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Which tycoon games are best?
Finding the best tycoon games in this day and age can be difficult, especially because some of the original business simulation games we grew up on are becoming harder and harder to find. Luckily, many of them are still available through online retailers or specific game stores, so you shouldn’t need to go that far to fulfill your nostalgia needs.
In any case, you can find the classic ”Rollercoaster Tycoon Megapack,” including multiple “Rollercoaster Tycoon” games from various retailers, worth every penny spent for old players and newcomers alike.
What to know before you buy tycoon games
What gaming system do you own?
While the best tycoon games will always come down to the buyer’s preferences and needs, and the utmost need is determining what gaming system you plan to play your tycoon games on. While many users have found tycoon games available for Playstation and Xbox consoles, most will play their tycoon games on a PC and others may find them elsewhere, like on a smartphone or in other formats.
Type of tycoon games you prefer
Searching for the best PC games can be intimidating, especially if you already know what genre of game you want but haven’t narrowed it down to a single game. All in all, the best tycoon games will come entirely down to individual preference, so gaining an idea of what type of games you like to play before you buy is a good and safe idea.
Single-pack vs. multi-pack
While many older tycoon games originally came in a single pack, including just one game, you can now find many classic games bundled into a multi-pack of games. While some will all be along the lines of a single game, like “Rollercoaster Tycoon,” others may include various tycoon games, capturing a wide range of simulated business or life games.
What to look for in a quality tycoon game
Compatibility
First and foremost, it’s essential to make sure your tycoon game will run correctly on your device before you buy. It’s easy to make sure that your game is compatible with your system by searching specifically for a compatible game and double-checking before you purchase. You can find the information in the description as to which system a game operates, whether it’s a computer, console, phone or otherwise. Tycoon games for PC are most common, though you can likely find some version of the genre available to whatever system you have.
Concept remake or original game
Many tycoon games created follow-up or remake games to their originals, with some adding extra features or game modes. For example, there are several different “Rollercoaster Tycoon” games. While the first “Rollercoaster Tycoon” is a nostalgic blast for many buyers, “Rollercoaster Tycoon 3” offers users the option to ride the roller coasters virtually.
Replayability
Getting your money’s worth out of a game in the modern age of gaming primarily comes down to how much you can play or replay a game. Games with high levels of variants and scenarios often give the user the ability to replay the games hundreds of times without getting bored of the concept, so finding a game that does include a wide range of features can be particularly helpful. This is also where getting a multi-pack game may make a difference, so you can rotate games in and out as you lose interest.
How much you can expect to spend on tycoon games
Because many of the games are a little old, it may be helpful to be careful about pricing. In your search, you may find old copies of games trying to sell for more than what they’re worth, simply due to their novelty. In general, you can find single and multi-packs of tycoon games for $5-$30, with some even cheaper if they come in the form of phone apps or even more expensive if they’re coming from a strange retailer.
Tycoon games FAQ
What are tycoon games?
A. Tycoon games usually refer to a genre of games that involves building up a person’s business or life by making the right decisions as the game continues. They’re often fun for those who like to play games pretending to be business people, though standard life simulator games like The Sims sometimes also have tycoon game elements.
Does the same company own all tycoon games?
A. No, there are many tycoon game companies with a wide range of games, which is mainly beneficial to the consumer. Still, you can find the ultimate classic Rollercoaster Tycoon games on a variety of platforms.
What’s the best tycoon game to buy?
Top tycoon game
Rollercoaster Tycoon Game Megapack For PC with 9 Rollercoaster Tycoon Games
What you need to know: This megapack includes nine different editions of the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon game and works for all users with a PC and a Steam account.
What you’ll love: Includes all three editions of each Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise, including the first, second and third editions with expansions. This megapack is great for those looking to play the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise, no matter which game they find most nostalgic or if the games are new to them.
What you should consider: It only works on Windows computers, and users must either have or download Steam to make this copy work. It does not include any games that aren’t Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top tycoon game for the money
Mega Tycoon 10 Complete Tycoon Games For PC Pack
What you need to know: This pack of tycoon games has a little bit for everyone, including tycoon games for growing your hotel, restaurant, zoo, train, other means of transport, business or water park, making it perfect for fulfilling your inner-entrepreneur.
What you’ll love: It includes 10 separate tycoon games, including Hotel Giant 2, Restaurant Empire, Zoo Giant, Train Giant, Transport Giant, Water Park Simulator and Industry Giant II. These games are highly addictive and will keep your attention for hours to come as you watch your wealth grow.
What you should consider: This particular set of games only works with a PC and isn’t available to console gamers. Some buyers also had trouble making this work with Windows Vista, despite working with other Windows software.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
The Sims 4 Limited Edition Life Simulator Tycoon Game
What you need to know: While it may not be a tycoon game by name, The Sims 4 is another classic simulator game that follows an individual’s day-to-day life, lets users build houses, hold down jobs and generally maintain their lives on either PC, Playstation or Xbox consoles.
What you’ll love: The Sims is another classic franchise, and while it isn’t inherently a tycoon game, it’s one of the most popular simulated games. Start a relationship, business or hobby, or just sit around and enjoy a custom-built house. The choice is totally up to you.
What you should consider: Those who would rather run businesses, parks or manage other macro-scale industries may want to go with an actual tycoon game instead.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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First Alert: Severe storms possible through the late morning
Damaging wind is the primary threat, but a few tornadoes are possible
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) -
A cold front will move through North Georgia to kick off the weekend, carrying rain and storms, some of which could be severe carrying gusty wind, heavy rain, and possibly a couple tornadoes.
A tornado watch is in effect for counties north and west of Atlanta through 8AM, meaning tornadoes are possible through mid morning.
The line of storms will roll in before sunrise, and exit off to the southeast by lunchtime, making way to a windy and mostly sunny Saturday afternoon.
A wind advisory is in effect until 11 PM, meaning 25-40 mph will be possible through the evening.
Expect a chilly night, with overnight lows ranging from the upper 30s in the mountains to the low 40s for metro. Patchy frost is possible in the mountains tomorrow morning.
Sunday will be beautiful with sunshine and low 70s.
Our break Sunday from the rain will be brief, as we head into quite the unsettled work week starting with Monday morning showers that could impact the morning drive.
Showers will be possible every day through Friday so an additional 0.5 - 2 inches of rain is possible over the next 7 days with locally heavy amounts expected under heavier downpours.
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Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ UK Parliament over ‘partygate,’ committee says
Posted/updated on: June 15, 2023 at 7:15 am(LONDON) -- Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson "deliberately misled" Parliament about rule-breaking parties during the COVID-19 pandemic, a committee of lawmakers said in a scathing report released Thursday.
The House of Commons Privileges Committee also found that Johnson, 58, knowingly misled the committee itself, breached parliamentary rules by leaking the committee's provisional conclusions last week and undermined the parliamentary process. Johnson would have faced a 90-day suspension from Parliament had he not angrily quit as a lawmaker last Friday after being informed of the preliminary findings, according to the report.
Nevertheless, the committee recommend that Johnson be barred from getting the pass granted to former members of Parliament that allows them privileged access to the parliamentary grounds at the Palace of Westminster in central London.
"We have concluded above that in deliberately misleading the House, Mr. Johnson committed a serious contempt,'' the seven-member panel wrote in the report. "The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the Prime Minister, the most senior member of the government. There is no precedent for a Prime Minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House."
The entire House of Commons will now debate and vote on the committee’s findings and recommendations.
The report came on the heels of a yearlong investigation into misleading statements Johnson made to Parliament about the so-called "partygate" scandal, a series of boozy parties held on government property in 2020 and 2021 while such gatherings were prohibited by England's pandemic-related restrictions. London's Metropolitan Police Service ultimately issued more than 100 fines over "partygate," including one to Johnson for attending his own surprise birthday party at his Downing Street residence and office in June 2020, when indoor mixing was barred to stem the spread of COVID-19. He is the first prime minister in U.K. history to have been found guilty of breaking the law while in office.
"For the House to be given misleading information about the conduct of Ministers and officials at the highest level of Government, in the midst of the grave national emergency represented by the Covid-19 pandemic, and in relation to how far those Ministers and officials were observing the severe restrictions which they were instructing the public at large to follow, is a matter of great seriousness," the committee wrote in the report.
Last summer, Johnson survived a vote of confidence brought forward by disgruntled lawmakers in his Conservative Party. However, he announced his resignation as party leader and prime minister a month later after dozens of ministers quit his cabinet in protest of his leadership.
Johnson told the House of Commons Privileges Committee in March that he "honestly believed" the five gatherings he had attended during the pandemic, including his birthday party, were "lawful work gatherings." While Johnson has admitted to misleading lawmakers when he assured them that no rules were violated, he has maintained that he didn't do so deliberately.
In a statement announcing his resignation as a member of Parliament last Friday, Johnson described the committee investigating him as a "kangaroo court" that conducted a "witch hunt."
"I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear -- much to my amazement -- that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament," Johnson said. "Their purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts."
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he will call a special session of the state Legislature in December to pass a new tax on oil company profits to punish them for what he called “rank price gouging.”
Gas prices soared across the nation this summer because of high inflation, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ongoing disruptions in the global supply chain.
But while gas prices have recovered somewhat nationwide, they have continued to spike in California, hitting an average of $6.39 per gallon on Friday — $2.58 higher than the national average, according to AAA.
California has the second-highest gas tax in the country and other environmental rules that increase the cost of fuel in the nation’s most populous state. Still, Newsom said there is “nothing to justify” a price difference of more than $2.50 per gallon between California’s gas and prices in other states.
“It’s time to get serious. I’m sick of this,” Newsom said. “We’ve been too timid.”
The oil industry has pointed to California’s environmental laws and regulations to explain why the state routinely has higher gas prices than the rest of the country. Kevin Slagle, vice president of the Western States Petroleum Association, said Newsom and state lawmakers should “take a hard look at decades of California energy policy” instead of proposing a new tax.
“If this was anything other than a political stunt, the Governor wouldn’t wait two months and would call the special session now, before the election,” Slagle said. “This industry is ready right now to work on real solutions to energy costs and reliability — if that is what the Governor is truly interested in.”
Several states chose to suspend their gas taxes this summer, including Maryland, New York and Georgia. Newsom and his fellow Democrats that control the state Legislature refused to do that, opting instead to send $9.5 billion in rebates to taxpayers — which began showing up in bank accounts this week.
It’s unclear how the tax Newsom is proposing would work. Newsom said he is still working out the details with legislative leaders, but on Friday said he wants the money to be “returned to taxpayers,” possibly by using money from the tax to pay for more rebates.
The state Legislature briefly considered a proposal earlier this year that would have imposed a “windfall profits tax” on oil companies’ gross receipts when the price of a gallon of gasoline was “abnormally high compared to the price of a barrel of oil.”
That proposal would have required state regulators to determine the tax rate, making sure it recovered any oil companies’ profit margins that exceeded 30 cents per gallon. The money from the tax would then have been returned to taxpayers via rebates.
Newsom did not comment on that proposal when it was introduced in March, and lawmakers quickly shelved it. It could, however, act as a blueprint for the new proposal being negotiated between Newsom and legislative leaders.
The Legislature’s top two leaders — Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon — said in a joint statement that lawmakers “will continue to examine all other options to help consumers.”
“A solution that takes excessive profits out of the hands of oil corporations and puts money back into the hands of consumers deserves strong consideration by the Legislature,” they said. “We look forward to examining the Governor’s detailed proposal when we receive it.”
California Republicans — who do not control enough seats to influence policy decisions in the Legislature — have called the tax “foolhardy.”
“Who here thinks that another tax is going to bring down your gas prices? Is going to bring down any costs in this state? It’s not going to happen,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher told reporters on Wednesday.
Last month, regulators at the California Energy Commission wrote a letter to five oil refiners — Chevron, Marathon Petroleum, PBF Energy, Phillips 66 and Valero — demanding an explanation for why gas prices jumped 84 cents over a 10-day period even as oil prices fell. The commission wrote that the oil industry had “not provided an adequate and transparent explanation for this price spike, which is causing real economic hardship to millions of Californians.”
On Friday, Scott Folwarkow, Valero’s vice president for state government affairs, responded that “California is the most expensive operating environment in the country and a very hostile regulatory environment for refining.” He said that has caused refineries to close and tightened supply because California requires refineries to produce a specific fuel blend.
He declined to provide details about the company’s operations based on the same anti-trust concerns. But he said the company makes appropriate arrangements to source supply when some refineries are down for maintenance.
Newsom dismissed those arguments, saying that still doesn’t account for a $2.50 difference between California’s gas prices and those in the rest of the country.
“These guys are playing us for fools. They have for decades,” Newsom said.
The California Legislature usually meets between January and August, where they consider bills on a variety of topics. The governor has the power to call a special legislative session at any time by issuing a proclamation. When convened in a special session, lawmakers can only consider the issues mentioned in that proclamation.
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The House voted on Thursday to pass a GOP-led bill that would ban transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions.
The bill is not expected to be taken up by the Democratic-controlled Senate and the White House has issued a veto threat. But the vote shows that Republicans are working to spotlight the issue -- and it comes amid a GOP-led push in states across the country to pass similar bills restricting transgender athletes' participation in sports.
The House bill would prohibit transgender women and girls from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity. It seeks to amend federal law to require that "sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth," for the purpose of determining compliance with Title IX in athletics, according to the legislative text.
Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities that receive funding from the federal government, and applies to schools and other educational institutions.
The bill would not "prohibit schools or institutions from permitting males to practice against women's sports teams," according to a fact sheet from the House committee on Education and the Workforce.
The fact sheet also states that under the bill, "a recipient of federal education funding violates Title IX's prohibition against sex discrimination if the recipient operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities and allows a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls."
The bill -- titled the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act" -- was introduced by Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida.
Republicans have argued that transgender women hold a physical advantage over cisgender women in sports and thus their participation could consequentially limit opportunities for others.
Democrats say that policies to restrict transgender athletes' participation in team sports adds to the discrimination that trans people face, particularly trans youth. And they argue that Republicans are seeking to undermine the rights of LGBTQIA students by advancing the bill.
"Trans kids deserve the right to be equal members of their school communities, learn sportsmanship, and challenge themselves outside of the classroom, including by participating in school sports," Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin said in a statement.
The House vote takes place as GOP-led states across the country continue to push a variety of anti-trans measures, including bills intended to keep transgender students from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
Those bills echo a larger effort of restrictive bills aimed at the LGBTQIA community. The American Civil Liberties Union says that it is tracking more than 450 anti-LGBTQ bills in the US.
The White House has affirmed that President Joe Biden would veto the bill, even though it is not expected to make it to the president's desk.
"Discrimination has no place in our nation's schools or on our playing fields," the statement of administration policy for the bill reads.
"At a time when transgender youth already face a nationwide mental health crisis, with half of transgender youth in a recent survey saying they have seriously considered suicide, a national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary, hurts families and students, and would only put students at greater risk," it says.
Responding to the White House veto threat on Twitter, Steube said that the Biden administration "has turned their backs on female athletes."
"The Left is not only encouraging transgender individuals to invade women's sports, but they celebrate as women are knocked off podiums and shunned to the sidelines. Nothing fair about that," Steube wrote.
In addition to promising a veto, the Biden administration has taken other steps to address transgender athletes' participation in sports.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration proposed a new federal rule change that would allow for schools to enforce some restrictions on transgender student athletes, but opposes policies that "categorically" ban those students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender.
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The prison staff didn’t know much about the new acting warden. Then, they say, he made a bizarre and startling confession: Years ago, he beat inmates — and got away with it.
Thomas Ray Hinkle, a high-ranking federal Bureau of Prisons official, was sent to restore order and trust at a women’s prison wracked by a deplorable scandal. Instead, workers say, he left the federal lockup in Dublin, California, even more broken.
Staff saw Hinkle as a bully and regarded his presence there — just after allegations that the previous warden and other employees sexually assaulted inmates — as hypocrisy from an agency that was publicly pledging to end its abusive, corrupt culture.
So at a staff meeting in March, they confronted the then-director of the Bureau of Prisons and asked: Why, instead of firing Hinkle years ago, was the agency keen to keep promoting him?
“That’s something we’ve got to look into,” Michael Carvajal responded, according to people in the room.
Three months later, the Bureau of Prisons promoted Hinkle again, putting him in charge of 20 federal prisons and 21,000 inmates from Utah to Hawaii as acting western regional director. Among them: Dublin.
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MULTIPLE ALLEGATIONS
An Associated Press investigation has found that the Bureau of Prisons has repeatedly promoted Hinkle despite numerous red flags, rewarding him again and again over a three-decade career while others who assaulted inmates lost their jobs and went to prison.
The agency’s new leader defends Hinkle, saying he’s a changed man and a model employee — standing by him even as she promises to work with the Justice Department and Congress to root out staff misconduct. And Hinkle, responding to questions from the AP, acknowledged that he assaulted inmates in the 1990s but said he regrets that behavior and now speaks openly about it “to teach others how to avoid making the same mistakes.”
Among the AP’s findings:
— At least three inmates, all Black, have accused Hinkle of beating them while he was a correctional officer at a Florence, Colorado federal penitentiary in 1995 and 1996. The allegations were documented in court documents and formal complaints to prison officials. In recent years, colleagues say, Hinkle has talked about beating inmates while a member of a violent, racist gang of guards called “The Cowboys.”
— One inmate said he felt terrified as Hinkle and another guard dragged him up a stairway and slammed him into walls. Another said Hinkle was among guards who threw him to a concrete floor, spat on him and used racist language toward him. A third said Hinkle slapped him and held him down while another guard sexually assaulted him.
— The Bureau of Prisons and Justice Department knew about allegations against Hinkle in 1996 but promoted him anyway. The agency promoted Hinkle least nine times after the alleged beatings, culminating in June with his promotion to acting regional director.
— At least 11 guards connected to “The Cowboys” were charged with federal crimes, but not Hinkle. Three were convicted and imprisoned. Four were acquitted; four pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. Hinkle was promoted twice before the criminal investigation was over.
— In 2007, while a lieutenant at a Houston federal jail, Hinkle was arrested for public intoxication at a music festival after police say he got drunk, flashed his Bureau of Prisons ID card and refused orders to leave. After the case was dropped, the agency promoted Hinkle.
— Hinkle has also come under fire as a senior agency leader. The Justice Department rebuked him in March after he was accused of attempting to silence a whistleblower, and the Bureau of Prisons said it was taking corrective action after he impeded a member of Congress’ investigation and sent all-staff emails criticizing her and the agency. Three months later, he was promoted to acting regional director.
— The Bureau of Prisons, already under intense scrutiny from Congress for myriad crises and dysfunction, did not publicize Hinkle’s promotion. Instead, the agency left his predecessor’s name and bio on its website and refused requests for basic information about him.
The AP has spent months investigating Hinkle, obtaining more than 1,600 pages of court records and agency reports from the National Archives and Records Administration, reviewing thousands of pages of documents from related criminal cases and appeals, and interviewing dozens of people. Many spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation or because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Together, they show that while the Bureau of Prisons has vowed to change its toxic culture in the wake of Dublin and other scandals — a promise recently reiterated by the agency’s new director, Colette Peters — it has continued to elevate a man involved in one of the darkest, most abusive periods in its history.
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`WE ARE ALL HUMAN’
The extent of Hinkle’s alleged misconduct and his subsequent rise to the upper ranks of the Bureau of Prisons has never been revealed. The AP’s findings raise serious questions about the agency’s standards, its selection and vetting of candidates for top-tier positions, and its explicit commitment to rooting out abuse.
“As a minimum, the music festival incident, handling of the whistleblower, and the congressional investigation exhibit his extremely poor judgment,” said Allan Turner, a former federal prison warden who reviewed the AP’s findings.
“This should have been a red flag for any promotion board and is certainly not the appropriate level of judgment expected of someone serving in a leadership role in a correctional institution or in a region,” said Turner, a research professor emeritus in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
This story is part of an ongoing AP investigation that has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion.
AP reporting has revealed rampant sexual abuse and other criminal conduct by staff, dozens of escapes, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies.
In response to detailed questions from the AP, Hinkle conceded that he beat inmates as a correctional officer but said he has made significant changes to his life since then, including seeking professional treatment and quitting alcohol. He said he was disciplined — a two-week suspension for failing to report abuse of an inmate — and that he cooperated fully with investigators.
“With the support of my friends, family, and colleagues, and through professional help, I have made the most of my opportunity for a second chance to serve the Bureau of Prisons honorably over the past 12 years,” Hinkle said.
“I cannot speak to why some are dredging up history from so many years ago, but my distant past does not reflect who I am today,” Hinkle added. He “vehemently and categorically” denied using racial slurs, targeting whistleblowers and any recent allegations of misconduct.
“My story I share with my fellow staff has more to do with hope and change after getting help and not self-medicating with alcohol,” Hinkle said. “We are all human and make mistakes. There is no shame in admitting our problems and seeking help.”
The Bureau of Prisons responded to detailed questions about Hinkle with a statement from Peters defending him and the agency’s decisions to promote him.
“Mr. Hinkle has openly acknowledged his past mistakes, gone through the employee discipline program, sought professional help and reframed his experiences as learning opportunities for others,” Peters said. “Today, I am confident he has grown into an effective supervisor for our agency.”
At the same time, Peters said she remains committed to working within the agency and the Justice Department and with Congress “to root out staff misconduct and other concerns.”
The AP also filed requests with the Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act for background information on Hinkle, including his job history, work assignments and official photograph. The agency claimed it had “no public records responsive” to AP’s request.
The agency also denied a request for Hinkle’s disciplinary records, saying that “even to acknowledge the existence of such records … would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
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‘ONE OF THE ORIGINAL COWBOYS’
Hinkle showed no privacy concerns when he stood up in front of his boss, wardens and union brass and told them what he had done.
It was 2020. The new regional director, Melissa Rios, was holding court at regional headquarters in Stockton, California. Suddenly here was Hinkle, her deputy, talking at length about how he brutalized inmates long ago.
“I am one of the original Cowboys from Florence,” Hinkle said, according to people who were there. He also said, according to them: “We were abusing inmates” and “we were assaulting them.”
Around the room, people looked at each other, puzzled. Was it intended as a cautionary tale? Or was he bragging?
Fresh from the Marine Corps, Hinkle was among the first wave of correctional officers hired to staff the federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. The prison, opened in 1993, was part of a cluster built in the high desert 110 miles (175 kilometers) south of Denver to relieve overcrowding elsewhere. Next door, an even higher-security prison was springing up: the super-max “Alcatraz of the Rockies” for terrorists, mob bosses, drug lords and other dangerous felons.
The federal inmate population had tripled since 1980, fueled by a surge in violent crime and mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. Within the Florence penitentiary’s freshly poured walls, “The Cowboys” were taking over.
One guard told a grand jury that the prison’s captain had given a “green light” for “The Cowboys” to attack inmates. In particular, “The Cowboys” ran roughshod over the special housing unit or SHU (pronounced “shoe”) — a prison within the prison for inmates with disciplinary problems.
They’d walk around wearing “Cowboys” baseball caps and leave a “Cowboys” medallion as a calling card. They’d throw a ball painted with “Cowboy Love” into a cell, wait until an inmate picked it up and then rush in and jump him.
They’d meet during off hours to talk about beatings. They’d stress secrecy, bribe inmates with cigarettes to stay quiet, and repeat slogans like “you lie ’till you die.”
In all, prosecutors said, “The Cowboys” beat more than two dozen prisoners — many of them Black — in less than three years.
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BEATINGS, NO CONSEQUENCES
Hinkle was accused of assaulting at least three inmates. The allegations were detailed in court actions and formal complaints to agency officials. Two said Hinkle beat them as he and other guards brought them to the penitentiary’s special housing unit on Oct. 29, 1995, after a violent uprising at Florence’s neighboring medium-security prison.
Both men said they were in full restraints — handcuffs, chains, and shackles — and unable to protect themselves from guards wearing helmets, elbow pads and knee pads.
Marion Bryant Jr. alleged in a lawsuit, later settled by the Bureau of Prisons for $7,500, that Hinkle and other guards dragged him up a flight of stairs and slammed him into walls in a dark hallway. He said guards held his arms, tripped him, kicked his groin and taunted him with racial slurs.
“We’ll kill you if you f— with staff,” they said, according to Bryant.
Bryant said Hinkle and another officer then carried him down some stairs, dragged him down a hall and threw him on a cell floor, where Hinkle removed his restraints and his clothing.
“I’m terrified. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me,” Bryant testified in a 2000 deposition.
Bryant, a former University of Utah linebacker, said in court documents that he sustained bruised ribs, a busted lip and injuries to his left shoulder but wasn’t seen by prison medical staff for more than a week.
Norman McCrary accused Hinkle and three other guards of slamming him to a concrete floor, spitting on him, and calling him a “f—— n——.”
Bryant and McCrary, both in for drug offenses, were among two dozen inmates taken to the SHU in the wake of the uprising.
Bryant was accused of breaking off a table leg in the melee and swinging it at a prison worker “in a threatening manner.” He denied the allegation but later pleaded guilty to assaulting a correctional officer, adding two years to his sentence. Bryant said he was held in the special housing unit for six months after his alleged beating.
Hinkle was accused by a colleague in court proceedings of assaulting a third inmate, Reginald McCoy, around the same time. McCoy, 52, told the AP that Hinkle was among four guards who slapped him and held him down while a guard fondled his genitals.
McCoy, who also goes by the name Kojovi Muhammad and is serving a life sentence for cocaine distribution, said another guard punched him in the jaw, causing him to spit up blood and knocking his teeth out of place. He pretended to be unconscious until they left.
One guard told a grand jury investigating “The Cowboys” in 2000 that McCoy was sent to the special housing unit for allegedly following a female employee around, and that once he was in a holding cell, Hinkle and other guards assaulted him.
Prosecutors listed McCoy’s assault among dozens of acts in the indictment of seven members of the “The Cowboys.” They did not mention Hinkle, who wasn’t charged.
Bureau of Prisons policy bars workers from using “brutality, physical violence, or intimidation toward inmates, or use any force beyond what is reasonably necessary to subdue an inmate,” with punishment ranging from reprimand to firing.
Bryant tried to fight back through the legal system. Within weeks of his alleged beating, he filed a staff assault complaint through the prison’s administrative remedy process and later added a tort claim seeking $2 million. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division closed its investigation in February 1997, saying there was “insufficient medical evidence” and “insufficient eyewitness corroboration.”
The Bureau of Prisons also denied Bryant’s tort claim, writing that its investigation “does not reveal evidence to show that you suffered any actual personal injury as a result of negligence, omission, wrongful acts, or improper conduct on the part of Bureau of Prisons staff.”
Bryant filed a prisoner’s civil rights lawsuit against Hinkle and other officers in April 1997. The Bureau of Prisons settled with Bryant in 2003, the same year he was released from prison, but fought until after his death in 2015 to keep the terms secret.
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A SECOND CHANCE AND MORE TROUBLE
Within a year of the Justice Department closing its investigation into Bryant and McCrary’s allegations, the Bureau of Prisons promoted Hinkle out of Florence.
By February 1998, he was a senior officer specialist at a low-security prison at the federal prison complex in Beaumont, Texas, northeast of Houston. The position, which was to be awarded through a competitive selection process, put Hinkle one rung below management.
Bryant had just filed his lawsuit, and the FBI investigation into “The Cowboys” was ongoing. Two years later, though, the Bureau of Prisons promoted Hinkle into management as a lieutenant at its Houston jail.
But in October 2007, Hinkle was arrested for public intoxication after authorities say he refused to leave an all-day music festival when security ejected him for not having a ticket.
“Some punk inside made me f—— leave,” Hinkle told a sheriff’s deputy, according to an arrest report obtained by the AP through an open records request from the Montgomery County, Texas sheriff’s office.
It was around 9 p.m. at the annual Buzzfest festival, featuring The Smashing Pumpkins and other alt-rock favorites, in the Houston suburb of The Woodlands. Hinkle, then 41, flashed his Bureau of Prisons ID and told the sheriff’s deputy that “he was an officer just like” him.
In that moment, though, the deputy saw Hinkle — his breath smelling of booze, defying orders to leave — as a “danger to himself and others” and told him he was under arrest for public intoxication. As the sheriff’s deputy turned him around to handcuff him, Hinkle stiffened his body and resisted, according to the arrest report. Several other officers had to help.
After 16 months, prosecutors dropped the case just before trial, sparing Hinkle the maximum penalty — a $500 fine — and, more importantly, the prospect of a criminal record.
Hinkle’s lawyer in the case, Earl Musick, said Hinkle had misplaced his ticket after entering. Musick said he found several witnesses who would’ve testified that Hinkle wasn’t intoxicated. Prosecutors decided to withdraw the case after they had trouble finding witnesses to support the allegations, Musick said.
“He was completely innocent of that,” Musick said. “They got pissed off at him for some reason and hung that charge on him.”
Hinkle stayed in Houston, where he’d bought a house and remarried, until 2012 — nearly 12 years after he’d arrived. It was his longest gap between promotions.
Then, the Bureau of Prisons promoted him again and again in rapid succession.
— In 2013, Hinkle was made deputy captain of the federal prison complex in Forrest City, Arkansas. A year later, he was the captain of the federal prison complex in Beaumont, Texas.
— In 2016, the agency promoted Hinkle to assistant administrator of the correctional programs division at its Washington, D.C. headquarters, giving him a hand in setting policies and overseeing operations at all 122 federal prison facilities.
— In 2018, the Bureau of Prisons sent Hinkle to help run its newest and one of its most dangerous facilities, making him associate warden — second-in-command — at the federal penitentiary in Thomson, Illinois. Among his duties: Overseeing staff sexual abuse training and compliance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Then, in January 2020, the agency sent Hinkle west as deputy regional director.
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‘MESS UP, MOVE UP’?
Hinkle’s rise is a stark example of what Bureau of Prisons employees call the agency’s “mess up, move up” policy — its tendency to promote and transfer troubled workers instead of firing them.
Hinkle had never worked in the western region before and had never been a warden, often a prerequisite for a top regional post. And yet there he was, appointed to help run one-fifth of the nation’s federal lockups and given a $40,000 raise. This year, Hinkle is on pace to make $176,300, according to government data.
Employees say Hinkle has been a foul-mouthed bully who leads through fear and intimidation. Inmates allege in court filings that, on his watch, they’ve been subjected to “Cowboys”-style violence from correctional officer “goon squads” roughing them up after a hunger strike at an Oregon federal prison.
Hinkle has been accused of targeting employee whistleblowers; questioning the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic as it raged in federal prisons; defending the ex-Dublin warden charged with sexually abusing inmates; and, in an ad hoc security policy, female workers say he ordered them to take off their bras when they arrived for work.
“I’ve never heard one positive thing about the guy,” said Aaron McGlothin, president of the union at the federal prison in Mendota, California. “Everybody says the same thing,” he says — that Hinkle is “narcissistic” and “arrogant.”
McGlothin said Hinkle sent a lieutenant to videotape union members protesting understaffing last year outside the Mendota prison. Union leaders at another federal prison, in Herlong, California, said Hinkle threatened to discipline them for insubordination after they spoke up about staffing shortages.
Union representatives have complained repeatedly to the Bureau of Prisons and Justice Department about Hinkle. They’ve written to Attorney General Merrick Garland and his top deputy, Lisa Monaco, pleading for his removal, and they’ve sought help from members of Congress.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., had her own hostile encounter with Hinkle when she visited Dublin in February. Her assessment: “He’s a thug.”
