If they wouldn't have been as attentive in their knowledge, I don't know what would have happened."
Six months later, Pfannebecker is walking, talking and expected to make a full recovery.
Stull wants to take the occasion of Hamlin's medical emergency to highlight the importance of first responders.
"I feel as though they're looking at it as their career, their job, but if it wasn't for the first responders, Brenden wouldn't be in the good state he's in now," she said. | 2023-01-06T00:57:12+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-mom-des-moines-first-responders-three-story-fall/42411148 |
Military veteran convicted of obstruction in Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran accused of telling an undercover FBI agent about a plan to “wipe out” the nation’s Jewish population was convicted on Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
A federal judge heard trial testimony without a jury before convicting Virginia resident Hatchet Speed, a former U.S. Naval reservist who was assigned to an agency that operates spy satellites. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden is scheduled to sentence Speed on May 8 for his role in a mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
McFadden convicted Speed of all five charges in his indictment, including a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding, the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College vote. The judge also convicted Speed of four misdemeanors.
The FBI recorded Speed’s conversations with the undercover agent more than a year after the riot. Speed told the agent that he marched to the Capitol with members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group, authorities said.
Speed also spewed antisemitic rhetoric linked to his dislike for government, according to prosecutors. They argued that Speed’s hateful ideology helps explain why he joined the Capitol attack.
Speed was “deeply worried about a Biden presidency” and believed false claims that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent, prosecutors wrote in a court filing. They said Speed expressed his admiration for Adolf Hitler and told the undercover agent that he believes Jewish people control Biden, a Democrat.
“Speed saw the Jews as ‘everywhere,’ fighting to destroy Christians, and he was not willing to sit by,” prosecutors wrote.
McFadden said the limited trial testimony about Speed’s antisemitism wasn’t a factor in his verdict. But the judge cited statements that Speed made about Jan. 6 in support of his conviction on the obstruction charge.
“His own words show the defendant’s actions were knowing and willful,” the judge said.
Speed was arrested in June 2022 on riot-related misdemeanor charges. A grand jury later indicted him on the felony obstruction charge.
On Jan. 6, Speed drove to Washington, D.C, from his home in Vienna, Virginia. After attending the “Stop the Steal” rally, where Trump addressed a crowd of supporters, Speed joined the mob that attacked the Capitol.
Around 3 p.m., Speed entered the building through a door to the Senate wing of the Capitol after other rioters breached it. He remained inside the Capitol for roughly 40 minutes.
After leaving, he texted another rioter that he had “backed out” after hearing that the “vote had been postponed.”
“In other words,” prosecutors wrote, “because Speed thought he succeeded in obstructing the certification, he left the U.S. Capitol Building.”
An undercover FBI agent, posing as “a like-minded individual,” met with Speed at least three times in March 2022 and April 2022. The FBI recorded their discussions of his motives and actions on Jan. 6.
“Speed wanted to stop that certification. He left the U.S. Capitol only because he believed he succeeded in that effort,” prosecutors wrote.
During the recorded conversations, Speed also “outlined a plan to enlist Christians to wipe out the country’s entire Jewish population.”
“To defeat the Jewish threat and topple the government, Speed told the (agent) that a violent response was necessary — and that the Jews stood in the way,” prosecutors wrote.
Speed began “panic buying” thousands of dollars worth of firearms and silencers in February 2021, prosecutors wrote. They said Speed later told the agent that he had a plan “to kidnap and disappear his enemies after mock trials, and he thought the silencers could come in useful for the effort.”
The undercover agent testified under a pseudonym at a separate trial for Speed in Virginia on gun charges. After a retrial in January, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia convicted Speed of three counts of unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm silencer. He is sentenced to be sentenced for those convictions on April 13.
Speed’s attorneys accused prosecutors of treating him like “a political puppet.” They also accused the Justice Department of engaging in “last-minute gamesmanship,” bringing the felony obstruction charge in Speed’s Washington case only after his first trial in Virginia ended in December with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial.
“Because the government failed to convince a jury of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt under the crimes alleged, the government simply chose to allege more crimes,” they wrote in a court filing.
Prosecutors said they decided to bring the obstruction charge as they began preparing for trial “in earnest.”
“This is not a vindictive prosecution. It is a well-founded one,” they wrote.
Speed was a petty officer first class in the U.S. Naval Reserves and was assigned to the Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office, the FBI said. The National Reconnaissance Office operates U.S. spy satellites used by the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. The agency said Speed was not part of the reserve unit at the time of the Jan. 6 riot.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-07T17:43:47+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2023/03/07/military-veteran-convicted-obstruction-capitol-riot/ |
PHOENIX (AP) —
Ronnie Gajownik has been hired as manager of the Hillsboro Hops, becoming the first woman to manage a minor league Class High-A team, the Arizona Diamondbacks announced Friday.
The 29-year-old Gajownik (pronounced Gah-jow-nick) served as video coordinator for the Hops in 2021. She was on the coaching staff of the Amarillo Sod Poodles, the Diamondback’s Double-A affiliate, last season as first-base coach.
Rachel Balkovec became the first woman to manage a professional baseball team last year when she led the New York Yankees’ Class A Tampa Tarpons.
Gajownik was a two-year starter on South Florida’s softball team and also won a gold medal with the United States in the 2015 Pan American Games.
The Diamondbacks also hired coaches Ronald Ramirez, Gabriel Hernandez and Ty Wright, as well as trainer Haruki Mukohchi and strength coach Ryan Harrel for Hillsboro’s staff.
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By LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ask veteran television executive Frank Cicha to recall the last time the daytime TV schedule has seen such turnover, and he has a ready answer: Never.
“Never,” he repeated. “There’s been sort of signature tumultuous moments,” including Oprah Winfrey ending her 25-year run in 2011. But the “en masse” exit of shows and the relatively few new ones replacing them is unprecedented, he said.
What Cicha terms daytime’s “re-rack” has created openings for “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and “Sherri,” with Sherri Shepherd, both debuting Monday, and “Karamo” with Karamo Brown of “Queer Eye” fame, starting Sept. 19.
They’re joining a daytime lineup that includes continuing talk-variety series “The Kelly Clarkson Show” and “The Drew Barrymore Show”; “Tamron Hall” and ratings leaders “The View,” “Dr. Phil” and “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”
Gone from the picture are the long-running shows led by Ellen DeGeneres, Wendy Williams and Maury Povich. Others that have turned off the stage lights include “The Nick Cannon Show,” “Dr. Oz” and “The Real.”
Success with daytime’s female-skewing audience isn’t guaranteed no matter a contender’s resume or fame, as illustrated by the short-lived runs of hosts including Queen Latifah, Megan Mullally and Harry Connick Jr.
“Talented people have tried to grace daytime, but if they don’t have an every-person appeal and they don’t interview people well” they wash out, said marketing analyst Stacey Lynn Schulman, founder and chief executive of Human Insight.
The producers behind Shepherd and Hudson’s shows express confidence their respective hosts have the right touch.
Hudson, the “American Idol” alum who went on to award-winning screen, stage and music success, is “funny, authentic and genuine,” said executive producer Mary Connelly, who held that job with DeGeneres’ show.
“What we’ve learned in our short time together is how much the audience loves Jennifer, and how much she loves the audience,” Connelly said. “We’re going to have all the conventions of a talk show, but one of the things that will make the show stand out is her interactions with the audience.”
David Perler, executive producer and showrunner for “Sherri,” said Hudson’s depth of talk-show experience, including her tenure as a co-host on “The View” and subbing for the health-challenged Williams, is a big advantage.
“It’s so easy to work with somebody who has done this for many years and different incarnations,” Perler said. The new show is built around her desire to “make you feel better when you leave at the end of the hour than you did before.”
“At the root of it, which is just who Sherri is, is always going to be the comedic element. She’s funny. She loves to laugh, and she’s still going out there and doing stand-up,” Perler said.
Brown, whose entry is from the production team behind “Maury” and “The Steve Wilkos Show,” has said he wants to ”connect with people from all walks of life” and plans to discuss issues including infidelity, race and parenting.
The new hosts, all of whom are Black, are expanding daytime TV’s lagging diversity. But veteran TV journalist Hall waves off the idea that they can be lumped together.
“We are owed the respect to recognize what each of us bring to the table and how each of us are different. And I think that’s very important at this time where we are seeing a number of shows hosted by people who happen to be Black,” she said. “We’re not all the same, and to make us all the same is unfair.”
There’s an inevitable hodge-podge scheduling in syndicated TV because shows carried nationwide can have varying air times and stations. One way to get to an edge is to inherit the home of an established show — the case with Shepherd, whose distribution includes Williams’ Fox-owned station slots.
DeGeneres’ NBC-owned station turf is going primarily to Clarkson. That upgrade, coupled with the “kind of America’s sweetheart” appeal she’s demonstrated on her show, could give her an edge in the revamped landscape, Schulman suggested.
Clarkson’s show is making a format tweak to give her more time to connect with guests, said Alex Duda, the show’s executive producer and showrunner. It will open its fourth season Monday with a fan-oriented celebration of the 20th anniversary of the singer’s “American Idol” victory.
“We thought we would bring music to the masses, so we got this big box that is like a recording studio on wheels,” Duda said, and kicked off a road trip in New York where “anybody could come in and do a virtual duet with Kelly.”
Hudson’s show will be joining Shepherd’s on Fox-owned stations, a chance for the two to complement each other rather than compete in those markets.
“I love the idea of a total freshness and newness to syndication in our blocks,” said Cicha, executive vice president of programming for Fox Television Stations. “Some shows have stayed on for years because they could, not necessarily because they should.”
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Writer Gary Gerard Hamilton in New York contributed to this report.
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- World's first large-scale AI model dedicated to aerospace, boosting scientific research efficiency in deep space.
- Digital human empowered with disruptive AIGC ability for new level of artistic creation and interactive conversation.
- Kaiwu industrial internet platform based on Baidu AI Cloud has upgraded to 2.0, driving intelligent transformation across industries while lowering the threshold of AI application.
- Apollo RT6 – Baidu's sixth generation fully autonomous vehicle with a detachable steering wheel is set to join Apollo Go in 2023, ready to provide driverless robotaxi service at half the price of taxis.
BEIJING, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, virtually hosted its annual flagship technology conference Baidu World 2022 today. Centered on the theme of "Deepening AI innovation for social growth", the conference featured the debut of several of Baidu's latest AI technology achievements and the release of new world-leading products. Among them were the world's first large-scale AI model for aerospace research, created in conjunction with China Aerospace, representing significant progress in the development of pre-training large-scale models. Baidu also released the Kaiwu 2.0 platform based on Baidu AI Cloud, designed to bring AI applications to propel industrial transformation, as well as Apollo RT6, Baidu's sixth generation fully autonomous vehicle with a detachable steering wheel.
"Today, we are in the midst of a major cycle of technological development, with new technologies emerging in almost every industry, from new energy to space exploration, biomedicine, smart manufacturing, and more," Robin Li, Co-founder and CEO of Baidu said at the conference. "China's technological development is rising to a new position at the forefront of the world. But progress still requires relentless efforts and new paths for a better future driven by technology. Baidu aims to serve as a cornerstone of these efforts, contributing to basic research, basic technology and underlying innovation."
World's First Large-scale AI Model Dedicated to Aerospace Research
Among the highlights of Baidu World 2022 was a stunning virtual rendition of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", one of the ten most famous works of classical Chinese painting. The painting was divided up into two pieces which have been stored at different museums. Thanks to Baidu's AI technology, the masterpiece has been put back together to be viewed as a complete work of art for the first time in history.
Baidu's digital human ambassador, Xijiajia also made an appearance to highlight the artistic potential of Baidu's technology, painting a stunningly detailed image of a cat in real time after receiving a simple command.
Behind this ability to produce AI generated content (AIGC) is Baidu's ERNIE large-scale AI models for knowledge enhancement, developed based on Baidu's deep learning platform PaddlePaddle. So far, Baidu has released more than 20 large-scale models specifically designed for application in industries such as energy, finance and biocomputing.
Baidu's joint announcement with China Aerospace of the world's first large-scale model in the field of aerospace was another highlight of Baidu World 2022. The model is able to analyze and automatically archive data in the field of aerospace, helping diagnose equipment failures and provide operation and maintenance recommendations, improving the efficiency of scientific research, and facilitating technological breakthroughs in deep space intelligent sensing, planning and control.
Kaiwu 2.0 Empowers Industrial Transformation with AI
Driven by its mission to empower the real economy through AI and support the intelligent transformation of traditional industries, Baidu has continuously sought to lower the threshold of AI application over the past 20 years.
Baidu World 2022 featured numerous examples of how AI Cloud solutions have helped unlock new possibilities in traditional sectors including energy, manufacturing, public services, and agriculture. Today, Baidu's AI solutions for thermal power plants are helping to reduce coal consumption, opening a path towards reducing carbon emissions by 6 million tons a year in China. In Shandong province's Shouguang county, one of the biggest vegetable supplying regions in China, Baidu AI Cloud has helped to achieve a 10% increase in vegetable cultivation yield.
Kaiwu 2.0, an upgraded version of Baidu's industrial internet platform based on Baidu AI Cloud, was officially released at Baidu World 2022, representing a further step forward in bringing AI application to more industries. Kaiwu 2.0 consolidates more than 200 industrial solutions and 38,000 industrial models across nine major fields, such as quality control, safety production, energy saving and emission reduction, production and manufacturing. Baidu AI Cloud also released an update tailored to local-level implementation, helping bring the power of intelligent transformation to farming communities and rural villages.
Next-Gen Autonomous Vehicle Apollo RT6, Ready to Provide Driverless Robotaxi Service at a Price Half of Current Taxi Fares
The event also unveiled Baidu's next-generation fully autonomous vehicle (AV) Apollo RT6, an all-electric, production-ready model with a detachable steering wheel. Apollo RT6 will be put into operation in China in 2023 on Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service. With a dramatically reduced unit cost of RMB 250,000 (~$37,000), deployment of Apollo RT6 represents a key step towards a world where taking a robotaxi will be half the cost of taking a taxi today.
Designed for complex urban environments, the vehicle is 100% automotive-grade and has full redundancy throughout both hardware and autonomous driving software to ensure driving safety.
Apollo Go has provided more than 1 million orders and becoming the world's largest robotaxi service provider. With tens of thousands of Apollo RT6 models to be deployed at scale, Baidu is ready to tap into a key high potential market with increasing demand, bringing the world closer to a future of driverless shared mobility.
In addition to its business-oriented solutions, Baidu also showcased several new AI products for consumers, aiming to further expand the beneficial role of AI in everyday life.
The event featured a live conversation with the Baidu-developed DuXiaoxiao, China's first interactive virtual idol, showcasing her unique emotional interaction system and intelligent service functions. Smartphone users can now interact with DuXiaoxiao via the Baidu App, the first step towards a future when personalized digital human service becomes commonplace.
Baidu World 2022 also saw the unveiling of three new products for Xiaodu, Baidu's smart home ecosystem: Xiaodu TIANTIAN Smart Fitness Mirror M30, Xiaodu Voice Alarm Clock and Xiaodu Large-screen Learning Tablet P20. Designed respectively to help users improve personal fitness, sleep quality and children's eye health, the new products expand upon Xiaodu's already popular household services, currently bringing the convenience of AI to millions of homes across China.
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TORONTO (AP) — A bus carrying seniors to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba Thursday, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police said.
Rob Hill, Commanding Officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities in Manitoba were deploying all their resources to the scene. Ten people were taken to hospitals.
TV broadcasters aired images of what looked like a large van or bus smoldering in a ditch near a transport truck with a smashed engine on a road. The pavement was littered with debris — broken glass, a large bumper and what looked like a walking aid. Seven blue and yellow tarps were stretched out.
RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson said “as of right now the drivers of both the bus and truck are alive and in hospital.” He did not say if they were among the 10 listed as injured. The dead were mainly seniors.
Lasson said the bus was heading south and there would have been a stop and yield sign. He said the bus was crossing the east bound lanes when it was struck by the truck that was going east, adding that who had the right of way is critical to the investigation.
“The public is reeling and asking a lot of questions and people are trying to determine if their loved ones were involved,” Lasson said. “Death on this scale is never normalized for us.”
The crash scene was in Carberry, a city 170 kilometers (105 miles) west of Manitoba’s capital of Winnipeg.
“The news from Carberry, Manitoba is incredibly tragic,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. “I’m sending my deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones today, and I’m keeping the injured in my thoughts.”
A family support center has been set up at a Lutheran Church in Dauphin, Manitoba for relatives. Police said the people on the bus were from Dauphin and the areas around it.
Flags have been lowered to half-mast at the Manitoba legislature.
Barbara Czech, a spokesperson for Sand Hills Casino in Carberry, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the bus carrying the seniors was en route to the casino.
Kim Armstrong, the administrator of the Dauphin senior center, said the bus left from there Thursday morning.
The senior community is extremely tight knit in the city of around 8,600 people and the center is sometimes like a second home, she said.
