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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
0-8-8, SB: 6
(zero, eight, eight; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
0-8-8, SB: 6
(zero, eight, eight; SB: six) | 2022-08-07T19:06:08+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Midday-game-17357605.php |
(The Hill) — Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, are posing for their first official portrait together.
The royal couple said they were “delighted” to see the first joint portrait of themselves unveiled Thursday at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum in the United Kingdom, where it will be on display for three years before heading to other spaces.
The portrait is by British artist Jamie Coreth.
The artwork was commissioned last year by the Cambridgeshire Royal Portrait Fund as “a gift to Cambridgeshire,” Kensington Palace said in a statement.
Coreth “worked to incorporate the City of Cambridge into the portrait by painting the background with the tones and colours of many of the historical stone buildings that are synonymous with the city,” according to a statement.
Kate, embracing William while wearing an emerald green dress, is seen gazing off to the side along with her husband, who has his hand in a pocket. Both are sporting slight grins in the painting. | 2022-06-23T18:27:14+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/prince-william-and-kate-get-their-first-official-portrait-together/ |
Lyft’s latest round of layoffs announced last week will include more than 1,000 job cuts in what the ride-sharing company says is an effort to cut costs.
“As part of Lyft’s previously announced restructuring and efforts to reduce costs, we are parting with just over 1,000 valued team members across the company. This was a hard decision and one we didn’t make lightly, but the result will be a far stronger, more competitive Lyft,” a company spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday.
Just days after David Risher started as Lyft CEO, he told employees in an email last week that the company would “significantly reduce the size of the team” and let employees know their employment status by Thursday. He said at the time that the job cuts will set up Lyft to “invest in competitive pricing, faster pick-up times, and better driver earnings.”
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Lyft would cut 1,200 jobs, citing people familiar with the plans. A spokesperson for the company declined to confirm that number at the time.
This latest round of job cuts comes after Lyft announced a separate round of layoffs last November that cut 13 percent of the company’s workforce, or about 700 employees. Doordash, a food delivery service, also cut more than 1,000 corporate positions last November. | 2023-04-27T23:57:49+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/hill-politics/lyft-will-cut-1000-jobs-in-upcoming-layoffs/ |
Person shot dead inside Altamonte Springs apartment
Person shot dead inside Altamonte Springs apartment
SEMINOLE COUNTY AND BREVARD COUNTY. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M SANIKA DANGE. CHRISTINA: AND I’M CHRISTINA WATKINS. WE BEGIN IN SEMINOLE COUNTY WHERE SOMEONE WAS SHOT AND KILLED OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. WESH 2’S DAVE MCDANIEL JOINS US LIVE AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX ON BALLARD STREET WITH WHAT’S GOING ON. DAVE? DAVE: THERE ARE NUMBER OF POLICE INVESTIGATORS FROM THE ALTAMONTE SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS ON SCENE. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS OFFERING FEW DETAILS ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON. AROUND 4:30 91 WALDEN -- A 911 CALL CAME IN AND THERE WAS A REPORT SOMEONE HAD BEEN SHOT. FIRST RESPONDERS PROVIDED LIFESAVING AID TO THAT PERSON. THE PERSON WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL BUT WE ARE TOLD THE PERSON SHOT DID NOT SURVIVE. THE INVESTIGATORS ARE SAYING THIS IS AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING INVESTIGATION. THEY ALSO SAY THERE IS NO LINGERING THREAT FOR THE COMMUNITY BUT THAT IS AS FAR AS THEY WILL SAY ABOUT THE SCENARIO. I TALKED WITH THE GENTLEMAN THAT HAS AN APARTMENT ACROSS THE PARKING LOT. HE SAID HE DID NOT SEE OR HEAR ANYTHING UNUSUAL BUT HE WAS STUNNED WHEN HE WALKED OUT OF THE APARTMENT AND SAW THE NUMBER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES IN THE PARKING LOT. HE SAID IT GAVE HIM AN UNEASY FEELING, ESPECIALLY THIS CLOSE TO THE HOLIDAYS. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING
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Person shot dead inside Altamonte Springs apartment
A person was shot and killed Tuesday morning in Altamonte Springs.According to police, officers were called to Ballard Street around 4:30 a.m. Despite life-saving measures, the individual died from their injuries after being transported to the hospital. Detectives do not believe there is a threat to the community. Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to contact the Altamonte Springs Police Department at 407-339-2441 or Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS(8477).
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A person was shot and killed Tuesday morning in Altamonte Springs.
According to police, officers were called to Ballard Street around 4:30 a.m.
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Despite life-saving measures, the individual died from their injuries after being transported to the hospital.
Detectives do not believe there is a threat to the community.
Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to contact the Altamonte Springs Police Department at 407-339-2441 or Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS(8477). | 2022-12-20T18:22:53+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/altamonte-springs-apartment-shooting/42296146 |
ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta-area sheriff stands accused of punishing detainees by having them strapped into a restraint chair for hours even though they posed no threat and obeyed instructions. Now a jury must decide whether he violated the men’s civil rights.
A federal grand jury in April 2021 indicted Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill, saying he violated the civil rights of four people in his custody. Three more alleged victims were added in subsequent indictments. Prosecutors say placing the seven men in restraint chairs was unnecessary, was improperly used as punishment, and caused pain and bodily injury.
Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday and the trial is expected to last at least two weeks.
Hill calls himself “The Crime Fighter,” and uses Batman imagery on social media and in campaign ads. He has been a divisive figure — attracting both fans and critics — since he first became sheriff in 2005. This will be his second trial on criminal charges. The voters of Clayton County returned him to office in 2012 while he was under indictment, accused of using his office for personal gain — charges he ultimately beat.
Hill and his lawyers have said said his prosecution is baseless and politically motivated.
“We fervently maintain that throughout his tenure, Sheriff Hill has employed legal and accepted law enforcement techniques and has never exceeded his lawful authority,” defense attorneys Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg said in a statement. “(W)ith the commencement of the trial of this case, the process will begin of restoring him back to his constitutionally elected position as Sheriff of Clayton County.”
Gov. Brian Kemp in June 2021 suspended Hill pending the resolution of the charges.
The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment. When Hill was first indicted, then-Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt Erskine said the sheriff’s alleged actions not only harmed the detainees but also eroded public trust in law enforcement.
Prosecutors say Hill approved a policy saying the restraint chair can be used for a violent or uncontrollable person to prevent injury or property damage if other techniques don’t work and that the chair “will never be authorized as a form of punishment.”
The most recent indictment details what prosecutors say happened when each man was brought to the Clayton County Jail in Jonesboro, a suburb south of Atlanta.
In April 2020, a deputy arrested a teenager accused of vandalizing his family home during an argument with his mother. The deputy texted Hill a photo of the teen in a patrol car.
“How old is he?” Hill texted, according to an indictment.
“17,” the deputy responded.
“Chair,” Hill responded.
Also that month, Hill called a man in another county who’d had a dispute with one of Hill’s deputies over payment for landscaping work. Hill confronted the landscaper by phone and text and then instructed a deputy the next day to take out a warrant for harassing communications, the indictment says. After instructing the man to turn himself in, Hill sent a fugitive squad to try to arrest the man on the misdemeanor charge, the indictment says.
The man hired a lawyer and turned himself in. He cooperated with jail staff, but then Hill arrived and ordered him placed in the restraint chair, the indictment says.
A man arrested in May 2020 on charges of speeding and driving with a suspended driver’s license was also strapped into the restraint chair on Hill’s orders. A sheriff’s office employee then put a hood over the man’s head and he was hit twice in the face, causing him to bleed, the indictment says.
Hill also ordered that the other four men be placed in the chair, some left so long they urinated in the chair, the indictment says. The alleged victims are expected to testify at trial.
Hill fired 27 deputies on his first day in office in 2005, and his tough-on-crime stance has included using a tank owned by the sheriff’s office during drug raids.
He lost a reelection bid in 2008 and was indicted in early 2012 on felony corruption charges stemming from his first term in office. As with the current charges, his defense team blamed attacks by political rivals. Even though he remained under indictment during the election later that year, he defeated the man who had beaten him four years earlier. A jury later acquitted him on all 27 charges.
Hill raised eyebrows again in May 2015 when he shot and injured a woman in a model home in Gwinnett County, north of Atlanta. He and the woman said the shooting was an accident that happened while they were practicing police tactics. Hill pleaded no contest to a reckless conduct charge in August 2016.
In a ruling on pretrial motions, U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross made it clear that she wants the trial starting this week to be narrowly focused on the current charges.
Prosecutors won’t be allowed to bring up evidence of other alleged uses of force at the jail or the general conditions there. They also can’t talk about past lawsuits against Hill or his suspension by the governor. They’re also barred from making arguments about alleged retaliation against jail employees and obstruction by Hill. His affinity for Batman is off limits, as well.
Hill’s attorneys can’t compare his prosecution to other cases of alleged misconduct by law enforcement officers. They also can’t mention his good acts or suggest that his suspension has negatively affected Clayton County. They further can’t talk about the detainees’ behavior except as it relates directly to the arrests related to their alleged mistreatment. | 2022-10-12T20:45:00+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-sheriff-charged-with-civil-rights-violations-to-stand-trial/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (KDVR) — With all the excitement for the Colorado Avalanche of taking home their third Stanley Cup, the trophy may have taken a beating during the celebration.
Within minutes, the Stanley Cup was dented.
“I don’t even know if they had it five minutes and there’s a dent in the bottom already. Right in the middle of the team photo,” said the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Keeper of the Cup, Philip Pritchard. “I guess it’s a new record today. Five minutes into the presentation it’s happened. It’s the first time it’s ever happened on the ice.”
With the weight of history in their hands, number 16, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, dropped the trophy while skating toward his teammates for a celebratory photo.
“It’s the third time the Avalanche have won it. I guess we will have a little chat with them soon, and we’ll go through the process of how we’re going to repair it, but the Stanley Cup tour will go on,” said Pritchard.
Photos and videos captured the moment Aube-Kubel left his mark forever on Lord Stanley. ESPN confirmed the moment in a tweet.
A Stanley Cup Championship parade will take place Thursday in Denver. | 2022-06-27T14:46:32+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/i-guess-its-a-new-record-avalanche-dents-stanley-cup-minutes-after-winning/ |
Rigorous tests by third-party research lab MRG Effitas demonstrate superior ability to detect and block real-world threats
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Malwarebytes, a global leader in real-time cyber protection, today announced that MRG Effitas, a world leader in independent IT research, gave Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection (EP) the highest possible score (100%) in its endpoint security efficacy assessment. As of the latest Q1 2023 test results, Malwarebytes is the only vendor to win every MRG Effitas certification and award for the seventh consecutive quarter, outperforming other solutions in its ability to spot and stop zero-day threats, ransomware, banking malware, fileless attacks and exploits. Centered around nine rounds of rigorous testing, MRG Effitas' assessment criteria are the best way to evaluate endpoint security vendors today.
"Malwarebytes' consistent high performance underscores our ability to spot and stop known threats as well as zero-day and polymorphic malware," said Joe Hartmann, Senior Director of Threat Labs, Malwarebytes. "For under-resourced organizations that need endpoint security that just works, these results are a powerful tool to help them select the right protection for their business. Malwarebytes' focus on leveraging machine learning and AI to automatically create detections means our solutions benefit from the speed and vast data consumption possible with these technologies. MRG Effitas' quarterly testing alongside its new real-time testing solution Tempus, helps Malwarebytes' protection stay ahead of the curve."
MRG Effitas is an independent research and testing lab that evaluates endpoint protection solutions. The 360° Assessment & Certification by MRG Effitas isn't like other tests that just evaluate traditional file-based attacks: they unleash real-world fileless cases and exploitation techniques, live botnets and credit card-skimming attacks on vendor products as well. In its latest report, MRG Effitas recognized Malwarebytes EP for its advanced security capabilities, particularly in detecting and preventing complex malware attacks. Malwarebytes EP is the engine that powers its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and managed detection and response (MDR) solutions. EP is the first line of defense to ensure known threats are stopped and limits the amount of EDR alerts. Without effective EP, there can be no effective EDR, MDR, XDR or—more broadly—endpoint security.
MRG Effitas Q1 2023 360° Assessment awarded Malwarebytes certificates in:
- Level 1 – Malwarebytes EP automatically blocked 100% of in-the-wild malware samples and prevented a simulated Botnet attack.
- Exploit – MRG Effitas used exploits in vulnerable applications attempting to deliver a malicious payload on a device with Malwarebytes EP. Malwarebytes autoblocked 100% of exploit/fileless attacks, protecting the system from infection.
- Online Banking – MRG Effitas simulated the Magecart credit card-skimming attack with Malwarebytes EP autoblocking 100% of the 30 financial malware samples.
- Ransomware – Malwarebytes blocked 100% of ransomware threats without any false positives, allowing the benign, false positive programs to run.
- Android 360-degree – MRG Effitas conducted a separate assessment for Android devices, with Malwarebytes earning a perfect 100% score.
"Malwarebytes' continued top performance highlights its ability to provide immediate time-to-value for its customers by staying ahead of today's threats," said Chris Pickard, CEO, MRG Effitas. "Working with third-party testers like MRG Effitas helps validate and train their powerful AI models, ensuring detection of a wide range of threats from novel malware to fileless attacks with no false positives."
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SOURCE Malwarebytes | 2023-06-22T14:10:17+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/06/22/malwarebytes-awarded-highest-rated-endpoint-protection-seven-quarters-row/ |
Stop the Green Lake Outer Loop Project (GLOP). The Seattle Department of Transportation will pour millions of dollars into a plan for cyclists to ride in circles. GLOP’s next phase will not help bike commuters, improve traffic safety, or make walking to neighborhood schools safer.
SDOT plans to reroute traffic by closing West Green Lake Drive North, which serves 4,000 cars per day, to all traffic from Aurora Avenue. The traffic lane will be replaced by a bike path. The problem is, the expensive new path by the bathhouse doesn’t go anywhere. Bikers commuting between employers and transit centers to the east and residential areas to the west ride on Winona Avenue North, where no bike path is planned. Where will thousands of rerouted cars go in SDOT’s plan? Onto Winona. Children walking to school will also be forced to navigate thousands more cars on Winona.
GLOP ignores dangerous sections of Aurora where dozens of pedestrians have been killed. To complete the loop, SDOT and the Washington State Department of Transportation will permanently close a lane of Highway 99 by the lake for bikers to ride in circles (next to 50,000 cars daily).
Stop GLOP.
Susan Whiting, Seattle | 2022-09-01T23:23:18+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/green-lake-outer-loop-a-dangerous-plan/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
82-year-old woman arrested for not paying $77 trash bill
VALLEY, Ala. (AP) — An 82-year-old Alabama woman was arrested for not paying a $77.80 trash bill.
Court records show the Valley woman was arrested Sunday for not paying the garbage service bill that covered the months of June, July and August. She was charged with a misdemeanor offense of “failure to pay solid waste fees.”
The arrest of the octogenarian drew outrage on social media as criminalizing debt. A city official said the arrest came after multiple attempts to collect the bill and a history of suspended service.
The city on Tuesday posted a statement on Facebook about the arrest. Officials said code enforcement officers attempted to contact her several times and left a door hanger at her home. After she did not appear at a September court date for the citation, an arrest warrant for “Failure to Pay-Trash was issued.”
Court records show that she was arrested in 2006 for not paying a $206.54 trash bill. The case was later dismissed “upon compliance,” court records showed.
Valley Police Chief Mark Reynolds said in the statement that officers were required to arrest her after a magistrate signed the warrant.
The woman “was treated respectfully by our officers in the performance of their duties and was released on a bond as prescribed by the violation,” Reynolds said.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-02T14:26:31+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/12/02/82-year-old-woman-arrested-not-paying-77-trash-bill/ |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge on Friday dismissed a case against five suspects charged in the 2012 killing of renowned Puerto Rican boxer Héctor “Macho” Camacho after authorities said the star witness fled the island.
Prosecutors requested a second opportunity to have their case heard, adding that they have contacted authorities in Florida for help since they believe the witness is now there.
The ruling comes three months after Puerto Rico’s Justice Department announced the accusations against the five suspects with great fanfare since it marked the first time anyone was charged in nearly a decade since the killing. Officials at the time said two other suspects were killed in unrelated events.
Camacho, 50, was shot in the face in November 2012 while he and a friend sat in a Ford Mustang outside a bar. He was clinically brain dead but remained on life support for several days as relatives debated what to do. | 2022-06-11T04:08:57+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/case-of-slain-puerto-rican-boxer-macho-camacho-crumbles/ |
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in a press conference that the Sanibel Causeway has reopened to residents of the cutoff island.
This was 10 days ahead of the original date set by the Florida Department of Transportation and two days ahead of the revised date of Oct. 21, 2022.
DeSantis said there were more than 100 crews and 36,000 work hours required to make the repairs.
FDOT says this will allow residents, business owners, and others to return to the island to begin the recovery process.
FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie says barge missions will continue to make sure supplies and what is needed gets to the island in a timely manner.
The governor was joined by Senate President-Designate Kathleen Passidomo, FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie, FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue, and Sanibel Island Mayor Holly Smith.
WATCH NOW: Governor DeSantis Sanibel Causeway Reopens | 2022-10-19T18:29:04+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/florida-gov-desantis-announces-sanibel-causeway-reopening-to-residents-after-hurricane-ian |
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Hospitality Corp. ("Target Hospitality", "Target" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TH), one of North America's largest providers of vertically integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services, today raised the range of its previously announced 2022 financial outlook 53% primarily related to the significantly expanded and enhanced lease and services agreement ("Expanded Humanitarian Contract") supporting domestic humanitarian aid efforts, previously announced on July 6, 2022.
The Expanded Humanitarian Contract consists of a meaningful increase in scope and service offerings from the initial contract executed in March of 2021 and illustrates the benefits of Target's strategic diversification efforts. With the inception of Target's Government segment in 2014, the Company has placed increasing focus on expanding its critical hospitality services supporting domestic humanitarian aid missions serving vulnerable populations. This intentional focus has resulted in Target expanding its end market portfolio while significantly increasing minimum revenue commitments that provide enhanced revenue visibility and cash flows.
The Expanded Humanitarian Contract operates with similar structure to Target's existing government services contracts, which are centered around minimum revenue commitments supported by the United States Government. Additionally, the Expanded Humanitarian Contract includes variable services revenue that will align with monthly community population. The minimum revenue commitments, which consist of annual recurring lease revenue and nonrecurring infrastructure enhancement revenue, provide for a minimum annual revenue contribution of approximately $390 million and is fully committed over its initial contract term. The services revenue component provides for a maximum initial annual total contract value of approximately $575 million.
Including the Expanded Humanitarian Contract, approximately 73% of Target's anticipated 2022 revenue will be derived from its Government segment with a substantial portion of consolidated revenue attributed to minimum revenue commitments.
Target's critical infrastructure enhancements and expansion of hospitality service offerings reflect the transition of this community to a comprehensive solution capable of providing ongoing critical humanitarian support to aid Target's leading national nonprofit partner. Target anticipates this critical service offering, and all-inclusive super-site community, will remain an ongoing fixture in supporting domestic humanitarian aid missions.
Target will make substantial infrastructure enhancements to the existing community that encompass over 1.7 million square feet of modular structures on over 280 acres. The significantly expanded and enhanced community site will result in a transitory increase to Target's anticipated 2022 capital spending. The increase in 2022 annual capital spending will initially be balance sheet neutral with the Company anticipating a total net leverage ratio below 3.0 times, with meaningful leverage improvement by year end 2022.
As a result of operating cash flow materially exceeding the Company's initial 2022 business plan, Target's enhanced balance sheet will allow the Company to continue evaluating a range of capital allocation initiatives focused on maximizing long-term shareholder value. Additionally, Target's strong financial profile creates the optimal platform to continue pursuing strategic growth aspirations that focus on expanding the Company's long-term growth opportunities and accelerating its value creation opportunity set.
The Company continues to benefit from its strategic positioning as North America's market leader in premier vertically integrated modular and hospitality solutions serving a suite of world-class customers. This strong momentum supports Target's 2022 financial outlook and marks a 74% increase in revenue and a 152% increase in Adjusted EBITDA from full year 2021.
Approximately 99% of the Company's anticipated 2022 revenue is under contract with approximately 73% of contracted revenue having minimum revenue commitments.
These positive business fundamentals support Target's 2022 financial outlook of:
Full Year 2022 Financial Outlook:
- Total revenue between $500 and $510 million
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) between $295 and $305 million
- Interest expense(2) between $33 and 35 million
- Effective corporate cash tax rate between 13% and 15%
- Discretionary Cash Flow(1) between $320 and $330 million
- Total capital spending between $190 and $200 million, excluding acquisitions
- Maintain total net leverage(3) ratio below 3.0x throughout 2022
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Outlook:
- Total revenue between $102 and $107 million
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) between $50 and $55 million
(2) Interest expense excludes amortization of deferred financing cost and original issue discount
(3) Total net leverage ratio is defined in the credit facility as consolidated total debt to consolidated EBITDA for the preceding four fiscal quarters
The Company has scheduled a conference call for July 12, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. Central Time (9:00 am Eastern Time) to provide additional details on the Expanded Humanitarian Contract and its 2022 financial outlook.
Conference Call Details
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM CT
Domestic: 1-888-317-6003
International: 1-412-317-6061
Passcode: 2810328
Please register for the webcast or dial into the conference call approximately 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.
A replay of the conference call will be available through the Investors section of Target Hospitality's website.
About Target Hospitality
Target Hospitality is one of North America's largest providers of vertically integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services in the United States. Target builds, owns and operates a customized and growing network of communities for a range of end users through a full suite of value-added solutions including premium food service management, concierge, laundry, logistics, security and recreational facilities services.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release (including the financial outlook contained herein) are "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "estimates," "projected," "expects," "anticipates," "forecasts," "plans," "intends," "believes," "seeks," "may," "will," "should," "future," "propose" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside our control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or any future public health crisis, related economic repercussions and the resulting negative impact to global economic demand; operational challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, including logistical challenges, protecting the health and well-being of our employees and customers, government imposed mandates, contract and supply chain disruptions; operational, economic, including inflation, political and regulatory risks; our ability to effectively compete in the specialty rental accommodations and hospitality services industry; effective management of our communities; natural disasters and other business distributions including outbreaks of epidemic or pandemic disease; the effect of changes in state building codes on marketing our buildings; changes in demand within a number of key industry end-markets and geographic regions; our reliance on third party manufacturers and suppliers; failure to retain key personnel; increases in raw material and labor costs; the effect of impairment charges on our operating results; our inability to recognize deferred tax assets and tax loss carry forwards; our future operating results fluctuating, failing to match performance or to meet expectations; our exposure to various possible claims and the potential inadequacy of our insurance; unanticipated changes in our tax obligations; our obligations under various laws and regulations; the effect of litigation, judgments, orders, regulatory or customer bankruptcy proceedings on our business; our ability to successfully acquire and integrate new operations; global or local economic and political movements, including any changes in policy under the Biden administration; federal government budgeting and appropriations; our ability to effectively manage our credit risk and collect on our accounts receivable; our ability to fulfill Target Hospitality's public company obligations; any failure of our management information systems; our ability to meet our debt service requirements and obligations; and risks related to Arrow Bidco's obligations under the senior notes. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
(1) Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release also contains forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow. Reconciliations of these forward-looking measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are unavailable to Target Hospitality without unreasonable effort. We cannot provide a reconciliation of forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow to GAAP financial measures because certain items required for such reconciliation are outside of our control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted, such as the provision for income taxes. Preparation of such reconciliations would require a forward-looking balance sheet, statement of income and statement of cash flow, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and such forward-looking financial statements are unavailable to us without unreasonable effort. Although we provide a range of Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow that we believe will be achieved, we cannot accurately predict all the components of the Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow calculations. Target Hospitality provides an Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow outlook because we believe that these measures, when viewed with our results under GAAP, provide useful information for the reasons noted below.
Definitions:
Target Hospitality defines EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense and loss on extinguishment of debt, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation of specialty rental assets, and other depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA reflects the following further adjustments to EBITDA to exclude certain non-cash items and the effect of what management considers transactions or events not related to its core business operations:
- Other (income) expense, net: Other (income) expense, net includes miscellaneous cash receipts, gains and losses on disposals of property, plant, and equipment, involuntary asset conversion gains and losses, COVID-19 related expenses, and other immaterial non-cash charges.
- Transaction expenses: Target Hospitality incurred certain transaction costs during 2021, including legal and professional fees, associated with the previously announced non-binding proposal made by Arrow Holdings S.à r.l. ("Arrow"), an affiliate of TDR Capital LLP ("TDR"), to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Target Hospitality not owned by Arrow or its affiliates for cash consideration of $1.50 per share in the current period. The non-binding proposal was withdrawn by Arrow on March 29, 2021. No such amounts were incurred during 2022.
- Stock-based compensation: Charges associated with stock-based compensation expense, which has been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, a significant recurring expense in our business and an important part of our compensation strategy.
- Change in fair value of warrant liabilities: Non-cash change in estimated fair value of warrant liabilities.
- Other adjustments: System implementation costs, including primarily non-cash amortization of capitalized system implementation costs, claim settlement, business development, accounting standard implementation costs and certain severance costs.
Target Hospitality defines Discretionary Cash Flow as cash flow from operations less maintenance capital expenditures for specialty rental assets.
Utility and Purposes:
EBITDA reflects net income (loss) excluding the impact of interest expense and loss on extinguishment of debt, provision for income taxes, depreciation, and amortization. We believe that EBITDA is a meaningful indicator of operating performance because we use it to measure our ability to service debt, fund capital expenditures, and expand our business. We also use EBITDA, as do analysts, lenders, investors, and others, to evaluate companies because it excludes certain items that can vary widely across different industries or among companies within the same industry. For example, interest expense can be dependent on a company's capital structure, debt levels, and credit ratings. Accordingly, the impact of interest expense on earnings can vary significantly among companies. The tax positions of companies can also vary because of their differing abilities to take advantage of tax benefits and because of the tax policies of the jurisdictions in which they operate. As a result, effective tax rates and provision for income taxes can vary considerably among companies. EBITDA also excludes depreciation and amortization expense, because companies utilize productive assets of different ages and use different methods of both acquiring and depreciating productive assets. These differences can result in considerable variability in the relative costs of productive assets and the depreciation and amortization expense among companies.
Target Hospitality also believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a meaningful indicator of operating performance. Our Adjusted EBITDA reflects adjustments to exclude the effects of additional items, including certain items, that are not reflective of the ongoing operating results of Target Hospitality. In addition, to derive Adjusted EBITDA, we exclude gains or losses on the sale of depreciable assets and impairment losses because including them in EBITDA is inconsistent with reporting the ongoing performance of our remaining assets. Additionally, the gain or loss on sale of depreciable assets and impairment losses represents either accelerated depreciation or excess depreciation in previous periods, and depreciation is excluded from EBITDA.
Target Hospitality also presents Discretionary cash flows because we believe it provides useful information regarding our business as more fully described below. Discretionary cash flows indicate the amount of cash available after maintenance capital expenditures for specialty rental assets for, among other things, investments in our existing business.