Speier said Hinkle was dismissive of Dublin’s sexual-abuse crisis — worrying more about the prison’s reputation than the inmates — and tried to block her from speaking one-on-one with women who reported abuse.
“The lens through which he looked at the issue wasn’t that this was some horrible cultural rot — it was that it was an embarrassment,” Speier said. “I think he’s risen through the ranks by being part of the team… He came off as arrogant. He just really didn’t get it.”
The Bureau of Prisons made Hinkle acting warden at Dublin in January after former warden Ray Garcia and several other workers were arrested for sexually abusing inmates. Garcia was convicted Thursday after a week-long trial.
Hinkle told Dublin staff that he was there to help the prison “regain its reputation,” but employees say his two months in charge left the facility even more tattered. They say Hinkle attempted to silence an employee whistleblower and even threatened to close the prison if workers kept speaking up about misconduct.
Employees say Hinkle met alone with a female worker who filed a harassment complaint against a prison manager, a violation of established protocols that gave the appearance he was trying to keep her quiet. Afterward, the woman said she felt blindsided and was reluctant to proceed.
The episode led to rare public condemnation from the Justice Department, which said in a March statement: “These allegations, if true, are abhorrent.”
Employees say Hinkle also showed little sense of the crisis that brought him to Dublin, wrongly claiming to workers that what Garcia was accused of was consensual sex — even though the law, which he oversaw training on at Thomson, is clear that no such thing exists between inmates and prison workers.
Hinkle left Dublin at the end of February, returning to his deputy regional director duties while a new, permanent warden took over. A week later, Carvajal was at the prison, pledging to look into employees’ concerns about how Hinkle kept getting promoted instead of fired.
Nevertheless, on June 10, Carvajal sent a memo to Bureau of Prisons staff announcing that he was promoting Hinkle to acting western regional director indefinitely. Rios, the regional director, was on leave for a family emergency and not expected back, but the agency said she returned in late September, bumping Hinkle back to deputy regional director.
And that’s where he remains, at least for now. Under Justice Department policy, Hinkle must retire next May when he turns 57. That, said Hinkle, is precisely what he plans to do.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last month ending the constitutional protections for abortion.
In a new volley of congressional letters, six House Democrats have asked the top executives of Amazon’s cloud-service network and major cloud provider Oracle about the companies’ handling of consumers’ location data from mobile phones, and what steps they have taken or planned to protect the privacy rights of individuals seeking information on abortion.
The decision by the court’s conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade has resulted in strict limits or total bans on abortion in more than a dozen states. About a dozen more states are set to impose additional restrictions. Privacy experts say that could make women vulnerable because their personal data could be used to surveil pregnancies and shared with police or sold to vigilantes. Online searches, location data, text messages and emails, and even apps that track periods could be used to prosecute people who seek an abortion — or medical care for a miscarriage — as well as those who assist them, experts say.
Privacy advocates are watching for possible new moves by law enforcement agencies in affected states — serving subpoenas, for example, on tech companies such as Google, Apple, Bing, Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp, services like Uber and Lyft, and internet service providers including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast.
“Data collected and sold by your company could be used by law enforcement and prosecutors in states with aggressive abortion restrictions,” the House Democrats, led by Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts, said in the letters. “Additionally, in states that empower vigilantes and private actors to sue abortion providers, this information can be used as part of judicial proceedings.
“When consumers use apps on their phone and quickly tap ‘yes’ on ‘use geolocation data’ pop-ups, they should not be worried about the endless sale of their data to advertisers, individuals or law enforcement. And it most certainly should not be used to hunt down, prosecute and jail an individual seeking reproductive care. Companies can take action today to protect individual rights.”
The letters also went to executives of Near Intelligence Holdings and Mobilewalla. Along with Oracle and Amazon Web Services’ Data Exchange, the companies were described as leading data brokers — businesses that gather, sell or trade location data from mobile phones, which could be used to track people who have visited abortion clinics or have gone out of state seeking abortion services.
Five other Democrats active in tech issues signed the letters with Trahan: Reps. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Yvette Clarke of New York, Debbie Dingell of Michigan, Adam Schiff of California and Sean Casten of Illinois.
Spokespeople for Amazon and Oracle didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Also this week, Massachusetts’ two U.S. senators, Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, sent letters to four companies raising concerns that the software they use to monitor students’ online communications could be used to punish students who seek information about abortion services and reproductive health care. They asked the companies — Bark Technologies, Gaggle.net, GoGuardian and Securly — whether their software flags students’ online searches for abortion and other related terms.
“It would be deeply disturbing if your software flags words or activity that suggest students are searching for contraception, abortion or other related services, and if school administrators, parents and even law enforcement were potentially informed of this activity,” Warren and Markey wrote.
Generally, the so-called “ed tech” companies say the monitoring is intended to stop the next school shooter or student suicide, and that the scans are mostly limited to school e-mails or activity on school computers or internet networks, not private accounts.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden, under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful in response to the Supreme Court ruling, signed an executive order to try to protect access to abortion. The actions Biden outlined are intended to head off some potential penalties that women seeking abortion may face after the ruling, but his order cannot restore access to abortion in the more than a dozen states where strict limits or total bans have gone into effect.
Biden also asked the Federal Trade Commission to take steps to protect the privacy of those seeking information about reproductive care online. On June 24, the day the high court announced its decision, four Democratic lawmakers asked the FTC to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by enabling the collection and sale of their personal data of all kinds to third parties.
In May, several Senate Democrats urged the CEOs of Google and Apple to prohibit apps on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store from using data-mining practices that could facilitate the targeting of individuals seeking abortion services.
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STOCKTON, Calif. -- The victim of a shooting in Oakland, linked by Stockton police to an apparent serial killer, has been identified. According to the Alameda County coroner, 39-year-old Oakland resident Juan Vasquez Serrano was the man fatally shot on Harmon Avenue on April 10, 2021.
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Stockton police believe that Serrano, as well as five other murders, were committed by the same person. There's now a $95,000 reward for their arrest.
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Police search for apparent serial killer tied to 6 murders in California
Six unprovoked murders of men ages 21 to 54 Since April 2021 appear to be the work of one person, according to police in Stockton, California.
Authorities are searching for a person of interest tied to the six slayings. All of the victims were men and all were alone at the time they were fatally shot, police said. The killings all happened at night or in the early morning hours.
Police released only a few details about the string of murders and when they happened: a 35-year-old man fatally shot at 12:31 a.m. on July 8; a 43-year-old man fatally shot at 9:49 p.m. on Aug. 11; a 21-year-old man fatally shot at 6:41 a.m. on Aug. 30; a 52-year-old man fatally shot at 4:27 a.m. on Sept. 21; and a 54-year-old man fatally shot at 1:53 a.m. on Sept. 27.
While detectives continue to follow up on this series, they confirmed two additional cases from April 2021 that believed to be linked, with one tied to the Bay Area.
Police say a 46-year-old woman was shot at Park Street and Union Street in Stockton at around 3:20 a .m. on April 16, 2021. The women survived her injuries. A 40-year-old man was fatally shot in Oakland, California, at around 4:18 a.m. on April 10, 2021.
Stockton police told ABC News that all of the victims were ambushed, none were robbed and none of the incidents were drug- or gang-related. Police also told ABC News they have physical evidence linking the five crime scenes together.
On Monday, San Joaquin County's Office of the Medical Examiner identified the victims. Paul Yaw, 35, was killed on July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, died on Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, was killed on Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, was the Sept. 21 victim; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54, was slain on Sept. 27.
Lorenzo Lopez "was just a person who was out here at the wrong place at the wrong time at the wrong circumstance," his brother Jerry Lopez told ABC Sacramento affiliate KXTV. "It's hard to process that this has happened. I mean, me and my brother have been like twins. We were a year a part so we were pretty close."
Paul Yaw "was a good boy who grew into a good man with a big heart. He will always live on in our hearts. He was always there for you if you needed him," the family said in a statement to ABC News. "He was a son, brother, father, grandson, nephew and cousin. I still can't believe he's not coming back."
The city of Stockton said it was putting forward a $95,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the investigation. Stockton Crime Stoppers is posting an additional $10,000 reward. And late Monday, Stockton police increased the reward to $95,000 after an anonymous donation.
The day after Lopez's killing, Stockton police said they were not sure if the killings were related.
"(We're) still looking at it from a random point of view, but we do see some similarities," Police Chief Stanley McFadden said Wednesday. "We have been provided absolutely zero evidence that leads us to believe that one individual is running rampant in the city of Stockton killing people."
But that changed two days later when the department tied the five killings together and released an image of a person of interest.
ABC News' Caroline Guthrie and Lisa Sivertsen contributed to this report. | 2022-10-04T22:26:33+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/serial-killer-in-stockton-oakland-victim-murders-california-reward/12294800/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Despite his prominence as Japan’s longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe may have enjoyed his biggest moment at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics before 70,000 at the city’s renown Maracana stadium.
As a video was shown with Abe portrayed running late for the handover ceremony, the Japanese prime minister suddenly popped up on stage in Rio — to loud applause — dressed as Super Mario, the famous Nintendo video game character.
He doffed his red cap to the crowd, and there could be no mistake where the Games were going next. The lettering on his red cap spelled it out: Tokyo.
Abe died on Friday after he was shot giving a campaign speech in the western Japanese city of Nara.
Ever a showman, Abe pushed for the Tokyo Games from the start and then helped keep them on track after being postponed for a year by the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2013, seated in the front row of a hotel ballroom when then-IOC President Jacques Rogge opened an envelope to reveal Tokyo as host of the 2020 Games. Seated at the heart of the Japanese delegation, Abe leaped to his feet, raised his arms high, and waved a flag festooned with the logo of Tokyo’s bid committee.
Abe and Japan famously campaigned for those Games under the motto “a safe pair of hands.” This was at a time when Sochi, Russia, and Rio de Janeiro were the focal point of relentless criticism for their preparations; Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Rio for the 2016 Summer Games.
Ironically, corruption charges would eventual haunt Tokyo’s preparations.
And it was Abe who, in a closing speech to the International Olympic Committee before the vote in Buenos Aires, reassured members that the Fukushima nuclear disaster — which happened in 2011 — was “under control.”
However, it wasn’t so. That area of northeastern Japan is still battling to recover even a decade after the tragedy. Many in the region feel the Olympics detracted from the recovery, rather than helped speed it.
Tokyo defeated Istanbul 60-36 in the final round of secret voting in 2013. Madrid was eliminated after an initial tie with Istanbul in the first round of voting.
And it was Abe and IOC President Thomas Bach who had the final word in March 2020 in postponing the Games in the face of surging COVID-19 deaths. Bach said in a statement on Friday that the delayed Games went on — only because of Abe.
“Only his vision, determination and dependability allowed us to take the unprecedented decision to postpone the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020,” Bach said. He said that without Abe “these Olympic Games would never have happened.”
He called Abe “a man with a vision, full of determination and boundless energy to make his vision come true. What I appreciated most about him was that he was a man of his word.”
Bach said the Olympic flag at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, would fly at half-staff for three days.
Abe was probably the No. 1 booster of Tokyo’s 2020 Games, which he hoped would be a reminder that Japan was still a power in Asia despite the rise of China. But he stepped down from office, claiming poor health, late in August 2020 — just under 11 months before the delayed Games would actually open.
“I thought for him, not being able to be prime minister at the time of the Olympics, was somewhat heartbreaking,” David Leheny, a political scientist at Japan’s Waseda University, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “He had put so much work into it, and I think for him it was emblematic of Japan reemerging as a leader on the global stage.”
Abe was replaced by Yoshihide Suga, who oversaw the Olympics but left office just weeks after they ended. Suga was criticized for his handling of the pandemic.
“Given how important the 1964 Tokyo Olympics were to many people — in announcing Japan’s emergence after World War II — I think for Abe having the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 was meant to be the same thing,” Leheny added. “And he certainly wasn’t shy about making himself central to the process.”
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) —The Navy’s country/bluegrass ensemble’s 2022 National Tour is making a stop in Knoxville. The United States Navy Band Country Current plans to perform a free concert Monday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m. in Market Square.
Each year, the band’s performing units go on concert tours in specified regions of the country. These tours allow the band to reach audiences that do not have opportunities to see the Navy’s musical ensembles on a regular basis.
“For many years, Navy bands have been where it matters, when it matters, just like the rest of our Navy. Today, we have Sailors performing around the world, improving relations with our allies abroad as well as telling the Navy story here at home,” said Capt. Kenneth Collins, U.S. Navy Band commanding officer.
According to the Navy, the ensemble is renowned for its versatility through performing a “blend of modern country music and cutting-edge bluegrass.” The seven members of the ensemble have extensive recording and touring experience in Nashville, New York, New Orleans and more. All seven are also skilled performers on multiple instruments.
In 2011, Country Current became the first military band to perform at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. It has also shared the stage with Rhonda Vincent, Dailey and Vincent, Mountain Heart, Little Roy Lewis, Third Time Out, The Lonesome River Band, Josh Williams, The Seldom Scene, J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Ned Luberecki, and Chris Jones.
There are six performing ensembles in the Navy Band: the Concert Band, Ceremonial Band, Sea Chanters chorus, Commodores jazz ensemble, Country Current country/bluegrass ensemble and the Cruisers popular music group. The majority of the Sailors in the band have undergraduate degrees in music. | 2022-08-31T17:03:39+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/knox-county-news/u-s-navy-band-country-current-coming-to-knoxville/ |
Anxiety over academics. Post-lockdown malaise. Social media angst.
Study after study says American youth are in crisis, facing unprecedented mental health challenges that are burdening teen girls in particular. Among the most glaring data: A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report showed almost 60% of U.S. girls reported persistent sadness and hopelessness. Rates are up in boys, too, but about half as many are affected.
Adults have theories about what is going on, but what do teens themselves say? Is social media the root of their woes? Are their male peers somehow immune, or part of the problem?
The Associated Press interviewed five girls in four states and agreed to publish only their first names because of the sensitive nature of the topics they discussed. The teens offered sobering — and sometimes surprising — insight.
“We are so strong and we go through so, so much,” said Amelia, a 16-year-old Illinois girl who loves to sing and wants to be a surgeon.
She also has depression and anxiety. Like 13% of U.S. high school girls surveyed in the government report, she is a suicide attempt survivor. Hospitalization after the 2020 attempt and therapy helped. But Amelia has also faced bullying, toxic friendships, and menacing threats from a boy at school who said she “deserved to be raped.”
More than 1 in 10 girls said they’d been forced to have sex, according to the CDC report, the first increase noted in the government’s periodic survey. Sexual threats are just one of the burdens teen girls say they face.
“We are trying to survive in a world that is out to get us,” Amelia said.
Emma, an 18-year-old aspiring artist in Georgia with attention deficit disorder and occasional depression, says worries about academics and college are a huge source of stress.
“Lately in myself and my friends, I realize how exhausted everyone is with the pressures of the world and the social issues and where they’re going to go in the future,” Emma added. ”All of these things pile up and crash down.”
Zoey, 15, was raised in Mississippi by a strict but loving single mother who pressures her to be a success in school and life. She echoes those feelings.
“School can be nerve racking and impact your mental health so much that you don’t even … recognize it, until you’re in this space where you don’t know what to do,” Zoey said. She’s also had friendship struggles that ended in deep depression and felt the discomfort of being the only Black kid in class.
Several girls said they face added pressure from society’s standards that put too much focus on how they look.
“A lot of people view women’s bodies and girls’ bodies as sexual,” Emma said. “It’s overwhelming to have all these things pushed on us.”
The #MeToo movement began when these girls were quite young, but it intensified during the pandemic and they’re hyperaware of uninvited sexual advances.
Boys are less aware, they suggest. The girls cite crass jokes, inappropriate touching, sexual threats or actual violence. Girls say the unwanted attention can feel overwhelming.
“We deserve to not be sexualized or catcalled, because we are kids,” Amelia said.
Siya, an 18-year-old in New Jersey, said almost every girl she knows has dealt with sexual harassment. “That’s just been the normal for me,” she said.
“When you’re walking alone as girl, you’re automatically put in this vulnerable situation,” Siya said. “I think that’s so sad. I don’t know what it feels like to not have that fear.”
Makena, a high school senior in Mississippi, said she and her friends sometimes wear baggy clothes to hide their shapes but boys “comment, no matter what.”
She has had depression and therapy, and said she has grown up in a community where mental health is still sometimes stigmatized.
“Often in the Black community we aren’t as encouraged to express emotion” because of what previous generations endured, said Makena, who works with a teen health advocacy group. “We’re expected to have hearts of steel,” she said. “But sometimes it’s OK to not be OK.”
Social media platforms contribute, with their focus on superficial appearances and making perfectionism seem attainable. Girls say they’re just part of the problem.
“Social media has completely shifted the way we think and feel about ourselves” in good and bad ways, Makena said.
She’s felt pressure to be perfect when comparing herself with others online. But she also follows social media influencers who talk about their own mental health challenges and who make it seem “OK for me to feel sad and vulnerable,” she said.
Girls have historically been disproportionately affected by depression and anxiety. But those statistics at least partly reflect the fact that girls are often more likely than boys to talk about feelings and emotions, said Dr. Hina Talib, an adolescent medicine specialist and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Zoey, the Mississippi 15-year-old, says boys have to keep up a “macho facade” and are less likely to admit their angst.
“I feel like they might feel that way, we just don’t see it,” she said.
A study published in March in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that in 2019, before the pandemic, about 60% of children hospitalized for mental health reasons were girls. A decade earlier, the difference was only slight.
COVID-19 lockdowns added another dimension, thrusting academic and social lives online, Talib said. Some kids entered the pandemic as youngsters and emerged with more mature bodies, socially awkward, uncertain how to navigate friendships and relationships. They live in a world beset with school shootings, a rapidly changing climate, social and political unrest, and restrictions on reproductive care and transgender rights.
The CDC report released in February included teens queried in fall 2021, when U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths were still high. Other data and anecdotal reports suggest many teens continue to struggle.
“The pandemic as a percentage of their lives is huge,” said Talib.
Expecting kids to be unscathed may be unrealistic.
“It’s going to change a generation,” she said.
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SO WHAT: If you purchased Bioventus securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Bioventus class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10065 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 13, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Offering Documents and defendants statements throughout the Class Period were false and/or misleading and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Bioventus suffered from significant liquidity issues; (2) the Company's rebate practices were unsustainable; (3) accordingly, defendants overstated the Company's business and financial prospects; (4) Bioventus maintained deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting with respect to the timely recognition of quarterly rebates; (5) all the foregoing increased the risk that the Company would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash impairment charge, could not timely file one or more of its financial reports, would have to amend one or more of its financial statements, and could not meet its financial obligations as they came due; and (6) as a result, the Offering Documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spartech, a leading manufacturer of engineered thermoplastics and custom packaging solutions, announces Realtree Xtra® Camo Pattern is now available on Korad®, PVC, and paper film materials. This latest product offering from Spartech is intended to help customers open new market segments while eliminating the typical expense and difficulties associated with licensing and royalty payments.
The unique Realtree Xtra® Camo Pattern features sharp foreground elements over a progressively ghosted mid-ground and very soft background. The versatile new camo design includes tree trunks, large and small limbs, leaves of many types and colors, and large open areas. With twelve warm, natural colors and 3D patterns, Realtree Xtra® Camo blends effectively outdoors in fall, winter, and early spring.
Customers can select the Realtree Xtra® Camo Pattern for products manufactured using vinyl and decorative films and a wide array of substrates that include ABS, high-impact polystyrene, polycarbonate, PVC, ASA, PMMA, TPR, and TPO. These materials have the assurance of Spartech's proven product performance and can be thermoformed, laminated, and can include design as well as simple product assembly if required.
Use applications for both the Realtree Xtra® Camo and material selection include automotive exterior of all kinds, such as fenders, fender flares, air deflectors. It's also ideal for ATV parts, hunting equipment such as blinds and sleds as well as gun cases and holsters, knife sheaths.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with a unique innovation center and 17 manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Spartech is a leading plastics manufacturer of engineered thermoplastic materials and specialty packaging products. Meeting exact standards for everything from food packaging to aerospace and automotive applications, Spartech continues to make a world of difference with sustainable, diverse, reliable, and innovative products including UltraTuf®, Royalite®, Korad®, PreservaPak®, and Polycast® https://spartech.com
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Commodity Insights announces the call for nominations for the Platts Global Energy Awards now in its 24th year.
Often described as "the Oscars of the energy industry," the Platts Global Energy Awards program recognizes corporate and individual innovation, leadership, and exemplary performance in 19 categories.
This year's theme, "Connected. Committed. Charged." was chosen to spotlight the attributes and attitudes of successful leaders and organizations.
For 2022, several awards categories have been updated to address important trends in the market. The Awards of Excellence are now the Energy Transition Awards to reflect the industry's focus on what it recognizes as an essential shift towards a more sustainable, lower greenhouse-gas-emissions future for the generations to come.
In these volatile, uncertain and challenging times, two new awards have been created to recognize companies that have made significant commitments to their local, regional and global communities:
- Corporate Impact Award-Critical Response will honor the organization that provides the most exemplary immediate and critical response to an emergency; and,
- Corporate Impact Award-Sustained Commitment will laud a company demonstrating sustained efforts that are being impactful to the communities served.
Sue Avinir, Head of Conferences & Advisory Solutions, S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: "Over the past 24 years, we have recognized thousands of companies from around the globe for their important innovations, leadership, and performance. We are proud to continue the tradition and showcase industry leaders who are genuinely committed and connected to the evolution of both the energy industry and the energy markets, and who are leading the charge to energy transition."
Winners of the S&P Global Commodity Insights Platts Global Energy Awards are determined by an independent judging panel of international energy experts whose background and experience include regulation, policymaking, corporate leadership, trading and strategic consulting. Neither S&P Global Commodity Insights nor its sponsors submit votes or select winners.
Nominations will be accepted through August 19, 2022 and the finalists will be announced on September 22, 2022.
The in-person, Platts Global Energy Awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Access the entire list of categories and nomination and event details at the Platts Global Energy Awards pages of the S&P Global Commodity Insights website.
Event sponsorships are still available by contacting Globalenergyawards@spglobal.com.
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At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We're a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators and we create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights' coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information visit https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights
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SUSANVILLE – High Desert State Prison correctional officers fatally shot two inmates as they stabbed a third inmate from Santa Clara County, authorities said Wednesday.
Around 10:50 a.m. Tuesday, 32-year-old Frank Nanez and 48-year-old Raul Cuen used inmate-made weapons to attack 68-year-old Anthony Aguilera, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.
The CDCR said officers told the men to stop and get down; however, the order was ignored and officers fired a warning shot from a rifle. When the attack continued, the officers fired additional shots and deployed chemical agents, the CDCR said.
Nanez and Cuen suffered gunshot wounds, the CDCR said. All three men received first aid, but Nanez and Cuen were pronounced dead a short time later. The Lassen County Medical Examiner & Coroner will determine Nanez’s and Cuen’s official causes of death.
Aguilera was taken to an area hospital, where he was listed in serious condition Wednesday.
No other injuries were reported. The CDCR said the weapons used in the attack were recovered.
The officers who opened fire were placed on administrative leave, per CDCR policy. Their names are being withheld due to the ongoing investigation, the CDCR said.
The CDCR sent its Deadly Force Investigations Team to the prison to assist with the investigation. The team conducts criminal and administrative probes into every use of deadly force, the CDCR said, adding that a board will also review the case.
Nanez and Cuen were admitted from Tulare County in February 2012 and January 1994, respectively.
The CDCR said Nanez was serving seven years to life for first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, as well as multiple counts of intentional discharge of a firearm, and Cuen was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder with an enhancement for use of a deadly weapon.
Aguilera arrived at the prison in March 2007 to serve a life sentence for attempted first- and second-degree murder, intentional discharge of a firearm, inflicting great bodily injury and committing a street gang act in the commission of a violent felony, the CDCR said.
Located near Susanville, the High Desert State Prison opened in 1995 and houses roughly 1,700 inmates. | 2022-12-01T17:34:19+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/12/01/lassen-county-correctional-officers-shoot-two-inmates-dead/ |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a headstone that would provide friends and relatives with a more personal and reflective visit to the gravesite," said an inventor, from Chicago, Ill., "so I invented THE DIGITAL TOMBSTONE. My design could help to alleviate sadness by evoking treasured memories of the departed loved one."
The invention provides a modified design for a headstone. In doing so, it enables family and friends to remember the memory of the deceased loved one. As a result, it could offer a more heartwarming experience when visiting the cemetery and it could provide added comfort and peace of mind. The invention features a unique design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CHK-233, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
0-1-1
(zero, one, one)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
0-1-1
(zero, one, one)
¶ Maximum prize: $500 | 2022-12-23T03:49:14+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-3-game-17673216.php |
Governor Reeves signs anti-animal cruelty measure dubbed “Buddy’s Law”
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Governor Tate Reeves signed legislation Thursday in honor of a dog that was burned and severely injured by a 12-year-old in April of last year.
The two to three-year-old pup, Buddy, was forced into intense veterinary treatment, including skin grafts, after the child set him on fire.
“We are finally able to uncover his face. As you can see, he is completely healed. His personality is intact, and he loves people,” Dr. Elizabeth Swanson with Mississippi State University Veterinary School said.
“Buddy’s Law” not only aims to protect animals but children as well.
Senator Angela Hill led the push for the creation of this anti-animal cruelty measure but making it a law was anything but easy.
“Buddy’s Law” passed the Senate unopposed earlier this year, only to later die in the House and ultimately get tacked on to a different bill.
Aside from making the torture incidences (drowning, burning, suffocating, etc.) more specific, Senator Hill said very little changed from the original version of “Buddy’s Law” that she authored to the version signed by Governor Tate Reeves Thursday.
The measure is included as part of Senate Bill 2245, which is a bill having to do with voyeurism.
In a nutshell, “Buddy’s Law” requires psychological evaluations, counseling, and/or treatments for children who torture domesticated cats and dogs.
Additionally, the law holds the offender’s parent and/or guardian accountable if they don’t provide the recommended help for their child.
Lastly, it forces the offender’s parent and/or guardian to pay for the necessary care.
“We need to make sure that if these kids are in front of a youth court judge for something like this, that they receive an evaluation and some treatment,” Hill said. “Hopefully, we will be healing them as well as healing the dogs and cats.”
Both Hill and Representative Dana McLean said Buddy’s Law looks to interrupt the cycle of violence.
“There are signs that say those that end up committing really terrible crimes start out as young children abusing animals,” McLean said.
Buddy’s law goes into effect starting July first.
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Copyright 2022 WLBT. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-20T03:37:51+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/05/20/governor-reeves-signs-anti-animal-cruelty-measure-dubbed-buddys-law/ |
Woman recorded kicking child faces child abuse charges, police say
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (WSAZ/Gray News) – A video posted on social media showing a child being kicked out of a chair by an adult has led to an arrest, according to West Virginia police.
The Cabell County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that Staci Burgy was arrested on child abuse charges.
In an interview, Burgy admitted it was her in the video but told officials she wasn’t attempting to hurt the child, the Cabell County Sheriff told WSAZ.
Deputies say Burgy told them she was imitating something she saw on a TV show.
Burgy is in the Western Regional Jail awaiting arraignment.
The sheriff’s office is working with the Huntington Police Department on the investigation, according to authorities.
Copyright 2022 WSAZ via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-07T01:12:28+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/07/07/woman-recorded-kicking-child-faces-child-abuse-charges-police-say/ |
WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 31, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
938 PM CST Fri Dec 30 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.
* WHERE...Portions of central, south central and southwest
Louisiana and southeast Texas.
* WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-12-31T05:23:01+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-LAKE-CHARLES-Warnings-Watches-and-17686584.php |
The following is a listing of all home transfers in Ann Arbor reported from July 3 to July 9. There were 19 transactions posted during this time. During this period, the median sale for the area was a 1,606-square-foot home on Barrington Place in Ann Arbor that sold for $495,000.
Ann Arbor
2335 Fernwood Ave., Ann Arbor, $225,000, 695 square feet, $324 per square-foot, two bedrooms and one bathroom.
5900 S. Parker Road, Ann Arbor, $290,000, 1,673 square feet, $173 per square-foot, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
649 Watersedge Drive, Ann Arbor, $315,000, 1,152 square feet, $273 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
2928 N. Knightsbridge Circle, Ann Arbor, $330,000, 1,201 square feet, $275 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
630 Peninsula Court, Ann Arbor, $345,000, 1,516 square feet, $228 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
652 Peninsula Court, Ann Arbor, $361,000, 1,516 square feet, $238 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
628 Peninsula Court, Ann Arbor, $370,000, 1,516 square feet, $244 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
5489 Trillium Crossing Court, Ann Arbor, $420,000, 1,435 square feet, $293 per square-foot, two bathrooms.
628 Susan Drive, Ann Arbor, $442,000, 1,344 square feet, $329 per square-foot, three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
1705 Barrington Place, Ann Arbor, $495,000, 1,606 square feet, $308 per square-foot, three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
2281 Gemstone Court, Ann Arbor, $497,500, 2,461 square feet, $202 per square-foot, three bathrooms.
570 N. Maple Road, Ann Arbor, $505,000, 2,535 square feet, $199 per square-foot, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
1 Shipman Circle, Ann Arbor, $550,000, 1,497 square feet, $367 per square-foot, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
1130 Bardstown Trail, Ann Arbor, $700,000, 2,336 square feet, $300 per square-foot, four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
1447 Mark Twain Court, Ann Arbor, $868,000, 3,501 square feet, $248 per square-foot, four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
3805 Waldenwood Drive, Ann Arbor, $911,000, 2,817 square feet, $323 per square-foot, three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
3025 Exmoor Road, Ann Arbor, $1,200,000, 2,664 square feet, $450 per square-foot, four bedrooms and four bathrooms.
1605 Morton Ave., Ann Arbor, $1,355,000, 2,964 square feet, $457 per square-foot, four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
1559 Newport Creek Drive, Ann Arbor, $1,475,000, 5,071 square feet, $291 per square-foot, four bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Real Estate Newswire is a service provided by United Robots, which uses machine learning to generate analysis of data from Propmix, an aggregator of national real-estate data.. | 2023-07-10T05:28:45+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/realestate-news/2023/07/see-all-homes-sold-in-ann-arbor-july-3-to-july-9.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — More people are volunteering throughout the state of Indiana. This includes a big influx of volunteers at the United Way of Central Indiana’s Go All IN Day.
“So many people have been blessed whether it is financially, or health, or just people who have helped them out in the past, so being able to give back in any way, I think, is just being a good citizen,” said Rich Koopmann, one of the volunteers.
From food pantries to homeless shelters, and everything in between, hundreds of Hoosiers worked together with 65 different nonprofits to make a difference on Friday, and several of the volunteer projects focused on helping young people.
“One of the things we want to ensure that we are doing is reminding people that every person has a purpose, and because every person has a purpose, we want to make sure we are tapping into that at every age possible,” said Fred Payne, the president and CEO of the United Way of Central Indiana. “We know if we help young children thrive and to recognize that they are great, and they are awesome, and they have the ability to do anything they want to be, just imagine the communities we will have tomorrow. It means a lot to me that we are helping our children today, because we know tomorrow, they will be strong leaders.”
With more than 1100 volunteers this year, organizers say that’s 100 more people stepping up to help from last year.
But it’s not about just one day of volunteering, it’s about giving back to those in need throughout the entire year.
“We are seeing the desire increase since the pandemic,” Payne said. “We are making sure we are trying to connect individuals with the right volunteer opportunities.”
