text stringlengths 80 124k | date_download stringdate 2022-04-02 20:48:07 2023-07-31 23:59:06 | source_domain stringclasses 387 values | url stringlengths 21 528 |
|---|---|---|---|
Two high school baseball coaches in Bergen County were suspended and then reinstated a week later, though school officials have not said why.
Ramapo High School baseball head coach Mike Esposito and assistant coach Garrison Ward from the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School district in Franklin Lakes were suspended without explanation May 18, according to family members.
At a May 23 board of education meeting, parents, students and supporters protested Esposito and Ward’s suspensions and called for the coaches to be reinstated. | 2023-06-02T20:19:41+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/news/2023/06/nj-baseball-coaches-mysteriously-suspended-then-reinstated-a-week-later.html |
Isiah Kiner-Falefa Player Prop Bets: Yankees vs. Rangers - April 30
Published: Apr. 30, 2023 at 11:27 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The New York Yankees, including Isiah Kiner-Falefa (.333 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 109 points above season-long percentage), battle starter Martin Perez and the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field, Sunday at 2:35 PM ET.
In his previous appearance, he went 1-for-3 against the Rangers.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa Game Info & Props vs. the Rangers
- Game Day: Sunday, April 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Globe Life Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rangers Starter: Martín Pérez
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1200)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +240)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
Looking to place a prop bet on Isiah Kiner-Falefa? Check out what's available at BetMGM and sign up with this link!
Isiah Kiner-Falefa At The Plate
- Kiner-Falefa has three walks while batting .174.
- In eight of 20 games this season, Kiner-Falefa got a hit, but only one each time.
- In 20 games played this season, he has not gone deep.
- Kiner-Falefa has driven in a run in one game this season, and it was more than one in that game.
- He has scored in four games this season (20.0%), but has had no multi-run games.
Ready to play FanDuel Daily Fantasy? Get in the game using our link.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa Home/Away Batting Splits
Rangers Pitching Rankings
- The nine strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Rangers pitching staff ranks 13th in MLB.
- The Rangers' 3.48 team ERA ranks seventh among all league pitching staffs.
- Rangers pitchers combine to give up 21 home runs (0.8 per game), the fourth-fewest in the league.
- Perez gets the start for the Rangers, his sixth of the season. He is 3-1 with a 2.60 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 27 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last outing on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, the left-hander threw 6 1/3 innings, allowing no earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- The 32-year-old ranks 19th in ERA (2.60), 64th in WHIP (1.446), and 48th in K/9 (7.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-30T17:02:41+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/sports/betting/2023/04/30/isiah-kiner-falefa-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
Court to hear appeal of ex-officer in murder of George Floyd
An attorney for Derek Chauvin is planning to ask an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer's convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial.
Related video above: Derek Chauvin jurors speak out in exclusive interview, recalling 'traumatic experience'
Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned the Black man to the ground with his knee on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes. A bystander video captured Floyd's fading cries of “I can't breathe.” Floyd’s death touched off protests around the world and forced a painful national reckoning with police brutality and racism.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to 22 1/2 years after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin later pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge and was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, which is he is now serving in Arizona concurrent with his state sentence.
While Chauvin waived his right to appeal under his federal plea deal, he continued to pursue his appeal of his murder convictions in state court. Even if he wins his appeal, his federal sentence will keep him in prison longer than his state sentence likely would because he would qualify for parole earlier in the state system. But a successful appeal could set a precedent for future cases involving police officers.
Video below: George Floyd's family reacts to Chauvin sentence
Chauvin's attorney for the appeal is William Mohrman, who often pursues conservative causes including challenges to President Joe Biden's election victory and to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Mohrman argued in his brief to the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the pretrial publicity was more extensive that any other trial in Minnesota history, and that the judge should have moved the trial elsewhere and sequestered the jury for the duration. Mohrman wrote that the publicity, combined with the riots, the city's $27 million settlement with Floyd's family announced during jury selection, the unrest over a police killing in a Minneapolis suburb during jury selection, and the unprecedented courthouse security were just some of the factors prejudicing Chauvin's chance of a fair trial.
He also argued that Cahill improperly excluded evidence that could have been favorable to Chauvin, and accused prosecutors of misconduct.
Prosecutors said in their brief that Chauvin had a fair trial and received a just sentence.
The prosecutors — including state Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank and Neal Katyal, who was acting U.S. solicitor general during the Obama administration — argued that Chauvin's rights were not prejudiced.
They said pretrial publicity had blanketed the state making a change of venue for the trial pointless, and that Cahill took extensive steps to ensure the selection of impartial jurors. They also said he took sufficient steps to shield the jurors from outside influences so there was no need to sequester them before deliberations.
Other disputes in the appeal include whether it was legally permissible to convict Chauvin of third-degree murder, and whether Cahill was justified in exceeding the 12 1/2 years recommended under the state's sentencing guidelines.
Three other officers who were present during Floyd's murder — Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — were convicted of federal civil rights charges last February and are serving their sentences in out-of-state federal prisons.
Lane and Kueng accepted plea deals on state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter and are serving concurrent sentences. But Thao declined to plead guilty. Attorneys for both sides agreed to let Cahill decide on Thao's guilt based on stipulated evidence. That verdict is pending, as is his federal appeal. | 2023-01-18T14:38:15+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/derek-chauvin-minneapolis-police-officer-george-floyd-murder/42545532 |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
Stars and other notables react to the death of Jerry Lee Lewis. The rock ‘n’ roll star died Friday at age 87.
___
“Jerry Lee Lewis was beloved by everyone, a real bundle of talent, energy, and everything else necessary to be a star. He just passed away. Our warmest regards to his wife, Judith, and family. He will be missed!”
— Donald Trump, former U.S. president, in a statement
“Without Jerry Lee Lewis, I wouldn’t have become who I am today. He was groundbreaking and exciting, and he pulverized the piano. A brilliant singer too. Thank you for your trailblazing inspiration and all the rock ‘n’ roll memories. #RIP”
— Elton John, on Twitter
“Jerry Lee was a Christian, an American icon and the greatest piano player in the world. People will be listening to ‘Great Balls of Fire’ and ’Whole Lot of Shakin’ 500 years from now. I will miss him. God bless you Jerry Lee.”
— Dennis Quaid, who played Lewis in a 1989 movie, in a statement
“God bless Jerry Lee Lewis peace and love to his family.”
— Ringo Starr, on Twitter
“R.I.P. JLL the KILLER-What a man”
— Ronnie Wood, on Twitter
"Jerry Lee Lewis has passed … REST EASY KILLER you were one of a kind… #RIPJerryLee"
— The Oak Ridge Boys, on Twitter
“Sadly, One of the pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll has passed. A rebel to the end. RIP, Jerry Lee Lewis,”
— Gene Simmons, on Twitter
“He was anything but a ‘Mean Old Man.’ Honored to have gotten the chance to record with Jerry Lee Lewis. One of the best!! #RIPJerryLeeLewis”
— Tim McGraw, on Twitter
“Jerry Lee’s indelible mark as a rock & roller in no way obscures his impact as one of the greatest country singers of all time. He was the ultimate stylist, taking songs to places they could never have gone without his unique voice and soul. Known as ‘The Killer,’ in reality he was a reviver, resurrecting music and emotions. The country records he made with producer Jerry Kennedy will never be replicated or surpassed, and we were honored to recently welcome him into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Among the greatest of artists, he was, as his friend Kris Kristofferson put it, ‘a table-thumpin’ smash.’”
— Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, in a statement
“The Memphis sound is rooted in blues, soul and rock ‘n’ roll, and today our music community lost an icon with the passing of Jerry Lee Lewis. A Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, he was also a member of the Sun Studio Million Dollar Quartet that helped solidify the famed Memphis recording studio as a global music landmark. The Lewis family remains in the collective thoughts of the tourism and hospitality community. Jerry Lee’s legacy will live on through his music that continues to influence new generations of artists and musicians.”
— Kevin Kane, president and CEO of Memphis Tourism, in a statement | 2022-10-28T21:30:36+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Trump-celebrities-react-to-death-of-Jerry-Lee-17542262.php |
This sought-after honor is the definitive recognition of organizations that are transforming industries and positively shaping society
PORTLAND, Ore., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company, the world's leading progressive business media brand, today announced ZGF as one of its most innovative companies in their 2023 ranking. ZGF is a global interdisciplinary design firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver B.C., and Washington D.C.
The firm is made up of architects, designers, and technologists who as stewards of the built environment push the boundaries of design and technology to meet climate challenges head-on and push the envelope of sustainable design.
"We talk about, and practice, innovation every day," said Ted Hyman, Managing Partner of ZGF. "It's in our DNA. Our collaborative team members across the globe pioneer sustainable design solutions that make our world a better place. This honor recognizes and reinforces that our contributions to the built environment are enhancing the human experience and making a positive impact on the communities where we live and work."
The firm is full steam ahead on several significant projects that build on the firm's history of sustainable design innovations. These include the in-place redevelopment of the Portland International Airport (PDX) as a completely mass timber building, and the mass timber research lab Mercat del Peix in Barcelona, notable for its interdisciplinary research focus on planetary well-being and its fully mass timber core and shell. ZGF recently completed the California Air Resources Board Southern California Headquarters (CARB), the largest net-zero energy facility of its kind in the world. ZGF is continually working to push the boundaries of design and technology to address climate challenges head-on.
Moving beyond current certifications and into new realms, in 2022, the firm completed a milestone project, the PAE Living Building in Portland, Oregon. Pushing far beyond the standards of sustainable design, the building represents an entirely new architectural paradigm both in its design and its unique, first of its kind financing model – making a replicable business case for sustainable design - a first for a spec commercial office building.
To see the full list visit: The 10 most innovative companies in architecture for 2023 (fastcompany.com)
For more information, project images or interviews, contact zgf@agencypr.co.
About ZGF
Climate, context, and community are elemental to every project across ZGF's diverse portfolio of work. Evolving from one office with strong regional roots in the Pacific Northwest to a global firm of 750+ with seven offices across North America, the firm's national reputation was honored with the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Firm Award, recognizing the firm's "high standards, humanistic concerns, and unique ability to capture the spirit of a place and the aspirations of its inhabitants."
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE ZGF | 2023-03-02T20:30:24+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/03/02/fast-company-names-zgf-one-its-2023-most-innovative-companies/ |
GREENVILLE, S.C., April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrebleHook, an AEC CRM and Project Pursuit Platform, today announced the release of version 2.2. With this new release, TrebleHook delivers the most advanced project lifecycle data features available, including the ability to create Gantt charts, scheduling enhancements, advanced editing tools to streamline project data management within the platform, and much more.
"We are excited to release version 2.2 of TrebleHook to our valued customers," said Chris Fay, founder and CEO of TrebleHook. "Our goal is to continue to provide our customers with the most advanced project lifecycle management tools available, and this new release brings us one step closer to that goal."
The new Gantt chart feature enables users to create interactive timelines that visualize project data and deadlines. With scheduling enhancements, users can easily create project tasks and milestones. Additionally, the advanced editing tools enable users to modify line items in a familiar spreadsheet layout.
"We are committed to providing our customers with the best possible experience," said Michael Sproles, Vice President of Technology at TrebleHook. "With the release of version 2.2, we are confident that we are delivering on that commitment by providing users with advanced project lifecycle management tools that will help them stay on top of their existing and new customers and drive success."
TrebleHook version 2.2 is now available for new and existing customers. To learn more about the new features and to sign up for a demo, visit the TrebleHook website at www.treblehook.com.
About TrebleHook
TrebleHook is a specialized CRM platform explicitly designed for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals to manage project lifecycles and pursuits efficiently. With a centralized project pursuit platform, TrebleHook empowers AEC experts to pursue and land the right projects for their firms. For more information, visit www.TrebleHook.com.
Media Contact:
Alex Freeman
Marketing Manager
TrebleHook
hook@treblehook.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE TrebleHook | 2023-04-07T14:27:19+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/04/07/treblehook-releases-version-22-aec-crm-project-pursuit-platform/ |
NEW YORK — Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children's series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," has died. He was 49.
Justine Hunt, Frank's manager, said in a statement Sunday that Frank passed away. She did not name the cause of death or say when he died, but asked for “privacy of his family and friends during this horrible time as we come to terms with the loss of such a wonderful human being.”
Walter Emmanuel Jones, the original Black Power Ranger who co-starred with Frank in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," wrote on Instagram, that he couldn't believe it. “My heart is sad to have lost another member of our special family," wrote Jones. Thuy Trang, who played the original Yellow Power Ranger, died in a car accident in 2001 at age 27.
“Mighty MorphinPower Rangers," about five teenagers deputized to save Earth from evil, debuted on Fox in 1993 and went on to become a pop-culture phenomenon. Early in the first season, Frank's Tommy Oliver was first seen as a villain, brainwashed by the evil Rita Repulsa. But soon after, he was inducted in the group as the Green Ranger and became one of the most popular characters on the show.
Though his role wasn't intended to be permanent, Frank was later brought back as the White Ranger and the leader of the team. Across spinoff TV series, Frank's Tommy Oliver returned as other rangers, as well, including Red Zeo Ranger, the Red Turbo Ranger and the Black Dino Ranger. He also played him in the films “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie” and “Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie,” and made a cameo in the 2017 reboot “Power Rangers.”
A practitioner of martial arts, Frank fought in several mixed martial arts bouts in 2009 and 2010.
TMZ earlier reported that Frank's second wife, Tammie Frank, filed for divorce from him in August. Frank is survived by four children; one from his marriage with Tammie Frank and three from his first marriage to Shawna Frank. | 2022-11-21T01:47:03+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/power-rangers-star-jason-david-frank-dies-at-49 |
The Council Includes Perspectives from Administrators Across the U.S.
TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Xello, award-winning college, career and future readiness program, today announced a new Higher Education Council that brings together a community of thought leaders in order to better understand the intricacies of the admissions process from both sides of the application experience.
The Higher Education Council will develop innovative ideas and strategies for improving the college search, recruitment and admissions experience by facilitating well-rounded and ongoing discussions among thought leaders in K-12 and higher education. Council members will help shape how students use Xello to prepare for and make their way through the post-secondary admissions process.
Xello's academically researched and scientifically validated program puts individual students at the center of the planning experience. Students document their journey as they build self-knowledge, explore post-secondary options, create plans and continually reassess as they take in new knowledge, skills and experiences.
"Our interest in higher education is part of a bigger strategy," said Matt McQuillen, CEO and founder of Xello. "We know that every student's path looks different, and we know they and their parents are thinking a lot about their futures. The Higher Education Council will tap into that energy and generate insights into additional opportunities for students to connect and explore when they engage with the Xello platform."
Higher Education Council members include:
- Cammie Kennedy, College Career Coordinator at Wichita High School East in Kansas
- Cody Griffin, Assistant Director of College Access at WSU Tech in Kansas.
- Alan Liebrecht, Vice President for Enrollment, Marketing and Communications at Texas Wesleyan University
- Cassie Montgomery, Director of Outreach Services at Amarillo College in Texas
- Richard Owens, Managing Director of Programs at the Tarrant To & Through (T3) Partnership in Tarrant County, Texas
"WSU Tech has a lot of students who wouldn't find their way into higher education without a personal connection with an admissions representative," said Council Member Cody Griffin. "But getting them here is not enough. We're always trying to add new ways to ensure students not only enroll but graduate."
"At Texas Wesleyan University, our students come from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic groups," said Council Member Alan Liebrecht. "At least half of our students are first-generation and eligible for Pell grants, so we see many opportunities to support and guide them as they go through their college search process, their decision process and their college journey."
Helping solve problems that arise as students are planning for post-secondary success will be a recurring theme for the Higher Education Council. Members will also influence Xello's long-term product roadmap, keep pace with industry trends and help improve customer service and support.
"At Xello, we are committed to helping students develop confidence in their strengths and a stronger sense of purpose towards wherever their paths may lead," McQuillen said. "Our platform is used by over 8,000 schools across North America and has earned a reputation as a high-quality college and career planning solution for K-12 school districts."
Xello has won numerous awards, including an EdTech Award for best career planning solution. Representatives from Xello will be attending the National Association for College Admissions Counseling from September 20th through 24th in Houston.
Xello's mission is to help anyone, anywhere in the world create a successful future through self-knowledge, exploration and planning. With more than 20 years in the education software industry, the team at Xello has helped millions of educators and millions of students become future ready with its suite of online platforms. Based in Toronto, Canada, Xello's award-winning future readiness programs are used globally by nearly eight million students and educators. Learn more about Xello at www.xello.world.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Xello Inc. | 2022-09-12T16:19:42+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/12/xello-announces-new-higher-education-council-deepen-students-post-secondary-planning-experience/ |
FTC sues to block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard $69B merger
(AP) - The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft’s planned $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard, saying it could suppress competitors to Microsoft’s Xbox game consoles and its growing games subscription business.
The FTC’s challenge could be a test case for President Joe Biden’s mandate to scrutinize big tech mergers. The commission voted 3-1 to issue the complaint after a closed-door meeting, with the three Democratic commissioners voting in favor and the sole Republican voting against.
The complaint points to Microsoft’s previous game acquisitions, especially of well-known developer Bethesda Softworks and its parent company ZeniMax, as an example of where Microsoft made some popular game titles exclusive despite assuring European regulators it had no intention to do so.
“Microsoft has already shown that it can and will withhold content from its gaming rivals,” said a prepared statement from Holly Vedova, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. “Today we seek to stop Microsoft from gaining control over a leading independent game studio and using it to harm competition in multiple dynamic and fast-growing gaming markets.”
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, signaled in a statement Thursday that the company is likely to challenge the FTC’s decision.
“While we believed in giving peace a chance, we have complete confidence in our case and welcome the opportunity to present our case in court,” Smith said.
The company had been ramping up its public defense of the deal in recent days as it awaited a decision. Smith said Microsoft has been committed to addressing competition concerns and brought proposed concessions to the FTC earlier this week.
“We continue to believe that this deal will expand competition and create more opportunities for gamers and game developers,” Smith said.
Microsoft announced the merger deal in January but has faced months of resistance from Sony, which makes the competing PlayStation console and has raised concerns with antitrust watchdogs around the world about losing access to popular Activision Blizzard game franchises such as Call of Duty.
Antitrust regulators under Biden “have staked out the view that for decades merger policy has been too weak and they’ve said, repeatedly, ‘We’re changing that,’” said William Kovacic, a former chair of the FTC.
The goal is to “not allow dodgy deals and not accept weak settlements,” said Kovacic, who was a Republican commissioner appointed in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush. But he said Microsoft has a good chance of winning its legal challenge.
“It’s evident that the company has been making a number of concessions,” he said. “Microsoft would likely raise them in court and say the FTC is being incorrigibly stubborn about this.”
Microsoft announced its latest promise Wednesday, saying it would make Call of Duty available on Nintendo devices for 10 years should its acquisition go through. It has said it tried to offer the same commitment to Sony.
In an appeal to Biden administration priorities, Microsoft has also sought to characterize its deal as worker-friendly after announcing a “labor neutrality agreement” in June with the Communications Workers of America that would allow workers to unionize after the acquisition closes. The union’s president, Chris Shelton, wrote an opinion column in The Hill this week calling on the FTC to “seal the deal, not blow it up.”
The deal is also under close scrutiny in the European Union and the United Kingdom, where investigations aren’t due to be completed until next year.
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in a message to employees Thursday that the FTC’s action “sounds alarming, so I want to reinforce my confidence that this deal will close.”
“The allegation that this deal is anti-competitive doesn’t align with the facts, and we believe we’ll win this challenge,” Kotick wrote.
Kotick said the deal will be good for players, employees, competition and the industry.
“We believe these arguments will win despite a regulatory environment focused on ideology and misconceptions about the tech industry,” he said.
Led by FTC Chair Lina Khan, a legal scholar who’s advocated for tougher antitrust enforcement, the commission is made up of three Democrats and one Republican after a second Republican stepped down earlier this year and left an open seat on the panel.
Both the Justice Department and the FTC this year have looked at strengthening merger guidelines to better detect and prevent illegal and anticompetitive deals. The agencies have been stressing the importance of robust competition to the economy, workers, consumers and small businesses.
Federal regulators also on Thursday opened their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of a virtual-reality company Thursday in a San Jose, California, courtroom.
In that case, the FTC sued to prevent Meta’s acquisition of Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural, asserting it would hurt competition and violate antitrust laws.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-08T20:51:54+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/12/08/ftc-sues-block-microsoft-activision-blizzard-69b-merger/ |
DENTON, Texas (AP) — Tylor Perry's 18 points helped North Texas defeat UTEP 52-42 on Saturday night.
Perry shot 5 for 10 (2 for 5 from 3-point range) and 6 of 8 from the free throw line for the Mean Green (18-5, 9-3 Conference USA). Aaron Scott scored 13 points and added five rebounds. Kai Huntsberry recorded 12 points and shot 5 for 10, including 2 for 4 from beyond the arc.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Shamar Givance led the Miners (11-10, 4-6) in scoring, finishing with 12 points, six rebounds and two steals. UTEP also got 11 points and six rebounds from Ze'Rik Onyema.
___
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-01-29T03:09:12+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/perry-s-18-lead-north-texas-past-utep-52-42-17748946.php |
Son of suspect in Albuquerque Muslim killings charged with unrelated federal crime
Share
Updated: 2:56 PM MDT Aug 10, 2022
Son of suspect in Albuquerque Muslim killings charged with unrelated federal crime
Share
Updated: 2:56 PM MDT Aug 10, 2022
RIGHT NOW WITH OUR BREAKING NEWS. THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT CONTINUE TO BE VISIBLE IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN THE DAYS TO COME AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEKS TO ENSURE THAT THEY FEEL SAFE. WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO NEED PUBLIC COOPERATION. WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL WE CAN RETURN SAFETY TO THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY. IT IS THE BREAKING NEWS WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ALL DAY. POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN. THEY SAY IS THE PRIMARY SUSPECT INVOLVED IN THE RECENT MURDERS OF MUSLIM MEN IN ALBUQUERQUE. AND OUR TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES TONIGHT. STEPHANIE AND EAST HAS REACTION TO FAMILIES MOURNING THE LOSS OF THEIR LOVED ONES. FAITH A BOY WHO IS AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF NEW MEXICO WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS HONORING THE FOUR VICTIMS. BUT WE DO BEGIN TONIGHT WITH DETAILS ON WHAT LED TO THE ARREST OF THE SUSPECT WHO POLICE HAVE FORMALLY CHARGED RIGHT NOW WITH TWO OF THOSE MURDERS, ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER JOHN CARDINAL JOINS US NOW WITH THE LATEST ON THE INVESTIGATION. DARLENE AND DOUG, 51 YEAR OLD MUHAMMAD SAYEED WAS ARRESTED BY ALBUQUERQUE POLICE. HE’S BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED AT LEAST TWO OF THE FOUR MUSLIM MEN WHO WERE RECENTLY FOUND DEAD IN TOWN. NOW, A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT SAEED’S HOME YESTERDAY. HE WASN’T PRESENT DURING THE EXECUTION OF THAT WARRANT, BUT HE WAS EVENTUALLY ARRESTED NEAR SANTA ROSA, NEW MEXICO. THIS MAN, 51 YEAR OLD MUHAMMAD SAEED, IS THE PRIMARY SUSPECT IN THE RECENT MURDERS OF AFTAB HUSSAIN AND MUHAMMAD AFZAL HUSSAIN. A TIP FROM THE COMMUNITY IS WHAT HELPED US LEAD US TO THIS SUBJECT AND WHAT HELPED US EVENTUALLY FIND THE CAR THAT WE PUT OUT JUST TWO DAYS AGO TO THE PUBLIC. THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT WAS A TIP FROM THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY THAT LED TO A SEARCH WARRANT AT SAEED’S HOME MONDAY NIGHT. AS WE WERE GETTING READY TO EXECUTE THAT SEARCH WARRANT, WE SAW HIM LOWERED INTO A VEHICLE, AS A MATTER OF FACT, A VEHICLE WE BELIEVE, THAT WAS USED IN THE HOMICIDES THAT WE PUT OUT ON THE POSTER. THAT’S WHEN AUTHORITIES FOLLOWED SAEED’S VEHICLE WHILE OTHERS SEARCHED HIS HOME WITH THE HELP OF STATE. POLICE WERE ABLE TO STOP THAT CAR NEAR SANTA ROSA, NEW MEXICO. AND AT THE SAME TIME, OUR SWAT TEAM EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT SAFELY ON THE OCCUPIED HOME, TAKING ALL THE RESIDENTS OUT AND ALLOWING OUR CRIME SCENE AND HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS TO GO INTO THAT HOME. SAEED WAS EVENTUALLY ARRESTED DURING THE SEARCH OF HIS HOME AND VEHICLE. WEAPONS WERE RECOVERED THAT WERE CONNECTED TO THE HOMICIDES. AND WE BELIEVE THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THEM INSIDE THE HOME AND ONE OF THEM INSIDE THE CAR THAT WAS PULLED OVER ARE MATCHING TO OUR TWO CRIME SCENES ON RHODE ISLAND AND CORNELL. BERNALILLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY RAUL TORRES SAYS SAEED WILL BE PROCESSED SUITED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW. THIS IS IS A COMPLICATED CASE AND I WILL RESERVE FOR A LATER TIME A FULL DISCUSSION OF THE TYPES OF CHARGES THAT THAT WILL TAKE PLACE OVER THE NEXT WEEKS AND DAYS. I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT IS THE INTENTION OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT, TO FILE MURDER CHARGES IN STATE DISTRICT COURT. WE ARE ALSO WORKING AND IT’S UNCLEAR IF SAEED DID KILL THE OTHER TWO MUSLIM MEN, THE FBI AND APD ARE WORKING ON THAT NOW. WITHIN THE LAST 30 MINUTES, WE DID GET AN OFFICIAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT. WE’RE WORKING ON GOING THROUGH THAT. AND WE’LL GIVE YOU THE LATEST DETAILS AS WE DISCOVER MORE ABOUT THIS CASE. REPORTING LIVE IN ALBUQUERQUE, I’M JOHN CARDINAL KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. THE GOVERNOR APPLAUDING THE COLLABORATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN FINDING SITE AND SAYS WHAT IS NEXT IS GETTING JUSTICE FOR THE FAMILIES. WE ARE WORKING ON THE JUSTICE SIDE OF THAT EQUATION, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL NOT ONLY FOR PROTECTING THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED, BUT ALSO MAKING IT REALLY CLEAR THAT WE WILL BRING JUSTICE, THE FULL FORCE OF THE LAW AND ACCOUNTABLE WILL BE MADE. SHE ADDED THE PUBLIC’S HELP IS STILL NEEDED TO FIND THE PERSON BEHIND THE OTHER TWO MURDERS. CONGRESSWOMAN MELANIE STANSBURY WORKED WITH ONE OF THOSE VICTIMS, MUHAMMAD AFZAL HUSSAIN. SHE DESCRIBES HIM AS OPTIMISTIC AND HOPEFUL AND WHO BELIEVED THAT WE COULD, IN FACT, BUILD A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND FOR OUR WORLD. OUR COMMUNITY HAS LOST BROTHERS, FATHERS, HUSBANDS, UNCLES AND BELOVED FRIENDS. AND SHE ALSO THANKED THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR TIPS IN FINDING SAEED. LOOKING NOW AT THE TIMELINE OF THE MURDERS AND WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT EACH INCIDENT, THE FIRST KILLING WAS LAST YEAR IN NOVEMBER, WHEN MUHAMMAD AHMADI WAS SHOT OUTSIDE A STORE HE OWNED. THEN THIS YEAR, JULY 26, AFTAB HUSSAIN WAS SHOT NEAR HIS HOME IN SOUTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE. SEVERAL DAYS LATER, MUHAMMAD AFZAL HUSSAIN WAS ALSO SHOT NEAR HIS HOUSE IN NOB HILL. AND JUST THIS FRIDAY, NAIM HUSSAIN WAS KILLED OUTSIDE AN ORGANIZATION THAT SERVES REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS. AND THIS HERE IS THE CAR. POLICE SAY THEY TRACKED DOWN INSURGENTS IN AROSA THIS WEEK. IT IS A DARK SILVER VOLKSWAGEN JETTA OR PASSAT WITH TINTED WINDOWS AND A DENT ON THE BACK FENDER. OFFICIALS SAY IT WAS USED IN AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE FOUR MURDERS. SAEED, THE MAN POLICE ARE CALLING THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING DEATHS OF THE FORMER MUSLIM MAN HAD BEEN BOOKED INTO JAIL FOR TIMES BEFORE. AND TARGET 7 IS DISCOVERED. ALL THREE OF THE CASES WERE THROWN OUT OF COURTS. MUHAMMAD SAEED HAS NOT BEEN IN NEW MEXICO VERY LONG. INFORMATION SHOWS US HE’S FROM AFGHANISTAN. WE THINK HE CAME IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS TO THE UNITED STATES IN THAT TIME, HE HAS THREE ARRESTS FOR BATTERY IN WHICH HE WAS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING FAMILY MEMBERS. AND ANOTHER BUST FOR EVADING POLICE. THAT’S OUR ONLY KNOWN HISTORY WITH HIM. LOCALLY. SO HIS FIRST ARREST WAS IN DECEMBER 2017. POLICE SAY HE HAD ATTACKED HIS DAUGHTER’S FIANCEE. THE VICTIM TELLING POLICE IT’S BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WAT HIM HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS DAUGHTER. SIX MONTHS LATER, COURT RECORDS SHOW HE WAS ARRESTED AGAIN ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES. POLICE SAY HE PULLED HIS WIFE BY THE HAIR, KICKED HER OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND MADE HER WALK. THEN LATER GRABBED HER BY THE HAIR AGAIN AND THREW HER TO THE GROUND. SEVEN MONTHS LATER, SAEED SON CALLED 911 AND REPORTED HIS FATHER WAS HITTING HIM AND HIS MOTHER WITH A METAL SPOON. THE SON TOLD POLICE SAEED ROUTINELY BEATS HIM AND HIS MOM. IN FEBRUARY 2020, SAEED WAS ARRESTED AGAIN AFTER OFFICERS SAW HIM RUN A RED LIGHT AND HE WOULDN’T IMMEDIATELY PULL OVER. HE DOES HAVE A FEW MINOR MISDEMEANOR ARRESTS FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO SOME OTHER MISDEMEANORS BY THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT OVER THE PAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS. COURT RECORDS, HOWEVER, SHOW ALL THREE CASES WERE DISMISSED. DA’S OFFICE TELLING US ONE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE WAS DISMISSED AFTER SAEED AGREED TO MEET CERTAIN CONDITIONS. THE OTHERS WERE THROWN OUT BECAUSE THE VICTIM WOULD NOT TESTIFY AGAINST HIM. IN THE LATEST ARREST, THE OFFICER DID NOT SHOW UP FOR COURT. AND AS WE TOLD YOU, RIGHT NOW, STATE IS ONLY CHARGED WITH TWO OF THOSE HOMICIDES. THOSE ARE THE SHOOTINGS, DEATHS OF MOHAMMAD AFZAL HUSSAIN AND AFTAB HUSSAIN. THEY WERE KILLED WITHIN SIX DAYS OF EACH OTHER. POLICE DO BELIEVE SAEED KNEW THOSE VICTIMS. BOTH OF THEIR SHOOTINGS HAPPENED IN THE SAME AREA OF THE CITY. AUTHORITIES BELIEVE IT IS MOST LIKELY THE SUSPECT IN THE OTHER MURDERS. BUT ARE STILL COLLECTING EVIDENCE. THOSE TWO OTHER MURDERS ALSO IN THAT SAME AREA OF THE CITY. SO FAR, NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE KILLINGS OF NAIM, HUSSAIN AND MOHAMMED AZARIA AHMADI. BUT EVEN WITH TODAY’S ARRESTS, THERE IS STILL CONCERN FOR MEMBERS OF ALBUQUERQUE’S MUSLIM COMMUNITY. REPORTER FAITH A BORN WHO SHOWS US HOW THEY AND MEMBERS FROM MANY FAITHS CAME TOGETHER TO HONOR THE VICTIMS. THEY JUST WRAPPED UP PRAYER HERE AT THE MOSQUE. LOTS OF MIXED REACTION FROM THE COMMUNITY. SOME SAY IT’S A BIG SIGH OF RELIEF. OTHERS LEFT IN SHOCK WITH THE STRING OF MUSLIM KILLINGS IN ALBUQUERQUE OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS. MANY MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN LEFT ON EDGE. BUT TUESDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN ARREST, THIS CAME AS A SURPRISE IS LEAVING SOME MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO BE A QURESHI AND A LOSS FOR WORDS. IT IS VERY SAD TO SEE THAT THIS HAPPENED WITHIN. WE WERE ALSO CONCERNED FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR FAMILIES, OF THE COMMUNITY, OF THE CHILDREN. WE DIDN’T KNOW WHICH WAY TO LOOK. AND WHEN THIS HAPPENED, IT REALLY TOOK US BY SURPRISE. OTHERS SAY THEY’RE GRATEFUL THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN CAUGHT, BUT THERE’S STILL SOME CAUSE OF CONCERN. THEY’RE NOT FEELING RELIEVED YET. I WOULD HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY AT I MEAN, WE DON’T HAVE ANYONE WALKING AROUND COMMITTING CRIMES OF THIS MAGNITUDE. WHILE SOME MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY DO NOT KNOW THE VICTIMS PERSONALLY, THEY STILL GATHER TOGETHER FOR SUPPORT. AND AGAIN, THEY’RE WRAPPING UP PRAYERS HERE AT THE MOSQUE AND REPORTING FROM THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF NEW MEXICO. FAITH. THEY WANT TO KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS AND PRESENT AT TONIGHT’S VIGIL WAS THE FAMILY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS, MUHAMMAD AFZAL HUSSAIN. REPORTER STEPH, WE NEED TO TALK TO THE FAMILY AGAIN NOW THAT THAT SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY. FOUR MEN IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WERE REMEMBER, TONIGHT? AMONG THEM, MUHAMMAD ASLAM. HIS BROTHER TELLS ME HE IS NOW FREE OF THE FEAR OF BEING THE NEXT TARGETED ATTACK. THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF NEW MEXICO IS USUALLY FULL OF MUSLIM MEN AND WOMEN. TONIGHT, RABBIS, PRIESTS AND PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE CAME TOGETHER. I SEE MANY FRIENDLY AND WONDERFUL FACES HERE TODAY. WE WOULD LIKE TO OFFER OUR SUPPORT AND HELP IN ANY WAY WE CAN. FRIENDS LIKE YOU. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT. CONTINUE TO DO THAT BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MAKES US BETTER HUMANS. JUST DAYS AGO, IMTIAZ RAISED HIS VOICE TALKING ABOUT THE FEAR OF BECOMING THE NEXT TARGET. WE ARE LIVING IT FOR THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, BUT LIVING IS NEVER FOR NINE YEARS. AND IF THIS HAS HAPPENED HERE. SO WHERE TO GO? WHERE ARE WE SAFE RAISING HIS VOICE AGAIN, THIS TIME IN FRONT OF HIS COMMUNITY, HIS NEIGHBORS AND HIS ALBUQUERQUE FAMILY WHO LOST HER NIECE. THE KIND OF SUPPORT, A BIG NEST. IT’S INCREDIBLE. I ANTICIPATE THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A BLOOMING. I’VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR NINE YEARS NOW. THE FEELING IS RELIEF. WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS IS, IS THE GUY GOT ARRESTED. MY SON SAID, DAD, CAN I GO TO BALCONY? I SAID, YES, GO OUT, OPEN THE DOOR. ENDING WITH THE PRAYER. FROM NOW ON, A TOUGH MAN, IMTIAZ SAYS THE SUPPORT IN ALBUQUERQUE IS UNQUESTIONABLE. I’M HERE SO THANKFUL TO ALBUQUERQUE’S STATE OF NEW MEXICO. I RECEIVED LOVE, WHICH I FEEL LITTLE, THAT I’M MORE THAN LIVING IN MY COUNTRY. PAKISTAN. IMTIAZ TELLS ME HE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE HIS BROTHER’S SUSPECTED KILLER BY NAME, BUT HE IS WAITING TO HEAR THE CONNECTION FROM POLICE REPORTING IN ALBUQUERQUE, STEPHANIE MUNOZ KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE YOU ON THIS INVESTIGATION AS WE LEARN MORE. DOWNLOAD OUR FREE KOAT APP FOR
Advertisement
Son of suspect in Albuquerque Muslim killings charged with unrelated federal crime
Share
Updated: 2:56 PM MDT Aug 10, 2022
Newly released court documents say Shaheen Syed has been charged in federal court for providing an incorrect address on a form when transferring a firearm. Shaheen Syed is also known as Maiwand Syed. Court documents indicate he is the son of Muhammad Atif Syed. According to a federal complaint, ATF agents obtained records about a firearm transferred to Shaheen Syed at an Albuquerque Gun Shop. Agents say they reviewed the transfer of two firearms to Shaheen Syed in June 2021. While agents were reviewing the records, they say Shaheen Syed listed a Florida address as his current residence. ATF agents spoke with FBI agents who went to addresses listed in Florida. FBI agents told ATF agents that the address listed for Shaheen Syed was occupied by a different person and that person had lived at that location for several years. No documents were found indicating Shaheen Syed lived at the Florida address. ATF agents and Albuquerque police officers interviewed Shaheen Syed and learned he had lived in Albuquerque since 2016. That's about five years earlier than the date listed on the firearm transfer. Shaheen Syed has not been charged in relation to the recent killings of members of the Muslim community in Albuquerque.