Discretionary Cash Flow and Adjusted EBITDA are not measurements of Target Hospitality's financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to Net income (loss), Gross profit, Earnings per share, Net cash provided by operating activities, or other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Target Hospitality's management believe that Discretionary Cash Flow and Adjusted EBITDA provide useful information to investors about Target Hospitality and its financial condition and results of operations for the following reasons: (i) they are among the measures used by Target Hospitality's management team to evaluate its operating performance; (ii) they are among the measures used by Target Hospitality's management team to make day-to-day operating decisions, (iii) they are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties as a common performance measure to compare results across companies in Target Hospitality's industry.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s largest city, Sydney, has been soaked by its wettest year on record with almost three months of expected above-average rain to spare.
The city of 5 million people beat its 1950 record of 2,194 millimeters (86.4 inches) at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday when 27.2 mm (1.07 in) of rain had fallen at the Observatory Hill rain gauge since morning, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said. Records at Observatory Hill go back to 1859.
Heavy rain is forecast to continue across Sydney and other parts of southeast Australia, peaking on Saturday.
The Bureau of Meteorology last month declared that a La Niña weather pattern, which is associated with above-average rainfall in eastern Australia, was underway in the Pacific.
The bureau forecast that the La Niña event may peak during the current Southern Hemisphere spring and return to neutral conditions early next year.
La Niña is the cooler flip side of the better-known drying El Niño pattern. La Niña occurs when equatorial trade winds become stronger, changing ocean surface currents and drawing up cooler deep water.
It is the third La Niña since 2019 became Australia’s hottest and driest year on record.
That year came to a catastrophic conclusion with wildfires fueled by drought that directly or indirectly killed more than 400 people, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed 19 million hectares (47 million acres) of woods, farmland and city fringes.
Sydney was among several southeast Australian cities that were shrouded in acrid wildfire smoke during the Southern Hemisphere summer of 2019-20.
Sydney had its wettest July on record this year after only two weeks, passing the 1950 record of 336.1 mm (13.2 in) on the way to a total of 404 mm (15.9 in).
March broke a 1942 record of 521.4 mm (20.5 in) when 554 mm (21.8 in) of rain fell.
The ongoing deluge will see rivers in New South Wales state swollen by moderate-to-major flooding, affecting towns including Tamworth, Dubbo and Bathurst, authorities said. | 2022-10-06T07:17:10+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Sydney-beats-1950-rainfall-record-with-3-wet-17490317.php |
A federal grand jury in Boston indicted Luis Torres for his alleged role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy on Thursday.
From Worcester, Torres was indicted on one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine and one count of use of a communication facility to facilitate a drug felony, according to United States Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office.
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The timeline of events associated with Torres’ alleged connection to the conspiracy was around June. By June 21, he was arrested, charged and has remained in custody since.
Being charged with conspiring to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine holds a minimum sentence of 10 years to life in prison, Rollins’ office said in a statement. This includes at least five years of supervised release and a fine of up to $10 million.
Rollins’ office said he was previously convicted of drug trafficking and served over a year in state prison before his June 21 arrest.
Torres will appear in court at a later, unspecified date. | 2022-12-09T17:50:00+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2022/12/luis-torres-of-worcester-indicted-for-alleged-drug-distribution-conspiracy.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The outlook for the global economy is growing slightly brighter as China eases its zero-COVID policies and the world shows surprising resilience in the face of high inflation, elevated interest rates and Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.
That’s the view of the International Monetary Fund, which now expects the world economy to grow 2.9% this year. That forecast is better than the 2.7% expansion for 2023 that the IMF predicted in October, though down from the estimated 3.4% growth in 2022.
The IMF, a 190-country lending organization, foresees inflation easing this year, a result of aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks. Those rate hikes are expected to slow the consumer demand that has driven prices higher. Globally, the IMF expects consumer inflation to fall from 8.8% last year to 6.6% in 2023 and 4.3% in 2024.
“Global conditions have improved as inflation pressures started to abate,” the IMF chief economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, said at a news conference in Singapore. “The road back to a full recovery with sustainable growth, stable prices and progress for all has only started.”
A big factor in the upgrade to global growth was China’s decision late last year to lift anti-virus controls that had kept millions of people at home. The IMF said China’s “recent reopening has paved the way for a faster-than-expected recovery.’’
The IMF now expects China’s economy — the world’s second-biggest, after the United States — to grow 5.2% this year, up from its October forecast of 4.4%. Beijing’s economy eked out growth of just 3% in 2022 — the first year in more than 40, the IMF noted, that China has expanded more slowly than the world as a whole. But the end of virus restrictions is expected to revive activity in 2023.
Together, China and India should account for half of this year’s global growth, while the United States and Europe contribute 10%, according to Gourinchas.
“China’s reopening is certainly a favorable factor that’s going to lead to more activity,” Gourinchas said. “But this is in the context in which the global economy itself is slowing down.”
The IMF’s 2023 growth outlook improved for the United States (forecast to grow 1.4%) as well as for the 19 countries that share the euro currency (0.7%). Europe, though suffering from energy shortages and higher prices resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, proved “more resilient than expected,’’ the IMF said. The European economy benefited from a warmer-than-expected winter, which held down demand for natural gas,
Russia’s economy, hit by sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine, has proved sturdier than expected, too: The IMF’s forecast foresees Russia registering 0.3% growth this year. That would mark an improvement from a contraction of 2.2% in 2022. And it’s well above the 2.3% contraction for 2023 that the IMF had forecast for Russia in October.
The United Kingdom is a striking exception to the IMF’s brighter outlook for 2023. It has forecast its economy will shrink 0.6% in 2023; in October, the IMF had expected growth of 0.3%. Higher interest rates and tighter government budgets are squeezing the British economy.
“These figures confirm we are not immune to the pressures hitting nearly all advanced economies,’’ Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said in response to the IMF forecast. “Short-term challenges should not obscure our long-term prospects — the U.K. outperformed many forecasts last year, and if we stick to our plan to halve inflation, the U.K. is still predicted to grow faster than Germany and Japan over the coming years.”
The IMF noted that the world economy still faces serous risks. They include the possibility that Russia’s war against Ukraine war will escalate, that China will suffer a sharp increase in COVID cases and that high interest rates will cause a financial crisis in debt-laden countries.
Asked about the impact of U.S. efforts to limit Chinese access to advanced processor chip technology due to security concerns, Gourinchas cautioned that curbs on semiconductor trade and government pressure to pull back industries to within their own borders and limit reliance on foreign partners “potentially could be harmful to the global economy.”
“Diversification of supply chains is much more important in trying to improve resilience, improve growth, improve standards of living, rather than moving toward re-shoring or ‘friend shoring,’” Gourinchas said.
The global outlook has been shrouded in uncertainty since the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020. Forecasters have been repeatedly confounded by events: A severe if brief recession in early 2020; an expectedly strong recovery triggered by vast government stimulus aid; then a surge in inflation, worsened when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago disrupted world trade in energy and food.
Three weeks ago, the IMF’s sister agency, the World Bank, issued a more downbeat outlook for the global economy. The World Bank slashed its forecast for international growth this year by nearly half — to 1.7% — and warned that the global economy would come “perilously close’’ to recession.
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AP Business Writer Joe McDonald in Beijing and AP Writer Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report. | 2023-01-31T15:04:31+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-imf-upgrades-its-outlook-for-the-global-economy-in-2023/ |
BOSTON (AP) _ Wayfair Inc. (W) on Thursday reported a loss of $283 million in its third quarter.
The Boston-based company said it had a loss of $2.66 per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $2.11 per share.
The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for a loss of $2.11 per share.
The online home goods retailer posted revenue of $2.84 billion in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.81 billion.
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The biggest game of the European club soccer season takes place on Saturday as Inter takes on Manchester City in the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League Final. It’s a huge occasion for City as the club has spent fortunes building this team of superstars and despite a stellar run of Premier League successes, European glory had remained out of reach. Now City is just one win away from a first Champions League success, which would also complete an astonishing treble after clinching the EPL and FA Cup this season.
Inter won the old European Cup twice in the 1960s and has one Champions League success in 2010. The Italian team finished third in Serie A this season but has finished the season strongly with 11 wins in 12 games, including a 2-1 victory over Fiorentina in the Coppa Italia Final. It should be a great occasion in Istanbul on Saturday, and we have an Inter vs. Man City prediction from our expert soccer handicappers for the Champions League Final, which kicks off at 3:00 pm ET.
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Inter vs. Man City predictions for the UEFA Champions League Final
Manchester City has enjoyed a dream season and is looking to cap it off with the prize it cherishes most and a first Champions League success. Pep Guardiola’s squad features world-class players led by Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne and they chased down Arsenal to win the EPL before beating city rival Manchester United in the FA Cup Final last week.
City is a hot favorite for the game at -210 on the money line at FanDuel Sportsbook and it is hard to argue that the English club looks the more likely winner. The 4-0 demolition of Real Madrid in the second leg of the semifinals suggested the team is ready to take the next step.
Inter has done a superb job to reach the final after having a sticky start in the group stage and has also enjoyed a victory over a neighbor in a recent big game, overcoming AC Milan 3-0 on aggregate in its semifinal. Inter should certainly be aiming to stay on level terms a little longer than Manchester United did in the FA Cup Final, when City went ahead after just 12 seconds through Ilkay Gundogan.
Inter finished 18 points behind champions Napoli in Italy this season, though, and has struggled in games against top-level opponents, with a pair of Serie A losses to Juventus and two 2-0 defeats to Bayern Munich in the group stage of this competition. City comfortably progressed against that same Bayern team and has also beaten Real Madrid, Arsenal, Liverpool and Leipzig this season, so the men from Manchester head our top Inter vs. Man City prediction.
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Setting aside the final two games of the EPL season against Brighton and Brentford, when City fielded weaker lineups with the title already secured, the English club’s defense has been solid in recent months, posting successive shutouts against Everton, Real Madrid and Chelsea, and United’s goal in the FA Cup Final was from a penalty kick awarded for a highly controversial handball decision.
Inter will want to keep the game tight and a team has been shut out in the last four Champions League Finals. City’s offensive talent should prove too much for the Italian team to deal with but the nature of the occasion means a high-scoring rout is not likely, so a 2-0 Man City win is attractive at +600 odds with FanDuel.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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FALLEN ANGELS
Mike Trout is mired in the worst slump of his brilliant career and the Angels are one loss from matching their longest skid in 34 years.
Noah Syndergaard (4-3, 4.02 ERA) starts as Los Angeles (27-28) returns home looking to stop an 11-game slide in the opener of a four-game series against Michael Wacha (3-1, 2.43) and the Boston Red Sox, who have won four straight.
Trout is hitless in his last 26 at-bats, his longest drought in the majors.
”Things will start falling,” the three-time MVP said Sunday after an agonizing loss to his hometown Philadelphia Phillies. ”Had some good at-bats today, just try to take it into tomorrow.”
Syndergaard was knocked out in the second inning at Yankee Stadium last week,
Winless since May 24, the Angels are on their longest losing streak since an 11-game slide in August 2016. They haven’t dropped 12 in a row since the last 12 games of the 1988 season under managers Cookie Rojas and Moose Stubbing, who took over for the final eight.
”It’s baseball,” Trout said. ”There’s going to be some good times and there’s going to be some bad times. Right now it’s just a bad time.”
ANOTHER TEST OUT WEST
After splitting a four-game series at Dodger Stadium, the Mets head down the California coast to open a three-game set in San Diego.
New York, with the best record in the National League at 37-19, faces another stiff challenge in a Padres team that just won the final three in a four-game series at NL Central-leading Milwaukee. Carlos Carrasco (6-1, 3.63 ERA) pitches for the Mets against Blake Snell (0-2, 4.80) as San Diego (33-21) begins a seven-game homestand.
Injured Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. is scheduled to undergo a CT scan Monday, which is expected to help determine when he’ll be able to start swinging a bat again.
New York has lost only two of its first 17 series this season.
RAY ZAPPED
AL Cy Young Award winner Robbie Ray has lost three straight starts for the first time since April 28 to May 9, 2017, going into his outing at the first-place Houston Astros. The 30-year-old Seattle Mariners lefty has a 5.82 ERA in defeats to Boston, Oakland and Baltimore, allowing four home runs that raised his season total to 11. Right-hander Cristian Javier (3-2, 2.41 ERA) starts for the Astros.
MAD BUM
Arizona left-hander Madison Bumgarner (2-4, 3.31) is 0-3 with a 5.25 ERA in his last four starts going into the opener of a four-game series at Cincinnati. Bumgarner allowed 14 earned runs in his past four starts after giving up six in his first seven. Reds rookie Hunter Greene (2-7, 6.19) is averaging 98.6 mph with his fastball.
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TULSA — A man was found dead after an apparent drowning at Whiteside Park pool early Sunday.
Police say three men in their late 20's entered the pool near 41st and Yale while it was closed.
Two of the men went to smoke, and when they returned they found the other man submerged in the shallow end of the pool.
Officers say the men were able to get the man out of the pool and perform CPR but were unable to revive him.
No charges are expected to be filed.
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New investment enables Sparkrock to accelerate time-to-value for its customers and drive innovation across the Sparkrock 365 platform.
TORONTO and CHICAGO and AUSTIN, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparkrock, a leader in ERP solutions for K-12, non-profit, and human service organizations, announced today that it has been acquired by Ionic Partners, LLC.
Ionic's acquisition of Sparkrock will accelerate the company's mission to deliver a best-in-class ERP platform for schools, non-profits, and other mission-driven organizations. With Ionic, Sparkrock will be particularly focused on amplifying the company's customer success strategy to accelerate customers' time-to-value and energize the company's product vision for the future.
Andy Tryba, co-founder and CEO of Ionic Partners, joins Sparkrock as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Colin Dickinson as CEO. Colin, along with Sparkrock's co-founders James Faw and Nicola Dickinson, have joined Sparkrock's advisory board.
"We are thrilled to partner with Ionic at this stage of our company's evolution," said Colin Dickinson. "From our first conversations, it was clear that Sparkrock and Ionic share a customer-first vision for the company's next level of success. Ionic's tremendous operating expertise and unique approach to growth and product development will strengthen Sparkrock's focus on our customers across Canada and the United States, taking our products and company to the next level. And Ionic shares our drive to help purpose-driven people and organizations deliver results for their communities."
"The team at Sparkrock has built an exceptional foundation for future growth," said Andy Tryba, co-founder of Ionic Partners. "Sparkrock has built a reputation for excellent technology and delivering real, tangible results for customers. We can't wait to build on that foundation by investing in innovation, accelerating time-to-value for our customers, and most importantly, delivering world-class service and outcomes to our customers. This will start by deepening our partnership with Microsoft, which features the incredible security and stability of Dynamics 365. We believe Sparkrock is the perfect example of a company that does well by doing good, and we're excited to accelerate this important work."
Sparkrock 365 is a cloud-based solution that is purpose-built to support the needs of school districts, non-profits, and publicly-funded social impact organizations with a robust, highly-secure, all-in-one back-end infrastructure. Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sparkrock empowers tens of thousands of end users to deliver positive outcomes to mission-driven organizations every day.
With Ionic, Sparkrock will continue to provide its customers with best-in-class software solutions and customer service while expanding its product portfolio, its customer base, and its geographic footprint.
"We are looking forward to growing Sparkrock organically and through acquisitions," said Donald Park, co-founder & President of Ionic Partners. "By investing in this growth, we aim to build an enduring platform which provides our customers with the industry's best and most reliable features, functionality, and teams."
Sparkrock is a leading tech company and creator of the Sparkrock 365 application – an all-in-one enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platform that includes finance, workforce management, payroll and employee scheduling built for Nonprofit & Human Services Organizations and K-12 & Educational Institutions.
Our enterprise resource planning (ERP) software will help you create meaningful and impactful operations so managers and frontline workers can make the decisions they need, quickly and efficiently.
Sparkrock 365 is built on Microsoft Business Central and has been dedicated to serving mission-driven organizations in Canada and the US since 2003. We enable our clients to have predictive control of their oversight, funding, and operations.
For more information, please visit www.sparkrock.com or follow @Sparkrockinc on Twitter
Led by a team of seasoned software operators, Ionic Partners is a global enterprise software platform focused on 2nd Chasm businesses with strong core products and recurring revenue. Ionic creates extraordinary value through a product-led thesis, leveraging a cloud-first global workforce, building elastic infrastructure, and infusing world-class operating best practices into the daily workflow of their companies.
For more information, please visit www.ionicpartners.com or follow @IonicPartners on Twitter
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More than 150 mutual customers choose Hightouch and Fivetran to close their data loop
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightouch today announced that it has been named the 2022 Ecosystem Partner of the Year award winner by Fivetran. This award was presented today at Fivetran's virtual Partner Summit.
Hightouch was recognized for the company's achievements in helping joint customers activate data by syncing directly from the warehouse into business tools. This is particularly complementary to Fivetran's fully managed data pipelines, which ensure all relevant data is seamlessly delivered to the data warehouse.
Hightouch was founded with the vision to put data into the hands of every business team including marketing, sales, success, and finance, bridging the gap between data teams and the business folks who need data to do their best work. The partnership with Fivetran is key to that vision and allows 150 customers, and more every day, to close the loop on data activation.
Mutual customer PrestaShop, an eCommerce platform, built a modern data stack with Fivetran, Google BigQuery, and Hightouch that serves over 300,000 merchants. "Google Cloud drove home a culture of simplicity around our data stack," explained Remi Paulin, Ph.D., Data Architect at PrestaShop. "This, combined with the easy-to-use Fivetran and Hightouch solutions, removed bottlenecks from getting more and more teams at PrestaShop to benefit from powerful data analytics."
Blend, a cloud banking platform, uses Fivetran, Redshift and Hightouch to unify disparate data. "We actually have metrics now that we can look at thanks to Fivetran for the data extraction, and then we can ensure consistency of that across teams thanks to Hightouch," says William Blend, Customer Success Operations at Blend.
"We are honored to announce Hightouch as Fivetran's ecosystem award winner," said Michael Bull, Fivetran's Director of Technology Alliances. "Hightouch's Data Activation platform delivers deep value to organizations leveraging the modern data stack. We look forward to continuing to build upon our partnership to further empower joint customers."
"We're excited about the value over 150 joint customers have driven with Fivetran and Hightouch, closing the Modern Data Stack loop from ingestion to activation. Fivetran has been a pivotal partner ushering in our vision of Data Activation, Reverse ETL, and together, turning the warehouse into a CDP for the business." - Tejas Manohar, Co-founder and Co-CEO.
Learn more about Fivetran, Hightouch and the value they jointly deliver to over 150 mutual customers.
Hightouch is the world's leading Data Activation platform, syncing data from warehouses directly into SaaS tools. In November, Hightouch announced $40M in Series B financing at a $450 million valuation led by ICONIQ Capital. Hightouch's hundreds of customers range from fast-growing startups like Plaid, Betterment, Calendly, and Lucidchart to large enterprises like AXS, Nando's, and Autotrader. For more information, visit www.hightouch.com.
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By JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In the outdoor gym on Venice Beach, the name given to an inviting stretch of sand on the majestic Dnieper River that courses through the capital of Ukraine, Serhiy Chornyi is working on his summer body, up-down-up-downing a chunky hunk of iron.
The aim of his sweat and toil isn’t to impress the girls in their bright summer bikinis. Working out is part of his contribution to Ukraine’s all-hands-on-deck war effort: The National Guardsman expects to be sent eastward to the battlefields soon and doesn’t want to take his paunch with him for the fight against Russia’s invasion force.
“I’m here to get in shape. To be able to help my friends with whom I’ll be,” the 32-year-old said. “I feel that my place is there now. … There is only one thing left: to defend. There is no other option, only one road.”
So goes Kyiv’s bitter summer of 2022, where the sun shines but sadness and grim determination reign, where canoodling couples cannot be sure that their kisses won’t be their last as more soldiers head to the fronts; where flitting swallows are nesting as people made homeless weep in blown-apart ruins, and where the peace is deceptive, because it’s shorn of peace of mind.
After Russia’s initial assault on Kyiv was repelled in the invasion’s opening month, leaving death and destruction, the capital found itself in the somewhat uncomfortable position of becoming largely a bystander in the war that continues to rage in the east and south, where Russian President Vladimir Putin has redirected his forces and military resources.
The burned-out hulks of Russian tanks are being hauled away from the capital’s outskirts, even as Western-supplied weapons turn more Russian armor into smoking junk on battlefronts. Cafes and restaurants are open again, the chatter and the chink of glasses from their outdoor tables providing a semblance of normalcy — until everyone scoots home for the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, less constraining than it used to be when Kyiv had seemed at risk of falling.
Sitting on a lawn and savoring wine with friends one evening this week, Andrii Bashtovyi remarked that it “looks like there’s no war but people are talking about their friends who are injured or who are mobilized.” He recently passed his military medical check, meaning he could soon be thrown into combat, too.
“If they call me, I need to go to the recruiting center. I’ll have 12 hours,” said the chief editor of The Village online magazine, which covers life, news and events in Kyiv and other unoccupied cities.
Air raid alarms still sound regularly, screeching shrilly on downloadable phone apps, but they’re so rarely followed by blasts — unlike in pounded front-line towns and cities — that few pay them much mind. Cruise missile strikes that wrecked a warehouse and a train repair workshop on June 5 were Kyiv’s first in five weeks. Dog walkers and parents pushing strollers ambled unperturbed nearby even before the flames had been extinguished.
Many, but by no means all, of the 2 million inhabitants who Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said had fled when Russian forces tried to encircle the city in March are now returning. But with soldiers falling by the hundreds to the east and south, the surreal calm of Kyiv is laced with nagging guilt.
“People are feeling grateful but asking themselves, ‘Am I doing enough?’” said Snezhana Vialko, as she and boyfriend Denys Koreiba bought plump strawberries from one of the summer-fruit vendors who have deployed across the city, in neighborhoods where just weeks ago jumpy troops manned checkpoints of sand bags and tank traps.
Now greatly reduced in numbers and vigilance, they generally wave through the restored buzz of car traffic, barely glancing up from pass-the-time scrolling on phones.
With the peace still so fragile and more treasured than ever, many are plowing their energies, time, money and muscle into supporting the soldiers fighting what has become a grinding war of attrition for control of destroyed villages, towns and cities.
Trained as a chef and now working as a journalist, Volodymyr Denysenko brewed up 100 bottles of spicy sauce, using his home-grown hot peppers to enliven the troops’ rations. He dropped them off with volunteers who drive in convoys from Kyiv to the fronts, laden with crowdfunded gun sights, night-vision goggles, drones, medical kits and other badly needed gear.
“All Ukrainian people must help the army, the soldiers,” he said. “It’s our country, our freedom.”
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Hanna Arhirova contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Select Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PSF) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on June 30, 2023 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to hike interest rates again this month. It would mark the fourth interest rate hike this year as it makes borrowing money even more expensive.
The prospect of another rise is putting recreation-dependent communities nationwide in a difficult position as they work toward affordable housing solutions. Those solutions sometimes require communities to purchase homes and other properties.
“It really comes down to supply and demand,” said Jason Dietz, the housing director for Summit County, Colorado. “There’s a lot less supply out there for available housing, available land to develop. The demand is through the charts because people from all across the country, all across the world, are looking for natural amenity regions, like Summit County, to own property in.”
Summit County has 619 square miles of land. On it, there are 31,831 residential units. According to the county, that is 83% of the maximum number of residences allowed by zoning laws.
About a third of those residential units are short-term rental units, and another third are second homes. That leaves the final third, or about 10,000 residential units, for the county’s 31,000 people, according to local records.
It makes competition, and therefore pricing, high, leaving little room for the people who help make its economy run.
“The tourist economy requires a lot of jobs and a lot of employees, and one of the biggest limiting factors in Summit County is the lack of attainable housing for the local workforce,” said Dietz.
This is happening nationwide, as well. A Headwaters Economics analysis shows that every time a recreation-dependent county’s population increases by 10%, the share of wages spent on rent in that same county increases by 7%.
In many of these natural amenity regions, those new residents are wealthy, which drives up the price further and sometimes leads to barriers in finding solutions.
“We need to attain more diversity. You need smaller houses. You know, the barrier to entry is very, very difficult,” said Johnny Schwartz, a founding member of Able Construction, which develops high-end homes in the Northeast.
In 2014, Schwartz tried doing something different when he proposed building a 12-unit housing development in the quaint, yet expensive, beach town of Westport, Connecticut. He said the units could be sold for less than half of the area’s median home price of $1.2 million at the time, but the development never got approved because locals had their concerns, a common theme in many of these wealthier communities. Instead, a more expensive 5-unit dwelling was approved
“It’s just economics,” said Schwartz. “The land is very expensive so you can’t build a cheap house. You’re starting at a very high price point. The only way you could do it is to have more density.”
The current housing market has made it difficult for municipalities to consider new builds. So, Summit County and other counties have had to come up with creative solutions; one of them, looking at already-existing infrastructure.
In Summit County, officials are working on an offer to lease an out-of-service Days Inn so it can turn into an affordable housing complex.
“There’s no single issue that causes it,” said Dietz. “There’s no one, single solution to fix it. It takes a lot of creative thinking. It takes a funding source because the private market, the private sector, the free markets, they are not solving it. It’s housing that costs more than what it can be sold for and so it takes a lot of partnerships.” | 2022-07-07T21:10:07+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/towns-are-being-forced-to-find-creative-affordable-housing-solutions |
- Embraer will provide services to Envoy Air Inc. and JSX
- Services will be performed at the Macon, Georgia facility
MACON, Ga., Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Embraer (B3: EMBR3, NYSE: ERJ) today announced that Embraer Aircraft Maintenance Services (EAMS) in Macon, Georgia, has signed two heavy maintenance services agreements totaling $ 72 million. The contracts have been signed with Envoy Air Inc. and JSX and will provide each company with airframe maintenance and repair services offered by Embraer's portfolio of solutions.
Envoy has been an EAMS customer since 2002 and has outsourced maintenance lines to EAMS periodically since 2011, though the new contract provides one nose-to-tail heavy maintenance line. With JSX, Embraer has signed a long-term agreement for two nose-to-tail heavy maintenance lines.
"We welcome Envoy back to EAMS as a recurring customer of heavy maintenance and look forward to the start of new partnerships with JSX for our support," said Frank Stevens, Vice President, Global MRO Centers, Embraer Services & Support. "Macon continues to expand, and these new lines will promote growth within the area and open job positions for qualified talent. Overall, these contracts are mutually beneficial for our partners as we can provide exceptional service while expanding our operations."
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Envoy Air Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group, operates more than 160 aircraft on 800 daily flights to over 160 destinations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, and Caribbean. The company's 18,000 employees provide regional flight service to American Airlines under the American Eagle brand and ground handling services for many American Airlines Group flights. The company was founded in 1998 as American Eagle Airlines, Inc., following the merger of several smaller regional carriers to create one of the largest regional airlines in the world. Envoy is headquartered in Irving, Texas, with hubs in Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago, and Miami, with a large ground handling operation in Los Angeles. Connect with Envoy on Twitter @EnvoyAirCareers, on Instagram @EnvoyAirCareers, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/envoyaircareers [facebook.com]
About JSX
Welcome to Hop-On jet service! Introducing JSX, where you can enjoy the convenience of private travel at not-so-private fares. Avoid the traffic and airport madness when you fly exclusively among our private terminals and go from parking to take off in minutes. No lines, no crowds, no hassles.