“It’s huge to lose so many individuals of our community and of course it is shocking. We just pray for those that are surviving,” she said.
Armstrong said seniors and community members often go on trips on buses to nearby events or casinos.
Nirmesh Vadera, who was working at a business on the side of the highway when the crash happened, said he went outside and saw a transport truck with a smashed engine on the highway. The bus was on fire in the grass on the side of the road. First responders were trying to get people out of the burning vehicle, he said.
“It was burning and all the (firefighters) and medical help and everybody was trying to get them away from the fire,” he said.
The crash brought back memories of the 2018 bus crash in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan that killed 16 people from the Humboldt Broncos minor league hockey team. Lasson said investigators in that crash are assisting.
“Sadly this is a day in Manitoba and across Canada that will be remembered as one of tragedy and incredible sadness,” said Hill, the RCMP commanding officer. | 2023-06-16T01:26:33+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/15-people-mostly-seniors-killed-in-highway-crash-in-canada-official-says/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is stepping up his outreach in Iowa ahead of a possible 2024 presidential campaign by rallying conservatives against transgender-affirming policies in schools, like one adopted in an eastern Iowa district last year.
The effort by Advancing American Freedom, a group formed by Pence in 2021 and financed by his supporters, will include digital ads, rallies, canvassing and perhaps radio and television spots. It comes as a federal court in Minnesota is scheduled next week to hear a case brought by a group representing parents of students in Linn-Mar Community School District outside Cedar Rapids.
“The strength of our nation is tied to the strength of our families, and we cannot stand idly by as the radical left attempts to indoctrinate our children behind parents’ backs,” Pence said in a statement provided to The Associated Press. “Advancing American Freedom will not rest until parental rights are restored in Iowa and across the nation."
The Linn-Mar board last year adopted a policy allowing students to request a gender support plan to begin socially transitioning at school and without the permission of their parents. The group representing the parents is suing to overturn the policy.
The planned budget for the effort is more than $1 million, and the push is expected to last several months, said a Pence aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement later Thursday.
The moves by the outside group — separate from any potential Pence candidacy — comes as school policy, notably involving gender identification and sexual orientation, has become an early focus of 2024 Republican presidential prospects.
The issue is particularly relevant in Iowa, given both the court case and the Republican-controlled Legislature advancing legislation barring schools from supporting a student’s social change in gender identity.
Pence's outreach comes before a trip to the early-voting state to headline an event next Wednesday in Cedar Rapids. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, is planning to campaign across Iowa after announcing her 2024 campaign, while South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson are expected to visit Iowa later in the month. | 2023-02-09T16:02:51+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/pence-group-to-run-ads-in-iowa-against-school-trans-policies/KLFCFD4GEVH43GZVS5DXX6EHMI/ |
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police kept up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former premier to hand over suspects allegedly sheltered inside was about to expire on Thursday.
The siege and the authorities demand for the suspects, wanted in violent protests over Khan's recent detention, has angered the former prime minister's many followers and is raising concerns about more clashes between them and the security forces.
Last week, Khan's supporters attacked public property and military installations after he was dragged out of a courtroom and arrested. At least 10 people were killed in clashes with police across the country. The violence subsided only when Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered Khan's release.
The popular opposition leader was freed from custody over the weekend and returned to his home in an upscale district of Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city and the capital of the Punjab region. Dozens of his supporters have been staying there with him, along with private guards. Police, who on Wednesday surrounded the residence, say they want 40 suspects handed over.
The ultimatum for Khan ends at 2 p.m. local time.
“Probably my last tweet before my next arrest,” the 70-year-old popular opposition leader tweeted on Wednesday, after the siege started. “Police have surrounded my house.”
According to Amir Mir, a spokesman for the Punjab provincial government, police were ready to use firearms if attacked. He told a news conference Thursday that at least 3,400 suspects linked to the clashes have been arrested and that more raids are planned.
Pakistani authorities have said they would prosecute civilians involved in recent anti-government protests in military courts.
The announcement has drawn criticism from the advocacy group Amnesty International and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which oppose trials of civilians in the military courts. Military trials in Pakistan are usually held behind closed doors, depriving civilians of some of their basic rights, including contracting a lawyer of their choice.
Khan was ousted by a non-confidence vote in Parliament last year. He has claimed the ouster was illegal and a Western conspiracy.
He now faces more than 100 legal cases, mainly on charges of inciting people to violence, threatening officials, and defying a ban on rallies. He also faces a graft case along with his wife and was summoned by the National Accountability Bureau to answer questions in connection with the case on Thursday.
However, Khan is likely to ignore the summons from the anti-corruption authority to show up for questioning in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. He is expected to address a rally of supporters on the outskirts of Lahore later in the day.
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Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed contributed to this story from Islamabad.
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One dead after reported tornado in south Texas near U.S.-Mexico border
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say one person is dead following a reported tornado early Saturday morning in south Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Port Isabel Police Chief Robert Lopez reported one person was killed when the storm struck the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights at about 4 a.m. Saturday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Angelica Soria in Brownsville.
Police referred questions to the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office, which declined to comment.
Cameron County Emergency Management officials did not return a phone call for comment.
Soria said a weather service investigator was assessing damage to confirm if the damage and death were caused by a tornado.
The storm follows an outbreak of dozens of tornadoes in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado that caused damage but no reported deaths.
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MIAMI (AP) — A 29-year-old police officer who was shot in the head while trying to stop a robbery suspect in Miami has died, officials said.
Det. Cesar Echaverry was shot Monday night as he and other officers closed in a suspect wanted for an earlier robbery in nearby Broward County, police said. His family had remained by his side at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital.
“Officer Echaverry died in the line of duty while serving & protecting our community,” Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez tweeted Wednesday evening. “Our law enforcement family will continue to stand beside & support the Echaverry family through this difficult time.”
Police said Echavarry and other officers began pursuing a white vehicle involved in an earlier armed robbery when its driver tried to flee, ramming into police vehicles and a civilian vehicle whose three occupants were hospitalized in stable condition.
He then tried to escape on foot, but a confrontation and gunfire ensued. The driver, identified as Jeremy Horton, 32, of Acworth, Georgia, was shot and died at the scene.
Horton had been stopped in South Florida on Aug. 8 and cited for having no proof of insurance and driving with an expired tag and a suspended Georgia driver’s license, according to Golden Beach Police Chief Rudy Herbello.
Echaverry had been with Miami-Dade Police for five years, and was assigned to the department’s robbery intervention detail. His friends told the Miami Herald he was moving up and planned to get married.
Monday’s shooting wasn’t his first brush with death, the newspaper reported. As a rookie in March 2018, Echaverry was a passenger in a police vehicle that rammed into another car, killing its 45-year-old driver.
The computer on the police vehicle showed Officer John Song was driving at 78 mph in a 40 mph zone a second before the crash. Both officers were airlifted to a hospital. In May a jury acquitted Song of vehicular homicide and reckless driving. The Herald reported that Echaverry testified that he couldn’t remember the moments leading up to the crash.
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Study published in Nature Cancer finds ERX-41 causes endoplasmic reticulum stress and cell death in multiple cancers. EtiraRx plans clinical trials as soon as the first quarter of 2023
DALLAS, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A scientific team, led by the scientific founders of EtiraRx, has identified a small molecule, ERX-41, as a novel oral therapeutic agent that may have utility in treating multiple solid cancers, including triple negative breast cancer, glioblastoma, ovarian and pancreatic cancers. EtiraRx, headquartered in Biolabs Pegasus Park, plans to initiate clinical trials as early as the first quarter of 2023.
In the work, published in Nature Cancer, the researchers, led by Drs. Jung-Mo Ahn, Ganesh Raj and Ratna Vadlamudi, identified that ERX-41 dramatically enhances endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in cancer cells. Since aggressive cancer cells have higher basal levels of ER stress, the enhanced ER stress induced by ERX-41 is not compensated and causes cancer cell death. Normal cells have low basal of ER stress, can compensate for ERX-41 activity and do not undergo cell death after ERX-41 treatment. Using state-of-the-art molecular approaches, the team identified that the molecular target of ERX-41 is the protein encoded by the lysosomal acid lipase A (LIPA) gene and that pharmacologic inhibition of LIPA by ERX-41 enhances ER stress in cancer cells. The study set the foundation for clinical trials with patients with therapy-resistant cancers that are vulnerable to enhanced ER stress.
Said Dr. Raj, "These discoveries are exciting as they represent a novel approach to targeting the Achilles heel of many aggressive cancers- their vulnerability to enhanced ER stress. Our critical finding was that of a new therapeutic target (LIPA) and its undiscovered role in protein folding. By targeting LIPA with ERX-41, protein folding in the cancer cell was disrupted, causing ER stress and promoting cancer cell death. Our findings indicate the potential for an oral agent with a favorable therapeutic index to effectively treat patients with aggressive cancers, for whom options are limited."
EtiraRx is completing necessary preclinical studies and plans to initiate clinical trials with these compounds, which will take place the first quarter of 2023. Russell Hayward, CEO EtiraRx, said, "ERX-41 has the potential to be a first-in-class oral therapy that kills aggressive therapy-resistant cancers. We are committed to moving these drugs forward to clinical trials and make a difference in the lives of patients with lethal cancers."
To access the complete paper from EtiraRx, please visit Nature Cancer at https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-022-00389-8
EtiraRx is a Dallas-based company is committed to developing cures. EtiraRx was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pegasus Park. For more information go to https://www.etirarx.com/
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Byron Buxton Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Athletics - July 15
Published: Jul. 15, 2023 at 10:30 AM CDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
After hitting .222 with a double, two home runs, four walks and seven RBI in his past 10 games, Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins face the Oakland Athletics (who will start Hogan Harris) at 7:07 PM ET on Saturday.
He had a hitless showing in his last game (0-for-4 with an RBI) against the Athletics.
Byron Buxton Game Info & Props vs. the Athletics
- Game Day: Saturday, July 15, 2023
- Game Time: 7:07 PM ET
- Stadium: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Athletics Starter: Hogan Harris
- TV Channel: NBCS-CA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +270)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +140)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +100)
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Byron Buxton At The Plate
- Buxton leads Minnesota in total hits (54) this season while batting .205 with 28 extra-base hits.
- In 51.4% of his 74 games this season, Buxton has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 15 multi-hit games.
- He has hit a long ball in 18.9% of his games in 2023, and 5% of his trips to the dish.
- Buxton has driven in a run in 21 games this year (28.4%), including 10 games with more than one RBI (13.5%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- He has scored in 44.6% of his games this season (33 of 74), with two or more runs nine times (12.2%).
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Athletics Pitching Rankings
- The Athletics pitching staff is 26th in the league with a collective 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Athletics' 6.03 team ERA ranks last across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Athletics pitchers combine to allow the second-most home runs in baseball (131 total, 1.4 per game).
- Harris gets the start for the Athletics, his fifth of the season. He is 2-3 with a 6.07 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 43 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Thursday, July 6, the left-hander tossed 4 2/3 innings against the Detroit Tigers, giving up seven earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- In nine games this season, the 26-year-old has put up a 6.07 ERA and 7.3 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .253 to his opponents.
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- Atento enters into a restructuring support agreement with certain key financial stakeholders to obtain support for a comprehensive balance sheet restructuring
- Atento continues to work with additional financial stakeholders to achieve a consensual deal
NEW YORK, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Atento S.A. (NYSE: ATTO, "Atento" or the "Company"), one of the world's largest customer relationship management and business process outsourcing (CRM / BPO) service providers and an industry leader in Latin America, announces that, following its announcement on 23 June 2023 regarding its entry into a term sheet providing for a new interim financing of at least $30 million and a path to a comprehensive restructuring transaction to significantly deleverage its balance sheet, Atento has entered into a binding restructuring support agreement with an ad hoc group of financial stakeholders representing more than 75% of its US$39.6 million senior secured notes due 2025, 40% of its US$500 million senior secured notes due 2026, 100% of its currently outstanding New Money 2025 Notes (as defined below) and 100% of its currently outstanding Junior Lien 2025 Notes (as defined below).
Restructuring support agreement terms
The terms of the proposed restructuring are set out in the restructuring term sheet appended to the restructuring support agreement. If implemented in line with the term sheet, the restructuring would involve the following changes to the group's capital structure:
- anticipated net debt leverage ratio of approximately 1.0x or lower following completion of the restructuring;
- the injection of new interim financing of at least $30 million through the issuance of new money notes due 2025 ("New Money 2025 Notes") in tranches over time, the first tranche of which for US$17 million was funded on 30 June 2023;
- the exchange of certain senior secured notes due 2026 for new notes due 2025 ("Junior Lien 2025 Notes") secured on a junior lien basis to the existing 2025 notes and new money 2025 notes, and which will be equitized into 100% of the restructured equity, subject to dilution;
- the provision of up to US$79 million in additional new money investment at emergence from the proposed restructuring ("Exit New Money"), which is expected to be in the form of preferred shares in the restructured business; and
- subject to modifications necessary to obtain commitments for the Exit New Money, the lender under Atento's super senior revolving credit facility, the providers of Atento's cross-currency rate swaps and the holders of Atento's US$500 million senior secured notes due 2026 receiving 5-year warrants for 10% of the fully-diluted restructured equity at an exercise price representing a 5x multiple on invested capital.
In the restructuring support agreement, Atento and the participating financial stakeholders that have executed or acceded to the restructuring support agreement have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions of the restructuring support agreement, to provide support for the restructuring and to facilitate the implementation of the restructuring, including (in the case of the participating financial stakeholders) by voting in favour of the proposed restructuring at any creditor meetings and not taking, or instructing any other person to take, any enforcement action or pursuing any other available remedies against Atento or any other group company. The restructuring support agreement also includes certain termination events, including where the restructuring has not completed by the agreed long-stop date.
Next steps
Consistent with its communications to all stakeholders, Atento continues to work with each of its financial stakeholders to obtain support for the proposed restructuring and expects additional parties to accede to the restructuring support agreement over the coming weeks. Execution of the restructuring support agreement was a condition precedent to the drawdown of the first tranche of the new interim financing, which has now occurred, and Atento now has sufficient flexibility and financial runway to continue negotiations with each of its other financial stakeholders and move towards a consensual solution for the restructuring over the coming weeks.
Atento is targeting a completion date for the proposed restructuring as soon as possible, and likely before 1 December 2023. Such target date may, however, be subject to limited extensions and Atento will continue working with its key financial stakeholders with a view to completing the transaction as soon as possible. Further announcements and updates in relation to the restructuring will be provided in due course.
The restructuring transaction remains subject to the conditions set out in the restructuring support agreement and the restructuring term sheet, as well as the entry into of further definitive agreements.
Atento is represented by Houlihan Lokey and FTI Consulting as financial advisors and Sidley Austin and Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg, as lead legal advisors. The ad hoc group of financial stakeholders is represented by Rothschild & Co. as financial advisor and Hogan Lovells as lead legal advisor. GLAS Specialist Services Limited is acting as lock-up agent.
Stakeholders interested in discussing matters connected with the restructuring support agreement may contact GLAS Specialist Services Limited (lm@glas.agency), Houlihan Lokey (ProjectAtenasHL@hl.com) or Sidley Austin (Sidleyatento@sidley.com).
About Atento
Atento is the largest provider of customer relationship management and business process outsourcing ("CRM BPO") services in Latin America and one of the leading providers worldwide. Atento is also one of the leading providers of nearshoring CRM BPO services for companies operating in the United States. Since 1999, the Company has developed its business model in 16 countries, employing approximately 135,000 people. Atento has more than 400 clients, offering a wide range of CRM BPO services through multiple channels. Atento's clients are mostly leading multinational companies in telecommunications, banking and financial services, healthcare, retail and public administration sectors. Atento shares trade under the symbol ATTO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In 2019, Atento was named one of the 25 best multinational companies in the world and one of the best multinationals to work for in Latin America by Great Place to Work®. In addition, in 2021, Everest named Atento as a "star performer". Gartner has named the Company two consecutive years a leader in its Magic Quadrant since 2021. For more information visit www.atento.com
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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "intends," "continue" or similar terminology. These statements reflect only Atento's current expectations and are not guarantees of future events. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to; Atento's ability to negotiate and execute any further definitive documentation with respect to the restructuring transaction and to satisfy the conditions of the restructuring support agreement; ultimate outcome of the restructuring proceedings, obtaining required consents from third-parties and satisfying other conditions precedent for any additional financing that might be outside Atento's control; actions by Atento's lenders and other financing sources, including any creditor actions that could impact Atento's operations; Atento's ability to improve its capital structure and to address its debt service obligations through the restructuring transaction, including potential adverse effects of any potential bankruptcy proceedings on Atento's liquidity and results of operations; Atento's future cash requirements; competition in Atento's highly competitive industries; increases in the cost of voice and data services or significant interruptions in these services; Atento's ability to keep pace with its clients' needs for rapid technological change and systems availability; the continued deployment and adoption of emerging technologies; the loss, financial difficulties or bankruptcy of any key clients; the effects of global economic trends on the businesses of Atento's clients; the non-exclusive nature of Atento's client contracts and the absence of revenue commitments; security and privacy breaches of the systems Atento uses to protect personal data; the cost of pending and future litigation; the cost of defending Atento against intellectual property infringement claims; extensive regulation affecting many of Atento's businesses; Atento's ability to protect its proprietary information or technology; service interruptions to Atento's data and operation centers; Atento's ability to retain key personnel and attract a sufficient number of qualified employees; increases in labor costs and turnover rates; the political, economic and other conditions in the countries where Atento operates; changes in foreign exchange rates; Atento's ability to complete future acquisitions and integrate or achieve the objectives of its recent and future acquisitions; future impairments of our substantial goodwill, intangible assets, or other long-lived assets; and Atento's ability to recover consumer receivables on behalf of its clients. Atento is also subject to other risk factors described in documents filed by the company with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which the statements were made. Atento undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Annual Transportation Event Dedicated to Enhancing Supply Chain Collaboration and Connectivity
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) kicked off its 2022 Insight Tech Conference + Expo by highlighting its focus on empowering and enabling carriers, shippers and brokers to work better together. In Monday's Opening Session, Trimble leaders detailed its Connect and Scale 2025 strategy, centered on building industry-leading cloud platforms to streamline the industry lifecycle of transportation—from procurement to planning to execution.
