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ROCKVILLE, Md., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Demand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ODP), an innovative technology company transforming the way medicines are made, announced today that it has signed a Preferred Supplier agreement with Azzur Group through 2024. The transformation of ODP's Rockville Headquarters into a State-of-the-Art cGMP Medicine Manufacturing facility began with Azzur in the fall of 2020.
Azzur collaborated in designing ODP's GMP Roadmap and helped develop the strategy and execution plan for ushering in this latest addition to Maryland's Biotech Hub. Building on the strategy, Azzur worked alongside ODP to initiate a Managed Services approach to execution, providing a single source for Commissioning services, Equipment rentals, Technology subscriptions, and a series of outsourced packages covering Environmental Monitoring, Training, and Documentation.
Dr. John Lewin, ODP's Chief Medical Officer, said "The flexibility Azzur demonstrated to accommodate the fluid nature of a startup and the challenges we all faced during the COVID-19 pandemic was remarkable. Having the ability to pull on a variety of resources and expertise, when we needed it, is the reason we entered this relationship."
Tita Tavares, the Director of Azzur Washington, D.C., said "Enabling ODP to implement their innovative approaches required beginning with compliance in mind. Our unique approach to the Compliance Services world parallels ODP's strengths for innovation and delivering value to customers. At Azzur Group, we deliver the cGMP solutions required to address the greatest challenges life science companies face at every stage of their life cycle. ODP is on their way to filing their first regulatory submission and we look forward to our future efforts together."
About On Demand Pharmaceuticals
On Demand Pharmaceuticals™ is an innovative technology company transforming how medicines are made so they can be produced on demand—whenever and wherever medicines are needed. Our breakthrough manufacturing technology platform, Pharmacy on Demand (PoD)™, can be quickly customized to produce anything from key starting materials to active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and final formulated drugs and was recently named by the World Economic Forum and published in Scientific American as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2021. With this technology, we're on a mission to provide an adequate, safe, and reliable supply of medicines to every community across the world.
For additional information, please visit https://ondemandpharma.com
About Azzur Group
From Discovery to Delivery™, Azzur Group provides the life science community full life-cycle solutions for all their GxP needs. From Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™ facilities, to our labs, training centers, and consulting offices across the nation, Azzur Group helps organizations start, scale, and sustain their growing enterprises. With nearly four decades of service to the life science community, we have become a trusted partner to the world's leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare companies, as well as their supply chain.
For more information about Azzur Group, visit Azzur.com.
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KYIV – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed the annexation of Ukrainian territories as a major achievement and said his country’s nuclear weapons serve as a tool of deterrence in the war that the Kremlin calls a “special military operation.”
Speaking with members of the presidential Human Rights Council, Putin described the land gains as “a significant result for Russia,” noting that the “Sea of Azov has become Russia’s internal sea.” He added that “Peter the Great fought to get access to the Sea of Azov.”
Russia seized broad swaths of southern Ukraine in the opening days of its invasion of Ukraine and captured the key Sea of Azov port of Mariupol in May after a nearly three-month siege. In late September, Putin illegally annexed four regions of Ukraine: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, and Donetsk and Luhansk in the east.
Asked by a member of the Human Rights Council to pledge that Russia would not be the first to use nuclear weapons, Putin demurred, saying Russia would not be able to use nuclear weapons at all if it agreed not to use them first and then cames under a nuclear strike.
“If it doesn’t use it first under any circumstances, it means that it won’t be the second to use it either, because the possibility of using it in case of a nuclear strike on our territory will be sharply limited,” Putin said.
Putin, who has repeatedly said that Russia was ready to use “all available means” to protect its territory, including the annexed areas of Ukraine, rejected Western criticism that those statements amounted to nuclear saber-rattling.
“We haven’t gone mad. We are fully aware of what nuclear weapons are,” Putin said. “We have them, and they are more advanced and state-of-the-art than what any other nuclear power have.”
The Russian leader said reminders of his country's nuclear arsenal were "not a factor provoking an escalation of conflicts, but a factor of deterrence.”
His claim more than two months ago that the annexed regions belonged to Russia came after the Russian military lost ground to a Ukrainian counteroffensive and followed hastily staged “referendums” that were rejected by Ukraine and its Western allies as a sham.
In his televised remarks Wednesday, the Russian leader didn't address the setbacks or Moscow's stalled offensive to cement control over the seized regions.
Last month, Russian troops withdrew from a large part of the Kherson region, including the regional capital, and Ukrainian forces reclaimed the area on the west bank of the Dnieper River. In response to recent attacks that struck air force bases deep inside Russia, Russian officials are working to strengthen defensive positions near the country's border with Ukraine.
In Russia’s Kursk region, the governor posted photographs of new concrete anti-tank barriers — known as “dragon’s teeth” — being set up in open fields. Anti-tank barriers also were being expanded in the neighboring Russian region of Belgorod, while officials said local “self-defense units” were being organized.
Two strategic Russian air bases more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the Ukraine border were struck Monday in drone attacks. Moscow blamed Ukraine for the strikes, and said modified Soviet-era reconnaissance drones were used to deliver the explosives.
Ukraine typically does not claim responsibility for high-profile attacks.
Moscow responded to the base attacks by unleashing a wave of strikes on Ukrainian territory, using artillery, multiple rocket launchers, missiles, tanks and mortars to fire at residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, compounding damage already done to the power supply network.
Private Ukrainian power utility Ukrenergo said temperatures in eastern areas where it was carrying out emergency repairs had dropped to as low as minus 17 degrees Celsius (near zero degrees Fahrenheit).
Defending the power grid has emerged as a major factor of the nine-month war in Ukraine as Russia responds to losses in territory captured in the east with infrastructure attacks.
During the long meeting with the Russian Human Rights Council, Putin discussed the mobilization of 300,000 reservists that he ordered in September to beef up troops fighting in Ukraine, Putin said that so far only about 150,000 of them have been deployed to combat zones and the rest were still undergoing training elsewhere.
Addressing media allegations that the Kremlin could be preparing another wave of mobilization, Putin denied having such plans.
“In the current conditions, it makes no sense to talk about any additional mobilization efforts,” he said. “There is no need for the Defense Ministry and the country to do that.”
Putin vowed that Russia would press its goals in Ukraine, that “we will consistently fight for our interests.” “We will protect ourselves using all means available,” he said.
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SUMBERWULUH, Indonesia (AP) — Improved weather conditions Monday allowed rescuers to resume evacuation efforts and a search for possible victims after the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island erupted, triggered by monsoon rains.
Mount Semeru in Lumajang district in East Java province spewed thick columns of ash more than 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet) into the sky Sunday. Villages and nearby towns were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported.
Hundreds of rescuers were deployed Monday in the worst-hit villages of Sumberwuluh and Supiturang, where houses and mosques were buried to their rooftops by tons of volcanic debris.
Heavy rains had eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop the 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) volcano, causing an avalanche of blistering gas and lava down its slopes toward a nearby river. Searing gas raced down the sides of the mountain, smothering entire villages and destroying a bridge that had just been rebuilt after a powerful eruption last year.
Semeru’s last major eruption was in December 2021, when it blew up with a fury that left 51 people dead in villages that were buried in layers of mud. Several hundred others suffered serious burns and the eruption forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. The government moved about 2,970 houses out of the danger zone, including from Sumberwuluh village.
Lumajang district chief Thoriqul Haq said villagers who are still haunted by last year’s eruption fled on their own when they heard the mountain start to rumble early Sunday, so that “casualties could be avoided.”
“They have learned an important lesson on how to avoid the danger of eruption,” he said while inspecting a damaged bridge in Kajar Kuning hamlet.
He said nearly 2,000 people escaped to emergency shelters at several schools, but many were returned to their homes Monday to tend their livestock and protect their property.
Increased volcanic activity Sunday afternoon prompted authorities to widen the danger zone to 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the crater, and scientists raised the volcano’s alert level to the highest, said Hendra Gunawan, who heads the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.
People were advised to keep off the southeastern sector along the Besuk Kobokan River, which is in the path of the lava flow.
Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times in the past 200 years. Still, as is the case with many of the 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, tens of thousands of people continue to live on its fertile slopes.
Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 270 million people, sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines, and is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.
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Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report. | 2022-12-05T06:00:27+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-indonesias-mt-semeru-eruption-buries-homes-damages-bridge/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT; (II) SETTLEMENT HEARING; AND (III) MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES AND LITIGATION EXPENSES
TO: All persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of HP Inc. ("HP") between February 23, 2017 and October 3, 2019, inclusive, and were damaged thereby ("Settlement Class")
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY; YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT PENDING IN THIS COURT.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ("Court"), that the above-captioned action ("Action") has been provisionally certified as a class action for purposes of settlement, except for certain persons and entities who are excluded from the Settlement Class by definition as set forth in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated March 2, 2023 ("Stipulation") and the detailed Notice of (I) Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement; (II) Settlement Hearing; and (III) Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Litigation Expenses ("Notice"). The Stipulation and Notice can be viewed at www.HPSecuritiesSettlement.com.
YOU ARE ALSO NOTIFIED that Lead Plaintiffs, the State of Rhode Island, Office of the General Treasurer, on behalf of the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island, and Iron Workers Local 580 Joint Funds, and Defendants HP, Dion J. Weisler, Catherine A. Lesjak, Steven J. Fieler, and Enrique Lores have reached a proposed settlement of the Action on behalf of the Settlement Class for $10,500,000 in cash ("Settlement"). If approved by the Court, the Settlement will resolve all claims in the Action.
A hearing ("Settlement Hearing") will be held on July 28, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, before the Honorable Susan Illston, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, either in person at the Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, in Courtroom 1 – 17th Floor, or by telephone or videoconference (at the discretion of the Court), to determine, among other things: (i) whether, for purposes of settlement, the Action should be certified as a class action on behalf of the Settlement Class, Lead Plaintiffs should be appointed as class representatives for the Settlement Class, and Lead Counsel should be appointed as class counsel for the Settlement Class; (ii) whether the Settlement on the terms and conditions provided for in the Stipulation is fair, reasonable, and adequate to the Settlement Class, and should be finally approved by the Court; (iii) whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice against Defendants and the releases specified and described in the Stipulation (and in the Notice) should be granted; and (iv) whether Lead Counsel's motion for attorneys' fees in an amount not to exceed 18% of the Settlement Fund and payment of expenses in an amount not to exceed $250,000 (which amount may include a request for reimbursement of the reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Lead Plaintiffs directly related to their representation of the Settlement Class) should be approved. Any updates regarding the Settlement Hearing, including any changes to the date or time of the hearing or updates regarding in-person or remote appearances at the hearing, will be posted to the website for the Settlement, www.HPSecuritiesSettlement.com.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class, your rights will be affected by the pending Action and the Settlement, and you may be entitled to share in the Settlement proceeds. This notice provides only a summary of the information contained in the detailed Notice. You may obtain a copy of the Notice, along with the Claim Form, by: (i) contacting the Claims Administrator at HP Securities Litigation, c/o A.B. Data, Ltd., P.O. Box 173010, Milwaukee, WI 53217, 1-877-388-1759, info@HPSecuritiesSettlement.com; or (ii) downloading them from the website for the Settlement, www.HPSecuritiesSettlement.com, or from Lead Counsel's websites, www.ktmc.com and www.blbglaw.com.
To be eligible to receive a payment from the Settlement, you must be a member of the Settlement Class and submit a Claim Form postmarked (if mailed), or online, no later than August 14, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Claim Form. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not submit a proper Claim Form, you will not be eligible to share in the Settlement proceeds, but you will nevertheless be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class and wish to exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you must submit a request for exclusion such that it is received no later than July 7, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice. If you properly exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you will not be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action and you will not receive any benefits from the Settlement.
Any objections to the proposed Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, and/or Lead Counsel's motion for attorneys' fees and expenses, must be submitted to the Court. Objections must be filed or postmarked (if mailed) no later than July 7, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT, THE CLERK'S OFFICE, DEFENDANTS, OR DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL REGARDING THIS NOTICE. All questions about this notice, the Settlement, or your eligibility to participate in the Settlement should be directed to Lead Counsel or the Claims Administrator.
Requests for the Notice and Claim Form should be made to the Claims Administrator:
HP Securities Litigation
c/o A.B. Data, Ltd.
P.O. Box 173010
Milwaukee, WI 53217
1-877-388-1759
info@HPSecuritiesSettlement.com
www.HPSecuritiesSettlement.com
All other inquiries should be made to Lead Counsel:
BY ORDER OF THE COURT
United States District Court
Northern District of California
Source(s):
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
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Fun facts about 'Love Actually'
Often imitated, but never duplicated, 'Love Actually' and its star-filled cast have tugged at movie lovers' heartstrings for well over a decade.
As we celebrate the approaching 20th anniversary of the release of the film, take a look back at some of the fun stories, trivia tidbits and other notes about the film and its stars.
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1. It was Richard Curtis' directorial debut
The prolific screenwriter went on to direct 'Pirate Radio,' 'About Time' and the reunion short.
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2. Release date
The film had a limited opening in the United States on November 7th, 2003 and went into full distribution the following week. The film actually first screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September of the year and had its British release on November 21st.
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3. A bit of an age problem
Although Hugh Grant plays her older brother in the film, he is actually more than a year younger than actress Emma Thompson.
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4. It was a financial success
According to BoxOfficeMojo, the film has grossed approximately $247 million. Not bad for a movie that took $40M to produce.
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5. A really long commute
Laura Linney was filming 'Mystic River' at the same time, forcing her into a trans-Atlantic commute from London to Boston and back again.
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6. A major award
While the film was nominated for several major awards, the only winner was Bill Nighy who took home a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
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7. An angel on the set?
While it was never explicitly decided in the final cut, the original plan was for Rufus, played by Rowan Atkinson, to be an angel.
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8. Pretty rotten?
The film has an average rating of 6.3 on Rotten Tomatoes.
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9. Cartoon team up
Olivia Olson and Thomas Brodie-Sangster not only played love interests in the film, but teamed up again as Vanessa and Ferb in the cartoon 'Phineas and Ferb'
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10. Life imitating art
Hugh Grant's speech has been referenced on several occasions in regards to political relations between Great Britain and The United States.
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11. Did he or didn't he?
One major plot point debated by fans for years was just what went on between Mia and Harry.
Screenwriter Emma Freud spilled the beans on Twitter a few years ago.
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12. The pen is mightier...
Actor Andrew Lincoln wrote his own poster board notes to Keira Knightley's Juliet in the Christmas carol scene.
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13. The Reunion
Much of the cast reunited for a Red Nose Day special in 2017.
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14. A family affair
Hugh Grant and Thomas Brodie-Sangster are distant cousins
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15. Back to school
According to IMDB, actor Pierce Brosnan once attended the school where the Christmas concert was filmed.
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16. The soundtrack
The British version of the soundtrack had 20 tracks while the American version only had 17.
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17. Cast changes?
Both Anthony Hopkins and Michael Gambon were considered for the role of the prime minister, according to IMDB.
18. Deleted scenes
There were additional stories removed from the film but included in the extras including a scene focusing on the school's headmistress and her partner.
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19. Hard habit to break
Liam Neeson was often seen with a toothpick because he had just recently quit smoking.
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20. Yes, he was in the film
Due to its racy nature, the scenes featuring Martin Freeman's character are often cut from television broadcasts of the film
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More movie and television fun facts
- Oscars hosts since 1989
- In Memoriam: Celebrities we lost in 2018
- 20 fun facts about 'Love Actually'
- Relive your childhood with these 120 Hanna-Barbera cartoons
- 25 actors you didn't know appeared in 'Boy Meets World'
- 88 celebrities who were born in Canada
- Fun facts about 'The Big Lebowski' and 20 other movies turning 20 in 2018
- Fun facts about 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' for its 20th anniversary
- Celebrate 'Dirty Dancing' turning 30 with these fun facts
- 20 fun facts about 'Scream' for its 20th anniversary
- 'Romeo + Juliet' turns 20: Where are they now
- Remembering Alan Rickman: His most memorable roles
- 10 movies that turned 10 in 2016
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Celebrity fun facts
- Jason Momoa
- Danielle Fishel and the 'Boy Meets World' cast
- Chris Hemsworth
- Amanda Seyfried
- Kat Dennings
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Alyson Hannigan
- Tiffani Amber Thiessen
- Miley Cyrus
- Emma Stone
- Seth MacFarlane
- Mark Hamill
- Jennifer Lawrence & Mila Kunis
- David Hasselhoff
- Lindsay Lohan
- Natalie Portman
- George Clooney
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Emma Watson
- Alec Baldwin
- Jenna Fischer
- Kate Mara
- Jennifer Aniston
- Alan Alda
- Betty White
- Dave Matthews
- Danica McKellar
- Taylor Swift
- Britney Spears
- Bill Nye
- Scarlett Johansson
- Rachel McAdams
- Demi Moore
- Julia Roberts
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean computer chipmaker SK Hynix said Wednesday it might be forced to sell its manufacturing operations in China if a U.S. crackdown on exports of semiconductor technology and manufacturing equipment to China intensifies.
SK Hynix’s chief marketing officer, Kevin Noh, raised those concerns during a conference call on Wednesday after the company reported its operating profit dropped 60% in the last quarter from 2021, a decline it blamed on a deteriorating business environment.
Global inflation amplified by Russia’s war on Ukraine and rising interest rates imposed by central banks to counter surging prices have slowed consumer spending on the kinds of high-tech products requiring computer chips. SK Hynix and other semiconductor makers are also navigating new U.S. restrictions on exports of advanced semiconductors and chipmaking equipment to China. Such limits were in part imposed to prevent use of American advanced technology in China’s military development.
SK Hynix said this month that the U.S. Department of Commerce granted the company a one-year exemption from such requirements, allowing it to provide equipment and other supplies to its Chinese factories making memory chips.
Other major chip and chip-manufacturing equipment makers like Samsung and Taiwan’s TSMC are thought to have also gotten exemptions.
SK Hynix may find it difficult to equip its manufacturing line in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi with the most advanced chipmaking machines, including extreme ultraviolent lithography (EUV) systems, Noh said. He said SK Hynix doesn’t expect major disruptions at the plant at least until the late 2020s, but things could quickly turn for the worse if Washington refuses to extend temporary exemptions at some point and begins to fully enforce its export controls.
“If it becomes a situation where we would have to obtain (U.S.) license on a tool-by-tool basis, that will disrupt the supply of equipment … and we could face difficulties in operating (Chinese) fabrication facilities at a much earlier point than the late 2020s,” Noh said.
“If we face problems that make it difficult for us to operate our Chinese fabrication facilities including the Wuxi plant, we are considering various scenarios, including selling those fabrication facilities or their equipment or bringing them to South Korea,” Noh said.
He said those contingency plans would apply to a “very extreme situation,” and the company hopes to avoid such problems and operate as normal.
Citing an “unprecedented deterioration” in market conditions, SK Hynix said it would cut its investment next year by more than 50% as it anticipates supply will continue to exceed demand for the time being. The country’s operating profit for the three months through September was at 1.65 trillion won ($1.16 billion), compared to 4.17 trillion won ($2.92 billion) during the same period last year. Revenue fell 7% to 10.98 trillion won ($7.7 billion).
Some experts say that the U.S.-China technology standoff could force SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, another major South Korean chipmaker, to significantly modify their Chinese operations over the next few years.
According to market analysis firm TrendForce, SK Hynix’s Wuxi plant accounts for about 13% of the world’s total DRAM production capacity. About 40% of Samsung’s NAND flash chips are reportedly produced from its factory in the Chinese city of Xi’an, accounting for around 10% of global production.
“The existing (principles) we accepted as common sense, such as finding a certain region where we could produce most efficiently at the cheapest cost and shipping those products globally, are becoming increasingly uncertain as (our) decision making is being influenced by various layers of factors beyond just business,” Noh said.
Samsung, the world’s largest provider of memory chips, is widely believed to have received a similar exemption from the U.S. restrictions, although the company has not publicly confirmed it. Noh during the call said SK Hynix’s “competitors” have also been granted the U.S. waivers, in a possible reference to Samsung and Taiwan’s TSMC. | 2022-10-26T19:43:27+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-south-korean-chipmaker-sk-hynix-worries-about-china-future/ |
Sale makes this September the best time to create a backyard oasis
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Master Spas Global Hot Tub and Swim Spa Sale is nearly here! During this first-ever event, customers can SAVE BIG on a Master Spas hot tub or swim spa.
With additional savings up to $2,000, there's never been a better time to invest in your backyard. The event will be September 8 to September 18, with Master Spas global network of dealers participating.
Customers can get more information and download a coupon for additional savings up to $2,000 by visiting MasterSpas.com/globalsale.
Master Spas' entire range of hot tubs and swim spas will be on sale during the event. Customers can enjoy special pricing on the best-selling Twilight Series TS 7.2 hot tub and the H2X Trainer 15D swim spa. Or, they can choose from the luxurious Michael Phelps line, including the LSX 900 hot tub and MP Momentum Deep swim spa.
Customers won't want to miss the chance to take advantage of this special pricing. In addition, inventory will be available for immediate delivery.
As part of the event, Master Spas is giving back. Master Spas will be contributing a minimum of $50,000 to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. The foundation helps America's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children; by building custom-designed smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders; and working tirelessly to eradicate veteran homelessness.
For more information, visit MasterSpas.com/globalsale or your local Master Spas retailer.
Master Spas is based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Operating out of a state-of-the-art, 45-acre campus, we are the largest swim spa manufacturer in the world, and largest portable spa and hot tub manufacturer that makes 100% of our product in the USA. Our management team has over 200 years of spa manufacturing success, and one of the strongest track records in the industry.
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Temperatures cruised through the 80s and into the 90s Tuesday afternoon. Partly sunny skies combined with a west-southwesterly breeze to drive readings to well-above average levels. Highs for the day did fall short of our records, which are 99-degrees for Tuesday’s date. Overnight, a cool front will be approaching the state from the west. With southwesterly winds holding ahead of the front, lows overnight will stay in the 70s for most areas.
A few showers and thundershowers will be possible through Wednesday. The front that will move across lower Michigan doesn’t have a ton of moisture with it, so some of us won’t see any rain at all. It’s timing will also limit the potential for strong storms. Winds will become westerly, and will be a little bit stronger – up to 20 mph. High temperatures for the day will surround the 90-degree mark across the ABC12 viewing area.
Behind the front, temperatures aren’t going to be much cooler for Thursday and Friday. With mostly sunny skies and westerly winds, high temperatures Thursday will range from the upper 80s, to around 90. Friday will begin with bright sunshine, but the trend for the day will be for the clouds to increase a bit. Even so, highs will still manage to surround 90 once again. On ABC12 News, we'll walk you through our chances for some rain this weekend. - JR | 2022-07-20T04:55:40+00:00 | abc12.com | https://www.abc12.com/weather/forecast/jrs-tuesday-night-weather-report/article_96eec3e4-07d6-11ed-aa25-6b19c7c00d87.html |
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s clemency board unanimously declined on Thursday to recommend that the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings.
The decision by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency marks one of the last steps before Murray Hooper’s scheduled Nov. 16 execution for the slayings of William ’Pat” Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps.
Board members rejected Hooper’s claims that he was innocent and that there wasn’t credible evidence to support his convictions.
“There is no doubt as to Mr. Hooper’s guilt,” said Mina Mendez, who chairs the board that advises Gov. Doug Ducey.
Board member Louis Quinonez said he didn’t think Hooper’s sentence was excessive based on the nature of the killings. “I find Mr. Hooper’s convictions to be lawful and authentic,” Quinonez said.
Hooper is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, Arizona.
Authorities said Redmond and Phelps were killed after Hooper and two other men forced their way into Redmond’s home on Dec. 31, 1980. Redmond’s wife, Marilyn, was shot in the head but survived and testified against Hooper.
Two other men, William Bracy and Edward McCall, were convicted in the killings but died before their death sentences could be carried out.
Authorities say Robert Cruz, who was alleged to have had ties to organized crime, hired Hooper, Bracy and McCall to kill Pat Redmond, who co-owned a printing business. They said Cruz wanted to take over the business and was unhappy that Redmond had rejected his offers to enter into several printing contracts with Las Vegas hotels, according to court records. In 1995, Cruz was acquitted of murder charges in both deaths.
Attorneys for Hooper say Marilyn Redmon’s description of the assailants changed several times before she identified Hooper, who claimed not to be in Arizona at the time. They also allege that criminal informants who helped implicate Hooper were influenced by incentives from the police.
The defense lawyers also brought up their efforts to have fingerprint and DNA tests conducted on evidence from the two killings. The lawyers say no physical evidence ties Hooper to the killings and that testing could lead to the identification of those responsible. His convictions came in an era before computerized fingerprint systems and DNA testing were available in criminal cases.
Nearly two weeks ago, a judge rejected Hooper’s request for such testing, saying the evidence implicating Hooper was overwhelming. Hooper is appealing that decision.
Nicole List, one of Hooper’s attorneys, said the case against her client was weak. “This case was nothing without an unreliable identification from Marilyn Redmond and four paid informants,” List said.
Geoffrey Loftus, professor emeritus at the University of Washington’s psychology department, testified before the board on behalf of Hooper. He said people who witness dangerous crimes are more focused on their safety and often have hazy accounts of the details of the crimes.
“I believe that in this case the primary witness, Mrs. Redmond, did not have a very good memory of the perpetrators,” Loftus said.
Prosecutor Kirsten Valenzuela said the courts have already rejected the arguments made by Hooper’s attorneys and found Marilyn Redmond’s testimony to be credible. “This man is not innocent,” Valenzuela said.
In a letter, Pat Redmond’s children urged the board to reject Hooper’s clemency bid, saying their father, their stepmother Marilyn Redmond and her mother were tied up and shot in the head. They also pointed out that Pat Redmond’s throat had been cut.
His children lamented that Hooper would have an easier death than those he attacked.
Hooper chose not to participate in his hearing, though his lawyers argued for clemency before the board.
Hooper would be the third prisoner put to death this year after Arizona resumed carrying out executions in May. The resumption followed a nearly eight-year hiatus attributed to both the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs and criticism that a 2014 execution was botched.
There are 111 prisoners on Arizona’s death row, and 22 have exhausted their appeals, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. | 2022-11-04T03:45:42+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-arizona-death-row-prisoners-clemency-bid-rejected-by-board/ |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 20, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Bastrop County in south central Texas...
Central Fayette County in south central Texas...
* Until 1015 PM CDT.
* At 909 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Rosanky, or
near Smithville, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
La Grange, Smithville, Rosanky, Upton, Hills Prairie, Rutersville,
Togo, Alum Creek, Waldeck, Rabbs Prairie, Plum, Warda, Buescher
State Park, Kovar, West Point, Winchester, Mullins Prairie,
Kirtley, Nechanitz and Bastrop State Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail, damaging winds, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is
one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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Iowa Attorney General Bird files suit against C6-Zero following facility explosion
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s Attorney General is suing the business at the center of a massive workplace explosion in Marengo in December.
At least 10 people were injured on December 8th after an explosion at C6-Zero, a biodiesel facility that recycles roof shingles.
Attorney General Brenna Bird filed the suit on Wednesday, demanding the company comply with an emergency order from Iowa’s Department of Natural Resources and Iowa laws to prevent the “imminent threat to public health and the environment,” including allowing the DNR access to the site.
The Attorney General’s Office said chemicals are still exposed to the elements and water quality on the site is above hazardous levels.
The contaminated runoff is temporarily being held in a retention pond in Marengo.
After the explosion, the Iowa DNR tested to ensure contaminated water from the explosion didn’t make it into the Iowa River, which is a significant source of drinking water for Iowa City and other nearby municipalities.
In a press release, Bird said chemicals used at the facility remain on site in buckets, barrels and gas tanks, along with large piles of loose, crushed shingles, and are exposed to wind, rain and changing temperatures.
“Iowans expect responsible businesses to take reasonable steps to comply with their duties to remediate hazardous conditions after an incident like this,” Bird said.
The KCRG-TV9 i9 Investigative Team received documents showing regulators in two different states found the company’s founder, Howard Brand, violated state laws around solid waste regulations.
Copyright 2023 KCRG. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-11T18:50:50+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2023/01/11/iowa-attorney-general-bird-files-suit-against-c6-zero-following-facility-explosion/ |
BEIJING (AP) — China threatened retaliation on Wednesday if U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets with Taiwan's president during her upcoming trip through Los Angeles.
President Tsai Ing-wen left Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon on a tour of the island's diplomatic allies in the Americas which she framed as a chance to demonstrate Taiwan’s commitment to democratic values on the world stage.
Tsai is scheduled to transit through New York on Thursday before heading to Guatemala and Belize. She is expected to stop in Los Angeles on her way back to Taiwan on April 5, when a meeting with McCarthy is tentatively scheduled.
The planned meeting has triggered fears of a heavy-handed Chinese reaction amid heightened friction between Beijing and Washington over U.S. support for Taiwan and trade and human rights issues.
The spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, denounced Tsai's stopovers and demanded that no U.S. officials meet with her.
“We firmly oppose this and will take resolute countermeasures,” Zhu said at a news conference. The U.S. should “refrain from arranging Tsai Ing-wen’s transit visits and even contact with American officials and take concrete actions to fulfill its solemn commitment not to support Taiwan independence,” she said.
Beijing claims self-governing Taiwan is part of its territory and threatens to bring the island under its control by force if necessary.
Speaking later Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said China will “closely follow the development of the situation and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Mao said the United States was “conducting dangerous activities that undermine the political foundation of bilateral ties.”
McCarthy, a Republican from California, has said he will meet with Tsai when she is in the U.S. and has not ruled out the possibility of traveling to Taiwan in a show of support.
Following a visit by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in 2022, Beijing launched missiles over the area, deployed warships across the median line of the Taiwan Strait and carried out military exercises in a simulated blockade of the island. Beijing also suspended climate talks with the U.S. and restricted military-to-military communication with the Pentagon.
Tsai told reporters before boarding her plane that “I want to tell the whole world democratic Taiwan will resolutely safeguard the values of freedom and democracy and will continue to be a force for good in the world, continuing a cycle of goodness, strengthening the resilience of democracy in the world.”
“External pressure will not obstruct our resolution to engage with the world,” she said.
Beijing has recently ramped up diplomatic pressure against Taiwan by poaching its dwindling number of diplomatic allies while also sending military fighter jets flying toward the island on a near-daily basis. Earlier this month, Honduras established diplomatic relations with China, leaving Taiwan with only 13 countries that recognize it as a sovereign state.
U.S. administration officials in a call with reporters ahead of Tsai’s arrival underscored that her transit is in line with what she and her predecessors have done in the past. Tsai has made six transits through the U.S. — stopovers that have included meetings with members of Congress and members of the Taiwanese diaspora -- during her presidency.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive visit, said Tsai is also expected to meet with American Institute in Taiwan chair Laura Rosenberger. AIT is the U.S. government-run nonprofit that carries out unofficial relations with Taiwan.
One official added that “there is absolutely no reason” for Beijing to use Tsai’s stopover “as an excuse or a pretext to carry out aggressive or coercive activities aimed at Taiwan.”
Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don’t support. Pelosi was the highest-ranking elected American official to visit the island since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997. Under its “one China” policy, the U.S. acknowledges Beijing’s view that it has sovereignty over Taiwan, but considers Taiwan’s status as unsettled. Taiwan is an important partner for Washington in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. officials are increasingly worried about China attempting to make good on its long-stated goal of bringing Taiwan under its control. The sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949 and Beijing sees U.S. politicians’ visits as conspiring with Tsai’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to make the separation permanent and stymy China’s rise as a global power.
The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which has governed U.S. relations with the island, does not require Washington to step in militarily if China invades but makes it American policy to ensure Taiwan has the resources to defend itself and to prevent any unilateral change of status by Beijing.
Tensions spiked earlier this year when U.S. President Joe Biden ordered a Chinese spy balloon shot down after it traversed the continental United States. The Biden administration has also said U.S. intelligence findings show that China is weighing sending arms to Russia for its war in Ukraine, but has no evidence Beijing has done so yet.
China, however, has provided Russia with an economic lifeline and political support, and President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Moscow earlier this month. That was the first face-to-face meeting between the allies since before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.
The Biden administration postponed a planned visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken following the balloon controversy but has signaled it would like to get such a visit back on track.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao said the blame for tensions lies squarely with Washington for boosting relations with Tsai. Beijing has frozen almost all contacts with Tsai’s administration since shortly after she was elected to the first of her two terms in 2016.
“It is not that China overreacts. It is that the U.S. kept emboldening Taiwan independence forces, which is egregious in nature,” Mao said at a daily briefing.
Tsai’s state visits coincide with a 12-day trip to China by her predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, of the pro-unification Nationalist Party, in an appeal to voters whose descendants arrived with Chiang Kai-shek’s defeated forces in 1949.
Ma has been visiting sites in the former Nationalist capital of Nanjing and emphasizing historical and cultural links between the sides, while avoiding the politically sensitive topics of China’s determination to eliminate Taiwan’s international presence and refusal to recognize its government.
Tsai is barred from seeking a third term and her party is widely expected to nominate Vice President Lai Ching-te to run for the presidency in January.
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Associated Press writers Huizhong Wu in Taipei, Taiwan, and Aamer Madhani in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans who say the Federal Trade Commission has been overzealous and politicized under President Joe Biden are set to interrogate agency head Lina Khan on Thursday, bringing her before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time amid her court battles with big technology companies.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has criticized Khan in recent months on a multitude of issues, including what he says are politically motivated actions directed at Elon Musk after he acquired Twitter last year, questions about whether she should have recused herself from certain cases and her legal actions against tech giants on antitrust issues. In April, the committee subpoenaed Khan after an investigation by the panel that concluded the FTC “harassed” Twitter in the wake of Musk’s acquisition.
The hearing will examine “mismanagement of the FTC and its disregard for ethics and congressional oversight under Chair Lina Khan,” the Judiciary panel’s website says.
The hearing comes as the agency has been embroiled in several legal cases against technology companies and as Khan — an outspoken critic of Big Tech before becoming the agency’s head — has tried, not always successfully, to toughen government regulation of those companies.
Khan and the agency suffered a major defeat Tuesday when a federal judge declined to block Microsoft’s looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. The FTC had sought to ax the deal, saying it will hurt competition.
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said the deal — the largest in the history of the tech industry — deserved scrutiny but the FTC hadn’t shown that it would cause serious harm. The FTC is now appealing her ruling.
Another judge rebuffed the FTC’s attempt earlier this year to stop Meta from taking over the virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited.
The FTC has also sued Amazon for allegedly engaging in a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into Amazon Prime and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. In a complaint filed in federal court last month, the agency accused Amazon of using deceptive designs, known as “dark patterns,” to deceive consumers into enrolling in the service.
The FTC has been investigating Twitter, including efforts this spring to obtain owner Elon Musk’s internal communications, as part of ongoing oversight into the social media company’s privacy and cybersecurity practices.
The agency has been watching the company for years since Twitter agreed to a 2011 consent order alleging serious data security lapses. But the agency’s concerns spiked with the tumult that followed Musk’s October takeover of the company and mass layoffs that followed.