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A global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil, Embraer has businesses in Commercial and Executive aviation, Defense & Security, and Agricultural Aviation. The company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets aircraft and systems, providing Services & Support to customers after sales.
Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. On average, about every 10 seconds an aircraft manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world, transporting over 145 million passengers a year.
Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets with up to 150 seats and the main exporter of high-value-added goods in Brazil. The company maintains industrial units, offices, service, and parts distribution centers, among other activities, across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Biden has ‘terminated’ Architect of the Capitol after inspector general report found he abused office.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Friday continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the investigation into Tyre Nichols’ death, but said he does want to make public information that would not interfere with the rights to a fair trial for five Memphis police officers facing charges.
Shelby County Criminal Court Judge James Jones Jr. asked prosecutors to outline the information they think should and should not be be released to the public, and then give the list to defense attorneys. Jones set deadlines in June for prosecutors to provide defense lawyers the information from existing video footage and about 2,500 pages of documents that should be be released and for the defense to raise objections.
Prosecutor Paul Hagerman and defense attorneys agreed that most police personnel records that pre-dated Nichols’ beating can be released. But they both also agreed that the media must not get so called Garrity statements, which stem from investigative interviews given by the officers to Memphis Police Department administrators after Nichols’ beating.
Garrity statements are not allowed to be used at trial against defendants.
“The intent of this court is that everything that can be released be released, and released timely,” Jones said.
Nichols, 29, died Jan. 10, three days after he was beaten by five officers who have since been fired and charged with second-degree murder. They have pleaded not guilty.
Police video already released Jan. 27 showed five officers belonging to the Scorpion crime suppression unit punching, kicking and hitting Nichols with a baton as he yelled for his mother after a traffic stop.
Nichols’ death sparked outrage around the world and intensified calls for police reform.
The five officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin, Desmond Mills and Justin Smith — are Black. So was Nichols.
The city had planned to release on March 8 about 20 hours of additional video, audio and documents related to the arrest.
But the release was put on hold the next day after Jones granted a motion to delay from defense attorneys. The judge ordered that any release of video, audio, reports and city of Memphis employees’ personnel files related to the Nichols investigation must wait “until such time as the state and the defendants have reviewed this information.”
A coalition of media organizations, including The Associated Press, filed a motion to have the records released. The coalition argued that the judge’s order was unwarranted and went against “the First Amendment’s protections for newsgathering and publication, particularly in the context of criminal proceedings.”
The coalition also asked for the release of records related to the prior employment of Haley as a corrections officer. Those records also have been blocked by the court in a verbal order questioned by the coalition, and Haley’s attorney has objected to their release.
Media coalition lawyer Paul McAdoo said the public has a right to receive information related to the personnel files of 13 police department employees and four fire department employees who have ties to the Nichols case.
“This matter is of serious concern to the public,” McAdoo said. “We want maximum access consistent with the right to fair trials for the defendants.”
Lawyers for the officers argued that the former officers’ rights to a fair trial must be recognized and protected pending trial.
Defense attorneys objected to the release of any information that is part of the ongoing investigation. That includes audio from body cameras that may contain statements made by officers that could be used against them, defense attorney Bill Massey said.
Massey said he has been seeking video from the initial stop, but police or prosecutors haven’t indicated any such video exists.
Blake Ballin, Mills’ lawyer, wrote in his motion that the media coalition’s request “ignores the balancing act trial courts are tasked with when criminal prosecutions are subject to publicity.”
“The media’s zealousness to report must be balanced with the assurance that the fates of the accused are not predetermined before a jury considers the proof,” Ballin wrote.
After the beating, officers stood by and talked with one another as Nichols struggled with his injuries while he was on the ground, the video footage released in January showed. One officer also took photos of Nichols as he was propped up against an unmarked police car, video and other records showed.
Nichols was taken to a hospital in an ambulance that left the site of the beating 27 minutes after emergency medical technicians arrived, authorities said.
Police said Nichols had been suspected of reckless driving, but no verified evidence of a traffic violation has emerged in public documents or in video footage. Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis has said she has seen no evidence justifying the stop or the officers’ response. She disbanded the Scorpion unit after Nichols’ death, but some officers from that team have been assigned to other units.
Nichols died of blows to the head, and the manner of death was homicide, an autopsy report released May 4 showed. The report described brain injuries, cuts and bruises to the head and other parts of the body.
In addition to the officers fired and charged with murder, one white officer who was involved in the initial traffic stop has been fired. That officer will not face charges. Another officer, who has not been identified, also has been fired. An additional officer retired before he could be fired.
Three Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technicians were fired for failing to render aid to Nichols. Two Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputies who went to the location after the beating were suspended for five days for policy violations.
Also Friday, a Nashville-based commission that enforces standards for police approved a recommendation that proceedings to bar Bean from serving in state law enforcement be suspended until his legal case is resolved.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt said Thursday he “probably won’t” inform team and Major League Baseball officials if he feels COVID-19 symptoms in the future and that MLB should “just stop testing.”
Bassitt was placed on the COVID-19 list on July 1 after complaining about sluggishness to team officials. The right-hander missed his scheduled start against Texas last Friday and only rejoined the team Thursday.
“I probably won’t (again),” Bassitt said before the Mets’ series opener against the Miami Marlins. “There’s no way. There’s no reason.”
Bassitt claimed he was asymptomatic.
“Just stop testing. Stop acting like COVID is far worse than a lot of other things,” he said. “I was never sick.”
He noted that under MLB’s protocols, a positive test could mean ongoing testing that keeps an asymptomatic player out for an extended period.
“I guess the answer is I never should have said anything,” he said.
Bassitt explained he tested himself after feeling sluggish because he has a daughter.
“If I can somewhat be safe I will. I tested myself. It was positive. So I basically had the choice to tell them so I can protect my teammates or not say anything and (put) my teammates at risk. I never had a symptom. I woke up perfectly fine the next day. Have not had a symptom since,” he said.
Bassitt (6-5, 4.01 ERA), whom the Mets acquired in an offseason trade with Oakland, is scheduled to start Friday.
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A trial underway in federal court will decide whether the U.S. government must pay up to $21 million to compensate a Virginia county for a parcel of land taken to expand Arlington National Cemetery.The cemetery expansion project is expected to add 50,000 to 60,000 burial spaces and extend its ability to accommodate new burials by 19 years — until 2060, under the current eligibility requirements. Work on the expansion has already begun and will not be halted no matter what the judge decides at the trial's conclusion.At issue is how much money, if any, the federal government must pay to Arlington County for the nine acres of land it took from the county to accommodate the expansion.Video above: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others attend a ceremony at Arlington National CemeteryThe federal government says it's fulfilling its duties by replacing and improving the road network on the cemetery's southern border, including significant improvements to a highway, Columbia Pike, that serves as a primary commuter route.The county, on the other hand, contends that it also should be compensated for a 4-acre parcel that could be developed into housing if it were rezoned. The county says the plot of land is particularly valuable in a region that is starved of adequate housing and is within walking distance to the Pentagon and the new Amazon headquarters being built in the county.The condemnation that facilitated the cemetery expansion has been the subject of discussions and negotiations for more than 20 years. Despite urging from U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema that the two sides settle their dispute, no agreement was reached, and a bench trial began Monday that is expected to last the better part of the week.The early negotiations contemplated a land swap in which the county would receive a developable plot of land from the federal government in exchange for what it was ceding on the cemetery's border.But the negotiations went nowhere and in 2017, the Army opted to condemn the property without a negotiated agreement. Since then, the county has been focused on ensuring it receives what it believes is a fair price for the land that was taken.The federal government says improvements to the roadway adequately compensate the county. The improvements to Columbia Pike make it significantly wider and straighter, adding sidewalks and bike paths. The bike paths, as an example, widen the road's footprint and necessarily take away space that could have been used for burials, former cemetery superintendent Katharine Kelley testified Monday.But the Army agreed to the wider configuration, in part to help the county placate "a very vocal and somewhat powerful bike constituency" that demanded the path's inclusion, Kelley said.The Justice Department also argued that the federal government deeded the land to the county in the 1950s and 1960s under the condition that it be used only for roads, so a multimillion-dollar housing development would be impermissible."The county is looking for a windfall from the federal government using the very road the federal government conveyed to the county for free," Justice Department attorney Emma Hollowell said during opening statements.The county says nothing in the deeds restricts it from developing the land and that it has longstanding policy commitments to address a housing shortage that the land in question could help ameliorate."A vacant multi-acre land parcel is a rare asset within a County comprising only 26 total square miles," lawyers for the county wrote in their trial brief. An appraisal conducted for the county in 2020 concluded that the land would be worth $21 million if it were developed into about 50 townhouses.In 2021, Brinkema ruled in favor of the federal government. But the county appealed, and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond vacated her ruling and sent the case back for trial.Video below: Why we celebrate Memorial Day explainedThe cemetery — which dates back to the Civil War and is the final resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families — estimates that the expansion will be completed in 2027.The cemetery's life could be extended further under changes proposed in 2019 that would significantly restrict the eligibility for burial there. That proposal is still making its way through the rulemaking process.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A trial underway in federal court will decide whether the U.S. government must pay up to $21 million to compensate a Virginia county for a parcel of land taken to expand Arlington National Cemetery.
The cemetery expansion project is expected to add 50,000 to 60,000 burial spaces and extend its ability to accommodate new burials by 19 years — until 2060, under the current eligibility requirements. Work on the expansion has already begun and will not be halted no matter what the judge decides at the trial's conclusion.
At issue is how much money, if any, the federal government must pay to Arlington County for the nine acres of land it took from the county to accommodate the expansion.
Video above: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others attend a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
The federal government says it's fulfilling its duties by replacing and improving the road network on the cemetery's southern border, including significant improvements to a highway, Columbia Pike, that serves as a primary commuter route.
The county, on the other hand, contends that it also should be compensated for a 4-acre parcel that could be developed into housing if it were rezoned. The county says the plot of land is particularly valuable in a region that is starved of adequate housing and is within walking distance to the Pentagon and the new Amazon headquarters being built in the county.
The condemnation that facilitated the cemetery expansion has been the subject of discussions and negotiations for more than 20 years. Despite urging from U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema that the two sides settle their dispute, no agreement was reached, and a bench trial began Monday that is expected to last the better part of the week.
The early negotiations contemplated a land swap in which the county would receive a developable plot of land from the federal government in exchange for what it was ceding on the cemetery's border.
But the negotiations went nowhere and in 2017, the Army opted to condemn the property without a negotiated agreement. Since then, the county has been focused on ensuring it receives what it believes is a fair price for the land that was taken.
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FILE - U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters perform a flyover as part of a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 11, 2021, in Arlington, Va. A trial underway in federal court will decide whether the U.S. government must pay up to $21 million to compensate a Virginia county for a parcel of land taken to expand Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery expansion project has already begun work and is expected to extend the cemetery’s life by nearly 20 years, until 2060. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
The federal government says improvements to the roadway adequately compensate the county. The improvements to Columbia Pike make it significantly wider and straighter, adding sidewalks and bike paths. The bike paths, as an example, widen the road's footprint and necessarily take away space that could have been used for burials, former cemetery superintendent Katharine Kelley testified Monday.
But the Army agreed to the wider configuration, in part to help the county placate "a very vocal and somewhat powerful bike constituency" that demanded the path's inclusion, Kelley said.
The Justice Department also argued that the federal government deeded the land to the county in the 1950s and 1960s under the condition that it be used only for roads, so a multimillion-dollar housing development would be impermissible.
"The county is looking for a windfall from the federal government using the very road the federal government conveyed to the county for free," Justice Department attorney Emma Hollowell said during opening statements.
The county says nothing in the deeds restricts it from developing the land and that it has longstanding policy commitments to address a housing shortage that the land in question could help ameliorate.
"A vacant multi-acre land parcel is a rare asset within a County comprising only 26 total square miles," lawyers for the county wrote in their trial brief. An appraisal conducted for the county in 2020 concluded that the land would be worth $21 million if it were developed into about 50 townhouses.
In 2021, Brinkema ruled in favor of the federal government. But the county appealed, and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond vacated her ruling and sent the case back for trial.
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The cemetery — which dates back to the Civil War and is the final resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families — estimates that the expansion will be completed in 2027.
The cemetery's life could be extended further under changes proposed in 2019 that would significantly restrict the eligibility for burial there. That proposal is still making its way through the rulemaking process. | 2023-04-11T08:36:27+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/a-county-in-virginia-seeks-cash-for-land-to-expand-arlington-national-cemetery/43559827 |
BARRACKVILLE, W.Va. (WBOY) — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has awarded three teachers throughout the state with its Environmental Teacher of the Year Award.
Winners include Tiffany Pace of Cross Lanes Elementary, Renee Haines of Martinsburg High and Amie Mullens of Barrackville Middle School.
Amie Mullens has been teaching for ten years and is currently a seventh and eighth-grade science teacher at Barrackville, as well as the coordinator for the school’s STEM program. Mullens was selected for this award for creating an influence within her students to help them care about the environment.
Mullens helped her students create a recycling program for the school, in which students collect bins and take them to a local recycling center with her help. Mullens’ middle school students had also created a presentation for their elementary school, to teach younger students which materials can and cannot be recycled.
When asked how receiving this award felt, Mullens responded with, “It’s awesome, I feel honored but still also sometimes I’m like, ‘I don’t know why me’ but I’m excited to bring the recognition to Marion County.”
With many people to thank for this recognition, including the WVDEP for creating the award, Miss. Bombard of Barrackville Middle School for allowing Mullens the privileged of creating these programs and her husband for “putting up with the late hours, all the running and getting and doing”, Mullens also gave a big thanks to her mother.
“I grew up in a holler, playing in a creek, playing in the woods, falling in love with it. And I was very lucky to have a mom who took me out and taught me about all the native species in West Virginia, and really just loving West Virginia as it is,” Mullens said.
Amie was due to receive her award on Friday, though due to particular circumstances, the ceremony was rescheduled for May 22. She plans to take her students on a field trip to an aviary before the school year ends to continue growing their love for the environment.
“West Virginia is the third most populated as far as like forestry goes in the U.S., so we really need to preserve our forests and in order to do that, we have to have the next generation excited and in love with it as well,” Mullens said. | 2023-05-13T01:33:53+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/marion/barrackville-school-teacher-one-of-three-to-receive-wvdep-award/ |
FTC reportedly opens investigation of ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issues
(AP) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI and whether the artificial intelligence company violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information through its chatbot, according to reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times.
The agency sent OpenAI a 20-page letter requesting detailed information on its AI technology, products, customers, privacy safeguards and data security arrangements, according to the reports. The FTC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The FTC’s move represents the most significant regulatory threat so far to the nascent but fast-growing AI industry, although it’s not the only challenge facing these companies. Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued both OpenAI and Facebook parent Meta for copyright infringement, claiming that the companies’ AI systems were illegally “trained” by exposing them to datasets containing illegal copies of their works.
On Thursday, OpenAI and The Associated Press announced a deal under which the AI company will license AP’s archive of news stories. | 2023-07-14T00:43:46+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/07/14/ftc-reportedly-opens-investigation-chatgpt-creator-openai-over-consumer-protection-issues/ |
JobsFirstNYC and SkyHive bring skills-mapping technology to enhance job access
and streamline skills-based hiring processes for New York City's workforce
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of work is skills-based, not degree-based. Imagine being able to build reskilling and upskilling plans for an entire neighborhood, one that showcases the skills currency of that community to its residents – and builds upon their unique strengths and abilities – creating direct pathways to higher-wage jobs laying a foundation for long-term economic mobility.
JobsFirstNYC, an organization dedicated to advancing economic mobility for young adults and their communities, today announced a new partnership with SkyHive, pioneers of Quantum Labor Analysis for the rapid reskilling of workers and communities worldwide.
Using real-time labor market intelligence and ethical artificial intelligence to analyze labor markets at the skill level, JobsFirstNYC and SkyHive will collaborate on building skilling and reskilling pathways to better jobs and higher wages. By analyzing and mapping the skills footprint of neighborhoods and matching them to needs across jobs, sectors, and industries, JobsFirstNYC and its partners will leverage SkyHive's technology to tackle the traditional barriers impeding job searching, recruitment, and pathways to career opportunities for those with varying qualifications.
"The COVID-impacted work landscape is evolving rapidly and new industries are emerging every day. For young people to take advantage of these opportunities, we must have an intelligent workforce system that can predict these shifts. This partnership will revolutionize workforce systems and improve the livelihoods of young adults," said Marjorie Parker, President and CEO of JobsFirstNYC, "SkyHive's technology presents an opportunity to proactively create labor market-responsive training solutions and empower jobseekers to see how their skills transfer to jobs in different employment sectors."
Skills mapping in New York City builds on JobsFirstNYC's experience promoting industry-based work solutions such as our Green Economy, Tech, and Healthcare Sector Networks and place-based community solutions through the development of partnerships in communities such as in Brownsville and the South Bronx, New York.
"Traditional hiring and recruitment norms have disenfranchised a lot of people, which is why JobsFirstNYC and SkyHive share a vision to help democratize the skills-based hiring process," said Sean Hinton, Founder and CEO of SkyHive. "We applaud JobsFirstNYC for breaking down barriers so young adults in New York City and surrounding communities can achieve financial security and self-sufficiency in today's labor market. Together, we will reduce the time, cost, and effort required in hiring for all stakeholders, including job seekers, trainers, and recruiters."
East Side House Settlement was a SkyHive early adopter. One participant, Michael Peace, said, "Through SkyHive, I was able to shift my focus while stuck at home to learn new skills that helped move my entrepreneurial efforts forward as well as other career interests." He took courses in Mechanical Ventilation for COVID-19, Classroom Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning, and Customer-Centric Marketing for Entrepreneurs.
Daniel Diaz, Executive Director at East Side House Settlement said, "SkyHive's automated skills assessment supported our students in identifying comprehensive training and jobs with livable wages to advance their careers, showing the power of tech in bridging the gap between current and needed skills and mapping skills that are transferable to other jobs and sectors for growth and economic mobility."
"Skills mapping has the potential to help workforce leaders redesign programs and skills training in alignment with the dynamic movements of the labor market – in service of creating opportunity, unlocking access to higher-wage, high quality jobs, and connecting people to greater possibilities of career and economic mobility," said Keri Faulhaber, Vice President at JobsFirstNYC.
JobsFirstNYC creates and advances solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in pursuit of economic mobility. We build community-driven partnerships, citywide and industry-led employment networks, and policy-solutions, all of which have improved economic mobility for individuals and the communities they live in. The partnerships have reconnected 10,200+ young adults to education and employment and raised and leveraged $30M of public and private investment. Since 2006, JobsFirstNYC has worked with organizations and institutions across New York and developed models that have been replicated and integrated across the workforce system. For more information, visit www.jobsfirstnyc.org.
SkyHive is a Certified B Corporation and software provider of global workforce intelligence technology, optimizing labor market efficiencies in real-time for companies, communities, and national economies. Leading enterprises use SkyHive's cloud-based applications and platforms to power the future of work at its most granular level: skills. SkyHive's Quantum Labor Analysis™ has been recognized by the World Economic Forum, Gartner, and Forbes for leading efforts in ethical AI and its positive impact on labor economies worldwide. For more information, visit www.skyhive.ai.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Edmonton forward Evander Kane was cut on the left wrist by a skate blade Tuesday night and taken to the hospital with a frightening injury during the Oilers’ 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Oilers said Kane was in stable condition and scheduled to undergo a procedure Tuesday night.
“The news that I’ve received so far, it’s very limited, is that he’s in a good spot,” Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said. “He’s getting well taken care of.”
Kane got tangled with Lightning defenseman Philippe Myers just inside the Edmonton defensive zone and while on the ice was cut by Tampa Bay forward Pat Maroon’s skate blade 3:27 into the second period.
“You cringe when you see that,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “It was tough to see. Hopefully he’s going to be OK because you know, hockey, you battle against each other. It’s a war (but) we’re still a family.”
Kane grabbed the lacerated area with his right hand and rushed to the bench before heading for the locker room.
“It’s scary, certainly scary,” Oilers star Connor McDavid said. “I think you could feel the energy in the entire rink kind of just get sucked out. We’re thinking about him. We’re hearing he’s doing OK, but that’s obviously initial.”
McDavid had a goal and an assist for the Oilers, who had lost three straight. Jack Campbell made 35 saves, and Warren Foegele and Leon Draisaitl added goals.
Campbell made a number of strong saves during the final minute.
McDavid extended his point streak to eight games (nine goals, 19 points). He has 14 goals in 14 games this season.
Draisaitl has a five-game goal streak, and a point in nine consecutive games (seven goals, 18 points).
Cooper called McDavid and Draisaitl “human highlight films.”
“Think about McDavid, we’re in the best league in the world, with the fastest players in the world, and he sticks out like a sore thumb,” Cooper said. “Draisaitl, he’s just a horse. He’s got the whole package.”
Brandon Hagel and Alex Killorn had the Tampa Bay goals, and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 26 shots.
Lightning star Nikita Kucherov extended his point streak to 11 games (14 assists, 20 points) with an assist, but had his six-game goal streak snapped. He left briefly late in the second after being slashed on the wrist.
McDavid and Draisaitl had power-play goals during the opening 4:07 of the second to put the Oilers up 3-1.
Killorn made it 3-2 just 49 seconds into the third.
Oilers defenseman Ryan Murray preserved the one-goal advantage when he swiped away Maroon’s in-close shot off the goal line with eight minutes to play.
After giving up the first eight shots, the Oilers opened the scoring when Foegele had a short-handed goal 7:15 into the game on Edmonton’s initial shot.
Hagel tied it 2:08 after Foegele’s goal. Tampa Bay outshot Edmonton 16-7 in the first period — the Oilers arrived at their Tampa hotel around 3 a.m. after losing 5-4 at Washington on Monday night.
The Oilers killed off all five short-handed situations after allowing four power-play goals to the Capitals. Edmonton went 2 for 4 on the power play.
ELITE TALENT
It was the first NHL game to feature the last six Art Ross Trophy winners since Game 5 of the 2001 Eastern Conference finals, when New Jersey defeated Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Kucherov, McDavid and Draisaitl have combined to lead the NHL in points for each of the last six seasons.
“You’ve got some star power on the ice,” Cooper said.
NUMBERS
Kucherov has 12 assists and 22 points in 13 games against Edmonton. … McDavid has nine goals and 14 points in nine games against Tampa Bay. … Foegele stopped an 18-game goal drought. … Lightning C Steven Stamkos had five shots on goal but his goal drought reached eight straight games. He opened the season with seven during a five-game streak.
UP NEXT
Oilers: Play the third of a four-game Eastern Conference trip Thursday night at Carolina.
Lightning: Play at Washington on Friday night.
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WASHINGTON, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Black American travelers are excited to be out and about again and continue to be a powerful segment of the leisure travel market - having contributed $63 billion to U.S. travel and tourism in 2019, according to a Mandala Research study. With travel on many minds, the Black Nurse Collaborative is encouraging travelers to make smart choices to protect their health this summer season.
"At the end of the day, we all share a common goal of health and safety," said Meedie Bardonille, registered nurse and founder of the Black Nurse Collaborative, which partners with the HHS We Can Do This COVID-19 Public Education Campaign. "Simple practices while traveling, such as wearing a mask and staying updated on flu shots and COVID vaccines, have a major impact on everyone's ability to achieve that goal."
Here are "SMARTT" ways Black travelers can protect their health while travelling domestically or vacationing abroad:
- S: Sanitize – Sanitize when travelling on planes, trains and public transportation
- M: Mask up – Consider masking up in busy airports, on planes and when in crowded areas.
- A: Avoid people with symptoms: Avoid close contact with anyone who is sick or has COVID-19 symptoms
- R: Remember to get your vaccination: If you haven't already, remember to get your COVID-19 vaccination before travelling to help ensure you don't get sick this summer. Vaccines will remain free for most U.S. residents.
- T: Take the essentials: Make sure you take wipes, tissues, sanitizer, pain medication, a thermometer and your vaccination card. These are essential items for the savvy traveler.
- T: Travel Clinics are an untapped resource: Travel clinics are an often-untapped resource that can help travelers stay healthy while on the road or travelling abroad. These niche facilities are equipped with specialists who can advise you on everything from vaccinations risks facing travelers in specific countries.
To search by country for specific health-related information, such as travel health notices and required vaccinations, visit: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel.
Although the federal public health emergency declaration expired in May COVID remains a public health priority. Go to vaccines.gov or text your ZIP code to 438829 to find nearby places to get a vaccine.
For additional resources visit, staywellhealthhub.com.
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Performance improvement leader joins Daher TBM provider AVEX, expanding general aviation platform
LARCHMONT, N.Y, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New State Capital Partners ("New State") announced today that its general aviation-focused platform, New State Aviation Holdings ("NS Aviation"), has acquired Blackhawk Aerospace ("Blackhawk" or "the Company"), a recognized leader in aircraft performance improvements. Blackhawk joins NS Aviation's anchor aviation investment AVEX, a leading provider of sales and maintenance for the Daher TBM turboprop aircraft, which was acquired in December 2021. AVEX and Blackhawk will continue to operate independently, while working together to expand NS Aviation's offerings. Blackhawk's management will remain with the Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Waco, TX, with more than 60 employees, Blackhawk provides engine upgrades for a broad range of turboprop planes, improving an aircraft's speed, safety, and climb capabilities, while extending engine life. The Company serves customers worldwide in the commercial and government markets. Blackhawk was founded in 1999 as Blackhawk Modifications, Inc, and added divisions for government support, maintenance, avionics, composites, and aircraft sales. The composites business is not included in the transition and will remain independent.
"This transformative acquisition more than doubles the size of our business and allows us to expand aircraft platforms serviced," said Chad Cundiff, CEO of New State Aviation Holdings. "AVEX is a market leader in sales, brokerage and maintenance of the Daher TBM, and Blackhawk is the market leader in turboprop engine upgrades. Together, they will allow New State Aviation Holdings to offer a broader suite of services and meet more needs of light turbine aircraft owners, across a variety of aircraft manufacturers."
"We are very excited to join New State Aviation Holdings and partner with the folks at AVEX," said Blackhawk CEO Jim Allmon. "Our family of companies shares a singular focus: to increase an aircraft's capabilities to unrivalled heights while maintaining the highest level of safety possible. We look forward to working with Chad and the rest of the New State Aviation team to further expand our services."
"We are thrilled to have Blackhawk join our platform," added Daniel Han, Senior Principal at New State and Chairman of New State Aviation Holdings. "As the market leader in engine upgrades and STC development, Blackhawk represents a significant step towards our goal of being the premier service provider for the light turbine market. More importantly, the outstanding reputation and culture of Blackhawk, focused on people and customers first, will mesh seamlessly with that of AVEX. We believe this combination will build on the strengths at AVEX, expand our capabilities and enable us to provide the highest levels of service, quality and expertise in general aviation."