"We are creating a digital experience that seamlessly integrates data, solutions and workflows to transform the way our customers work,'' said Rob Painter, president and CEO of Trimble. "By facilitating these connections, Trimble is uniquely positioned to make transportation more collaborative, productive and sustainable—for our customers, our planet and everyone the supply chain serves."
To support this commitment to collaboration, the 2022 edition of Insight showcases a variety of transportation industry suppliers, including integration partners and providers of competing solutions. This inclusive approach provides attendees with an unparalleled opportunity to learn about technology trends, share ideas and gain inspiration to enhance all aspects of their operations.
After hosting the event virtually in 2020 and 2021, this year's in-person conference features four days of networking and educational opportunities among industry leaders. Monday's Opening Session also gave attendees the opportunity to learn about Trimble's continued commitment to creating an ecosystem for all transportation stakeholders to be more connected.
"Since we last gathered together in person three years ago, the world has changed—but this change has reinforced the crucial role of technology in reducing inefficiencies and maximizing utilization throughout the industry," said Ron Bisio, senior vice president of Trimble Transportation. "We remain dedicated to developing solutions that not only solve our customers unique business challenges but enable them to improve collaboration and connectivity with partners across the supply chain."
The 2022 Insight Tech Conference + Expo takes place Aug. 14-17 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida. Highlights from this year's agenda include hundreds of educational sessions, customer recognition through the 2022 Ovation Awards and an engaging keynote with Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud + AI Group.
For more information on Insight 2022, visit: transportation.trimble.com/insight-2022.
Trimble Transportation is transforming the supply chain by empowering stakeholders—drivers, carriers, intermediaries and shippers—to connect via a common platform in order to integrate data and optimize procurement, planning and execution workflows to effectively maximize resource utilization. The unmatched combination of Trimble's enterprise transportation management systems (TMS) and asset maintenance solutions for the back office, driver mobility solutions and routing and navigation capabilities enable customers to more holistically respond to the challenging transportation demands driven by today's dynamic supply chain. For more information, visit: transportation.trimble.com.
Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble is transforming industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
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The North Alabama women’s golf team shot 17-over 305 in the final round to finish ninth at the Rivertown Invitational in Charleston, South Carolina, on Tuesday.
The Lions finished with a three-round total of 32-over 896.
High Point won the 19-team event with a 869. Tulane (873), host Charleston Southern (873), Boston College (878) and South Carolina Upstate (888) rounded out the top five.
High Point shot a 1-over in the final round.
Elon’s Kanokwan Ngamwong and Jacksonvil’s Susana Olivares tied for medalist honors with a 3-under 213.
Allycia Gan was UNA’s highest player on the leaderboard. She finished tied for 19th with a 4-over 220. She was 6-over on Tuesday, a day after shooting a program-low 67 in the second round on Monday.
The Lions play in the Samford Tournament on March 6-7.
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Taylor Swift is dominating the Billboard 200 charts.
Her re-recorded album "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" debuted at No. 1, marking the biggest week for any album this year, according to Billboard.
"Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" reportedly accounted for more than 700,000 units, which is a mix of traditional album sales streams and song downloads.
This is Swift's 12th No. 1 album, earning her the honor of having the most No. 1 albums among female solo artists. She was previously tied with Barbra Streisand.
That's not the only accomplishment for Swift this week. The "Look What You Made Me Do" singer now has four albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. Joining "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" are "Midnights," "Lover" and "Folklore"
She's the first artist to accomplish the feat since Herb Alpert in 1966.
SEE MORE: Everything you need to know about 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'
"Speak Now" was originally released in 2010 with her label, at the time, Big Machine Records. Swift vowed to re-record all of her albums that were released by Big Machine Records after she found out it was sold to Scooter Braun, who she called "manipulative."
Braun has since admitted to making mistakes during his purchase of Big Machine Records and said he's learned from the ordeal.
Swift, for her part, has gone on to be one of the most successful women in music. In addition to massive album sales, her "The Eras Tour" is packing huge stadiums across the country. In Denver on Friday and Saturday, more than 75,000 "Swifties" showed up to each of her shows.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made a stop in Laredo Monday to stress the need to go vote as the Nov. 8 midterm elections draw near.
Abbott, along with Congressional District 28 candidate Cassy Garcia, spoke to a large crowd outside the RNC Community Center as the event grew too large to hold inside the venue.
The two Republican candidates stressed why they are the best options for Texas compared to their opponents — Beto O’Rourke and Henry Cuellar, respectively.
“We are going to win this Nov. 8,” Abbott said. “We are going to show the contrast between what conservative policies the Republican party has been able to achieve in the great state of Texas versus the radical leftist ideology that are being pushed by people like Beto and the Democrats.”
Garcia added, “I don’t like what I am seeing in Washington. It’s a failed Biden, Pelosi and Cuellar agenda. ... It’s time for a change.”
Abbott spoke on a variety of topics, from property taxes to education. However, his biggest speaking point was the border.
For the past year and a half, Abbott has stated border security is his priority and the centerpiece of his reelection campaign.
He has taken unprecedented measures to curb illegal immigration – arresting and jailing migrants on state criminal charges; spending millions on bus tickets to send them to other cities; and for a few days, nearly shutting down international trade with Mexico to increase inspections of commercial trucks entering Texas. He has repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for an increase in migrants. And Monday was no different.
“One thing that’s even more dangerous is Joe Biden and the Democrats’ open-border policies,” Abbott said, as boos from the crowd followed.
Abbott spoke about how the drug trade from Mexico has become a major problem along the border. He wants to strengthen Texas’ border security and stop drugs like fentanyl from coming into the state. He spoke proudly how he has designated the cartels in Mexico as terrorist organizations.
“Last month, I declared the drug cartels to be a terrorist organization,” Abbott said.
Abbott also talked about how and why he has bused migrants to Washington D.C. and New York City. A person in attendance did scream, “build the wall,” when Abbott spoke about how he has bused migrants to other places around the nation.
When Garcia spoke, she too stressed border security — which has been a strong issue of her campaign.
“The border is broken,” Garcia said. “We are seeing the worst border crisis in history.
“It’s time to secure our border.”
Abbott also talked about how he feels kids are being taught to hate the United States in school, which he finds disgusting. He also mentioned how he plans to lower property taxes around the state.
While Abbott went over his campaign issues, the ultimate reason he came to Laredo was to convince people to go out and vote. He asked the crowd for each one of them to tell 100 of their friends to go vote. Abbott wants to secure the Hispanic voting population, and he believes he will.
“The winner or loser of this election isn’t going to be me,” Abbott said. “It’s going to be you — your family, your kids and your future.
“Only one thing wins elections: votes. Go vote.”
Voting has been an extreme priority locally due to lower turnout figures recently than many would prefer. In 2020, only 69,436 citizens out of the 137,095 who were registered voted. That led to the formation of the “Yes, I will vote!” campaign, which asked registered voters to get out to the polls.
Through Sunday night's totals, 16,664 have voted during early voting — or around 19.6% of the campaign's 85,000 goal.
Early voting continued Monday and will finish Friday prior to Election Day on Nov. 8.
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LONDON (AP) — Russian soldiers must be held accountable for raping Ukrainian women and committing other acts of sexual violence during Russia’s war in Ukraine, the country’s first lady, Olensa Zelenska, told an international conference on preventing sexual violence in conflicts Monday.
Zelenska told the London summit that sexual violence was being perpetrated “systematically and openly” as the war in Ukraine drags on. Phone recordings have shown Russian soldiers openly discussing rape with their relatives at home, Zelenska said.
“Sexual violence is the most cruel, most animalistic way to prove mastership over someone. And for victims of this kind of violence, it is difficult to testify in war times because nobody feels safe”, she said.
“This is another instrument that they’re using as their weaponry. This is another weapon in their arsenal in this war and conflict. That’s why they’re using this systematically and openly,” she added.
Zelenska then visited Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official residence at No. 10 Downing Street. She was greeted by Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, and the two women decorated the Christmas tree outside the residence in front of assembled photographers.
Zelenska is expected to address British lawmakers on Tuesday as part of her U.K. visit.
Sunak visited the Ukrainian capital Kyiv earlier this month, where he offered continued U.K. support to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. | 2022-11-29T00:24:31+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-ukraine-first-lady-attends-london-meeting-on-sexual-violence/ |
Over 10,000 people turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare every single day in the US that’s more than 3.5million per year. It is more important than ever to understand your options, get educated and make sure you are establishing a relationship with a trusted Medicare agent.
Today, Tom Qualley of Sovereign Select educates us on the importance of meeting with an independent insurance agent.
Sovereign Select is an independent insurance agency with access to dozens of Medicare supplement, Medicare Advantage and Part D drug plans. Our agents work with people that are on Medicare to find a Medicare health and drug plan that works specific to their needs.
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WASHINGTON — After a historic set of jackpot lottery wins earlier this year, the Mega Millions prize is on the rise again.
Tuesday's drawing offered a $322 million jackpot with a cash option of $170.1 million. Players must match all five white balls and the gold Mega Ball to win the grand prize.
The winning numbers for March 27 were 2-3-18-32-68 and the Mega Ball 24.
While nobody won the grand prize in Tuesday's drawing, one player in California did win $1 million by matching all the numbers except the Mega Ball.
Friday's jackpot now rises to $355 million, with a cash option of $187.6 million.
In January, the Mega Millions jackpot was won a total of four times, including a whopping $1.34 billion prize won in Maine. The month set a record for the lottery game, which had never seen four wins in a single month.
What are my chances of winning the Mega Millions?
The game's odds are 1 in 302.6 million.
Lucky winners can choose an annuity with annual payments over 29 years. Winners almost always take the cash option, which for Tuesday night’s drawing would have been around $170 million.
What are the largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
- $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.35 billion Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California) | 2023-03-29T14:55:14+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/mega-millions-winning-numbers-march-28-2023/507-574dc291-7035-4fb2-878f-1e01d87f9967 |
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Vertiv Holdings Co.
Shareholders who purchased shares of VRT 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 persons and entities that: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired Vertiv securities between February 24, 2021, and February 23, 2022, inclusive; and/or (b) purchased Vertiv shares in or traceable to the Company's secondary public offering of Class A common stock conducted on or around November 4, 2021.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Expanded partnership to consolidate distribution services and optimize supply chain
NORTHFIELD, Ill., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Medline today announced it has expanded its partnership with Georgia-based Wellstar Health System with a multi-year laboratory prime vendor agreement to help drive standardization, cost savings and operational efficiencies. As Wellstar's medical and surgical supplies partner for more than six years, Medline will now also provide an extensive portfolio of laboratory supplies and solutions across the system's nine hospital laboratories, molecular lab and multiple ambulatory labs.
"Medline has been a key partner for several years, but their team especially stepped up when we needed them most during the pandemic," said Brice Bruno, VP of laboratory services at Wellstar. "With the expansion into our laboratory operations, I feel confident that this partnership will enable us to further standardize across the entire Wellstar system, and the cost savings and efficiencies gained will help drive optimization in our supply chain."
Building on the longstanding strategic partnership, Medline's supply chain capabilities will help Wellstar improve its operational results by streamlining the integration of the laboratory business into the health system's broader supply chain operations. As part of the agreement, multiple Medline team members, including a full-time analyst, are dedicated to Wellstar, ensuring supply chain operational transparency and efficiency in a commitment to providing enhanced support and service. In addition, Wellstar's ability to easily monitor key metrics such as item utilization, contract compliance, price accuracy, and spend by product categories through Medline's advanced analytics platforms will extend to include its laboratory operations.
"Over the years, Medline has been committed to partnering with Wellstar, procuring the inventory needed and providing the system with continuously reliable, superior service," said Jennifer Griffin, divisional sales director for Medline. "We are excited to expand our prime vendor relationship by implementing Medline's unique approach to laboratory distribution and further demonstrating our rapid growth in this space."
Medline bridges the gap between clinical lab and supply chain efficiency, offering a broad portfolio of 120,000 products covering all major lab categories, including various Medline-branded products. Learn how Medline tailors solutions across the entire continuum of care as a manufacturer and distributor by visiting http://www.medline.com/supply-chain.
About Medline
Medline is a healthcare company; a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Partnering with healthcare systems and facilities across the continuum of care, Medline provides the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high-quality care. With the scale of one of the country's largest companies and the agility of a family-led business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the future and rapidly respond to a dynamically changing market with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 30,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 125 countries and territories. Learn more about Medline at http://www.medline.com.
About Wellstar Health System
At Wellstar, people are at the center of everything we do. By listening actively to what people want, need and expect from their healthcare, Wellstar is able to provide "More than Healthcare. PeopleCare." — at every age and stage. Nationally ranked and locally recognized for our personal, high-quality care, inclusive culture, and exceptional doctors and team members, Wellstar provides access to compassionate, high-quality care through our: 9 hospitals; 400+ medical office locations; 7 cancer centers; 84 rehabilitation centers; 3 hospice facilities; 1 retirement village; 34 imaging centers; 18 urgent care locations; and 5 health parks. As one of the largest and most integrated healthcare systems in Georgia, Wellstar is growing our services, capabilities, and ability to meet evolving patient needs. Our passion for people extends into the communities we serve. As a nonprofit health system, we thoughtfully reinvest annually in prevention and wellness programs, as well as charity care for eligible patients. Our Wellstar Foundation also supports our mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve with funding for equipment, services, and programs that provide more than healthcare. To learn more about how Wellstar is always listening, learning, and tailoring care to meet patients' individual needs, visit Wellstar.org.
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Brittany Luse is an award-winning journalist, on-air host, and cultural critic. She is the host of It's Been a Minute and For Colored Nerds. Previously Luse hosted The Nod and Sampler podcasts, and co-hosted and executive produced The Nod with Brittany and Eric, a daily streaming show. She's written for Vulture and Harper's Bazaar, among others, and edited for the podcasts Planet Money and Not Past It. Luse and her work have been profiled by publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, and Teen Vogue. | 2023-04-07T22:43:21+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-04-07/steven-yeun-talks-about-beef-his-new-hate-fueled-netflix-series-with-ali-wong |
SUZHOU, China, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- magAssist Inc. ("magAssist"), a leading global developer of extracorporeal life support devices, attended the 2022 Critical Heart Disease Congress - International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support Parallel Forum, where the firm shared the latest research results and technologies for the treatment of critical heart diseases with fellow cardiovascular researchers and experts, demonstrating its commitment to innovation and development in the field.
The forum was jointly held by 2022 CHDC and ISMCS (International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support) between December 29 – 31, 2022. The mission of the ISMCS is "provide a broad international forum for intensive discussion of research, development, clinical use and social acceptance of rotary blood pumps and all related forms of mechanical circulatory support". Dr. Hsu Po-Lin, the founder of magAssist and the Chinese board member of ISMCS, co-chaired the session with Dr. Antonio Loforte, President-elect ISMCS and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program Chair from S. Orsola Bologna Cardiothorac & Transplant Surgery and alongside several other cardiovascular experts from around the world.
During the session, Dr. Hsu Chia-Hao, Director of Science and Innovation at magAssist, gave a presentation introducing BreathMoAssist™, the next generation of portable extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system developed by magAssist. There is currently a strong clinical demand for ECMO in China. However, there are very limited Chinese-made ECMO devices available for clinical use, creating a gap between the huge clinical demand and the availability of Chinese-made products.
Featuring an integrated and portable modular design, weighing overall less than 10 kg, BreathMoAssist™ is easy for doctors to transport the equipment to the patient in need, reducing waiting time and increasing the success rate of treatment. The pump head uses magAssist's full magnetic levitation bearing technology, which has better hemocompatibility than mechanical bearings and can effectively reduce the formation of blood clots when used with artificial membrane lungs.