The good news is the United Way of Central Indiana says volunteering numbers are continuing to rise across the area. This is a trend both leaders and volunteers alike want to continue to see going forward.
“Even if you are not into volunteering, just thinking about if you were in their position, how it would make your day,” said volunteer, J Carrington Warren. “Think about it from your shoes, like if you were the ones receiving it. Think about how it can really help somebody.”
And the only way to make that happen is for more people to step into the role of a volunteer!
“Just do it,” said volunteer, Courtney Hamilton. “It’s selfless. Sometimes you have to give without expecting anything in return and that’s why your blessings keep coming in.”
For more volunteering opportunities with the United Way of Central Indiana, click here. There is an upcoming volunteering opportunity called “Sky High” on August 10, 2023 and another one August 11 2023 called “Over the Edge.” | 2023-06-23T20:51:54+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/more-hoosiers-stepping-up-to-volunteer-during-go-all-in-day/ |
LONDON, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KodyPay (kodypay.com), a rapid-scaling payments company, has raised an additional US$5 million in Q3 2022. The financing round involved major shareholders alongside new strategic investors bringing the total funding raised to US$10 million.
KodyPay brings the ease and optionality of online payments to brick & mortar businesses. Using an all-in-one iOS/Android app for tablets or physical card machines, KodyPay has created a one-stop, fully integrated payment solution.
The company's payment technology allows businesses to accept both physical card payments & online ordering at once. All while benefiting from data typically generated by an online transaction, bringing the benefits of e-commerce to in-person payments.
Businesses can also accept an expanding range of non-card payment types with KodyPay. These will comprise leading e-wallets, buy-now-pay-later, open banking and cryptocurrency, with automated payment reconciliation across all payment service providers.
As part of KodyPay's infrastructure, businesses can use custom checkout options. Fast casual dining venues can offer contact-free checkout using built-in products such as KodyPay's no-app QR code ordering. Businesses can then increase revenue by letting consumers avoid the need to be served by staff.
Businesses can sign up online in minutes to benefit from low transaction fees, saving up to 60% on processing costs. Those operating in hospitality have seen up to a 20% increase in staff tips. In addition, sales data and customer analytics gained from using KodyPay can help businesses to grow and increase profitability.
With a successful trial in October 2021 and a public beta launch in July 2022, KodyPay has seen significant growth. It now has gross payment volumes (GPV) exceeding £100M on an annualised basis after increasing at an average of 90% month over month. The company has more than 500 venues signed up in the UK and expects strong growth in the coming year.
KodyPay has used funds to scale its headcount across the UK and invest in its strategic partnerships to release new product features. These will soon include embedded finance, enhanced data analytics or loyalty to provide businesses with more value and increase growth.
In the past year, KodyPay has expanded its employee base and leadership team, with Joao Martins (Founding CTO at Series B/C Yapily) and Pierre Baigts (VP of Product at Series B Tiller - exited to SumUp) joining as CTO & CPO, respectively.
"Our ultimate aim is to bring the ease and optionality of online payments to brick & mortar businesses. This oversubscribed funding round validates the KodyPay team's outstanding efforts as we continue to deliver on our mission. We are now better positioned than ever to truly become the future of payments and build the solutions businesses deserve." said Founder, President & CEO, Yoyo Chang.
About KodyPay
KodyPay is on a mission to make in-person payment acceptance easy. Today, paying in person presents common problems for businesses, such as high costs, long queues, and limited choice of payment methods. KodyPay fully integrates the payment ecosystem. This way, businesses can offer customers more control over their payment choices to make transactions quicker and simpler.
KodyPay was founded by a small group of final-year high school students. Having launched in October 2021, 22-year-old founder Yoyo Chang (CEO) studied at the University of Cambridge & York whilst raising US$10M. Today, KodyPay's platform is growing to connect millions of end-users with venues all over the UK.
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Florida Atlantic Owls (35-3, 18-2 C-USA) vs. San Diego State Aztecs (31-6, 15-3 MWC)
The Aztecs have gone 15-3 against MWC opponents, with a 16-3 record in non-conference play. San Diego State is third in the MWC in rebounding with 33.4 rebounds. Nathan Mensah leads the Aztecs with 5.9 boards.
The Owls are 18-2 in C-USA play. Florida Atlantic has a 5-0 record in one-possession games.
TOP PERFORMERS: Adam Seiko averages 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Aztecs, scoring 6.1 points while shooting 46.1% from beyond the arc. Matt Bradley is shooting 36.0% and averaging 11.0 points over the last 10 games for San Diego State.
Johnell Davis is scoring 13.9 points per game with 5.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists for the Owls. Alijah Martin is averaging 13.8 points and 5.4 rebounds while shooting 40.0% over the past 10 games for Florida Atlantic.
LAST 10 GAMES: Aztecs: 9-1, averaging 65.6 points, 35.7 rebounds, 11.8 assists, 5.2 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 40.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 58.3 points per game.
Owls: 10-0, averaging 76.0 points, 37.3 rebounds, 13.6 assists, 5.6 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.3 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-03-31T09:03:52+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/2023/03/31/florida-atlantic-san-diego-state-preview/a9ed7cae-cf97-11ed-8907-156f0390d081_story.html |
TOKYO, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ajinomoto Co., Inc. ("Ajinomoto Co.") today announced a license agreement with Exelixis, Inc. ("Exelixis") to incorporate AJICAP®, Ajinomoto Co.'s proprietary site-specific bioconjugation and linker technologies, in the development of certain of Exelixis' antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) programs.
Exelixis is a commercially successful, oncology-focused biotechnology company that strives to accelerate the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for difficult-to-treat cancers. Utilizing its network of biotherapeutics collaborations, the company is developing next generation ADCs for the treatment of various cancers. Ajinomoto Co. is a leading technology provider for biopharmaceuticals and the owner of CDMO Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services. AJICAP® is Ajinomoto Co.'s proprietary site-specific bioconjugation and stable linker technologies compatible with commonly used antibody isotypes. AJICAP technology includes its "off-the-shelf" feature, allowing any therapeutic antibody at any stage of development to be conjugated to drug-payloads of choice without the need for antibody engineering or cell line development, and stable/hydrophilic linkers to generate antibody-drug conjugates with an enhanced therapeutic window.
As part of the license agreement, Exelixis will have the right to use the AJICAP technology to support its aim of advancing multiple ADCs with the potential for higher efficacy and lower toxicity than currently available options. Ajinomoto Co. is eligible to receive development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as royalties on commercial sales.
Dr. Tatsuya Okuzumi, General Manager, Business Development Group, Bio-Pharma Services Department, Ajinomoto Co., expressed: "We are very excited to support Exelixis, a leader in oncology drug discovery, development, and commercialization, in the development of novel antibody-drug conjugates. The combination of Exelixis' antibodies and payloads with Ajinomoto Co.'s AJICAP opens up a wide range of oncology applications and may be harnessed to provide a clinical benefit to patients."
About Ajinomoto Co. and Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services Based on the corporate message "Eat Well, Live Well.", Ajinomoto Co., Inc. has been scientifically pursuing the possibilities of amino acids to aim for future growth by creating new value through sustainable and innovative solutions for communities and society. For additional information about Ajinomoto Co. (TYO: 2802), please visit www.ajinomoto.com.
As its pharmaceutical arm, Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services is a fully integrated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with sites in Belgium, United States, Japan, and India, providing comprehensive development, cGMP manufacturing, and aseptic fill finish services for small and large molecule APIs and intermediates. For more information about Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, please visit www.AjiBio-Pharma.com.
In addition, Ajinomoto Co. and Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services offer a broad range of innovative platform technologies and capabilities for pre-clinical and pilot programs to commercial quantities, including AJIPHASE® oligonucleotide manufacturing technology, CORYNEX® and TALAMAX® protein expression systems, AJICAP® site-specific conjugation and linker technologies for ADCs, continuous flow manufacturing and more. For additional information on the platform technologies, please visit https://ajibio-pharma.ajinomoto.com/.
About Exelixis, Inc. Founded in 1994, Exelixis, Inc. (Exelixis) is a commercially successful, oncology-focused biotechnology company that strives to accelerate the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for difficult-to-treat cancers. Following early work in model system genetics, Exelixis established a broad drug discovery and development platform that has served as the foundation for our continued efforts to bring new cancer therapies to patients in need. Exelixis' discovery efforts have resulted in four commercially available products, CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib), COMETRIQ® (cabozantinib), COTELLIC® (cobimetinib) and MINNEBRO® (esaxerenone), and Exelixis has entered into partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies to bring these important medicines to patients worldwide. Supported by revenues from marketed products and collaborations, Exelixis is committed to prudently reinvesting in our business to maximize the potential of our pipeline. Exelixis is supplementing existing therapeutic assets with targeted business development activities and internal drug discovery — all to deliver the next generation of Exelixis medicines and help patients recover stronger and live longer. Exelixis is a member of the Standard & Poor's (S&P) MidCap 400 index, which measures the performance of profitable mid-sized companies. For more information about Exelixis, please visit www.exelixis.com, follow @ExelixisInc on Twitter or like Exelixis, Inc. on Facebook.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Astros starters Framber Valdez and Luis Garcia look like naturals on the mound, even in the hairiest of situations.
A lot of work to make it seem that easy — at the ballpark and, as it turns out, at the barber shop.
Both pitchers completed their coiffures with an artificial boost this season, adding hair extensions as a means of expressing their individuality. They're showing off those locks this postseason as Houston tries to reach the World Series for the fourth time in six years.
“At first a lot of people were talking about it and joking about this topic,” Valdez said in Spanish through a translator. “But at the end of the day I feel comfortable with my hair, and I feel good about my hair, so I’ll keep having my hair like this.”
Garcia, who opened the season with natural shoulder-grazing curls, this summer opted to add length and volume via braids adorned with beads at the end.
“When I have the braids, everybody knows me more, because it’s not a normal look,” the 25-year-old said.
For Valdez, who will start Game 2 of the AL Division Series on Thursday against Seattle, the transformation was more dramatic.
To stand out at his first All-Star Game in July, the 28-year-old left-hander added dreadlocks that fall past his shoulders to hair that was previously cropped closely on the sides with a few inches of growth on the top.
Standout ‘dos aren't unheard of in baseball. Longtime MLB outfielder Oscar Gamble had a resplendent Afro in the 1970s, and more recently, pitcher Noah Syndergaard earned the moniker “Thor” for his flowing blonde locks.
Quirky facial hair has long been a staple in the sport, too — like Rollie Fingers' handlebar mustache or Al Hrabosky's Fu Manchu.
Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel long had Houston's most notable hairstyle. His spiky top looks like the leaves of a pineapple, and he is known as “La Piña," the Spanish word for the fruit.
Gurriel wasn’t initially a fan of Valdez’s extensions. He even cracked a few jokes.
“At first, I thought he looked very strange with all of the hair that he came in with,” Gurriel said in Spanish through a translator. “But now, I like his style and think it looks really good, and I really like when people change their style because I also like to change mine.”
It's been a better reception than NBA star Jimmy Butler got for his faux-locks this summer. The Miami Heat forward was bombarded by blowback on social media when he unveiled long dreadlock extensions. He denied they were extensions at media day, even though his Instagram posts made it clear they were. By the time he took the court for Miami’s first preseason game, the long-haired look was gone.
Valdez took some good-natured teasing from Gurriel and others at first, but neither he nor Garcia have endured mockery like Butler. Both say they don’t care if people dislike the unconventional styles.
“My mom likes it," Garcia said. "If it’s fine with her, I’m OK.”
The hair accoutrements come with a major time investment. Both Valdez and Garcia said the initial installations took more than four hours. Subsequent touch-ups run about 90 minutes to two hours.
Garcia had his extensions all summer but recently took them out to “let his hair rest.” He got a fresh set of thin braids — with three clear beads at the end of each — installed Monday after Houston’s workout.
He didn’t have beads on the first extensions he got in June, and his teammates were perplexed about where a clicking noise was coming from as they took the field this week.
“It was kind of loud when I was walking, and the guys said: ‘What is that sound?’ And I said: ‘This,’” Garcia said, pointing at the beads on his hair.
What does a 15-game winner do for four hours in the barber’s chair?
“Just watching Tik Tok during the process and it’s fine,” Garica said.
He did run into a small problem when he first added his extensions. His cap no longer fit, and he had to get one two sizes bigger. He laughed recalling that conversation with Houston’s equipment staff.
“Hey guys, I have more hair,” he said. “I need a new hat.”
Houston has had its share of showy hairdos. Catcher Martín Maldonado dyed his pink this season at the behest of his young daughter, then debuted a crimson tone for Game 1 of the ALDS. Pitcher Jose Urquidy and utility player Aledmys Díaz are among a handful of other Astros who’ve added blonde highlights.
It's the sort of youthful exuberance the sometimes stodgy sport has been trying to encourage.
“It’s showing a lot of personality in the game,” Díaz said. “In the past, when I got to the league in ’16, people were more like old school baseball. You just show up to the park and play the game.
"But right now, with social media and things going on, players like showing off their personalities, and I think that’s great for the game.”
Maldonado, who has helped both Valdez and Garcia find success on the mound, raved about their looks. He joked with Valdez that he was trying to be the left-handed Luis Castillo soon after he unveiled his extensions. Castillo, a fellow Dominican who will start opposite Valdez for Seattle on Thursday, has longer natural dreadlocks that he’s been growing for years.
“So now it’s funny they’re going to face each other,” Maldonado said.
Díaz is very superstitious and believes a new hairstyle can bring good luck. He got a haircut every week for a stretch in 2019 after he started hitting a homer every time he got a trim.
Not to discount Valdez’s pitching skills, but Díaz thinks his extensions might have had something to do with his success this season.
“He was doing great after that hair change,” Díaz said. “So hopefully he can take it into the playoffs.”
Valdez, who ranked second in the AL behind teammate Justin Verlander with a career-high 17 wins this season, scoffed at the notion that the hair extensions brought him luck.
But he’s eager to build on his regular-season success in his start Thursday — the playoff debut for his fancy ’do.
“I’m waiting for the postseason to get here and be able to show what I’m capable of doing and show people that we can go to the World Series together as a team,” he said. “And I’m looking forward to keep showing my talent.”
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, about the racism and hatred that motivate violence in America and around the world.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, about the racism and hatred that motivate violence in America and around the world.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is launching a formal partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing offshore wind industry, a key element of President Joe Biden’s plan for climate change.
Biden and other top administration officials will meet with governors and labor leaders Thursday at the White House to announce commitments to expand important segments of the offshore industry, including manufacturing facilities, ports and workforce training and development.
The partnership comprises governors of both parties from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
Missing from the compact is Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has moved to withdraw the state from a regional carbon-limiting initiative meant to combat climate change. A spokesperson for Youngkin had no immediate comment on the new offshore wind group.
In working with states and the private sector, the White House said it will “provide Americans with cleaner and cheaper energy, create good-paying jobs and invest billions in new American energy supply chains,” including construction of wind turbines, shipbuilding and servicing.
Biden has set a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, enough to provide electricity to 10 million homes, support 77,000 jobs and spur $12 billion per year in private investment in offshore wind. Offshore wind is a key component in the Democratic president’s plan to make the nation’s electric grid carbon free by 2035.
The Biden administration has approved two large-scale wind projects, Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts and South Fork Wind off New York and Rhode Island. Both are under construction with union labor. The Interior Department has begun reviews of another 10 offshore projects that, if approved, would produce 22 gigawatts of clean energy.
Danish wind developer Orsted signed a project labor agreement last month with a national union representing 3 million people in the building trades to construct the company’s U.S. offshore wind farms with an American union workforce. Orsted currently has six offshore projects in five states.
A national agreement signed with North America’s Building Trades Unions covers contractors working on those projects and future ones, with no termination date on the project labor agreement. It sets the terms and conditions for union workers to build offshore wind farms, with targets to ensure a diverse workforce. It contains provisions for training to ensure they can construct the complex infrastructure, which costs billions of dollars.
“We recognize that states are huge players here,” said David Hayes, a White House climate adviser. With a formal partnership, the Biden administration can “work with the governors on policies going forward and help ensure that there is an American-made supply chain for this brand-new industry,” Hayes said in an interview Wednesday.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement that he and other East Coast governors “are united with our regional and federal partners not just by geography but by a shared commitment to clean and affordable energy, economic opportunity and a future in which all community members are shielded from the worsening impacts of climate change.”
New Jersey’s status as “a critical supply chain hub uniquely positions us to cultivate the burgeoning domestic clean energy industry as we strive to achieve our (greenhouse gas) reduction goals,” the Democratic governor said.
The federal-state collaboration comes as the Biden administration has announced a plan to conduct up to seven offshore wind auctions by 2025, including one held last month off North Carolina and earlier this year in a coastal area known as the New York Bight. Other sales are expected in the Gulf of Maine, the central Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as offshore in California and Oregon.
Environmental and clean energy groups hailed the federal-state collaboration.
“Offshore wind has the potential to be a game-changer in the U.S. energy portfolio — making energy prices cheaper, creating jobs and replacing the fossil fuels that are driving climate change,” said Diane Hoskins, campaign director for the conservation group Oceana.
“Today, there are just seven offshore wind turbines in the United States, and we’re going to need a lot more, done responsibly, to meet our clean energy goals,” she said, calling for “strong safeguards for marine life to avoid, minimize and mitigate the impacts of offshore wind.”
Heather Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association, an industry group, said wind energy developers support the federal-state initiative.
“Clear and predictable permitting for offshore wind is essential to recognizing its potential, and there is still work to do,” Zichal said. | 2022-06-23T20:28:12+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/biden-teams-with-east-coast-governors-to-boost-offshore-wind/ |
Amid the chaos in Afghanistan, there's a glimmer of hope. Aseelapp, the Afghan version of Etsy, offers an opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives.
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aseelapp, the leading e-commerce platform for emerging economies, is on a mission to create meaningful employment opportunities for local artisans, including women and people with disabilities. Since 2017, Aseelapp's Buy Good program has worked with thousands of artists in Afghanistan and Turkey and sold over 10,000 products, providing sustainable income and empowering communities. In response to recent events, Aseelapp has launched the "Do Good'' initiative to provide aid and opportunities to those in need. Through crowdfunding and partnerships, the platform has delivered various aid packages to over 600,000 individuals in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
Join Aseelapp In Supporting Afghan Women At: https://aseelapp.com/aseel-supports-the-education-of-afghan-women.html
Aseelapp in Afghanistan
The collapse of the Afghan government and freezing assets and development aid have put Afghans at the highest risk of starvation in the world over the past 20 years. Aseelapp's innovative solution allows people from anywhere worldwide to purchase aid packages for individuals or families in Afghanistan, providing shelter, food, and other emergency packages in dire humanitarian situations. Aseelapp's team on the ground delivers aid packages to families in need inside Afghanistan with no administrative expenditures. Over 150 volunteers in 34 provinces provide decentralized and transparent aid, swiftly responding to disasters.
Aseelapp provides online educational opportunities for individuals in Afghanistan despite the Taliban ban, empowering communities through knowledge and skills. Aseelapp also supports students with internet access, applying for scholarships, or providing guidelines. Aseelapp's user-friendly iOS/Android mobile application and website enable everyone to make a real difference, giving aid and opportunities in dire humanitarian situations anywhere in the world.
Empowering People
The CEO of Aseelapp, Nasrat Khalid, says, "The prominent market for handcrafted items is worth approximately $1 trillion. The majority of handmade items around the world are produced in third-world countries, but there needs to be infrastructure to support them. Aseelapp can swiftly fill this void as we expand into more countries, creating a global market for local artisans and entrepreneurs, providing them with a sustainable income."
By supporting Aseelapp, you are investing in the future of people in Afghanistan and other emerging economies, providing meaningful employment opportunities, and creating a better future for themselves. Aseelapp is not just about providing aid; it's about empowering people to build their communities, providing sustainable income for local artisans, and responding to crises with decentralized and transparent assistance.
Aseelapp's "Do Good" initiative exemplifies the power of technology and social entrepreneurship, changing lives and creating opportunities.
For more information, visit the following links:
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'The Deepest Breath' director on her new documentary about free diving Published July 29, 2023 02:40 PM Facebook Twitter NPR's Scott Detrow talks to film director Laura McGann about her new documentary on free diving, The Deepest Breath. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-29T22:33:52+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/2023-07-29/the-deepest-breath-director-on-her-new-documentary-about-free-diving |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-3-8
(three, three, eight)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-3-8
(three, three, eight)
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-- Revenue Grows More Than 52% Year-Over-Year;
Real Estate Business Profitable for Fifth Consecutive Quarter --
CARY, N.C., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fathom Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FTHM), a national, technology-driven, end-to-end real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings for brokerages and agents, today announced financial results for the 2022 second quarter and first half ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total revenue grew more than 52% for the second quarter of 2022 to $128.2 million, up from $84.2 million for last year's second quarter. Fathom completed more than 13,200 real estate transactions for the 2022 second quarter, an increase of approximately 32% from the same quarter last year. Fathom's real estate agent network grew approximately 38% to approximately 9,560 agents at June 30, 2022, up from 6,950 at June 30, 2021.
Business line revenue for the 2022 second quarter, compared with the 2021 second quarter was as follows:
"Growth in our key metrics this quarter, even with less-than-ideal market conditions, reflects our ability to provide agents with the opportunity to keep significantly more of their hard-earned commission dollars," said Fathom CEO, Joshua Harley. "We believe that competitive advantage should serve us well over the long-term.
"Our main focus is on achieving total company Adjusted EBITDA profitability. Through a conservative approach to cost management, we are working closely with each of our business heads to reduce expenses by a total of approximately $750,000 per quarter by the first quarter of next year," Harley said. "While Fathom is not immune to this unprecedented market, and there possibly will be additional challenges to manage through, we strongly believe that the value we provide to our agents, our model and our execution will continue to drive growth into the future."
GAAP net loss for the 2022 second quarter totaled $5.7 million, or a loss of $0.35 per share, compared with a GAAP net loss of $2.1 million, or a loss of $0.15 per share, for the 2021 second quarter. Weighted average diluted shares outstanding increased approximately 14% for the 2022 second quarter, compared with the same quarter last year. The year-over-year change in GAAP net loss resulted principally from additional losses in the Company's mortgage business due to the rapid increase in interest rates, which negatively impacted home sales, as well as increases in non-cash stock compensation expense.
General and Administrative expense (G&A) totaled $12.4 million, or 9.6% of total revenue, for the second quarter of 2022, compared with $8.7 million, or 10.4% of total revenue, for last year's second quarter. The increase in G&A in absolute terms was primarily attributable to recently completed acquisitions and increases in non-cash stock compensation expense. On a sequential basis, G&A decreased from 12.9% of total revenue for the first quarter of 2022.
Adjusted EBITDA loss, a non-GAAP measure, was $1.9 million for the 2022 second quarter, and $2.3 million for the 2021 second quarter. The Company's real estate segment posted profitable Adjusted EBITDA for the fifth consecutive quarter, while its mortgage business was negatively impacted by the current real estate market and rising interest rates, which are reducing the demand for mortgages.
Fathom provides Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, because it offers additional information for monitoring the Company's cash flow performance. A table providing a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to its most comparable GAAP measure, as well as an explanation of, and important disclosures about, this non-GAAP measure, is included in the tables at the end of this press release.
First Half 2022 Financial Results
Total revenue grew more than 63% for the first six months of 2022 to $218.4 million, up from $133.8 million for the first six months of 2021. Business line revenue for the 2022 first half, compared with the 2021 first half was as follows:
GAAP net loss for the first six months of 2022 was $11.7 million, or a loss of $0.72 per share, compared with a GAAP net loss of $5.5 million, or a loss of $0.40 per share, for the first six months of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $3.9 million, versus an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $4.3 million for the year-ago period.
Cash and cash equivalents at June 30, 2022 were $19.5 million, compared with $37.8 million at December 31, 2021. The reduction in cash was attributed to investments in operations, technology, and acquisitions, as well as stock retired under the Company's share repurchase program.
For the year-to-date period ended June 30, 2022, Fathom purchased 686,097 shares of its common stock under the $10.0 million share repurchase program announced in mid-March 2022. The shares were purchased for a total of approximately $6.0 million. As of June 30, 2022, there was approximately $4.0 million remaining under the share repurchase authorization.
"With market conditions causing disruption in our industry, we are committed to reducing costs to ensure Fathom's ability to generate sustainable profits over the long-term," said Fathom President and CFO Marco Fregenal. "We believe Fathom has a long runway with solid growth prospects well into the future."
Second Quarter 2022 and Recent Highlights
- Launched Veteran Division to provide specialized resources, support and opportunities for Fathom's current and former military service members, as well as for veteran home buyers and sellers, and those still on active duty.
- Conducted inaugural Team Think Tank, bringing together agent team leaders from across the country to discuss strategies for successful future growth.
- Operating in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
Guidance/Long-Term Targets
Fathom's guidance for the 2022 third quarter, and its updated guidance for the full year, assumes that the residential real estate market will continue to soften and that interest rates will remain at current levels or increase. The Company believes that if market conditions improve, it may generate results that are better than currently anticipated.
For the third quarter of 2022, Fathom expects total revenue in the range of $105 million to $110 million, and Adjusted EBITDA in the range of a loss of $1.6 million to a loss of $1.5 million.
For the 2022 full year, Fathom is now expecting revenue in the range of $425 million to $435 million. Adjusted EBITDA is now expected to range from a loss of $6.8 million to a loss of $6.6 million.
The Company reiterated that it believes it can generate Adjusted EBITDA exceeding $40.0 million per year at 100,000 to 110,000 annual transactions. While Fathom has not provided a timeline for reaching this target, the Company believes it can maintain transaction growth rates similar to those since its IPO over the long term.
About Fathom Holdings Inc.
Fathom Holdings Inc. is a national, technology-driven, real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings to brokerages and agents by leveraging its proprietary cloud-based software, intelliAgent. The Company's brands include Fathom Realty, Dagley Insurance, Encompass Lending, intelliAgent, LiveBy, Real Results, and Verus Title. For more information, visit www.FathomInc.com.
Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements," including, but not limited to, ability to Fathom's ability to continue attracting agents, its ability to reach total company adjusted EBITDA profitability, and Fathom's ability to generate sustainable profits over the long-term, among others. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including: risks associated with general economic conditions, including rising interest rates; risks associated with the Company's ability to continue achieving significant growth; its ability to continue its growth trajectory while achieving strong profits over time; its ability to generate positive operational cash flow; its ability to demonstrate sustainable profitability; and others set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's most recent Form 10-K as filed with the SEC and supplemented from time to time in other Company filings made with the SEC. Copies of Fathom's Form 10-K and other SEC filings are available on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
(Financial tables follow)
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
To supplement Fathom's consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, the Company uses Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, to understand and evaluate our core operating performance. This non-GAAP financial measure, which may be different than similarly titled measures used by other companies, is presented to enhance investors' overall understanding of our financial performance and should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
Fathom defines the non-GAAP financial measure of Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss), excluding other expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, and transaction-related cost.
Fathom believes that Adjusted EBITDA provides useful information about the Company's financial performance, enhances the overall understanding of its past performance and future prospects, and allows for greater transparency with respect to a key metric used by Fathom's management for financial and operational decision-making. Fathom believes that Adjusted EBITDA helps identify underlying trends in its business that otherwise could be masked by the effect of the expenses that the Company excludes in Adjusted EBITDA. In particular, Fathom believes the exclusion of share-based compensation expense related to restricted stock awards and stock options and transaction-related costs associated with the Company's acquisition activity provides a useful supplemental measure in evaluating the performance of its operations and provides better transparency into its results of operations. Adjusted EBITDA also excludes other income and expense, net which primarily includes nonrecurring items, such as, gain on debt extinguishment and severance costs, if applicable.
Fathom is presenting the non-GAAP measure of Adjusted EBITDA to assist investors in seeing its financial performance through the eyes of management, and because the Company believes this measure provides an additional tool for investors to use in comparing Fathom's core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in its industry.
Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. There are a number of limitations related to the use of Adjusted EBITDA compared to net income (loss), the closest comparable GAAP measure. Some of these limitations are that:
- Adjusted EBITDA excludes share-based compensation expense related to restricted stock awards and stock options, which have been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, significant recurring expenses in Fathom's business and an important part of its compensation strategy;
- Adjusted EBITDA excludes transaction-related costs primarily consisting of professional fees and any other costs incurred directly related to acquisition activity, which is an ongoing part of Fathom's growth strategy and therefore likely to occur; and
- Adjusted EBITDA excludes certain recurring, non-cash charges such as depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and capitalized software costs, however, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council was forced to recess Wednesday to clear chanting protesters from its chamber, as members were poised to formally rebuke two councilmen and the council's former president for their involvement in a racism scandal.
A small but noisy group crowded into the main aisle of an otherwise mostly empty chamber, banged water bottles on a lectern, whooped and shouted in what appeared to be an effort to shut down the meeting. They unrolled a large sign calling the council “illegitimate.”
“Justice now!,” they bellowed. “Shut down!”
After multiple warnings to take seats, council leaders called the recess to clear the room.
That led to something of a standoff in which about 20 protesters continued shouting, as police officers watched over the group. Council members earlier had left the room.
Council President Paul Krekorian warned the protesters they would not deter the council's business. “We will continue to do the work of the people of Los Angeles,” he said.
The scandal began earlier this month with the release of a previously unknown recording of a 2021 private meeting involving then-City Council President Nury Martinez and Councilmen Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, as well as powerful labor leader Ron Hererra, head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. They were captured on tape scheming to protect their political clout in the redrawing of council districts in an hour-long meeting laced with bigoted, crude comments.
Martinez and Herrera have resigned. Cedillo and de León have resisted calls to step down, including from President Joe Biden.
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1 person shot, Chicago police officer injured during incident inside police facility
One person was shot and a Chicago police officer was wounded Monday during an incident inside a police facility on the city's West Side, officials said.
Shots were fired shortly before noon at the building in Homan Square, police spokesman Tom Ahern told WGN-TV.
The officer was taken to Sinai Hospital in stable condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department. He was not shot.
The other person was taken to another hospital in critical condition with at least one gunshot wound.
The West Side police facility is in a large red brick building that houses evidence and recovered property on the first floor. Some of the police department's specialized units also work out of the building.
Early Monday afternoon, crime scene tape was stretched across South Homan Avenue a block south of the police station and across the same street just north of the building.
A nearby school was placed on lockdown.
Police were expected to release more details at an afternoon news briefing.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | 2022-09-26T19:02:30+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/chicago-police-facility-shooting/41394092 |
Hydrogen holds new opportunity to reduce carbon emissions as company builds future of energy for Georgia
ATLANTA, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Power is furthering its commitment to build the energy grid of the future and reduce carbon emissions across its generation fleet through a newly formed coalition of major utility companies across the Southeast, announced today, working to secure federal financial support for a Southeast Hydrogen Hub. The coalition, including Georgia Power's parent Southern Company, will respond to the recently announced funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Energy, which includes $8 billion for regional hydrogen hubs and is part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
A hydrogen hub in the Southeastern U.S. is expected to bring robust economic development benefits to the region, and hydrogen is attractive as an energy resource because it has immediate potential to accelerate decarbonization in the Southeast and across all sectors of the U.S. economy – including transportation, which generates the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions in the country. Read more about today's announcement here.
"The Southeast continues to be one of the most innovative and forward-looking parts of the country when it comes to advancing new energy technologies that help decarbonize the grid, while also growing the economy and bringing jobs, and today's announcement reinforces our region's leadership in this area," said Chris Womack, chairman, president and CEO of Georgia Power. "As we continue to make smart investments that help us better deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy for our customers, we see incredible potential in the future use of hydrogen as part of our diverse energy mix."