Khan, a legal scholar, was a known tech critic when she took over the agency in 2021 and her nomination was seen as a signal from the Biden administration that it would be tough on technology companies as they have been under intense pressure from other regulators and state attorneys general.
She was a professor at Columbia University Law School and became known for her scholarly work in 2017 as a Yale law student, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.” That work helped lay the foundation for a new way of looking at antitrust law beyond the impact of big-company market dominance on consumer prices.
And she has experience with the Judiciary committee, having served as counsel to the panel’s antitrust subcommittee in 2019 and 2020. In that role she played a key role in a sweeping bipartisan investigation of the market power of the tech giants.
Jordan’s House Judiciary panel has also gone after the tech companies for what Republicans say is censorship of conservatives. The committee subpoenaed the chief executives of the five largest tech companies in February as part of an effort to investigate Big Tech’s moderation of content.
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O’Brien reported from Providence, R.I. | 2023-07-13T13:54:53+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-house-republicans-set-to-interrogate-ftcs-khan-over-ethics-antitrust-issues/ |
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Nacional de Costa Rica (the "Bank"), an autonomous state-owned financial institution organized under the laws of the Republic of Costa Rica, an entity part of the Banco Nacional Financial Conglomerate, announced today the early results of its previously announced cash tender offer (the "Offer") for up to US$200 million in aggregate purchase price of its 6.250% Senior Notes due 2023 (144A CUSIP / ISIN Nos. 059613AB5 / US059613AB51 and Reg S P14623AB1 / USP14623AB16) (the "Notes"). The Offer is being made on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated April 28, 2022 ("Offer to Purchase"). The Offer is scheduled to expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on May 25, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated as described in the Offer to Purchase (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Time"). The amount of Notes that may be purchased in the Offer is subject to a maximum purchase price of US$200 million (the "Maximum Tender Amount"). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Offer to Purchase.
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 11, 2022, (the "Early Tender Time"), according to D.F. King & Co., Inc., the tender agent and information agent (the "Tender Agent and Information Agent") for the Offer, tenders were received (and not validly withdrawn) from holders of Notes representing US$144,957,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes.
The Bank will accept all the Notes tendered prior to or at the Early Tender Time. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Offer, holders who validly tendered their Notes at or prior to the Early Tender Time are eligible to receive US$1,047.50 for each US$1,000 principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase (the "Total Consideration"), plus accrued interest up to but not including the Initial Settlement Date (as defined below).
Payment for Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time and accepted for purchase is expected to be made on May 13, 2022 (the "Initial Settlement Date").
Withdrawal rights with respect to the Offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 11, 2022. Accordingly, Notes tendered (in the past or the future) in the Offer may no longer be withdrawn, except if required by applicable law.
Holders who validly tender their Notes after the Early Tender Time but prior to the Expiration Time are eligible to receive US$1,017.50 for each US$1,000 principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase (the "Tender Consideration"), plus accrued interest up to but not including the Final Settlement Date (as defined below). Holders who validly tender their Notes after the Early Tender Time but prior to the Expiration Time will not be eligible to receive the Early Tender Premium. Tendered Notes may be subject to proration if the aggregate purchase price of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Offer exceeds the Maximum Tender Amount, subject to disclosure and other requirements under applicable law. The Bank reserves the right to increase or decrease the Maximum Tender Amount.
Payment for Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Time but prior to the Expiration Time and accepted for purchase is expected to be made on May 27, 2022 (the "Final Settlement Date").
Completion of the Offer is subject to customary conditions. If the conditions to the Offer are satisfied or waived, and the Bank decides to proceed with settlement on the Initial Settlement Date, the Bank will thereafter accept for purchase and pay for any Notes validly tendered in the Offer at or prior to the Early Tender Time on the Initial Settlement Date.
The Bank reserves the absolute right to amend or terminate the Offer in its sole discretion, subject to disclosure and other requirements as required by applicable law. In the event of termination of the Offer, Notes tendered and not accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer will be promptly returned to the tendering holders. The complete terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the Offer to Purchase, a copy of which may be obtained from D.F. King & Co., Inc., the tender agent and information agent (the "Tender and Information Agent") for the Offer, at www.dfking.com/bncr, bncr@dfking.com, by telephone at (866) 620-2536 (U.S. toll free) and (212) 269-5550 (collect), in writing at 48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor New York, New York 10005, Attention: Michael Horthman.
The Bank has engaged Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC to act as the dealer managers (the "Dealer Managers") in connection with the Offer. Questions regarding the terms of the Offer may be directed to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. by telephone at +1 (800) 558-3745 (U.S. toll free) or +1 (212) 723-6106 (collect) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC by telephone at +1 (866) 846-2874 (U.S. toll free) or +1 (212) 834-7279 (collect).
Disclaimer
None of the Bank, the Dealer Managers, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee for the Notes, or any of their respective affiliates, is making any recommendation as to whether holders should or should not tender any Notes in response to the Offer or expressing any opinion as to whether the terms of the Offer are fair to any holder. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender any of their Notes and, if so, the principal amount of Notes to tender. Please refer to the Offer to Purchase for a description of the offer terms, conditions, disclaimers and other information applicable to the Offer.
This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to purchase or the solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The Offer is being made solely by means of the Offer to Purchase. The Offer is not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require any tender offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer will be deemed to be made on behalf of the Bank by the Dealer Managers or one or more registered brokers or dealers licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including those related to the Offer. Forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future, and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. The Bank is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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About Banco Nacional de Costa Rica.
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, is an autonomous government-owned institution organized and existing as a state owned commercial bank under the laws of the Republic of Costa Rica. Banco Nacional de Costa Rica is an entity part of the Banco Nacional Financial Conglomerate.
Important Notice
The distribution of materials relating to the Offer and the transactions contemplated by the Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. The Offer is void in all jurisdictions where it is prohibited. If materials relating to the Offer come into a holder's possession, the holder is required by the Bank to inform itself of and to observe all of these restrictions. The materials relating to Offer, including this communication, do not constitute, and may not be used in connection with, an offer or solicitation in any place where offers or solicitations are not permitted by law. If a jurisdiction requires that the Offer be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a Dealer Manager or any affiliate of a Dealer Manager is a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the Offer, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate on behalf of the Bank in that jurisdiction. Owners who may lawfully participate in the Offer in accordance with the terms thereof are referred to as "holders."
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation would be unlawful.
This press release constitutes a public disclosure of inside information by Banco Nacional de Costa Rica under Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (16 April 2014) and as the same applies under the law of the United Kingdom.
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JPMorgan's Marko Kolanovic is abstaining from the early 2023 rally.
Instead, the Institutional Investor hall-of-famer is bracing for a 10% or more correction in the first half of this year, telling investors he's "outright negative" on the market.
"Fundamentals are deteriorating. And, the market has been moving up. So, that has to clash at some point,"
the firm's chief market strategist and global research co-head told CNBC's "Fast Money" on Tuesday.
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Kolanovic slashed his firm's exposure to stocks last week to underweight. In a recent note, he warned the market is not currently pricing in a recession. His base case is a hard landing.
"Short-term interest rates moved a lot in the last six months, and they'll probably still go a bit higher and stay there," he said. "The consumer took a lot of debt. Interest rates went up. The consumer was resilient, and that was sort of our thesis last year... But as time progresses, they're less and less resilient."
Kolanovic, who is ranked as the number one equity strategist by Institutional Investor for the twelfth time, cites troublesome trends in recent key economic data — including ISM services, retail sales and the Philadelphia Fed Survey as reasons to turn bearish.
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"We think things first turn south, get much worse," said Kolanovic.
Yet, the tech-heavy Nasdaq is up more than 8% so far this year, and the S&P 500 is up almost 5%. It closed on Tuesday at 4,016.95.
He lists positive developments including China's reopening from Covid-19 lockdowns and a weaker dollar for market enthusiasm. Kolanovic believes they helped create a narrative the worse is behind us and a recession "somehow magically " happened last year.
"I just don't think that at 5% rates we can have this economy functioning," said Kolanovic, who noted private equity and venture capitalists can't exist in this kind of environment. "Something will have to give, and the Fed will need to flinch."
And, it could happen this year as a rate cut.
"At some point, they'll [the Fed] backstop it. So, the big question is where. Is it [the S&P at] 3,600? 3,400? 3,200? We don't have a very strong conviction. But we do think lower is the direction," he said. "There is usually some contagion or something that happens unexpected."
Kolanovic lists Treasury bonds and cash as viable places to hide out for now. | 2023-01-25T01:36:29+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/outright-negative-on-stocks-jpmorgans-marko-kolanovic-braces-for-correction-hard-landing/3054038/ |
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City selected as winner of "Light Up Holiday Smiles" contest
FAIRMONT, W.Va., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) and its subsidiary Mon Power will brighten the city of Summersville with a professionally designed light display as part of the company's "Light Up Holiday Smiles with FirstEnergy" program. The initiative is helping make the season brighter and merrier with the gift of holiday lights for three deserving communities across FirstEnergy's service areas in West Virginia, Ohio and New Jersey.
The holiday lights display from FirstEnergy Corp. will be located at Nicholas County Veterans Memorial Park along U.S. Route 19. The public is encouraged to attend a lighting ceremony and enjoy refreshments and other holiday festivities at the park on Friday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m., immediately following the city's Christmas parade.
To qualify for the Light Up Holiday Smiles program, cities were required to be served by a FirstEnergy utility and to be located in a county designated as distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission. Interested communities were asked to submit statements outlining why they should be considered for the display, including local efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the community.
"FirstEnergy and Mon Power are honored to recognize the efforts underway in Summersville to ensure a vibrant and strong community through the Light Up Holiday Smiles program, which supports togetherness and joy during the holiday season," said Jim Myers, president of FirstEnergy's West Virginia operations.
Summersville distinguished itself with its commitment to address opportunity gaps in the community through partnerships with a variety of local stakeholders and organizations as well as its efforts to include people of all backgrounds in the region through its events.
"We are grateful to FirstEnergy and Mon Power for recognizing our ongoing efforts to make Summersville inclusive and welcoming to all who choose to live in or visit our community," said Mayor Robert Shafer.
Mon Power serves about 395,000 customers in 34 West Virginia counties. Follow Mon Power at www.mon-power.com, on Twitter @MonPowerWV, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MonPowerWV.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com and on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Joel is finally moving out of his monthly perch at Madison Square Garden. The singer-songwriter says he will conclude his residency in July 2024 with his 150th lifetime performance at the venue.
“It’s hard to believe we’ve been able to do this for 10 years,” Joel said at a news conference Thursday. “I’m now 74. I’ll be 75 next year. It seems like a nice number.”
The record-breaking residency began in January 2014 with Joel playing one show every month at the Garden for, as he said at the time, “as long as the demand continues.”
In January 2015, Joel broke his own record of the “most consecutive performances by any artist” with the 13th show of the residency and a new banner was raised to the Garden’s rafters.
In July 2015, with his 65th lifetime show, Joel broke another record for the “most lifetime performances by any artist,” for which another banner was raised. Both of Joel’s banners continue to hang at the Garden.
“There’s only one thing that’s more New York than Billy Joel — and that’s a Billy Joel concert at MSG,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. “For more than 50 years, Billy’s music has defined our city and brought us together. On behalf of 8.5 million New Yorkers, congratulations, Billy, on a historic run of sold-out shows at MSG, and thank you for a lifetime of bringing joy to us all.”
Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits, including three No. 1s — “It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “Tell Her About It” — and four No. 1 albums — “52nd Street,” “Glass Houses,” “Storm Front” and “River of Dreams.”
He won six Grammys — as well as a Grammy Legend Award in 1990 — as well as being inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992. | 2023-06-02T16:53:27+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/billy-joel-to-end-his-record-breaking-concert-series-at-madison-square-garden-in-2024/ |
TULSA, Okla. — Death row prisoner Richard Glossip's wife speaks to FOX23 as the days count down to his scheduled execution.
Last week, a pardon and parole board denied Glossip clemency.
On Thursday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and faith leaders came together at the capitol to call on Gov. Stitt to step in and stop the execution until the U.S. Supreme Court can make a ruling.
Lea Glossip says she and her husband are facing a terrifying situation.
"I’m trying to do my best to keep on pushing forward but I’m very, very frightened right now," Lea said.
Glossip is now facing execution on May 18.
"The fact that we are really thrust into this countdown now where every second and every minute is one less on my husband's life, it’s been very hard," Lea said. "Every moment we have together right now becomes that much more precious, that much more, and we are very acutely aware more than ever of time going by."
Glossip has been on death row for 26 years, convicted in the murder of an Oklahoma City motel owner in 1997, but Glossip says he’s innocent.
Last week, the pardon and parole board denied Glossip clemency even after the Oklahoma attorney general spoke in favor of it.
"It was very hard and Richard told me himself after that he has never felt his faith so shaken as he did on that moment, and it made it so hard for him to believe that we can get through to the other side of this," Lea said. "He just feels that, no matter what we do, no matter how far we go, it’s these forces that are standing in our way in a very real way that is frankly what’s pressing the plot on his life right now and it’s scary to feel that helpless."
The campaign backing Richard Glossip is now calling for Gov. Stitt to issue a 60 day stay of execution. Glossip's lawyers are also making an appeal to the U.S> Supreme Court.
"This is really a moment where a lot of decision makers have choices to make to where they want to fall on this," she said. "He’s been shaken by this, as have I, at the same time. I think it’s hard for everybody to fathom that this could be the end considering where we’re at, so it’s difficult because that is the reality right now. So we are hoping and praying that Gov. Stitt will issue a reprieve."
Meanwhile Lea says Friday might be the last time she gets to visit her husband.
"That’s a lot because that’s your last hug, your last touch, your last kiss goodbye with the one you love," she said. "And just hanging on that it won’t be the end, it won’t be the last time, but for now we don’t know that so knowing that possibility is an incredible weight." | 2023-05-05T20:31:02+00:00 | fox23.com | https://www.fox23.com/news/fox23-speaks-with-death-row-inmate-richard-glossips-wife-on-nearing-execution-date/article_1c6e1578-eaf4-11ed-9903-4f2c568122d1.html |
Bronny James: Officials release frantic 911 call after USC freshman’s cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Fire Department Friday released the 911 call after the University of Southern California freshman Bronny James, son of NBA superstar LeBron James, collapsed and went into cardiac arrest during basketball practice at the Galen Center earlier this week.
"We need an ambulance immediately," the caller is heard telling the 911 operator.
"Listen…listen to me," he said. "We need an ambulance here now."
"We’re going to send help," the operator responds.
The operator then instructs the caller to get next to the patient.
"Is there a doctor on scene with him or a registered nurse?" the operator asks, and the caller responds "No."
The operator then tells the caller that fire department paramedics were already on the way. Authorities have not released the caller's identity.
Once first responders arrived, Bronny James was rushed to the hospital and treated in the intensive care unit. Health officials said James was later stabilized and moved out of the ICU.
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The 18-year-old has since been released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and continues to recover at home.
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"I want to thank the countless people sending my family love and prayers. We feel you and I’m so grateful," LeBron James wrote on social media Thursday.
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The social media post continued to say, "Everyone [is] doing great. We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love. Will have more to say when we're ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your support has meant to us all #JamesGang." | 2023-07-29T01:11:02+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/bronny-james-officials-release-911-call-after-usc-freshmans-cardiac-arrest |
BOSTON (AP) — A collection of touching and sometimes prescient personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been sold at auction to a renowned Portuguese bookshop for nearly $670,000.
The Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, which bills itself as “the World’s Most Beautiful Bookshop,” plans to keep the archive of 42 handwritten letters totaling 150 pages complete and available for Dylan fans and scholars to study, auctioneer RR Auction said in a statement Friday.
Dylan, a native of Hibbing, Minnesota, wrote the letters to Barbara Ann Hewitt between 1957 and 1959 when he was still known as Bob Zimmerman. They provide an insight into a period of his life of which not much is known.
Remarkably, in some of the letters Dylan writes about changing his name and hoping to sell a million records. Decades later, the now 81-year-old Dylan and 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature has sold about 125 million records.
The young musician also expresses his affection for Hewitt, invites her to a Buddy Holly show, includes little fragments of poetry, and talks about the sorts of things that generations of high school students have been concerned about, such as cars, clothes and music.
Hewitt’s daughter found the letters after her mother died in 2020. The original envelopes addressed in Dylan’s handwriting were sent to the Hewitt family’s new home in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of New Brighton.
Several other items of Dylan memorabilia were also sold at the auction, including an archive of 24 “Poems Without Titles” written when the singer-songwriter attended the University of Minnesota, which sold for almost $250,000; and one of the earliest known signed photographs of Dylan that went for more than $24,000. | 2022-11-19T20:33:27+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/entertainment-news/ap-collection-of-love-letters-written-by-dylan-sold-for-670k/ |
Standing 14 stories tall, the Docking State Office Building is one of Kansas’ largest and oldest state workplaces. It’s also largely vacant, despite a prime location across from the Capitol.
So Kansas officials are planning to spend $60 million of federal pandemic relief funds to help finance its demolition and replace it with a slimmed-down, three-story building designed to host meetings and events.
State officials categorized the project as a “public health service” in a report to the U.S. Treasury Department laying out their plans for the money. Though that may be a stretch, it’s likely fine under the American Rescue Plan act — a sweeping law signed by President Joe Biden last year that provides broad flexibility for $350 billion of aid to states and local governments.
The aid was promoted by Democrats in Congress as an unprecedented infusion for cash-strapped governments to respond to the virus, rebuild their economies and shore up their finances. But it came as state tax revenues already were rebounding, leaving many states with record surpluses and enviable decisions about what to do with all the money.
Relatively little of the federal aid has gone toward traditional public health purposes, according to an Associated Press review of reports filed by all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Significantly more has gone toward public infrastructure. States are pouring money into water, sewer and high-speed internet projects, as specifically envisioned by the law. But the AP found that they’re also spending billions of dollars on roads, bridges, sidewalks, airports, rail lines and buildings at college campuses and government agencies — justifying all of it under the federal government’s generous flexibility.
“We didn’t need it, to be quite honest,” said Kansas House Appropriations Committee Chairman Troy Waymaster, referring to the $1.6 billion the state received.
But the Docking building does need to come down, he said, and the new space for events and meetings could allow better social distancing during a COVID-19 resurgence or future pandemic.
If “the building itself could be used during a pandemic, then it somewhat justifies the use of ARPA funds for the renovation or infrastructure projects,” said Waymaster, a Republican.
A Kansas preservationist group has asked a court to block the demolition, arguing that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration hasn’t followed proper procedures to tear down the 65-year-old structure that was added to the National Register of Historic Places earlier this year.
“There’s some wrongheaded action going on here to demolish what really is a perfectly suitable building,” said Paul Post, a retired Topeka attorney and member of the Plains Modern preservationist group.
All states recently were required to file annual reports with the Treasury Department detailing their progress under the American Rescue Plan. The documents show states have planned expenditures for about three-fourths of their funds. up significantly from an initial slow pace.
The Treasury asked states to classify projects in seven general categories, with 83 subcategories. It can recoup funds if it determines by the end of 2026 that spending fell outside the law’s wide guidelines.
Governments reported more than $22 billion of planned expenditures for the Treasury’s infrastructure category of water, sewer and broadband. But the AP identified a total of about $36 billion for infrastructure projects — nearly one-quarter of all planned expenditures — when including roads, bridges, buildings and public works projects reported in other categories.
By contrast, governments reported less than $12 billion of planned expenditures in the Treasury’s public health category — even though it was broadly construed to also include such things as “community violence interventions,” substance use services and COVID-19 aid to small businesses.
Some state officials may have decided not to use the relief funds for public health because they had other federal funding streams for vaccines, testing and health initiatives. For example, a separate section of the American Rescue Plan provided nearly $8 billion for state and local health departments. But the large influx of funds may also have stirred concerns about sustainability.
Though public health has historically been underfunded, “a lot of health officials have struggled to get their policymakers and their bosses to commit to hiring people for the long-term because it’s one-time money,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association.
Some states reported no public health expenditures with their discretionary American Rescue Plan funds. Those included Florida, which received the fourth largest allotment from the federal government. Florida instead devoted $1.8 billion for highway, $1.9 billion for water projects and more than $2.5 billion for construction and maintenance of public buildings, including the Capitol, university facilities and K-12 schools, according to the AP’s analysis.
The state’s water initiatives include up to $700 million for a grant program to fight flooding associated with climate change. The city of Miami was awarded about $50 million for a half-dozen projects, including one that will nearly double the height of a sea wall in an area devastated by a storm surge from Hurricane Irma in 2017.
The goal of the project is “to protect the residences and the businesses from future storm surge and sea level rise,” said Sonia Brubaker, Miami’s chief resilience officer.
Louisiana also listed no planned expenditures in the Treasury’s public health category. But the state plans to spend $863 million on roads and bridges, $750 million on water and sewer infrastructure and $27 million for improvements to the domed stadium where the New Orleans Saints play football.
Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards said the stadium subsidy was critical “to keep that venue competitive.”
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, also defended $46 million of grants to upgrade grandstands, walkways, bathrooms and infrastructure at racetracks across his state. “Motorsports are part of the fabric of North Carolina,” he said earlier this year.
Alabama prisoners have sued the Treasury Department to try to stop the state from spending $400 million on prison construction. Though the state agues it’s OK under the Treasury’s flexible rules, the lawsuit contends it’s a “a gross and illegal misuse” of pandemic relief funds.
A coalition of more than two dozen construction, business and local government groups is pressing Congress to grant even more leeway to use pandemic aid on transportation projects.
“Having a good infrastructure that allows us all to live and thrive” ultimately “leads back into public health,” said Stan Brown, past president of the American Public Works Association.
Missouri, which has yet to categorize most of its projects, also is investing heavily in infrastructure by directing hundreds of millions of dollars to buildings at community colleges and public universities. The NextGen Precision Health initiative at the University of Missouri will get nearly $105 million for improvements that include finishing off the fourth floor of a new building named for retiring U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.
“A lot of this was already going to happen,” although no specific timeline had been set, said university spokesperson Christian Basi. “Then COVID hits, and then ARPA funds are available. It’s coincidental odd timing, but it turned out to be a very, very helpful thing for us.”
Like Missouri, Utah categorized $90 million for a new mental health research facility as a replacement of lost revenue for government services. Construction is to begin next year on the building, which will host research on suicide and the effect of social isolation on children’s mental health, among other things.
The planned work aligns nicely with the intent of the federal aid, said Mark Rapaport, CEO of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah.
“A lot of what we’re doing is directly related to tackling issues that have been exacerbated by the pandemic itself,” he said.
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Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Missouri, and Harjai from Los Angeles. Harjai is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | 2022-09-29T20:43:24+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/ap-states-spend-federal-covid-aid-on-roads-buildings-seawalls/ |
CHICAGO (WGN) – “Maybe it’s time.”
Those three words hint that answers in one of the nation’s most infamous unsolved cases could soon be solved. Attorney Joel Brodsky represented suburban Chicago cop Drew Peterson more than a decade ago when the officer’s fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared.
“It’s something that weighs on my conscience,” Brodsky told WGN Investigates in his Chicago apartment overlooking Lake Michigan. “I would never do anything that would hurt a former client, but he’s in prison, he’s never getting out. So, if he’s a man, he’d say ‘I’m done, here’s what happened,’ so people can have closure.”
Stacy Peterson’s family immediately feared the worst when she vanished in 2007 because Drew’s previous wife, Kathleen Savio, died under mysterious circumstances. While Stacy has never been found, her disappearance prompted police and prosecutors to reopen – and eventually convict – Drew Peterson of killing his previous wife in a bathtub. Law enforcement labeled Drew as the only suspect in what they suspect was Stacy’s murder, but since her body was never found, they’ve been unable to prosecute.
“I know everything about both of his wives – everything,” Brodsky said. “I feel bad about Drew still not taking responsibility and Stacy still being missing. I’m thinking about maybe revealing what happened to Stacy and where she is.”
Why would a man who practiced law for 37 years consider betraying his profession’s most sacred practice? Brodsky said it’s because he feels the profession betrayed him. In 2019, the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission suspended his law license for two years, leaving him and his clients in limbo. A complaint said Brodsky engaged in “a pattern and practice of unprofessional behavior including false allegations and inappropriate diatribes in pleadings.” Brodsky says he regrets the conduct and attributes it to being “overzealous” in defending his clients.
Brodsky questions why he received such a severe sanction when two powerful politicians – former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and Chicago Alderman Ed Burke – still have the ability to practice law and collect fees despite being charged by federal prosecutors with using their public office to steer business to their private law practices. Burke’s wife is a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court, which oversees the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. “Decisions are made, rulings, opinions are made based not on factors of law but based on who you [and] what you know and what your financial connections to them are,” Brodsky said.
Brodsky’s two-year suspension is over but he has yet to apply to have his law license reinstated. “It’s almost like I don’t want to get back into a dirty business – what I think is a dirty business,” Brodsky said.
Stacy Peterson’s sister, Cassandra Cales, told WGN Investigates she’s skeptical of Brodsky’s desire to help bring closure to the family. “If that actually weighed on him – and if he’s not out to gain something – he should reach out to me or law enforcement,” she said.
Legal experts said it’s almost unheard of for a lawyer to betray their client’s trust in such a bold fashion.
“I think it’s despicable,” said former appellate judge David Erickson of Chicago-Kent College of Law. “To break that breaks the very trust that this entire system of law should be based upon.” | 2022-05-18T15:40:32+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/drew-petersons-former-attorney-considers-revealing-killer-cops-secrets/ |
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South by Southwest's annual tech, music and film conference is canceled. Austin city Mayor Steve Adler made the announcement today. Adler said they made the decision to hit pause on the festival this year due to concerns over coronavirus. Here to tell us more is Jimmy Maas of member station KUT in Austin.
And, Jimmy, I understand that Texas state officials were at a press conference today. What did they have to say? And what did you learn about why South by Southwest is being canceled?
JIMMY MAAS, BYLINE: Well, there is a - locally, there is a mayor and the county judge, which is effectively the county executive. They declared a local disaster declaration. It is not a health emergency. I suspect there's an important legal distinction between those two, though the city has not clarified what that is yet. There are no cases of coronavirus or the disease here, but in the absence of...
CORNISH: And we should say here in Austin.
MAAS: Right, sorry, in Austin. You're correct.
CORNISH: There are a total of five cases in Texas, at least according to public health officials and their website as of tonight.
MAAS: Yes, and they came back - they did a test on one individual, and that came back negative. But in the absence of evidence, they yielded to best practice. And they said there were no best practices, so they went with medical opinion, and that's when they decided to cancel the event overall.
CORNISH: The festival brings in such an enormous amount of money for local businesses, vendors, promoters, record stores. We know there's a tech component. What does canceling mean for the local economy?
MAAS: The ripple effects of this are going to be felt presumably, you know - we've been told there is - it's too late to get a refund. So South by Southwest, for the most part - all those contracts that were in place for the event are probably going to have to be paid or at least litigated in some way. But the things that were not secure - the restaurants, the hotels won't make that money back - small businesses that organize side events, security guards, drivers, all those temp workers that turn down other work to keep those 10 days open for what is usually a busy time of work for them, you know, here on the, you know, the Austin calendar.
CORNISH: And I'm going to leave it there. Actually, we've run out of time. That's Jimmy Maas of NPR member station KUT in Austin.
Thanks so much.
MAAS: Thank you.
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5 things to know for March 29: Gun reform, Covid-19, Debt ceiling, Trump, France
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN
In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Nashville, most major companies have remained noticeably silent on the issue of gun violence. Corporate America has grown quiet on guns for fear of political blowback and antagonizing gun rights supporters, analysts say. But now, executives are facing mounting pressure to take a more active role in America’s gun debate — even though most of them would prefer to stay on the sidelines.
Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.
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1. Gun reform
Congress remains gridlocked on gun control measures in the wake of the school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, including three children. President Joe Biden has said that he’s done all he can do to address gun control and urged members on Capitol Hill to act. “I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably,” Biden told CNN Tuesday. But the shooting, so far, has not compelled lawmakers in Washington — particularly Republican leadership and some Tennessee lawmakers — to push forward gun control. The House, where Republicans are in control, has rejected Biden’s calls for an assault weapons ban. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also would not answer questions Tuesday on whether any congressional action should be taken on guns after the latest mass shooting. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are slamming House Republicans for their disinterest. “All we’re going to get are thoughts and prayers out of their Twitter accounts, and that’s not enough,” Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar said.
2. Covid-19
Healthy kids and teenagers may not need to get a Covid-19 shot, according to revised global vaccination recommendations from the World Health Organization. The updated roadmap is designed to prioritize Covid-19 vaccines for those at greatest risk of death and severe disease, according to the organization’s vaccine experts. While this latest guidance could change if the pandemic evolves, it comes as some countries are already making their own choices about vaccine recommendations based on their vaccine supply and progress. US officials, for example, are weighing whether to offer people who are at high risk of severe Covid-19 the chance to get another bivalent booster. The UK and Canada have already begun allowing certain people to get an additional bivalent booster.
3. Debt ceiling
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged the White House in a letter sent Tuesday to start more robust negotiations over raising the nation’s borrowing limit, the first major action in weeks on either side of the debt ceiling issue. McCarthy proposed a series of places to start saving money, including reclaiming unspent Covid-19 relief funds and strengthening work requirements for social programs. The White House, however, said it does not want to continue negotiations until Republicans are ready to offer a counter proposal to the White House’s budget request, which the Biden administration unveiled earlier this month. Currently, the US is $31.4 trillion in debt, putting the federal government at risk of not being able to pay all its bills within a few months if Congress doesn’t act.
4. Trump
More than a week after former President Donald Trump predicted — incorrectly — that he would be arrested in a New York criminal case, no action has come from the district attorney’s office investigating the matter. All eyes are on the Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump’s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. The grand jury is not expected to consider the case again this week, court sources told CNN. This means next week is the earliest the panel could be asked to take a vote on whether to indict Trump, although prosecutors do not have a hard deadline to conclude their case. Separately, former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to another grand jury about conversations he had with Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, a judge ruled.
5. France protests
Massive protests in France are showing no signs of letting up as angry demonstrators take to the streets over French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. Major services have come to a halt across the country in recent weeks over Macron’s proposal to raise the retirement age for most workers from 62 to 64 — a move that has riled opposition lawmakers and trade unions. Some 740,000 protesters joined 240 rallies held throughout France on Tuesday, with more than 93,000 demonstrators filling the streets of Paris alone, according to the French Interior Ministry. Today marks the 11th day of nationwide demonstrations, which have turned violent in recent days with some protestors hurling objects at the police, including smoke bombs, rocks and bottles.
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TODAY’S NUMBER
50,000
That’s about how many Tesla Model X vehicles are being investigated for a potential issue with their front seatbelt attachments. At this stage in the investigation, the problem has been detected in only two vehicles, safety regulators said. However, an investigation may, or may not, result in a recall. Meanwhile, Tesla is already facing investigations into its Autopilot and “Full Self Driving” driver assistance system and for steering wheels that can fall off.
TODAY’S QUOTE
“It’s one of the greatest rip-offs in modern American history.”
— California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accusing oil companies of price gouging California residents with high gas prices — even when crude oil prices started to decrease. “Why is it that we are paying at peak $2.61 more per gallon of gasoline than the national average?” Newsom said Tuesday, after signing a bill into law giving the state’s energy commission oversight power on oil companies to determine potential price gouging and impose corresponding penalties.
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The classic American tavern by Vandelay Hospitality Group opens September 8
DALLAS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Known for its Chicago-inspired, classic American cuisine, D.L. Mack's will open its second location on September 8th in a handsome and comfortable old-world setting at 10720 Preston Road, Dallas, TX 75230. "Mack's" is fueled by Vandelay Hospitality Group, the rapidly expanding, Texas-owned-and-operated group behind classic American local favorites Hudson House, Drake's Hollywood, and Brentwood. D.L. Mack's blends the approachable, all-occasions feel of Hudson House with its own distinctly unique Chicago-inspired backdrop.
The 3,533 square foot space on the corner of Preston and Royal features reclaimed wood flooring from a 16th-century French church and reclaimed antique brick straight from 19th century Chicago. Details throughout the classic American tavern include black leather booths inspired by the classic automobiles of the mid-1900s, vintage light installments, vintage cigarette cards highlighting sports and movie stars of the early 20th century, black lacquered bar ceiling with custom brass and a glass back bar.
Just like the original location in University Park, D.L. Mack's food program will offer classic American cuisine by way of carefully sourced purveyors with an emphasis on house-made ingredients. Dishes are prepared from scratch in-house daily, featuring an all-day entrée set with shareable snacks, and of course, pizza. Dallas appetites have grown to love D.L. Mack's purist Chicago cracker crust tavern-style pizza offering. No deep dish to be found here. The thin crust is so crispy, it can't be folded. Other fan favorites include the Larchmont Salad, Blackened Redfish, and Garlic Shrimp Scampi.
The second D.L. Mack's post is just one of many openings this season by Vandelay Hospitality Group, which recently opened Brentwood, in North Dallas, as well as the group's first restaurant outside of Texas. Hudson House will open its fifth location in Los Angeles this year.
D.L. Mack's will open 7 days a week [11am-9pm Sunday - Wednesday and 11am-10pm Thursday - Sunday]. For more information on D.L. Mack's, visit www.dlmacks.com. Follow D.L. Mack's and Vandelay Hospitality on Instagram at @dlmacks and @vandelayhospitality.
Founded by CEO Hunter Pond in 2012, Vandelay Hospitality Group is rooted in developing hospitality brands and services that evoke a combination of rich American heritage, exquisite craftsmanship, eye for detail, and timeless charm. Concepts are framed with the local community at the forefront, often reviving former food and beverage spaces to match and add to the character of the neighborhood. Each property is designed in-house with polished eclecticism paying mind to artisanal aesthetics and a comfortable and timeless experience for all to enjoy. The Vandelay portfolio of sit-down and casual concepts include East Hampton Sandwich Co., Hudson House Restaurant & Raw Bar, Drake's Hollywood, D.L. Mack's, Brentwood Restaurant & Bar and The Anchor Bar (set to open in 2023). Vandelay's dedication to honest food and world-class service is built upon commitment and respect to employees and guests.
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WASHINGTON — Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week got a welcome respite from the headaches Saturday, despite concerns about possible disruptions caused by new wireless 5G systems rolling out near major airports.
The number of flight delays and cancellations declined from the spikes recorded earlier in the week, according to data compiled by tracking service FlightAware. As of 4:45 p.m. EST, there had been 710 flight cancellations and more than 23,600 delayed flights Saturday. During the June 28-30 period, an average of 1,751 flights were canceled and more then 32,600 flights delayed, according to the FlightAware data.
The cancellation rate worked out to about 1% in the U.S. as of Saturday afternoon, according to Flightradar24, another tracking service. Flightradar24 spokesperson Ian Petchenik described Saturday's conditions as “smooth sailing” in an email to The Associated Press, while adding inclement weather could cause problems at East Coast airports later in the day.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration also advised travelers that bad weather conditions on the East Coast could affect flights later Saturday.