Newly released court documents say Shaheen Syed has been charged in federal court for providing an incorrect address on a form when transferring a firearm. Shaheen Syed is also known as Maiwand Syed. Court documents indicate he is the son of Muhammad Atif Syed.
According to a federal complaint, ATF agents obtained records about a firearm transferred to Shaheen Syed at an Albuquerque Gun Shop. Agents say they reviewed the transfer of two firearms to Shaheen Syed in June 2021. While agents were reviewing the records, they say Shaheen Syed listed a Florida address as his current residence.
Advertisement
ATF agents spoke with FBI agents who went to addresses listed in Florida. FBI agents told ATF agents that the address listed for Shaheen Syed was occupied by a different person and that person had lived at that location for several years. No documents were found indicating Shaheen Syed lived at the Florida address.
ATF agents and Albuquerque police officers interviewed Shaheen Syed and learned he had lived in Albuquerque since 2016. That's about five years earlier than the date listed on the firearm transfer.
Shaheen Syed has not been charged in relation to the recent killings of members of the Muslim community in Albuquerque. | 2022-08-10T21:14:10+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/albuquerque-muslim-killing-suspect-son-charged-federal-crime/40862383 |
The House on Wednesday passed a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown, kicking Friday’s funding deadline to next week to allow lawmakers more time to strike a deal on spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2023.
The continuing resolution passed in a 224-201 vote. It now heads to the Senate, where it must pass and be sent to President Biden’s desk before midnight on Friday to avoid a shutdown.
The measure will keep the government funded at current levels until Dec. 23.
Nine Republicans voted with Democrats in supporting the measure after GOP leadership urged rank-and-file members to oppose the legislation shortly after its release the day prior: Reps. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Liz Cheney (Wyo.), Chris Jacobs (N.Y.), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), John Katko (N.Y.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), Fred Upton (Mich.), Steve Womack (Ark.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.).
In a notice sent out by the House Minority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office on Tuesday evening, leadership recommended Republicans to vote “no” on the bill, while calling it an “attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table.”
The GOP faces internal divisions over how to move forward on funding the government.
Some want to freeze current funding levels into next year to allow the newly-elected GOP-led House more say in how the government should be funded for fiscal 2023, which began in October. Republicans are projected to have a 222-212 majority in the chamber at the start of the next Congress.
During a press conference on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) noted that the top appropriators in the Senate — Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) — are both retiring at the end of this term.
“We’re 20 days before the new members are being sworn in. We’ve got two members leading appropriations in the Senate who will no longer be here, or be able to be held accountable to the constituents,” McCarthy said.
“We should not move a short-term CR. We should move one further into the new year. Allow the American people what they said a month ago — to change Washington as we know it today. We can’t afford to continue to spend the way the Democrats have. The future generation cannot afford it as well,” he added.
Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), ranking member on the House Appropriations panel, at the same press conference said a Republican-led House would “work toward a spending agreement that cuts wasteful spending, reduces inflation and prioritizes border security and national defense.”
But other Republicans, including top Senate negotiators and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have expressed support for an omnibus to be enacted sooner, citing concerns about funding for defense and national security.
“We were basically negotiating with the House Democrats and the Democrats here because some of the House Republicans have not shown as much interest in getting an omnibus,” Shelby, top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters on Wednesday.
McConnell said earlier on Tuesday that lawmakers are “very close to getting an omnibus appropriations bill,” while also setting the timeline for passage by Dec. 22.
Negotiators announced an agreement on a framework for the omnibus late Tuesday, with sights set on moving the forthcoming package through Congress by Christmas Eve. However, the recent announcements contained few details about the deal, including topline figures.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) last month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said “operating under a CR moves our budget backward, not forward,” adding that failure to pass a full-year government funding bill “will result in significant harm to our people and our programs and would cause harm to our national security and our competitiveness.” | 2022-12-15T01:45:56+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/house-passes-short-term-funding-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown/ |
BEIJING, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jianpu Technology Inc. ("Jianpu," or the "Company") (NYSE: JT), a leading independent open platform for the discovery and recommendation of financial products in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Operational and Financial Highlights:
- The credit card volume and number of domestic loan applications for recommendation services respectively increased by 33.3% to approximately 1.2 million and 43.3% to approximately 4.3 million in the second quarter of 2022 compared with the same period of 2021. As a result, total revenues from recommendation services for the second quarter of 2022 increased by 37.8% to RMB204.7 million (US$30.6 million) from RMB148.6 million in the same period of 2021.
- Revenues from big data and system-based risk management services decreased by 37.0% to RMB22.8 million (US$3.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB36.2 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was mainly attributable to the impact of COVID-19 on our cooperation with customers, as well as our product adjustments.
- Revenues from advertising and marketing services and other services increased by 187.0% to RMB37.6 million (US$5.6 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB13.1 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was mainly attributable to the growth of insurance brokerage services and initiatives of other new businesses.
- Loss from operations was RMB35.9 million (US$5.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB69.5 million in the same period of 2021. Operating loss margin was 13.5% in the second quarter of 2022, compared with 35.1% in the same period of 2021. The improvement of loss from operations was mainly attributable to an increase in revenues and a decrease in operating expenses resulting from efficiency improvement and cost optimization.
- Net loss was RMB35.9 million (US$5.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB44.5 million in the same period of 2021. Net loss margin was 13.5% in the second quarter of 2022, compared with 22.5% in the same period of 2021.
- Non-GAAP adjusted net loss[1] was RMB32.2 million (US$4.8 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared with Non-GAAP adjusted net loss[1] of RMB40.6 million in the same period of 2021. Non-GAAP adjusted net loss margin[1] was 12.1% in the second quarter of 2022, compared with 20.5% in the same period of 2021.
First Half Year 2022 Operational and Financial Highlights:
- The credit card volume and number of domestic loan applications for recommendation services respectively increased by 31.3% to approximately 2.1 million and 57.7% to approximately 8.2 million in the first half year of 2022 compared with the same period of 2021. As a result, total revenues from recommendation services for the first half year of 2022 increased by 36.8% to RMB348.8 million (US$52.1 million) from RMB254.9 million in the same period of 2021.
- Revenues from big data and system-based risk management services decreased by 31.9% to RMB43.0 million (US$6.4 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB63.1 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was mainly attributable to the impact of COVID-19 on our cooperation with customers, as well as our product adjustments.
- Revenues from advertising and marketing services and other services increased by 216.9% to RMB80.8 million (US$12.1 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB25.5 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was mainly attributable to the growth of insurance brokerage services and initiatives of other new businesses.
- Loss from operations was RMB90.5 million (US$13.5 million) in the first half year of 2022, compared with RMB136.7 million in the same period of 2021. Operating loss margin was 19.1% in the first half year of 2022, compared with 39.8% in the same period of 2021. The improvement of loss from operations was mainly attributable to an increase in revenues and a decrease in operating expenses resulting from efficiency improvement and cost optimization.
- Net loss was RMB89.0 million (US$13.3 million) in the first half year of 2022, compared with RMB95.8 million in the same period of 2021. Net loss margin was 18.8% in the first half year of 2022, compared with 27.9% in the same period of 2021.
- Non-GAAP adjusted net loss[1] was RMB82.9 million (US$12.4 million) in the first half year of 2022, compared with Non-GAAP adjusted net loss[1] of RMB90.0 million in the same period of 2021. Non-GAAP adjusted net loss margin[1] was 17.5% in the first half year of 2022, compared with 26.2% in the same period of 2021.
Mr. David Ye, Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jianpu, commented, "In the second quarter, we saw a further recovery in total revenues at a healthy growth rate of 33.9% year-over-year despite a more challenging macro environment triggered by the rolling COVID-19 lockdowns across the country. The solid results were primarily driven by our diversification strategy, strong omnichannel marketing capabilities, continued operating efficiency improvements, and disciplined cost optimization. Our diversification strategy enhanced our business resilience and our omnichannel marketing capabilities continued to lead the market, enabling the digital transformation of the financial industry and other industries. With our solid business expansion and operational efficiency improvement, our overall ROI[2] continued to improve by 8 percentage points in the first half of 2022, compared with the second half of 2021. Also, as we continued to fine-tune our cost structure and better utilize the company's resources to enhance overall productivity, our operating loss for the second quarter of 2022 further reduced significantly by 48.4% year-over-year."
"Our second-quarter results highlight our relentless efforts in growing our scale and improving efficiency. Our revenues from recommendation services increased by 37.8% year-over-year, and revenues from advertising, marketing services and other services were up 187.0% year-over-year. With the continued optimization of our cost structure and improvement in productivity, our net loss reduced by 19.3% year-over-year to RMB35.9 million in the second quarter. Our net loss margin improved by 9 percentage points compared with the same period in 2021. We will continue to implement our cost optimization measures and strive for a balance between growth and efficiency," said Oscar Chen, Chief Financial Officer of Jianpu.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total revenues for the second quarter of 2022 increased by 33.9% to RMB265.1 million (US$39.6 million) from RMB198.0 million in the same period of 2021.
Total revenues from recommendation services increased by 37.8% to RMB204.7 million (US$30.6 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB148.6 million in the same period of 2021.
Revenues from recommendation services for credit cards increased by 36.0% to RMB138.2 million (US$20.6 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB101.6 million in the same period of 2021. Credit card volume in the second quarter of 2022 increased by 33.3% to approximately 1.2 million from 0.9 million in the same period of 2021. The average fee per credit card were RMB113.4 (US$16.9) and RMB112.9 in the second quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Revenues from recommendation services for loans increased by 41.5% to RMB66.5 million (US$9.9 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB47.0 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to an increase in the number of loan applications on the Company's platform. The number of domestic loan applications on the Company's platform was approximately 4.3 million in the second quarter of 2022, representing a 43.3% increase from that in the same period of 2021. The average fee per domestic loan application increased to RMB15.4 (US$2.3) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB14.1 in the same period of 2021, which stemmed from a more optimized product revenue mixture.
Revenues from big data and system-based risk management services decreased by 37.0% to RMB22.8 million (US$3.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB36.2 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the impact of COVID-19 on our cooperation with customers, as well as our product adjustments.
Revenues from advertising and marketing services and other services increased by 187.0% to RMB37.6 million (US$5.6 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB13.1 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the growth of the Company's insurance brokerage services and initiatives of other new businesses.
Cost of promotion and acquisition[3] increased by 41.4% to RMB191.8 million (US$28.6 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB135.6 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to the growth of the Company's revenues from recommendation services and insurance brokerage services and initiatives of other new businesses.
Cost of operation decreased by 21.5% to RMB20.4 million (US$3.1 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB26.0 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily attributable to decreases in software development and maintenance costs, data acquisition costs related to the big data and system-based risk management services and depreciation expenses.
Sales and marketing expenses decreased by 11.7% to RMB33.2 million (US$5.0 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB37.6 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in payroll expenses, partially offset by an increase in call center outsourcing expenses.
Research and development expenses decreased by 11.5% to RMB29.3 million (US$4.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB33.1 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to a decrease in payroll expenses resulting from the Company's continued efforts in cost optimization.
General and administrative expenses decreased by 25.3% to RMB26.3 million (US$3.9 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB35.2 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to decreases in professional fees and share-based compensation expenses.
Loss from operations was RMB35.9 million (US$5.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB69.5 million in the same period of 2021. Operating loss margin was 13.5% in the second quarter of 2022, compared with 35.1% in the same period of 2021. The decrease in operating loss was mainly attributable to an increase in revenues and a decrease in operating expenses resulting from efficiency improvement and cost optimization.
Others, net decreased by 94.5% to RMB1.4 million (US$0.2 million) in the second quarter of 2022 from RMB25.6 million in the same period of 2021. The Company recognized an impairment loss of RMB7.8 million on equity investments and an investment gain of RMB6.1 million resulting from the deconsolidation of one of its subsidiaries[4] in the second quarter of 2022; while the Company recognized a realized investment gain of RMB25.4 million from the investment in Conflux Global, a decentralized applications block-chain solution provider, in the second quarter of 2021.
Net loss was RMB35.9 million (US$5.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022 compared with RMB44.5 million in the same period of 2021. Net loss margin was 13.5% in the second quarter of 2022, compared with 22.5% in the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP adjusted net loss[1], which excluded share-based compensation expenses, investment impairment loss and investment gain of deconsolidation of subsidiaries, was RMB32.2 million (US$4.8 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared with RMB40.6 million in the same period of 2021. Non-GAAP adjusted net loss margin[1] was 12.1% in the second quarter of 2022 compared with 20.5% in the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA[5], which excluded share-based compensation expenses, investment impairment loss, investment gain of deconsolidation of subsidiaries, depreciation and amortization, interest income and expenses, and income tax benefits from net loss, for the second quarter of 2022 was a loss of RMB29.4 million (US$4.4 million), compared with a loss of RMB36.6 million in the same period of 2021.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and time deposits of RMB673.2 million (US$100.5 million), and working capital of approximately RMB377.4 million (US$56.3 million). Compared to those as of December 31, 2021, cash and cash equivalents, time deposits, restricted cash and time deposits and short-term investment decreased by RMB89.6 million, which was primarily attributable to net cash outflow due to the deconsolidation of one of the Company's subsidiaries[4] and net cash used in operating activities, partially offset by net cash inflow from financing activities.
First Half Year 2022 Financial Results
Total revenues for the first half year of 2022 increased by 37.6% to RMB472.6 million (US$70.6 million) from RMB343.5 million in the same period of 2021.
Total revenues from recommendation services increased by 36.8% to RMB348.8 million (US$52.1 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB254.9 million in the same period of 2021.
Revenues from recommendation services for credit cards increased by 31.1% to RMB235.8 million (US$35.2 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB179.8 million in the same period of 2021. Credit card volume in the first half year of 2022 increased by 31.3% to approximately 2.1 million from 1.6 million in the same period of 2021. The average fee per credit card were RMB111.3 (US$16.6) and RMB109.6 in the first half year of 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Revenues from recommendation services for loans increased by 50.6% to RMB113.1 million (US$16.9 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB75.1 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to an increase in the number of loan applications on our platform. The number of domestic loan applications on the Company's platform was approximately 8.2 million in the first half year of 2022, representing a 57.7% increase from that in the same period of 2021. The average fee per domestic loan application increased to RMB13.6 (US$2.0) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB13.0 in the same period of 2021.
Revenues from big data and system-based risk management services decreased by 31.9% to RMB43.0 million (US$6.4 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB63.1 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the impact of COVID-19 on our cooperation with customers, as well as our product adjustments.
Revenues from advertising and marketing services and other services increased by 216.9% to RMB80.8 million (US$12.1 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB25.5 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the growth of the Company's insurance brokerage services and initiatives of other new businesses.
Cost of promotion and acquisition[3] increased by 50.2% to RMB341.3 million (US$51.0 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB227.2 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was in line with the growth of the Company's revenues from recommendation services and insurance brokerage services and initiatives of other new businesses.
Cost of operation decreased by 9.5 % to RMB38.9 million (US$5.8 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB43.0 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily attributable to decreases in software development and maintenance costs, data acquisition costs related to the big data and system-based risk management services and depreciation expenses.
Sales and marketing expenses decreased by 10.2% to RMB67.0 million (US$10.0 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB74.6 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in payroll expenses, partially offset by an increase in call center outsourcing expenses.
Research and development expenses decreased by 15.7% to RMB59.1 million (US$8.8 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB70.1 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to a decrease in payroll expenses resulting from our continued efforts in cost optimization.
General and administrative expenses decreased by 13.0% to RMB56.8 million (US$8.5 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB65.3 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to decreases in professional fees and share-based compensation expenses, partially offset by an increase in credit loss.
Loss from operations was RMB90.5 million (US$13.5 million) in the first half year of 2022, compared with RMB136.7 million in the same period of 2021. Operating loss margin was 19.1% in the first half year of 2022, compared with 39.8% in the same period of 2021. The decrease in operating loss was mainly attributable to an increase in revenues and a decrease in operating expenses resulting from efficiency improvement and cost optimization.
Others, net decreased by 90.1% to RMB4.2 million (US$0.6 million) in the first half year of 2022 from RMB42.3 million in the same period of 2021. The Company recognized an impairment loss of RMB7.8 million on equity investments and an investment gain of RMB6.1 million resulting from the deconsolidation of one of its subsidiaries[4] in the first half year of 2022; while the Company recognized a realized investment gain of RMB40.1 million from the investment in Conflux Global, a decentralized applications block-chain solution provider, in the first half year of 2021.
Net loss was RMB89.0 million (US$13.3 million) in the first half year of 2022 compared with RMB95.8 million in the same period of 2021. Net loss margin was 18.8% in the first half year of 2022 compared with 27.9% in the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP adjusted net loss[1], which excluded share-based compensation expenses, investment impairment loss and investment gain of deconsolidation of subsidiaries, was RMB82.9 million (US$12.4 million) in the first half year of 2022, compared with RMB90.0 million in the same period of 2021. Non-GAAP adjusted net loss margin[1] was 17.5% in the first half year of 2022 compared with 26.2% in the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA[5], which excluded share-based compensation expenses, investment impairment loss, investment gain of deconsolidation of subsidiaries, depreciation and amortization, interest income and expenses, and income tax benefits from net loss, for the first half year of 2022 was a loss of RMB77.5 million (US$11.6 million), compared with a loss of RMB81.7 million in the same period of 2021.
Conference Call
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on August 23, 2022 (8:00 PM Beijing/Hong Kong Time on August 23, 2022).
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Participants should dial-in at least 5 minutes before the scheduled start time and ask to be connected to the call for "Jianpu Technology Inc."
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.jianpu.ai.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live call until August 30, 2022, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
About Jianpu Technology Inc.
Jianpu Technology Inc. is a leading independent open platform for the discovery and recommendation of financial products in China. The Company connects users with financial service providers in a convenient, efficient, and secure way. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Jianpu provides users with customized search results and recommendations tailored to each user's particular financial needs and profile. The Company also enables financial service providers with sales and marketing solutions to reach and serve their target customers more effectively through integrated channels and enhance their competitiveness by providing them with tailored data, risk management services and solutions. The Company is committed to maintaining an independent open platform, which allows it to serve the needs of users and financial service providers impartially. For more information, please visit http://ir.jianpu.ai.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company uses adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net (loss)/income, each a Non-GAAP financial measure, in evaluating its operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes.
The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net (loss)/income help identify underlying trends in its business that could otherwise be distorted by the effect of the expenses and gains that the Company include in (loss)/income from operations and net (loss)/income. The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net (loss)/income provide useful information about its operating results, enhance the overall understanding of its past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by its management in its financial and operational decision-making.
Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net (loss)/income should not be considered in isolation or construed as alternatives to net (loss)/income or any other measure of performance or as indicators of the Company's operating performance. Investors are encouraged to review the historical Non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net (loss)/income presented here may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures to the Company's data. The Company encourages investors and others to review its financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
Adjusted EBITDA represents EBITDA before share-based compensation expenses, investment impairment loss and investment gain of deconsolidation of subsidiaries. EBITDA represents net (loss)/income before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
Adjusted net (loss)/income represents net (loss)/income before share-based compensation expenses, investment impairment loss and investment gain of deconsolidation of subsidiaries.
For more information on this Non-GAAP financial measure, please see the table captioned "Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP results" set forth at the end of this press release.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development, financial condition and results of operations; the Company's expectations regarding demand for, and market acceptance of, its solutions and services; the Company's expectations regarding keeping and strengthening its relationships with users, financial service providers and other parties it collaborates with; trends, competition and regulatory policies relating to the industries the Company operates in; general economic and business conditions globally and in China; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Jianpu Technology Inc.
(IR) Oscar Chen, E-mail: IR@rong360.com
(PR) Amanda Hu, E-mail: Media@rong360.com
Tel: +86 (10) 6242 7068
Christensen Advisory
Suri Cheng, E-mail: suri.cheng@christensencomms.com
Tel: +86 185 0060 8364
Crystal Lai, E-mail: crystal.lai@christensencomms.com
Tel: +852 2232 3907
In US:
Christensen Advisory
Linda Bergkamp, E-mail: linda.bergkamp@christensencomms.com
Tel: +1 480 353 6648
View original content:
SOURCE Jianpu Technology Inc. | 2022-08-23T11:51:11+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/jianpu-technology-inc-reports-second-quarter-2022-unaudited-financial-results/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Trae Young never lost confidence in himself, even after a run of dismal playoff performances.
Finally, he looked like that charismatic point guard who carried the Atlanta Hawks to the Eastern Conference final two years ago.
Young scored 32 points in his best playoff game since 2021 and the Atlanta Hawks gave themselves a glimmer of hope, beating the Boston Celtics 130-122 Friday night to close the gap to 2-1 in the opening-round series.
Young hit a step-back 3-pointer from the corner with 2:21 left and knocked down another huge basket on a floater in the lane with 45 seconds remaining after Jaylen Brown missed a 3-pointer that would’ve tied it for the Celtics.
The seventh-seeded Hawks will try to even the series against the second-seeded Celtics in Game 4 on Sunday night at State Farm Arena.
“I knew I could play like this,” Young said. “I wasn’t worried.”
Maybe not, but much of the A-T-L was sure doubting if he was truly a franchise player.
Young washed out in an opening-round loss to Miami a year ago, averaging just 15.4 points a game while recording more turnovers (31) than assists (30). He wasn’t much better during the first two games in Boston, connecting on 14 of 40 shots.
But, working in perfect sync with fellow guard Dejounte Murray, Young knocked down 12 of 22 attempts, dished out nine assists and grabbed six rebounds, while committing only four turnovers.
“The guards are supposed to be in control of the game,” Young said. “We consider ourselves two pretty good guards.”
They sure played the part in this one. Murray had another big game for the Hawks with 25 points, including a 3-pointer with 1:40 remaining that helped Atlanta protect its lead. He added six rebounds and five assists.
“They were talking to each other, figuring out what the other was thinking and playing off each other,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said of his starting backcourt. “At one point, I just told myself to be quiet and let them do it.”
The duo was really at its best when it counted most. Young scored 15 points in the fourth quarter and Murray chipped in with 7, accounting for 22 of Atlanta’s 30 points in the period.
They were the first Hawks teammates to each have at least 25 points, five rebounds and five assists in a playoff game since Lenny Wilkens and Bill Bridges in 1966, when the franchise still called St. Louis home.
Jayson Tatum scored 29 points to lead Boston, which was barely challenged in the first two games of the series.
“We knew it wasn’t to be easy,” said Marcus Smart, who added 24 points for the Celtics.
In Boston, the Celtics pushed out to big leads and cruised to a pair of 13-point victories. In Atlanta, the Hawks finally put up a fight.
With Derrick White forced to the bench in the early going with two quick fouls, the Hawks took advantage of a chink in the Boston defense to get things rolling. Atlanta knocked down 30 of 46 shots (65.2%) in the first half.
Smart said that’s where the Celtics essentially lost the game, allowing the Hawks to gain some much-needed confidence.
“You get that extra boost when you’re back home,” he said. “We’ve just got to do a better job of making things tough on them.”
Pumped up by a standing-room-only crowd, the Hawks built a 14-point lead — their biggest of the series — late in the first half.
But the Celtics responded with eight straight points and went to the locker room down 74-67.
It was Atlanta’ first victory over Boston this season. The Hawks dropped all three regular-season meetings.
HIGH SCORING
The Hawks put up their most points in a playoff game since a 137-125 victory over Detroit in an opening-round series in 1986. They also had seven players in double figures, matching their franchise high in the postseason.
TIP-INS
Celtics: White played only 9:58 in the first half after being whistled for a pair of fouls before the game was five minutes old. … Smart landed hard on his tailbone with about 2 1/2 minutes left, but stayed in the game. “It’s sore,” he said. “We’ll see how it feels in the morning.”
Hawks: Bogdan Bogdanovic took a shot to the face on Malcolm Brogdan’s lay-in early in the fourth quarter. Bogdanovic kneeled over in the pain and was subbed out during a timeout. … Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins felt ill before the game and did not serve as an analyst on the Hawks regional telecast. Brian Oliver took Wilkins’ usual spot.
LONG ODDS
The Celtics still have the odds in their favor. The Hawks are 0-26 in playoff series when losing the first two games over the franchise’s 74-season history.
___
AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-22T21:58:17+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/sports/ap-sports/young-scores-32-hawks-beat-celtics-130-122-to-close-to-2-1/ |
DEAR AMY: My friend “Annie” and I are both in our mid-20s and love musicals. We decided to travel to New York in October to see a few shows.
The tickets were fairly pricey, so I was planning on saving money by staying with a friend who lives in the city. I thought my friend could probably make room for Annie, too.
After we agreed on the dates and shows, Annie sent me a screenshot with an order confirmation for her tickets, accompanied by a message saying she’d invited her husband and hoped that was okay.
I was frustrated. It was the first time in our planning she’d mentioned her husband coming. The way she did it really boxed me in.
Her husband and I are friends, but the past few times he joined us for shows he fell asleep and audibly snored.
If she had brought it up earlier, I would have pushed back.
I now have two questions: First, my friend can’t host three extra people in their tiny apartment.
Is it all right if I leave Annie and her husband to find a hotel on their own?
How do I express that even though I like her husband, I don’t always want him included on every trip; and that she needs to ask way earlier in the planning process if she wants to bring him?
– Broadway Blues
DEAR BROADWAY: Younger couples sometimes feel the need to do every single thing together (more seasoned couples offer one another more latitude), and I have a theory that “Annie’s” husband might have wheeled his way in, just as she was perusing the online theater seating chart for her ticket.
But even if Annie felt danced into a corner, she absolutely should have run this change past you before committing.
You fear that your friend’s choice has transformed your fun two-person Broadway weekend into a production of Sartre’s famous three-character play “No Exit” (“Hell is other people…”), but I hope you will take this as a valuable lesson to always communicate and clarify. (Trust me, this lesson is worth the price of a Broadway ticket.)
Tell her now, “I’m frustrated. I thought this was a two-person weekend. I like your husband, but now I feel like a third wheel. I really wish you had discussed this with me beforehand. Also, unfortunately there is no way my friend can squeeze in three extra people, so can you two find a place to stay?”
After telling her this, I hope you will simply will yourself into having a fun time in New York. If you let this frustration defeat you, the weekend really will have been a waste.
***
DEAR AMY: I am flabbergasted by the letter from “Disturbed” telling us about the wedding invitation she received that was asking for donations toward the honeymoon destination, the wedding cake, etc.
I hope most potential newlyweds would understand how off-putting it actually is.
I had a beautiful wedding and requested nothing from my guests, except their treasured attendance!
– Put Off
DEAR PUT OFF: Marrying couples may have misunderstood my off-repeated advice that they need to finance their own weddings.
(I never intended that their guests should pay.)
***
MORE FROM ASK AMY:
Ask Amy: Father/daughter trip leaves mother feeling left out
Ask Amy: Neighbor opens misdirected mail ... not once, but twice
Ask Amy: My son’s wife made it clear he was too close to his mother and that it must stop
Ask Amy: Vietnam vet hopes to reconcile with his sister and her husband, who dodged the draft
Ask Amy: Life with a low-level pot dealer
***
(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
©2023 Amy Dickinson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. | 2023-07-29T11:14:00+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/advice/2023/07/ask-amy-my-friend-invited-her-husband-on-a-girls-trip-and-now-we-have-a-lodging-problem.html |
DULLES, Va., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SOFIE Biosciences (SOFIE), an established US manufacturer and developer of radiopharmaceuticals, has dosed and imaged the first patient with [68Ga]FAPI-46 at NYU Langone in its US Clinical Trial of Fibroblast Activation Protein Inhibitor (FAPI). This study is a Phase 2, Multicenter, Non-randomized Study of [68Ga]FAPI-46 PET for imaging patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC)1.
NYU Langone and Mayo Clinic are the first two sites that have been activated in support of this study, with additional sites expected to join in the coming months. Special thanks to NYU Langone Health (PI: Elcin Zan, MD) and Mayo Clinic's clinical trial team (PI: Ajit H. Goenka, MD) and investigators in support of this study.
"We are very excited to test the ability of a novel molecular imaging agent targeting fibroblast activated protein (FAP) to pick up early pancreatic cancer. This is a new day for early detection imaging for pancreatic cancer," stated Dr. Diane Simeone, Director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center. Dr. Elcin, Zan, Director of Nuclear Theranostics, NYU Langone Health, added, "It is a new chapter in molecular PET imaging and we are privileged to study the fibroblast activation protein (FAP) as a target in the tumor microenvironment (TME) in vivo. The unique potential of FAP-binding radiopharmaceuticals is clear, and we are excited to be the first academic center opening this promising diagnostic trial."
Sherly Mosessian, Ph.D., SOFIE's Chief Scientific Officer, commented, "The published clinical data with FAPI family of compounds in more than 3,500 patients in 4 years is incredible and highlights the promise of diagnostic and companion diagnostic utility of FAPI in many areas of unmet clinical need. This trial is a key step in exploring the performance of [68Ga]FAPI-46 and, soon to come, [18F]FAPI-74, in prospective oncology studies in the US."
SOFIE's vision is to improve patient outcomes by developing and delivering molecular diagnostics and therapeutics (theranostics). With its robust radiopharmaceutical production and distribution network, mature contract manufacturing services, and now, high value radiopharmaceutical intellectual property, SOFIE is poised to deliver on the promise of radiopharmaceuticals. For more information, contact info@sofie.com.
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease with a high mortality rate and challenging patient management due to conventional diagnostic options that may miss established or developing metastatic disease. Pancreatic cancer's aggressive nature is highlighted by 2021 estimates where 60,430 new cases are expected to be diagnosed in the US with an estimated 48,220 deaths from the disease. In 2020, worldwide statistics revealed 495,773 new cases with 466,003 deaths. At present, there is no screening or early detection test for pancreatic cancer that has been shown to reduce mortality from the disease.
Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP) is highly expressed in cancer associated fibroblasts (CAF) across several tumor entities. Quinoline-based PET tracers that act as FAP inhibitors (FAPI), developed by the team at the Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD), have shown encouraging results in pre-clinical and clinical studies. FAPI is an important diagnostic or therapeutic (theranostic) entity that can be deployed alone or in combination with other tumor-targeting therapies such as chemo, immunologic, radiation or cell-based therapies whose function may be otherwise blunted by the tumor stroma.
[68Ga]FAPI-46 is the Gallium-68 radiolabeled PET tracer containing FAPI-46 precursor small molecule critical drug intermediate consisting of a FAPI moiety conjugated with a DOTA chelator. This agent is optimized for production within SOFIE and its clinical trial partners.
[1] [68Ga]-FAPI-46 is not currently approved in any jurisdiction including the United States and European Union.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Sofie Biosciences | 2022-10-13T12:22:43+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/10/13/first-patient-imaged-sofies-fapi-phase-ii-trial/ |
Disclaimer: This is sponsored content. All opinions and views are of the advertiser and do not reflect the same of FOX 17.
With tax season winding down, many are feeling the pinch and looking for ways to save on taxes in the coming years. Mattson Financial says it's even more important for those who are in or near retirement.
Taylor and Laurel Steward, the husband-wife team at Mattson Financial Services, share strategies designed to help you save as much money as possible for retirement and not spend it all on taxes.
To learn more about putting yourself in a position to retire wealthier, Mattson Financial has a great offer. For the first five callers that have saved $250,000 or more who are retired or nearing retirement, Mattson Financial is offering a complimentary full-blown retirement plan. They'll sit down with you and provide a roadmap analyzing where you are financially, discuss where you want to be during retirement, and the steps you can take to get there.
Call 800-536-8907 to take advantage of this offer. Or learn more by visiting mattsonfinancial.com.