Also earlier this summer, Mitsubishi Power and Georgia Power, alongside the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), successfully tested fuel blending of hydrogen and natural gas at both partial and full load on an M501G natural gas turbine at Georgia Power's Plant McDonough-Atkinson in Smyrna, Georgia. The demonstration project was the first to validate 20% hydrogen fuel blending on an advanced class gas turbine in North America, and the largest test of this kind to date, with the 20% blend providing an approximately 7% reduction in carbon emissions compared to natural gas.
The landmark testing at Plant McDonough-Atkinson was part of a continued commitment to new research and development to build the energy grid of the future and to reduce carbon emissions across its generation fleet, with Georgia Power having already reduced its carbon emissions by more than 60% since 2007.
To learn more about how Georgia Power is building the future of energy, visit www.georgiapower.com/future.
Georgia Power is the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), America's premier energy company. Value, Reliability, Customer Service and Stewardship are the cornerstones of the company's promise to 2.7 million customers in all but four of Georgia's 159 counties. Committed to delivering clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy at rates below the national average, Georgia Power maintains a diverse, innovative generation mix that includes nuclear, coal and natural gas, as well as renewables such as solar, hydroelectric and wind. Georgia Power focuses on delivering world-class service to its customers every day and the company is recognized by J.D. Power as an industry leader in customer satisfaction. For more information, visit www.GeorgiaPower.com and connect with the company on Facebook (Facebook.com/Georgia Power), Twitter (Twitter.com/GeorgiaPower) and Instagram (Instagram.com/ga_power).
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Mega Millions jackpot rises to $1.02 Billion
NEW YORK - The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.02 Billion after no one won the jackpot with Tuesday night's drawing.
The cash option for the grand prize is $602.5 million before taxes. The drawing will be held on Friday, July 29, 2022, at 11 p.m. EDT.
There have only been two other jackpots higher than the current one. Both of them were also worth more than $1 billion.
The winning numbers from the July 26, 2022, Mega Million drawing were 7, 29, 60, 63, 66 and 15 for the gold ball.
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There were several 2nd prize winners. Those winners in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey (2), New York (2), and Ohio. One of those tickets had a Megaplier and is worth $3 million
Mega Millions progressive jackpot
Four Mega Millions jackpots have been won to date in 2022, lottery officials said.
Most recently, $20 million was won in Tennessee on April 15. A $426 million prize was won in California on Jan. 28, followed by $128 million in New York on March 8 and $110 million in Minnesota on April 12.
When is the Mega Millions drawing?
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET. Five white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70, and one gold Mega Ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. Players win if the numbers on one row of a ticket match the numbers of the balls drawn on that date.
How to play Mega Millions
Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play. Players win the jackpot by matching all six numbers in a drawing. If no one wins the jackpot, the money is added to the jackpot for the next drawing.
For those lucky enough to become a Mega Millions jackpot winner, they get the choice of a cash option or an annual payout. The annuity option means getting an initial payment followed by 29 annual payments, and each payment is 5% larger than the previous one. For those that select the cash option, they receive a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool after taxes.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot prize is roughly 1 in 302,575,350, lottery officials said. But a player’s overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24.
A customer purchases a Mega Millions lottery ticket. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) | 2022-07-27T10:54:30+00:00 | wogx.com | https://www.wogx.com/news/mega-millions-july-26-drawing-numbers |
- UEC's Newly Acquired Canadian High-Grade Pipeline: Christie Lake is one of 29 properties included in the portfolio from recently acquired UEX Corporation (UEX")
- Amongst the Highest-Grade Drill Intersections of 2022: Latest drill results represent the highest-grade mineralized intersection ever encountered at the Christie Lake Project and amongst the sector's best uranium results of the year, mineralization remains open in all directions.
- Growing Resources: New SK-1300 resource report for Christie Lake Project to incorporate the new drill results.
- Strategic Location: Christie Lake Property is situated in the eastern Athabasca Basin approximately 9 km northeast and along strike of Cameco's operating McArthur River Mine, the world's largest and highest-grade uranium mine.
- Decades of Conventional Mining History with Superior Grade: Uranium from the Athabasca Basin places Canada among the top producers of global uranium using conventional production and the unique geology of the Athabasca Basin deposits can result in grades that exceed the world average of uranium deposits of 0.2% U3O8 by up to 100 times.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE American: UEC) , the "Company" or "UEC" is pleased to announce a new discovery of high-grade uranium at its 82.77% owned Christie Lake Project, located in the eastern Athabasca Basin (see Figure 1) of northern Saskatchewan, Canada (see "About the Christie Lake Project" below). Christie Lake (see Figure 2) is an exciting, growth-oriented, high-grade resource-stage project, strategically situated 9 km along strike of Cameco's McArthur River Mine and is of one of 29 projects in UEC's recent $171 million acquisition of UEX Corporation.
To date, seven holes have been drilled into a new discovery, named the Sakura Zone.
Discovery hole, CB-173 encountered high-grade mineralization that averaged 7.8% eU3O8 over 9.1 m between 422.2 m and 431.3 m, and included a subinterval of 26.1% eU3O8 over 2.3 m from 425.1 m to 427.4 m.
Follow-up hole CB-176A, intersected the unconformity approximately 13 m north-east of CB-173, and intersected 68.7% eU3O8 over 2.1 m from 426.9 m to 429.0 m (see Figure 3 and Table 1), the highest-grade mineralized intersection ever encountered on the Christie Lake Property.
All seven holes contain uranium mineralization at or near the unconformity.
These intersections represent some of the largest and highest-grade drill intersections of uranium reported globally in 2022.
Amir Adnani, CEO and President stated: "We're delighted to hit the ground running with our newly acquired portfolio in Canada. In the last ten months we've invested close to $420 million to create a unique two-pronged approach with a 100% unhedged market strategy: 1) near term U.S. In-Situ Recovery ("ISR") production; and 2) Canadian high-grade conventional pipeline. Our Canadian high-grade conventional business is comprised of 29 projects, 5 of which are advanced resource-stage, with Christie Lake being one that we see strong potential for resource growth. The projects in Canada's Athabasca Basin are among the highest grades globally for conventional mining and today's headline 68% grade over 2 meters demonstrates this competitive advantage. While porosity, flow-rates and recoveries are essential in U.S. In-Situ Recovery production, grade is king in conventional mining. At UEC we have created a North American platform of best-in-class uranium resources in proven U.S. and Canadian mining jurisdictions."
Mineralization at the Sakura Zone remains open for expansion in all directions and will be the focus of the next phase of drilling on the Christie Lake Project. UEC's 2022 summer exploration program has now been completed and the Company plans to commence the 2023 winter program in early January of the new year.
The Athabasca Basin is a world-class uranium district in the northern portion of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, occupying an area of about 100,000 square kilometers. The unique geology of the Athabasca Basin deposits can result in deposit grades that exceed the world average of uranium deposits of 0.2% U3O8 by up to 100 times.
All of Canada's current uranium production occurs from the mines located in the Athabasca Basin. According to the World Nuclear Association ("WNA"), the Athabasca Basin was responsible for producing 9.7% of the world's uranium production in 2021.
Uranium mineralization in the Athabasca Basin occurs in fault structures that penetrate the interface between the sandstone and underlying basement rocks, known as the unconformity. Uranium can be found at the interface, known as the unconformity, or up to several hundreds of meters below the unconformity surface in the underlying fault structures in the basement.
True widths of the mineralization are estimated to be 90-95% of core length reported
The uranium concentrations from holes presented above is the radiometric equivalent uranium grade ("REG"), denoted as eU3O8, which is determined in-situ within the drill hole. For more information on REGs please see the "About Radiometric Equivalent Grades" section below.
The core recovery from the mineralized zone in hole CB-176A is estimated to be approximately 20%. The portions of the core recovered from the interval confirm the presence of very high-grade uranium mineralization. Thus, the Company believes that assay results collected from the mineralized interval will not be representative of the true concentration of uranium present and that the REG presented above will be a more accurate estimate of grade. The Company has restricted the reported core length and concentration of the mineralization detected by the probe to the intervals of lost core and visibly mineralized recovered drill core. The probe measured radiation occurs over a wider interval than was observed as either mineralized core or lost core. The Company believes that wider interval detected by the probe is likely due to the smearing of uranium-bearing drill cuttings along the inside of the drill core, a process that occasionally occurs during the drilling process.
The eU3O8 grades were estimated in-situ within the drill holes using calibrated down-hole radiometric gamma probes which are lowered down the hole, a method commonly used by uranium explorers and miners in the Athabasca Basin. The probe records the amount of radioactivity present in the rock adjacent to the probe as it moves up and down the hole.
The probes were calibrated prior to the commencement of the current drill program at the Saskatchewan Research Council's ("SRC") test pit facility in Saskatoon. Using down-hole probes to calculate radiometric equivalent grades is a common practice by uranium mining companies in the Athabasca Basin. Down-hole probes can accurately measure uranium concentration by measuring the light flashes that occur every time the probe's scintillator is struck by a gamma radiation particle emitted from uranium crystals. The number of light flashes are 'counted' by a photomultiplier tube. Sometimes within high-grade intervals, due to a process called 'saturation' occurs when light emitted by the probe's scintillator overwhelms the photomultiplier tube's ability to 'count' individual light flashes it can be difficult to accurate determine radiometric equivalent grades.
Samples from all holes have been collected for assay analysis to confirm these equivalent grades. The samples will be analyzed at the SRC's Geoanalytical Laboratory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with results expected in the coming weeks.
UEC holds an 82.775% combined direct and indirect interest in the Christie Lake Project which is a joint venture with JCU (Canada) Exploration Company, Limited, a company that is 50% owned by UEC's wholly owned subsidiary UEX Corporation. UEC's direct ownership in Christie Lake is 65.5492% and indirect ownership through its 50% ownership in JCU is 17.2254%
The Christie Lake Project is located in the eastern Athabasca Basin (see Figures 1 and 2) approximately 9 km northeast and along strike of Cameco's McArthur River Mine, the world's largest and highest-grade uranium mine. The controlling structure of the McArthur River Mine deposits, the P2 fault, continues to the northeast beyond the mine and trends onto the Christie Lake Project. Our technical team believes that, through a series of en-echelon steps, the northeast strike extension of the P2 Fault not only crosses the Christie Lake Project but also controls the three known uranium deposits on Christie Lake: the Ōrora, Paul Bay and Ken Pen Deposits as well as the newly discovered Sakura Zone.
The technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Roger Lemaitre, P.Eng., P.Geo., UEX's President and CEO and Chris Hamel, P.Geo, UEX's Vice President, Exploration, and Nathan Barsi, P.Geo., UEX's District Geologist, who are each considered to be a Qualified Person as defined by S-K 1300.
Uranium Energy Corp is the fastest growing supplier of the fuel for the green energy transition to a low carbon future. UEC is the largest, diversified North American-focused uranium company, advancing the next generation of low-cost, environmentally friendly ISR mining uranium projects in the United States and high-grade conventional projects in Canada. The Company has two production-ready ISR hub and spoke platforms in South Texas and Wyoming. These two production platforms are anchored by fully operational central processing plants and served by seven U.S. ISR uranium projects with all their major permits in place. Additionally, the Company has diversified uranium holdings including: (1) one of the largest physical uranium portfolios of U.S. warehoused U3O8; (2) a major equity stake in Uranium Royalty Corp., the only royalty company in the sector; and (3) a Western Hemisphere pipeline of resource stage uranium projects. The Company's operations are managed by professionals with decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.
Stock Exchange Information:
NYSE American: UEC
Frankfurt Stock Exchange Symbol: U6Z
WKN: AØJDRR
ISN: US916896103
Except for the statements of historical fact contained herein, the information presented in this news release constitutes "forward-looking statements" as such term is used in applicable United States and Canadian securities laws. These statements relate to analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions of management. Any other statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans, "estimates" or "intends", or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and should be viewed as "forward-looking statements". Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and other factors include, among others, the actual results of exploration activities, variations in the underlying assumptions associated with the estimation or realization of mineral resources, the availability of capital to fund programs and the resulting dilution caused by the raising of capital through the sale of shares, accidents, labor disputes and other risks of the mining industry including, without limitation, those associated with the environment, delays in obtaining governmental approvals, permits or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, title disputes or claims limitations on insurance coverage. Although the Company 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 as anticipated, estimated or intended. Many of these factors are beyond the Company's ability to control or predict. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this news release and in any document referred to in this news release. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and that could impact the Company and the statements contained in this news release can be found in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For forward-looking statements in this news release, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
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Braves sign manager Snitker to extension through 2025 season
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker, coming off the team’s fifth consecutive NL East title, signed a contract extension on Friday that runs through the 2025 season.
Snitker, 67, guided the Braves to the 2021 World Series championship before the team won 101 games last season.
Snitker said Saturday he is excited about the future of the Braves, who have locked up many core players to long-term deals despite losing shortstop Dansby Swanson and first baseman Freddie Freeman as free agents in back-to-back offseasons.
Snitker applauded the work of general manager Alex Anthopoulos in signing newly acquired catcher Sean Murphy and others to long-term deals.
“We’ve done a good job,” Snitker said at the Braves Fest for fans at Truist Park. “I think now you’re going to see the core group of these guys here every year for this thing. I think that’s what Alex does, keeping those young, quality guys around.”
Murphy signed a $73 million, six-year contract after he was acquired from Oakland. He is going to share playing time with Travis d’Arnaud.
The Braves also reached long-term deals with sluggers Austin Riley and Matt Olson, as well as rookie stars Michael Harris II and Spencer Strider, in the past year.
The Braves have signed outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. and second baseman Ozzie Albies to similar deals. The team has seven core players under contract for at least three more seasons, and club options could extend the deals even more.
The Braves plan on a 2022 rookie, Vaughn Grissom, competing with Orlando Arcia at shortstop in spring training.
Now Snitker is on board for at least three more seasons. He will be entering his 47th year with the organization and his seventh full season as Braves manager. He took over as interim manager on May 17, 2016, before landing the full-time position later that year.
He has a 542-451 record with Atlanta following more than 1,300 wins in the minor leagues.
After waiting so long for his opportunity to manage in the majors, Snitker has shown no sign he’s thinking of retiring. He said he’s making one change in his offseason routine — repeat visits to Hawaii for longer vacations after taking his wife, Ronnie, on their first one-week visit after last season.
“That’s the first time I’ve taken a non-baseball-related trip with my wife,” Snitker said.
“I said if I’m going to keep working, we’ve got to start doing this every year. ... I’m going for longer next time.”
Snitker finished third in the manager of the year voting last season after winning the award in 2018. He also was a finalist for the honor in 2019 and finished fourth in 2020 and 2021.
Snitker is the first manager in franchise history to take the team to the postseason five times in his first six full seasons.
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NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — A wayward dolphin has been swimming in a Connecticut river after making its way upstream from Long Island Sound.
The dolphin was first spotted Thursday morning by fishermen along the Thames River. A video posted to Facebook shows the dolphin jumping around near the Norwich Marina, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the Sound. Eventually, the animal rescue team at Mystic Aquarium was notified. They have been monitoring the situation along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The ocean mammal was spotted in the same area again on Friday morning.
The dolphin appears to be small and may be a juvenile, said Alexandra Cojocaru, the aquarium’s animal rescue technician.
It’s possible it was looking for food or simply got turned around and separated from its pod, she said.
Cojocaru said it’s unusual, but not unheard of, for a dolphin to make its way into the river, and she is hopeful it will eventually find its way back to Long Island Sound without needing to be rescued.
“If they remain in fresh water for extended periods of time, that could lead to issues with their skin and other things,” she said. “So, it’s definitely not ideal for them to be in fresh water for a long period of time.” | 2022-07-15T21:40:22+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/strange/ap-strange-news/wayward-dolphin-spotted-swimming-in-river-in-connecticut/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Generac Holdings Inc. ("Generac" or the "Company") (NYSE: GNRC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Generac and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
Generac has asserted that its recent acquisitions (including its 80% interest in Pramac and acquisition of Off Grid Energy) support the Company's "Powering A Smarter World" strategic plan and has touted the role played by Generac's much-hyped strategic distribution partnership with Sunnova. On June 22, 2022, Spruce Point Capital Management ("Spruce Point") published an investment report alleging that Generac is struggling "to suppress core business challenges, while pivoting towards a highly speculative and unproven acquisition spree in clean energy products and services." Among other things, the Spruce Point report: (1) accused Generac of engaging in a pattern of misreporting acquisition revenue contribution between 2019 and 2021; (2) questioned Pramac's ballooning receivables, calling it "a hallmark of channel stuffing"; (3) observed that Generac's press release announcing the Off Grid Energy acquisition obscured the fact that its 80% Pramac business was the end acquiror and found "evidence to suggest a sham revenue transaction at Off Grid Energy"; and (4) opined that Generac's distribution partnership with Sunnova may have been structured to enable Generac to round-trip cash flows.
On this news, Generac's stock price fell $7.41 per share, or 3.37%, to close at $212.57 per share on June 22, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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How to watch Duke vs. FSU softball on TV, live stream in 2022 ACC Tournament semifinal
The Duke and Florida State softball teams are scheduled to meet in the 2022 ACC Softball Tournament semifinals on Friday, May 13.
The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET.
No. 2 seed Duke comes into the matchup 41-7 overall. On Thursday, Duke defeated Georgia Tech 9-6 in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.
No. 3-seeded Florida State enters the contest 50-5 overall. Most recently, FSU beat Virginia 5-3 on Thursday in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.
ACC Tournament: How to watch Florida State vs. Duke softball on TV, live stream
Game time: 3:30 p.m. ET on Friday, May 13
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
TV channel: ACC Network
ACCN broadcasters are scheduled to be Pam Ward (play-by-play), Jenny Dalton-Hill (analyst), and Jalyn Johnson (reporter).
On DirecTV, ACCN is channel 612. On Dish, ACCN is channel 402.
Online live stream: ESPN.com/watch
Here's more Duke, Florida State news:
- ACC Softball Tournament:2022 ACC Softball Tournament bracket, schedule, game times, results and TV information
- Mike Krzyzewski:What does Coach K's retirement look like? New Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer gave us some insight
- Florida State softball:Sydney Sherrill named ACC Defensive Player of the Year, eight FSU players on All-ACC teams
Marissa Young is the Duke softball head coach. Lonni Alameda is the Florida State softball head coach.
Erik Hall is the lead digital producer for sports with the USA Today Network. You can find him on Twitter @HallErik. | 2022-05-13T02:50:20+00:00 | fayobserver.com | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/college/2022/05/12/watch-duke-florida-state-softball-tv-livestream-acc-tournament-2022/9753742002/ |
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis sought to encourage his embattled child protection advisory board Friday, following weeks of turmoil sparked by the latest resignation of a founding member and fresh questions about its direction.
Francis urged his Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to pursue a “spirituality of reparation” with abuse survivors and build a culture of safeguarding to prevent priests from raping and molesting children.
In particular, he praised the commission’s efforts to establish church child protection programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where there is less funding than in the U.S. and Europe.
“It is not right that the most prosperous areas of the world should have well-trained and well-funded safeguarding programs, where victims and their families are respected, while in other parts of the world they suffer in silence, perhaps rejected or stigmatized when they try to come forward to tell of the abuse they have suffered,” Francis said.
Francis announced the creation of the commission in 2013 to provide best-practices advice on combatting abuse in the church. The commission has gone through several iterations in the decade since, most significantly with resignations of members frustrated by the resistance of the Vatican bureaucracy to its recommendations and exasperated about the commission’s unclear mandate and model.
The latest departure was the Rev. Hans Zollner, a German Jesuit who runs a child protection institute at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In a blistering statement March 29 announcing his resignation, Zollner identified a series of internal problems in the commission that he said made it impossible for him to remain.
He cited a lack of financial accountability, lack of transparency about decision-making and lack of clarity about what members are supposed to do and how they’re appointed. Zollner’s criticisms underscored broader questions about the purpose and direction of the commission, which has never found its place in a Vatican bureaucracy inherently resistant to change and defensive in particular about the abuse dossier.
Francis recently moved the commission under the auspices of the Vatican’s Dicastery (department) for the Doctrine of the Faith in a bid to give it institutional legitimacy. But even that has created problems. Critics note that placing the commission under the Dicastery, where all abuse cases are processed, was akin to putting a victim’s advocacy group inside a federal court.
The commission, headed by Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, has recently moved into new, fancy quarters in a downtown Rome palazzo which it hopes will be used as a place for victims to be heard and welcomed.
In addition, O’Malley told Francis on Friday that the commission had created a fund of 3 million euros to provide safeguarding resources to poorer churches in the developing world.
The bulk of that funding, some 2.5 million euros, has come from the Italian Bishops’ Conference, which has been criticized repeatedly for its own failures to punish predator priests in Italy and the bishops who shield them.
Francis acknowledged the sex abuse scandal had undermined the church’s ability to do its core job of spreading the Gospel.
“A culture of safeguarding will only take root if there is a pastoral conversion in this regard among the church’s leaders,” he said. | 2023-05-05T20:50:40+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/pope-seeks-to-encourage-abuse-prevention-board-amid-turmoil/ |
We’re running a mailbag on Thursdays during the offseason. If you have questions on the Patriots, NFL, or want gripe about past answers, email cmason@masslive.com or tweet @bychrismason. Now let’s get to this week’s questions!
Who are you picking at No. 14 if you’re the GM? — @barlescharkly
The best offensive tackle on the board.
That’s easily this team’s biggest need right now — honestly, they could spend two picks on tackles in the first two days of the draft — and not having depth at the position really limited what they could do in 2022. Yes, Matt Patricia was still way too screen-pass happy, but that’s what teams do when their blocking isn’t holding up.
So who might that be in the first round?
Northwestern’s Peter Skoronski will probably be off the board by then, but Broderick Jones from Georgia could fall into their lap at No. 14. The 6-foot-4, 315-pounder started every game and protected Stetson Bennett’s blindside on an undefeated run to the National Championship this season. Jones possesses a ton of athleticism, but he only had four starts before 2022, so he could he be a little raw.
It’d behoove the Patriots to get a full-time offensive line coach — not Patricia moonlighting as play-caller — regardless of what direction they go in.
Which brings us to...
How would you grade out each starting offensive linemen? What do you think the long-term plan will be at each tackle position? — Cal C.
Let’s knock this thing out left to right:
LT Trent Brown: C-
Brown battled an illness and was inconsistent, but still showed a few glimpses of the player he can be. Perhaps a new face coaching the offensive line will return his game to its highest level.
LG: Cole Strange: C+
As an undersized rookie coming from UT-Chattanooga, there were always going to be growing pains (no pun intended) for Strange, but he battled through them admirably.
C: David Andrews: B
Andrews was banged up as heck this season, but when he was out there he looked like himself.
RG: Michael Onwenu: A
Easily New England’s most consistent and reliable lineman this season, Onwenu was a Pro Bowl snub.
RT: Isaiah Wynn: F
Wynn was asked to flip sides during training camp and was woeful from the jump. His regression and eventual unavailability were both killer blows to this group.
Long term, they need to get younger at both tackle spots, though I think it’d be wise to bring Conor McDermott back to compete as a swing tackle. Thrown into an unfamiliar situation, he really impressed me down the stretch.
Will we make it to the playoffs next year? And will we keep both tight ends? — Rob D.
1. Depends on what happens over the next six months. How widespread are the changes?
2. Yes. Jonnu Smith is locked in, and I think Hunter Henry will be back, though it wouldn’t surprise me to see his deal extended to create some cap relief. As it stands, he’s set to be a free agent after the 2023 season.
If Devin McCourty retires, who do you see taking his place (on the field)? Would they move Jalen Mills to safety? — @bldnghrtcnsrvtv
If they move a corner back there, I think Myles Bryant is the most likely option, not Mills.
They’ve kept Joshuah Bledsoe on the 53-man roster despite quite a few healthy scratches, so perhaps they see him as a potential heir. They could also always move Adrian Phillips back to center field. He’s played there before and would probably be competent.
None of these guys are McCourty though; if he retires, he’ll be sorely missed.
Will they try and hire Sean McVay? How soon will they get rid of Matt Patricia/Joe Judge as OC? — Joe G.
No chance on McVay. If he leaves Los Angeles, I doubt he’ll be coaching in New England.
As far as Patricia and Judge go, if they’re going to be moved I’m sure it’ll be quietly. Consider Tom E. Curran’s report on the meeting between Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick.
“There is no impasse. The Patriots are on to 2023 with Belichick acknowledging 2022 wasn’t ideal and being amenable to changes,” Curran wrote. “Don’t expect a dog-and-pony show announcing firings or who’s coming in for an interview. Belichick isn’t going to put anyone’s head on a spike for the pleasure of the masses. But my understanding is offensive coaching reassignments are going to happen and several offensive coaches are under consideration for the Patriots’ 2023 staff.”
Belichick likes both Patricia and Judge quite a bit personally. He won’t embarrass them with an announcement; they’ll probably be moved elsewhere in the organization without fanfare.
Any chance on Calvin Ridley to the Pats? — @Blesdoe11
Not after the Jaguars gave up a couple picks to land him. With a Wild Card berth under their belts, the Jags are definitely going to like their progress this season and look at Ridley as a quality piece to keep building with. | 2023-01-12T11:16:11+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2023/01/who-should-patriots-pick-at-no-14-overall-in-2023-nfl-draft-mailbag.html |
DENVER (AP) — Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday.
Even though 2022 wasn’t near record hot for the United States, it was the third-wildest year nationally both in number of extremes that cost $1 billion and overall damage from those weather catastrophes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a report issued at the American Meteorological Society’s conference.
The amount, cost and death toll of billion-dollar weather disaster s make up a key measurement, adjusted for inflation, that NOAA uses to see how bad human-caused climate change is getting. They led to at least 474 deaths.
“People are seeing the impacts of a changing climate system where they live, work and play on a regular basis,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said at a Tuesday press conference. “With a changing climate buckle up. More extreme events are expected.”
Hurricane Ian, the costliest drought in a decade and a pre-Christmas winter storm pushed last year’s damages to the highest since 2017. The only more expensive years were 2017 — when Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria struck — and the disastrous 2005 when numerous hurricanes, headlined by Katrina, pummeled the Southeast, federal meteorologists said. The only busier years for billion-dollar disasters were 2020 and 2021.
Ian was the third-costliest U.S. hurricane on record with $112.9 billion in damage, followed by $22.2 billion in damage from a western and midwestern drought that halted barge traffic on the Mississippi River, officials said. The $165 billion total for 2022 doesn’t even include a total yet for the winter storm three weeks ago, which could push it close to $170 billion, officials said.
More than 40% of the continental United States was under official drought conditions for 119 straight weeks, a record in the 22 years of the federal drought monitor, easily passing the old mark of 68 straight weeks, Spinrad said. The country peaked at 63% of the nation in drought in 2022. Spinrad said he expects the atmospheric river pouring rain on California to provide some relief, but not a lot.
“Climate change is supercharging many of these extremes that can lead to billion-dollar disasters,” said NOAA applied climatologist and economist Adam Smith, who calculates the disasters, updating them to factor out inflation. He said more people are also building in harm’s way, along pricey coasts and rivers, and lack of strong construction standards is also an issue. With a good chunk of development beachside, real estate inflation could be a small localized factor, he said.
“The United States has some of the consistently most diverse and intense weather and climate extremes that you’ll see in many parts of the world. And we have a large population that’s vulnerable to these extremes,” Smith told The Associated Press. “So it’s really an imbalance right now.”
Climate change is a hard-to-ignore factor in extremes, from deadly heat to droughts and flooding, Smith and other officials said.
“The risk of extreme events is growing and they are affecting every corner of the world,” NOAA chief scientist Sarah Kapnick said.
The problem is especially bad when it comes to dangerous heat, said NOAA climate scientist Stephanie Herring, who edits an annual study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that calculates how much of the extreme weather in past years was worsened by climate change.
“Research is showing that these extreme heat events are also likely to become the new normal,” Herring said at the weather conference.
There’s been a dramatic upswing in the size and number of super costly extremes in the U.S. since about 2016, Smith said. In the past seven years, 121 different billion-dollar weather disasters have caused more than $1 trillion in damage and killed more than 5,000 people.
Those years dwarf what happened in the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s. For example, in the entire decade of the 1990s there were 55 different billion-dollar disasters that cost $313 billion total and claimed 3,062 lives.
“It’s not just one but many, many different types of extremes across much of the country,” Smith said. “If extremes were on a bingo card, we almost filled up the card over the last several years.”
In 2022, there were nine billion-dollar non-tropical storms, including a derecho, three hurricanes, two tornado outbreaks, one flood, one winter storm, a megadrought and costly wildfires. The only general type of weather disaster missing was an icy freeze that causes $1 billion or more in crop damage, Smith said. And last month, Florida came close to it, but missed it by a degree or two and some preventive steps by farmers, he said.
That prevented freeze was one of two “silver linings” in 2022 extremes, Smith said. The other was that the wildfire season, though still costing well over $1 billion, wasn’t as severe as past years, except in New Mexico and Texas, he said.
For the first 11 months of 2022, California was going through its second-driest year on record, but drenchings from an atmospheric river that started in December turned it to only the ninth-driest year on record for California, said NOAA climate monitoring chief Karin Gleason.
With a third straight year of a La Nina cooling the eastern Pacific, which tends to change weather patterns across the globe and moderate global warming, 2022 was only the 18th-warmest year in U.S. records, Gleason said.
“It was a warm year certainly above average for most of the country but nothing off the charts,” Gleason said. The nation’s average temperature was 53.4 degrees (11.9 degrees Celsius), which is 1.4 degrees (0.8 degrees) warmer than the 20th century average.
The year was 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) below normal for rain and snow, the 27th-driest out of 128 years, Gleason said.
NOAA and NASA on Thursday will announce how hot the globe was for 2022, which won’t be a record but is likely to be in the top seven or so hottest years. European climate monitoring group Copernicus released its calculations Tuesday, saying 2022 was the fifth-hottest globally and second-hottest in Europe.
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — which is what traps heat to cause global warming — rose 1.3% in 2022, according to a report released Tuesday by the Rhodium Group, a think tank. That’s less than the economy grew. The emissions increase was driven by cars, trucks and industry with electric power generation polluting slightly less.
It’s the second straight year, both after lockdowns eased, that American carbon pollution has grown after fairly steady decreases for several years. It makes it less likely that the United States will achieve its pledge to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 compared to 2005 levels, according to the Rhodium report.
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By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The rapid collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX into bankruptcy last week has also shaken the world of philanthropy, due to the donations and influence of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in the “effective altruism” movement.
The FTX Foundation — and other related nonprofits mostly funded by Bankman-Fried and other top FTX executives – says it has donated $190 million to numerous causes. Earlier this year, the foundation’s Future Fund announced plans to donate an additional $100 million, with hopes of donating up to $1 billion in 2022. Because of the bankruptcy, that won’t be happening now.
And donations to numerous nonprofits, even those that have already received money from groups related to Bankman-Fried, are now in doubt.
FTX, the hedge fund Alameda Research, and dozens of other affiliated companies sought bankruptcy protection in Delaware Friday after the exchange experienced the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run. Customers tried to remove billions of dollars from the exchange after becoming concerned about whether FTX had sufficient capital.
Bankman-Fried has resigned from the company. His net worth, estimated earlier this year at $24 billion, has all but evaporated, according to Forbes and Bloomberg, which closely track the net worth of the world’s richest people.