Heading into Saturday, one of the biggest concerns had been whether 5G signals would interfere with aircraft equipment, especially devices using radio waves to measure distance above the ground that are critical when planes land in low visibility.
Predictions that interference would cause massive flight groundings failed to come true last year, when telecom companies began rolling out the new service. They then agreed to limit the power of the signals around busy airports, giving airlines an extra year to upgrade their planes.
The leader of the nation's largest pilots' union said crews will be able to handle the impact of 5G, but he criticized the way the wireless licenses were granted, saying it had added unnecessary risk to aviation.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently told airlines that flights could be disrupted because a small portion of the nation’s fleet has not been upgraded to protect against radio interference.
But the worst fears about 5G hadn't cropped up by mid-afternoon Saturday, prompting Transportation Department spokesperson Kerry Arndt to describe flight travel as being at “near-normal” levels. But Arrndt also stressed that the Federal Aviation Administration is “working very closely with airlines to monitor summer pop-up storms, wildfire smoke, and any 5G issues.”
Most of the major U.S. airlines had made the changes needed to adapt to 5G. American, Southwest, Alaska, Frontier and United say all of their planes have height-measuring devices, called radio altimeters, that are protected against 5G interference.
The big exception is Delta Air Lines. Delta says it has 190 planes, including most of its smaller ones, that still lack upgraded altimeters because its supplier has been unable to provide them fast enough.
The airline does not expect to cancel any flights because of the issue, Delta said Friday. The airline plans to route the 190 planes carefully to limit the risk of canceling flights or forcing planes to divert away from airports where visibility is low because of fog or low clouds. FlightAware listed nine Delta flight cancellations Saturday. None of them were tied to 5G issues, according to the airline.
The Delta planes that have not been retrofitted include several models of Airbus jets: all of its A220s, most of its A319s and A320s and some of its A321s. The airline's Boeing jets have upgraded altimeters, as do all Delta Connection planes, which are operated by Endeavor Air, Republic Airways and SkyWest Airlines, according to the airline.
JetBlue did not respond to requests for comment but told The Wall Street Journal it expected to retrofit 17 smaller Airbus jets by October, with possible “limited impact” some days in Boston.
Wireless carriers including Verizon and AT&T use a part of the radio spectrum called C-Band, which is close to frequencies used by radio altimeters, for their new 5G service. The Federal Communications Commission granted them licenses for the C-Band spectrum and dismissed any risk of interference, saying there was ample buffer between C-Band and altimeter frequencies.
When the Federal Aviation Administration sided with airlines and objected, the wireless companies pushed back the rollout of their new service. In a compromise brokered by the Biden administration, the wireless carriers then agreed not to power up 5G signals near about 50 busy airports. That postponement ends Saturday.
AT&T declined to comment. Verizon did not immediately respond to a question about its plans.
Buttigieg reminded the head of trade group Airlines for America about the deadline in a letter last week, warning that only planes with retrofitted altimeters would be allowed to land under low-visibility conditions. He said more than 80% of the U.S. fleet had been retrofitted, but a significant number of planes, including many operated by foreign airlines, have not been upgraded.
“This means on bad-weather, low-visibility days in particular, there could be increased delays and cancellations,” Buttigieg wrote. He said airlines with planes awaiting retrofitting should adjust their schedules to avoid stranding passengers.
Airlines say the FAA was slow to approve standards for upgrading the radio altimeters and supply-chain problems have made it difficult for manufacturers to produce enough of the devices. Nicholas Calio, head of the Airlines for America, complained about a rush to modify planes “amid pressure from the telecommunications companies.”
Jason Ambrosi, a Delta pilot and president of the Air Line Pilots Association, accused the FCC of granting 5G licenses without consulting aviation interests, which he said “has left the safest aviation system in the world at increased risk." But, he said, “Ultimately, we will be able to address the impacts of 5G.” | 2023-07-01T23:51:29+00:00 | 9news.com | https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/airlines-flight-disruptions-5g-signals/507-853102c4-27dc-4446-b279-604635594113 |
LONDON (AP) — A London judge said Thursday he would rule as soon as possible on whether to throw out or limit a phone hacking lawsuit brought by Prince Harry, Elton John and other well-known figures against a British tabloid publisher.
The Duke of Sussex made a late arrival and early departure for the finale of a four-day High Court hearing on his invasion of privacy case against the company that publishes The Daily Mail. His surprise appearance during three days of the legal wrangling indicates the lawsuit’s importance in the prince’s broader battle against the British press.
Harry, John, and actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost are among a group of seven people suing Associated Newspapers Ltd. for allegedly paying private investigators to illegally bug homes and cars and to record phone conversations.
The publisher denied the allegations and has argued that lawsuits based on alleged incidents dating as far back as 1993 should be thrown out because the cases were not filed within a six-year limitation period.
Attorney David Sherborne, who represents Harry and the other famous claimants, argued that the deadline for filing the lawsuits should be extended because the alleged snooping was covert and the publisher concealed evidence of it through denials “likely to lead the claimants off the scent.”
The claimants said they were unaware of phone hacking done for Associated Newspapers until private investigators, including Gavin Burrows, came forward in the last couple of years to disclose the covert work they allegedly did.
Burrows, who said in a 2021 witness statement that he came forward to “do the right thing” and help the people he targeted, has since issued another sworn statement saying he had not been commissioned by Associated Newspapers to do unlawful work.
In his earlier admission, however, he described how much he charged for different jobs and how Harry, John and his husband, David Furnish, and Hurley and Frost were “just a small handful of my targets.”
He said he “must have done hundreds of jobs” between 2000 and 2005 for a Mail on Sunday journalist whose name is redacted.
In one section cited by Sherborne, Burrows described tapping Hurley’s home phone, hacking her voicemail and digging up travel and medical details on her when she was pregnant. Burrows said that John didn’t have a mobile phone but he got a lot of information about the singer from Hurley’s phone because she was close friends with him, and through the phone of John’s gardener.
“I hacked, tapped and bugged Liz a number of times,” Burrows said in his earlier statement. “She (like Hugh Grant) was a huge earner for me. I could get an itemized phone bill for Liz and Hugh and sell each one for 5,000 pounds (about $6,185), much more than the average price on my menu.”
Until she read Burrows statement, Hurley did not know who had been the source of the information about her, Sherborne said.
“That’s the trigger. That’s when the scales fall from her eyes,” Sherborne said.
Attorney Adrian Beltrami said the claims had been brought “far too late” and should be tossed out. He argued that a national scandal on phone hacking by journalists at other papers a decade ago could have inspired the claimants to look into articles written about them and file their lawsuits alleging wrongdoing within the time limits.
Justice Matthew Nicklin said there was a difference between applying time limits to discovery of the alleged unlawful information gathering and the articles that resulted from some of those acts.
“It’s clear what the claimants are not entitled to pursue because of limitation,” Nicklin said. “But what they are entitled to pursue is slightly more nuanced than simply striking out reference to the articles.”
Attorney Steven Heffer, who is not involved in the case, said the defense is unlikely to prevail at this stage if they concealed the unlawful activity.
“Other newspaper groups emphatically denied phone hacking or any unlawful information gathering, but have had to pay millions in damages and costs,” Heffer said.
The publisher is also seeking to have evidence of payments to investigators barred from being used by claimants because it was protected by confidentiality rules when it was turned over by the publisher to a government inquiry into media law breaking.
Sherborne argued the evidence is in the public domain.
Attorney Michael Gardner, who also is not involved in the litigation, said Harry and the other claimants face an uphill battle on several fronts.
“First, the events in question took place so long ago that they may now be statute barred,” Gardner said. “Secondly, the evidence they are relying on includes material that may be inadmissible. Thirdly, a key witness in the case appears to have signed two completely contradictory statements.” | 2023-03-31T12:42:01+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/prince-harry-back-in-court-for-phone-hacking-hearing-finale/ |
Alliance is the third Southern-Based Partnership for Skills-Based Fantasy Leader in just over a Month, Cementing Dominance in the U.S.'s Fastest-Growing Region
ATLANTA, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PrizePicks, the largest fantasy sports operator in North America, today announced that the company has signed an agreement with NASCAR to become an official Fantasy Sports Partner with the United States' premier form of motorsports. The multi-year engagement is the first for PrizePicks with a major U.S. sports league.
The alliance will give PrizePicks a VIP presence at several marquee events throughout 2023 as NASCAR celebrates its 75th season, starting with the NASCAR Cup Series Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway this upcoming Sunday (3 p.m. ET on FOX). The partnership is the third PrizePicks has signed in just over a month with southern-based sports entities, following agreements with Major League Soccer's Atlanta United and Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves.
In each case, the partnerships reflect the rising popularity of the respective sports on the PrizePicks platform. NASCAR, introduced as a fantasy offering on PrizePicks in 2021, has seen a 400 percent leap in activity over the last 12 months. NASCAR fans can flex their skills on driver projections such as Fantasy Score, NASCAR Points, Fastest Laps, Laps Led, Cars Passed and Starting Position.
"We've always taken great pride in the fact that a great deal of our marketing and partnerships remain true to our southern roots," said PrizePicks Co-Founder & CEO Adam Wexler, whose company has also partnered with the Atlanta Falcons and Miami Marlins in recent years. "Working with NASCAR is the best of all worlds, an organization based in the South with a national footprint that is consistently growing on our platform."
NASCAR has a passionate fanbase from around the globe that engages with the sport on and off the track. It consistently ranks as a top-two sport of the weekend on television. In 2023, NASCAR's Digital Platform has been visited 65 million times – a seven percent year-over-year increase.
"PrizePicks has consistently shown itself to be a fantasy platform with a loyal fanbase and wide variety of sports offerings," said Joe Solosky, managing director at NASCAR. "This partnership is an opportunity for both organizations to expand and increase engagement with new and existing fans."
About PrizePicks
PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America according to the 2022 Inc. 5000 rankings and the largest independent skill-based fantasy sports operator in North America. The company was recognized as the Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association and as the Fantasy/DFS Operator of the Year by EGR North America. With current & past partnerships with the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta United, Atlanta Falcons and Miami Marlins, PrizePicks is the most fun, fast and simple version of daily fantasy sports, covering a wide variety of sports leagues from the NFL and NBA to esports titles League of Legends & Counter-Strike. Founded and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, the PrizePicks workforce has grown to over 250 in the past year, with the company recently being recognized as a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
About NASCAR
Celebrating its 75th Anniversary in 2023, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 16 of the nation's major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR sanctions races in three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series™), four international series (NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race, NASCAR Mexico Series, NASCAR Pinty's Series (Canada), NASCAR Whelen Euro Series), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour) and a local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in eight cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races annually in 12 countries and more than 30 U.S. states. For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat ('NASCAR').
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NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, the story of book publishing was often the industry itself.
Penguin Random House’s attempt to purchase Simon & Schuster ended up in a Washington, D.C. courtroom, as the Department of Justice prevailed after a three week antitrust trial last summer that also served as an extensive, often unflattering probe into how the business operates. In November, some 250 HarperCollins union employees went on strike, their calls for improved wages and benefits and greater workplace diversity amplifying an industry-wide discussion over the historically low pay for entry- and mid-level workers.
And throughout the year, social media was the meeting ground for observations and revelations on the trial, the strike and other issues the publishing world once confined to private gatherings. Authors posted their book advances, agents criticized HarperCollins and other publishers, and editors shared their year-by-year salaries. Some staffers, such as former Macmillan editor Molly McGhee, announced on Twitter last March that they had had enough and were quitting.
In her resignation letter, McGhee cited “the invisibility of junior employees’ workload” and alleged that “many executives in the publishing industry are technology illiterate” and dependent on their assistants.
“I have a theory that publishing is at a very important decision point where it has to decide whether it wants to continue moving forward with 20th century ideas or if it wants to join other businesses and go into the 21st century,” McGhee, 28, said recently. “And I think it’s very hard for them to make that transition.”
“There are very important conversations going on that would not have come out publicly when I was starting out,” said Kate Testerman, founder of the KT Literary Agency. “The only people that you could talk about what was going on with were co-workers or your friends.”
Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp offered a briefer assessment: “We are living in expressive times.”
Despite the phenomenal success of novelist Colleen Hoover, the number of books sold dropped around 6% from the historic highs of 2021, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85% of hardcover and paperback sales. Publishers cite the lessening of pandemic regulations and more people leaving their homes as a factor. But the numbers are still above the last pre-pandemic year, 2019, and the power of literature remains high, not just in the minds of the book community but among government officials and political activists.
Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, responding last fall to the U.S. District Court’s decision to block the Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger, said that the proposed deal would have “diminished the breadth, depth, and diversity of our stories and ideas, and ultimately impoverished our democracy.”
Conservatives, meanwhile, continued their efforts to pull books from school and libraries, with Missouri alone targeting nearly 300, from Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian “The Handmaid’s Tale” to a Manga edition of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” The American Library Association reported surging levels of attempted bannings, especially books with racial and LGBTQ themes, and widespread harassment of librarians. A prominent advocate for removing books, Moms for Liberty, defines its mission as defending “parental rights at all levels of government.”
In some ways, book publishing is still an outlier from other arts and entertainment industries. Video and music stores are mostly gone, but physical bookstores have endured despite the growing size and power of Amazon.com; the American Bookselling Association, the trade group for independent stores, is reporting its highest membership in decades. Publishing also remains high-minded compared to music or movies or sports, the kind of industry where executives such as Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch stated, under oath, during the Penguin Random House trial that agents don’t lie to them.
“It would be devastating (if they did),” Pietsch told The Associated Press recently. ”We have an industry that operates pretty much on trust.”
But otherwise, says Penguin Random House US CEO Madeline McIntosh, the industry no longer stands apart from larger trends — whether inflation and supply chain delays, or questions about diversity and working conditions. She and others cite the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and social media, along with the emerging influence of younger employees.
“Some of us are sounding like the older generation during the rise of the hippies, where we’re like ‘Kids these days, what on Earth are they up to?’” McIntosh, 53, says. “Given the state of the world today, it’s completely logical that Gen Z is determined to change the status quo. This may be one of those generations that leaves a stamp on culture for a long time.”
Karp sees the current moment as a coming of age for Gen Z not just within publishing houses, but on best seller lists, with Hoover’s “It Starts With Us,” Jennette McCurdy’s memoir “I’m Glad My Mother Died” and rom-com fiction such as Tessa Bailey’s “Hook, Line and Sinker” among many works benefiting from the enthusiasm of younger readers.
Karp, 58, himself knows how generations can differ: After Simon & Schuster announced it was publishing former Vice President Mike Pence’s memoir “So Help Me God,” released this fall, younger staff members confronted him during a virtual town hall meeting, objecting to Pence’s service in the Trump administration and his conservative stances on gay rights and other issues. Some were openly unhappy with Karp’s response that Simon & Schuster was committed to publishing a range of political views.
“They wanted to hear answers and they deserved answers,” Karp said recently. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with questioning your work culture.”
Over the past few years, employees have challenged and upended traditions that endured for decades or more, even to the very origins of American book publishing — that a politically liberal culture, committed to the broadening of the public mind, was itself predominantly white; that the vitality of publishing’s mission — and the glamour of New York literary culture — compensated for low pay (usually under $50,000 for new hires) and long hours that forced some staffers for years to live at home or share apartments with multiple roommates.
“There was an understanding that you’ve got to prove your commitment. That if you stick it out, then you’ll see the money. Just get through the first five years,” says Rachel Kambury, 31, a HarperCollins associate editor currently on strike. ”I feel now like the lid is off on so many issues that had been prevalent in publishing.”
“I’ve gotten to see a lot of young people in recent years and they have such a different sensibility and vocabulary,” says young adult author Maureen Johnson, 49, whose books include “13 Little Blue Envelopes” and the upcoming “Nine Liars,” part of her “Truly Devious” series. “I feel like they’re not kidding around. They have a sense of worth of themselves as people and a sense that it doesn’t have to be this way.” | 2022-12-08T00:39:02+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/entertainment-news/ap-expressive-times-publishing-industry-an-open-book-in-2022/ |
LONDON and NEW YORK, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aiviq, the leading provider of client-level AUM and asset flow reporting for global asset managers, has collaborated with global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) to improve the quality and transparency of both internal sales reporting data and external market intelligence.
"The strategic relationship between Aiviq and Broadridge will provide asset management firms with a better view of client AUM and asset flow data for their global market intelligence," said Greg Glass, executive director of Aiviq. "We will work closely with Broadridge to ensure the speed and availability of global fund data for asset management firms and improve both the quality and efficiency of that data."
"We are excited to be working with Aiviq, who truly understands global data management and its application in the asset management industry," said Stephanie Clarke, senior vice president of Broadridge's Data and Analytics business. "Broadridge is delivering best-in-class, actionable market intelligence for global asset managers, and the inclusion of detailed sales data from asset managers using Aiviq for enterprise reporting will enhance distributor transparency and improve accuracy and timeliness."
The pace of change in the industry has intensified how quickly global asset managers need data and how essential it is to integrate seamlessly with internal and external reporting and analytics offerings. The collaboration between Broadridge and Aiviq is a positive step in this direction and will benefit asset management firms. This collaboration with Broadridge is the latest expansion to Aiviq's Integration Hub, which connects asset managers to over 235 data providers.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with more than $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.
For more information about us and what we can do for you, please visit www.broadridge.com.
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Headquartered in the UK, Aiviq is a leading cloud-based SaaS business for the global asset management industry. The company provides AUM, flow and revenue analytics products and services that help its customers meet use cases across sales enablement, client service, product development, risk and regulatory reporting and corporate strategy. Aiviq's vision is to create data clarity and extract insightful management information for global investment managers. The company is accredited with the ISO 27001:2013 information security standard and pro-actively engages its user community to ensure its product roadmap addresses rapid change within the industry. Aiviq is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alpha FMC and has grown organically and by acquisition to support its expanding client base across the global investment management industry.
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Many of the vegetables we grow in our gardens produce seeds, which, if harvested and stored correctly, have the potential to grace us with free plants. And late summer is the perfect time to start collecting them.
A few notes: Make sure the plants from which you’re collecting seeds are heirloom, or open-pollinated, varieties. These are plants in their original forms whose seeds will produce plants with the same qualities as their parent.
Hybridized varieties, on the other hand, are created by breeding two or more different types to capture the best qualities of each. Attempting to grow seeds collected from hybrids will yield a harvest of disappointment, as the resulting plants will not have the expected attributes but rather carry the traits of only one of the parents -- and there’s no way to know what that will be. For this reason, it’s best not to grow seeds from supermarket produce.
Many plants become cross-pollinated in the garden when pollinators, other insects, animals and wind transfer pollen from one plant to another. To ensure the seeds you collect will grow into plants that match their parent, different varieties of the same crop should be kept anywhere from 100 feet to a mile apart, depending on climate, weather and other variables. This is often impractical, if not impossible, in the home garden.
To avoid cross-pollination surprises, plant only one variety of the category of plants from which you plan to harvest seeds. If you want to save tomato seeds, for example, grow only one type of tomato in your garden.
If that feels too limiting, go ahead and experiment, knowing that even if cross-pollinated, both parents are heirloom varieties you selected and planted. They’ll probably be fine even if they’re not what you expect.
Store all seeds in a cool, dry place in a covered glass jar or paper envelope away from ripening fruit, which would affect seed germination. The temporary addition of a silica gel packet to the jar will remove any remaining moisture, but take it out after a couple of days to avoid over-drying.
Here’s how to collect and save seeds from the most common homegrown crops.
LETTUCE
At the end of the growing season, lettuce will bolt, or send up a flower stalk that will develop seed heads reminiscent of dandelion puffs. When the puffs are dry, remove the entire stem, place it into a paper bag, fold over the top and shake. The seeds will disengage from the flower and fall to the bottom of the bag.
PARSLEY
Parsley is a biennial plant with a two-year life cycle that produces only edible foliage in its first year and leaves and flowers in its second. Allow those flowers to remain on second-year plants until they become brown and brittle. Cut them off the plant and store them in a paper bag to dry completely for a couple of weeks. When you remove them from the bag, rub the flowers between your fingers to separate the seeds, then blow away the lightweight dry plant matter and discard.
BASIL
Basil seeds are tiny, so separating them from the small flower petals and chaff can be tedious. When plants bolt at the end of the season, allow flowers to remain until they fade completely. Clip them off and place them in a mesh sieve or colander, then use your fingers to rub them against the bottom of the sieve.
BEETS AND CARROTS
These biennial plants produce seeds only in their second year, after a period of vernalization, or cold storage. In areas with cold winters, simply leave plants in the ground over winter.
In warm climates, you’ll have to create “winter” indoors: At the end of the first season, cut the foliage down to 2 inches, carefully dig up roots, and store them in a refrigerator or cool cellar over winter. Replant them outdoors the following spring.
When the leaves of second-year beet plants turn brown, remove the seed stalk from the top of the plant and place it in a paper bag. Store in a cool, dry place for at least two weeks, then give the bag a good shake to separate the seeds. Pour them onto a plate, then blow on them to separate the chaff.
Allow second-year carrot flowers to dry on the plant, clip them off, and dry them further in a paper bag for a week or two. Shake the bag well and pour seeds out onto a plate, blow on them to separate the chaff.
PEPPERS
Select the nicest-looking pepper from your healthiest plant and allow it to remain on the plant until it is overripe and wrinkled. Slice it in half and remove the seeds, discarding any that are discolored or otherwise undesirable. Spread seeds in a single layer on paper towels and allow them to dry in a warm spot away from direct sunlight. Toss the seeds occasionally to ensure even drying, which should take about a week.
EGGPLANTS
Allow an eggplant to over-ripen on the plant until it becomes hard and wrinkled, and loses its shine and color. Slice it open, remove its seeds and place them in a bowl of water. Agitate the water with your hands to separate seeds from any flesh that is adhered to them. Strain, then pat seeds dry with a towel and spread on a towel or screen to dry, tossing every day for up to a month until completely dry.
GREEN BEANS
Because green beans produce an ongoing harvest throughout the season, enjoy the first flush or two, then leave developing pods on one plant until they are completely dried and brown. You’ll know they’re ready when they play like maracas. Cut the pods off the plant, place them in a cool, dark spot to dry further, then remove the seeds. Discard any that appear discolored or damaged, and spread the rest on a towel for a few days to harden.
TOMATO
There are two ways to save tomato seeds — the right way and the easy way. Full disclosure: I like it easy, and I’ve succeeded with the shortcut. Your results may vary.
Start by cutting a tomato in half, then squeeze out its seeds and pulp over a bowl.
Fermentation improves germination rates and kills some seed-borne pathogens that could sicken plants. To ferment seeds:
1. Place a cover slightly askew over the bowl and allow the seeds to sit in their juices undisturbed for three days.
2. Pour the bowl’s contents, which may be covered with a white film, into a larger container and add water equal to at least 3 times the seeds’ volume.
3. Agitate the water with your hand and pour off the liquid. You’ll notice that most of the seeds will have sunk to the bottom of the container; they are the viable seeds.
Any that float are duds, so pour them out with the juice, pulp and water. Repeat the rinsing process two more times.
To make sure pathogens are killed, soak seeds for 30 minutes in a 90% water, 10% bleach solution, then rinse very well. Spread seeds on a towel and allow to dry for about a week, tossing occasionally.
Or, you can simply allow the whole mess of seeds and pulp to dry on a plate in the open air for about a week, then scrape or pick off the seeds.
ZUCCHINI
Allow your chosen fruit to become overgrown, wrinkled and dry on the plant. Remove it, slice it open and scoop out its seeds. If desired, follow the tomato fermentation process above. You’ll need to add a bit of water to the first step because there won’t be any juice or pulp in the container.
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MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. (AP) — Crews on Monday rescued the injured pilot and passenger of a small plane that crashed into a Maryland electricity transmission tower, knocking out power for tens of thousands of customers and leaving the aircraft dangling 10 stories off the ground.
The plane crashed into the tower that supports high-tension lines at around 5:40 p.m. Sunday and got stuck about 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said. The crash happened about a mile from the Montgomery County Airpark in Montgomery Village, a Washington, D.C., suburb. It knocked out power in the surrounding area and caused Metrorail delays.
Video from the scene showed numerous rescue personnel and vehicles surrounding the tower shortly after it happened. At the time of the crash, the conditions were misty and rainy, said Pete Piringer, a spokesperson for the county’s Fire & Rescue Service.
Piringer said the rescue was complicated by the fact that the lines were live when the plane hit.
After electrical workers made sure it was safe to try to reach the pilot and passenger, who were in contact with authorities via cellphone and were anxious to be rescued, crews secured the plane to the tower at around 12:15 a.m. Monday and took the two to safety a few minutes later, officials said.
The State Police identified the pilot as Patrick Merkle, 65, of Washington, D.C., and the passenger as Janet Williams, 66, of Marrero, Louisiana. Both had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and hypothermia set in while they waited to be rescued, Goldstein said. Their rescue was faster than anticipated since the pilot and passenger were able to assist, he said.
The plane was later lowered to the ground revealing a crushed front end.
The single-engine Mooney M20J had departed White Plains, New York, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The FAA, National Transportation Safety Board and Maryland State Police are investigating.
The utility Pepco had reported that power was temporarily cut to about 120,000 customers in Montgomery County, but it was restored to most of them before the people were rescued.
The county’s public school system closed its schools and offices Monday due to the outage’s impact on safety and school operations. | 2022-11-28T18:40:56+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/ap-2-rescued-after-plane-hits-transmission-tower-in-maryland/ |
Lori Vallow Daybell booked into Ada County jail
Vallow Daybell’s mugshot was updated as she was booked into her new facility.
BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Lori Vallow Daybell is spending her first full day in Ada County after being transported from a Madison County jail on Wednesday.
Vallow Daybell’s mugshot was updated as she was booked into her new facility.
The 49-year-old is being held in protective custody for her safety and the safety of other inmates, according to records. Vallow Daybell’s trial is set to begin in Ada County on April 3rd.
Jury instructions for potential jurors have been filed. Things listed include Chad Daybell taking out a life insurance policy right before his former wife, tammy died.
Plus, google searches like wind direction and Lori collecting benefits for JJ Vallow - among others, are things the prosecution must prove for Vallow Daybell to be convicted.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — National Instruments Corp. (NATI) on Thursday reported net income of $46.9 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Austin, Texas-based company said it had profit of 35 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 62 cents per share.
The maker of scientific measuring equipment and software posted revenue of $436.8 million in the period.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 4, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
316 PM EST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Freezing rain is no longer expected to pose a hazard to travel,
so the Winter Weather Advisory has been cancelled for portions of
the southern Adirondacks and Lake George Saratoga region.
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Top Baylor Players to Watch vs. UCSB - First Round
When the Baylor Bears (22-10) and UCSB Gauchos (27-7) play in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Ball Arena on Friday at 1:30 PM ET, Adam Flagler and Ajay Mitchell will be two of the most notable players to watch.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to keep your eye on in this matchup on TNT.
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- Game Day: Friday, March 17
- Game Time: 1:30 PM ET
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Baylor's Last Game
On Thursday, in its last game, Baylor fell to Iowa State 78-72. With 28 points, Jalen Bridges was its high scorer.
UCSB's Last Game
On Saturday, in its last game, UCSB defeated CSU Fullerton 72-62. With 20 points, Mitchell was its leading scorer.
Baylor Players to Watch
Flagler posts a team-high 4.7 assists per game. He is also putting up 15.5 points and 2.5 rebounds, shooting 41.9% from the field and 40.3% from beyond the arc with 2.6 made 3-pointers per game.
Keyonte George leads his team in points per game (15.8), and also posts 4.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists. At the other end, he posts 1.1 steals and 0.2 blocked shots.
Brides puts up a team-high 5.8 rebounds per contest. He is also posting 10.3 points and 1.1 assists, shooting 49.4% from the field and 32.1% from beyond the arc with 1.1 made 3-pointers per contest.
LJ Cryer puts up 14.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game, shooting 44.3% from the floor and 42.6% from downtown with 2.6 made 3-pointers per contest.
Flo Thamba is averaging 5.1 points, 0.6 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game.
UCSB Players to Watch
Miles Norris is posting 14.1 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, making 48.4% of his shots from the field and 38.8% from 3-point range, with 1.7 triples per contest.
Andre Kelly is putting up a team-best 6.5 rebounds per game. And he is delivering 9.5 points and 0.9 assists, making 56.4% of his shots from the floor.
The Gauchos get 9.7 points, 4 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game from Josh Pierre-Louis.
Calvin Wishart gets the Gauchos 7.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists per contest. He also puts up 1.1 steals and 0.1 blocked shots.
Baylor Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
UCSB Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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The Miami Heat have constantly battled being the underdog throughout the NBA Playoffs, yet have managed to defy expectations.
After the Denver Nuggets soundly defeated the Heat last Thursday, many thought the Heat’s Cinderella run to the NBA Finals was dying. But the series is now tied at one game apiece after Miami’s 111-108 victory over Denver in Game 2 on Sunday.
The Heat will have home court advantage as the series moves to Miami for Games 3 and 4.
The Heat came back from an 8-point deficit at the start of the fourth quarter to win. The Heat’s victory came despite an impressive 41-point effort from Nuggets center Nikola Jokic.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said his team has faced adversity all year. That experience helped Miami avoid returning home down 2-0 in the series.
“We've talked about it in all the previous three series, so I feel like I'm being redundant,” Spoelstra said. “We faced a lot of adversity during the season. We handled it the right way where you are not making excuses about it — the injuries, the changes in lineups. Because of all that adversity and the 57 close games that happened, due to a lot of that, it hardened us. It steeled us and we developed some grit, which is what we all want.”
Gabe Vincent, who led Miami with 23 points, chalked up Sunday’s comeback to effort.
“I think just in general, we just competed harder today,” he said. “I don't know if it was any direct scheme or direct thing we did outside of just being a little more intentional and a little more focused and playing just a bit harder, just competing a little bit more.”
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Denver coach Michael Malone agreed his squad lacked the effort needed to win.
“I asked the team, I asked them, you guys tell me why they lost, and they knew the answer,” he said. “Miami came in here and outworked us, and we were by far our least disciplined game of these 16 or 17 playoff games, whatever it is now. So many breakdowns. They exploited every one of our breakdowns and scored. If we're going to try to go down there and regain control of this series and get home-court advantage back, we're going to have to outwork Miami, which we didn't do tonight, and our discipline is going to have to be off the charts.”
Denver had a shot to tie the game and force overtime in the final seconds, but Jamal Murray’s 3-point attempt was off the mark after being guarded by Jimmy Butler.
“I think he got off a decently good look,” Butler said. “Pretty glad that he missed it to give us a 1-1 series tie going back to Miami.”
Game 3 of the best-of-seven NBA Finals will be played Wednesday evening in Miami.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — A North Carolina school apologized after baptizing more than 100 children without their parent’s permission, according to the Fayetteville Observer.
Northwood Temple Academy, a private Christian school in Fayetteville, posted on Facebook on Thursday, “I feel it in my bones, You’re about to move! Today we had over 100 middle and high school students spontaneously declare their faith and get baptized today. We will have more pictures of these powerful moments posted over the next couple of days!”
That morning, three students had their scheduled baptisms at the school as part of Spiritual Emphasis Week. The offer was then extended to other students who had not been scheduled. More than 100 students in total were baptized.
Renee McLamb, the head of the school, sent families a letter to explain.
“The Spirit of the Lord moved and the invitation to accept the Lord and be baptized was given and the students just began to respond to the presence of the Lord,” McLamb said in the letter, which was obtained by the Observer.
The school says it typically notifies and invites parents to be present for any baptisms that happen on campus, and “it was not the intention of any faculty member to do anything behind a parent’s back or in any kind of secret way.”
“I do understand that parents would desire to be a part of something so wonderful happening in the lives of their children, and so I apologize that we did not take that into consideration in that moment,” McLamb said. “I pray that at the end of the day we will all rejoice because God truly did a work in the lives of our students.”
McLamb told the paper that the school should have given students a chance to contact parents and ask permission. “We were not expecting such an overwhelming response to the message that was spoken, but as a mother I certainly can empathize with why some parents were upset,” she said.
McLamb said that most of the parents that contacted her were glad, but some were unhappy with the move. Some of the children had already been baptized, and at least one family was concerned that a second baptism could undo the first. | 2022-09-05T22:07:45+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/more-than-100-students-baptized-without-parents-permission-at-north-carolina-school/ |
CENTENNIAL, Colo., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) ("DHI" or the "Company") today announced that it will report financial results for its second quarter ended June 30th, 2022 on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after the close of the market. Art Zeile, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin Bostick, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call and webcast at 5:00pm Eastern time to discuss the results.
A press release with these results will be issued after the close of the market and prior to the call that afternoon and will be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.dhigroupinc.com.
Conference Call Information
The call can be accessed on the day of the event by dialing +1-844-890-1790, or for international callers by dialing +1-412-380-7407. Please ask to join the DHI Group, Inc. call. You can pre-register for the call by clicking here: https://dpregister.com/sreg/10169242/f3ad7fae02. A live webcast of the call will simultaneously be available on the Company's website.
A replay will be available after the call and can be accessed by dialing +1-877-344-7529 or +1-412-317-0088 for international callers; the replay passcode is 8550262. The replay will be available until August 10, 2022. A webcast replay of the call will also be available on the Company's website.
Investor Contact
Todd Kehrli or Jim Byers
MKR Investor Relations, Inc.
212-448-4181
ir@dhigroupinc.com
Media Contact
Rachel Ceccarelli
VP Engagement
212-448-8288
media@dhigroupinc.com
About DHI Group, Inc. DHI Group, Inc (NYSE: DHX) is a provider of AI-powered career marketplaces that focus on technology roles. DHI's two brands, Dice and ClearanceJobs, enable recruiters and hiring managers to efficiently search for and connect with highly skilled technologists based on the skills requested. The Company's patented algorithm manages over 100,000 unique technology skills. Additionally, our marketplaces allow technology professionals to find their ideal next career opportunity, with relevant advice and personalized insights. Learn more at www.dhigroupinc.com.
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NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm specializing in retail, consumer, and distribution-related investments, today announced that it has acquired Goddard Systems, franchisor of The Goddard School, from an affiliate of Wind River Holdings, L.P., a privately owned investment company.
"Goddard Systems is the leading brand in the large and growing market for premium early childcare and education," said Stefan Kaluzny, Managing Director of Sycamore Partners. "We look forward to partnering with management to support Goddard Systems' thriving franchisee network in furthering the company's important mission of caring for and educating children."
"We are excited to partner with Sycamore as we continue to strengthen our business and build on our track record of success," said Dennis R. Maple, Chairman and CEO of Goddard Systems. "Given our well-established foundation and clear strategic roadmap, we expect this to be a smooth transition for the franchisees and families we serve and support. Our team remains focused on providing families with the highest quality educational environment for which we are known."
Barclays served as financial advisor to Sycamore Partners, and Kirkland & Ellis and Ropes & Gray acted as legal counsel. Baird served as financial advisor to Wind River, and Hogan Lovells acted as legal counsel.
About Goddard Systems, Inc.