This segment is sponsored by Mattson Financial Services. | 2023-04-12T15:37:00+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/mattson-financial-planning-ahead-for-taxes |
Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts
Remember all the hype for Geno Smith this time last year in Seattle? Yeah, me neither. Smith in 2022 would go on to revitalize his career, win Comeback Player of the Year, and most importantly finish as QB5 in fantasy rankings last season. So who is this year's Geno Smith?
In our third installment of our 'Filp the script' series, Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens identify the best dark horse candidates QB candidates to potentially finish in the top ten in fantasy rankings in 2023.
But first, the two discuss the latest with Dalvin Cook and DeAndre Hopkins and best fantasy fits for both. The two then go through the list of candidates to be labeled 'This year's Geno Smith' with a few shocking options. Andy pushes hard for Baker Mayfield to bounce back in Tampa, while Matt loves the QB set up in Washington. Producer Collin jumps in to break the tie at the end of the discussion.
From mediocre QB conversations to talk with one of the current great ones, Matt connects with Madden 24 cover athlete and Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen to end the show. Allen shares what it means to be on the Madden cover, his expectations for Buffalo this season and his thoughts on Aaron Rodgers joining the Jets.
2:05 - The latest fantasy implications for Dalvin Cook, DeAndre Hopkins
5:51 - How should Dynasty owners treat Cook, Mattison situation?
9:47 - Why the Titans make sense for DeAndre Hopkins
15:46 - Flip the script: Who is this year's Geno Smith?
18:17 - Revisiting Geno Smith's 2022 season
24:33 - Candidates: Sam Howell/Jacoby Brissett
28:47 - Candidate: Matthew Stafford
31:19 - Candidate: Russell Wilson
38:35 - Candidate: Jordan Love
43:21 - Candidate: Geno Smith (again)
47:05 - Candidates: Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold
57:10 - The pick (and fun facts about Todd Collins)
1:01:29 - Interview with Madden 24 cover athlete, Buffalo QB Josh Allen
Check out all the episodes of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at Yahoo Sports Podcasts | 2023-06-09T04:45:46+00:00 | wsbtv.com | https://www.wsbtv.com/news/national/flip-script-series/GBIAGUEI6W7KSXARMK2RCJULYQ/ |
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | 2022-10-21T14:50:17+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2022/10/21/ap-top-business-news-at-1027-a-m-edt-10/ |
WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – Donald Trump is the first former president in history to be indicted. The Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his office have filed the indictment under seal.
Recent reports say that Trump faces over 30 counts related to business fraud.
The McLennan County Democratic Party Chairman Mark Hays, feels that the justice system will prevail, “Remember that the prosecutor doesn’t get to make this decision all by themselves. They had to put together a grand jury and present evidence to that grand jury and get them to make this decision to indict.” – Hays
I asked both McLennan County political parties how they would feel if the roles were reversed, and it was a Republican district attorney prosecuting a former democratic president. “Perhaps we wouldn’t be real happy about that. But it’s the way our system works.” – Hays
Vice-Chair, Christopher DeCluitt of the McLennan County Republican party says he wouldn’t indict Trump, “I would seek to enforce the law, but this doesn’t seem to be the rise to the level of an indictable situation, because even the DOJ has turned this down. If they wanted to be fair and above board, they would penalize him if that’s the case and have him pay a fine.” -DeCluitt
Trump is expected to be arraigned at 2:15pm EST in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.
DeCluitt believes that it could potentially fire up Trump’s voters and the entire Republican base, working in his favor in the primary. | 2023-04-01T04:39:19+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/mclennan-county/mclennan-county-political-parties-on-former-president-trumps-indictment/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday that hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children will be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges.
The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to access government-funded health insurance programs.
“They’re American in every way except for on paper,” Biden said in a video released on his Twitter page. “We need to give Dreamers the opportunities and support they deserve.”
The action is likely to generate significant pushback from conservative leaders of states that have been have been reluctant to expand Medicaid and critical of the Biden administration's response to migrants who enter the U.S. illegally. While the federal government provides funding and guidelines for Medicaid, the program is administered by the states.
Then-President Barack Obama launched the 2012 DACA initiative to shield from deportation immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as children and to allow them to work legally in the country. However, the immigrants, known as “Dreamers,” were still ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance programs because they did not meet the definition for having “lawful presence” in the U.S. Biden's Department of Health and Human Services will aim to change that by the end of the month.
The White House action comes as the DACA program is in legal peril and the number of people eligible is shrinking.
An estimated 580,000 people were still enrolled in DACA at the end of last year, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That number is down from previous years. Court orders currently prevent the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from processing new applications. The DACA program has been mired in legal challenges for years, while Congress has been unable to reach consensus on broader immigration reforms.
DACA recipients can work legally and must pay taxes, but they don’t have full legal status and are denied many benefits, including access to federally funded health insurance, available to U.S. citizens and foreigners living in the U.S.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people signed up for Medicaid, the program that provides health care coverage for the poorest Americans. And the government increased federal subsidies to drive down the cost of insurance plans on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. As of last year, just 8% of Americans were without health insurance, according to Health and Human Services.
But immigrants living in the U.S. without documentation are far more likely than others to not have health insurance. More than a third of DACA recipients are estimated to be without health care coverage, HHS said. About half of the roughly 20 million immigrants who are living in the U.S. without documentation are uninsured, according to research from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Providing more people with insurance could have a positive impact on the entire health care system because it would give more people access to routine checkups and avoid emergency visits, said Jamila Michener, associate professor of government and policy at Cornell University.
“Having sizeable groups of people who live, work, go to school and make their home in the U.S. but cannot access vital health benefits is bad for everyone," Michener said in an email. “It makes preventive care less accessible thus driving up the cost of emergency care.”
While there’s bipartisan support to enact some sort of protections for the immigrants, negotiations have often broken down over in debates about border security and whether an expansion of protections might induce others to try to enter the U.S. without permission. Biden, a Democrat, has repeatedly called on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Other classes of immigrants — including asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status — are already eligible to purchase insurance through the marketplaces of the ACA, Obama's 2010 health care law, often called "Obamacare."
Credit: AP
Credit: AP | 2023-04-13T16:30:40+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/biden-says-hes-expanding-some-migrants-health-care-access/GERN3A63TNBNXDJKSAQ3OYD2FQ/ |
Rose Parade avoids California rain as it welcomes New Year
Pasadena, California — Flower-covered floats, marching bands and equestrian units celebrated the New Year on a chilly but dry Monday as the 134th Rose Parade slipped through a gap in California's siege of drenching storms.
Pasadena's annual floral spectacle offered the optimistic theme of “Turning the Corner” for 2023, and former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, who survived a 2011 shooting, served as grand marshal.
“The New Year is a time for renewal, an opportunity for a fresh start,” Tournament of Roses President Amy Wainscott told the television audience.
The parade, which by tradition is held on Jan. 2 when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, kicked off with the Los Angeles band Fitz and the Tantrums! performing “Let Yourself Free" and a crowd-pleasing flyby of two U.S. Air Force B-1B jets.
Rain has rarely fallen on the parade, but this year it came close. Downpours pounded Southern California over the weekend and rain was expected to return by Monday evening, possibly affecting the Rose Bowl college football game between Utah and Penn State.
But in the meantime, thousands of spectators and the parade participants avoided a soaking.
Giffords rolled down the 5.5-mile (8.8-mile) route in a flower-decked antique convertible, accompanied by her husband, Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.
Marching bands came from across the U.S. and around the world.
The Riverside County, California, sheriff's mounted unit was led by a riderless horse in honor of Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, who was slain during a traffic stop on Dec. 29.
The floats offered simple beauty — birds, bees, bears, bugs and giraffes covered in flowers or other natural materials — as well as messages such as a Cal Poly universities' entry called the “Road to Reclamation” depicting animated snails and mushrooms living on a fallen tree branch.
The Louisiana Office of Tourism's “Feed Your Soul” float depicting a paddlewheel riverboat was the stage for mid-parade performance by Lainey Wilson.
Donate Life's bright orange and red Chinese street dragon blowing smoke out its nostrils was awarded the sweepstakes trophy for most beautiful entry by the Tournament of Roses judges.
“American Idol” finalist Grace Kinstler performed aboard a float promoting tourism to her home state of Illinois, and country music star Tanya Tucker sang her current single, “Ready as I'll Never Be,” in the parade's finale. | 2023-01-02T22:28:56+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2023/01/02/rose-parade-avoids-california-rain-as-it-welcomes-new-year/69771615007/ |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Manatees that are dying by the hundreds mainly from pollution-caused starvation in Florida should once again be listed as an endangered species, environmental groups said Monday in a petition seeking the change.
The petition filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contends it was an error to take manatees off the endangered list in 2017, leaving the slow-moving marine mammals listed only as threatened. They had been listed as endangered since 1973.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service now has the opportunity to correct its mistake and protect these desperately imperiled animals,” said Ragan Whitlock, attorney for the Florida-based Center for Biological Diversity.
Under the Endangered Species Act, a species is considered endangered if it is “in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.” A threatened species is one that may become endangered in the foreseeable future.
The petition, also sponsored by the Save the Manatee Club, Miami Waterkeeper and others, contends that pollution from fertilizer runoff, leaking septic tanks, wastewater discharges and increased development is triggering algae blooms that have killed much of the seagrass on which manatees depend, especially on Florida’s east coast.
That resulted in the deaths mainly from starvation of a record 1,100 manatees in 2021 and is continuing this year, with at least 736 manatee deaths reported as of Nov. 11, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The 2021 deaths represented 13% of all manatees estimated to live in Florida waters.
Placing the manatee back on the endangered list would enhance federal scrutiny of projects and issues that involve manatees and bring more resources and expertise to tackle the problem, said Patrick Rose, executive director of the Save the Manatee Club.
“Re-designating manatees as endangered will be a critical first step in righting a terrible wrong,” Rose said.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has 90 days to determine whether restoring the manatee to endangered status is warranted and, if so, 12 months from the date of the petition to complete a review of the manatee’s status.
The Fish and Wildlife Service said in an email that officials are “aware of the petition. Service staff will review the petition through our normal petition processes.”
Meanwhile, state wildlife officials say they will launch a second year of experimental feeding of lettuce to manatees that gather by the hundreds during winter in the warm-water discharge an electric power plant near Cape Canaveral.
Last year, about 202,000 pounds (91,600 kilograms) of mostly donated lettuce was fed to manatees under the program. But wildlife experts caution that starvation is a chronic problem that will continue to harm the manatee population without greater attention to reducing pollution.
“With astounding losses of seagrasses around the state, we need to address water-quality issues to give the manatee a fighting chance to thrive and survive,” said Rachel Silverstein, Miami Waterkeeper executive director. | 2022-11-22T16:30:29+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-endangered-status-sought-for-manatees-as-hundreds-starve/ |
--The multiple-dose escalation Phase I clinical trial will enroll 72 healthy subjects including 60 subjects in 6 dose escalation cohorts and 12 subjects in food effect trial. The enrollment is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2022
--ASC10 is an oral double prodrug. After oral administration, both ASC10 and single prodrug molnupiravir are rapidly and completely converted in vivo into the same active metabolite ASC10-A
--ASC10-A has broad spectrum of antiviral activity against Omicron variants including the most spreading variant BA.5 and the emerging variant BA.2.75[2]
HANGZHOU and SHAOXING, China, Oct. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672, "Ascletis") today announces dosing of 24 healthy subjects of the first 3 cohorts in multiple-dose escalation Phase I clinical trial of oral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor ASC10 for COVID-19 at the National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University.
The multiple-dose escalation Phase I clinical trial will enroll 72 healthy subjects including 60 subjects in 6 dose escalation cohorts and 12 subjects in food effect trial. The enrollment is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. 60 healthy subjects will be randomized into 6 cohorts to receive escalated multiple doses of ASC10 tablets of 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 400 mg, 600 mg and 800 mg twice daily (BID) or matching placebo for 5.5 days in a double-blind, placebo-controlled manner to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of ASC10 tablets. Another 12 subjects will be randomized to receive two single 800 mg doses (fed or fasted) to evaluate the food effect on PK of ASC10 tablets in healthy subjects.
Ascletis is China's first biotech company which has obtained Investigational New Drug (IND) approvals of an oral RdRp inhibitor from both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). On August 3, 2022, Ascletis announced that FDA had approved the IND application for ASC10 to conduct the Phase Ib clinical trial in mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients (https://www.ascletis.com/news_detail/179/id/726.html). On August 22, 2022, Ascletis announced that China NMPA had approved the IND application of ASC10 to conduct Phase I clinical trial in healthy subjects (https://www.ascletis.com/news_detail/179/id/734.html). Ascletis is actively communicating with regulatory authorities to explore the possibility of further accelerating the clinical development of ASC10.
ASC10 is an oral double prodrug which has a new and differentiated chemical structure from the single prodrug molnupiravir. After oral administration, both ASC10 and molnupiravir are rapidly and completely converted in vivo into the same active metabolite ASC10-A, also known as β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC). ASC10 was discovered and developed in-house. Ascletis has filed multiple patent applications for ASC10 and its use globally. ASC10 oral tablet formulation for the clinical study was developed with in-house proprietary technology of Ascletis.
By applying a double prodrug strategy, ASC10's permeability in Caco-2 cells (human colorectal adenocarcinoma cells) and active metabolite exposure in monkeys reached 3.2-fold and 2.1-fold of molnupiravir's, respectively. In the SARS-CoV-2 infected mouse models, ASC10 at 240 mg/kg twice daily led to a 4.0 log reduction in viral titer in lungs, equivalent to molnupiravir at 500 mg/kg twice daily[1]. Studies demonstrated[2,3] that ASC10-A (also known as EIDD-1931) has potent cellular antiviral activity against Omicron variants (BA.1 EC50=0.3 µM; BA.2 EC50=0.25 µM; BA.5 EC50=0.23 µM; BA.2.75 EC50=0.90 µM), Delta variant (EC50=0.5 µM) and wild-type virus (EC50= 0.7 µM). It also suggested that there were no drug-drug interactions between ASC10 and other common medicines.
"The Omicron strain is still circulating widely around the world. The virus is highly infectious, fast spreading with frequent mutation. The oral inhibitor ASC10 targets the polymerase (RdRp), an essential polymerase during the replication of COVID-19, thus makes ASC10 a drug candidate with broad-spectrum antiviral potential. ASC10 has entered into clinical study at our center. We will accelerate clinical research with high quality so as to make contributions to epidemic prevention and control in China." said Prof. Yunqing Qiu, Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University and principal investigator of ASC10 Phase I study.
"ASC10-A has broad antiviral activity against Omicron variants including the most spread variant BA.5 and the emerging variant BA.2.75. A recent study[2] published by The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) showed that ASC10-A (also known as EIDD-1931) remains effective against the most spread variant BA.5 and the emerging variant BA.2.75 which has been spread across at least 25 countries and designated by the World Health Organization as a 'variant of concern lineage under monitoring'[2]. The epidemic rebounded in many cities in mainland China recently once again reminds us that the prevention and control of the epidemic is far from ending. We will continue to accelerate the clinical development of our proprietary COVID-19 pipeline including ASC10 (RdRp inhibitor) and ASC11 (3CLpro inhibitor) to fight against the pandemic." said Dr. Jinzi J. Wu, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ascletis.
[1] Wahl, et al., Nature. 2021 March; 591(7850): 451-457.
[2] Takashita E, Yamayoshi S, Fukushi S, et al. Efficacy of Antiviral Agents against the Omicron Subvariant BA.2.75. N Engl J Med. 2022;387(13):1236-1238.
[3] In-house studies.
About Ascletis
Ascletis is an innovative R&D driven biotech listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1672.HK), covering the entire value chain from discovery and development to manufacturing and commercialization. Led by a management team with deep expertise and a proven track record, Ascletis focuses on three therapeutic areas with unmet medical needs from a global perspective: viral diseases, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and oncology. Through excellent execution, Ascletis rapidly advances its drug pipeline with an aim of leading in global competition. To date, Ascletis has three marketed products, i.e. ritonavir tablets, GANOVO® and ASCLEVIR®, and 20 drug candidates in its R&D pipeline. The most advanced drug candidates include ASC22 (HBV functional cure), ASC10 and ASC11(oral small molecules for COVID-19 treatment), ASC40 (recurrent glioblastoma), ASC42 (PBC, primary biliary cholangitis), and ASC40 (acne).
For more information, please visit www.ascletis.com.
View original content:
SOURCE Ascletis Pharma Inc. | 2022-10-10T01:37:43+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/10/ascletis-announces-dosing-24-healthy-subjects-first-3-cohorts-multiple-dose-escalation-phase-i-clinical-trial-oral-rdrp-inhibitor-asc10-covid-19/ |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police said Tuesday they have arrested two people who had been allegedly planning terrorist attacks in the country, including at least one against a Jewish target, aimed at causing mass casualties.
The suspects, who were allegedly part of an overseas terrorism network, are being held at police headquarters in central Athens, authorities said.
A government official told the Associated Press that both suspects were of Pakistani origin but gave no further details, adding that one of the targets was a Jewish restaurant in central Athens.
The official asked not to be identified pending official announcements.
Greece’s anti-terrorism police division and National Intelligence Service were involved in the arrests, according to a police statement, and were assisted by a foreign intelligence service that has not been named.
Police said the suspects had chosen a target of “high symbolism” and were making final preparations for the attack.
“Their aim was not only to cause the loss of life of innocent citizens, but also to undermine the sense of security in the country, while hurting public institutions and threatening (Greece’s) international relations,” the police statement said.
“Authorities have uncovered members of a terrorist organization involving foreign nationals, who have been taken to the public prosecutor,” Public Order Minister Takis Theodorikakos said in a tweet.
“The operation demonstrates that the country’s security authorities maintain a high state of readiness for all Greeks and all visitors to our country.”
___ Kantouris reported from Thessaloniki, Greece. | 2023-03-28T16:20:22+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/greek-police-arrest-2-suspected-of-planning-17864361.php |
Next Pathway's code translation technology, SHIFT™, automates the conversion of legacy data warehouse code and ETLs to Microsoft Azure
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Next Pathway Inc., the Automated Cloud Migration company, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the migration from legacy data warehouses and data lakes to Microsoft Azure.
Next Pathway's SHIFT™ Migration Suite is being offered as part of the Service to plan and execute Cloud Migrations to Azure. The suite includes SHIFT™ Analyzer which provides a comprehensive review of source legacy application workloads to review the code types and objects which are present, and SHIFT™ Translator which accelerates the translation, testing and migration of complex workloads, such as, SQL, Stored Procedures, ETL pipelines/workflows, and various other code types. Moreover, Next Pathway's technology can also move workloads from other cloud platforms and cloud data warehouses to Azure with ease and efficiency.
An important feature of Next Pathway's technology is the ability to translate legacy ETL pipelines to run natively in Azure Data Factory (ADF). ADF is a cloud-based data integration service that allows users to create data-driven workflows in the cloud for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation.
This collaboration creates an accelerated path for customers to Azure. "At Next Pathway we are continuously innovating to make it easier, and faster for our customers to migrate to the cloud. We are extremely excited to be working with Microsoft", said Chetan Mathur, Chief Executive Officer at Next Pathway.
"We are pleased to partner with Next Pathway and provide our customers with a faster and more efficient migration path to Microsoft Azure," said Zia Mansoor, Worldwide Vice President Data and AI.
Next Pathway is the Automated Cloud Migration company. Powered by Crawler360™, the Migration Planner and the SHIFT™ Migration Suite, Next Pathway automates the end-to-end challenges companies experience when migrating applications to the cloud. For more information, please visit nextpathway.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Next Pathway | 2022-08-04T14:29:40+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/04/next-pathway-partner-with-microsoft-migrate-customers-microsoft-azure/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94.
Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to the team after being informed by family members. No cause of death was provided.
“He was the best there ever was,” pitcher Clayton Kershaw said after the Dodgers game in San Francisco. “Just such a special man. I’m grateful and thankful I got to know him as well as I did.”
As the longest-tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and through the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela. In the 1990s, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century.
“You gave me my Wild Horse name. You gave me love. You hugged me like a father,” tweeted Puig, the talented Cuban-born outfielder who burned brightly upon his Dodgers debut in 2013. “I will never forget you, my heart is broken.”
The Dodgers changed players, managers, executives, owners — and even coasts — but Scully and his soothing, insightful style remained a constant for the fans.
He opened broadcasts with the familiar greeting, “Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.”
Ever gracious both in person and on the air, Scully considered himself merely a conduit between the game and the fans.
After the Dodgers’ 9-5 win, the Giants posted a Scully tribute on the videoboard.
“There’s not a better storyteller and I think everyone considers him family,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “He was in our living rooms for many generations. He lived a fantastic life, a legacy that will live on forever.”
Although he was paid by the Dodgers, Scully was unafraid to criticize a bad play or a manager’s decision, or praise an opponent while spinning stories against a backdrop of routine plays and noteworthy achievements. He always said he wanted to see things with his eyes, not his heart.
“We have lost an icon,” team president and CEO Stan Kasten said. “His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.”
Vincent Edward Scully was born on Nov. 29, 1927, in the Bronx. He was the son of a silk salesman who died of pneumonia when Scully was 7. His mother moved the family to Brooklyn, where the red-haired, blue-eyed Scully grew up playing stickball in the streets.
As a child, Scully would grab a pillow, put it under the family’s four-legged radio and lay his head directly under the speaker to hear whatever college football game was on the air. With a snack of saltine crackers and a glass of milk nearby, the boy was transfixed by the crowd’s roar that raised goosebumps. He thought he’d like to call the action himself.
Scully, who played outfield for two years on the Fordham University baseball team, began his career by working baseball, football and basketball games for the university’s radio station.
At age 22, he was hired by a CBS radio affiliate in Washington, D.C.
He soon joined Hall of Famer Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ radio and television booths. In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that still stands.
He moved west with the Dodgers in 1958. Scully called three perfect games — Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series, Sandy Koufax in 1965 and Dennis Martinez in 1991 — and 18 no-hitters.
He also was on the air when Don Drysdale set his scoreless innings streak of 58 2/3 innings in 1968 and again when Hershiser broke the record with 59 consecutive scoreless innings 20 years later.
When Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run to break Babe Ruth’s record in 1974, it was against the Dodgers and, of course, Scully called it.
“A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol,” Scully told listeners. “What a marvelous moment for baseball.”
Scully credited the birth of the transistor radio as “the greatest single break” of his career. Fans had trouble recognizing the lesser players during the Dodgers’ first four years in the vast Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
“They were 70 or so odd rows away from the action,” he said in 2016. “They brought the radio to find out about all the other players and to see what they were trying to see down on the field.”
That habit carried over when the team moved to Dodger Stadium in 1962. Fans held radios to their ears, and those not present listened from home or the car, allowing Scully to connect generations of families with his words.
He often said it was best to describe a big play quickly and then be quiet so fans could listen to the pandemonium. After Koufax’s perfect game in 1965, Scully went silent for 38 seconds before talking again. He was similarly silent for a time after Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that year, and also had the stadium’s press box named for him in 2001. The street leading to Dodger Stadium’s main gate was named in his honor in 2016.
That same year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
“God has been so good to me to allow me to do what I’m doing,” Scully, a devout Catholic who attended mass on Sundays before heading to the ballpark, said before retiring. “A childhood dream that came to pass and then giving me 67 years to enjoy every minute of it. That’s a pretty large thanksgiving day for me.”
In addition to being the voice of the Dodgers, Scully called play-by-play for NFL games and PGA Tour events as well as calling 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games. He was NBC’s lead baseball announcer from 1983-89.
While being one of the most widely heard broadcasters in the nation, Scully was an intensely private man. Once the baseball season ended, he would disappear. He rarely did personal appearances or sports talk shows. He preferred spending time with his family.
In 1972, his first wife, Joan, died of an accidental overdose of medicine. He was left with three young children. Two years later, he met the woman who would become his second wife, Sandra, a secretary for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. She had two young children from a previous marriage, and they combined their families into what Scully once called “my own Brady Bunch.”
He said he realized time was the most precious thing in the world and that he wanted to use his time to spend with his loved ones. In the early 1960s, Scully quit smoking with the help of his family. In the shirt pocket where he kept a pack of cigarettes, Scully stuck a family photo. Whenever he felt like he needed a smoke, he pulled out the photo to remind him why he quit. Eight months later, Scully never smoked again.
After retiring in 2016, Scully made just a handful of appearances at Dodger Stadium and his sweet voice was heard narrating an occasional video played during games. Mostly, he was content to stay close to home.
“I just want to be remembered as a good man, an honest man, and one who lived up to his own beliefs,” he said in 2016.
In 2020, Scully auctioned off years of his personal memorabilia, which raised over $2 million. A portion of it was donated to UCLA for ALS research.
He was preceded in death by his second wife, Sandra. She died of complications of ALS at age 76 in 2021. The couple, who were married 47 years, had daughter Catherine together.
Scully’s other children are Kelly, Erin, Todd and Kevin. A son, Michael, died in a helicopter crash in 1994. | 2022-08-03T13:03:25+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/vin-scully-decades-long-dodgers-broadcaster-dies-at-94/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Craig Kimbrel had a feeling this would be a special night, so he wanted about 30 to 40 family members and friends from Alabama to come watch him reach a rare milestone.
The hard-throwing closer became the eighth pitcher in major league history to earn 400 saves as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 6-4 on Friday.
“I’m happy it was here in Atlanta,” said Kimbrel, who began his career with the Braves. “I am happy the majority of my family was here to see it. Getting to take it in and enjoy it with them is great.”
Making his 730th career appearance, the 34-year-old Kimbrel worked a scoreless ninth inning to get his sixth save in six chances this season. Of the seven previous relievers to reach 400 saves, only Mariano Rivera (697 games), Trevor Hoffman (706) and Kenley Jansen (778) hit the threshold in under 800 appearances.
Kimbrel, the 2011 NL Rookie of the Year, played his first five seasons in Atlanta, was a four-time All-Star with the Braves and still holds the franchise record with 186 saves. This is his first season with Philadelphia. Over his last 15 games since April 16, Kimbrel has faced 54 batters and has 26 strikeouts in 14 innings, but the right-hander has struggled at times this year with a 5.68 ERA.
Kimbrel grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, about a three-hour drive from Atlanta, and it was with the Braves that he broke through as one of the game’s most feared relievers. He’s been named an All-Star eight times, and he helped the Boston Red Sox win the 2018 World Series.
He said he never set out to break records or join exclusive lists, but his career has worked out pretty well.
“My goal is to show up and get ready to pitch in those opportunities as much as I can,” Kimbrel said. “Always knowing I was closing games, I was hoping to get 35 to 40 a year doing my job, and that’s about it. It’s one year at a time, one save at a time.”
Brandon Marsh hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the sixth for Philadelphia.
Facing reliever Joe Jiménez (0-1) with the bases loaded, Marsh made it 4-3 with a single to left field that scored Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto. The Phillies scored twice in the seventh off Lucas Luetge on Trea Turner’s RBI double and Bryce Harper’s sacrifice fly.
The Braves led 3-2 in the fifth when Michael Harris II snapped a 1-for-28 slump with a two-run homer. Beginning the game hitting .165, Harris drove an 88 mph splitter from starter Taijuan Walker (4-2) for an opposite-field shot to left that made it 3-2. It was the second home run for Harris, last season’s NL Rookie of the Year.
“I had some things go on early in the season with injuries and I guess that kind of affected some of my mechanics,” Harris said. “I just had to bring that back once I was 100%. It’s really tough. You’ve got to keep telling yourself to stay patient, just believe in yourself and play the game that you play.”
The NL-leading Braves dropped to 31-20. Philadelphia, stuck in fourth place in the NL East after advancing to the World Series last year, is 24-27. The Phillies are seven games back of Atlanta in the division standings.
After failing to capitalize in the first two innings with a runner in scoring position, the Phillies took a 2-0 lead in the third when Bryson Stott and Turner walked and Castellanos tripled off the wall in right-center.
Atlanta trimmed the lead to 2-1 in the fourth. Travis d’Arnaud doubled, advanced to third on Marcell Ozuna’s single and scored on Eddie Rosario’s sacrifice fly.
Walker gave up 10 hits and three runs in 6 2/3 innings to win for the first time in four starts. He began the game 1-2 with a 5.14 ERA in seven career starts against Atlanta.
Jared Shuster, the Braves’ top prospect according to MLB.com, allowed three hits and three runs in 5 2/3 innings. It was his fifth career start.
For Kimbrel, the night was special because he got to celebrate with so many loved ones.
“They’ve been supporting me forever,” he said. “A lot of them were saying, ‘This feels weird celebrating here in Atlanta.’ It brought back a lot of memories, hanging out with the same group of people in the tunnel after the game and catching up.”
He wasn’t even nervous coming out of the bullpen, and he closed the game by getting Ronald Acuña Jr. on a grounder to third with a runner on.
“No, I was pretty locked in,” Kimbrel said. “I mean, I had a lot of chances to think about it. I’ve been sitting pretty close to this milestone for a while now and I’ve just been able to throw the ball well lately. I was really just worried about getting the win tonight, and once the final out was made I was able to relax.”
BASERUNNING GAFFE
Ozuna led off the second with a single and advanced to third on Rosario’s double but was tagged out for a double play after getting caught in a rundown when first baseman Alec Bohm threw to third baseman Josh Harrison. Ozuna compensated for the mistake in the eighth, homering off Matt Strahm to cut the lead to 6-4. It was the 11th time he’s gone deep this year. He finished 3 for 4 after beginning the night with a 1.167 OPS this month, third-highest in the majors.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Phillies manager Rob Thomson said Harper continues to throw from 90 feet and needs to reach 120 before he can return to right field. Thomson added that Harper, a two-time NL MVP who underwent Tommy John surgery on Nov. 23, 2022, likely won’t play in the field until after the All-Star break.
UP NEXT
Braves RHP Charlie Morton (5-4, 3.61 ERA) will face RHP Zack Wheeler (3-4, 4.11) as the teams play the third game of a four-game series in a 4:10 p.m. start Saturday.
___
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-27T14:53:39+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-kimbrel-8th-pitcher-in-mlb-history-to-earn-400-saves-phillies-beat-braves-6-4/ |
The House voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution Tuesday to create a select committee focused on U.S. competition with China, fulfilling a campaign promise Republicans made in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
The resolution passed in a 365-65 vote, with 146 Democrats joining Republicans in supporting the measure.
The select committee, chaired by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), will zero in on the Chinese Communist Party’s economic, technological and security progress and the strategic competition between Beijing and Washington. The resolution tasks the panel with investigating and submitting policy recommendations on those matters.
The group — which will be made up of seven Republicans and five Democrats — has the authority to hold public hearings.
“I’ve heard my colleagues on both sides say that the threat posed by Communist China is serious. I fully agree,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said during debate on the House floor Tuesday. “This is an issue that transcends political parties. And creating the select committee on China is our best avenue for addressing it.”
“We want the very best ideas, and it doesn’t matter where they come from. At the end of the day, we won’t need a minority and majority report. We’ll just need one philosophy, with one principle, and America will be stronger for the future to come,” he added.
Ahead of the midterm elections, McCarthy said House Republicans would create a select committee on China should they take control of the chamber in November. He said he wanted to “look at every industry that China has tried to take control on” and “look at where China has been stealing our technology as well.”
He took a key step in following through with that promise in December, tapping Gallagher to chair the panel. In a Fox News op-ed that month, McCarthy and Gallagher said the panel would repair supply chains, end dependencies on China and bolster the U.S. military, among other functions.
The creation of the select committee also fulfills a longtime goal of McCarthy, who has been working to establish a China panel since 2020. He came close to doing so that year until Democrats pulled out of the effort.
McCarthy on Tuesday vowed that the current China panel would be free of partisanship.
“You have my word and my commitment, this is not a partisan committee. This will be a bipartisan committee that is my hope, my desire, to speak with one voice on the challenges that we have,” he said on the floor. | 2023-01-10T22:40:17+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/house-easily-passes-resolution-to-create-bipartisan-china-select-committee/ |
A New York man has been charged with murder after authorities said he fatally shot a woman who was in a car that mistakenly pulled into his driveway.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Kaylin Gillis, 20, died after being shot Saturday night in Hebron, New York. The Sheriff’s Office said Gillis was a passenger in a car that pulled into the driveway of the home owned by Kevin Monahan.
Authorities said Monahan fired two shots at the vehicle, one of which struck Gillis.
Monahan has been charged with murder.
Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy told reporters Monday night that authorities received a 911 call reporting that Gillis had been shot. Murphy said the call came from Salem, New York, about five miles from Monahan’s Hebron residence.
Authorities then received reports of someone firing a gun at a residence in Hebron.
SEE MORE: Another weekend of gun violence shatters communities throughout US
“We figured out that was the scene where the shots were fired from,” Murphy said. “The resident inside was not cooperative. He would not come out and talk to patrol so we had a bit of a situation.”
Murphy said it took over an hour of making contact with Monahan to get him to come out.
Murphy said that friends inside the car reported that they were looking for another friend’s house in the area. The sheriff added that three others were inside the car with Gillis at the time of the shooting.
“Unfortunately, they drove up his driveway,” Murphy said. “It is a rural area with dirt roads. There is not a lot of cellular service or any type of internet so they were basically looking for their friend’s house and got mistaken and drove up the driveway.”
Murphy added given the area, it is “easy to get lost.”
Murphy said he did not know of any interaction between those inside the car and Monahan.
“From all indications, she was an innocent young girl who was out with friends looking for another friend’s house,” Murphy said. “I know for a fact she comes from a good family, a very good family, I know them personally. She is a young girl taken way too young.”
Details of the incident surfaced on the same day authorities reported that a 16-year-old was shot after knocking on the wrong door at a Kansas City, Missouri, home. Ralph Yarl survived the shooting. The alleged shooter, Andrew D. Lester, has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. | 2023-04-18T15:19:40+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/woman-fatally-shot-after-cars-pulls-into-wrong-driveway |
Texas Tech, former coach Mark Adams agree to settlement
Texas Tech has agreed to pay former Red Raiders basketball coach Mark Adams $3.9 million, less taxes and withholdings, plus a $200,000 retention bonus in a legal settlement the two sides reached this week leading up to Adams' resignation.
Tech agreed to pay the settlement within 30 days. It also stipulated that Adams will receive any bonuses he earned this year, which could include ones for the team's academic performance.
Had Tech sought to fire Adams without cause, the buyout amount on his contract would have been about $7.5 million.
The 66-year-old coach's resignation was announced Wednesday night, shortly after the Red Raiders' season ended with a first-round loss to West Virginia in the Big 12 tournament. Tech finished 16-16 and 5-13 in the Big 12.
As part of the agreement, Adams and Tech agreed not to pursue any action against each other in the future.