On Thursday night, FTX Future Fund’s leadership team resigned, warning grantees that they were unlikely to pay out promised funds.
“We are devastated to say that it looks likely that there are many committed grants that the Future Fund will be unable to honor,” the team wrote in a joint post in the Effective Altruism Forum. “We are so sorry that it has come to this.”
ProPublica, the investigative journalism nonprofit, said it has been told by Building a Stronger Future, a foundation funded by Bankman-Fried, that the remaining two-thirds of its $5 million grant to report on pandemic preparedness and biothreats is now on hold.
ProPublica received one-third of the grant in February and expected one-third annually until 2024. The nonprofit said Building a Stronger Future is assessing its finances and that it was talking to other funders about taking on some of its grant portfolio.
“Regardless of what happens with the remainder of the grant, we are deeply committed to this important work and the team we have assembled to pursue it,” the nonprofit said in a statement.
Bankman-Fried, 30, is the best-known proponent of the “effective altruism” social movement which believes in prioritizing donations to projects that will have the largest impact on the most number of people. Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and current Asana CEO and co-founder, and his wife Cari Tuna, are also major funders and backers of the movement, which also emphasizes that the lives of all people should be weighted equally, regardless of where they live now or if they will inhabit the earth generations in the future.
“I wanted to get rich, not because I like money but because I wanted to give that money to charity,” Bankman-Fried told an interviewer in a YouTube video called “ The Most Generous Billionaire,” published in January last year by producer Nuseir Yassin.
Yassin said he is disappointed Bankman-Fried’s downfall is dragging down the idea of philanthropy, in addition to destabilizing cryptocurrency markets and customers losing funds.
“The third terrible outcome is loss of faith in the giving world, in the ‘effective altruism’ world,” Yassin said. “And I find that to be the saddest one.”
Yassin emphasized he was not paid to produce the video, but said one of Bankman-Fried’s companies did invest a small amount in one of his other projects afterwards. He urged people not to give up faith in the possibility that wealthy people really do want to give away their money and are not just virtue signaling when they pledge to do so.
Bankman-Fried’s ability to promote himself and FTX gave the exchange a higher profile than larger companies. FTX purchase the naming rights to the Miami Heat’s home arena last year, though Miami-Dade County decided Friday to terminate its relationship with the company and rename the arena. It purchased a buzzed-about ad during this year’s Super Bowl.
Bankman-Fried did set up a philanthropic infrastructure through his exchange, FTX, which promised that 1% of its crypto exchange fees would be donated to charities. It also matched user donations made through its platform up to $10,000 a day. In total, the company said more than $24 million was donated through user fees, donations and its matching program before it suspended its services.
Some “effective altruism” proponents advance the idea that making a lot of money is ethical as long as your goal is ultimately to give it away — sometimes shortened to “earning to give.” Bankman-Fried believed in this, signing The Giving Pledge in June as a promise that he would give away the majority of his wealth.
However, some now blame Bankman-Fried’s “effective altruism” mindset for FTX’s troubles.
“Either (‘effective altruism’) encouraged Sam’s unethical behavior, or provided a convenient rationalization for such actions,” tweeted Moskovitz, who has also signed The Giving Pledge. “Either is bad.”
William MacAskill, a philosophy professor at Oxford University and a co-founder of the “effective altruism” movement, condemned Bankman-Fried for allegedly misusing customer funds.
“Sam and FTX had a lot of goodwill,” MacAskill, who was also an unpaid advisor to the FTX Future Fund, wrote in a thread on Twitter. “And some of that goodwill was the result of association with ideas I have spent my career promoting. If that goodwill laundered fraud, I am ashamed.”
Requests for comment were sent to the largest grantees listed on the FTX Future Fund’s website, including other “effective altruism” advocates like the Long-Term Future Fund and the Centre for Effective Altruism and Longview.
In an interview with The Associated Press in May, Nick Beckstead, the CEO of FTX Foundation until he resigned Thursday, said there were about five people working at the foundation and that they were still working out how the various philanthropic projects started by Bankman-Fried would be structured.
“It’s a bit shoestring,” he said.
The community grew out of the work of philosophers at Oxford, including MacAskill, and debates of the merits of approaches and proposals on forums reflect the high-flying thinking of its origins.
Beckstead acknowledged the community can be “strange and intense,” but also that its emphasis on quantifying impact helps decide where to direct donations. Beckstead did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“What is the cost per life saved or what is the cost per quality adjusted life year from this kind of activity?,” he previously said were some of the questions he likes to try to answer, drawing on input from subject matter experts.
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform businesses today announced it is working with Google Cloud to help businesses accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) strategies, including taking advantage of generative AI's adoption to drive actionable business insights.
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The prison staff didn’t know much about the new acting warden. Then, they say, he made a bizarre and startling confession: Years ago, he beat inmates — and got away with it.
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Thomas Ray Hinkle, a high-ranking federal Bureau of Prisons official, was sent to restore order and trust at a women’s prison wracked by a deplorable scandal. Instead, workers say, he left the federal lockup in Dublin, California, even more broken.
Staff saw Hinkle as a bully and regarded his presence there — just after allegations that the previous warden and other employees sexually assaulted inmates — as hypocrisy from an agency that was publicly pledging to end its abusive, corrupt culture.
So at a staff meeting in March, they confronted the then-director of the Bureau of Prisons and asked: Why, instead of firing Hinkle years ago, was the agency keen to keep promoting him?
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“That’s something we’ve got to look into,” Michael Carvajal responded, according to people in the room.
Three months later, the Bureau of Prisons promoted Hinkle again, putting him in charge of 20 federal prisons and 21,000 inmates from Utah to Hawaii as acting western regional director. Among them: Dublin.
An Associated Press investigation has found that the Bureau of Prisons has repeatedly promoted Hinkle despite numerous red flags, rewarding him again and again over a three-decade career while others who assaulted inmates lost their jobs and went to prison.
The agency’s new leader defends Hinkle, saying he’s a changed man and a model employee — standing by him even as she promises to work with the Justice Department and Congress to root out staff misconduct. And Hinkle, responding to questions from the AP, acknowledged that he assaulted inmates in the 1990s but said he regrets that behavior and now speaks openly about it “to teach others how to avoid making the same mistakes.”
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Among the AP’s findings:
— At least three inmates, all Black, have accused Hinkle of beating them while he was a correctional officer at a Florence, Colorado federal penitentiary in 1995 and 1996. The allegations were documented in court documents and formal complaints to prison officials. In recent years, colleagues say, Hinkle has talked about beating inmates while a member of a violent, racist gang of guards called “The Cowboys.”
— One inmate said he felt terrified as Hinkle and another guard dragged him up a stairway and slammed him into walls. Another said Hinkle was among guards who threw him to a concrete floor, spat on him and used racist language toward him. A third said Hinkle slapped him and held him down while another guard sexually assaulted him.
— The Bureau of Prisons and Justice Department knew about allegations against Hinkle in 1996 but promoted him anyway. The agency promoted Hinkle least nine times after the alleged beatings, culminating in June with his promotion to acting regional director.
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— At least 11 guards connected to “The Cowboys” were charged with federal crimes, but not Hinkle. Three were convicted and imprisoned. Four were acquitted; four pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. Hinkle was promoted twice before the criminal investigation was over.
— In 2007, while a lieutenant at a Houston federal jail, Hinkle was arrested for public intoxication at a music festival after police say he got drunk, flashed his Bureau of Prisons ID card and refused orders to leave. After the case was dropped, the agency promoted Hinkle.
— Hinkle has also come under fire as a senior agency leader. The Justice Department rebuked him in March after he was accused of attempting to silence a whistleblower, and the Bureau of Prisons said it was taking corrective action after he impeded a member of Congress’ investigation and sent all-staff emails criticizing her and the agency. Three months later, he was promoted to acting regional director.
— The Bureau of Prisons, already under intense scrutiny from Congress for myriad crises and dysfunction, did not publicize Hinkle’s promotion. Instead, the agency left his predecessor’s name and bio on its website and refused requests for basic information about him.
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The AP has spent months investigating Hinkle, obtaining more than 1,600 pages of court records and agency reports from the National Archives and Records Administration, reviewing thousands of pages of documents from related criminal cases and appeals, and interviewing dozens of people. Many spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation or because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Together, they show that while the Bureau of Prisons has vowed to change its toxic culture in the wake of Dublin and other scandals — a promise recently reiterated by the agency’s new director, Colette Peters — it has continued to elevate a man involved in one of the darkest, most abusive periods in its history.
The extent of Hinkle’s alleged misconduct and his subsequent rise to the upper ranks of the Bureau of Prisons has never been revealed. The AP’s findings raise serious questions about the agency’s standards, its selection and vetting of candidates for top-tier positions, and its explicit commitment to rooting out abuse.
“As a minimum, the music festival incident, handling of the whistleblower, and the congressional investigation exhibit his extremely poor judgment,” said Allan Turner, a former federal prison warden who reviewed the AP’s findings.
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This story is part of an ongoing AP investigation that has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion.
AP reporting has revealed rampant sexual abuse and other criminal conduct by staff, dozens of escapes, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies.
In response to detailed questions from the AP, Hinkle admitted that he assaulted inmates in the 1990s, but that he regrets his behavior and now speaks openly about it “to teach others how to avoid making the same mistakes.” He said he cooperated fully with investigators at the time and was disciplined for his actions, though he did not specify how.
“With the support of my friends, family, and colleagues, and through professional help, I have made the most of my opportunity for a second chance to serve the Bureau of Prisons honorably over the past 12 years,” Hinkle told the AP.
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“I cannot speak to why some are dredging up history from so many years ago, but my distant past does not reflect who I am today,” Hinkle added. He said “vehemently and categorically” denied using racial slurs, targeting whistleblowers and any recent allegations of misconduct.
The Bureau of Prisons responded to detailed questions about Hinkle with a statement from Peters defending him and the agency’s decisions to promote him.
“Mr. Hinkle has openly acknowledged his past mistakes, gone through the employee discipline program, sought professional help and reframed his experiences as learning opportunities for others,” Peters said. “Today, I am confident he has grown into an effective supervisor for our agency.”
At the same time, Peters said she remains committed to working within the agency and the Justice Department and with Congress “to root out staff misconduct and other concerns.”
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Under Justice Department policy, Hinkle must retire next May when he turns 57. That, said Hinkle, is precisely what he plans to do. | 2022-12-09T18:24:28+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/AP-Investigation-Prison-boss-beat-inmates-17642990.php |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A proposal to require Pennsylvania's four state-related universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with fetal tissue from elective abortions was added to a state budget bill by House Republicans on Monday.
The chamber voted 108-92, with three Republicans crossing party lines, for the amendment to legislation that will send more than $597 million combined next year to Penn State, Lincoln, Temple and Pitt.
The target of the measure is the University of Pittsburgh, which is in line to receive $155 million in the coming year.
The sponsor, Rep. Jerry Knowles, R-Schuylkill, said his goal was to stop the research.
“My goal is not to stop the funding,” Knowles said. “As a matter of fact, I want to help Pitt get themselves out of a problem that they created.”
A university financial officer would have to submit a sworn statement attesting that their school is in compliance with the law in order to receive state subsidies. The four schools are not owned by the state.
The annual appropriation for the four state-related schools is usually not controversial, but last year dozens of House Republicans opposed it over the fetal tissue research issue. The current bill combines the four schools rather than have individual votes on their funding, an unusual approach. It is part of the wider package of budget legislation that is due to be passed by Thursday, the final day of the state government’s budget year.
Rep. Kerry Benninghoff of Centre County, the House Republicans’ floor leader, called the measure a compromise despite the lack of Democratic support.
Another GOP-sponsored amendment, to force Penn State to disclose the whereabouts of a statue of former head football coach Joe Paterno, was defeated 162-38. The university administration took down the Paterno statue in 2012, shortly after his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, was convicted of the sexual abuse of 10 boys.
The school's then-president said he made that decision to remove “a source of division and an obstacle to healing" from its prominent spot just outside the football stadium. The current location of the statue and its future use has been a topic of continued interest and debate among the school's many fans and alumni.
The sponsor, Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-Beaver, said schools should have to disclose where all their assets are located.
“If Penn State would be transparent we would be able to see where every penny is spent,” he said.
Rep. Scott Conklin, a Democrat who represents the State College area, said the House should not get involved in the matter.
“We're looking at a statue that was paid for by an individual who remains nameless in a location that nobody knows and we're sitting here with a budget negotiation, with the state budget that has to be done in a couple days,” Conklin said. “And we are going through a procedure of talking about a statue.”
Rep. Mike Carroll, D-Luzerne, scolded Republicans for injecting the Paterno controversy into the budget process, calling it pure silliness.
“It's time to govern,” Carroll said. “We don't govern for 51 weeks of the year. This is the week. Let's govern.”
The bill requires another vote to pass the full House, which could occur Tuesday. | 2022-06-27T23:26:26+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Pitt-fetal-research-Paterno-statue-figure-in-17269396.php |
NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA), the world's leading private funder of lupus research, today announced inaugural recipients of Career Development and Postdoctoral Awards to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research. The Diversity in Lupus Research Award funding mechanisms aim to address underrepresentation of minorities in the scientific research profession.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that disproportionally affects underrepresented minorities in both prevalence and disease severity. To encourage the development of talented underrepresented minority early-career scientists and postdoctoral fellows, the LRA launched two new award mechanisms. This year, three outstanding early-career underrepresented minority scientists will receive the Career Development Award to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research, which provides up to $600,000 over four years. The recipients are Ashira Blazer, MD, MSCI, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS); Andrea Knight, MD, MSCE, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids); and Erika Moore, PhD, University of Florida.
Two promising postdoctoral research fellows, Ruth Fernandez Ruiz, MD, from Hospital for Special Surgery and Vanessa Wacleche, PhD, from Brigham and Women's Hospital, are the recipients of the Postdoctoral Award to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research. This award provides fellows with $170,000 over two years to support projects and the generation of data needed to become an independent lupus researcher.
Dr. Blazer will build upon her preliminary research, which successfully separated lupus nephritis patients from non-lupus nephritis patients through the analysis of the sediment found in the lupus patient urine. The potential clinical use of the non-invasive, urine-based test will be confirmed using a larger multi-national SLE patient group with African ancestry, which will provide a new opportunity to learn more about lupus nephritis in a high-risk and understudied patient group.
Dr. Knight is studying ways to detect brain changes in high-risk adolescent patients with childhood-onset lupus by comparing inflammation markers, brain MRIs, and cognitive function tests from healthy adolescents and lupus patients. Since little is known about which adolescents with lupus are most at risk for the structural brain changes that affect cognition, this research aims to find ways to detect these brain changes early and identify potential new treatments.
Dr. Moore will look at monocytes from women of African and European ancestry, with and without lupus, to determine how monocytes promote lupus-related blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis). Understanding how lupus and ancestry affect monocyte functions will help the lupus medical community learn how ancestry influences lupus-related blood vessel inflammation and identify treatments for patients at higher risk of developing lupus-induced cardiovascular disease.
Postdoctoral Award to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research Recipients:
Dr. Fernandez Ruiz will investigate how permanent changes in our genetic makeup, called gene variants, influence lupus development and progression. By studying how genetic variants in the PRKG1 gene affect lupus, the research team may identify new biological pathways that could be targeted to reduce the inflammation in lupus patients caused by high levels of interferon alpha.
Dr. Wacleche will study how T peripheral helper (Tph) cells misdirect the immune response seen in systemic lupus erythematosus via an inflammatory molecule CXCL13, which may lead to the production of organ-damaging autoantibodies. The new findings generated by this research could suggest strategies to control CXCL13 production that may eventually lead to the development of novel treatments for lupus patients.
Teodora Staeva, PhD, LRA Chief Scientific Officer said, "We congratulate the inaugural recipients of our Diversity in Lupus Research Awards and look forward to seeing how their research findings advance our understanding of lupus and result in the development of new treatment options for lupus patients. The Career Development and Postdoctoral Awards to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research funding mechanisms are our most recent initiatives to alleviate the disparities that are prevalent in both autoimmune diseases and biomedical research."
Lupus is a chronic, complex autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. More than 90 percent of people with lupus are women; lupus most often strikes during the childbearing years of 15-45. Ancestrally African, South and Central American, and Native Americans have two to three times higher risk of developing lupus than Americans with European ancestry. In lupus, the immune system, which is designed to protect against infection, creates antibodies that can attack any part of the body including the kidneys, brain, heart, lungs, blood, skin, and joints.
The Lupus Research Alliance is the largest non-governmental, non-profit funder of lupus research worldwide. The organization aims to transform treatment by funding the most innovative lupus research, fostering diverse scientific talent, and driving discovery toward better diagnostics, improved treatments and ultimately a cure for lupus. Because the Lupus Research Alliance's Board of Directors funds all administrative and fundraising costs, 100% of all donations goes to support lupus research programs.
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Vince McMahon is rejoining the board of WWE several months after he retired from the sports entertainment company during an investigation into alleged misconduct.
WWE said Friday that McMahon, the founder and majority shareholder of WWE, would return as executive chairman. It also announced a board shakeup.
Shares surged more than 22%.
McMahon retired as WWE's chairman and CEO in July. He had stepped down temporarily from the posts a month earlier. The Wall Street Journal reported over the summer that McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.
The Stamford, Connecticut, company said Friday that it would be looking at "all strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value.”
There have been rumors that WWE may be interested in selling the organization to another entertainment company.
McMahon appeared to address that possibility in a letter to the board, dated Dec. 20, but published Friday.
“I believe WWE has a unique opportunity during this critical juncture to maximize value for its shareholders and all other stakeholders,” McMahon wrote. “Specifically, given the rapidly evolving media landscape in which more and more companies are seeking to own the intellectual property offered on their streaming platforms – I firmly believe that the best thing to do for all of WWE’s shareholders and other stakeholders is to undertake a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives.”
The company said in early November that an investigation of a special committee formed to look into the misconduct allegations was completed and that the committee was disbanded.
The company on Friday did not immediately return requests from The Associated Press seeking details about the findings of that committee. It did say at the time that the company was implementing some of the suggestions of the committee.
McMahon's return coincides with the airing of some of WWE's biggest premium live events of the year. The Royal Rumble takes place this month in Texas, while Wrestlemania, a two-day event, begins in April.
McMahon said in a prepared statement that he doesn't intend for his return to have any impact on the roles, duties or responsibilities of WWE's existing management team. His daughter, Stephanie McMahon, serves as co-CEO, along with Nick Khan. McMahon's son-in-law, Paul Levesque, who wrestled under the name Triple H, serves as chief content officer.
McMahon controlled a majority of company shares even after his retirement, giving him the power to engineer a board shakeup upon his return. Three board members, JoEllen Lyons Dillon, Jeffrey R. Speed and Alan M. Wexler, were ousted to make room for McMahon and two other board members, Michelle Wilson and George Barrios.
Vince McMahon has been among the most recognizable faces at WWE for decades.
When he purchased what was then the World Wrestling Federation from his father in 1982, wrestling matches took place at small venues and appeared on local cable channels.
WWE matches are now held in professional sports stadiums and the company has a sizeable overseas following.
The organization underwent a seismic transformation under McMahon with events like WrestleMania, a premium live production that draws millions of fervent viewers.
Revenue in 2021 exceeded $1 billion for the first time and the company has television deals with Fox and NBCUniversal. It announced a multi-year expansion of its original programming partnership with A&E in May 2022.
WWE stars have become crossover sensations, including Hulk Hogan, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and John Cena. | 2023-01-06T19:12:14+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/01/06/wwws-vince-mcmahon-is-back-after-misconduct-investigation/ |
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MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pot Eyeshadow | 2023-02-07T01:32:57+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/business/2023/02/ulta-beautys-valentines-day-picks-fenty-beauty-chanel-dyson-and-more.html |
Police respond to fight, disturbances in Downtown Rochester
Person with a firearm taken into custody
Published: Jun. 24, 2022 at 4:55 AM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Rochester Police were on the scene of a fight and several disturbances overnight in Downtown.
Police said they responded to the intersection of South Broadway Avenue and Third Street around 12:10 a.m. Friday.
An officer at the scene said a person waved a firearm at one point and the person was taken into custody.
Police are not sure of how many people were involved in this incident.
Copyright 2022 KTTC. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-24T10:33:00+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2022/06/24/police-respond-fight-disturbances-downtown-rochester/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Carusillo died when he was hit by multiple vehicles on a Georgia interstate, just days after he was abruptly discharged from an addiction treatment center. Now his parents hope a substantial jury verdict in their favor will prompt change that helps others suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.
Carusillo died on Sept. 22, 2017, and his parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2019 against the facility that released him and several people who were responsible for his care there. A jury just outside Atlanta awarded them a total of about $77 million last week — $10 million for their son’s pain and suffering, $55 million for the value of his life, $1 million in punitive damages and the remainder for attorneys’ fees and expenses.
“This verdict, for us, is validation,” Tina Carusillo told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday.
“It wasn’t his fault. He was caught up in a bad system,” she said. “I’m hopeful that the size of this verdict makes a lot of people pay attention, from insurance companies to facilities to parents to loved ones to people seeking treatment.”
Heather Saum Ware, a lawyer for the facility that released Carusillo — Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences, or MARR — said in an email that they “plan to appeal and are not commenting further about the ongoing litigation.”
Carusillo struggled with substance abuse from the time he was a teenager growing up in North Carolina. He began to show signs of bipolar disorder in his late teens, and his diagnosis was confirmed by the time he was 20, his father said. He was 29 years old and had been in and out of treatment facilities when he was admitted to MARR on Aug. 29, 2017.
He was managing his bipolar disorder with a combination of lithium and Seroquel and was medically stable when he arrived there, his family’s lawyers said in a court filing. A week later, on Sept. 5, 2017, a doctor at MARR took him off lithium, despite having been warned by Carusillo’s family and longtime therapist that he should remain on his medications, the filing says.
Carusillo’s condition deteriorated and he was forced to leave the facility two weeks later, on Sept. 19, 2017, after staff said he had a cellphone, which wasn’t allowed.
MARR released him to a sober living residence but failed to tell the owner about Carusillo’s mental health issues, the filing says. Carusillo left the sober living house early the next morning in violation of curfew and was discharged that day. The owner of the sober living house dropped him off an an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
His whereabouts were unknown until he lay down naked on Interstate 85 outside of Atlanta and was hit by several vehicles early on Sept. 22, 2017, according to a statement from lawyers Natalie Woodward and Dax Lopez, who represent his family. He had no illegal drugs or alcohol in his system.
Lawyers for MARR wrote in a court filing that a doctor discontinued Carusillo’s lithium treatment after he complained of side effects. Carusillo knowingly violated multiple rules at the facility and had been told that he would be discharged for any further violation, they wrote. The next morning, facility staff discovered he had a cellphone. During a phone conference with facility staff and his parents, Carusillo refused to go to a more intensive treatment facility and only agreed to go to a sober living house, the filing says.
Mike Carusillo said he hopes his son’s death and the large jury verdict help prompt legislation to ensure proper staffing and guidelines at treatment facilities. The Carusillos have been open about discussing their son’s struggles in hopes of publicizing available resources and reducing the stigma attached to mental illness, Tina Carusillo said.
She described her son — who had his own son who was 5 when his father died — as a beautiful, funny, bright, generous person. He was a talented athlete and had been the kicker on his high school football team.
“I have to say, he was probably the best hugger that I ever knew, and I really, really miss that,” Tina Carusillo said. “He was a generous, kind soul and we miss him.” | 2022-09-07T21:57:00+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/health/ap-jury-awards-77m-in-suit-against-addiction-treatment-center/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CinCor Pharma, Inc. ("CinCor" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CINC), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ: AZN) via tender offer. Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $26.00 in cash for each share of CinCor common stock owned, plus a non-tradable contingent value right ("CVR") of $10.00.
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King County Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan on Friday stopped a senior deputy prosecutor from reciting the facts of Charles Becker’s crimes out loud, saying that everyone in his courtroom knew the horrific details and Ryan did not want to see anyone retraumatized in the telling.
He made clear from the bench that he would send Becker, 33, to prison for life if he could for murdering 56-year-old Mavis Kindness Nelson, a member of the Rock Creek band of the Yakama Nation who was reported missing in Seattle in May 2022, a month before her dismembered remains were found discarded in a University District ravine.
“The facts of this case are unlike any this court has ever seen,” Ryan said, adding that the superlatives “horrific” and “gruesome” don’t even begin to capture Becker’s “extreme depravity.”
Noting he did not have the legal authority to impose an exceptional sentence, Ryan reluctantly sentenced Becker to 34 years in prison — a high-end, standard-range sentence jointly recommended by the state and defense. He said that while he usually tries to find reason to hope for a defendant’s rehabilitation, in Becker’s case, he searched in vain.
“There is no coming back from this,” Ryan said. Becker, he said, is “an individual beyond hope” for his heinous acts and the trauma he inflicted on Nelson, her loved ones, the Yakama Nation and the Seattle community.
In October, Becker was arrested and charged with first-degree murder with a deadly weapon and sexually violating human remains. He pleaded guilty to those crimes as well as unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation June 15. That charge was added after investigators determined he held Nelson in his room in a U-District boardinghouse for two weeks before killing her and storing her body in his closet, court records show.
The unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation charge provides the state with a basis to potentially seek a future jury verdict to civilly commit Becker as a sexually violent predator once he’s served his prison sentence.
In plea negotiations, King County and Clallam County prosecutors agreed not to charge Becker in two unrelated sexual assaults on two other women. He has a prior second-degree manslaughter conviction for the 2015 accidental killing of his infant son in Pullman, Whitman County, court records show. The baby died after his airway was obstructed by a piece of a plastic bag, and Becker was sentenced to just over two years in prison.
Nelson’s friends and family packed Ryan’s courtroom Friday, the mood somber as Becker was led to the defense table in red jail scrubs.
Nelson, who was nicknamed “Boots” for her love of the Nancy Sinatra song, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” was remembered for the love and kindness she effortlessly exuded, her big heart and distinctive laugh, along with her willingness to take in and feed people who were down on their luck.
She was raised in a prominent family on the Yakama Nation’s reservation and was “a compassionate, happy person (who) would be the first to open her door to those in need,” said Charlene Tillequots, an elected member of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council.
Tillequots, who appeared by Zoom, is also chair of the council’s missing and murdered Indigenous people committee.
“Non-Indians have preyed on our people,” who’ve been victims of homicides, rapes and human trafficking, Tillequots said. “Everyone here knows someone who has been murdered, violated or is missing … We lose a piece of ourselves every time someone takes a member of the Yakama Nation from us.”
But the ways Nelson was violated “goes beyond the white man’s laws and natural law,” Tillequots said. “She leaves behind a community that won’t be able to overcome the trauma of her passing.”
Historically, rapists and murderers “would be tortured and killed by our tribe,” she told Ryan. “In our culture, we believe that when you take the life of another person, you take on all their sins.”
As a result, Tillequots said, Nelson is “pure and innocent as the day she was born.”
Ernestine Morning Owl lamented the violence Nelson experienced at the hands of “this man who took my sister for his own twisted gratification.”
“He will always carry her burdens and will answer to the Creator,” Morning Owl said. “I pray Charles Becker will suffer for his remaining days, that he shall never walk free again.”
Nelson’s niece, Daw Kenoras, told Ryan that at her Auntie Boots’ funeral, she and her cousins gathered in the longhouse’s kitchen and recalled how Nelson would cuddle and kiss them, stroke their hair and call them “baby.”
“She would rub us and comfort us and make us feel like we were the most important people in the world, that we mattered. It was the greatest feeling in the world,” Kenoras said. “We said, ‘How can somebody take that love from us?’ There wasn’t anything bad or mean that she ever did.”
Kenoras also thanked Ryan for not allowing a recitation of the horrors Nelson suffered.
“You saved us from that,” she told the judge.
Becker did not address the court.
Defense attorney William Prestia acknowledged that with “a set of crimes of this magnitude, there is little the defense can say.”
He said the defense didn’t submit any mitigation materials and wasn’t asking for leniency.
“Mr. Becker’s crimes are notorious and he’ll arrive at the Department of Corrections carrying the stigma of his crimes,” Prestia said. | 2023-07-01T03:11:04+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-man-sentenced-for-horrific-murder-sexual-violation-of-yakama-woman/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Diebel, Barbara J.
Barbara J. Diebel, age 93 of Hamilton, passed away on Friday, May 12, 2023. She was born on December 29, 1929. Barbara was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years, Donald L. Diebel. She is survived by her daughter, Beth (Thomas Kachadurian) Chan; her son, Douglas (Judy) Diebel; grandchildren, Lori Ann (Daniel) Counsell, Jeffrey (Holly) Diebel and Forrest Chan; great grandchildren, Arianna, Alexander, Stella and Margot and her sister, Diana Strandt. Barb valued her family and friends above all else, and will be remembered by everyone as someone who loved to laugh. Memorial ceremony will be held on Friday, June 9, 2023 at 11:00 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1285 Main Street Hamilton, Ohio 45013 with Pastor Kevin Jud officiating. If you wish, memorial donations may be directed to Animal Friends Humane Society, 1820 Princeton Road, Hamilton OH 45011 or to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Hamilton. Condolences may be left for the family at www.Webb-Noonan.com
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Webb Noonan Kidd Funeral Home | 2023-06-04T05:57:15+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/diebel-barbara/GX4YL4UUQRAILLZCHPLPFPDX3M/ |
DePaul Blue Demons (9-22, 3-17 Big East) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (17-14, 10-10 Big East)
The Blue Demons’ record in Big East play is 3-17. DePaul gives up 77.3 points to opponents and has been outscored by 6.4 points per game.
TOP PERFORMERS: Al-Amir Dawes is shooting 39.7% and averaging 12.6 points for the Pirates. Dre Davis is averaging 0.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for Seton Hall.
Umoja Gibson is shooting 41.2% from beyond the arc with 2.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Blue Demons, while averaging 15.8 points, 4.6 assists and 1.9 steals. Javan Johnson is shooting 39.8% and averaging 12.4 points over the past 10 games for DePaul.
LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 5-5, averaging 68.4 points, 28.1 rebounds, 12.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.6 points per game.
Blue Demons: 0-10, averaging 69.6 points, 29.1 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 5.8 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 41.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.4 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-03-08T09:10:21+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/2023/03/08/depaul-seton-hall-preview/9318a52e-bd8d-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html |
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s one-time boss — has arrived in Lithuania on an Israeli passport after fleeing Russian investigators who raided her home this week, officials said Thursday.
“Citizens of (Israel) do not need a visa and are allowed to stay in the country for 90 days,” Darius Jauniskis, head of Lithuania’s State Security Department, told a local radio station. Jauniskis said Lithuania has no evidence of any threat that Sobchak could pose to national security.
“If we had anything, certain appropriate measures would be taken,” he told the Ziniu Radijas station
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told reporters that “Ms. Sobchak currently is not included in any sanctions list of the EU, U.K. or the U.S. This does not mean that it cannot occur.”
Landbergis said Sobschak might already have left Lithuania as she had entered Europe’s passport-free travel zone — a 26-country area made up of most of the EU members plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Israeli citizens with a valid passport can travel freely within Europe’s visa-free zone, known as the Schengen area.
“Ms. Sobchak might have left Lithuania’s territory already because she is not restricted in her movement to Poland, to other European countries, or to the north,” he said, according to the Baltic News Service, the region’s main news agency.
A video from a surveillance camera shows Sobchak entering Lithuania on foot and talking to border officials.
Lithuania and other Baltic states along with Poland stopped admitting Russian citizens who hold a valid Schengen visa back in September, a move to support Ukraine. Hundreds were turned away, but many still entered after presenting passports of other countries at the border.