"magAssist tends to develop portable and intelligent ECMO systems," said Chia-Hao. 'magAssist's technology blueprint focuses on an intelligent, interconnected, platform-based solution for the treatment of multi-organ failure. magAssist will keep achieving effective synergy for multi-organ support, enhance therapeutic efficacy and reduce care costs through real-time state monitoring, resulting in the saving of more patients."
Prof. Dong Nianguo from Wuhan Union Hospital of China, then shared his clinical experience with the MoyoAssist extracorporeal ventricular assist system, which was jointly developed by Wuhan Union Hospital and magAssist. Wuhan Union Hospital of China is the first to connect the extracorporeal magnetically-levitated artificial heart through the jugular vein and the axillary artery in a minimally invasive approach to minimize patient harm. The procedure deploys a minimally invasive technique and enables upper-body cannulation without affecting the patient's lower limb movement. Patients on Extra-VAD can eat on their own and get out of bed, actions which help them recover and more comfortably await heart transplantation.
Up to Dec 28th 2022, MoyoAssist® Extra-VAD has been in clinical trials at 12 centers across China, with 37 patients enrolled for between 3 and 14 days. It has enabled left ventricular, right ventricular and biventricular assistance for different patients, and helps them transition to heart transplantation or other treatment. More than half of the patients at Wuhan Union Hospital were connected with MoyoAssist® Extra-VAD using minimally invasive procedures. The overall patient survival rate was 94.5%, which is satisfactory.
To conclude the forum, Loforte mentioned that the congress brings together people from different professions, such as physicians, engineers and technicians, and emphasized the importance of these professionals working together to provide the best possible outcome for patients. In the aftermath of the forum and looking ahead to 2023, magAssist will continue to innovate in the cardiovascular field, and embody the mission of ISMCS: to save lives and improve the quality of life for patients around the world.
Note: The forum invited several senior researchers and corporate executives from abroad who spoke about a range of issues in the cardiovascular field, including Dr. Daniel Timms, CEO of BiVACOR Inc., Dr. Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Scandinavian Real Heart AB, Dr. Shaun Gregory, Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Thomas Schlöglhoferh, Biomedical Engineer of Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Prof. Ashraf William Khir, Professor of Cardiovascular Mechanics at Durham University, and Dr. Xinli Du's team from the Brunel Institute for Bio-engineering.
Please refer to the congress link for session replays: https://www.drvoice.cn/v2/course/2930
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A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health said hormones could be started at age 14, two years earlier than the group's previous advice, and some surgeries done at age 15 or 17, a year or so earlier than previous guidance. The group acknowledged potential risks but said it is unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment.
The association provided The Associated Press with an advance copy of its update ahead of publication in a medical journal, expected later this year. The international group promotes evidence-based standards of care and includes more than 3,000 doctors, social scientists and others involved in transgender health issues.
The update is based on expert opinion and a review of scientific evidence on the benefits and harms of transgender medical treatment in teens whose gender identity doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth, the group said. Such evidence is limited but has grown in the last decade, the group said, with studies suggesting the treatments can improve psychological well-being and reduce suicidal behavior.
Starting treatment earlier allows transgender teens to experience physical puberty changes around the same time as other teens, said Dr. Eli Coleman, chair of the group's standards of care and director of the University of Minnesota Medical School's human sexuality program.
But he stressed that age is just one factor to be weighed. Emotional maturity, parents' consent, longstanding gender discomfort and a careful psychological evaluation are among the others.
"Certainly there are adolescents that do not have the emotional or cognitive maturity to make an informed decision," he said. "That is why we recommend a careful multidisciplinary assessment."
The updated guidelines include recommendations for treatment in adults, but the teen guidance is bound to get more attention. It comes amid a surge in kids referred to clinics offering transgender medical treatment, along with new efforts to prevent or restrict the treatment.
Many experts say more kids are seeking such treatment because gender-questioning children are more aware of their medical options and facing less stigma.
Critics, including some from within the transgender treatment community, say some clinics are too quick to offer irreversible treatment to kids who would otherwise outgrow their gender-questioning.
Psychologist Erica Anderson resigned her post as a board member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health last year after voicing concerns about "sloppy" treatment given to kids without adequate counseling.
She is still a group member and supports the updated guidelines, which emphasize comprehensive assessments before treatment. But she says dozens of families have told her that doesn't always happen.
"They tell me horror stories. They tell me, 'Our child had 20 minutes with the doctor'" before being offered hormones, she said. "The parents leave with their hair on fire.''
Estimates on the number of transgender youth and adults worldwide vary, partly because of different definitions. The association's new guidelines say data from mostly Western countries suggest a range of between a fraction of a percent in adults to up to 8% in kids.
Anderson said she's heard recent estimates suggesting the rate in kids is as high as 1 in 5 — which she strongly disputes. That number likely reflects gender-questioning kids who aren't good candidates for lifelong medical treatment or permanent physical changes, she said.
Still, Anderson said she condemns politicians who want to punish parents for allowing their kids to receive transgender treatment and those who say treatment should be banned for those under age 18.
"That's just absolutely cruel,'' she said.
Dr. Marci Bowers, the transgender health group's president-elect, also has raised concerns about hasty treatment, but she acknowledged the frustration of people who have been "forced to jump through arbitrary hoops and barriers to treatment by gatekeepers ... and subjected to scrutiny that is not applied to another medical diagnosis.''
Gabe Poulos, 22, had breast removal surgery at age 16 and has been on sex hormones for seven years. The Asheville, North Carolina, resident struggled miserably with gender discomfort before his treatment.
Poulos said he's glad he was able to get treatment at a young age.
"Transitioning under the roof with your parents so they can go through it with you, that's really beneficial,'' he said. "I'm so much happier now.''
In South Carolina, where a proposed law would ban transgender treatments for kids under age 18, Eli Bundy has been waiting to get breast removal surgery since age 15. Now 18, Bundy just graduated from high school and is planning to have surgery before college.
Bundy, who identifies as nonbinary, supports easing limits on transgender medical care for kids.
"Those decisions are best made by patients and patient families and medical professionals,'' they said. "It definitely makes sense for there to be fewer restrictions, because then kids and physicians can figure it out together.''
Dr. Julia Mason, an Oregon pediatrician who has raised concerns about the increasing numbers of youngsters who are getting transgender treatment, said too many in the field are jumping the gun. She argues there isn't strong evidence in favor of transgender medical treatment for kids.
"In medicine ... the treatment has to be proven safe and effective before we can start recommending it,'' Mason said.
Experts say the most rigorous research — studies comparing treated kids with outcomes in untreated kids — would be unethical and psychologically harmful to the untreated group.
The new guidelines include starting medication called puberty blockers in the early stages of puberty, which for girls is around ages 8 to 13 and typically two years later for boys. That's no change from the group's previous guidance. The drugs delay puberty and give kids time to decide about additional treatment; their effects end when the medication is stopped.
The blockers can weaken bones, and starting them too young in children assigned males at birth might impair sexual function in adulthood, although long-term evidence is lacking.
The update also recommends:
—Sex hormones — estrogen or testosterone — starting at age 14. This is often lifelong treatment. Long-term risks may include infertility and weight gain, along with strokes in trans women and high blood pressure in trans men, the guidelines say.
—Breast removal for trans boys at age 15. Previous guidance suggested this could be done at least a year after hormones, around age 17, although a specific minimum ag wasn't listed.
—Most genital surgeries starting at age 17, including womb and testicle removal, a year earlier than previous guidance.
The Endocrine Society, another group that offers guidance on transgender treatment, generally recommends starting a year or two later, although it recently moved to start updating its own guidelines. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support allowing kids to seek transgender medical treatment, but they don't offer age-specific guidance.
Dr. Joel Frader, a Northwestern University a pediatrician and medical ethicist who advises a gender treatment program at Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital, said guidelines should rely on psychological readiness, not age.
Frader said brain science shows that kids are able to make logical decisions by around age 14, but they're prone to risk-taking and they take into account long-term consequences of their actions only when they're much older.
Coleen Williams, a psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital's Gender Multispecialty Service, said treatment decisions there are collaborative and individualized.
"Medical intervention in any realm is not a one-size-fits-all option," Williams said.
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Deficiencies in the University of Iowa Children's Hospital "curtain wall system" at the center of a new lawsuit were observed during construction, left uncorrected, and have become prevalent.
The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights. The moved eases one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that the requirement will end early Sunday morning. The health agency said it will continue to monitor state of the pandemic and will reassess the need for a testing requirement if the situation changes. Airline and tourism groups had been pressing the administration to eliminate the testing requirement.
Country music star Toby Keith says he has been undergoing treatment for stomach cancer since last fall. The multi-platinum-selling singer said Sunday on Twitter that he underwent surgery and received chemotherapy and radiation in the past six months. The Oklahoma native turns 61 on July 8. He said in the post that he looks forward to spending time with his family. The status of Keith’s performances for the remainder of this year wasn’t immediately clear. His next performance is scheduled for June 17 in Wheaton, Illinois. His publicist, Elaine Schock, says some tour dates will be canceled.
In South Dakota, Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has tried to shape the Legislature to her liking. And in last week's primary, she publicly backed at least a dozen candidates, including several challengers to incumbents who are part of a contrarian group of Republicans. But two-thirds of the governor's favorites lost, and some of the lawmakers who survived her efforts to defeat them wonder why a governor they generally agree with went to such lengths to try to oust them. While endorsements often draw attention and financial resources, they don't always translate into voter support. It’s a lesson that Noem ally Donald Trump is learning as he falls short, notably in Georgia, in trying to punish Republicans who've crossed him.
“A Strange Loop,” an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice. Michael R. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner is a theater meta-journey and also won for best book. Many of the night’s Tonys were spread over several productions. “A Strange Loop” beat “MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop’s biggest hits for the top prize, although that Jackson musical nabbed four Tony Awards
U.S. regulators have historically inspected baby formula plants at least once a year, but they did not inspect any of the three biggest manufacturers in 2020. That's according to federal records reviewed by The Associated Press. The FDA has consistently inspected infant formula facilities annually. But in early 2020, the FDA pulled most of its safety inspectors from the field because of the pandemic. So it skipped thousands of routine plant inspections. The gap in baby formula plant inspections is getting new scrutiny from Congress and government watchdogs. That's because one Michigan factory had to be closed for contamination, turning a supply shortage into a full-blown crisis that sent parents scrambling to find formula.
A Cambodian court has convicted a Cambodian-American lawyer and dozens of members of a now-dissolved opposition party on charges of treason. Lawyer Theary Seng and most of the others were charged over a failed attempt by an opposition leader to return from exile in 2019. Many of the 60 defendants are exiled themselves or in hiding, and it’s not clear how many appeared in court for the verdict Tuesday. Cambodian courts are widely believed to be under the influence of authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen. The Cambodia National Rescue Party was his party’s biggest rival before it was disbanded by a court just ahead of national elections in 2018 that were swept by Hun Sen’s party.
Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches. An independent investigation found that Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled abuse cases and stonewalled victims. A woman from an independent Christian church confronted her pastor in a viral video for sexually preying on her as a teen. A documentary exposed sex abuse among the Amish and Mennonites. These and other reckonings are occurring five years after the rise of the hashtag #ChurchToo, part of the wider #MeToo movement. Says one advocate for survivors, “There is an absolute epidemic of abuse in the church.”
FILE - Dr. David Klein, right, an Air Force Major and chief of adolescent medicine at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, listens as Amanda Brewer, left, speaks with her daughter, Jenn Brewer, 13, as the teenager has blood drawn during a monthly appointment for monitoring her treatment at the hospital in Fort Belvoir, Va., on Sept. 7, 2016. Brewer is transitioning from male to female.
This photo provided by Laura Short shows Eli Bundy on April 15, 2022 at Deception Pass in Washington. In South Carolina, where a proposed law would ban transgender treatments for kids under age 18, Eli Bundy hopes to get breast removal surgery next year before college. Bundy, 18, who identifies as nonbinary, supports updated guidance from an international transgender health group that recommends lower ages for some treatments. | 2022-06-15T15:08:04+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/trans-kids-treatment-can-start-younger-new-guidelines-say/article_d6a1e575-c9c0-575f-a320-db52dfbea714.html |
FILE – New York Yankees pitcher Frankie Montas reacts after giving up an RBI single to Toronto Blue Jays’ George Springer during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, in New York. Montas needs shoulder surgery and will miss most or all of the New York Yankees’ season. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, FIle)
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SILVER SPRING, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency:
- Today, the FDA published a Conversations with Experts QA that focuses on the importance of the agency's engagement with international organizations, including World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization's Standards and Trade Development Facility, and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation's Food Safety Cooperation Forum, among others. In the conversation, the authors discuss the objectives of the collaboration and how collectively it supports the FDA mission and strengthens the global food safety system.
- On Monday, the FDA warned consumers to not purchase or use Nose Slap and Soul Slap products, which are unapproved drugs marketed to promote alertness and boost energy. These products are inhalants and primarily contain ammonia. Inhaling ammonia can quickly lead to eye, nose, and throat irritation; coughing; and airway constriction. The FDA has received reports of adverse events such as shortness of breath, seizures, migraines, vomiting, diarrhea, and fainting from consumers after using the Nose Slap or Soul Slap products. These products may have been purchased online through the Nose Slap website. On April 24, 2023, FDA issued a warning letter to Nose Slap LLC for marketing these unapproved drugs in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. These products have not been demonstrated to be safe or effective for their intended uses. Failure of the company to promptly correct violations may result in legal action without further notice, including, without limitation, product seizure and injunction.
- On Monday, the FDA released its third video on the topic of cybersecurity for medical devices. This new video, Tips for Health Care Facilities: Cybersecurity Incident Preparedness and Response, features Dr. Mark Jarrett, Chief Quality Officer from Northwell Health, with the key focus on how to prepare for a cybersecurity event and how to help ensure patient safety during a prolonged cybersecurity event. The video also points viewers to supplementary materials on the FDA website to help health care facilities plan.
- On Monday, the FDA approved the xT CDx (Tempus Labs Inc.), a next generation sequencing (NGS)-based companion diagnostic (CDx) that detects certain mutations in RAS genes in tumor samples of colorectal cancer patients to aid in the identification of patients who may be eligible for targeted treatment therapies with cetuximab or panitumumab. If Tempus xT CDx does not detect a mutation (presumed to be RAS mutation-negative), then panitumumab or cetuximab may be appropriate treatment options. In addition, the xT CDx can be used to detect the presence of somatic variants in 648 different genes using DNA isolated from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) tumor tissue specimens and matched normal blood or saliva specimens, from previously diagnosed cancer patients with solid malignant neoplasms.
Test results are generated using information from several databases including information derived from the FDA-recognized Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Oncology Knowledge Base (OncoKB), a tumor mutation database that contains detailed information regarding specific alterations in cancer genes. This is the latest example of the FDA's ongoing commitment to advance access to diagnostic testing that has reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness and is intended to aid health care professionals in making more informed decisions for patients. - On Friday, the FDA published a Consumer Update warning consumers the agency reviewed several incidents of serious adverse events associated with the use of Apetamin, which is being marketed illegally for weight gain and figure augmentation. Although, the FDA restricted importation of Apetamin, the product continues to find its way into the U.S. market, often via online marketing and in some retail stores, and is being is heavily promoted and sold online.
- On Wednesday, the FDA published a Consumer Update warning consumers that the agency continues to receive adverse event reports related to selective androgen receptor modulators, commonly called SARMs. Social media posts by influencers and sellers of SARMs contribute to the availability and promotion of these dangerous products.
- On Monday, April 24, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Status COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test for Home Use (manufactured by Princeton BioMeditech Corp.). Validation data to support the EUA of this test was gathered through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Independent Test Assessment Program (ITAP), established as a collaboration between the FDA and the NIH. The test can be used for serial testing for symptomatic people within the first 5 days of symptom onset or for people who do not have symptoms, and shows results in 15 minutes. This test should always be repeated if a negative result is found - at least 2 times over 3 days with at least 48 hours between tests if the person has symptoms, or at least 3 times over 5 days with at least 48 hours between tests if the person does not have symptoms. The test can be used for people ages 14 years or older with a self-collected nasal swab sample and ages 2 years or older when an adult collects the nasal swab sample.
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Mercedes-Benz has revealed a limited-edition version of its EQS electric hatchback that dials up the luxury factor.
The EQS Manufaktur Signature Edition arrives at U.S. dealerships this spring, bringing with it hand-crafted elements. It will be available in the EQS 580 4Matic and AMG EQS grades, but not the lower-level EQS 450+ and EQS 450 4Matic.
Most of the attention went to the interior, which gets hand-stitched nappa leather for the seats, steering wheel, center console, lower dashboard, and door panels. The seats also get microfiber pillows for their headrests, while the center console has chrome “Manufaktur” lettering. EQS 580 4Matic models also include a key fob in gloss black or rose gold.