Strong demand for AVEX and Blackhawk products and services has driven record backlogs for both companies and signals a bright future for New State Aviation Holdings.
About New State Capital Partners
New State Capital Partners is an entrepreneurial-minded private equity firm that strives to be nimble, decisive, and cooperative. New State prides itself on a long-term outlook, approaching each potential investment as an opportunity to create lasting and valuable relationships with company founders and especially independent sponsors. The firm has the ability to invest up to $100 million in equity per transaction and seeks to invest in market-leading companies with $8 million to $40 million of EBITDA in the areas of business services, industrials, and consumer. New State and its affiliates have invested in more than 35 companies to date. For more information visit www.newstatecp.com.
About Blackhawk Aerospace
Blackhawk Aerospace is the recognized leader in performance improvements for turboprop aircraft. Founded in 1999 in Waco, Texas, the company serves customers worldwide in the commercial and government markets. Today, Blackhawk Aerospace is comprised of Blackhawk Aerospace Upgrades, Blackhawk Aerospace Solutions, and Blackhawk Aerospace Technologies. A worldwide network of approved dealers and service support centers complements Blackhawk's U.S. facilities. Visit www.blackhawk.aero for more information.
About AVEX
AVEX is a leading aircraft dealer in North America with a robust maintenance and aftermarket services platform focused on the Daher TBM. With more than 1,000 aircraft in service, the TBM has an enviable position in the single-engine turboprop market. AVEX was founded in 1985 and has operations in Colorado and California. For more information visit www.newAVEX.com.
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The new network will service multiple utility, critical and emergency infrastructure sites, and services responsible for providing 90% of irrigation water to the State of California
RICHARDSON, Texas, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceragon Networks Ltd., the global innovator and leading solutions provider of 5G wireless transport, today announced that Ceragon Networks Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary has signed a contract with the Yuba Water Agency in California to replace and modernize its existing private network with a modern high-capacity low-latency 5G network. The upgraded network will provide connectivity to multiple hydroelectric generation facilities, dams, and emergency services including the police and fire departments. Shipping and deployment are expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023.
The agreement with Yuba comes at the heels of Ceragon's recently announced growing focus on private networks, especially in North America. Yuba Water Agency was in search of a wireless transport partner that could deliver an increased level of network performance, reliability, and customer service for an upgraded system to support their communications, video, and digital transformation applications. Following a successful initial demonstration phase resulting in a great service experience and enhanced network performance, Yuba Water officials have entrusted Ceragon to replace their entire legacy network, including wireless transport products and end-to-end planning and deployment services.
David DeVore, Lead Information Systems Manager, Yuba Water Agency, shared his thoughts on the first phase of this new partnership stating "Ceragon truly improved our wireless infrastructure. They have exhibited a strong commitment to providing the highest level of quality in their products and service thus far. We have been incredibly impressed with Ceragon's level of professionalism, and we look forward to a long and continued relationship."
Ronen Rotstein, President of Ceragon North America, commented, "This important deal, added to other recent wins, is another milestone in gaining market share in the private networks domain which is part of Ceragon's strategy. The Yuba Water Agency is truly inspirational, providing several services and wholesale power generation to multiple communities. Ceragon is proud to play a key role in modernizing and expanding the wireless communications network that makes it all possible. We look forward to a long-term partnership with Yuba and will leverage our growing suite of technologies and services to provide Yuba Water and other public and private players with the connectivity they need."
Ceragon's North America leadership will be attending and sponsoring the UBBA Summit& Plugfest 2022, a leading summit on utility connectivity, on October 10-14, 2022, in Costa Mesa, California.
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About Ceragon Networks
Ceragon Networks Ltd. is the global innovator and leading solutions provider of 5G wireless transport. We help operators and other service providers worldwide increase operational efficiency and enhance end customers' quality of experience with innovative wireless backhaul and fronthaul solutions. Our customers include service providers, public safety organizations, government agencies and utility companies, which use our solutions to deliver 5G & 4G broadband wireless connectivity, mission-critical multimedia services, stabilized communications, and other applications at high reliability and speed.
Ceragon's unique multicore technology and disaggregated approach to wireless transport provides highly reliable, fast to deploy, high-capacity wireless transport for 5G and 4G networks with minimal use of spectrum, power, real estate, and labor resources. It enables increased productivity, as well as simple and quick network modernization, positioning Ceragon as a leading solutions provider for the 5G era. We deliver a complete portfolio of turnkey end-to-end AI-based managed and professional services that ensure efficient network rollout and optimization to achieve the highest value for our customers. Our solutions are deployed by more than 400 service providers, as well as more than 800 private network owners, in more than 150 countries. For more information please visit: www.ceragon.com
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Summer-like weather the next couple of days for Texoma, most will be rain-free until later this week | 5/30 AM
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) -
Good morning! Some clouds have stuck around this morning to enhance a beautiful sunrise for the start of this Tuesday, but will gradually clear for the most part, giving way for generally sunny conditions with only a few clouds in the sky during the daytime hours. Highs under these mostly sunny skies today will rise into the mid/upper 80s this afternoon, with some even warming enough to hit the low 90s. Winds will be out of the south/southeast at 5-15 mph. Nearly all of Texoma will be dry today, though I won’t rule out a brief afternoon summertime shower or two.
Tonight, expect mostly clear to occasional partly cloudy skies. Little-to-no rain is expected, with the only chance being the far northwestern corner of our viewing area on the outskirts of the storms that will fire up in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles this evening. Southeast winds at 5-15 mph and low temperatures in the low/mid 60s.
Wednesday will be pretty much a copy & paste of today with mostly sunny skies and high temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s. Fantastic weather if you plan on getting outdoors tomorrow for the final day of May. Winds will be out of the southeast at 10-15 mph.
Thursday is the first day of June, and to kick off the new month some cloud coverage will gradually build back in ahead of our next upper-level disturbance out west. Isolated showers and storms are possible, mainly for western Texoma, but expect a dry day for most. Temperatures will still top out in the mid/upper 80s.
Our next real shot at rain for Texoma will arrive on Friday. At this time, exact timing and coverage can’t be determined, but models are hinting at some numerous-to-widespread showers and storms heading into the evening and overnight hours. Strong & severe weather is unlikely at this time but isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility. Highs will decrease slightly to the mid 80s as a result of the mostly cloudy skies ahead of the rain.
Wet weather continues into this weekend with decent rain chances on both days, so have that raincoat and umbrella handy if you plan on doing anything that involves going outside on Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures will trend cooler down to the low 80s and upper 70s on both days. Better details on the timing and coverage of the rain this weekend will be provided as data becomes more concise.
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Two of Arlington Heights’ Democratic state lawmakers wanted to talk about full-day kindergarten and affordable housing, but a good chunk of the people who attended a town hall meeting Thursday wanted to hear about one thing: the Chicago Bears’ proposed move to the suburbs.
Residents asked a series of questions: When will a Bears bill pass in Springfield? What else would be a good option? Would Amazon be a better neighbor?
“Any legislation is a bit premature,” state Rep. Mary Beth Canty said. “Without the impact studies … we’re just not going to have concrete numbers.”
The Bears have purchased the Arlington International Racecourse property with the intent of building a new stadium on the site. But last week, team officials said plans to move to Arlington Heights are “at risk.” Team president Kevin Warren met with Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli about a possible move to that city and later with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to discuss their “shared … commitment to Chicago,” home to Soldier Field, where the team has played for the past half-century.
Any solution for a move to Arlington Heights must benefit not just the municipality, but all taxing bodies and the community, which can be frozen out of typical tax break deals, state Sen. Ann Gillespie said.
She brought up one proposal for Sofi Stadium near Los Angeles, which would have had the developer pay for all the infrastructure, with the first $25 million in property tax revenues on the site to go to the community, and above that to reimburse the developer, so taxpayers wouldn’t have to lay out money up front.
Gillespie had introduced but did not push a bill creating a Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT, in which property taxes would be negotiated between the team and taxing bodies like school districts.
Canty noted that she’s not a Bears fan — she went to a dinner with ex-Bears star Mike Singletary and didn’t know who he was.
“I’m going to treat them like anybody else negotiating a deal,” she said. “They are a business in our community. I want businesses in our community to thrive.”
Gillespie said she is a Bears fan.
“But I want to see the property developed in a way that’s fair to the taxpayer and our schools, libraries, parks, and municipalities,” she said.
In the one comment that drew applause from the crowd of about 100, many of them older, she said, “I’m fine if the Bears come, but I’m not going to bend over backwards to make a deal that makes them happy if it’s not good for the community.”
The Bears presented a preliminary traffic study last year, when they initially proposed their plan to build a $5 billion complex with a stadium, entertainment district and housing complex at the former Arlington International Racecourse.
The team also offered economic projections that the project would generate a $9 billion impact, with nearly $4 billion in overall labor income, with 48,000 jobs, almost 10,000 of them “long-term” positions; and $16 million in annual tax revenue.
Last fall, the village approved a $118,000 contract for an economic impact study, and $85,000 to analyze transportation effects. The costs were to be paid for by the Bears, out of an escrow account of more than $200,000.
But the studies have not been forthcoming while the team has been pursuing legislation to set financial conditions for the development. The team says it can’t come up with detailed projections without certainty over its taxes and public subsidies for infrastructure like roads and utilities.
But team officials are frustrated by the Cook County assessor’s massive recent property tax assessment hike on the property, and hope to pass legislation so they can negotiate the team’s property tax.
Gillespie and Canty said they would continue conversations over the summer to take up Bears legislation in the fall.
One fan attending the meeting left early after hearing no signs of progress. Matt Mills, of Arlington Heights, wore a team jersey and “Bear down” hat to the meeting.
“The Bears moving in would be amazing,” he said. “But there weren’t a lot of details.”
Three other members of the local Bears booster club Touchdown Arlington said they were frustrated by lawmakers’ lack of support for the move.
There was great support for the idea among residents, attorney Ernie Rose said, but they need action from Springfield.
In contrast, Arlington Heights resident Linda Peters felt the lawmakers were keeping their options open.
“They were being reasonable,” she said, “and considering all aspects of the issue.”
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Weekly Video Series Invites Checkers & Rally's Fans into the Driver's Seat for a Drive-Thru Experience Never "Tasted" Before
TAMPA, Fla., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Checkers & Rally's, an iconic drive-thru restaurant chain known for flavorful, craveable food at a great value, merges fun and food in a way never before tasted with its new "Rule the Drive-Thru" weekly game show. The show, which debuts today, surprises unsuspecting drive-thru guests with fry-filled activities and prizes sure to satisfy even the deepest of cravings. Jump into the driver's seat, rev those engines and head on over to Checkers & Rally's Instagram and TikTok channels to start watching!
While not a traditional menu item, this show has all the flavor and seasoning of Checkers & Rally's most craveable burgers, fries and sides – real guests spontaneously heading into the drive-thru lane who work up a true appetite playing a vast array of interactive, quirky activities, including Carpool Car-aoke, Fast Food Trivia, Load Your Ride (with life-sized fries), Paint with Ketchup & Mustard and many more.
"Our guests know the strong value proposition of all craveable items at Checkers & Rally's, and now we can further add to that with the high entertainment value of our never-seen-before 'Rule the Drive-Thru' show in a really playful and energizing way," said Kelley O'Brien, Social Media Director at Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. "Once you jump into the driver's seat and check out new episodes of our show each week exclusively on our social channels, you'll never see any drive-thru the same, all for the better! And who knows what will happen when you next pull up to our window."
To follow the action in your driver's seat, check out Checker's & Rally's on Instagram and TikTok. For more information, hours of operation, or to find a Checkers or Rally's location to satisfy your own drive-thru cravings, please visit Checkers.com.
About Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.
Based in Tampa, Fla., Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., an iconic and innovative drive-thru restaurant chain known for its bold, craveable food, famous fries, exceptional value, and people-first attitude, operates and franchises both Checkers® and Rally's® restaurants. With 850 restaurants and room to grow, Checkers & Rally's is a proven brand with flexible building formats that is aggressively expanding across the country. Checkers & Rally's is dedicated to being a place where franchisees and employees who work hard can create opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. In recent years, the brand has earned several of the industry's most prestigious awards including: "#1 Most Craveable Fries" by Restaurant Business 2020 and 2018; Best Franchise Deal and "Best Drive-Thru in America" by QSR Magazine; Top Food and Beverage Franchise by Franchise Business Review; the "Hot! Again" award from Nation's Restaurant News and has consistently been ranked on Entrepreneur's Franchise 500.
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NEW YORK (AP) — One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin, health officials said Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not identified a food that might be spreading the deadly bacteria, but officials said the public should be alert to symptoms and the possibility of infection.
Those symptoms include fever, muscle aches, nausea and diarrhea.
Listeria can be treated with antibiotics, but it is especially dangerous to pregnant women, newborns, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems.
CDC officials say nearly all the 23 people known to have been infected in the outbreak either live in, or traveled to, Florida about a month before they got sick.
Listeria is one of the most dangerous forms of food poisoning, and 22 of the infected people were hospitalized. One person from Illinois died and one pregnant woman lost her fetus, the CDC said.
Listeria symptoms usually start one to four weeks after eating contaminated food, but can start as soon as the same day.
The first cases occurred in January of this year, but have continued through June, when two of the people got sick, CDC officials said.
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WALTHAM, Mass., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Syndax," the "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq: SNDX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, today announced the appointment of Keith A. Goldan to the role of Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Goldan, who brings to Syndax nearly thirty years of leadership and operational experience at several pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technology companies, most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at Optinose®, where he helped build the infrastructure to support the launch of XHANCE® (fluticasone propionate) in the United States. As Chief Financial Officer at Syndax, Mr. Goldan will oversee corporate finance and accounting, financial strategy, and investor relations.
"It is a pleasure to welcome Keith to the Syndax team at this exciting time for the Company," said Michael A. Metzger, Chief Executive Officer. "Keith's experience as an accomplished CFO with deep financial and operational expertise along with a solid track record of building and financing successful biopharmaceutical companies will be invaluable as we scale to a fully-integrated commercial stage company."
"I look forward to joining the highly motivated team at Syndax and contributing to future progress," said Mr. Goldan. "Syndax is well positioned to achieve its strategic goals with multiple pivotal readouts next year for revumenib and axatilimab, both of which have significant commercial potential as first- and best-in-class therapies in areas of clear unmet need, and meaningful expansion opportunities into earlier lines of therapy and additional indications."
Mr. Goldan has served as Chief Financial Officer of numerous private and public biopharmaceutical companies from early stage through commercial stage, including Optinose, Fibrocell, NuPathe, PuriCore plc, and Biosyn. During his career, he led the successful execution of multiple initial public offerings and follow-on equity, rights, private placement, and debt offerings, as well as several merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Goldan received a B.S. in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Syndax also announced today the appointment of Sharon Klahre to the newly created position of Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications that will report to Mr. Goldan.
Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies. Highlights of the Company's pipeline include revumenib (SNDX-5613), a highly selective inhibitor of the Menin–MLL binding interaction, and axatilimab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks the colony stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) receptor, both currently in pivotal trials. For more information, please visit www.syndax.com or follow the Company on Twitter and LinkedIn.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "may," "will," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "believe" and similar expressions (as well as other words or expressions referencing future events, conditions or circumstances) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Syndax's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this press release. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements about the progress, timing, clinical development and scope of clinical trials, the reporting of clinical data for Syndax's product candidates, and the potential use of our product candidates to treat various cancer indications and fibrotic diseases. Many factors may cause differences between current expectations and actual results, including: unexpected safety or efficacy data observed during preclinical or clinical trials; clinical trial site activation or enrollment rates that are lower than expected; changes in expected or existing competition; changes in the regulatory environment; the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt our business and that of the third parties on which we depend, including delaying or otherwise disrupting our clinical trials and preclinical studies, manufacturing and supply chain, or impairing employee productivity; failure of Syndax's collaborators to support or advance collaborations or product candidates; and unexpected litigation or other disputes. Other factors that may cause Syndax's actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements in this press release are discussed in Syndax's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Risk Factors" sections contained therein. Except as required by law, Syndax assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in expectations, even as new information becomes available.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) today announced that Susan Li, chief financial officer, and Javier Olivan, chief operating officer, will participate in the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on March 9, 2023 at 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 25th Lunar New Year Parade and Festival was staged on Sunday in Manhattan, New York. The head float, themed with "Amazing Cangzhou, Ancient Grand Canal City," has brought a lively and extraordinary Chinese cultural experience to New York, according to the organizer Better Chinatown USA.
Huang Ping, the Consul General of People's Republic in New York, delivered a speech at the event, and wishing people a happy and prosperous year of rabbit.
New York, the seaport of the Hudson River, is the commercial and financial center of the United States. Cangzhou in North China's Hebei Province, is famous for the Grand Canal. "As the float of Cangzhou joined the parade, just as the Millennium Grand Canal meets the Hudson River, the eastern and western cultures play a very harmonious melody, which is wonderful", said Steven Tin, chairman of Better Chinatown USA.
The "Amazing Cangzhou, Ancient Canal City" theme float, with more than 10 meters of length, is the one and only float with a 3D modelling design in this year's New York's Lunar New Year Parade and became the spotlight of the whole parade immediately.
With the bright and bold colors applied, "China Red" is the theme color, golden and beaming. The main body of the float is a steady and high-spirited ship, representing the natural advantages and pioneering spirit of Cangzhou, the "Pearl of Bohai Sea and Fortress of Beijing." The surging waves are the epitome of the Grand Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world's longest canal or artificial river. The Grand Canal has provided Cangzhou with auspicious natural resources and spiritual wealth for more than 1500 years.
The float shows a different kind of ancient charm under the reflection of eastern traditional elements such as plum blossoms, lanterns, gold ingots and folding fans, representing happiness, reunion, wealth and culture. A Cangzhou iron lion, standing majestically at the float front, symbolizes the development spirit of Cangzhou. A snow-white rabbit, holding a red lantern, stands at the stern. It invites the whole world: 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit. Welcome to Cangzhou, China.
The Lunar New Year float parade lasts 2 hours, with more than 20 floats and 60 vehicles in the float parade this year, with 30,000 participants and over 100,000 of audiences.
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Growing up, singer-songwriter Musiana was always surrounded by music.
"My family are musicians, and they trusted my creativity," she tells New Times over the phone from Seattle. "At 7, I started doing private piano classes, which were my first dynamic with an instrument. I didn't like to read the musical notes on the paper; I would sing and play chords by ear."
Born in Venezuela, Musicana moved to Miami with her family at 19. Around the age of 21, her father gifted her an acoustic guitar.
"I started doing the same thing I did with piano," she says. "I played random chords with melodies that became songs."
Musiana expanded her musical horizons while studying at Miami Dade College.
"I did music classes and connected with new nationalities; I met people at open mics — it was my first time interacting with other genres," she adds. "I grew up listening to bolero, bossa nova; now I learned rock, indie, jazz, and urban, for sure."
In 2019, she began releasing music, mostly Latin rhythms with a folk sensibility. On her latest track, "No Entiendo Quien Soy" ("I Don't Understand Who I Am"), the beat is a little dancier and the ambiance is more chillwave. The song came together while collaborating with producer and boyfriend Rick Moon.
"We got together in the studio and talked about existential changes [and] how this human race doesn't fucking know anything," she says. "The song is the realization of not knowing what you're doing here but having the passion to keep going. It's very different. It's not born from me at my guitar or keyboard. I improvised from other sounds. My past projects were more acoustic directed. It's fun to be more dreamy."
For the song's music video, Musiana plays a magical creature on a journey of self-discovery from the sands of Miami Beach to the stage at Bar Nancy.
"My friend April Nicole is a director, and she wanted to create something before I left for Seattle," Musiana says of how the video came together. "We got together a bunch of friends and local artists. It has a girl born of the ocean; she runs away and finds a cute girl who is her inner child. In conclusion, she realizes she's not from the planet."
Another video on Musiana's YouTube channel shows a more down-to-earth look at Musiana busking in New York City's Washington Square Park, delivering a folksy, 30-minute acoustic set.
"Some friends recorded me — they asked me the night before," she says of the recording. "That wasn't even my guitar I used. I like walking around and playing when I visit a new city. I wasn't expecting people to sit down and listen."
A few songs she's performed in Washington Square Park will make up her debut album, Son del Mar, which she plans to release later this summer.
"I worked on it for three years," she adds. "It has different genres, lots of percussions, some bolero, some R&B, experimental vibes. It's for my grandmother and the ancestral lineage before me."
You can hear it for yourself when Musiana performs at the Bridge alongside Moon and Alejandro Elizondo on Friday, April 14.
"It's time to share these songs already," she says.
Musiana. With Rick Moon and Alejandro Elizondo. 7 p.m. Friday, April 14, at the Bridge, 4220 NW Seventh Ave., Miami. Tickets cost $10 to $15 via eventbrite.com. | 2023-04-04T18:00:44+00:00 | miaminewtimes.com | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/things-to-do-in-miami-musiana-at-the-bridge-april-14-2023-16666359 |
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jonathan India hit a go-ahead single, Brandon Drury added a two-run triple and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1 on Thursday night to split a doubleheader.
Pittsburgh won the opener 4-2 behind rookie starter Roansy Contreras, who allowed one run in six innings.
In the nightcap, India snapped a 1-1 tie with his two-out single in the seventh inning off Bryse Wilson, which followed an error by second baseman Josh VanMeter that allowed Nick Senzel to reach. Drury followed against reliever Chris Stratton and hit a line drive that eluded right fielder Ben Gamel's diving effort and rolled to the wall for a triple.
Tommy Pham capped the rally with an RBI single.
Wilson (1-5) allowed four runs — just one earned — on seven hits in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. He was coming off his first win of the season last Saturday against Milwaukee. Wilson was recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis to be Pittsburgh's 27th man for the doubleheader.
Pirates manager Derek Shelton felt Wilson deserved more support. Pittsburgh had two runners in scoring position with one out in the first, but opener Jeff Hoffman stranded them with two strikeouts.
“The bottom line is we've got to score,” Shelton said. “We didn't put the ball in play.”
Hoffman lasted 1 2/3 innings in a bullpen game for the Reds. Ross Detwiler pitched one inning and Robert Dugger — added to the roster between games — turned in 3 1/3 before Reiver Sanmartin (1-4) pitched 2 2/3 innings for the win.
“I was going to do whatever I could until they took me out of the game,” Sanmartin said through a translator. “Just to have the coaches, the manager and the team had the confidence in me to finish the game, gave me confidence.”
“It started with Hoffy,” Reds manager David Bell said. "No matter what, we were going to put guys in situations that they were uncomfortable with. We would have to stretch some guys based on their workload. Dugger came up in a tough spot. We asked a lot of him. I never expected Reiver to finish the game based on what he’s done the last couple days, but it got to a point that it was easy for him.”
In the opener, Michael Chavis hit a tiebreaking two-run double and Diego Castillo homered to back Contreras (3-2).
Jason Delay drove in Gamel from first base with a seventh-inning double for his first career hit and RBI as Pittsburgh sent the Reds to their seventh loss in nine games. Delay's hit boosted Pittsburgh's lead to 4-1.
“I'm happy for him,” Shelton said. “His first major league RBI, and it was a big RBI. It extended the lead.”
After getting rocked for five hits and seven runs in 1 2/3 innings during his last start on July 1 against Milwaukee, Contreras allowed four hits and one run with one walk and seven strikeouts in his 12th appearance and ninth start of the season.
“I have to give credit to some adjustments I made this week,” Contreras said through a translator. “I'm grateful that the results came through. I always trust myself. I've learned how to move on. There's always another new day."
Duane Underwood Jr. and Wil Crowe followed from the bullpen before David Ednar worked the ninth for his 14th save.
Mike Minor (1-6) struck out a season-high eight over 6 1/3 innings on the way to his fourth straight loss. He allowed four runs on five hits with two walks and a hit batter. Minor held Pittsburgh hitless through the first four innings.
“This was the best I’ve thrown all year,” Minor said. “Still, they came away with four runs. I thought my stuff was a lot better. I had a lot of swing-and-miss stuff. Balls in the gap with guys on base killed me. The solo home run, I’ll take it.”
The Pirates had gone 14 innings without scoring a run, including Wednesday’s 16-0 loss to the Yankees.
“We bounce back really well,” Shelton said. “I'd like not to have to. We have a resilient bunch.”
Donovan Solano broke up Contreras' shutout bit with a fifth-inning solo shot, his first homer since coming off the injured list on June 21.
The Pirates optioned Contreras to Triple-A Indianapolis between games.
TWINBILLS
Thursday’s doubleheader was the fourth of at least five this season for the Pirates, the most for the team since it played nine in 2004. The Reds and Pirates are scheduled to play a third doubleheader in Cincinnati on September 13, the first time the teams have played three twinbills in one season since 1965.
WHOLESALE CHANGES
Between games, the Reds transferred RHP Vladimir Gutierrez (right forearm strain) to the 60-day IL, placed catcher Aramis Garcia (left middle finger) on the 10-day IL, promoted RHP Robert Dugger from Triple-A Louisville and recalled catcher Mark Kolozsvary from Louisville.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: RHP Luis Cessa left the game with a left rib muscle strain while pitching to Reynolds in the seventh inning. He was placed on the 15-day IL between games. ... C Tyler Stephenson (broken right thumb) was scheduled to catch Thursday and be the designated hitter on Friday for Triple-A Louisville before possibly being activated on Saturday, manager David Bell said. ... RHP Alexis Diaz (right bicep) could be activated Friday, Bell said.
UP NEXT
Pirates: After a one-day stop in Cincinnati for Thursday's doubleheader, Pittsburgh heads to Milwaukee, where RHP JT Brubaker (2-7, 4.28 ERA) will take the mound to begin a three-game series on Friday.
Reds: RHP Luis Castillo (3-4, 3.09) takes the mound in the opener of a three-game series against Tampa Bay on Friday.
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16% of Americans have responded by starting a second job or taking on gig work to keep up with the rising prices
NEW YORK , July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inflation has become the dominant economic trend of 2022, rising prices have had a significant impact on American consumers. Many Americans have never experienced severe inflation before. This price surge follows almost 30 years of relatively low inflation, with the last serious spike coming in 1980. That has left many consumers struggling to cope with a new and unfamiliar reality.
FinMasters surveyed more than 500 American consumers to see how they're feeling and what they are doing to keep up with the rising prices.
Full report: What Are Americans Doing to Cope With Inflation?
Key Findings
- 95.7% of Americans, regardless of their income level, say they are worried about rising prices and are doing something in response.
- The rising prices of gas, food, utilities, and housing have had the most significant impact on people's finances.
- The most widespread financial choices made as the result of rising prices are delaying buying a car, canceling vacations, and postponing paying down debt.
- Over 15% of Americans already had to borrow or take on credit to cover expenses.
- 50% of people of all genders, ages, and income groups are cutting back on dining out and driving less than usual.
- 16% of people say that they had to get a second job or take on a gig in order to keep up with the prices.