Established in 1988, Goddard Systems, the franchisor of The Goddard School, is the acknowledged leader in the premium early childcare and education market segment. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Goddard Systems has been consistently named one of the top childcare franchises in the United States by Entrepreneur magazine and one of the Top 200 Franchise Systems (in worldwide sales) by Franchise Times. Goddard Systems currently licenses nearly 600 Goddard School franchises that serve more than 80,000 students in 37 states and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit goddardschoolfranchise.com.
About Sycamore Partners
Sycamore Partners is a private equity firm based in New York. The firm specializes in retail, consumer, and distribution-related investments and partners with management teams to improve the operating profitability and strategic value of their business. With approximately $10 billion in aggregate committed capital raised since its inception in 2011, Sycamore Partners' investors include leading endowments, financial institutions, family offices, pension plans and sovereign wealth funds. For more information on Sycamore Partners, visit www.sycamorepartners.com.
Contact for Sycamore Partners
Michael Freitag or Arielle Rothstein
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
(212) 355-4449
media@sycamorepartners.com
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JILL BLEED
Associated Press
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of flights were canceled and homeless shelters were overflowing Thursday amid one of the most treacherous holiday travel seasons the U.S. has seen in decades, with temperatures plummeting 50 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas and forecasters warning of an impending “bomb cyclone” that could make conditions even worse before Christmas.
The frigid air was moving through the central United States to the east, with windchill advisories affecting about 135 million people over the coming days, weather service meteorologist Ashton Robinson Cook said Thursday. Places like Des Moines, Iowa, will feel like minus 37 degrees, making it possible to suffer frostbite in less than five minutes.
“This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” President Joe Biden warned Thursday in the Oval Office after a briefing from federal officials. “This is serious stuff.”
Forecasters are expecting a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — to develop late Thursday and into Friday near the Great Lakes. That will stir up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow, Cook said.
In South Dakota, Rosebud Sioux Tribe emergency manager Robert Oliver said tribal authorities have been working to clear roads to deliver propane and fire wood to homes, but face a relentless wind that has created drifts over 10 feet in some places.
“This weather and the amount of equipment we have — we don’t have enough,” Oliver said, noting that rescues of people stranded in their homes had to be halted early Thursday when the hydraulic fluid in heavy equipment froze amid a 41 below zero windchill.
He said five have died in recent storms, including a blizzard from last week.
In Texas, temperatures were expected to quickly plummet Thursday, but state leaders promised there wouldn’t be a repeat of the February 2021 storm that overwhelmed the state’s power grid and was blamed for hundreds of deaths.
The cold weather extended to El Paso and across the border into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where migrants have been camping outside or filling shelters as they await a decision on whether the U.S. will lift restrictions that have prevented many from seeking asylum.
Elsewhere in the U.S., authorities worried about the potential for power failures and warned people to take precautions to protect older and homeless people and livestock — and, if possible, to postpone travel. Some utilities were urging customers to turn down their thermostats to conserve energy.
“This event could be life-threatening if you are stranded,” according to an online post by the National Weather Service in Minnesota, where officials reported dozens of crashes.
In Kansas City, Missouri, one person died after a vehicle overturned into an icy creek, police said.
Michigan State Police prepared to deploy additional troopers to help motorists. And along a toll road on Interstate 90 in northern Indiana, crews were braced to clear as much as a foot of snow as meteorologists warned of blizzard conditions there starting Thursday evening.
“If you’re looking to get to someone’s house for the holidays and you haven’t left by now it could get dicey soon,” said Rick Fedder, the chief operating officer of ITR Concession Co., the toll road’s private operator.
More than 2,156 flights within, into or out of the U.S. had been canceled as of Thursday afternoon, according to the tracking site FlightAware. Airlines have also canceled 1,576 Friday flights. Airports in Chicago and Denver were reporting the most cancelations.
Among those with canceled flights was Ashley Sherrod, who planned to fly from Nashville to Flint, Michigan, on Thursday afternoon. Sherrod is now debating whether to drive or risk booking a Saturday flight she worries will be canceled.
“My family is calling, they want me home for Christmas, but they want me to be safe too,” said Sherrod, whose bag — including the Grinch pajamas she was planning to wear to a family party — is packed and ready by the door. “Christmas is starting to, for lack of a better word, suck.”
Amtrak, meanwhile, canceled service on more than 20 routes, primarily in the Midwest.
Some shelters in the Detroit area already were at capacity but still making room.
“We are not sending anyone back into this cold,” Aisha Morrell-Ferguson, a spokeswoman for COTS, a family-only shelter, told the Detroit News.
And in Portland, Oregon, officials opened four emergency shelters. In the city’s downtown, Steven Venus tried to get on a light-rail train to get out of the cold after huddling on the sidewalk overnight in below-zero temperatures.
“My toes were freezing off,” he said, a sleeping bag wrapped around his head, as he paused near a flimsy tent where another homeless person was taking shelter.
Courtney Dodds, a spokeswoman for the Union Gospel Mission, said teams from her organization had been going out to try to convince people to seek shelter.
“It can be really easy for people to doze off and fall asleep and wind up losing their lives because of the cold weather.”
In Montana, temperatures fell as low as 50 below zero (minus 46 Celsius) at Elk Park, a mountain pass on the Continental Divide. Schools and several ski areas closed, and several thousand people lost power.
Near Big Sandy, Montana, rancher Rich Roth said he wasn’t too concerned about his 3,500 pregnant cows weathering the cold snap, saying “they’re pretty dang resilient animals.”
In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine warned of a “unique and dangerous” situation of flash freezing Thursday night statewide. He also urged people to check on their neighbors and loved ones.
In famously snowy Buffalo, New York, forecasters predicted a “once-in-a-generation storm” because of heavy lake-effect snow, wind gusts as high as 65 mph (105 kph), whiteouts and the potential for extensive power outages. Mayor Byron Brown urged people to stay home, and the NHL postponed the Buffalo Sabres’ home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Denver, also no stranger to winter storms, was the coldest it has been in 32 years on Thursday, when the temperature dropped to minus 24 (minus 31 Celsius) in the morning at the airport.
In Charleston, South Carolina, a coastal flood warning was in effect Thursday. The area, a popular tourist destination for its mild winters, braced for strong winds and freezing temperatures.
The wintry weather extended into Canada, causing delays and cancellations earlier in the week at Vancouver International Airport. A major winter storm was expected Friday into Saturday in Toronto, where wind gusts as high as 60 mph (100 kph) were predicted to cause blowing snow and limited visibility, Environment Canada said.
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Bleed reported from Little Rock, Arkansas. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit, Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Rick Callahan in Indianapolis, and Jackie Quinn and Zeke Miller in Washington.
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June 5-8, 2023, Scottsdale, Arizona
BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zuken Vitech Inc., Building on the resounding success of its inaugural symposium – Integrate22, Zuken Vitech is now accepting abstracts for Integrate23, to be held June 5-8 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The annual international symposium on digital engineering includes two and a half days of technical classes, a partner exhibition, an Expert Bar, and the networking benefits of the traditional in-person format. The symposium will again be co-located with Zuken's annual ZIW (Zuken Innovation World Americas) user and technology conference.
Open and connected solutions will play a central role in this year's symposium. As companies look to digital engineering to address increasing product complexity and improve the product development process, they are searching for innovative solutions. The Integrate23 symposium agenda will offer courses covering model-based systems engineering (MBSE), artificial intelligence in systems and product design, smart manufacturing, digital engineering in an industrial context, system and safety reliability, cybersecurity, and enterprise architecture.
Participants can move freely between the two conferences and will have the opportunity to attend classes across seven dedicated tracks. The agenda will include how-to best practices for current and upcoming product releases, customer case studies, and forward-looking topics. Vitech's popular Expert Bar returns with one-on-one appointments with Vitech's technical experts. Integrate23 and ZIW will share a Technology Showcase, allowing technology partners to share their innovative complementary solutions in an interactive setting that encourages networking.
Abstracts are now being accepted for 45-minute technical presentations. The Integrate23 agenda consists of four tracks focused on the following areas:
- Digital Engineering – Innovative approaches to product development, process and data continuity, digital thread, and connected engineering
- Systems Engineering - Including architecture best practices and MBSE methods as applied to industry solutions
- Enterprise Architecture – The latest advances in the digitalization of processes, manufacturing, and more.
Presentations must be noncommercial and focus on technology, techniques, or methodology. Case studies, how-to information, and usage tips are favored, and individual or team presentations are favored.
Abstracts of 300 words, along with speaker biographies, should be submitted to Vitech by January 31, 2023. For additional details and deadline information, visit the Integrate23 event page or contact Craig Monson. Submit abstracts here.
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DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — It’s been a difficult week for the family of Audrey Jenkins and Derek Blessing, who lives 11 hours away from Dothan in West Virginia after they received the news that their loved ones were killed in a car crash.
“The accident happened Saturday night and we weren’t notified until Sunday afternoon, but we are just in shock and disbelief,” said Brooke Leonard, Derek’s oldest sister.
The crash happened on Ross Clark Circle near Hartford Highway.
Leonard said her baby brother and aunt were going to the gym to work out at Planet Fitness.
“Working out was something my brother did every night before bed,” She said.
They never made it to the gym after a three-vehicle wreck.
According to Dothan Police Department, a car traveling on Ross Clark Circle, hit another car, and that car hit the Hyundai Elantra driven by Blessing and Jenkins.
Their car was pushed off the road and forced into a ditch where it burst into flames.
The family has heard the person they believe is responsible for causing the crash was traveling at an excessive speed.
“It was a senseless act they didn’t deserve to die like that,” said Anita Blessing, Derek’s mother.
“The biggest issue right now is that they haven’t been arrested and there are no charges yet,” His sister said.
The family said they lost two beautiful souls in Blessings and Jenkins — two people who would do anything for others.
They loved to cook, they were big passionate sports fans and loved to visit and spend time with family.
They’re described as “two peas in a pod.” They moved from West Virginia to Florida years ago, and recently to Dothan where they purchased a new house six months ago.
“They didn’t even get to enjoy their new home,” Leonard said. “They had new furniture they worked so hard for, their life was good and then it was taken from them.”
The crash is still under investigation.
In the meantime, Derek’s mother said she will try to push for a law in memory of her son and sister killed in the crash.
That law would require the person responsible to pay the family of the victim killed in a reckless driving crash every year on the anniversary. | 2023-03-16T18:39:16+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/family-searching-for-justice-after-brother-aunt-killed-in-fiery-crash-in-southeast-alabama/ |
86, worker for Miami-Dade Transportation, died November 26 at North Shore Medical Center. Service 11 a.m., Saturday at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Brownsville.
You'll find individual Guest Books on the page with each obituary notice. By sharing a fond memory or writing a kind tribute, you will be providing a comforting keepsake to those in mourning. .
From a Guest Book, you may log in with your Google, Facebook, Yahoo or AOL account to leave a message. If you have an existing account with this site, you may log in with that. Otherwise, it's simple to create a new one by clicking on the Create "Sign up" button and following the simple steps on the Sign Up page.
Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. | 2022-12-08T09:44:47+00:00 | miamitimesonline.com | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/obituaries/allen-brinkley/article_7039ca82-765d-11ed-bf64-d33a65bb7498.html |
BOCA RATON, Fla., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gold, co-founder of D3M, said after the $82.6 million lawsuit win against Celsius Holdings Inc., that his licensing group will now pursue focusing on sponsorships, brand ambassadorships and licensing deals for the sizzling Flo Rida brand in the health, wellness, and fitness space.
"Super excited to entertain opportunities brought by D3M," said Flo Rida.
"D3M is family and they really understand the Flo Rida brand and lifestyle," said Flo Rida, who along with co-plaintiff D3M sued the energy drink maker Celsius Holdings Inc. claiming the company was in breach of contract regarding bonuses and stock options owed.
"D3M can always be counted on to bring organic, serious, vetted deals to the table," said Reginald A. Mathis, in-house counsel at Flo Rida's company, Strong Arm Productions.
D3M is a unique boutique agency that looks at partnerships and collaborations through different lenses to ensure a perfect organic fit, as well as leveraging its relationships to enhance distribution, consumer awareness, and more that sets them apart from traditional agencies.
Serving such notable past accounts and clients as Samsung, Stan Lee, Seagram's, TGI Fridays and Nascar, D3M Licensing Group LLC continues to head forward with Flo Rida into sectors that it sees will benefit greatly by associating with the Flo Rida brand.
D3M said it is looking to focus the Flo Rida brand on health and wellness based upon the popular Hip-Hop artist's years of interest in this sector along with the agency's.
"D3M is proud to have played an integral part in aligning Flo Rida with Celsius and now after this impressive outcome we'll be continuing together on focusing the powerful Flo Rida brand on health and wellness across the globe," said Gold.
"We are proud to continue our longstanding relationship with both Flo Rida and his company Strong Arm Productions as we have shown and proven to be an effective team time and time again," said Gold.
This unique boutique along with diamond selling global Hip-Hop artist Flo Rida shows no sign of slowing down especially after the prominent and positive placement the D3M brand received within the industry spotlight.
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With progress in generative AI heralding new potential for multiple industries, a new report from Inworld AI finds that the majority of gamers crave more personality from NPCs in video games
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inworld AI, a developer platform for advanced NPC behavior and dialogue, today released the findings of its new report 'Gamer Attitudes to NPCs.' In the first study of its kind, the report surveyed over 1,000 gamers in the US aged 16-50 and found high levels of excitement about the potential of AI in video games. Specifically, there was an overwhelming consensus that recent advancements in AI could change the face of gaming and usher in a new era of immersion and interaction with NPCs (non-playable characters) with individual personalities and the ability to converse unscripted voice-to-voice with the help of ChatGPT-like language models and multimodal behavior and perception systems.
The report found that:
● 84% of gamers agree that current NPCs make a positive difference to gameplay
● Over half (52%) dislike repetitive NPC dialogue
● 76% want to see NPCs with better situational awareness
● 78% would spend more time playing games with advanced AI NPCs
● 81% would be willing to pay more for a game with advanced AI NPCs
A long time (not) coming
NPCs have been a part of video gaming from as far back as the 1970s. Despite significant technological advancements in motion capture, graphics rendering, animation, and modeling, the technology that powers the behavior of NPCs has remained stagnant. In other words, NPCs have not developed personalities of their own or the ability to respond to players unscripted. This is despite the fact that the report found that 84% of players today believe NPCs are a crucial addition to gameplay, with an important role in building immersive stories and worlds.
Meaningful interaction promotes excitement and loyalty…
The report highlighted the importance of narratives and storylines to the majority of players. Meaningful interactions with NPCs were heavily sought after, with only 9% of players dismissing or avoiding NPCs during gameplay altogether. A large minority (40%) even admitted to talking to as many NPCs as possible to unlock more story content. Equally, 91% interacted with NPCs on some level and 78% said they would spend more time playing a game with 'intelligent' NPCs.
Kylan Gibbs, Co-Founder and CPO Inworld AI said: " Humans are storytellers. We're drawn to narratives that help us to make sense of the world around us. The same thing is true in the gaming world - the more immersive and believable a story is, the more we want to stay inside it. So it's really no surprise that so many gamers want to unlock deeper stories through these NPC interactions."
…and poor quality promotes frustration and derision
While trolling is most prevalent among younger gamers (39% of 16-24 year olds troll NPCs), across all age groups, it was apparent that gamers willingly and regularly watch NPCs doing 'stupid' things - particularly when the characters were two-dimensional and poor quality. The typical NPC characteristics that were most disliked by players were: repetitive dialogue, walking in circles, and inability to adapt to changes in games (disliked by 52%, 33% and 30% of players respectively.) Other traits such as awkward movements and lack of variation also contributed to their disconnect from NPCs.
A missed opportunity for artificial intelligence
Despite these frustrations however, only a tiny minority (5%) view current NPCs as pointless. "Gamers care deeply about NPCs," continued Kylan. "They have a huge impact on gameplay but gamers are frustrated with the fact that they haven't evolved. With advanced AI NPCs, there's an opportunity for games to give players more of the immersive and realistic interactions with NPCs that gamers want."
A large majority (76%) want better situational awareness from NPCs, and 60% would like to see more interactive dialogue and a sense of humor. Understanding these requirements and being able to cater to them proved to be an appealing concept for almost all gamers surveyed. The report noted that 79% of respondents said they were excited by the promise of AI NPCs, with 88% believing they would make a game more immersive. This is in tandem with 99% believing the inclusion of advanced AI NPCs would positively impact gameplay, and 81% willing to pay for the experience.
Florin Radu, Head of Partnerships, concluded: "Advances in AI have real potential to bring NPCs to life and revolutionize the way gamers interact with them. At Inworld, we're leveraging this technology to make NPCs smarter and more interactive, so as to enrich game narratives and make gameplay more immersive. It's little surprise that gamers are excited by the possibility of having a unique experience with NPCs every time they play - and it's precisely this excitement that we think will result in many more developers including advanced AI NPCs in their games in the near future."
Gamer Attitudes to NPCs 2023 can be downloaded here https://inworld.ai/whitepapers/future-of-npcs
Notes to editors:
A survey of 1,002 US gamers aged 16-50 was conducted during the months of October and November 2022 by Bryter Research on behalf of Inworld AI, using an online questionnaire. Participants were randomly selected from a panel of online gamers. The study aimed to examine gaming behavior and attitudes to NPCs within the given age range.
Qualitative data examples:
"I think they're an important part of world-building. I always make an effort to talk to every NPC I can. They can offer tips, give side quests, have items for sale, can be entertaining, and help present the lore of a game or series." - Female, 28 years old
"I like that you can really interact and get real-time responses to your questions and interactions. This would really add depth and richness to games." - Female, 38 years old
"I love playing RPGs and MMORPGs, but prefer player-versus-environment to player-versus-player and enjoy interacting with NPCs more than random players. Advanced AI NPCs would definitely make me more emotionally attached to RPGs and would make them more enjoyable!" - Female, 50 years old
"As a hobbyist game dev, I like the concept of advanced AI NPCs a lot. The interactive elements of this are pretty amazing, and this could completely change how NPCs are created. Open Worlds/ MMOs and even Roguelikes would greatly benefit from this." - Male, 37 years old
"I like that the dialogue is not scripted. Advanced AI NPCs are more like real characters and react to the world around them. I would love to be able to interact with an AI version of Lamar from GTA 5. I think he would have some hilarious and witty responses to whatever questions I asked." - Male, 24 years old
"NPCs can either make or break a game by adding or detracting from the game's immersion and believability. When I play, I literally insert myself into my character's world and make decisions based on what my character would think about situations, places, and the people they meet--including NPCs." - Non-binary, 23 years old
"Fallout 4 is a great game but the dialog options for companion characters were terrible and repetitive." - Male, 44 years old
"Animal Crossing lacks diverse dialog options and leaves the game boring and dull with each character archetype." - Male, 22 years old
"I like to take their money and chase them. Usually they run and I catch up to them and beat them up and take their money. This adds to the fun of Grand Theft Auto." – Male, 27 years old
About Inworld AI
Inworld is a developer platform for adding advanced NPC behavior and dialogue to games and real-time experiences. We use over 20 AI models to create lifelike, engaging, and expressive characters that mimic the dynamic nature of human interaction.
Inworld is run by a team of experts and pioneers in the fields of conversational AI, generative models, and the gaming and entertainment industry. Inworld's founders previously launched API.AI, renamed Dialogflow after being acquired by Google. Inworld's Chief Creative Officer, Academy Award-winner John Gaeta, also brings decades of experience from the gaming and entertainment industry through his work on the Matrix movies, his role in founding Lucasfilm's Immersive Entertainment Division, and as Executive Creative Producer on Epic Games' The Matrix Awakens.
Inworld's team of engineers, designers, inventors, creatives, scientists, and technologists are building the tech that will revolutionize NPCs.
Contact:
Charlie Eaton
+44 (0) 7912 345895
charlie@biggamesmachine.com
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Happy Anniversary, Chip and Joanna Gaines! The couple celebrated 19 years of marriage on Thursday.
Joanna posted the milestone on Instagram with a photo of the two of them snuggled in the booth of a cafe, a shopping bag and coffee cup by their side.
"19 years ❤️," she captioned the post. "#ilikeyoualot."
Chip and Joanna are the co-founders of Magnolia, the wildly popular home renovation and lifestyle company. They rose to fame in the early 2010s after the premier of their HGTV sensation, Fixer Upper, in which their family-oriented teamwork skills oversaw the renovation of nearly 100 farmhouse-style homes that eventually revolutionized the home decor industry. The show ended in 2017.
In 2021, the couple launched Fixer Upper: Welcome Home on Disney+ and part of the newly launched Magnolia Network. They still live in Waco, Texas and share five kids together-- Drake, 17, Ella, 15, Duke, 13, Emmie, 12, and 3-year-old Crew.
Last year, Chip told Oprah Winfrey that he owes Joanna his life for settling him down.
"When I die or I'm on my deathbed, what I'll say looking back is that, 'I owe you my life,' because you settled me down," Chip said. "It's almost like a horse that's wild."
For Joanna, it's Chip's ability to savor the special moments in their lives that helps her do the same.
"Chip is always teaching me, 'If you're not having fun, if you're not enjoying and savoring these moments, then why are you doing it?' And he also pushes me to do it," Joanna said.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man will serve time in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing public money by submitting fraudulent claims for veteran disability services.
John Paul Cook, 58, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina on Monday where he was sentenced to 10 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). Half of the 10-month sentence will be served at home. Cook will also be ordered to pay $930,762.53 to the VA.
According to court records, Cook suffered an accidental injury as a member of the U.S. Army in 1986. Cook told authorities at the time the injury worsened a preexisting eye condition. He was medically discharged in 1987 and began receiving disability-based compensation from the VA.
Cook's compensation from the VA increased over the next 30 years as he continued to falsely claim his injury visually impaired him and made him unemployable, according to court records.
In 2005, Cook was declared legally blind by the VA after further false claims. He received disability payments at the maximum rate from this point on.
Cook also received special monthly compensation and housing grants from the VA for his claimed disability.
The payments Cook received from the VA each month grew from $1,411 in 1987 to $3,990 in 2016. In total, Cook received $978,138, according to court records.
Despite his blind claims, court records state Cook routinely passed vision exams to maintain a driver's license in North and South Carolina. He also was certified for land navigation and performed many tasks with the Boy Scouts of America that required him to have adequate vision, according to court records.
Cook began submitting reimbursement claims for long trips he took that he said were to go to his appointments with VA doctors.
In February 2017, federal agents informed Cook he was under investigation for his fraudulent claims. Investigators told Cook they had seen him driving and performing activities as if he could see normally.
After this meeting, Cook stopped driving his vehicle to the VA Medical Center but still submitted reimbursement claims for his visits.
Cook was indicted in federal court in December 2020 on four separate charges. He initially pleaded not guilty but by July 2021, Cook accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to theft of public money. | 2022-07-19T01:14:27+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/nc-veteran-claimed-he-was-blind-and-received-nearly-1m-from-va-sentenced-to-prison-john-paul-cook-fraud-theft/275-1756f3c9-08f7-409f-bcd8-ac8ccbbc7fc6 |
(The Hill) — German authorities detained Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday amid protests at a coal mine in the country.
A spokesperson for the local Aachen police told Sky News the 20-year-old activist was among a group of protesters who allegedly “stormed” toward the face of the Garzweiler open-cast mine, which officials described as “steep and extremely dangerous.”
According to multiple reports, authorities said at least one protester jumped into the mine while not detailing whether the individual suffered any injuries.
Thunberg was carried away from the area by several police officers, Reuters reported, adding she was later seen sitting alone inside a police bus.
“Greta Thunberg was part of a group of activists who rushed towards the ledge,” the Aachen police spokesperson told Reuters. “However, she was then stopped and carried by us with this group out of the immediate danger area to establish their identity.”
The Aachen police spokesperson noted that Thunberg along with other activists who were detained by authorities will be released later in the day.
“There is no reason to hold them for days,” the spokesperson told Reuters. “It might take hours or they will go immediately.”
Thunberg was detained two days after also being removed by German authorities at the coal mine.
Authorities removed Thunberg and other demonstrators from the village of Lützerath on Sunday after officials said they refused to comply with their efforts to clear the area.
Demonstrators have protested the pending demolition of the coal village for the extension of the Garzweiler coal mine.
Germany’s reliance on coal for electricity has increased in the past year due to restrictions on gas and oil imports from Russia amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine and also the shutdown of nuclear plants in the country, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported.
Thunberg recently called out the German government for their continued efforts on the coal mine extension, saying the country is “embarrassing itself right now.”
“The most affected people are clear, the science is clear, we need to keep the carbon in the ground,” she said. “When governments and corporations are acting like this, are actively destroying the environment, putting countless pf people at risk, the people step up.” | 2023-01-17T22:23:46+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/greta-thunberg-detained-amid-protests-at-coal-mine-in-germany/ |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Wednesday requested a lengthy prison term for a former regional governor who is standing trial on murder charges and whose arrest two years ago prompted weeks-long mass protests.
The prosecutor has asked a court in the Moscow region to sentence Sergei Furgal, former governor of Russia’s far eastern Khabarovsk region, to 23 years in prison on charges of murder, attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking. Earlier this month, a jury panel found Furgal guilty on all counts.
Furgal, a former businessman, was arrested in July 2020 on suspicion of involvement in murders and taken to jail in Moscow. He denied the charges, which his supporters said were a vendetta by his rivals.
After his arrest, thousands of demonstrators have regularly rallied in Khabarovsk, a city of 600,000 people near the border with China, with attendance peaking on weekends. They protested Furgal’s jailing and demanded that his trial is held in the city.
The authorities didn’t disperse the protests, which lasted for weeks before eventually fizzling out. | 2023-02-08T23:24:30+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-russia-seeks-lengthy-prison-term-for-ex-governor/ |
This year's schedule will delight audiences with its breadth, diversity, and insightful content destined for technologists of all levels
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, shared the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, happening in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and virtually from April 18-21.
Coming back to Europe after a successful North American event, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chairs – Aparna Subramanian, of Shopify, Emily Fox of Apple, and Frederick Kautz – helped the program committee of 85 community members and 36 track chairs review 1768 submissions to develop the European schedule this year. Attendees can choose from more than 303 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions both in-person and virtually, including 91 sessions hosted by CNCF project maintainers with content ranging from introductions and open source culture content to deep dives and technical demos.
"We are thrilled to bring together the cloud native community in Amsterdam this April for an inspiring and collaborative conference," said Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "CNCF has grown considerably, now with 153 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects that respond to the pressing needs of organizations across industries and geographies. We hope you join #TeamCloudNative as we meet this year to continue shaping cloud native innovation together."
"I have had the chance to attend numerous KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conferences over the last several years and it has been an honor to be on the inside, helping select the talks for this event," said Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering, Shopify. "The 1000+ submissions we received were so insightful and have immense value to offer our community. I want to thank everyone who submitted a talk and the program committee for their time and effort in reviewing the talks. It was tough to widdle the list down to the agenda we are sharing today. We've curated the schedule with a diverse set of talks so you can get the most out of the event. We hope you enjoy the content this year!"
Come join the cloud native community for three days of knowledge sharing! The community-curated schedule will include talks from all types of community members, including:
- Malicious Compliance: Reflections on Trusting Container Scanners - Ian Coldwater, Twilio; Duffie Cooley, Isovalent; Brad Geesaman, Ghost Security; Rory McCune, Datadog
- Going for Graduation: Crossing the Chasm - Bill Mulligan, Isovalent & Katie Gamanji, Apple
- Practical Challenges with Pod Security Admission - Ellen Körbes, VMware
- Scale Down Your Environmental Impact - Mary Karroqe & Zinnia Gibson, D2iQ
- Building a Globally Accessible Community - Kaitlyn Barnard, Kong & Hannah Ouellette, NGINX
- Connecting and Securing Services for Hybrid and Multi Cloud Kubernetes - Purvi Desai, Google; Pere Monclus, VMware; Ricardo Rocha, CERN
- Building on-Premises MLOps for ISS Columbus Ground Operations - Samo Turk & Christian Geier, JUST ADD AI GmbH
- Learn the Helm Code Base and PR Review Process - Scott Rigby, Independent & Andrew Block, Red Hat
- The Day We Delete(d) Production - Ricardo Rocha & Spyridon Trigazis, CERN
CNCF and other organizations will be hosting a number of co-located events as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, which will happen on 18 April. The following CNCF-hosted co-located events are included in the All-Access pass. Sponsor-hosted co-located events can be added individually when registering:
- ArgoCon Europe
- CiliumCon Europe
- Cloud Native Telco Day
- Cloud Native Wasm Day
- Istio Day Europe
- Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day Europe
- Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe
- Linkerd Day Europe
- Observability Day Europe
CFPs for all CNCF-hosted co-located events are due Sunday, 12 February at 23:59 PST.
CNCF-hosted co-located events sponsorship opportunities close on Thursday, 23 February, 23:59 PST. Interested organizations can contact sponsor@cncf.io to secure a sponsorship.
The Dan Kohn Scholarship (includes Diversity, Need-Based, Maintainer, and Student Scholarship) applications for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe are due 19 February at 23:59 PST for in-person conference scholarships and 26 March at 23:59 PST for virtual conference scholarships.
For the full KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 program, please visit the schedule.
Registration
This year we are offering three types of registration. Standard pricing is available until 15 February, 23:59 CET:
- In-person all access registration includes access to all CNCF-hosted co-located events on Tuesday, 18 April, AND KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe,
- In-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe registration
- And virtual registration which includes all KubeCon + CloudNativeCon keynote and breakout session access online.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is made possible with support from our Diamond Sponsors: AWS, Cisco Emerging Technologies and Incubation, Huawei, Microsoft Azure, Rancher by SUSE, Red Hat, and Veritas; Platinum Sponsors: Canonical, Datadog, Dell Technologies, GitLab, Google Cloud, IBM, incident.io, Intel, JFrog, Kasten by Veeam, Portworx by Pure Storage, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Snyk, Sysdig, Teleport, VMware; and many more Gold, Silver, Start-Up, and End User Sponsors.
Additional Resources
- CNCF Newsletter
- CNCF Twitter
- CNCF Website
- Learn About CNCF Membership
- Learn About the CNCF End User Community
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.
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Which baby sling is best?
Most babies want — and need — to be held for long periods of time, but unless you have a small army, it can be impossible to hold your little one and accomplish all of your tasks for the day. Baby slings allow you to keep your baby close and snuggled up while still using your hands. There are thousands of different slings on the market, so it can be difficult to know where to start. For an eco-friendly sling from a women-owned business, the Nalakai Ring Sling Baby Carrier is a top choice.
How to use a baby sling safely
Many parents and caregivers are nervous about using a sling to hold a baby. Safety is a concern, and there’s a common checklist to go through when making sure your baby is safe. It’s called the TICKS rule:
Tight
You want your baby sling to fit tightly around your baby’s body, keeping them from slumping. Within reason, it’s usually better to go a little tighter than you think you should, as the material may loosen once your baby’s weight is in it.
In view at all times
Take care that your baby’s face is always visible when you look down and never covered in material or smooshed up against you.
Close enough to kiss
Position your baby’s head close enough to your chin that you can dip your head down and kiss your little one’s forehead. This ensures proper placement.
Keep chin off chest
Babies aren’t great at keeping their heads up, so it’s important to make sure your sling helps with that. Ensure that your baby’s head is up and not tucked in towards their chest, as this could interfere with breathing.
Supported back
Your sling should support your baby’s back so that it is in a natural position and not slumped over or pulled backward.
If you follow these steps, you’ll be safely slinging your baby in no time.
Types of baby slings
The two main types of slings are wrap slings and ring slings, though pouch slings are also on the market and enjoyed by many.
Wrap sling
A wrap sling is a long strip of soft, slightly stretchy fabric that can be wrapped around your torso in a variety of ways to create a sling for your baby. Wrap slings are extremely versatile and usually inexpensive. However, wrap slings can be a bit trickier to put on and get the hang of, which is a turnoff for some parents.
Ring sling
Ring slings are like wrap slings in that they consist of a long strip of material, but instead of just wrapping and tucking the fabric, ring slings have two metal rings that you use to secure the fabric. A ring sling is worn over one shoulder and puts the baby either in an upright position or a reclined position for nursing. Ring slings are simpler than wrap slings but less versatile.
Pouch sling
Pouch slings are less common than the other types, but they are loved by those who use them. They are created with an existing pouch to put your little one in, so all you have to do is put it on. While they are the easiest to use, they can’t be adjusted to accommodate your baby’s size, so you will need to purchase bigger pouches as your baby grows.
What to consider when choosing a baby sling
Age of baby
Some slings are suitable for a variety of babies, while others have very specific age or weight limitations. Not all slings are suitable for newborns, and many that are good for newborns may not work on older babies. Be sure that the sling you’re purchasing corresponds to the age of your little one in order to keep them safe and healthy.
Ease of use
Caring for a baby is hard enough without extra steps. Are you a super-efficient caregiver who can learn anything at a moment’s notice? Then go for whatever sling you like. Otherwise, be sure that you consider ease of use when picking out a sling. Wrap slings are hard to get the hang of, and ring slings are better but still require some practice. Pouch slings are the easiest to use but may not be worth it if you have to buy a new one in a few months.
Adjustability
Adjustability isn’t just important for the baby; you need to make sure the sling will fit the adult wearing it as well. A well-fitting sling will help to ensure that both you and your little one are safe and not putting unnecessary stress on your body.
How much you can expect to spend on a baby sling
On average, you can expect to spend between $20-$80 on a baby sling. For $20-$30, you’ll typically find one-piece wrap slings that may not be very breathable. For $60-$80, you’ll be looking at brand-name products that are made from expensive fabrics or have other special features. For most users, between $30-$60 is a good price, as these slings tend to be quality ring or wrap slings made from breathable materials with varying levels of portability.
Baby sling FAQ
Can I nurse my baby in a sling?
A. Yes, it is certainly possible to nurse your baby in a sling. The majority of slings are designed to accommodate a nursing position, though some caregivers find it cantankerous. If you do nurse your baby in the sling, make sure you return them to an upright position as soon as the feeding is finished.
How long can my baby stay in the sling?
A. As long as your little one is comfortable and in a position that supports their body well, they can be in the sling as long as you want. Of course, you’ll need to take them out for diaper changes and naps, and you’ll want to ensure they get other stimulation as well. But generally, a sling is a comfortable resting place for most babies.
What’s the best baby sling to buy?
Top baby sling
Nalakai Ring Sling Baby Carrier
What you need to know: This soft, luxurious sling is produced by a woman-owned company.
What you’ll love: Made from soft linen and bamboo material, this sling is breathable and temperature-regulating to keep your little one from overheating. It can also be worn in a variety of ways and comes in numerous colors. As a bonus, the company behind this sling donates 5% of proceeds to those in need and the fabric is sustainably sourced.
What you should consider: For a sling on the top end of the price range, some customers reported issues with the fabric slipping through the ring.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top baby sling for the money
Momcozy Baby Wrap Carrier Sling
What you need to know: This budget-friendly sling distributes your baby’s weight evenly.
What you’ll love: Usable from newborn up to 50 pounds, this versatile sling is easy to use, holds weight well and keeps your child’s hips in the proper position for development. It’s made from breathable and sturdy fabric.
What you should consider: This sling may not be suitable for all caregiver body types.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Mebien Baby Carrier Wrap Ring Sling
What you need to know: This lightweight sling is easy to take with you wherever you go.