Four color combinations are available, two for each model. The EQS 580 4Matic is available with Silicon Gray paint and Mystic Red leather or Rubellite Red Metallic with Deep White leather. The AMG EQS can be had in Night Black Magno or Kalahari Gold Magno, both with Deep White leather. A custom paint process is used for the exterior colors, according to Mercedes.
Manufaktur is the name for Mercedes’ personalization division, which provides more choices of exterior color and interior trim materials beyond the standard selections. Originally called Designo Manufaktur, it’s been available on the G-Class for several years. Mercedes expanded availability to other models, including the S-Class, CLS-Class, and AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, in 2021, saying at the time that it would continue expanding the program to other models in the future, including the EQ line. Now that’s finally happening.
Only a limited number of EQS Manufaktur Signature Edition sedans will be sold in the U.S., but Mercedes didn’t specify how many, or how much they would cost. It also remains to be seen whether other EQ models will get the Manufaktur treatment, although the recent launch of the Maybach EQS 680 SUV does add a more exclusive version of that model.
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Two people escape house fire in Beaver Falls
Fire spread to second floor of home
Two people escape house fire in Beaver Falls
Fire spread to second floor of home
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National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Sunday predicted Democrats will get a “rude awakening” on Election Day, anticipating Republicans cruising to a majority in the upper chamber on issues like inflation and crime.
“I think the Democrats are going to get a rude awakening on Nov. 8 that high inflation, high crime, open border is not what the American public wants,” Scott told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz.
The economy and inflation has consistently ranked as a top issue for voters as the midterms approach, providing a major political liability for Democrats as they attempt to maintain their razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate.
Annual inflation has hit a 40-year high, and although price gains have since eased slightly, consumer prices still remain elevated and rose 8.2 percent in the year ending in September.
Republicans have consistently portrayed Democrats as soft on crime and criticized the Biden administration’s immigration policies in their midterm messaging, while Democrats have looked to court voters by stressing issues like abortion.
If the GOP takes control of either chamber, the party is expected to pursue a variety of investigations into the Biden administration, with the targets ranging from his son, Hunter Biden, to White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci.
But when asked what those investigations would look like under a Republican-controlled Congress on Sunday, Scott sidestepped the question and focused on policy objectives instead, saying Republicans would pass “good legislation” that he hoped Biden would sign.
“What you hope is that we figure out how to get inflation down, and that means we have to live within our means,” Scott said on ABC.
“What you hope is that we get a secure border,” he added. “We can get some immigration reform done but you can’t do it without a secure border. You hope that we start supporting our law enforcement. I know Republicans do, I hope the Democrats start doing this.”
Scott earlier this year released a policy agenda outlining potential Republican policy proposals, including a controversial provision that would sunset all federal legislation every five years without additional congressional action.
Democrats have seized on the plan to convince voters that Republicans plan to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, which Scott and other Republicans have rejected.
Scott’s plan also sparked tension with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was eager to portray the elections as a referendum on Democrats rather than focusing on GOP policy initiatives. | 2022-10-30T17:44:43+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/rick-scott-says-democrats-will-get-a-rude-awakening-on-election-day/ |
DUBLIN, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO) ("Perrigo" or "the Company"), a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products, today announced that it has received notification that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has postponed the joint meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee, previously planned for November 18, 2022, to discuss the Company's application for Opill® once daily oral contraceptive for OTC use. The rescheduled date for the joint advisory committee meeting has not yet been determined.
FDA postponed the meeting in order to review additional information requested related to the Opill® Rx-to-OTC switch. In a notice received from the FDA, the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date for Opill® has been extended by 90 days. The Company will continue to work collaboratively with the FDA to ensure a timely and thorough review.
Earlier this year, Perrigo's affiliate HRA Pharma filed its application with the FDA for the Rx-to-OTC switch of Opill®, a progestin-only daily birth control pill (also referred to as a mini pill or non-estrogen pill). If approved, Opill® would be the first ever daily birth control pill available OTC—without a prescription—in the U.S.
About Perrigo
Perrigo Company plc (NYSE; PRGO) is a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products and over-the-counter (OTC) health and wellness solutions that enhance individual well-being by empowering consumers to proactively prevent or treat conditions that can be self-managed. Visit Perrigo online at www.perrigo.com.
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Certain statements in this press release relate to future events and may therefore be considered "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the Company or its industry to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Often such factors may be beyond our control, including risks and uncertainties regarding the occurrence and timing of regulatory activities, such as the postponed FDA advisory committee meeting described above. While the Company believes that the FDA advisory committee meeting will be rescheduled, there can be no assurances that such meeting will occur, or that it will not be further postponed or rescheduled. Nor can the outcome of that meeting be predicted. In particular, there can be no assurance that the FDA will approve the sale of daily oral contraceptives without a prescription in the United States. The foregoing and other important factors, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 2, 2022, as well as the Company's subsequent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made only as of the date hereof, and unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Icon is known for its FJ Toyota Land Cruiser restomods, and the California company is showcasing another impressive build based on the legendary Toyota off-roader.
Called the FJ43 Bandeirante, the vehicle is actually one of Icon’s earliest builds and is based on a model that is a rare sight on U.S. roads. Icon built this vehicle for a customer more than 20 years ago and recently reacquired it.
As the name implies, the FJ43 Bandeirante uses the body of the Toyota Bandeirante, the unique version of the Land Cruiser made exclusively for the Brazilian market from 1968-2001. Icon founder and lead designer Jonathan Ward was able to gain access to several Bandeirante bodies after some work he did with Toyota during the early 2000s.
The FJ43 Bandeirante rides on a stretched 1965 FJ40 chassis, hence the FJ43 designation, as the FJ43 was essentially a longer FJ40. It also features the dash of a 1983 FJ40, though it’s modified to match the rare U.S.-spec dash offered that year.
A Toyota engine isn’t under the hood. For this project vehicle, Icon went with a 5.7-liter V-8 sourced from General Motors. The engine is mated to a Toyota H-55 5-speed manual transmission, though, as well as a split-case, 19-spline transfer case.
While Icon has no plans to sell the FJ43 Bandeirante, the company can build customers an FJ40 or FJ43, with prices starting from $195,000 and $202,000, respectively. Icon’s website has an online configurator that lets potential buyers arrive at their ideal configuration, not only for the FJ but all current Icon project vehicles.
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If you or someone you know needs resources or support related to sexual violence, contact the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s 24/7 hotline at 800-871-7741.
The top prosecutor for Hancock and Washington counties was trailing his challenger Wednesday morning in his bid for a third term.
Matthew Foster’s reelection bid was thrown into doubt last week after it was revealed that he was criminally investigated for alleged sexual abuse of a child, and lied about it at an October candidates forum.
Robert Granger, a lawyer from Blue Hill who is running as an independent, had a 1,200-vote lead late Wednesday morning, according to unofficial results. Between the two counties, 86 percent of the precincts had reported their results.
The Bangor Daily News reported last week that the attorney general’s office in 2018 investigated allegations that Foster sexually abused a girl over a six- to eight-month period more than a decade ago, when he allowed the then-13-year-old and her mother to live with him in his Ellsworth home after their apartment had fallen into disrepair.
Kathleen Hinerman, now 25, said Foster touched and kissed her in a sexual manner on multiple occasions. She provided documentation of the attorney general’s office investigation to the BDN. The office ultimately decided not to charge Foster.
At an Oct. 12 candidates’ forum, Foster was asked whether he had ever been criminally investigated by the Maine attorney general’s office since becoming an attorney. He answered, “No.”
Foster later said he answered the question because it is against the law to release investigative information, though he acknowledged the denial constituted an answer to the question. He has denied Hinerman’s allegations.
If he pulls out a win, Granger will inherit the highest-profile case pending in the counties’ district attorney’s office — the criminal prosecution of former two-time gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler on felony child pornography possession charges.
Foster recused himself from handling the case last week because his defense attorney Walter McKee is also representing Cutler.
Even before Hinerman went public, the election had been closely watched as opposition to Foster mounted among Washington County officials and others connected to the criminal justice system. They accused Foster of neglecting Washington County prosecutions, and of failing to pursue a high number of sexual assault complaints that police had forwarded to his office.
Washington County officials tried to establish a separate prosecutorial district, but a legislative bill to establish it died last winter in the Maine Senate. Both Foster and Granger said during the campaign that the two counties should continue to be served by one district attorney.
Despite the criticism in Washington County, Foster carried the largely Republican county, so far getting 60 percent of the vote there. Granger appears to have prevailed in more populous Hancock County, especially in the Blue Hill area and on Mount Desert Island, winning 56 percent of the county-wide vote to Foster’s 44 percent.
If Granger is declared the winner, his four-year term as district attorney would begin on Jan. 1, 2023. | 2022-11-09T17:58:11+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/11/09/news/hancock/foster-granger-da-election/ |
Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway. | 2023-02-07T00:09:57+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-02-06/a-preview-of-the-state-of-the-union-address |
Rescuers use kayaks to reach pilot after crash in icy creek
EDGEWATER, Md. (AP) — Rescuers used kayaks to reach the pilot of a small airplane that crashed into an icy creek near a Maryland airport and began to sink, state police said.
Witnesses told police that moments after the Piper Cherokee took off from Lee Airport in Edgewater on Monday, they heard it sputter and crash into Beards Creek, Maryland State Police said in a news release. An Anne Arundel County police officer who heard the call and two people nearby jumped into action, using kayaks on the frozen creek, police said.
John Gelinne Sr., a retired naval officer, said he thought the plane would hit his home before it crashed in the creek, news outlets reported.
“We saw the bottom of the aircraft, very close, and then it skipped and then went in the water right there,” he said.
Gelinne and his son, John Gelinne Jr., a Marine, grabbed kayaks and used shovels to skim across the ice to the pilot, whom authorities identified as Steve Couchman.
Couchman, 71, of Prince Frederick, was standing on the wing as the plane sank and stayed afloat by hanging on to a kayak, police said.
“He was very calm,” Gelinne said. “I think hypothermia might have been starting to come in.”
Department of Natural Resources Police arrived on a boat, cut through the ice and pulled Couchman to safety, police said. He was then taken to a hospital, where he was treated for injuries from the crash.
The Gelinnes acted “heroically” and likely saved Couchman’s life, said Anne Arundel County Fire Department Lt. Jennifer Macallair.
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Our panel of 100 influential leaders discusses the most important issues affecting you.
Anthony J. Abbate, architect
Last week: With a case of polio reappearing in New York, alarm bells are going off as this debilitating and deadly disease is highly contagious. Growing up in the ’60s, I remember well the images of iron lungs, leg braces and the misery and deaths caused by the scourge of polio. According to Rotary International, the world’s largest service organization, which rallied its members 35 years ago to eradicate polio, there was only one reported case in Afghanistan and seven in Pakistan this year. However, folks need to do their part and get vaccinated! The man in New York was not.
Looking ahead: In the weeks ahead, we will be looking for the latest update to the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Action Plan (RCAP 3.0). A draft is posted for comment until Aug. 23 on the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact public website, southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org. This tool provides guidance on coordinating action across South Florida to build climate resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Cindy Arenberg Seltzer, president, Children's Services Council of Broward County
Last week: The story this week of a Deerfield Beach teenager being brutalized by other teenagers for the second time because of his sexual orientation is a stark reminder that words matter and hate-filled rhetoric leads to violence. There are varying opinions about when and what children should learn about sex and sexuality, but I hope we can all agree that we are all human beings who deserve to be safe in our communities. As adults, we have an obligation to not dehumanize those we disagree with. Our children are listening, watching and acting on our example.
Audra Berg, president and CEO, Jewish Federation of Broward County
Last week: Sustainability and appreciation for the environment is part of the fabric of Jewish life around the world. I applaud Congress for acting to combat climate change, an issue that is inextricably tied to the future of our planet.
Looking ahead: As early voting begins across Broward County, it reminds us that regardless of party affiliation, democracy is at the heart of our republic. It’s why our Jewish Community Relations Council partners with A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy and hundreds of other organizations to ensure free and fair elections and protect and strengthen democratic culture.
Kathleen Cannon, president, United Way of Broward County
Looking ahead: Wishing all of the students, teachers and parents good luck on their first day of school! The past few years have certainly been challenging for everyone, but this year is a great opportunity for a bright new beginning. For the teachers, you are rock stars — thank you for your commitment to educating our children! Parents, I encourage you to continue motivating and inspiring your children. To each of the students, the first day of school can be exciting, maybe even a little bit scary, but you’ve got this! Let’s make this year the best one yet!
Angelo Castillo, commissioner, Pembroke Pines
Last week: When truthful, honest, independent news coverage is missing, democracy suffers and ultimately citizens get less in terms of government representation than they deserve. This is why I support the Sun Sentinel's Community News Fund. A tax deductible contribution will help the Sun Sentinel's newly created nonprofit organization hire community news journalists throughout Broward to engage in watchdog journalism that holds public officials accountable. There are many worthy charities and causes in our community and each of them is important to addressing or solving a significant concern. We now have one more to consider. By donating to this fund, Broward County will get more information about what happens in cities and communities. And that can only make those cities and communities better performers for the people they serve. When we invest in the truth, at every level, we become a better people. Support the Sun Sentinel Community News Fund.
Michael De Lucca, president, Broward Regional Health Planning Council, Inc.
Last week: According to the latest Kids Count Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Florida ranks 35th in the nation for children’s well-being for the third year in a row. The reports highlighted mental health for the first time. The number of kids in Florida with anxiety and depression rose by 21.8% from 2016 to 2020. “By investing in mental health and strengthening the safety net, state lawmakers can help ensure that children in Florida will be able to thrive,” said Norin Dollard, senior policy analyst and Kids Count director for the Florida Policy Institute. View the report at assets.aecf.org/m/databook/2022-KCDB-profile-embargoed-FL.pdf.
Looking ahead: The U.S. declared monkeypox a national health emergency on Aug. 4. As of last week, the preliminary data shows Miami-Dade has recorded 367 cases of monkeypox, Broward has recorded 330 and statewide there are 938 cases. The United States has confirmed more than 7,000 cases. Monkeypox, a disease that is known to cause fever, painful pimple-like rashes and swollen lymph nodes, can spread through intimate contact with the rash, respiratory secretions or by touching contaminated objects, such as clothing and bedding. If you have symptoms of monkeypox, contact your health care provider immediately for advice, testing and medical care.
Dr. Michael Dennis, chair, FAU Schmidt College of Medicine
Last week: Statistics released this week magnify the impact of the COVID pandemic, which seems endless. Example: Nursing homes in America are a compassionate, dedicated service to people requiring special medical attention. However, a study found facilities have struggled to fill their staffs since they've lost more than half their nurses and aides in the past year. The high quality care that the nursing staff provides is key to a healthy, supportive environment for those in need of bedside and ambulatory management. America's skilled-nursing facilities serve a growing elderly population with greater needs than previous generations and should not be ignored by policymakers.
Looking ahead: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which passed the Senate by the narrow margin of Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote, appears very promising. Reining in the dramatic inflationary increase that penalizes so many Americans is a top priority. Fortunately, there are many possible other improvements including augmenting the supply of energy commodities, reducing the price of pharmaceutical products by using the government's purchasing power, making it easier to obtain good health care, and even cleaning the environment through measures to fight climate change. It's an optimistic agenda requiring full federal support and statewide cooperation.
Ted Deutch, member, U.S. House of Representatives
Last week: In my very first political speech, I stressed the importance of allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Even then, as Americans faced soaring prescription costs, health systems in our peer nations were able to negotiate needed savings for their citizens. That changed this week, when Congress sent the Inflation Reduction Act to President Joe Biden’s desk. While the bill makes critical progress in multiple other areas, too — combating climate change, improving energy security, and more — even if drug negotiation were the only thing it did, it would be a major accomplishment that will help American families save money and stay healthy.
Howard Dvorkin, CPA, chairman, Debt.com
Looking ahead: Gas prices are falling and recession fears are fading on stronger-than-expected employment numbers. Happy times are here again, right? Sadly, no. Consumer prices still rose 8.5% in July from the previous year, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said recently that household debt surpassed $16 trillion in the second quarter — a sad new record. America’s middle class barely had time to recover from the Great Recession before there was a pandemic and now rampant inflation. They’ll need an extended period of financial peace and quiet before the good times roll again.
Lamar Fisher, vice mayor, Broward County
Last week: Early voting in Broward County begins Saturday, Aug. 13 and runs through Aug. 21. For those seeking to go vote in person during this time, please visit BrowardVotes.gov to find the nearest early voting site. Due to redistricting and precinct changes, these sites may have changed from years past. Additionally, Saturday, Aug. 13 is the last day to request a vote-by-mail ballot. Those who already have their ballots in hand may return their ballots via USPS, dropped off at any early voting location via a secure drop box or in person at the SOE building in Lauderhill.