About the survey
The survey responses were collected from May 19 to May 20, 2022, via SurveyMonkey, with a total of 578 participants from across the USA. Respondents represent a national sample balanced by census data of age, gender, income level, and region. The survey had a margin of error +/- 4.159% with a 95% confidence level.
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FinMasters, a Vertigo Studio brand, is a personal finance website dedicated to financial education and in-depth research of financial products and services. For more information please visit www.finmasters.com.
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Texas Tech Athletics seeks fan who pushed UT player after Saturday's game in Lubbock
Texas Tech Athletics on Sunday released a screen grab from a video showing a fan pushing a University of Texas football player as fans rushed the field following the Red Raiders' win over the Longhorns Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.
The video, which was circulating on social media Sunday following Tech's 37-34 victory over the No. 22 Longhorns, appears to shows a male fan, who was amongst the crowd of Tech fans rushing the field, running and pushing a UT football player down. Tech Athletics confirmed the video was brought to their attention, and condemned the violence in a social media post Sunday evening, calling for information to help identify the person.
"This behavior is unacceptable and Texas Tech Athletics has turned the matter over to the Texas Tech Police Department," reads the message from Tech Athletics. "We will work together to identify the fan and take further action."
Anyone with information that can assist in identifying the attacker is urged to call the Texas Tech Police Department at 806-742-3931. | 2022-09-26T06:17:58+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/26/texas-tech-seeks-fan-who-pushed-ut-football-player-after-game-lubbock/69518052007/ |
New six-month durability data from lead ABCA4 program demonstrate the most efficient and durable RNA exon editing ever reported in a large animal
Additional new data in human retinal explants is first-ever demonstration
of RNA exon editing in human photoreceptors
BOSTON, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascidian Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on treating human diseases by rewriting RNA, announced today that Chief Medical Officer Jay Barth, M.D., will present at the Eighth Annual Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit on April 21, 2023, and Head of Molecular Biology Shimyn Slomovic, Ph.D., will present at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023 Annual Meeting on April 26, 2023. Their sessions will highlight Ascidian's groundbreaking RNA exon editing platform and the company's lead program targeting ABCA4 retinopathies, including Stargardt disease, which is currently in IND-enabling studies.
Ascidian's first-of-its-kind RNA exon editing platform is designed to expand the therapeutic possibilities of genetic medicine and treat diseases not addressable by today's gene therapy and gene editing technologies. Data to be shared at ARVO demonstrate ABCA4 RNA exon editing in multiple model systems, including cell lines, human retinal explants, and non-human primates at time points extending to six months.
"We look forward to sharing promising data from our lead program at the Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit, ARVO, and other forthcoming medical meetings as we prepare to submit our IND," said Romesh Subramanian, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascidian Therapeutics. "At the same time, we are progressing our diversified pipeline of programs using our proprietary platform for rewriting RNA by exon editing in other retinal diseases, as well as neurological, neuromuscular, and other genetically defined diseases. Ascidian is leading the development of new ways to edit RNA for the treatment of human disease."
Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit 2023
Dr. Barth's presentation at the Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit will provide an update on Ascidian's lead program and the promise of RNA exon editing for patients with Stargardt disease and other ABCA4-related retinopathies.
Diseases caused by ABCA4 loss of function represent an area of significant unmet need. More patients go blind from ABCA4 retinopathy than any other genetic cause, and these diseases are examples of genetic disorders that cannot be addressed by standard gene replacement given the large size of the gene, or by base editing due to the high mutational variance of the affected gene. By rewriting RNA, Ascidian's approach has the potential to treat patients with one dose of an RNA exon editing therapeutic delivered with a single AAV vector.
The Summit, jointly organized by the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Casey Eye Institute, will bring together representatives from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries with physicians and scientists to discuss rapidly emerging ocular gene and cell therapies and strategize how to move the most advanced retinal disease therapy options forward. It will be held on Friday April 21, 2023 at the Marriott New Orleans Warehouse Arts District in New Orleans, LA.
ARVO 2023 Annual Meeting
At ARVO, Dr. Slomovic will present new six-month durability data from Ascidian's lead program targeting ABCA4 retinopathies, which demonstrate the most efficient and durable RNA exon editing via trans-splicing ever reported in a large animal.
In addition, data demonstrating RNA exon editing in human retinal explants will also be reported. This is the first time RNA exon editing via trans-splicing has been demonstrated in human photoreceptors.
Presentation details are below.
Session: 414
Poster Title: ABCA4 RNA exon editing in vitro and in vivo
Abstract Presentation Number: 3869
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CT
Location: The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA
The presentation materials from both sessions will be available upon request via the Publications & Presentations section of the Ascidian website following the live presentations.
About Ascidian Therapeutics
Ascidian Therapeutics, an ATP company, is redefining the treatment of disease by rewriting RNA. By editing exons at the RNA level, Ascidian therapies enable precise post-transcriptional editing of genes, resulting in full-length, functional proteins at the right levels, in the right cells, at the right time. With active discovery and preclinical programs in retinal, neurological, neuromuscular, and genetically defined diseases, Ascidian's approach has the potential to treat patients with one dose of an RNA exon editor, opening new therapeutic possibilities for patients in need of breakthroughs. For more information, visit www.ascidian.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One man was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Monday night in Northeast Washington, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The circumstances of the shooting, including whether the victims even knew each other, were being investigated, Police Chief Robert J. Contee III told reporters.
The shooting occurred outside an apartment building located at 15th and F Streets Northeast, Contee said.
All the victims were adult males, Contee said, and those wounded were being treated at area hospitals. | 2022-08-02T05:10:33+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/1-dead-5-wounded-in-shooting-in-NE-Washington-17344584.php |
AKRON, Ohio — Akron Police are investigating a shooting that left a 29-year-old man dead.
The shooting happened at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The man was walking on Chittenden Street when he was shot.
He was transported to Akron City Hospital, where he later died.
His identity has not been released. | 2022-08-04T14:08:53+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/29-year-old-man-shot-killed-in-akron |
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Young Republicans share why they're supporting Trump
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Congressman George Santos is in custody in a New York courthouse. He's charged with making false statements to Congress, money laundering, wire fraud and theft of public funds.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court Friday ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter in a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech.
But the decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is unlikely to be the last word in a legal battle that has stakes beyond Texas, and could impact how some of the world’s biggest tech companies regulate content by their users.
The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last year, has been challenged by tech trade groups that warn that it would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech. A similar law was also passed in Florida and ruled unconstitutional by a separate appeal court.
The final say is likely to come from the U.S. Supreme Court, which earlier this year blocked the Texas law while the lawsuit played out.
“Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” U.S. Circuit Court Judge Andrew Oldham wrote.
NetChoice, one of the groups challenging the law, expressed disappointment in a statement that pointed out the ruling was the opposite of the decision made in the lawsuit over the Florida law.
“We remain convinced that when the U.S. Supreme Court hears one of our cases, it will uphold the First Amendment rights of websites, platforms, and apps,” said Carl Szabo, NetChoice’s vice president and general counsel.
Republican elected officials in several states have backed laws like those enacted in Florida and Texas that sought to portray social media companies as generally liberal in outlook and hostile to ideas outside of that viewpoint, especially from the political right.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in May that is not clear how the high court’s past First Amendment cases, many of which predate the internet age, apply to Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and other digital platforms.
The Florida law, as enacted, would give Florida’s attorney general authority to sue companies under the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. It would also allow individual residents to sue social media companies for up to $100,000 if they feel they have been treated unfairly.
The Texas law only applies to the largest social media platforms that have more than 50,000 active users. | 2022-09-17T14:19:42+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/technology/ap-technology/ap-court-rules-in-favor-of-texas-law-on-social-media-regulation/ |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating a death that was "suspicious" in nature on a cruise ship that traveled from Charleston, S.C. to Nassau, Bahamas.
The death was aboard a Carnival Sunshine cruise ship involving a woman who was traveling with her husband.
The FBI's Columbia field office confirmed in a press release that it investigates "certain crimes on the high seas, as well as suspicious deaths of U.S. persons."
Carnival said the FBI met its Carnival Sunshine ship as it returned to Charleston to assist in the investigation. The deceased female and her husband were taken off the ship in Nassau as authorities in the Bahamas investigated the death.
Bahamian authorities were conducting an autopsy, Carnival confirmed through a spokesperson.
The ship left Charleston on Feb. 27 traveling to Nassau when a woman was found unresponsive on the ship. Medical staff and crew on the ship attempted life-saving measures, but the woman was pronounced dead on the ship, according to the FBI. | 2023-03-07T02:34:45+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/fbi-investigates-suspicious-death-on-carnival-cruise-ship |
BOSTON (AP) — Cal Raleigh became the first catcher to homer from both sides of the plate at Fenway Park, and George Kirby pitched the Seattle Mariners past the Boston Red Sox 10-1 on Monday night.
Raleigh hit a pair of long two-run homers and Eugenio Suárez added a two-run shot of his own. Ty France had two doubles to extend his hitting streak to 12 games for Seattle, which has won 10 of 14.
Batting left-handed, Raleigh’s first homer soared into the right-field stands. From the right side, he cleared the Green Monster in left.
“You always think about hitting one over the Monster when you’re little. It’s so big, so daunting,” said Raleigh, who grew up rooting for the Red Sox and was a big fan of former Boston switch-hitting catcher Jason Varitek.
“Honestly, to do it today was super special,” said Raleigh, whose grandmother traveled from Vermont to see him play. “It’s super cool. I’m kind of surprised Varitek didn’t do it.”
Kirby (5-2) scattered eight hits over 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball. He struck out six and walked one, improving to 5-1 with a 1.91 ERA over his last seven starts.
“Cal’s a beast. That was awesome,” said Kirby, breaking into his only smile while talking to reporters.
After getting swept at home by St. Louis last weekend, the Red Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games following an eight-game winning streak.
Boston sent utility infielder Pablo Reyes to the mound for the ninth. His first pitch — a curveball — read 34 mph on the scoreboard. He gave up a run and two hits with two walks.
Mixing a fastball in the mid 90-mph range with a hard slider, Kirby held the Red Sox scoreless until Rafael Devers’ RBI double in the sixth.
Boston starter Tanner Houck breezed through the first four innings, allowing only Julio Rodríguez’s two-out double in the fourth before Raleigh homered left-handed in the fifth.
“He was doing well until that swing,” Boston manager Alex Cora said of Houck. “It was a pitch down in the zone and he put a good swing on it.”
Raleigh’s drive off Houck (3-3) after Suárez’s leadoff single had an exit velocity of 109 mph, traveling a projected 438 feet into the right-field seats.
France opened the sixth with a double and went to third when right fielder Alex Verdugo’s throw sailed past second base into shallow left. He scored on Jarred Kelenic’s fielder’s choice before Raleigh sent Brennan Bernardino’s 91 mph sinker over the Green Monster and completely out of Fenway (which opened in 1912) at a projected 434 feet, making it 5-0.
“In a ballpark like this, when you hit a home run from each side of the plate, none of us will ever know how that feels,” said Mariners manager Scott Servais, a former catcher. “It’s really unique.”
Houck gave up four runs in five innings.
PRACTICE PAYS OFF
Before the game, Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas was working on taking bounced throws. Well, it paid off when the first batted ball of the game was a grounder to shortstop that Reyes short-hopped to first.
IN THE HOUSE
Celtics center Al Horford was sitting in the stands and got a nice ovation when he was shown on the center-field video screen.
The crowd broke into a brief chant of “Beat the Heat!”
Boston opens the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals at home against Miami on Wednesday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: Right-handed reliever John Schreiber walked off the mound with a trainer and a 2-2 count against Rodríguez after a discussion with Cora. The team announced he had right lat tightness. “Just some tightness on that last pitch,” Schreiber said. “It tightened up pretty good there.” … Cora kept infielder/outfielder Kiké Hernández (tight left hamstring) out of the lineup and gave outfielder Masataka Yoshida the night off.
UP NEXT
Mariners: RHP Luis Castillo (2-1, 2.70 ERA) starts the middle game of the series Tuesday. He threw six shutout innings last season in his only career appearance against the Red Sox.
Red Sox: RHP Nick Pivetta (2-3, 6.23) gave up seven runs over four innings in his most recent start.
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League of Minnesota Cities annual Mayor for a Day essay contest for Minnesota students currently in the fourth, fifth, or six grade. Students have an opportunity to write about what they would do if they were in charge of a city. Entries must be emailed or postmarked by Dec. 7. Three winners will be chosen and awarded $100 each, and will have their essays published in "Minnesota Cities " magazine. Winners only will be notified in early January. For more information and an entry form, go to lmc.org/about/mayor-for-a-day-essay-contest . The page also includes a link to a document for students that explains the typical job duties of a mayor.
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets annual chapbook contest is now open for submissions until Feb. 1. Complete information can be found at Annual Contests — Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets .
Events
The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the Minnesota Center for the Book, announces the third chapter of One Book | One Minnesota, a statewide book club that invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect, and discuss. The third title for the program is " The Plague of Doves" by Minnesota author Louise Erdrich . Now into December, through their local libraries, Minnesotans will be invited to read the featured book selection and will have access to author videos, reading guides, and virtual book club discussions. New this chapter, readers can access the audiobook, in addition to the ebook, for free on Ebooks Minnesota for eight weeks. Participate in a statewide virtual discussion with the author on Dec. 8. The event is free; registration is required and can be found here .
In addition to the digital formats, hard copies of the book will be available through public libraries, and through Birchbark Books and other independent stores across the state. Links to resources and more information can be found at thefriends.org/onebook . "The Plague of Doves" is the first book in Erdrich’s loosely connected trilogy which includes National Book Award-winner "The Round House" and "LaRose." The selection offers Minnesota readers an opportunity to reflect on some of our own Native American history through an extraordinary cast of characters.
In "The Plague of Doves," a Minnesota Book Award-winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime, and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. Bound by love and torn by history, the collective stories of the two communities come together in a wrenching truth that is revealed in the novel’s final pages.
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The Duluth Poet Laureate Project announces the “ Second Sunday Reading Series,” online open poetry readings organized by Gary Boelhower, 2018-2020 Duluth Poet Laureate. Monthly reading offered Nov. 8 features Sheila Packa and Blair Powless.
Offered through the ZOOM. Register with Gary Boelhower at gboelhower@msn.com . Poets who wish to participate in the open reading segment should contact Gary Boelhower as well. Go to duluthpoetlaureate.org .
Bookstores
Zenith Bookstores, 318 N. Central Ave., offers these events. Call 218-606-1777.
- 7 p.m. today, Oct. 23: William Souder presents "Made at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck" in conversation with Peter Geye.
- 7 p.m. Nov. 12: In Conversation: Thomas D. Peacock, author of "The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves" and Linda LeGarde Grover, author of "In the Night of Memory."
Books
Title: "Grouse & Woodcock, The Birds of My Life"
Author: Timothy C. Flanigan
Synopsis: This forty chapter book with photos shares it all: natural history, anatomy, breeding and nesting, habitat preferences, predators, food and feeding habits; selecting shotguns and loads, improving your shooting skills, training and keeping dogs; identifying productive coverts, how to work a covert effectively, the importance of hunting edges, following up on flushes and more.
Publisher: Wild River Publishing
Cost: $100
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Contact: wildriverpress.com | 2023-03-27T15:05:47+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/readings-writers-45 |
(THE CONVERSATION) – With the current U.S. inflation rate at 7.1%, interest rates rising and housing costs up, many Americans are wondering if a recession is looming.
Two economists discussed that and more in a recent wide-ranging and exclusive interview for The Conversation. Brian Blank is a finance professor at Mississippi State University who specializes in the study of corporations and how they respond to economic downturns. Rodney Ramcharan is an economist at the University of Southern California who previously held posts with the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund.
Both were interviewed by Bryan Keogh, deputy managing editor and senior editor of economy and business for The Conversation.
Below are some highlights from the discussion. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.
Are we headed for a recession in 2023?
Brian Blank: The consensus view among most forecasters is that there is a recession coming at some point, maybe in the middle of next year. I’m a little bit more optimistic than that consensus.
People have been calling for a recession for months now, and this seems to be the most anticipated recession on record. I think that it could still be a ways off. Consumer balance sheets are still relatively strong, stronger than we’ve seen them for most periods.
I think that the labor market is going to remain hotter than people have expected. Right now, over the last eight months, the labor market has added more jobs than anticipated, which is one of the strongest streaks on record. And I think that until consumer balance sheets weaken considerably, we can expect consumer spending, which is the largest part of the economy, to continue to grow quickly.
[But this] doesn’t mean that a recession is not coming. There’s always a recession somewhere down the road.
Rodney Ramcharan: Indeed, yes, there’s a likelihood that the economy is going to contract in the next nine months. The president of the New York Fed expects the unemployment rate to go up from 3.5% currently to somewhere between 4% to 5% in the next year. And I think that will be consistent with a recession.
In terms of how much worse it can be beyond that, it’s going to depend on a number of things. It could depend on whether the Fed is going to accept a higher inflation rate over the medium term or whether it’s really committed to getting the inflation rate down to the 2% rate. So I think that’s the trade-off.
Will unemployment go up?
Blank: [Unemployment] hasn’t risen much, and maybe it’ll pick up to somewhere close to 4%. Many are expecting something like four and a half percent. And I think that’s certainly possible. And I think that we can see small upticks in the coming months.
But I don’t think it’s going to rise as quickly as some people are expecting, in part because what we’ve seen so far is a lack of labor force participation. Until more people enter the labor market, I think there are going to be plenty of jobs to go around.
What is your outlook on interest rates?
Ramcharan: As people find it more and more difficult to find jobs, or to get jobs as they begin to lose jobs, I think that’s going to dampen spending. And we’re seeing that now as the cost of borrowing has gone up sharply, and the Fed is expecting that.
The expectation is the federal funds rate will go up to 5% by next year. If you tack on another couple of points, because of the risk involved, then the cost to borrow to buy a home could potentially get up to 8% for some people. And that could be very expensive.
And the flip side of this for businesses is there’s potentially going to be a slowdown in cash flow. If consumers are not spending, then the revenues that businesses depend on to make investments might not be there.
The additional piece in this puzzle is what the banks will then do. I think banks are going to begin to curtail the extension of credit. So not only will interest rates go up for the typical consumer and the typical business, it’s also likely that they are more likely to experience denial of credit, and so that should together begin to slow spending quite a bit.
After massive increases in housing prices, what caused them to suddenly drop?
Ramcharan: As the Fed lowered interest rates, there was a massive shift among the population for various reasons. They decided that housing was the right investment or the right thing. And so when 50 million people all collectively decide to buy homes, the supply of homes is reasonably constrained in the short run. And so that led to this massive increase in house prices and in rents.
In the last three months, the housing market has cooled sharply. We’re now seeing house prices beginning to fall. I would imagine, going forward, the housing market cooling is going to be a major driver behind the slowdown in the inflation rate and in real estate investment trusts. So that’s positive.
Our recent election just changed the composition of Congress. How will that affect the economy?
Blank: Certainly, when we have a divided Congress, we’re less likely to see decisions made that involve passing legislation that might support the economy. And I think it’s likely the Republican House is going to become a little bit more conservative with spending.
And so if we do start to see a downturn, I think you’re less likely to see legislation that might help support an economy that could be in need of it. That is going to make the job of the Federal Reserve more important.
How certain are these predictions?
Ramcharan: I just want to be careful here and let your viewers know that we’re making these statements based on theory, because the inflation that we’re experiencing now comes about from a pandemic, and there really is no evidence, there’s no data available, that people can look to to say, “What happens to an economy after a pandemic?” That data does not exist.
So we’re trying to piece together the data we do have with the theories we do have, but there’s a huge band of uncertainty about what’s going to happen.
Watch the full interview here. | 2022-12-25T17:55:47+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/inflation-unemployment-the-housing-crisis-and-a-possible-recession-two-economists-forecast-whats-ahead-in-2023/ |
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jesper Boqvist’s first goal of the season provided the spark the New Jersey Devils needed to keep their hot streak going.
Boqvist scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and the Devils beat the Arizona Coyotes 4-2 Saturday night for their ninth straight win.
“Timely goal scoring by different guys,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff said. “I even think tonight you know Bo getting on the score sheet, that gave us some energy, that got us going. Soon after we scored another one. … I think it’s been a total team effort. A lot of guys have contributed to the fact that we’ve been able to win that amount of games.”
Tomas Tatar had a goal and an assist, and Jack Hughes and Dougie Hamilton also scored for the Devils, who have their longest streak since winning nine in a row Nov. 17-Dec. 7, 2007. Third-string goalie Akira Schmid had 16 saves in his first start of the season.
“For me, it’s just pushing the pace, getting to my spots early and getting set for shots,” Schmid said. “It’s all about getting to the shots, that’s just main key for me.
Dylan Guenther and Clayton Keller scored for Arizona, which had won the first three games of its season-high 14-game road trip. Karel Vejmelka finished with 22 saves.
“Too many turnovers,” Arizona coach André Tourigny said. “We dig in our tank of energy way too much. When you turn the puck over, you have to work twice as hard to defend.”
Boqvist put the Devils ahead 3-2 with 8:41 left as he converted his own rebound for his first of the season.
Hamilton’s power-play goal with 5:45 remaining gave New Jersey a two-goal lead.
Tatar scored 6:29 into the game to put the Devils up 1-0.
Guenther tied it with a power-play goal at 9:04, but Hughes put the Devils back ahead just 23 seconds later with his fifth.
Devils fans started the season yelling, “Fire Lindy” chants directed at head coach Lindy Ruff. At the end of the second period with the team in the midst of a long winning streak, they were chanting “Sorry, Lindy!” throughout the Prudential Center.
“I accept the apology and maybe one day we can all sit down and have a beer and laugh about it,” Ruff said with a smile.
Keller beat Nico Hischier and scored a backhand goal 8:19 into the second to tie it 2-2 on another power-play goal.
Schmid got the start two nights after getting his first NHL win in relief in New Jersey’s win against Ottawa after Vitek Vanecek collided with a Senators player.
ROAD TRIPPING
The Coyotes’ road trip is tied for the longest in NHL history and necessitated while annex construction of Mullett Arena at Arizona State University is completed. The team relocated to a 5,000-seat arena on the college campus while the franchise is seeking approval for a permanent home in Tempe, Arizona.
NOTES
The Devils’ franchise record is 13 straight wins set Feb. 26-March 23, 2001. … New Jersey is 11-0-0 this season when Hischier records a point. He had an assist in this game.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: At the New York Rangers on Sunday night.
Devils: At Montreal on Tuesday night.
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Flourishing Vehicle Appearance and Protection Service Franchise Sees Bright Future in the Southeast
FORT MYERS, Fla., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With a goal to fill the consistently growing demand to protect vehicles from sun, heat and other unpredictable climate conditions, a family-owned multi-unit franchisee group who operate nine thriving Ziebart locations throughout upstate New York is expanding south to grow the brand's presence in Florida.
Ziebart is the worldwide leader in premium automotive appearance and protection services. Longtime Ziebart multi-unit franchisees – The Mattiacio Group – who have successfully grown the Ziebart brand in the Northeast over 34 years – recently took ownership of the Fort Myers store at 7131 Alico Road, Unit 105. The group's Managing Partner Vincenzo Carangi, along with Vice President of Dealer Sales Ann Scalia, will serve as part-owners of the Fort Myers location.
Carangi has worked with Ziebart since 2011, when he started as a Professional Sales Representative. Since then, he grew with the company to become General Manager, helping open two of The Mattiacio Group's New York locations, which have each grown to be among the highest performing franchise locations for Ziebart. Scalia, who has worked with Ziebart for 15 years, leads The Mattiacio Group's Outside Sales Division, building relationships between Ziebart and local car dealerships. She is credited with growing the group's Dealership Program from 30 to its current 122 dealerships.
The Mattiacio Group CEO and Founder Tony Mattiacio said he's confident that Carangi and Scalia will prove to be a powerful team in Fort Myers and play a leading role in helping Ziebart to grow their footprint throughout the region.
"While we continue building off the success we've found in New York, we're excited to take all we've learned to grow the brand's presence here in Florida," said Tony Mattiacio, The Mattiacio Group CEO and Founder. "Floridians have proven they're passionate about protecting their vehicles, and we've already seen the need for our quality products and services, particularly window tinting and ceramic coating to fight off that unforgiving Florida sun, as well as our Rhino Linings® Spray-On Bed Liner, and of course our detailing services."
Ziebart plans to continue expanding across the state as Floridians continue to seek out the brand's services to extend the life of their vehicles. In fact, the most popular services being requested at Ziebart of Fort Myers include window tinting to help keep cars cool, as well as Z-Gloss® Ceramic Paint Coating, adding a layer of protection to the car's paint that's resistant to acid rain, UV rays, and extreme temperatures.
"With this being Ziebart's only location in Florida, many people are already asking when we'll expand to other parts of the state," Carangi said.
For more information on Ziebart's franchising opportunities, visit ziebart.com/franchise-opportunities.
About Ziebart
Founded in 1959, Ziebart International Corporation is the worldwide leader in premium automotive appearance and protection services that extend the life of vehicles. Ziebart operates over 400 locations, with 1,300 service centers, in 37 countries. Ziebart continues to grow and offers domestic and international franchising opportunities, a best-in-class investment for qualified prospects. For more information about Ziebart including franchise opportunities, please visit www.ziebart.com.
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Neta Auto, a China EV startup, made systematic progress in 2022, with tremendous changes in branding, product, sales, technology, channel, and overseas expansion. It moved on towards new and upward development. On January 1, 2023, the brand shared its 2022 sales data. It cumulatively sold 152,073 units in 2022, up 118% year on year (YoY), marking year-on-year increase for the 29th consecutive month. It also becomes the first China EV startup selling over 150,000 vehicles a year. 3,456 of them were delivered to overseas customers. As of late December 2022, Neta Auto had delivered 248,050 units. It spent merely eight months selling 100,000 vehicles for the second time, five times faster than it sold 100,000 units for the first time, a new record among EV startups in China. Sales in 2022 accounted for 61% of total sales of Neta Auto since its establishment, showing unstoppable development of the brand.
Annual deliveries for Neta U and Neta V were 51,021 and 98,847, respectively, in 2022, up 155% and 99% YoY, respectively, suggesting continuous dominance of the brand in the all-electric SUV segment. Neta S was delivered 2,205 units in 128 cities across China, since delivery of the sporty model began in late November 2022.
Neta Auto steps up efforts to enhance global presence
Leveraging the first-mover advantage and leading edge of China's intelligent electric vehicle sector, Neta Auto launched its "going global" strategy in 2022. The brand chose a suitable path for global development based on its own edges in intelligence and electrification and local market situation. It reached strategic partnerships with top-rate companies, and increased efforts to get a foothold in ASEAN market alongside more efforts to develop EU market. Neta Auto has also extended presence in some Middle East countries, Australia, and New Zealand. The brand has established a subsidiary in Thailand and the Europe business unit, and launched three international versions of Neta V and Neta U for overseas markets. It has set foot in ASEAN, South Asia and Middle East.