What you’ll love: Cozy but breathable, this ring sling is made from 100% Turkish cotton and the fabric doesn’t go through any chemical processes. It comes in several calming colors and includes a carry bag for extra portability.
What you should consider: It is not dryer friendly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, officially became a federal holiday in 2021.
The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed the country’s last remaining enslaved people they were freed. The announcement came more than o years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
While the recognition of the holiday today includes celebrations about emancipation, the holiday also recognizes current racial inequities and calls for change.
Some companies have started selling themed merchandise and apparel ahead of the holiday.
In late May, several posts online (here, here and here) claimed Walmart was selling a Juneteenth-themed ice cream under the company’s Great Value brand. The posts criticized Walmart for profiting off the holiday, with comments such as: “We had to know with making this a federal holiday, corporations were going to swoop in and make a run at our dollars,” and, “I’m pretty sure we didn’t ask for this.”
VERIFY viewer Kris emailed us asking if the ice cream was an actual product being sold at Walmart. Other people wondered if the “Juneteenth” ice cream is real.
THE QUESTION
Did Walmart sell a “Juneteenth” ice cream?
THE SOURCES
- United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO)
- Walmart Corporation
- Local Walmart stores
THE ANSWER
Yes, Walmart sold a Juneteenth-themed ice cream under its Great Value brand. The company has since pulled the product from shelves.
WE WE FOUND
Walmart did sell a Juneteenth ice cream under the company’s Great Value label.
"Share and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and enduring hope," the label on the red velvet-cheesecake flavored ice cream said.
Great Value, a food brand owned and operated by Walmart, distributed the ice cream, which was branded as a “Celebration Edition: Juneteenth” flavor, a mix of swirled red velvet and cheesecake flavors.
VERIFY reached out to Walmart and asked if it sold the “Juneteenth” ice cream and if the product had been removed from stores.
“Juneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence,” the company told VERIFY on May 24. “However, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize. We are reviewing our assortment and will remove items as appropriate.”
VERIFY called two different Walmart stores, each of which said it was not on their shelves.
Other Juneteenth-themed items that Walmart is still selling include party plates and apparel, according to the company’s website as of June 6.
Besides selling the ice cream flavor, the Juneteenth branding from Walmart also raised concerns about why and how the name was trademarked. “No problem with selling Juneteenth-inspired stuff,” reads a tweet from @edelwusa. “Problem with Walmart even applying for a trademark or copyright on ‘Juneteenth.’”
Although there is a trademark logo present on the Great Value ice cream, Walmart Corporation itself did not trademark Juneteenth as a holiday, according to trademark documents. A trademark for Juneteenth “flavor enhancers” was submitted to the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) from the Balchem Corporation, a chemical manufacturing company that filed for the trademark on September 2, 2021. The trademark has since been labeled “dead" by the agency, with an “abandonment date” listed as May 23, 2022, according to the latest official status update online.
There’s a difference between a registered trademark, which is denoted with a R and circle around it, and the “™” filing, which is what the Great Value ice cream used. The R symbol indicates that the word is a legally registered trademark for the product, which has more rights and protections, according to the USPTO.
“You become a trademark owner as soon as you start using your trademark with your goods or services,” the agency’s trademark and patent information page reads. “You establish rights in your trademark by using it, but those rights are limited, and they only apply to the geographic area in which you’re providing your goods or services. If you want stronger, nationwide rights, you’ll need to apply to register your trademark with us.”
The “™” symbol is not legally protected and doesn’t have the same scope of restrictions for use. While many companies use it to show they are in the process of filing an application for the trademark, it doesn’t mean it’s their approved and registered trademark by the USPTO.
“A common misconception is that having a trademark means you legally own a particular word or phrase and can prevent others from using it,” says the USPTO on their patent and trademark website. “However, you don’t have rights to the word or phrase in general, only to how that word or phrase is used with your specific goods or services.”
According to its website, Balchem Corporation was founded in 1967 “by a group consisting of entrepreneurs, investors, and Dr. Leslie Balassa, an expert in the field of encapsulation.” VERIFY could not confirm whether or not Balchem Corporation works with Great Value. VERIFY reached out to Balchem Corporation for comment but did not receive a reply as of June 6.
There are two more live trademarks for “Juneteenth,” according to the USPTO. One is for a hashtag, currently filed by Harold of Kingdom Builders Financial Group. Another is for party favors by eBashBox, a Black-owned business also known as Celeplated. | 2022-06-06T19:43:28+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/food-verify/juneteenth-walmart-icecream-real-or-fake-balchem-trademark-great-value-sold-trademarks/536-c81fe2cf-1581-4f81-bad7-00dca2f3dd6b |
Before the Chicago Bears’ biggest gain in Sunday’s 19-10 upset of the San Francisco 49ers, their offense was out of rhythm. Disjointed. Stuck.
The Bears didn’t cross midfield until 2 minutes, 48 seconds remained in the second quarter. They didn’t score on their first six possessions. They didn’t complete a pass beyond the line of scrimmage until their second play of the third quarter. And on their first 34 plays during a wet and sloppy afternoon, they averaged 2.2 yards.
A beauty pageant this was not.
“Rough sledding,” coach Matt Eberflus said.
Then came the magic moment. Third-and-long from their 49-yard line deep into the third quarter. Justin Fields took a shotgun snap but was quickly surrounded after both offensive tackles were beat. Less than two seconds into the play, playground chaos erupted.
Fields escaped with a spin to his left, used his speed to buy time, then settled at his 40 when he spotted Dante Pettis as the lone body in a sea of green.
“I was just supposed to sit there in the zone,” Pettis said. “But I broke back out because there was nobody there. … When I saw Justin set up to throw to me, I was like, ‘OK. Let’s go.’ The ball felt like it was in the air forever.”
Fields threw a high-arcing pass back across the field to the most open receiver he might ever see. Pettis did the rest. The final 30 yards on the 51-yard touchdown pass came after the catch, an untouched sprint across Soldier Field’s south goal line.
“That was the play that changed the momentum of the whole game,” Fields said.
Added Pettis: “We definitely felt that.”
That touchdown wasn’t by design. Far from it. And the Bears offensive performance as a whole was, to put it nicely, far from pretty.
The Bears averaged 2.7 yards per rush while netting only 105 passing yards. You might not find another NFL team all season that sputters like that offensively yet leaves the stadium with a two-score win.
But football can be a quirky game. Sometimes it’s as much about well-timed breaks, improvisational playmaking and taking advantage of an opponent’s mistakes as anything else. And as these Bears look for catalysts to accelerate their growth, perhaps they will find fuel in their ability to hang around in games, to limit game-changing errors, to remain mentally steady through prolonged struggle and to hit a few momentum-shifting big plays.
The Bears’ first touchdown of the season could prove symbolic for the mission the organization faces. When things are a mess, just try to make something happen.
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Defining moment
If the touchdown pass to Pettis helped unlock the offense, Fields’ 18-yard scoring strike to Equanimeous St. Brown with 12:45 remaining gave the Bears control of the game. It provided their first lead of the season — one they wouldn’t relinquish.
The play was designed to be a play-action pass in the flat to fullback Khari Blasingame. Yet the mechanics of the play put the 49ers defense in conflict and gave Fields options.
The Bears quarterback sold his play fake to running back David Montgomery, sucking the defense up. Then with Blasingame blanketed to the right, Fields moved to St. Brown as his second read on a corner route.
Wide receiver Byron Pringle also was wide open and would have had a walk-in touchdown had Fields made it that far in his progression. Fields said Pringle was his fourth and final read, though, and when he recognized the sharp angle St. Brown had found to gain separation from safety Talanoa Hufanga, the rest was easy.
See. Set. Throw.
“I just hit him for the touchdown,” Fields said.
With touchdowns on back-to-back possessions, the Bears had momentum with a charge of energy pulsing through Soldier Field.
On the bright side
As the Bears claw to stay competitive this season, they have to take care of the ball consistently while also limiting penalties. To that end, the offense was impressive Sunday. It turned the football over just once, on a woeful Fields interception in the first quarter — more on that shortly — and committed only one penalty, an intentional delay-of-game infraction with 2:37 remaining that the 49ers declined.
Other than that? Nothing. Not a single false start. No holding violations. No ineligible men downfield.
When Eberflus talks about establishing a foundational floor, he is emphasizing his players’ ability to play with maximum effort and supreme focus. Those are qualities that will give this team a chance and keep morale steady when things aren’t clicking.
That was another notable element of Sunday’s game. Even after a miserable first half offensively, the Bears never seemed like they were pressing.
That’s a credit to Fields’ mental toughness and the way his calm confidence steadies those around him.
Pringle spent his first four seasons in Kansas City and likened Fields’ contagious composure to that of Patrick Mahomes.
“I loved his composure throughout the game, from the first (quarter) to the fourth,” Pringle said. “He knew it was four quarters we have to play, not just one half.”
Bears fans know as well as anyone it can be incredibly difficult to pull a struggling quarterback out of a funk within a game. Fields perhaps has different DNA in that regard.
“That’s just being a pro, that’s being a vet,” Pringle said. ‘That’s a big leap — especially for a second-year player. I know you’ve probably seen other players pout or get down or point fingers behind closed doors. But he just kept his composure and was able to lead the offense and orchestrate it the correct way.”
Uh-oh
Fields’ interception was a real no-no, a misguided throw forced into heavy traffic on third-and-7 and easily picked off by poaching safety Hufanga.
Fields was targeting Darnell Mooney and explained after the game that against the 49ers’ “vision-and-break” defense, he was focused on steering linebacker Fred Warner with his eyes to the right toward St. Brown, who ran a hook route. But Fields failed to hold or steer Hufanga, who made a decisive break on the pass and had an easy pick.
“I’ve got to read the squeeze off of that and just make a better decision,” Fields said.
Tight end Cole Kmet happened to be open 3 yards short of the line to gain, but Fields didn’t recognize Kmet as his best bet until after the fact. That’s the kind of error the second-year quarterback is vowing to eliminate as he conditions himself to better understand his risk-reward calculus in the NFL.
While the league’s best quarterbacks make their money on third down and inside the red zone, Fields also is growing in his understanding of batting averages at this level.
In Sunday’s postgame media session, he noted that a third-down conversion rate of 48% is often good enough to lead the league or at least be near the top.
“So I’ve just got to not force anything down the field,” Fields added. “Boom. Just take the check-down (to Kmet) and maybe he catches the ball before the sticks and breaks a tackle and gets the first down. I’ve got to be smarter and, of course, just know who I’m playing and just take the odds.”
Odds and ends
- While the Bears offense played a penalty-free game, the 49ers defense offered 59 free yards on six flags. One of those penalties came three snaps before the 51-yard touchdown pass, a costly 15-yard facemask penalty against linebacker Dre Greenlaw, who grabbed Montgomery’s facemask as the running back was being stopped for no gain on third-and-4 at the Bears 34. On the Bears’ next possession, the 49ers helped fuel the touchdown march with a defensive holding violation by cornerback Charvarius Ward, again in a situation when the 49ers were getting off the field with a third-down stop. Three snaps later, a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty against Azeez Al-Shaair for a diving helmet-to-helmet hit on a sliding Fields pushed the Bears to the 49ers 26. Credit the Bears for accepting the gifts and capitalizing.
- The best teams show a consistent ability to score on broken plays with quarterbacks who can skillfully ad-lib and teammates who can take advantage of those moments. Through that lens, the 51-yard Fields-to-Pettis touchdown is, at minimum, a positive step. But that play also was aided by the downfield blocking of St. Brown, who found 49ers cornerback Emmanuel Moseley after the catch and blocked him to clear a path for the final 15 yards of Pettis’ run. The way the Bears offense was functioning to that point, there was little guarantee they would have reached the end zone had Pettis been tackled on that play. St. Brown’s determined block might have been worth at least four points and no doubt was highlighted for the team by Bears coaches. “Something Coach always puts out before every team meeting is finishing,” Pringle said. “And finishing for the guys around you, not just yourself. So that was great that EQ came through.”
- Sunday’s rain was steady and at times unrelenting. There’s no doubt it played a factor in both teams struggling to get going in the passing game. Fields noted that with the heavy rain in the forecast early in the week, he spent time at practice wearing gloves on both hands and throwing wet footballs. On Sunday he tried to go without gloves initially but quickly changed his mind because of the wetness of the ball. “It wasn’t even the rain,” Fields said. “The ground was just so wet from the rain earlier that it was safer to go with the gloves.” Fields praised center Sam Mustipher for a superb afternoon snapping and said it was inconsistent knowing when he would have a firm grip and ability to throw a normal ball and when everything would be slicker. “Some throws you have full control (of),” Fields said. “And then some throws, the ground is so wet that you don’t have as much grip. It just differs every play.”
- If Fields spent part of his preseason lobbying officials to give him more protection by way of personal foul flags against defenders who hit him late when he’s sliding, the narrative that he’s treated unfairly in that regard should start to relax. He got two such calls Sunday, including one on a first-quarter run in which he began to slide a fraction of a second before he ran out of bounds near the Bears bench. He was hit ever so slightly by Greenlaw, who appeared to make an effort to dive over and past Fields but got hit with the 15-yard punishment anyway.
- Mooney’s lone catch was an 8-yard quick-game reception in the fourth quarter. He was targeted three times in Fields’ 17 passes. He was blanketed by Ward on a deep shot immediately before his only reception and never really had a chance to make that big play. Assuming the Bears get better weather and field conditions Sunday night at Lambeau Field, offensive coordinator Luke Getsy will have to seek ways to get Mooney unlocked.
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Lavender is an herb that has natural calming properties. If you grow your own, you can use it to make essential oil to relax sore muscles, relieve insect bites or make your home smell wonderful. In your garden, it will attract pollinators. But for your plants to thrive, you should learn how to prune lavender throughout the year.
When To Prune Lavender
Learning how to prune lavender can keep it from becoming overgrown, leggy and less abundant.
“Annual pruning will improve flowering and prevent lavender becoming woody,” plant expert Sarah Raven told Homes and Gardens.
Experts recommend pruning lavender at least twice each year. You should prune them first in the spring and later after they flower. For the best results, you should prune your lavender sprigs three times:
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- Once early in the season, as the plants are developing.
- A second time after they have finished flowering.
- A final pruning late in the season.
However, you should only trim lavender plants lightly in their first year of growth. When the plants are new, the purpose of pruning is to encourage new growth and help them develop the desired shape.It is essential to wait to prune lavender plants until all chances of frost have passed.
How To Prune Lavender
Fortunately, lavender is easy to prune. The best tools for spring pruning are precision pruning snips or small pruning shears. Later in the year, you can use hedge pruning shears or an electric hedge trimmer.
For the first pruning, start by removing any dead stems. Then, pinch off fresh young tips that are developing.
After flowering is complete in late spring or early summer, prune back the stems. For tall varieties of lavender, trim off about a third of the plant’s height. If you have lower-growing lavender, prune about two inches or so the new growth.
Later in the year, when the plants become woody, prune the bushes to give them a nice, rounded shape. However, take care not to cut too close to the woody base of the stems so the plants can survive the winter.
Pruning your lavender plants can keep them blooming for years, so don’t skip this step!
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-09-13T15:04:01+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/how-prune-lavender-plants-every-season |
CEDARHURST, N.Y., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Upstart Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGS: UPST), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 18, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until July 12, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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SUTTONS BAY — A recall election in Leelanau County's District 3 will have a lot of people anxious for results, which are expected to be in at the same time they always are after the May 3 election.
Clerk Michelle Crocker said unlike many other counties, nothing has changed in how results are received. Other counties, including Grand Traverse County, have turned off cellular modems in voting machines formerly were used to transfer unofficial results from the voting precincts to the county clerk. Results will now be physically brought to the GTC government center.
Crocker said the Dominion machines used in Leelanau County never had modems. The county uses a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that is not connected to a computer to receive results.
VPN results are compared to paper printouts of results from each voting machine, Crocker said.
"Everything we do I believe to be very secure," Crocker said. "We want to make sure the electorate have confidence in what we're giving them."
There will still be those people who claim the results are not correct, she said.
"We want to be sensitive to it, but not distracted by it," Crocker said. "No one wants to make a mistake."
The cellular modems that sent results to the county and that have been turned off were on a closed system and not connected to internet servers. The changes by the Michigan Elections Bureau are being done as part of a statewide effort to restore confidence in elections, though there was never any evidence that the machines were tampered with or hacked.
Will Bunek, who has held his Leelanau County Commission seat for 14 years, is being recalled after he attempted to zero out the Early Childhood Services millage passed by voters in 2019. Bunek defended his actions by saying that when voters make a wrong decision it is the county board's job to correct it.
Bunek faces Dem. Lois Bahle, who has run against him in the last two elections.
District 3 is made up of parts of Bingham and Suttons Bay townships.
Also in Leelanau, voters in the Leland Public School district are being asked to approve a 5-year, .5-mill sinking fund tax to be used for remodeling and repairs of school buildings, security and technology improvements and other purposes authorized by law. If approved, the tax will bring in $337,637 in its first year.
Also on the ballot is a renewal of a non-homestead property tax that brings in about $4.32 million for operations. The tax is renewed every year.
Here's a round-up of proposals from the Record-Eagle coverage area excluding Benzie County, which has none:
Grand Traverse County
- Kingsley Area Schools — a 4-year renewal of the non-homestead tax that will bring in $1,177,851.
- In Whitewater Township there are two openings for board trustees.
Antrim County
- In Antrim County there are eight property tax proposals, several of which are renewals or restorations of funding lost as a result of the Headlee Rollback, which requires municipalities to reduce its millage rate to hold growth in property taxes at the rate of inflation.
- Ellsworth Community School operating millage — A 3-year, 1-mill renewal and restoration that will bring in about $14,000 in its first year.
- Central Lake Public School Sinking fund proposal — Renewal and restoration of a 4-year, 0.5 mill-sinking fund millage that will bring in $147,922 for construction or repairs of school building and other uses authorized by law.
- Central Lake Public Schools operating millage — A 10-year renewal of a 17.4874-mill tax on non-homestead properties. The tax will bring in about $2.782 million. Another Central Lake 10-year proposal restores a non-homestead tax that will bring in $82,054.
- Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District — One of two proposals on the ballot is a renewal and restoration of a 4-year, 0.75-mill tax that will bring in about $4.6 million for educational programs. The ISD is also asking for a 4-year 0.25-mill increase that will bring in another $1.54 million for programming
- Mancelona Public School — A 4-year renewal of a .3944-mill sinking fund tax that will bring in $153,715 to be used for construction or repair of school buildings and more. Another proposal renews a non-homestead tax that will bring in $3,830,000 for operations.
- Kalkaska County voters in the Mancelona district will also see the operating millage request on their ballots.
- Bellaire Public School millage — A six-year renewal and increase of the non-homestead tax for operations. The tax will bring in about $4.164 million in its first year.
Kalkaska County
- The Crawford AuSable School District is asking voters for $21,275,000 to build an addition to Grayling Middle School; remodeling and re-equipping school buildings; improving school technology, security and outdoor playgrounds; and purchasing new buses. Bonds will be sold and paid back over 20 years, with property owners paying .70 mills in 2022.
- Kalkaska Public Schools operating millage — A 9-year renewal and restoration of the district's non-homestead tax.
- In Clearwater Township two proposals include one to increase a road millage from 1 mill to 2 mills for 2023, the final year of the current millage. The tax will bring in $280,000. Another establishes a 4-year, .5-mill township constable tax for a township law enforcement officer. The tax will bring in about $70,000 in its first year.
- Excelsior Township (Crawford School) operating millage — a four-year renewal and restoration of the non-homestead tax that brings in $139,391.
Check your sample ballot at https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/PublicBallot/Index. | 2022-05-02T22:44:35+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/recall-election-millage-questions-on-ballot/article_6b1824c8-ca22-11ec-9f9d-d78eb66bb3fe.html |
5-year-old girls shot; Milwaukee neighborhoods on edge
MILWAUKEE - Two Milwaukee 5-year-old girls were show over the past few days. Police have an arrest in one of those instances, but are seeking the second shooter – and neighbors are on edge.
41st and Wright shooting
One 5-year-old was shot at 41st and Wright in Milwaukee on Tuesday evening, July 18. The child was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Neighbors told FOX6 News the block became a crime scene scattered with toys.
Milwaukee shooting, 41st and Wright
"Kids should be able to come outside and play and not have to worry about being hit and targeted by bullets because of senseless and silly kids, teenagers," said the neighbor.
A neighbor close to the victim's family said the girl was playing outside when a car drove up and started shooting.
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"I’m just devastated simply because she’s 5, put yourself in her shoes and imagine how you feel," the neighbor said.
No arrests have been made in this case.
85th and Allyn shooting
Before the 41st and Wright shooting, a 5-year-old Milwaukee girl was shot near 85th and Allyn on Monday morning, July 17. The child is recovering.
Police said a Milwaukee man, 36, was arrested in connection with this shooting.
Juveniles shot in 2023
Milwaukee police tell FOX6 News that so far in 2023, 103 people under the age of 18 have been shot. There have been 11 firearm-related homicides involving children during that same time.
For many parents, it is hitting too close to home.
Milwaukee shooting, 41st and Wright
"I have a 6-year-old. So that’s what made me realize my daughter would have been out here playing if I wouldn’t have decided to leave," the neighbor said. "I hope who ever is responsible I just hope they turn themselves in because you hit a child, you traumatized children on our block." | 2023-07-19T22:48:17+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/5-year-old-girls-shot-milwaukee-neighborhoods |
With just about four months until the 2022 midterm elections, misinformation experts, civil rights advocates and researchers are worried that social media companies are unprepared to deal with a potential onslaught of falsehoods about the election.
Many policies were put in place before and during the 2020 presidential election, but those policies haven’t cut down all of the misinformation, and in some cases, have been revoked.
"Midterm elections are harder than presidential elections for these platforms," said Katie Harbath, CEO at Anchor Change and former public policy director at Facebook. "435 congressional seats, 30-some-odd senate races — it is much more decentralized, which makes it both harder to know where to tackle but also hard to keep track of."
For instance, more than 100 Republican primary winners in statewide or Congressional races have backed the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged, with many doing so online, according to the Washington Post. Additionally, The New York Times found that the film "2,000 Mules," which falsely claims the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, had more than 430,000 interactions on Facebook and Instagram by June.
What's more, these online narratives are bleeding into the real world. An NPR investigation found that since the Jan. 6 insurrection, four prominent election denialists have held more than 308 events, often small and at the grassroots-level, across 45 states and the District of Columbia.
"As long we're talking about U.S.-based tech companies that are running on algorithmic amplification of whatever is most viral and trending, this is a systemic issue that will never, never be fought," said Martin Riedl, postdoctoral research fellow at the The University of Texas at Austin's propaganda research lab. "It's always in the interest of platforms to amplify, at least to a certain extent, and to intervene a little too late. You still want the spread, and you still want engagement metrics to rise."
Yosef Getachew, media and democracy program director at Common Cause, helped author a letter from more than 120 civil society groups to seven major social media companies, noting that "disinformation related to the 2020 election has not gone away but has continued to proliferate." The letter’s demands included consistent enforcement of civic integrity policies during both election and non-election cycles and the prioritization of enforcement around combatting what they call the big lie that says Trump won the 2020 election.
"A lot of the disinformation that we're seeing now is really recycled content from the Big Lie, but it's packaged in new ways that is getting more and more attention," Getachew said. "When we're talking about the 2022 election cycle, we're seeing a lot of candidates now preemptively declare voter fraud, and this is based primarily off the Big Lie. A lot of candidates are using the Big Lie as a platform plank."
Another challenge to moderating 2022 midterm misinformation is the rising popularity of video content on social media. According to a Pew Research poll, as of mid-2021, more than 80% of Americans say they use YouTube, and TikTok is now the most popular website in the world.
"There are three main challenges," said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU'S Center for Social Media and Politics. "The first is that live video is incredibly difficult to moderate because it's live. The second is just the complexity of video data relative to text data. The ability to classify these data at scale are relatively underdeveloped compared to just sort of text data. The third is that external researchers, journalists, civil society groups, don't have the resources or capacity to deal with video data right now. It's taken sort of an all-of-society effort to hold social media companies responsible in text form when we saw text as the main way that information spread."
For former Facebook employees like Harbath, the situation is too little, too late. What’s important, however, is to start thinking about the next set of elections.
"We should've started thinking about the 2024 election a couple months ago, in all honesty, and be thinking about that through the lens of the midterms and how you keep that through point continuing, because we know that the 2024 elections have to start, maybe even before the midterms start, but immediately afterwards," Harbath said.
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Uh, Oh! Gas Prices Are Going The Wrong Way Again
We were doing so well. After the price went up to $5 a gallon not that long ago and then later was on its way down to just a little over $3 a gallon.
Last week filling the car cost me $3.11 a gallon. The same station yesterday was at $3.29 a gallon.
And wasn’t the prediction that a gallon would cost less than $3 early in the New Year? Well, we are into the New Year.
The average price in Maine is now at $3.38 per gallon. The national average is $3.35.
So what happened to $3? For the New Year?
First here are a couple of years of trends from Gas Buddy dot com for the Bangor region.
So overall we are in better shape than we have been for a while, but supply and demand suggest that gas prices should still be falling. There is less usage in the winter. AAA says the reason is the days are shorter which leads to less driving at night, and with any bad weather less driving occurs as well. So demand is down, but prices are rising.
The primary factor for the latest increase is the higher cost of oil, and that’s why we are paying more at the pump. Not the news we wanted or expected here in the new year.
I guess we have it good compared to Hawaii and California which continue to be the most expensive places in the country for gasoline.
But also, it sure looks like we are not going back to the 'good ole days' when gas was a buck something. Or even less. | 2023-01-21T00:40:31+00:00 | q961.com | https://q961.com/maine-gas-prices-trending-up/ |
Updated June 2, 2022 at 8:06 PM ET
A shooting at a cemetery south of Milwaukee on Thursday afternoon resulted in multiple victims, police said.
Racine police said on social media that numerous shots were fired about 2:30 p.m. at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Milwaukee. Ascension All Saints Hospital, which is next to the cemetery, said it is treating an undisclosed number of victims from the shooting.
It was not immediately known if there were any fatalities, or if any suspects were in custody.
The shooting comes the day after a gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office. It's the latest in a series of mass shootings in United States including the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and an attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Ascension All Saints Hospital in Racine is on lockdown "out of an abundance of caution" following the shooting, the hospital said in a statement.
Area residents said they heard 20 to 30 shots, the Racine Journal Times reported.
Three young men who were playing basketball at Lockwood Park, immediately west of the cemetery, said they heard shots and the fence behind them was repeatedly hit.
Tre Brantley, one of the men, started running to his car the moment he heard shots. He and his brother, Kellyn Foster, both got into their car and ducked down, praying they wouldn't get hurt.
"This has got to stop," Brantley said of the gun violence.
The shooting occurred at the interment for Da'Shontay L. King Sr., who was fatally shot by Racine police May 20, King's sister, Natasha Mullen said.
"We were at the gravesite trying to get prepared to bury him, and bullets started flying everywhere," she told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
A Racine police officer fatally shot King, 37, during a traffic stop about two weeks ago. Police said they were carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when King, who they said had a handgun, ran from the car. According to police, King failed to ignore commands to drop the weapon and Officer Zachary B. Brenner shot him.
The Department of Justice is investigating the shooting.
Police are asking people to avoid the area in west Racine around the cemetery.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tesorio, an accounts receivable solution, announced it has been named to G2's 2023 Best Software Awards. As the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace, G2 is visited by 80 million software buyers each year. Its annual Best Software Awards rank the world's best software companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users.
This is Tesorio's second time receiving a G2's Best Software Award recognition, in addition to being the #1 rated A/R automation solution with the highest customer satisfaction. Tesorio has earned its place this year thanks to the support of their amazing community of customers, partners, and employees.
Tesorio is on a mission to solve the day-to-day issues encountered by finance and accounting teams. "Tesorio has enabled us to fully automate our AR collections process, improving our AR aging and reducing the amount of manual team hours", one customer said. Discover what more of their customers are saying on G2.
"While G2 publishes the Best Software Awards each year, they're really awards from customers," said Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer at G2. "Representing a vote of confidence from real software users, these awards also spotlight those that have risen to the top among thousands of companies. With 2 million+ verified software reviews, the most in a single destination, our marketplace features more than 145,000 products and services across 2,100 different categories. Congratulations to all those named, as buyers will continue to lean on these awards as a trusted source to inform their software decisions in the year ahead."
The top 100 companies are ranked based on a combination of Satisfaction and Market Presence scores for each vendor, and the top 100 products are ranked based on reviews across all categories they are a part of. To be recognized as a Best Software Award winner, a software company or product must receive at least 50 approved and published reviews during the 2022 calendar year. Scores reflect only data from reviews submitted during this evaluation period.
"Our team is proud to win G2's Best Software Award for Accounting and Finance. This recognition shows our dedication and customers' trust," said Carlos Vega, Tesorio's Co-Founder & CEO. "Pressure on finance and accounting professionals to drive growth and cash flow performance is increasing. We aim to improve their day-to-day work, driving material & immediate ROI. As a leading provider of Cash Flow Performance solutions, we are paving the way for the industry and optimistic about the future of A/R automation."
To learn more, view G2's 2023 Best Software Awards and read more about G2's methodology.
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G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 80 million people annually — including employees at all Fortune 500 companies — use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. Thousands of software and services companies of all sizes partner with G2 to build their reputation, manage their software spend, and grow their business — including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, and Adobe. To learn more about where you go for software, visit www.g2.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Tesorio
Tesorio, a leading provider of Cash Flow Performance Solutions, is transforming the way businesses handle their Accounts Receivable. Its cutting-edge technology, powered by AI and machine learning, offers advanced A/R automation tools that include intelligent workflow, payment prediction, collections forecasting, self-service customer payments, invoice matching, and more. Trusted by global organizations such as Slack, Bank of America, Box, Veeva Systems, Twilio, Domo, and others, Tesorio helps businesses maximize cash flow performance, streamline credit and collections processes, and create better customer experiences.
If you are interested in learning more about Tesorio's AI-embedded accounts receivable solution, request your demo today.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
9-2-0, FIREBALL: 3
(nine, two, zero; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
9-2-0, FIREBALL: 3
(nine, two, zero; FIREBALL: three) | 2022-12-17T00:29:52+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17660055.php |
HOUSTON — The Houston Texans have a first-round draft pick for the first time since 2019, and thanks to the Deshaun Watson trade they have two selections in the opening round.
They didn’t have a first-rounder in the last two drafts after sending those selections to Miami in the 2019 trade that brought left tackle Laremy Tunsil to Houston. This will be the second time in franchise history and the first since 2004 they’ve had two first-round picks.
Houston could use a quarterback since shipping Watson to the Browns after he sat out all last season following a trade request and lawsuits by 22 women alleging sexual assault or harassment. But the quarterback group in this year’s draft isn’t considered elite, and the Texans will likely try and fill one of the many other holes on the team.
“It’s not necessarily about specific players, it’s just about finding the right fit for what we’re trying to do,” general manager Nick Caserio said.
Caserio and the Texans moved into full rebuilding mode last season with Watson sitting out, and they traded or released their few remaining stars. Coach David Culley was fired just one season after being hired to replace Bill O’Brien, and Houston promoted defensive coordinator Lovie Smith to head coach in January.
Caserio knows it will be a big task to return the Texans to respectability and cautioned that even a high draft pick won’t be a magic pill to fix this franchise.
“No one player, no one thing is going to change this organization and it’s not going to happen overnight,” he said. “There’s a lot of work, and purposeful work, that’s going to go into it, but I think we’re headed in the right direction.”
DRAFT DAY DEALS?
With two first-round picks and 11 picks overall, Caserio was asked about the Texans making a trade during the draft. Caserio, a longtime executive with the Patriots before coming to Houston last January, said they’d be open to it.
“We’ll look at everything,” he said. “It goes back to what are you moving away from and what would you get in return?”
WANTS AND NEEDS
Because this draft isn’t considered a great one for QBs, and Houston seems content with Davis Mills for at least one more season, the Texans could look to beef up their defense with their first pick.
Smith would probably be happy if one of the top picks goes toward improving the pass rush. Houston had just 32 in the first year without superstar rusher J.J. Watt.
A player they could target with the third pick is Oregon defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux. The 6-foot-5, 258-pound Thibodeaux had 19 sacks in a three-year career with the Ducks.
If Houston decides to go with offense, Alabama OT/G Evan Neal or North Carolina State T Ikem Ekwonu could join Tunsil and help improve a line that allowed 44 sacks last season.
“When you get into the draft, you really don’t want to necessarily eliminate any position or particular player,” Caserio said. “You just want to look at it... and just figure out what makes the most sense for the organization. It’s about picking good players, it’s about picking the right players that you think fit what you’re trying to do.”
TEXANS DRAFT HISTORY
The third overall pick is Houston’s earliest choice since selecting defensive end Jadeveon Clowney first in the 2014 draft. The Texans have had the third pick just one other time and made one of their best draft moves with that selection: Andre Johnson with the second first-round pick in franchise history in 2003. Johnson spent 12 years with the Texans, piling up seven 1,000-yard receiving seasons and leading the NFL in yards receiving in 2008 and 2009. He is the team’s all-time receiving leader with 1,012 receptions for 13,597 yards and 64 TDs.
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Patients Can Capture and Share Important Parts of Their Disease Journey
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The HealthTree Foundation, a patient-driven, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers patients at each step of their disease journey, today announced the launch of its new journaling feature for multiple myeloma and acute myeloid leukemia patients. The free journaling tool inside of the HealthTree software platform allows patients to capture their stories in video, audio or text format and share journal entries by email or on social media. The journaling addition marks another milestone by the HealthTree Foundation to provide a comprehensive set of tools to blood cancer patients who are navigating a life-threatening diagnosis.
Patients can keep the journal entries private or can share the entries with family and friends.
"Journaling about myeloma has been therapeutic for me. It allowed me to express and release my emotions and make some sense out of what was happening to me," said Richard Hite, multiple myeloma patient. "The HealthTree journaling tool allows me to capture my experience and the perspective I have gained to share with my wife and kids. There are so many lessons I have learned from myeloma that I don't want to forget."
The health benefits of journaling are clinically proven to reduce stress, strengthen the immune system, improve memory and comprehension, improve mood and increase emotional regulation.
Multiple myeloma patient Michelle Peterson said, "I kept a journal as I started my myeloma treatment and when I was too sick to write, my family took over for me. Now, it's an important memory not just for me, but for my entire family."
"When I became ill, my wife and I both realized from the many calls, texts and visits that we would not be able to keep up," said AML patient Steve Hodges. Yet, we have so many friends and family who have a genuine need to know what's happening and to support us. We began journaling and providing access for friends and family. Their comments, support, care and interest are a rising tide, bringing us home to those who've meant the most to us over our lifetimes, and who are so good for us now."
To access the free journal, use the following links:
HealthTree Journal for Multiple Myeloma: https://healthtree.org/myeloma/my-journal
HealthTree Journal for Acute Myeloid Leukemia: https://healthtree.org/aml/my-journal
For more information and other free tools, visit www.healthtree.org.