"Adams hereby agrees to the release of any and all claims against TTU and Texas Tech University System and their employees, appointees, regents and representatives relating to his employment, whether known or unknown, as of the date of this Agreement and TTU agrees to release any and all claims against Adams," the settlement reads.
Both sides also agreed to hold each other blameless.
"This Agreement is not, and shall not in any way be construed, as an admission by the Parties of wrongdomgwhatsoever against each other or that the Parties violated any federal, state or local law, which both Partiesdeny," it said. | 2023-03-11T00:03:58+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2023/03/10/texas-tech-former-coach-mark-adams-agree-to-settlement/69996002007/ |
BEIJING, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the recent 2022 Summit on China's Financial Development and the 13th China Jinding (Finance) Awards organized by the National Business Daily(NBD), a nationwide Chinese financial and economic daily newspaper published in Mainland China, Waterdrop won the"Annual Insurtech Progress Award" for its outstanding performance recognized across the industry.
As a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service in China, Waterdrop has attached importance to technology since its inception and has continued to increase investment in technological innovation to facilitate its business, improve its operating efficiency and expand the extensiveness and depth of its inclusive insurance services, which have benefited more than 100 million customers.
Optimizing Product and Service Quality
Waterdrop has been vigorously committed to technological development for better products, services, and consumption experiences to customers. Based on its understanding of the healthcare industry, Waterdrop proposed the ABDC (AI+Blockchain+Data=Construction) strategy through which it expects to generate multiple intelligent solutions with the help of big data and AI. For instance, the personified digital employee "Waterdrop Assistant" based on robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) has been embedded in such links from sales to operation and claim settlement. This leads to one pioneering technological application in the industry and three pioneering applications in the insurance industry, with an intention recognition accuracy of 97% and a problem resolution rate of higher an 80%.
According to Mr. Shen Peng, founder, and CEO of Waterdrop, the technological edge of Waterdrop is not creating state-of-the-art new technologies but rather using technologies to solve sore points for customers and the industry and exporting technologies to industry partners to promote the progress of the entire industry. In 2021, Waterdrop reported RMB 0.24 billion of income from exporting Technical services.
Pursuing High-quality Development
Waterdrop's net operating revenue for Q2 2022 was RMB 701.4 million which represented an increase of 8.1% quarter over quarter, and the net profit attributable to Waterdrop for Q2 2022 was RMB 206.9 million, an increase of 97.2% quarter over quarter, and profitability for three consecutive quarters.
Waterdrop began to upgrade its business model and adjust its product supply and customer acquisition modes in Q3 2021. It transforms the model from pursuing rapid growth in customers and revenue to seeking higher-quality development and devoting more energy to product polishing and service upgrading.
Waterdrop's high-quality development strategy includes two parts: first, it will cast aside the unsustainable mode of exchanging input for growth, try to improve efficiency through innovation in management and technology, and win customers with products and services rather than through marketing; second, it will increase investment in technological innovation to make technology barriers to competition, and open its capacity to cooperation partners and platforms to promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the insurance industry.
Shen Peng commented, "We will continue to optimize the structure and quality of business growth, thereby achieving healthy and sustainable profitability of our established businesses for the full year."
About Waterdrop Inc.
Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. Founded in 2016, with the comprehensive coverage of Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding, Waterdrop aims to bring insurance and healthcare service to billions through technology. For more information, please visit www.waterdrop-inc.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "likely to," and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Waterdrop's beliefs, plans, and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Waterdrop's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and Waterdrop does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
For investor inquiries, please contact:
Waterdrop Inc.
Xiaojiao Cui
IR@shuidi-inc.com
For media inquiries, please contact:
Waterdrop Inc.
PR Department
press@shuidi-inc.com
View original content:
SOURCE Waterdrop Inc. | 2022-11-04T15:44:17+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/11/04/waterdrop-wins-nbd-annual-insurtech-progress-award/ |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, April 10, 2023
_____
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
340 PM CDT Mon Apr 10 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Kinney
and northwestern Uvalde Counties through 430 PM CDT...
At 338 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Montell, or 19 miles southwest of Leakey, moving south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Locations impacted include...
Laguna, Montell, State Highway 55 and Farm to Market Road 334.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
LAT...LON 2962 10013 2962 9999 2936 9997 2939 10025
TIME...MOT...LOC 2038Z 359DEG 15KT 2960 10006
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
_____
Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-04-10T20:59:09+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-austin-san-antonio-warnings-watches-and-17889334.php |
The Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland and Make-A-Wish to raffle a $669,000 House in North Royalton, Ohio on New Year's Eve
CLEVELAND, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine winning your dream home, a Home For The Holidays (HFTH)!
For the third year in a row, the Home Builders Association (HBA) of Greater Cleveland's Charitable & Education Foundation, Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana (OKI) have teamed up to create an opportunity for some lucky person to win a $669,000 home in North Royalton, Ohio.
The 2,517 square foot ranch in the Pine Hills subdivision has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a home office with 14' ceilings, a walk-out basement, and 3-car garage. Tickets are $100 for a chance to win this custom-built home by Mike Kandra of Edgewood Homes.
"We feel privileged to be able to do a project like this and be a part of something that will bring lots of joy to wish kids and their families. Being able to use what we know in our profession to make good things happen with an organization like Make-A-Wish is truly remarkable," said Kandra.
Tickets are on sale now and the goal is to sell 12,500 tickets by 9:00 pm December 31. The winning ticket will be drawn that evening.
Proceeds of the event benefit Make-A-Wish, OKI and the HBA's Charitable and Education Foundation (HBACEF). Make-A-Wish grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. The Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Chapter has granted more than 19,000 wishes since it started in 1983.
"Thanks to the HBA, generous sponsors, and ticket buyers in the past two years, we've been able to grant more than 33 wishes for northeast Ohio kids with critical illnesses. Kids like Fletcher Rollinson, a 15-year-old from Rocky River, Ohio battling a brain tumor. His wish to go to Hawaii and learn how to scuba dive came true in March," said Make-A-Wish (OKI) President and CEO Stephanie McCormick.
According to our 2022 national wish impact study of Make-A-Wish alums, parents, and medical professionals nine out of ten wish kids said that their wish experience relieved them from traumatic stress, which helped their well-being and gave them strength to fight their critical illness. The average wish costs $10,000.
"Simply put, a wish can be powerful medicine," said McCormick.
The HBA Home for the Holidays opened for tours to record crowds on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. Tours will continue today, December 29th from 12 noon to 5:00 pm, tomorrow 12 noon to 5:00 pm, and on New Year's Eve from 12 noon to 5:00 pm. The home address is 5460 Brookhaven Drive, North Royalton.
Founded in 2012, the HBA's Charitable and Education Foundation has provided scholarships for students entering the construction industry and community support on projects including the Greater Cleveland Fisher House, Special Veterans in Need, Homes for Our Troops, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Make-A-Wish.
Tickets are available for purchase at www.HBAHomefortheholidays.org
Contact: Ed "Flash" Ferenc, Flashpoint Media
djbflash@aol.com (216) 789-2597
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland | 2022-12-29T21:01:17+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/12/29/final-weekend-win-home-holidays/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California braced Thursday for the arrival of another atmospheric river that forecasters warned will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding to a state still digging out from earlier storms.
The flood threat will come from the combination of rain and melting of parts of the huge snowpack built in California’s mountains by nine atmospheric rivers early in the winter and later storms fueled by a blast of arctic air.
The new atmospheric river is a type known as a “Pineapple Express” because it is a deep tap of warm subtropical moisture stretching over the Pacific to Hawaii. Its greatest impacts were expected in northern and central California.
The snowpack at high elevations is so massive it should be able absorb the rain, forecasters said. But elevations below 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) will see melting and runoff. The National Weather Service characterized the flood threat as “moderate.”
At high elevations the storm was predicted to dump heavy snow, as much as 8 feet (2.4 meters) in some locations.
California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides about a third of the state’s water supply, is more than 180% of the average on April 1, when it is historically at its peak.
So much snow has fallen in the Sierra and other mountain ranges that residents are still struggling to dig out days after earlier storms.
Roofs collapsed, cars were buried and roads were blocked. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared emergencies in 13 of California’s 58 counties beginning March 1.
In the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles a late February storm reached blizzard status. Mountain towns like Lake Arrowhead were buried.
“We’ve been through many a snowstorm but nothing of this amount, that’s for sure,” resident Alan Zagorsky, 79, said Wednesday as a crew shoveled his driveway. “Right now, they’re trying to find a place they can put this stuff.”
In nearby Crestline, Don Black watched as a team wielding shovels cleared his neighbor’s property.
“This is the worst storm I’ve seen in 34 winters,” Black said.
On the state’s far north coast, Humboldt County authorities have organized an emergency response to feed starving cattle stranded by snow.
Cal Fire and U.S. Coast Guard helicopters began dropping hay bales to cattle in remote mountain fields last weekend and then the California National Guard was called in to expand the effort.
Requests for help came from about 30 ranchers, according to Diana Totten, an area fire chief. The hay is being paid for by the ranchers, who provide information on how many head of cattle need to be fed and where they were expected to be located.
“We won’t know until the snow melts how many cattle have died due to these conditions,” Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said in a statement. “But I know this for certain, if we don’t act, there’s going to be way more that do die and it will be a catastrophe for our county.” | 2023-03-09T18:18:57+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/new-atmospheric-river-storm-barrels-toward-california/ |
Ultra Clean Reports Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Published: Jul. 27, 2023 at 3:05 PM CDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
HAYWARD, Calif., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: UCTT), today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.
"The semiconductor industry continued to face some near-term headwinds in the second quarter," said Jim Scholhamer, CEO. "Our Products business performed as expected, however, we experienced pockets of weakness in other areas. While recent cost reduction initiatives are reflected in our financial results, we will continue to respond to current market conditions while driving strategic initiatives in preparation for the next industry ramp."
Second Quarter 2023 GAAP Financial Results
Total revenue was $421.5 million. Products contributed $362.5 million and Services added $59.0 million. Total gross margin was 16.2%, operating margin was 3.0%, and net loss was $(9.4) million or $(0.21) per diluted share. This compares to total revenue of $433.3 million, gross margin of 16.8%, operating margin of 2.9%, and net loss was $(3.4) million or $(0.08) per diluted share, in the prior quarter.
Second Quarter 2023 Non-GAAP Financial Results
On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was 16.7%, operating margin was 5.0%, and net income was $7.1 million or $0.16 per diluted share. This compares to gross margin of 17.3%, operating margin of 5.1%, and net income of $7.6 million or $0.17 per diluted share in the prior quarter.
Third Quarter 2023 Outlook
The Company expects revenue in the range of $405.0 million to $455.0 million. The Company expects GAAP diluted net income (loss) per share to be between $(0.19) and $0.04 and non-GAAP diluted net income per share to be between $0.08 and $0.28.
Conference Call
The conference call and webcast will take place on Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 1:45 p.m. PT and can be accessed by dialing 1-844-826-3034 or 1-412-317-5179. No passcode is required. A replay of the call will be available by dialing 1-877-344-7529 or 1-412-317-0088 and entering the confirmation code 5731157. The Webcast will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://uct.com/investors/events/.
About Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.
Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. is a leading developer and supplier of critical subsystems, components and parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services, primarily for the semiconductor industry. Under its Products division, UCT offers its customers an integrated outsourced solution for major subassemblies, improved design-to-delivery cycle times, design for manufacturability, prototyping, and high-precision manufacturing. Under its Services Division, UCT offers its customers tool chamber parts cleaning and coating, as well as micro-contamination analytical services. Ultra Clean is headquartered in Hayward, California. Additional information is available at www.uct.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
In addition to providing results that are determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), management uses non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP net income to evaluate the Company's operating and financial results. We believe the presentation of non-GAAP results is useful to investors for analyzing our core business and business trends and comparing performance to prior periods, along with enhancing investors' ability to view the Company's results from management's perspective. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Tables presenting reconciliations from GAAP results to non-GAAP results are included at the end of this press release.
The Company defines non-GAAP net income as net income (loss) before amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation, restructuring charges, acquisition activity costs, fair value adjustments, legal-related costs, Covid-19 related costs, net loss on divestitures and the tax effects of the foregoing adjustments.
A reconciliation of our guidance for non-GAAP net income per diluted share for the subsequent quarter is not available due to fluctuations in the geographic mix of our earnings from quarter to quarter, which impacts our tax rate and cannot be reasonably predicted or determined. As a result, such reconciliation is not available without unreasonable efforts and we are unable to determine the probable significance of the unavailable information.
Safe Harbor Statement
The foregoing information contains, or may be deemed to contain, "forward-looking statements" (as defined in the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) which reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance. We use words such as "anticipates," "projection," "outlook," "forecast," "believes," "plan," "expect," "future," "intends," "may," "will," "estimates," "see," "predicts," "should" and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements included in this press release include our expectations about the semiconductor capital equipment market and outlook. All forward-looking statements address matters that involve risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, the Company's actual results may differ materially from the results predicted or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors also include, among others, those identified in "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations'' and elsewhere in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2022, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise unless required by law.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc. | 2023-07-27T21:00:31+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2023/07/27/ultra-clean-reports-second-quarter-2023-financial-results/ |
The SAFe® Fellow Program recognizes a select number of individuals who have the depth and breadth of experience to work at the highest levels of complexity in enterprise digital transformation
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scaled Agile, Inc. (SAI) announced the induction of four new Fellows into the SAFe® Fellow Program: Tamara Nation, Timothy Porter, Rami Sirkiä, and Adrienne Wilson.
The SAFe® Fellow Program represents an elite class of experts who are able to help the world's largest organizations accelerate digital transformation and achieve business agility. The SAFe® Fellow achievement is Scaled Agile's most prestigious distinction, recognizing individuals who have exhibited the highest level of mastery and thought leadership in the practice of SAFe.
"With so much riding on how swiftly a business adapts and pivots during this era of radical disruption, it's critical to work within a proven system of practices and mindset," said Dean Leffingwell, creator of SAFe and chief methodologist. "SAFe Fellows are selected and vetted based on a combination of their ongoing contribution to the evolution of the Framework, their demonstrated success in a broad range of SAFe implementations, and their willingness to share their expertise in the public arena through writing and speaking."
Scaled Agile is pleased to welcome the newest members of the program:
Tamara Nation has over 25 years of experience spanning the software life cycle. Nation began her career as a software engineer writing code for unmanned aircraft and later focused on helping software development teams and organizations adopt Lean, iterative approaches to improve their work performance and experience.
From developer to director, Timothy Porter leverages 20 years' experience in software and systems engineering. In 2011, Porter founded Appddiction Studio, providing software development, training, and consulting with an emphasis on scaled Agile Implementations.
In 2010, Rami Sirkiä worked for Nokia Research and Development when he became one of the earliest practitioners of SAFe and created an approach for Agile budgeting. Sirkiä holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration and is currently focused on enterprise transformations, Lean portfolio, and Lean governance.
Adrienne Wilson is co-author of the best-selling book, "The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck: Practical Tips and Tricks for Launching and Operating SAFe Agile Release Trains." With over 20 years in technical and management roles, Wilson now provides scaled Agile transformation services to enterprises large and small around the world.
About Scaled Agile, Inc.
Scaled Agile, Inc. is the provider of SAFe®, the world's most trusted system for business agility. Through integrated solutions that help teams unlock better ways of working, Scaled Agile is redefining the way the world's leading organizations identify and deliver customer value, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and improve business outcomes. Over 20,000 businesses and government agencies rely on SAFe and Scaled Agile's Global Partner Network to accelerate digital innovation and compete in a fast-changing marketplace. Scaled Agile is a contributing member of the Pledge 1% corporate philanthropy and community service movement. Learn more at scaledagile.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Scaled Agile, Inc. | 2022-09-07T19:23:24+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/09/07/scaled-agile-inc-inducts-four-thought-leaders-into-safe-fellow-program/ |
Which potting soil is best?
Potting soil, or potting mix, is a substrate that usually consists of garden soil, organic matter and minerals. Its purpose is to help potted plants such as vegetables, flowers or herbs grow by providing a healthy, nutrient-rich environment for them. There are several types of potting soil, each with its balance of nutrients and ingredients. Most work well for indoor and outdoor plants. The best one is the FoxFarm Ocean Forest Potting Soil Mix.
What to know before you buy potting soil
Potting soil vs. garden soil
Garden soil and potting soil differ in the following ways:
- Garden soil: This is a combination of organic matter and regular topsoil. It can help with water retention, especially in sandy environments. It also helps make heavy or clay-based soil less compact, which lets roots grow more easily. It’s usually inexpensive and works well on plants in the ground outside. One downside is that it contains microbes, which could lead to plant disease.
- Potting soil: Most potting mixes don’t contain real soil. Instead, they’re usually a combination of things such as peat moss, compost or organic matter. They usually offer better drainage, which is great for potted plants that might otherwise drown. They’re ideal for growing plants in a pot, whether they’re inside or outside.
Purpose and advantages
Potting soil is specifically formulated to help potted plants grow either indoors or outdoors. The advantages of using it include:
- Helps plant growth: Most mixes contain nutrients that aid in healthy plant growth. They’re also usually better at retaining the moisture plant roots need.
- Prevents soil compaction: High-quality mixes are less likely to become compact than garden soil. This is important as soil compaction can prevent essential resources such as water or oxygen from reaching the plant roots. This could lead to root damage and keep plants from growing.
- Reduces the risk of plant disease: Since it’s carefully formulated, potting mixes can lower the chance of plant disease. Sterile mixes are especially useful when growing seeds.
Types
There are several types of potting soil, including:
- All-purpose: These mixes are good for most indoor and outdoor potted plants. They’re a good choice for new or casual gardeners.
- Sterile or seed starting: With fewer nutrients than most potting soils, this type is ideal for growing seeds or immature plants because it keeps the growing environment sterile.
- Outdoor: Useful for both indoor and outdoor plants, this type often contains fertilizer and pellets that retain moisture.
- Moisture Control: This type relies primarily on pellets that trap moisture until the plant needs it. It’s best for plants that need smaller amounts of water over time.
- Organic: Consisting of organic matter such as compost, bones and decayed plants, these soils are nutrient-rich and fertile. They’re great for less hardy plants.
Plant-specific potting mixes also exist, such as:
- Orchid mixes
- Succulent mixes
- Cactus mixes
These specialty types come with specific nutrients and components that make growing these plants easier.
What to look for in quality potting soil
Formula
Since there are so many types of potting soil, the formulas used vary widely, as do the ratios of each component. Most mixes have some combination of the following:
- Peat moss: Found in most mixes, peat moss is partially decomposed matter that can retain moisture and break up compact soil.
- Animal or plant compost: This helps to fertilize the soil and give the plant the nutrients it needs.
- Coconut coir: An alternative to peat moss, coconut coir serves the same purpose. It’s more environmentally friendly.
- Perlite: A common inorganic material that helps aerate the soil, perlite works well with plants that prefer high humidity.
- Pine bark: Although it has no nutrients, mixes that use pine bark and peat moss offer more aeration and water retention than others.
- Sand: Sand helps with drainage and is great for succulents and cactuses.
- Pumice or vermiculite: These materials are great for water retention and soil aeration. Vermiculite can also hold fertilizer and nutrients.
Other common organic components include bat guano, earthworm castings, bone meal and seaweed meal. These all help provide essential nutrients to growing plants.
Some potting mixes contain agents or specific microbes that help improve water retention. Others have additives such as slime that help balance the pH levels to ensure healthy growth.
Density
The weight and density of potting soil depend on the formula used. For example, fillers such as mulch, sand or topsoil can cause the mix to become very dense. The advantage is that heavier soil is usually nutrient-rich and retains moisture well. The disadvantage is that it can become compacted easily, which could stunt a plant’s growth or cause roots to rot.
If your plants are struggling, consider replacing the potting mix. This can break up any compaction and let oxygen, water and nutrients reach the plant roots.
Longevity
Potting soil can go bad since most of the components eventually decompose. When this happens, it can cause mold or viruses to appear. It can also reduce the nutrients in the soil. These things can result in plant disease and death.
An opened bag of potting mix lasts around 6 months, on average. Unopened bags last one to two years when stored in a cool, dry place.
If you have an older bag, it could still be usable. Check if it smells bad, though. If it does, lay it out beneath the sun so it can dry out any potential germs, mold or viruses. Doing this can also kill off any fungus gnats that have made the moist soil their home. You can also improve the quality of the soil by adding bone meal, compost or fertilizer to it.
How much you can expect to spend on potting soil
The cost of a bag depends on the size and ingredients used. Most cost $5-$35.
Potting soil FAQ
Can you use it in the garden?
A. Although you can use potting soil in raised beds, it can quickly become expensive if you have to use it for large outdoor gardens. Consider using garden soil instead.
Can I make potting soil?
A. Yes, but you need the right ingredients for whatever it is you’re growing. One popular recipe is a 50/50 ratio of peat moss and perlite. Be sure to thoroughly mix it before applying.
What’s the best potting soil to buy?
Top potting soil
FoxFarm Ocean Forest Potting Soil Mix
What you need to know: This lightweight, all-purpose mix is perfect for indoor and outdoor potted plants.
What you’ll love: Available in one, two and four packs weighing in at 12 quarts each, this mix includes peat moss, bat guano and earthworm castings. It has a pH level between 6.3 and 6.8 and does a great job of keeping plant roots aerated.
What you should consider: Some bags may contain fungus gnats.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top potting soil for the money
Espoma Organic Potting Soil Mix
What you need to know: This potting mix is ideal for growing indoor and outdoor vegetables, flowers and herbs.
What you’ll love: It contains organic matter, such as earthworm castings, kelp meal, alfalfa meal and humus. It also has perlite to prevent compacted soil.
What you should consider: It has slight difficulty absorbing water.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This potting mix works well for flowers and vegetables since it supports their root systems.
What you’ll love: Capable of nurturing potted plants for up to six months, this mix is lightweight and easy to use. It comes in a single and double pack.
What you should consider: Some bags may have white fungus or gnats.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Angela Watson writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-02T18:59:36+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/reviews/the-best-potting-soil/ |
PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) – The Parma Heights Police Department is investigating the death of a 68-year-old woman who was run over by an ambulance.
According to a press release from police, officers and paramedics responded to an apartment in the Cleveland suburb Saturday at around 9 p.m.
Police say a neighbor called to request someone check on the 68-year-old woman.
Though authorities spoke to the woman, police say she refused treatment.
However, witnesses say after the paramedics left the woman’s apartment, she went down the elevator and to the passenger’s side of the ambulance, where she fell.
The woman was crushed by the ambulance as it was pulling away, police say.
Paramedics said they didn’t know the woman had come outside, according to the press release from the police department.
The woman died at the scene. She has not been identified.
“At this time there is no indication any members of the Parma Heights Fire Department were acting in a reckless and/or negligent manner,” Detective Adam Sloan wrote in the press release.
The accident remains under investigation. | 2023-06-18T22:41:12+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/woman-run-over-by-ambulance-killed-in-ohio/ |
With Brooklyn Nets training camp set to start on Sept. 27, the status of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving remains fluid.
Yet at least one NBA Insider believes Irving, the West Orange native and ex-St. Patrick High School star, is “invested” in the team after opting in to his $36.9 million player option for the 2022-23 season.
“I think Kyrie is invested in being a Brooklyn Net next year,” said ESPN’s Brian Windhorst. “Obviously there was some turmoil with his contract extension not happening. He realizes his best path moving forward to get the contract he wants in Brooklyn or elsewhere is to have a very good season.
“So from what I can gather, it appears he and the Nets are looking forward to meeting up in training camp. Whether Kevin Durant is there and his level of buy-in, that’s the big question. But right now, I think the Nets want to run this team back and they’re hoping Kevin Durant agrees. The way they’re conducting trade talks and the prices they are asking has teams out there thinking they don’t really want to trade Kevin Durant anyway. They want to bring this team back. We’ll see if Kevin Durant goes along with that in training camp.”
Want to bet on the NBA?
See the best NJ Sports Betting sites
Signs of a rapprochement between the Nets and Irving came earlier this month when Irving played in an all-star game at Kean University and the Nets’ official social media accounts posted video and still photos from the event.
After signing a four-year $198-million extension a year ago, Durant requested a trade June 30 and then recently doubled down during a meeting in London with team owner Joe Tsai, saying that the owner should either trade him or fire GM Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash. Tsai then responded almost immediately via Twitter, saying Marks and Nash “have my support.”
It’s hard to imagine Durant peacefully co-existing with Marks and Nash after that, but ex-Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy believes it’s possible, especially if Brooklyn gets off to a strong start. They open the season Oct. 19 at Barclays Center against Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans.
NJ Advance Media reported last month that both Irving and Durant “know” a trade is “unlikely” to happen. The Nets have reportedly been asking for a king’s ransom in return for Durant, one of the best players in league history.
“They know behind the scenes that it’s difficult, that it’s unlikely to happen,” a league source said of a potential trae.
Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting us with a subscription.
Adam Zagoria is a freelance reporter who covers Seton Hall and NJ college basketball for NJ Advance Media. You may follow him on Twitter @AdamZagoria and check out his Website at ZAGSBLOG.com. | 2022-08-18T17:34:17+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/nets/2022/08/nba-rumors-kyrie-irving-invested-in-playing-for-nets-insider-says.html |
The man who says he found human remains at Lake Mead Saturday is speaking about the discovery.
This marks the fourth time human remains have been discovered in the past three months at Lake Mead.
FULL COVERAGE: Lake Mead mysteries: Multiple discoveries of human remains as drought shrinks water levels
Christopher Orozco says he and his family were visiting the lake to go for a swim when they found the bones sticking out of the sand under shallow water.
He captured photos and videos of the bones before reporting them to the National Park Service.
Saturday’s discovery at Swim Beach is the same location where human remains were found on July 25th.
“We went in the water, one of my daughters said she saw something in the water she thought it was a bone,” says Christopher Orozco, “I said okay let me go see, as I got closer I picked it up I noticed it was a bone like this big.”
The National Park Service confirmed to KTNV that Orozco was the reporting party.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office explained the remains found on August 6th and July 25th were partial remains and they are investigating if they belong to the same individual.
This story was originally published by KTNV in Las Vegas, Nevada. | 2022-08-10T01:02:01+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/man-who-found-recent-remains-at-lake-mead-speaks-up-about-gruesome-discovery |
Empowering Construction Professionals to Speak Up and Take Action for a Safer Workplace
ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction Safety Week, the annual week-long campaign designed to unite the construction industry and recommit to a safe workplace, kicks off May 1 across job sites in the U.S. and Canada.
This year's theme is Strong Voices, Safe Choices, advocating for everyone in the workplace to be empowered and confident in using their voices when they see potential safety hazards.
Ahead of the Safety Week kickoff, workers and companies across the industry are encouraged to take a safety pledge between April 3 - May 4. This pledge reinforces their commitment to supporting and building a strong safety culture where they work. Participants will be entered into a giveaway for a chance to win one of ten $1,000 prizes. Ten grand prize winners will be selected based on their written submissions and will be announced during Safety Week. Details on how to participate in the pledge can be found at (www.constructionsafetyweek.com/pledge).
Construction Safety Week provides daily topics for companies to plan activities, conversations and demonstrations throughout the week. These topics include Engagement, Risk Identification, Brain Matters, Continued Education and Taking Action. Each topic allows workers and companies the opportunity to build trust and have deeper discussions on safety. Fundamental to these conversations are two key components of safety - mental wellness in the industry and encouraging the switch from traditional hard hats to safety helmets.
All workers and companies in the construction industry are invited and encouraged to participate in Construction Safety Week 2023. Free resources are available on the Construction Safety Week website and include promotional materials, discussion topics, event ideas, videos, at-home activities for families and materials translated into Spanish and French. Find these free tools at constructionsafetyweek.com.
"Safety in the industry is our top priority. Our goal is to provide the tools and resources for individuals and companies to continue making all job sites safer," said Mike Burke, 2023 Safety Week Chair and Alberici Chief Operating Officer. "We encourage those making a commitment to safety during the campaign to commit to a higher safety standard throughout the year. I look forward to Construction Safety Week and watching the industry come together for this united purpose."
About
Construction Safety Week is an annual event designed to raise the awareness of the industry's ongoing commitment to building a culture of safety through sharing best practices, tools and resources at job sites and offices across the U.S. and Canada. Safety Week was founded by members of The Construction Industry Safety Initiative (CISI) and the Incident & Injury Free Executive Forum (IIF) and now includes 70 of the top contractors in the industry, representing thousands of workers. Additional support comes from Safety Week sponsors, partners, and advocates.
2023 Safety Week Members
Adolfson & Peterson Construction, Alberici, Aldridge Electric, Allan Myers, Ames Construction, APi Group, Atkinson Construction, Austin Industries, Baker Concrete Construction, Balfour Beatty, Barnard, Barton Malow, Black and Veatch, BMWC Constructors, BOH Bros, Brasfield & Gorrie, BrightView, Caddell Construction Co., Cashman Dredging and Marine, Cianbro, Clark Construction Group, Commercial Contracting Corporation, Doka USA, DPR Construction, Eldeco, Inc., Exyte, Flintco, LLC, Fluor, Forgen, Gaylor Electric, Gilbane Building Company, Graham, Granite, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, Gray, Haskell, Hensel Phelps Construction, Herzog, HITT, Hoffmann Construction Company, Holder Construction Company, Hunter Roberts Construction Group, J.F. Shea, Kiewit Corporation, Kokosing, Lane Construction, Limbach, Manson Construction Co., Massman Construction Co., McCarthy, Middlesex Corporation, Mortenson, NAXSA, PC Construction, PCL Construction, Phillips & Jordan Inc., Rodgers Builders, Rosendin Electric, Schimenti, Shimmick, Skanska, Stacy & Witbeck, Structural Group, Suffolk Construction, Sukut Construction, Sundt Construction, Superior Construction, Terracon, Traylor, Turner, Walsh, Webcor Concrete, Willmeng Construction, Yates, Zachry
2023 Safety Week Sponsors
Signature Sponsor: AGC of America
Additional Sponsors: The Beavers, Chubb, Construction Industry Round Table (CIRT), GPRS (Ground Penetrating Radar System), JMJ Consultants, Kask Helmets, Milwaukee Tool, National Academy of Construction (NAC), The Moles, Travelers, Zurich
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Construction Safety Week | 2023-04-11T10:38:20+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/04/11/construction-safety-week-2023-kicks-off-may-1-safety-pledge-launches-april-3/ |
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals exercised the fifth-year contract option for star quarterback Joe Burrow on Tuesday as they move toward signing him to a long-term deal.
The Bengals said in a statement that they took the “mechanical step” with Burrow and his representatives, who have had talks with the team about his future.
NFL teams had until May 2 to exercise fifth-year options for first-round picks in the 2020 class, and Burrow, the first player taken that tear, has already proven to be worth any extra financial investment.
Since bouncing back from a season-ending knee injury as a rookie, Burrow has gone 20-10 as a starter while leading the Bengals to a Super Bowl appearance in 2022. The 26-year-old has passed for more than 4,400 yards in each of the past two seasons with 69 touchdown passes.
Burrow made the Pro Bowl for the first time last season and led the Bengals back to the AFC title game, where they lost a rematch against Kansas City.
It's possible Burrow's new deal could eclipse the record-setting package Philadelphia recently gave quarterback Jalen Hurts, who got a five-year, $255 million contract that included $179 million guaranteed.
Burrow began his college career at Ohio State before transferring to LSU and leading the Tigers to a national championship. The Bengals selected him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft.
___
AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-04-25T22:51:39+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/bengals-pick-up-5th-year-option-on-qb-joe-burrow/SXXDVAXASNCRLN3XHDFKP7V3XY/ |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s governor has signed a bill criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
Idaho is at least the 12th state to enact a law restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors, and nearly two dozen more are considering bills that would ban or restrict the care. Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed the legislation Tuesday evening.
The law is set to go into effect next January, making it a felony to provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18. Opponents of the legislation have warned it will likely increase suicide rates among teens, but proponents of the bill said it was necessary to “protect children” from medical or surgical treatments for gender dysphoria. Still, supporters have acknowledged there has been no indication that gender-affirming surgeries are being performed on transgender youth in Idaho.
“In signing this bill, I recognize our society plays a role in protecting minors from surgeries or treatments that can irreversibly damage their healthy bodies. However, as policymakers we should take great caution whenever we consider allowing the government to interfere with loving parents and their decisions about what is best for their children,” the governor wrote in his transmittal letter.
Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychiatric Association, supports gender-affirming care for youths.
Gender dysphoria is defined by medical professionals as severe psychological distress experienced by those whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth. | 2023-04-05T18:52:53+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/idaho-governor-signs-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-youth/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for the heirs of Marvin Gaye’s co-writer of the song “Let’s Get It On” told jurors at the start of a civil trial Tuesday that he has “smoking gun” proof that Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” violates the copyright of the soul classic.
Attorney Ben Crump, representing heirs of Ed Townsend, said in his opening statement that the English pop star merged the two songs in concert and jurors will get to see it.
He said merging the song was tantamount to “a confession.”
“We have a smoking gun,” he said of the concert footage showing Sheeran flipping between the two songs.
Crump said the case was about “giving credit where credit is due.”
Sheeran, 32, looked on as his lawyer, Ilene Farkas, insisted that Sheeran and a cowriter, Amy Wadge, wrote their song independently and did not steal from Townsend and Gaye.
She said they “created this heartfelt song without copying ‘Let’s Get It On.’”
The chord progression and basic music building blocks in Sheeran’s song are frequently used, and didn’t appear first in “Let’s Get it On,” his lawyer said.
“Let’s Get It On” has been heard in countless films and commercials and garnered hundreds of millions of streams, spins and radio plays since it came out in 1973. “Thinking Out Loud” won a Grammy for song of the year in 2016.
The lawsuit was filed in 2017. The trial is expected to last up to two weeks.
Townsend, who also wrote the 1958 R&B doo-wop hit “For Your Love,” was a singer, songwriter and lawyer. He died in 2003. Kathryn Townsend Griffin, his daughter, is the plaintiff leading the lawsuit. | 2023-04-25T18:29:23+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/lawyer-claims-smoking-gun-proof-ed-sheeran-copied-song/ |
Barney relaunch is in the works, Mattel announced
(Gray News) – The iconic purple dinosaur is getting a relaunch, Mattel, Inc. announced Monday. The company said it will bring back the Barney franchise via television, film and YouTube.
Mattel also plans to launch a full range of kids’ products including toys, books and clothing, in addition to accessories for adult fans featuring the classic Barney.
The new animated series is set to debut globally in 2024, Mattel said in a news release.