Sobchak, 40, has often been critical of Putin, but many Russian opposition figures have accused her of serving the Kremlin’s agenda. In 2018, she became a liberal challenger in Russia’s presidential election, finishing a distant fourth with about 1.7% of the vote in what her critics described as a Kremlin effort to add a democratic veneer to Putin’s sweeping re-election.
Russian media claimed she had bought tickets to Dubai and Turkey to mislead the authorities but eventually left for Belarus, from where she traveled to Lithuania. The reports claimed that investigators suspected Sobchak of being involved in an extortion scheme along with her media director and alleged that a warrant was issued for her arrest.
The Russian news agency Tass also cited information from the probe indicating that Sergei Chemezov, a longtime Putin associate who heads the state Rostec corporation, a conglomerate controlling Russian aviation industries and other high-tech assets, was the victim of alleged extortion.
The claims couldn’t be independently confirmed.
Sobchak, the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, a liberal mayor of St. Petersburg for whom Putin served as a deputy in the 1990s, has extensive contacts among Russia’s rich and powerful, and the search of her home topped domestic news.
She has 9.4 million followers on Instagram, and her glamour, sharp wit and defiant ways have made her both loved and loathed. Sobchak first gained fame as a fashionable socialite and reality TV star and was once dubbed the “Russian Paris Hilton,” but later sought to shed her spoiled and arrogant image. She got involved in politics when joining the massive protests in Moscow against Putin in 2011-12, and later reinvented herself as a serious TV journalist and opposition activist.
Sobchak has denied serving the Kremlin’s agenda by running as a challenger to Putin in 2018. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny denounced her for discrediting the opposition by joining the race, saying that she was a “parody of a liberal candidate” and her involvement in the campaign helped the Kremlin cast the opposition in a negative light.
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Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed to this report. | 2022-10-28T03:41:40+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-russian-tv-personality-ksenia-sobchak-arrives-in-lithuania/ |
China dismisses FBI statement on COVID-19 lab leak theory
BEIJING (AP) — For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
Responding to comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the involvement of the U.S. intelligence community was evidence enough of the “politicization of origin tracing.”
“By rehashing the lab-leak theory, the U.S. will not succeed in discrediting China, and instead, it will only hurt its own credibility,” Mao said.
“We urge the U.S. to respect science and facts ... stop turning origin tracing into something about politics and intelligence, and stop disrupting social solidarity and origins cooperation,” she said.
In an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday, Wray said, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in (central China’s) Wuhan.”
“Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab,” Wray said.
Referring to efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, he added, “I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”
On Tuesday, Mao pushed back at a report from the U.S. Department of Energy that assessed with “low confidence” that the virus that was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019 leaked from a nearby government laboratory.
The report hasn’t been made public, and officials in Washington stressed that U.S. agencies are not in agreement on the origin of the virus.
Mao on Tuesday insisted that China has been “open and transparent” in the search for the virus’ origins and has “shared the most data and research results on virus tracing and made important contributions to global virus tracing research.”
A World Health Organization expert group said last year that “key pieces of data” to explain how the pandemic began were still missing. The scientists cited avenues of research that were needed, including studies evaluating the role of wild animals and environmental studies in places where the virus might have first spread.
The Associated Press has previously reported that the Chinese government was strictly controlling research into the origin of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.8 million people worldwide, clamping down on some work and promoting fringe theories that it could have come from outside the country.
Some scientists are open to the lab-leak theory, but many scientists believe the virus came from animals, mutated, and jumped to people, as has happened with other viruses in the past. Experts say the origin of the pandemic may not be known for many years — if ever.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-01T12:50:16+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/03/01/china-dismisses-fbi-statement-covid-19-lab-leak-theory/ |
Detroit Lions' losing skid hits five in familiar-looking 31-27 loss to Miami Dolphins
One play.
For the better part of two seasons, that’s been Dan Campbell’s mantra, that his Detroit Lions are one play away from turning things around.
Only 24 games into Campbell’s tenure as Lions coach, there have been too many “one plays” to count.
The Lions lost their fifth straight game Sunday, blowing a 10-point halftime lead in a 31-27 loss to the Miami Dolphins at Ford Field.
They dropped a touchdown pass just before halftime and had to settle for a field goal, a four-point swing that would have made a difference in the game. They threw an incomplete pass deep on fourth-and-1 with just under 3 minutes to play. They committed three penalties in a four-snap sequence in the third quarter that grounded their high-flying offense. They couldn’t get off the field eight times on third down.
“As frustrating as it is, I know how close we are because we are still talking about one play,” Campbell said. “And the hard thing is to just keep doing your job and staying in the thick of the storm, and the easy thing is to go down below and get under the blanket and eat all the food and whatever. It’s the guys who are going to stay on the deck and just continue to do their part cause they know the sun’s coming, those are the guys we’re looking for. So that’s how I choose to think of this. The only way to clean up everything is to go back to work.”
SHAWN WINDSOR:This Lions season is sadly familiar — road team has its way with Dan Campbell's bunch
At 1-6 and with the worst record in the NFL, the Lions have lots of work to do and lots of excrement to clean up.
On Sunday, Tua Tagovailoa shredded their league-worst defense for 382 yards and three touchdowns and the Lions failed to force a punt until the fourth quarter for the second time three games.
Tyreek Hill caught 12 passes for 188 yards, Jaylen Waddle scored two touchdowns and Tagovailoa helped the Dolphins convert 8 of 12 third downs.
Tagovailoa was 9 of 10 passing for 139 yards and two touchdowns on third downs, with his only incompletion coming with less than nine minutes to play after a premature snap.
The Dolphins converted two third-and-13s in the first half and picked up 10 yards on another third-and-13 to set up a fourth down conversion. Tagovailoa threw touchdown passes of 29 yards to Waddle and 11 yards to Mike Gesicki on third down.
Gesicki’s touchdown, with 12 seconds left in the third quarter, helped the Dolphins (5-3) erase a 10-point halftime deficit for their second straight win.
LIONS GRADES:Jared Goff wilts under pressure, DBs get another F
“We did not do well in this game plan that was designed for these guys,” Campbell said. “It’s something we worked all week. We were trying to take away these bend throws on speed, and layer over the top. Let Kerby (Joseph) kind of spy a little bit, and we just — we didn’t handle it well. We didn’t. So they didn’t do anything. I mean, they did exactly what we knew they would do. They just did it. Did it over and over and had their way.”
As bad as the Lions were defensively Sunday, allowing more than 30 points for the third time in four home games, their problems were compounded by an offense went AWOL at the most inopportune time.
The Lions scored on five straight possessions to start the game, but managed just 67 yards of offense in a scoreless second half.
Jamaal Williams opened the game with a 7-yard touchdown run, and Jared Goff threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to D’Andre Swift on the Lions’ second possession, after Joseph forced a Miami fumble.
Williams scored his second TD on a 1-yard run early in the second quarter and Michael Badgley made field goals of 42 and 26 yards as the Lions took a 27-17 lead into halftime. Badgley’s second kick came one play after Josh Reynolds dropped a would-be touchdown in the end zone with 3 seconds left in the half.
The Dolphins (5-3) opened the second half with a nine-play, 75-yard touchdown drive and took the lead on their next possession, after a barrage of penalties — false starts by Taylor Decker and Penei Sewell and a holding penalty on Sewell — forced the Lions to punt on their first drive of the third quarter.
CARLOS MONARREZ:Awful showing vs. Dolphins means Lions will have to fire Aaron Glenn at some point
Trailing 31-27, the Lions had more self-inflicted wounds on their next possession. Decker had another false start. Swift lost 2 yards on a run and Jared Goff took a sack on third-and-9.
“The first drive, that can happen,” Goff said. “There’s teams that have four, five, six wins right now that that happens to them, too, at times. You just get in a little rut. But it’s like you said, how do you put that away? ‘OK, move forward, that’s not who we are and move forward and flush it.’ And unfortunately we didn’t. But that is a problem to solve is how do we put that away and move forward on the next drive.”
The Lions forced their only punt of the game with 8:28 to play and drove to the Miami 35-yard line on the next possession, but Goff threw short and behind Reynolds on a fourth-and-1 shot to the end zone.
Goff said he checked out of the Lions’ original play call when the Dolphins showed a Cover 0 blitz, and when Miami didn’t bring pressure Reynolds was “kind of my only option.”
“Wish I would have thrown a better ball,” he said. “If I would have left it outside maybe I had a chance there. But they called a good coverage and we had a one-on-one shot down the field and we just didn’t connect.”
Goff finished 27 of 37 passes for 321 yards for the Lions, who play NFC North foes the Green Bay Packers (at Ford Field) and Chicago Bears (on the road) the next two weeks.
Williams led the Lions with 10 carries for 53 yards, Swift had five rushes for 6 yards and five catches for 27 yards in his first game since spraining his shoulder in a Week 3 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, and Amon-Ra St. Brown had seven catches for 69 yards.
Tagovailoa was 29 of 36 passing for the Dolphins, who finished with 476 net yards of offense.
“(Losing is) exhausting,” Decker said. “But there’s nothing I can do other than go back to work. There’s nothing this team can do other than go to practice Wednesday with a good attitude and try to get this thing right. When there are opportunities, we have to capitalize on them. There’s no other way to put it. It sucks, but like I said, there’s no alternative to how we’re approaching it.”
Contact Dave Birkett at dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett. | 2022-10-31T00:44:41+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2022/10/30/detroit-lions-losing-skid-hits-5-miami-dolphins/69604330007/ |
Multiple crews working on grass fire in Stinnett area near FM 1319
Published: Jan. 6, 2023 at 5:11 PM CST|Updated: 19 minutes ago
HUTCHINSON COUNTY, Texas (KFDA) - Crews are working on a grass fire in the Stinnett area near FM 1319.
The Fritch Fire Department, Stinnett Fire Department, National Park Service, and Crutch Ranch Fire Departments are on scene.
The release says Borger Fire Department is currently in route with UTV’s to help access some areas in rough terrain.
Officials say there is no threat to the communities around Stinnett.
Copyright 2023 KFDA. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-06T23:32:22+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2023/01/06/multiple-crews-working-grass-fire-stinnett-area-near-fm-1319/ |
WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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HARD FREEZE WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
1256 PM PDT Wed Nov 2 2022
...HARD FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM
THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures from 23 to 28 degrees expected.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest California.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent
freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should
be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have
in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above-
ground pipes to protect them from freezing.
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected.
* WHERE...Northern Humboldt Coast, Southwestern Humboldt, and
Southwestern Mendocino Interior.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other
sensitive vegetation.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Provide
adequate shelter for outdoor pets or consider bringing them
indoors.
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 32 expected.
* WHERE...Coastal Del Norte County.
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John Travolta and More Celebs React to the Death of Kirstie Alley
Celebrities and former co-stars are paying tribute to Kirstie Alley following her death.
On Monday (Dec. 5), Alley's official Twitter account announced the star's passing. She died from cancer.
One of the first celebrities who honored the actress was her former Look Who's Talking co-star, John Travolta. The pair starred together in the 1989 comedy as well as its 1990 sequel, Look Who's Talking Too, and 1993's Look Who's Talking Now.
"Kirstie was one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had. I love you Kirstie. I know we will see each other again," Travolta wrote, sharing two photos of his co-star.
"I'm sorry buddy, I know you loved her," Motley Crue drummer John-5 commented under Travolta's post.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who co-starred with Alley on Scream Queens, shared a moving tribute to the 71-year-old on Instagram.
"I've just heard the sad news that Kirstie Alley has died. She was a great comic foil in @tvscreamqueens and a beautiful mama bear in her very real life. She helped me buy onesies for my family that year for Christmas. We agreed to disagree about some things but had a mutual respect and connection. Sad news," Curtis wrote.
On social media, Larry the Cable Guy called Alley "a sweetheart," while Valerie Bertinelli wrote, "Oh Kirstie ... Rest in Peace."
In her death announcement, Alley's family revealed the actress passed away suddenly from cancer that was "only recently discovered." She was "surrounded by her closest family" when she died.
Alley is perhaps best remembered for originating the role of Lt. Saavik on Star Trek, as well as for her role as Rebecca Howe on six seasons of Cheers. Her film work included Drop Dead Gorgeous, It Takes Two and Toothless.
See more reactions and tributes, below. | 2022-12-06T19:16:01+00:00 | q961.com | https://q961.com/celebs-react-kirstie-alley-death/ |
Twenty-seven thousand people responded to the invitation of their lives Saturday night at the Gorge Amphitheatre in eastern Washington State, when Joni Mitchell played her first announced concert in 20 years in the company of a trusted — and dazzling — company of friends.
The Joni Jam, as the evening was billed, was organized by Mitchell's spiritual daughter and main 21st century champion Brandi Carlile, who herself had headlined the dramatically scenic venue the night before. Since 2019, Carlile has been part of the semi-regular singalongs at Mitchell's California home that have been key to the superstar's recovery from a 2015 aneurysm; there, fellow famous confidantes like Elton John and Herbie Hancock have helped Mitchell nurture and challenge herself as she learned to walk, sing and play guitar again. At some point, the idea began forming to take this intimate healing circle public.
A brief set at last year's Newport Folk Festival set the stage for this full set, which lasted for nearly three hours and had a global and intergenerational audience of Joni fans shedding buckets of tears. The remarkable career-spanning set list included Mitchell chestnuts like "Big Yellow Taxi" and, of course, "Both Sides Now," next to critics' favorites like "Amelia" and excellent deep cuts from "A Strange Boy" to "Come In From The Cold"; Mitchell took the lead on many, while the artists gathered around her supported her with star turns of their own.
Those in attendance would have been thrilled at hearing Annie Lennox sing "Ladies of the Canyon" or Sarah McLachlan reprise her version of "Blue" under any circumstances. But nothing could top the mere presence of a happy and highly capable Mitchell. As the night wore on, she further blessed the proceedings with bawdy and playful storytelling, musical exchanges with Carlile that had them finishing each other's sentences, and a little bit of virtuosity on her trusty Fender guitar. Every move she made — even the percussive tap of her bespangled cane — drew from all the enthusiasm the evening's expanded circle could generate and multiplied it a hundredfold.
This photo gallery captures the delight felt by all in an evening when the lines between performers and fans, and a legend and her many inheritors, fell away, and a recovery that once seemed like it would require a miracle manifested, the result of that most human shared asset: love.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-12T18:01:52+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-06-12/photos-joni-mitchell-at-the-gorge |
Which Funko Pop Pokémon figurines are the best?
If you love Pokémon or know someone who loves Pokémon, Funko Pop has an impressive selection of licensed three-dimensional vinyl figurines that replicate some of the most popular and beloved Pokémon characters out there today. Keep them in their boxes and become a collector or stand them up in your room, office or living space to show off your favorites.
Specialty Funko Pop toys and how to spot them
Often Funko Pop will release a figurine, like Pikachu, and then additional versions with special labeling you’ll want to know before buying.
- Flocked: All flocked figurines are a little fuzzy on the outside and are sometimes released as special editions.
- Diamond Collection: The Diamond Collection is a line of toys with sparkles infused in the design, covering an entire figurine or certain elements for a more dramatic look.
- Exclusive/Limited Edition: If an item is labeled as exclusive or limited edition, the figurine was originally released at a convention, festival or in partnership with a specific retailer. Any limited editions sold from a different retailer were acquired initially through the convention or limited release seller and are now being re-sold. As a result, prices tend to get higher because they are being resold.
What is a Generation I Pokémon?
Generation I refers to the original Pokémon introduced in the playing card game from which the fandom has since developed. If you’re a long-time Pokémon fan, you might appreciate the nostalgia of Generation I characters.
Classic Funko Pop Pokémon toys
Funko Pop Games: Pokemon – Ponyta
Ponyta is a Fire-type Generation I Pokémon and is featured here in Pop form. This little yellow horse-like figurine has a flaming mane, tail and legs.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РPsyduck
Psyduck is a Water-type who has gone on to become something of a fan-favorite in television adaptations. This duck-like figurine is yellow with a sweet face.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РCharizard
Charizard is a very popular Fire-type evolved from Charmander and Charmeleon, who was introduced in Generation I. This figurine has an intimidating face, formidable wings and a flaming tail.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РMeowth
Meowth is a Generation I Pokémon best known as a member of Team Rocket in the animated television series. This figurine stands with paws raised and ears alert.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РGrowlithe
Growlithe is a Fire-type Pokémon from Generation I and looks like a cross between a tiger and a puppy. This figurine has an adorable face with formidable stripes and a sweet mane.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РEevee
Eevee is a fan favorite “mammalian” creature resembling a fox with rabbit ears and tufts of fur around the neck. This seated figurine has an adorable face and recognizably big ears.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РCubone
Cubone is a Ground-type known as the “Lonely Pokémon” since it wears its mother’s skull as a helmet. This figurine stands wearing the skull and holding a loose bone in its right hand.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РSquirtle
Squirtle is an adorable Water-type Generation I Pokémon with a blue body and turtle-like shell. This figurine stands with arms outstretched, the belly of its shell exposed.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РMew
Mew is a Psychic-type from Generation I and is unique among Pokémon because it is not known to evolve from anything or into anything. This figurine is on a clear stand to look like it’s floating, pink tail raised.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РBulbasaur
Bulbasaur is a dual-type Grass/Poison Pokémon from Generation I. This figurine stands on all four feet with lips parted to expose two pointed teeth.
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Funko Pop Games: Pokémon S1- Pikachu
Easily the most recognizable Pokémon out there, Pikachu is an Electric-type from Generation I. There are a few Pop Pikachu figurines, but this one shows a standing, friendly Pikachu with a bright face and open mouth.
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Specialty Funko Pop Pokémon toys
Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РPikachu [Flocked]
This Pikachu figurine is in the exact same pose as the standard Pop version, and even has the same facial expression. The only difference is that this one is flocked and a Gamestop Exclusive.
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Funko Pop Games: Pokémon: Flareon [Diamond]
Flareon is a Fire-type evolution of Evee introduced in Generation I. This figure is part of the Diamond Collection and is a 2021 Wondrous Convention Limited Edition.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РSquirtle [Diamond]
This Squirtle figurine shares the same pose and expression as the regular Pop version, but this one sparkles. It is part of the Diamond Collection and a 2021 Summer Convention Limited Edition.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РCharmander [Flocked]
This little Charmander stands on its back legs, mouth open with four pointy teeth exposed and a flaming tail. The figurine is flocked and a 2020 Spring Convention Limited Edition Exclusive.
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Funko Pop Games: Pok̩mon РVulpix [10-inch]
Vulpix is a Fire-type from Generation I and looks like a fox with a luxurious tail. This figurine is a Target Exclusive and stands 10 inches tall, making it significantly bigger than the usual Pop vinyl toys.
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Funko Pop Games: Pokémon Growlithe [Flocked]
Here Growlithe is posed with the same expression as the standard Pop figurine, only this one has a furry body. The figurine is flocked and a 2020 Fall Convention Limited Edition.
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Funko Pop Games: Pokémon Vaporeon [Diamond Collection]
Vaporeon is a Water-type Pokémon from Generation I and is the Water-type evolution of Evee. This figurine is part of the Diamond Collection and is a 2021 Spring Convention Limited Edition Exclusive.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered that the former national chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys organization remain held until his trial after his arrest and indictment in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Releasing Enrique Tarrio before his trial would not reasonably ensure the safety of the community, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly of Washington, D.C., wrote in a ruling, denying Tarrio’s request for release awaiting trial. He ordered that Tarrio be held at a federal detention center in Miami. Tarrio was arrested in Florida in March.
Kelly said the charges were "very serious," involving an "alleged conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the Electoral College vote and thus to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, one of our Nation’s crown jewels."
Read more at NBCNews.com. | 2022-05-30T05:18:44+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/federal-judge-orders-ex-proud-boys-leader-to-be-detained-until-jan-6-trial/2845243/ |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 21, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
458 AM CDT Fri Apr 21 2023
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Galveston, east
central Brazoria, Chambers, southeastern Liberty and southeastern
Harris Counties through 600 AM CDT...
At 457 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Baytown to Texas City to near San Luis
Pass. Movement was northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Southeastern Pasadena, eastern League City, Baytown, Galveston
Causeway, Galveston Island West End, Texas City, La Porte, Deer Park,
Dickinson, La Marque, Santa Fe, Seabrook, Webster, Hitchcock, Beach
City, Kemah, Galveston Pier 21, Highlands, Channelview and eastern
Clear Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 AM CDT for
southeastern Texas. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch also remains in
effect until 700 AM CDT for southeastern Texas.
LAT...LON 2941 9436 2929 9457 2922 9464 2896 9523
2934 9510 2977 9513 3009 9445 2989 9444
2989 9436 2956 9435 2955 9439 2946 9435
TIME...MOT...LOC 0957Z 229DEG 48KT 2980 9495 2943 9494 2913 9506
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL ALLOW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
156 TO EXPIRE AT 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING
AREAS
IN LOUISIANA THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 2 PARISHES
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
CALCASIEU CAMERON
IN TEXAS THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 2 COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
JEFFERSON ORANGE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BEAUMONT, BRIDGE CITY, HACKBERRY,
JOHNSON BAYOU, LAKE CHARLES, ORANGE, SABINE PASS,
SEA RIM STATE PARK, SULPHUR, AND VIDOR.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GALVESTON...
NORTHEASTERN BRAZORIA AND SOUTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT
500 AM CDT...
The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds are still possible with these thunderstorms.
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WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – A local business is searching for the person responsible for thousands of dollars in property damage.
Early Monday morning, the person pictured below damaged all six drive-thru teller stations at the GENCO Federal Credit Union located at 731 N Valley Mills Drive.
The business had to close the drive-thru for thousands of dollars in repairs.
If you can help identify this person, you can contact Neil Ling or Marcia Horn at GENCO at 254-776-9550. | 2022-05-18T13:20:58+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/mclennan-county/man-causes-property-damage-at-federal-credit-union/ |
Nico Yantko arrived at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to serve as its deputy athletic director in July of 2017 under Bryan Maggard.
On Tuesday, Yantko was introduced as the new director of athletics at his alma mater Murray State.
“What a day,” said Yantko, who graduated from Murray State in 2009 as a football student-athlete for the Racers. “What an emotional experience.”
Murray State President Bob Jackson revealed how quickly the process of hiring Yantko took.
“It was incredible quick,” Yantko said of the 27-day search.
“I’ve had opportunity to interview and hire a number of individuals in my career,” Jackson said of Yantko while introducing him. “Nico is one of the most passionate, hardworking, visionary athletic administrators that I know.”
Naturally, Yantko’s role during his five years in Lafayette played a role in achieving his dream job on the campus he spent five years playing quarterback as a student-athlete in Murray, Kentucky.
“You never put a timeline on how long you’re going to stay somewhere,” Yantko said. “But I’m so grateful for how Lafayette accepted me and my family with open arms.
“I’m so thankful and grateful for the leadership of Dr. (Joseph) Savoie and Dr. Maggard. I really believe UL’s best days are still ahead. I'll always say that Lafayette has the most truly unique and identifiable culture — just tremendous people and alumni base. You can bet I’ll be pulling for the Ragin’ Cajuns.”
During his time at UL, Yantko played a key role in the department’s numerous achievements.
“There are so many things that we accomplished collectively while I was there,” Yantko said. “I think the thing I’m most proud of is that I really believe we elevated the profile of the university through the athletic department.”
Yantko played a key role in the search for two football coaches — Billy Napier in 2018 and Michael Desormeaux in December.
He also spearheaded fundraising efforts during his time in Cajun Country, highlighted by the $15 million naming rights to Cajun Field with Lourdes.
“It was so rewarding to play a role in a significant amount of championships and great things like the R1 celebration,” he said.
Yantko also oversaw the department’s efforts in social media engagements, earned Marketing Team of the Year honors in 2019-20 and helped to negotiate network deals with Cox Sports Television and ESPN.
In Tuesday’s news conference, Yantko struggled to contain his emotions when thanking Maggard and his wife Kerry for their support.
“What a five years it was to work alongside you,” he told Maggard, who attended the ceremony. “What a special place and its best days are ahead of it because of you.”
Yantko said he learned many things from working with Maggard daily for five years that he’ll carry into his new position.
“Bryan was so great at explaining the why behind the what,” he explained. “He also gave me a keen sense of how to partner with head coaches every single day, and how important that was.”
Yantko said his plan is to return to Lafayette to finish things off properly and then plans on returning to Kentucky for the start of football season. | 2022-08-16T22:46:46+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/sports/ul_lafayette/article_cc839e3a-1da7-11ed-8a85-7b511434f0bd.html |
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar's former ranch – descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population.
The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to 3 tons, have spread far beyond the Hacienda Napoles ranch, located 200 kilometers from Bogota along the Magdalena River. Environmental authorities estimate there are about 130 hippos in the area in Antioquia province and their population could reach 400 in eight years.
Escobar's Hacienda Napoles — and the hippos — have become a sort of local tourist attraction in the years since the kingpin was killed by police in 1993. When his ranch was abandoned, the hippos survived and reproduced in local rivers and favorable climatic conditions.
Scientists warn the hippos do not have a natural predator in Colombia and are a potential problem for biodiversity since their feces change the composition of the rivers and could impact the habitat of manatees and capybaras. Last year, Colombia's government declared them a toxic invasive species.
The plan to take them to India and Mexico has been forming for more than a year, said Lina Marcela de los Ríos Morales, director of animal protection and welfare at Antioquia's environment ministry.
The hippos would be lured with food into large, iron containers and transferred by truck to the international airport in the city of Rionegro, 150 kilometers away. From there, they would be flown to India and Mexico, where there are sanctuaries and zoos capable of taking in and caring for the animals.
"It is possible to do, we already have experience relocating hippos in zoos nationwide," said David Echeverri López, a spokesman for Cornare, the local environmental authority that would be in charge of the relocations.
The plan is to send 60 hippos to the Greens Zoological Rescue & Rehabilitation Kingdom in Gujarat, India, which De los Ríos Morales said would cover the cost of the containers and airlift. Another 10 hippos would go to zoos and sanctuaries in Mexico such as the Ostok, located in Sinaloa.
"We work with Ernesto Zazueta, who is the president of sanctuaries and zoos in Mexico, who is the one who liaisons with different countries and manage their rescues," said the official.
The plan is to focus on the hippos living in the rivers surrounding the Hacienda Napoles ranch, not the ones inside the ranch because they are in a controlled environment and don't threaten the local ecosystem.
The relocations would help control the hippo population, and though the animals' native habitat is Africa, it is more humane than the alternate proposal of exterminating them as an invasive species, said De los Ríos Morales.
Ecuador, the Philippines and Botswana have also expressed their willingness to relocated Colombian hippos to their countries, according to the Antioquia Governor's Office.
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St. Luke's University Health Network joins Caris' extensive network of leading cancer institutions committed to utilizing clinical data to advance patient care and outcomes
IRVING, Texas, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize health care, announced today that St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) has joined Caris' Precision Oncology Alliance™ (POA). The POA is a growing network of leading cancer centers across the globe that collaborate to advance precision oncology and biomarker-driven research. POA members work together to establish and optimize standards of care for molecular testing through innovative research focused on predictive and prognostic markers that improve the clinical outcomes for cancer patients.
Founded in 1872 as its area's first community hospital, St. Luke's University Health Network is today a regional, non-profit, fully integrated, nationally-recognized network of more than 17,000 employees providing services to over one million people at 14 campuses and 300+ outpatient sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. St. Luke's is the only Lehigh Valley-based healthcare system to earn Medicare's five-star ratings for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. SLUHN is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World's Best Hospital. U.S. News & World Report ranked St. Luke's #1 in the Lehigh Valley and #6 in the state.
"St. Luke's University Health Network is excited to join Caris' Precision Oncology Alliance and partner with key academic and clinical institutions similarly dedicated to advancing precision medicine and biomarker research," said Israel Zighelboim, M.D., FACOG, FACS, Interim Chair, Department of Oncology – Cancer Center Director, St. Luke's University Health Network.
St. Luke's 1,900+ physicians and providers are some of the most experienced in the industry, earning awards for clinical excellence and striving daily for innovations to improve patient care. SLUHN continues the tradition of health care in the Lehigh Valley by providing primary and specialist care sites, various outpatient testing and service facilities, a regional medical school campus, the nation's oldest operating nursing school, home health, inpatient and outpatient hospice services, and the largest trauma network in Pennsylvania.
"The Caris Precision Oncology Alliance is thrilled to welcome St. Luke's University Health Network as a new member as we continue our growth," said Chadi Nabhan, M.D., MBA, FACP, Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance. "This expanded collaborative effort of institutions from across the country continues to lead to innovative research to improve the outcomes of patients with cancer."
The Caris Precision Oncology Alliance includes 72 cancer centers and academic institutions. These institutions have early access to the extensive database and artificial intelligence platform within Caris to establish evidence-based standards for cancer profiling and molecular testing in oncology. By leveraging the comprehensive genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic profiling available through Caris molecular profiling, Caris seeks to provide this network with the ability to prioritize therapeutic options and determine which clinical trial opportunities may benefit their patients. POA members are also able to integrate with a growing portfolio of biomarker directed trials sponsored by biopharma. Additionally, as a member of the POA, institutions have access to Caris CODEai™, the most comprehensive data solution in the industry with cancer treatment information and clinical outcomes data for over 275,000 patients covering over 1 million data points per patient.
Caris Life Sciences® (Caris) is the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare and improve patient outcomes. Through comprehensive molecular profiling (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing) and the application of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, Caris has created the large-scale clinico-genomic database and cognitive computing needed to analyze and unravel the molecular complexity of disease. This information provides an unmatched resource and the ideal path forward to conduct the basic, fundamental research to accelerate discovery for detection, diagnosis, monitoring, therapy selection and drug development to improve the human condition.
With a primary focus on cancer, Caris' suite of market-leading molecular profiling offerings assesses DNA, RNA and proteins to reveal a molecular blueprint that helps patients, physicians and researchers better detect, diagnose and treat patients. Caris' latest advancement is a blood-based, circulating nucleic acids sequencing (cNAS) assay that combines comprehensive molecular analysis (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing from blood) and serial monitoring – making it the most powerful liquid biopsy assay ever developed.
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Caris has offices in Phoenix, New York, Denver, Tokyo, Japan and Basel, Switzerland. Caris provides services throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and other international markets. To learn more, please visit CarisLifeSciences.com or follow us on Twitter (@CarisLS).
SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare's five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World's Best Hospital. U.S. News & World Report ranked St. Luke's #1 in the Lehigh Valley and #6 in the state. The Network's flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune/Merative 10 times total and eight years in a row, including in 2022 when it was identified as the #2 teaching hospital in the country. In 2021, St. Luke's was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN's information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information. The Network is also recognized as one of the state's lowest cost providers.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Speck Products, the leader in mobile phone protection innovation, announced its durable and protective ImpactHero™ case for the Google® Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. ImpactHero is a slim, pocket-friendly case that protects against drops up to eight feet and includes Microban® antimicrobial product protection.
The ImpactHero case was designed for people who want a slim, pocket-friendly case design that still provides excellent protection for their device. The ImpactHero name honors how important smartphones have become to our everyday lives, and how they sometimes need 'super' protection against catastrophe. ImpactHero has a dual-layer, scratch-resistant design with soft-touch coating that provides a secure hold on the device. This case is slim enough to allow for uninterrupted wireless charging and is built to fit like a glove, with an anti-stretch design to maintain its precise shape with a seamless use of buttons, port, and camera.