The HealthTree Foundation is a patient-driven, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers patients at each step of their disease journey. Myeloma and AML patients can access the foundation's resources for free. These include the HealthTree Cure Hub, an online community tool that helps patients explore their best treatment options, find clinical trials based on their stage of disease and lab values, and contribute their de-identified data to accelerate a cure. Other HealthTree tools include a learning management platform called HealthTree University, a HealthTree Coach mentoring program, disease news sites, Community webinar events and a specialist directory. Jennifer Ahlstrom and her husband Paul founded the HealthTree Foundation which provides patient education, advocacy and research funding for multiple myeloma and AML.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today the release of its annual global Sustainability Report.
2021 Sustainability Report Highlights
- On Track to Meet Existing Targets for GHG and Freshwater Intensity
- Initial Assessment of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG)
- Completed Initial Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of Lithium Products
- New Targets for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Priorities
- Sustainability Webcast Scheduled for June 28, 2022, at 9 a.m. EDT
"Albemarle plays an important role in combating climate change, enabling the energy transition and supporting safe and sustainable advancement of electrification and digitalization," said Albemarle CEO Kent Masters. "Sustainability is core to our long-term strategy. Our Sustainability Report highlights progress, commitments, and successes we realized in 2021 on a global scale as we continue to add value for all our stakeholders through our sustainability efforts."
On Track to Meet Existing Targets for GHG Emissions and Freshwater Reductions
Last year, Albemarle began executing its climate strategy and the company is on track to meet or exceed initial sustainability targets for GHG emissions and freshwater intensity. This year's report includes 2021 actions such as the procurement of renewable energy in the U.S. and the Netherlands and construction completion of a $100 million thermal evaporator in Chile. Albemarle also engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to provide independent assurance of scope 1 and 2 GHG data.
Initial Assessment of Scope 3 GHG Emissions and Completed LCAs
In this year's report, Albemarle announced its initial assessment of scope 3 GHG emissions, including areas such as purchased goods and services, processing of sold products, use of sold products, and end-of-life treatment of sold products. The company will continue to refine its assessment in the coming years and will use the initial assessment to work with customers and suppliers to reduce emissions across the supply chain.
The report also provides detail on Albemarle's first LCAs, completed in 2021, related to rock-based lithium hydroxide and brine-based lithium carbonate. Both studies were performed in accordance with ISO 14040/14044 standards. In addition, Albemarle plans to incorporate LCA requests into its sustainable procurement process to better understand the environmental impact of its suppliers.
DE&I Targets
In 2021, the company released its DE&I strategic plan for measurable actions to integrate DE&I in decision making, enhance organizational effectiveness, and meet future challenges and needs. Albemarle has set a 2022 goal of increasing global gender diversity by a further 1% year over year with a particular focus on its manufacturing workforce, and a goal to increase U.S. racial diversity in senior-level management roles by 1% year over year. The company plans to increase diversity steadily and consistently with the long-term goal of meeting or exceeding global manufacturing benchmarks.
For more information, please see Albemarle's 2021 Sustainability Report.
Albemarle Sustainability Webcast
Albemarle will host a webcast on Tuesday, June 28, at 9 a.m. EDT with CEO Kent Masters, CFO Scott Tozier, VP of Government and Community Affairs Ellen Lenny-Pessagno, VP of Investor Relations and Sustainability Meredith Bandy and VP of Culture Timitra Hildebrand-Jones, who will present an update on Albemarle's sustainability initiatives.
Registration for the webcast can be accessed here. Once registered, users will receive a link via email to directly access the webcast. A webcast replay will be posted to the company's website following the conclusion of the event.
About Albemarle
Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) is a global specialty chemicals company with leading positions in lithium, bromine, and refining catalysts. We think beyond business as usual to power the potential of companies in many of the world's largest and most critical industries, such as energy, electronics, and transportation. We actively pursue a sustainable approach to managing our diverse global footprint of world-class resources. In conjunction with our highly experienced and talented global teams, our deep-seated values, and our collaborative customer relationships, we create value-added and performance-based solutions that enable a safer and more sustainable future.
We regularly post information to www.albemarle.com, including notification of events, news, financial performance, investor presentations and webcasts, non-GAAP reconciliations, SEC filings and other information regarding our company, its businesses and the markets it serves.
Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the information presented in this press release, the conference call and discussions that follow, including, without limitation, information related to sustainability goals and commitments, targets and timelines for achievement, environmental impact reduction goals, sustainability priorities, and all other information relating to matters that are not historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results and future actions could differ materially from the views or plans expressed or implied due to a number of important factors, including those detailed from time to time in the reports we file with the SEC, including those described under "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K any subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. We assume no obligation to provide any revisions to any forward-looking statements should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws.
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Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.
It’s part of an effort to better study human brain development and diseases affecting this most complex of organs, which makes us who we are but has long been shrouded in mystery.
“Many disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are likely uniquely human” but “the human brain certainly has not been very accessible,” said said Dr. Sergiu Pasca, senior author of a study describing the work, published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Approaches that don’t involve taking tissue out of the human brain are “promising avenues in trying to tackle these conditions.”
The research builds upon the team’s previous work creating brain “organoids,” tiny structures resembling human organs that have also been made to represent others such as livers, kidneys, prostates, or key parts of them.
To make the brain organoids, Stanford University scientists transformed human skin cells into stem cells and then coaxed them to become several types of brain cells. Those cells then multiplied to form organoids resembling the cerebral cortex, the human brain’s outermost layer, which plays a key role in things like memory, thinking, learning, reasoning and emotions.
Scientists transplanted those organoids into rat pups 2 to 3 days old, a stage when brain connections are still forming. The organoids grew so that they eventually occupied a third of the hemisphere of the rat’s brain where they were implanted. Neurons from the organoids formed working connections with circuits in the brain.
Human neurons have been transplanted in rodents before, but generally in adult animals, usually mice. Pasca, a psychiatry professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, said this is the first time these organoids have been placed into early rat brains, creating “the most advanced human brain circuitry ever built from human skin cells and a demonstration that implanted human neurons can influence an animal’s behavior.”
To examine a practical use of this approach, scientists transplanted organoids into both sides of a rat’s brain: one generated from a healthy person’s cells and another from the cells of a person with Timothy syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with heart problems and autism spectrum disorder.
Five to six months later, they saw effects of the disease related to the activity of the neurons. There were differences in the two sides’ electrical activity, and the neurons from the person with Timothy syndrome were much smaller and didn’t sprout as many extensions that pick up input from nearby neurons.
Researchers, whose study was funded partly by the National Institutes of Health, said they could do the same sorts of experiments using organoids made from the cells of people with disorders such as autism or schizophrenia — and potentially learn new things about how these conditions affect the brain, too.
Dr. Flora Vaccarino of Yale University – who previously grew lumps containing cerebral cortex that were made with DNA from people with autism – said the study moves the field forward.
“It’s extremely impressive what they do here in terms of what these cells can actually show us in terms of their advanced development … in the rat,” said Vaccarino, who wasn’t involved with the study.
Such experiments in animals raise ethical concerns. For example, Pasca said he and his team are cognizant of the rats’ well-being and whether they still behave normally with the organoids inside them, which he says they do. Still, Pasca does not believe this should be tried in primates. Ethicists also wonder about the possibility of brain organoids in the future attaining something like human consciousness, which experts say is extremely unlikely now.
Some scientists are studying human brain organoids outside of animals. For example, researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland published a study in Nature earlier this month describing how they are growing brain-like tissue from stem cells in the lab and then mapping the cell types in various brain regions and genes regulating their development. Some are using these structures to study autism.
Pasca said brain organoids could also be used to test new treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders, the largest cause of disability worldwide. Such research, he said, should help scientists make strides that have been extremely difficult until now because it’s so hard to get at the human brain – which is “the reason why we’re so much more behind in psychiatry compared to any other branch of medicine in terms of therapeutics.”
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Biden heads to West Bank, with little to offer Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AP) — When President Joe Biden heads to the occupied West Bank on Friday for talks with Palestinian leaders, he will have little to offer beyond U.S. money aimed at buying calm.
He’s expected to announce $316 million in financial assistance — about a third of which will require congressional approval — and a commitment from Israel to modernize wireless access for Palestinians.
But although Biden will reiterate his support for an independent Palestinian state, there’s no clear path to one. The last round of serious peace talks broke down more than a decade ago, leaving millions of Palestinians living under Israeli military rule.
Israel’s outgoing government has taken steps to improve economic conditions in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. But Yair Lapid, the caretaker prime minister, does not have a mandate to hold peace negotiations, and Nov. 1 elections could bring to power a right-wing government that is opposed to Palestinian statehood.
Meanwhile, the 86-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority administers parts of the occupied West Bank and cooperates with Israel on security, is more representative of the status quo than Palestinian aspirations.
His Fatah party lost an election, and control of Gaza, to the Islamic militant group Hamas more than 15 years ago. He called off the first national elections since then last year — blaming Israel — when Fatah appeared to be heading for another crushing defeat. Polls over the past year have consistently found that nearly 80% of Palestinians want him to resign.
Biden acknowledged this week that while he supports a two-state solution, it won’t happen “in the near-term.” The U.S. also appears to have accepted defeat in its more modest push to reopen a Jerusalem consulate serving the Palestinians that was closed when President Donald Trump recognized the contested city as Israel’s capital.
Palestinian leaders also fear being further undermined by the Abraham Accords, a diplomatic vehicle for Arab nations to normalize relations with Israel despite the continuing occupation. Biden, who heads next to Saudi Arabia to attend a summit of Arab leaders, hopes to broaden that process, which began under Trump.
Hours before Biden was set to become the first U.S. leader to fly directly from Israel to the kingdom, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation announced early Friday “the decision to open the Kingdom’s airspace for all air carriers that meet the requirements of the Authority for overflying.”
It signaled the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory — an incremental step toward the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel that builds on the strong, but informal ties the erstwhile foes have developed in recent years over their shared concerns about Iran’s growing influence in the region.
Biden hailed the decision in a statement Friday as an important step that “can help build momentum toward Israel’s further integration into the region, including with Saudi Arabia.”
There’s been hardly any mention of the Palestinians over the past two days, as Biden has showered Israel with praise, holding it up as a democracy that shares American values. At a press conference with Biden, Lapid evoked the U.S. civil rights movement to portray Israel as a bastion of freedom.
It all reeked of hypocrisy to Palestinians, who have endured 55 years of military occupation with no end in sight.
“The idea of shared values actually makes me sick to my stomach,” said Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and political analyst. “I don’t think Israeli values are anything that people should be striving towards.”
Both Biden and Lapid said they supported an eventual two-state solution in order to ensure that Israel remains a Jewish-majority state. But Biden is expected to announce little beyond financial assistance, including $201 million for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Biden proposed $100 million, subject to congressional approval, for hospitals in east Jerusalem that serve Palestinians. Another $15 million is for humanitarian assistance, plus $7.2 million for programs to promote cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.
His approach, often referred to as “economic peace,” has limitations.
“You can’t buy a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. State Department official. “It doesn’t work, because that’s not what drives this conflict.”
That sentiment was on display in the West Bank on Thursday, where dozens of Palestinians gathered to protest Biden. More protests were expected Friday.
“Mr. Biden is trying to marginalize the Palestinian issue,” said Mustafa Barghouti, a veteran Palestinian activist. “If he does not allow Palestinians to have their rights, then he is helping Israel kill and end the very last possibility of peace.”
At this point, the Palestinian goal of an independent state in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza — territories Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war — appears more distant than ever.
Israel is expanding settlements in annexed east Jerusalem and the West Bank, which are now home to some 700,000 Jewish settlers. The Palestinian view the settlements — many of which resemble sprawling suburbs — as the main obstacle to peace, because they carve up the land on which a Palestinian state would be established. Most of the world considers them illegal.
Military rule in the West Bank has sown widespread despair, contributing to a recent wave of violence. A 15-year blockade of Gaza, which Israel says is needed to contain Hamas, has helped fuel four devastating wars. Jerusalem, home to famed holy sites and the emotional heart of the conflict, is as volatile as ever.
Israel has its own grievances — including Palestinian Authority payments to the families of prisoners and slain attackers, which Israel says incentivize violence. The PA defends the payments as a form of welfare for those it sees as victims of the conflict.
It’s unclear if eliminating the “martyrs’ fund” would advance the goal of statehood. Israel is dominated by nationalist and religious parties that are opposed to a Palestinian state and view the West Bank as the biblical and historical heartland of the Jewish people.
Well-known human rights groups have concluded that Israel’s seemingly permanent control over millions of Palestinians amounts to apartheid. One of those groups, Israel’s own B’Tselem, hung banners in the West Bank ahead of Biden’s visit.
Israel rejects that label as an attack on its very existence, even though two former Israeli prime ministers warned years ago that their country would be seen that way if it did not reach a two-state agreement with the Palestinians. The U.S. also rejects the apartheid allegations.
Biden will also likely see banners calling for justice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank in May. Israel says she might have been struck by Palestinian gunfire, while investigations by The Associated Press and other media outlets support Palestinian witnesses who say she was shot by Israeli forces.
The U.S. says she was likely killed by Israeli troops but that it appeared to be unintentional, without saying how it reached those conclusions. That angered many Palestinians, including Abu Akleh’s family, who accused the U.S. of trying to help Israel evade responsibility for her death.
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Krauss reported from Ottawa. Megerian reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin announced on Facebook that he has married his “longtime love” in a small ceremony in Los Angeles.
Aldrin, who made history along with Neil Armstrong as the first humans to set foot on the surface of the moon, said the wedding took place on Friday, which was his 93rd birthday.
“I am pleased to announce that my longtime love and partner, Dr. Anca V Faur, and I have tied the knot. We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles, and are as excited as eloping teenagers,” he wrote.
The post received 53,000 Facebook “likes” and “loves” by Saturday and was accompanied by several photos of the newlyweds.
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SHENZHEN, China, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since its launch in 2020, Petal Maps has grown tremendously now offering innovative travel and navigation experiences to more than 28 million users in over 160 countries. Maps should aim to reproduce the real world to the greatest extent possible, and that is Petal Maps' guiding principle, and being always working on.
During navigation, the Lane guidance and Enlarged intersection map displays help facilitate safe driving. Road conditions are shown with accuracy because of the myriad of inputted data and detailed rendering. Now, Petal Maps offers new features such as lighting effects on Dark Mode, 3D landmarks, and more using sophisticated technology such as fine-grained rendering. Petal Maps makes more realistic and interesting maps available at the disposal of users, elevating the navigation experience.
Petal Maps guides you along with vivid lighting effects
Trying to find your way can be tricky. The streets you're traversing probably look vastly different from what you're viewing on your phone's screen, and the differences in lighting can throw you off. And in the night mode, street lights are an integral part of the real world. To maximize the real-world situation, Petal Maps adds evening lights to simulate the effects of roads at night, including street lighting and building lighting effects and provides a higher level of accuracy and map detail.
This feature will come in handy for users as they enjoy a more holistic level of detail. For example, when a city's buildings light up, it's signifying to the user that it's night-time at the searched location. Through this, users will be able to better match directions on Petal Maps to their environment even with the change in lighting.
Experience your surroundings in vivid detail with 3D landmarks
Petal Maps built about 26,000 white building models, and 3D effects for 100 iconic landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, London Eye, and Kuala Lumpur Tower, among many others. With Petal Maps' 3D landmarks, users get to view famous landmarks within the area in greater detail and can even travel the world in the mind's eye, without even having to set foot outside. 3D landmarks reproduce real-world conditions of these famous sights in all their complexity, offering users greater subtlety and nuance as they find their way.
In addition to 3D landmarks, petal maps also provide a more realistic 3D map with elements such as weather, trees, time, and more. The 3D effects bring new insights to users, who can identify where they're at or where they wish to head to by matching up minute details seen on their Petal Maps display to what's before their eyes in real life.
Petal Maps' temperature and precipitation layers and colour classification system bring your world to life
What's more, Petal Maps' latest update makes the navigation experience more interesting with its new Temperature and Precipitation layers, and natural landscape colours for maps.
People often think of way finding or trying to read a map as boring or cumbersome. But Petal Maps works hard to restore the real world and improves the authenticity and accuracy of maps and navigation to provide an interesting experience.
Petal Maps incorporates a rich array of map layers, such as terrain and weather to reproduce real-world conditions so users will be able to view weather and temperature conditions. This lets users be able to prepare themselves, users can directly view the weather conditions along with the destination and along the route from the layer without having to open multiple weather forecasts – for example, to get their umbrellas out if they're headed to an area with heavy rain. Additionally, the added intricacies bring the map to life.
Users can switch to different Weather map layers, such as temperature and precipitation, via the layer switch control, located at the upper right corner of the Petal Maps home page. From there, you can click Select Layer, then choose Weather Layer, and select Temperature/Precipitation Layer to make the change.
Petal Maps also applies a colour classification system that is true to real-world environments, rendering geographic features like bodies of water, green space, and mountains wholly in line with how users perceive their world. This makes navigation far more engaging, as you can take in picturesque sights of beautiful natural bodies and more from your screen.
Petal Maps' personalised features spice up your navigational experience
The latest update also comes with personalised skins for each of the four seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, spicing up your navigation experience with variety. To switch to a personalised skin, simply head to My Page and go to Settings from there and alter your Display Settings.
If you'd like to know more about your travel habits, Petal Maps' User Travel report has got you covered. Petal Maps will generate a report based on your user behaviour and periodically send the report to you via push notifications, so you'll be able to get a better sense of your travel patterns.
In addition, Petal Maps provides users with Cruise mode. When the speed of the Petal Maps homepage is greater than 15km/h and lasts for more than 10s, the cruise mode will be triggered. After you enable the cruise mode, you will be prompted with a voice message, such as cameras, speed limits, and road conditions on the road ahead. It makes navigation easier.
With its sophisticated displays that are intuitive at a glance, the freshly upgraded Petal Maps will guide you to the path you need to take in a fun, immersive way.
Petal Maps continue to evolve to better provide users with a more immersive experience. With immersive rich layers, 3D landmarks, and night lighting, users are presented with a more realistic map visualisation experience connecting them to the world around them.
(Petal Maps features may vary by countries/regions, and are subject to real-world conditions)
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Texas reports first case of monkeypox, but officials say it poses little risk to the public
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Texas health officials said Tuesday they have identified the first case of monkeypox in the state this year, but noted the illness does not currently present a risk to the general public.
The case was identified in a Dallas County resident who recently traveled internationally, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The department is working with Dallas County Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the case.
Health officials said they have also identified a “few” people who may have been exposed to the virus in Dallas. Those people are monitoring themselves for symptoms of infection, officials said.
In May, several cases of monkeypox were reported in countries that don’t regularly report the disease. This is not typical of past patterns of monkeypox, according to the World Health Organization. The organization is working with all affected countries, including the U.S., to investigate the outbreak and provide guidance on how to stop the spread and care for those infected.
The risk of this outbreak becoming widespread is low, according to WHO. Monkeypox is not typically considered to be very contagious because it requires close physical contact with someone who is infectious in order to spread.
With the Texas case reported Tuesday, about 35 cases have now been identified across 14 states and Washington, D.C., this year, according to the CDC. About 1,000 cases have been reported across 29 countries in 2022, with most cases in the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal, according to CDC data.
In response to the recent monkeypox outbreak, the CDC issued an “Alert - Level 2” travel advisory, asking travelers to “practice enhanced precautions.” That advisory is the midway point between the lowest level (“practice usual precautions”) and the highest level (“avoid nonessential travel”).
The CDC issued the following recommendations to travelers to avoid contracting the disease: Avoid close contact, including sexual contact, with sick people; wash your hands often and avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth; avoid contact with dead or alive animals; avoid eating or preparing meat from wild game; and avoid contact with contaminated materials used by sick people.
People should seek medical care immediately if they develop any new, unexplained skin rashes on any part of the body, the CDC says. If you are sick and could have monkeypox, delay travel by public transportation until you have been cleared by a health care professional or public health officials.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease, meaning that it can spread from animals to humans and between humans, according to the World Health Organization. The disease is usually found in West and Central Africa, where the animals that may carry the virus typically live.
Symptoms usually include a fever, intense headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, swollen lymph nodes and a skin rash or lesions. The symptoms often resolve on their own without the need for treatment, according to WHO. Those infected should take care of the rash by letting it dry if possible, and they should avoid touching any sores in the mouth or eyes.
In most cases, monkeypox symptoms go away within a few weeks, but newborns, children and people with underlying immune deficiencies may be at risk of more serious symptoms and death from monkeypox, according to WHO.
The disease is commonly transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal, according to WHO. It can also be transmitted from person to person by inhaling large respiratory droplets or through close contact with body fluids and lesions or bedding and other contaminated materials.
One common way monkeypox can spread is through sexual contact. Monkeypox rashes can resemble some sexually transmitted diseases, including herpes and syphilis, which may explain why several of the cases in the current outbreak have been identified in men seeking care in sexual health clinics, according to WHO.
The risk of becoming infected with monkeypox is not limited to those who are sexually active or, specifically, men who have sex with men, according to WHO. Many of the reported cases have been identified in men who have sex with men, but this is likely caused because of proactive health practices in that demographic, WHO reported.
Several vaccines for the prevention of smallpox may provide some protection against monkeypox. A vaccine that was developed for smallpox and approved in 2019 for preventing monkeypox is not yet widely available, according to WHO. However, people who have been vaccinated against smallpox in the past will have some protection against monkeypox.
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Hotel employee accused of sneaking into room, sexually assaulting guest
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - A Nashville hotel employee has reportedly been fired after a guest said they were sexually assaulted.
According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, David Neal has been arrested and is facing charges stemming from an incident that occurred at a Hilton hotel in downtown Nashville.
Hotel guest Peter Brennan claims he was sleeping and woke up to Neal touching him inappropriately.
Brennan’s lawyer said Neal used a ghost key card to illegally enter his client’s room around 5 a.m. during his stay in March.
Police said Brennan reported that Neal was sucking on his toes.
“I woke up and I was being sexually assaulted by a man who had broken into my room,” Brennan said.
According to the man’s lawyer, Neal has since been fired because he refused to give a statement regarding the alleged assault. They are also waiting for surveillance footage to be released from the hotel.
Authorities said Neal has been charged with aggravated burglary and assault. He currently remains in jail on a $27,000 bond.
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GERMANTOWN, Tenn., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., or MAA (NYSE: MAA), today announced operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023.
A reconciliation of FFO and Core FFO to Net income available for MAA common shareholders, and discussion of the components of FFO and Core FFO, can be found later in this release. FFO per Share – diluted and Core FFO per Share – diluted include diluted common shares and units.
Eric Bolton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Leasing conditions across our markets continue to reflect a strong demand for apartment housing. Leasing traffic remains strong and move-outs by existing residents remain historically low. Our Sunbelt markets continue to demonstrate solid employment conditions and positive migration trends that are further supporting absorption of the new apartment supply delivering in our markets. Overall performance remains ahead of our expectations we had for calendar year 2023."
Highlights
- During the second quarter of 2023, MAA's Same Store Portfolio produced growth in revenues of 8.1%, as compared to the same period in the prior year, with Average Effective Rent per Unit up 9.3% while capturing strong Average Physcial Occupancy of 95.5%.
- During the second quarter of 2023, MAA's Same Store Portfolio property operating expense and Net Operating Income (NOI) increased by 7.2% and 8.6%, respectively, as compared to the same period in the prior year.
- As of June 30, 2023, resident turnover remained low at 45.7% on a trailing 12 month basis driven by historically low levels of move-outs associated with buying single family-homes.
- As of the end of the second quarter of 2023, MAA had six communities under development, representing 2,310 units once complete, with a projected total cost of $735.0 million and an estimated $343.5 million remaining to be funded.
- As of the end of the second quarter of 2023, MAA had a recently completed development community in lease-up. That community is expected to stabilize in the fourth quarter of 2023.
- During the second quarter of 2023, MAA completed the lease-up of MAA LoSo, located in the Charlotte, North Carolina market.
- MAA completed the redevelopment of 1,878 apartment homes during the second quarter of 2023, capturing average rental rate increases of approximately 8% above non-renovated units.
- MAA's balance sheet remains strong with a historically low Net Debt/Adjusted EBITDAre ratio of 3.41x and $1.4 billion of combined cash and available capacity under MAALP's unsecured revolving credit facility as of June 30, 2023.
Same Store Portfolio Operating Results
To ensure comparable reporting with prior periods, the Same Store Portfolio includes properties that were owned by MAA and stabilized at the beginning of the previous year. Same Store Portfolio results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to the same period in the prior year are summarized below:
A reconciliation of NOI, including Same Store NOI, to Net income available for MAA common shareholders, and discussion of the components of NOI, can be found later in this release.
Same Store Portfolio operating statistics for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 are summarized below:
Same Store Portfolio lease pricing for both new and renewing leases effective during the second quarter of 2023, on a blended basis, increased 3.8% as compared to the prior lease, driven by a 6.8% increase for renewing leases and a 0.5% increase for leases to new move-in residents.
Same Store Portfolio lease pricing for both new and renewing leases effective during the six months ended June 30, 2023, on a blended basis, increased 3.8% as compared to the prior lease, driven by a 7.4% increase for renewing leases and a 0.1% increase for leases to new move-in residents.
Development and Lease-up Activity
A summary of MAA's development communities under construction as of the end of the second quarter of 2023 is set forth below (dollars in thousands):
During the second quarter of 2023, MAA funded $51.3 million of costs for current and planned projects, including predevelopment activities. MAA expects to begin multifamily development projects on four to six land parcels currently owned or under contract over the next 18 to 24 months.
During the second quarter of 2023, MAA completed the lease-up of MAA LoSo, located in the Charlotte, North Carolina market. A summary of the total units, physical occupancy and cost of MAA's lease-up communities as of the end of the second quarter of 2023 is set forth below (dollars in thousands):
The current expected average stabilized NOI yield on the four communities either currently leasing or expected to begin leasing during the third quarter of 2023 is 7.2%.
Property Redevelopment and Repositioning Activity
A summary of MAA's interior redevelopment program and Smart Home technology initiative as of the end of the second quarter of 2023 is set forth below:
As of June 30, 2023, MAA had completed installation of Smart Home technology (unit entry locks, mobile control of lights and thermostat and leak monitoring) in over 92,000 units across its apartment community portfolio since the initiative began during the first quarter of 2019.
During the second quarter of 2023, MAA continued its property repositioning program to upgrade and reposition the amenity and common areas at select apartment communities resulting in higher and above market rent growth. The five projects started or projected to start in 2022 and 2023 are expected to deliver yields on cost averaging 8%. During the six months ended June 30, 2023, work continued on properties selected for this program in 2022. An additional six projects are expected to start in the second half of 2023. For the six months ended June 30, 2023, MAA spent $6.9 million on this program. As of June 30, 2023, for all projects completed and either fully or partially repriced, MAA has captured yields on cost averaging approximately 18%.
Capital Expenditures
A summary of MAA's capital expenditures and Funds Available for Distribution (FAD) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022 is set forth below (dollars in millions, except per Share data):
A reconciliation of FFO, Core FFO, Core AFFO and FAD to Net income available for MAA common shareholders, and discussion of the components of FFO, Core FFO, Core AFFO and FAD, can be found later in this release.
Balance Sheet and Financing Activities
As of June 30, 2023, MAA had $1.4 billion of combined cash and available capacity under MAALP's unsecured revolving credit facility. MAALP refers to Mid-America Apartments, L.P., which is MAA's operating partnership.
Dividends and distributions paid on shares of common stock and noncontrolling interests during the second quarter of 2023 were $167.7 million, as compared to $129.0 million for the same period in the prior year.
Balance sheet highlights as of June 30, 2023 are summarized below (dollars in billions):
A reconciliation of Net Debt to Unsecured notes payable and Secured notes payable and a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDAre to Net income, along with discussion of the components of Net Debt and Adjusted EBITDAre, can be found later in this release.
118th Consecutive Quarterly Common Dividend Declared
MAA declared its 118th consecutive quarterly common dividend, which will be paid on July 31, 2023 to holders of record on July 14, 2023. The current annual dividend rate is $5.60 per common share. The timing and amount of future dividends will depend on actual cash flows from operations, MAA's financial condition, capital requirements, the annual distribution requirements under the REIT provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and other factors as MAA's Board of Directors deems relevant. MAA's Board of Directors may modify the dividend policy from time to time.
2023 Earnings and Same Store Portfolio Guidance
MAA is updating its prior 2023 guidance for Earnings per common share, Core FFO per Share and Core AFFO per Share. MAA expects to update its full year 2023 Earnings per common share, Core FFO per Share and Core AFFO per Share guidance on a quarterly basis.
FFO, Core FFO and Core AFFO are non-GAAP financial measures. Acquisition and disposition activity materially affects depreciation and capital gains or losses, which combined, generally represent the majority of the difference between Net income available for common shareholders and FFO. As discussed in the definitions of non-GAAP financial measures found later in this release, MAA's definition of FFO is in accordance with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts', or NAREIT's, definition, and Core FFO represents FFO further adjusted for items that are not considered part of MAA's core business operations. MAA believes that Core FFO is helpful in understanding operating performance in that Core FFO excludes not only depreciation expense of real estate assets and certain other non-routine items, but it also excludes certain items that by their nature are not comparable over periods and therefore tend to obscure actual operating performance.
MAA expects Core FFO for the third quarter of 2023 to be in the range of $2.18 to $2.34 per Share, or $2.26 per Share at the midpoint. MAA does not forecast Earnings per common share on a quarterly basis as MAA generally cannot predict the timing of forecasted acquisition and disposition activity within a particular quarter (rather than during the course of the full year). Additional details and guidance items are provided in the Supplemental Data to this release.
Our property and casualty insurance programs renewed on July 1, 2023 with a total premium increase of approximately 20%, in line with prior guidance.
Supplemental Material and Conference Call
Supplemental data to this release can be found on the "For Investors" page of the MAA website at www.maac.com. MAA will host a conference call to further discuss second quarter results on July 27, 2023, at 9:00 AM Central Time. The conference call-in number is 877-830-2597. You may also join the live webcast of the conference call by accessing the "For Investors" page of the MAA website at www.maac.com. MAA's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are filed under the registrant names of Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. and Mid-America Apartments, L.P.
About MAA
MAA, an S&P 500 company, is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on delivering full-cycle and superior investment performance for shareholders through the ownership, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of quality apartment communities primarily in the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. As of June 30, 2023, MAA had ownership interest in 101,986 apartment units, including communities currently in development, across 16 states and the District of Columbia. For further details, please visit the MAA website at www.maac.com or contact Investor Relations at investor.relations@maac.com, or via mail at MAA, 6815 Poplar Ave., Suite 500, Germantown, TN 38138, Attn: Investor Relations.
Forward-Looking Statements
Sections of this release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, with respect to our expectations for future periods. Forward-looking statements do not discuss historical fact, but instead include statements related to expectations, projections, intentions or other items related to the future. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding expected operating performance and results, property stabilizations, property acquisition and disposition activity, joint venture activity, development and renovation activity and other capital expenditures, and capital raising and financing activity, as well as lease pricing, revenue and expense growth, occupancy, interest rate and other economic expectations. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "forecasts," "projects," "assumes," "will," "may," "could," "should," "budget," "target," "outlook," "proforma," "opportunity," "guidance" and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, as described below, which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results of operations, financial conditions or plans expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements contained herein are reasonable, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate, and therefore such forward-looking statements included in this release may not prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by us or any other person that the results or conditions described in such statements or our objectives and plans will be achieved.
The following factors, among others, could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements:
- inability to generate sufficient cash flows due to unfavorable economic and market conditions, changes in supply and/or demand, competition, uninsured losses, changes in tax and housing laws, or other factors;
- exposure to risks inherent in investments in a single industry and sector;
- adverse changes in real estate markets, including, but not limited to, the extent of future demand for multifamily units in our significant markets, barriers of entry into new markets which we may seek to enter in the future, limitations on our ability to increase or collect rental rates, competition, our ability to identify and consummate attractive acquisitions or development projects on favorable terms, our ability to consummate any planned dispositions in a timely manner on acceptable terms, and our ability to reinvest sale proceeds in a manner that generates favorable returns;
- failure of development communities to be completed within budget and on a timely basis, if at all, to lease-up as anticipated or to achieve anticipated results;
- unexpected capital needs;
- material changes in operating costs, including real estate taxes, utilities and insurance costs, due to inflation and other factors;
- inability to obtain appropriate insurance coverage at reasonable rates, or at all, or losses from catastrophes in excess of our insurance coverage;
- ability to obtain financing at favorable rates, if at all, or refinance existing debt as it matures;
- level and volatility of interest or capitalization rates or capital market conditions;
- the effect of any rating agency actions on the cost and availability of new debt financing;
- the impact of adverse developments affecting the U.S. or global banking industry, including bank failures and liquidity concerns, which could cause continued or worsening economic and market volatility, and regulatory responses thereto;
- significant change in the mortgage financing market or other factors that would cause single-family housing or other alternative housing options, either as an owned or rental product, to become a more significant competitive product;
- ability to continue to satisfy complex rules in order to maintain our status as a REIT for federal income tax purposes, the ability of MAALP to satisfy the rules to maintain its status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, the ability of our taxable REIT subsidiaries to maintain their status as such for federal income tax purposes, and our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to operate effectively within the limitations imposed by these rules;
- inability to attract and retain qualified personnel;
- cyber liability or potential liability for breaches of our or our service providers' information technology systems, or business operations disruptions;
- potential liability for environmental contamination;
- changes in the legal requirements we are subject to, or the imposition of new legal requirements, that adversely affect our operations;
- extreme weather and natural disasters;
- disease outbreaks and other public health events and measures that are taken by federal, state, and local governmental authorities in response to such outbreaks and events;
- impact of climate change on our properties or operations;
- legal proceedings or class action lawsuits;
- impact of reputational harm caused by negative press or social media postings of our actions or policies, whether or not warranted;
- compliance costs associated with numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations; and
- other risks identified in this release and in reports we file with the SEC or in other documents that we publicly disseminate.
New factors may also emerge from time to time that could have a material adverse effect on our business. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements contained in this release to reflect events, circumstances or changes in expectations after the date of this release.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
Adjusted EBITDAre
For purposes of calculations in this release, Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for real estate, or Adjusted EBITDAre, represents EBITDAre further adjusted for items that are not considered part of MAA's core operations such as adjustments related to the fair value of the embedded derivative in the MAA Series I preferred shares, gain or loss on sale of non-depreciable assets, gain or loss on investments, casualty related (recoveries) charges, net, gain or loss on debt extinguishment, legal costs and settlements, net and COVID-19 related costs. As an owner and operator of real estate, MAA considers Adjusted EBITDAre to be an important measure of performance from core operations because Adjusted EBITDAre does not include various income and expense items that are not indicative of operating performance. MAA's computation of Adjusted EBITDAre may differ from the methodology utilized by other companies to calculate Adjusted EBITDAre. Adjusted EBITDAre should not be considered as an alternative to Net income as an indicator of operating performance.