“Created for preschool kids, the series will feature the ubiquitous purple dinosaur and friends, introducing new audiences to the world of Barney through music-filled adventures centered on love, community and encouragement,” the news release said.
The Barney relaunch is part of Mattel’s strategy to mine its portfolio and bring back classic franchises.
“Barney’s message of love and kindness has stood the test of time,” said Josh Silverman, chief franchise officer and global head of consumer products at Mattel.
“We will tap into the nostalgia of the generations who grew up with Barney, now parents themselves, and introduce the iconic purple dinosaur to a new generation of kids and families around the world across content, products and experiences.”
Fred Soulie, senior vice president and general manager, said the new series will reflect the world kids are living in today in an effort to inspire the next generation to listen, care and dream big.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-13T19:59:01+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2023/02/13/barney-relaunch-is-works-mattel-announced/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — After four hours of dominant pitching, some bad baserunning and slick defense, Luis Torrens and the Seattle Mariners finally broke through.
Torrens singled with one out in the 13th inning to score Eugenio Suárez, and the Mariners beat the New York Yankees 1-0 on Tuesday night in a game dominated by the starting pitching of Gerrit Cole and Luis Castillo.
“That’s one of the best major league games I’ve ever watched. The pitching in this game was unbelievable on both sides,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said.
The two aces were overpowering into the late innings before turning it over to bullpens that managed to keep the game scoreless deep into the night.
Some poor baserunning by the Yankees helped, as did a lack of execution by the Mariners as both teams had chances early in the extra frames.
It was the first major league game to reach the 13th inning scoreless since Tampa Bay against Detroit on Aug. 17, 2019 — before new rules were implemented in 2020 putting an automatic runner at second base to start each extra inning.
And it had a playoff feel, with fans standing for most of the final five innings.
“That was the coolest game I’ve ever been a part of,” said Seattle reliever Matt Brash. “Obviously, I’m new in the big leagues, but I mean, that atmosphere is what we want.”
Eventually, the Mariners came through in the 13th. Cal Raleigh singled off Jonathan Loáisiga (1-3) and advanced Suárez from second to third. One out later, Sam Haggerty was intentionally walked to load the bases and Torrens lined an 0-2 pitch into right field to set off a wild, exhausted celebration.
“It’s a big moment for me and for the team, too,” Torrens said.
The lack of runs left Castillo and Cole out of the decision on a night when both deserved a victory.
Cole scattered four hits and struck out eight in seven innings — a drastic turnaround after he was rocked for six runs in the first inning less than a week ago when he last faced the Mariners.
Castillo allowed three hits and struck out seven in eight innings.
“That had the look of two aces going at it,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I actually thought against the starters both teams took a bunch of tough at-bats.”
Brash (3-3) threw two innings to get the win. Seattle’s bullpen combined for five hitless innings with seven strikeouts.
Mistakes on the bases cost the Yankees multiple chances in extra innings. Andrew Benintendi was picked off trying to advance to third with no outs in the 10th. Aaron Hicks lined into a double play leading off the 11th as Miguel Andújar drifted too far from second.
In the 12th, Brash made a spectacular, blind, behind-the-back grab of Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s grounder and caught Jose Trevino in a rundown between second and third. Kiner-Falefa was thrown out trying to advance to second on the play.
“I don’t want to lose our aggression on the bases. We’ve been really successful stealing at a good clip,” Boone said. “But we’ve got to be a little smarter and we’ve had a couple here in the last couple of weeks that have kind of hurt us.”
Seattle missed chances to end it in the 11th and 12th before finally converting thanks to Torrens.
Castillo bested Cole by finishing off the eighth and pitching out of trouble in the process. The right-hander got a groundout from Kiner-Falefa with a runner at third to end the inning.
Castillo was the first Seattle pitcher to throw eight innings this season. It was his third start against the Yankees in the past month. In the three outings combined, Castillo has thrown 21 2/3 innings, allowed four earned runs and struck out 23.
“I just kept thinking to myself, ‘What inning are we going to win? What inning are we going to win?’ Thank God we got the victory,” Castillo said through a translator.
ROSTER MOVES
New York placed Matt Carpenter on the 10-day injured list after he broke his left foot in Monday’s game. Andújar was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Seattle recalled LHP Brendan Bernardino and placed LHP Ryan Borucki on the 15-day injured list. Borucki left in the ninth inning Monday night with a strained left forearm. He underwent an MRI on Tuesday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo was out of the starting lineup for a fifth straight game due to issues with his lower back. Boone said the team is being extra cautious and the hope remains Rizzo could be back in the lineup for Wednesday’s series finale. Rizzo missed time in July due to the same back problems. “I think it just improved quicker last time. I don’t think the injury itself has been as bad,” Boone said. … Carpenter is expected to see a foot specialist in Seattle on Wednesday before traveling with the team back to the East Coast.
Mariners: CF Julio Rodríguez won’t be activated from the injured list for Wednesday’s series finale. Servais said Rodríguez was still feeling discomfort in his wrist after hitting on Monday. Servais said the goal is for Rodríguez to be ready for Friday’s series opener in Texas. … INF/OF Dylan Moore (back) and RHP Diego Castillo (shoulder) are both expected to be activated from the IL on Wednesday.
UP NEXT
Yankees: LHP Nester Cortes (9-3, 2.57 ERA) allowed two runs but just one hit in his last start against St. Louis. Cortes has three starts this season with at least five innings pitched and only one hit allowed.
Mariners: LHP Robbie Ray (8-8, 3.96) faces the Yankees for the first time since leaving the AL East. Ray is 1-3 with a 4.50 ERA in five previous starts against New York. He allowed one run over seven innings in his last outing.
___
More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-11T01:03:20+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/ap-sports/lucky-13-mariners-top-yankees-in-extras-for-tense-1-0-win/ |
Regina Spektor is playing three shows this weekend, so get your fill. Lawsuit Models rock the hi-dive tonight, while the Avett Brothers start a three-night run at Red Rocks.
Rhythm-and-blues man Nick Waterhouse swings by the Marquis on Saturday. Kenny G brings his smooth jazz to Chautauqua.
Midwest emo rockers Tiny Moving Parts come to the Oriental on Sunday, and melodic death metal bros Exmortus rock the Marquis.
Regina Spektor
Friday, July 8, 7 p.m.
Vilar Performing Arts Center, 68 Avondale Lane, Beaver Creek
$45-$85
Regina Spektor launched the careers of a thousand would-be singer-songwriters with her quirky genre-unto-itself music. Catch her again on Saturday, July 9, at the Paramount and Sunday, July 10, at Red Rocks opening for the Avett Brothers. She released her eighth studio record, Home, Before and After, last month.
Lawsuit Models
Friday, July 8, 9 p.m.
hi-dive, 7 South Broadway
$10-$12
Lawsuit Models makes pop-punk songs with a touch of indie rock. The guitar melodies and vocals are catchy, so put on your dancing shoes. It's a record release party for the band's second full-length, Unknown Ghosts, so get ready for new tunes. The lineup includes Record Thieves, Bad Year and Over Time.
Avett Brothers
Friday, July 8, and Saturday, July 9, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday July 10, 6:30 p.m.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison
$65-$125
The North Carolina-raised Brothers Avett combine a ton of genres — bluegrass, country, punk, pop, folk, rock and roll, indie rock, honky tonk and ragtime — into their own style, heavy latter-day Band vibes. Country man Darrell Scott opens the Friday show, blues rockers Heartless Bastards open on Saturday, and Regina Spektor opens on Sunday.
Nick Waterhouse
Saturday, July 9, 8 p.m.
Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer Street
$22
Nick Waterhouse plays a throwback brand of music that evokes the rhythm and blues and soul music of the 1960s. He's cited Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker as influences. Denver trumpet player extraordinaire Wes Watkins, is also on the bill.
Kenny G
Saturday, July 9, 7:30 p.m.
Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder
$50-$68
Chautauqua is a good place for an evening of smooth jazz. Kenny G may be the butt of endless jokes for jazz purists, but he's still one of the most famous soprano saxophone players. He's also big in China, where his song "Going Home" is often used by businesses to tell you it's time to leave.
Tiny Moving Parts
Sunday, July 10, 7:30 p.m.
Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder
$20-$150
Hailing from Minnesota, Tiny Moving Parts is part of the Midwest emo scene. It's somewhat screamy and emotive, with bits of post-hardcore and math rock tossed in for good measure. Long Beach, California, acoustic emo duo This Wild Life is also on the bill.
Exmortus
Sunday, July 10, 7 p.m.
Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer Street
$16
Exmortus plays a mix of thrash metal and melodic death metal that mostly contains lyrics about battles and war. Also on the bill is thrash-metal outfit Hatriot, which includes Exodus frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza. Get ready for some soaring guitar magic and growling — lots of growling.
Have events you want included on this list? Send the details to [email protected] Looking for more to do? Visit the Westword calendar. | 2022-07-08T13:37:11+00:00 | westword.com | https://www.westword.com/music/regina-spektor-avett-brothers-denver-concerts-weekend-14495262 |
Weather Permitting: Here's your Fayetteville area forecast through the weekend
After a gloomy, drizzly Thursday morning, the Cape Fear region can look forward to a delightful fall weekend.
After that? Well, it might be time to start airing out the sweaters.
A string of fronts appears poised to bring the first widespread 30s into the Cape Fear region next week. For now, let's focus on the pleasant weekend in store.
Here's the setup
After a mid-level system pushes offshore Thursday, the weekend looks mild and pleasant for the Cape Fear region. Friday. Dew points will dive into the upper 40s as a light northerly breeze pushes much drier air into the Carolinas. Look for highs in Fayetteville of about 78 under bright sunshine. Prep football kickoff temperatures will be about 70, dropping to 65 by the game's end.
The weekend
Calm, bright and mild through Sunday evening. Winds will swing back around to the south and southwest, nudging temperatures back in the mid-to-upper 70s. Lows of about 52 to 55 are likely for Fayetteville, a bit cooler to the north. No rain is expected through Sunday night, with barely any clouds.
Down the road
Some major changes will arrive early next week. A potent, chilly air mass is working its way south and should be reaching the mountains by Sunday evening. This system is expected to strengthen as it approaches Monday moving out Tuesday.
Rain won't be much of an issue, no more than a quarter-inch, but a much cooler air mass will move in Tuesday. Highs will drop from the low-to-mid-70s on Monday into the upper 50s. As the front moves out, calm chilly air will set up radiational cooling across the region, with lows likely falling into the upper 30s.
Time to cover the plants and bundle the kids at the bus stop!
In the tropics
Tropical Storm Karl continues to stagger around the southern Gulf of Mexico and should fall apart after coming ashore. Aside from that, all is quiet in the Atlantic.
Leaf season
Peak season is working its way into the upper Foothills. Reportedly, it's one of the best years for leaf color we've had in years. If you'd like to see the leaves in their glory, check out areas above 3,000 feet, near Highland-Cashiers and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Craggy Gardens.
Have a great weekend!
Got a weather question? Chick Jacobs can be reached at ncweatherhound@gmai.com of NCWeatherhound on Twitter. | 2022-10-14T04:01:38+00:00 | fayobserver.com | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/local/2022/10/13/weather-permitting-heres-your-fayetteville-area-forecast/69527554007/ |
MINOT, N.D. (KXNET)- These days, Gary Gorney works as a driver with UPS. But prior to that, he served in the U.S. Air Force for more than two decades, retiring in 2011.
“The military is not made for everybody. But I think it’s important for a young man or a young woman to enter the thought of enlisting in the Air Force or the Army or the Marine Corps. It all depends on what they want to do with their life,” said Gorney.
During his time in the military, Gorney traveled the world and was stationed in several places including Germany, Italy, Panama, and Minot.
“The people here are genuinely nice. It’s still kind of a small town, the Minot community. Everybody knows everybody,” said Gorney.
He adds that he enjoys serving others and finds many parallels between his past military career and his current profession.
“UPS is built on values, just like the military is, and that’s teamwork, service, and integrity,” he said.
While he is now retired from duty, Gorney continues to remain active in efforts to help his fellow veterans. He’s part of the nonprofit Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association.
“It’s a national organization, and what we do is we help vets in the community and nationally,” Gorney said.
Retired from the Air Force, Gorney continues applying the values he learned in his service to others. | 2022-11-05T03:25:37+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/veterans-voices-retired-air-force-veteran-gary-gorney/ |
Study results of novel drug-eluting technology highlight potential durability of TAR-200 in patient population with high unmet need
CHICAGO, April 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today the first results from the open-label Phase 2 SunRISe-1 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of TAR-200 monotherapy (a novel investigational intravesical drug delivery system) and cetrelimab monotherapy (an investigational anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody administered intravenously) in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HR-NMIBC), who are ineligible for, or decline, radical cystectomy. The study demonstrated that 72.7 percent of patients treated with TAR-200 alone (95 percent confidence interval [CI] 49.8-89.3) and 38.1 percent of patients treated with cetrelimab alone (CI 18.1-61.6) achieved the primary endpoint of a complete response (CR). These data were featured today in a Late Breaker Podium Presentation Session (Abstract #LBA02-03) at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting (AUA).
"We continue to see significant unmet need among high-risk patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, who often experience negative outcomes and poor quality of life with existing standard of care treatments, such as radical cystectomy," said Siamak Daneshmand*, M.D., Professor of Urology, Director of Urologic Oncology at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California and SunRISe-1 study principal investigator. "As a clinician, my ultimate treatment goal is to achieve deep and durable responses in these patients. It is encouraging to see an improvement among those treated with TAR-200 alone, as well as cetrelimab alone, and we look forward to reporting on results from the study cohort that is evaluating these two treatments in combination in the future."
HR-NMIBC includes lesions confined to the bladder mucosa and has a higher likelihood of local recurrence and distant progression to other parts of the body.1 HR-NMIBC is typically treated with BCG – a type of intravesical immunotherapy – as the standard of care. BCG involves injecting a weakened form of tuberculosis bacteria into the bladder, stimulating the immune system to attack the cancer cells; however, approximately one-third of HR-NMIBC patients will not respond to the treatment. For BCG-unresponsive patients, there is an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody as an alternate, approved treatment option.2,3,4 NMIBC represents some 70 percent of newly diagnosed bladder cancer cases, of which 10 percent are carcinoma in situ (CIS), early cancer cells confined within the innermost layer of the bladder lining; 50 percent of all cases of CIS will progress to muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) within 5 years if left untreated.5,6
TAR-200 is a novel investigational intravesical drug delivery system designed to provide sustained local release of gemcitabine into the bladder urine. Cetrelimab is an investigational anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody administered intravenously. The SunRISe-1 study evaluated patients with histologically confirmed CIS, with or without concomitant high-grade Ta (CIS) or T1 (CIS cases with higher risk of progressing to MIBC) papillary disease, a type of NMIBC. Patients were randomized to one of three cohorts: treatment with TAR-200 in combination with cetrelimab (Cohort 1 [C1]), TAR-200 alone (Cohort 2 [C2]) or cetrelimab alone (Cohort 3 [C3]). C2 and C3 results were reported at AUA with C1 results to be reported at a future date. The primary endpoint of CR at any time was determined by cystoscopy, central cytology, and central pathology (Weeks 24 and 48). Secondary endpoints included duration of response (DOR), overall survival (OS), pharmacokinetics, quality of life, safety, and tolerability.
Preliminary results of the SunRISe-1 study included 23 evaluable patients in C2 and 24 evaluable patients in C3. After median follow-up of 10.6 months, 15 of 16 responses in C2 are still ongoing; median DOR was not reached. Additionally, six of the patients in C2 maintained their response beyond 12 months and none of the complete responders had documented recurrence or progression.
The initial findings from SunRISe-1 showed low rates of grade three or higher adverse events (AEs) and a limited number of treatment discontinuations due to adverse events were observed with TAR-200. The most common AEs were pollakiuria (34.8 percent), micturition urgency (34.8 percent), dysuria (26.1 percent), and noninfective cystitis (21.7 percent) in C2; pruritus (20.8 percent) and diarrhea (20.8 percent) occurred in patients in C3. Seven patients in C2 (30.4 percent) and two patients in C3 (8.3 percent) had AEs that were grade three or higher.
"Our ambition is to improve the lives of patients living with non-muscle and muscle-invasive bladder cancers and redefine the treatment of this disease in the future," said Christopher Cutie, M.D., Vice President, Disease Area Leader, Bladder Cancer, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "With the innovative TAR-200 intravesical drug delivery system, we are committed to advancing bladder cancer treatment across the spectrum of this disease, and we look forward to providing further updates from our robust SunRISe clinical program."
Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States, with more than 80,000 patients diagnosed annually, and is the tenth most common cancer worldwide, with more than 600,000 patients diagnosed each year.6,7 Bladder cancer occurs when cells in the bladder tissue grow uncontrollably, often forming a tumor that can then spread to other parts of the body if left untreated. Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancers are limited to the urothelium, the innermost layer of the bladder, and may be less aggressive than muscle-invasive bladder cancer, a type of cancer that arises from the muscular layer of the bladder or has grown beyond the urothelium and is more likely to spread to other parts of the body.8
About SunRISe-1
SunRISe-1 (NCT04640623) is a Phase 2 randomized, parallel-assignment, open-label clinical study evaluating the safety and efficacy of TAR-200 in combination with cetrelimab, TAR-200 alone, or cetrelimab alone for BCG-unresponsive HR-NMIBC CIS patients who are ineligible for, or decline, radical cystectomy. Participants are randomized to one of three cohorts: treatment with TAR-200 in combination with cetrelimab (C1), TAR-200 alone (C2), or cetrelimab alone (C3). The primary endpoint is CR rate at any time point. Secondary endpoints include DOR, OS, pharmacokinetics, quality of life, safety, and tolerability.
About TAR-200
TAR-200 is an investigational drug delivery system, enabling controlled release of gemcitabine into the bladder, increasing dwell time and local drug exposure. The safety and efficacy of TAR-200 are being evaluated in Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer in SunRISe-2 and SunRISe-4 and NMIBC in SunRISe-1 and SunRISe-3.
About Cetrelimab
Administered intravenously, cetrelimab is an investigational programmed cell death receptor-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody being studied to treat bladder cancer, prostate cancer, melanoma, and multiple myeloma as part of a combination treatment. Cetrelimab is also being evaluated in multiple other combination regimens across the Janssen Oncology portfolio.
About High-risk Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
High-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HR-NMIBC) is a type of non-invasive bladder cancer that is more likely to recur or spread beyond the lining of the bladder, called the urothelium, and progress to invasive bladder cancer compared to low-risk NMIBC. HR-NMIBC makes up 15-44 percent of patients with NMIBC and is characterized by a high-grade, large tumor size, presence of multiple tumors, and CIS. Radical cystectomy is currently recommended for NMIBC patients who fail BCG therapy, with over 90 percent cancer-specific survival if performed before muscle-invasive progression. Given that NMIBC typically affects older patients, many may be unwilling or unfit to undergo radical cystectomy. The high rates of recurrence and progression can pose significant morbidity and distress for these patients.9
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Metabolism & Retina; Immunology; Infectious Diseases & Vaccines; Neuroscience; Oncology; and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Learn more at www.janssen.com. Follow us at @JanssenGlobal and @JanssenUS. Janssen Research & Development, LLC and Janssen Biotech, Inc. belong to the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding product development and the potential benefits and treatment impact of TAR-200 or cetrelimab. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC; Janssen Biotech, Inc., and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2023, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in Johnson & Johnson's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of Janssen Research & Development, Janssen Biotech, Inc., the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
* Dr. Daneshmand has not been paid for any media work.
1Treatment of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Medscape. Published September 14, 2006. Accessed March 29, 2023. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/543663#:~:text=High%2Drisk%2C%20non%2Dmuscle,it%20is%20primary%20or%20recurrent.
2Bladder Cancer: BCG Treatment. Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Accessed April 28, 2023. https://www.cancercenter.com/cancer-types/bladder-cancer/treatments/bcg-treatment#:~:text=BCG%20is%20made%20from%20a,to%20attack%20the%20cancer%20cells.
3Lebacle C, Loriot Y, Irani J. BCG-unresponsive high-grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: what does the practicing urologist need to know?. World J Urol. 2021;39(11):4037-4046. doi:10.1007/s00345-021-03666-w
4FDA. FDA Approves Pembrolizumab for BCG-Unresponsive, High-Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Published January 8, 2020. Accessed April 20, 2023. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-drugs/fda-approves-pembrolizumab-bcg-unresponsive-high-risk-non-muscle-invasive-bladder-cancer
5Bryan RT, Hussain SA, James ND. Trimming the fat in bladder cancer management: optimizing systemic therapy in an era of genomic medicine. Bladder Cancer. 2019;5(3):165-175. doi:10.3233/BLC-190236. PubMed PMID: 31328196.
6World Health Organization. Bladder cancer. Accessed March 29, 2023. https://www.iarc.who.int/cancer-type/bladder-cancer/#:~:text=Bladder%20cancer%20is%20the%2010th,cancers%20to%20diagnose%20and%20treat.
7Saginala K, Barsouk A, Aluru JS, Rawla P, Padala SA, Barsouk A. Epidemiology of bladder cancer. Med Sci (Basel). 2020;8(1):15. Published 2020 Mar 13. doi:10.3390/medsci8010015
8What is bladder cancer? American Cancer Society. Accessed March 29, 2023. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/bladder-cancer/about/what-is-bladder-cancer.html.
9Brooks NA, O'Donnell MA. Treatment options in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer after BCG failure. Indian J Urol. 2015;31(4):312-319. doi:10.4103/0970-1591.166475. Accessed April 11, 2023.
Media Contacts:
Suzanne Frost
Phone: 416-317-0304
Brian Kenney
Phone: 215-620-0111
Investor Relations:
Raychel Kruper
Phone: 732-524-6164
U.S. Medical Inquiries:
+1 800-526-7736
View original content:
SOURCE Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson | 2023-04-30T23:19:00+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/04/30/janssen-reports-first-results-phase-2-sunrise-1-study-tar-200-anti-pd-1-antibody-cetrelimab-patients-with-bacillus-calmette-gurin-unresponsive-non-muscle-invasive-bladder-cancer/ |
Russell’s First Alert Forecast: Drought ending rains expected through noon. Possible showers and overcast conditions tonight
Locally heavy downpours are possible
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - A First Alert Weather Day continues for Eastern NC as locally heavy rain is possible along the coast. Most spots already picked up 1 to 2 inches of rain, and an additional half-inch of rain is possible until the early afternoon
Watch for standing water and ponding on the roadways. Rain gets lighter throughout the day and there could be a few breaks near later this evening. More showers will wrap around the low Sunday night keeping things wet, but not really adding big totals to our rainfall.
A few leftover drops will exit around sunrise Monday with clearing skies over the second half of Monday. Valentine’s Day is approaching with sunny weather and slightly warmer-than-average temperatures. So if you have any outdoor day/night plans, keep ‘em. There will be another weak system that could bring a few drops to the area on Wednesday and slowly increasing rain chances for the rest of the week.
Sunday - First Alert Weather Day
Rain likely. High 60F. NE winds shifting to SSE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall around a half an inch. Locally heavy rainfall possible.
Copyright 2022 WITN. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-12T14:49:21+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/02/12/russells-first-alert-forecast-drought-ending-rains-expected-through-noon-possible-showers-overcast-conditions-tonight/ |
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (AP) — President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday celebrated the close, “inseparable” U.S.-Canada relationship and vowed that the two nations remain committed to defending Ukraine as it tries to repel a Russian invasion that has no end in sight.
Biden and Trudeau met just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks for the first time since the start of the war. The Chinese and Russian leader agreed to deepen economic bonds between their two countries. But Biden argued that Western resolve remains stronger and warned Russia that the U.S., Canada and their allies would defend “every inch of NATO territory.”
The president also bristled at the notion that Russia has managed to expand a partnership with Beijing that is allowing Moscow to sustain its economy and war effort despite the U.S. lining up an international coalition to economically isolate Russia with a barrage of sanctions. China, however, thus far has refrained from providing Russia weapons since the start of the war, according to the White House.
“We have significantly expanded our alliances,” Biden said with Trudeau by his side during a joint news conference. “Tell me how in fact you see a circumstance where China has made a significant commitment to Russia? What commitment can they make?”
At an earlier appearance with Biden before the Canadian Parliament, Trudeau said his country — which has provided Kyiv with artillery, ammunition, armor and tanks — remained committed to Ukraine’s cause.
“As you well know, Mr. President, Canada will continue to stand strong with Ukraine, with whatever it takes,” Trudeau said.
The whirlwind visit by Biden — his first visit to Canada as president — was meant to showcase U.S.-Canada ties, and both leaders offered full praise of each other.
Biden, addressing Canada’s Parliament, even said the U.S. was “lucky” to have Canada as its neighbor as both countries grapple with the rapidly changing global economy, climate change, war in Europe and more.
“Today our destinies are intertwined and they are inseparable,” Biden said. “Not because of inevitability of geography, but because it’s a choice, the choice we made again and again.”
“Two people, two countries, in my view sharing one heart.”
On one often-difficult subject, immigration, Biden and Trudeau used the visit to announce an agreement aiming to stem the flow of asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings from the U.S. to Canada.
The accord eliminates a loophole under existing rules and will allow both countries to turn away asylum seekers at their borders. At the same time, Canada announced that 15,000 migrants from the Western Hemisphere will be given official slots to apply to enter the country.
The leaders also sat down with top aides for a private conversation. Besides Ukraine and defense spending, the wide-ranging talks touched on shared concerns about China’s aggressiveness and violence and political instability in Haiti.
Trudeau noted Beijing’s growing economic power and a need for the U.S. and Canada to work together to address it. To that end, Canada said Friday it was entering an arrangement with IBM to expand domestic research and development and advanced packaging of semiconductors — and planning an investment of up to $250 million to “improve North American competitiveness and supply chain resiliency, help cut pollution, foster economic and national security.”
Trudeau also spoke of a need to coordinate even more closely to combat climate change and grow both countries’ economies.
“We have to stick together,” Trudeau said. “We have to continue to face down authoritarian threats, both at home and abroad. We have to continue to defend what is right. This is not the time to compromise on our values.”
At their joint news conference later, Biden briefly veered away the day’s themes to send a warning to Tehran, after a suspected Iranian-made drone on Thursday killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria.
U.S. forces responded to the attack with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people.
“The United States does not, does not seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said. But he said Iran and its proxies should be prepared for the U.S. “to act forcefully to protect our people.”
The subject of difficult relations with China was an undercurrent of Biden’s visit.
Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, arrested in China in 2018, were in the balcony for the speeches in Parliament.
The two were taken into custody shortly after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, technology company Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of the company’s founder, on a U.S. extradition request. The Canadians were held for more than than two years in China before the Biden and Trudeau governments managed to win their release. Kovrig is a former diplomat, Spavor a businessman.
Regarding Haiti, Canada is being nudged by the U.S. and other allies to lead an international mission there to deal with the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis. Canada on Friday announced $100 million ($72.7 million U.S.) in new aid for support and equipment for the Haitian National Police.
Biden said the idea of deploying an international force was “not in play at the moment” but had not been taken off the table. Trudeau said the international community can have the most impact in the long term by being “there to support the capacity of the police in Haiti.”
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the country’s Council of Ministers sent an urgent appeal last October calling for “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity” to stop the crisis caused partly by the “criminal actions of armed gangs.” But more than five months later, no countries have stepped forward. Canada’s top military official has suggested the country doesn’t have the capacity.
Biden endorsed Trudeau’s efforts to focus on capacity building but also noted the situation in Haiti remains fragile as “gangs have essentially taken the place of the government.”
“It’s a work in progress,” he said.
Friday’s meetings also included discussion of defense spending, an issue that’s in the spotlight after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that traversed part of Canada and the continental U.S. last month.
Canada has long faced calls to increase its defense spending to 2% of its gross domestic product, the agreed-upon target by NATO members. Ottawa spends about 1.2% now.
“Canada and the United States share a responsibility and a commitment to make sure NATO can deter any threat and defend against any aggression from anyone,” Biden said. “That’s the bedrock of the security of both our nations.”
The Trudeau government also announced plans for a $7.3 billion ($5.3 billion U.S.) project to upgrade and build infrastructure to support the arrival of a new fleet of F-35 fighter jets.
Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, closed the visit Friday night with a gala dinner in honor of Biden and first lady Jill Biden. | 2023-03-25T06:38:30+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-trudeau-to-hold-talks-on-migration-haiti-and-more/ |
By Matt Stone | matthew.stone@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: | UPDATED:
- Tags:
- NHL
- Photo gallery
Matt Stone | Photographer
Matt Stone is an award-winning photojournalist who has been working at the Boston Herald for the past 26 years. Matt has won numerous awards for his work in the area of spot news, sports, photo essays and features. Thanks to the success of our New England sports teams, Matt has been able to bring Herald readers along for the championship runs of the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins.
Join the Conversation
We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions. | 2022-11-18T06:06:40+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/11/17/gallery-bruins-krejci-scores-two-as-they-beat-the-flyers-4-1/ |
(iSeeCars) – Used car prices have declined from record highs, but they are still significantly higher than they were a year ago as a result of the ongoing microchip shortage. Limited inventory of new cars has increased demand for used cars, and as fewer people are trading in used cars to buy new ones, used cars remain in short supply and command higher prices.
Due to regional used car price variations, budget-minded used car shoppers who are willing to travel can increase their chances of getting a good deal. “When looking at the most popular cars on the market, used car prices can vary by as much as $14,166 between cities,” said iSeeCars Executive Analyst Karl Brauer. “In today’s market, deals on used cars are hard to come by, and even after purchasing a plane ticket or taking a road trip, consumers may find traveling to buy a used car in another state to be worth it for significant savings.”
iSeeCars analyzed the used car prices of the top 25 most popular cars to determine the cities where they are the most and least expensive.
Used Cars With the Largest Price Disparities Between the Most and Least Expensive Cities
When examining local prices of the most popular cars, the vehicles with the largest price disparities had at least a 22 percent price difference between the cheapest and most expensive cities.
The Nissan Rogue is the vehicle that has the greatest price disparity between the most expensive and least expensive cities. “A used Nissan Rogue costs 32.4 percent or $10,738 less in San Antonio, Texas than it does in Fairbanks, Alaska,” said Brauer. “Even though these cities are nearly 4,000 miles apart, you could still save a considerable amount of money even after shipping costs, which would likely be less than $5,000.”
The Subaru Forester provides the greatest savings with the shortest distance between its most expensive and least expensive city. “Shoppers in the Duluth metropolitan area can drive 17 hours to save nearly $8,000,” said Brauer. “Even factoring in gas for the round trip that would cost around $300, hotel costs at around $150 per night, or even a one-way plane ticket for under $500, traveling to purchase this vehicle can yield significant savings.”
Best Cities to Buy Popular Used Cars at the Lowest Prices
iSeeCars found which cities offer the greatest savings on each of the most popular used cars when compared to the nationwide average.
Honda Civics in the Lincoln, Nebraska metropolitan area tend to be priced 17 percent cheaper than the national average, for savings of $4,794. “The best places to buy popular used cars are all across the country,” said Brauer. “Even if car shoppers find a deal in their area, it’s worth comparison shopping in other areas to find an even better deal.”
Bottom Line
It can be difficult to find a deal on a used car in today’s market, but expanding your search radius can provide consumers with the best chance to find more savings. “Even if you can’t travel to the city with the greatest savings on your car, you will probably find greater savings beyond your local area,making the travel worth it,” said Brauer.
Methodology
iSeeCars.com analyzed over 1.3 million 1-5 year old used cars from the top best-selling models sold between January and April of 2022. The average asking price of each model in each DMA was calculated, and the highest and lowest prices were compared to each other, as well as the nationwide average price. Model/city combinations with low inventory were excluded from the analysis.
More from iSeeCars:
About iSeeCars.com
iSeeCars.com is a car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars VIN check reports and Best Cars rankings. iSeeCars.com has saved users over $337 million so far by applying big data analytics powered by over 25 billion (and growing) data points and using proprietary algorithms to objectively analyze, score and rank millions of new cars and used cars.
This article, Most and Least Expensive Cities to Buy a Used Car, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com. | 2022-05-28T21:46:04+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/the-most-and-least-expensive-cities-to-buy-a-used-car/ |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A military judge on Friday acquitted a sailor of arson in a fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, a blow to the Navy as it faces allegations of improper training and maintenance of the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship.
Ryan Sawyer Mays, 21, deeply exhaled when the verdict was read, put both hands on the defense table, broke into sobs and hugged supporters in the audience at Naval Base San Diego.
Outside the courtroom building, Mays read a brief statement to reporters and declined to answer questions. He did not address his plans.
“I can say that the past two years have been the hardest two years of my entire life as a young man,” he said. “I’ve lost time with friends. I’ve lost friends. I’ve lost time with family, and my entire Navy career was ruined. I am looking forward to starting over.”
Prosecutors presented no physical evidence during the nine-day trial that the sailor set the ship on fire, while the defense chipped away at the credibility of a key witness, Seaman Kenji Velasco, who changed his account over time.
Gary Barthel, a former Marine judge advocate who represented Mays at a preliminary hearing, said undercutting Velasco’s credibility was key. Barthel has said the judge in the preliminary hearing recommended against a court martial, but Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, former commander of the San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet, had the final say.
The ship’s lower vehicle storage area “became a junkyard and I believe throughout this entire process the Navy was attempting to clean up their mess by accusing Seaman Mays of these allegations,” Barthel told reporters.
Prosecutors did not comment after the verdict. The Navy said through a spokesman, Lt. Samuel R. Boyle, that it “is committed to upholding the principles of due process and a fair trial.”
Prosecutors said Mays was angry and vengeful about failing to become a Navy SEAL and being assigned to deck duty, prompting him to ignite cardboard boxes on July 12, 2020 in the lower vehicle storage area on the vessel, which was docked in San Diego while undergoing $250 million in maintenance work. They said he wanted to drive home his text earlier to his division officer that the ship was so cluttered with contractors’ material it was “hazardous as (expletive).”
The prosecutor, Capt. Jason Jones, acknowledged in court a Navy report last year that concluded that the inferno was preventable and unacceptable, and that there were lapses in training, coordination, communications, fire preparedness, equipment maintenance and overall command and control. The failure to extinguish or contain the fire led to temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees (649 Celsius) in some areas, melting sections of the ship into molten metal that flowed into other parts of the ship. Navy leaders disciplined more than 20 senior officers and sailors.
Jones told the judge there is no doubt the Navy “loses the ship” that morning, but Mays is to blame for igniting it.
“That sucker punch from behind, that’s what the Navy could have never prevented,” he said.
Mays thought he would be jumping out of helicopters on missions with the SEALs, but instead he was chipping paint on the deck of a ship, and he hated the Navy for that, Jones said.