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– Nobelpharma Connect Patient Program to Be Introduced for the First Time –
– Nobelpharma Is a Presenting Sponsor of the 2022 World TSC Conference –
BETHESDA, Md., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nobelpharma America, LLC, a pharmaceutical and medical device company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, will debut HYFTOR™ (sirolimus topical gel) 0.2%, the first-ever U.S. FDA-approved topical treatment for facial angiofibroma associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) for patients 6 years and older at the 2022 World TSC Conference at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas, from July 28-31, 2022.
"We anticipate that we will be able to have robust discussions with healthcare professionals and individuals with TSC who are interested in learning more about HYFTOR™," said Yoshiki Kida, President and CEO of Nobelpharma America. "We also will have the opportunity to explain the services Nobelpharma will offer the community through our new patient access program, Nobelpharma Connect."
Nobelpharma Connect is a patient hub where patients may learn about eligibility and enrollment in access programs including assistance program, copay program, and other support services.
Nobelpharma will begin providing HYFTOR™ through a network of specialty pharmacies in August. For inquiries during the interim time, please feel free to contact Nobelpharma at NPA-corporate-info@Nobelpharma-US.com.
Nobelpharma continues its support of individuals with TSC, their families, and healthcare providers as a presenting sponsor of the 2022 World TSC Conference.
The 2022 World TSC Conference, co-hosted by the TSC Alliance and the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex International, will bring together up to 1,000 participants from around the globe, including families and individuals with TSC, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers. Programs will share information on diagnosis, treatment and research as well as explore solutions to the day-to-day challenges individuals with TSC experience.
"Nobelpharma is committed to advancing the scientific understanding of TSC and delivering new options to individuals and families impacted by this disease," explained Mr. Kida. "As we introduce HYFTOR™, we look forward to strengthening our relationships within the patient community, maintaining a dialogue and listening to their experiences to help shape the future of research and treatment."
TSC is a rare genetic disease that affects approximately one in 6,000 live births. Nearly one million people worldwide are estimated to have TSC, with approximately 50,000 in the United States. TSC causes non-cancerous tumors, or hamartomas, to form in vital organs, including the skin. TSC may also cause facial angiofibromas, which are pink or red bumps usually located on the cheeks, nose, and chin that may cause bleeding, itching, redness, and significant disfiguration without treatment. Many individuals with TSC also present with autism, epilepsy, and other neuropsychiatric disorders.
HYFTOR™ (sirolimus topical gel) 0.2% is the first and only clear topical medication approved by the FDA to treat facial angiofibroma associated with TSC in adults and children 6 years of age and older. Application of the gel should be limited to areas of involvement with angiofibromas, and application sites should not be occluded. In clinical studies, HYFTOR™ has been shown to improve the size and redness of facial angiofibromas at 12 weeks. HYFTOR™ is contraindicated in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to sirolimus or any other component of the gel. Please see below for Important Safety Information for HYFTOR™. Additional information is available in the full Prescribing Information for HYFTOR™ (sirolimus topical gel) 0.2%. www.HYFTORPI.com
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant genetic rare disease that causes benign tumors to grow throughout the body. These tumors can develop on the skin and vital organs, including the brain, kidney, lung, and heart, and may result in behavioral and neurological manifestations such as autism, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Facial angiofibromas associated with TSC are facial skin lesions caused by aberrant activation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. They are pinkish or reddish bumps that are usually located on the cheeks, nose, and chin. Without treatment, they may cause significant disfiguration, bleeding, pruritus, and erythema.
Nobelpharma America, LLC (NPA) is focused on the commercialization of pharmaceuticals and medical devices for patients with limited treatment options. The company is committed to meeting essential patient needs by developing treatments for diseases that often go overlooked due to a small patient population. NPA is located at 4520 East-West Highway, Suite 400, Bethesda, MD 20814. For more information go to nobelpharma-us.com. NPA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nobelpharma Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
HYFTOR™ (sirolimus topical gel) 0.2% is indicated for the treatment of facial angiofibroma associated with tuberous sclerosis in adults and children 6 years of age and older. HYFTOR™ (sirolimus topical gel) 0.2% is not indicated for children younger than 6 years of age.
Important: HYFTOR™ is for use on the skin only (topical use). Do not use HYFTOR™ in your mouth, eyes, or vagina.
Do not use HYFTOR™ if you are allergic to sirolimus or any of the other ingredients in HYFTOR.
Before using HYFTOR™, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have a skin infection at the treatment site
- have high cholesterol or high triglycerides (fat or lipids) in your blood
- are scheduled to receive an immunization (vaccine). You should avoid receiving live vaccines during treatment with HYFTOR™. Vaccines may be less effective during treatment with HYFTOR.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. HYFTOR™ may harm your unborn baby. You should not become pregnant during treatment with HYFTOR™.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if HYFTOR™ passes into your breast milk. You should not breastfeed during treatment with HYFTOR™.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
What should I avoid while using HYFTOR™?
Limit your exposure to sunlight and artificial light, such as tanning beds and ultraviolet light therapy, during treatment with HYFTOR™. Wear clothing that covers your skin if you need to go outside. Talk with your healthcare provider about other ways you can protect your skin from the sun.
What are possible side effects of HYFTOR™?
HYFTOR™ may cause serious side effects, including:
- Allergic reactions. Serious allergic reactions have happened in people who have taken sirolimus by mouth. Stop using HYFTOR™ and get medical help right away if you get any of these symptoms: swelling of your face, eyes, or mouth, trouble breathing or wheezing, throat tightness, chest pain or tightness, feeling dizzy or faint, rash or peeling of your skin.
- Infections. Serious infections, including infections that can happen when your immune system is weak, have happened in people who have taken sirolimus by mouth. Some people have developed a rare, serious brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) which can sometimes cause death. Stop using HYFTOR™ and call your healthcare provider right away if you get symptoms of an infection including fever or chills.
- Risk of cancer. Lymphoma and other cancers, especially skin cancer, have happened in people who have taken sirolimus by mouth. Talk with your healthcare provider about your risk for cancer if you use HYFTOR™.
- Increased levels of cholesterol and triglycerides (fat or lipids) in the blood have happened in people who have taken sirolimus by mouth. Your healthcare provider will treat you for high lipid levels, if needed.
- Lung or breathing problems. Lung or breathing problems, including problems that have sometimes caused death, have happened in people who have taken sirolimus by mouth. Stop using HYFTOR™ and get medical help right away if you get symptoms such as shortness of breath, new or worsening cough, or chest pain.
The most common side effects of HYFTOR™ include dry skin, application site irritation, itching, acne, acne-like rash, eye redness, skin bleeding, and skin irritation.
HYFTOR™ may cause fertility problems in males and females, which may affect your ability to have children. Talk to your healthcare provider if this is a concern for you.
These are not all the possible side effects of HYFTOR™. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Patient Information www.HYFTORPI.com for additional safety information.
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Downtown business owner talks about weather
JACKSON, Tenn. — The recent ice storms has not only had an effect on the roads.
They’ve impacted local businesses as well.
Because many opted to stay indoors, some businesses have felt the effects.
One local business owner, Hunter Cross of Third Eye Curiosities, said that he had to close down during the storm.
Cross detailed why he decided to shut down his business until the storm passed.
“You want to be operational as often as possible, but sometimes safety comes first,” he said.
With the weather returning to normal, businesses are hoping to recover.
For more news in the Jackson area, click here. | 2023-02-03T04:23:36+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2023/02/02/downtown-business-owner-talks-about-weather/ |
MIAMI, Fla. -- Newly released bodycam video shows a Florida police officer wrangling a nearly 7-foot long alligator he found wandering in a neighborhood.
Miami-Dade Police Officer Manuel Orol said it took a few tries to get the rope around the gator's front legs, WPLG reported.
SEE ALSO | Alligator attack: 85-year-old woman killed by gator while with her dog in St. Lucie, Florida
But, once he did, he managed to tie the rope to his cruiser before help could arrive.
A professional trapper then relocated the gator to a less populated area. | 2023-02-25T13:22:53+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/florida-alligator-miami-dade-caught-on-video-body-camera/12876927/ |
BEIJING, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TuanChe Limited ("TuanChe" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TC), a leading integrated automotive marketplace in China, has recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with IAT Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. ("IAT") (Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 300825), one of the first batch of China's high-tech enterprises and a leading independent vehicle research and development ("R&D") solution provider in China and Asia. IAT is specialized in vehicle R&D, as well as development and manufacture of core vehicle components, among others. This strategic partnership will further bolster Tuanche's R&D and manufacturing capabilities for new energy vehicles ("NEVs") and accelerate its planned expansion into the NEV market.
According to the agreement, the two companies will collaborate holistically in NEV-related fields, including customized vehicle R&D, key component R&D and manufacturing, software development, etc., to promote the adoption of IAT's technologies and products by TuanChe's NEV projects to elevate the latter's competitive advantage.
"We are most excited about our collaboration with IAT. It will not only accelerate the development of our NEV models but also bolster our overall presence in China's NEV market," Mr. Wei Wen, TuanChe's Chairman and CEO, commented. "As the sector transitions from being policy-driven to market-oriented, differentiated NEVs will be the key to staying ahead of the competition. By harnessing the combined competitive edge of IAT's industry-leading comprehensive automotive R&D capabilities, especially their expertise in NEV design and R&D, and the strengths of our automotive team, in-depth customer insights and extensive network coverage, this strategic partnership marks a significant milestone in our journey to bringing high-quality NEVs to more customers and capitalizing on the booming NEV market. We also look forward to diversifying our cooperation with IAT to take our relationship to the next level."
As the first listed independent vehicle R&D company in China, IAT is the pioneer of China's "turnkey" services for vehicle design and engine/powertrain development among independent automobile designers. Its R&D business covers the whole industry chain, including planning, design and customization of both ICE models and NEVs, as well as the development, manufacturing and sales of core automotive components. Over 13 years of experience in BEV R&D makes IAT a reliable brand-independent engineering and manufacturing partner for OEMs. With its dual focus on technology and talents, IAT owns over one thousand core technologies and patents and is home to five R&D centers in different countries and regions worldwide, as well as subsidiaries in 13 provinces and municipalities across China. IAT is a national-level industrial design center certified by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and a post-doctoral research center station approved by China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
About TuanChe
Founded in 2010, TuanChe Limited (NASDAQ: TC) is a leading integrated automotive marketplace in China. TuanChe offers services to connect automotive consumers with various industry players such as automakers, dealers and other automotive service providers. TuanChe provides automotive marketing and transaction related services by integrating its online platforms with offline sales events. Through its integrated marketing solutions, TuanChe turns individual and isolated automobile purchase transactions into large-scale collective purchase activities by creating an interactive many-to-many environment. Furthermore, leveraging its proprietary data analytics and advanced digital marketing system, TuanChe's online marketing service platform helps industry customers increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their advertising placements.
For more information, please contact ir@tuanche.com.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company's business plans and development and business outlook, which can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions, and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under law.
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Grimes, Carole Lois
Carole Lois Grimes, age 82, of Dayton Ohio, passed away Friday, May 19, 2023. She leaves to cherish her memory daughter, Nicole Grimes (Bernard "BJ") Johnson; granddaughters, Dominique and Sydney Johnson. Memorial service 11 am Saturday, June 3, 2023 at Summit Christian Church, 4021 Denlinger Rd, Trotwood, OH. Calling hour 10 am at which time family will receive friends. Arrangements entrusted to House of Wheat Funeral Home.
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Kansas will visit Kentucky and Baylor is set to host Arkansas in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge next season.
The leagues on Thursday announced the 10 matchups set for Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. All 10 of the Big 12 members and all but four of the Southeastern Conference teams will participate.
The other games include: Alabama at Oklahoma, Auburn at West Virginia, Florida at Kansas State, Texas Tech at LSU, Mississippi at Oklahoma State, TCU at Mississippi State, Iowa State at Missouri and Texas at Tennessee.
The SEC has held the edge in five of the last six years.
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IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Doheny’s 3-inch Swimming Pool Chlorine Tablets (50 Pounds)
- In The Swim 3-inch Swimming Pool Chlorine Tablets (50 Pounds)
- Clorox 3-inch Long-Lasting Chlorinating Tablets (25 Pounds)
If you have a pool, you need to sanitize the water. Most people do that with chlorine. For the past couple of summers, chlorine has been hard to find, but that shortage appears to be easing. Chlorine prices are expected to come down as the supply goes up.
Why was there a chlorine shortage?
While it has become typical to blame everything on COVID-19, only part of the chlorine shortage is due to the pandemic. COVID-19 is responsible for labor shortages, distribution issues, and, in many ways, increased demand. But there is another factor that made chlorine so scarce.
Labor shortages and distribution issues
The pandemic created labor shortages and supply chain issues that inhibited the production and distribution of chlorine. However, compared to the other factors, those were relatively minor concerns.
Increased demand
When people couldn’t travel during that first summer of the pandemic, many invested in a staycation. In other words, home swimming pool construction went up dramatically in 2020. With so many more pools, the demand for chlorine tablets skyrocketed.
Weather
While the impact that the pandemic had on chlorine was substantial, it paled compared to how Mother Nature crippled the industry. Already struggling, in August 2020, Louisiana was hit by Hurricane Laura. The storm destroyed a major chlorine manufacturing plant. While it might not seem that losing one plant should cause much of a ripple in the supply chain, a fire on the premises destroyed almost 40% of the nation’s chlorine tablet supply.
What does chlorine do?
When you clean your pool, you use a skimmer to remove objects that are floating on the surface. A pool vacuum, on the other hand, picks up the debris that has settled on the bottom. Both of these pool maintenance tools methods, while essential, only clean the water. They do not sanitize it. That means the water still has algae, bacteria, microorganisms and more. Chlorine kills these viruses and makes the water safe for swimming.
Can I get by without sanitizing my pool water?
There is a wide variety of swimming-related illnesses that occur when the water is not properly sanitized. These illnesses can involve diarrhea, skin infections, ear infections, eye infections and more. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a swimmer can get sick if they “swallow, have contact with, or breathe in mists or aerosols from water contaminated with germs.” The CDC also states that recreational water might contain Cryptosporidium, which can be life-threatening for people who have weakened immune systems. In short, you need to sanitize your pool water.
How did the shortage affect the price of chlorine?
In the worst-case scenario, people found it difficult to even locate chlorine. In the best-case scenario, expect to pay more than three times the price of what you were paying just a couple of years ago. Before the shortage, a 50-pound bucket of chlorine tablets cost roughly $75. Now, a good price is $250.
How much chlorine do I need?
It is impossible to guess how much chlorine you will go through in the summer. The number of swimmers, the weather, and more all affect how quickly chlorine evaporates from your pool. The biggest factors that determine how much chlorine you will need, however, are how much water is in your pool and how many days you keep your pool open during the swim season.
One 3-inch chlorine tablet can treat up to 5,000 gallons of water. Many brands claim you only need to add tablets once per week, but this is not always the case. You will need to monitor the chlorine levels in your pool to determine what your needs are. A 20,000-gallon pool may require anywhere between 50 to 100 tablets for the season. This translates to 25 to 50 pounds of tablets per season. Again, this is only a rough estimate. The size of the pool, weather, and use can have a dramatic effect on chlorine usage.
Should I stock up on chlorine?
Buying more tablets than you will use in a season creates several problems. First, you need to be able to safely store the chlorine throughout the winter. Second, improperly stored chlorine will degrade much faster than its typical three- to five-year shelf life.
Chlorine brands you can buy online
Doheny’s 3-inch Swimming Pool Chlorine Tablets (50 Pounds)
Doheny’s has been making chlorine tablets for over 50 years. These tablets are pre-stabilized to help prevent premature chlorine burn-off. The tablets are individually wrapped to reduce the chlorine smell from off-gassing.
Sold by Amazon
In The Swim 3-inch Swimming Pool Chlorine Tablets (50 Pounds)
These tablets are slow-dissolving and stabilized to help prevent premature chlorine burn-off. The 3-inch tablets are individually wrapped in easy-open packages.
Sold by Amazon
Clorox 3-inch Long-Lasting Chlorinating Tablets (25 Pounds)
The manufacturer recommends adding these long-lasting tablets just once each week. They are enriched with a stabilizer, which helps prevent premature chlorine burn-off. The tablets also contain water conditioners to help your water feel silky smooth.
Sold by Amazon
Pool Mate 3-inch Chlorinating Tablets (5 pounds)
These all-in-one tablets cost a bit more than other options, but they contain several additives to help treat your water. They can help keep your water clear, prevent stains, kill algae, and prevent scale buildup, which can cause corrosion.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Summer is a great time to get active outdoors and practice a healthy lifestyle. But health experts are warning if you take any medications or supplements, be aware of the dangers heat and sun can pose to your health.
Common medications and supplements can cause harmful interactions. Dr. Jodie Pepin, Harbor Health’s clinical pharmacy program director and a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, said beta blockers, decongestants and some ADHD medicines can cause an increased risk of heat sensitivity, not allowing the body to cool itself properly.
"They can limit the amount of blood flow to your skin, so it prevents the body from cooling off. Also, there are some other mechanisms that the drugs can do that actually won't let your body cool down. So when it's really high like that, you get heat trapped inside of you and it can be really dangerous for temperatures going up, and it can have bad sequelae from this," said Pepin.
Some solutions for those who take these medications are limiting your time and exposure in the sun, staying in the shade and getting inside with air conditioning. Don't stay out in the heat for long periods of time and wear loose-fitted clothing. Symptoms that should tell you it's time go inside include feeling lightheaded, dizziness, headaches and sweaty, red skin.
Next, laxatives and some diabetes medicines can cause an increased risk of dehydration.
"There are certain medications such as laxatives, diuretics and some diabetes medications that increase your fluid losses. So when you're losing extra fluid and you're not replacing that, you become dehydrated," said Pepin.
This can cause symptoms such as headache, fatigue, drowsiness and dizziness. Pepin said it's important for those on these medications to stay extra hydrated.
"If you're on any of these medications, drink more water than you normally would like, almost double the amount of water that you really would, to prevent these things from happening," stated Pepin.
Lastly, NSAIDS like ibuprofen and naproxen, antihistamines, St. John’s Wort and vitamin B6 can lead to an increased risk of sunburn and rashes. This can lead to photosensitivity reaction.
"What photosensitivity means is that you are more at risk for severe sunburns and rashes. So there are a lot of antibiotics that cause these photosensitivity reactions. The class of medications, pain relievers, including ibuprofen or Advil, and antihistamines can also do that," said Pepin.
It's advised if you're on any of these medications, you want to apply sunscreen often and reapply because you're sweating and those sunscreens don't last as long.
If you do have any questions or concerns about any medications that you're taking, Pepin said to always ask your pharmacist.
"I like to tell my patients about these three ways that you can be affected in the heat and how to prevent them, and so any questions whatsoever about risk or if your medications are involved in these sort of reactions, just ask your pharmacist," said Pepin. | 2023-06-25T00:22:29+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/medications-heat-mix/269-bf1bf238-5bd3-4ef9-b73d-617ccf0ea131 |
TROY, Mich., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELMS; ELMSW) ("ELMS" or the "Company") today announced that it has received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") stating that because the Company has not yet filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 (the "Form 10-Q") or its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (the "Form 10-K"), the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The notification letter has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
The Company previously discussed the circumstances behind the late filing of the Form 10-Q in a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25, filed with the SEC on May 18, 2022 (the "Notification"). In addition, the Company's delay in filing the Form 10-K was disclosed in a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25 filed on April 1, 2022 and discussed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 11, 2022 (the "April Current Report").
As described in the April Current Report, the Company must submit a plan to Nasdaq no later than May 31, 2022, addressing how it intends to regain compliance with Nasdaq's listing rules.
The Company's management is working diligently to complete the Form 10-Q, as well as the Form 10-K, and intends to file as soon as practicable. However, the Company does not expect to file the Form 10-Q within the timeframe specified by Rule 12b-25 for the reasons discussed in the 10-Q Notification.
Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELMS; ELMSW) is focused on defining a new era in which commercial vehicles run clean as connected and customized solutions that make our customers' businesses more efficient and profitable. ELMS is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.electriclastmile.com.
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Rescue efforts are underway in parts of Malaysia after seasonal floods killed at least four people and displaced more than 40,000.
Among the deaths confirmed Saturday by state authorities in Johor was a man who became trapped in a car that was swept away by rising floodwaters.
Footage taken by rescue workers and volunteers in towns across the southern state showed groups of people stranded on rooftops as their houses disappeared underwater.
Images shared by the National Flood Disaster Agency showed rescuers wading chest-deep in some areas to save people trapped in their homes. One rescue worker was seen carrying a baby in a bucket to safety.
Other images showed flooded roads and forests and vehicles submerged in muddy water.
Malaysia, like many of its Southeast Asian neighbors, is vulnerable to seasonal floods. Neighboring Singapore has seen heavy torrential rains since February.
Malaysia's worst floods in decades occurred in 2021, when there were 54 deaths and the army was mobilized. The widespread floods that year hit eight states and strained emergency services across the country, sparking criticism of the government's response to the disaster.
The country's annual monsoon season started in November and people have been evacuating their homes since at least December.
Johor, population 4 million, is Malaysia's second most populous state and is the worst hit by this season's floods. Tens of thousands of its residents have now moved to relief centers in schools and community halls, officials said.
Experts from the Malaysian Meteorological Department have warned that the wet weather could continue until April.
Members of the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (MUDA), a youth-led political party with a large presence in Johor, advised residents to accept help from rescue bodies and warned against "waiting too long" to evacuate their homes.
"River water levels are still high and it's predicted to rain heavily again," said Amira Aisya Abdul Aziz, the group's deputy president. "Don't wait too long if water levels start to rise. Move to safer areas as soon as possible."
"Remember: Your lives are more valuable than your belongings," she added.
Pot Phoon Hua, a 61-year-old worker at a local biscuit and coffee factory in the town of Batu Pahat, told CNN that rain was still continuing. He expressed fears and concerns about several friends and relatives who were missing and said that the aftermath of the flood would be devastating. "We are helpless," Pot said.
"Everyone is pitching in but the force of the weather is too great. There is only so much we can do. The government can deploy many teams and workers to help but at the end of the day, Malaysians are just at the mercy of nature." | 2023-03-05T06:32:08+00:00 | albanyherald.com | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/4-dead-40-000-flee-homes-as-floods-hit-malaysia/article_492ab0c7-c4a5-5cac-8381-59fa47011f6f.html |
NASA images showcase eerie beauty of winter on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Mars may seem like a dry, desolate place, but the red planet transforms into an otherworldly wonderland in winter, according to a new video shared by NASA.
It’s late winter in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere, where the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are exploring an ancient river delta that once fed into Jezero Crater billions of years ago.
As the planet’s main feature, dust also drives Martian weather. Dust usually heralds winter’s arrival, but the planet is no stranger to snow, ice and frost. At the Martian poles, the temperature can dip as low as minus 190 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 123 degrees Celsius).
There are two types of snow on Mars. One is the kind we experience on Earth, made of frozen water. The thin Martian air and subzero temperatures mean that traditional snow sublimates, or transitions from a solid directly to a gas, before touching the ground on Mars.
The other type of Martian snow is carbon dioxide-based, or dry ice, and it can land on the surface. A few feet of snow tend to fall on Mars in its flat regions near the poles.
“Enough falls that you could snowshoe across it,” said Sylvain Piqueux, a Mars scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement from a NASA release. “If you were looking for skiing, though, you’d have to go into a crater or cliffside, where snow could build up on a sloped surface.”
So far, no orbiters or rovers have been able to see snow fall on the red planet because the weather phenomenon only occurs at the poles beneath cloud cover at night. The cameras on the orbiters can’t peer through the clouds, and no robotic explorers have been developed that could survive the freezing temperatures at the poles.
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However, the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can detect light that’s invisible to the human eye. It has made detections of carbon dioxide snow falling at the Martian poles. The Phoenix lander, which arrived on Mars in 2008, also used one of its laser instruments to detect water-ice snow from its spot about 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) away from the Martian north pole.
Thanks to photographers, we know snowflakes on Earth are unique and six-sided. Beneath a microscope, Martian snowflakes would likely look a little different.
“Because carbon dioxide ice has a symmetry of four, we know dry-ice snowflakes would be cube-shaped,” Piqueux said. “Thanks to the Mars Climate Sounder, we can tell these snowflakes would be smaller than the width of a human hair.”
Ice and carbon dioxide-based frosts also form on Mars, and they can occur farther away from the poles. The Odyssey orbiter (which entered Mars’ orbit in 2001) has watched frost forming and turning to a gas in the sunlight, while the Viking landers spotted icy frost on Mars when they arrived in the 1970s.
At the end of winter, the season’s buildup of ice can thaw and turn into gas, creating unique shapes that have reminded NASA scientists of Swiss cheese, Dalmatian spots, fried eggs, spiders and other unusual formations.
During winter in Jezero Crater, recent high temperatures have been about 8 F (minus 13 C), while lows been about minus 120 F (minus 84 C).
Meanwhile, at Gale Crater in the Southern Hemisphere near the Martian equator, the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012, has been experiencing highs of 5 F (minus 15 C) and lows of minus 105 F (minus 76 C).
Seasons on Mars tend to last longer because the planet’s oval-shaped orbit around the sun means that a single Martian year is 687 days, or nearly two Earth years.
NASA scientists celebrated the Mars new year on December 26, which coincided with the arrival of the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
“Scientists count Mars years starting from the planet’s northern spring equinox that occurred in 1955 — an arbitrary point to begin, but it’s useful to have a system,” according to a post on the NASA Mars Facebook page. “Numbering Mars years helps scientists keep track of long term observations, like weather data collected by NASA spacecraft over the decades.”
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Two Afghan sisters flee the Taliban, leaving their dreams behind, only to find a new dream acting in a movie that's making headlines at several film festivals.
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Two Afghan sisters flee the Taliban, leaving their dreams behind, only to find a new dream acting in a movie that's making headlines at several film festivals.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol escalated its clash with Republican lawmakers on Monday, recommending a formal ethics inquiry into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and other top allies of former President Trump for their refusal to cooperate with the probe.
The recommendations to the House Ethics Committee mark a milder step than the criminal referrals to the Justice Department that the select committee made Monday against Trump and several members of the former president’s inner circle for their role in the Capitol riot.
But as a political matter, the ethics complaints will shine a bright light on the actions of McCarthy and three other prominent House Republicans — Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Scott Perry (Pa.) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.) — in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the attack. Those actions ranged from attending Jan. 6 planning meetings with Trump at the White House, as Jordan had done, to having conversations with the then-president in the midst of the riot, as McCarthy had done.
The committee had initially requested that those four lawmakers, among others, appear voluntarily before the panel. When the Republicans refused, the panel issued subpoenas for their testimony in May, almost a year into the sweeping investigation into Trump’s efforts to remain in power after his 2020 defeat.
None of them complied with the inquest, arguing the select committee was, from the start, a political witch hunt orchestrated by Trump’s adversaries — most notably Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — to damage Trump’s chances of winning another term in the White House. Heightening those accusations, Trump last month announced his entrance into the 2024 presidential race.