ImpactHero for the Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro also includes a raised bezel to help protect the device's screen from scratching and shattering if the phone ever lands face-down. The built-in Microban antimicrobial treatment delivers up to 99% reduction in stain and odor-causing bacteria on the case, creating a cleaner surface.
ImpactHero cases for the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are now available on SpeckProducts.com for $29.95.
Since 2001, Speck has been creating award-winning products to help people discover the magic in their tech devices. Each Speck accessory is created to make the devices they're designed for more fun to use and feel better to own. Our mission at Speck is to inspire play with technology, making every day a bit more fun. We're located in Silicon Valley, where big ideas are transformed into life-enhancing products and experiences. The Speck community and our local environment inspire us to spark play in everything we do.
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6 books compete for nonfiction ‘winner of winners’ prize
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Books that explore subjects from William Shakespeare and The Beatles to the lure of Mount Everest and life inside one of the world’s most secretive states are competing to be named the best-ever winner of Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize. The Baillie Gifford Prize is marking its 25th year with a Winner of Winners prize. Finalists for the 25,000-pound ($30,000) prize, are Craig Brown’s “One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time”; Wade Davis’ “Into the Silence”; Margaret MacMillan’s “Paris 1919”; Barbara Demick’s “Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea”; Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain”; and James Shapiro’s “1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.” | 2023-03-09T09:50:16+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/09/6-books-compete-for-nonfiction-winner-of-winners-prize/ |
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina reported a monthly inflation rate of 7.4% in July, the highest number in two decades for a country where citizens are used to increasing prices.
Over the past year, Argentina’s consumer prices have soared a whopping 71%, the INDEC national statistics agency said Thursday.
At a time when many people around the world are trying to deal with rapidly rising prices, these latest numbers cemented Argentina's position among countries with the highest inflation rates in the world.
The effects of the inflation scourge is plainly evident in Villa Fiorito, around 15kms (9 miles) from downtown Buenos Aires, where unemployed women gather in the hopes of bartering goods for food in a plaza.
Every afternoon, women set up their blankets and carefully lay out all kinds of goods, including clothes, toys and used kitchen utensils with the hope of exchanging them for food to feed their families.
The bartering that takes place every day in Villa Fiorito, famous for being the birthplace of late soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, has emerged as a way for dozens of women who do not have a fixed income to make ends meet at a time when the cost of living has soared.
Things are likely to get worse before they get better in Argentina as analysts project that inflation this year will likely be higher than 90% with many speculating that a three-digit inflation rate is likely if the government of President Alberto Fernández fails to put the brakes on rising prices.
The price increases have hit food products particularly hard, worsening the poverty rate that already affects around 40 percent of the population of around 47 million.
Soledad Bustos, 31, sets up shop in the Villa Fiorito fair every afternoon while one of her children is in school and another is under the care of her sister.
Bustos offers jeans, leather boots, sneakers and shirts that she either took out of her own closet or bought through Facebook. In exchange she asks for powdered milk, which has become inaccessible.
“I can’t get to the end of the month, the money isn’t enough,” Bustos, a single mom, said.
Bustos is unemployed and says she receives around 36,000 pesos ($255) per month from the state, which is not enough to feed her family.
“I can’t survive with the welfare. Besides food I also have to buy the things for the kids’ school and medicine. I have no choice but to come here to be able to get a little more,” Bustos said.
These types of bartering fairs started spreading in Argentina after the economy collapsed in 2001 during the biggest economic crisis in its modern history. But they have reemerged in recent years amid a galloping inflation rate that has been stuck in double digits for years.
“This is living hand-to-mouth,” said María Inés Pereyra, 48, the coordinator of the fair that runs Mondays through Saturdays. “Whatever they obtain today they take it straight to the dining table.”
For safety reasons, only women can participate in bartering and most of the exchanges had already been previously arranged via Facebook or WhatsApp.
Although there is no set value for the used merchandise, Pereyra set a maximum price of 300 pesos ($2) for each item of clothing.
As an example, she pointed to a pair of leather sneakers that could be traded for a packet of sugar, cooking oil, flour and a local tea infusion.
Fernández's administration has blamed the high inflation rate in July on a currency crisis caused by “speculative movements that tried to generate a crisis of uncertainty and push a devaluation,” Gabriela Cerruti, the government’s spokeswoman, said Thursday before the inflation rate was released.
The acceleration of the country’s already high inflation rate comes shortly after the government had three economy ministers within one month amid uncertainty that led the local currency to depreciate sharply in the financial market.
Analysts, and even members of Fernández’s administration, expect the August inflation rate to be similar to July in part due to increases in the price of public transport and energy.
In Villa Fiorito, Bustos says she and her fellow barterers are only focused on “surviving.” | 2022-08-11T21:18:42+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bartering-increases-in-Argentina-as-inflation-17367610.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Tuesday approved the first gene therapy for hemophilia, a $3.5 million one-time treatment for the blood-clotting disorder.
The Food and Drug Administration cleared Hemgenix, an IV treatment for adults with hemophilia B, the less common form of the genetic disorder which primarily affects men. Currently, patients receive frequent, expensive IVs of a protein that helps blood clot and prevent bleeding.
Drugmaker CSL Behring announced the $3.5 million price tag shortly after the FDA approval, saying its drug would ultimately reduce health care costs because patients would have fewer bleeding incidents and need fewer clotting treatments. The price appeared to exceed that of several other gene therapies priced upwards of $2 million.
Like most medicines in the U.S., most of the cost of the new treatment will be paid by insurers — not patients — including private plans and government programs.
After decades of research, gene therapies have begun reshaping the treatment of cancers and rare inheritable diseases with medicines that can modify or correct mutations embedded in people’s genetic code. Hemgenix is the first such treatment for hemophilia and several other drugmakers are working on gene therapies for the more common form of the disorder, hemophilia A..
“Today’s approval provides a new treatment option for patients with hemophilia B and represents important progress in the development of innovative therapies,” said the FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks.
The agency did not specify how long the treatment works. But CSL Behring said patients should benefit— in terms of reduced bleeding and increased clotting — for years.
Hemophilia almost always strikes males and is caused by mutations in the gene for a protein needed for blood clotting. Small cuts or bruises can be life-threatening, and many people need treatments once or more a week to prevent serious bleeding. Left untreated, the condition can cause bleeding that seeps into joints and internal organs, including the brain.
Hemgenix delivers a working gene for the clotting protein to the liver, where it is made.
Hemophilia B affects about 1 in 40,000 people and accounts for roughly 15% of those with the disease, according to the FDA.
The FDA said it granted approval based on two small studies, including one that showed those taking the drug had increased levels of the clotting protein, reduced need for standard treatment and a 54% drop in bleeding problems.
Earlier this year, European regulators approved a similar gene therapy for hemophilia A. That drug, from drugmaker BioMarin, is still under review at the FDA.
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Which sun shade sail is best?
Any outdoor space equipped with a sun shade sail offers relief from the heat, mild protection from rain and an improved aesthetic. Many sails may prevent harmful UV rays from penetrating, while others may be more decorative.
Finding the best sun shade sail for you means accurately assessing the needs of your space. Quality sun shade sails, like the durable and breathable ColourTree Rectangular Sun Shade Sail Canopy, are relatively easy to set up and last a long time.
What to know before you buy a sun shade sail
Set up
A sun shade sail is affixed to vertical surfaces high off the ground, such as trees, posts or the side of a house. Each sail corner has a D-ring and uses some combination of hooks, ropes or clips to anchor to the surface. The sail is pulled taut to cover as much area as possible.
Since the sail is tightly stretched, it’s recommended to tie it to a sturdy structure; if you must set up posts, you’ll need to dig deep into the ground, at least one-third the length of your post. The sail should slope slightly downward so that rain doesn’t pool.
Shape
Most sails come in one of three shapes: rectangle, square or triangle. A rectangle will offer the most coverage, but triangles tend to be easier to set up. Consider the shape of the space you want to cover, as well as where you can set it up.
Size
Sails may be as small as a few square feet or feature sides that are up to 20 feet each. Remember that larger sails will require stronger support and take more effort to erect since they need to be kept tight.
Note that since the corners hold all the tension, the sail won’t be a perfect shape upon setup: the edges will curve slightly inward.
Material
Most sails are made of high-density polyethylene, which allows the sail to stretch while still maintaining its structure and preventing sunlight from coming through. Heavy-duty nylon and polyester are also available for those seeking more durability.
What to look for in a quality sun shade sail
Waterproofing
Some sails offer an element of protection from the rain. While fully waterproof ones are rare, plenty are water-resistant, which means most rain will roll off if angled properly.
Color
Lots of colors exist, from white and tan to deep blue and green. You may be able to find some with patterns as well. Lighter colors are preferred since they won’t absorb as much heat from the sun as darker shades. The right tone can also enhance the attractiveness of your outdoor space, whether you want a pop of color or to complement existing decor.
UV protection
Most sun shade sails block out at least 90% of UV rays, with the highest-quality ones blocking out up to 98%.
Fixtures
Some sails include hardware to help facilitate setup, including a sturdy D-ring, reinforced rope, or a carabiner. There are various ways to install your sail shade depending on where it’s attached to, so it’s worth investing in what you need and whether you will need to buy it separately.
Cleaning
Seek sails that are machine washable, and be sure to clean them at least once a season. While the sails will block out the weather, they can accumulate leaves, twigs, dirt and bird droppings over time.
How much you can expect to spend on a sun shade sail
Most sails cost $30-$60, with the price increasing along with the size and the quality of the material.
Sun shade sail FAQ
Can I leave my sail out year-round?
A. It’s worth taking down sails during storms and winter weather. Heavy wind can catch a sail and potentially pull it off the fixture or tear it; too much rain or snow accumulation can also pull it down and rip it. You may not need to take it down entirely, though. Unclipping one or two sides will protect the sail; just be sure to tie it up, so it doesn’t whip around in the wind.
How difficult is it to set up?
A. While one person can set up the sail fairly easily, placing it correctly requires some planning. Take into consideration the sun’s angle throughout not just the day but the seasons to make sure you’ll be covered as desired; you may want a significant angle to the sail depending on your location. If you need to install anchors high up on a post or side of a house, ask for assistance.
What’s the best sun shade sail to buy?
Top sun shade sail
ColourTree Rectangular Sun Shade Sail
What you need to know: This high-quality sail is offered in a range of custom sizes to get the exact, reliable coverage you want.
What you’ll love: You’ve a choice of a square or rectangular sail providing coverage from 36 square feet up to 576 square feet. It offers 95% UV protection and is made in 10 colors. Each corner features heavy-duty stitching and includes a stainless steel D-ring.
What you should consider: It’s fairly pricey for the size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top sun shade sail for the money
What you need to know: This light, inexpensive sail shade is easy to set up and offers airy outdoor coverage.
What you’ll love: Made of HDPE, this blocks 90% of UV rays while allowing hot air to escape up and out. It includes pre-attached nylon ropes to make setting it up quick and simple. It also comes at a low price.
What you should consider: The material will let some rainwater through and cannot be machine washed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Shade & Beyond Right Angle Canopy
What you need to know: This heavy-duty shade features double-stitched seams and stainless steel D-rings for reliable and long-term use.
What you’ll love: For a midrange price, this sail offers cool shade while protecting against 95% of UV rays. Made of HDPE, it’s light, airy and comes with a five-year warranty.
What you should consider: The curved edges mean it won’t provide perfect triangular coverage.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two men now face multiple gun related charges in connection with a shooting in Lafayette late Sunday night.
On Sunday, July 23, 2023, around 12:10 p.m., officers with the Lafayette Police Department responded to the 3000 block of Elk St. for a fight.
When officers arrived, they found Norman Bradley, 40, Lafayette, suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg.
Information obtained during the investigation determined that Norman had been the victim of an armed robbery inside a residence on Elk St., according to police.
During his attempt to disarm the suspect, police believe he was struck in the head with a gun. As the struggle inside the home continued, Norman was reportedly shot in the leg.
Norman was taken to the hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and other injuries from the altercation.
At the conclusion of the investigation, officers and detectives with the Violent Crime Unit arrested Dontrell Lewis, 30, and Eric Denman Jr., 25.
They face charges of robbery with a firearm, aggravated battery, and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.
They were reportedly located at the shooting scene and were taken into custody without incident, according to police. | 2023-07-24T21:22:23+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/two-men-arrested-in-connection-with-lafayette-shooting-dontrell-lewis-eric-denman-jr-gunshot/531-8848a0ad-9101-43ee-88b1-9a9cd12dd37a |
Two new security cameras were recently installed at Ely Square in Elyria. It’s a popular spot for walkers, shoppers, and community events. Issues of vandalism and loitering in Ely Square and nearby areas have sparked conversations about adding additional security cameras.
"We come out, and we find trash (and) human waste. We know that there's drug activity here," said Clint Rohrbacher, a co-founder of the Elyria Arts Council.
The art council has a gallery located on Broad Street next to Pioneer Plaza. Rohrbacher said issues with loitering along Broad Street and the plaza have escalated and are on the brink of something violent happening.
"We've noticed that this population seems to have become a little more aggressive in verbally harassing people- intimidating people," Rohrbacher said. "And we're just afraid that all of our efforts to make this a welcoming place are going to be somewhat neutralized."
Jack Cerra represents the city’s 7th Ward. He’s pushing for the addition of cameras Downtown and in the city’s parks.
"Just to make people feel a little bit more secure," Cerra said. "And in some of the issues here at Pioneer Plaza started up, and I started targeting that in particular. We're not going to monitor 24/7. We're not trying to target anybody in particular—just the people that are breaking the law."
Matt Lundy, Elyria’s safety service director, said he’s heard about complaints and that conversations have started about placing additional cameras in the city, specifically at parks.
"The whole idea behind the cameras is basically hoping that individuals who will say, ‘I don't want to commit a crime here’ or commit any vandalism because it could be captured on video. So, we see it as a deterrent."
When talking about more surveillance, Lundy said there are always privacy concerns.
"It's important to stress that we're not watching these cameras every minute of the day seeing what people are doing in the parks, but certainly for anyone who would want to get into activity that wouldn't be appropriate. I think most people would admit (that) cameras are generally are used to solve crimes. It’s very difficult to prevent it, but you hope that it plays a role as a deterrent."
The city is also adding 12 license plate readers across the city. The technology can flag the police department if a vehicle that passes through is tied to a crime or is stolen. The city already has 12 of the readers up and running.
Rohrbacher said he’s pleased that the city is listening.
"We need backup from the city, and it sounds like we're finally getting it," he said. | 2023-07-14T22:24:41+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/organizations-businesses-call-for-more-security-cameras-in-elyria |
Working together to improve advanced fabric career pathways.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) Manufacturing Innovation Institute is partnering with the leadership of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) programs across the United States to ensure that the FCS textile curriculum is recognized as a valuable entry point to STEM-based careers in advanced functional fabrics.
AFFOA's Education and Workforce Development (EWD) Team envisions a world where foundational skills learned through FCS education programs are supportive of the advanced textile industry to meet the need for a diverse workforce, including innovative researchers, creative engineers, and skilled production-line technicians – all of whom are projected to find inspiration and living-wage employment in the advanced fabrics industry.
In order to meet that vision, AFFOA's EWD mission is to inspire, prepare, and grow a skilled workforce that aligns with the future needs and landscape of the textile industry. The EWD team develops, manages, and expands programs that support current and future advanced fabric workers from cradle to career, helping the overall textile workforce evolve into a more technical and interdisciplinary field. The team's efforts use an equity lens to identify and address specific workforce needs, fostering a holistic approach to worker support. This approach will ensure a robust workforce composed of those from a variety of economic and social backgrounds working together to create a thriving advanced fabric industry.
"Introducing today's secondary students to the growing workforce needs of the textiles and apparel industry is vitally important, especially when this field is missing from the current career cluster model. Forming a partnership with AFFOA means Family & Consumer Sciences Education once again has their thumb on the heartbeat of this industry today and for the future." shared Gayla Randel, LEADFCS Education Representative and NW Regional Apparel and Textiles Task Force.
Family and Consumer Sciences programs across the country are a valuable, yet in AFFOA's opinion, an underutilized conduit to advanced fabric careers. AFFOA and FCS leadership in the Mountain West region (Montana, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington) are currently assessing the regional textile workforce needs, exploring how to align FCS curricula, and planning on providing fabric STEM-based experiences to populations traditionally underserved by STEM experiences in general (e.g., female workers and rural populations).
AFFOA is looking forward over the coming years to produce a variety of research-based materials and new Textile based STEM experiences for Family and Consumer Science students nationwide. Please reach out to AFFOA (EWD@affoa.org) with comments and questions.
About AFFOA: AFFOA is a non-profit, public-private partnership founded in 2016 as one of the DoD-funded Manufacturing USA Innovation Institutes. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, AFFOA's mission is to rekindle the textiles industry by leading a nationwide enterprise for advanced fiber & fabric technology and manufacturing innovation, enabling revolutionary new system capabilities for commercial and defense applications. To catalyze the development of advanced functional fibers and strengthen the domestic textile industrial base, AFFOA has assembled a Fabric Innovation Network (FIN) made up of 150+ member organizations, including startups, universities, manufacturers, commercial industry, and defense partners, to bring advanced fiber technologies to market. For more information, visit www.affoa.org, LinkedIn, or tweet @AFFOA_RFT.
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Director of Marketing & Communications
508.558.6682
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.COM, the world's first socially-infused trading platform, is thrilled to announce the listing of TXA on its platform in the Innovation Zone, and the TXA/USDT trading pair will be open for trading beginning February 28, 2023 at 03:00 (UTC).
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2022 Fourth Quarter Highlights – comparisons to the prior year quarter
- Net earnings per diluted share increased 16% to $4.55
- Net earnings increased 11% to $1.3 billion
- Deliveries increased 13% to 20,064 homes
- New orders decreased 15% to 13,200 homes; new orders dollar value decreased 24% to $5.5 billion
- Backlog decreased 21% to 18,869 homes; backlog dollar value decreased 23% to $8.7 billion
- Total revenues increased 21% to $10.2 billion
- Homebuilding operating earnings increased 4% to $1.8 billion
- Pre-impairment gross margin on home sales of 25.3% - down 270 basis points ("bps")
- Financial Services operating earnings of $124.8 million, compared to operating earnings of $111.2 million
- Multifamily operating earnings of $14.8 million, compared to operating earnings of $9.3 million
- Lennar Other operating loss of $106.1 million, compared to operating loss of $176.2 million
- Homebuilding cash and cash equivalents of $4.6 billion
- Years supply of owned homesites improved to 2.5 years, compared to 3.0 years
- Controlled homesites increased to 63%, compared to 59%
- No outstanding borrowings under the Company's $2.6 billion revolving credit facility
- Homebuilding debt to total capital improved to 14.4%, compared to 18.3%
2022 Fiscal Year Highlights – comparisons to the prior year
- Net earnings, deliveries and revenues for 2022 were the highest in the Company's history
- Net earnings per diluted share increased 10% to $15.72
- Net earnings increased 4% to $4.6 billion
- Deliveries increased 11% to 66,399 homes
- New orders decreased 5% to 61,105 homes
- Total revenues increased 24% to $33.7 billion
- Net margin on home sales improved 170 bps to 21.4 %
- Retired early $575 million of homebuilding senior notes due November 2022
- Repurchased 11 million shares of Lennar common stock for $967.4 million
MIAMI, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one of the nation's largest homebuilders, today reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended November 30, 2022. Fourth quarter net earnings attributable to Lennar in 2022 were $1.3 billion, or $4.55 per diluted share, compared to $1.2 billion, or $3.91 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2021. Net earnings attributable to Lennar for the year ended November 30, 2022 were $4.6 billion, or $15.72 per diluted share, compared to $4.4 billion, or $14.27 per diluted share for the year ended November 30, 2021. Excluding mark-to-market adjustments on technology investments in both years, and homebuilding impairments and deposit write-offs in 2022, fourth quarter net earnings attributable to Lennar in 2022 were $1.5 billion, or $5.02 per diluted share, compared to fourth quarter net earnings attributable to Lennar in 2021 of $1.3 billion, or $4.36 per diluted share.
Stuart Miller, Executive Chairman of Lennar, said, "We are pleased to announce our fourth quarter results which were consistent with our previously articulated strategies. In the fourth quarter, our earnings were $1.3 billion, or $4.55 per diluted share, compared to $1.2 billion, or $3.91 per diluted share for the fourth quarter last year. Excluding mark-to-market losses on our technology investments, homebuilding impairments and deposit write-offs, fourth quarter earnings were $1.5 billion, or $5.02 per diluted share, compared to $1.3 billion, or $4.36 per diluted share for the fourth quarter last year, excluding mark-to-market losses, a 10% and 15% increase year over year, respectively."
Mr. Miller continued, "In the fourth quarter, consistent with our strategy of maintaining tight inventory control, our home deliveries were 20,064, up 13% over last year, and in line with our guidance estimate given at the beginning of the quarter. Additionally, we produced a pre-impairment homebuilding gross margin of 25.3% and homebuilding S,G&A expenses of 5.8%, leading to a 19.5% pre-impairment net margin. Our gross margin declined by 270 basis points year-over-year as we adjusted the price of both our new home sales and homes in backlog to market to reduce cancellation rates and promote deliveries."
We matched our starts pace to sales pace and drove sales by our "pricing to market" to turn inventory, generate cash, and maximize returns. Accordingly, our new orders in the fourth quarter were down 15%, year over year, which compares favorably to reported market conditions, including a cancellation rate of 26%, compared to 12% last year. Our sales volume and pricing have clearly been impacted by rising interest rates, but there remains a significant national shortage of housing, especially workforce housing, and there is still demand as we navigate the rebalance between price and interest rates."
"We have also remained very focused on our balance sheet and liquidity. Accordingly, at year end, we had homebuilding debt to capital of 14.4%, the lowest in our history, no borrowings on our $2.6 billion revolver and cash of $4.6 billion. With liquidity of $7.2 billion and no debt maturing until fiscal 2024, our balance sheet has never been in a stronger position than it is today."
Rick Beckwitt, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President of Lennar, said, "Much of our balance sheet and inventory management progress was driven by our land strategy, while simultaneously driving sales, deliveries and managing production. During the quarter, we reassessed every deal in our land pipeline and worked with our strong land relationships to improve the underwriting on many deals. Our ending community count for the quarter was 1,208, which was up slightly from the third quarter. We also continued to make significant progress on our land light strategy. This was evidenced by our years supply of owned homesites improving to 2.5 years from 3.0 years and our controlled homesite percentage increasing to 63% from 59% year over year."
Jon Jaffe, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President of Lennar, said, "During the quarter, consistent with our strategy of cost control and cycle time reduction, our homebuilding machine continued to be intensely focused on carefully managing production. Our cycle time during the quarter was flat sequentially, indicating that the well documented supply chain and labor issues that impacted our productivity are beginning to become more manageable and perhaps subside. Our quarterly starts and sales pace were 3.6 homes and 3.7 homes per community, respectively, and we ended the fourth quarter with approximately 900 completed, unsold homes, less than one home per community, demonstrating our focus on inventory management."
Mr. Miller concluded, "As we have seen over the past quarters, interest rates are fluctuating and are likely to continue to move, and the housing market will continue to rebalance pricing and interest rates. While we have a clear-cut strategy of execution, as we look towards 2023, we will only give broad boundaries for deliveries and gross margin. For the first quarter of 2023, the range for deliveries will be between 12,000 to 13,500 homes and gross margin will be about 21%. For the full year 2023, the range for deliveries will be between 60,000 to 65,000 homes. We continue to fortify our balance sheet with significant liquidity and operate from a position of strength, enabling us to continue to execute on our core strategies and outperform in periods of uncertainty."
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
THREE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 2022 COMPARED TO
THREE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Homebuilding
Revenues from home sales increased 21% in the fourth quarter of 2022 to $9.7 billion from $8.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. Revenues were higher primarily due to a 13% increase in the number of home deliveries and an 8% increase in the average sales price. New home deliveries increased to 20,064 homes in the fourth quarter of 2022 from 17,819 homes in the fourth quarter of 2021. The average sales price of homes delivered was $483,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $448,000 in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Gross margins on home sales were $2.4 billion, or 24.8% (25.3% pre-impairment), in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $2.2 billion, or 28.0%, in the fourth quarter of 2021. Gross margins in the fourth quarter of 2022 include $30.8 million of homebuilding impairments in eight communities and $13.6 million of impairments to the Company's homes in backlog. During the fourth quarter of 2022, gross margin decreased due to an increase in costs per square foot primarily due to higher material and labor costs and higher land costs, which were partially offset by an increase in revenues per square foot, which was negatively impacted by higher sales incentives. Gross loss on land sales was $21.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, which includes $37.2 million of deposit write-offs as the Company walked away from 27,800 controlled homesites. This compared to gross margin on land sales of $6.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $563.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $477.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. As a percentage of revenues from home sales, selling, general and administrative expenses improved to 5.8% in the fourth quarter of 2022, from 6.0% in the fourth quarter of 2021. This was the lowest percentage in the Company's history primarily due to an increase in leverage as a result of higher volume and average sales price and benefits of the Company's technology efforts.
Financial Services
Operating earnings for the Financial Services segment were $124.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $111.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. The increase in operating earnings was primarily due to higher volume and lower costs in the Company's title business due to benefits of the Company's technology efforts.
Other Ancillary Businesses
Operating earnings for the Multifamily segment were $14.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $9.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Operating loss for the Lennar Other segment was $106.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to an operating loss of $176.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. The Lennar Other operating loss for both the fourth quarter of 2022 and 2021 was primarily due to negative mark-to-market adjustments on the Company's publicly traded technology investments.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
YEAR ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 2022 COMPARED TO
YEAR ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Homebuilding
Revenues from home sales increased 25% in the year ended November 30, 2022 to $31.8 billion from $25.3 billion in the year ended November 30, 2021. Revenues were higher primarily due to an 11% increase in the number of home deliveries and a 13% increase in the average sales price. New home deliveries increased to 66,399 homes in the year ended November 30, 2022 from 59,825 homes in the year ended November 30, 2021. The average sales price of homes delivered was $480,000 in the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to $424,000 in the year ended November 30, 2021.
Gross margins on home sales were $8.8 billion, or 27.5% (27.7% pre-impairment), in the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to $6.8 billion, or 26.8%, in the year ended November 30, 2021. Gross margins in the year ended November 30, 2022 include $33.6 million of homebuilding impairments in nine communities and $18.1 million of impairments to the Company's homes in backlog taken during the year. During the year ended November 30, 2022, an increase in costs per square foot primarily due to higher materials and labor costs, was mostly offset by an increase in revenues per square foot. Overall, gross margins improved year over year as land costs remained relatively flat while interest expense decreased as a result of the Company's focus on reducing debt. Gross loss on land sales was $28.5 million in the year ended November 30, 2022, which includes $47.9 million of deposit write-offs as the Company walked away from 42,000 controlled homesites. This compared to gross margin on land sales of $24.3 million in the year ended November 30, 2021.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $2.0 billion in the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to $1.8 billion in the year ended November 30, 2021. As a percentage of revenues from home sales, selling, general and administrative expenses improved to 6.2% in the year ended November 30, 2022, from 7.1% in the year ended November 30, 2021, due to a decrease in broker commissions, an increase in leverage, and benefits of the Company's technology efforts.
Financial Services
Operating earnings for the Financial Services segment were $381.9 million in the year ended November 30, 2022. The operating earnings included a $35.5 million one-time charge due to an increase in a litigation accrual in the third quarter related to a court judgment. The Company has appealed this judgment since it believes there were clear errors of law made by the trial court. Excluding this one-time charge, operating earnings were $417.4 million, compared to operating earnings of $490.4 million in the year ended November 30, 2021. The decrease in operating earnings was primarily due to lower mortgage net margins driven by a more competitive mortgage market, partially offset by an increase in rate lock volume. Mortgage results were partially offset by the Company's title earnings, which increased primarily due to higher revenues per transaction and lower costs due to benefits of the Company's technology efforts.
Other Ancillary Businesses
Operating earnings for the Multifamily segment were $66.8 million in the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to $21.5 million in the year ended November 30, 2021. Operating loss for the Lennar Other segment was $735.6 million in the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to operating earnings of $733.0 million in the year ended November 30, 2021. Lennar Other operating loss for the year ended November 30, 2022 was primarily due to negative mark-to-market adjustments on the Company's publicly traded technology investments. The operating earnings for the year ended November 30, 2021 were primarily due to positive mark-to-market adjustments on the Company's publicly traded technology investments and the gain on the sale of the Company's solar business.
Debt Transaction
During the year ended November 30, 2022, the Company retired early $575 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.75% senior notes due November 2022. The redemption price, which was paid in cash, was 100% of the principal amount plus accrued but unpaid interest.
Tax Rate
For both the years ended November 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company had a tax provision of $1.4 billion, which resulted in an overall effective income tax rate of 22.8% and 23.5%, respectively. The Company's overall effective income tax rate was lower in 2022 primarily due to the resolution of an uncertain state tax position and the retroactive reinstatement of the energy efficient home credits for 2022, resulting from the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by Congress.
Share Repurchases
During the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company repurchased 1.6 million shares of its common stock for $120.5 million at an average per share price of $75.32. For the year ended November 30, 2022, the Company repurchased 11.0 million shares of its common stock for $967.4 million at an average per share price of $88.20.
Liquidity
At November 30, 2022, the Company had $4.6 billion of Homebuilding cash and cash equivalents and no outstanding borrowings under its $2.6 billion revolving credit facility, thereby providing $7.2 billion of available capacity.
Guidance
The following are the Company's expected results of its homebuilding and financial services activities:
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: Some of the statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements," as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the homebuilding market and other markets in which we participate. You can identify forward-looking statements by the fact that these statements do not relate strictly to historical or current matters. Rather, forward-looking statements relate to anticipated or expected events, activities, trends or results. Accordingly, these forward-looking statements should be evaluated with consideration given to the many risks and uncertainties inherent in our business that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause such differences include slowdowns in real estate markets in regions where we have significant Homebuilding or Multifamily development activities; decreased demand for our homes, either for sale or for rent, or Multifamily rental apartments; the potential impact of inflation; the impact of increased cost of mortgage financing for homebuyers, increased interest rates or increased competition in the mortgage industry; supply shortages and increased costs related to construction materials, including lumber, and labor; cost increases related to real estate taxes and insurance; the effect of increased interest rates with regard to our fund's borrowings on the willingness of the funds to invest in new projects; reductions in the market value of the Company's investments in public companies; natural disasters or catastrophic events for which our insurance may not provide adequate coverage; our inability to successfully execute our strategies and our planned spin-off of certain businesses; a decline in the value of the land and home inventories we maintain and resulting possible future writedowns of the carrying value of our real estate assets; the forfeiture of deposits related to land purchase options we decide not to exercise; the potential negative impact to our business of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; possible unfavorable losses in legal proceedings; conditions in the capital, credit and financial markets; changes in laws, regulations or the regulatory environment affecting our business, and the risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2021. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
A conference call to discuss the Company's fourth quarter earnings will be held at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, December 15, 2022. The call will be broadcast live on the Internet and can be accessed through the Company's website at investors.lennar.com. If you are unable to participate in the conference call, the call will be archived at investors.lennar.com for 90 days. A replay of the conference call will also be available later that day by calling 203-369-3604 and entering 5723593 as the confirmation number.