Looking ahead: As students in Broward County begin school this upcoming week, our Mobility Advancement Program Division is proud to celebrate the completion of numerous road projects in our community. These projects include over 20 safety school zones, pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements, upgraded intersections, resiliency improvements, transit enhancements, road resurfacing and thousands of feet of new fiberoptic cabling acting as the foundation for signal system technological improvements. These improvements are provided by your surtax dollars as well as other funding sources. Making our roads safer for the start of a new school year!
Anna Fusco, president, Broward Teachers Union
Last week: Broward County teachers started back to school this past Tuesday, and ESPs or support educators began Friday getting everything ready to kick off the 2022-23 school year when students return this Tuesday, Aug. 16. Why not open lines of communication with your child's teachers and support staff now by sending them an email with happy thoughts and welcome back greetings? Communication is key to a wonderful school year and builds relationships for students and educators alike. Everyone needs a little encouragement in their day, and educators need your kindness. They are just regular people, superheroes at heart, who sincerely care about their students.
Dan Gropper, dean, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University
Last week: Among the two major stories this week, the FBI raided the Florida home of Donald Trump, while news outlets on the left argued whether it should be called a raid. The major spending bill promoting "green" energy and tax increases moved closer to passage. Meanwhile, the monthly inflation numbers fell, but only to 8.5%, remaining high even though gasoline prices fell. The mayor of New York City complained that several busloads of illegal migrants were sent to NYC from Texas, while the Texas governor noted that thousands were crossing the border into his state. In addition, the Chinese Communist Party conducted extensive military exercises around Taiwan. It is no wonder people are concerned.
Marlon A. Hill, of counsel, Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman, P.L.
Last week: With the Jamaican diaspora celebrating its 60th anniversary of independence last week with a plethora of local events and commemorations, it is evident that this immigrant community has emerged as a visible fixture of South Florida's multicultural landscape. As a result of this community integration, the Jamaican community will also bear the burden of greater scrutiny of elected leaders, candidates and others holding positions of power. It is incumbent on the community to properly vet, nurture and support those leaders who will represent the community's spirit of excellence and resilience.
Jason Hughes, executive director, ArtServe
Last week: Although the world knew for some time she wasn’t in good health, the passing of four-time Grammy-winning vocalist, actor and dancer Olivia Newton John this week was a sad shock to generations of people worldwide who loved her. We saw her transform the traditional 1950s-era “good girl” paradigm into a whole new genre of female empowerment not only through the beloved movie “Grease,” but in her subsequent song “Physical” that tapped the then-new medium of music videos to make it the longest-running music hit single of the 1980s. Her vast talent assures her immortality in our hearts and pop-culture history.
Looking ahead: The recently enacted CHIPS Act to promote American-made semiconductors also authorizes the United States to continue participating in the International Space Station (ISS) through 2030 — an extension of six years. This marks the first NASA authorization bill to pass Congress in five years. Not owned by any one single nation, the ISS is a co-operative project among Europe, the United States, Russia, Canada and Japan, and the largest single structure humans have ever put into space. Essentially completed between 1998 and 2011, the ISS evolves with new missions and experiments, and has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
Christine Hunschofsky, member, Florida House of Representatives
Last week: Our veterans risked their health and safety to protect our freedoms and lifestyle in this country. We all owe them a debt of gratitude not only in our words but also in our actions. Last week, President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act, which expands VA health care services to veterans who have been exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances. The act’s passage is monumental, but it almost didn’t happen due to political posturing in the Senate. Only after a massive public outcry did the Senate minority vote change. Supporting our veterans must continue to be a top priority.
Looking ahead: Broward Schools are back in session this week. It’s both an exciting and stressful time for parents and children. School zones will be back and it will take us all a little longer in the mornings to get to work or school. Please allow yourselves extra time and extra patience in the morning to make the start of school a less stressful one. Pay attention to your speed limit in the school zones and watch out for students who are walking or biking to school. Wishing all our students, teachers, staff and administration a safe, happy and productive school year!
Ina Lee, owner, Travelhost Elite of Greater Fort Lauderdale
Last week: In a victory for some of President Joe Biden’s and Democrats’ priorities, the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act passed, which includes $375 billion over the next decade to fight climate change; capping prescription drugs at $2,000 out of pocket for seniors, helping pay for private health insurance and $300 billion toward paying down federal deficits. Although definitely less robust than what was requested, it certainly is a substantial win. It will be paid for in part by new corporate taxes including a $15% minimum tax on big corporations.
Looking ahead: In another example of Gov. Ron DeSantis' bullying style of leading our state, he suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren because of his statements about not prosecuting those who violate the new abortion law or perform gender-affirming care. Warren did nothing illegal in his statements. This is just the latest action by DeSantis that is very concerning about our freedom of speech and expressing views that don't fit with his political agenda.
Wendy Sartory Link, supervisor of elections, Palm Beach County
Last week: Early voting for the August primary election began this week. As of Thursday, Aug. 11, 5,196 Palm Beach County voters have voted early and 84,088 have voted by mail. Election Day is Tuesday, Aug. 23, and voters vote at their assigned polling location. Voter ID cards were recently sent to all voters with their updated precinct number and voting precinct. For more information, please visit votepalmbeach.gov.
Looking ahead: The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13. Our main office will be open that Saturday to serve voters. A mail ballot may also be picked up in person at one of our four offices until 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22. Voters can mail their vote-by-mail ballot using pre-paid postage, or drop it off inside any of our four offices during business hours or at an early voting location during early voting hours.
Bob Mayersohn, city commissioner, Parkland; president, Broward League of Cities
Last week: The Florida League of Cities’ annual conference was held this past week in Hollywood. This year was a special one as the league celebrated its 100-year anniversary. Representing over 400 cities statewide, this conference provided an opportunity to share experiences, exchange ideas and discuss future legislation. It was also an occasion for our one Broward community to recognize new statewide leadership. Mayor Wayne Messam of Miramar was installed as the President of the Florida League of Mayors and Mayor Greg Ross of Cooper City was installed as the First Vice President of the Florida League of Cities.
Looking ahead: Monday, Aug. 15, is the day to showcase the pride you have in your city and local government by participating in the seventh annual City Hall Selfie Day. All employees, elected officials and residents are encouraged to take a selfie photo in front of your city hall, library, police or fire station or any other local government building. Creativity is encouraged. Embrace the moment, let your friends and neighbors know about it, and share your pride on social media using the hashtag #CityHallSelfieDay!
Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson, president and CEO, Community Foundation of Broward
Last week: Average national gas prices dipping below $4 per gallon was a welcome sign that inflation woes could be getting better. In South Florida, where our lives are so dependent on cars, gas prices are a very relatable consequence of the inflation crisis. We have all been paying more to go to work, run errands and accomplish other day-to-day activities. Yet for people already struggling to make ends meet, paying more at the pump makes it harder to feed families, buy medicine and keep the lights on. For their sake, let’s hope we are on the road to inflation relief.
Looking ahead: On Aug. 25, there’s an opportunity for residents to enjoy the arts as they learn about ways to promote equity and embrace diversity. Ashanti Cultural Arts hosts “The Arts: A creative bridge to social justice” at the E. Pat Larkins Community Center in Pompano Beach. This fun event features live music, refreshments and a discussion with community leaders intended to heighten awareness, deepen knowledge and encourage positive action for social justice. This important dialogue is a natural extension of Ashanti’s mission to provide premier programs in literacy, music, dance and wellness in our community. Learn more at ashanticulturalarts.org.
Frank Ortis, mayor, Pembroke Pines
Last week: The first step in prohibiting smoking in our city parks passed at our recent commission neeting. After the second reading is passed, signs will go up in our parks making them smoke free zones. We no longer will have to tolerate second-hand smoke as we enjoy a day at a park. Our ordinance comes after the Florida Legislature passed the Florida Clean Air Act this past session, which allows cities to regulate and prohibit smoking within the boundaries of city parks. This is not only a clean air issue, it also means cleaner parks with no more cigarette butts.
Looking ahead: A just-released report ranks Florida 35th out of 50 states in child well-being when it comes to health issues and 13th in education, which took into account factors such as fourth-grade reading proficiency and eighth-grade math proficiency. Should we be pleased with these rankings? No. I believe we need to do so much more for our children in addressing these issues. The report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation also ranked Florida 42nd in economic well-being, which took into account children living in poverty or whose parents lack secure employment. It’s time to make our children a top priority.
Larry Rein, CEO and President, ChildNet
Last week: A Tuesday Sun Sentinel article describing two fatal crashes between a Tesla vehicle apparently running on autopilot and motorcycles perplexes. I, for one, just don’t get it. Why does anyone need or want a vehicle to drive itself? Modern technology can magnificently assist drivers and enhance safety with cameras and warnings that alert us to things we might not otherwise see. We welcome them and their value. But where is the advantage in letting a machine do all the driving? Seeking total relief from the “burden” of driving? Take a bus, train, cab, Uber. Simpler, safer and more economical.
Kerry Ann Royes, CEO, YWCA South Florida
Looking ahead: With the start of a new school year just around the corner, we need to make sure our children have safe, nurturing opportunities after their school day ends. After-school programs are an important aspect of healthy youth development. From academic support, sports, arts, mentorship and more, these programs are proven to help working parents and inspire young minds. One of my favorite things about my job is visiting our centers and seeing our kids in a thriving environment — the friendships, the games being played, the support provided by a tutor — that’s the beauty of our after-school programming. Registration is open at ywcasouthflorida.org.
Maria Sachs, member, Palm Beach County Commission
Last week: First it was an “inconvenient truth,” then it became the talk of cocktail parties in woke cities, now it's part of our regular weather report — climate change. Unfortunately, the climate is now being reported on national news as people around the world are dying from excessive heat, thousands of acres of forests are ablaze and city residents are suffering from floods or drought. The climate is changing and it's affecting all of us, wherever we live. We in Palm Beach County can do something about this global phenomenon. We have a chance to preserve and protect our agriculture, to support our local farmers who want to continue to farm and to keep our preserved lands preserved. These actions not only support one area of our county but contribute to a stable healthy environment to our beach communities and to all who call Palm Beach County home.
Looking ahead: School has started, and on every parent's mind is not so much the selection of classes nor the color of this year's backpack — no, it's the safety of our children. With the massacre of the Parkland tragedy in the background, this year's school start is particularly poignant. There is nothing more important to a family than the safety of their children; everything pales in significance. When the discussion begins as to which law enforcement agency is more adept at providing security at our schools, the one clear answer is that agency that is better trained, more skilled and day-one ready to protect our most valuable asset, our children.
John "Jack" Seiler, former mayor, Fort Lauderdale
Last week: The FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, that may have been illegally removed from the White House when the former president departed in 2021. When the search warrant was executed this week, Trump was at Trump Tower in New York, not in Florida. In February of this year, the National Archives previously stated at least 15 boxes of White House records were already recovered from the resort, including some that were classified.
Looking ahead: Americans struggling with inflation are finally getting some relief at the gas pump. For the first time since March, the national average price for regular gasoline dropped below $4 a gallon, according to the American Automobile Association. This good news comes after gas prices hit a record high of over $5 a gallon in June, largely due to soaring global oil prices in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The steady decline in gas prices has been driven by multiple factors, including recession fears knocking down oil prices and many people cutting back on driving when gas prices spiked.
Richard Stark, former member, Florida House of Representatives
Last week: Abuse of power by Gov. Ron DeSantis must be called out. Suspending Andrew Warren, a two-time elected state attorney in Hillsborough County, because he declined to agree with the state abortion ban and that he would not prosecute violations of the statute is abusive use of office by the governor. This is a trend that continues, and must stop. Time for the governor to become a statesman for all of us instead of a narrow base of his supporters.
Gregory Tony, Broward Sheriff
Looking ahead: Back to school is here! As you head back into the classroom this week, know the men and women of the Broward Sheriff’s Office are ready for your safe return. On Thursday, our captains and school resource deputies participated in an active assailant training at an area high school, part of a weeklong initiative focused on preparedness and response. I encourage parents and caregivers to take these final few days to review important back-to-school safety tips to ensure your child’s school year is safe and prosperous. A list of great tips is available on sheriff.org or at bit.ly/3CKzuSG.
Dean Trantalis, mayor, Fort Lauderdale
Looking ahead: The 2022 midterm primary elections are taking place. Mail-in ballots have already gone out. If you’ve received a mail-in ballot, drop it off at a secure vote-by-mail drop off location or bring it with you to vote in-person and return it to an official poll worker. View a list of drop off locations at browardvotes.gov/Election-Information/Drop-Box-Locations. Early voting takes place Aug. 13-21. Vote early if you can to avoid long lines on Election Day. Primary Election Day is Tuesday, Aug. 23. Be aware that your polling location may have changed this year. To confirm your official polling location, visit browardvotes.gov/voter-information/precinct-finder. If you have any questions about voting in Broward County, call the Broward Supervisor of Elections at 954-357-VOTE (8683), Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Michael Udine, mayor, Broward County
Looking ahead: Get ready to vote! Aug. 23 is primary day in Florida, and early voting begins this Saturday, Aug. 13, and runs through Aug. 21. As a member of the Broward County Canvassing Board, we are working to ensure a fair, transparent and smooth election. If you are looking for your polling place, or an early voting site, visit Browardvotes.gov. Sample ballots also can be viewed on the site so you can research the candidates and ballot questions. Democracy depends on your participation. Be sure to cast your ballot, and make your voice heard!
Chad Van Horn, founding partner attorney, Van Horn Law Group, P.A.
Last week: As part of the Florida Python Challenge, about 800 novice and professional hunters are swarming the Everglades tracking Burmese pythons, an invasive creature that’s decimating entire populations of racoons, opossums and rabbits. The job of these hunters is to take out a python, one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult pythons can reach more than 16 feet, weigh up to 200 pounds and can grow as wide as a telephone pole. Considering these giant predators constrict their prey until they suffocate, you have to admire the snake hunters’ bravery and hope they have the expertise to conquer these wild reptiles.
Looking ahead: I’m happy to see that about a dozen new restaurants are opening in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Why? As a foodie, I believe you can never have too many Irish Pubs (Harat’s Irish Pub), wine-country inspired restaurants (Sixty Vines) and Korean steakhouses (Chow Won). As a bankruptcy attorney, I know firsthand how hard restaurant owners and staff were hit by the pandemic shutdown. I’m glad to see the restaurant industry is regaining its footing in South Florida.
Thomas Wenski, archbishop, Archdiocese of Miami
Last week: The Biden administration intends to expand Title IX, a 50-year-old law intended to prevent discrimination on basis of sex, to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity may include, but is not limited to, facilitating gender transitions and allowing students to access restroom facilities, sports programs and overnight field trip accommodations according to a student’s gender identity without regard to biological sex. While faith-based schools could invoke a “religious exemption,” it is not clear whether public schools in more conservative states would be forced to comply so as not to lose federal benefits.
Looking ahead: It’s been a year since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some 100,000 Afghans were evacuated to the U.S. — and most now have been resettled throughout the country with the assistance of nonprofits like Catholic Charites and Jewish Services. Still unresolved is their permanent status. A proposal to fast track permanent legal status (a green card) like the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act languishes in Congress. They are not eligible for “refugee status” since they are already in the U.S.; they can apply for asylum, but the asylum process is so backlogged that it is unworkable. Afghans need “an Afghan Adjustment Act.”
Sheryl Woods, CEO, YMCA of South Florida
Looking ahead: Primary season is here and it’s a great time to connect with your community through events like the recent Fort Lauderdale Civic Association’s meet the candidates at the YMCA, where voters had a chance to learn more about those running in judicial and school board races. There are truly passionate candidates who are running who want to make a difference in our future. Do your research. Get to know them. Early voting sites are open countywide through Aug. 21. Haven’t registered to vote yet? You can still do it up to 29 days before the 2022 general election on Nov. 8.
Ghenete "G" Wright Muir, attorney, LGBTQ advocate
Looking ahead: PrideFête: an LGBTQ+ Caribbean Festival takes place Saturday, Aug. 13 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Richardson Historic Park & Nature Reserve in Wilton Manors. Come and enjoy this showcase of Caribbean music, art and culture. This will also be a safe space for LGBTQ+ people from the Caribbean, many of whom have had challenges with their identities. I’ve been working behind the scenes with a great team to help produce PrideFête, which is presented by the Wilton Manors Community Affairs Advisory Board (CAAB), in partnership with Hotspots! and Pride Fort Lauderdale. Get your tickets here: pridefete.lgbt. | 2022-08-12T13:19:53+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/south-florida-100/fl-op-sf100-school-primary-elections-mar-a-lago-trump-20220812-dpewbdfvmvcyrmsqku7tta2yae-story.html |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Northwest Arkansas area hospitals are seeing occasional backlogs in their Emergency Room departments.
At Thursday’s Fayetteville board of health meeting, the vice president of managed care at Washington Regional, Lenny Whiteman, mentioned that ER volumes are higher than normal and that his hospital and several others have been having this problem lately.