Core Adjusted Funds from Operations (Core AFFO)
Core AFFO is composed of Core FFO less recurring capital expenditures. Because net income attributable to noncontrolling interests is added back, Core AFFO, when used in this release, represents Core AFFO attributable to common shareholders and unitholders. Core AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders as an indicator of operating performance. As an owner and operator of real estate, MAA considers Core AFFO to be an important measure of performance from operations because Core AFFO measures the ability to control revenues, expenses and recurring capital expenditures.
Core Funds from Operations (Core FFO)
Core FFO represents FFO as adjusted for items that are not considered part of MAA's core business operations such as adjustments related to the fair value of the embedded derivative in the MAA Series I preferred shares, gain or loss on sale of non-depreciable assets, gain or loss on investments, net of tax, casualty related (recoveries) charges, net, gain or loss on debt extinguishment, legal costs and settlements, net, COVID-19 related costs, mark-to-market debt adjustments and other non-core items. Because net income attributable to noncontrolling interests is added back, Core FFO, when used in this release, represents Core FFO attributable to common shareholders and unitholders. While MAA's definition of Core FFO may be similar to others in the industry, MAA's methodology for calculating Core FFO may differ from that utilized by other REITs and, accordingly, may not be comparable to such other REITs. Core FFO should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders as an indicator of operating performance. MAA believes that Core FFO is helpful in understanding its core operating performance between periods in that it removes certain items that by their nature are not comparable over periods and therefore tend to obscure actual operating performance.
EBITDA
For purposes of calculations in this release, Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, or EBITDA, is composed of net income plus depreciation and amortization, interest expense, and income taxes. As an owner and operator of real estate, MAA considers EBITDA to be an important measure of performance from core operations because EBITDA does not include various expense items that are not indicative of operating performance. EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to Net income as an indicator of operating performance.
EBITDAre
For purposes of calculations in this release, Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for real estate, or EBITDAre, is composed of EBITDA further adjusted for the gain or loss on sale of depreciable asset sales and adjustments to reflect MAA's share of EBITDAre of an unconsolidated affiliate. As an owner and operator of real estate, MAA considers EBITDAre to be an important measure of performance from core operations because EBITDAre does not include various expense items that are not indicative of operating performance. While MAA's definition of EBITDAre is in accordance with NAREIT's definition, it may differ from the methodology utilized by other companies to calculate EBITDAre. EBITDAre should not be considered as an alternative to Net income as an indicator of operating performance.
Funds Available for Distribution (FAD)
FAD is composed of Core FFO less total capital expenditures, excluding development spending, property acquisitions, capital expenditures relating to significant casualty losses that management expects to be reimbursed by insurance proceeds and corporate related capital expenditures. Because net income attributable to noncontrolling interests is added back, FAD, when used in this release, represents FAD attributable to common shareholders and unitholders. FAD should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders as an indicator of operating performance. As an owner and operator of real estate, MAA considers FAD to be an important measure of performance from core operations because FAD measures the ability to control revenues, expenses and capital expenditures.
Funds From Operations (FFO)
FFO represents net income available for MAA common shareholders (calculated in accordance with GAAP) excluding gain or loss on disposition of operating properties and asset impairment, plus depreciation and amortization of real estate assets, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, and adjustments for joint ventures. Because net income attributable to noncontrolling interests is added back, FFO, when used in this release, represents FFO attributable to common shareholders and unitholders. While MAA's definition of FFO is in accordance with NAREIT's definition, it may differ from the methodology for calculating FFO utilized by other companies and, accordingly, may not be comparable to such other companies. FFO should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders as an indicator of operating performance. MAA believes that FFO is helpful in understanding operating performance in that FFO excludes depreciation and amortization of real estate assets. MAA believes that GAAP historical cost depreciation of real estate assets is generally not correlated with changes in the value of those assets, whose value does not diminish predictably over time, as historical cost depreciation implies.
Gross Assets
Gross Assets represents Total assets plus Accumulated depreciation. MAA believes that Gross Assets can be used as a helpful tool in evaluating its balance sheet positions. MAA believes that GAAP historical cost depreciation of real estate assets is generally not correlated with changes in the value of those assets, whose value does not diminish predictably over time, as historical cost depreciation implies.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (Continued)
Gross Real Estate Assets
Gross Real Estate Assets represents Real estate assets, net plus Accumulated depreciation, Cash and cash equivalents and 1031(b) exchange proceeds included in Restricted cash. MAA believes that Gross Real Estate Assets can be used as a helpful tool in evaluating its balance sheet positions. MAA believes that GAAP historical cost depreciation of real estate assets is generally not correlated with changes in the value of those assets, whose value does not diminish predictably over time, as historical cost depreciation implies.
Net Debt
Net Debt represents Unsecured notes payable and Secured notes payable less Cash and cash equivalents and 1031(b) exchange proceeds included in Restricted cash. MAA believes Net Debt is a helpful tool in evaluating its debt position.
Net Operating Income (NOI)
Net Operating Income represents Rental and other property revenues less Total property operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization, for all properties held during the period, regardless of their status as held for sale. NOI should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders. MAA believes NOI is a helpful tool in evaluating operating performance because it measures the core operations of property performance by excluding corporate level expenses and other items not related to property operating performance.
Non-Same Store and Other NOI
Non-Same Store and Other NOI represents Rental and other property revenues less Total property operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization, for all properties classified within the Non-Same Store and Other Portfolio during the period. Non-Same Store and Other NOI includes all storm-related expenses related to hurricanes. Non-Same Store and Other NOI should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders. MAA believes Non-Same Store and Other NOI is a helpful tool in evaluating operating performance because it measures the core operations of property performance by excluding corporate level expenses and other items not related to property operating performance.
Same Store NOI
Same Store NOI represents Rental and other property revenues less Total property operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization, for all properties classified within the Same Store Portfolio during the period. Same Store NOI excludes storm-related expenses related to hurricanes. Same Store NOI should not be considered as an alternative to Net income available for MAA common shareholders. MAA believes Same Store NOI is a helpful tool in evaluating operating performance because it measures the core operations of property performance by excluding corporate level expenses and other items not related to property operating performance.
OTHER KEY DEFINITIONS
Average Effective Rent per Unit
Average Effective Rent per Unit represents the average of gross rent amounts after the effect of leasing concessions for occupied units plus prevalent market rates asked for unoccupied units, divided by the total number of units. Leasing concessions represent discounts to the current market rate. MAA believes average effective rent is a helpful measurement in evaluating average pricing. It does not represent actual rental revenue collected per unit.
Average Physical Occupancy
Average Physical Occupancy represents the average of the daily physical occupancy for an applicable period.
Development Communities
Communities remain identified as development until certificates of occupancy are obtained for all units under development. Once all units are delivered and available for occupancy, the community moves into the Lease-up Communities portfolio.
Lease-up Communities
New acquisitions acquired during lease-up and newly developed communities remain in the Lease-up Communities portfolio until stabilized. Communities are considered stabilized when achieving 90% average physical occupancy for 90 days.
Non-Same Store and Other Portfolio
Non-Same Store and Other Portfolio includes recently acquired communities, communities in development or lease-up, communities that have been disposed of or identified for disposition, communities that have experienced a significant casualty loss, stabilized communities that do not meet the requirements defined by the Same Store Portfolio, retail properties and commercial properties.
Resident Turnover
Resident turnover represents resident move outs excluding transfers within the Same Store Portfolio as a percentage of expiring leases on a rolling twelve month basis as of the end of the reported quarter.
Same Store Portfolio
MAA reviews its Same Store Portfolio at the beginning of each calendar year, or as significant transactions or events warrant. Communities are generally added into the Same Store Portfolio if they were owned and stabilized at the beginning of the previous year. Communities are considered stabilized when achieving 90% average physical occupancy for 90 days. Communities that have been approved by MAA's Board of Directors for disposition are excluded from the Same Store Portfolio. Communities that have experienced a significant casualty loss are also excluded from the Same Store Portfolio.
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St. Vincent Charity Medical Center orthopaedic surgeons joining Crystal Clinic
FAIRLAWN, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Vincent Charity Medical Center has been providing patient care to the greater Cleveland/Northeast Ohio region for the last 157 years. When the leadership of the Sisters of Charity Health System sought an organization to continue their reputation of innovation and quality health care, they realized they did not have to look beyond Ohio to find the right organization to entrust with their legacy and their patients' care.
After deliberate examination of unbiased medical ratings of patient outcomes and satisfaction, the leaders of the Sisters of Charity Health System reached out to Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center with an offer for Crystal Clinic to step in and continue the quality care of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center's orthopaedic services.
The arrangement will provide patients of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center and Crystal Clinic, as well as the larger Cleveland area, with expanded access to Crystal Clinic's nationally-renowned orthopaedic care. Beginning Nov. 15, Crystal Clinic will transition to provide orthopaedic care at the current St. Vincent Charity Medical Offices in Independence, Solon, Westlake, Willoughby, and Warren. This would expand Crystal Clinic's locations in Northeast Ohio to 17. The St. Vincent orthopaedic and spine surgeons who will be joining Crystal Clinic will be announced at a later date.
"Northeast Ohio is arguably the largest and most notable medical corridor in the world, so we recognize that St. Vincent Charity Medical Center had many options to consider for taking over their orthopedic and spine medical services. Our national reputation for delivering unparalleled patient outcomes, as well as our people-first philosophy of putting patients at the center of everything we do, gave them the confidence to entrust the care of their orthopaedic and spine patients – and their legacy – with Crystal Clinic," said Daniel Ferry, M.B.A., Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center President and Chief Executive Officer.
Ferry, as well as Crystal Clinic's Chief Financial Officer, Christopher Trella, previously held positions at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, so there is also a high level of trust and confidence that the two organizations are aligned in their culture and mission.
"This is a time of transition for St. Vincent Charity Medical Center as we transition from inpatient and surgical care to focus on ambulatory services, such as outpatient mental health services, addiction medicine, primary care, internal medicine, specialty clinics and urgent care," said Adnan Tahir, M.D., St. Vincent Charity Medical Center President and Chief Executive Officer. "As we looked for an organization to transition our orthopaedic surgeons and patients, Crystal Clinic quickly rose to the top of the list. I am most grateful for our relationship with Crystal Clinic – for our patients and our organization."
Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center is one of just four out of the 6,090 hospitals in the nation and the only one in Ohio to receive The Joint Commission certifications in total hip, total knee, total shoulder, and spinal fusion procedures. Crystal Clinic surgeons have pioneered new techniques that are advancing orthopaedic care around the world, earning the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' highest rating for patient outcomes and satisfaction. Crystal Clinic also ranks first in Ohio and in the top 1% nationally by CareChex/Quantros Analytics for successful patient outcomes.
Along with orthopaedic and spine surgeons from St. Vincent, also joining the Crystal Clinic team will be nurses, imaging technologists, physical therapists and support staff currently working at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center's orthopaedic offices and the St. Vincent Charity Diagnostic Imaging Center in Independence.
Patients who require a hospital stay for certain surgical procedures will now be able to receive their surgery and inpatient care at Crystal Clinic's new award-winning, state-of-the-art hospital that opened November 2021 in Fairlawn. It is one of the only hospitals in the world dedicated exclusively to orthopaedic and plastic/reconstructive care. This new hospital combines the most advanced surgical technologies in a soothing and restful environment that promotes healing and enhances patient experience.
"We are pleased to welcome the surgeons and health care professionals from St. Vincent Charity Medical Center to our team, and are working to make this a smooth transition for everyone," said Ferry. "We also look forward to expanding our regional footprint, so we can better meet the needs of patients with convenient access to our nationally-renowned orthopaedic care."
To learn more, visit CrystalClinic.com
Nationally renowned for orthopaedic care, Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center is a physician-owned, orthopaedic specialty hospital system with board-certified/board-eligible surgeons, most with advanced fellowship credentials in their orthopaedic specialty, who collectively perform thousands of surgeries annually. With 12 locations throughout Northeast Ohio, including four Crystal Clinic QuickCare™ locations that provide immediate, walk-in care of sports and orthopaedic injuries, Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center is one of just four out of the 6,090 hospitals in the nation and the only one in Ohio to receive The Joint Commission certifications in total hip, total knee, total shoulder, and spinal fusion procedures. The hospital is ranked #1 in Ohio and in the top 1% in the U.S. by CareChex/Quantros Analytics. Crystal Clinic has also earned the nation's highest five-star rating in patient experience from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Crystal Clinic Plastic Surgeons, a division of Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center, are experts in treating soft tissue defects related to orthopaedic injuries and provide the entire spectrum of plastic surgery – from reconstruction to cosmetic procedures. Crystal Clinic's highly advanced, state-of-the-art surgical hospital is one of the only kind in the world devoted exclusively to orthopaedics and plastic/reconstructive care.
The Sisters of Charity Health System was established in 1982 as the parent corporation for the sponsored ministries of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine in Ohio and South Carolina. The Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine is a congregation of religious women who, since founding in 1851, continues a faith-based legacy of high-quality, compassionate care in partnership with its co-ministers, who are the heart and hands of the ministry. The Sisters of Charity Health System solely owns St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The health system also oversees three grantmaking foundations located in Cleveland, Canton and Columbia, South Carolina. Each foundation sponsors significant community initiatives and collaborations that address causes and consequences of poverty. Outreach organizations include Joseph's Home, a unique residential care center for homeless men in Cleveland; Early Childhood Resource Center for people working in childcare in all settings in Canton; Healthy Learners, a health care resource for children from low-income families in South Carolina; and the South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families, a state-wide organization supporting initiatives to reengage fathers in the lives of their children. The Sisters of Charity Health System also provides residential elder care services at Regina Health Center in Richfield, Ohio, and Light of Hearts Villa in Bedford, Ohio.
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Christopher Eubanks 2023 Truist Atlanta Open Odds
Christopher Eubanks will open action in the Truist Atlanta Open versus Andres Martin (in the round of 32). In his most recent match he was defeated by Daniil Medvedev in the quarterfinals after a strong performance at the Wimbledon. Eubanks' odds are the third-best among the field at +500 to win this tournament at Atlantic Station.
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Eubanks at the 2023 Truist Atlanta Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 21-30
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Eubanks' Next Match
In his opening match at the Truist Atlanta Open, Eubanks will face Martin on Tuesday, July 25 at 11:00 AM ET in the round of 32.
Eubanks has current moneyline odds of -1400 to win his next matchup versus Martin. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
Christopher Eubanks Grand Slam Odds
- US Open odds to win: +3300
- Truist Atlanta Open odds to win: +500
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Eubanks Stats
- Eubanks was defeated in his most recent match, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 versus Medvedev in the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon on July 12, 2023.
- Eubanks is 33-15 over the past year, with one tournament win.
- Eubanks is 19-10 on hard courts over the past year.
- Through 48 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Eubanks has played 29.1 games per match. He won 51.6% of them.
- On hard courts, Eubanks has played 29 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 27.5 games per match while winning 51.2% of games.
- Eubanks, over the past year, has won 84.3% of his service games and 16.6% of his return games.
- Eubanks has won 16.6% of his return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, he has claimed 82.8% of his service games during that timeframe.
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CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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428 FPUS56 KLOX 261014
ZFPLOX
Zone Forecast Product for California
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
CAZ364-270000-
Los Angeles County Beaches-
Including LAX, Long Beach, Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach,
Santa Monica, and Torrance
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ365-270000-
Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles-
Including Beverly Hills, Compton, Culver City, Downey, Hollywood,
Lakewood, and Norwalk
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper
50s. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ087-270000-
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands-
Including Avalon and Two Harbors
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s near the coast to the mid
70s interior.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s near the coast to the
upper 70s interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear except for patchy night
through morning low clouds and fog. Lows around 60. Highs from the
upper 60s near the coast to the upper 70s interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
upper 60s near the coast to the upper 70s interior.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Highs from the mid
60s near the coast to the mid 70s interior.
$$
CAZ362-270000-
Malibu Coast-
Including Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Zuma Beach
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. North winds
around 15 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in
the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the mid to upper 60s.
$$
CAZ354-270000-
Ventura County Beaches-
Including Oxnard, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, and Ventura
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. East winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid
50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ355-270000-
Ventura County Inland Coast-
Including Camarillo and East Ventura
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 15 to
25 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s. Southeast winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog in
the morning. Highs around 70.
$$
CAZ350-270000-
Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast-
Including Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and Santa Barbara
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid
50s. Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
$$
CAZ349-270000-
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast-
Including El Capitan State Beach, Gaviota, Jalama Beach,
and Refugio State Beach
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s
to around 70. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid
50s. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ351-270000-
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range-
Including San Marcos Pass
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 45 mph becoming northeast around 15 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
North winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s
and 50s. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s and
50s. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ352-270000-
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range-
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to
upper 50s. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper
50s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ548-270000-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including East Los Angeles, El Monte, Pasadena, Pomona,
and San Gabriel
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs
in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the lower 70s.
$$
CAZ547-270000-
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley-
Including Burbank, Northridge, Universal City, and Woodland Hills
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North winds
around 15 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the 70s
to around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid
50s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then partly
cloudy. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
$$
CAZ088-270000-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Castaic Lake, Newhall, Santa Clarita, and Valencia
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 45 mph shifting to the east 10 to 20 mph in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs
around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in
the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ359-270000-
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys-
Including Moorpark, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West
winds around 15 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds around 15 mph shifting to the
southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ358-270000-
Central Ventura County Valleys-
Including Fillmore, Piru, and Santa Paula
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. North
winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph shifting to the southeast around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
70s. Southeast winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to
mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ357-270000-
Ojai Valley-
Including Oak View and Ojai
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to around 50. North
winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s
to around 50. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
CAZ356-270000-
Lake Casitas-
Including Meiners Oaks
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ363-270000-
Santa Monica Mountains-
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to
upper 50s. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper
50s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog in
the morning. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ059-270000-
Antelope Valley-
Including Lancaster and Palmdale
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. West winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph shifting to the northwest
15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. East winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. East
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to
around 50. Highs in the 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ054-270000-
Los Angeles County Mountains-
Including Acton and Mount Wilson
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations. West
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around 50 at low
elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph shifting to the
north 15 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds strongest through the
Interstate 5 Corridor.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations. East winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 50 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
mid 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at
high elevations. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from around 50 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows from the lower to
mid 50s at low elevations to the mid to upper 40s in colder valleys
and peaks. Highs from the upper 60s and 70s at low elevations to the
upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows from the lower to mid
50s at low elevations to the mid to upper 40s in colder valleys and
peaks. Highs from the upper 60s and 70s at low elevations to the
upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the lower to mid 50s at
low elevations to the mid to upper 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at
low elevations to the mid 50s to around 60 at high elevations.
$$
CAZ053-270000-
Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley and Mount Pinos
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 40s to lower 50s at low
elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at
low elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
East winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
upper 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s
at high elevations. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at
low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s and 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows from the mid 40s
to mid 50s at low elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
Highs from the 70s to around 80 at low elevations to the lower to
mid 60s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 40s to
mid 50s at low elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
Highs from the upper 60s and 70s at low elevations to the upper 50s
to mid 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at
low elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ353-270000-
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains-
Including Big Pine Mountain, Figueroa Mountain,
and San Rafael Mountain
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations. North
winds around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to lower 50s at low
elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
East winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. East winds around 15 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the upper 40s to mid 50s
at low elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 70s to around 80 at low
elevations to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows from the lower to
mid 50s at low elevations to the mid to upper 40s in colder valleys
and peaks. Highs from the mid 70s to lower 80s at low elevations to
the mid 60s to lower 70s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid to upper
50s at low elevations to the mid 40s to around 50 in colder valleys
and peaks. Highs from the mid 70s to around 80 at low elevations to
the mid 60s to lower 70s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the lower to mid 50s at
low elevations to the mid to upper 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ340-270000-
San Luis Obispo County Beaches-
Including Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay,
and Pismo Beach
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s. Northwest winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to
upper 40s. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs from the lower 60s at the beaches to the lower 70s
inland.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from
around 60 at the beaches to around 70 inland.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ341-270000-
San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast-
Including Lopez Lake, Nipomo, and San Luis Obispo
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to
around 50. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
around 50. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the 60s.
$$
CAZ346-270000-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches-
Including Lompoc and Vandenberg Space Force Base
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph becoming north around 15 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. North
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
upper 50s at the beaches to the upper 60s inland. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Highs
from the lower 60s at the beaches to the lower 70s inland.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 50.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs from
the mid to upper 60s at the beaches to the lower to mid 70s inland.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs from
around 60 at the beaches to around 70 inland.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ347-270000-
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast-
Including Buellton and Santa Maria
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the morning.
Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph shifting to the
north around 15 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s
to lower 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning and
night, otherwise clear. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s. Lows in the
mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in
the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ348-270000-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Lake Cachuma, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog. Highs
in the upper 60s and 70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph shifting to the
northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the
morning and night, otherwise clear. Highs in the mid 70s to lower
80s. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
around 50. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ343-270000-
Southern Salinas Valley-
Including Atascadero, Lake Nacimiento, Paso Robles, San Miguel,
and Templeton
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 40s. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid
40s. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ342-270000-
Santa Lucia Mountains-
Including Hearst Castle and Irish Hills
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. North winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s
to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to
mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid
50s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ344-270000-
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys-
Including Carrizo Plain, Creston, and Shandon
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around
50. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ345-270000-
San Luis Obispo County Mountains-
Including Caliente Range, La Panza Range, and Santa Margarita Lake
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from around 70 at low elevations to the lower
to mid 60s at high elevations. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 60s at high elevations.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
lower to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid to upper 60s at high
elevations. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to
around 50. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at low elevations to the
mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Highs from the mid to upper 70s at low elevations to the
mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at
low elevations to the mid 60s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ038-270000-
Cuyama Valley-
314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. East winds around
15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph. Gusts to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. East winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid
50s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s
to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs from the mid 60s near the coast to the mid 70s interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the morning
and night, otherwise clear. Highs from the mid to upper 60s near
the coast to the mid 70s interior. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then partly
cloudy. Highs from the lower 60s near the coast to the lower 70s
interior.
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314 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid to upper 60s near the coast to
the lower to mid 70s interior. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 20 to
35 mph with gusts to 40 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
mid to upper 60s near the coast to the lower to mid 70s interior.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 70 near the coast to the mid
to upper 70s interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs from around 70 near the coast to around 80 interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper
50s. Highs from the mid 60s to around 70 near the coast to the mid
to upper 70s interior.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog in
the morning. Highs from the mid 60s to around 70 near the coast to
the mid 70s interior.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 11, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Tuya Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
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Grand opening celebration slated for 8/27 in the neighborhoods of Eaglepointe and Marvella
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS), a top 10 national homebuilder and industry leader in online sales, is excited to announce four new model homes for tour at its sought-after Skye Canyon development—showcasing brand-new floor plans in the neighborhoods of Eaglepointe and Marvella. A model grand opening is slated for August 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and in total will offer tours of four fully furnished models—two at each community.
Explore Skye Canyon and view available homes at www.CenturyCommunities.com/SkyeCanyon.
Combined, Eaglepointe and Marvella at Skye Canyon boast six stunning two-story plans, featuring 3 to 6 bedrooms, beautiful open-concept layouts, exceptional craftsmanship, and stylish included fixtures and finishes, including the builder's Century Home Connect® smart home package. Homebuyers will also love access to an array of resort-style amenities, including community parks, a pool, and a fitness center.
"We're excited to have homebuyers tour and experience these new model homes, showcasing the versatile range of floor plans that we have between our Eaglepointe and Marvella neighborhoods in Skye Canyon," said Robb Beville, Nevada Division President. "This is also a great opportunity for buyers and agents to explore available new homes and learn about special offers, as well as check out the incredible community amenities that this development boasts."
More About Eaglepointe at Skye Canyon:
Spacious two-story homes with elegant and functional features like standard courtyards, dens, large lofts and more!
- 3 single-family floor plans from the high $400s
- 3 to 5 bedrooms, 3 to 4 bathrooms, 2-bay garage
- Up to 2,328 square feet
- Large lofts, dens and standard courtyards
- Models of the Residence 2328 (new!) and Residence 2126 floor plans
Sales Center:
10547 Valetta Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89166
Learn more at www.CenturyCommunities.com/Eaglepointe.
More About Marvella at Skye Canyon:
Beautiful two-story homes with contemporary open-concept layouts, generous lofts and more!
- 3 single-family floor plans from the mid $400s
- 3 to 6 bedrooms, 3 to 4 bathrooms, 2-bay garage
- Up to 2,114 square feet
- Prime location in northwest Las Vegas near Highway 95, the 215 freeway, Mt. Charleston and Paiute Golf Resort
- Models of the popular Residence 2114 and Residence 1859 floor plans
Sales Center:
8634 Felker Street
Las Vegas, NV 89166
Learn more at www.CenturyCommunities.com/Marvella.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 702-936-3020.
About Century Communities
Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is a top 10 national homebuilder, offering new homes under the Century Communities and Century Complete brands. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Colorado-based company operates in 17 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.
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Century Communities, Inc.
303-558-7352
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Vanessa Hudgens starts fresh with new beauty product
Vanessa Hudgens isn’t the only celebrity to launch a product line. Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Jenner, Lady Gaga, Millie Bobby Brown and many, many others have also added entrepreneur to their resume. Hudgens launched her line in April 2021. However, after reevaluating her approach, the actress/singer has partnered with Amazon to relaunch her Know Beauty brand with a different focus.
In this article: Know Beauty Glacial Bay Clay Mask, Cetaphil Derma Control Purifying Clay Mask and The Body Shop Tea Tree Skin Clearing Clay Mask.
Why a relaunch?
Initially, Hudgens launched Know Beauty with singer Madison Beer. The idea was to deliver personalized skin care based on a cheek swab. After analyzing the DNA sample to determine what you might be prone to as you age (sagging, dark spots, etc.), a skin care regimen could be suggested to combat aging on an individual level.
While Hudgens was excited about taking the guesswork out of skin care, her idea didn’t really resonate with consumers the way she’d hoped. Undaunted and determined to make her mark in an already saturated market, Hudgens decided a better approach would be to release high-quality skin care products one at a time. Her goal was to create a line of essentials that could solve everyday beauty problems.
On her website, Hudgens reveals, “I have struggled with acne for much of my adult life, and have always turned to clay masks to fight blemishes and prevent breakouts. So, rather than sell you an entire product line, I wanted to make simple, effective, and elegant solutions that can slot seamlessly into your existing routine! The Glacial Bay Mask is the first in this line of targeted products.”
What is the Know Beauty Glacial Bay Clay Mask?
Hudgens says that taking care of her skin is a form of self-love and meditation. She worked on formulation with Mary Berry, CEO and Founder of Cosmos Labs, who specializes in premium skin care, body care and hair care. It took the pair nine months of working together to come up with the Glacial Bay Clay Mask.
“We settled on Canadian colloidal clay as our hero ingredient — a truly unique, not often seen form of clay that has powerful natural healing properties,” Berry stated in the press release. “It’s gentle on the skin and draws out impurities without leaving skin tight and dry after. Supporting ingredients like lactic acid gently support skin cell turnover, while giant sea kelp locks in moisture and improves skin texture.”
Know Beauty’s Glacial Bay Clay Mask contains no phthalates, sulfates, parabens or other irritants. It’s a wash-off mask made with mineral-infused colloidal clay that is sustainably harvested from an active glacier in British Columbia. The product is vegan, cruelty-free and made in the U.S.
Amazon is the exclusive retailer of Know Beauty
Melis del Rey is GM/Director North America Stores Beauty, Baby and Beauty Technology at Amazon. In a recent press release, she stated, “Amazon Beauty strives to help customers to discover and experience an unlimited world of premium and everyday beauty products with the click of a button. We’re so pleased that Know Beauty is working with us not only as the exclusive retailer carrying the Glacial Bay Clay Mask but also that they are using Buy with Prime to offer this product from their own website with a seamless checkout and fast delivery experience trusted by millions.”
Best clay masks
Know Beauty Glacial Bay Clay Mask
This clay mask is designed for oily or acne-prone skin. However, it’s gentle enough for all skin types. It’s formulated to draw out impurities, tighten pores and even out skin tone without overdrying. When you purchase on Amazon, take advantage of the coupon located below the price to save $10.
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Cetaphil Derma Control Purifying Clay Mask
Cetaphil’s creamy clay mask is made with bentonite clay that absorbs pore-clogging impurities while lifting away dead skin cells. It has apple extract for hydration and cucumber seed extract to brighten skin tone.
Sold by Amazon
The Body Shop Tea Tree Skin Clearing Clay Mask
This tea tree mask is formulated for oily, blemished skin. It absorbs excess sebum but doesn’t dry out your skin and helps keep it clean and mattified. The Body Shop’s clay mask is vegan and enriched with tea tree oil from the foothills of Mount Kenya.
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Plantifique Korean Skin Care Superfood Marine Clay Mask
If you’re looking for something a little different, consider this superfood-infused offering. It’s formulated with avocado, spinach, blueberry, spirulina, tea tree, aloe vera and calendula. This product is designed to clear breakouts and detox without causing irritation.
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Majestic Pure Cosmeceuticals Moroccan Red Clay Mud Mask
Majestic Pure’s facial mask is made with Moroccan red clay mud enriched with British rose. It’s formulated to nourish your skin with its high mineral content as it draws out impurities. After using, you must apply moisturizer.
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Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay
This healing clay delivers a deep pore-cleansing facial. It’s made with bentonite clay, making it suitable for body wraps, clay baths, foot soaks, insect bites and more. The manufacturer suggests testing on your forearm before using to make sure you have no sensitivities.
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12-year-old critically injured in ice cream truck crash taken off life support
KENNER, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - A 12-year-old has been removed from life support days after a speeding ice cream truck crashed into his home, according to his family.
Javier Adrian Flores-Faiardo was critically injured in the crash Saturday. In a fundraising post, the boy’s family said he was left with a fractured skull and broken limbs.
His family said he was removed from life support Wednesday.
Adrian was playing video games in his bedroom when he was hit, according to his family. They say he was stuck under the rubble for 40 minutes before first responders could find him.
Police reported 71-year-old Mechael Yousef Mansoor of Kenner was arrested Wednesday and initially booked on charges of negligent injuring and reckless operation of a vehicle.
Mansoor was taken to an area hospital for minor injuries after the crash and was later released.
His charges may be upgraded upon the child’s death.
“We’re not thinking about anything but getting Adrian back. Beyond that it will be the authorities’ responsibility to address these issues,” Luis Maradiaga, the boy’s uncle, had said previously. “We believe in God. We’re big believers and we believe justice will be done. Either way or another.”
Police say the investigation is still ongoing.
The GoFundMe page has been raising money for Adrian’s family.
Copyright 2023 WVUE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-25T20:02:44+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/05/25/12-year-old-critically-injured-ice-cream-truck-crash-taken-off-life-support/ |
CHAMPAIGN— State Conservationist Ivan Dozier announced that the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will offer Regional Conservation Partnership Program funding for the Working Lands, Water and Wildlife Partnership throughout Illinois. Illinois NRCS has partnered with The Conservation Fund to help producers address resource concerns such as inadequate habitat for wildlife, water quality, and long-term protection of farmland.
Landowners can apply for assistance through RCPP to implement practices, such as silvopasture establishment, tree/shrub establishment, and cover crops. Landowners can also receive a rental payment to help offset lost income while transitioning to organic farming or installing tree and berry crops. Funding is also available for landowners interested in protecting and preserving their farmland through an entity held easement that will keep the land in agriculture production. The project focus is to improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and preserve farmland in the following 37 counties: Adams, Alexander, Boone, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Cook, Crawford, DeKalb, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Iroquois, Jackson, Jefferson, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Madison, Mason, McHenry, McLean, Menard, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Sangamon, Tazewell, Vermilion, Will, Winnebago, and Woodford.
Financial assistance will be available to producers in Illinois who have land in the above-mentioned counties. While applications are accepted throughout the year, interested producers should submit a signed application (NRCS-CPA-1200 form) to the local NRCS field office, or through the http://www.farmers.gov website using their account, by the following dates to ensure applications are considered for 2023 funding.
The Land Management and Rental projects application cutoff dates are December 2, and March 3, 2023. For Entity Held Easements, the application cutoff dates are December 23, and February 24, 2023. A blank NRCS-CPA-1200 application form may be obtained from the local office or on the Illinois NRCS website. Producers using Farmers.gov, can sign in or create an account by clicking on “Sign up” in the upper right of the website.
To see if you are eligible to participate in the program, producers should contact their local NRCS field office or visit the Illinois NRCS website at www.il.nrcs.usda.gov. | 2022-11-08T15:29:45+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/2023-rcpp-application-cutoff-date-upcoming/article_9f5516d6-5f75-11ed-8fd3-0783f94e0cb7.html |
DENVER (AP) — The NFL indefinitely suspended Denver Broncos defensive end Eyioma Uwazurike on Monday for betting on league games during the 2022 season.
Uwazurike, a fourth-round draft pick from Iowa State in 2022 who played in eight games as a rookie, becomes the 10th player this offseason to be suspended for gambling on games or betting on other sports while in NFL locker rooms. He will be eligible to petition for reinstatement no earlier than July 24, 2024.
“Our organization fully cooperated with this investigation and takes matters pertaining to the integrity of the game very seriously,” the Broncos said in a statement. “The Denver Broncos will continue to provide all members of our organization with the necessary education, resources and support to ensure compliance with the NFL’s gambling policy.”
NFL players and personnel are not allowed to gamble while in NFL facilities, disclose any nonpublic NFL information, enter a sportsbook during the NFL season, or maintain any social, business or personal relationships with sports gamblers.
They are permitted to place non-sports wagers at legally operated casinos and horse or dog racing tracks on their personal time, including during the season.
The rules have been in place for years, but the league has cracked down on violators as sports gambling becomes legal in more states.
Former Indianapolis cornerback Isaiah Rodgers, linebacker Rashod Berry and free agent Demetrius Taylor were suspended indefinitely last month for betting on NFL games last year. The Colts waived Rodgers and Berry following their suspensions.
Tennessee offensive tackle Nicholas Petie-Frere was suspended for the first six regular-season games for betting on non-NFL sports at the club facility.
In late April, the league suspended Detroit receivers Jameson Williams, Quintez Cephus, Stanley Berryhill and safety C.J. Moore, and Washington defensive end Shaka Toney for violating the gambling policy.
Last December, New York Jets receivers coach Miles Austin was suspended for a year for betting on non-NFL sports.
Wide receiver Calvin Ridley was suspended for the entire 2022 season for gambling on NFL games; he was later traded from Atlanta to Jacksonville and eventually reinstated. In November 2019, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw was suspended for gambling on an NFL game; he has not played in the league since.
The causes for gambling-related suspensions have ranged from players who placed wagers on their own teams while not participating to players who have not abided by the league’s prohibition of betting on non-NFL sports while at the club facility.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-07-25T16:36:35+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/ap-nfl-indefinitely-suspends-broncos-defensive-end-eyioma-uwazurike-for-gambling-on-games/ |
D.C. had a plan to become the city that ended chronic homelessness.
Ten months in, though, that hasn’t happened. While the city gave out an unprecedented 2,400 permanent vouchers, just 555 people have managed to use them to move into apartments, locked out by a tight housing market and D.C. Housing Authority delays. Most of those the program was designed to help remain homeless.