During Monday’s gathering on Capitol Hill, the last in a long series of public forums to air its findings, the select committee argued that ignoring congressional subpoenas — even for sitting lawmakers — sets a dangerous precedent that will hobble Congress’s powers to function effectively as an oversight body.
It’s unclear if the Ethics panel will launch an investigation based on the select committee’s new recommendations. Unlike most other standing committees, membership on the Ethics panel is evenly divided between the parties. And the committee strives — at least rhetorically — to avoid the divisive partisan politicking that practically defines some of the other panels.
Yet with just weeks left in the 117th Congress, there’s a small and closing window for the committee to launch any new probes while Democrats are still in the House majority. And it’s unlikely that a GOP-led Ethics panel would take the remarkable step of investigating the role of sitting Republicans in an event as polarizing as the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Indeed, in a sign of how partisan Jan. 6 has become, McCarthy — who is vying to become Speaker next year and has outsize influence over committee chair spots — is vowing to investigate the Jan. 6 investigation as a first order of business in the new Congress.
Heading into Monday’s forum, panel members seemed resigned to the idea that they had little recourse against McCarthy and the other Republicans who refused to cooperate in the short window before the panel sunsets.
“We don’t have a lot of time right now,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), one of the two Republicans on the select committee, told reporters last week. “That’s the reality of where we’re at.”
By their own telling, each of the Republicans has information pertaining to the Jan. 6 attack that is relevant to the investigation.
McCarthy had called Trump from the Capitol amid the attack, urging the president to call off his supporters, and he later went to the House floor to say Trump bore responsibility for the rampage. But despite initially supporting an outside investigation into the riot, McCarthy reversed course after Trump opposed the idea.
Jordan, another close Trump ally, was among the most vocal proponents of Congress’s effort to overturn Trump’s defeat in certain closely contested states. He’d attended a meeting at the White House in late December of 2020, just weeks before Jan. 6, to help plan the Republicans’ strategy for blocking Congress’s vote to formalize President Biden’s victory. And he was on a conference call on Jan. 2, 2021, for the same purpose. Jordan also spoke with Trump more than once on Jan. 6.
Russell Dye a spokesperson for Jordan dismissed the referral as “just another partisan and political stunt made by a Select Committee that knowingly altered evidence, blocked minority representation on a Committee for the first time in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives, and failed to respond to Mr. Jordan’s numerous letters and concerns surrounding the politicization and legitimacy of the Committee’s work.”
Perry, who rose in prominence as a staunch Trump defender during the former president’s first impeachment, has caught the attention of Jan. 6 investigators for his role in pushing Trump to install Jeffrey Clark as head of the Justice Department after the election. Clark was sympathetic to Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign, and Republicans saw him as an ally in the effort to use the Justice Department to keep Trump in office.
Biggs, a former head of the far-right Freedom Caucus, had been a part of a campaign led by Arizona state lawmakers to seat a slate of alternative electors who would side with Trump despite his loss in the Grand Canyon State.
A fifth GOP lawmaker, Rep. Mo Brooks (Ala.), had also been a target of investigators for his coordination with the Trump White House leading up to Jan. 6 as well as his combative speech on the Ellipse that morning, when Brooks, clad in body armor, urged the crowd to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”
Brooks, who lost a bid for Alabama Senate this year, is not returning to Capitol Hill next year, and the Jan. 6 committee did not include him on its list of ethics referrals.
Updated at 3:24 p.m. | 2022-12-19T20:44:08+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/jan-6-committee-launches-ethics-complaint-against-mccarthy-other-gop-lawmakers/ |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The CEO of Norfolk Southern railroad will testify in Congress next week about last month’s fiery Ohio derailment and the precautions the railroad takes to prevent similar crashes.
The railroad said Wednesday that Alan Shaw had agreed to appear before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works next Thursday. He is likely to face tough questions about whether the railroad has been investing enough in safety as it slashed jobs and streamlined operations in recent years to rely on fewer, longer trains.
Already, several lawmakers have proposed a series of rail safety reforms in response to the Feb. 3 derailment that forced the evacuation of half the town of East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border because of concerns about the toxic chemicals that were on fire. The National Transportation Safety Board has said that an overheating bearing likely caused the derailment that sent 38 cars, including 11 carrying hazardous materials, off the tracks.
Shaw has said the railroad is committed to helping the town recover from this derailment, and Norfolk Southern has committed millions to that effort. But he has said that major safety reforms should wait until after the NTSB investigation is complete, which might take more than a year.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, told reporters on a call Wednesday that he wanted to hear Shaw commit to paying for both the short-term and long-term effects of the wreck.
“We want to hear his commitment to make this community whole, to make this so that people can get back to their lives the way they were — that means reimbursement for all the expenses,” Brown said.
Norfolk Southern said Shaw and other railroad officials “continue to engage in discussions with Members of Congress and other committees about additional requests to testify, while balancing his commitments to the remediation process and the community.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this week that Shaw needs to testify because Norfolk Southern is responsible for the derailment.
“The American people should hear from Norfolk Southern’s CEO precisely why they thought it was a good idea to spend years — years — lobbying to loosen regulations designed to prevent accidents like this,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. “And I especially want to hear why Norfolk Southern, after seeing a record $3.3B in profits last year, prioritized billions— billions — in stock buybacks instead of putting that money toward safety and towards their workers.”
The Federal Railroad Administration issued an advisory Tuesday urging railroads to reexamine how they use and maintain the networks of detectors they have installed along the tracks to spot overheating bearings before they fail. Regulators are expected to announce plans Wednesday afternoon to conduct additional inspections nationwide on tracks that carry large quantities of hazardous materials. | 2023-03-02T16:39:10+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-railroad-ceo-to-testify-in-congress-about-ohio-derailment/ |
(KTLA) — With the price of eggs in California nearly tripling in the past year, many people are going farther to find cheaper prices, even crossing the border into Mexico. But at the San Ysidro crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, hundreds and hundreds of eggs are sitting behind closed doors.
Rosie Maizuss, chief agricultural specialist with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, is responsible for all food entering the port. She explained why the eggs are sitting at the crossing.
“They are here because eggs are prohibited from Mexico,” she told KTLA.
Maizuss said her agents are seizing more eggs than ever before at the border.
“Hundreds upon hundreds of people bringing boxes. All of these eggs will be destroyed,” she said.
The primary reason the eggs are destroyed is that they can potentially carry HPAI, better known as bird flu. An outbreak of the disease is of the main reasons for the skyrocketing price of eggs nationally.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports the average national price for a dozen eggs is just under $3.40. Just a year ago, it was $1.30. That’s about a 161% increase in costs.
“(Bird flu) is approximately in 47 states,” Maizuss explained. “It cost a lot to eradicate, and we depend a lot on this product. So, we basically want to get rid of this problem, so want to take care of this risk.”
From the border crossing station, the eggs will be taken to a nearby waste facility where they’ll be steamed, sterilized and thrown away. Officials at the border say they’re throwing out thousands of eggs per week.
According to Maizuss, people are saying they are purchasing eggs in Mexico for their families because of the high cost of eggs in the U.S.
Hanson Car, from Los Angeles, was one of those people stopped at the border for trying to bring in two cartons of eggs. Car said he didn’t know bringing the eggs in from Mexico was illegal.
“We eat every day at least two eggs,” he said. “I know about the bird flu in the U.S., but I did not know it has to do with Mexico.”
People who turn their eggs in at the border are free to go, but if you’re caught smuggling eggs into the country, you can face civil penalties or fines. | 2023-02-07T17:59:06+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/why-contraband-eggs-piling-up-at-the-us-mexico-border/ |
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP)Jalen Pickett had 18 points, Seth Lundy scored 15 and Penn State cruised to a 70-57 victory over Lafayette on Friday night.
Pickett sank 7 of 10 shots from the floor with eight assists and six rebounds for Penn State (6-1). Lundy hit 3 of 6 from 3-point range and added seven rebounds and two blocks. Camren Wynter sank three shots from beyond the arc and scored 11.
Leo O’Boyle was the lone Leopard to score in double figures with 19. He made 6 of 9 shots from the floor, while his teammates sank 12 of 49. O’Boyle made 4 of 5 from distance while the rest of the Leopards made 5 of 23.
O’Boyle sank a 3-pointer to give Lafayette a 19-12 lead with 12:13 remaining in the first half. From there, Pickett scored 12 of his 14 first-half points and Lundy scored all 10 of his to send Penn State (6-1) into halftime with a 42-32 lead.
Andrew Funk buried a 3-pointer, Kebba Njie had a three-point play and Wynter hit a 3 to spark a 15-2 run to open the second half and Penn State led 57-34 with 14:25 left in the game. Lafeyette (1-6) ended the run when T.J. Berger buried two straight 3-pointers.
The Nittany Lions took their biggest lead 66-40 on a 3-pointer by Lundy with 7:34 remaining.
Penn State leads the series with Lafayette 13-4. The Leopards are in their first season under Mike Jordan.
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Trombone Shorty, born Troy Andrews, grew up in a family of musicians. Before he was old enough for Kindergarten, he was on stage performing on New Orleans’ biggest stage: Jazz Fest.
Since then, his mastery of both vocals and the trombone has earned him a Grammy and fans worldwide. His latest album, “Lifted,” honors the influence of his mother.
Andrews is touring the U.S. this summer. He made time to swing by WAMU to talk about why he and his music always return home.
Copyright 2023 WAMU 88.5 | 2023-07-13T18:51:14+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-07-12/trombone-shorty-makes-music-that-sounds-like-new-orleans |
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Milwaukee homicide, 15-year-old killed
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee police are investigating a homicide that occurred Wednesday, May 11 at approximately 6:30 p.m. The victim, a 15-year-old Milwaukee boy, sustained fatal gunshot injuries.
The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office identified the teen on Thursday as Heavion Scott.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer representing attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election, spotlighted Wednesday legal debates surrounding the tallying electoral votes in a defense of Eastman’s advice to the former president that could get him disbarred.
Eastman, a former law school dean, is facing 11 disciplinary charges in the State Bar Court of California stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at having then-Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
Prosecutors have depicted Eastman as a rogue attorney and Trump enabler who fabricated a baseless theory and made false claims of fraud in hopes of overturning the results of the election.
In the second day of proceedings, defense attorney Randall A. Miller highlighted scholarly debates about the reach of the vice president’s authority in the electoral process, in an apparent attempt to counter the argument that Eastman was making groundless claims in a last-minute bid to salvage the Trump presidency.
Among his points, Miller pointed to a Dec. 8, 2020 memo written by Pence’s counsel at the time, Gregory Jacob, who testified through much of the day. In the memo, Jacob tells Pence that there is disagreement about whether Pence’s role is ministerial or whether the vice president can “play a decisive role in resolving objections to electoral votes on their merits.”
However, Pence eventually concluded his role was largely ceremonial, and he did not have the authority to discard electoral votes that would make Democrat Joe Biden the next president, despite public pressure from Trump and Eastman’s legal arguments.
In a Jan. 5 memo, Jacob argued that Eastman’s advice to delay vote-counting would likely lose in court, and could result in a standoff in Congress.
Earlier in the day-long hearing, prosecutors who called Jacob as a witnesses walked him through his interactions with Eastman, largely echoing what Jacob told the House Jan. 6 committee during its investigation into the 2021 Capitol insurrection.
Assertions by Eastman at different times that the vice president should — and had the authority to — reject electors or delay the proceedings did not square with the Constitution or federal law, Jacob testified.
“No vice president in the entire history of our country had ever asserted — made any public statement — that they had the authority” to reject electoral vote certificates, Jacob said.
To Pence, “It did not make any constitutional sense … that the framers of our Constitution would vest authority to reject electors in one individual,” he added.
Miller earlier argued that Eastman never intended to steal the election, but was considering ways to delay electoral-vote counting so states could investigate allegations of voting improprieties. Trump’s claims of fraud were roundly rejected by courts, including by judges the Republican appointed.
Prosecutors have said that Eastman continued his efforts to undermine the election even after state and federal officials publicly rejected Trump allies’ claims of fraud.
“All of his misconduct was done with one singular purpose: To obstruct the electoral count on Jan. 6 and stop Vice President Pence from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the election,” Duncan Carling of the office of chief trial counsel — which is seeking Eastman’s disbarment — said in Tuesday’s proceedings. “He was fully aware in real time that his plan was damaging the nation.”
The proceedings are expected to last at least eight days. The California State Bar is a regulatory agency and the only court system in the U.S. that is dedicated to attorney discipline.
It could be weeks or months before a decision is reached.
Once the proceeding concludes, the State Bar Court has 90 days to file its decision, which is a recommendation that then goes to the California Supreme Court.
The State Bar alleges that Eastman violated California’s business and professions code by making false and misleading statements that constitute acts of “moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption,” and in doing so he “violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land — an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy.”
Eastman was dean of the Chapman University law school from 2007 to 2010. He was a professor at the school when he retired in 2021.
Eastman has been a member of the California Bar since 1997, according to its website. He was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute. He ran for California attorney general in 2010, finishing second in the Republican primary. | 2023-06-22T19:44:33+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/attorneys-spar-in-case-of-ex-trump-adviser-who-devised-strategy-to-keep-former-president-in-power/ |
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve is on track to raise its benchmark interest rate for the 10th time on Wednesday, the latest step in its yearlong effort to curb inflation with the fastest pace of hikes in four decades.
Yet economists and Wall Street traders will be more interested in what the Fed and Chair Jerome Powell signal in a statement and at a news conference about a bigger question: What comes next? And on that note, they may be disappointed.
Economists say Powell will likely hint that the Fed is edging closer to a long-awaited pause in its rate increases. Yet he won't necessarily send a clear sign that this week's hike will be the Fed's last. Instead, he will probably stress that further rate hikes could happen if inflation were to stay persistently high, well above the Fed's 2% target rate.
“He wants to kind of tell the market, ‘Don’t relax. Don’t be complacent. We could still hike more if we think we need to, but we don’t know if we have to yet,' ” said Derek Tang, an economist at LHMeyer, an economic consulting firm.
The weekend collapse of First Republic Bank, the second-largest bank failure on record, isn't expected to stop the Fed from proceeding with a rate hike Wednesday. First Republic, the third major bank to fail in the past two months, was seized by regulators on Sunday night and was sold to JPMorgan Chase.
Even if Powell strongly suggests that the Fed will pause its hikes after this week, Tang said, he will likely emphasize that the Fed doesn't expect to cut rates anytime this year. Even so, investors are predicting two Fed rate cuts by year's end, according to CME's Fedwatch tool.
Another quarter-point rate increase on Wednesday would leave the Fed's key rate at 5.1% — a 16-year high and a full 5 percentage points higher than in March 2022.
“He could very credibly say, ‘It makes sense for us to take a breather here, and we’re not lowering them, so the rates are still really high,’ ” Tang added.
At the Fed's last meeting, in March, its officials forecast that they would implement one more hike and then leave rates unchanged until next year. Those forecasts are issued once each quarter, so they won't be updated until June.
Seven of the Fed's 18 policymakers, though, projected that rates would exceed 5.1%, while only one policymaker forecast a lower rate. That suggested that the Fed as a whole was leaning toward additional hikes.
The central bank has been rapidly tightening credit to combat inflation, which reached its highest level in four decades last summer and has been slowing gradually since then. The rate increases are intended to slow borrowing and spending to cool the economy.
But in the process, the Fed’s rate hikes have led to higher costs for many loans, from mortgages and auto purchases to credit cards and corporate borrowing, and have heightened the risk of a recession.
The next steps for the central bank, after this week, are clouded by uncertainty and a mix of conflicting signals. The economy appears to be cooling, with consumer spending flat in February and March, indicating that many shoppers have grown cautious in the face of higher prices and borrowing costs.
The surprisingly resilient job market, which has kept the unemployment rate near 50-year lows for months, is showing some cracks. Hiring has decelerated, job postings have declined and fewer people are quitting their jobs for other, typically higher-paying positions.
Compounding the uncertainties the Fed faces is the impact of the large bank failures of the past two months. Analysts don't expect more banks to collapse. But many of them could tighten lending, which would slow the economy.
“For every First Republic or Silicon Valley Bank, there will be hundreds of smaller and mid-sized U.S. banks that will act more conservatively in the months ahead in order to minimize any risk that they end up in the same situation,” Krishna Guha, said an analyst at Evercore ISI, an investment bank.
To some degree, that is what the Fed wants because less borrowing and spending would likely help ease inflation.
Evidence of a sharp pullback in lending might even make Powell more comfortable about hinting that this week's rate hike might be followed by a pause. At the Fed's meeting in March, Powell had said that if banks restricted lending, it could act as the equivalent of an additional quarter-point rate hike.
Fed officials will have information from a survey of bank loan officers when they meet this week, though the results won't be made public until next week.
Most crucially, the policymakers must decide where they think inflation is likely headed. Some major drivers of higher prices, such as rents, energy, and used cars, have puttered out or started to reverse, causing sharp drops in overall inflation. The consumer price index rose 5% in March from a year earlier, sharply lower than its 9.1% peak in June.
The growth in rental costs has started to decline as more newly built apartments have come online. Gas and energy prices have fallen steadily. Food costs are moderating. Supply chain snarls are no longer blocking trade, thereby lowering the cost for new and used cars, furniture and appliances.
As hiring and job openings decline, wage growth should also slow, some economists argue. The Fed, they say, should look less at backward-looking data such as the unemployment rate and more at where such trends appear headed.
“If you’re ignoring that, and you’re still raising rates regardless, then you’re going to find yourself very soon running the risk of overdoing it, substantially overdoing it," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. “I really think that we’re now into mistake territory.”
But Fed officials are now gun-shy about shifting their policies based on trends that could lower inflation in the future, such as cheaper rents. Powell and other officials have said they want to see inflation decline consistently before considering major policy shifts on interest rates.
And data released Friday showed that inflation and wage growth remained stubbornly high in March. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, “core” prices in the Fed's preferred inflation index rose 4.6% from a year ago, scarcely better than the 4.7% it reached in July.
Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed's Board of Governors, cited similar figures from the consumer price index earlier last month in saying, “I interpret these data as indicating that we haven't made much progress on our inflation goal.” | 2023-05-01T14:48:04+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/05/01/fed-is-set-to-raise-rates-yet-again-after-that-then-what/ |
The Lakers emerged from their Game 1 loss with reasons to feel semi-good about their circumstances.
But let’s not get crazy with the narrative that they’ve discovered the adjustment to upset the Nuggets. Because no, Rui Hachimura is not the Nikola Jokic stopper.
We’re fully confident Jokic will figure this out.
Here’s what led to this question: Jokic was a monster through three quarters of Denver’s 132-126 victory Tuesday night, then disappeared when Hachimura drew the assignment in the fourth. Hachimura, a 6-8 power forward, was strong enough to keep Jokic from backing down and imposing his will. It allowed Anthony Davis, who guarded Jokic for most of the previous possessions, to roam as an effective help defender.
“I think it was a good plan, and I think the second half, we did a pretty good job on him,” Hachimura said.
First, there’s a good chance Jokic was physically spent by the fourth quarter. He logged 42 minutes, tying a season-high for a regulation game, and was all over the court while accumulating 21 rebounds, 14 assists and 34 points.
Second, Hachimura is not exactly an elite defender. A physical presence, sure, but the 25-year-old has always struggled with defensive reads and navigating screens. Jokic will find a way to exploit him.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham pretended like he held back defensive schemes because he didn’t want to reveal the full playbook. Riiiiight. It’s only the conference finals.
“We didn’t want to go too deep into the in-game adjustments. It’s still that ultimate chess game,” Ham said. “So, we were comfortable with the results, gave us a chance to get back into the game and it’s one of the things that if we need to go back to it’s there — along with several other things that we didn’t unveil tonight.”
The real reason the Lakers should feel more confident is the Nuggets hit 15 3-pointers at a 47% clip. That’s tough to sustain, even if the shots are wide open because the defenders are collapsing on Jokic.
Also, the altitude in Denver gets easier to navigate for the visitors after a few days in the Mile High. Game 2 is Thursday.
FULL PICTURE OF NBA IN ONE NIGHT
After ESPN tried fiercely – and I mean fiercely – to prop up Victor Wembanyama as the superhero to save human athletics, the entire evening and broadcast became a snapshot of the state of the NBA.
There was the future, Wembanyama, who was hailed on the broadcast as the “greatest prospect in the history of team sports.” He’s headed to the Spurs and Gregg Popovich’s life expectancy just extended another 15 years.
There was the fool, Ja Morant, who was in the mix to become the next face of the league until he conflated rap videos with real life. Interviewed by ESPN, commissioner Adam Silver feigned “shock” that Morant again brandished a gun on video. (You mean a few days at a rehab center didn’t actually do anything? Shocking).
There was the past, LeBron James, who is simultaneously holding on to greatness and watching it slip through his fingers.
Then there was the present, Jokic, who the system has been reluctant to embrace but now can’t ignore.
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One of my jobs here at NPR is co-hosting the NPR Politics Podcast. This week, the show took a close look at how Florida voters are responding to Governor Ron DeSantis' embrace of the culture wars. DeSantis is eyeing a run for president. He's made a national name for himself among Republican voters by taking on big companies like Disney and limiting how sexual orientation, gender identity and race are discussed and taught in Florida classrooms. As DeSantis takes trips to key presidential states like Iowa this year, he's also planning to forbid any classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity all the way up through senior year of high school. That would expand upon the controversial law the governor signed last year that banned such instruction from kindergarten through third grade.
NPR's congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales went to Florida to see how all of this is playing with voters there. My co-host of the Politics Podcast Asma Khalid talked to Claudia about this, along with senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. And Asma started the conversation by asking Claudia what voters told her.
CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: It's really interesting. I spoke to a lot of Latino conservative voters in South Florida, in Miami-Dade County, and they have a lot of excitement, a lot of energy for Governor DeSantis. In particular, they're excited about his approach to a lot of these culture wars. They really related to a lot of that. It was interesting. Some would say that they were former supporters of ex-President Trump, but now they're moving on to the Florida governor because they see Trump is weakened, whether it's by Democrats or by Trump's own hand. And they see the Florida governor as a stronger figure. And he's bringing that same message, they say, of I alone can fix this. And so that ability to stand up, that reminded them of the kind of forceful kind of language they would like to see used by a president against a lot of these regimes in Venezuela, Cuba or other Latin American countries.
Along those same lines, I spoke to a professor at Florida International University, Professor Eduardo Gamarra. And he was telling me how popular this Florida governor has become among these Latino voters in particular. You didn't see that kind of influence when he first ran for governor, but you could see that in the reelection.
EDUARDO GAMARRA: You know, Colombians had shifted way to the right. Not as - the Venezuelans, not as far. The Cubans had shifted right. And that what unified them all was this enormous support for DeSantis.
GRISALES: And so what he's talking about is findings from a poll they conducted more than a year ago, talking to different Latinos about how they felt that the Florida governor was doing in terms of different issues. And he said a lot of them would repeat a lot of the same lines from the governor, clearly showing they're aligned and on the same page with him.
ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: That's so interesting 'cause it sounds almost like they moved to the right because of DeSantis' persona, because of who he has been as governor. I mean, is that what you're hearing from voters?
GRISALES: You know, I think that they're meeting together at the right place at the right time. I mean, there was depressed voter turnout - we should note that - in Miami-Dade, especially when we talk about Democrats. But these conservative Latino voters, what I heard a lot from them is they felt abandoned by Democrats. They felt like Republicans were doing a better job, especially paying attention to the issues in Latin America and some of these regimes that they're really worried about. One of those voters I talked to was Mario Sanchez (ph). He was telling me what a big fan he is of the Florida governor.
MARIO SANCHEZ: (Speaking Spanish).
GRISALES: And so what he's saying there is that Democrats spend a lot of time talking about things that do not exist, like racism. He doesn't believe that that is an issue in this country. Rather, this is a Cuban American who was talking about focusing on patriotism, on how to unite the country and how to keep us all - Americans - on the same page, rather than focusing on the differences. And that's what's made him such a big fan of Governor DeSantis.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: I think it's really indicative of the line that DeSantis has been trying to walk, and it's going to be a really interesting hurdle for him in the 2024 presidential election, if he does decide to get in, because, you know, we're seeing that there's something like half of the Republican Party base is open to someone other than Trump. He's sort of running in the same lane as Trump, making an appeal with this culture warrior tactics to voters who don't have college degrees, who make less money, when really he needs to also be able to pull over enough of those white-collar Republicans who do have college degrees and make more money.
KHALID: I'm struck hearing you say that there's this fine line DeSantis has to walk on some of these culture war issues because it seems like broadly, the Republican Party seems to think that this is a winnable issue for them. I mean, you look at what happened in Congress today. House Republicans, just a bit ago, passed this legislation dubbed a Parents Bill of Rights that would, among other things, inform parents if their kids changed pronouns in school, what books, for example, are held in school libraries, et cetera. And it seems like they think that this is a potentially really popular issue for them.
MONTANARO: They definitely see this as a wedge issue, as a way for them to get in on being able to split or divide Democrats and try to win over some independents. And I think, as Claudia is talking about, with a lot of the Latinos in South Florida, you know, this really does appeal to some of them because they're more culturally conservative, and that message has been really pushed by Republicans. And they have some polling on their side. I mean, if you look at the 2020 midterm elections, the exit polls there, they asked, are society's values on gender identity and sexual orientation changing for the worse, changing for the better or not getting better or worse? And, you know, half said that they're changing for the worse. Twenty-six percent said they're changing for the better. That included about 20% of Democrats who said that they're changing for the worse - clearly a big split there and divide.
KHALID: Domenico, was this nationwide exit polling or...
MONTANARO: That was nationwide exit polling overall. Now, when you drill down to what they're doing in Florida specifically, in Florida itself, there was a Siena poll last year that showed that, you know, more than two-thirds of Republicans were in favor of the bill that DeSantis had pushed for in limiting the kind of discussions about gender and sexual orientation in schools. About a fifth of Democrats were in favor of that. When you look more broadly, though, nationally, it's more split. You have 51% of Americans supporting banning teachers teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity from K-3.
Now, if that goes further, which it looks like DeSantis certainly thinks that he's got the ability to potentially push on, he's doubling down here. I don't know - there hasn't been any polling yet to show how people would feel about that all the way through 12th grade. But it's certainly one of those culture issues that Republicans have decided to really try and home in on. Now, the difficulty for them is, does it play in a general election in the same way it will in a primary?
DETROW: That was my co-host on the NPR Politics Podcast Asma Khalid talking to congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales and senior editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. You can catch the NPR Politics Podcast every weekday afternoon wherever you listen to podcasts. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-04-05T00:59:38+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/2023-03-26/desantis-and-the-culture-wars |
LEHI, Utah, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Switch Reward Card will be a blockchain-based financial services ecosystem that will offer debit payment solutions for both traditional and cryptocurrencies around the world. As CEO, Kathy Roberts hopes to transform how people engage with cryptocurrencies. And with over 20 years of experience in the consumer credit card industry, Roberts is no stranger to shaping how people interact with their money.
In 1986, Roberts began her career at Discover Card as a "dawner," or early executive team member. She progressed through several executive positions, including VP of Operations, and was the company's first female Director of Field Operations based in Columbus, Ohio.