“When on deck, you are about as far away from the SEALs as you are ever going to be,” Jones said.
Defense lawyers said the trial only exposed a shoddy probe by government investigators who rushed to judgment and failed to collect evidence showing that the culprit also could have been lithium ion batteries or a sparking forklift. | 2022-10-01T14:38:09+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/ap-sailor-found-not-guilty-of-setting-fire-that-destroyed-ship/ |
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday called for the Biden administration to brief senators on the leak of a set of highly classified documents about the Ukraine war.
A Schumer spokesperson announced the request. No date or time has been set yet for the briefing. The Senate is in recess and will return next week.
The leaked documents include those warning of weaknesses in Ukraine’s defenses, ammunition shortfalls and weaknesses in air defense, The Washington Post reported over the weekend.
One of the leaked Pentagon documents said that the Ukrainian air defense may not be able to protect their front lines through the end of May.
“[Ukraine’s] ability to provide medium range air defense to protect the [front lines] will be completely reduced by May 23,” one document from the Defense Department’s Joint Staff in February said, according to the Post.
“As 1st Layer Defense munitions run out, 2nd and 3rd Layer expenditure rates will increase, reducing the ability to defend against Russian aerial attacks from all altitudes,” the classified document says.
The Justice Department and the Pentagon are investigating the origin of the leaks.
“The Department of Defense is working around the clock to look at the scope and scale of the distribution, the assessed impact and our mitigation measures,” Chris Meagher, assistant to the secretary of Defense for public affairs, told reporters on Monday.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became aware of the leaked documents on April 6, with more coming online in the following days.
The documents cover a range of different topics, including U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine. Others discuss other nations, including South Korea and Israel.
Ukraine on Sunday alleged that Russia altered the Pentagon’s documents
“In recent decades, the most successful operations of the Russian special services took place in Photoshop,” Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence directorate representative Andriy Yusov said in televised remarks. “From the preliminary analysis of these materials, we see false figures on losses from both sides.”
John Kirby, the White House spokesperson for national security affairs, told reporters on Monday that some of the documents were indeed doctored, but declined to go any further. He added that President Biden was made aware of the leaked documents late last week. | 2023-04-11T17:46:50+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/hill-politics/schumer-calls-for-all-senators-briefing-on-leaked-ukraine-documents/ |
BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper critic had animal feces smeared on her face in the city of Hannover by a ballet director who apparently took offense at a review she wrote.
The Hannover state opera house apologized for the incident and said Monday that it was suspending ballet director Marco Goecke with immediate effect.
The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that a furious Goecke approached its dance critic, Wiebke Huester, during the interval of a premiere at Hannover’s opera house on Saturday and asked what she was doing there. It said that the two didn’t know each other personally.
The newspaper said that Goecke, who apparently felt provoked by a recent review she wrote of a production he staged in the Dutch seat of government, The Hague, threatened to ban her from the ballet and accused her of being responsible for people canceling season tickets in Hannover.
He then pulled out a paper bag with animal feces and smeared her face with the contents before making off through a packed theater foyer, the newspaper said. Huester identified the substance as dog feces and said she had filed a criminal complaint, German news agency dpa reported.
In a statement on its website, the opera house said Huester’s “personal integrity” was violated “in an unspeakable way.” It said that it contacted her immediately after the incident to apologize.
The opera house said that Goecke’s “impulsive reaction” violated the ground rules of the theater and that “he caused massive damage to the Hannover State Opera and State Ballet.” As a result, it said, he is being suspended and banned from the opera house until further notice.
Goecke has been given the next few days to apologize “comprehensively” and explain himself to theater management “before further steps are announced,” it added.
The ballet director appeared at least partly unrepentant, however. In an interview with public broadcaster NDR, Goecke acknowledged that his “choice of means wasn’t super, absolutely.”
“Of course socially that is also certainly not recognized or respected, if one resorts to such means,” he said of the attack, adding that he had never done anything like that before and was “a bit shocked at myself.”
Goecke said that while having his work “soiled for years” was a price he had been told he had to pay for being in the public eye, there was a limit.
“Once a certain point has been reached, I disagree,” he said.
The German journalists’ association DJV denounced the attack.
“An artist must tolerate criticism, even if it seems exaggerated,” the union’s regional head in Lower Saxony state, Frank Rieger, said. “Whoever reacts violently to criticism is unacceptable. The attack on the … journalist is also an attack on press freedom.” | 2023-02-13T19:08:00+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-german-ballet-director-suspended-after-feces-attack/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for XOM, PEGY, HES, PCG, and KITT.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- XOM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=XOM&prnumber=100520225
- PEGY: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=PEGY&prnumber=100520225
- HES: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=HES&prnumber=100520225
- PCG: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=PCG&prnumber=100520225
- KITT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=KITT&prnumber=100520225
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | 2022-10-05T17:31:18+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/10/05/thinking-about-buying-stock-exxon-mobil-pineapple-energy-hess-corp-pgampe-corp-or-nauticus-robotics/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man accused of driving nearly 150 mph while drunk prior to a deadly crash has been arrested nearly two years after the Orange County wreck.
William Wigton, 27, was booked into the Orange County jail on Monday.
[TRENDING: Can a Florida wildlife officer pull me over for a traffic violation? | Brightline announces traffic advisories from Orlando to West Palm Beach | Central Florida boy, 10, loses leg in shark attack | Become a News 6 Insider (it’s free!)]
Troopers said Wigton is responsible for a December 2020 crash along State Road 50, near the intersection with South Tanner Road, that killed Imatz Roopnarine.
Investigators said Wigton was traveling east in a silver Ford Mustang when he slammed into the back of a tan Jeep Wrangler. Roopnarine, 51, was a passenger in the Wrangler and died in the crash, troopers said. The driver of the SUV was seriously hurt.
The wreck damaged two additional vehicles as well, including a tractor-trailer, records show.
Troopers said the event recorder in the Mustang showed that the car was traveling at 119 mph at the time of the crash and was at a speed of 149.3 mph just five seconds prior. The posted speed limit in the area is 55 mph.
NEW TODAY: Court records obtained by @news6wkmg show Florida Highway Patrol have arrested a 27-year-old man after a deadly dui crash on SR 50 in Dec. 2020. An arrest affidavit for William Wigton states he was going nearly 150mph in his Ford Mustang seconds before the crash. pic.twitter.com/SmEaBpytTA
— Catherine Silver (@CatSilverTV) August 16, 2022
Investigators said they met with Wigton at the hospital after the crash, describing him as having slurred speech and smelling of alcohol. Troopers said his blood alcohol content was tested and showed to be at 0.109, over the legal limit of 0.08.
Wigton’s DNA was matched to blood found on the driver’s side airbag of the Mustang, showing that he was behind the wheel at the time of the crash, according to the affidavit for an arrest warrant.
Wigton faces charges of vehicular homicide, DUI manslaughter, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, DUI with serious bodily injury, reckless driving causing property damage and DUI causing property damage.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | 2022-08-16T16:04:05+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/traffic/2022/08/16/man-arrested-nearly-2-years-after-119-mph-deadly-crash-in-orange-county/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy will be allowed to stand until a hearing before the state Supreme Court.
The court said late Monday it will hear the case, which has been part of a legal fight since the law took effect last July.
The law prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions if the procedure is necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It does not allow exemptions in cases of rape, incest or human trafficking.
Violators could face up to five years in prison. Physicians and other medical professionals could lose their licenses and face administrative fines of $10,000 for each violation. | 2023-01-24T19:16:14+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/health/ap-health/ap-15-week-abortion-ban-set-to-go-before-florida-supreme-court/ |
SPRINGFIELD – The ex-girlfriend of the former Westfield police detective who is on trial for allegedly murdering his wife in May 2018 testified as a state witness Monday in Superior Court.
“It’s very embarrassing. I never expected something like this would happen to me,” said Corrine Hasty, who until Monday had been referred to as Corrine Knowles during previous testimony in the trial that is expected to last at least until March 10.
Hasty was testifying in the first-degree murder trial of Brian Fanion, the now retired Westfield police detective, who is accused of shooting his wife, Amy Fanion, in the head on May 8, 2018. Fanion has maintained his innocence telling investigators that Amy committed suicide during an argument in their North Road home over a continuing disagreement between the two about Brian Fanion’s idea of what he wanted his life to be after retiring from the police department. | 2023-02-28T19:39:55+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/westfieldnews/2023/02/accused-killers-ex-girlfriend-tesifies-in-first-degree-murder-trial.html |
Days after a rainy street race in Chicago, and as closures still block roads downtown, NASCAR fans can already drop a $250 deposit to secure their spot for a potential race next year, as the company expresses confidence it will be back in Chicago in 2024.
But the city is not as married to the idea just yet.
“We’re very grateful that, despite the extreme weather, that NASCAR was able to deliver with very minimal disruption,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday, pausing as he chose his words — the extent of his public evaluation of the race thus far.
Johnson, who had no hand in bringing the event here but now will decide its fate, said he will “assess [the event] and grade it,” stopping short of inviting the company back for another round. Record-setting, torrential downpour caused delays and cancellations that could make it more difficult to assess the inaugural street race’s impact. And the event was marred by a contractor’s death after he was electrocuted during race set-up.
Now the city has a decision to make about whether weeks of street closures before and after the race, as well as the cost of staffing it with traffic aides and police officers, is worth the to-be-determined revenue and publicity. NASCAR’s contract gives both sides the option to walk away.
“Despite the weather, I thought it was an impressive event,” said. Ald. Bill Conway, whose 34th Ward encompasses parts of downtown. “Chicago shined on the world stage as it always does. And now we’re going to do the in-depth cost benefit analysis to see if it’s something that we should do again.”
Assessing the benefits
It terms of what Chicago might make from the event, according to the Chicago Park District’s contract with NASCAR, the city will be guaranteed a $500,000 permit fee (with that fee increasing to $605,000 by 2025), and an additional $2 per ticket sale and 15% of net food and beverage concessions and merchandise sold at the event.
NASCAR declined to share numbers on ticket sales Monday, but previously said it expected the race to generate more than $113 million in new spending and more than $3 million in tax revenue for Chicago in 2023 alone.
While final tallies were not yet available, Michele Lemons, a Park District spokeswoman, said Monday the contract “reflects a substantial guaranteed fee with additional upside for the Park District to the extent the event does well.”
But Robert Baade, a Lake Forest College economics professor who studies the intersection of major sporting events and municipalities, said he feels the city ultimately left money on the table.
“$500,000 to put on an event like this, is truly light. Embarrassingly so,” Baade said of the permit fee the city is bringing in this year. “I think that the city of Chicago needs to be a little bit more aggressive with regard to the negotiation. It’s not as if Chicago doesn’t have something to sell.”
Johnson did not give a timeline for assessing the event’s economic impact. The city has until 180 days, or six months, before the next race to decide whether it wants to bring NASCAR back. Baade said he’s skeptical economic benefits estimated by NASCAR will pan out.
“If you look at let’s say a booster’s claim with regard to how much this is going to do for the community,” Baade said, “move that decimal point one place to the left and you’re more likely to arrive at a meaningful statistic with regard to what the economic impact really is.”
In addition to weighing the costs versus the benefits, Baade said an audit of the event’s economic impact needs to take into account where fans are traveling from. If attendees were largely from the Chicago metro area, and skipped eating at a restaurant to instead eat at the NASCAR race, for example, “you haven’t really increased spending in the city overall. All you’ve done is redistribute that spending.”
Perhaps harder to calculate is the publicity the event brings and how that translates to tangible economic benefits for the city. A broadcast of the race offered views of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive and the city’s skyline to a national, perhaps even global, audience as New Zealand’s Shane van Gisbergen won his NASCAR Cup Series debut. The broadcasters also referred repeatedly to the city’s tourist-friendly highlights, particularly as they waited out the rain delay, from deep dish pizza to its many professional sports teams.
In a statement, the city’s tourism arm — Choose Chicago — highlighted those benefits, going so far as to say the group looks forward to welcoming NASCAR back next year.
“Despite challenging weather conditions, thousands of people turned out for this first-ever event,” said Lynn Osmond, President and CEO of Choose Chicago. “The global coverage of this event showcased the beauty of Chicago to millions of people, breaking broadcast and streaming records for NASCAR.”
Attending in person on Saturday, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who inked the three-year deal, called the event a “love letter” to Chicago.
“What I experienced seemed like a well-constructed and well-run event, in which veteran fans and newcomers alike were excited to see street racing brought to Chicago,” she said in an emailed response to WBEZ’s questions. “It was a multi-day love letter to the city of Chicago, broadcast across the world.”
Calculating the costs
But any potential benefits will need to be weighed with what it costs to hold the event here. That could include anything from overtime pay for officers, to additional traffic aides needed, to indirect economic costs of business or street closures.
Per the contract, NASCAR was required to put down $50,000 as a security deposit for potential damages, and the city and NASCAR will agree on restoration costs after a walk-through to assess any damage to the park grounds. The city’s transportation department on Wednesday said it wasn’t aware of any road repairs needed as a result of the race.
A further assessment will happen after the track wall, fence and risers are taken down by July 15, a transportation department spokesperson said.
City officials previously said police officers’ days off would be canceled to help control traffic and staff the event. The Chicago Police Department declined to provide details on how much in overtime was logged by officers.
“Clearly this is a group of people that they don’t need any more days off canceled,” Conway said of police. “So that was a significant cost to having NASCAR in Chicago.”
And while many business owners were optimistic that an anticipated boost in visitors might mean more spending downtown, for some small stores and Chicago institutions, race weekend meant closing up shop — another impact the city will have to assess.
Sam Toia, president of the Illinois Restaurant Association, said he’s hoping to receive visitor numbers from Choose Chicago in the coming weeks, but that, anecdotally, restaurants downtown did not see the number of diners they typically would on a rainy, holiday weekend.
“Historically, rain makes restaurants busier,” Toia said. “When you get rain, people still want to do something for the holidays so they go to restaurants… But because of NASCAR, and streets being closed, [people] weren’t really coming downtown.”
“I’d like to see the data on NASCAR to see if we should keep moving forward with this,” he added. “We encourage the city to keep doing these great events, but I’m not sure closing all these streets is the right approach.”
The Shedd Aquarium closed Saturday and Sunday and the Field Museum adjusted its hours. The Field Museum still saw nearly 12,000 visitors which was “on track with attendance we’ve seen in recent years,” a museum spokeswoman said, but noted turnout was likely boosted by free admission offered to Illinois residents those days.
Exile in Bookville, an independent bookstore on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue, also made the decision to close, shutting down for what’s typically the busiest days of the week.
Co-owner Kristin Enola Gilbert said the city occasionally shared timelines for race setup over email that often changed. Barricades put up on the sidewalk several days before race day that limited access came as a surprise.
“Everything was very vague and ambiguous,” Gilbert said, adding that when a public forum had been announced where business owners could share their opinions, they were only given a few hours’ notice. Concerns about safety, noise and reduced accessibility to the store ultimately led to the decision to close Saturday through Monday due to the race.
“I’d like them to not host the race in downtown Chicago,” Gilbert said. “Our city has been denied to us all for a two-day race weekend.”
Conversely, the Art Institute, which maintained its normal hours, said it welcomed over 13,000 visitors Friday through Monday — a similar turnout to previous 4th of July holiday weekends, with higher attendance in particular on Monday, a spokeswoman said.
Future races?
To answer that question, Ald. Pat Dowell, 3rd Ward, wants to hear from her residents first.
Dowell on Wednesday sent a survey to constituents asking things such as: Do you think Chicago hosting a NASCAR race was good or bad for the City? Was your daily commute significantly affected by the NASCAR Street Race setup? What are some things the City can do to improve events like the NASCAR Street Race?
Alds. Conway and Daniel La Spata, 1st Ward, both said they want to see an in-depth evaluation of the event before they make up their minds on whether the event should be held again next year. While they received complaints from residents on noise, traffic and lakefront access, they had praise for the caution and care NASCAR took to run the event in the face of hazardous weather.
“I expected disruptive, I expected imperfect, but I also expected safe. And I think we achieved on that,” said La Spata, who chairs the City Council’s Pedestrian & Traffic Safety Committee. “Now the thinking, I think, will be, not only do we want to do this again next year, but how do we perfect our communication and our infrastructure around this? And how do we potentially reduce disruption while still maintaining that safety?”
When Lightfoot announced the NASCAR deal, alderpersons criticized the mayor for lack of transparency. La Spata said he fully expects Johnson’s administration will ensure alderpersons’ input is taken into account when deciding the future of the race.
“I don’t think anybody should have their mind made up just yet,” La Spata said.
Though alderpersons do not have a vote to cast on whether to bring NASCAR back, in a nod to those frustrations, Johnson said his analysis will include input from others in an “open process” to determine whether NASCAR racers will hit the streets of Chicago in 2024. | 2023-07-06T17:08:38+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-07-06/nascar-is-taking-deposits-for-a-2024-chicago-race-but-will-the-city-have-it-back |
MILAN (AP) — From his grand entrance by helicopter after buying AC Milan to empowering Monza up to Serie A for the first time in its history, Silvio Berlusconi dominated Italian soccer for decades just like he commanded the show in Italian politics.
Berlusconi, a former three-time Italian premier, died Monday, according to his television network. He was 86.
Berlusconi was hospitalized on Friday for the second time in months for treatment of chronic leukemia. He also suffered over the years from heart ailments and prostate cancer.
Under his ownership, AC Milan won 29 trophies, including eight Serie A titles and five European Cups.
“All of the things I work on are profane. But Milan is sacred,” Berlusconi once said. “I remember when my dad would bring me to the stadium and I didn’t pay for a ticket because I was so small. So I repeat, Milan is a matter of love.”
Berlusconi was the ultimate “presidente” in an era when Italian soccer was still a family-run business commanded by powerful men, alongside the Agnellis at Juventus and the Morattis at Inter Milan.
These days, Milan is under American ownership, Inter is under Chinese control and only the Agnellis remain at Juventus among Italy’s three biggest clubs.
“Deeply saddened, AC Milan grieves the passing of the unforgettable Silvio Berlusconi and wishes to reach out to the family, associates, and most cherished friends to share our sympathies,” Milan said in a statement. “Tomorrow, we will dream of new ambitions, create new challenges, and seek new victories. Which will represent the good, the strong, and the true that lies inside us, in all of us who shared this adventure of binding our lives to a dream called Milan. Thank you, Mr. President. Always with us.”
MILAN TURNAROUND
Berlusconi saved Milan from near bankruptcy when he bought the club in February 1986.
Milan was still suffering from the effects of being relegated to Serie B after the Totonero match-fixing scandal and had finished fifth in the top division the previous season.
In June 1986, Berlusconi marked the start of his first full season as president in typically dramatic fashion at a team presentation. In front of 10,000 fans at the city’s neoclassical Arena Civica, he and the players flew in on three Apache helicopters to the tune of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.”
“The squad met up at Linate (airport) without knowing what was happening,” former Milan captain Franco Baresi said. “People made fun of us, but with the helicopters the president showed immediately his desire to astound. And we understood that the winds had changed direction.”
TITLES AND TROPHIES
Berlusconi quickly made his mark when Milan won Serie A in his second full season in charge.
The real glory came in the following two seasons, though, when Milan earned consecutive European Cup titles with a team led by Dutch stars Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard.
Many more trophies followed, with Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Nesta anchoring the defense and Andriy Shevchenko and Kaka scoring the goals.
With success after success on the soccer field, it was no coincidence that Berlusconi borrowed a soccer chant when his right-wing political party was named “Forza Italia.”
“The problem is that Milan often comes up against left-wing referees,” Berlusconi said after a soccer loss in 2010.
COACHING CAROUSEL
Under Berlusconi’s presidency, Milan made 21 coaching changes.
The man in the hot seat when Berlusconi bought the club was Nils Liedholm. But Milan was beaten twice in the Italian Cup by a Parma team that was coached by a certain Arrigo Sacchi, who Berlusconi eventually hired despite criticism about Sacchi never having played professional soccer.
Sacchi went on to revolutionize the game with his offensive tactics in a country that was better known for “catenaccio,” or lockdown defense.
After coaching Milan to European Cup titles in 1989 and 1990, Sacchi went on to coach Italy’s national team to the 1994 World Cup final.
“He was a great person who tried to improve Italy and the sport, but he wasn’t always understood,” Sacchi said. “I called him a couple of days ago but I didn’t managed to speak to him. I feel awful, despite everything I didn’t expect it.”
Always a hands-on owner, Berlusconi was never shy about dictating player lineups to his coaches or voicing a preference for one formation over another.
“Berlusconi criticized us when things were going well and gave us support when they were going bad. Most presidents do exactly the opposite,” said current Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who matched Sacchi by coaching Milan to two Champions League titles in 2003 and 2007 — in addition to a runner-up finish in 2005.
Berlusconi was famously a proponent of the 4-3-2-1 “Christmas tree” formation.
“Everyone’s always talking about Sacchi’s Milan and (Alberto) Zaccheroni’s Milan and Ancelotti’s Milan and you never hear anyone talk about Berlusconi’s Milan. But for 18 years I’ve been making the lineups, dictating the rules and buying the players,” Berlusconi said in 2004.
GALLIANI FRIENDSHIP
While Berlusconi was a constant presence at the San Siro, it was his good friend and fellow TV executive Adriano Galliani who actually ran Milan on a day-to-day basis.
Backed by Berlusconi’s millions, Galliani became known as a master of signing top players on the transfer market.
“The best player was certainly Marco van Basten,” Galliani told Corriere della Sera in 2018. “(Former Milan sporting director) Ariedo Braida realized he was a phenomenon and we went to Amsterdam several times with Berlusconi to see him. Even Berlusconi’s father, Luigi, came along.
“But the best story was Gullit. It was August 1986 and we were in Bermuda and all of a sudden the president (Berlusconi) says that Milan is playing in a four-team preseason tournament in Barcelona that night. So we grabbed a plane and flew there. Berlusconi immediately noticed this giant playing for PSV (Eindhoven) with dreadlocks as a defender. The president went crazy and said ‘We’ve got to get him.’ But in 1986 we couldn’t buy any more foreign players and so we had to wait until 1987 to sign him after a year-long courtship.”
REUNITED AT MONZA
After selling Milan to a Chinese consortium in 2017, Berlusconi and Galliani reunited a year later with the purchase of Monza, the team that Galliani grew up supporting.
In just a few years, Monza worked its way up from the third division to a Serie A debut in 2022-23.
At this season’s Monza team Christmas party, Berlusconi told the squad that if they won one of their upcoming games against Inter, Juventus or Milan, “I’ll bring in a busload of whores.”
While Berlusconi was widely criticized for his remarks, Monza did end up beating Juventus in January for a season-sweep of the Bianconeri.
“Adriano Galliani and the whole of AC Monza are heartbrokenly crying at the death of Silvio Berlusconi: a void that will never be filled, always with us. Thanks for everything President,” Monza said in a statement.
Galliani also added a separate message on his own social media account.
“Heartbroken, without words, with so much pain I cry for my friend, the master of everything, the person who changed my life for more than 43 years,” he wrote. “Rest in peace dear President, With so, so much love. Adriano Galliani.”
___
Dampf reported from Rome.
___
More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-12T13:29:24+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/former-italian-premier-silvio-berlusconi-was-also-successful-in-soccer-at-ac-milan-and-monza/ |
BEIJING (AP) — The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
The 7th Fleet based in Japan said Sunday that the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit have been conducting “integrated expeditionary strike force operations” in the South China Sea.
It said exercises involving ships, ground forces and aircraft took place Saturday but gave no details on when the began or whether they had ended.
China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and strongly objects to military activity by other nations in the contested waterway through which $5 trillion in goods are shipped every year.
The U.S. takes no official position on sovereignty in the South China Sea, but maintains that freedom of navigation and overflight must be preserved. Several times a year, it sends ships sailing past fortified Chinese outposts in the Spratly Islands, prompting protests from Beijing.
The U.S. has also been strengthening its defense alliance with the Philippines, which has faced encroachment on islands and fisheries by the Chinese coast guard and nominally civilian but government-backed fleets.
The U.S. military exercises were planned in advance. They come as already tense relations between Washington and Beijing have been exacerbated by a diplomatic row sparked by the balloon, which was shot down last weekend in U.S. airspace off the coast of South Carolina.
The U.S. said the unmanned balloon was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals, but Beijing insists it was a weather research airship that had accidently blown off course.
The balloon prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to abruptly cancel a high-stakes trip to Beijing aimed at easing tensions.
After first issuing a highly rare expression of regret over the balloon, China has toughened its rhetoric, calling the U.S. shootdown an overreaction and a violation of international norms. China’s defense minister refused to take a phone call from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to discuss the matter.
The United States has since blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its response to the incident. The House of Representatives also voted unanimously to condemn China for a “brazen violation” of U.S. sovereignty and efforts to “deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns.”
The balloon was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for several years, the Pentagon said. The U.S. says Chinese balloons have flown over dozens of countries across five continents in recent years, and it learned more about the balloon program after closely monitoring the one shot down near South Carolina.
In its news release, the 7th Fleet said the joint operation had “established a powerful presence in the region, which supports peace and stability.”
“As a ready response force, we underpin a broad spectrum of missions including landing Marines ashore, humanitarian disaster relief, and deterring potential adversaries through visible and present combat power,” the release said. | 2023-02-13T04:34:23+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-us-holds-drills-in-south-china-sea-amid-tensions-with-china/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
8-5-7, SB: 1
(eight, five, seven; SB: one)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
8-5-7, SB: 1
(eight, five, seven; SB: one) | 2022-08-21T18:24:01+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Midday-game-17388023.php |
Industry-leading Indices in Athene® BCA® 2.0 Result in Best FIA Award
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Annexus, a leading retirement product design company, announced that Athene BCA 2.0, one of its flagship fixed indexed annuities, won the "FIA of the Year" award at the 2022 SRP Americas Conference in Chicago, September 15.
The Athene BCA 2.0 fixed indexed annuity (FIA) received the award based on product features, benefits and client satisfaction. The event was hosted by Structured Retail Products (SRP), the leading global provider of data and analysis for financial institutions involved in the manufacturing and distribution of structured products.
Annexus partnered with Athene, a leading provider of retirement savings products, and leading index designers, including Professor Robert Shiller, legendary Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel, Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, Merrill Lynch, S&P and WisdomTree to build one of the industry's most diversified index lineups in an FIA designed to help provide "all-weather" returns in today's challenging environment.
"I am delighted that our Barclays Global index is part of this award-winning FIA. The Annexus strategy is taking the principle of diversification seriously, to the point of putting together for consumers a broad array of thoughtfully defined indices," said Professor Shiller.
The Athene BCA Suite of Fixed Indexed Annuities offers one of the industry's strongest combinations of accumulation potential, principal protection, income, and legacy benefits. It features two of the top-producing indices year-to-date, the WisdomTree Siegel Strategic Value Index™ and the Shiller Barclays Global Index, which both have positive year-to-date performance when the S&P 500 is down -24% year to date.
"I am pleased the WisdomTree Siegel Strategic Value Index has performed so well," said Professor Siegel. "The index design was heavily inspired by my research and value approach to investing. It is based upon a systematic value investment strategy, which is an approach that has worked well over long periods."
"The goal is to deliver greater consumer value through changing markets," Annexus Co-Founder and CEO Ron Shurts said, "We've provided financial professionals with an alternative to protect their clients' assets, while benefiting from the potential growth of indices designed by some of the largest investment banks and academic thought leaders."
"In this economic downturn, the WisdomTree Siegel Index favors sectors that have strong earnings and momentum relative to their current price and avoids those sectors that are expensive relative to their fundamental," said Professor Siegel. "A unique design of our index, which has worked extremely well, is that it shorts the S&P 500® Index while going long in sectors which have strong value characteristics."
This year was the bond market's worst start since 1970, with these traditional safe alternatives losing over 13%. "I'm not going to say that bonds have never looked worse, but fixed income is seriously challenged going forward," said Tom Haines, EVP, Annexus. "FIAs and, specifically, Athene BCA has demonstrated its ability to be an attractive portfolio alternative, and even more so this year. Athene BCA offers the most diversified group of leading indices in the FIA market."
"We are seeing an increase in the number of financial advisors, RIAs and insurance professionals offering Athene BCA fixed indexed annuities," Shurts said. "It is exciting to see Athene BCA recognized by the industry and reinforces the advisors' decision to increasingly use Athene BCA to help meet their clients' needs in retirement."
Annexus designs solutions to help Americans grow and protect their retirement savings. For over a decade, Annexus has developed market-leading fixed indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance products. Annexus has forged relationships with many of the industry's leading insurance carriers and the world's largest investment banks. Find out more about Annexus and its products at annexus.com.
Athene, through its subsidiaries, is a leading financial services company specializing in retirement services with total assets of $234.3 billion as of June 30, 2022 and operations in the United States, Bermuda, and Canada. Athene specializes in helping its customers achieve financial security and is a solutions provider to institutions. Founded in 2009, Athene is Driven to Do More for our policyholders, business partners, shareholders, and the communities in which we work and live. For more information, please visit www.athene.com.
Shiller is an American economist, best-selling author and Sterling Professor of Economics, Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Centre for Finance at Yale University. Professor Shiller is ranked among the 100 most influential economists in the world.
Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Siegel received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. and has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial markets, monetary policy and interest rates and stock and bond returns. Along with heading the macroeconomics module of the Morgan Bank Finance Program in New York, he is the academic director of the U.S. Securities Industry Institute and is on the Advisory Board of the Asian Securities Industry Association.
SRP is the most comprehensive online database of structured products in the world with over 22 million individual product listings from almost 3,000 companies, representing total sales of over $8.73tn. Our product and market data spans over 16+ years across 54 different countries and is supplemented by extensive independent analysis, daily news, people moves and exclusive interviews from key figures within the structured product space. Learn more at structuredretailproducts.com.
Athene Annuity and Life Company (61689), headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, and issuing annuities in 49 states (excluding NY) and D.C., and Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York (68039), headquartered in Pearl River, NY, and issuing annuities in New York, are not undertaking to provide investment advice for any individual or in any individual situation, and therefore nothing in this should be read as investment advice.
The Athene BCA 2.0 ANN19 (01/19), ANN19CS06 (01/19), ANN19CS08 (01/19), ANN19CS10 (01/19), ANN19CS12 (01/19) or state variation, the Family Endowment Rider PBEDB (01/19), PBEDBRS (01/19) or state variation, and the Balanced Allocation Lifetime Income Rider ANNIRS (01/19), ANNIRSRS (01/19), ANNIRF (01/19), ANNIRFRS (01/19) or state variation are issued by Athene Annuity and Life Company, West Des Moines, IA. Product features, limitations and availability vary; see Certificate of Disclosure for full details. Products not available in all states.
ATHENE ANNUITES ARE PRODUCTS OF THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND NOT GUARANTEED BY ANY BANK NOR INSURED BY FDIC OR NCUA/ NCUSIF. MAY LOSE VALUE. NO BANK/CREDIT UNION GUARANTEE. NOT A DEPOSIT. NOT INSURED BY ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY. MAY ONLY BE OFFERED BY A LICENSED INSURANCE AGENT.
© 2022 Annexus
BCA® is a registered trademark of Annexus. All rights reserved.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Annexus | 2022-11-14T11:40:14+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/11/14/athene-bca-20-honored-best-fia-2022-srp-americas-conference/ |
Braves vs. Brewers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 22
Saturday's game between the Atlanta Braves (63-33) and Milwaukee Brewers (54-44) matching up at American Family Field has a projected final score of 5-3 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Braves, so expect a tight matchup. The game will begin at 7:15 PM ET on July 22.
The Braves will give the ball to Allan Winans and the Brewers will turn to Adrian Houser (3-2, 3.79 ERA).
Braves vs. Brewers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
Bet on this matchup with BetMGM Sportsbook and use bonus code "GNPLAY" for special offers!
Braves vs. Brewers Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Braves 5, Brewers 4.
Total Prediction for Braves vs. Brewers
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
New to BetMGM Sportsbook? We've got the best offer for new users when they use promo code "GNPLAY"! Sign up with BetMGM Sportsbook using our link and enter the bonus code "GNPLAY" for special offers. to get this great bonus for first-time depositors.
Braves Performance Insights
- In eight games over the last 10 matchups when favored by bookmakers, the Braves have a record of 4-4.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Atlanta and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- The Braves have one win against the spread in their last two chances.
- This season, the Braves have been favored 83 times and won 55, or 66.3%, of those games.
- Atlanta has entered 66 games this season favored by -140 or more and is 47-19 in those contests.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Braves have a 58.3% chance to win.
- Atlanta has scored 543 runs this season, which ranks second in MLB.
- The Braves have a 3.81 team ERA that ranks sixth among all league pitching staffs.
Brewers Performance Insights
- In five games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Brewers have a record of 3-2.
- In its previous 10 games with a total, Milwaukee and its opponents have combined to exceed the over/under on three occasions.
- The Brewers' previous 10 games have not had a runline set by bookmakers.
- The Brewers have been underdogs in 47 games this season and have come away with the win 24 times (51.1%) in those contests.
- This season, Milwaukee has come away with a win 11 times in 24 chances when named as an underdog of at least +115 or worse on the moneyline.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Brewers have a 46.5% chance of pulling out a win.
- The offense for Milwaukee is the No. 23 offense in baseball, scoring 4.2 runs per game (408 total runs).
- Brewers pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.96 ERA this year, 10th-best in baseball.
Put your picks to the test and bet on with BetMGM Sportsbook. Use bonus code "GNPLAY" for special offers!
Braves Schedule
Brewers Schedule
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-22T18:57:44+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/sports/betting/2023/07/22/braves-brewers-mlb-picks-predictions/ |
BREAKING NEWS
Police investigate death of woman at west Phoenix home
Angela Cordoba Perez
Arizona Republic
Phoenix police were investigating the death of a woman at a home near 67th Avenue and McDowell Road.
Officers responded to the residence about 3 p.m. Wednesday after the Phoenix Fire Department had pronounced the woman dead. She showed "signs of trauma" and the homicide unit took over the investigation.
The injuries were consistent with a gunshot wound, although the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office will do a full examination, Phoenix police said.
Police did not release the woman's identity. | 2022-12-01T23:23:53+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2022/12/01/police-investigate-death-of-woman-at-west-phoenix-home/69692754007/ |
I-Team: List of Child/Teen Mental Health Resources in CT
(WFSB) - Confusing, frustrating, hopeless.
Words parents have used when talking to the Channel 3 I-Team about the youth mental health system in Connecticut.
Tonight, the I-Team is here with a list of resources and services available to help parents start to navigate the system. You can find them listed at the bottom.