“When the budget passed last year, I had a moment of thinking we could clear out encampments [and] shelters. You could have a system that has so few people in it that you could really start to have more one-on-one attention and better services. You could really change everything,” said Amber Harding, a lawyer at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. “It’s been really frustrating that we’re not realizing the promise.”
The housing vouchers permanently pay for a person to rent an apartment, generally in the private market, while asking them to contribute only a fraction of their income toward the monthly rent. But many who have received them have struggled nonetheless to find apartments.
The Department of Human Services said the average voucher recipient takes four to five months after receiving a voucher to sign a lease, a decrease of about a month from a year ago.
“We are housing more people than ever before,” DHS Director Laura Zeilinger said, calling the results “all very positive.”
“It would be unrealistic that we could just double the size of our program for single adults … and lease up 100 percent of our vouchers and do it well in one year,” she said.
Still, the District’s solutions are taking longer than advocates had hoped.
“I used to think there was a silver-bullet answer, one thing would fix everything. And the more that I’ve dug in, I realize: Instead of one glaring gap, there’s several smaller gaps, which all add up,” said Jesse Rabinowitz, manager of the Way Home Campaign, which advocated for the increase in vouchers. “This is no longer a resource issue. We have the [money] to get thousands of people into housing. This is purely a bureaucratic administration issue.”
The city has made several revisions this summer to try to speed up voucher usage.
The D.C. Council heard from case managers that many people who were offered housing vouchers had trouble securing apartment leases because they had lost their identification documents while homeless. The council passed emergency legislation last month allowing a tenant with a voucher to self-certify to his identifying information, meaning he can move into housing while pursuing the lengthy process of replacing a lost ID.
And the city agreed to address another complaint from case managers: that while their clients could pay rent using their housing vouchers, many large apartment buildings charge “amenity fees” that vouchers wouldn’t cover. Recently, the District revised its policy to let case managers use city money to cover those fees so tenants can move in. Zeilinger said some voucher recipients had previously been unable to move into an apartment because they couldn’t come up with the money for a move-in fee or a garbage-collection fee, which the District will now pay.
Obstacles remain. Some would-be tenants, Zeilinger said, have had applications denied because of their criminal history, their level of income or their credit score — all legally permitted reasons for a landlord to reject a tenant, though the law bars landlords from turning people away just because they plan to pay for their housing using a voucher.
Helping a voucher recipient move into an apartment is a laborious process, Christy Respress, who runs the nonprofit Pathways to Housing, explained. Someone interested in obtaining a voucher might complete an intake interview, then wait for the city’s algorithm to say they are next in line. At that point, the city assigns the client’s name to a case manager at Pathways or another organization.
“‘Mr. Smith has been assigned to you. He is eligible.’ Then we start the detective work,” Respress said. “Is he staying in a shelter? We’re going to that shelter to try to find him. … We’re pounding the pavement, going out on the street where they have spent time in the past. That’s a very labor-intensive upfront piece. Some people have a phone, but they might have run out of minutes, or have nowhere to charge their phone, or they lost their phone, or it got stolen while they were sleeping outside.”
With more vouchers available, Respress said, her organization needs more staff to assign to the growing number of cases. But hiring is hard nationwide. “We’re eager to keep growing and growing quickly to meet the need. But we can only grow as quickly as we can bring people on,” she said.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced bonuses for many city jobs last month, including for positions related to the homeless services system. And Zeilinger said that starting this month, the city will also cover the costs for nonprofits that provide case management for permanent supportive housing residents, such as Pathways to Housing, to pay $1,500 signing bonuses and retention bonuses of at least $2,000 to their case managers, to help the nonprofits increase the size of their staffs. (Rabinowitz praised the bonuses but noted they are much smaller than the $20,000 signing bonuses for new police officers that Bowser strongly advocated for earlier this year.)
The District also loosened its hiring qualifications for case managers, Zeilinger said, allowing job candidates who do not have a relevant degree to apply if they can demonstrate relevant work experience instead.
Once a case manager helps a voucher recipient find an apartment, the D.C. Housing Authority must approve the use of the voucher for the home, including completing an inspection of the living quarters. Advocates complain that DCHA delays account for much of the gulf between people who have been given vouchers and those who have actually been able to use their vouchers to move into housing.
“There’s nothing that makes a landlord wait for somebody with a subsidy, if somebody else has cash in hand ready to go,” Respress said. “The law is you can’t deny a voucher-holder. It doesn’t say you have to hold the unit for someone who is still waiting for the housing authority to inspect it.”
Zeilinger said that as the District tries to improve the speed of voucher use, DCHA is looking at inspecting certain units even before a voucher holder identifies the apartment as a place they want to rent.
Respress and other advocates are optimistic that the city is working out the many kinks in the system. If D.C. does manage to use those 2,400 vouchers, they still believe the city’s homelessness scourge would vastly improve.
Maybe, they say, D.C. still could be the city that ends chronic homelessness.
“When I first started doing this work in D.C. in the late ’90s, we weren’t really talking about ending homelessness,” Respress said. “For the first time in my career in homeless services in this region, I do see that coming to an end. It’s powerful. It’s huge.” | 2022-08-12T10:22:55+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/12/dc-housing-vouchers-homeless/ |
A teenager and a 12-year-old were arrested in teens’ triple homicide in Central Florida, sheriff says
By Alisha Ebrahimji, Denise Royal, Keith Allen and Chris Boyette, CNN
Two juveniles have been arrested and a third is being sought in connection with the recent shooting deaths of three area teenagers in the Central Florida community, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said Friday.
Investigators believe that the victims were involved with burglaries and robberies, and both the victims and the suspects were allegedly affiliated with criminal gangs, Woods said.
Robert Le’Andrew Robinson, 17, and Christopher De’l Atkins, 12, have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. The third suspect, Tahj Brewton, 16, is still at large.
“Basically, in simple terms there is no honor among thieves,” Woods said at a press conference. “And at some point, these three individuals turned on our three victims and murdered them.”
Woods said the suspects left behind a trail of evidence.
“Not only are the victims juveniles, but the murderers are juveniles as well,” Woods said.
The Marion County State Attorney’s office is reviewing whether the suspects will be tried as adults, Woods said. The office was closed on Friday.
On March 30, 16-year-old Layla Silvernail was found on the side of a road in the Forest Lakes Park area. She later died in a hospital from her critical injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
The next morning, shortly before 8 a.m., deputies responded to a second report of a person on the side of a road and found a 17-year-old male who had been fatally shot, authorities said.
The third victim’s body was discovered on Saturday, Woods said.
The second and third victim have not been named.
Investigators believe the trio had been in a 2015 Chevy Cruze belonging to Silvernail. The car was found partially submerged in a lake, with one of the victims inside, Woods told CNN. At the press conference Woods said that victim, a female, was found in the trunk.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is investigating potential claims against Latch, Inc. ("Latch" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LTCH), and whether Latch has violated federal securities laws.
If you purchased whether Latch, Inc. shares and suffered losses, please call Gregory Stone at (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774, email gstone@whafh.com or submit this form:
Latch Inc., a maker of smart locks and building-management software, went public in a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") backed by New York-based real estate firm Tishman Speyer in early 2021. It has traded as high as $19.70 per share after listing. It closed on August 26, 2022 at $0.9477 after announcing a material financial accounting restatement.
Latch cited material errors and possible irregularities relating to, among other things, the way it recognized revenue associated with the sale of hardware devices since listing its shares on NASDAQ.
It noted in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that:
- The Audit Committee has determined the statements for 2021 and 1Q
2022 will be restated, and; - "Based on the preliminary findings of the Investigation, certain revenue recognition errors occurred as a result of unreported sales arrangements due to sales activity that was inconsistent with the Company's internal controls and
procedures"
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Latch cites material errors and possible irregularities relating to, among other things, the way it recognized revenue associated with the sale of hardware devices in those periods.
* Audit committee has determined the statements for 2021 and 1Q 2022 will be restated
* "Based on the preliminary findings of the Investigation, certain revenue recognition errors occurred as a result of unreported sales arrangements due to sales activity that was inconsistent with the Company's internal controls and procedures"
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Bradford Freeman, last “Band of Brothers” survivor, has died
CALEDONIA, Miss. (AP) — Bradford Freeman, the last survivor of the Army unit featured in the World War II oral history book and miniseries “Band of Brothers” has died at the age of 97.
Lowndes Funeral Home in Columbus, Mississippi, says Freeman died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle.
He will be buried Friday in Caledonia, Mississippi, where he lived.
Freeman was an 18-year-old student at Mississippi State when he enlisted to fight in World War II.
He volunteered as a paratrooper and became a mortarman in Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought in Operation Market-Garden, and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, later participating in the occupations of Berchtesgaden, Germany, and Austria.
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TSX and OTC: MPVD
TORONTO and NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -, Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. ("Mountain Province" or the "Company") (TSX: MPVD) (OTC: MPVD) today announces that it has executed a non-binding term sheet with certain holders (the "Exchanging Holders") of its 8.000% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2022 (the "Existing Notes"), including entities ultimately beneficially owned by the Company's largest beneficial shareholder, Mr. Dermot Desmond, for a partial refinancing of the Existing Notes. The term sheet sets forth the terms of a transaction (the "Proposed Transaction") in which the Exchanging Holders will exchange Existing Notes for new senior secured second lien loan notes (the "New Loan Notes"). While the arrangements are non-binding, Mountain Province is working with the Exchanging Holders in an effort to promptly reach binding agreements. The issuance of the New Loan Notes is subject to, among other things, finalization of the specific terms thereof, the negotiation and execution of definitive documentation, and regulatory and disinterested shareholder approval.
The Proposed Transaction is currently expected to include the exchange of approximately US$190.0 million aggregate principal amount of Existing Notes for approximately US$195.9 million aggregate principal amount of New Loan Notes. Approximately US$65.3 million of the New Loan Notes will be acquired by entities ultimately beneficially owned by Mr. Desmond. The New Loan Notes are expected to be secured by the same assets that secure the Existing Notes and on a second lien priority basis, bear interest at a rate of 9.0% per annum and have a three-year term. The Company expects to retire the remaining balance of the Existing Notes with cash on hand concurrently with the consummation of the Proposed Transaction. The Proposed Transaction is not expected to involve the issuance of new equity.
A special committee (the "Special Committee") of the board of directors of the Company (the "Board") is providing consideration and oversight of the Proposed Transaction as well as any other potential alternative transactions intended to refinance in part the Existing Notes. The Special Committee consists of independent directors who have no direct or indirect interest in the Proposed Transaction. Following its review process, the Special Committee recommended that the Board approve the execution of the term sheet setting out the terms of the Proposed Transaction.
Due to the participation of entities ultimately beneficially owned by Mr. Desmond, the Proposed Transaction is subject to the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") and the approval of the Company's disinterested shareholders in accordance with Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions and the rules of the TSX.
The Proposed Transaction is subject to the execution of definitive documentation and the approvals described above. There can be no assurance that the Proposed Transaction will be completed on the terms described herein or at all.
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Mountain Province Diamonds is a 49% participant with De Beers Canada in the Gahcho Kué diamond mine located in Canada's Northwest Territories. The Gahcho Kué Joint Venture property consists of several kimberlites that are actively being mined, developed, and explored for future development. The Company also controls 107,373 hectares of highly prospective mineral claims and leases surrounding the Gahcho Kué Mine that include an Indicated mineral resource for the Kelvin kimberlite and Inferred mineral resources for the Faraday kimberlites. Kelvin is estimated to contain 13.62 million carats (Mct) in 8.50 million tonnes (Mt) at a grade of 1.60 carats/tonne and value of US$63/carat. Faraday 2 is estimated to contain 5.45Mct in 2.07Mt at a grade of 2.63 carats/tonne and value of US$140/ct. Faraday 1-3 is estimated to contain 1.90Mct in 1.87Mt at a grade of 1.04 carats/tonne and value of US$75/carat. All resource estimations are based on a 1mm diamond size bottom cut-off.
For further information on Mountain Province Diamonds and to receive news releases by email, visit the Company's website at www.mountainprovince.com.
Caution Regarding Forward Looking Information
This news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian and United States securities laws concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the ability to negotiate and enter into binding documentation, the ability to obtain approval of the parties, regulators and shareholders on terms acceptable to Mountain Province, operational hazards, including possible disruption due to pandemic such as COVID-19, its impact on travel, self-isolation protocols and business and operations, estimated production and mine life of the project of Mountain Province; the realization of mineral reserve estimates; the timing and amount of estimated future production; costs of production; the future price of diamonds; the estimation of mineral reserves and resources; the ability to manage debt; capital expenditures; the ability to obtain permits for operations; liquidity; tax rates; and currency exchange rate fluctuations. Except for statements of historical fact relating to Mountain Province, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "anticipates," "may," "can," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "projects," "targets," "intends," "likely," "will," "should," "to be", "potential" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may", "should" or "will" occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made, and are based on a number of assumptions and subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Many of these assumptions are based on factors and events that are not within the control of Mountain Province and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct.
Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from results anticipated by such forward-looking statements include the negotiating stances taking by the parties, the ability to obtain approval of regulators, parties and shareholders, as may be required, on conditions acceptable to the parties, the development of operation hazards which could arise in relation to COVID-19, including, but not limited to protocols which may be adopted to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and any impact of such protocols on Mountain Province's business and operations, variations in ore grade or recovery rates, changes in market conditions, changes in project parameters, mine sequencing; production rates; cash flow; risks relating to the availability and timeliness of permitting and governmental approvals; supply of, and demand for, diamonds; fluctuating commodity prices and currency exchange rates, the possibility of project cost overruns or unanticipated costs and expenses, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry, failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated.
These factors are discussed in greater detail in Mountain Province's most recent Annual Information Form and in the most recent MD&A filed on SEDAR, which also provide additional general assumptions in connection with these statements. Mountain Province cautions that the foregoing list of important factors is not exhaustive. Investors and others who base themselves on forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail. Mountain Province believes that the expectations reflected in those forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this news release should not be unduly relied upon. These statements speak only as of the date of this news release.
Although Mountain Province has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Mountain Province undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable securities laws. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Statements concerning mineral reserve and resource estimates may also be deemed to constitute forward-looking statements to the extent they involve estimates of the mineralization that will be encountered as the property is developed. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.
Further, Mountain Province may make changes to its business plans that could affect its results. The principal assets of Mountain Province are administered pursuant to a joint venture under which Mountain Province is not the operator. Mountain Province is exposed to actions taken or omissions made by the operator within its prerogative and/or determinations made by the joint venture under its terms. Such actions or omissions may impact the future performance of Mountain Province. Under its current note and revolving credit facilities Mountain Province is subject to certain limitations on its ability to pay dividends on common stock. The declaration of dividends is at the discretion of Mountain Province's Board of Directors, subject to the limitations under the Company's debt facilities, and will depend on Mountain Province's financial results, cash requirements, future prospects, and other factors deemed relevant by the Board.
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DENVER (KDVR) — A rescue mission for a musician and his son has turned into a recovery mission after the pair went missing while kayaking in Arkansas, according to the band’s Twitter.
Chuck Morris of the band Lotus and his son Charley went kayaking on Beaver Lake in Arkansas on March 16 and haven’t been seen since. The family, from Kansas City, was in Arkansas for a spring break vacation.
The band said that a K-9 team has found a probable location on the lake, but the recovery efforts might take some time due to the water temperature, weather and the depth of the lake. Sonar is also being used as part of the search.
“It’s just something you never expect to hear,” said bandmate Luke Miller. “We all hope for the best, but it didn’t work out.”
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office said the kayaking trip started around 11 a.m. on March 16. Chuck and Charley were supposed to return around 2 p.m., but when it got to 4 p.m. with no sign of them, police were called and began searching.
Two kayaks and a coat were found in the water.
Lotus is a jam, electronica house band formed out of Philadelphia and Denver. Chuck was a percussionist for Lotus and had just finished a five-week tour with the band.
According to the band’s website, their next tour date was set for March 31 in Florida. The band has not said whether they plan to cancel or reschedule the date.
While crews continue to look for the father and son, Lotus said they plan to celebrate Chuck and Charley’s lives.
“When I do think about him, it just breaks me up,” said Miller. “We’ll still be playing in his honor. He wouldn’t want us to stop.”
“While we are deeply grieving, we plan to celebrate Chuck and Charley’s lives, our memories with them, and what they meant to so many people,” said Lotus on Twitter.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help support the family’s financial needs.
“My hope is that my boys are safe and at peace. I feel the prayers and I feel the love from afar. I’m so appreciative of the love and the light that I saw and I see in my husband and son is seen by people across the world,” said mom and wife Jennifer Thompson to Nexstar’s KNWA. | 2023-03-22T18:15:25+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/lotus-band-member-son-still-missing-after-kayaking-in-arkansas/ |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A ninth body has been recovered off a southern Greek island where a yacht carrying nearly 100 migrants sank in a gale last week, the coast guard said Tuesday. Another six people are still believed missing.
A coast guard statement said the body of a woman was located Tuesday near the wreck site on Kythira. Another two women and six men have been found dead since the Oct. 5 sinking.
The overcrowded yacht had left Turkey on Oct. 3, and was headed through Greek waters for Italy when it veered off course, hit rocks just offshore in the dark and sank. Rescuers and residents saved 80 people, who were dragged up a cliff on ropes or in improvised slings, but survivors reported that about 15 were missing. Days of strong winds hampered the search for them.
Among the missing is an Egyptian man suspected of having skippered the yacht. One survivor, a Syrian man, has been charged with also belonging to the migrant-smuggling ring that arranged the passage, for which migrants paid 9,000-10,000 euros each.
Hours after the Kythira wreck, a smaller migrant boat that had also left from Turkey sank off the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, killing 18 of its occupants.
In another case, the Greek coast guard said Tuesday that it arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of having just landed six migrants on the eastern island of Samos. The suspect was detained Monday as he headed back to Turkish waters, following a chase in which the coast guard fired warning gunshots. The migrants were found on land and detained.
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Follow all AP stories about global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration. | 2022-10-12T17:21:58+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-9th-body-found-off-greek-isle-days-after-migrant-shipwreck/ |
WARREN COUNTY, N.J. (WPIX) — The remains of a teenage girl found at a New Jersey cemetery 40 years ago were identified Friday as Dawn Olanick, who was 17 years old when she went missing from West Babylon, Long Island in July 1982.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) announced last week that DNA extracted from Olanick’s molar tooth helped identify the teen, thanks to enhanced technology that wasn’t available four decades ago.
Olanick had been beaten beyond recognition when her body was found at Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown on July 25, 1982. The cemetery is located in northwestern New Jersey, not far from the Pennsylvania border.
In 2021, Olanick’s molar and eyelash were submitted to California-based Astrea Forensics.
“What is so special about Astrea is that they are able to extract DNA from samples that are degraded or otherwise would provide no value,” said Carol Schweitzer, a forensic supervisor at NCMEC, in a press release. “We knew that if anyone could get the information that was needed, Astrea could.”
Kelly Kincaid of Astrea Forensics said the DNA was exceptionally well preserved.
After Astrea finished genomic sequencing on the DNA, Innovative Forensic Investigations took over and used genetic genealogy techniques to build a family tree.
This led to Princess Doe ultimately being identified as Olanick.
Olanick’s cousin was present at a press conference at the Warren County District Attorney’s Office on Friday when new murder charges were announced against Arthur Kinlaw, now 68 years old and incarcerated in Sullivan County, New York.
The Warren County Prosecutor’s Office said Kinlaw, already serving time for another murder, had confessed in 2005 to killing a teenager but didn’t provide her name. Kinlaw said he had tried to lure the girl into prostitution and beat her to death when she refused.
Kinlaw has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to Olanick’s death.
Olanick’s cousin said, “This is a very big deal for my family.”
The gravestone at the New Jersey cemetery where Olanick was buried reads, “Princess Doe. Missing from Home. Dead Among Strangers. Remembered by All.”
Authorities are still asking anyone who may have more information about Olanick to contact the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. | 2022-07-18T21:25:01+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/tooth-ids-princess-doe-long-island-teen-missing-40-years/ |
Elton John and Britney Spears have collaborated for the first time, creating the slinky, club-ready single “Hold Me Closer” that sees the pop icons take old sounds and fashion something new.
The funky, piano-driven single uses John’s 1971 hit “Tiny Dancer” as the skeleton and adds elements from his songs “The One” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” all with Spears voice soaring and fluttering.
While John has been releasing new music in the past few years — including the 16-track 2021 album “The Lockdown Sessions” — the song represents Spear’s first new music since her 2016 album “Glory” and her first offering since the ending of her contentious conservatorship.
“She truly is an icon, one of the all-time great pop stars and she sounds amazing on this record. I love her dearly and am delighted with what we’ve created together,” John said in a statement. Spears, in her statement, told John it was an honor to be asked: ”I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to work with you and your legendary mind.”
The track is produced by Andrew Watt, who has worked with such acts as Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, Ozzy Osbourne, Justin Bieber, Post Malone and Miley Cyrus.
The song begins with both stars singing the opening lyrics of “The One” — “I saw you dancing out the ocean/Running fast along the sand/A spirit born of earth and water/Fire flying from your hands.” It then seamlessly moves to ”Tiny Dancer”: “Hold me closer, tiny dancer/Count the headlights on the highway/Lay me down in sheets of linen/You had a busy day today.”
The track calls to mind last year’s hit “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix),” which melded John’s songs “Kiss the Bride,” “Rocket Man,” “Where’s the Shoorah?” and “Sacrifice” into a dance bop featuring vocals by Dua Lipa.
John and Spears first met in 2014 at an Oscar viewing party and she later tweeted her love of “Tiny Dancer,” sowing the seeds for the latest collaboration. John is in the midst of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
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Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits | 2022-08-26T22:34:24+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-elton-john-and-britney-spears-unite-on-a-new-dance-single/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative justices holding the Supreme Court’s majority seem ready to sink President Joe Biden’s plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.
In arguments lasting more than three hours Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts led his conservative colleagues in questioning the administration’s authority to broadly cancel federal student loans because of the COVID-19 emergency.
Loan payments that have been on hold since the start of the coronavirus pandemic three years ago are supposed to resume no later than this summer. Without the loan relief promised by the Biden plan, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer said, “delinquencies and defaults will surge.”
The plan has so far been blocked by Republican-appointed judges on lower courts. It did not appear to fare any better with the six justices appointed by Republican presidents.
Biden’s only hope for being allowed to move forward appeared to be the slim possibility, based on the arguments, that the court would find that Republican-led states and individuals challenging the plan lacked the legal right to sue.
That would allow the court to dismiss the lawsuits at a threshold stage, without ruling on the basic idea of the loan forgiveness program that appeared to trouble the justices on the court’s right side.
Roberts was among the justices who grilled Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and suggested that the administration had exceeded its authority.
Three times, the chief justice said the program would cost a half-trillion dollars, pointing to its wide impact and hefty expense as reasons the administration should have gotten explicit approval from Congress. The program, which the administration says is grounded in a 2003 law that was enacted in response to the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. is estimated to cost $400 billion over 30 years.
“If you’re talking about this in the abstract, I think most casual observers would say if you’re going to give up that much … money, if you’re going to affect the obligations of that many Americans on a subject that’s of great controversy, they would think that’s something for Congress to act on,” Roberts said.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested he agreed, saying it “seems problematic” for the administration to use an “old law” to unilaterally implement a debt relief program that Congress had declined to adopt.
Neither justice seemed swayed by Prelogar’s explanation that the administration was citing the national emergency created by the pandemic as authority for the debt relief program under a law commonly known as the HEROES Act.
“Some of the biggest mistakes in the court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power,” Kavanaugh said. “Some of the finest moments in the court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”
At another point, though, Kavanaugh suggested the program might be on firmer legal ground than other pandemic-related programs that were ended by the court’s conservative majority, including an eviction moratorium and a requirement for vaccines or frequent testing in large workplaces.
Those earlier programs halted by the court were billed largely as public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19. The loan forgiveness plan, by contrast, is aimed at countering the economic effects of the pandemic.
Prelogar and some of the liberal justices sought several times to turn the arguments back to the people who would benefit from the program. The administration says that 26 million people have applied to have up to $20,000 in federal student loans forgiven under the plan.
“The states ask this court to deny this vital relief to millions of Americans,” she said.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow justices will be making a mistake if they take for themselves, instead of leaving it to education experts, “the right to decide how much aid to give” people who will struggle if the program is struck down.
“Their financial situation will be even worse because once you default, the hardship on you is exponentially greater. You can’t get credit. You’re going to pay higher prices for things,” Sotomayor said.
But Roberts pointed to evident favoritism.
He offered a hypothetical example of a person who passes up college to start a lawn service with borrowed money. “Nobody’s telling the person who is trying to set up the lawn service business that he doesn’t have to pay his loan,” Roberts said.
Republican-led states and lawmakers in Congress, as well as conservative legal interests, are lined up against the plan as a violation of Biden’s executive authority. Democratic-led states and liberal interest groups are backing the administration in urging the court to allow the plan to take effect.
The justices’ questions mirrored the partisan political divide over the issue, with conservatives arguing that non-college workers should not be penalized and liberals arguing for the break for the college educated.
Speaking on the eve of the arguments, Biden had said, “I’m confident the legal authority to carry that plan is there.”
The president, who once doubted his own authority to broadly cancel student debt, first announced the program in August. Legal challenges quickly followed.
The administration says the HEROES Act allows the secretary of education to waive or modify the terms of federal student loans in connection with a national emergency. The law was primarily intended to keep service members from being hurt financially while they fought in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Nebraska and other states that sued say the 20 million borrowers who would have their entire loans erased would get a “windfall” leaving them better off than before the pandemic.
“This is the creation of a brand new program, far beyond what Congress intended,” Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell said in court Tuesday.
The national emergency is expected to end May 11, but the administration says the economic consequences will persist, despite historically low unemployment and other signs of economic strength.
In addition to the debate over the authority to forgive student debt, the court is confronting whether the states and two individuals whose challenge also is before the justices have the legal right, or standing, to sue.
Parties generally have to show that they would suffer financial harm in order to have standing in cases such as this. A federal judge initially found that the states would not be harmed and dismissed their lawsuit before an appellate panel said the case could proceed.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices in repeatedly questioning Nebraska’s Campbell on that issue. But it would take at least one other conservative vote to form a majority.
Of the two individuals who sued in Texas, one has student loans that are commercially held and the other is eligible for $10,000 in debt relief, not the $20,000 maximum. They would get nothing if they win their case.
Among those in the courtroom Tuesday was Kayla Smith, a recent graduate of the University of Georgia, who camped out near the court the night before in order to get a seat. Biden’s plan would lift a burden for her mother, who borrowed more than $20,000 in federal student loans to help Smith attend college.
“It just seems kind of messed up that college is the expectation, higher education is the expectation, but then at the same time, people’s lives are being ruined,” said Smith, 22, who lives in Atlanta.
The arguments are available on the AP YouTube channel or on the court’s website.
A decision is expected by late June.
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Associated Press writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report. | 2023-03-01T08:59:49+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-supreme-court-weighs-biden-student-loan-plan-worth-billions/ |
MONROE, Wash. (AP) — A school district superintendent northeast of Seattle will resign and receive nearly $400,000 after an investigation showed employee claims of his behavior creating a toxic work environment were mostly credible.
The Daily Herald reports under the settlement agreement Monroe School District Superintendent Justin Blasko agreed he wouldn’t sue or seek a job with the district ever again.
Blasko was put on paid leave in December as the district investigated employee claims of his inappropriate language, bullying and sexist outbursts. Investigators found most allegations credible.
In response to the report Blasko apologized and called the allegations against him “deeply troubling.
SEE ALSO: Bend’s High Desert Middle School names interim principal | 2022-07-20T01:22:39+00:00 | centraloregondaily.com | https://centraloregondaily.com/monroe-superintendent-justin-blasko-resignation/ |
Victims in deadly collapse of China middle school gym roof largely members of girl’s volleyball team
BEIJING (AP) — Prosecutors in northeastern China are pursuing criminal charges against construction managers blamed for the collapse of the roof of a middle school gymnasium, leading to 11 deaths. State media on Tuesday gave few details about the case and the victims, but said a total of 19 people were inside the facility when the concrete roof came down, among them two coaches and 17 players. Fifteen were trapped in the rubble after the Sunday collapse, with the last victim recovered on Monday morning. An initial investigation said a construction crew working on a new building next to the gym had stored bags of perlite used in internal plastering on the roof that had grown heavy by absorbing water from recent rains. | 2023-07-25T06:08:09+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/24/victims-in-deadly-collapse-of-china-middle-school-gym-roof-largely-members-of-girls-volleyball-team/ |
Invests $50 million in Marine Protected Areas in the Tropical Pacific
LISBON, Portugal, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bezos Earth Fund today announced its first investments dedicated explicitly to marine protection at the United Nations Ocean Conference, totaling $50 million in new grants. These grants further its commitment to the 30x30 initiative to protect 30% of the planet's land and sea by 2030. Currently, only 7.93% of the ocean is zoned as marine protected areas.
The Bezos Earth Fund will provide grants totaling $30 million to support organizations working in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama in strengthening the Eastern Tropical Marine Corridor. By creating a network of marine protected areas covering more than 500,000-square-kilometers (193,000-square-miles) and a transboundary biosphere reserve, the four countries' biological hotspots will be connected and protected. These grants are provided alongside those of other members of the Connect to Protect Eastern Tropical Pacific Coalition. The coalition will work alongside governments, local communities, non-government organizations, and scientists to help establish a regional governance structure, design, and implement marine protected areas and the biosphere reserve, and secure long-term sustainable financing.
"The ocean is our planet's life support system and a major carbon sink," said Dr. Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund. "Investing in the ocean can be a powerful solution to many major challenges. It can protect vital marine ecosystems, provide jobs, help local communities, improve food security, and address climate change. These commitments are the first of many the Bezos Earth Fund will make to support marine protection in this decisive decade."
The Earth Fund's $20 million grant to the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas will further advance the goal of protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030. With this support, the Pristine Seas team will explore, document, and conduct research in the central and western Pacific Ocean over the next five years. This region contains the highest marine biodiversity on the planet, most of which is unprotected from extractive activities.
"It is an honor to receive this grant. It provides us with an exciting opportunity to work with local partners to accelerate, scale, and finance permanent ocean protection," said Dr. Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and founder of Pristine Seas. "This grant allows Pristine Seas to continue to provide countries and local communities with the assistance and support they need to create marine-protected areas and achieve their ocean conservation and economic goals."
The Bezos Earth Fund is Jeff Bezos' $10 billion commitment to fund scientists, activists, NGOs, and other actors who will drive climate and nature solutions. By allocating funds creatively, wisely, and boldly, the Bezos Earth Fund has the potential for transformative influence in this decisive decade. Funds will be fully allocated by 2030—the date the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved.
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SOURCE Bezos Earth Fund | 2022-06-27T07:57:05+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/06/27/bezos-earth-fund-announces-first-commitments-marine-protection-un-ocean-conference/ |
Dodgers top Rodón, Giants 3-1 in rivalry series opener
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have opened their annual rivalry series against the San Francisco Giants with a 3-1 victory. Chris Taylor had an early two-run single and Julio Urías pitched six scoreless innings of four-hit ball as Los Angeles won for the third time in four games. Carlos Rodón tossed six innings of three-hit ball, but took his first loss for the Giants in the first of 19 much-anticipated meetings between the California archrivals this season. Urías largely cruised through his start, but he was pulled after just 65 pitches. | 2022-05-04T07:21:43+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/03/dodgers-top-rodon-giants-3-1-in-rivalry-series-opener/ |
MOSCOW – Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says prison officials ordered him to serve at least three days in solitary confinement, citing a minor infraction, in retaliation for his activism behind bars.
A post about the punishment appeared in Navalny's social media accounts on Monday. It wasn't immediately clear how the politician got the information out — the post says that those in solitary confinement are not allowed to have visitors, letters or parcels, the only possessions at Navalny's disposal are “a mug and a book,” and he gets to have a pen and some paper for just over an hour a day.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recuperating from nerve-agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin. He received a 2½-year sentence for violating the conditions of his parole while outside Russia.
In March, Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court, allegations he rejected as a politically motivated attempt by Russian authorities to keep him behind bars for as long as possible.
During his time behind bars, his social media accounts have been regularly updated with posts about life in prison. Just last week, Navalny announced setting up a labor union for convicts, of which he said he was the only member at the time. Navalny said the union has successfully argued for replacing backless stools with chairs in the prison's sewing shop where he works.
According to the post published on Monday, the union activity was the real reason prison officials sent him to solitary confinement: “The Kremlin wants to see its GULAG consisting of voiceless slaves. And here I am, instead of begging for pardon, uniting some people and demanding that some laws be observed.”
The post said Navalny was summoned by prison officials and told that video surveillance showed he regularly unbuttoned his prison garb while in the work area. “This certainly characterizes me as a hopeless villain. So, a decision has been made to send me to punitive solitary confinement” for three days, the post read.
If Navalny “doesn't change (his) attitude,” his stay there would be extended, prison officials told him, according to the post.
The post described solitary as “the most severe punishment in the legal prison hierarchy" — a small concrete cell, in which “it is very hot and there is almost no air.” There is a metal bed attached to a wall, and a mattress and a pillow are only brought at 9 p.m. and taken away at 5 a.m.
“Visitation is now allowed, letters are not allowed, parcels are not allowed. It is the only place in prison where even smoking is not allowed,” the post read. | 2022-08-15T17:08:26+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/15/kremlin-critic-navalny-says-hes-in-solitary-confinement/ |
Idaho governor signs ‘abortion trafficking’ bill into law
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday that makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent.
The law is the first of its kind in the U.S. and creates a new crime of “ abortion trafficking,” barring adults from obtaining abortion pills for a minor or “recruiting, harboring or transporting the pregnant minor” without the consent of the minor’s parent or guardian.
Anyone convicted of breaking the law will face two to five years in prison and could also be sued by the minor’s parent or guardian. Parents who raped their child will not be able to sue, though the criminal penalties for anyone who helped the minor obtain an abortion will remain in effect.
To sidestep violating a constitutional right to travel between states, Idaho’s law makes illegal only the in-state segment of a trip to an out-of-state abortion provider.
Opponents have promised a legal battle.
“Yet again, Idaho’s governor disregarded constituents and signed HB 242 into law, creating the nation’s first crime of so-called ‘abortion trafficking.’ This legislation is despicable, and we’re going to do everything in our power to stop it,” Idaho State Director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates-West said Wednesday on Twitter.
effectively ban abortion in all stages of pregnancy, and is one of a handful of states that already have laws penalizing those who help people of any age obtain abortions.
State leaders in Washington, Oregon’s bill would allow physicians to provide abortion to anyone regardless of age, and would bar them in certain cases from disclosing that information to parents.
Thirty-six states require parental involvement in a minor’s decision to have an abortion, though most allow exceptions under certain circumstances like medical emergencies, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group supporting abortion rights. | 2023-04-06T09:03:56+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3870961/idaho-governor-signs-abortion-trafficking-bill-into-law/ |
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