Roberts continued to excel at Discover, eventually rising to the position of President of Discover Bank from 2000 to 2006. During her tenure as President, Roberts became the first woman to chair the Delaware Banker's Association and achieved the FDIC's highest rating for Community Reinvestment Act. Roberts was also appointed as Business Council to the Delaware Bank Commissioner by the Governor of Delaware.
In addition to her professional endeavors, Roberts has also contributed significantly to numerous non-profits, including The History Makers, Village Drill/WHOLIVEs, The New Mexico Museum Foundation, and the Delaware Junior Achievement organization. She is also on the Board of Directors of several companies, including Galvan, a blockchain healthcare company.
Switch will be a blockchain-based financial services ecosystem. The blockchain will be empowered by a global decentralized node network where node licensees will be rewarded with Switch Digital Rewards. Switch will offer debit payment solutions for both traditional and cryptocurrencies around the world.
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A Nevada Democratic U.S. senator is looking to Congress to ensure mining companies can use established mineral claims to dump waste on neighboring federal lands as they always had before a federal appeals court adopted a stricter interpretation of a 150-year-old law.
Environmentalists widely praised the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ more restrictive ruling, which blocked the Rosemont copper mine in southern Arizona last year because the company hadn’t proven it had mineral rights on the adjacent land where the waste rock was to be buried.
The ramifications of the ruling are worrisome, however, for President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda and for key projects to mine lithium, cobalt and other materials needed to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles.
In response, Nevada U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto drafted a bill she intends to introduce Tuesday with Republican Sen. James Risch of Idaho, her office told The Associated Press on Monday. The bill would amend a 1993 budget reconciliation act but primarily clarifies definitions of activities and rights central to the 1872 Mining Law.
The language is intended to insulate mines from the more onerous and likely most expensive standards imposed on the industry by the 9th Circuit ruling, which was a significant departure from long-established mining practices that environmentalists have fought for decades.
Two U.S. judges in Nevada have since enforced it — one in a complicated way that nevertheless allowed construction to begin at what would be the largest lithium mine in the nation near the Oregon line.
Without congressional action, Cortez and other senators say critical mineral projects across the West are threatened, including those needed to expedite the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and to bolster national defense.
“This misguided decision would force all mining activities, even the storage of waste, to happen on mineral-rich land, which could impede critical mineral production all across the country,” Cortez Masto said in a statement emailed to AP.
Nevada is the biggest gold-producing state and home to some of the nation’s largest lithium deposits.
Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, an independent, have signed on to the bill as co-sponsors.
The measure is sure to meet staunch opposition from conservationists who consider the Rosemont ruling and its ripple effects one of their biggest victories in years.
While they generally embrace Biden’s efforts to speed the transition to renewables, they continue to challenge even so-called green energy projects with lawsuits accusing the government of violating laws protecting endangered species, water resources and cultural and historical sites.
The Rosemont ruling upended the government’s long-held position that the 1872 Mining Law — the nation’s premier regulation of mining since the Civil War — conveys the same rights established through a valid mining claim to adjacent land for the disposal of tailings and other waste.
The 9th Circuit held that instead, the company must establish — and the government must validate — that valuable minerals are present under such lands for a claim to exist.
Based largely on that ruling, U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno ruled in February that the Bureau of Land Management had violated the law when it approved Lithium Americas’ plans for the Thacker Pass mine near the Nevada-Oregon line. But she allowed construction to begin last month while the bureau works to bring the project into compliance with federal law.
The 9th Circuit has scheduled oral arguments June 26 on environmentalists’ appeal of Du’s refusal to halt the mine even though she found it was approved illegally.
Last month, U.S. Judge Larry Hicks in Reno also adopted the Rosemont standard in his ruling that nullified Bureau of Land Management approval of a Nevada molybdenum mine and prohibited any construction.
“BLM cannot skirt the Mining Law requirement that valuable mineral deposits must be found in order to occupy the land,” he wrote March 31. | 2023-04-25T00:54:25+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/planned-senate-bill-would-counteract-mining-law-ruling/ |
What is a flash flood emergency?
ORLANDO, Fla. - Hurricane Ian dumped massive amounts of rain on Central Florida, sparking Flash Flood Warnings across several counties and a flooding emergency in Seminole County. Officials say there is unprecedented flooding for Little Wekiva River with levels at 30.6 ft. which is a foot above the record.
Remember: Turn around. Don’t drown. It is never safe to drive through floodwaters.
So what exactly is a flash flood emergency?
Flood vs. flash flood
A flood happens when an existing body of water, such as a lake, a river, a stream or a creek, overflows onto dry land. The term can even include drainage ditches. Floods do not usually have rushing water and are usually longer-term events.
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A flash flood occurs when heavy rain falls in a very short period, causing rapid rises in water levels in a particular area. They are usually characterized by rushing water that sweeps away things such as debris, vehicles and even people. Flash floods are usually short-term events and can dissipate nearly as fast as they began.
Watch, warning, emergency
The NWS can issue a watch or warning for either type of flood event. An emergency is reserved for a flash flood.
Watch
A flood watch or flash flood watch is issued when government meteorologists believe conditions are favorable or will become favorable for these types of events to occur. This type of alert is usually issued for a large area and is the NWS’ way of telling you to be prepared for flooding.
Warning
A flood warning or flash flood warning means that a flood or flash flood is happening and you need to take action. These warnings are usually issued for a specific area.
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For flood warnings, you need to keep a close eye on water levels in your area and move to higher ground if those levels start to increase. This is especially true for people who live in flood-prone areas.
For flash flood warnings, you should immediately seek shelter on higher ground.
Emergency
This is the most dire of all the flood alerts that can be issued by the NWS. They are rarely issued and are reserved for flash floods.
A flash flood emergency means there is a severe threat to human life from a flash flood and catastrophic damage is happening or will happen soon. You should move to higher ground immediately.
FOX Weather contributed to this report. | 2022-09-29T17:08:25+00:00 | wogx.com | https://www.wogx.com/news/what-is-a-flash-flood-emergency |
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Bakkt Holdings, Inc. f/k/a VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings.
Shareholders who purchased shares of BKKT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Bakkt securities between March 31, 2021 and November 19, 2021, both dates inclusive; and/or (b) Bakkt Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC completed on or about October 15, 2021.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company had defective financial controls; (ii) as a result, there were errors in the Company's financial statements related to the misclassification of certain shares issued prior to the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC; (iii) accordingly, the Company would need to restate certain of its financial statements; (iv) the Company downplayed the true scope and severity of these issues; (v) the Company overstated its remediation of its defective financial controls; and (vi) as a result, the documents issued in connection with the business combination and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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Counties across the Wabash Valley have contested races in the May 3 primary election.
In Parke County, the Republican ballot has races for four county offices.
The ballot features four sheriff candidates – Jason Frazier, Robert Gregg, Dan Jones and Randel Kneeland.
Auditor candidates are Laura Jean Fischer and Mary Anne Wood.
Clerk candidates are Nicole Collins and Henry Harper.
Clay County
In Clay County, the Republican ballot has two contested races.
Running for sheriff are candidates Josh Clarke, William Nevil, Sam Stearley and Brison Swearingen.
Auditor candidates are Patricia Foxx and Thad Shidler.
Sullivan County
In Sullivan County, the Republican ballot features six contested races.
Running for sheriff are Randy Beller and Billy Snead.
The county clerk candidates are Tonya Bedwell and Shelly Parris.
Recorder candidates are Christy Knotts and Delta Mahurin.
Assessor candidates are Douglas Bats and Michele Bedwell.
Candidates for District 1 county commissioner are Robert Davis and John Allen Figg.
The Sullivan ballot also features the race for State Senator District 45 with candidates Bruce Borders and Jeff Ellington.
Vermillion, Parke
In Vermillion County, both the Republican and Democrat ballots feature contested races.
The Democrat ballot race for sheriff is between candidates Chad Hennis and Mike Holtkamp.
In both Vermillion and Parke counties, the Republican ballot features the race for State Senator District 23 with candidates Christian Beaver, Paula Copenhaver, Spencer Deery and Bill Webster.
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This story is part of “All Those ‘Racial Reckoning’ Promises,” Word In Black’s series exploring the pledges made to the Black community following the Summer of George Floyd and what organizations and leaders can still do now to promote racial equity and justice.
Black journalists are constantly afraid of retaliation.
After George Floyd was murdered, newsrooms pledged to hire more Black staff, address racism in the workplace, and ensure the standard of objectivity wasn’t being used to silence their voices. I wanted to talk to Black reporters about whether what had been promised had come to fruition.
I sent interview requests to about a dozen Black reporters at white-owned outlets asking if they could talk to me about how supported they feel in their newsroom. One reporter after another declined to comment on the record. All of them said they were afraid of retaliation in their newsroom.
Except one.
His story highlights the ways in which white-led newsrooms are failing. And how the racial reckoning in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd was just another way newsrooms tried to save face.
Some of those promises include increasing diversity in newsroom leadership, reporting on race and equity topics, anti-racist stance, and building a better newsroom culture.
In reality, many of those promises are falling short.
But because so many Black journalists were afraid of going on the record, I got to thinking about what Black-led newsrooms are doing to support each other and their staff. Black news outlets aren’t necessarily Nirvana for Black reporters. There are still times when a Black journalist working for a Black news outlet might be afraid of retaliation for speaking frankly.
However, there is a definite difference in the culture. So, I talked to two journalists that make up the Word In Black collaborative about how they continue to amplify the voices of our community — and support each other.
Without Black Journalists, There Is No News
26-year-old Los Angeles Gabe Schneider works in operations and strategy for L.A. Public Press and is the co-director of The Objective, a nonprofit newsroom examining the power structure and inequity in journalism. During his eight years in the journalism industry, he’s worked in a number of newsrooms where he had to figure out how to exist in those spaces.
When George Floyd was murdered, Schneider worked at MinnPost, a nonprofit, Minneapolis-based digital newsroom where he was the only Black reporter.
“I think there was an acknowledgment that the newsroom needed to be better, but I don’t think it should have taken someone’s death to sort of push that realization to the forefront,” he says. “Reporters … were huge advocates of fixing the newsroom. But they didn’t run the newsroom. There’s always newsroom leadership.”
Like many reporters of color, Schneider was often told by white editors his story ideas were not good enough. And to watch what he posted on social media. If he were to criticize the newsroom he worked in, those in newsroom leadership threatened to fire him.
But one thing is sure — reporters of color have built a community to support one another. For Schneider, that’s been instrumental to his career. A major reason he co-founded The Objective was due to the passive voice many reporters used after George Floyd was murdered.
“I was so pissed off about the state of journalism criticism and the ways in which national outlets covered George Floyd’s murder,” he says. “For me, it was kind of painful and frustrating to watch national media just do the same thing.”
His current nonprofit is meant to be a space where Black reporters and reporters of color can talk about the objectivity of journalism. They’re amplifying stories that would not otherwise be published in white-led newsrooms and challenging the current structures in place.
Initially, funding for the newsroom was easier to come by. Now, three years after this nationwide racial reckoning, having enough funding has become more challenging.
“I think a lot of my time is spent scraping by,” Schneider says. “It feels like the further we get away from the summer of 2020, the harder it is to raise money to do that. And to be taken seriously in the idea that criticism from Black journalists about their experiences is important.”
When asked why he feels it’s become more difficult to raise money, Schneider says for many funders, it’s more about the “flavor of the moment” than a long-term strategy. But still, he’s working to support and mentor Black journalists.
Carrying the weight of supporting reporters of color in newsrooms that are usually not representative of them has come at a cost. At times, he has felt burnt out.
“If I don’t, some folks will just go without support and without anyone listening,” he says.
Unfortunately, Schneider is not alone in experiencing burnout. In a survey of more than 500 U.S. journalists, on average, 70% experienced work-related burnout, with the highest rates for journalists aged 34 and under.
It’s not enough to diversify the editorial staff. Newsroom leadership needs to be more representative of the communities being reported on. Schneider says in 2020, some newsrooms put Black journalists in positions of power. But, the caveat was the lack of support given to allow them to succeed.
On top of that, the wave of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives was left on the shoulders of the small number of reporters of color.
“I don’t think the labor should be entirely on Black and Brown reporters — that’s a huge flaw,” Schneider says. “For me, it was personally exhausting.”
A survey by Pew Research Center found that of more than 12,000 U.S. journalists, younger journalists are more likely to have had DEI training. But, journalists 65 years old and up were less likely to have formal training and less likely to discuss organizational diversity.
“Mainstream media has consistently failed,” Schneider says.
What Journalists in Black-Led Newsrooms Say
In the fight for racial equity, Black journalists stand on the front lines. Making sure that Black experiences and stories are told accurately, empathetically, and with the depth they deserve. It’s not just about diversity; it’s about narrative control, the power of representation, and the crucial role of the Black Press in shaping public perception.
Sam P.K. Collins, 33, has worked at the Washington Informer, a Black publication that’s a part of Word In Black, since 2012. He underscores the importance of creating space for our experiences and ideas in a newsroom.
“Black people have been fighting for self-determination since our ancestors came to the so-called New World on those ships. In a world where perception becomes reality, it’s essential that we are in control of our narrative,” Collins says. “Our stories must be able to inspire, inform and mobilize, or else our people will perish for a lack of knowledge.”
Ashleigh Carrington Fields, 22, a reporter at the Baltimore AFRO since April, agrees.
“Our experiences as Black people are unique but often characterized through a shared lens of discrimination, oppression, and the will to overcome,” she says. “As a Black journalist, we must reflect on our nuanced encounters to provide empathetic coverage of news throughout the African diaspora.”
Collins says there are Black reporters who’ve been able to do this in majority-white newsrooms, “but only to some degree.”
That’s why he’s “a proponent and ardent advocate for the Black Press — a place where we can truly represent ourselves and control our voice.”
Black Newsrooms Supporting Black Reporters
Following George Floyd’s murder, numerous newsrooms made public commitments to support Black journalists and confront racial disparities within their ranks. But with the Black press, this isn’t a cosmetic diversity ploy. But a matter of seizing narrative control, respecting the power of Black voices, and recognizing the essential role of Black reporters.
Collins speaks highly of the Informer’s efforts, citing collaborations with Word in Black and workshops aimed at increasing his professional skills.
“My newsroom is just an affirming place where everyone understands the assignment and gives kudos to one another,” Collins says. “The George Floyd murder, along with other events, took that culture to the next level.”
Similarly, Fields reports that her newsroom partnered with Word in Black “to provide our readers with intimate coverage from a diverse group of local Black journalists. Commentary addressing recent Black murders like Jordan Neely in New York have been helpful in bringing critical conversations involving racial injustice in reporting to the forefront.”
What Can Other Newsrooms Do Better to Support Black Journalists?
Collins offers a sobering perspective. The very structures of non-Black newsrooms, he posits, create an insurmountable barrier to the kind of support Black journalists need.
“Speaking from personal experience, I wouldn’t wish the fight for self-determination in a non-Black newsroom on my worst enemy,” he says. “We as Black people have to create a situation where we are in control of our voices and where we are building Black-ran news organizations. That should be our goal.”
Fields, on the other hand, believes that the key lies in respecting and accurately documenting the Black community’s perspectives.
“Our voices, opinions, and experiences have to be respected and documented in an accurate light,” she says.
Still, Collins notes that if the talented reporters and editors that work at outlets like the Informer and the AFRO “went on to ‘greener pastures,’ then the Black Press would die. We must keep in mind why the Black Press was founded and who provided us opportunities when the so-called mainstream outlets lampooned us in front of the entire world.” | 2023-05-25T23:27:58+00:00 | atlantadailyworld.com | https://atlantadailyworld.com/2023/05/25/what-happened-to-racial-reckoning/ |
Ex-deputy gets life for killing ex-wife, stepdaughter, stepdaughter’s boyfriend
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend.
Former Travis County sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick, 42, was automatically sentenced after pleading guilty to capital murder Tuesday in Austin in the 2021 deaths of ex-wife Amanda Broderick, 35; stepdaughter Alyssa Broderick, 17; and Willie Simmons III, 18. Broderick rammed his vehicle into his ex-wife’s house and shot dead all three people inside.
Prosecutors set aside a possible death penalty in exchange for the guilty plea.
The ex-deputy killed the three during a custody visit with his son, whom he didn’t shoot. Stephen Broderick was free on bond at the time of the shooting after being charged the year before with the sexual assault of a child and losing his job as a result.
Stephen Broderick was ordered to wear a GPS tracking device, but state District Judge Karen Sage ordered the removal of the device five months after his release, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Prosecutors dropped the sexual assault charge as part of Broderick’s plea deal. Amanda and Alyssa Broderick’s family said the dismissal denied justice to Alyssa, who was the victim of the sexual assault.
But prosecutors said they doubted they could obtain a conviction on the charge because the victim was dead.
Sage, who passed the sentence on Broderick, expressed sympathy with their anger.
“I wish I could bring you justice,” Sage said. “But the truth is, the loss you’re suffering, there’s nothing I can do to make that loss go away. It’s the best we can do in the system we have, and it’s never enough. My heart goes out to you. Three beautiful, wonderful people — I see their lives shine on through all of you. I hope that at some point you can find some peace.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-15T00:54:48+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/09/14/ex-deputy-gets-life-killing-ex-wife-stepdaughter-stepdaughters-boyfriend/ |
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(iSeeCars) — As noted in our recent used car pricing report, used car values are consistently declining for the first time in over two years. But even as the values for used cars are dropping across the board, Tesla models experienced some of the biggest price drops in recent months. Used Tesla Model 3 prices, for example, were down 16.8 percent between September and December 2022.
- The average late-year Tesla used car value has dropped 4.8 percent in just the past month
- This compares to a 1.5 percent drop across all late-year used cars in the same time period
- Plug-in hybrid vehicles are also declining in value at an accelerated rate
These declines in Tesla values only accelerated when the company announced substantial price reductions for new Tesla models on January 13th, 2023. These latest price cuts were done to better align Tesla’s pricing with recent government legislation, though falling sales volume and rising inventory levels, across the industry and for Tesla specifically, suggest these cuts were also made to ensure new Teslas continue to move in a softening economy.
Used Tesla Values Take a Big Hit in January
How have these cuts in new Tesla prices impacted used Tesla values? iSeeCars analyzed Tesla used car prices between January 3rd and January 11th, the day before the price cuts were announced. Comparing that to used Tesla prices between January 15th and January 31st, immediately after the announcement, iSeeCars confirmed a 4.8 percent drop in Tesla values.
Used Model 3 values led the drop, down 5.2 percent after the price reductions, while used Model X prices declined the least, down 3.9 percent. These drops manifested as price reductions of $2,354 on the Model 3, $2,816 on the Model Y, $3,370 on the Model X, and $4,626 on the Model S, all in less than a month.
It’s worth noting that search activity for Teslas skyrocketed in this same timeframe, up 21.3 percent against an average of 6.5 percent for all used cars on iSeeCars.com.
Non-Traditional/Alternative Fuel Vehicles Dropping Faster than Internal Combustion Cars
Looking beyond Tesla, prices of alternative fuel vehicles dropped faster than traditional gasoline models in the past month, with plug-in hybrids leading the decline at 3.8 percent. Note that electric cars, with a 1.8 percent drop, are only slightly ahead of the industry average, further illustrating Tesla’s substantial drop in value versus the overall EV market.
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iSeeCars analyzed over 1.4 million used cars from model years 2020 – 2021 listed for sale on iSeeCars.com between January 3, 2023 – January 11, 2023 (pre-announcement period) and January 15, 2023 – January 31, 2023 (post-announcement period). The average prices of each Tesla model, as well as non-Tesla models by fuel type, were compared between the two periods.
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This article, Tesla Prices Are Falling Fast – Three Times Faster Than the Market Average, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com. | 2023-02-19T15:41:54+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/automotive/tesla-prices-are-falling-fast-three-times-faster-than-the-market-average/ |
President Biden is enjoying what looks like an enduring bump in approval polls, a shift that is linked to a number of factors that could help Democrats in the midterm elections.
Here’s what’s behind it:
Legislative wins
Biden and his party’s ultra-narrow congressional majorities have notched a series of legislative successes over the past 18 months. First, there was the American Rescue Plan that pumped nearly $2 trillion into the economy to fight the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, there was the massive infrastructure bill last fall.
But it was the Inflation Reduction Act that Biden signed last month that has appeared to do the most for the president’s recent political comeback.
The law includes some of Biden and his party’s biggest policy priorities. It marks the United States’s largest-ever investment in the fight against climate change and raises taxes on corporations and wealthy investors. It also takes steps to reduce health care costs by extending federal health-insurance subsidies and allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices for seniors on Medicare.
Of course, the law has been targeted relentlessly by Republicans, who claim that it will raise taxes on Americans and worsen already-high inflation. Still, Democrats see the law as a lifeline heading into the midterms — one that shows the party’s voters that Democrats can deliver on their campaign promises.
“Things are a lot different today,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist and senior adviser to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). “You need to look at the fact that, not only is the president’s legislative agenda very popular, but much of it has been delivered.”
Gas prices
Gas prices rose dramatically throughout 2021 and the first half of 2022, putting a strain on Americans’ pocketbooks and, consequently, on Biden’s approval numbers. The cost of fuel peaked in mid-June at more than $5 per gallon, according to AAA.
But drivers are breathing a little easier nowadays. As of Monday, the national average for a gallon of gasoline sits at just shy of $3.68 — down from about $3.72 a week ago and nearly $3.92 a month ago.
That’s still higher than it was at this time last year — about $0.48 cents higher. Still, it’s trending in the right direction, helping Biden’s approval rating claw its way back from the depths it reached over the summer.
Gas prices usually rise and fall with the cost of oil, meaning the president can only do so much to influence those prices. At the same time, U.S. oil production hasn’t fully hit pre-pandemic levels.
In March, Biden announced a plan to release 1 million barrels per day over six months from the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to bring down rising gas prices. And while there may be longer-term questions about what will happen when those releases end, the easing fuel prices have taken some political pressure off of Biden for now.
Trump
Former President Trump never really disappeared from the public eye; since leaving the White House last year, he’s issued endorsement after endorsement in GOP primary contests, held rallies for his preferred candidates and continued to publicly push his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
But he’s reemerged as a headline-grabbing figure in recent months, especially as investigations into a wide range of alleged wrongdoing have ramped up.
The most high-profile probe of the former president’s conduct broke out into the open last month when the FBI searched his private Palm Beach, Fla., residence as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents. But he’s also facing legal jeopardy in Georgia, where a special grand jury is investigating whether Trump and his allies sought to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state.
Biden, meanwhile, has stepped up his criticism of Trump once again, casting him and his political movement as a threat to American democracy. An NBC News poll released on Sunday found Trump’s favorability rating sinking to one of the lowest points of his post-presidency.
While midterm elections tend to focus more on the current president and his party, Trump has proven to be an effective foil for Democrats in the past, and his recent tendency to grab headlines has helped reignite the energy that juiced support for Biden in 2020.
“Forget that he’s not the president anymore,” one Republican strategist said. “I think a lot of people are being reminded of Trump now, and it makes Biden look better in comparison.”
Abortion rights
Biden and his party have also seen a boost in the polls amid an effort to rally Americans against Republican efforts to curb abortion rights following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The political impact of the decision has already been made clear: Kansas voters quashed a proposed amendment that would have stripped abortion protections from the state constitution, Democrats overperformed in a handful of hotly contested special elections, and polling shows the issue of reproductive rights taking on heightened importance in the midterm elections.
Poll after poll has made clear the support for abortion rights. A New York Times-Siena College Poll survey last week found that 62 percent of registered voters believe that abortion should remain legal, at least in most circumstances.
And it’s not just Democratic voters. Sixty-five percent of independents said that abortion should remain legal in most cases.
Consequently, Biden has ridden the same wave as other Democrats in the post-Roe political environment. In July, he signed an executive order that seeks to protect access to abortion medication and emergency contraception. He has also vowed to veto any legislative attempt to ban abortions nationwide. | 2022-09-19T19:34:08+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/why-biden-is-seeing-a-rise-in-the-polls/ |
(KTLA) – The Disneyland magic seems to stand the test of time even though the park has undergone several renovations since its opening on July 17, 1955. Since then, a few fan-favorite rides and attractions have gotten a facelift or were cut by the big mouse himself.
However, the Internet and Disney’s ever-growing fanbase won’t let the rides’ memories fade, despite the park’s efforts.
Here are a few Disneyland attractions hardcore fans will remember, even though you can’t find them in the park anymore.
Skyway to Tomorrowland and Fantasyland
The skyways were the first ride of their kind to be built in the United States, according to D23, the official Disney fan club website.
The attraction was a way guests could travel from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland or vice versa by “passenger buckets that were suspended from a 2,400-foot-long cable.” Originally, guests could purchase round-trip or one-way tickets. That offering was later limited to one-way tickets.
The Skyway to Fantasyland and Tomorrowland opened on June 23, 1956, and closed on Nov. 10, 1994.
The PeopleMover
The popular transportation system located in Tomorrowland opened on July 2, 1967. Guests could take a nice, relaxing ride through the futuristic land without enduring the crowds. According to Inside the Magic, Walt Disney thought of this attraction before passing on Dec. 15, 1966. Unfortunately, the ride closed on Aug. 21, 1995.
Rocket Rods, a short-lived ride, replaced the PeopleMover. The ride is still available at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The Autopia Saga
The Junior Autopia ride, marketed toward small children, was very similar to the present-day Autopia ride, according to D23. The ride debuted on July 23, 1956, and closed two years later in September 1958, according to the Duchess of Disneyland.
The modern-day Autopia ride and the plaza in front of “It’s A Small World” occupy the space the ride once did. After the hype for Junior Autopia died, it was renamed Fantasyland Autopia. It was later renamed the “Rescue Rangers Raceway” to promote the Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers TV show, according to Disney Afternoon Wiki.
The rebranding of the ride wasn’t much of a success and the ride ultimately closed in the 1990s.
Swiss Family/Tarzan’s Treehouse
The Swiss Family Treehouse was themed after the 1960 Swiss Family Robinson movie. Guests could climb up the treehouse and see each family member’s rooms. This attraction opened on November 18, 1962, but closed on March 8, 1999, to be remarketed for “Tarzan.”
Disneyland still has the treehouse but closed it down again for refurbishments during the pandemic. Still, there have been rumors about the treehouse being re-themed to the hit movie “Encanto,” according to Disney Food Blog.
Lagoon Mermaids
Before the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage called the Tomorrowland lagoon home, park guests could see mermaids swimming in the waters. These weren’t any animatronics, either. According to the Duchess of Disneyland, guests could see real people (dressed up as mermaids) swimming in the lagoon.
The mermaids were introduced during the summer of 1959 and parkgoers could see them lounging on the rocks, swimming underwater, and by the submarine.
However, this spectacle was short-lived due to the high risk of injury and the highly chlorinated water. The mermaids were last seen in the lagoon during the summer of 1967. | 2022-09-25T20:51:24+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/do-you-remember-these-phased-out-disneyland-rides-and-attractions/ |
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