”He loves art, they were using art in school to try and calm him down.”
For privacy reasons, we spoke with a local mother who who didn’t want to share her or her 8-year-old son’s name.
But she did want to share their struggle to find the right mental health resources in Connecticut.
”Frustrated is the word that keeps coming to mind.”
She says last summer, her 8-year-old son began experiencing extreme emotional and behavioral issues.
”Yelling, screaming, going to hit, kick, bite,” she says. “He’s a good-hearted kid but he just struggles with his emotions when he gets too far into the red zone, he just can’t regulate and come back down.”
But after two ER visits, multiple program screenings and even more hours spent leaving voicemails for programs that might be a good fit, her son still doesn’t have an official diagnosis -- or a next step.
”At the end of the day, I still have nothing for my poor son,” says the mother. “I think there is just not a clear roadmap of who I should be going to and how to get him these services.”
MENTAL HEALTH ROADMAP - 211 MOBILE CRISIS:
Many Connecticut professionals say dialing 211 and asking for their Mobile Crisis unit is the first place to start.
“What we always say to families is, if it’s a crisis to you, it’s a crisis to us,” says Tiffany Hubrins, a licensed clinical social worker and director of Wheeler’s Children’s Outpatient and Community-based Services.
Hubrins is in charge of mobile crisis at the Wheeler Clinic in Hartford, one of 6 agencies in the state offering this service, which provides immediate assistance to children or adolescents experiencing a behavioral or mental health need or crisis.
In 2022, there were 17,591 calls to 211 requesting crisis intervention for teens and kids. That’s around 48 calls a day.
Available 24/7, 365 days a year, Hubrins says it’s their job to get a mental health professional to the person needing help in 45 minutes or less. You can also call and ask for an appointment to be scheduled at a later date.
“They can call us for anything over the sun. Typical behavioral health concerns, like depression, anxiety,” says Hubrins. “Sometimes everyday stress. It could be “I can’t get Johnny to go to sleep tonight and I need some support.”
Those same professionals create family safety plans, teach coping skills, and connect the person who needs help with the right services before they leave.
”I like to call us the guru of referral, with referral sources,” says Hubrins.
CONNECTING TO CARE WEBSITE / CARE COORDINATORS:
Beyond dialing 211, you can also learn about other services that are available on the website connectingtocarect.org.
There you can search for services in your specific community, as well as the state.
You can also find licensed mental health professionals known as care coordinators, if you don’t want to do it alone.
“We will take a parent by the hand and say, okay, let’s hear what’s going on and then that person will make the phone calls, the linkages and the connections,” says Michael C Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Operations at the Department of Children and Families.
These professionals are found in local agencies, in some emergency rooms, through Medicaid and you can ask your health insurance carrier for care coordination, says Williams.
”The wasted time of calling the wrong place and going through the wrong door is kind of eliminated,” says Williams.
For children with serious emotional challenges, mental illnesses and substance use disorders, DCF Voluntary Care Management is another avenue.
In CT, DCF is in charge of child mental health resources, but you don’t have to open a case with DCF to receive voluntary care through the state.
It is something that used to happen before the state separated the two programs.
“We understood the fear that families had, the stigma,” says Williams.
If you’re worried about cost, Connecticut has two financial aid programs you can apply for.
”One is a family assistance fund which will support families financially for activities, services, interventions that they need or can’t afford,” says Williams. “Another fund is a social determinant of health funds which really tries to get at the root cause of some of the challenges that families and children are facing.”
As for the mom we’ve been speaking with, “I feel like I’ve had a couple of different care management people I’m trying to work with.”
While she says care management can be helpful, they can’t always get her son into the programs he needs, so she thinks the state needs to do more.
”I would think some sort of advocate to help navigate the system, somebody to help guide you and kind of see you through until you get what you need,” says Williams.
Now DCF says they understand these programs won’t cover all mental health disorders, but says they are a good place to begin for many families.
HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT PROGRAM:
The I-Team is committed to covering CT’s Kids in Crisis and will continue reporting on the issues affecting your children.
Here is a list of resources we have compiled.
MOBILE CRISIS: You can reach Mobile Crisis by dialing 211, press 1 and then 1 again/ You can also visit their website here: https://www.mobilecrisisempsct.org/.
CONNECTING TO CARE: You can also learn about other services that are available, on the website connectingtocarect.org.
TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE: If you are looking for a network of trauma-informed evidence-based mental health treatments for children -- this infographic explains it a bit more, and has a link to a searchable database of providers offering the treatments in CT: www.chdi.org/ebt
Parents and caregivers can also find information and access the searchable directory at www.kidsmentalhealthinfo.com. The website was created for parents in CT.
A summary of CT-specific behavioral health resources for families can be found at the State of CT website: https://plan4children.org/resources/
Child First Expansions is a home visiting model targeted to serve families that present with the highest level of need. This service provides home-based assessment, family plan development, parent-child therapeutic intervention, and education and care coordination case management for high-risk families with children under six years of age including pregnant women in order to decrease social-emotional and behavioral problems developmental and learning problems and abuse and neglect. You can call 211 to be connected: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DCF/Substance_Abuse/pdf/2022/Child-First-AIM-Fact-Sheet_rev2022.pdf
Financial Aid:
Family Assistance Grants: Funds for families to cover the cost of prescription drugs or treatments for child and adolescent behavioral health conditions or the cost of intensive evidence-based services to treat mental and behavioral health conditions in children and adolescents, intensive in-home child and adolescent psychiatric services (IICAPS), and services provided by an intensive outpatient program (IOP), if the cost is not covered by Medicaid or private insurance. You can ask DCF Voluntary Care about them.
Social Determinants Financial Aid: Provision of mental health services to children in which a social determinant is identified causing their inability to access the service. You can ask DCF Voluntary Care about this.
Copyright 2023 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-15T23:30:57+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/06/15/i-team-list-childteen-mental-health-resources-ct/ |
HOUSTON (AP) — HOUSTON (AP) — Sunnova Energy International Inc. (NOVA) on Wednesday reported a loss of $20.9 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had a loss of 18 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 40 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 42 cents per share.
The residential solar company posted revenue of $195.6 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $145.1 million.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $161.6 million, or $1.41 per share. Revenue was reported as $557.7 million.
_____
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on NOVA at https://www.zacks.com/ap/NOVA | 2023-02-22T22:25:38+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/sunnova-energy-q4-earnings-snapshot-17799764.php |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz battled Wednesday over whether jurors at his upcoming penalty trial should learn about the swastikas carved on his gun's magazine, his racist, homophobic and threatening online posts, his computer searches for child pornography and his cruelty to animals.
Prosecutors argued that the swastikas, racism, postings, computer searches and animal cruelty help form the basis of their psychologists' diagnosis that Cruz, 23, suffers from various behavioral control disorders, but is not mentally ill and understands his behavior. Their psychologists also say the postings help show he was not intellectually impaired when he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.
Assistant prosecutor Jeff Marcus told Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer that the prosecution plans only to use the evidence in rebuttal of the expected argument by the defense that Cruz suffers from mental illness and is intellectually impaired.
The disputed evidence presents “a full picture” of Cruz's personality and interests, he said.
"It is certainly not a pretty picture. It is a very ugly picture,” Marcus said.
Tamara Curtis, one of Cruz’s public defenders, told Scherer she will file her final argument in writing. In previous court filings and statements, the defense has contended that the prosecution's use of such evidence would only inflame the jurors' emotions during the trial, which is scheduled to begin July 18. They have said the swastikas, postings and searches have no relevance for showing the aggravating factors the prosecution must prove, such as the multiple deaths, Cruz's cruelty toward his victims and his planning.
Scherer said she will decide later if the evidence can be presented. Cruz pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder. The jury that was recently chosen during a nearly three-month process will decide whether he is executed or receives a sentence of life without parole. For Cruz to get the death penalty, the jury must be unanimous.
Much of Wednesday's hearing centered on what Cruz told psychologists that examined him after the shootings, as recently as March, along with his computer postings and searches. Cruz spent much of the hearing with his head down scribbling on paper, looking up occasionally to speak to one of his attorneys.
According to transcripts that were read, Cruz told psychologists in jailhouse examinations that a friend carved the swastikas on some gun magazines used during the attack, but he carved the Nazi symbol on the boots he wore. The friend was not involved in the attack or its planning.
Cruz also drew a swastika on a backpack he used when he was a student at Stoneman Douglas before his 2017 expulsion to get “negative attention or positive, either way,” he said. Also on that backpack, he wrote “666,” a number some Christians associate with the antichrist, and a racist term for Black people.
“I thought people would come up to me and ask me why I had so many weird symbols on my backpack and ask me if I need help,” he told one psychologist. “I would have been honest and told them I did, but no one ever did.” He also said he hoped someone would beat him up over the backpack, but that never happened, either.
Prosecution psychologist Michael Brannon testified that he believes Cruz was faking it when he told other psychologists after the shooting that a male voice called “Swas," short for swastika, told him to commit violence and that he had demons. He said Cruz only mentioned Swas and the demons to some examiners and wasn't consistent in his descriptions.
Prosecutors also had read pages of online postings and searches Cruz made before the shootings. There were dozens of searches for pornography, including for young children.
He gloated at the 2016 killing of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, using an anti-gay slur to describe the victims. He posted of his hatred of racial minorities, Christians, political liberals, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and animals, particularly alligators. Cruz also posted photographs of mutilated animals. He had a history of abusing animals but it is not clear whether these were his own photos or others.
Cruz also searched for how long it takes for police to respond to mass shootings. The school's on-campus deputy arrived at the building two minutes after the first shots were fired, but never went inside to confront him. The first off-campus officers charged into the building 11 minutes after Cruz opened fire, about four minutes after he had fled. He was arrested about an hour later as he walked through a neighborhood.
Cruz also threatened online to commit mass killings, including a targeted attack against Black people. There is no indication that Cruz targeted anyone for their race, politics or sexual orientation in the Stoneman Douglas shooting. | 2022-07-06T22:50:50+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/School-shooter-s-use-of-swastikas-is-focus-of-17288539.php |
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced a proposed underwritten public offering to sell up to $125 million of its common stock. In connection with the common stock offering, Novavax expects to grant to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $18.75 million of its common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
J.P. Morgan, Jefferies and Cowen are acting as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters for the common stock offering.
Concurrently with the offering of common stock, Novavax also announced an offering of $125 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2027 (the "notes") to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In connection with the notes offering, Novavax expects to grant to the initial purchasers a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $18.75 million aggregate principal amount of the notes. The common stock offering is not contingent upon the consummation of the concurrent offering of the notes, and the concurrent offering of the notes is not contingent upon the consummation of the common stock offering.
Novavax may use the net proceeds from the common stock offering and, if consummated, the concurrent offering of the notes, for general corporate purposes, including but not limited to the continued global commercial launch of Nuvaxovid, repayment or repurchase of a portion of the $325 million in outstanding principal amount of our 3.75% convertible senior unsecured notes due February 1, 2023, working capital, capital expenditures, research and development expenditures, clinical trial expenditures, repayments under our supply agreements, as well as acquisitions and other strategic purposes.
A registration statement relating to the common stock offering was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 11, 2020 and is effective. The common stock offering will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. Before investing in the common stock offering, purchasers should read the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of such public offering and the related registration statement and other documents Novavax has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Novavax and such public offering. These documents, when available, are free and can be found by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the common stock offering may be obtained, when available, from: J.P. Morgan, Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (866) 803-9204 or by email at prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at (877) 821-7388, or by email at prospectus_department@jefferies.com or Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (833) 297-2926, or by email at PostSaleManualRequests@broadridge.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities being offered, nor shall there be any sale of the securities being offered in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Novavax
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) is a biotechnology company that promotes improved health globally through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's proprietary recombinant technology platform harnesses the power and speed of genetic engineering to efficiently produce highly immunogenic nanoparticles designed to address urgent global health needs. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, has received authorization from multiple regulatory authorities globally, including the U.S. FDA, the European Commission, and the World Health Organization. The vaccine is currently under review by multiple regulatory agencies worldwide, including for additional indications and populations such as adolescents and as a booster. In addition to its COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax is also currently evaluating its COVID-19-Influenza Combination (CIC) vaccine candidate in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, its quadrivalent influenza investigational vaccine candidate, and an Omicron strain-based vaccine (NVX-CoV2515) as well as a bivalent format Omicron-based / original strain-based vaccine. These vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax' proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the ability of Novavax to successfully complete the offerings, the timing and terms of the proposed offerings, the estimated net proceeds of the proposed offerings and Novavax' anticipated use of proceeds. Novavax cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Applicable risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those related to whether or not Novavax will be able to consummate the potential offerings on the timelines or with the terms anticipated, if at all, and the possible adverse impact on the market price of the shares of its common stock. In addition, Novavax' management retains broad discretion with respect to the allocation of the net proceeds of the offerings. Applicable risks also include those that are listed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in Novavax' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and Novavax' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022, in addition to the risk factors that are included from time to time in Novavax' subsequent SEC filings. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this document, and Novavax undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of the statements. Novavax' business is subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including those referenced above. Investors, potential investors, and others should give careful consideration to these risks and uncertainties. All forward‐looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
Contacts:
Investors
Erika Schultz | 240-268-2022
ir@novavax.com
Media
Ali Chartan or Giovanna Chandler | 202-709-5563
media@novavax.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Novavax, Inc. | 2022-12-14T23:29:21+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/12/14/novavax-announces-proposed-125-million-public-offering-common-stock/ |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced legislation to remove half of the state's 4% sale tax on food, a proposal that has garnered wide bipartisan support among lawmakers this year.
The House Ways and Means Education Committee approved the tax cut as part of an appropriations package that also included a nearly $9 billion education trust fund budget, the creation of a new state savings account and a one-time tax rebate of $210 per tax person. The bills now move to the full House of Representatives.
Alabama is one of only three states that tax groceries at the same rate as other purchases. Removing the tax has been unsuccessfully proposed for decades in Montgomery, but has finally gained traction this year in the face of the budget surplus and soaring food prices. The proposed legislation would gradually remove the tax, provided there is enough growth in tax collections to offset the revenue loss, until the tax drops to 2%.
Proponents said reducing the tax would help Alabamians every time they walk in the grocery store.
“Untaxing groceries has long been at the top of the list to help regular, everyday working class folks who spend a disproportionate amount of our income on sales taxes like groceries,” Robyn Hyden of Alabama Arise, an organization that lobbies for policies benefiting low-income families, told the committee.
Almost every member of the Alabama Legislature is in support of the proposal. All 35 state senators and 100 of the 105 representatives have signed on as sponsors of the initial legislation.
But some groups, including the organization that lobbies for teachers and public school employees, expressed concern about a loss of revenue for the state education budget.
The 4% tax provides $608 million annually to the state, according to estimates from the Legislative Services Agency.
Allison King of the Alabama Education Association told the committee the state's budget surplus is temporary.
“AEA is not against cutting grocery taxes, but we are against cutting grocery taxes without an equally reliable funding source to replenish the lost revenue,” King said. King said while Alabama is one of the few states to fully tax groceries, most other states have higher property taxes or other revenue sources to fund education.
In the wake of a record education budget surplus, legislative leaders said, they are trying to strike a balance between spending, tax breaks and and saving.
The committee also approved an $8.8 billion education trust fund budget that includes a 2% pay raises for public K-12 education employees. The House committee on Wednesday also increased the amount of proposed one-time tax rebates. The committee approved rebates of $210 per taxpayer and $420 for married couples. That is double the size of the rebates approved by the Senate.
Lawmakers are also proposing to steer nearly $300 million to a new savings account called the Educational Opportunities Reserve Fund, which could be tapped during a revenue shortfall or to address education needs as they arise.
“All of this extraordinary revenue is going to run out eventually ... so having a little reserve, and extra places where we have put money away that that we could slide into those low points, is very, very wise,” said Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur.
Support local journalism reporting on your community
* New Subscribers Only
* Digital Subscription Only
After the initial selected subscription period your subscription rate will auto renew at $12.00 per month. | 2023-05-24T21:39:49+00:00 | timesdaily.com | https://www.timesdaily.com/news/state/alabama-house-committee-advances-bill-to-cut-half-of-states-4-sales-tax-on-groceries/article_b6f2f699-0708-51b0-b574-b8d2a9219788.html |
(WJHL) Tiffany Hickman shares her story of her first colonoscopy. She tells us about her experience and encourages others to get their colonoscopy when it’s time.
For more information please visit the Health Matters blog by clicking here.
(WJHL) Tiffany Hickman shares her story of her first colonoscopy. She tells us about her experience and encourages others to get their colonoscopy when it’s time.
For more information please visit the Health Matters blog by clicking here. | 2023-03-21T13:27:13+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/hmg-health-matters/hmg-health-matters-a-patients-story-of-a-colonoscopy/ |
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin appears to have lost her bid for a second term on Sunday, with her party headed for defeat by two conservative opponents in an extremely tight three-way race for control of parliament.
The center-right National Coalition Party claimed victory Sunday evening with around 97.7% of the votes counted, coming out on top at 20.7%. They were followed closely by right-wing populist party The Finns with 20.1%, while the Social Democrats garnered 19.9%.
With the top three parties each getting around 20% of the vote, no party is in position to form a government alone. Over 2,400 candidates from 22 parties were vying for the 200 seats in the Nordic country’s parliament.
“Based on this result, talks over forming a new government to Finland will be initiated under the leadership of the National Coalition Party,” said the party’s leader Petteri Orpo, as he claimed victory surrounded by supporters.
Marin, who at age 37 is one of Europe’s youngest leaders, has received praise for her Cabinet’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and for her prominent role, along with President Sauli Niinistö, in advocating for Finland’s successful application to join NATO. Her vocal support of Ukraine in the last year has increased her international visibility.
Marin remains popular at home but her party’s views on the Finnish economy, which emerged as the main campaign theme, were being challenged by conservatives.
Orpo had hammered on economic issues at a campaign event Saturday.
“The most important thing in the next government is to fix our economy, push economic growth, balance public economy. And the second very important issue is to build up NATO-Finland,” Orpo told The Associated Press in Espoo, just outside the capital.
The Finns leader Riikka Purra emphasized the populist party would focus on shaping policies regarding migration, climate, criminal and energy if it becomes a partner in the next government.
“We also want to tighten up our attitude towards the European Union,” Purra said during a campaign event in the municipality of Kirkkonummi, her home district located some 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of Helsinki.
After voting at Helsinki City Hall, university professor Mariana Seppänen said she thinks Marin’s positive reputation abroad exceeds the prime minister’s domestic popularity.
“I think usually the party that has been in charge and has the prime minister … loses the election, and the criticism has been very harsh,” Seppänen said. “But I think she (Marin) has a lot of support anyway.”
While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted Finland to seek NATO membership in May 2022, neither the historic decision to abandon the nation’s non-alignment policy nor the war have emerged as major campaign issues. Finland shares a long land border with Russia.
Apart from Finland’s economy, other issues the parties debated during the election campaign were the government’s increasing debt, climate change, education, immigration and social benefits.
”I know Sanna Marin is very popular, and she has done great, and most Finns also think that she has done an amazing job with the coronavirus,” another voter, Evelina Mäkelä, said in Helsinki.
“But maybe we have to look at the new crisis that we have; some of us still believe that she does a very good job. Other people want something new, apparently,” Mäkelä said.
Finland, which is expected to join NATO in the coming weeks, is a European Union member with a population of 5.5 million.
___
Kostya Manenkov and David Keyton in Helsinki contributed to this report. | 2023-04-02T20:56:16+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/world-news/finns-vote-in-tight-election-young-leader-seeks-reelection/ |
See how simple and tasty celebrations start in the Freezer and Dairy Aisles
HARRISBURG, Pa. , Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The countdown to the holidays is on. While kids are busy writing their wish lists, adults are crafting their holiday menus. And with a little planning and creativity, those meal plans won't turn your holiday spirit into holiday stress.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9001153-nfra-holiday-meals-2022
The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) wants to make this year your easiest and most delicious holiday season yet. With tasty recipes, time-saving tips and a host of cool, creative shortcuts from the Freezer and Dairy aisles, your holiday celebrations will be less stressful and more flavorful.
HOLIDAY STRESS-SAVERS
- Be Prepared: Stock your fridge and freezer with snacks, treats and more. From frozen fruit to pizza rolls and cheeses to yogurt, there's a variety of grab-and-go and heat-and-eat items that are perfect to have ready for hungry family and friends any time of the day.
- Keep It Easy: Cut out the prep with pre-cut frozen veggies! The Freezer and Dairy aisles are full of ready-to-use foods to ease your cooking stress. Plus, you'll waste less by using only what you need and putting the rest back in the freezer for the next time.
- Skip From-Scratch: Using frozen appetizers and desserts saves time and the hassle of cooking and baking everything yourself. Add a splash of fresh herbs, a savory sauce, a drizzle of chocolate or more, and they'll look (and taste) just like they're homemade.
- Find Inspo: Visit EasyHomeMeals.com or follow Easy Home Meals on Instagram for more creative, inspiring holiday meal, appetizer and dessert ideas.
FESTIVE SHORTCUTS
- Kick off your celebration with crowd-pleasing frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres – just add a festive sauce or dip
- Plain yogurt makes the perfect base to a number of holiday dips
- Frozen veggies and sides like riced cauliflower and broccoli are pre-washed and ready to steam in the bag – it doesn't get easier
- Kids will love using festive cookie cutters on ready-to-bake cookie dough
- Whipped cream on just about any dessert is the perfect way to end a delicious holiday meal
- Picky eaters might prefer frozen finger foods or heat-and-eat dishes like frozen chicken tenders and mac and cheese – look for veggie options for additional nutrients
The Freezer and Dairy aisles have you covered this holiday season. Head to your local grocery store and find all the simple, creative and delicious ways the cool aisles can make your next celebration less hectic and more fun. And don't miss a chance to win a gift for yourself in our Holiday Helpers Gift Card Giveaway – ending December 19th.
Visit EasyHomeMeals.com for more inspiration.
About National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA)
NFRA is a non-profit trade association representing all segments of the frozen and refrigerated foods industry. NFRA sponsors national promotions March Frozen Food Month, June Dairy Month and June/July Ice Cream & Novelties; and provides consumer information such as food safety guidelines, meal preparation tips, recipes and sweepstakes opportunities through its Easy Home Meals consumer website and social media properties.
View original content:
SOURCE National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association | 2022-12-16T17:13:29+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/12/16/gift-yourself-creative-cool-holiday/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — When Bill Lawrence was developing his new Apple TV+ comedy ”Shrinking,” he introduced one character in the pilot script as a “Harrison Ford-type” — but never dreamed he would get the real deal.
Although the showrunner has had comedy success working with big names and executive-producing hits like “Scrubs,” “Cougar Town” and “Ted Lasso,” nabbing a huge movie star like Ford seemed unrealistic. But he decided to take a shot and send Ford the script.
He was gobsmacked when the “Indiana Jones” actor liked the story and eventually agreed to play the part of a tough therapist who works with star Jason Segel in a mental health practice.
“If he had not shown up on set, I would not have been shocked,” Lawrence told the Associated Press in a recent interview. “But he showed up. He’s lovely, he’s inspiring. He’s 80 years old and still challenging himself.”
For “Shrinking” — which starts streaming Friday — Lawrence teamed with Segel and writer Brett Goldstein (also Roy Kent in “Ted Lasso” ) to help create and write the show. They had the lofty goal of making a comedy about grief, set it in an office shared by therapists and starring Segel, Ford, Jessica Williams, and Christa Miller.
Segel plays a character whose wife dies suddenly, leaving the father of a teen daughter lost and willing to ignore his ethics to start telling his patients what he really thinks. Ford’s character is a curmudgeonly colleague and mentor who delivers zingers with restrained glee.
Lawrence calls working with Ford a “career highlight,” and says there’s only one downside.
“Everybody’s terrified of … telling him to do anything,” Lawrence said with a laugh. “But he’s so much fun to work with. Every scene gets ruined — at least one take — by me or one of the actors in the middle of it going ‘It’s Harrison Ford!’ It’s crazy.”
Goldstein — who isn’t acting in this show but serves as another executive producer — describes Ford as “dream casting” and says they still don’t know how they got him.
“He really loved the scripts and related to a lot of the aspects of the character,” Goldstein said. “We talked to him a lot about character, and it was so easy that … I feel like I should have had to complete a series of Herculean tasks to get him, you know what I mean?”
Segel appreciated how Ford “breaks through the awe really quickly so that you can get down to work.”
“One of the things that’s really cool about Harrison Ford is that he considers himself a tradesman, like a craftsman. He was a carpenter and now he’s an actor,” Segel said. “His job is to come in and build these scenes and you’re his partner in that.”
Williams — who plays another therapist — shares witty banter with Ford in many scenes and says it was “surreal” to work with the acting legend she watched in movies as a kid. She says it took about a week to remain present and get used to his face staring at her.
“He is delightful, charming, nice, giving. And he’s magic to watch, honestly.” Williams said. “You just watch him do some takes and … he’s got the glimmer in his eye. He’s got the thing. And it’s really inspiring to see someone that’s like over 80 hitting his marks and staying so sharp while also, you know, really caring about the work.”
Goldstein agrees that Ford never made the cast feel like he needed special treatment.
“He’s as wonderful and amazing as ever,” Goldstein said. “But he’s also a very generous actor and he is part of this ensemble. It’s not like he takes over. He fits into this world. He plays the character, he disappears into it. He’s a brilliant actor.”
Williams says working on the show was fun because of the cast chemistry, and the license to ad lib at times to make scenes funnier felt “very fulfilling.”
One of the secrets to a successful show, especially in comedy — according to Lawrence — is if the cast gets along and is friendly, even outside of the show: “We try to put together groups of people that have similar voices and that interact really well,” Lawrence said.
“If you see a lack of chemistry behind the camera, even when the cameras aren’t rolling,” he said, “if it’s a show about a family or a dysfunctional family or people who are supposed to care about each other, it won’t work.” | 2023-01-28T00:07:17+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-harrison-ford-inspires-cast-in-new-comedy-shrinking/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading national fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) alleging the utility company is responsible for the Mosquito Fire, which was ignited by its poorly maintained utility infrastructure.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, claims PG&E is responsible for the destruction and/or damage of the plaintiffs' personal property, cherished possessions, major out-of-pocket expenses, mental anguish, medical bills, loss of business income incurred as result of the fire and much more.
The complaint was filed on behalf of a multitude of individuals who owned property and/or lived in the impacted areas near counties of El Dorado and Placer in California. Their homes, businesses and in most cases, lives were literally and figuratively burned to the ground by the Mosquito Fire. The fire, considered the largest wildfire this year, blazed through 76,000+ acres destroying more than 78 structures and damaging another 28 structures in the local community.
"The damage done to several counties by PG&E was entirely avoidable with their knowledge and expertise as electrical service providers" said Gerald Singleton, Managing Partner of Singleton Schreiber. "PG&E continues to act negligently and has been responsible for more than 1,500 fires across the states leading to deaths, property destruction, financial burdens, and ruined lives because of their poorly maintained utility equipment. The utility company continues to put profit over safety in the countless fires they have caused or been associated with."
The financial impact has not yet been reported but will likely be significant due to the number of acres that have been charred and recklessly ruined, forever changing the communities and lives of those affected.
This case is Plaintiffs v. PG&E Corporation, County of San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. CGC-22-601908. To read the complaint, click here.
About Singleton Schreiber
With more than 120 employees and offices throughout the western United States, Gerald Singleton and his team have represented more than 13,000 victims of utility fires and has recovered over $2 billion in settlements and verdicts for its clients. The firm currently represents thousands of victims of the numerous fires in California, Oregon and New Mexico. For more information, please visit https://singletonschreiber.com/mosquito-fire-lawsuit/.
Media Contact
Joe Marchelewski – jmarchelewski@gmail.com
View original content:
SOURCE Singleton Schreiber | 2022-09-23T21:32:17+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/23/lawsuit-filed-against-pgampe-alleges-utility-company-responsible-mosquito-fire/ |
ARLINGTON, Texas, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wendy Robinson felt nauseated. Suddenly, tingling pain radiated along her left arm. Far from being a charm, Robinson knew that for the third time her life was in jeopardy. She sought treatment at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital and Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth for spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD.
It was 2018, and Robinson was having her third SCAD event. Her first incident happened in 2012. She was just 42. The second time happened in 2016.
Understanding recurring SCAD
"Mrs. Robinson's condition is quite serious, because it can happen more than once, and it has," said Joseph Ortenberg, M.D., a cardiologist on the Texas Health Fort Worth medical staff and with Texas Health Heart and Vascular Specialists, a Texas Health Physicians Group practice*.
For a while, Robinson thought she was in the clear. Then SCAD struck again in 2022 — for the fourth time.
Benefiting from cardiac rehabilitation
Robinson found support through cardiac rehabilitation at Texas Health Arlington Memorial.
"Medical studies determined that cardiac rehabilitation decreases the chances of death following a cardiac event by about 25%," said Brenda Doughty, M.B.A., R.N.-B.C., CVRN-BC, Texas Health Arlington Memorial cardiac rehabilitation manager.
Receiving immediate, quality cardiovascular care
Ortenberg emphasizes another key component for addressing SCAD.
"Medical care, particularly from a cardiologist, is important," he said. "Paying attention to new symptoms, especially severe ones, is imperative to help reduce the risk of complications."
"I'm so glad I didn't brush off my symptoms either," Robinson said. "I listened to my body, got it checked out, received phenomenal care and met some wonderful people along the way."
Learn more here (https://www.texashealth.org/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/SCAD-Survivor-Shares-Constant-Battle-Against-Severe-Heart-Condition).
*Providers employed by Texas Health Physicians Group are not employees or agents of Texas Health Resources hospitals.
About Texas Health Resources:
Texas Health Resources is a faith-based, nonprofit health system that cares for more patients in North Texas than any other provider. With a service area that consists of 16 counties and more than 7 million people, the system is committed to providing quality, coordinated care through its Texas Health Physicians Group and 29 hospital locations. The system has more than 4,100 licensed hospital beds, 6,400 physicians with active staff privileges and more than 28,000 employees.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Texas Health Resources | 2023-03-09T17:43:09+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2023/03/09/scad-survivor-finds-support-treatment-with-texas-health-resources/ |
Maury Wills, base-stealing shortstop for Dodgers, dies at 89
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, has died. He was 89.
Wills died Monday night at home in Sedona, Arizona, the team said Tuesday after being informed by family members. No cause of death was given.
Wills played on World Series title teams in 1959, ‘63 and ‘65 during his first eight seasons with the Dodgers. He also played for Pittsburgh and Montreal before returning to the Dodgers from 1969-72, when he retired.
During his 14-year career, Wills batted .281 with 2,134 hits and 586 stolen bases in 1,942 games.
Wills broke Ty Cobb’s single-season record for stolen bases with his 97th swipe on Sept. 23, 1962. That season he became the first player to steal more than 100 bases.
The Dodgers will wear a patch in memory of Wills for the rest of this season.
“Maury Wills was one of the most exciting Dodgers of all time,” team president and CEO Stan Kasten said. “He changed baseball with his base-running and made the stolen base an important part of the game. He was very instrumental in the success of the Dodgers with three world championships.”
Wills had an ill-fated stint managing the Seattle Mariners from 1980-81, going 26-56 with a winning percentage of .317.
He was the National League Most Valuable Player in 1962, the same year he was MVP of the All-Star Game played in his hometown of Washington, D.C.
Wills stayed at home with his family instead of at the team hotel for the All-Star Game. He arrived at the ballpark carrying a Dodgers bag and wearing a Dodgers shirt. However, the security guard wouldn’t let him in, saying he was too small to be a ballplayer.
Wills suggested the guard escort him to the NL clubhouse door, where he would wait while the guard asked the players to confirm his identity.
“So we walk down there and baseball players have a sick sense of humor, because when I stood in front of the door, with my Dodger shirt and duffel bag, and the man opened the door and said, ‘Anybody in here know this boy?’ and they all looked at me and said, ‘Never saw him before,” Wills told The Washington Post in 2015.
After the game, Wills left with his MVP trophy and showed it to the guard.
“He still didn’t believe me, he thought maybe I was carrying it for somebody,” Wills told the Post.
Wills led the NL in stolen bases from 1960-65, was a seven-time All-Star selection and won Gold Glove Awards in 1961 and ‘62.
He was credited with reviving the stolen base as a strategy. His speed made him a constant threat on the basepaths and he distracted pitchers even if he didn’t try to steal. He carefully studied pitchers and their pickoff moves when he wasn’t on base. When a pitcher’s throw drove him back to the bag, he became even more determined to steal.
Once, in a game against the New York Mets, Wills was on first base when pitcher Roger Craig threw 12 straight times to the bag. On Craig’s next throw, Wills stole second.
By age 32, Wills was bandaging his legs before games because of the punishment of sliding.
After retiring with the Dodgers in 1972, Wills worked an analyst at NBC for five years. He also managed winter ball in the Mexican Pacific League, winning a league championship in 1970-71.
Wills’ tenure managing the Mariners was largely regarded as a disaster and he was criticized for his lack of managerial experience. It was evident in the numerous gaffes he committed, including calling for a relief pitcher when nobody was warming up in the bullpen and holding up a game for several minutes while looking for a pinch hitter.
Wills’ biggest mistake came on April 25, 1981, when he ordered the Mariners’ ground crew to extend the batter’s box a foot longer toward the mound than regulation allowed. Oakland manager Billy Martin noticed and asked home plate umpire Bill Kunkel to investigate.
Kunkel questioned the head groundskeeper, who admitted Wills had ordered the change. Wills said it was to help his players stay in the box. However, Martin suspected it was to give the Mariners an advantage against Oakland’s breaking-ball pitchers. Wills was suspended for two games by the American League and fined $500.
Wills led the Mariners to a 20-38 record to end the 1980 season, and he was fired on May 6, 1981, when the team was mired in last place at 6-18. Years later, Wills admitted he probably should have gotten more experience as a minor league manager before being hired in the big leagues.
Wills struggled with addictions to alcohol and cocaine until getting sober in 1989. He credited Dodgers pitching great Don Newcombe, who overcame his own alcohol problems, with helping him. Newcombe died in 2019.
“I’m standing here with the man who saved my life,” Wills said of Newcombe. “He was a channel for God’s love for me because he chased me all over Los Angeles trying to help me and I just couldn’t understand that. But he persevered, he wouldn’t give in and my life is wonderful today because of Don Newcombe.”
Born Maurice Morning Wills in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 1932, he was a three-sport standout at Cardozo Senior High. He earned All-City honors as a quarterback in football, in basketball and as a pitcher in baseball when he was nicknamed Sonny.