Lennar's reportable homebuilding segments and all other homebuilding operations not required to be reported separately have divisions located in:
East: Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
Central: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
Texas: Texas
West: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington
Other: Urban divisions
Of the total homes delivered listed above, 59 homes with a dollar value of $25.2 million and an average sales price of $426,000 represent home deliveries from unconsolidated entities for the three months ended November 30, 2022, compared to 37 home deliveries with a dollar value of $12.9 million and an average sales price of $349,000 for the three months ended November 30, 2021.
Of the total new orders listed above, 78 homes with a dollar value of $29.1 million and an average sales price of $373,000 represent new orders in eight active communities from unconsolidated entities for the three months ended November 30, 2022, compared to 34 new orders with a dollar value of $12.1 million and an average sales price of $356,000 in four active communities for the three months ended November 30, 2021.
Of the total homes delivered listed above, 174 homes with a dollar value of $67.5 million and an average sales price of $388,000 represent home deliveries from unconsolidated entities for the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to 95 home deliveries with a dollar value of $31.6 million and an average sales price of $332,000 for the year ended November 30, 2021.
Of the total new orders listed above, 261 homes with a dollar value of $116.7 million and an average sales price of $447,000 represent new orders from unconsolidated entities for the year ended November 30, 2022, compared to 136 new orders with a dollar value of $48.8 million and an average sales price of $359,000 for the year ended November 30, 2021.
Of the total homes in backlog listed above, 166 homes with a backlog dollar value of $77.8 million and an average sales price of $469,000 represent the backlog from unconsolidated entities at November 30, 2022, compared to 79 homes with a backlog dollar value of $28.6 million and an average sales price of $363,000 at November 30, 2021. During the year ended November 30, 2022, the Company acquired 339 homes and 53 homes in backlog in the East and Central Homebuilding segments, respectively.
Contact:
Ian Frazer
Investor Relations
Lennar Corporation
(305) 485-4129
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After witnessing another sloppy Devils performance against Nashville on Thursday, one of the first things coach Lindy Ruff spoke about in his postgame press conference was his desire to “move on to the next game.”
Can you blame him? In front of a sold out Bridgestone Arena Thursday night, Ruff watched the Predators generate countless odd-man rushes and easy breakaway chances against his second-place squad in a 6-4 defeat that was riddled with defensive breakdowns. | 2023-01-27T05:19:39+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/devils/2023/01/devils-weak-defensively-in-6-4-loss-to-predators-3-takeaways.html |
There will be a new leader in the Big 12 after No. 17 Kansas State and No.8 TCU face off this Saturday, Oct. 22 in a primetime week 8 matchup.
The primetime game will be at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas at 8 pm. EST and will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1. Viewers looking to stream the game can do so by using Sling, fuboTV and DirecTV Stream. Sling offers 50% off your first month when you sign up and FuboTV and DirecTV both offer free trials.
The conference co-leaders will play Saturday night to see who will lead the Big 12. TCU is still undefeated and has already won three consecutive games over ranked teams for the first time in school history, the last two of which were against undefeated teams. Kansas State is 5-1 and coming off a bye but had a three-game winning streak before that. Their first loss of the season was before the winning streak against Tulane. The Wildcats have won three in a row over the Horned Frogs.
More information from the Associated Press:
No. 17 Kansas State (5-1, 3-0 Big 12) at No. 8 TCU (6-0, 3-0), Saturday, 8 p.m. ET. (FS1)
Line: TCU by 3 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Series record: Kansas State leads 8-7.
WHAT’S AT STAKE
The winner takes over sole possession of first place in the Big 12 standings. TCU has already won three consecutives games over ranked teams for the first time in school history, and the last two have been matchups of undefeated teams (Kansas and Oklahoma State). Kansas State is coming off an open date after its 10-9 win at Iowa State, its third win in a row since that unexpected loss to a Tulane team that this week moved into the AP Top 25 for the first time since 1998. The Wildcats have won three in a row over the Horned Frogs.
KEY MATCHUP
Kansas State DE Felix Anudike-Uzomah vs. the TCU offensive line that has allowed only three sacks in three Big 12 games. The 6-foot-4, 255-pound true junior is tied for the national lead with 1.08 sacks per game (6 1/2 total). He had a career-high four sacks against the Horned Frogs last season.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Kansas State: Adrian Martinez and Deuce Vaughn are the only QB/RB combo in the country to both have more than 500 yards rushing. Martinez, the dual-threat quarterback, has 546 yards with nine rushing TDs, while Vaughn has 661 yards and three TDs.
TCU: Quentin Johnston followed up his career-best 14-catch, 206-yard performance against Kansas with eight catches for 180 yards against Oklahoma State last weekend. He had a TD catch in both games. Johnston led the Frogs with 634 yards receiving last season, and now has 500 midway through his junior season.
FACTS & FIGURES
TCU RB Kendre Miller has rushing TDs in all six games, and his seven-game streak overall is tied for the second-longest in school history behind LaDainian Tomlinson’s 15 in a row from 1999-2000. ... The Kansas State defense has allowed only 16.7 points and 355 total yards per game, while also forcing nine interceptions. ... TCU is second nationally gaining 7.7 yards per play, while ranking third in scoring offense (45.8 points) and total offense (526 yards). ... This is the first time since the end of the 2012 season that TCU plays four consecutive Top 25 teams. | 2022-10-22T22:53:58+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/sports/2022/10/kansas-state-vs-tcu-spread-start-time-how-to-watch-football-for-free.html |
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Credit Suisse Group AG ("Credit Suisse" or the "Company") (NYSE: CS) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and docketed under 22-cv-02477, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Credit Suisse securities between March 19, 2021 and March 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Credit Suisse securities during the Class Period, you have until June 28, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Credit Suisse, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in Switzerland, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific. The Company offers private banking and wealth management solutions, including advisory, investment, financial planning, succession planning, and trust services, and financing and lending, and multi-shore platform solutions.
Credit Suisse has a history of business dealings with Russian oligarchs, or ultra-high net worth business leaders possessing significant political influence. For example, an article published by Financial Times on February 7, 2022, entitled "Credit Suisse securitizes yacht loans to oligarchs and tycoons", cited a recent investor presentation for a synthetic securitization deal, in which Credit Suisse sold off $80 million worth of risk related to a $2 billion portfolio of loans backed by assets owned by certain of the bank's ultra-high net worth clients (the "Securitization Deal"), which disclosed that, in 2017 and 2018, Credit Suisse experienced 12 defaults on yacht and aircraft loans, a third of which were related to U.S. sanctions against Russian oligarchs. Press reports at the time indicated that Russian billionaires Oleg Deripaska, Arkady Rotenberg, and Boris Rotenberg had to terminate private jet leases with Credit Suisse in those years.
Beginning in or around October 2021, Russia commenced a major military build-up near the Russo-Ukrainian border, in apparent preparation for an invasion of Ukraine. Although the Russian government repeatedly denied it had plans to invade or attack Ukraine, the U.S. later released intelligence of Russian invasion plans, including satellite photographs showing Russian troops and equipment near the Russo-Ukrainian border.
In November 2021, as Russia's military buildup on the Russo-Ukrainian border continued, the Company entered the Securitization Deal.
Just months later, on February 24, 2022, Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. In the immediate aftermath of the invasion, Western governments including, among others, the U.S., Canada, and the European Union, imposed significant sanctions on Russia. The sanctions included, inter alia, measures targeting Russia's ultrawealthy oligarchs by denying them access to the global financial system and by, in some cases, authorizing the seizure of certain of their high-value assets located outside of Russia.
Barely a week after the commencement of the Russian invasion and the retaliatory sanctions imposed by Western nations, news outlets reported that Credit Suisse had requested non-participating investors who received information about the Company's loan portfolio to destroy and permanently erase any confidential information that Credit Suisse provided to them regarding the Securitization Deal.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Credit Suisse had deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (ii) Credit Suisse's practice of lending money to Russian oligarchs subject to U.S. and international sanctions created a significant risk of violating rules pertaining to those sanctions and future sanctions; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected the Company to an increased risk of heightened regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; (iv) the Securitization Deal concerned loans that Credit Suisse made to Russian oligarchs previously sanctioned by the U.S.; (v) the purpose of the Securitization Deal was to offload the risks associated with these loans and mitigate the impact on Credit Suisse of sanctions likely to be implemented by Western nations in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine; (vi) Credit Suisse's request that non-participating investors destroy documents related to the Securitization Deal was intended to conceal the Company's noncompliance with U.S. and international sanctions in its lending practices; (vii) the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to subject the Company to enhanced regulatory scrutiny and significant reputational harm; and (viii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On March 28, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform sent Credit Suisse a letter asking the Company to turn over information and documents about a portfolio of loans backed by yachts and private jets owned by clients, potentially including sanctioned Russian individuals. In the letter, House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney and Rep. Stephen Lynch, chair of the Subcommittee on National Security, questioned Credit Suisse's request that hedge funds and other non-participating investors "destroy documents" related to yachts and private jets owned by the bank's clients. "Given the timing of this request and its subject matter," the House Democrats wrote, "Credit Suisse's action raises significant concerns that it may be concealing information" about whether participants in the deal may be "evading sanctions" imposed by the West after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
On this news, Credit Suisse's stock price fell $0.21 per share, or 2.58%, to close at $7.94 per share on March 28, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Utilities are paying more for natural gas, which means many Colorado customers will see higher bills starting Oct. 1.
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission approved fuel rate adjustments Wednesday for Xcel Energy-Colorado and Atmos Energy Corp. Regulations allow the utilities to pass through higher fuel costs to customers.
Although Xcel Energy customers will see monthly increases in the single digits, they could end up paying nearly 54% more in December than they did in December 2021, according to a notice sent by the company.
The PUC’s action on the companies’ fuel-cost adjustment is separate from pending decisions on proposed increases in the two companies’ base rates. The commissioners expressed concern about the impacts on customers, but said their options were limited.
“I’m just concerned that consumers don’t know about the tsunami that may be coming and aren’t prepared for it,” said Bill Levis, a former director of what is now the Colorado Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate.
Xcel Energy said in a statement that wholesale natural gas prices continue to rise and have hit a 15-year high. The current price of natural gas is $8.81 per thermal unit, compared to $4.07 in August 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Higher gas prices will affect both gas and electric service because natural gas is used to generate electricity, Xcel Energy said.
The average Xcel Energy residential electric customer is expected to see the monthly bill of $84.93 rise to $88.09, a 3.72% increase. The average small business will see a 3.84% increase, from $128.93 to $133.80.
The average Xcel Energy residential gas bill of $130 per month will rise 4.62% to $136.02. The average monthly bill for small businesses will go up 4.87%, from $530.32 to $556.17.
Xcel has 1.5 million electric customers and 1.4 million natural gas customers in Colorado, with substantial overlap between the two.
Dallas-based Atmos Energy, which has about 126,000 natural gas customers in Colorado, won the approval of an overall increase of $16.9 million to pay for higher fuel costs. Average monthly residential increases will range from 9% to 10%, the company said.
The PUC recently approved a temporary rider on Xcel Energy bills to cover the costs of a February 2021 storm that unleashed record cold temperatures and soaring natural gas prices from Texas through the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest.
Xcel Energy spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said in an email that residential electric customers will see an average monthly increase of $1.42 while natural gas customers will see an increase of $4.85 for the storm-related expenses. Small business electric monthly bills will rise on average by $4.21 and small business natural gas bills will increase an average of $21.98.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Republicans formally censured their nonbinary Democratic colleague Tuesday after state troopers said the lawmaker blocked them from questioning a transgender rights activist accused of assaulting a police officer during a protest over anti-trans legislation.
The party-line vote means Rep. Mauree Turner, who uses they/them pronouns, will be removed from all committee assignments unless the second-term lawmaker issues a formal apology, including to the Highway Patrol, which provides security at the Capitol complex.
Turner, the first openly nonbinary and Muslim person elected to the Legislature in Oklahoma, said Tuesday that won't happen, as Republicans continue to work to strip away the rights of trans people.
“I think an apology for loving the people of Oklahoma is something that I cannot do,” said Turner, D-Oklahoma City, flanked by several Democratic colleagues. “It’s something that I actively refuse to do.”
Turner's denouncement comes as Republicans throughout the U.S. push proposals that advocates for LGBTQ rights say are trying to erase the legal existence of people who are trans and to restrict the expression of people nonbinary, gender-fluid or who perform in drag.
In Oklahoma, recent efforts by the GOP-controlled Legislature to prohibit gender-affirming medical care for trans children and pass other anti-trans legislation, including a prohibition on insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for people of all ages, have led to demonstrations at the Capitol. One protest last week became heated when a protester was accused of pouring water on a state representative and scuffling with a trooper before being arrested.
Officers wanted to question the activist, who was inside Turner's legislative office.
“When we go up to the representative's office, we were not allowed in, even from opening the door,” said Trooper Eric Foster, with the Highway Patrol.
Officers ultimately were able to speak to the person in Turner's office, who was later arrested on a complaint of assault and battery on a police officer, Foster said.
Speaker of the House Charles McCall said in a statement that the House stands by law enforcement.
“I will not allow members of the House of Representatives to use their assigned offices and official positions to impede law enforcement from carrying out investigations or making arrests in the state Capitol,” said McCall, R-Atoka.
But Turner, who is Black and represents a diverse constituency that includes Oklahoma City's Asian business district, said one of their goals is making sure all people are welcome at the Capitol.
“I just provide my office as a space of grace and love for all the folks in all communities that seek refuge from the hate in this building,” Turner said. “Trans people don't feel safe here.”
House Democratic Leader Rep. Cyndi Munson said the House's censure vote was “absolutely embarrassing.”
“It’s clear what they’re trying to do is silence a member who does not think like them, act like them, dress like them, who challenges their positions, especially when they are running legislation to harm people in our community," Munson said.
Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of national LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD, also condemned the Oklahoma House, saying a statehouse is where everyone, including lawmakers, should feel safe and heard.
“Transgender people are under attack by extremists who are baselessly trying to limit their private, best practice healthcare," said Ellis. "Every Oklahoman and every American should be outraged that lawmakers are working overtime to target people, including their own colleague.” | 2023-03-09T04:02:04+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/regional/oklahoma/nonbinary-oklahoma-democrat-censured-arrest/527-ec01cf38-322c-40b5-acea-e6714b4315d7 |
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The latest bid by conservationists and tribal leaders to block construction of a huge lithium mine already in the works along the Nevada-Oregon line was denied by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.
A three-panel judge of the San Francisco-based appellate court rejected a half-dozen arguments the opponents had put forth in their appeal seeking to overturn federal land managers’ approval of the project.
That included claims it violates multiple environmental laws and would destroy lands tribal members consider sacred because they say dozens of their ancestors were massacred there in 1865.
Lithium Nevada Corp.’s mine at Thacker Pass near the Oregon line, 200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of Reno, has pitted environmentalists and Native Americans against President Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate change. The mine would involve extraction of the silvery-white metal used in electric vehicle batteries.
On Monday, the judges didn’t specifically address the claims that the project fails to comply with a new opinion the 9th Circuit issued last year that blocked a copper mine in Arizona based on a more stringent interpretation of the 1872 Mining Law regarding the use of neighboring lands to dispose of waste.
Rather, they more generally differed to the expertise of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which approved the mine in 2021, and the decision by U.S. District Judge Miranda Du earlier this year to allow construction to go forward even though she concluded the mine was not in complete compliance with the new interpretation of the Civil War-era mining law.
The bureau’s approval of the mine “was not arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with” the National Environmental Policy Act, the 11-page ruling said.
The bureau approved the mine in 2021 on an accelerated basis under Donald Trump’s administration. The Biden administration has continued to embrace it in an effort to ramp up U.S. production of lithium needed for electric vehicles that are an integral part of his clean energy agenda.
Lithium Nevada officials say the Thacker Pass mine’s reserves would support lithium for more than 1.5 million electric vehicles per year for 40 years.
Conservationists say the open pit mine, deeper than the length of a football field, will pollute the groundwater and destroy precious habitat for sage grouse, pronghorn antelope and other species in violation of environmental laws.
Their lawyers had argued that Du illegally exceeded her authority when she refused to revoke the mine’s operation plan in March despite her conclusion that federal land managers had violated the law in approving parts of it.
“This is the first time in public land history that we have a major project violating a number of provisions but is allowed to go forward,” Roger Flynn, the director of the Colorado-based Western Mining Action Project, told the 9th Circuit panel during oral arguments in Pasadena on June 27.
“In the meantime, thousands of acres of public land are essentially being clear-cut,” he said Tuesday about the high-desert sagebrush that serves as critical habitat for the imperiled bird species sage grouse.
The 9th Circuit ruling Monday said Du applied the proper legal standard and found the bureau’s sole error in approving the project “weighed against” vacating the entire approval of the mine partly because “there was at least a serious possibility that the (agency would) be able to substantiate its decision on remand.”
Lithium Nevada, a subsidiary of the Canadian-based Lithium Americas, spent more than $8.7 million on the environmental analysis and permitting process, even altering the original plans to move it outside of environmentally sensitive areas, said Laura Granier, a lawyer for the company. She said investments in mitigation, legal costs and initial construction already have exceeded $150 million.
Government lawyers said much of the evidence the Western Shoshone and Paiute tribes presented about the sacred nature of the land came after a formal decision had been issued and that none of it clearly established the actual location of the massacre.
The 9th Circuit ruled Monday that bureau acted “reasonably and in good faith” in its consultation with tribes potentially affected by the mine. | 2023-07-17T23:52:19+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/9th-circuit-denies-bid-by-environmentalists-and-tribes-to-block-nevada-lithium-mine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This year’s U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders came on the heels of another event that reverberated internationally — the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, followed by both an outpouring of tributes and sometimes bitter reflection on the colonialist empire that came to an end during her seven decades on the throne.
There were also some questions about whether the loss of the long-reigning monarch might affect the Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 56 nations that, in many cases, have historic and linguistic ties to Britain. Fourteen of them are Commonwealth “realms” — former colonies where the British monarch, now King Charles III, remains the head of state.
Some already were revisiting that relationship before the queen’s death.
Barbados snipped its link to the monarchy and became fully independent last year, to felicitations from Elizabeth and Charles. The prime ministers of Jamaica and of Antigua and Barbuda said earlier this year that they intend to do likewise, and Antigua and Barbuda’s Gaston Browne followed up after the queen’s death by telling Britain’s ITV News that he planned to call a referendum within three years.
Others have no such plans, at least for the moment. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had laid some groundwork for a potential Australian republic earlier in the year but said after Elizabeth’s death that it was time to honor the queen, not change up the government. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern, who supports becoming a republic, said she didn’t plan to take up the matter soon, noting there are many other issues on the country’s plate.
So there are on the General Assembly’s agenda, too, and the future of the Commonwealth didn’t factor in the major speeches each country gets to make. But some did take time to remember the queen and invoked her words and example to suggest future action — or lessons for leaders.
A look at some of the remarks:
A HOMELAND TRIBUTE:
British Prime Minister Liz Truss, whom Elizabeth formally appointed two days before her death, said Elizabeth “symbolized the post-war values” underlying the U.N. and recalled a speech that the queen gave at the General Assembly in 1957.
“She warned that it was vital not only to have strong ideals but also to have the political will to deliver on them. Now we must show that will. We must fight to defend those ideals. And we must deliver on them for all our people,” Truss said.
A CALL TO ACTION:
Mauritius is a former British colony off the southeast coast of Africa, and the two countries remain at odds over the Chagos Islands, which the U.K. continues to control. Former residents have waged a years-long legal fight for the right to return to the archipelago after Britain expelled them in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a military base.
Mauritius’ prime minister, Pravind Jugnauth, urged Truss’ new government to resolve the matter by placing itself “on the right side of history,” pointing to Elizabeth’s “values and principles.”
“What more fitting tribute to the memory of this great monarch who dedicated her life to service, to uphold values of democracy, human rights and international law, sovereignty and territorial integrity than to bring this history to an end and to do so in a manner that respects sovereignty, matters of security, environment and the fundamental rights of human beings?” he asked.
MEMORIES OF “MAMA KWIN”
Papua New Guinea is one of the far-flung “realms” where the U.K. monarch is still head of state, and Prime Minister James Marape closed his General Assembly remarks with an homage to the sovereign whom he said islanders affectionately dubbed “Mama Kwin.”
“Our beloved queen personified grace, dignity, honesty, humility, tolerance of others, forgiveness and all other Christian virtues and lived 70 years of consistent, unfailing life of public service — some lessons we leaders of the world must learn to practice,” he said.
The prime minister of another “realm,” Manasseh Sogavare of the Solomon Islands, called her “an inspiration, a figure of stability, dignity, and grace.”
Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama recalled Elizabeth stepping aside from greeting other guests to welcome him at a reception a few years ago — and welcome his country back to the Commonwealth. Fiji was suspended in 2006 after Bainimarama seized power in a coup, then reinstated after elections in 2014, when he won his first term as premier.
The queen’s welcome “was a simple gesture but a special affirmation of all that we had worked to achieve for Fiji’s new and true democracy,” said Bainimarama, whose country’s head of state is a president, not the monarch.
A SHOUT-OUT FOR CHARLES
The colonial history of Gabon and Togo rests with France, not Britain, and the two African nations are members of French-speaking countries’ own own affinity group, L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. But Togo and also joined the Commonwealth this past June.
At the first General Assembly since then, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba hailed Elizabeth’s “respect, friendship, and wise counsel to many independent nations around the world, small or large” — and added kind words for the new king. Bongo saluted Charles’ concern about the environment, climate change and biodiversity.
BEYOND THE COMMONWEALTH
Some other Commonwealth members, from Dominica to Malawi, took time to express condolences and pay tribute to the queen. So did a few countries that aren’t part of the group, including the French-speaking Central African Republic and Madagascar and the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic.
Perhaps the most fulsome homage came from Hungarian President Katalin Novak, who repeatedly quoted a 2010 speech in which Elizabeth told the General Assembly about leadership, the work of the U.N. and what she saw as the challenge facing the world body: to continue showing “clear and convening leadership” without losing sight of its work to foster security, prosperity and dignity for people around the world.
Novak exhorted to assembly to “regain our ability to distinguish between the essential and the irrelevant, the important and the unimportant, reality and fiction.”
“We bade farewell to an exceptional monarch whose life was steeped in service to peace,” she said. “We owe it to the people and to her memory to make our decisions in the same spirit.”
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For more AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly, visit https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly | 2022-09-25T16:23:52+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/ap-an-inspiration-tributes-to-uks-late-queen-at-un-meeting/ |
New Piece from Iconic Artist Brings Vibrant, Modern Style to Classic Kentucky Derby Scene
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Churchill Downs Racetrack today released the 2023 "Official Art of the Kentucky Derby" by renowned international artist, Romero Britto. Considered one of the most celebrated living artists in the world, Britto uses a bold, vibrant aesthetic to evoke a sense of fun and happiness in each of his pieces. From his roots in Brazil to his current home in Miami, Britto has traveled around the world, bringing joy and inspiration to millions with his fresh, colorful work.
Britto's artwork for the 149th Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve highlights his iconic approach of mixing bright colors with unique patterns. With sparkling, textured accents and elements of pop graphics, the art features subtle details that bring the racetrack scene to life, highlighting the energy and excitement of the Derby in a modern way.
"The Kentucky Derby has such a rich history, and we are thrilled to collaborate with Romero Britto to commemorate the 149th running with artwork that brings a modern perspective to our longstanding tradition," said Casey C. Ramage, VP of Marketing and Partnerships, Churchill Downs. "Working with an icon like Britto is an exciting opportunity for us to connect with new fans around the globe through this visually compelling representation of the fun and exhilaration of the Derby experience."
In addition to creating the "Official Art of the Kentucky Derby," Britto will also attend this year's event to watch the race and participate in a variety of the week's special activities, including sitting on the judging panel for the Longines Kentucky Oaks Fashion Contest.
"I'm honored to partner with Churchill Downs to unveil the official art of this year's Kentucky Derby and celebrate this spectacular occasion," said international artist, Romero Britto. "The race is such an iconic and fun event that no one better than Britto to create a masterpiece that elicits the happiness and passion associated with it," added Lucas Vidal, CEO of the BRITTO organization.
Britto's "Official Art of the Kentucky Derby" will be featured on the 2023 Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks official racing programs and a variety of merchandise. 1,000 limited-edition prints will be available for purchase starting today, December 6, 2022, at 10:00am ET at www.KentuckyDerbyStore.com. All other items will be available for purchase beginning in late February.
The $3 million Kentucky Derby takes place on the first Saturday in May at historic Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Inaugurated in 1875, the legendary 1 1/4-mile race for three-year-olds is the longest continually-held major sporting event in North America and the first leg of horse racing's Triple Crown series. Also known as, "The Run for the Roses" and "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports," the Kentucky Derby is the most attended horse race in the nation. The 149th Kentucky Derby will take place on May 6, 2023. For more information, please visit www.KentuckyDerby.com.
Churchill Downs Racetrack ("CDRT"), the world's most legendary racetrack, has been the home of The Kentucky Derby, the longest continually held annual sporting event in the United States, since 1875. Located in Louisville, CDRT features a series of themed race days during Derby Week, including the Kentucky Oaks, and conducts Thoroughbred horse racing during three race meets in the Spring, September, and the Fall. CDRT is located on 175 acres and has a one-mile dirt track, a 7/8-mile turf track, a stabling area, and provides seating for approximately 60,000 guests. The saddling paddock and the stable area has barns sufficient to accommodate 1,400 horses and 114-room dormitory for backstretch personnel. CDRT also has a year-round simulcast wagering facility. www.ChurchillDowns.com
Romero Britto, the founder of the Happy Art Movement, is an internationally renowned artist who has created an iconic visual language of happiness, fun, love, and hope all its own inspiring millions worldwide. Brazilian-born and Miami-made, Romero has made it to the top and is considered one of the most famous and celebrated living visual artists in the globe. Britto is also the most licensed artist in history and has transcended the arts world by creating a lifestyle brand, BRITTO®. © 2022 Britto Central, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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GRAPHIC: Former deputy accepts plea deal to 100 years in prison for child sex crimes
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - A former sheriff’s deputy in Louisiana was sentenced to 100 years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea in a case of sex crimes that stunned the community when details first came out in 2019.
During a court hearing Tuesday, officials said the plea agreement includes a stipulation that former Livingston Parish deputy Dennis Perkins will not be eligible for appeal, probation, or parole.
Officials said Perkins pleaded guilty of rape, sexual battery of children, video voyeurism, child pornography, and covering desserts in his own semen so they could later be fed to children.
Perkins reportedly cried several times during the hearing and faced several of his victims as he pleaded guilty to the horrific crimes, WAFB reports.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s been more than three years living in a box and it’s not about me,” he said. “I just want to make this statement. Jesus Christ has forgiven me. And I’m grateful for that. And, I hope and pray that anybody that this affected will also find forgiveness and healing through Jesus Christ.”
Before he made his statement, one of Perkins’ victims took the stand and told Perkins she hopes he spends every day worrying about his own safety.
“You’re absolutely not worth my time,” the female victim said. “Instead of protecting, you chose abuse. Have a nice life in prison.”
Perkins was set to go on trial on January 9 but accepted the plea deal during a hearing held at the Livingston Parish courthouse Tuesday, January 3.
The plea agreement means the young victims in the case will not have to testify. Prosecutors said they met with each victim in the case to get their blessing to go forward with the plea deal.
Perkins, a former high-ranking Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy was charged with rape, child pornography, sexual battery, and video voyeurism. And, he was accused of covering desserts with his own semen so that they could later be fed to children.
Perkins’ former school teacher wife, Cynthia, was also charged in portions of the case and pleaded guilty last year. She was sentenced to 41 years in prison and agreed to testify against her now ex-husband.
The two were married at the time of their arrests, according to WAFB.
Copyright 2023 WAFB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-04T00:02:05+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/01/03/graphic-former-deputy-accepts-plea-deal-100-years-prison-child-sex-crimes/ |
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Thursday Summaries from Mexican football (home teams listed first):
- This $5M Queen Anne home is beautiful inside and out
- 2 North Carolina beach houses collapse into Atlantic surf
- Concrete shortage delays Seattle waterfront project
- The good, the bad, the ugly of Seattle's tourist spots
- WSP trooper who told gov to 'kiss my ass' over COVID rules dies
- This is Seattle's most expensive residential home listing ever
- Billy Graham: We're sure to recognize each other in Heaven
- Bill Gates says he has COVID, experiencing mild symptoms | 2022-05-12T06:48:29+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Mexican-Summaries-17167106.php |
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign, ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future. Johnson had rebuffed calls by his Cabinet to step down in the wake of ethics scandals.
He gave in after more than 50 ministers quit his government and told him to go and one of his closest allies, Treasury Chief Nadhim Zahawi, told the prime minister to resign for the good of the country.
Johnson said a timetable will be announced in the next week on when he will leave office. He remained defiant in a brief statement from 10 Downing St.
“The herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves," Johnson said.
Just a day earlier, Johnson gave a rebuke of those calling for his resignation.
"History teaches us that the best way to avoid pointless political disturbance is to allow a government that has a mandate to get on and deliver its mandate. That is what we're going to do," Johnson said.
"The country's going through tough times, and I think that we have the biggest, you know, you're making a point about duty, right?" Johnson added. "And I look at the issues that this country faces. I look at the pressures that people are under and the need for government to focus on their priorities, which is what we are doing. I look at the biggest war in Europe for 80 years and I cannot, for the life of me, see how it is responsible just to walk away from that."
But even his closest allies were firing back.
"We have reason to question the truth and integrity of what we've all been told. At some point, we have to conclude that enough is enough. I believe that point is now, said Sajid Javid, former British health secretary. | 2022-07-07T12:29:14+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/news/national/embattled-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-agrees-to-resign |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Beginning Wednesday, drivers on I-10 at Orange Grove Road can expect ramp closures as a major widening project begins between Ruthrauff and Ina Roads.
All on- and off-ramps—with the exception of the westbound off-ramp—at Orange Grove Road will close at 5 a.m. Wednesday, April 5 and are scheduled to remain closed until late 2024.
The Arizona Department of Transportation will add a fourth lane to I-10 in each direction, part of a $171 million project to improve safety and traffic flow. An additional component of the project will add lanes to the ramps at both Orange Grove and Sunset Roads.
ADOT says drivers should plan to use Ina or Ruthrauff Roads as alternates to the Orange Grove and Sunset on and off-ramps.
Traffic will be shifted to the frontage roads for the majority of the project, according to ADOT. Spokespeople say they expect to keep three lanes of traffic open during peak hours, with restrictions down to two lanes overnight.
Drivers can also expect work along Sunset Road, where ADOT has already closed the frontage road as of late March. The plan is for a Sunset Road bridge to extend over I-10.
A separate Pima County-funded project is underway to extend Sunset to River Road.
A construction project will soon begin at I-10 and Orange Grove, impacting businesses and commuters. @Heidialagha has more in our 6pm newscast. pic.twitter.com/bOM2fbMCiO
— KGUN 9 On Your Side (@kgun9) April 4, 2023
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- I-10 closures near Sunset and Ruthrauff planned until 2025
- Sunset Road extension project gets federal funding boost
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Anne Simmons is a digital content producer for KGUN 9. Anne got her start in television while still a student at the University of Arizona. Before joining KGUN, she managed multiple public access television stations in the Bay Area and has worked as a video producer in the non-profit sector. Share your story ideas and important issues with Anne by emailing anne.simmons@kgun9.com or by connecting on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn. | 2023-04-06T13:18:38+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/operation-safe-roads/work-on-orange-grove-at-i-10-begins-wednesday |
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