“High ER volume creating a lot of backlogs, so just something to be aware of. And it’s not COVID-driven, it’s just everything,” said Whiteman.
Whiteman says population growth could have some part to play in the backlog. | 2022-06-09T12:30:27+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/local-news/nwa-hospitals-seeing-backlog-in-emergency-rooms/ |
Police: 4 fatally shot in Maine home, followed by gunfire on highway
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Four people were found fatally shot in a Maine home Tuesday shortly before gunfire injured three others on a busy highway 25 miles away in a pair of crimes that were linked, state police said. One person was in custody.
The bodies were found in a home in Bowdoin a short time before three people were shot in their vehicles to the south on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, authorities said.
Maine State Police said the shootings were connected but didn’t immediately discuss a motive or identify the person in custody, police spokesperson Shannon Moss said.
The shootings on I-295 led to a heavy police presence in Yarmouth, including officers carrying rifles. At one point, heavily armed officers peered inside the trunk of a car that had apparent bullet holes in the windshield at an off ramp. Witnesses told reporters they saw one person in handcuffs.
Yarmouth is a community of 9,000 about 12 miles north of Portland, the state’s largest city, which I-295 connects to the state capital, Augusta. Bowdoin is a rural farming community with about 3,000 residents.
“We are confident that there is no imminent threat to the general public at this time,” said Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry, whose deputies were assisting in Bowdoin. He referred questions to state police.
At the scene in Bowdoin, yellow crime scene tape hung around a home with a long, gravel driveway in a wooded area. About 10 marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles and a crime scene van were parked outside, and investigators moved about and talked.
In Yarmouth, traffic backed up on the interstate as police shut down the southbound lanes, and state, county and local police canvassed the area. Representatives for the Maine Department of Transportation said they closed the southbound side of I-295 in Yarmouth in late morning at the request of state police.
Employees at Water Treatment Equipment Inc., a business near the highway scene, locked the doors and pulled down the shades after being alerted to the lockdown, which lasted about 90 minutes, manager Kim Snyder said. Workers saw cars backing up on the highway, along with police cars, ambulances and fire trucks.
“It definitely shifted the day, and the worry kicked in,” she said. “They hadn’t caught the active shooter. We didn’t know what was going on. There was a lot of the unknowns.”
Police later lifted the shelter-in-place order and announced there was no further threat.
Lenora Felker, who works near the highway at Rosemont Market and Bakery, said she sensed something was afoot when people started streaming in, saying the highway was closed, followed by dozens of law enforcement officers who descended on the area.
Officers canvassed businesses asking if they had seen “anyone that was wet and muddy fleeing,” Felker said. But she knew all the customers and didn’t see anything “out of the ordinary,” she said.
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Sharp reported from Portland. Associated Press photographer Robert Bukaty in Bowdoin and writers Michael Casey and Steve LeBlanc in Boston contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-18T20:47:21+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/04/18/police-4-fatally-shot-maine-home-followed-by-gunfire-highway/ |
Round 1 of the 2022 NFL draft kicks off in Las Vegas on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET and Rounds 2-7 will follow on Friday and Saturday.
We have you covered with a one-stop shop for everything draft related. Don't know what time the draft starts each day or where to watch? Scroll down. Who are the top-ranked prospects according to Scouts Inc.? Scroll down. What is the draft order for each round? Scroll down.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have the No. 1 pick -- again -- but who that pick will be is still to be decided. For months, our four draft analysts -- Mel Kiper Jr., Todd McShay, Jordan Reid and Matt Miller -- and our 32 NFL Nation reporters have been assessing prospects and team needs, building mock drafts and finalizing prospect rankings.
You will be the most informed fan watching the draft if you -- say it with us this time -- scroll down the page.
In addition to all of the rankings and mock drafts, we have included information from ESPN's Stats & Information, introductions to some of the top draft prospects and a look at ESPN's Draft Day Predictor. Plus, details on our Draft Challenge where you can predict picks and potentially win prizes.
Let's start with the basics:
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When and where is the draft?
Round 1: Thursday at 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ABC, ESPN App, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, NFL Network)
Rounds 2-3: Friday at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN, ABC, ESPN App, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, NFL Network)
Rounds 4-7: Saturday at noon ET (ESPN with ABC simulcast, ESPN App, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, NFL Network)
The 2022 draft is being held in Las Vegas. The 2020 draft was supposed to be held in Vegas before the league moved to a virtual draft that year during the pandemic. Among the many players who will be onsite are Michigan OT Aidan Hutchinson, Ohio State WR Chris Olave and NC State OT Ikem Ekwonu.
When is every team picking?
There will be 262 picks in this year's draft and the Jaguars have the first pick for the second year in a row. The Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs have the most picks in the entire draft with 12 each, while the Miami Dolphins have by far the fewest with just four after trading for Tyreek Hill last month.
Top 10:
1. Jacksonville Jaguars
2. Detroit Lions
3. Houston Texans
4. New York Jets
5. New York Giants
6. Carolina Panthers
7. New York Giants (via CHI)
8. Atlanta Falcons
9. Seattle Seahawks
10. New York Jets (via SEA)
See the full 262-pick draft order
How do the prospects in this class rank?
Scouts Inc. top 10 prospects:
1. Aidan Hutchinson, DE, Michigan (Highlights)
2. Travon Walker, DE, Georgia (Highlights)
3. Ikem Ekwonu, OT, NC State (Highlights)
4. Evan Neal, OT, Alabama (Highlights)
5. Ahmad Gardner, CB, Cincinnati (Highlights)
6. Garrett Wilson, WR, Ohio State (Highlights)
7. Kayvon Thibodeaux, DE, Oregon (Highlights)
8. Derek Stingley Jr., CB, LSU (Highlights)
9. Kyle Hamilton, S, Notre Dame (Highlights)
10. Charles Cross, OT, Mississippi State (Highlights)
Scouts Inc. top six quarterbacks:
1. Malik Willis, Liberty
2. Kenny Pickett, Pittsburgh
3. Desmond Ridder, Cincinnati
4. Matt Corral, Ole Miss
5. Sam Howell, North Carolina
6. Carson Strong, Nevada
Do our analysts agree or disagree with these rankings? Find each of their final prospect and positional rankings here:
• Kiper: Final rankings, top 230 prospects and best at every position
• McShay: Stacking 367 prospects plus position breakdowns
• Reid: Top 365 prospects and final positional rankings
• Miller: Top 300 prospects and final positional rankings
• Legwold: Ranking the top 100 prospects
Now that we have ranked all the prospects, let's look at the risers and best skill players:
• Legwold: Seven prospects who climbed the boards over the past year
• The 2022 NFL draft's best at everything: Most accurate, top route runner, best cover corner and more
Projecting the draft's top players in the NFL
Football Outsiders uses metrics to predict how good players will be in their first five years in the NFL.
Does the 2022 class of quarterbacks have an elite QB in the mix? How do the running backs stack up? Which wide receiver in the deep class will make the biggest impact? And which pass-rusher should actually be drafted first? All of those are answered below.
• Quarterbacks
• Running backs
• Wide receivers
• Pass-rushers
What should I expect?
The theme of this offseason has been to expect the unexpected. There are many questions that simply won't have an answer until Thursday night -- like who will be picked at No. 1 and when will the first quarterback be taken off the board. But our draft analysts have been hard at work gathering insight and setting the final rankings and mock drafts.
The latest draft buzz:
• Last-minute updates on potential Round 1 trades, rising prospects, surprise picks
• Everything Todd McShay is hearing on top prospects, QBs, early picks and team strategies
• Draft buzz notebook, rumors, favorite sleepers: Updates on Willis, Pickett, more
Mock drafts:
• Reid's seven round mock draft
• Miller's seven round mock draft
• NFL mock draft 2022 with all trades: Bill Barnwell proposes deals for all 32 picks
Both Kiper and McShay will release their final mock drafts on Thursday morning, so stay tuned for those.
What is every NFL team's outlook?
Every NFL team has its own draft board, its own strategy and a unique set of positional needs. How might your favorite team approach Round 1 ... and beyond?
• Miller and Reid break down all 32 teams' top draft needs
• Football Outsiders' draft guides for all 32 teams
What do I need to know about betting on the NFL draft?
Yes, you can bet on what happens at the NFL draft. Our ESPN Chalk analysts are here to help.
• Betting the NFL draft: Tips, tricks and best practices to cash in
• 2022 NFL draft betting market poses challenges for league, bookmakers
Draft Day Predictor
Are you curious about what the odds are that your team picks your favorite prospect? Well, Seth Walder and ESPN's analytics team have a tool that does just that. And it's publicly available for the first time.
ESPN's Draft Day Predictor is a statistical tool that produces a range of selection outcomes for prospects in the NFL draft. It uses expert mock drafts, Scouts Inc. grades and team needs as inputs and helps us answer questions about how things could play out. It gives percentage chances of each prospect being available -- and being selected -- at each draft slot, which of course leads to a likely range of picks in which he could realistically come off the board.
It will update on Thursday morning as final mock drafts come in and then update live during the draft Thursday night.
Meet some of 2022's top prospects
Learn something new about these top prospects by reading these features below. You never know who your team could draft.
Ikem Ekwonu's journey from second-best player in his family to potential No. 1 pick
Andscape: Malik Willis is on the cusp of NFL draft history for Black quarterbacks
How snake-twirling potential No. 1 pick Evan Neal makes everything look easy
Top NFL draft prospect Kayvon Thibodeaux steals moves, uses chess strategies to hone skill
Georgia's Nakobe Dean and the new life of a college football star
Meet Treylon Burks, wild boar hunter and first-round prospect
How George Karlaftis found his way to football between Greece and Indiana
From ESPN's Stats & Information desk
After quarterbacks went No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 overall in 2021, this draft could become the first time since 2013 -- and only the second time in the past 20 years -- that no quarterbacks are selected in the top five. Even if the quarterbacks don't go early, this could be the seventh straight year that at least three quarterbacks are selected in the first round, extending what is already the longest streak in the Common Draft era (since 1967).
While the players drafted in the first round get most of the spotlight, a significant portion of a team's roster is built on Days 2 and 3. Among active players in 2021, 66% were drafted after the third round or went undrafted.
There could be four Georgia defensive players selected in the first round, which would tie Miami (2004) and Florida State (2006) for the most defensive players from one school in the first round of a draft
Of the 55 players drafted No. 1 overall, 33 have multiple Pro Bowl selections, 15 have a first-team All-Pro selection and eight are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
How can I play the ESPN Draft Challenge?
With ESPN Draft Challenge, you can predict how the draft will play out and win prizes. And it's easy and free to participate. | 2022-04-27T12:28:49+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2022/story/_/id/33762798/nfl-draft-2022-cheat-sheet-draft-order-mock-drafts-team-needs-rankings-start-more |
Updated May 5, 2023 at 9:08 AM ET
What impact will the convictions of four Proud Boys members have on homegrown far-right extremism? Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group could face decades in prison for plotting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
Andy Campbell, senior editor at the Huffington Post, said on Up First that "it's a very rare and serious charge that the government usually saves for terrorists on American soil."
"Though their leaders sit behind bars, the Proud Boys don't need a green light from the national organization to continue on their parade of violence," Campbell told NPR's A Martinez. "Their stated goal is to physically fight for the GOP's grievances out in the street, and they've continued to do so week after week since January 6."
Cynthia Miller-Idris, head of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University, agrees: "They have helped to normalize the idea of political violence," Miller-Idris said. "And we're seeing support for political violence, of course, rise in the mainstream as well." She spoke with NPR's Leila Fadel on Morning Edition.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On how the Proud Boys' trial has impacted the larger group
Leila Fadel: So what impact has this trial had on the Proud Boys?
Cynthia Miller-Idris: It really hasn't had as much of an impact as you'd like to think. I mean, they have continued. They've really evolved. Their members are all across the country. And they're just now moving into other types of protests. So they've been protesting at children's reading, drag reading, and libraries, and protesting anti-racist education, and just kind of opportunistically jumping on other types of protests that are happening across the country.
Leila Fadel: And when you say protesting, often this can be violent.
Cynthia Miller-Idris: Exactly. It's either violent or it carries the whiff of violence. And that's part of the impact they've had, is they have helped to normalize the idea of political violence. And we're seeing support for political violence, of course, rise in the mainstream as well.
On preventing a culture of political violence
Leila Fadel: So given what you've just described, these convictions, will they act as a warning, as a deterrent, not just for the Proud Boys, but other violent extremist, white nationalist, so-called patriotic militias across this country?
Cynthia Miller-Idris: The vast majority of violence, including virtually every terrorist attack in the last 25 years, coming from the far right, has not been from anyone affiliated with a group. So most of what we see in the violent actions are individuals who are radicalized online into toxic cultures. And this doesn't really affect that at all. And so I think we should be glad that we got the convictions, but we also shouldn't put too much hope in it. The genie is kind of out of the bottle right now, and we need a much deeper and earlier prevention effort if we're going to intervene in ways that prevent violence.
Leila Fadel: What would a deeper and earlier prevention system look like?
Cynthia Miller-Idris: I mean, most other countries invest, you know, up to 95% of their counter extremism resources in what we would call primary prevention. So digital media literacy, civic education, helping people recognize and reject propaganda and not be persuaded by it. We invest almost no resources in that and instead kind of focus on this security and carceral approach.
On the state of violent extremism
On every measure we have available, domestic violent extremism has been increasing both on the hate fueled violence side. We have record breaking anti Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Asian, American and Pacific Islander hate, anti LGBTQ hate. We have record growth in the support for political violence as well. So it's a crisis and we need to see serious investment in the prevention model, not just in the security one.
Olivia Hampton contributed editing. contributed to this story
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 9, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 336
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 336 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
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. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
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HARTLEY MOORE OLDHAM
SHERMAN
ARCHER ARMSTRONG BAYLOR
BRISCOE CARSON CHILDRESS
CLAY COLLINGSWORTH COTTLE
DONLEY FOARD GRAY
HALL HARDEMAN HEMPHILL
HUTCHINSON KING KNOX
LIPSCOMB MOTLEY OCHILTREE
POTTER RANDALL ROBERTS
SWISHER WHEELER WICHITA
WILBARGER
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN HUTCHINSON...SOUTHWESTERN HANSFORD...SOUTHERN
SHERMAN...SOUTHEASTERN DALLAM...NORTHERN MOORE AND NORTHEASTERN
HARTLEY COUNTIES...
At 724 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 17 miles southeast of Stratford to 6 miles northwest
of Sunray to 5 miles west of Cactus, moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. Hail
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Locations impacted include...
Cactus, Sunray, Morse and Pringle.
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For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
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338 IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
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IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA
ELLIS
IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA
CADDO COMANCHE COTTON
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KIOWA TILLMAN
IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA
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WASHITA
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IN NORTHERN TEXAS
ARCHER BAYLOR CLAY
FOARD HARDEMAN KNOX
WICHITA WILBARGER
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BURNS FLAT, CHEYENNE, CLINTON, CORDELL, CROWELL, ELK CITY, FARGO,
FREDERICK, GAGE, GRANITE, HAMMON, HENRIETTA, HINTON, HOBART,
HOLLIDAY, HOLLIS, KNOX CITY, LAKESIDE CITY, LAWTON, MANGUM,
MUNDAY, QUANAH, SAYRE, SCOTLAND, SENTINEL, SEYMOUR, SHATTUCK,
SHEPPARD AFB, SNYDER, TEMPLE, VERNON, WALTERS, WEATHERFORD,
AND WICHITA FALLS.
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Choosing the best seeder
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- EarthWay 1001-B Precision Garden Seeder Row Planter
- Ymachray Long Handled Bulb Planter Tools And Vegetable Seedling Tool
- Chapin 8701B Garden Push Seeder
A seeder is a convenient machine for new and avid gardeners who want to sow different seeds with less effort than if they had to do it manually. These mechanical devices come in different sizes and designs, but they all work on the same basic principle. They’re easy to use and don’t require the gardener to stoop down to plant seeds, making sowing seeds easier and more efficient.
Types
Here are the main types of seeders:
- Push seeders: This type has wheels and can be pushed to plant seeds in a row. As you push the machine, it drops seeds into the soil, distributing them evenly. This model can control the depth in which the seeds get sown.
- Jab seeders: This type is usually tall and requires you to push it down into the ground with your heel to create a hole, drop the seed and cover it with dirt. Some have adjustable depths, meaning you can determine how deep you want the seed to go. A few models use springs that automatically raise the tool back into position for the next seed.
There are also seed spreaders, which work a little differently from seeders. Instead of inserting seeds into the ground, these tools work by dispersing multiple seeds on top of the dirt over a larger area. Some models are handheld while others can be equipped to the back of a lawn mower or tractor and pulled behind to spread seeds.
Advantages of using a seeder
While you can sow seeds by hand, a seeder makes the entire process much easier and more efficient. Here are the main advantages of using one:
- Less physical strain when planting: You could sow an entire garden bed with less physical effort than if you were to plant by hand. All you need to do is push or jab the tool into the dirt to create holes and plant the seeds. You no longer need to bend over or crouch down to do your planting.