In 1948, he played on the school’s undefeated football team, which never gave up any points. On the mound, Wills threw a one-hitter and struck out 17 in a game in 1950. The school’s baseball field is named in his honor.
Wills has his own museum in Fargo, North Dakota, where he was a coach and instructor for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks from 1996-97.
He is survived by wife Carla, and children Barry, Micki, Bump, Anita, Susan Quam and Wendi Jo Wills. Bump was a former major league second baseman who played for Texas and the Chicago Cubs.
___
More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-20T18:26:05+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/09/20/maury-wills-base-stealing-shortstop-dodgers-dies-89/ |
Alabama man found dead in cell after attack at St. Clair Correctional
Alex Gladden
Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama prison officers have opened a homicide investigation after finding a 37-year-old man dead in his cell Monday after an attack by another inmate at St. Clair Correctional Facility.
Jamal Adarius McCain was killed, the Alabama Department of Corrections said in a news release. ADOC's Law Enforcement Services Division is investigating McCain's death. A suspect has been identified, officials said.
More: Prisoner killed by fellow prisoner'Inmate on inmate assault' leaves man dead at Elmore prison in Alabama
Alex Gladden is the Montgomery Advertiser's public safety reporter. She can be reached at agladden@gannett.com or on Twitter @gladlyalex. | 2023-05-18T16:19:01+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/18/alabama-man-found-dead-in-cell-after-attack-at-st-clair-correctional/70231658007/ |
Thursday, January 5th 2023, 12:07 pm
Tulsa fire crews are looking into the cause of a fire at a homeless encampment. Firefighters were on the scene along Main Street just north of the Cain's Ballroom. Firefighters say no injuries were reported.
January 5th, 2023
January 6th, 2023
January 5th, 2023
January 5th, 2023
January 6th, 2023
January 6th, 2023
January 6th, 2023
January 6th, 2023 | 2023-01-06T15:32:27+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/63b7171447801007a9ee2635/tulsa-firefighters-put-out-fire-at-homeless-encampment |
Flasher Freshmen shares act of kindness at a 4-H contest
FLASHER, N.D. (KFYR) - After a tragedy, community members often step up to spread kindness. When Gentry Schmidt, a freshman at Flasher Public High School, heard about the tragic death of six-year-old Mabel Askay during the Mandan 4th of July Parade, she knew she wanted to help.
This is one of Gentry’s beloved animals that she uses for 4-H competitions.
“Well, my siblings have been doing it since I was little. I’ve been in it since I was five. I’ve been showing beef for four years and sheep for five, so I’ve just grown up around it, and I’ve always liked being around animals,” said Schmidt.
Gentry was inspired to think of others during her 4-H contest and what she could do with her winnings.
“Well, my older sister works at DK Orthodontist, and I saw how big of an impact it had on her, and I couldn’t imagine the family, so I wanted to help them as much as possible and in any way.
Her love for animals and 4-H became a perfect option for her to spread kindness.
“It’s not a big toll on me, but I feel good about it. I think it’s something good to do,” said Schmidt.
Gentry says if there’s one good thing people could take away from her good deed, it’s kindness.
“Have more kindness in the world. We need it,” said Schmidt.
After Gentry finishes the Morton County Fair this weekend, she will donate all of her winnings to Mabel’s family.
Gentry’s family owns and operates a ranch in Flasher, North Dakota, where she gets to take care of the six animals she is showing for 4-H this year.
Copyright 2022 KFYR. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-05T20:44:02+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/08/05/flasher-freshmen-shares-act-kindness-4-h-contest/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OnActuate, a technology consulting firm specializing in digital transformations, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and inviting others to join the company and experience the true people-first approach that has contributed to its success.
In 2022, OnActuate was certified as a Great Place to Work®. Its culturally diverse and geographically dispersed team is comprised of 100+ employees who work remotely from Canada, the U.S. and India.
- 50% of the leadership team are people of colour
- 40% of the leadership team identify as women
- Team members hail from 7 countries and speak 21 different languages
- Its Global Cohort program fosters emerging talent by teaching young professionals the fundamentals of the tech industry
However, it's not all about the numbers. "Diversity, equity, and inclusion must go beyond just checking a box and filling a seat at the table. We have to constantly work towards removing our unconscious biases. We must create an internal culture that fosters a safe, secure environment and ensures that team members feel whole and respected," said Sharan Oberoi, Founder and CEO. "OnActuate started with very humble beginnings and has grown into a global firm serving some of the world's Fortune 100 brands. This was only possible through our focus on truly putting people first. This means providing all team members with a sense of belonging and joy to create the best outcomes. By centering on people, we have built a culture of trust and respect."
In 2019, OnActuate's entrepreneurial achievements were recognized when it was named in The Globe and Mail's Top Growing Companies. During its 10 years in business, OnActuate has worked with organizations of all sizes, including the City of Columbus, Coca Cola, State of Washington, McDonald's, Volvo and more.
"Our people are what makes OnActuate so great," said Alyssa Morrell, Global People and Culture Lead. "Our strength comes from our diversity. The global nature of our team provides a diversity in thought that means we excel at creating innovative solutions for our customers."
Last year OnActuate realized it had less than 10% women representation in middle management, despite 40% representation in leadership positions and entry-level positions. In response, it initiated a Women in Leadership program to mentor aspiring leaders.
"We continually work to coach our team members on fostering their skills. This will not only make a positive impact on our organization but on the entire tech ecosystem. I'm excited for what the future has in store for us for the next decade and beyond," said Marnie Larson, VP-HCM Practice.
OnActuate is a global technology and consulting firm, Microsoft Certified Partner and a Cloud Solution Provider. OnActuate's unmatched, tailored business and data solutions, coupled with its experienced global team's collaborative approach, has helped many public and private sector organizations reimagine their business in the digital age. www.onactuate.com
Contact:
Delaney Freer-Sanford
+1 866 246 2568
media@onactuate.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE OnActuate Consulting, Inc. | 2023-01-04T16:24:25+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/01/04/onactuate-celebrates-10-years-diversity-equity-inclusion-by-truly-putting-people-first/ |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 4, 2022
_____
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
303 PM EDT Thu Aug 4 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern Broome,
southeastern Tioga, western Susquehanna, eastern Bradford and western
Wyoming Counties through 345 PM EDT...
At 303 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Warren Center to near Overton. Movement
was east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Conklin, Rush, Towanda, West Franklin, Wysox, Montrose, Sheshequin,
Ulster, Litchfield and Wilmot.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Heavy rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 4140 7627 4154 7622 4158 7670 4202 7641
4204 7570 4138 7620
TIME...MOT...LOC 1903Z 271DEG 23KT 4193 7623 4152 7654
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-08-04T19:42:08+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BINGHAMTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17351920.php |
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy deflected credit when he reached a career milestone.
Spencer Sanders passed for a career-high 406 yards and accounted for six touchdowns and No. 12 Oklahoma State beat Central Michigan 58-44 on Thursday night to give Gundy his 150th coaching victory.
Gundy improved to 150-69 in his 18th season coaching his alma mater.
“Cool deal,” he said. “Like I told the team, it takes a lot of really, really quality people and good young men for a guy to stay in one place long enough to win 150 games. I’m just lucky enough to be along for the ride.”
Sanders matched a career high with four touchdown passes and set a career mark with two rushing scores in the opener for both teams.
“Knock on wood, he’s really good,” Gundy said. “He understands our concepts. He understands second nature where to go with the ball. And it’s a big advantage for us.”
Braydon Johnson had career highs of six catches for 133 yards and Brennan Presley added five catches for 83 yards.
Daniel Richardson passed for a career-high 424 yards and threw four touchdown passes for Central Michigan. Lew Nichols III, the nation’s leading rusher last year, ran for 72 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries.
Sanders passed for 313 yards and three touchdowns in the first half and ran for two more scores to help the Cowboys take a 44-15 lead.
The Cowboys led 51-15 less than a minute into the third quarter before Central Michigan climbed back into the game. Jalen McGaughy’s 54-yard touchdown pass from Richardson cut it to 58-44 with 3:15 remaining. McGaughy had six catches for 126 yards and two scores.
“As I said from the beginning, I really like our football team,” Central Michigan coach Jim McElwain said. “We’re going to win a lot of games. And those kids are going to learn from this video and we’re going to get a little bit better.”
Central Michigan outscored Oklahoma State 29-14 in the second half and outgained the Cowboys 281 yards to 138 after the break.
“It’s credit to those kids,” McElwain said. “Since we’ve been here and started to establish the program, there’s a certain mentality it takes to be a Chippewa. And these guys have started to understand a little bit what that is.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Central Michigan: The Chippewas came in with high hopes after going 9-4 last season and beating Washington State in the Sun Bowl. But Sanders was too much for them early, and they couldn’t get their running game going well enough to control the clock and slow his rhythm.
Oklahoma State: The defense carried much of the load last season, but the offense put up 531 total yards on Thursday, mostly in the first half. The running game still could use some work, though. The Cowboys had just 45 yards on 20 carries in the second half and struggled to put the game away.
“We were very effective playing fast,” Gundy said. “And one thing that works against us a little bit is once you get ahead … obviously, you don’t want to play fast. So then you slow down, and we’re probably not as good at that as we are playing fast. But I was pleased with our ability to play fast and make plays in space.”
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Oklahoma State could get penalized for being sluggish in the second half, depending on what else happens in the upcoming days.
GUNNAR PLAYS
Redshirt freshman Gunnar Gundy, Mike Gundy’s son, got action in the opener for the Cowboys. He did not attempt a pass, but he carried once for five yards.
The younger Gundy, a walk-on, has risen to No. 2 on the depth chart.
“This is a big deal … Everybody wants to see their kids do good and get out there,” coach Gundy said. “I was proud of him.”
NICHOLS SLOWED
Nichols rushed for 1,848 yards last season and ran for at least 100 yards his final eight games. His streak ended as he averaged just 2.8 yards per carry on Thursday.
QUOTABLE
McElwain joking about Bullet, the horse that runs onto the field after Oklahoma State’s touchdowns: “When they scored 30 in a row, I was probably more concerned with that damn horse cramping up that kept running around the end zone there.”
UP NEXT
Central Michigan: Hosts South Alabama on Saturday, Sept. 10.
Oklahoma State: Hosts Arizona State on Saturday, Sept. 10.
___
Follow Cliff Brunt on Twitter: twitter.com/CliffBruntAP
___
More AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/ap_top25. Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://bit.ly/3pqZVaF | 2022-09-02T21:28:45+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-sanders-helps-no-12-oklahoma-state-beat-central-michigan/ |
IRS to refund penalties for millions of taxpayers who filed late amid pandemic
(Gray News) - The Internal Revenue Service announced that it would be helping struggling taxpayers affected by the pandemic by sending select refunds to those who filed their taxes late.
On Wednesday, the IRS issued a notice that would provide penalty relief to most people and businesses who filed certain 2019 or 2020 returns late.
The agency said the relief applies to the failure to file penalty – a penalty that is typically assessed at a rate of 5% per month and up to 25% of the unpaid tax when a federal income tax return is filed after Tax Day.
“The penalty relief issued is yet another way the agency is supporting people during this unprecedented time. This penalty relief will be automatic for people or businesses who qualify,” said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig.
According to the IRS, the notice covers $1.2 billion in penalties for more than 1.6 million taxpayers.
The IRS said to qualify for late-penalty forgiveness, individual tax returns for 2019 or 2020 must be filed by Sept. 30, with taxpayers who already paid a fine automatically receiving the refund.
Most eligible taxpayers will receive their refunds by the end of September.
The IRS notice is also waiving specific late penalties for businesses and individuals who were required to report various international information returns.
According to the agency, these changes will help with the backlog of unprocessed tax returns as it looks to return to normal operations for the 2023 filing season.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-24T23:10:27+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/08/24/irs-refund-penalties-millions-taxpayers-who-filed-late-amid-pandemic/ |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division, about the union's ongoing contract negotiations.
Copyright 2022 NPR
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division, about the union's ongoing contract negotiations.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-11-29T23:35:10+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2022-11-29/rail-workers-are-demanding-better-work-conditions-and-a-strike-could-be-imminent |
The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) series “Love & Marriage: Detroit” continues on Saturday, July 15 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT with a new episode.
Those without cable can watch the new episode for free through Philo, FuboTV or DirecTV Stream, each of which offer a free trial to new users.
“‘Love and Marriage: Detroit’ follows a group of gorgeous and layered couples who are already wealthy, but still on the hustle to continue to grow their wealth, give back to their community and to continue to restore Detroit to its previous luster,” OWN said in a description of the series.
The series stars Russell and Kolby Harris, Brandon and Kristina Bowman Smith, and Anthony and Dr. LaToya Thompson, according to Warner Bros. Discovery.
The new episode is titled “Skating on Thin Ice,” and in a description FuboTV said “A group of Black families with deep ties to Detroit have decided to stay in the city and prove they can provide the best lives possible for their families.”
You can a scene from the new series below or by clicking here to watch on OWN’s YouTube channel.
How can I watch “Love & Marriage: Detroit” for free without cable?
The new episode is available to watch on Philo, FuboTV or DirecTV, each of which offer free trials to new users.
What is Philo?
Philo is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers 60+ entertainment and lifestyle channels, like AMC, BET, MTV, Comedy Central and more, for the budget-friendly price of $25/month.
What is FuboTV?
FuboTV is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers more than 100 channels, such as sports, news, entertainment and local channels.
What is DirecTV?
The streaming platform offers a plethora of content including streaming the best of live and On Demand, starting with more than 75 live TV channels. DirecTV also offers a free trial for any package you sign up. | 2023-07-16T00:30:12+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/tv/2023/07/how-to-watch-owns-love-marriage-detroit-july-15-episode-for-free.html |
White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.
After a three-month hiatus, the administration is making four rapid virus tests available through covidtests.gov starting Thursday, a senior administration official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the program. COVID-19 cases have shown a marked increase after the Thanksgiving holiday, and further increases are projected from indoor gathering and travel around Christmas and New Year’s.
The administration is putting personnel and equipment on standby should they be needed to help overwhelmed hospitals and nursing homes, as was necessary in earlier waves of the virus. So far, there have been no requests for assistance, but surge teams, ventilators and personal protective equipment are ready, the official said.
The Biden administration is also urging states and local governments to do more to encourage people to get the updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccines, which scientists say are more effective at protecting against serious illness and death from the currently circulating variants. The administration is reiterating best practices to nursing homes and long-term care facilities for virus prevention and treatment and is urging administrators as well as governments to encourage vulnerable populations to get the new shots.
The planning comes as the administration has struggled to persuade most Americans to get the updated boosters as cases and deaths have declined from pandemic highs and most people have embraced a return to most of their pre-pandemic activities.
The official said funding for the new tests has been reallocated from other virus programs while the White House struggles to get congressional buy-in for additional COVID-19 emergency funding. The official declined to detail how much is being spent on the new tests or from which programs they were diverted.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-15T13:04:23+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/12/15/white-house-reveals-winter-covid-19-plans-more-free-tests/ |
BEIJING, Oct. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the guidance of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China will build on its achievements and keep up the momentum towards its Second Centenary Goal of building a "great modern socialist country" that is "prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful."
The CPC vowed to lead the Chinese people in achieving the goal and advancing the course of the great rejuvenation of the nation, as the week-long congress concluded on Saturday in Beijing.
China's modernization under CPC leadership
The central task of the CPC is leading the Chinese people to realize the Second Centenary Goal through "a Chinese path to modernization," according to the report delivered at the opening session of the congress.
Chinese modernization is the socialist modernization pursued under the leadership of the CPC, said the report.
At the closing session presided over by Xi Jinping, the 20th CPC Central Committee and the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) were elected.
A resolution endorsing the report of the 19th CPC Central Committee and a resolution on the work report of the 19th CPC CCDI were also adopted.
The 20th CPC National Congress also passed a resolution on an amendment to the CPC Constitution.
It was stressed at the closing session that the CPC has a pivotal role in building China into a modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts.
The congress agreed to add to the Party Constitution statements on the Party being the highest force for political leadership and on upholding and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party.
China's modernization carries global significance
China's visions and experience on state governance summed up at the congress could offer inspirations for other parts of the world.
When illustrating the features of China's modernization, Xi noted in his report to the congress that the country's modernization benefits a large population. It features common prosperity, coordinated material and cultural-ethical progress, harmony between humanity and nature, and peaceful development.
Chinese modernization is the modernization of a huge population, of common prosperity for all, of material and cultural-ethical advancement, of harmony between humanity and nature and of peaceful development, he stressed, adding that it offers humanity "a new choice" for achieving modernization.
In its two-step strategic plan, the CPC aims to basically realize socialist modernization from 2020 through 2035 and build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful from 2035 through the middle of this century.
According to the adopted resolution on the report of the 19th CPC Central Committee, China has always been committed to its foreign policy goals of upholding world peace and promoting common development, and it is dedicated to promoting a community with a shared future for mankind.
China adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in pursuing friendship and cooperation with other countries, said the resolution.
"It is committed to its fundamental national policy of opening to the outside world and pursues a mutually beneficial strategy of opening-up."
View original content:
SOURCE CGTN | 2022-10-23T06:25:41+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/10/22/cgtn-cpc-national-congress-chinas-modernization-injects-confidence-into-worlds-prosperity/ |
Sen. Tim Scott makes it official: He’s a Republican candidate for president
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president.
Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his intention to seek his party’s nomination in 2024. His candidacy will test whether a more optimistic vision of America’s future can resonate with GOP voters who have elevated partisan brawlers in recent years.
The deeply religious 57-year-old former insurance broker has made his grandfather’s work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity. Yet he rejects the notion that racism remains a powerful force in society, and he has cast his candidacy and rise from generational poverty as the realization of a dream only possible in America.
Scott, who last month formed an exploratory committee allowing him to raise and spend money while weighing a White House campaign, has scheduled a formal announcement on Monday at Charleston Southern University, a private Baptist college and Scott’s alma mater, in his hometown of North Charleston.
Scott already has scheduled TV ads to begin airing in the early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire early next week, the most significant advertising expenditure by a potential or declared candidate in the early stages of the 2024 nominating campaign.
Scott tries to focus on hopeful themes and avoid divisive language to distinguish himself from the grievance-based politics favored by those leading the GOP field, such as former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who hasn’t yet entered the race but is expected to do so soon.
The senator refuses to frame his own life story around the country’s racial inequities. He insists that those who disagree with his views on the issue are trying to “weaponize race to divide us,” and that “the truth of my life disproves their lies.”
During a February visit to Iowa, which holds the first GOP presidential caucuses, Scott spoke of a “new American sunrise” rooted in collaboration.
“I see a future where common sense has rebuilt common ground, where we’ve created real unity, not by compromising away our conservatism, but by winning converts to our conservatism,” he said.
But Scott has his limits. During that same trip, he railed against political correctness in much the same fashion as Trump and DeSantis.
“If you wanted a blueprint to ruin America, you’d keep doing exactly what Joe Biden has let the far left do to our country for the past two years,” he said. “Tell every white kid they’re oppressors. Tell Black and brown kids their destiny is grievance, not greatness.”
Scott speaks often about his hardscrabble roots. He was raised by a single mother who worked long hours as a nurse’s assistant to provide for him and his brother after her divorce from their father. Scott, who describes himself as a lackluster student, graduated from Charleston Southern University with a political science degree before opening an insurance business.
Scott’s faith is an integral part of his political and personal story. Describing himself as a “born-again believer,” Scott often quotes Scripture at campaign events, weaving his reliance on spiritual guidance into his stump speech and using “Faith in America” to describe his series of political appearances before joining the race.
On many issues, Scott aligns with mainstream GOP positions. He wants to reduce government spending and restrict abortion, saying he would sign a federal law to prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy if elected president.
But Scott has pushed the party on some policing overhaul measures since the killing of George Floyd, and he has occasionally criticized Trump’s response to racial tensions. Scott called it “indefensible” after Trump retweeted a post — that he later deleted — containing a racist slogan associated with white supremacists.
In the days that followed Trump’s widely criticized response to a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Scott said Trump’s moral authority had been compromised and that without some introspection, “it will be hard for him to regain … moral authority.”
Throughout their disagreements, though, Scott has maintained a generally cordial relationship with Trump, saying in his book that the former president “listened intently” to his viewpoints on race-related issues.
A potentially more awkward rival for Scott will be Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley who helped fuel Scott’s political rise when she was South Carolina’s governor and appointed him to the Senate in 2012.
In filing the seat that had been held by Republican Jim DeMint, Scott became the first Black senator from the South since just after the Civil War. In a 2014 special election to serve out the remainder of his term, Scott became the first Black candidate to win a statewide race in South Carolina since the Reconstruction era.
He easily won reelection last year and said his current term, which runs through 2029, would be his last.
As a senator, he has been a go-to Republican voice on issues including policing and was the GOP’s chief negotiator on legislation that ultimately stalled in 2021. He has also spoken on the Senate floor about his personal experiences as a Black man in America.
“I have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness and the humiliation that comes with feeling like you’re being targeted for nothing more than just being yourself,” Scott said in 2016, recounting how he was pulled over seven times in a year. He was once stopped by a U.S. Capitol Police officer who recognized the Senate lapel pin that Scott was wearing — but did not recognize Scott.
Scott rejects the notion that the country is inherently racist and has repudiated the teaching of critical race theory, an academic framework that presents the idea that the nation’s institutions maintain the dominance of white people.
“Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” Scott said. “It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.”
Scott believes parents should have more oversight over what their kids learn in public schools about race, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Scott has twice addressed the Republican National Convention — in 2012 as a first-term congressman and in 2020 as a senator. At the last GOP convention, he praised Trump for building “the most inclusive economy ever” and for supporting funding for historically Black colleges and universities.
After Biden’s White House victory, Scott was tapped to give the GOP response to the new president’s first address to Congress.
Others in the GOP 2024 race include entrepreneur and “Woke, Inc.” author Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and radio show host Larry Elder. DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are among those who are expected to announce campaigns soon.
If Scott is successful, he would be the first Black person to win the Republican presidential nomination and the second elected to the presidency, following Barack Obama in 2008.
Scott frequently mentions that his family made it “from cotton to Congress in one lifetime” — a reference to his grandfather who left grade school to pick cotton in the Deep South.
___
Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
___
Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-05-19T16:36:34+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/top-news/sen-tim-scott-makes-it-official-hes-a-republican-candidate-for-president/ |
The combination of Deltek + TIP Technologies will accelerate Deltek's capabilities for aerospace & defense and engineer to order manufacturers
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses, announced that it has completed its acquisition of TIP Technologies – the leading provider of quality, compliance and manufacturing execution solutions for the highly regulated aerospace and defense (A&D) and government contracting industry. The agreement to acquire TIP Technologies was announced on Thursday, July 14.
With this acquisition, Deltek will add quality management system (QMS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities to its portfolio of ERP and manufacturing solutions for government contractors, aerospace & defense (A&D) and Engineer to Order (E2O) firms. For decades, Deltek has offered award-winning solutions to government contractors of all sizes. With the combination of Deltek + TIP Technologies, the company will provide the most comprehensive solutions for government contractors and in particular, aerospace & defense and engineer to order firms.
"Joining forces with Deltek is a strategic milestone for TIP Technologies and we look forward to seeing how our businesses and solutions can progress together," said Mike Miller, founder and CEO of TIP Technologies. "We are thrilled to now be a part of Deltek and I want to thank all our TIP Technologies employees and all the parties involved that helped us complete this acquisition."
"Having already partnered with TIP Technologies for years, we are confident that the team's knowledge and strength in complex manufacturing is the perfect complement to Deltek's government contracting solutions. Together with TIP Technologies, we now offer the most complete integrated ERP, QMS and MES solutions for government contractors to meet strict federal government compliance requirements. We are thrilled to begin this journey together with the TIP Technologies team," said Mike Corkery, President and CEO at Deltek. "While Deltek is excited to add TIP Technologies to its existing portfolio of purpose-built solutions for government contractors, we do remain committed to supporting the needs of the A&D firms using third party ERP solutions."
Deltek + TIP Technologies will be highlighted in sessions and demos this November at Deltek's annual user conference, Deltek ProjectCon. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the solution and can also meet one-on-one with experts. Find out more about Deltek ProjectCon or read more about Deltek + TIP Technologies on Deltek.com.
About Deltek
Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organizations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management, and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximizes productivity and revenue. www.deltek.com
About TIP Technologies
Founded in 1989, TIP Technologies was one of the first to provide integrated quality assurance software using a commercial, off-the-shelf strategy. Now a recognized leader in the industry, TIP Technologies continues to develop highly respected software that is used by some of the world's largest corporations. For more information: www.tiptech.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Deltek | 2022-09-26T14:58:57+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/26/deltek-completes-its-acquisition-tip-technologies/ |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An appliance delivery man was convicted Wednesday of beating a 75-year-old woman to death and setting her on fire at her Florida home.
A Palm Beach County circuit judge convicted Jorge Dupre Lachazo, 24, of first-degree murder, burglary and arson following a three-day bench trial, according to court records. He faces a mandatory life sentence at an April 5 hearing.
Dupre Lachazo and another man delivered a washer and dryer purchased from Best Buy to Evelyn Smith Udell’s Boca Raton home in August 2019, officials said. After installing the appliances, the other man went outside and reported hearing screams minutes later. He found the victim on the floor and called 911. Dupre Lachazo drove off in the delivery truck but was later stopped by a responding officer, investigators said.
Police found a rubber mallet used in the attack and a can of paint thinner used to start the fire next to Udell’s body. Prosecutors said both had Dupre Lachazo’s fingerprints on them. Investigators also found that the woman’s wallet had been disturbed, suggesting theft as a motive for the attack.
Defense attorneys didn’t deny that Dupre Lachazo attacked the older woman but argued the slaying wasn’t premeditated or intentional.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | 2023-01-26T17:07:30+00:00 | wsvn.com | https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/hialeah-delivery-driver-guilty-of-killing-woman-setting-fire/ |
Law enforcement participating in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Law enforcement agencies in the Baton Rouge area are taking part in the 23rd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
The public can drop off any unwanted prescription drugs between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters on Airline Highway or at the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office location on Burbank Drive. Click here to find a drop-off location near you.
According to officials, the initiative aims to provide a safe, convenient, and anonymous way to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs. Officials added that drugs too often find their way into the wrong hands.
Last October, officials with the DEA said they were able to collect and destroy 372 tons of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
Click here to report a typo.
Copyright 2022 WAFB. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-29T12:56:55+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2022/10/29/law-enforcement-participating-national-prescription-drug-take-back-day/ |
MINNEAPOLIS, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII) reported second quarter 2023 financial results today through an earnings release posted on the Company's Investor Relations website at ir.polaris.com. The earnings release will be furnished with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a Form 8-K and is available at sec.gov. The Company will also hold a conference call with analysts and investors today at 9:00 a.m. CT.
Conference Call and Webcast Details
The call can be accessed via the webcast link on our website at ir.polaris.com or by dialing 1-877-883-0383 or 1-412-902-6506, Conference ID 6854927. Related presentation materials and a replay of the webcast will also be accessible on our website at ir.polaris.com.
About Polaris
As the global leader in powersports, Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII) pioneers product breakthroughs and enriching experiences and services that have invited people to discover the joy of being outdoors since our founding in 1954. Polaris' high-quality product line-up includes the Polaris RANGER®, RZR® and Polaris GENERAL™ side-by-side off-road vehicles; Sportsman® all-terrain off-road vehicles; military and commercial off-road vehicles; snowmobiles; Indian Motorcycle® mid-size and heavyweight motorcycles; Slingshot® moto-roadsters; Aixam quadricycles; Goupil electric vehicles; and pontoon and deck boats, including industry-leading Bennington pontoons. Polaris enhances the riding experience with a robust portfolio of parts, garments, and accessories. Proudly headquartered in Minnesota, Polaris serves more than 100 countries across the globe. www.polaris.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Polaris Inc. | 2023-07-25T11:29:33+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/07/25/polaris-inc-second-quarter-2023-financial-results-available-companys-website/ |
SOMERTON – Carmen Juarez, Somerton’s community development director, will also serve as the acting city administrator.
The Somerton City Council recently voted to name Juarez to succeed Jerry Cabrera, whose retirement as city administrator took effect Aug. 4. She will remain as interim administrator while the city searches for candidates to fill the seat permanently.
Juarez has worked for the city for 18 years, the last 11 years as community development director. The community development oversees land use planning, redevelopment efforts in Somerton, and handles rezoning requests to the city.
“I consider myself a public servant, and this is an opportunity that council is giving me to continue serving the city,” she said.
“It is an opportunity to help so that the projects we have continue on course. The city is in a period of many projects that are already being developed and others that are to come, none of which we can allow to be held up.”
Those projects, she said, include the construction of a new elementary and new high school in the city, as well as new residential development on the city’s west side.
Juarez said Saul Albor, land use planner for the city, will serve as acting community development director while she fulfills Cabrera’s job.
The city is currently accepting applications to fill the city administrator position permanently.
Cabrera is one of four high-ranking city officials to leave. Fire Chief Paul De Anda retired in June, and Parks Director Jesus Meza and Public Works Director Samuel Palacios also have left their positions. | 2022-08-08T14:02:24+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/news/local/somerton-names-acting-city-administrator/article_f727ece2-0919-11ed-9a56-6bdd4144a629.html |
- Annual cash usage expected to decrease to under $400M by 2024
- Reorganizing workforce around new areas of focus and eliminating non-essential spend
- Continuing to take actions geared toward optimizing and protecting ongoing operations
- Q3 launch of the hydrogen fuel cell electric truck on schedule
- HYLA hydrogen energy business making strong progress with multiple partnerships, first-mover infrastructure advantage
PHOENIX, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, via the HYLA brand, today announced a progress update on its business optimization efforts, which are expected to result in a marked decrease in cash spend and streamlining of operations.
"Nikola has initiated a more focused business plan this quarter, concentrating on North America, zero-emission truck production, and our HYLA hydrogen business," said CEO Michael Lohscheller. "Our battery-electric truck is in the marketplace and performing well for our customers, and the hydrogen fuel cell electric truck will go into production in a matter of weeks. We are proactively managing costs and reducing expenses. We are streamlining operations, including our organizational structure, to efficiently execute our objectives."
These actions are consistent with comments from the company's first quarter earnings announcement, among others, including the following:
- Realigning cost structure and reducing cash use by reorganizing workforce and rationalizing spend in all areas of the business.
- Concentrating on the North American marketplace, including the planned sale of the company's joint venture share to Iveco Group.
- Localizing the supply chain where possible, including transitioning battery manufacturing from Cypress, Calif. to the Nikola plant in Coolidge, Ariz., along with planned assembly of Bosch fuel cell power modules in Coolidge. Both actions are expected to reduce material cost of the trucks.
- Prioritizing a capital-efficient approach for the HYLA hydrogen energy infrastructure business, including a strategic partnership with Voltera to develop up to 50 hydrogen stations over the next five years.
- Focusing on launching the company's Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell electric truck in Q3, which currently has 178 sales orders from 14 end customers.
- Optimizing production at the Coolidge, Ariz. manufacturing facility to accommodate Nikola's battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks on one assembly line.
- Ongoing restructuring of legacy Romeo business and shut down of legacy Cypress operations.
In conjunction with these initiatives, Nikola conducted a thorough review of its organizational structure and made the difficult but strategic decision to reduce its headcount, which is expected to decrease personnel-related cash spend by more than $50M annually. The reduction affected roughly 150 team members across multiple sites who were previously supporting (in part or in full) the company's European programs, as well as approximately 120 employees based predominately at the company's Phoenix and Coolidge, Ariz. sites and previously announced actions from Cypress, Calif. Nikola is supporting those affected with transition assistance.
These decisions preserve 900 jobs and are intended to create a sustainable structure that matches the organization's focus and positions the company for future growth.
ABOUT NIKOLA CORPORATION
Nikola Corporation is globally transforming the transportation industry. As a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen-electric vehicles, electric vehicle drivetrains, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and hydrogen station infrastructure, via the HYLA brand, Nikola is driven to revolutionize the economic and environmental impact of commerce as we know it today. Founded in 2015, Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.nikolamotor.com , Facebook @nikolamotorcompany, Instagram @nikolamotorcompany, YouTube @nikolamotorcompany, LinkedIn @nikolamotorcompany or Twitter @nikolamotor.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws with respect to Nikola Corporation (the "Company"), including statements relating to the Company's expectations regarding actions it intends to implement to focus and streamline its business; the Company's expectations regarding the benefits of actions taken and that may be taken in the future in furtherance of such efforts, including anticipated cost savings, cash usage levels, optimization and protection of ongoing operations and reduction of the bill of materials costs, creating a sustainable structure and positioning the Company for future growth, among others; the Company's beliefs regarding its business milestones, and the expected timing and benefits thereof, including commencement of commercial production of its hydrogen fuel cell electric truck and the activities related to its planned hydrogen fueling infrastructure; and the Company's beliefs regarding its competitive position and the benefits thereof. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections, and other statements about future events based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: the success of the Company's efforts to streamline its business; the ability of the Company to achieve anticipated benefits of these and other activities, including expected cost savings; the ability of the Company to access sufficient capital to meet its requirements and fund its business, including risks related to its ability to obtain stockholder approval of an increase in the Company's authorized common stock; manufacturing delays and difficulties; risks related to the rollout of the Company's hydrogen fueling infrastructure and the timing thereof; construction risks and delays; the level of and cancellation of customer orders; the ability of the Company to complete the disposition of its European joint venture and the timing thereof; risks associated with manufacturing batteries and fuel cell power modules; the Company's ability to remain listed on Nasdaq; and the factors, risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 filed with the SEC, in addition to the Company's subsequent filings with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and, except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Nikola Corporation | 2023-06-16T21:30:33+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/06/16/nikola-sharpens-focus-reduces-cash-spend/ |
2 national park visitors accused of interfering with bison calf
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CNN) - Rangers at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming are looking for information on two people seen too close to a bison calf.
The rangers say the men were seen Sunday afternoon approaching and touching the calf at the southern end of Elk Ranch Flats.
They say this is a big deal because approaching wildlife can drastically affect their well-being and survival.
Human interference can cause wildlife to reject their offspring, which can result rangers having to euthanize the animal.
Fortunately in this case, the calf was successfully reunited with its herd.
Park rangers are investigating this incident, which they consider animal harassment, and the park is asking anyone with information on the two men to contact them.
The park says people should be alert for wildlife and keep a safe distance from them.
A rule of thumb: If your actions cause an animal to change its behavior, then you are too close.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-09T12:38:00+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/06/09/2-national-park-visitors-accused-interfering-with-bison-calf/ |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.