- Less time wasted: With a seed spreader, you can distribute multiple seeds at once to save time. This is especially beneficial when planting grass, clover or other plants that require many seeds to fill in an area.
- Adjustable: These tools usually have seed plates that can hold seeds of different sizes. These plates can also control the number of seeds planted in each area, based on your preferences. The tool can also be adjusted to allow for more spacing between holes and the depth of the hole.
- Even distribution of seeds: Most of these tools work with tiny seeds, which can be tricky to plant evenly in the dirt. This makes it easier to control the spacing and helps ensure you don’t plant too many or too few seeds in any one area.
- Some work with fertilizers: Certain models can be used with an attachment that lets you spread fertilizer and nutrients over the newly planted seeds. This is convenient, especially if you don’t have a separate fertilizer spreader or another similar tool.
Garden or yard size
Some seeders are designed for large or commercial projects, such as those with 10 or more acres of space. Others are ideal for smaller yards or gardens. If you have a smaller yard, a simple jab or push seeder can handle the task. For larger areas, go with an automatic or larger tool instead.
Soil type and condition
Seeders usually work best on even terrain with soft, fine soil. However, some are built to handle rougher conditions, such as:
Consider the type of soil you have when choosing a machine since this can make a huge difference in how effective it is. Keep in mind that some seeders can get clogged up when trying to go over organic matter such as plant residue or thatch. If this occurs, clean it out before using it again.
Seed size
Not all seeders are designed to handle all sizes of seeds. Some work better with tiny seeds, such as clover, grass or leafy greens. Others can accommodate larger seeds, such as beans or corn. Those that use a seed roller are usually most effective with medium-sized seeds.
Hopper
Most seeders have one to three hoppers, which is the part of the machine that holds the seeds. When choosing one, consider the size of the hopper.
- Larger hoppers are useful for sowing many seeds of the same variety at once.
- Smaller hoppers are best if you only have a couple of rows to plant before switching to a new type of seed.
In some models, the hopper needs to be kept at least half-full to operate properly. If you let the seed count dwindle, it can start to slow down or sow less evenly.
Seed plates
Seeders have seed plates or discs that hold different-sized seeds. Some have more than one of these, meaning you can swap them out to sow whatever size seed you need to without having to get a new machine.
Best seeders
EarthWay 1001-B Precision Garden Seeder Row Planter
This row planter is ideal for anyone who wants a simple way to seed their garden. It’s especially useful for small gardens. It comes with seven seed plates that can fit nearly any seed type and size, including sweet corn, leaks and okra. It’s also durable.
Sold by Amazon
Chapin 8701B Garden Push Seeder
With six seed plates, this tool can handle up to 20 varieties of seeds. It has a durable powder-coated steel frame that’s resistant to rough terrain and the elements. The tool offers uniform planting and has a kickstand to keep it upright when not in use.
Sold by Amazon
Ymachray Long Handled Bulb Planter Tools and Vegetable Seedling Tool
This semiautomatic seeder is great for gardeners who want to easily transport and plant seeds in a smaller space. It consists primarily of stainless steel, which is durable and resistant to corrosion. It also works with bulbs and seedlings, such as tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers. Although it can handle seeds, it excels at transplanting plants.
Sold by Amazon
Scotts Whirl Hand-Powered Spreader
This straightforward handheld seed spreader can handle up to 1,500 square feet of yard space. It’s easy to operate and can seed, fertilize and weed all at once.
Sold by Amazon
This push spreader comes in four styles, including mini and elite, and uses rotors that cut down on time as you do your planting. It can spread seeds in an area up to 20,000 square feet. It also requires very little assembly to use.
Sold by Amazon
Chapin 8620B 150-Pound Tow-Behind Spreader With Auto-Stop
This heavy-duty tow-behind spreader can hold up to 150 pounds of seeds. It has 14-inch pneumatic tires that can handle even the roughest terrain. The frame is made from durable powder-coated steel. It works great with a lawn mower.
Sold by Amazon
Chapin 84700A 25-Pound Professional Bag Seeder
Waterproof and durable, this seeder bag works with granular fertilizers and seeds to make your gardening tasks easier. It has an adjustable flow, which is convenient for planting specific amounts of seeds. It also has a padded shoulder strap for maximum comfort.
Sold by Amazon
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CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a Ukrainian hospital ward for wounded soldiers, where daylight barely penetrates, a father talks to his injured son for hours. Serhii Shumei, 64, never scolded Vitalii for choosing to go to war. Even now, despite the damage done to his son’s brain by an exploding artillery shell, Serhii feels pride, not pity.
“I’ve been constantly with him in the last five months, beside him, beside him, beside him,” says Serhii, a retired former soldier himself. “I’m not going anywhere. … except for a smoke.”
Vitalii, a 34-year-old long-range anti-aircraft missile commander, was wounded in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that has become synonymous with horrific losses in ongoing fighting for both Ukraine and Russia. Quite how deadly isn’t known — because neither side is saying. From the stream of wounded soldiers that are coming off frontlines to hospitals like the one where Vitalii lies, it’s evident the costs are severe.
Both sides have poured troops and resources to capture or defend Donbas strongholds, fighting over months of grinding, attritional combat to what has largely become a bloody stalemate. After setbacks elsewhere in Ukraine for President Vladimir Putin’s nearly 11-month invasion, Russia is looking for some sort of localized success in the Donbas, even if that just means taking control of a town or two pounded into rubble. Ukraine wants to make Russia’s advances as costly as possible.
The Donbas towns of Bakhmut and Soledar have been turned into hellscapes as a result. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described them as “completely destroyed,” strewn with corpses and craters, and with “almost no life left.”
“This is what madness looks like,” Zelenskyy says.
Vitalii was wounded Aug. 25 on another section of the Donbas frontline, in Adviivka, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Bakhmut. The shell that struck his dugout set off other explosives. The blast tore a crater in Vitalii’s skull that is as deep and broad as half a melon. His brain injuries were so severe that doctors doubted he’d show signs of consciousness again.
Now, Vitalii sometimes seems aware of his surroundings. He blinks. He can swallow. But he’s largely immobile.
Serhii refuses to give up on him.
“We are seeing some progress, getting back on our feet. This is my opinion,” he says.
He spends hours at Vitalii’s bedside, sharing news from the battlefields, reciting from books, and reading out messages of support.
They’re sent by grateful Ukrainians who urge Vitalii to “Hold on to life! We really need you!” and say “You are strong! You will manage!”
Serhii says tears roll down Vitalii’s cheeks when he reads them to him. Other signs of improvement appeared in late December, when Vitalii started wiggling his toes, Serhii says. Vitalii also has started to frown, which Serhii interprets as meaning that his son is interested in what he’s reading to him.
And recently, Serhii says, another breakthrough: audible responses from Vitalii.
“I’ve started asking him ‘Do you know who I am?’ And he answered ‘Dad’.”
Another of Vitalii’s frequent visitors is Iryna Timofeyeva, a volunteer whose brainchild it was to collect messages of support.
“The love of the family, the attention of other people, very often helps the positive dynamics of the patient,” she says. “It is very important for the wounded that he is not alone. That is how he understands that he has to fight.”
Vitalii is, for now, alone in his ward, after other patients were transferred for rehabilitation elsewhere. But the beds around him are unlikely to stay empty for long, given the ferocity of the fighting in the Donbas. Vitalii’s hospital in Chernihiv, north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, is among those where soldiers get long-term follow-up care after their wounds have been stabilized closer to the fronts.
Serhii feels that caring for his son is his contribution to the war effort.
“I will put him back on his feet. This is my dream,” he says.
Inclining to his son’s ear, he asks: “Ukraine will win, we will win, right?”
The answer is silence.
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Efrem Lukatsky in Chernihiv and John Leicester in Paris contributed to this report.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-01-15T14:23:11+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-a-loving-dad-and-his-injured-son-pay-wars-costs-in-ukraine/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LINKBANCORP, Inc. (OTC Pink: LNKB) (the "Company"), the parent company of The Gratz Bank, including its LINKBANK division (the "Bank") reported net income of $1.606 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter Highlights
- Net loans, exclusive of SBA PPP loans, grew $61.5 million during the second quarter, representing a 34% annualized growth rate
- Noninterest bearing deposits grew $19.1 million since March 31, 2022 or 46% annualized
- Net interest income increased to $7.85 million, an increase of $376 thousand over the linked quarter, including the impact of additional interest expense for subordinated notes issued April 8, 2022
Andrew Samuel, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Every region of the Bank contributed to the tremendous growth in both quality commercial loans and low-cost deposits this quarter, including our new team members in the Delaware Valley Region. This is an incredible accomplishment by our teams and confirms the quality of talent we have been able to attract." He continued, "With this momentum, we look forward to a strong second half of 2022 as we continue to welcome new clients and expand our impact in the communities we serve."
Total assets were $1.060 billion at June 30, 2022 compared to $1.036 billion at March 31, 2022 and $932.8 million at December 31, 2021. Deposits and net loans as of June 30, 2022 totaled $902.4 million and $786.5 million, respectively, compared to deposits and net loans of $862.2 million and $727.6 million, respectively, at March 31, 2022 and $771.7 million and $711.7 million, respectively, at December 31, 2021. The loan growth from March 31, 2022 includes $61.5 million in primarily commercial organic loan growth including the impact of forgiven loans under the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which declined $8.1 million to $2.5 million at June 30, 2022. The $40.2 million increase in deposits from March 31, 2022 included a $19.1 million increase in noninterest bearing demand accounts, reflecting a continuing focus on growing low-cost transaction accounts.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company's non-performing assets were $1.5 million, representing 0.14% of total assets. Non-performing assets at June 30, 2022 excluded purchased credit impaired loans with a balance of $6.5 million. The allowance for loan losses measured 0.49% of total loans, or approximately 0.89% of the non-purchased portfolio, at June 30, 2022. The total reserve when including the allowance for loan losses and the credit fair value adjustment made to loans acquired in the GNB Financial merger totaled $10.0 million or approximately 1.26% of the combined portfolio at June 30, 2022.
Net interest income before the provision for loan losses for the second quarter of 2022 increased to $7.9 million compared to $7.5 million in the first quarter of 2022 primarily as a result of average loan growth and the impact of recent interest rate increases, offset by the additional interest expense of subordinated notes issued early in the quarter. Net interest income does not include recognition of any fees from SBA PPP loans, which were included in purchase accounting adjustments in connection with the GNB Financial merger. Net interest margin remained relatively steady at 3.38% for the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 3.40% for the first quarter of 2022 and is anticipated to experience modest expansion in the current rising interest rate environment given the Company's asset-sensitive balance sheet.
Noninterest income experienced a slight decrease from $711 thousand in the first quarter of 2022 to $696 thousand in the second quarter of 2022, and noninterest expense for the second quarter of 2022 was generally stable at $6.2 million, compared to $6.1 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Shareholders' equity decreased from $106.3 million at March 31, 2022 to $104.8 million at June 30, 2022 due to a $2.6 million increase in accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income as a result of an increased unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities due to the increase in market interest rates. The unrealized loss was partially offset by net income less dividends declared.
The Bank's regulatory capital ratios were further strengthened during the quarter, reflecting the additional $15 million in capital contributed to the Bank following completion of the Company's $20.0 million private placement of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2032 on April 8, 2022.
ABOUT LINKBANCORP, Inc.
LINKBANCORP, Inc. was formed in 2018 with a mission to positively impact lives through community banking. Its subsidiary bank, The Gratz Bank, is a Pennsylvania state-chartered bank serving individuals, families, nonprofits and business clients throughout Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania through 10 client solutions centers of The Gratz Bank and LINKBANK, a division of The Gratz Bank. LINKBANCORP, Inc. common stock is traded over the counter (OTC Pink) under the symbol "LNKB". For further company information, visit ir.linkbancorp.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not statements of current or historical fact and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Words such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "forecasts," "intends," "plans," "projects," "may," "will," "should," and other similar expressions can be used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results. Among the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those described in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the following: costs or difficulties associated with newly developed or acquired operations; changes in general economic trends, including inflation and changes in interest rates; increased competition; changes in consumer demand for financial services; our ability to control costs and expenses; adverse developments in borrower industries and, in particular, declines in real estate values; changes in and compliance with federal and state laws that regulate our business and capital levels; our ability to raise capital as needed; and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and actions taken by governments, businesses and individuals in response. The Company does not undertake, and specifically disclaims, any obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements, except as required by law. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Contact:
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Corporate and Investor Relations Officer
717.803.8895
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TORONTO (AP) — The Florida Panthers are moving on in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and the Toronto Maple Leafs are going home again.
Nick Cousins scored at 15:32 of overtime and Sergei Bobrovsky made 50 saves as the Panthers beat the Maple Leafs 3-2 in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series on Friday night to advance to the Eastern Conference final.
Cousins buried his second goal of the playoffs off a pass from defenseman Radko Gudas on a rush short-side against Toronto rookie goalie Joseph Woll to send Florida to the conference finals for the first time since 1996.
“It’s one of those moments where you’ll grow up and tell your kids about (it),” said Cousins, who had 108 text messages when he checked his phone. “My daughter’s only 11 months old. I have something I get to tell her when she grows up.”
Aaron Ekblad and Carter Verhaeghe each had a goal and an assist to help the Panthers build a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Florida — the team with the fewest points to qualify for the postseason — won all three games in Toronto and improved to 6-1 on the road in the playoffs after also upsetting the record-setting Boston Bruins. The Panthers will next face the Carolina Hurricanes, who also beat the New Jersey Devils in five games.
“Nobody in the world thought we were going to be in this position,” said Florida forward Matthew Tkachuk, who was named as one of three finalists for the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP before the game. “We don’t care what anybody’s opinion is.”
Morgan Rielly and William Nylander scored for the Maple Leafs, who had advanced in the playoffs for the first time in 19 years when they beat Tampa Bay in the first round. Rookie goalie Joseph Woll had 41 saves in his first home playoff start.
“You’re disappointed,” Rielly said. “You feel for your teammates, you feel for everybody.”
Woll was coming off a 24-save effort in a Game 4 win that avoided the sweep.
The Maple Leafs now face an uncertain offseason despite its breakthrough against the Lightning. General manager Kyle Dubas doesn’t have a contract beyond June 30, while there have also been rumblings about the future of coach Sheldon Keefe. Nylander and Auston Matthews both have one year remaining on their contracts and can sign extensions as of July 1, while fellow star forward Mitch Marner’s no-movement clause kicks in the same day.
“It’s hard … it’s hard to win,” Matthews said. “We know that more than anybody. It’s a tough one.”
Asked about what the future hols, Marner said: “It’s not up to us, but we got a lot of belief in this group.”
Toronto’s high-powered offense — including the so-called “Core Four” of Matthews, Nylander, Marner and John Tavares — scored just three times in the series for a team that totaled just 14 goals over its final seven playoff games, including a paltry 10 against the Panthers.
“Still sinking in that the result wasn’t what we wanted,” Tavares said.
The Maple Leafs finished the post-season 1-5 at home.
“It’s gonna take time for the sting of this series to wear off,” Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. “A missed opportunity for our group. … We had a team good enough to win the Stanley Cup. We didn’t do that.”
Florida went up 1-0 on a power play at 3:31 of the opening period when Ekblad blasted a one-timer for his first on a shot that handcuffed Woll after the goalie made a flurry of early stops.
The Maple Leafs pushed back and had a couple of terrific chances on a pair of man advantages, but couldn’t solve Bobrovsky.
Verhaeghe then got his fifth on a one-timer of his own with 3:42 left in the first after Toronto defenseman Timothy Liljegren fumbled the puck at his blue line to make it 2-0.
Rielly’s point shot made its way through a crowd in front at 7:50 of the second for his fourth to cut the Panthers’ lead in half.
Toronto appeared to tie things with 2:49 remaining in the period when Rielly looked to have pushed the puck over the line in close off the rush. The call on the ice of no goal stood following a long video review — the officials deemed the play dead prior to the puck crossing the line — which prompted some fans to litter the ice with drinks, water bottles and rally towels.
Marner hit the post on a shot that took a deflection shortly after play resumed.
Nylander tied it with 4:37 left in the third as he took a pass from Tavares in stride and beat Bobrovsky from a tight angle upstairs. It was his fourth goal of the postseason to spark wild celebrations inside a frothing Scotiabank Arena — and the chaotic street party outside in Maple Leaf Square.
However, the Maple Leafs couldn’t get another goal.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Friday marked exactly 17 years since Panthers coach Paul Maurice was named to the same post with the Maple Leafs. He lasted two seasons in Toronto before getting fired following the 2007-08 campaign.
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AP NHL Playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-13T11:28:54+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/cousins-scores-in-ot-to-send-panthers-into-eastern-conference-final-after-3-2-win-over-maple-leafs/ |
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